skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example, if you consider common skills like Jupyter notebook and git your competitive advantage (the only reason to include them in your resume), I would automatically assume that you have no other competitive advantage.

What an insane take. Different teams use different tools, and a team may or may not have time to bring someone up to speed on a tool they haven't used.

Listing git isn't a statement that it's your "competitive advantage". It's simply stating that you have experience with it.
Nice! Is it safe to put the token inside the URL like that though (Looking at https://github.com/nocodeapi/embed-instagram-feed)? Like would I be able to see the URL by inspecting the page/watching the network tab, or does the element that takes this URL as a parameter do something fancy?
You worked for a company and then made something really similar? idk, if what the author did was right or wrong legally, but sounds like a dick move. Just build literally anything else.
It's unbelievable to me how popular complaining about tipping is now, and probably all because a handful of POS systems that are quite common have an option to show default tip percentages. It's like we're running a social experiment about whether people would complain if daily presented with a "Would you like to slightly socially and financially inconvenience yourself? Y/N" screen. Turns out yes, thousands of words would be spilled on the topic.

Don't get me wrong, if you sell greeting cards or whatever and use a POS system that has a tip screen, I find that silly, and yeah, we should have a broader discussion about tipping culture. But all of this getting up in arms seems like solely an exercise in dropping coins into the outrage media machine. Just hit the other button.
Someone is always doing the work
Their documentation is especially confusing when you don't know what you are looking for
It isn’t just banks. 10 years ago I just used TOTP when I wanted 2FA. But now many tech companies are hand-rolling their own MFA. Google Prompts. GitHub Mobile. Microsoft Authenticator. Adobe Account Access. Some of these still support TOTP, but force you to use their app (Google Prompts when a Google app is installed). Others simply removed TOTP to push their app (Adobe).

TOTP was great as I could generate codes on multiple devices and back up my setup codes. Now I’m forced to use my phone, a device that is easily lost or stolen, and restoring a new phone from a backup generally doesn’t transfer the keys for these types of apps (for “security” I guess) so nightmare is probably putting it nicely.

I’m surprised more people aren’t complaining about all of this proprietary/DIY security. Rolling your own is almost always a bad idea - we have open standards for a reason.
I would be interested in this too. This would be a really cool gift for my newborn daughter.
There is a different 'class' of junk sold on Taobao vs Amazon but both stores still seem chock full of junk. Maybe they were affected in the same way just by different players.
I don’t think it makes sense to compare options with RSUs. The former is worthless in a company that doesn’t grow and it’s necessary to stay with the company until IPO. It’s a huge risk. The latter is closer to cash, bubbles notwithstanding.

The people getting in now aren’t screwed, they can just ask for refreshers. But the previous batch certainly got an unexpected windfall.
$2 million year is a bargain for a body that’s 10 years younger.

Over a lifetime that’s way less than the price of a billionaire’s yacht.

https://robbreport.com/motors/marine/jeff-bezos-megayacht-mo...

Sign up every billionaire and let’s get more investment. The cost will drop 1000 fold over the next couple of decades, and maybe we’ll all get an extra couple decades of healthy living.
Battery swapping has a number of disadvantages: forcing all the cars to use a specific size and shape battery, which may not be great for packaging efficiency. Battery has to be physically more robust to be able to withstand regular handling. It has to be designed to be quickly detachable, because if the battery takes 20 minutes to take out, it's definitely not faster than just charging the thing.
Not really, because MRR isnt the only metric.

We'd look at an objective function of LTV to CAC ratio.

We'd ignore everything below a certain absolute MRR.

We'd also ignore anything below a certain MRR growth rate.

The ones we'd typically look at as an investor are: MRR/ARR, Churn, CAC and TLV.

TLV would be total lifetime value which includes the monthly revenue * months given churn.

CAC would be the advertisement cost.

This basically means, how much $ are you spending to make what total $ per customer, and how what is the volume.
Your love be real. I can't imagine reading TCMC more than once, and
you've read the abridged at least once, and the unabridged at least
twice.
Everything is just signal, strong or weak. In my experience, those who are applying to both computer-screened jobs and human-screened jobs are not suitable to work with me.

It's just like if you write that you are an expert at JAVA, GIT, and Python. Java is not an acronym. Neither is git. Is it unfair that I judge someone negatively for this? Perhaps you would consider that so. For me, it's just signal. If I'm wrong repeatedly, I will have a higher hiring cost and someone will beat me in the market. I am making those choices for the business on a hundred different axes constantly. I have no problem trusting my intuition here.
> so its trivial to add that to a project whether its Go or Node or whatever

The thing I think you're missing, is that it's trivial TO YOU to do this, and of course you will understand it end to end and be supe productive.

What happens when more people join you to work on that project? What happens when you leave and the next developer needs to understand all of this? What if he doesn't agree in the way you did things? Did you write thorough and detailed documentation for all the decisions you've taken? Can you guarantee it has no security flaws? What if the translations library you've picked has gone unmaintained because the developer that was building it as his side project got something more interesting to do on their weekends?

That's the problem. Ending with a custom snafu that once made sense to somebody. Of course this can be made, and of course the next developer can pick it up, refactor, improve, etc.

But from a business point of view it just makes literally zero sense. Think about all the time (and thus money) spent integrating things or writing your own infrastructure code and documenting it (because you're documenting it right?) and testing it (because you're testing it right) that could have been spent on actual business code.

Compare that with the situation where you've just picked Rails/Laravel/Django/etc. The next developer knows what to expect. Knows how the most important parts work, has tons of documentation and material for learning, and when applied to the position they already knew more or less what to expect.

The benefits of a "batteries included" framework is not the framework per se, is the community around it.
Hum... No, it's not a replacement for Dropbox.

It solves issues Dropbox doesn't (like dealing with segregated networks), and doesn't solve issue that Dropbox does (like sending files to people).
The New Hippocratic Oath of AI
Surely. There's really a lot of missions - 20 of them. And they aren't quick either. Combined with the fact that you will lose a lot along the way in 00 Agent.

I should really pick it up again. I got stuck on Surface II. The never-ending barrage of soldiers coming at me combined with the giant map really ground me down.
Not equated, just noting the that the "doing my job" argument is the same. If it isn't, do elaborate. Yes the jobs are different, as are all jobs from each other.
Serious question, why don't they just quit, and get another job?
> If you do put a "skills cloud" on it, be ready to talk about them all. If someone had a skills cloud I would immediately look for the most esoteric skills and dive deep on it in the interview (after Googling it myself) to see if you were BSing or not. If you really know that skill, you should know more than what I learned in five minutes of searching.

That's super important in my opinion. I try and write as little as possible on my resume because I don't want to get asked about stuff I don't remember. I keep it to 1 page, write as little as possible and hope that people recognize the default LaTeX font and interview me because my super concise CV makes me look interesting/mysterious.

It's worked well enough for me, but it's a small sample size and luck plays a huge role of course.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19289353

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13954077

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9671020

Also, this is from 2013

It is however, always worth a read
Wow, this is sad.
Hi thanzex. Thank you for your feedback! I do have a lot of work to do in terms of design and user interface design. The problem with /available_assets page would be a quick fix, so thank you for pointing that out. With respect to the Termify terms and services, it was a starting point. ¿What would you recommend for me to do with respect to my terms and services document?. I built the website using Flask, which has a bunch of limitations. I would built it using a JS framework if i could do it again.

I appreciate very much the amount of quality feedback you gave me. I'll be sure to tackle these problems on the next sprints of development. It's a work in progress that i've been doing on my own for 6 months. I'm very open at making the changes needed to be appealing and pivoting the product if needed.

If you want i can explain more about the platform via email or a meeting. Just let me know! :) My email is matias.mingo@gmail.com .
512GB version of the new MacBook Pro has a slower SSD than the Mac it replaces
> housing is the real necessity, why hasn't capitalism made that cheap yet?

It has, but only in Japan where they actually have a free market: https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-e...
Thinking through AI as the next platform opportunity
I don't know, but I've seen some people use "Aqua" to refer to the design through 10.4, through 10.9, or through the present day.
Do they? How much money did they lose this past quarter?
Thank your for your feedback James!
I'm not so sure about that; you either:

1. You have a table with records; to change something it's one "update record".

2. You have an append-only log of everything that happens, and a table of records which represents the current state after every log item is played back for efficient querying. To change something you do "insert log + update projection_record".

It seems to me the second item is fundamentally more complex, no matter what you do. You can abstract some of that away with good tooling, but things like migrations will probably forever be a right pain with event sourcing.

Sometimes all of that is worth it, but often it's not. That's probably why it's not the default way to write applications.
> Reason being: they’re easy to fluff and are almost always inflated bs.

Not only that, but how would engineers, for example, know how much money was saved or earned from blah feature or project unless that was explicitly shared with them? Time saved or usage can usually be measured by the engineer, but money is a lot trickier.

Like I'm able to say a speech application I made was used in over a million calls, because I looked at the database and saw that many call records in there. And I'm able to say that I set up an one-click 30 minute devops process for deployment that was previously done over the span of 4-8 hours manually with multiple engineers onhand in case things went wrong (and they often did due to user error), because I was physically present during those manual processes and could directly compare and contrast the time difference.

But I can't say it "saved the company X million dollars" or whatever because I wasn't in management and didn't have those figures shared with me.

At least not honestly. I could make some bullshit up (I don't, but I could), like you said, and how are you going to verify it? Do you think a past employer will confirm or deny those figures if you call? You'd be lucky to get much more than confirmation that I worked for them and what dates at this point, thanks to all the liability around it. Also there's no guarantee that they know (or remember offhand) themselves, maybe they weren't on that project.
It’s a trade-off. I don’t get to implement the cool ideas I feel might greatly help my current employer, but their expectations of me are generally low and I get paid enough that I can retire a little over 40. Works for me, its not like I’d actually get paid more if I did something cool anyways. That energy is better spent on my own projects.

I’ve generally noticed attaboys and prestige aren’t really personally fulfilling anyways, no one cares and my work will probably be irrelevant in a year or two regardless. A bit nihilists, but it helps one detach after a long day and deal with the occasional failure.
How much would you be willing to pay for such a service?
> We need maximum wage laws.

Coinbase' last private round valuation was ~8B[1]. On its DPO day, the stock closed at ~340, giving it a valuation of ~80B, or a 10x increase in ~18 months. Options literally skyrocketed and given the time value of options, they would have been worth far more if traded directly vs a simple exercise and sell. How will you design maximum wage laws in a case where something is shooting up 10-15x in value? Rather, what we have today (progressive taxation) seems to be a right setup with some tuning needed to balance the treatment of capital gains vs wages.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/coinbase-series-f--...
Kojima predicted this
Thank you for your feedback Robot! I'll be sure to make the design better for the eyes :)
Do you mean this one? https://huggingface.co/darkstorm2150/Protogen_Infinity_Offic...

On the same topic, is there some sort of 'awesome list' of finetuned SD models? (something better than just browsing https://huggingface.co/models?other=stable-diffusion)
I've had the luxury, perhaps outside of the first job, of looking for work while I have work. This makes it a bit easier to be targeted in my approach, so it might not work for everyone. But I use a resume to apply for a job, so every job gets a different resume.

At the top of every resume is a job description: a table that lists the company needs and my skills with respect to the requirements--even if I don't have any. Typically it's one page for a hiring manager to compare against the JD and decide whether she wants to look at the canned bullets of my work experience.

My current and prior jobs had a formal application process post offer: I did not go through an online application process or submit a resume to an electronic system until after we'd gone through interviews, etc.

If I find a place I want to work, I make some effort to find out who the hiring manager is for a given position. If I can find an email address, I'll reach out; if not, I look for a mailing address. If I'm really motivated, I'll try to find a phone number.

My experience with this approach has generally been positive: it helps identify good employers, makes, I think, a good impression, and ensures that we don't waste each others' time.
> doesn't seem that GPT is significantly better or worse than a human in this regard

Probably, but I think a human is much more likely to realize that they made a mistake and good-luck convincing GPT that it's wrong about something non trivial.
Eye health for closeup (e.g. computer) work:

Ambient lighting matched to screen brightness, whether light or dark
Dark ambience = dilated pupil = 0.5 diopter decrease in lens focus
Reduce monitor blue light with F.lux, Apple Night Shift, etc
Best light: unfiltered daylight, e.g. window behind computer screen
Artificial: high CRI LED, low flicker, low blue (e.g. 2700K Sylvane Truwave)

20-20-20: look out window, or 20+ foot distant object for 20s every 20m
Tear film over eyes helps focus: blink, yawn, hydrate & track humidity
Increase eye-monitor distance: reduce eye convergence stress
Closeup/computer glasses: PD & CR-39 focal length for lens-monitor distance

Daily exposure to natural light, with distance focusing for eye muscles
20mg lutein daily from food sources or supplement
For presbyopia, daily convergence exercises
The computers were mostly the school's, the carpentry was ours (mine and a friend's), the cabling and network switches were ours (scavenged, eventually they bought a nice big switch), the labor was ours.

It's not really much of a prank war if you do a small prank and the other guy tries like hell to pretend he didn't notice and also tries like hell to pretend he didn't see you derping around in the building... escalating would have been evil on my part :)
But the AI in stealth games is literally trained to go out of its way to not detect you.
What's next.next after ChatGPT and hype of NPL
Ok, I didn't know anything about NPL, ML. Now I feel overwhelmed about all the knowledge that is going around. I also feel that when there is too much hype, the odds of being useful in a certain field decreases. So what's going to be hot after the NPL stuff becomes cold? And what is going to be hot after that new thing becomes cold as well?
High profile cases are atypical in some ways but the salient difference is that I can point you to an example and you can watch it. I can’t really point you at examples in your county courthouse but it is definitely great that you’ve seen some courtroom activity. It’s unfortunate though, that you’ve taken away some conclusions that aren’t quite apt.

The judge is the opposite of the fact finder. The judge is the law finder. The jury is the fact finder (unless you’ve forfeited your right to a jury and are undertaking a bench trial). But I get the general idea of the question and I can answer it in the context of attorneys influencing any party this way:

An attorney should not alter the final disposition of a dispute, meaning that if a person is guilty or liable and the attorney’s actions cause an outcome where they “get away with it” we can all agree the system failed. Lawyers are there so your rights don’t get trampled, so you don’t give anything away, and because they understand the terrain over which the parties will negotiate.

Sure, judges probably prefer drinking beers with lawyers than with indigent sovcits. But unlike a hyena presented with a decaying carcass, the judges I’ve encountered can suspend their baser instincts for a few minutes at a time in order to /do their job/ and part of that job is respecting the Constitution and the rights of the litigants.
Exactly. I think there was a tipping point. The only question for me is how many times you can shear the same sheep. There have been so many bubbles here and somehow people kept coming back for every shiny new idea. DAO, ICO, NFT, etc. But given the way NFTs never really took off plus the ongoing domino-fall of major crypto names, maybe the brand value of crypto has finally gone so far negative that the space is done. Fingers crossed, anyhow.
We looked at using all sorts of "AI" to write SQL based upon natural language prompts. As far as I am aware, the state of the art is still nowhere close enough in accuracy for us to lean into as a business.

This is the leaderboard I keep an eye on: https://yale-lily.github.io/spider

Ultimately, I don't think we will get there with semantic analysis or GPT-style techniques. There is always some human factor involved with whatever schema is developed, so you would probably need an AGI trained in the same business as whoever is being replaced by this thing.
> creating DDoS levels of traffic

Author here. This has never been a problem, both in terms of volume and cost. I host ~0.25% (maybe more? I haven't checked recently) of all podcasts listed on Apple and up to a few years ago, I wasn't even using a CDN. Two Heroku dynos at ~$250/mo (25 customer subscriptions today) running a Python back-end with no caching at all was able to keep up without trouble. In fact, the only reason I added a CDN was Heroku's infrastructure having spooky issues with that volume of traffic.

Podcast hosting providers larger than me running on their own hardware should have (had) exactly zero trouble.
"Do chairs exist?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXW-QjBsruE

Perhaps the desk is "chairing" in those moments.

[EDIT] A little more context for those who might not click on a rando youtube link: it's basically an entertaining, whirlwind tour of the philosophy of categorizing and labeling things, explaining various points of view on the topic, then poking holes in them or demonstrating their limitations.
This talking point gets repeated a lot, and it is really disingenuous.

What you are saying has absolutely nothing to do with legitimate medical doctors being deplatformed because they have an off script opinion of how society should respond to covid.

It has nothing to do with kicking trump off Twitter.

What you are saying has nothing to do with any of the 'moderation' that anyone is actually complaining about.
Interesting I guess but several of the features would be illegal in all 50 of the United States. A "fix-it" ticket would mean returning the vehicle to the manufacturer to have the features removed and providing proof to the court. Using some of those features would be serious moving violations and the vehicle would likely be impounded.

If kept in storage and well maintained it might be useful after some type of SHTF apocalypse. One could probably use it off road but there are significantly better off road vehicles for much less money.
It goes both ways. Some US sites don’t allow spaces or hyphens in given names.
The objection I've heard from friends and family is less about any desire to protect the gendered expression of words in Spanish, and more about the fact that LatinX is explicitly and obtusely violating language rules and is effectively unpronounceable. It uses English-specific visual and pronunciation expectations and applies them to another language.

There is already an established way to make this term non-gendered, either drop the gender suffix entirely Latin, or make it explicit by using Latine. Both are which are existing words in Spanish with an established meaning. Rather than use this, activists in the US decided to demand 640 million people change their language to appease those who don't even understand their language.
Look at the history of every communist nation. In the USA our main problem is that poor people get too many calories without enough vegetables.
> ChatGPT isnt in the game of modelling problems and solving them, it possesses only superficial semantic characteristics of the questions posed

You can give it the datamodel and a semantic description and it will do a pretty good job of reprojecting your data.

People talk about chatgpt as being a fixed thing, it isn't. ChatGPT is the Apple II of LLMs. 3-4 moore units from now every issue that people think is a "gotcha" for chatgpt will have evaporated.
A Dev once told me that running SQL Server and IIS (Microsoft webserver) on the same machine would allow shared memory. Just pass a pointer from db to web; no copying of the data. Postgres doesn't do this AFAIK.