skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, and even more intrusive ways of addressing inequality such as subsidizing food prices with tax money can be effective without creating a perverse incentive to restrict the food supply precisely when it's most needed
Its even weirder on the interview side. We had someone apply as a Principle who I could only describe as "solidly mid level"

I wasn't a jerk about it in the interview, but I said something to the effect of "I know titles are different at all other companies, but here the expectations for PEs is that they're tasked on the most critical technical initiatives and are held to high standards for execution. You're also going to be expected to mentor not just Junior technical staff, but also mid and senior level engineers. Does this sound like a role you're interested in? It's fairly demanding."

Guy didn't flinch and said "Yeah, that's exactly what I'm looking for!" :|

(We did not hire)
Emphasis on cheapest, even after their recent price hike you won’t find cheaper than 1fichier
I used ChatGPT to write cover letters and to create job specific resumes(with an additional tool).

Then those documents resulted in employment.

I had to edit some, and I went over all of them.

I have to assume people look at the thing they understand may be inaccurate (because you can't possibly miss THAT fact) and give it at least a quick once over. Lacking that, it's a failure of the person, not the tool.
People would gamify it by actively trying to be the most controversial so no.
How much more expensive is it? 10%? 150%?

How much is the additional compute cost? $10 a month? $1000 a month?

How much more productive are your developers? Does it offset the cost?
all things being equal I would probably use the site that has a free trial or freemium model.

or pay as you go for api
> Your story makes me wonder how often such a practice doesn't end with the employer forking up the 20 grand they stole.

As gp showed, most people are not fully aware of their labor rights, and when they are, may not know the remedies available to them. Wage theft is endemic because of information asymmetry.
Yes, this is how Elixir Phoenix works. The caveat is that only returns exactly what needs to be changed, so it's a small diff.

It's not suitable to everything, but it works really well. I'm not advocating switching to it right now, but it's looking very promising.
What tech worker though even works overtime? I barely work time!
I left the company not long after that, so I don't really know how it ultimately played out :)
Wage theft is by far the largest category of theft in the US so it’s not a surprise many get duped into these kind of schemes
> Is he the one who came across as a pretty bad husband and father?

I don't think so. The film had footage of Steve Wiebe telling his kid he couldn't help with the potty because he was busy gaming.
Whether it’s good or bad for business, the practice of layoffs is becoming more widely accepted. This can serve as a reminder to employees not to become complacent, which is one reason that companies do it. An unfortunate consequence is that employees become more likely to game the system to keep their jobs. Gaming the system can take many forms : avoiding risky assignments, covering up chronic problems, and blaming others. Once people see that these approaches result in greater job security then the incentives for doing the right thing become obscured. At my last job, a cyber-security startup that had a large layoff, this process of gaming the system ruined the software engineering culture. No one wanted to fix a bug, or talk to a customer, or implement a new process, without first checking to see how it would affect their job security.
I bought Aranet4 and it taught me a lot about how CO2 accumulates in my apartment, how and frequently to change air and so on.

The worst thing you can do is to close yourself in your room for the night. Always have either door or window open. If it is cold outside, just buy a goose down duvet. You will sleep much better in a cold room than in a warm with stuffy air.

I am looking into putting heat exchanger in my apartment so that I can change air with less energy waste.

I also changed some of my habits. I try to use less of the gas stove and more of electric grill, Instant Pot, etc. If I need to use gas then I always change air afterwards.
Derek Sivers- rare, but believable.
This internet fad is sure to blow over sooner or later.
security, absolutely. I moved, partially, out of SE by title because of it.
This is just a marketing page with a retrocomputing edge but the front-end community loses their minds about this kinda thing, so thought would share
People practice personas everyday of their lives, the only difference in the post is the explicit labelling of them. The avatar I present here is different to how I behave in person, or how I engage at work, my friends, my family.
Thanks. I'll fix that. Any other feedback you have? Was that feature any interesting/useful to you?
Appreciate the feedback!
Rhenish Capitalism and Business History
They're not settled instantly, but broadly, this is one of the reasons the credit card networks are a massive accomplishment; they settle deterministically enough that a commanding majority of financial institutions will trust the networks sufficiently to transact with them. Yes, this is accomplished by absolutely massive amounts of (mostly offsetting) debts carried between various parties every day of the last several decades.

I should probably write more about this subject at some point, but the GP is of course correct; the credit card networks (except for Amex) generally do not put up money at any point. Each entity in a chain about 5 links long makes simultaneous and very quick agreements about offsetting transactions between themselves, with probabilistic assurance of eventual settlement to the business being "very, very quick" and physical settlement happening in a few days to about a month later. Typically an important step is the issuing bank settling with an intermediary (not the network) who will settle with the merchant bank or payment processor who will settle with the business.
Numberblocks is such a good show! We made an exception to our no-cartoons policy for this one and I don't regret it.
Back in the 90s I worked in the corporate offices of a well-known fitness chain (they're open 24 hours, even though they're really not). I was approached about a promotion to a management position. I asked who I would be managing and was told, "No one. But you would manage all the servers." Huh? I already "manage all the servers"??? I was then told about the pay, and it was heavily implied that being a salaried employee was sooo great and they were doing me a huge favor. However, they must've thought I couldn't do basic math, because accepting the position would've been at least a 10% pay reduction. I rejected the offer, and they were really angry; they kept coming back to me, telling me how I was ruining my career. The director of HR even told me that IT-related jobs were hot, but would cool off soon, and I would regret not moving into management. I was young and dumb, but I wasn't that dumb. I knew what they were doing. I quit shortly after that.
So under-allocating memory would merely negatively affect performance?
I agree, your comment nails it for me. As an average developer who maybe is above average in C++ I’m just more productive and can produce better results in other languages in a shorter amount of time with less pain.
The thing that makes me nervous about it isn't ChatGPT or other LLMs, really. It's that people seem to be easily fooled by them into thinking it's something more than it is. The comments from the most ardent fans imply that it's doing reasoning or is a step in the direction of AGI, when it's not that at all.
I've seen ChatGPT change tune but I've also seen it squirm plenty. Overall I think it behaves uncannily human in this regard.
Is this poison ivy?
>> EA appeals to exactly that kind of really-smart-person who is perfectly capable of convincing themselves that they're always right about everything. And from there, you can justify all kinds of terrible things.

> Should we not talk ourselves into believing into stuff? Should smart people specifically avoid changing their beliefs out of fear of "justify all kinds of terrible things"?

The GP is talking about self-deception. And yes, we should not deceive ourselves.
When will it demonstrate passing the Turing Test?

I feel the answer is not which year, but which month of 2023
Thanks for reminding about Vivaldi. I loved Opera back in the day, when they had their own browser engine and kept on innovating browser UI.
no, just saying you can trivially convert any lisp code to c style syntax by moving the function call parenthesis to the right and converting wrapping parens into curly braces.
Whole-heartedly recommend this book.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045308/ideas-that-created-th...
Child welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny
Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries
Hi, This is a very early preview of a new project, I think it could be very useful. Would love to hear some feedback/comments
>What's more, it's a step that I don't think can be outsourced to someone else, which is why I'm skeptical about claims by, among others, the Effective Altruism movement, to be able to do this kind of thing on your behalf.

Why can't this be done? Society in general outsources due diligence to third parties all the time. Banks outsource credit worthiness assessments to credit bureaus. Passive investors outsource price discovery to other market participants. Online shoppers outsource quality control to reviewers. I agree that there's no substitute for doing it yourself, but it's simply not realistic in many cases to do the due diligence yourself. Even if you do it yourself, there's no guarantee that you'll do a better job than the professionals.
Why Mars though? Why not colonize the Gebi Desert first?
Wearable Sensor Uses Ultrasound to Provide Cardiac Imaging on the Go
I fed it The Last Question. While the resulting summary is impressive, I suspect there may be some cheating/plagiarism going on because it includes commentary with no origin in the text.

The Last Question is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov about two attendants of Multivac, a giant computer, who make a bet over highballs. The question they ask is whether mankind will ever be able to restore the sun to its full youthfulness even after it had died of old age. The story follows the question through the centuries as mankind develops interstellar travel and builds a better and more intricate computer, the Universal AC. In the end, the Universal AC is unable to answer the question due to insufficient data, but it is able to demonstrate the answer, restoring the Universe from chaos. This story is a fascinating exploration of the power of technology and the limits of human knowledge.
The Kremlin Has Entered the [Telegram] Chat
Twitter could add anti-bot protection like Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA. I’ve seen that make a site unusable with Puppeteer. By “unusable” I mean that correctly solving the CAPTCHA either just gives you another CAPTCHA, or gives the “click if you are human” thing, and clicking that just goes to a CAPTCHA or another “click if you are human”.

It didn’t even require doing anything to/on the page with Puppeteer. Merely using it to open a browser window and then waiting, and using that browser window by hand during the wait to go visit the site that was using Cloudflare anti-bot protection ran into the problem.
Why is your project changing the license, and why do you assume that contributors would still have done so under whatever license you're changing to?
How are you going to tell if it accurately analyzed a legal document if you don't know how to accurately analyze a legal document? It's a tool that's being sold for jobs it shouldn't be doing, if that's the characterization that helps you understand the issue and not turn this into "blaming the tool for something it shouldn't be doing"
This is not the usage of the word "settlement" which prevails in the financial industry, which tends to use it to describe the transfer of funds to give effect to a promised transaction. It is factually not the case that credit card payments generally settle instantly. It depends on many factors but typical timelines are a few days to about a month, largely dependent on which network is at play and where the business getting paid is. (For complex reasons, prevailing settlement times in some countries are long compared to most HNers expectations.)
Apple sales in biggest fall since 2019
It seems like a way to ask "Can this thing implement X and if so how?" from say the Any trait would be what you want here, I have no idea how hard that would be to deliver but I also don't see how the previous trait thing is relevant, like, why do we need to say up front that maybe we will care whether trait B is implemented?
This is so based. Now I don't know anything anymore is the author Derek Sivers from California who now lives in New Zealand even real. Is anything on his about page even true? How are we supposed to trust it? Then again, it doesn't matter.
Please disregard, that was an existing tier in their mid-term search API and I mixed up the free (100 requests/month) with the basic (500/month) due to fatigue. The latest (per a Musk tweet some hours ago) is '$100 month plus you have to submit your ID.'
That can be sorted by a single jQuery or JS function. 2-3 functions in that cart page handles everything without any complication whatsoever.
Yes and no.

If everyone else in your skill band is a Directory of Dipshittery, then if you're not a Directory of Doowopness, then it's an excuse to pay you less. They make more because they're "Directors", you're just a "Managing Associate".

Like how everyone here is concerned whether they're "Junior" or "Senior".

We've essentially stripped away all meaning from titles.
Same here (2017-2019). The main reason I left was how much travel I had to do. With a young family at the time I wasn’t going to get those years back.
Yes, you’re right that people remember me, but being rememberable to me does not make me identifiable; unlike the example you provided of having two thumbs on one hand, which clearly is an identifiable visible unique physical trait.
Ferdinand Porsche even ended up with a better rep than Henry Ford, but both brands survived.
> EA is diffuse and deliberately amorphous; anybody who wants to can call themselves an EA... But with no official leadership structure, no roster of who is and isn’t in the movement, and no formal process for dealing with complaints, Wise argues, it’s hard to gauge how common such issues are within EA compared to broader society.

This passage reminded me of this article:
https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

Moral of the story: be weary of groups with low accountability and vague power structures. In a vacuum, power structures will always emerge, so it's generally better for them to exist in the light than in the dark.
Why are we still talking about this guy?
ChatGPT Is a flat out liar

It is what I love most about it

Ask it if it is human
the inline result is actively harmful.

I don't understand how Google have got themselves to this spot even though it seems an 'obviously' very serious problem. Both the 'card' and 'inline' results suggest some sort of curation, a greater googly authoritativeness. They introduce a sort of hierarchy of trust - this result is more trustworthy than the potentially less trustworthy generic search result. Then it's all thrown away by these 'curated' results being bad or worse. It's hard to square this with the knowledge there are piles of smart people at Google whose expertise and responsibilities involve exactly that kind of stuff.
Right, maybe I should have framed my comment a bit differently: this is not core functionality I would pay for.

Experiments are cool and it would be dumb to make suggestions about how they do R&D. I was more reacting to the thought that this would become part of the product offering.
And there's a long list of unwritten rules that, if you violate, you're soft-capped at LCdr.

[edit]

Also, what about Ensign?
Is there any study showing similar products at the same price point are any better in this regard when bought from in-person stores? IKEA, walmart, Costco, target, etc?
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
It could be that explicitly saying that "if ... say you don't know" could sway ChatGPT into generating this response, as it's encouraged to do so. Needs a check if it continues to respond to the (preferably, less obvious) facts it known about (or can infer).
Ask HN: Who uses their industry experience to do option trading?
People on HN tend to be well plugged in about the goings on of the tech industry - I'm curious to learn how many use that knowledge to do options trading? (to be very clear I'm talking about general industry knowledge not insider trading the employer you work for/etc)

I know folks outside the industry who do a bit of options trading on the side, esp of tech stocks, but don't have any real understanding of the workings and drivers of the tech industry.

If this is something you do curious to hear how it performs compared to your day job, why you do it, what tools/platforms you use and any strategies you're open to sharing. And I guess if you have strong reasons for not, why.
>"it displays real intelligence"

you are anthropomorphizing an algorithm
Two way binding is the future ?
There’s a huge difference between borrowing money at 5% (and this loan is collateralized) to pay for a car you commute to work in, and putting a $10,000 trip on a credit card at 24% interest and then making minimum payments. The former is a good idea, the latter is a terrible idea.
Mostly of interest to readers in North America and China, where Toxicodendron radicans is generally found.

Scores: 50/55, then 53/55, then 55/55. Better to over-ID than under-ID (ask me how I know).
And yet people want me to trust his software to drive a vehicle!
You have to teach your kids how to use YouTube and what they can learn from it.

How the YouTube front page works, how YouTube recommends videos, how YouTubers produce their videos. How these things are honed and perfected to attract their attention and never let go.

And you have to teach them how it influences them. You have to teach them about addiction and anxiety. You have to teach them about moderation and responsibility.

Its not YouTube’s fault if you don’t teach them yourself.
> you are anthropomorphizing an algorithm

They hate it when you do that to them.
I asked ChatGPT to create some 6502 assembly to multiply two numbers. It generated an iterative approach (add A to itself B times for A*B) but didn't include the actual addition.

I told it that "hey, you forgot to do the addition in that code" and it promptly corrected itself.

Personally, I don't consider that terrible given what I was asking it.
You gave me a fantastic insight

Ive been wondering why a loved one is constantly getting phishing emails.

Ive been fighting a losing battle using email filters to contain the phishing fraud emails.

Your post gave me the idea to clean up his browsing caches. Thank you
Next step: server rendered PNGs. Browser not required.
I had an analogous experience at your age, but about 40 years ago. I spent that time learning skills that most programmers of that era found difficult, but that I liked. My thinking was that without a degree I'd need something marketable enough that they'd overlook my non-education. (At that time the things I learned were assembly language and compiler writing.) It was a very successful strategy.

Don't take these examples literally, but maybe I might try to be the best Rust programmer I can because it's thought to be a hard language to learn. Since you like networking maybe low-level Posix networking in C, or websockets. This are probably bad examples because I'd do a seriously deep dive into what jobs are being advertised that look interesting to you, which ones pay more than average, and which companies you might prefer to work for.

A related strategy was that I only applied for 2 or 3 jobs at a time, because I looked for companies I thought I'd like, and which I thought I could serve well with my skills. When I got to the interviews I would have a genuine interest in the company and could ask informed questions about areas that intrigued me.
> so it has to be some collab with iTunes.

There’s no way today’s Apple would allow such a collaboration. They’d just keep the feature and market it as part of Apple Music.
maybe the contest isn't really about space suit designs
I thought that’s a software developer?
Ah my mistake, I didn’t realize they don’t count installment loans as part of utilization.
> The majority are not some cartoonish greedy fatcats either;

53% of all stocks are held by the 1% so yes Virginia the MAJORITY are some cartoonish greedy fatcats
You're confounding the problem of feeding a system with incorrect inputs ( calculator ), with a system that, provided the input are correct, will throw garbage totally at random.

This is a very different kind of system with very different kinds of problems caused to its users.
It's interesting. Feels like an answer that someone who didn't know about, or not understand, the concepts of the story (mostly entropy) would give.
And they can have the employee prosecuted. Just let the inverse happen when employers steal from employees.
> You can ask it how it came up with its answer and it will do it's best to give you an explanation.

will it? or is it just going to start another chain of words it's trying to complete without any regard for its previous statements? My guess is that it's doing what I described and isn't doing what you described (because it can't).
I wonder what kind of security flaws could be exploited using a hacked monitor connected via USB-C?
Title inflation is so absurd that now when I ask a company I just ignore the title and look at comp.

Comp tells me how much value you think I can deliver in your org.

If you wanna call me Senior while compensating me like someone who has cross team impact across 500 engineers, so be it, as long at the TC is there.

If you wanna call me Staff but only rate me on how many API endpoints I can craft in a sprint, I doubt you'll be able to compensate me enough to care about your JD.
Thanks for detailed reply. My rebuke may have been hyperbolic itself. Agree with you and the others who noted it’s a conceivable outcome and an interesting counterfactual.

I was most acutely replying to the “no way he would…” framing. Top objection (besides the real, if pedestrian, point about certainty) is that, whatever a leader’s public messaging and/or bluster might include, the decision to kill millions as an organizational cover-up doesn’t seem like something one could easily project. Especially when retaliation risk would include the possibility of further detonations on home soil.

I’m not well versed in military history, but I understand LeMay’s story to be more complex than ‘bloodthirsty war criminal’ (and that’s including his own comments ~ “if we lost, I suppose I’d be a war criminal”). The Pacific theatre was nightmarish on all sides.
So a programmer
Why did you even bother asking a question like that instead of telling the candidate directly that the role you're hiring for is beyond their level/expertise/experience/etc?

From the candidate side, the only way to differentiate between "senior" "staff" "principle" "lead" or whatever between companies is the required years of experience on the job listing. Which is a terrible metric, but it's more informative than the title or job duties.