skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At most garden variety BigCorps that I'm aware of, these days staff engineer is basically anyone with a decent amount of experience. A step above senior, that's about it. Principal is next, and actually does have a bit more meaning, but still not _that_ special. Based on everything I've read, Google L9 easily trumps both of those positions and by a fairly large margin.
Implying anything learned in high school is of benefit long term… ha.

Someone recently described their high school experience as “slightly better than prison.” I agreed. If you want to fix education, perhaps start at the root of where we force kids to do bullshit work.

Teaching them how to do their taxes would be infinitely more valuable than memorizing pointless geographical locations (solved by google maps) or names of dead white people in history class (also solved by google) or forcing them to learn Spanish (google translate). The experience was so unpleasant that I didn’t realize until my 20’s that I actually love studying history.
Yup, this is it, this is the real life version of the beginning of the Manna story.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
The $42/mo thing was a hoax. Several news outlets picked it up since it looked pretty legit. In hindsight, the price point should have tipped us off.
This viewpoint renders the word "risk" meaningless. Something isn't a risk if there isn't some sequence of events that can cause it to happen.

And even if we lived in a deterministic universe, we don't have perfect information, so we cannot know the outcome of big events. Our best way to deal with them is to model things probabilistically based on what we do know and make our choices based on based on risk/reward.

I'm also not sure where you're getting the phrase "tail risk", I didn't even know what the term meant much less used it.
Is it though? I’m merely a layperson here so I might be grossly misunderstanding, but I didn’t know determinism had been ruled out by quantum physics. I was under the impression that quantum phenomena was best described using probability. That means there might be an element of true randomness going on, but also that these systems are so chaotic that an observation is going to have some noise, regardless of any randomness at the core. The latter says nothing about how random things are, merely that they appear with some probability, they could be completely deterministic for all we know.
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I like what I have with Sway: No visible docks or bars unless I press the Super key, which causes a bottom panel to appear.

This design means maximum screen real estate for apps, with dock features available when I need them.
> any system of 100k LOC will be hard to get into

To get a gut feeling of the system, i.e., to understand the 10000 foot view of a 100k LOC system, is orders of magnitude easier with statically typed languages than dynamic languages.

And that is mostly because those 100k LOC are done by probably dozens of developers and that leads to different styles, approaches, conventions, etc.

A statically typed language would remove a lot of those headaches, because it does force a semblance of structure, that can be easy to reason with.

A language like Python is awesome for a micro-services architecture though.
Staff Engineer is L6, and Senior Staff is L7. These are quite high, the vast majority of engineers at Google won’t make it to these levels. Depending on the the team/org, they may tackle large, complex problems and dictate the direction of functional areas and organizational strategy.
This exact same thing happened to me with a client project I was working on - my client was paying $50/month for dynos, but we received no notifications about needing to pay for the database to avoid it being nuked!

On the upside, when I reached out to Heroku, they did offer to recover the database for me - but by this point in time, I'd already moved on with setting up a new one from scratch (with some changes from the original), so this wasn't particularly helpful.
I suspect if you access the site from an EU IP address you’ll see an option besides “Accept All”. The layout [0] even seems to leave room for where this other button might be.

edit: looking at the code I even see references to a “Reject All” button as well as an XHR request to a geolocation endpoint.

edit2: I set a breakpoint in their code and changed by country to "FR" and sure enough, I now see a "Reject All" button! Screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/09wcuy4yh3qqoaw/reject_a...

[0]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/vw2khgjnyrnqucb/f
I asked it what season of Community is referred to as “the year of the gas leak”. It answered season 2. I said “that’s incorrect”. It apologized and said that it’s really season 3. “Still wrong”. “I apologize, the year of the gas leak is season 4. Multiple episodes in season four refer to the gas leak”. I pointed out that it was part right, and it confidently corrected itself, now the year of the gas leak is season 5.

Fans of the show know that the correct answer is season 4, but it’s a joke starting in season 5 about Dan Harmon not being the show runner for a year and whatever happened in season 4 can be ignored. I’m pretty sure I found the Reddit thread that would have created the confusion.
I forget the way to set it but you can make the delay down to 0 if you want. Lately I've been using Mission Control to switch to active ones and Launchpad for to switch to inactive ones though. Spotlight can be good too.
For the stability of the federal government, I certainly hope not.
While the photo might not be a good example, in the animal kingdom exposing your neck, like exposing your belly, in an overall non-assertive way would indicate submissiveness. It's in your interest to be submissive if you doubt you will win in combat. I'll leave the thought experiment to the reader as to whether females or males do better in combat and why this head tilt might be predominantly nature not nurture.
Senior staff is L7.

Swe 2, Swe 3, senior, staff, senior staff, principal, distinguished, god

In that order, except god isn’t really a level it’s just Sanjay and Jeff.

Swe 2 is L3, goes up by one for each level, thus senior is 5, senior staff is 7, etc
I think a lot of people are way too quick to say that others who have kids in college and possibly expensive hobbies/houses/etc. don't need the money. That said, long-term Google employees should generally be pretty comfortable given relatively sane financial decisions.
Good point. I'm sure it has a lot to do with dosage and intensity. If near IR stimulates more activity in mitochondria (the purported mechanism here), that indicates there are some proteins or other compounds sensitive to that wavelength. It then stands to reason that large dosages at high intensity over prolonged periods can stimulate so much as to cause dysfunction, aka glass glower's cataracts. Looking into the sun isn't healthy for your eyes either, for instance.
'Open source' didn't mean you can legally modify and republish it.
'Free software' does.
> can learn long-form division by writing with a pencil. Is the pencil a crutch?

Yes. When was the last time you used that algorithm versus breaking down the problem in your head?
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Indeed, it’s stunning that anyone would fall for this trap after learning the history of socialist totalitarianism our species has been through (several times).
I hope this puts pressure on Google for adding intelligence features to Meet!
The Google layoff planning was supposed to be limited to VP+ (L10+) as I understand, with many directors (8-9) finding out about them at the same time as everyone else. Almost certainly it was the same for ICs. OFC I am sure many long time folks are well connected enough to know in advance anyway, but I think it’s unlikely
some would say that constant 24/7 surveillance is extreme, yet those that resist such behavior are labeled extremists.

we created the world where this extreme behavior is normalized; I don't consider it to be extreme to strive for other paths -- even if it may be out of lock-step with society; if anything I view such calls for a return to basics as a moderating factor against such extreme abuse of non-corporate humans.
Great website. Love the workout generator. Good luck.
Senior staff is L7. There are probably a hundred L7s for every L9, if not more.
Meh, not to worry. I'm 100% positive that there are plenty of moles in every area of our DIE defense industry.
Agree. I think that fully explains all of TSLA’s movement. Mostly HODL but then Elon had to sell into light purchasing. Since he stopped, purchasing again outpaces selling so we get a steady rise.
The official titles are 5 is senior, 6 is staff, 7 is senior staff. That doesn't necessarily map to how titles are at other companies though, a 7 IC is already rare enough that many engineers won't interact with any for years; even most 6s are manager types.
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It’s not a shift. I’m suggesting that both could be happening at the same time: you are maximizing your superficial credentials as easily as possible because credentials will help you and you are genuinely educating yourself because that will also help you.
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QNX was interesting in the 90s, but then RIM took it over and did BlackBerry/car stuff with it. I wonder if they ever fixed the root hack it used to have... https://www.juliandunn.net/2006/08/21/on-hacking-the-unisys-...
Quick note: In your post you say the wristbands are "infrared"

> not on a wristband which is subject to infrared detection throughout the parks in Florida.

They use NFC for close range, RFID for longer range, and as of the new ones Bluetooth as well. Though...as far as I know most of the positional data from this is garbage and was thrown out in the past few years.

They are also most likely (I think they are but can't confirm) using phone WiFi signals for triangulation throughout the park to detect guest flow patterns.
Thanks, exactly my thinking wonderful explanation.

I live in Canada, my eczema was always in the winter and didn’t manifest when I go traveling south.
I tried many things, but the medication is cortisone (can really help if you have a bad flare up) but thing spring back with a vengeance. You are playing the junky with your immune system, what I feel we do with most medication.

For long time I thought it was UV, vit-D, humidity, but I stumble upon this thing about infrared while watching Medcram to learn about Covid (awesome channel by a doctor)

Anyway, the heat dish was a cheap test, locally available.

I figured the spectrum will be continuous in opposition to specialized led, closer to what come from the sun anyway. To my surprise it worked.

Maybe the specialized lights are better/stronger/faster.

My highest confidence is in the sun.
"British teeth": I thought those were a thing of the past.

They Shall Not Grow Old, Peter Jackson's brilliant modernizing of WW I film footage, has some really shocking teeth. This was before NHS, obviously.

I could never manage to smile with my teeth showing, normally, but I got a guy to film me with my dog, and then it was easy. Doesn't help for the corporate headshot, though.
PostGIS.
There have been L2s at various points in time for apprenticeships and things like that. They keep changing it so not sure if those folks are officially L2s anymore or even what the program is called.

Also there are L1 staff in data centers IIRC.

It’s not that confusing, for most roles you just start counting at 3.
Hahaha that's the most insightful comment I've read in HN thus far.
An AI listening in and evaluating all my meetings? No thanks. I have now switched all meetings with my reports to my Nextcloud Talk server.
GoodRx Leaked User Health Data to Facebook and Google
Case in point: https://www.switch.com/executive-team/
Maybe he led a lot projects that simply didn't pay off, a luxury in more cash flush times.
Plato is launching Circles that are lead by Top Engineers in Tech
Looks interesting to me
Suppose you're the maintainer of a popular open source project, and you have a million users running a working, stable version using code generation.

What priority would you assign a bug that migrates the existing, working code that other people are doing god knows what with downstream? What would the theoretical benefits "better code" be to your downstream, and how do they weigh against the cost of "I ran go mod tidy, and our build broke?"

I can think of a use where it would lead to better code, and that's in k8s custom resources, where each resource type also has an associated list type that people create with code generation. It'd be much neater for k8s lists to be

type List[T runtime.Object] struct {
...
Items []T
}

Than the way it is now: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agithub.com+zz_generat...
Quick question. Will ChatGPT be fine-tune able from the API ?

PS: You should really do an AMA!
Stable Diffusion “memorizes” some images, sparking privacy concerns
The absurdity of OPs comment cannot be understated.
I play around pottery kiln, you have to be careful looking at red hot stuff.

You usually don’t need to look at the light source as it penetrate the skin, clothes, skull, etc.
From my personal experience if you have a good personal relationship with your manager, when you want to leave the company they may told you there’s an unannounced layoff in months so you can wait until then. You get extra cash and they can meet the headcount reduction goal.

Although it’s hard to know whether this is the case here \_(ツ)_/¯
The ability to tell letter occurrence in a word is not a good measure for the quality of a large language model.
Let those bots talk to each other and give us humans the summary.
No way he passed away. Running a service like this costs quite a bit of money to host all these images and pay for all their bandwidth. He's still probably shelling out $200+/month on this.

* Just saw that they are served by Cloudfront. Probably not that expensive, but still.
Zero. You should search "define:X".
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Doom's Most Mysterious Glitch Finally Solved After 30 Years
As far as I know, there is Fellow before “God” (aka Senior Fellow).
Simple parabolic heat dish from costco. 1-2 hour/day for a week.

Also used hydrating cream to prevent dryness with the heat.
L6 is staff, senior staff is L7.
> The rumor is that they were never able to make effective use of the long range data collection beacons that used the bands. Alternatively (and more likely IMO), they realized that knowing how many people were in an area was a matter of measuring how many unique devices scanned for the Wi-Fi AP in that area, which would work even if you didn’t have a band or the battery in the band died (the battery was necessary for the long range functionality, you could still get in the park via RFID no matter what).

IIRC both are true. MB was in development before phones were everywhere, so it's a long time pivot basically.

Also the 2 reasons I've seen that the data was thrown out was not due to use, rather the data was VERY bad / corrupted and not as accurate as they needed.
I’m surprised they don’t just seed using /dev/urandom (or the platform specific analogue).
Is it possible to fine-tune it?
You can’t discount luck, but it’s not comfortable to look at one’s life and see how it played a part.

Two people can work equally hard, be equally smart and have two different outcomes. Luck/random chance did play a part. It’s even more stark when someone can not work hard at all and have better outcomes than someone who did.
Wow, that's a hell of a lead time! Why not start with something smaller and faster? Even birds have a very seasonal reproduction cycle, why not start with something closer to a model organism. Are there any exotic and extinct rodents out there?
Question:
On the western side, the top-left side of the crown, it looks like two curves were flown, both more than 90 degrees. Wouldn’t it have been possible, instead, to fly straight (and then fly the „crown“ the other way around)?
Wouldn’t that have been marginally prettier?
Yeah, Ben is really good at riding the hype wave, not so much at executing for the long term, so the question is who’s running operations over there. I’d love to see “de-extinction” happen, but I’m going to need to be convinced that this will be any more practical or realistic than those Chaotic Moon SXSW tech demos.
Cold, dark Canada in the winter :(

But you are right, the sun is the best original source.
I call bs in this. To get a 10000 foot view of a codebase, you lean on diagrams and other lies of documentation. Note that I don't mean malicious lies. I mean simplifications and other happy path discussions of how things work.

This is no different from any system. Want to know how your car works? Start with a simplified diagram and gradually add more details.

Cars and other equipment are an amusing case study. What is the strongly typed version of a car schematics? Why does it look so different from what we think the idealized software should look like?
All you need to do is read a press release the DOJ puts out to know this is true. Especially the cases they lose.

The judicial system is adversarial by nature. The goal of the prosecution is to put forward its best possible case that basically means assuming the worst of any piece of evidence.
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> just first-party advertising for App Store, News+

And stocks and weather. They also have a video platform they could expand into, and music oh don't forget books. Don't they also make a web browser?

Hmmm.... Yeah, i guess it's no big deal that it's only apple's first party apps.
I don't claim it was good - just what I was expecting from the prompt.
You could take your $20 and buy garlic and a cross with it instead, and then you might be able to keep those fuckin' vampires at Microsoft out of your office.

When you signed up for Github, did you imagine Microsoft would be selling all your code 5 or 10 years later?

Do ya like ads in your file manager?

How's renting a word processor on a monthly basis working out?

Am I an old enough man to shake my fist at The Cloud yet?

No good will come of paying Microsoft for anything, the Government didn't put them on parole for 20 years for nothin'.
Negotiating an increased salary for the use of your capitalized equipment is a terrible use of resources. The fact that they agreed to that tells me that they detected it was a touchy subject for you and went the appeasement rout. If they cared about the equipment they would have preferred to purchase/finance it or lease it.
You should have more than one point of data. How many software systems? How old were they? How many contributors? How many bugs in each? Were any of them green field?
OK, after reading through all that, I still can't tell if this can generate a Windows installer. Generating an installer is mentioned, but the examples seem to just generate a .tar file. Or maybe a .zip file. That's not what non-programmer Windows users expect.

Rust does a good job of generating Windows binaries cross-platform. But the tools for generating Windows installers are not yet cross-plaform. Does this project improve that situation?
Ethiopian Jews and Their Sacred Scripture
Are posts really not coalesced? If not, that's a pretty big oversight right there.

It might be worth pointing out that Mastodon using Ruby on Rails and all of its dependencies is very, very far from being light, whereas Pleroma and other Fediverse compatible software can be run using significantly less resources.
That was one model. I sure hope it’s correct. If there’s one lesson I’ve learned over 30 years of following this topic, it’s that things very rarely break in our favor.
Package size dropped by 200MB on Arch. What happened?
> hire Maven to make a nice website

Well, that worked from me. I did not dig into the "how" (yet), but I immediately said to myself "wow, nice layout and general design"
How is distributing binaries via cargo (automatic, can’t opt out, not possible to audit, invisible) better than explicitly downloading them from github?

Just puzzled; I think binary distributions make any supply chain issues basically impossible to solve.

Vendoring them into the tool chain instead of distributing source code you can compile yourself seems the opposite of solving the problem you’ve posed.
Yes it is obviously not an AGI in the sense of an intelligent, persistent agent, but it is also obviously a huge step towards one. It's like a single pass of thought on a topic, combined with self iteration and recursion in answer generation it would not be surprising to me if answers become an order of magnitude better. And we haven't even hit hardware limits.

I believe an order of magnitude stronger ChatGPT is an unacceptable risk to us all, it will let those who own and control it wield power which our government shows no sign of being able to regulate. We don't allow private research and ownership of nukes...
I think both are true.

We have created the most abondance, comfort and security ever.

Now we have second order problems: too much abondance, confort, security.