skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Remote: indifferent
Willing to relocate: if the opportunity is good enough

Technologies: C++, Java, Python, Go(beginner),

Resume: Available on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavkr

email: abhinav.kr.90@gmail.com

I was a SWE at Google from 2016-2023. I worked on large scale infrastructure projects in the data center networking teams in Google. More recently, I have lead projects and contributed to building the telemetry system responsible for measuring all the traffic in Google's networks.
Location: NYC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Front End Developer
Résumé/CV: Available upon request
Email: Kirch2@gmail.com
In practice, yes. Expressing pride in being white and male tends to be career-limiting.
If you owned a restaurant and got a Yelp review like “the food was great but the ambiance was a turn-off” what would you do?
Plus the fact that no AI of this kind can explain why it produced the output it did, it denies any amount of accountability/dependability. Maybe it's my academic/scientific background that shaped me this way, but using an information that can't be sourced/repeated as experiment/proven from axioms and theorems is a liability and often a cause for gross negligence or misconduct.

It strikes le that most people don't see that as fundamentally problematic.
In today's construction market, it is more important than ever to find new, innovative ways to attract and retain a strong team. One way to do this effectively is by implementing new technologies into existing jobsites, such as wall painting robots.
Sometimes, not making mistakes can help your velocity more than it being quick to type out. It depends I think on what you're doing.
The issue for many of these decisions is the bill gets paid by generations far after the ones that made the decision.
Is this supposed to be a good thing? Instead of living to 82 years old - pooping themselves, drooling, with no friends because they are all dead plus Alzheimers and/or dementia - I get to live another 3 years of that misery? Where do I sign up?
I love improving human factors in existing product and/or creating new experiences.

Location: San Francisco, CA (South Bay)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
• Javascript / Typescript (Node, deno, VueJS / React / Quasar)
• ObjC / Swift / SwiftUI (advanced)
• Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scikit), Lua, Perl (don't judge)
• Solidity, Infura, HardHat
• Go (intermediate), Kotlin (minimal exp)
• Tensorflow, Pytorch, CoreML (intermediate)
• OpenCV, FiftyOne
• Docker, Google Cloud, Redis, MongoDB
• HTML, SCSS, Webpack, yarn/npm, git
• Figma, Screenflow
• Maya, Autodesk, Blender
• ... (many others)
CV: Available on email request
Email: 0x787a@protonmail.com

15+ years experience creating solutions with startups (full stack). 5+ years CTO experience of VC-backed companies. Robust background in tech and business as co-founder and angel investor. Founding engineer in one IPO (unicorn) real-time auction platform.

Seeking opportunities to join a startup or existing seed-level team with greenfield opportunities. I have a strong product engineering and design background. Have raised capital from tier 1 investors.
Manager at a different FAANG here. I had a very senior (not L9) engineer laid off on my team. The thing about super senior ICs is that they have super high expectations, ones that are easy to miss. It’s almost silly every performance review season, we sit down and go “what did this person do to redefine the industry this cycle?”. Unfortunately, when the answer is “not much” or they simply wrote great code, they get a low rating. At places where curves for ratings exist, these folks frequently fill in the lower portions of those curves - despite appearing to crush it from the outside, they’re just not hitting all expectations.

The end result of all of this is that when senior leaders set filters for who is laid off, these folks get hit. Multiple cycles of subpar ratings, it’s an easy decision looking at the numbers. Maybe not a good decision, but that’s where these systems have led.
I have a 2019 iPhone (11 Pro!) and the scrolling is perfect. Battery about to die though.
They are definitely making money of Microsoft Teams Voice and Teams Phone System...
American Dream made sense when one person in the family worked for corporations. When everyone flooded the labor market, and automation made workers much more productive, wages got depressed. Now the American dream is propaganda for getting 30 year mortgages from banks and working to pay off the money you rented.
... why? are they especially tasty or something?
The problem I have with Sandel’s argument against meritocracy is that the “meritocracy trap” is not meritocracy at all, but the illusion of meritocracy. He has a point, but I just disagree with how he frames it: a true meritocracy doesn’t have the attributes he highlights.

I highly recommend his “Justice” lectures from Harvard though.
An AGs office can fuck you up big time. Ruin execs lives. Wipe out LPs and their progeny. Destroy family names that go back to the revolutionary war.

You are correct. Capital adapts. Class war is a dialectic. This is just a micro tactic. Draw blood, retreat, regroup.
Not worth 20$: It's not any better than copilot for code & I can already write bullshit on my own
NYTimes is notoriously anti-China. Quite frankly, no major news company in the West has had something positive to say about China in the last 5 years or so.

The mere fact is, anyone in the US who wants to say anything positive about anything in China is billed as CCP propaganda, like the author I'm responding to. Sarcasm or not.

It speaks to the level of anti-China propaganda we're experiencing.
WHOI | AUV Embedded Software Engineer | Woods Hole, MA

The Scibotics Lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution develops autonomous underwater vehicles that help scientists understand the ocean.

We are seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to help us develop open source embedded software for a series of ambitious projects: protecting the arctic from environmental damage with an AUV capable of detecting and mapping out oil spills under ice; marine megafauna following algorithms in the deep sea; benthic habitat surveys in rough terrain; obstacle avoidance in and around wind turbines; and much more.

https://careers-whoi.icims.com/jobs/1958/auv-embedded-softwa...
Maybe the lesson is that there is no point to judging other people's relative success (whether more or less successful than yourself), and that you can just try to make your own life better. Don't wish for things you don't have, don't despair over success you haven't achieved, don't shit on people who haven't found success. Make your own life better, in any way you can, and make the lives of your loved ones better. Let the rest work itself out.
Correct. I'm not sure if Mach3 is actually sending pulse data at all. It occurs to me that they could send timestamps plus pulse rates in a more compressed exchange. I believe there are other systems that do work this way.
An L9 makes millions every single year.
I hope it does not. I don't want to see these features. Microsoft Teams barely runs, nd barely lets me join a meeting
So it's what you do with the output and not the output itself that matters, right?
> By assigning them like rational human beings?

It's hard to tell if your joking.

The reason for implementing restrictive organizational procedures in the first place IS because nobody behaves like a 'rational human being' in such an environment for any significant duration.
Watched on my laptop and it didn't seem that impressive. I am curious if anyone thinks it's worth getting Netflix premium for.
Conditions are still too good for the classic, blue collar union strategy where you rally the troops to fight back. People do that when they can't feed their families, not when they are facing the horror of going from upper upper middle class to upper middle class.

You have have a plan to offer something else- job security by pulling up the ladder on new programmers is probably the easiest lift. It worked for the doctors and lawyers.
will chatgpt have latest knowledge or is it going to be till 2021 only?
I think raising money does imply dilution. How can the company raise money from employee share sales?
It was changed recently, but 7.5 used to be a major milestone with a title change (Group Product Manager) on the PM ladder.
Be interested in folks thoughts on the footnote.

I’m assuming he’s wrong about the motive/conspiracy but right that DF links underperform on HN. Why would that be?

> It sounds a bit conspirational, but for many years now it’s seemed clear to me that Hacker News has Daring Fireball in some sort of graylist. It’s not blacklisted, obviously, given the aforementioned two threads about yesterday’s piece, but nothing I write here ever gains any significant traction there. Ever. And the reason there are two threads for yesterday’s piece is that the first one disappeared from the home page soon after it was posted. I think? In this list of recent Hacker News threads for articles from DF, going back four months, only three have more than 10 comments — and two of those are the threads from yesterday. I don’t know who I pissed off there or why, but I’ve never seen an explanation for this.
That sounds like exactly the kind of place I don't want to send a bunch of petty complaints with a return address.
This is the expected behavior. It's a language model trained to predict the next word (part of words actually) after all.

What is unexpected is the ability to perform highly in a multitude of tasks it was never trained for, like answering questions or writing code.

I suppose we can say we basically don't understand what the f* is going on with GPT-3 emergent abilities, but hey, if we can make it even better at those tasks like they did with chatGPT, sign me in.

Is not that the AI is too dumb, it's that my computer now can write me code I'd take one hour to Google and check and test. Now I ask, ask for corrections, test the answer and voila, my productivity just went through the roof.

So, my point is: don't believe (or be mad about) the hype from people that don't understand what curious marvel we got in front of us, just see how you can use it.
My Printer Is Extorting Me
You don't need an example if you care about the job and what the company is doing. Just speak from your heart, and tell them why they should hire you. Why do you want the job? Why do you care about the company? What do you want to achieve there? What experience do you bring that you think will help them with their mission? Show them you aren't just submitting the 351st application for a job. Show them you want to work there, for them, that you're the right person for the job. ...And then bring it down a few notches so it sounds 'professional' (confident without being needy or arrogant).
Or maybe she just got unlucky. Attributing skillful planning/execution to a company that publicly announced that it has made a series of large mistakes seems like a stretch.
REFUND?!?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQaavQNGsMY
https://archive.today/pw3DP

https://archive.ph/pw3DP
Cool, a new subscription plan for US only, while the free version is still not available anywhere is Asia.
I initially read it as a joke, but now I'm not sure...
From my point of view, it's to put things in perspective. When people start ranting about where the water for a new apartment building will come from, when they live in some single family unit with a big lawn... it's kind of ridiculous. It's just NIMBYism.

Of course, we should all strive to preserve water as a precious resource. But to do that at a systemic level, you have to understand where it's going.

Also, there's agriculture and there's agriculture: growing, say, alfalfa to feed to cows is way less efficient than other crops.
> - That climate change is real, and that humans are causing it

Not a political point. This is fact.

> - That vaccines are effective, including the COVID-19 vaccine

Not a political point. This is fact.

> - That COVID-19 is not a hoax; that it is a deadly illness

Not a political point. This is fact.

> - That masks are effective in limiting the transfer of airborne pathogens

Not a political point. This is fact.

> - That Joe Biden won the US presidential election in 2020

Not a political point. This is fact.

> - That former Pres. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii

Not a political point. This is fact.

Any others?
You think a pilot took an unnecessarily longer route in a clients purchased plane without senior manager buy-in?
> there's no "some" in post-scarcity - it's either for all, or we aren't in a post scarcity society.

No kidding, that’s why I want it to benefit more people who actually need to benefit from it.

> it's not unquestionable, but so far, no better system has been proposed that produces as much goods/services as capitalism has.

And it also produced artificial demand for labor and a claim that people working from home is bad if it doesn’t buttress this artificial demand or supplement it with some other demand. I don’t need to be a 19th century philosopher to know when something has run its course.
Such a beautiful part of Cape Cod!
If you want confusing, Microsoft starts almost all devs out as level 62. Like, what about the 61 levels below that?
Another happy user here. BetterTouchTool [1] is a must-install on any new Mac for me. I have so many keyboard customizations that it's hard to live without. Thanks for such a great piece of software!

[1] https://folivora.ai/
Not if you cnc manufacture obscure custom bike mods or the like.
Location: Boston

Remote: Not ideal, but can make it happen

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Web, fullstack, embedded... (see below) I <3 Ruby and Rust!

Resume: https://nixpulvis.com/resume.pdf

Email: nathan@nixpulvis.com
A lot of people are saying this biased towards letting go of high-paying engineers. Rather, from anecdotes I've heard, there seems to have been a focus on long-tenured folk (people who have been around for 10+ years).

There may have been some rationale that these folks are too comfortable, etc. But, when you let go of people who have been around that long, it sends a pretty bad message about how you treat long-standing contributors. I think it also underestimates the value those long-tenured folk bring purely by nature of having context on past decisions.
For what it's worth, I heard Kraft speak about 15 years ago and tell the story of Carter bragging about the shuttle. As he told it, he walked into the meeting expecting to tell Carter that they were going to have to cancel the shuttle program. However, before he could start Carter told him that he had just been speaking to Brezhnev and telling them how much the shuttle was going to outshine what they were doing. Without missing a beat, Kraft said "Mr. President, I'm going to need three million dollars".[1]

[1] I don't recall the exact amount he said.
Structuring a VLSI System Architecture (1980) [pdf]
> You mean you lose some functionality with third party type checking tools

No, I mean that Python cannot express this relationship with type annotations. That's why plugins are necessary, because the language doesn't support it. I think the same is true for `TypedDict`, which is why the community had to wait for official support before it could be used.

These fundamental limitations of the language prevent the community from effectively building new tools with similar behaviors. You have to either write your own plugin for the n different 3rd party type checking tools, or hope it gets pulled into an official Python version (at which point the n different type checking tools will implement support for you).

Anyways. This started off because of the claim that Python doesn't need typechecking as much because it has a simpler data model than JavaScript (at most, you can claim they are equivalent), but it's turned into gripes about how half-baked the type annotation syntax is. All of this to say: it could have been a contender! It could have been like TypeScript!!
Oh no, not another copyright flamewar on HN.
Related: https://milvus.io/milvus-demos/reverse-image-search/

[I'm a part of the Milvus community.]
So, second worst is better, then? Btw the Teams product is not a "chat solution", but a workspace collaboration tool; chat is just a small part of it. And now I feel dirty from defending the steaming pile of garbage that is Teams :)
Before I read it, I had so many ideas that were going to solve the woes of multiplayer games. Pretty much all of them were described in the book as already tried, and here's why they didn't work. Gave me a whole new appreciation for the work the pioneers of those worlds did.
No, it's not. Some people truly need it.

The status quo is a joke. The threshold for considering behavior toxic is too high.

Now we have the technology to end the bullshit.

If you are interrupting, ignoring others, bluffing, lying, manipulating, gaslighting, being a sycophant, playing dirty... you are no longer playing the game. There are ways of achieving things that do not involve cheating.

If you disagree, then I have to ask you: are you really being collaborative and inclusive, working for a common goal, or you are simply being selectively inclusive and collaborative up to the point it's time to sabotage others?

There are people out there that get ahead by being irrational, selfish and overall horrible. Let's get them out of the way and let the best ideas win.
Salesforce, SAP, AWS and Google about to get leapfrogged.. If they buy Notion - endgame. Microsoft is our new overlords.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man...
Ah yes. There is that. Much fluctuation. OTOH you can teach the ones who make it. If 5€ are worth their while is another matter. But if the whole house with all people teaches them the same way, poor delivery minion learns: good house!

This may sound sarcastic, but it is how it is. I don't envy the subsubcontracted
delivery people, and I fume at the thougt of privatization, outsourcing to the lowest bidder, while their websites proudly present meaningless labels praising customer satisfaction, trust, reliability, whatever, while their hotlines are useless. But again, that's just how it is. I can't influence that shit. Except by 'tipping' the scale of the stressed, overworked, and time pressured person towards that 5€ dangling before his eyes, if package is delivered to my door.
Auto-hide makes the edge a dead zone... Can't interact with things there because something might shift in and take the interaction. (Not that I like the Mac dock anyway, but the same principle applies to auto-hide in other settings as well).
I saw two on HN yesterday: https://www.metaview.ai/ and https://www.meetjamie.ai/.
What about them? There’s no way they would be able to get an academic position, which requires orders of magnitude more mental health fortitude than an industry position.
Can they get gpt-3 to program a version of Teams that works?
Your problem is C++/Java, not static typing. Static typing does not add many extra lines of code. In most cases, it adds no extra lines of code, as declaring variable/param types is done inline.

Heck, just look at static typing in Python.
Wrong thread I think
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n863gt/#2f0b1162

The drawing started at 16:50 UTC and ended at 19:30 UTC, so 2 hours and 40 minutes of the 6 hours and 20 minutes long flight.

In any case, this most likely required approval from the FAA, but the cost per se should be neglectable, considering that they have been produced since 1970s.
Is this not also what you get with Windows with "Automatically hide the taskbar" set? I suppose there are scroll bars and some apps have menu bars, but that's really down to them.
It's probably so they can't be sued for age discrimination
Need to know more about how you have this set up? Which host?

What is doing the redirect? The application or gateway or perhaps some built in DNS thing provided by the registrar?

Honestly this is probably better suited to a sysadmin oriented stackexchange post.
Patricia Highsmith’s New York Years
No arguments here. Your European is showing ;-)
Almost all of these look like backend features that feed AI summarized or generated data. So they probably won’t hurt client performance.
Devil's Advocate here...

Brushing your teeth takes time. If you could pay $20 p/m to get the same results from say a stick of gum (i.e., no time)...is that then worth it?

The KB "as is" makes sense. But that's a fairly generic item. Adding value / differentiation is minimal.

Phone? Maybe. Put what's your service p/m? Is one worth considering without the other?

What crazy value? At $1 per work day?? It doesn't have to be crazy. Just 5 minutes per day is breakeven (and that's generous). In many cases, ChatGPT is more helpful than the ever polluted Google SERPs. One buck a day to avoid that? With the weekends free? Perhaps not crazy value but worthy of reasonable consideration.
This makes basically no sense. Unless you are going to admit that you fucked up and peter principled the employee, "raising the bar" for them is silly.

This would be the equivalent for a pro baseball team laying off their entire roster because nobody on the team showed the growth that those in the feeder teams showed. A bold bet, to be sure. Not one that is likely to keep a winning team.

That is to say, if you have people that you promoted up the ranks to high level contributor, and then find that you can't use them, that is on you. And shows a sad state of management.
I don't think these algorithms are too much like brains, more so the issue I have is that I view infringement as a "what you do with output" issue, not a "what output can be produced" issue, so demonizing ML models as a whole over people who are irresponsible with them seems sketchy to me. Like blaming human brains for dreaming of Disney and Loony Tunes characters at the same time, instead of blaming someone stupid enough to put the two together outside of parody and attempting to trademark it.
> asked me to take off my glasses to avoid any reflection

A different technique would have been to ask you to remove the lenses from your glasses and let you keep the frame on.
As someone who's spent a thousand hours or so thinking about the board game Go, I'm quite familiar with the idea of simple rules with an explosion of consequences.

Unfortunately I'm also familiar with the consequences in software. Fractal code sounds like it might be cool until you have to edit it, especially if it's someone else's. This is the domain of madmen.
Ask HN: Whats the best way to access files on a Vagrant VM?
Developing code with a Vagrant VM, the repo is in the VM but I want to edit/visualize the code via my editor in the Host. I could export the VM data via NFS and mount it in the Host. My editor can then access the files as if they were local. But I'm not sure how well hg/TortoiseHG can work with a repo on a NFS mount. What other options do I have? Mutagen.io?

I seem to remember not so long ago something was posted on HN about a new tool/filesystem built for this scenario. IIRC it was taking advantage of the fact that the VM and Host are on the same disk to get better performance than NFS. But I just can't find that article again.

I know that the standard way is to have the repo in the Host, mounted in the VM via VirtualBox shared folder, but that has its own set of problems. The app running in the VM becomes very slow if it needs to access too many files via shared folder. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/vagrant-nfs-shared-folders
Honda to start producing new hydrogen fuel cell system co-developed with GM
Hacked Account Spamming
Ah sorry - looks like HN doesn't let me update the post :(. Will need to repost it