skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally the last 2 would be the founders and they could invent orders or delivery coffee for free to even avoid the trouble of getting customers. We all know if we build it they will come, so the problem is always going to be operational.
Or maybe Apple is a great example because they've resisted over-hiring in the fat times, so don't have to trim in the lean times.
> > We’re celebrating Kareem for how unique he is in his outlook because it’s so rare.

How is he unique? No human could possibly still milking an achievement 35 years into past.

Financially maybe, but brain juice wise not so much.

Led Zeppelin hate to play Stairway to Heaven and Eagles have come to hate Hotel California and Tom Brady is for sure tired to explain for the 1000th time the game winning drive against the St.Louis Rams in SuperBowl 2001.

There is a reason why all the people above ask to get paid a whole lot in order to once again 'perform the classics'. The exception is the other way around.
Agreed, we’ve been here before, repeatedly, over the past few years:

- The Metaverse was going to change the internet.

- The Internet of things was going to revolutionise our homes and cities.

- Self-driving cars would change the motor industry.

- Crypto is the next big thing in finance.

- NFTs are going to revolutionise digital ownership.

Most of those technologies have introduced niche or useful applications, but the ridiculous, breathless hype about how this technology is the one to change everything is getting more predictable and increasingly frustrating.
A co-worker from UK said to me the other day that she thinks UK Christmas tradition is the best: people just go to pubs. Coming from a country (Poland) with a strong family-oriented Christmas traditions, I can't say I disagree.

I grew up in a split-faith household, with the more zealous side not celebrating common religious holidays, so I skipped on quite a lot of Christmas drama, though still got my fair share of it on other occasions, and of course I witness other people suffering through it. One Christmas Eve, an acquaintance asked me out of the blue if he can crash at my place for the night. Turns out, he wanted to skip the "Christmas spirit" experience and learned from our common friend that my apartment is a Christmas-free sanctuary.

My wife came from a Catholic family. We have small children now, and still struggle with deciding whether or not we'll be doing the whole Christmas thing. On the one hand, we don't want to deprive our children of the tradition almost everyone else in the country shares. On the other hand, my wife enjoyed the full course of almost two decades of family holidays, and even more than me wants to spare our children the "Christmas atmosphere".
That’s not how it usually works, but if the author needed to do so, where did she find three nurses in NYC at $13,000 a month? That’s barely $15/hour.
between the comments pointing out numerous serious security issues and those who point out poor code quality or phoning home to china, the comment i am replying to feels strongly like astroturfing
It turns out that transformers have a learning mechanism similar to autodiff but better since it happens mostly within the single layers as opposed to over the whole graph. I wrote a paper on this recently https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01834v1. The math is crazy.
To be pedantic, your parent didn't say anything about right or wrong. It is irrelevant the correctness of a solution if you cannot implement it. Taking one year off is not a solution (even tough it is a right solution) for a lot people.

The same for the cancer's cure. It is not a solution for a lot people.
https://archive.is/xm3Ck
The sports press hate an introvert.
I think F# is going to do well because it is driven by the community making it an open field despite being .NET. F# developers seem to have a higher than usual lower-bound.

Elmish.WPF, FParsec, so much there and still things to do...like better development tooling with VS Studio Pro.

If it were a sure thing it wouldn't be a challenge or quite as interesting.
Engineers are still not proles lol. And they will never be, so it's always funny to hear a bunch of highly paid SWE talk like they are class conscious workers. In reality, most are thoroughly professional managerial class, with 0 connection to anything close to labor.

It's even funnier when that discourse seem to mostly happen when firings happen, as if losing your highly-paid cushy job makes you a proletaire.
https://archive.is/Ql4FQ
Thanks James!

Yea, agree, I'm also curious why this doesn't exist yet. I thought there might be a tech roadblock but there really isn't any - especially since Node released Async Context. We did a POC for covering Redis and requests to 3rd party APIs and everything looks very doable, just need some time to implement it.

Re PII, interesting question. We were thinking Pythagora will be used in a local/qa environment and not in production so that there won't be a need to anonymise data. However, it's good to have it in mind.

Re alerts, yes, definitely. I think that's a great idea for using Pythagora in a CICD pipeline. Especially since, once the test suite grows, it will be super handy to get alert for failed tests after branches merge.

Re sockets, yes, they are definitely on the roadmap - my previous startup used mostly sockets so hoping we cover them soon and we would LOVE if you want to contribute. If you have any questions or need anything, just let me know, I'd be happy to help you with the contribution.
All of Google advertisers were able to make use of easy/cheap money to fuel their own business, in which they bought Google and YouTube ads with part of that money.
"Scientists" came up with a safe and effective vaccine to the most important pathogen in the past century, in less than a year. Whoever took this vaccine reduced their chance of ending up dead or in the hospital significantly. The jury is still out on whether mask use and quarantining was effective (several studies suggest so, others don't). A large reason of why we in the West can come out and live life normally is because the vaccines worked.

It seems odd that you point fingers at some of their perceived failures without acknowledging how many hundreds of thousands of people owe their lives to these scientists and policymakers.
Hugged, https://web.archive.org/web/20230209160325/https://heyinnova...
Would love hear if people have opinions like, "Musk will ruin ChatGPT just like he ruined Twitter."
Who are the censored racists that got freed under Musk? Did you view the links in my posts? Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is not a racist. Neither is the Babylon Bee. Neither is the attorney general of Texas. Neither is Jordan Peterson. These peoples' views represent mainstream conservatism, and their censorship was dissolved under Musk.

Now, point me to the throng of racists Musk also unshackled. I'm guessing you can't, because not a single person in this comment thread can be bothered to come up with a spec of evidence supporting their claims.
[EDIT] - I meant not only chatGPT, but any good LLM that spit out code from the right prompts.

Plus imagine a small layer around the LLM that takes the generate code, compiles (if needed) and executes it.
Because when you have a DAG of 100s of CREATEs that need to be run in dependency, many of which are table materializations and not views, you will end up creating a poorly specified, half baked version of DBT.
But we're discussing people being additionally qualified by accident of birth, having afforded them opportunities, and not because Dave met someone in a pub last year.

Is it "shit" that Liza Minelli had a great head-start in her entertainment career by being Judy Garland's daughter?
This guy makes me think of https://youtu.be/_o7qjN3KF8U for some reason.
haha, I wonder how would your dad feel about you calling them expresso machines?
It's my opinion that the author is wrong. A lot of the same qualities that make a good REPL for interacting with the system make a good programming language for interacting with the system.

C shell was designed solely for interactive use and is a worse REPL experience for it. Not being able to e.g. redirect compound expressions matters for quick one-liners at least as much as it does for writing scripts.

I think the author has an underlying assumption that untyped languages are worse for writing programs, and that's what they mean by "terseness" versus "verbosity". If that's the case then they should probably state that outright.

I'm only unsure about this assumption because their pandoc example is non-sensical if that's what they are getting at.

There is no fundamental reason that:

pandoc -t latex \
-f markdown \
--pdf-engine=xelatex \
--table-of-contents \
--toc-depth=2 \
--resource-path=. \
--standalone \
input.md \
-o output.pdf

cannot be statically checked any more or less than

Pandoc(
input = (Path("input.md"), MD),
output = (Path("output.pdf"), PDF),
pdfEngine = XELATEX,
resourcePath=Path("."),
completenessMode=STANDALONE,
)

And in fact it's trivial to write a mechanical transformation between the two.
Agreed. Also we could find a potential connection that we would bring up in a call that does not really make it a "warm lead"
Out of scope.
I'm glad you enjoy it :)

Noted - good ideas. They shouldn't be hard to add, but I just want to make sure they're well-integrated to the design of the app.
Sure, your subjective feeling is more accurate and convincing than concrete numbers.
Ask HN: Is GPT-Bing going to become our default search engine?
Me personally, I believe it is correct for health officials to be not entirely transparent if they have knowledge that doing so would lead to net-negative outcomes for society as a whole. Is that good faith? I suppose it's arguable from a philosophical perspective, but since I see them as operating rationally to achieve a goal with no intent to harm individuals, I see it as good faith.

Remember, the health officials promoting vaccines now lived through the antivax movement that occurred pre-COVID. That movement greatly overhyped vaccine risks in a way that convinced large numbers of people to not get vaccinated. How would you, as a good faith public health official, respond if your opponents are extreme liars with no scientific basis?
They were trolling.
One hopes.
Same here, I've been fully remote since the beginning of 2020 (Covid) and its been a blur. With young children around its difficult to get lost in work, and hobbies are possible but its a hard push to fit them in, so they are relegated to times where things are calm.

Luckily my team was in the office at least 2 days a week prior so I had those connections built up already - it wasn't a huge social hit and still felt those connections through remote communications since the foundation was there. The office had re-opened and in mid-2022 I was able to start going into the office, albeit with no direct coworkers. It was nice to have some kind of routine again.

I recently started a fully position. Its been hard to adjust, and has taken a toll on me. Onboarding went well, but its been tough to get situated with a group of new people that I have had little to no social interaction with. I'm hoping things click soon. There is an optional office space, though no one on my immediate team would be there. I'd like to get some time there once I break out of my rut.
Advantage applicants based on their perceived accomplishment, ability, and effort without taking into account their ethnicity.
Mastodon needs S3-compatible storage. I am not sure if there's an advantage using JuiceFS to expose an S3 backend over the S3 API.
It has a very high rate of serious side effects, and the psychedelic affect makes it worse because already unreliable people (drug addicts) get even more unreliable.
How does it define what a "good" website is, though? It seems to me that this would be little different than relying on any other single source for information. That practice is always problematic.
XFinity's website for new internet service blocks VPN and automated traffic with a heavy hand. I've had trouble accessing my own account, even when logged in as a paying customer, depending on if I'm using a VPN.

This was probably originally meant to keep wide-scale pricing information secret from competitors, but it sure has the nice side effect of making it hard to verify their coverage promises.
Your comment doesn't really contradict the parent comment in any way. They said most people don't care and I'd wager that's true. That doesn't mean there aren't people who care, only that they're a small minority.
The point isn’t that you need citations - it’s that there is nothing to cite that can credibly inform us as to the size of the remaining gap.
I'm not able to read the article. The website must be getting overloaded with HN traffic.

But it seems like a simple purchase of a big bag of coffee would trounce any delivery service. All the extra human labor costs are removed. No logistics issues. No timing issues on the delivery.

Yes you need to brew yourself, but that's pretty much a solved problem. You can make a high quality cup of coffee with a small upfront cost in equipment. The few minutes of time spent grinding/brewing might be less than the time spent looking for the delivery to arrive.

So, what I'm trying to say is.... yeah it sounds like a tough business to break into. You'd need to be Walmart-huge to make slim margins worth it.
I read the article and sounds like the rewrite is mostly to do with large amounts of technical debt and being tied to firefox's development cycle. This should enable them to fix bugs if they don't have to fight code always coming from an alternative product.
He was an early investor but has no operational influence on the company.
Why is the 100 Mbps port an issue on a device that can never do more than a single video stream. Why should the TV manufacturer spend more money on that part?
..and FB groups.
This thread is about Gitlab, not GitHub. AFAIK Microsoft doesn't own them (I hope).
I wouldn't believe it until their study is replicated.
I took 8 months off voluntarily, just started applying again last week (full stack dev):

10 applications,
2 rejections,
1 initial phone screen

Anecdotally I see very few junior/low level positions open, most jobs seem to be senior+. Salary ranges are all a bit higher than I remember them being 3 years ago. I am still a long way from being scared enough to take something I don't like or that doesn't pay well, still optimistic things will swing back eventually.
Would you mind ballparking how many applications you've put out, and to what kinds of companies? That's super concerning to hear.
I'd love to see an in depth exploration of exactly how float imprecision happens. Why is the error at 4e-10 and not 3? What binary magic is causing these spurious results?

We've all been told about float imprecision in a very hand-wavy way that doesn't actually explain anything at all about the problem. On its face, one would assume that any two binary values being added would have a reliable and deterministic value, but that's not how floats work. There's some magic in the stack that causes errors to creep in, which isn't something we see with other types of numerical representation. It's very easy to show and understand that 01b + 01b = 10b, but that logic somehow doesn't apply to floats.

I think it's a very interesting subject and I wish there was more discussion of the real causes rather than just "oh yeah, floats do that sometimes, just ignore it"
Remember that there are many reasons why someone would not get hired despite having top work experience.

I have seen people out of FAANGs with 10+ years of experience sharing their CV after being laid off and some will struggle to get any interview, let alone get a good job, just because the format of said CV was absolutely awful.

If you aren't getting interviews, it's your CV that is the problem.
This is another company where the legal veil needs to be pierced and have the executive board members get personally sued for their wrongdoings.
I‘ve seen plenty of overt racism coming from some people who advocate for DEI too (I can provide examples if you would like), so I don’t really see what your point is. Guilt by association is silly.
If anything I think those being laid off right now will be sought after in areas that want tech sector quality but have not been able pay tech sector wages. Government jobs, education, nonprofits, all have lots of openings right now.
I'm looking for > mid backend folks right now, kotlin + spring boot/micronaut. preferably rhein-main area/Germany or remote in Germany. Just hit me up ;)

Good luck to everyone else.
A classic tale of building it before even knowing they would come…

This makes me appreciate services like Cometeer.com - high quality coffee delivered frozen for a little over $2/cup. I’m not affiliated, just a very happy customer. They address the two most important pain points for me in regards to coffee drinking: time and quality.

I’m too lazy to make my own (high quality) coffee. And I don’t have the patience, or frankly the counter space, for a grinder/roasting machine. Enter a service like Cometeer, one that immediately addressed my issues, and now I can’t fathom sustaining my addiction any other way.
Everyone's situation is unique. For many, it may not be easy at all—you're right. But in the "average" case of the average software engineer in the US, if you value the option to take a year off, it is absolutely trivial to save half your income.

Let's just do some back-of-napkin math to prove my point. The average American software engineer makes $110,944 / year [1]. The median salary in the US is $54,132 / year [2]. That's less than half an average software engineer. In other words, most Americans—even if they spend every penny they earn—live on less than half of what an average software engineer makes.

So yes. On average, a software engineer should be able to save half their income and take off a year. Or hell, save 33% of their income, and take a year off after working two!

[1] https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries

[2] https://www.firstrepublic.com/insights-education/how-much-do...
I’m from the northern midwest (Michigan/Ohio) and Texas.

We call people who do the farming “farmers” and the people who own the farms “farm owners”. We acknowledge that a lot of even the white families who live on the farm that they farm no longer own their farms. They’re still “farmers” to us even though they don’t own their farmland.

In Texas we also have “Ranch Owner” vs. “Ranchero”. One of them has bullshit stuck on the outside of their boots, the other has the bullshit inside their boots.

My wife has some Indian-American friends who invest in farmland and laugh at the idea that they have “white sharecroppers”. It would be weird to call them farmers, but not call their “white sharecroppers” farmers.
Does the Oculus allow for side loading ?
This is a great example of the kinds of problems they're trying to tackle. This shouldn't be an issue. Just use sqlite or similar.
May be more directly related to the CPU/etc load and HW age rather than software. If the phone's battery is older, it may not be able to keep up with the bursty power draw, which can cause the phone to crash.
You are arguing with your own straw man interpretation of the article. It isn't talking about all possible uses of LLMs, but focusing on specific uses now being proposed, to use ChatGPT and its possible successors instead of search.

You ignore his points about how achieving really good compression requires learning structure in the data that starts to amount to understanding: if you can understand the rules of arithmetic then results of arithmetic operations don't need to be saved, they can be reconstructed accurately. You mistake his pointing out the arithmetic errors ChatGPT makes for a claim that they are fundamental to LLMs, even though in the same article he points out that understanding arithmetic aids compression. And then you say that his article shouldn't have been published.

I will not say that your comment shouldn't have been published, because that is impolite and against the rules.
https://archive.ph/VbwGB
I thought about 10Gig but then I decided almost no device I own can actually make use of it and even if it could, there are better ways to do it. I don't need to have 10Gig just to be able to edit videos/photos if I can easily solve the problem and copy them locally for the duration. Also almost everything uses WiFi and there are only two computers (my macbook pro and gaming PC) that are connected to ethernet.

As to APs, having multiple APs (well configured) and a good router (well configured) has much bigger impact on the quality of user experience than the actual throughput of the broadband itself.
The actual phrase for describing the NHS is meant to be "Free at the point of use", but people are likely shortening for convenience. People are paying for it, but not in a tangible way.

The main thing is knowing that if you need any procedures, services, an ambulance, critical or emergency care, etc, you'll not be asked up front to pay for it, you'll just be treated. Seeing that principle erode over time is heartbreaking and terrifying.

(rant) Healthcare as an industry doesn't function properly under a capitalist model, which expects that competition and consumer choice will encourage innovation and further competition, leading to a better outcome for the consumer. If you need healthcare, you don't really have a choice in it, or your choices are artificially restricted by circumstance, so you can't benefit from a competitive marketplace. It's a broken system, as far as I am concerned.
I agree that this is clickbait, but then I come from a family that just doesn't think this way. I've been through this twice now, for both my parents. They died at home. Not in a rented apartment. At home. We, their children and grandchildren, were their caregivers. We did everything a nurse would have done. We took shifts. We spread the burden among us.

Yes it was a sacrifice. But it was a sacrifice that was worth it, and nothing less than what we owed to our parents.
Weirdly, a senior dev from my company was recruited by another company and will be changing jobs in a couple weeks. And to be clear, he is not a unicorn type. He's a good senior developer in a common language.

It's hard for me to understand recruiters "fishing in the neighbor's pond" while there are plenty of unemployed, qualified senior devs out there right now.
I listen to conservative AM radio a fair bit (because I'm not right in the head) and a local guy was really struggling with this the other day. "The jobs numbers, yeah, those are really good, but... um... economy bad? Can't possibly say it's good while a Democrat is President, but um, yeah, I was surprised at how good the job numbers were. But... it's still bad, somehow, because reasons. Inflation? Oh and we're definitely on the cusp of a recession, if not a depression, I'm just sure of it."

The situation's super-weird and it's evidently hard for people used to being able to easily spin the narrative one way or another to adjust to whatever the hell this is. It's definitely not the case that all indicators look great, but damned if the economy's not still trucking along.
Starlink is a game changer for rural areas. For the house my family owns up in Maine, the best we could get was about a 1Mbps down DSL and the house was the last one on the road that could get "broadband" at all. Only other choices were traditional satellite or marginal Verizon hot spots.

Could never have worked from up there.
No. It’ll be my mom’s default search engine, but I will never stoop so low.
Does it bother you to consume the exact same bean every day? My favorite part of coffee is contrasting one origin/process/roast to another, so I often have multiple bags from various sources going in parallel.