skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but pedophiles don't need TikTok to find children they can prey on. They'll join games, they'll join streams, they'll find them on Twitter or Instagram, on Facebook or whatever else there is. TikTok may be a more convenient platform because it's better at understanding that someone wants to see preteen girls or whatever, but it certainly isn't turning people into pedophiles or creates a situation that isn't also on any other platform.

I don't think there is much anyone can do. The platforms will kill any proposal of online identification and age-gating because they'll lose money. The parents have often given up fighting their kids over media usage. And everyone else has no influence over the children, the platforms, or the predators.
It's very easy to get low content book published through Amazon's Direct Publishing platform. I don't really think it's a problem personality, but if you're opinion is premised on publishing being difficult I think it's misplaced.
Seems like a lot of work just to avoid mocks. Don’t know if this is language specific but I find it’s really easy to create mocks and/or in-memory substitutions in .NET using something like Moq.
Some people want to be authors and some people want to have been an author.

The person who wants to be an author, writes, writes and writes some more.

The person who wants to have been an author takes short cuts. All they're interested in is being able to say, "look what I did".
So, Grandma got my little monster a "custom book" recently. It's got monster's name, and friend's name, and grandma's name of course.

It's so awful, that it's really hard to believe that it's just a poor translation. It really only makes sense if it was written by an AI. But I question why... It's just not that hard to write a 14 page story about unicorns and special talents.

It seems like more work to have an AI spit it out. It's just variable names for CHILD, FRIEND1, FRIEND2, etc. So, I think it was AI written, but nothing about it makes sense.
There was a GPT3 bot running around for several weeks before it was caught.

There are probably many more that don't get caught. What anti-botting measures does HN have deployed?
Erm, I believe it's spelled "SillyCar".
Myself included.
Lie. Honestly (lol), if you lie about those 4 years and you are capable and a good fit to the company, who cares ? Just say you took a sabbatical last year for whatever reason, that's it. If someone wants to check, run, you don't want to work for them anyway.

> "Is my timing bad?"

No it's not. There never had been such a demand for developers, don't let yourself convince of the contrary because of some thousands of FAANG's layoffs. Thousands is nothing on the market.
Death of Office Culture Leads to Boom Times for Used-Chair Salesman
That's a great point. What caused it, and has that been addressed?

OP might want to think about that (if they haven't already) for their own well-being, apart from job prospects. There could be some issue that interferes with being able to handle work in a healthy way, and they can power through it... until they can't anymore. (And then comes separating themselves so time allows them to recover.)

If so, then by addressing that issue, maybe they can not only prevent the same outcome but also have a better time of it in future jobs. A healthier, more sustainable relationship with work, etc.
Do you have reason to believe that Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer didn't do this research longer ago, since they worked on mrna before Covid was a topic?
What'd be really fantastic is to just have "zoning" that keeps truly noxious uses (slaughterhouses, say) separated. Offices, housing, light commercial operating during daytime hours... it's not really that big a deal if it's mixed up a lot more than it is now. In many ways, it'd be preferable, so that people didn't need to go so far to do things.
This is only within the context of the pod's network namespace.
I don't think swap over dialup would be usable ;)
Has it occurred to you that the police and cartels might not be operating as separate entities when it comes to shaking down tourists for cash?
It was the opposite for me. 8ams I felt like I was in a dream state, even highly caffeinated. Sitting there in that chair for 50 minutes with the monotone professor droning on and on would lull me to sleep like a lullaby. Eventually I started just stabbing myself in the leg with a pencil whenever I would nod off, which would buy another 3 minutes of alertness or so.
Better hurry up and convert them to (desperately needed) housing...
As someone who can't get hired, you can't really apply to and get rejected from positions 8 hours a day, that would be soul crushing. So I plod along on my projects and walk the line just on the other side of soul destroying levels of rejection ;)
The more seriously I see people take the topic of "prompt engineering" the more deeply depressed I become about this field.

It feels like tutorials on tailoring the emperor's new clothes.

At the same time I feel it's only a matter of time until my job interviews involve questions like "can you provide a few example of where you've used prompt engineering to solve a problem? Describe you prompt engineering process?" and I'm just not sure I can fake it that hard.
I tried using ChatGPT to write theoretical future episodes of the show 24. The output was extremely drab and focused on re-used concepts. I tried to aid it with specifics like Jack is the president and his first lady is actually the infiltrator. It used that, but it didn't come up with the compelling stuff. So I guess if you want drab content, buy one of these books. If the author on the other hand uses it to take a compelling story line into the paragraphs... maybe.
Hi Ege here - another founder of Permify.

- 1. Which integration is your most heavily used right now?

Currently, we don't have any official integration. But we're seeing use cases with popular authentication or identity providers to map user identities, roles, groups, etc.

- 2. Classic premature optimization question, but how easy is it to scale out Permify?

You can horizontally scale Permify Service with positioning Permify instances behind of a load balancer, also we have an internal cache mechanism that follows MVCC (multiple version concurrency control) pattern & Snap tokens to scale in terms of performance. Lastly, we’ll add consistent hashing with Hash Rings (https://itnext.io/introducing-consistent-hashing-9a289769052...), it’s in our roadmap.

- 3. Could Permify be used to do something like switch between Auth0 and OneLogin for example?

Actually can’t, Permify doesn’t handle authentication or identity management. As I stated in the first question, you can use them only to feed/map Permify with user information (attributes, identities, etc) to provide end-to-end access control structure across your stack.
I don’t think it’s a distraction because it can be a portfolio project to demonstrate competence in a new area.

Even if it doesn’t make revenue, it’s still a years worth of xp on a resume.

I think there’s pretty much zero chance of getting a programming job with a four year gap and no meaningful projects. But add in lots of commits showing off good design and coding decisions and it’s easy for a company to understand value and hire.
The point was to allude to simple tasks for our sense-system which AI has issues with at present. Without getting lost in the weeds with y’all well-actuallying every little concrete example because you love to be contrarians.

Given that we don’t (seem to) have widespread beta-ready autonumous cars yet, I’m guessin that this is still the case…
Since the U.S. isn’t gonna nationalize it’s rail system any time soon, or at the very least needs to separate track ownership from the rail companies.

All the rail companies should be required to spin off their track ownership into new and separate companies, which can now sell access to those and other possible rail providers.

It’s necessary to get some competition in the space.
Seems to me the wave of people trying Mastodon has fallen off since Musk toned down a little recently.
Not that I saw. I was in computer science. I knew people in education, business, math, physics, etc.

The reason my semester was hard was due to a poor professor and taking advanced classes as a freshman (several 300 levels, including math, which I struggle with).

I do know doctors in residency and others that have rough schedules, but that's not undergrad.
Looks like it has quite the set of features. Congrats on launching!

It would really help to explain somewhere what sections, blocks, and cards are. The FAQ didn't really explain this and with no example to work from, I'm really not sure how I'm supposed to use this.

As a minor piece of feedback, when I drag and drop to reorder cards, the card I just dragged opens for editing. This is rather atypical behavior and I think I would find it very annoying if I was trying to rearrange a lot of cards.
Turns out plundering significant amounts of revenue from patrons to only offer the most bare minimum, lowest effort infrastructure has left everyone jaded and having no qualms leaving their leases...

My last job had a terrible office, $30k a month in rent. The building required we use all their contractors and designers for everything, no surprise it was the brother and sister of the building owner. Any change in layout had to be run past an approval process that was slow. Even the services were overall disgusting, damaged ceiling tiles, AC didn't operate properly (e.g. rooms that only had intakes thus you couldn't close the door without hurting airflow).

Landlords have been a menace for most businesses over the last 30 years as the expectation has become 'easy money'. Gordon Ramsey highlighted it best, the busier your restaurant gets the higher the rent keeps going. They scout your business and charge you just enough for you not to move...
People would probably have a more positive view of copyright if it didn't last so ridiculously long.
Most people consider strategy to be an event, some magical moment that changes the course of a company and defines its success for generations. The tale goes, some smart people get together (or occasionally one solo genius), they decide what they are going to do, and then they start implementing that strategy. That’s actually not the way the world works.
> Because code is faster and more correct than a neural net if written reasonably.

But, as the article points out, at least for a considerable set of problem domains, it's not.

My general rule of thumb is that anything that has a relatively small, finite, discrete set of inputs and outputs is better suited to "Software 1.0" (e.g. coding a calculator). But there are a huge number of domains, some highlighted in the article, which usually have to do with an infinite possible number of inputs and outputs, where human written code is not faster or more correct than a neural network.
In my experience adding "in the style of a human writer" or "in the style of [author name]" is enough to break detection.
“We just don’t know” only gets you so far. In order to participate in modern society constant little assumptions sneak into your thinking. At about the rate videos are uploaded to YouTube. AKA faster than we have the time and capacity to audit them.

We all have faith in the same way we all have spam in our inboxes.

It doesn’t mean we all think a Nigerian prince is going to make us rich.
Two years ago I had to create a quarterly schedule for a team of four, and about 20 tasks with dependencies.

I had just read a piece about using SAT solvers for designing keys and locks that was on HN, and decided to model my problem as a SAT problem.

An hour later (about 59:30 coding, 00:30 minicrypto3 running), I had the perfect schedule! It was optimal since it was also proven to be the shortest time to do all tasks.

No one caring about this schedule and it didn't matter - one hours work.
The joy I got from the exercise - priceless.
I'm in Europe so I'm not sure which TikTok I access, but my TikTok is fairly educational. A running joke in my friends group is 'ways to get thirst traps on <my name>'s fyp'. I see this kind of comment all the time, but would like to see any source on it. Otherwise it's just a random conspiracy theory.
The majority of people leaving the UK were immigrants themselves.

It’s fairly common globally for immigrants to then move to another country. But that’s been especially true in the EU.
I don't think Umberto's points 1 and 2 match historical reality. The only political movement to ever call itself "fascist" was Italian Fascism, and Mussolini's comrades were not wedded to tradition and divorced from modernity. For example, they ran a campaign against pasta, because pasta was an "outdated tradition" and needed to be replaced by more modern foods. See also the many conflicts between the Fascists and the Catholic Church.
The Urgency of Rethinking U.S. Nuclear Energy Regulation
Weather Machine
It's a nice project, but more of a testament to how high the demand for a standardized graphics API is. If Apple could commit to an open graphics API stack, a lot of industries could start depreciating DirectX.
I'm not sure that "writing" is just taking an idea that you were handed and it making it wordier.

Let's see how well the AI actually explores those themes.
Depending on your major closing out the library multiple nights a week is a typical experience.
Consider that even in the first world, the age of majority varies from 16 to 21.
These are not those type of Engineers. Not the ones doing triple computing using three different processors with a summation and voting process, inclusive using different programming languages and compilers, because the compiler can also have bugs. These are the engineers running self driving beta neural nets on public roads...
I'll second the junior position. Two years of consulting, three short startup stints, and four years away might as well be zero experience.
Seconding the personal/portfolio work.

It's a great way to show off recent experience. After all, they don't care if you got paid for it, they just care that you have it.

Open source work could be particularly visible - and some companies look for devs with ties to the OSS community.
I write pretty frequently and use WordPress. Over the past few years I've felt that it's clunky to just get words out there. I've wanted to move to something simpler but looking at the options like Jekyll or self-hosted Ghost just seems like a different type of work rather than less work.

I want something with a clean, easy to read front end -- that's where WordPress has really struggled, good looking "blog" focused themes.
That has the problem that it's boring. Where do people who are overly well adjusted go to get traumatized again? (Like a secular Tantrayana.)
Personally I hate this question.

And I get it in every interview. Somehow my brain just doesn't care to remember the gritty details for tough bugs. I'll spend days on a bug but soon after I solve it I'll only remember the actionable takeaways like "next time I should try using X tool sooner" or "check your assumptions on Y part of the stack".

I think it's because I never spend any time revisiting that bug in my mind. I've got new problems to solve. You need to revisit something to remember it.
I learned go and that was unusual enough in London to make me more attractive to a company that needed it.

I took a few steps back in salary from where I had been to get a job in a new technology area. Now I earn more.

I don't have an excellent answer for you - C is a bit too limiting as you mention but I wouldn't stop looking because a company that needs you at a reasonable price might be out there and might overlook your lack of embedded experience if they like you as a fit for their team - eager to learn, person they could have a beer with kind of thing.

I would definitely learn some other thing - at least to show you can. Something too popular won't give you that "we can ignore experience" thing and something too odd won't get any hits. You could say "I'm learning Rust" or "Go (basic level" on your CV and see if it gets you more hits.
On the flip side, if the rest of the process becomes easy and in some sense standardized (the art/craft of code is replaced with back-prop), then maybe the complements like data cleaning, model bias/error measuring, and interpretability become “the work” that the high-paid scientists/engineers focus on?

I can particularly imagine a regulatory environment much more rigorous than software has got away with thus far, for example strict requirements around certifying that your model doesn’t exhibit X Y Z biases according to standard frameworks of evaluation.
I remember installing BeOS as a bare metal dual boot on my box circa 2001-2. My impression was: wow, this OS is fast, fun, and somehow endearing. I’ve not since had that experience with another OS.

I’m also super excited to see Haiku mature. Especially once it passes that breakaway threshold where it’s not primarily being run as a VM and the third-party ecosystem starts getting traction.
We might get into another slump of efficiency as an outcome of this, again stopping us from making the most of the hardware and computational resources we have, due to prompts being too unspecific. Did not specify the OS your code will run on? Well, we better use this general cross OS available library here, instead of the optimized one for the actual OS the thing will run on.

The same mentality, that causes today's "everything must be a web app", will caused terrible inefficiency in AI generated (and human prompted for) code. In the end our systems might not be more performant than anything we already have, because there are dozens of useless abstraction layers inserted.

At the same time other people might complain, that the AI does not generate code, that can be run everywhere. That they have to be too specific. People might work on that, producing code generators which output even more overheady code.

At least some of that overhead will slip through the cracks into production systems, as companies wont be willing to invest into proof-reading software engineers and long prompt-generate-review-feedback cycles.
arcades were not that popular in 90s in my European country (I remember playing there only 1941), instead we played games at one computer taking turns (Pinball fantasies, quarantine etc) or against each other (Wacky wheels, mortal Kombat etc), later LAN parties
“Off the Record” Virtual Meetup with Dir of Eng and Productivity at Slack
If it's just WebAuthn under the hood, wouldn't discrete WebAuthn devices work as well? That is, separate security keys (USB or NFC), or WebAuthn directly in the browser of a smartphone using on-device cryptography.

Or did Apple manage to helpfully extend this standard into something requiring iWhatever accounts?
If it’s true that rail companies are running fewer, but longer, trains then wouldn’t absolute derailments decrease even if per ride derailments have increased?

And longer trains derailing means that the impact will be more spectacular, which would explain why we are seeing more news coverage of these fewer absolute derailments.
Looks great, but why are most of the robotics videos 10x slower then real time?
Do you mean pre-COVID levels?
Shouldn't there be a "massive barrier" to new people writing checks notes AI-generated children's books?

I've read now to 4 kids and the vast majority of children's books are terrible. A few are evocative, imaginative, have memorable characters, interesting, thoughtful messages - but most of them are a waste of paper and time.

Most children's books - even the ones more deliberately planned than a ChatGPT textdump - are very lazily conceived and executed.
If I have to replace components to get a baseline usable machine (and am not able to buy one off the shelf), that is a hobby project and not something I can depend on to daily drive.

As I've gotten older, that is not something I care to futz around with anymore. (also applies to the periodic OS reinstall)
I'd recommend creating a website with a portfolio of projects.

The portfolio should include a section for each project, summarizing what tech stack you used, the year you finished the project, the name & 1 sentence on the project's purpose.

With a link to the code on github/gitlab, and a link to more in-depth page about the project.

This way you'd have a summary, links to code, and an in-depth page about each project. On the website you might also include info about your professional background, education, & personal interests outside of work.

I have such a website, and it has helped me get hired.
I'm not buying that. I know people who took OChem. There's a certain point where studying is no longer effective and sleep is more beneficial. So it's really about time management, regardless of when the class starts.
It's occurred to me, but this happens even in places where tourists basically aren't found and there is no well oiled machine for it even be worth the cartel's time to like keep watch for tourists and call the police to shake them down. That and the cartel can just straight up roll up with guns and take all your shit, why wouldn't they just do that if they wanted your money? Instead you find the cartels want nothing and the police want a bribe that would amount to very little for the cartels and not at all worth some arrangement picking up pennies with bumfuck police that almost never see a tourist.
PG is a good example - went to Mastodon on December 18 after suspension, and came back to Twitter and hasn’t posted on Mastodon since December 24th.
Regarding Lenovo:

I only ever bought T series laptops from them and they all still work flawlessly, the oldest being a T420 currently used by my mom who needs a computer about once a month to visit a website.

On those experiences, I'll only spend my own money on Lenovo laptop hardware. ;-)
I'm not by any means bad at ds/algo. Back in university I worked on pretty much all the CLRS problems. It's just that I freeze up in time-bound situations and outside of actual interview situations I don't know how to get used to solving those questions under pressure.
> Obviously he's keeping the interesting bit about how this works for the actual course

No.

Absolutely everything in the course is in the article. The benefit of the course is that you get to interact with me directly. You can ask for clarification, conduct exercises involving real-world code, and bring your own code for my feedback. It's a guided tour, but you don't need it. Everything is in the article.
Afaik (Linux compatible) Lightweight kernels (LWK) have been used in the past in lieu of Linux in (single application) HPC scenarios in order to reduce context switching and consequential cache misses and TLB thrashing.

I wouldn't know why 'the right message' needs to be processed in a HPC application (as opposed to real time applications). Where can I learn more about such?
This is the part I don’t understand. They retain the ability to render Type 1 glyphs, but they remove the ability to load those from external font files, and/or don’t ship any “built-in” Type 1 fonts anymore?

My question is just about rendering/viewing. I understand that support is completely removed for authoring.
The problem with memorizing facts is that you forget them readily unless you're using them all the time. It is much more efficient to learn processes, because these are generic enough that following them quickly becomes an unconscious habit. Declarative memory is also less reliable than procedural memory.
I don't know, how would that play out with school districts?
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone"
Pascal
The biggest would be bad wages - why earn €6,000/yr when you can earn 3-4x in Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, UK, etc.

Institutionally, the mix of corruption, bad demographics, weak infrastructure due to Hoxhaism plus the post-1991 collapse, blowback from ethnoreligious conflicts across the border in former Yugoslavia, the civil war in the 1997, and the earthquake in 2019 have not helped.