skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I'm saying that that's a foolishly narrow focus to determine who should get to shape internet policy.
I wouldn’t go that far. I did say college grads. I know a number of people who are 40+ (including myself) who would never want to give up their lives in the burbs with the 2.1 kids in the good school system to relocate and work for BigTech.

My story is that in 2020, I was 46 years old living in the 3200 square foot house I had built in 2016 making $150K (and getting offers locally for $170k) my wife was also working part time making around $25K in the school system.

We had more than “enough”. We went on two or three trips a year, had “date nights”, saving “enough” for retirement. I ignored every message from recruiters at BigTech. I actively didn’t want to work at any large company as a software developer nor did I want to move.

The only reason that the recruiter from Amazon Retail even piqued my interest was that when she suggested I do a slight pivot to “enterprise application modernization” cloud consulting.

The extra money is nice. But it really just ended up going into my bank account and didn’t make an appreciable difference in our lives besides “retiring my wife”.

I would have no problem going back to my (inflation adjusted) prior compensation.
Or they could just have their kid “adopted” by a friend and avoid having to list parents income: https://www.propublica.org/article/university-of-illinois-fi...
Had not heard of hono yet!
It reverse the burden of legal action. If you do nothing you have 100% chance of paying, if you successfully charge back you have 0.01% chance of being brought to court and end up paying the same amount.
> we are not yet at the point where a voice can be mimicked accurately from a voicemail or a clip on social media

See: https://www.thestar.com/business/technology/2023/01/10/micro...

> Microsoft’s new AI can mimic any voice after just 3 seconds

Play the result over a low-bandwidth PTSN line and it could probably fool people in tech, let alone your grandma. Welcome to the future.
You might be surprised, 70% compliance is fairly low. For comparison, Apple complies with ~90%: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
/r/selfhosted is one of my favorite subreddits
Woa thanks for the name (Sonder), I wanted to investigate aparthotels more since I've found one on Airbnb in Montreal. For me hotels are fine if I'm staying on my own and for a few days only, but I like to have a whole property otherwise. Much more private too.
Brisk works really well, we’ve had a lot of success since we switched. I wonder if it works with Bun?
I will take $950 to never deal with AirBnB, thank you.

They've stold me up twice, I was left in a foreign city with nowhere to sleep. Host simply didn't show up, didn't pick up, just vanished.

Never again.
>keep the internal clock running

That's the job of the mobo battery, the PSU just charges it as an afterthought.
> refusing to do business with someone is legal in most cases

Consumer protection law has limited anti-retaliation protection. Banks also want to know if unsavoury behaviour is being suppressed.

Nobody must do business with anyone else. But banning after someone exercises a consumer right in respect of potential fraud you facilitated (and profited off) is not something one wants scrutinised.
yup, all I want is the precipitation map so I know if I can go run. I have everything but that now in Weather app.

I've been enjoying https://www.meteoblue.com/ and if you scroll down you'll get a precipition map there.
If legacy wealthy kids can’t go to elite schools then the schools will not be elite. The schools the elite’s children go to are, by definition, the elite schools.
Yes but an attitude adjustment can affect not just that but other well established and chronic diseases. People can literally attiude themselves to death, you can focus your mind enough with a death wishing attitude and you would just die, doctors will tell you that a patient with a good attitude stands a better chance at fighting any disease than a patient with a bad attitude. Your attitude is set in your brain which regulates different chemicals and hormones. When you see an attractive person you get chemicals to make your body react, when your brain thinks it's in danger you get adrenaline,etc... is it so unreasonable for depression to be at least helped or harmed (not caused) by pursuing a good attitude?

Also , I like to think it isn't the attitude that is spreading but that depressed people help set an environment that cultivates depression whether by stress, lack of communication, bad communication,etc... depression wouldn't exactly be the first disease to be caused or affected by the environment a person spends their time in.
Part of the problem here is that Plex is included in so many different VMs, NAS images, SaaS offerings, etc. That it can be incredibly difficult and/or obscure to update it. I know I personally ran into issues with FreeNAS where once it was running I had no incentive to update. That shouldn't be how these offerings work. They should be encouraging updates.
Airbnb is played out for me. There are several reasons. None of them is worth gambling on again, ever.
Even assuming that’s the cause, Airbnb doesn’t let you filter out properties which don’t have this “amenity”.

I can specify that I only want to see listings with BBQ grill, an indoor fireplace, or an EV charger. But I have to manually check each listing to see if it offers hot water? Really?
I was shocked and disappointed at how casual they sounded. It seems like even the "alignment" guy was like "yolo, can't really guess what it's gonna do, so gotta just throw it out there and see".

I previously felt worried but at least glad there were some experts theoretically in control. Now I feel much less confident in OpenAI.

If these guys are as bad at AI safety as they are at PR, we've got a problem.
ZGC – Java's Highly Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector [video]
This system already exists for the vast majority of real engineering, it's called the PE exam. I see no reason why we couldn't implement something similar in software engineering. It's not like it would keep you from being able to get a job as a code monkey working on Wordpress sites, but it would help in guaranteeing minimum levels of competency in the fundamentals of computer science.
I am agreeing with you, but for some reason you're disagreeing with my agreeing!

I was merely providing additional data, my pants were made on China, now the label says Mexico! Same style/brand.
Can we leverage blockchain to fight back against this kind of stuff?
If the place can't be rented because of an emergency, they don't keep any fine. The 25% or 50% fine is for shitty hosts who decide they want to use the place for something else after all
I think this is a symptom of no longer closely knit families. Many people from cultures that value family would never leave their parents to live alone when they reach retirement age. They would have them move in with them to take care of them. Pooling money this way (any retirement accounts, social security, etc.) plus income from the children goes a much longer way.
As is always said when this argument comes up: fine, let's automate the job and then just give those people the money they would have otherwise made.

The people in need get the money, but no one has to do the awful job. Win-win.

Or we could just pay them to dig holes and fill them back in again, if you demand that they must perform labor to "earn" their way.

These are needless jobs. They should be destroyed.
It's a cool and useful technology but limited if they cannot expand it to Whole Foods stores (in terms of size and inventory). That's usually where the long lines are.
haha true! but my mind mentally added the necessary comma phew!
do they?
You seem to generalize a bit no? I have 2 grads that are pretty happy with their life and their salary right now, and are starting to look into buying a house. So I'm doubtful it generalize well.

You can have pretty good salary in non-FAANGs, make a difference, and match your own software values with what you're doing.

I would even argue that by doing so, you're elevating those company, allowing them to then compete a bit more closer to FAANGs comps, and "stealing your talent" away from those less-matching software values, creating what I believe (from my own values) to be a virtuous circle.

Or you can grind at FAANGs, accept stack ranking and elevated salary, play the yearly promotion game and end up with a very nice pile of money. Then clearly do not expect them to change, and I would argue: you do not get to complain unless you are actively trying to change them from the inside
A contract is a meeting of minds. A valid contract requires that both sides know what they're agreeing on.

He thought he was paying for a reservation for a family member, the host and AirBnB thought he was paying for a reservation for himself.

No actual contract was agreed upon here, as the parties did not actually agree on anything.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffles_v_Wichelhaus for one of the earliest examples of case law on this, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_of_the_minds for more general discussion on this topic
Does anyone have resources on how to get started on the path to make things like these: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ ?
I've also been kinda curious about the research in favor of structured interviews, because as far as I've seen they're generally drawing their conclusions based on "interviewer-predicted performance" vs "actual performance".

How the heck do you measure actual, repeatable performance? Or skill? Income / promotions / etc is very frequently a horrifically biased metric, for similar reasons to interviews, and we have much larger mountains of evidence showing that to be the case. It seems like there's a pretty good chance these studies are just measuring relative bias between interviewers and the interviewee's management, and concluding interviews are done poorly when they disagree with management. i.e. "structured interviews force people to think more like managers" rather than "structured interviews more accurately measure skill".

Using one bad measuring tool to conclude another tool is bad seems... problematic at best. I will grant that "interviews should measure what managers measure" is often what businesses want in bulk, but that does not seem like a particularly good thing to me.
100% agree. I think we should have a specialization of the PE exam specifically for software engineering.
> some people want to outright ban anything that "seems" it was written by a LLM

... The false positives won't be pretty. Especially for ESL students whose grasp of the language might make them sound a little too artificial.

> it's hard to know how much was written by GPT and how much was edited by the student

The smartest students won't even be suspected of using an AI model. They'll use the AI to do directed work, proofread and re-write as needed. Not really different than going through three revisions with different mentors for their college entrance essay...
> I’d argue WPF is a lot easier even for simple apps.

I could not disagree more. That might be true for you, if you are a person who has already spent a long time learning WPF. It is not true in general; WPF is complex.
The fundamental difference between FP and imperative/OO is that in FP, equality is easy, state is hard. In imperative and OO, the opposite is true.

The restrictions that are in FP are there because it comes from the standpoint that equality should be easy.

In a parallel paradigm, state is hard, period. You look at how people use Spark, for example, and it's kind of funny that they are effectively doing FP using an imperative language.
It’s true that for genuinely performance-sensitive applications the options are more limited, but there are worlds of difference between assembly language, C and Rust, for example. There’s still a place for each of them, but other things being equal, Rust wins by a wide margin on both safety and expressiveness.
Continuing my analogy with dark matter:

1. Inequity = the uneven distribution of matter along the radial axis of the galaxy. The scientists believe that density should be isotropic.

2. Implicit bias = the apparent tendency of stars to gravitate towards the galaxy core. The scientists believe that stars should be free to roam the galaxy space.

3. Structural racism = the spiral structure of the galaxy. The scientists believe that stars shouln't form any clumps like that.

The obvious conclusion: since the reality disagrees with the model, something is deeply wrong with the reality. There is faction among these scientists that suggest to fix telescopes to fix the observed reality.
People who work for BigTech are still making those “absurd “ total comp levels. I see no indication that the offers are much lower or that when reviews come, they aren’t attempting to offer more stock to keep them at somewhat decent levels.

I’ll know myself in a couple of months…
Is there a live demo? (Bonus points for a live demo for each chapter.)
Microsoft never was able to top WinForms

Now you have flutter/swiftui/compose that puts to shame both WPF/.net MAUI

The fact that they doubled down with XML/XAML says it all, they lost the UI just like they lost the phone, server and embedded markets
>it still couldn't reach a self sustaining level

This site sounds like you could get away with free static hosting after pregenerating a few hundred puzzles locally.
Surely not, I’m afraid, at least not outside of a city.

I just returned from a ski trip where in order to not pay $500/night at a hotel I turned to Airbnb, where the prices were the same. I wound up renting an off-grid cottage that stank of sewage backup and required a generator to run while bathing for $300/night- and I had to feed tbeir mangy cat and leave them a wonderful review so as not to get dinged with a personal review that might make it hard to rent in future.
> You do not contract with AirBnB.

Indeed you do. I was a host for several years, and there is NO direct contract between the host and the guest. The host has a contract with Airbnb, and the guest has a contract with Airbnb. This is why hosts need to enforce the "no third party bookings" rule because if something goes wrong Airbnb will not honour their "insurance" and the host cannot even get the guests contact details out oof Airbnb due to "privacy".

Many hosts send guests a contract to sign and insist on getting government issued identification (I refused to accept bookings from guests whose account image was a child, a pet, or a sunset) for each and every person entering the property.

Note that I didn't allow instant bookings, and would only accept requests after the guest had confirmed they had read the listing fully, read the house rules and understood the refund policy. The house rules were basically "no parties, no smoking, no pets, no third-party bookings".
It wouldn't even get anywhere near there for multiple reasons:

1) once a competent human (and not a third-world boiler room which is what "customer service" is in any large tech company nowadays) looks into it, they may very well make a reasonable decision and rule in the guest's favor to begin with

2) even if they were in the right from a legal/contractual point of view, they'd spend more flying someone out to argue the case in court than to just take the loss right away, so there's still no point defending the case.

3) Airbnb and maybe even the host have skeletons in the closet they'd rather not draw any attention to (search for Airbnb horror stories and you'll notice how they happily profit from obvious, brazen scams and effectively engage in fraud or false-advertising including about their insurance service, and a significant chunk of hosts break their local laws with regards to short-term rentals and/or taxes, which is the only way to make their pricing attractive), so it would be suicide for them to willingly draw any more attention to themselves than they need to.
Building on this I’ve found https://github.com/segmentio/chamber to be super useful
22 ways in which ChatGPT could be used in economics research
In the UK at least the compensation curve is weird. You can be on a team and be paid more than the senior devs above you.

You just have to play the game right. Excellent developers are rare in the UK in my experience or hiring. Mediocre ones who think they're excellent are everywhere.
I think one of the other things that could be valuable would be to ask students to write fewer longer form assignments. ChatGPT and friends aren’t very good at staying on topic for all that long without being very repetitive. I think that’s probably a side effect of the number of tokens available. I don’t think that chatGPT could reliably write a detailed 5k word essay or more. It might be able to make some useful snippets to copy and paste, but I think the tone would be weirdly disconnected and it might make it more obviously not written by a person.

I’d be interested if anyone has tried this and what their experiences were.
definitely this - https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-datab...
It’s only useful for criminals because it’s allowed to be converted.

The Fed didn’t print infinite money. The government borrows the money it spends and pays interest.
>Automated human classification without recourse nor transparency is what the EU is against. "You cannot get a loan because the AI says so" is not acceptable.

The credit score system already in place in the US is frequently as arbitrary in some cases already. You get punished for just looking at it. I don't think I need to preach to HN about that (crypto money and all that). Does Europe do it much differently?

Not an arguement for AI to do it, but the only reason why the current system is better (at least in the US) is its sluggish incompetence.
Yes, things like this do actually happen. Across the country doesn't matter with worldwide news.
> Functional languages don't stop you from writing imperative code, they allow you to write code that isn't

Functional languages are definitely about removing things or stopping things. Nothing stops you from naming a new variable everytime in C, but Erlang stops me from mutating variables. Only stack depth/lack of tail call optimizations stops me from using recursion to loop in C, but Erlang can only loop through recursion.

And Erlang is pretty pragmatic; some other functional languages are a lot more opinionated.
Regardless of whether you're coming from educational elitism, you're still making sweeping claims about big groups of people based on extremely limited evidence.

I'm a bootcamp grad, and would not have gotten into the field if bootcamps did not exist. I'm about four years into my career now, currently working at a major well-reputed tech company, and haven't gotten an average-or-below annual performance review yet. (And one reason for that is that I tend to be cautious, critical, and thoughtful in my technical decisions.) There are a number of other people from my bootcamp class with similar results.
Perhaps the assumption is that humans functioning as black box loan deniers is also a problem.
The Last Lecture
Oh that's less great. "Reached out to inform...them" is absolutely rich
Holy shit, my wife's a Saffa and I'd never considered the fact that it means my daughter technically has African heritage in her.

Sadly, I can't imagine it being much use when she's old enough to go to university. Most of the (African) black people in Australia come from recent migrant backgrounds, are fairly religious/conservative and believe strongly in education. I suspect they'd run into similar problems to Asians if we had the same affirmative action policies down here in Aus.
>And it's somewhat unclear to me why this should be a federal issue at all... isn't murder a state issue?

That's an odd framing for a self-described "pro-abortionist" to use, but no, obviously federal law against murder exists[0].

But of course the question of whether or not abortion is a matter of murder, fundamental bodily autonomy or both is a quagmire not worth getting into. Not that it's relevant to Roe v. Wade, or its appeal, because that rested on the question of the existence of a fundamental right to privacy and stare decisis.

I mean, read the dissenting opinions on Dobbs[1]. I think a good case is made there as to why this shouldn't be an issue left to the states, and why Roe wasn't repealed because it was bad law, but because the court was stacked with ideologues who were opposed to Roe for religious reasons.

You should be at least as angry about that as Roe itself, if not more so because that represents a far more egregious corruption of the system, but I suspect you aren't.

[0]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1111

[1]https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/24/read-supreme-court-...
Sounds like the French system.

Largely free (taxpayer-funded) at all levels but if you want to go into the best schools you better bring in your A-game because entrance requirements it to sit series of 4 hour long tests graded anonymously. You don't have to pretend to be a native American competitive rower who plays the trombone, but you need to know how to calculate Fourier series by hand.
I am not a medical professional so I cannot make medical recommendations.

In terms of policy, gastric bypass appears to be the sanest policy. Relatively safe, effective, some types are reversible and cheaper than a lifetime of GLP1 agonists.

We need more research into what is driving the obesity epidemic at the brain level. Or if there even is an obesity epidemic vs. humans didn’t evolve with Costco like food availability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi
Eventually we’ll run through all the money we dumped into the economy.
In AI? No, the other stuff all happened in the 70s
Haven't loan decisions always been black box? Sometimes they'll attribute decisions to credit scores, but those scoring systems have always been proprietary, and they won't even tell you what data your scoring is based on.
Not sure if I'm misunderstanding you here but he probably meant that you don't need to remove the items from your cart in order to pay for them.

Old method: Place items in cart -> Arrive at checkout -> Take all the items out of the cart -> Scan all the items -> Put all items back cart -> Pay -> Go to car -> Take all items out of cart.

Scanner method: Scan item -> Place in cart -> Pay -> Go to car -> Take all items of out cart

You could even set up your bags in the cart so that when you pay everything's already bagged up.

Cutting out the repeated loading/unloading saves a decent amount of time and there's usually very little wait when you need to pay. Some stores in my country support using your phone as the barcode scanning device, it's very quick. I can imagine that at some point the phone could be used to handle the payment as well, at which point it'd be very close to the Amazon pick up and go model.
The study sounds like it is trying to blame the problem on the suffers (the "contagion" of their depression), but the obvious explanation of this is that by hiring from organizations with high stress, you're likely to be hiring perpetrators

I think that part of it is that certain policies, procedures, techniques, etc are more likely to exasperate mental health issues than others. If someone is coming from a disfunctional organization they might introduce some of those behaviors to the team, even at a lower level. I worked with an ex faang employee that complained about the stressful culture, while advocating for the policies and tech of that culture.
> Yes. As a judge can check what information was used and what algorithm applied to get to a conclusion. And it may declare that use of data or algorithm illegal.

A ban on "AI social scoring" would be neither necessary nor sufficient to make your scenario a reality.
If only there was a way to inoculate oneself...
You can’t gauge them accurately in an interview, that doesn’t mean the skills themselves don’t exist.

Storytelling is just discussion but that doesn’t mean stories don’t exist, or that all stories are the same, that everyone is an equally good story teller, etc.