skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech workers themselves. Hear me out for a minute. Tech workers have been partially insulated from the hard-nosed realities of “They pay me $5 because I make them $6 or $7.”

“They pay me because I know how computers work and computers make them $100K times N somehow, and someone else can make $500K per SWE, so that company established the SWE comp at $300K, but I don’t want to work at that company because they turned evil and have a hiring system that would take me unpaid time on my own to crack, so I’m willing to work at this other company I believe in more for only $150K, and since they make $100K times N from software, they’re able to hire N/2 of us and barely scrape by. Then, when my company profits take a hit from soaring input costs and we pull back on advertisements as a result and the $500K company sees a drop in as revenues and they cut back on their employees as a result, making that $300K reference now up for debate, and these other places pop up on the radar where people just as good as me are eager to work for half of what I cost, that possibility is appealing to businesses who are struggling with uncertain demand from their customers who are stretched from their own soaring life costs for energy, food, and housing. Hmm, maybe as a tech worker, I should try to understand whether this is another temporary tech recession and, if it is, how I should react to position myself and protect myself, my family, and my friends.”

This tech recession won’t last forever; we’re not going the way of ice harvesters or buggy whip makers, but I think we’re going to see a large scale re-alignment and even if tech salaries merely fall back to 2015 levels, it’s going to feel catastrophic to many.

2020 and 2021 were outlier years. Expect more non-outlier years than outlier years and expect a reversion back to needing to connect value to costs and if you don’t know how your company makes money by employing you, try to figure that out, try to increase it, and try to be sure that they know how they make money from you.

We all do better when we create $X of value and take a high but fair fraction of that home for ourselves, leaving everyone in a nice, durably desirable trade of our skills for their needs.
Re the third person: I was replying in a sub thread, providing extra context to the thread of the person that replied to you, and therefore was talking to them. Sorry if that offended you, I had initially assumed that due to your block you wouldn't actually be able to comment on this thread, but that proved to be incorrect.

Also in your post here you asked:

"And 5 comments in a single day does seem reasonable, why did I get a timeout anyway?"

I responded to your question of 'why did I get a timeout anyway', and took the time to have a quick look for why you might have been limited, as I've seen here people often don't notice if they had been downvoted or even if DanG has asked them to stop doing a certain thing.

I have 'showbanned' on as an option, so I see the posts of people that have been shaddowbanned - I will often vouch for their posts if they've said something of interest, but usually will look back a little in their history to get an idea of why they were banned. I was about to vouch for a person the other day but a very swift look showed that DanG had blocked them for posting far right and anti gay comments, so even though that post was good, I declined to vouch for it. So having a look at a commenters other posts is normal to me, and I wasn't singling you out - I wouldn't have bothered if you hadn't asked the question I refer to, and to be honest I assumed I'd be helping by highlighting context you seemed unaware of.
That's a good thing - Yongin is to the south of Seoul, quite far away from the border with North Korea. Out of range of most North Korean artillery.
Sophistry. Intellectual work is indeed Work, and people who engage in it expect money for their service, otherwise, they're happier to not do it at all.
Two things can be true at the same time. But I don't know any VC. I know a lot of devs.
Miniminuteman is a YouTuber who's currently debunking Graham Hancocks Netflix Series with some humour and guest interviews sprinkled through it. It's the first time I heard about Graham Hancock but it was enough for me to not be able to really take him seriously. His whole shtick seems to be to smear others and portray himself as a victim of "mainstream archeology" and just saying things without evidence which could be true if lots of established facts were to simply be ignored.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A
Open Piano: an open source piano engine based on physical modeling
To me that is an oxymoron. Humans are the source of meaning and value. Nothing could make us worthless. We are the ones who assign value, without us the concept does not exist.
I've spoken to some Trisolarians that are interested in this kind of thing
At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree
Not sure if that will be the case. I’d imagine they would pull from the same pool as auto manufacturers and other “anyone can apply” plant/manufacturing jobs.

It looks like a FAB worker makes about $36k. In my state the average UAW yearly income is about the same, in Arizona it’s $46k.[1]

Some google searches says a fab worker in Taiwan makes about $17k.

[1] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-UA...
> just saying that you think tech companies should keep more profit from the value they create instead

That depends on competition, right? If competition offers more, you either match up or give up.
No prompts?

Sorry do I have to launch the browser with a specific flag?

Worried a site can just swamp a local filesystem.
I turned Twitter off in 2020. It was easy since I had experience disconnecting, I got rid of my TV and radio in 2010 :)

I agree it helps to focus, but unfortunately investors and CEOs are plugged in and enter into panic mode (at least my CEO started panicking after SVB) so we are still affected by those 'self fulfilling prophecies', at least my current workplace is. I wish I was running a profitable business so I would not rely on investors to fund me or CEO to pay me :)

It is interesting though, I get steady amount of recruitment calls, all from smaller companies. There is hope!
I'm pretty sure one could formulate way more than 25k words worth of propositions, where you would be able to determine if the proposition is true or not. This is due to your long term memory.

The GPT string is closer to short term memory, and there 25k words is way more than a human is capable of.

But a human author can offload much storage to long term (or some intermediate) memory.

In principle, GPT should be able to do so to, by basically retrain the model with the text it just created added as input. That way, it might be able to write texts that are billions of words long, but at a much greater cost of computing power, since this would require one instance of the model per book being written.
Have you seen "https://vkguide.dev/"? I like it a lot more than "https://vulkan-tutorial.com/".

I completed the 5 chapters and recently started the "GPU Driven Rendering" section after chapter 5. I've found vkguide.dev far more interesting than the book mentioned in the article, at least for my graphics experience level.
GPT-4 admits to being GPT-3
Follow up recommendation: for Spanish, “Madrigals Key” is language transfer in book form. It can in fact be used as a workbook for this course.
It is interesting that the model seems unable to output the INPUT and OUTPUT tokens; I wonder if it learned behavior or an architectural constraint
how fitting as a response to what i just wrote to post a link to an anglo saxon lecturing slavs about their history and what "rusophobia" really means

but maybe Snyder is right. maybe all these rusophobic, racist statements are made by russian state agents maskarading as hn readers to show russians that their imperial war against ukraine is justified

and then again. shame on russia. US or UK never played the victim when pursuing their imperial ambissions
I wish I had ready-to-go URLs I could reference, but the complexity is just stunning. For example, the purity of the feed chemicals has been a key limitation, and steady improvements have been made by suppliers over decades. There are orgs that specialise in things such as shipping ultra pure chemicals in specially cleaned teflon containers. Just trucking and piping this stuff around must have had millions (billions?) of dollars of research sunk into it. You don't get to 99.9999% or better purity while pumping stuff into a dirty old diesel truck's rusty tank!

The "tools" themselves are an extra level of crazy. For one, the ASML x-ray ("EUV") laser lithography machines are just an unbelievable piece of precision engineering. If twenty years ago you had told me that we'd have high-power x-ray lasers in an industrial setting with nanometer focusing precision I would have laughed in your face, or assumed that it's a function of a particle accelerator the size of a decent town.

I remember seeing an add for a new-generation tool (machine) designed for the permanent vacuum part of the production line. They were proudly showing off their key improvement, which was that its MTBF was something like 7 hours. This was amazing apparently, because both them and their competition couldn't do much better than 40 minutes previously!

Think about how demanding the requirements must be that a 40 minute MTBF was state of the art and totally acceptable in large-scale manufacturing, and raising that to "still less than a day" is worthy of advertising in an industry magazine!
The OPFS is subject to browser quota restrictions.
> Realistically? I mean come on - think about it. Hustlers will hustle, sure. But artistic expression and creation doesn't _only_ happen because of money - it happens because some people would rather die than do anything else.

> I mean, sure, maybe there is - but it isn't anything that I am the only in the world to pull off. Further, by putting the code online and giving it away - you are democratizing a creation that shouldn't really by _owned_ by anyone, in my opinion.

That just sounds like slavery with extra steps.

Also, Art doesn't just come out of a LLM -- it depends on the times and conditions of the artist. "AI" models suffocate all of it.
Researcher solves nearly 60-year-old game theory dilemma
> Nobody is going to "generate training data" if they get precisely nothing out of it.

Everyone that has a job and gets paid for it generates (with the appropriate monitoring) some kind of data that could be training data in the course of doing their job. (And doesn’t raise the issue of “if they get precisely nothing out of it”.)

Once no humans have jobs because AIs are better at them (should that occur), then the AIs themselves will be the best source of training data for the next generation.

There are many problems to address with AI; “Where is training data going to come from,” however, is nowhere on the list. It is a distraction from real issues.
Evil is the wrong term. It's not that an AI will 'turn evil' - it's that we don't know how to make a 'good/friendly' AI, by which I mean an AI that inherently values humans and the things humans value, and any optimising agent that isn't 'friendly' in this sense has an incentive to use our atoms to fulfill whatever it does care about.

This won't be a perfect analogy, because humans have empathy (even towards ants) because we're mammals etc., but how many anthills have humans gassed because the ants were an annoyance?

Now imagine if ants could build nukes- or humans!
Is this any worse than not even knowing when parts of your AWS instance are failing?
"The Year Santa Wore Orange"
They had some problems about 10-15 years ago (hardware, network). The fire some time ago wasn’t cool either
Yeah companies and their small minded "sysadmins" are very eager to use an IP address as the primary predictor of hostile intent, sometimes they add user-agent as well. Not sure why but this is the sort of behaviour why I cannot trust such companies with my business.
How many is a few?

If you've have 500 servers for a long time, and a new script discovers 5% have a failure and sends 25 emails at the same time, I can see why Hetzner might want a single email. Numbers made up, but you get the idea.
Recently moved some workloads from GCP to a dedicated Hetzner box with 12900k, 128GB ram and 2TB NVME raid. This thing SCREAMS, running e.g Postgres with the same capacity in GCP would probbably cost > $1k/mo. Hetzner takes around 120 EUR.
Also the bandwidht is like 10x cheaper with much larger free tier.
What hobby products will you find Trichloroethylene in/will be exposed to?
Being angry doesn't necessarily equate to being right or rational. A lot of people are really pissed off about climate change and ecological harm and blame previous generations for drilling, mining, polluting, etc... then they happily board a plane to some exotic locale to get a few good shots to post to Instagram.
It will not bite them back, because they will argue that what was put in the dataset was "easy" and not worthy of copyright anyway. Then, they'll tout how smart their "AI" is. Two birds with one stone.
I don’t, I feel we’re quieter crowd as we don’t experience it as mind-boggling compared to the crowd that believes the universe is one. I learned a lot though, mostly about how I think
Without knowing much of your exact requirements, I would aim for the following: devices communicate over MQTT, support one protocol, do it well. The problem with MQTT is scaling the broker. It all depends on what is behind "large-ish". Hundreds of thousands of devices? Millions? Dozens of millions? If you can fit all connections on one broker, it's easy, any available solution will handle this. Going past one broker is where the problem starts. Imagine the following scenario:

You have 10 brokers, each broker handles 1M connections. You have a TopicA subscriber on broker 9 and 10, someone publishes a message to TopicA on broker 2. Your broker 2 needs to forward the message to brokers 9 and 10 but no others because if you do this for every message, you waste a ton of compute. So you need a method to distribute your connection table: which brokers currently have connections with subscriptions to TopicA. This is reasonably easy to embed in the broker for a relatively small number of brokers but if you need hundreds of brokers, your global connection table will not fit on each broker. Scale this up - millions of topics and millions of connected clients. You need a way to offload the connection table somewhere else, find a reliable method to distribute changes to your connection table. This is where we have successfully used Kafka - distributing the connection table and state changes.
Ampere 2 Instances – Scaleway
I want a Hetzner-based vercel alternative and a fully managed database. Can someone build this please? ;)
Well, even in California, you can buy pure acetone OTC – you just have to interact with a human cashier who probably won't even know why the self-checkout refuses to let you buy it. I don't care one way or another except that the big box stores try to push you towards the self-checkout lanes.

Nail polish remover, like non-ethyl alcohol, is likely to be adulterated (e.g. with scents or crap to soften your cuticles, etc.). Depending on how clean you need something to be it may be an issue (and you probably can find high test nail polish remover). I was removing these infernal stickers from cooking implements so I went with the big box store. Depending on what you're working with you may still need to wipe it down with isopropyl anyhow.
Super-AI gameplay spurs humans to novel, winning strategies
EuroBSDCon 2023 (Coimbra Portugal September 14-17) CFP to open soon
The Russian course on Duolingo is certifiable garbage.

- My Russian partner
Hi, this is Petr from Feedly, we're doing really well and yes, our focus shifted towards Enterprise - Threat Intelligence and Market Intelligence use cases. Individual users can use our Pro+ plan to access Feedly AI to leverage the power of searching through RSS feeds to get the signals more easily and quickly.
Except, humans aren't machines or tools. Our laws don't answer to some logical / mathematical ideal, they're built to address social realities. LLMs aren't citizens.
> There is something strange in the disinterest philosophers show for experimentation with mind-altering drugs—or at least for talking about their experimentation publicly.

Maybe because both activities are illegal in almost all over the world? So sad that we are being ruled by not philosophers.
Using XMP to deliver the rated memory speeds is considered overclocking by some since at least in the DDR4 days the spec said DDR4 was 2133 only.
This reads like a Smalltalk hype-man (like the guys hyping a rapper) - I think I've read this guy before on ST topics.

The "secret weapon" angle dismisses languages in wide use for all kinds of superficial reasons that didn't hurt major adoption across startups, unicorns, and huge companies like Google and Amazon.

e.g.:

"Python has many peculiarities in its design, especially with respect to object-oriented programming. Its multithreading capability is crippled by the GIL (global interpreter lock). Its lambdas are oddly restricted to single expressions. Its half-open intervals are unintuitive"

"Java is extremely verbose. It’s more awkward to use than Python. C# is Java on steroids."

etc.

while sidestepping major Smalltalk issues - first and foremost the lack of a wide and mature ecosystem of libs and a non-frequently-breaking-compatibility FOSS Smalltalk, or the lack of programmers to hire.
Unfortunately, RISC-V, despite the "open source" marketing, is still basically dominated by one company (SiFive) that designs all the commercial cores. They also employ everyone who writes the spec, so the current "compiled" spec document is about 5 years behind the actual production ISA. Intel and others are trying to break this monopoly right now.

Compare this to the AI ecosystem and you get a huge difference. The architecture of these AI systems is pretty well-known despite not being "open," and there is a tremendous amount of competition.
Which just means, AI needs more data points for architects. What pages did you open in the code-base, what did you read, what changes did you suggest, what different approach did you choose.

Introducing .. the AIrchitect..
I experienced truffles like this on half a dose (what they sell in the smartshops of Amsterdam). Not on a full dose though
I, on the other hand, am actually annoyed that Mozilla doesn't support the File System Access API. I understand that there are security concerns that need to be evaluated more, but the API has to explicitly request for user permissions anyways and has to re-request user permissions when the tab is closed. I'd much rather live in a world where I can briefly use a web app to do some task than be forced to install a myriad of native desktop apps that have unsandboxed and unpermissioned access to everything on my system.

Origin private file system access seems cool, albeit a half measure. Seems like a better alternative than putting blobs into IndexedDB.
Smalltalk Success Stories
What's the difference between ports and pkgs – A FreeBSD beginners guide
The beans were not crying loud enough, obviously.
Ask HN: Google RTDN not receiving events in production
I have developed a Unity app for Android devices, which uses Unity IAP for in-app purchases. I published it in the Google Play Store and it's now currently in production and working. The app itself manages the purchase trough Unity IAP, and when the purchase is completed trough it, the app sends the Google Receipt to my server which then sends and verifies it via Google API, to activate the purchase on my server.

Everything is fine so far.

Now, I have configured a Pub/Sub by setting up a Topic Name and a Subscriber that pushes messages to a custom url on my server, and then I added the full "Topic name" in the "Monetisation setup" -> "Google Play Billing" section of my app. By pressing the "Send test notification", I correctly receive the notifications on my server. However, when a customer really buys an "In-app" product, I don't receive any notification at all.

Someone has any idea why?
Exactly.

In the last 20 years, if there is one thing that really changed in this profession was the amount of leeway developers have to criticize product and UX decisions. We're approaching "none".

The amount of political capital you have to spend just to avoid bloat is not available to most senior developers, let alone to "noobs".
India wants to pre-screen bundled apps
India are in discussions with phone vendors to pre-screen the default apps that come on smartphones, and want such apps to be removable. They sight security concerns.
That's a really bad take. YC has a responsibility to the startups they fund to maintain the best team for the kind of work they're focused on. It's also not necessarily the best thing for employees to "be utilized on other roles" within their current company when their roles cease to exist due to business changes. Often the best roles for those individuals is at other companies or in founding their own companies. In truth, most people I've known who have stayed at the same job for a decade were worse off for it, not better.

I'm not advocating for reshuffling your workforce for very short-term needs, but if the longer-term goals change, the team often has to as well.
>Great minds etc.

Never will this be used for a LLM.
And it's go, boys, go

They'll time your every breath

And every day you're in this place you're two days nearer death

But you go

There's overtime and bonus opportunities galore

The young men like their money and they all come back for more

But soon you're knockin' on and you look older than you should

For every bob made on the job you pay with flesh and blood

I'm somewhat fascinated by the image the song paints of a factory that will happily pay above-market rates for as many hours as you care to work there.
Attributes don't map well to standard collections, so it is clumsy to parse and use in most programming languages.