skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My team was freaking out about copilot because we're conducting tech interviews right now, with a take home exam and some pairing sessions, and they're worried we'll hire a bonehead because he can make copilot spit out reasonable stuff in our contrived and simple interview scenarios.

But we finally had a guy whose take home test had tons of handling in the controller for cases we weren't even using, and test coverage of things that couldn't possibly fail, or were actually part of the core language and not our own code. It was really obvious! And when I wanted him to fix an SQL Injection problem in our pairing, copilot carefully preserved the bug while he was moving code around. Made me chuckle.
Thanks for posting my article. :-)
No. Previous employers do not release any information about a trader's results. The only way that hiring managers can find this information is through personal contacts (or news stories if the blow up was really spectacular).
The fastest growing SaaS startup is using some deeply unconventional business practices on its way to the top. From possibly misclassifying workers as independent contractors, multiple family members of the CEO in leadership positions, and more.
Partnership for IT Comapny
I am looking for a parntenership for a IT comapnie
only my whole life. evangelicals that is. i don't know much about mormons. but the evangelicals around my era are very multicultural and allow anyone in their church regardless of who they are and they will hire anyone at the businesses they own.
In regards to experience, I’ve noticed this too. I took over the lead position at a company with multiple senior engineers that wouldn’t pass a junior interview with me. No intuition for time complexity and not a care in the world to reuse functions etc (every task was a from scratch build out of mostly duplicate code) etc. the worst was a guy who claimed 15 years experience
ACM Turing award committee has its head up it's ass? Seriously 25% of winners have NO impact on the field ...

Metcalfe was controversial because Alohanet from university of Hawaii pioneered the idea and Metcalfe was seen as writing a nice proof in CACM of the 1/e capacity breakdown theorem and popularizing an already extant technology. He did not build it alone Chuck Thacker probably built most of it but didn't have a PhD! Oh the horror!

He should not have gotten it now - either give it sooner or not at all - and he should not be the only one getting it!
Frankly, it's hard to believe they pay us for this shit, until you remember that we're often the only option.
The domain name on that authorization prompt was more than enough to get me to decline.

I wouldn't have hesitated at all if it were at next.github.com.
The author has analyzed this elsewhere, for example: https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/grain-inflation-starve-th...
> Snarky rhyming schemes aren’t much of a political philosophy.

Slogans have always existed. Poking at them and calling them snarky doesn't stop them from being condensed talking points. Or from being an observable reality.

A little over ten years ago Firefox was doing well. In the time since then it has not fared well at all. Looking at what has changed since then is a very valid thing to do.
Really happy to hear that and your support is much appreciated! I saw you answering many questions before we could do so :) Thank you for that. We are reaching out to all contributor. Let me know in Slack if you are up to a short call to understand better how we can support you.
How is this a fair mechanic for a debt jubilee? People without debt get free extra money to invest. People deep in debt have to give the money they receive to the first group (ie the people they were indebted to), so those can then invest even more. The end result is that the people in debt are even further behind.
I hate PI because its hardware is just junk. Cheap low end stuff designed for consumer electronics like TVs!

Devops like to use Intel NIC, ECC memory only. But somehow Pi junk gets pass because it is "open-source" or what.

Great, we will run this mission critical deployment from cheap SD CARD!!!!!
There are MILLIONS of people who work in government that aren't politicians and are just trying to do the best with the purposeful obstruction that is handed to them.
"NUC"s can be fanless PCs. The fanless part makes them quiet. There are no moving parts to make a noise.
I look at abstracts from here

https://arxiv.org/list/cs/new

I am more interested in the run-of-the-mill results people get as opposed to the cutting edge because what the run-of-the-mill researchers do, I can do.
Thank you for clarifying. I watched the documentary. So incredibly inspiring. Everyone working on this job knew they were helping solve a major issue and contributing to an extraordinary effort - from the steel workers to the government officials eliminating multiple blockers to the workers to the company owners.

Incredible sense of teamwork, collaboration, support, care, pride in a job well done.

To me, it is efforts at this scale and quality that make “America great” and lets me reclaim the meaning of this phrase.
It's a bit annoying that you have to pay for Copilot just to sign up for the waitlist, rather than being able to either pay for acceptance or start paying when you are accepted.
VSCode never has any lag for me personally
I think its pretty unreasonable to talk big words about unaligned superintelligence when the best we have is just an internet content generator trying its hardest to complete the next sentence, but that just might be me.
Let's keep in mind, the only companies that were ever found to collude with three-letter agencies were the big players in the US. But for some reason, Yandex needs to prove something here…
> the market always knows better than you

If humans could predict the future, we wouldn't have gambling.
Totally get it.

I’ve passed feedback on to the team so (hopefully) the CLI app will be be clearly from GitHub soon (we need to transfer it to the regular GitHub org and then there hopefully won’t be any confusion). GitHub Next exists in a different org from GitHub proper for lots of reasons, but we should definitely make it more clear that those experiments are still from GitHub.
using a splitter is usually a temporary solution, and i am unlikely to be sharing a port with a PoE device. nor do i care about gigabit speed when the only reason to use a splitter is to make up for missing wifi.
Rather a shame that Executor got lost in the shuffle:

https://github.com/ctm/executor

and didn't stick around until Rosetta and so forth went away and it became potentially more useful.
Judges 15:15-16 (NABRE):

15 Coming upon the fresh jawbone of an ass, he reached out, grasped it, and with it killed a thousand men.
16 Then Samson said,
“With the jawbone of an ass
I have piled them in a heap;
With the jawbone of an ass
I have slain a thousand men.”

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/judges/15
I read Hoyle and Wikiramasingh's books back in the late 70s and 80s. Fun reads and thought-provoking no matter what side you fall on the Panspermia argument. To those who downplay it as not really being RNA, this is one mission to a near-Earth asteroid. What are the odds you would even find a nucleobase? Amazing work and the contamination argument is always presented in light of any such discoveries. There was also the dismissal of fossil-like impressions in meteorites cut open as just looking like a known life form. I WANT TO BELIEVE ;)
Some people at MIT media lab were working on similar stuff 20 years ago.

Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/765891.766108

Other info: https://blog.siggraph.org/2021/02/a-look-back-at-past-emergi...
You can now try Microsoft Loop, a Notion competitor
The black plague managed to wipe out a third of Europe long before the advent of modern transportation technology.
No one gets fired for hiring someone from MIT, after all, if the candidate were crazy or incompetent, they wouldn't have gotten a degree from MIT!
https://archive.is/fDwwP
I was able to finetune the pretrained 13B model (using the same alpaca dataset, just running on my dime) in about 14 hours on an A6000. I think it will work out to between $50 and $60 when the bill hits me.

Be warned everyone is slapping code together so fast that, if your experience is like mine, you'll spend most of your time working around assumptions made by prior authors or hand merging patches between forks to get your setup running well.
The Lasting Lessons of Obsolete Technologies
Then you are not gonna do well in any interview or team setting; which basically disqualifies you from working in this field unless it’s open source or something.
See also allegory Plato's Cave. I think I'll sign off the world wide carnival for today.
Sounds similar to Infiniband where each subnet has a subnet manager which calculates routing tables for the entire subnet, and assigns 16-bit local identifiers (LID) so you stations don't need to use the full 16 byte GUID's.

Also Infiniband packets are power of two sized, making fast switching easier.
If the rich and powerful are winning a "class war" it's because they actually bother to try to understand complicated issues like monetary policy, or at least can hire people that do. Meanwhile, they can spread populist disinformation campaigns that their base is completely oblivious of.

The premise that central bankers who work modest public sector wages are obsessed with suppressing workers to serve their former classmates who got ultrarich doing similar work in the private sector is absurd and lacks a single thread of corroborating empirical evidence. 15 years of cheap money didn't spark a mass uplifting of the proletariat, and it won't anytime in the future either. Indeed, by the time Federal Reserve raised interest rates, inflation was already outpacing wage growth. The only people who want to keep low interest rates are stakeholders of failing institutions like SVB and far leftist politicians who want to ensure that they don't get the blame for the upcoming recession.
Munich to Host the Global Superconducting Qubits and Algorithms Conference
Folks who are good at real asset economics: If real estate prices decrease does rent increase? (less $$ here = push for more $$ there?) or do more renters have access to ownership? Curious about these dynamics.
> my sense is that developers who don’t cultivate this new skill set will fall behind

That might be true but it's an easy skillset to pick up compared to programming. The bigger danger is that new developers will lean on AI so much that they do not pick up the fundamentals of programming in which case they will definitely be left behind.
Please go work for Tesla, because the design you just came up with on the fly is 100x better than theirs.
very true, for Go though if you need CGO it's hard to make a single executable, otherwise it is great.

I run a few Go apps, all are single executables, upgrading to new releases has never been easier.

if you have a network oriented application, nothing beats golang as far as release|maintenance is concerned.
OP (or others) can you please share how you are using chatgpt instead of Siri on iPhone and Apple Watch?
That GPT point needs more discussion, especially the mechanism which is supposed to prevent (a continuing trend of) transforming Internets into garbage.
I don't know how it would hurt my argument - I'm saying it's more complicated than 'prices are high so there must be a bubble'

Over what period? Have there been any fundamental changes in the financing or supply of housing? How about the people purchasing homes - are there any differences between cycles? It's also possible that income rises without housing prices falling at all. That hasn't happened since the 60's, but it's possible.

Also, I don't think there are distinct boom/bust cycles in housing generally, because the charts lack the necessary trough. Look at the House Price Index for New York, for example; it is not representative of a distinct boom/bust cycle at all; price retractions are a fraction of the previous growth and last for shorter periods over the last 47 years.

Further, I don't think it's indicative of mean reversion to around 25%-30% because the house price growth rate has outpaced the income growth rate by 2-3X for over 50 years.

Are you saying that this only applies to metro areas?

Could you share some examples of this data? Mine mostly comes from the St. Louis Fed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
They game and change the metrics to suit the narrative they want to sell
I don’t think the Fed anticipated the war in Ukraine.
I mostly code in JS/TS and ruby, and find it pretty handy. Especially when I need to write some unit tests, I usually only write it("should work like this and like that"), and 90% of the time it generates a useful unit test[0].

Also, I find it very useful when I code in an unfamiliar environment, for example python. While usually I know what I want to do, I'm not exactly familiar with details of syntax's, or how a specific library api looks like. This is where it shines, in my experience. Huge time-saver.

[0] https://www.strictmode.io/articles/using-github-copilot-for-...
My claim wasn't that "the team(s) involved did not consider that contamination could occur before or after the sample was obtained and analyzed".

I merely gave a trivial (even exhaustive!) enumeration of possible contamination cases that could still have happened (regardless of whether they are targeted against in their protocols), not some novel avenue for contamination that I claim to be "smarter than the scientists" to come up with.

Of course they knew of those contamination possibilities. I didn't say anything about them having missed such basic contamination cases.

What I did (and am) suggesting is that they probably are too confident in their protocols having been executed correctly and being 100% tight with no possibility of error. And that that those avenues of contamination are still a real possibility (protocols to prevent them be damned).

Now, this might not be the case. This might indeed be space travelling RNA-combound and B3 vitamin.

But I'd say that the probability of contamination being the case and someone (on HN or wherever) calling it correctly, is equal to the probability of the samples being contaminated. Which is not that small.

Spotting some novel contamination route they haven't thought off would indeed be very rare and a major feat. But merely been less confident (that they are) in their thoroughness and in their preclusion of contamination, is much easier to claim and be correct while doing so.
Microsoft Loop is the successor to Microsoft Fluid Components.

Good to see Microsoft actually utilizing it now.
In my analogy, parents = banks and school = bank loan recipients (the federal government, if the bank has bought government bonds). The money isn't missing when it's loaned out by the bank; the bank knows when it will get it back, and can estimate the cost of getting it back early.

The concept of a "modern" bank (federally-insured fractional reserve banking) is 90 years old now. Its faults are well understood and, for all the drama, it isn't high-risk for ordinary depositors.
“Neonliberal”

It’s “cyberpunk” in that it would fit in a world of cyberpunk fiction.

Maybe some punk can hack them as a practical joke.
Marx explicitly advocated for revolutionary terror with the intent to eradicate whole classes of people. That's quite hate-y.

The fact that professed followers of Marx riffed somewhat on his themes doesn't make his ideology any fluffier.
No, it's not a proxy, and it's not accepting connections (unless
you're using the inetd emulation, but that's rare and inefficient).

It's merely passing the listening socket as an already-open file descriptor to the spawned process.

The "keeps accepting" part is just the listening socket backlog.

Last I looked, systemd socket passing couldn't be used to do graceful shutdown, serving existing connections with the old version while having the new version receive new connections. Outside of that, it's very nice.
Latency numbers every programmer should know: Scaled for humans
It promises continuous rendering, that may not be retrofittable.
Well, that and the obvious price-gouging tactics.
My post was clearly not pointing out flaws in this specific research. Not sure how you get that impression.

I first replied to a comment implying that just because research is widely publicised it should be accepted at face value, with a counterexample. That was all.

Then someone replied to that with the absurd implication I was somehow trying to denounce all of science based on that one example. I corrected them.

The only thing I said about this specific research was the following:

>>But it's not like the findings are earth shattering given previous research. Therefore I lean towards optimism.

If you inferred any other comment on the research than that, the source of that is your imagination, not anything I wrote.
Yes, and they get a bye because they are constantly re-flowed --- no one would gladly accept that in print.
I've never heard of this.

So, the below is considered by some to be a "racist" organization?

https://www.greatbooks.org/
I can also afford to let my faucet run 24/7. Should I do it to avoid needing to turn the knob when I need to wash my hands?
> Like the internet I've known since the late 90s is going away completely and will never come back.

I think that has been gone for a while, and the "current" version of the internet that we've had for the past 5-10 years will be gone soon too. I miss when we didn't have to be available 100% of the time, you'd get home and check if anyone left a recorded message instead, but on the other hand it's amazing when you need to meet someone and you can just share your location with your smartphone. I'm sure we'll miss some things, but I'm also really curious about the future.
I wouldn't go so far as to say they're exceptional. They're gaining good graces for developers by offering a bunch of free (for now) tools that people like. But most of their big breadwinner software is still abysmal to use.

I just tried cold starting Word and getting into a blank document on my i9 MacBook Pro and it took about 15 seconds. Windows is increasingly a dystopian user tracking and ad serving platform that happens to run the applications you need, and they still constantly break basic system functions. For a while I couldn't open jpegs in the built-in photo preview app. I gave Edge a shot for a good 6 months or so and eventually gave up because they kept breaking basic functionality that I never saw broken in Chrome (there was literally a month or two point in time where if you grabbed the scrollbar and dragged it, the bar would disappear, jutting the entire page sideways and breaking scrolling until you closed the tab and reopened it. This is on the default, built-in OS browser!) Also, my god, their SSO experience is so clunky and prone to breaking.
Fuel prices have skyrocketed in the past with little impact on inflation.

I think one could argue they exacerbate inflation - rising prices can trigger more price increases, but in the end its money supply that drives an erosion of the value of currency.
I've taken to using "organic-branded" for the agricultural products, since "organic" is essentially an FDA brand, with regulations for usage of the branding. Its also my personal rebellion against "organic" having a functional meaning of "magicalhealthygoodness" in some circles.
Donations go to Mozilla the non-profit, not to Mozilla Corporation which is the one maintaining Firefox. There's no way to give money for Firefox development other than spending on the Corp's side-services.
Sure. I wasn’t trying to declare which administration was “peak nepotism”, only that calling the current one so is disingenuous when you have only to look as far as the previous one to find one that was more so.
I have only experimented, but I haven't settled on anything.

I actually like having my Terraform single source of truth in local git (backed up).

What I'm missing from Terraform Cloud is the `terraform plan` on pull-request submission and `terraform apply` upon merge.

I might do that with ArgoCD. And better CI/CD integration in Forgejo. But that's a long shot still.
This was during the war in the Ukraine, which was one of the excuses people gave for inflation being "tranistory" and that things would be sorted out soon.
Alpine Linux is also pretty relevant in the container space due to its small base image size. If you look at the downloads on Docker Hub [0], Alpine Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS (although CentOS was deprecated by Red Hat) all have 1 billion+ downloads.

[0] https://hub.docker.com/search?q=
Spoiler, it’s Vite.
There are two factors now which make things different:

1. As other commenters have pointed out, the ease of spread of any disease is orders of magnitude higher now than it was during cave-man days. With crowded cities, public transit, and air travel, pandemic-level diseases can spread across the world in a matter of days or weeks.

2. Much more importantly, our use of medicines (antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, etc.) have put extreme selective pressure on pathogens to evolve to become resistant to them. We are, in a sense, selectively breeding pathogens that are both good at infecting humans and resistant to our treatments. That is a focused selective pressure that has never existed before, and may pose the biggest threat to us in the next 50-100 years. For a concrete example, look at this experiment which shows how quickly bacteria can evolve to overcome levels of antibiotics that are orders of magnitude more than we would ever give a human [0].

Yes, there will generally always be some subset of the human population that is resistant to any particular disease, but our measure of success is not "5% of humans will survive the next pandemic, so we're all good, let's it move along nothing to see here." If we start to regularly have drug-resistant pathogens that make hospital stays very dangerous for patients (imagine having a 1/3 or even 1/10 chance of dying at a hospital due to an infection entirely irrelevant to your condition) or just more common COVID-level pandemics, that would be a serious disruption to humanity, significantly increase general mortality rates across the board, and drastically change life as we know it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4sLAQvEH-M
I don't get the impression Apple ever caught up with Alexa or Google Assistant. That said, this is a bit different, since the AI tech is a bit more commoditized than with those voice assistants, and the product problem is the hard part. On the other hand, Apple has positioned themselves as extremely privacy-respecting - I wonder if that will affect their ability to use their users' data to train models.

It'll be interesting to see, anyway.
This makes zero sense.

I don't like cargo culting.
You mean more inflationary than an economy based on extraction and profiteering which has increasingly impoverished more and more of the population?

What's the difference between money suddenly being worth far less [1] and real income dropping so individuals have much less spending power - which is something that has been happening for most of the population since the late 70s?

[1] Assuming inflation would be the result, which is debatable.
This inflation is not created by a lack of supply (not anymore at least), or by an excess of demand... it's an inflation created by excess of profits. and the fed decided to fight it by fighting workers. it makes no sense, really.
In Praise of the Danish Mortgage System
The recent-ish 10base-t1 uses something called PLCA instead of CSMA/CD which doesn't require time synchronization, and gives each node in a subnet a dedicated transmission slot.