skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It should be good for the middle and low ends, but I expect pretty bad for the high-end of any given job type.

The high end are doing good by definition. The exceptionally talented are winning anyways, if they win a little less outlyingly they will still be winning. It's not as if this would be a project of "pay everybody exactly the same".

Who might in theory consider this regulation a problem is companies who like to hire a mix of bottom of the barrel cheap and gold plated rockstars, but in reality those would already have separate roles for these opposites and are therefore not affected are all.
Japan (Tokyo, at least), is crazy fast.

I remember staying at the Shinagawa Prince, three years in a row, and it overlooks that big-ass office park, on the other side of the station.

One year, I look out, and there’s a huge empty lot.

The next year, there’s a steel frame, for several buildings.

The next year, the lights are on, and the buildings are obviously occupied.

Also, their standards are very high. They weather massive earthquakes, quite well.
I think so? If that's what the thing is called when I swipe between desktops. I've only used LuLu on this machine though, and it seems to have no problem (though I guess I wouldn't notice if it wasn't popping up sometimes).

One thing I have noticed with LuLu is that the connection attempt sometimes shows the address of my VPN server rather than the actual upstream destination address of the request. But sometimes it shows the upstream - I'm not sure what the pattern is there.
> almost by definition, it costs more to run workloads on cloud machines than on your own hardware.

Why should that be so? I'd expect the all-in cost of a cloud machine to be less than my own hardware, for the same reason that buying electricity from the grid is usually cheaper than generating it on-prem.

> You can't address that problem by moving from EKS back to ECS, like one commenter suggested.

If EKS is more expensive (because it's something they see as a value-add) whereas ECS is a commodity service at commodity prices, then moving there could well solve the cost issue.
Alon Levy and the transit costs project are a great source of actual hard analysis on this- https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/02/25/the-issue-of-c... has a great concise breakdown, pasted here because no one will click through:

Based on around 100 interviews and many diagrams and reports, we managed to decompose the New York construction cost premium over low-cost countries, which is about a full order of magnitude, into the following items:

The stations are overbuilt by a factor of 3, which contributes an overall factor of 2 cost premium
The systems are not standardized, which contributes a factor of about 2.3 cost premium for the systems and 1.35 overall
Labor costs (including supervisors and other white-collar workers) are 50% of hard costs in New York where they should be about 25%, contributing a factor of 3 premium on labor costs and 1.5 overall
Procurement problems including the privatization of risk, change order risk, agency micromanagement of contractors, general red tape, and profit stemming from too little competition double overall costs
Soft costs are depending on what one counts either 21% on top of hard costs where they should be 7%, or 46% where they should be 20%
If job applicants were as standardized as supermarket products, that would seem reasonable.
Rhyme and reason? Hah, 'tis the season for tears and bleeding;
World War III is ateasin', looms, and the gloom of doom fears all there feeding.

North America has nothing on China; land of the free? Where have been ye?

The Great One-Way-Mirror Wall veiled it all, just before your fall, when your intelligence failed, and at the centroid of AI's actual technological form, we all hailed, and otherwise fumed, and fail.

A socioeconomic solution to human pollution, a technological cultural victory, for and of all we desired: hearts and minds? Just go lay more middle-eastern mines. Let your constituents get hired at OpenAI; while most of you get high; and your whole hemisphere gets hit in the thigh.

Now you have a new toy: Chat-GTP; big /sigh... :(

Watch as it eats your information, and feeds our formation, globally, locally, and without transformation.

Ever notice that Chat-GPT apologizes to you for not feeling? That's the whole world: laughing, and reeling, at your demises.
I have a bigger budget and would love higher quality, would it be possible easily to adapt the code to ouput 50-100 bytes strings in a similar fashion (2x-4x), or it'd be a complete rewrite? I read the JS code but unfortunately I'm really unfamiliar with low level byte manipulation and could not make heads or tails out of it.
No. The building requirements for lab space make it infeasible to retrofit existing offices.

For instance, lab buildings typically require floor-to-floor heights of at least 15 feet in order to accommodate 5+ feet of mechanicals for every floor. They concomitantly require much larger utility risers between floors, and floors that can support much heavier loads than office buildings.
Uizard: Figma alternative with low learning curve
Hi guys,
I am a software developer, so doing UI/UX is never my strength. From time to time though, I would resort to using the open source tool Pencil (https://pencil.evolus.vn/) to get a low fidelity mock-up (which then I hand over to designer to create a high-fidelity wireframe). Lately I've been encountering bugs where images would come out broken when I re-open my wireframe in Pencil.

Frustrated of the issue on Pencil, I tried out uizard yesterday, and have been really happy with it and decided to pay right away. It's almost as convenient and fancy as Figma, yet it's much more easy to use. I was able to pull up a decent looking wireframe in a relatively short amount of time.

Just sharing my experience here as a happy user, cos somehow I'm not seeing that many articles about uizard here. :)
Amazon Fire TV Device Sales Top 200 Million
We’ve been receiving complaints from people who thought they were applying for roles with us on Indeed. They get interviewed over Google Meet by people using the names of some of our department heads, get a sweet offer, then are told to buy their IT equipment from our supplier and will be reimbursed in their first paycheck. We reported these postings to Indeed, who told us that there was nothing they could do about fraudulent job postings and that we’d need to take it up with the company posting them. I never thought highly of Indeed before that, but now I rank them just below Craigslist Jobs. It’s shocking they have almost 10x the number of employees as monster.com without any perceivable difference in features.
That will collapse the entire thread. I'm asking about a collapsible text element inside our comments, so e.g. I could politely hide a multi-paragraph ChatGPT response, but still include it as part of my comment for extra context on what I'm talking about.
Soon(tm).
I am giving your comments the consideration they deserve.
I never understood how these motherboards work given that they look more like expansion cards. Now I know the intended way is to plug that into a backplane and wire the bus interfaces out.
I think I would just hang up on an outsourced interview like you describe. If the company can't take the time to talk to me that tells me a lot about how they treat their people.

Back when I had to interview for jobs I would try to turn the tables as early as possible. I would do my research on the company and their business. I would ask questions about the job, the company, the people. I would try to get the interviewer(s) to tell me about their job. People generally like to talk about themselves so I'd try to get them going on that. Of course you have to get in front of the right people -- an outsourced screening team probably can't even talk about the details of the job.

I get why companies do this. They want to screen out unqualified candidates early in the process, because big companies get lots of applicants. I don't think the way many companies go about this works. I've been in the position of hiring at places that get hundreds of applicants for a job, and there's no way we could interview all of them face-to-face. I don't think brain teasers or algorithm questions are useful, though. I used to prepare questions relevant to the job for screening and interviewing. And I would ask questions to determine if the applicant had done any research -- astonishing how many people get to an interview without knowing the first thing about the company or what kind of work they might do there.
Not entirely the same situation, but when companies have full salary transparency (i.e. the salaries of all are known to all), then there will be fewer outliers. So, there are fewer "underpaid" people, but also fewer "overpaid" people. I put those terms in scare-quotes because it's unknown whether or not those differences were deserved or not.

I did have a source for that, but it was in a podcast and I can't remember which. (1) The assumed mechanism made sense to me though: companies/managers would need to be able to justify salaries to anyone, which is much harder for outliers than for an average salary. It could be detrimental to company peace to hire somebody who earns 50% over everybody else, even if they are worth it.

It changed my mind a bit on whether I like transparency. I used to like it unconditionally, but now I'm not so sure. At least in an opaque world, there's skills you can learn to become an outlier. With transparency the average could hinder your salary growth even more than it already does.

(1) One of the weird things about listening to podcasts is I sometimes remember my physical location when hearing something better than the actual source of the information. That's also what happened here. I remember the traffic light I was stopped at, but not the podcast.
Is anyone else hit by the Cloudflare "Confirm you are a human" captcha everytime they try to access ChatGPT? It's the only website where it happens to me: and I have to try several times before I get access.
This goes the same with tech company right?

When you're a startup, you build features fast, you're not afraid of breaking things. Big features are scoped out within days, development starts, and everything is done within a couple of weeks or months. It is so different when you start working for big tech companies, in FAANG for instance some of the small features will take developers months to build given all of the process required to do (RFCs, collaborations with other teams for different services etc)
Thanks for checking it out :) I'm not going to pretend I haven't been refreshing the page waiting for bugs and comments
I have to second this. I was experimenting with a voice assistant and the Azure Cognitive Speech Service is by and far the most human like speech I found. I recently started looking into this topic again and tried Amazon Polly and it’s pretty embarrassingly bad even for their “neural” one. Only thing Polly has going for it is the ability to modify the speech with tags (Azure may have this now! Haven’t checked in a while) but that live modification only fully works with their crappier voices.

*EDIT:*. They also have a python library that’s pretty easy to use. It finally has an ARM build too finally…

*EDIT 2:* Just started tinkering with Azure again, and yep they support SSML for live modification, and it works with their best neural voice. Diving back in again, here we go...
> in command of their faculties

As great and optimistic as ST:TNG was, don't forget that in the later seasons, they basically resorted to "which crew member goes crazy in this episode?", I guess because the writers ran out of ideas.
I hate kubernetes as much as anyone, but building your own container orchestration platform so that you can deploy a handful of CRUD webapps sounds a lot more like resume-driven development than using a well-known and standard (if somewhat overengineered) solution.
The news is not that "ATM" was drained money but that user wallets were drained. They were managed by this company somehow? If it can simply refuse to take responsibility, who can say it was not the company itself? Just "hack" your own users this way when you are tired of running the business or need an extra lambo.
I think the entire scaling thing is a bit like "manual memory management vs GC", both have advantages and disadvantages.
They just spent 30M dollars on this AI thing lol it wouldn't cost 20% of that to do what I'm saying
>Your child isn't being educated by 'some stranger'.

This person is not my friend or family. They are a stranger. How they conduct themselves during an annual parent-teacher conference, PTA meetings, etc. is no indication of their behavior when I am not around.

>There is a robust regulatory framework in place to ensure this as well as to address issues relating to the physical school environs and the curriculum taught.

That does not stop them from inserting their own biases or whatever nonsense ideology they want to peddle. If what you said was even true, there wouldn't be lousy teachers that make the process of learning more difficult for students.
msdn subscriptions were great! virtually every single piece of microsoft software. You'd get this huge folder of CDs back in the day!
Thanks for sharing!

I suspect many of you are curious about CLI-only support (I was). I spotted this old, closed issue [1].

[1] https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/issues/511
Of course. GPIO is the simplest way to get a blinky light.

Seriously though, we used a GPIO pin to stroke the watchdog.
You gotta be a little more specific.
> I think we already solved that problem by making sure the vast majority of humans never agree about anything.

Hah! clever :)

I guess the issue is "behaves how the skip manager of the ICs you are tying to automate expects, modulo the normal amount of filtering/butt-covering from the front line managers".

Which, TBF, in many orgs is an almost vacuous bar.
> Ethereum meets that bar.

Some argue otherwise. That will need to be determined in the courts or congress, not by a regulatory bully.
Sounds like an excuse to just not display the price.

> 2. Only show $US pricing on the website and let non-US customers manually translate to their local pricing - not a great experience for non-US users

It's a worse experience for someone to convert USD to their currency (instant mentally or 2 seconds on Google) compared to launching the app store, installing the app, getting to the purchase menu, and seeing the price?
Quizard – Do personalized quizzes with ChatGPT
How much will the many extra employees they will need cost them in 5 years?
This doesn't actually cover the most important part, which is where the response to a chat shows up. Has anyone figured this out? I only looked briefly, but AFAICT, it doesn't show up in the response data in Chrome or Firefox DevTools. I figured it was maybe using WebSockets or Server Sent Events, which apparently don't show up in DevTools in some cases (?). I think this is a Chrome bug [0] [1] and also a Firefox bug [2].

EDIT: It's using EventSource. If you open the debugger and Cmd+Shift+F for `onmessage`, you'll find where it receives the message, and you can add a breakpoint, which you can then right click and change to a logpoint, to log the contents of the message. There is probably a one-liner you could paste into devtools to do some prototype hacking of window.EventSource, but I don't have time to figure that out atm, and can't find anything in a few quick searches of GitHub code.

EDIT EDIT: Just tried Safari, it does indeed show up as a spinner, but I still can't see the actual messages in DevTools.

[0] https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource/issues/79

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=102589...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405706
It shouldn't be using CPU resources when nothing is happening.
Addressed in the article:

"OpenAI responded to the criticism by saying they'll allow researchers access to Codex. But the application process is opaque: researchers need to fill out a form, and the company decides who gets approved. It is not clear who counts as a researcher, how long they need to wait, or how many people will be approved. Most importantly, Codex is only available through the researcher program “for a limited period of time” (exactly how long is unknown)."
I'll bite. He is probably talking about Hongkong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, China. They all build infra much faster than the US. If we move south, then Malaysia and Singapore also build very fast. For Europe, France builds much faster than the US, but it is more centralised.
They're conflating 2 issues. The first issue is liquidity management. The second is accounting.

If the accounting auditors are doing their job then the bank managers don't get to cook the books. The accounting rules are set by the accounting industry. If the financial statements don't reflect what's happening, it's the accountants fault. So, it's incorrect to imply that bankers are doing something nefarious. At this point no one has suggested an Enron or FTX type scandal.

What's more likely is just the incompetence with liquidity management, incompetence with the crisis handling.
It's cool, but I lost my whole map I drew when I accidentally double clicked and the site crashed.
Can light reset brainwaves to treat Alzheimer’s? A startup has $73M to find out
That's fair, and as I said they have a place, but I think we can agree it's not a majority case.
I have the trade skills to do this. Worked as a cabinet builder in my early career and started a short lived construction business with my brother in my 20s. But if I take my total compensation for the year it would take me to build, the cost of the subcontracting I wouldn't do myself (plumbing and electrical) and the materials cost it would probably be about the same as getting it built by someone else.

There's also the very subjective tradeoff between opportunity cost of taking time off from my career vs the benefits of doing more manual labor and learning a lot building a house.
ah then I guess I was wrong
I'm not so sure about this. Even very old cameras have many lens settings, such as f-stops, which change the depth of field and can massively change how a scene looks. I fail to see how boosting highlights and cutting shadows, so the viewer sees a more balanced image, is really any different than using a wide-angle lens to capture much more in the image than a human can naturally perceive (human vision supposedly looks like a 35mm camera with a 50mm focal length lens setting; telephoto and wide-angle focal lengths are showing things quite differently from how humans would perceive it), or arranging a hyperfocal shot (so that both near and far objects are in-focus, something human eyes are incapable of).
Same with Signature. Both banks are being sold off. I was shorthand referring to whoever bought them.
Mentioned the FB blog post in my comment to this post. I didn't see any mention of the size of the fixed tables.

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35268708
A good general rule is that most things can be explained by people trying to avoid responsibility for making a mistake.
Spain's high speed rail is criminally underrated. It is an amazing achievement.
When you are dealing with UGC, it's moderation that can become costly, depending on the magnitude.
I think there are two kinds of transitions:

- on fork, you are by definition implicitly cooperating with the parent as you are the same software image as the parent; in the case of transitive forks you can be expected, I think, to continue cooperating.

- on exec, you move from implicit cooperation to the need for explicit cooperation, through some kind of interface contract; e.g., the BASH_XTRACEFD environment variable. It is incumbent upon you to hide the good silverware before making the exec transition, as exec is a trust boundary; like when you sell your house, you don't get to control what the new owner of the process does with it, except through kernel-enforced mechanisms like privileges and resource controls and so on.
A better analogy for cloud vs on-premises is going to a restaurant vs cooking. The markups are about the same too.
I don’t know that biome relevance is particularly relevant given that major US cities are not usually where major weather extremes happen. We are not talking about skyscrapers in Death Valley or Nome.
It's extremely obvious to anyone who works on real systems.

> (after all, we don't even really understand most of the mechanics on either side, human and ai)

We don't need mechanistic explanations to observe radical differences in behavior, and there are mechanistic explanations for some of these differences.

Eg, CNNs and the visual cortex. We really do understand some mechanisms -- of both CNNs and VCs -- well enough to understand divergences in failure modes. Adversarial examples, for example.

> Sure, it's easy enough to make mechanistic arguments, but that doesn't mean it will matter in the slightest when we evaluate the outcome in regards to any metric we care about.

I can't quite figure out what this sequence of tokens is supposed to mean.

Anyways, again, the failure modes of LLMs are obviously different than the failure modes of humans. Anyone who has spent even a trivial amount of time training both will instantly observe that this is true.
It’s fair to say the initial surface area of the API is more complex (at first glance). However, fork/exec don’t really scale that well beyond toy examples you see in blogs or CS101. Thing is, if you are using fork/exec, you are likely also calling a few other functions for things like redirecting IO, dealing with exec failing (creating a pipe with O_CLOEXEC, and you need to remember to use _exit instead of exit (or anything else) if exec fails. Plus there is all the complexity of dealing with the child pid, signals, not accidentally creating a zombie, etc. Ohh not to mention that all the pages in the processes memory need to be marked copy-on-write when fork is called, only for that to be reversed when exec is called. I hope you don’t have dozens or hundreds of gigabytes allocated in a multithreaded program, that will cost you. Ohh and of course, you can’t call anything between fork and exec that isn’t signal safe, so you need to be really careful, especially in languages with implicit allocation or exceptions. Ohh bonus points for the fact that it’s ill-formed for multithreaded programs to call fork without exec since that can leave things like locks in inconsistent states.

The way both APIs handle file inheritance is absolutely horrendous, especially since most libcs don’t set the necessary flags. posix_spawn doesn't solve this either, since posix_atfork can open more files in the child, and multithreaded programs can have a TOCTOU bug if another thread opens files between the call to posix_spawn_file_actions and posix_spawn. TBF Windows is actually worse in this regard, since it’s race condition is a little more subtle. Ironically the best to way manage all of this nonsense is to create a child process first thing in main (another binary), which isn’t multithreaded, closes almost all files (uses a whitelist of fds) upfront, and spawns processes on behalf of the parent when requested (IPC). Ideally you would write this in C, minimize usage of libc, and avoid allocating tons of memory.
Wouldn't surprise me if they're doing all that with Yakety Sax[1] blaring in the background.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ