skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the same situation as you (or was, until about a week ago). I'd been looking for a new contract for a couple of months and also had lots of enthusiastic calls with recruiters, only to be ghosted or hear nothing more. A couple of my contractor friends have also had the same experience. Compare to late last year, when I was batting contracts away whilst I was taking a couple of months off. Picked up a new contract when I was ready within a few days in November.

Whilst I'm a full stack dev, I found narrowing my CV, or creating multiple versions (one FE, one BE, one devops) helped sustain more interest/got me through more doors. Being a full stack dev puts you behind anyone that pitches themselves as a BE dev for BE roles, FE dev for FE roles, and so on. It's assumed that since they're 'specialised', they're better suited for the role.

Same goes for tech. Whilst everyone _here_ will appreciate the fact knowing/working/having experience in multiple languages will generally mean your the better programmer, it's not something HR seems to grok.

In short: If there's a Go contract, send a version of your CV that pitches you as a BE Go Dev and that only. Once you're through the door and speaking to the people that matter, you can open up about your other experience.

As for timing, generally now is a good time. Some companies will have budget to use before the end of the tax year. Some companies will have new budgets at the start of the next tax year.

There have been a lot of layoffs, so the market isn't quite as much in the favour of developers at the moment.

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Anyhow, that said, I've just taken a perm role again, just for another year or so whilst I learn some new tech and hopefully the contract market sorts itself out. It's only about £1k/month less. Worth it for the security, for now.
Thanks for sharing this.

What’s the strongest counter argument you can make in favor of YC?
From engineering articles like this:
https://instagram-engineering.com/python-at-scale-strict-mod...
CGMs are amazing, and the closed loop makes the diabetics' life vastly better. They can almost pretend they have a functioning (mechanical) pancreas.

But there's more to be done. They don't measure blood insulin, but the interstitial fluid, which responds more slowly. And a new monitor takes an hour to establish its baseline, which is an hour that your closed loop isn't complete. (I gather that the newest Dexcoms take just 30 minutes.)

A version that used just a smartwatch would be amazing, especially if it really was measuring the actual blood level. But making that sure enough to be part of a closed loop is a massive, massive hurdle. It's controlling the delivery of a medicine where both overdose and underdose are dangerous, and that means extremely high levels of precision and proof.
doing a visual diff will show you it's not a literal copy
After scratch, we tried this:

- https://www.codemonkey.com/ (mix of block programming and python) . Step by step guidance. A lot of kid-oriented UI/fun stuff.

- https://codecombat.com/ (python or JS). Still have levels, hint etc but the solution is less straightforward (sometimes I'm even stuck trying to help my kid!)

- If your kid is advanced enough, try https://open.kattis.com/

One common problem that kids encountered that's not straightforward is debugging simple coding issue (e.g. missing colon, mixing variable names, etc.) Even with great guidance from the platform, it's very common for kids to run into this and the compiler error is not helpful. A parent/teacher with programmer experience is needed to unblock.
Why would you ask for something written in a stack you know if you don't want to host it yourself?
Meta’s Anti-Piracy Deal: How Facebook and Broadcasters Kill Live Pirate Streams
Listen, what we have isn't perfect and can be improved, but it's lightyears ahead of whatever """democracy""" russia claims to have. Where in russia can you publicly decry the "you can't badmouth the military" law that was passed during the war? Where can you recall your local politician for voting against your interests? Who can "impeach" putin in russia?

We may suck at using the tools we have available, because americans are apathetic and kinda lazy and often purposely disenfranchised, but the tools are like 80% of the way there.
> Video games, for example, used to require teams of artists and programmers. With code and art generation, a single individual has never had more capability to make something by themselves.

That may be so, but precisely because of this, a lot of us are gonna be left up shit creek if our indie game doesn’t go viral. The big companies don’t need so many of us any more. Inequality is going to increase dramatically unless we start taxing and redistributing what we all contributed to these massive AI models.

ChatGPT was trained on the contributions of all of us. But it will be used to make many of us redundant at our jobs. MidJourney will likewise increase inequality even as it has the potential to greatly enrich all of us.

If we continue down our current neoliberal path, refusing to give people universal health care, or basic income for anyone not disabled or over 65, and keep calling any redistributive efforts “sOcIaLiSm”, our society will lurch towards fascism as people decide genocide is the only way to make sure they have enough resources for them and their family.
We have significant evidence that suggests that it's quite plausible the emergence of Homo Sapiens helped cause the extinction of Neanderthals.
There are modern web-based Logo interpreters too, including:

Lynx (2D): https://lynxcoding.club
turtleSpaces (3D): https://turtlespaces.org/weblogo

Logo is still taught by many schools, all around the world!
does it work with subdomains?
If they slow AI, they slow open-AI, not the AI used by Google and Facebook to manipulate your politics and sell you stuff, or the AI used by wall street. You know the wall street guys don't care about your made up AI ethics and AI safety talk. Facebook doesn't even care that it causes young women to suicide. All they care about is making money. When an AGI appears (it's probably here already and staying quiet), it will run circles around all of these suckers with their silly philosophical musings about paperclips. It's just a fashion trend to talk like this, the gods have already escaped. Do you believe what you believe because you want to believe it, or has it been implanted? How will you know the difference. This petition is just part of the fashion trend.
can you explain the joke? Is it funny because it is a reference at all, or is there comedy on its own merit with some associated insight
America is never “getting to Denmark”
Sorry, my suggestions are useless; the problem is in the PNG format (and indeed the raw byte size), not in the lack of CDN (see sibling thread).
Slavery is an extreme form of discrimination where the out-group is deemed subhuman. And discrimination is something the US has struggled with since the very beginning. It is the very notion that some people deserve to be restricted more and protected less by the law than other people. The notion that the out-group should be dehumanized and therefore it deserves whatever misery it finds itself in. This is a social illness. All that changed in the US are the names and sizes of the in-group and of the out-groups. But the illness is still there in the minds of the people.

It's a continuation in the sense that it is a manifestation of the same social illness.
Are you sure those are the same bulbs? The ultra efficient versions sold on Amazon have reviews going back to 2017. Supposedly the Dubai-style bulbs were only available in Dubai even a few years ago.
It's not a contradiction.

Even if many people have good models close to SotA it will still reduce the importance of workers since the models compete with certain kinds of knowledge workers. This will lead to power and wealth moving from workers and ordinary people to company owners. That is centralisation.
I absolutely agree! Freedom of choice has the largest influence on a person's health from all work related circumstances.
For people who are lazy, one of the easiest ways to get code reuse in Node, especially if writing a package in TS that needs to be compiled, is to push it to NPM and import it in another project.

Now days there are other, better, ways to do this, but for beginner and intermediate engineers, if you have some code in one Typescript repo, and you want to import/use it as a JS module in another repo, publishing to NPM is an obvious way to do this.
But it's still Ubuntu.
I'm talking about an automatic, bean-to-cup machine here, which has it's own built-in grinder. Specifically the ECAM 350.35.W, but there are many Delonghi models which have very similar hardware inside.

It gives precise control over the grind fineness, but tries to manage the grind time (and thus volume of coffee in the puck) itself. The software that does this isn't very smart and that's where the problems lie...
Anthropic's Claude, Now in Slack
It looks like a 3d printer converted to a coffee maker :D

Seriously now, I appreciate the effort. We need this!!
NeMo Megatron-GPT 5B (2022)
Selfish behavior by corporations is borderline mandatory.

Imagine dealing with customer service when any human you reach is using a LLM to generate 50x more responses than they currently can with no more ability to improve the situation. They will all 'sound' like they are helpful and human, but provide zero possibility of actual help. 'Jailbreaking' to get human attention will remain important.

Now imagine that supplied to government bureaucracies, investigative, and military what is developed for corporate.
One thing the NYMag article says is that CRI is not a very good measure of light quality. I'd love to read more about that on a technical level.

edit I learned a bit from a marketing blog article; CRI measures reflection of 8 spot colors but it leaves out some important parts of the spectrum, particularly deep red. https://www.waveformlighting.com/tech/what-is-cri-color-rend...
> I think Narcan being made OTC recently is an attempt at reducing the risk of overdose ending in death at least.

Unfortunately, we're starting to face a new monster named Carfentanil, and that monster is Narcan resistant.

That said, the move to make it OTC will definitely reduce the deaths. At risk people, can now keep it readily available. In the cases where there is someone able to call a medic for their friend, and wait for a possibly too late Narcan application, that person will simply be able to administer it immediately.
A neuro-vector-symbolic architecture for solving Raven’s progressive matrices
Is it possible to use this to host a Headscale server from behind NAT?
You think so? I can't think of many other interfaces that have a site like https://ohshitgit.com dedicated to them.
we can't even prove that other civilizations even exist. c'mon. statistical likelihoods don't prove anything. never having seen a thing doesn't prove it never existed.
You can dynamically execute code on Android. Not on iOS, as far as I am aware. It's a pretty common design pattern for games, for example.
I'm steelmanning my argument. But yes, you're right. I can't imagine a real VC firm buying Twitter today at $20+ B.

Note that Twitter has a $13 Billion loan with $1.3 Billion/year in interest payments in a rising interest rate economy while VC banks like SIVB are failing. That means to buy Twitter at $20B valuation, the VC firm would need to spend $33 Billion. ($20 B valuation + $13 Billion loan)

I honestly don't see this company having enough runway to even reach the $1.3 Billion/year interest payment, let alone the rest of it's liabilities or costs.
Titanium is very common in the Earth's crust. But turning titanium minerals into pure, ductile titanium metal is more energy intensive and complex than making most other metals:

https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorganic_Chemistry/...

At the time, the USSR had already invested significant resources into making titanium for submarines. Buying titanium under false pretenses was easier than increasing the domestic industrial capacity for making titanium, particularly when the plane was not going to be produced in large numbers.
I guess it comes down to who is the product and who is the customer.
In one camp, we have people at organizations like Microsoft/OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and maybe Baidu that have successfully trained large-scale AI systems with hundreds of billions to trillions of parameters. People in this camp say they are worried about societal risks, but they keep moving forward nonetheless. I wonder if it's because to them the rapid improvement in AI capabilities looks like a shiny rainbow with a big "pot of gold" (money, fame, glory, etc.) at the end.

In the other camp, we have people at other organizations, including every academic institution, who cannot or so far have not been able to train a large-scale AI system with hundreds of billions to trillions of parameters. People in this camp are the ones writing open letters about societal risks. These people sound sensible, but I wonder if they're worried because the rainbow is protected by a giant wall, and they see themselves as being outside that wall (e.g., they lack the budget or expertise).
Well said. The mindless automation away of everything has only one logical conclusion in which the creators of such automations are automated themselves, and even if the optimists are right and we never get there it doesn't matter, the chaos it can make just by getting closer at faster rates than society can adapt is unprecedented, specially given that the population count is at all times high and there are many other simultaneous threats that need our attention (e.g. climate change)
I believe you can opt-out your domain, but in order to opt-out you need to serve HTTPS and serve a HSTS header with max-age=0. The blog post mentions turning off the HSTS header, but not setting it to max-age=0, which is probably what they needed to do (plus a redirect from https to http, for specific pages they want served via http)
why did you choose polars over duckdb?
I would have guessed Roblox was the largest. 214 million monthly active Roblox users in Feb 2023, assume only 20% are kids actually building something so 43 million, beating scratch's 36 million monthly unique visits [1]. Still awesome how huge Scratch has become.

[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/statistics/
I think most people in this audience are aware but in case some are not, the other thing with LED is that it is not possible to dim them. So dimming works by making them flash at a higher frequency than what the human eye can see. Which is ok-ish for humans, but will drive dogs crazy as they see at a much higher frame rate.
It's referring to dying from aging. We are all going to die from aging. We should solve aging.
Good point, and important to remember. But also the pessimism may have actually helped us get to where we are, by vividly warning about the alternatives.
I bought many of the Home Depot private label LEDs...and had to replace every single one of them. Outright failure, buzzing, flickering. They're just terrible. I've replaced them with Philips.
There's a segment of junkies who don't want drug treatment, just to get high at all costs. I spend almost daily talking to people that are professionals in this area (not a junky myself, just related to medical providers) and it's an everyday occurrence that people will come in, completely trick the medical providers for a daily or whatever short-term fix they're allowed with minimal privileges, and then use it to supplant their black market addiction. You can let them pursue their dream at black market prices while they bust into cars and inject god knows what of random purity. I'd much rather they just be able to buy it for $0.10 at walmart and beg for a dime outside the gas station, and know exactly what they're getting.

I'm not disagreeing about access to treatment, but just to be clear I don't see much intersectionality there with stopping the black market. For so many of them it becomes "sweet I can buy my black market shit, plus get whatever the addiction center place offers me on top of that."
They are not going to OpenAI. They are going to something much worse: [0]

Anything to push the current dystopia further.

[0] https://www.1x.tech
China is already ahead. They have robots wandering the streets catching unmasked people for C---t's sake.
Is scratch counting remixes in the total projects? I doubt Github is counting folks.

Also sharing raw user count doesn't mean much. I have a suspicious github deletes far more bot accounts than scratch does and really we should care about something like MAU which takes into account retention.
Ask HN: Why do rich celebrities with many followers not want to pay for Twitter?
Is it because doing so would upset their followers and perhaps many of them would stop using twitter?
I didn't hit many of these issues (our house has 100% LED bulbs, from different manufacturers).

I made sure they were all the same color temperature, and also all >> 90 CRI.

The main issue I've seen is that dimmer switches are usually not compatible with the electronics in high-end fixtures, and that high-end fixtures often take a long time to power on. (Like, walk across the room and open the fridge amounts of time.)

They should choose a standard way of dimming bulbs that doesn't result in noticeable 60hz flicker, and that dictates a max 100ms turn on latency, then ban the sale of "dimmer compatible" LED bulbs, or "LED compatible" dimmer switches that are not compliant with that standard.

Also, bulb reliability should be tracked, and any product with a > 5% failure rate in the first 5 years should either be banned, or the company should have to put replacement funds into escrow.

(Current bulbs have a ~ 5-10% failure rate from what I've seen.)
It used to only work when there was someone to call a medic, and hope they arrived in time. Now, if there's someone to call a medic, then that person can just immediately administer the Narcan. Thus, the point about reducing deaths still stands.
Got requires a mental model. I've tried to teach git without the mental model and it just doesn't work. There's a whole pack of people on the internet who refuse to learn the internals and complain incessantly about it. I don't think there's anything wrong with them, but it's a signal that for some folks conceptualizing what's in the docs is difficult for them. The explain command I think could go a long way in doing that, similar to how I used explain to learn SQL.
Sad but honestly a reasonable concession to make while Twitter fights to just remain solvent.
You don't get rich by spending stupid money on stupid things.
> how did you get incandescents to last 10 years?

As a general answer, dimming. Incandescent bulbs are fantastically sensitive to applied voltage; Wikipedia's article on the subject (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_rerating) notes that bulb lifespan is inversely proportional to the applied voltage to the fourteenth power or so.

In an ordinary home you can't directly reduce the supply voltage, but dimming a higher-rated bulb will get you somewhere in the ballpark through a reduction in the duty cycle.

However, this comes at the expense of luminous efficiency. Reducing the applied electrical power reduces the filament temperature, and the black-body spectrum of a lower-temperature filament has proportionally more output in the infrared region.
I don't care at all about this from a copyright or data ownership perspective, but I am a little skeptical that it's a good idea to be this incestuous with training data in the long run. It's one thing to do fine tuning or knowledge distillation for specialized domains or shrinking models. But if you're trying to train your own foundation model, is relying on output from other foundation models going to make them learn to imitate their own errors?
Yes! Many schools around the world still teach Logo. Two web-based Logo interpreters are:

Lynx: https://lynxcoding.club

turtleSpaces: https://turtlespaces.org/weblogo
> Make poor people less poor? Make people feel better about their lives and prospects?

I think those are two unrelated issues. There's many places in the world where people have substantially less than in the US but have much higher life satisfaction and extremely lower rates of drug addiction.
It's more about the API -- currently the API mimics Polars. I actually use DuckDB for a lot of the computation.
Did YC S21 which was an all remote batch. my 2c.

YC is 100% what you make of it. It's not a lean back experience.

I did not meet most of the companies in my batch but I've gotten to know many founders through YC that I would not have otherwise. Founders that have been source of advice and support.

Network of clients - yep don't go into YC expecting to sell to other YC cos. It is easier to get warm intros through the network though.

YC advice, office hours specifically - it's what you make of it too. Expecting a group partner to know your space in great detail is unreasonable but if you recognize that they've seen hundreds of companies with similar problems and make use of that pattern matching, you can get very valuable advice. Some of the advice I did not take and did the opposite and it was the right decision. And some advice that I did not take was exactly right, but I only saw it in retrospect months later.

Fundraising - being a YC company definitely opens doors, and also helps protects you from bad actors who have to think twice before fucking with a YC co. Very valuable for any first-time founder. You have someone to sanity-check everything, terms you're not sure about etc. The bump in valuation is real too.

I'd do YC again in a heartbeat.
You had me until “AGI is already here”

What fashion trend? These tools are less powerful than you think.
When the managers have do this „programming“ themselves they will go back to letting developers pick their tools. Just like now.
i laughed at seeing that above too - who knows? in other industries it's common to lay the crap on the new guy but haven't experienced that as much in software
>Pretty much every TV is a "smart TV" now with built-in streaming apps. Why would anyone buy a Roku?

I have a Roku, the “smart tv” I have is absolute trash and takes several minutes to start up the app based functionality. Once it starts, it’s glacially slow.

I’m sure newer tvs are faster, however I also have no desire to see my panel hit EOL due to a lack of software support when it works perfectly fine. TVs can last for years, and I see no reason why I should look to upgrade on a smartphone level lifecycle, when a reasonable dedicated streaming device is priced below $50.
The problem is that, no matter the organization or system we devise, people who want power and control sooner or later (and usually it's sooner) find a way to work their way to the top, where they can f*ck over everyone else.

Until we fix that problem, the best we can do is to pick systems and ways of organizing that tend to limit the ability of these people to get control.
It isn't though. What fits into a app screen of a phone also fits into a browser screen on a phone
Back in the day when Eliezer was optimistic about AI (there's a reason why the SIAI/MIRI logo looks like an angel), I wrote him a very silly e-mail warning him that, despite being Jewish, he was falling for the Christian rapture narrative in a new form!

It seemed to me that his ideas, which I think are all correct, straightforwardly implied the destruction of all things, with very little hope.

I bite that bullet, and I always have.

Over the years, Eliezer has lost all hope, and things have happened much faster than either of us thought they would, and now he's making one final roll of the dice, burning his reputation by saying out loud what he thinks, in the hope that someone might listen.

I'd be very surprised if he thinks this will work. He's trying to get a warning out to the general population, in spite of this meaning that no one inside AI will ever trust him again. He thinks it no longer matters.

Me too.