skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not feeling threatened doesn't mean you're not under threat.

It's entirely possible that between your skill level and those boot campers is a few(dozen) percents of workforce. But at the same time it's entirely possible that if you are not as quickly progressing as the growth of the industry, you could become a part of the same percentile as bootcampers in no time.
I read an article somewhere that discusses how Toyota has the most battery patents out of any company and also owns most of the solid state patents and are actually working on commercializing solid state batteries for vehicles.

The point I think the article was trying to make is that while everyone is focused on lithium ion, Toyota was biding it’s time and getting ready to one-up everyone with solid state batteries and vehicles with double the range.
"nearly half" — T•••• controls ~a quarter of the GOP, which is ~a third of US voters, so < 10% of US electorate.
no. you WANT to use it
Thanks. Always glad to hear that it's not just me. :-)
Not the same thing at all. US generally funds very broad engineering or research projects, while EU has very specific, very advanced idea for which they are offering a minuscule amount of funding.
Value for money, hard to beat Colab Pro if you're just learning.
Pairing With GPT-4
“Moving down” can be more difficult than it looks. Anecdotally, employers can be reluctant to hire “overqualified” people (indicated by a high previous salary), because they believe these people will jump ship at the earliest higher paying opportunity elsewhere.
It's a nostalgia blast isn't it! For more reminiscing:

Web Design Museum: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

Yesterweb community: https://yesterweb.org/
So was Airbus. But Europe got complacent since then.
I remember an approximation function used in vacuum-tubes based surface-to-air system of the 60s: cos(x) = 0.7. As explained to us rookies, that precision was enough to hit the target.
One person should = one vote, absurd that Wyoming gets 70× the Senate influence with the population of Modesto.
There is a wide mix of roles across most "tech" layoffs I'm aware of. HN only really surfaces the big figures and engineering/dev cuts, but there are a lot of business support folk being laid off _outside_ the tech industry as well, so I'd expect an even mix given a large enough sample.
Me too.

I’m privileged with a well paid job though.
I disagree with both sentiments that PMs etc are non-technical roles, and that they're not useful.

I would say they're just as useful as developers - plenty of developers are bad at their job or are employed extraneously to begin with.
I find that an odd question. My initial take was that they went to non-tech companies that have substantial internal IT presence.
Thanks for ruining my productivity this afternoon.
I love HN for interesting small projects like this.
> He ran against like 17 Republicans, including major political dynasties like the Bush's.

Yes, that was actually the problem for the establishment; establishment support was split between (early on, which is what matters most the way the system works by design); they didn't coalesce behind one candidate after Bush was largely written off for failing to connect with voters before the actual primaries began, establishment support was initially split between several candidates,
From the site of the Italian Privacy Authority, in Italian

Press release https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/d...

Order https://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb...

Google translation of excerpts of the order

> [The Authority orders to] Openai L.L.C., the US company developer and managers of Chatgpt, as owner of the processing of personal data carried out through this application, the measure of the provisional limitation, of the processing of the personal data of the established interested parties in the Italian territory;

> [The Authority] invites the data controller to the recipient of the provision, within 20 days from the date of receipt of the same, to communicate which initiatives have been undertaken in order to implement what is prescribed and to provide any element deemed useful to justify the violations above highlighted
Ask HN: AI read books, Human also. What's the difference?
Some never stop telling people to read philosophy books because they can obtain intelligence from there. But then they reject the idea that AI also learnt a lot philosophy text.

The majority of people holds the belief that reading and understanding words cannot make AI equip with knowledge and intellence. But that is exactly the way how we learn.

Why is this contradiction?
> Explosions of stars in the universe are almost always spherical in shape

Are they? What about quasars and supernovas?

> its shape—similar to that of an extremely flat disk—challenges everything we know about explosions in space.

It does? What if Saturn (imagine a Saturn with a much smaller sphere and much larger rings) exploded? It would look like a relatively flat explosion, no?
That is the case, but banning it just for a few weeks will change that without much disruption.
Most people are aware that Signal exist and switch the moment WhatsApp stops working.
One thing that is very important to realize after being laid-off from a very big company during a recession is that you need to adjust your salary expectations for the new reality. And the other thing is that you should have been prepared for this a long, long time ago. Economic cycles are a thing, it is in all history books, there's no excuse for not being aware of them.

I have always been very very conservative with my expenses, I don't expect the situation where I make hundreds of thousands of dollars an year as a developer something that will go on forever. They are out there to get you, you are not a business guy with connections, probably you came from a working class family, if they can, they will take the rug out of your feet. So, don't get too excited thinking that making 300k an year (or even 400, 500, whatever) by itself means you're rich now. Income by itself is not wealth if you don't save it. You really don't need a Peloton bike and other conspicuous consumption signs.
And if you're leaving Google and willing to relocate, you probably have "enough" savings.
Receive more career opportunities as your reputation increases.

Alternatively see it as community building for your next idea to bootstrap on top off
It kind of is. US government did not directly fund Google, but SV was created by insane WW2 and Cold War funding the US made for aerospace and electronics in that area, tech which over time, made it into consumer products.

Vacuum tubes, transistors, radios, radars, semiconductors, integrated circuits, lithography, hard disks, Wi-Fi, etc.
What is a tech company? Is ford a tech company? Is Goldman Sacha a tech company?
Also possible that they joined a "non-tech" company that needs technical roles.
This is what helps speed up `dnf`; edit `/etc/dnf/dnf.conf`

```
echo 'fastestmirror=1' | sudo tee -a /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
echo 'max_parallel_downloads=10' | sudo tee -a /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
echo 'deltarpm=true' | sudo tee -a /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
```
States are artificial, national elections should be ranked choice, or at worst simple majority vote.

Electoral college was a sop to slavers and should be deleted. It doesn't empower small states, it empowers large states which happen to be swing states.
> the manufacturer couldn't even find those extra 80 lines to even make it Full HD?

Are you misreading or misunderstanding?

"Full HD" is 1080P, usually pronounced "ten eighty pee".

Ten eight means one thousand and eighty.

One thousand two hundred is more than one thousand and eighty. It is one hundred and twenty more in fact.

I do not know of any 1280 line screens in vertical resolution. 1280x1024 used to be considered large and this is much bigger than that.

The X13s has a considerably higher than "full HD" screen by the normal definition of the term that I know.

It is an ultraslim ultralight ultraportable with no cooling fans and no air vents. That's why it's a thirteeen inch screen. It's still a lot bigger than an iPad or something. It's bigger than an iPad Pro.
that's a nice company, but parent comment had a really important point about depending on Whatsapp for basic social interaction.

most informal social groups, parents included, now communicate mainly on whatsapp. You can naturally say no (i did) but then your kid is left out of most social events unless you're actively syncing with other parents every week to be in the loop (which is what i do and it's excruciating).

Whatsapp as a platform is extremely convenient, which is why other people will have a hard time understanding your reluctance to adhere, it's not uncommon to be seen as eccentric.

so again, congratulations on finding a great company, but there are real issues with the general social dependence on a single invasive platform.
Perhaps add a line saying what kind of role you are looking for? Doesn't have to be the same every time you submit the cv - tailor it to that role.
> I got the impression my demographic, while a minority, is still a relatively large minority.

Based on my anecdote experience, your not in the minority.
Soft-wrap! I love Helix Editor (it’s my daily driver), and soft-wrap was the last feature I was waiting for. Thanks to all the people who contributed to this release.
Very indirectly. My https://wordsandbuttons.online/ helped me cement a publishing deal with Manning, and the book I wrote for them (https://www.manning.com/books/geometry-for-programmers) works as a hourly rate magnifier in contract work negotiations.
The only thing I'd suggest to consider to add is some sort of authentication. If I deploy this on a server so I could reach it with my mobile, on the go, and it has my API credentials, I wouldn't want anyone who stumbles upon the page to be able to interface ChatGPT on my expense.

Otherwise, it really looks good.
Motivations and Drives Are Computationally Messy
"some sort of technically-illegal" is a funny way to describe a combined lawfare coup / violent coup attempt.
It's not. The US never told anybody to start making 3nm CPUs with these 300M USD while the EU did exactly that, wasted all that money and there's nothing to show for it because obviously you're never gonna build 3nm CPUs with just 300M EUR. What happened in the US was that they offered significant amounts of money on broad innovation programs.

Same story with cloud computing, mobile networks and AI. Billions of euro wasted because they have absolutely unrealistic expectations and are unable to determine when a corporation (or a startup) is pulling their leg. Probably a bit of corruption too.
Carl Sagan Documentary in the Works from National Geographic and Seth MacFarlane
There is always an element of "let's see how low we can get" in mainstream IT, since people outside tech view tech as a cost center and not a profit center, which devalues candidates.
No fire risk? hmmm ... but still on lithium 25 years later. But then again the recent advancements in solid-state battery technology have led to twice the energy density of traditional lithium-ion batteries as stated in this read, as well as eliminate the need for a separate anode altogether. Think its because it uses a lithium metal foil both as the anode and the current collector. But i don't understand the science behind why that would result in a more compact design.
I’ve actually found that ChatGPT 4 has some sense of realistic expectations about what it can accomplish in the context of a conversation. For example, I asked it to implement polygon triangulation supporting polygons with holes in it, and it was like “Whoa now, I can tell you all about ear clipping, but that’s too big and complex to implement here”.

ChatGPT 3.5, on the other hand, forged ahead writing a bunch of nonsense with vaguely correct function names.
yes, he is. But, I think most of the laid-offs are non-technical positions. I have also no data to support my statement.
Your API key and chat history are stored in browser local storage only.
GPT Detective – A Generative Whodunnit Mystery
Not really. It's an even mix from where I'm standing.
T•••• should've been arrested in the hours after the Capitol attack, like Brazil did with its coup attempt.
Monetising content happens in a handful of ways:

1) ads on the site or via email

2) subscriptions

3) build a rep via the blog then sell high value consulting and/or build an agency around it

4) affiliate links or lead generation

I think that’s all there is. So the list of possible options is pretty small.

One thing I will say is that whatever you think you might do, start building an email list today.
I partly blame growing up on IRC for the behaviour - my brain seems to treat all communication as asynchronous. And while I often find myself apologising for the it, I also try and reassure people it's entirely because they said something I found interesting and was responding to it. It is a struggle though!
> it’s mostly assumed that you’re talking about static vector graphics images

SVG stands for "scalable vector graphics" not for "static vector graphics". Scalable files, but not static or pixel oriented files can be scaled to a higher resolution without losing fidelity. You lose fidelity, when increasing the display size of a bitmap. Think of how your company logo appears, when zooming-in on a 16x16 icon version.
Thanks for a nice writeup! Regarding "for a large company to do it would risk being sued by Adobe" - what do you know about "Pepper flash plugin", which was shipped with Chrome at some time? Back then I had an impression that it was an alternative implementation of flash player, but developed by Google.
where formats like YouTube make it easy to drawl on forever, loom gets it - they default to 1.25 x playback speed. But as they say, a pictures worth a thousand words. What's a better feeling when giving your status report? a sentence saying you closed ticket xyz? Or being able to demo what you did on your screen to your peers? Of course, you do you; it goes to company culture - there's no one size fits all. But where the team meeting was previously a zoom call that you all had to be online at the exact same for, async loom meeting is worth trying out!
And no DA could find 12 people to agree to press charges?

Maybe think about the implications of that one
> It's clear that we have too much grunt work

Yes, architecture, medicine and metallurgy have been improved for millenniums. Next to that, IT is a baby that can barely walk. Of course we have too much grunt work.

But also because every time we remove grunt work, the customer expectation increase, the market adapts, and now you have to use new tools that are productive enough to do what the users want with the resource they are willing to pay.

So you don't have to hand write assembly but you do have to have an app that works on 16 screens ratios. You have amazing databases ready to handle your data, but you should update the UI live.

> We continue to narrow the path to get experience as an engineer.

Like in most industries, we are starting to move from "everyone needs to be an experts" to "90% of the daily tasks really just need good technicians". That's fine. That's how it is supposed to be.

At some point only experts could duplicate your house keys. Now you have convenience key stores everywhere.

We are on the right track.

Next stop, the equivalent of residential building codes, but for public facing apps.

Because IT is so new and can be done in your garage, we thought it was special. It was not.
From the original post, the next biggest category after “tech” is “Business & Professional Services“ at 24.2% of total (or 171 companies). This category includes - quoting the top few industries - financial services, business consulting, advertising services and recruitment.

With the exception of some financial services, these do not sound like industries whose companies have large internal IT presence.

The next largest categories are manufacturing/engineering, health, government, and energy. I agree that all of these fit your bill (government, perhaps less so).
This is correct behavior in that the models are expected to choose one of the multiple choice options and not write prose answer.
Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
having worked at Google doesn't make you a good saver or dictate a sustainable lifestyle
how do you solve the token limitations with complex sites
A kinder way to say this is "the talent entering the market is pushing wages down" or something like that. It's pretty rare that wages reflect worth. They reflect what employers have to / are willing to pay.
Not only are there not enough resources, our electric grid is nowhere near where it needs to be to remotely support a large shift to EVs. Any ideas that in 5-10 years we will only sell EVs is a grand delusion.
Are you failing at the CV screen?
It’s a pain at first but it will come in time. This is true for barre chords like F and B too.

The cool thing about the D shape is you can move it up the neck. Move it up 2 frets and its a an E, 1 more and its an F. And so on
> If the EU can solve that, I think they'll do really well.

It is a solved problem. It has been solved by free market economy. The EU is not into that.
Do any of the immutable server oses like coreOS and MicroOS make any sense for a bare-metal one-instance installation?

It seems they are more optimized for temporary k8s nodes, not something that's long term.
This guy is going to be so happy when he learns about wind and solar power.

It can do better than nuclear's really low death counts and cost less, leaving more money to fund vaccines etc.
That is mathematically equivalent. Just subtract 1 from each type of answer: correct, incorrect, and unknown :)
> Pretty weak case.

How do you know? The charges are sealed.

Also there are 34 charges, and 12 people agreed there is substancial evidence to go ahead with the case.
Statistically, some folk will keep their wits about them regardless of the company they work for.
rewind.ai is able to capture speaker output without having to disable SIP, so it still sounds like this is a Discord-specific failing.
Usually I would sellout and insert unrelated promotional SEO links for $150 a pop.
I own multiple cars and only one of them is an automatic, and I dread it to be honest. As in I quite often get thoughts about getting another manual instead of it, and arguably this automatic (BMW) I have is the nicest car I own, but transmission really makes it no justice.

To be fair, it is a bit older, so perhaps modern transmissions are significantly better, but any rentals I've driven were even worse, though they were lower class cars.
Why would that be a boost?
just looks like broken foolish to anyone with a decent setup (i.e. not using Adobe). and most enterprises with a minimally capable IT will not be running js in Adobe reader either.
The obvious way to subvert this is by infiltrating the expert pool. Send in your own guys, who will vote to give all the money to you for inventing the critical retro encabulator[1].

I think the only defence is to make the expert pool large (ie. thousands of people), with a good chunk from academia, and have the expert pool anonymous, with the 'votes' of each expert also anonymous (so they can't go to their boss and show how they voted entirely for their own company). And finally, have some system to throw out the 20% highest and lowest votes before taking an average of the rest.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
One of the most important aspect of reading is reflection and imagination. Since reading is tedious, it is difficult for you to remain focus on the page or the words, and you have to deal with your own thoughts and directing your attention to the words, to how the words connect with your pre-conceived ideas, or let your mind wander around before getting back in it. Reading is thus essentially a meditation activities.

So to equate reading to just being knowledge acquisition is missing the point of reading. And if the end result is all one care, by all means, use AI.
The Difficulty of Fixing Python Indentation Errors
An article that examines the difficulty of fixing indentation errors in Python programs. We prove that the problem is NP-hard.
Socrates: You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings of painting stand there as if they are alive, but if anyone asks them anything, they remain most solemnly silent. The same is true of written words.

This time its different... The written word might be able to write back. As a matter of fact, I already use chatgpt to learn new skills. Its a better way of acquiring knowledge. The job of teachers will change within 5 years.
I long for the days of the pre-internet where everyone agreed writing was worth paying for.

The worst thing the internet had done to society is convince us that writing isn't worth paying for.

The amount of writers (journalists, novelists, etc) who have abandoned the profession these past 30 years is heartbreaking. But just as every newspaper and magazine has learned: the internet means writing is free.
No I'm pretty sure they've been gone for a few years. The T14 Gen 3 for example doesn't have it. Maybe one of the bigger models still does though.
> They'll be timeless decades from now.

Hopefully not.
> HTTPS was already there and working more or less automatically

But that does fix the problem. That protects you against opportunistic tapping of wires. A bigger problem is the mass surveillance by POP, IMAP, SMTP and webmail providers (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple). They're not affected by HTTPS, because they're on one side of many of those HTTPS connections... and of course this is quite convenient for them.

If you want to be conspiratorial, you could note that Google funded Mozilla for quite a while, albeit only at a fraction of what it owed them in gained income due to having Mozilla / Firefox' default search engine be Google. And while TB was developed integrally alongside Firefox, it got a very small fraction of the resources.

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BTW, Even E2E encryption doesn't resolve the surveillance problem properly, since those mass-surveillance operations get most of the headers / meta-data.
Yup, you're right:

> Candidate contributions to their own campaigns are not subject to any limits.

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate...
They can't hire experts to decide where to put the cash. Anyone who can truly know where to best put cash will become or be hired by a VC fund and make orders of magnitude more money than they'd be paid by the EU.
> you can use an AI to generate vaguely realistic PGO data (profile guidance is where the real speed comes from)

That's not a bad idea, but PGO is pretty limited. I'm thinking about things like rewriting a loop to use vector instructions; something which compilers are absolutely terrible at but ChatGPT is actually pretty good at.
Pay peanuts get monkeys
The rate of progress is impressive.
To me this also pales on comparison to investment benefits legislature seems to enjoy a little too much. This is not the core problem of corrupt politics.
What, if you were laid off with 10+ years of savings from a bigtech salary and 30-40 weeks of severance and continuing benefits, you wouldn't (after a few weeks to process and recover) begin hammering out a prototype to that idea that's been in the back of your head for the last 5-10 years? You could burn half a year and still have ten weeks to do a job search.
> As law-abiding citizens, is this not what we expect and has it not been the foundation of our judicial system for 247 years?

Not to cut against your point, but just want to clarify that 247 years ago was 1776, which is not when our judicial system was founded. The first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, wasn't ratified until 1781 and did not include a judiciary. The second constitution, which created the judicial branch, didn't go into effect until March 4, 1789. Subsequently, the judicial system was established by the Judiciary Act on September 24, 1789.