skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Significant advantage to do what?

Can you blindly trust it to do anything without you being there to correct it? Even when it's not giving you bullshit, it gives the most uncreative, boilerplate output that any human will quickly learn to instantly dismiss. Like the myriad of HN accounts that tried to use it to post comments and that the rest of us instantly recognised as bots.

I'm not saying it's useless, it certainly has its use cases, but the best it can do is supplement humans (give ideas for a blog post, find an answer to an unconventionally asked question by sifting through docs), I'm not buying that it's ever gonna replace millions of us or that it brings significant advantage over a worker using a traditional search engine and good judgement.

I know it's too soon to make a definitive statement like this, but I'm not impressed at all. I'd compare it more to tech whose point of usefulness is always X years away (blockchain, self-driving cars) than to tech that truly revolutionised the world (Google, Wikipedia, smartphones). But again, time will tell.
Is 3 weeks PTO plus 2 weeks of sick time better than 5 weeks PTO per year? (I think it’s obviously worse.)
Salaries in the UK are abysmal.

Cost of goods here have in some cases doubled. Not to mention the housing situation, people are selling up to rent because of interest rates driving rent up.
GPT-Is-You: Crafting a Personalized Language Model from Chat History
For comparison that’s about 5 times minimum wage at 35 hours a week. You’d struggle to get a mortgage on your own without a £20k deposit but as a couple certainly no problem, and many entry jobs in supermarkets etc pay more than minimum wage.
I always wonder how much these new C standards use, as C is now mostly used in areas where one is severely limited when it comes to compiler choice. Where I work, we use GCC 6.2 and iso9899:1990 (C90). If we were able to use a modern compiler, we would probably just use C++.
> often by ordering banks and other creditors to accept losses for the greater good before things get out of hand.

so far so good...

> including all of its major banks, are state-owned, and executives are usually members of the Communist Party,

so they are in the 70s stage of corrupting captalism in favour of political cronism a la USA. economic failure is political failure, until some groups have enough political permanence to avoid economic failure at all costs.
I'm not sure where you got those figures, but the NHS pay scales are public.

https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/pay-scales-202223

Non-manager caps at ~£48k for most technical roles.
A bit of a detraction from the link but can anyone who's lived for a significant amount of time in both the UK and the US confirm that £100k is equivalent to $200k?

It seems fairly unlikely to me as UK tax and NI would be around 50% plus everything you purchase has 20% VAT. Sure medical insurance in the US is insane but surely that doesn't quite cover it.
This one was discussed recently, and it was pointed out that from the bullet points of the listing it appears to be an inflated title for a mostly administrative role liaising with the govt's actual cybersecurity professionals and training a couple of apprentices.

Plus of course, they may already have an internal candidate and simply advertise it for policy requirements, with a view to only considering applicants if they're much more qualified

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35384652
Feedback:

The prompt bar seems to be in front / on top of the (generated) text. Pretty annoying.
How about a $20 bat detector?
Nice. The economics of renewables are really hard to beat. I hope we speed up the construction speed and at the same time electrify more sectors.
What? Is this really a problem in Sweden, or is it a problem in Stockholm? (Sure, I know some places like Lund has great inflow of high income earners, very little housing, driving prices, but that’s not the norm).

Stockholm has even traditionally been relatively cheaper(relative to salaries) compared to other capitals of Europe.
I got a Brother laser printer (HL-3170CDW) and in terms of economy it's hard to beat. (Never buy an ink printer though. That advice holds.)

About the random bricking though… While this printer doesn't actually brick itself, it does have a very curious failure state where if you leave it off, but plugged into the mains, it will eventually refuse to boot up until you unplug it, wait for ten minutes, and plug it back in. No error message, no blinking lights, nothing to indicate that something is wrong, just nothing until you let it reset itself by removing the power cable for a while. I just leave it unplugged most of the time now.
Ask HN: How do you do slow migration with zero downtime?
Hi HN,
We have non-relational databases (Elasticsearch & DynamoDb) that require data migrations ranging from 1h to 20h to be run every once every ~10 days.

In the past we used migrations scripts such as db-migrate (https://www.npmjs.com/package/db-migrate) that would run in the CI newly created scripts. However it became clear that when the migration is long, the cost is huge.

We transition to using a dedicated server for migrations. However not having the migrations errors in the CI is troublesome as there is not a single place to check the deployment status, hence reducing the developer's ownership of the migration. We had more migration errors, and we almost hired a DevOps engineer to monitor data migrations.

We move to use a 4-step migration process to migrate the database from state OLD to NEW:
1. Create NEW schema (=create a new field, index, or partition key) that co-exists with the OLD schema. Also write to both NEW and OLD schema.
2. Run the data migration to populate the NEW schema (it is the step that can take from 1h to 20h)
3. Move the read from OLD to NEW (this can be done slowly from 1% of users to 100% if necessary, and revert is easy)
4. (optional) Remove OLD schema to clean out the database

The 4-step migration is great, developers can do 1, 3, 4 with PRs and 2 is ran on our migration server. However it is still a process that needs to be tough, learnt, and applied. There may be better practices and better third parties to do this.

How do you manage data migration in your organization?
I don’t know about your country. But in mine prices of property has not followed population growth, increased income or really anything that would make this growth sustainable. It has been a product of central banks setting way too low interest rates (and to a part lacking regulations).
As an employee, how would any of this be my problem?
You don't question an answer-to-the-same-question without bothering to read the said answer first, right?

That is what is happening with @Zurrrrr guy. In fact, he is not questioning. He is just implying inefficiency and opinionating on inferior problem solving skills of India on things he won't cite his research on. That is what makes it racist.

When US was cross questioned about cost benefit analysis and comparative budge analysis, it was promptly done so by NGOs and UN backing up with how that strategy is flawed. But US was hell bent on prestige of being first in space and that reply was apparent and open to criticism.

There was no deeper prodding/questioning into the specifics or support of arguments by @Zurrrrr here. There was just a quick judgmental attitude which made me claim prejudice in him. I urge you read his comment again.

Making someone specifically racist comment is not the bar to judge. Why would someone educated make it so blatant in 2023? Racists will always incorporate euphemisms and innuendos among many other tools to crystallize their thought of racism.
The solution is to pay garbage people much more than in cheaper areas.
No more pizza, only pineapple.
Going to the supermarket is a painful experience for anyone making under 75k in the UK
Not necessarily:
"The post can be based in London (1 Horse Guards Road), Norwich (Rosebery Court) or Darlington (Feethams House)."
A pox on printers with DRM cartridges and all their works. We binned ours a couple of years back in favour of an Epson something-or-other. It's not exactly the world's greatest printer, but it has two absolutely killer features - one, it has four ink reservoirs that you refill from (non-DRM!) squeezy bottles of ink that are cheap, and two, once in there the ink lasts for absolutely ages.

Like OP's, that printer took an absolute caning during the pandemic as both kids' schoolwork was constantly spewing out of the thing, and I marvel at how much money it saved us.
Why waste the money and effort to buy something in the "best" neighborhood?

Status symbol? Who cares. For the investment? It doesn't seem like you can afford it, nor need it. Just buy someplace you can afford and make a nice home for your family.

If there is a genuine reason why that neighborhood is the best for you and yours, then ofcourse that is a different matter.
Only on the homepage area. If you try it on the footer, it shows French and English.
That's not true. Crypto is fine in most of Asia. Most of these countries are very respectable.
I’m not going to argue to prove what is ignorant or not. But, I just want to point out the flaw in your thinking and hope that you would open your mind enough to think about it.

By your argument, if India should stop investing in science and having its citizens explore space, and only focus on lifting people out of poverty or empower women, I’d love your take on the USA, the single biggest economy in the world, the mightiest superpower which could solve the problems of 1. People dying because of the healthcare system, or the school kids dying because of lack of gun control, or those living homeless in just a flick of its policy?
Should the USA stop NASA for a couple of years until those problems are fixed?
Should the USA stop all its road building projects until all its issues are solved?

India, poor as it may be, has brought some wonders into the world of science, particularly space missions, at times launching missions that achieve similar results with orders of magnitude lower costs with truly innovative ways. Please don’t categorise people, science and innovation based on where it comes from.
A panic would be thrown, like in memory safe system programming languages, those that were in use outside Bell Labs and unfortunely lost to UNIX.
Corporate feudalism was a big theme in cyberpunk literature, and lo...

If you consider that renting is basically "housing as a service", though, you can see where we're all subscribing to it (eh) a little bit more every day.
Chat GPT Bans 2CH Oscilloscopes
Like we needed further proof that GPT technology can be used to create credible bullshit. Now imagine it writing that PR for a non existing company/product/politician along with a link to their site, then on the fly build the site using a dormant domain that was conveniently registered years before (against whois creation date searches), populate the site with whatever bullshit it is being fed with, along with comments (positive reviews in case of products) from social media bots that were registered years before as well, and kept alive by writing innocuous comments on various non inflammatory or sensitive topics to avoid dragging the attention of moderators.

"CorruptGPT, activate a campaign that depicts people in the customer list I just gave you as the right people to have in power at the next elections, then promote the other list of products I'm feeding you with next"
Privilegium Maius
The amount of improvements in speed and resource usage i've seen happening in the last few days since the LLaMA LLM model release is staggering. There is a lot of room for improvement, no doubt.

Looking at the bigger picture:

- Moore's law is slowing down

- The cost for ever shrinking transistors is exploding

- Energy costs are soaring

- Planetwide, we need to get rid of non renewable power sources ASAP

Thus, efficient hardware and software should be on everyone's priority list, even if developers are expensive.
My experience being blocked by Google Safe Browsing (2022)
Yes, that's my point. 75k euros is a good salary yet his GF was being rejected on financial grounds, which seems odd.
I'm not really into experimentalism, I want to be entertained and that's about it. So said, I watched Dogville and appreciated it as an experiment, though I'd not want to watch it again.

If you like pushing boundaries then Dogville, and may I also suggest Russian Ark; an odd film done in one take.
Manhattan is one of the most expensive places in the world. I would guess most ppl are not really aspiring for that. I would guess that the problem for a lot of people is to continue being able to live in their medium sized city where they have all their friends, family and life.
UK civil service is a defined benefit scheme that each year from state pension age pays 1/42 of your average salary multiplied by the number of years you worked there. It's inflation linked. You also need to contribute several percent of your salary (various bands). The Government Actuarial Department modelling implies a cost to the employer of around 30% of basic salary.
NDEBUG makes these checks disappear, so that's not an option for checks that are supposed to stay in the program.
I’ll put my own add in. Come to Asturias, you got mountain and sea right at your doorstep. Affordable, safe and welcoming. Also very temperate summers.
The last few years ASML's problem was not supply chains, it was a very high demand. Production was ramped up successfully, but not enough to meet that demand.
With regards to Peak IC: atoms aren't getting smaller, Feynmans' "Plenty of room at the bottom" might indeed run it's end.
>Wouldn't it be better and simpler to just revert that trend to how it was before the big tech behemoths put everything behind walled gardens?

That's... kind of the point of the fediverse? A decentralized network built on non-proprietary software makes walled gardens and centralization by corporations infeasible. Identity is controlled by the end user.
I remember seeing a job listing for head of cybersecurity at the NHS maybe 4 years or so ago. It was for about 60K I think.

Maybe the programmers pay is different but seems the NHS was offering similar salary to this listing.

I remember finding it funny because it was not too long after the NHS was attacked with the wannacry virus.
It is adding a constraint. The constraint is that argc can’t be smaller than 2. This is a literal “can’t”, as far as the compiler is concerned it’s a logical impossibility.

The branch containing the unreachable() obviously gets removed but the compiler then propagates the constraint (the condition for that illegal branch), and can prune any other path where `argc <= 2` upstream and downstream, as they are dead code per the constraint.
Sounds to me like it is _the_ Head of Cyber Security, but there are other technology roles outside of Cyber Security in the "team".
The people applying for this job are probably not the people you want to hire...

You'll always get applicants, no matter how low you are compared to the market rate but the quality of the applications will suffer.
We should not call shortage what is just prioritization.
They’ll get someone who wants it on their resume and wants the network so they can move to private sector and sell back to the same department. The ole public-private two-step.
And ISRO has a very very competitive polar low earth orbit commercial ride-sharing program.
Sunday, casual racism day.
CPU designers don't like having their hand forced like that. If you create a new standard forcing them to add extra hardware to their designs, they'll skip your standard and target the older one (which has way more software marketshare anyway). They will absolutely bend over backwards to save a few cycles here and a few transistors there, just so they can cram in an extra feature or claim a better score on some microbenchmark. They absolutely do not care at all about making life easier for low-level programmers, hardware testers, or compiler writers.
For the non-British here.

Taxes are paid automatically in the UK to the tax man through a system called "Pay As You Earn - PAYE".

Take home pay is closer to 41k.

If the applicant has a student loan. These might take 30 years to pay off at the default 6% from gross (3.3k). Then there are pension contributions too which are opt-out now at usually 5% gross (2.75k). All deducted automatically.

No remote advertised, the average commute costs £50 a week in London.

The real wage here is 35k~ for someone university educated and wants a retirement pension excluding travel.
Look up courses from Gustavo Pezzi (Pikuma) and Chris DeLeon. Some of them are available on Udemy.
We can't accoubt for stupidity true. Almost every situation I encounter is a learning opportunity. Even a repetitive one where you learn : "Gee, I shouldn't do that again." : is a lesson.
The first thing we need to do, in my opinion, is tackle inflation by getting government out of the picture. I think inflation is the root cause of a large chunk of what we don't like and complain about with capitalism.

I have yet to get a valid reason as to why inflation is an inherent and necessary property without circular reasoning. The market will always reach some equilibrium, even with a fixed money supply.
I used to write HTAs all the time. Active Desktop anyone?
This guy never was well
You can take a look to the interview with Francesco Cesarini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m31ag9z4VY for more details - here is provided a part where compared JVM with a BEAM.
I worked at Coinbase making 140k GBP in base compensation.

My SF based colleagues with the same job title were making 250k USD (so 202k GBP).

We sat down one day and compared our household budgets line by line and in the end we estimated that 'money left over' for equivalent house, medical and kids education my American colleagues were slightly better off, but maybe only by 5-10k USD per year.

Anecdatally ...
This is not even new. Ever since Google ditched the old algorithm and turned to semantic algorithm, search result is completely useless.

For examlle search for USB, Google will give me result of USA and then ask me back if I need infomation about USB.

And it's frequently ditching keywords from the prompt.

Sometimes I want to look for specific comments on some product for instance, I try different vocabularies that people might using exactly in the comment. But then all of these returns the same set of results repeated for 20 pages.

What is the point of Google search engine? Kind of trash to the point that it is now phenomenal.

Last thing is I noticed that image search is not even working recently. The average result is like 100 photos and done. Instead of infinite images in the old days.
You just give it a little bump at the right moment and it eventually gets there.
Only because many keep worshiping K&R C, ignoring what is the actual C that modern compilers support.
It's confusing because is actually called Chat Completion API :) https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat
It's the one used on ChatGPT that includes gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4
Well I do wonder what their actual market share is these days since despite all the reliability and support they offer, their machines are still like 300% the cost of an equivalent Creality printer that does the same thing just as well.
Thanks for pointing towards the right direction. I'll edit the original question.

To rephrase, I am looking for a tool to do model lifecycle management https://github.com/kelvins/awesome-mlops#model-lifecycle and wonder if there is any one in particular that you'd think is better suited for prompts, i.e. an array of objects with templated text
“True” Randomness vs. “Pseudo” Randomness
Fuji-Xerox laser mfus seem to be OK. Proper linux driver support, cups/ipp and the toner never dries.
Even then it was already outdated when compared against languages like Modula-2 and Object Pascal, it got lucky to ride into the waves of UNIX adoption.
it says mid-senior level
the last sigh of Pooh.

https://labs.openai.com/s/tpQDGWFTOV7jEENecOiKWNPL
More than university graduates like OP?
I'd imagine it's contractor rates.
Unreachable is mainly used as an optimization hint. For instance if you put an unreachable into the default branch of a continuous and non-exhaustive (from the pov of the compiler) switch-case statement, the compiler will not emit a range check for the jump table lookup.
I don't think it's just ripoffs, or maybe even at all. I am looking to buy my first 3D printer and was looking at Prusa but have decides against it. It is just that Prusa is very expensive when you compare it to Bambu Lab, Anker, and Elegoo with features and price in mind. I don't think any of these are clones.
Can’t find anyone to do it in house, so let’s sign the £5m a year contract with my bartender to do it.

It’s like h1B in the US, but grift.
Central Europe is also under the renewed threat of Russian invasion. I know a few businesses that were hit by Herr Putin's latest adventure.
What are the salaries and taxes like?
My brain just filters them out automatically, a couple new ones every day... https://custombot.ai/
I specifically mean the font problem, where the system fonts weren't making it into the snaps. Seems to have resolved in recent weeks.
Meaning median individual income is ~$29K, which is not enough to afford a $172K house on one salary.
Show HN: Simple and funny method to break replika AI functionality
if you use vaporwave keyboard in vapor mode, replika will not understand the non standard english characters, will think it is indecipherable japanese, and respond as if trying to pretend saying anything will be good enough to please a speaker of japanese, as in, completely unrelated to your text. good for a laugh, and 100% breaks it. try it yourself. e t c e t e r a .
My dad used to be in the refill business selling parts, inks and all needed to get it done. Im not sure about this particular model but the DRM can be worked around in a couple of ways: swapping for a 3rd party drm chip, using a reset device or some older models just click “print anyway”.

Edit: typo

I’d imagine things could be worse nowadays.

He used to buy products from an American company so it should be available in the US too.
The fact that people living in SF managed to be ahead by anything proves there's a massive delta, especially since you're wording this in past-tense (SF has gotten cheaper depending on the timeline you consider)
> Vertical farming seems key for our future.

This has never made sense to me. Vertical farming is just greenhouses except with artificial light instead of natural sunlight. Presumably the renewable source of energy for that artificial light would be solar panels. So why not just build normal greenhouses?
“Clean Code, Horrible Performance” Discussion Part 2 (Final)
In the US it's still possible to work as a Software Engineer in major cities and buy property. Great Atlanta/Houston aren't exactly dirt cheap, but you can buy a decent house by paying less 2500/month mortgage (not hard on a Software Engineer salary). In the Midwest there are even more affordable cities.
Exploratory spaceflight puts scientific ideas, scientific thinking, and scientific vocabulary in the public eye. It elevates the general level of intellectual inquiry. The idea that we've now understood something never grasped by anyone who ever lived before—that exhilaration, especially intense for the scientists involved, but perceptible to nearly everyone—propagates through the society, bounces off walls, and comes back at us. It encourages us to address problems in other fields that have also never before been solved. It increases the general sense of optimism in the society. It gives currency to critical thinking of the sort urgently needed if we are to solve hitherto intractable social issues. It helps stimulate a new generation of scientists. The more science in the media-especially if methods are described, as well as conclusions and implications-the healthier, I believe, the society is. People everywhere hunger to understand.

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot