skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Reno, NV

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Domain-Driven Design, REST, gRPC, Kubernetes, older experience with Java, Python, and Perl.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ogGNgnY2swPOhqI2GsQQ9dGds69...

Email: career [at] buchmann [dot] dev

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremybuchmann/

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Hi, my name is Jeremy and I'm looking for a backend development role. I've been a web developer for over 20 years and have spent the last 7 years focused on building scalable, reliable, and performant backend systems. I've worked in a variety of industries including casino gaming, rehabilitation services, environmental science, social media, and clinical data management.

I've worked with monolithic and service-oriented architectures, and designed and implemented services that included REST APIs, gRPC, and events.

Even though I mostly do web stuff, I consider myself a generalist and am a life-long learner. I'm in the process of getting my AWS Developer certification.

I’ve worked in remote positions since 2020, both as a developer and as a team lead of a fully remote team, so I have experience with remote-first communication methods and best-practices.

Recruiters are welcome.
Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes!

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Python, JS, TS, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, React, Lit, Django

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-goldstein-90489a5/

Email: zachgold@gmail.com

Hi all! I’m an engineer and manager with 10+ years of broad experience working across frontend/backend/infra. Most recently I led and built the engineering team at https://bramble.live/, building a dynamic virtual meetings product with integrated videoconferencing elements. I’ve just finished a batch at the wonderful Recurse Center and am now looking for new opportunities. Looking forward to chatting!
> What are the statistics for Poles, Italians, Russian Germans?

Maybe find and share, if you looking to refute the point.
If there are 100 manual jobs today and 80 AI-assisted jobs tomorrow then AI has "stolen" 20 jobs. There's really no other way to frame it. The added productivity gains are going into someone's pocket, and if you are in the labor class then that someone isn't you.
If at first you don't succeed...

You now feign agreement with the first point only to say it's because of what-about-USA... and then disagree again.

All the while you're polluting the whole argument with needless arguments in the hope that something sticks or at least draws discussion somewhere else.
Everyone uses AI today directly or indirectly. All search engines and possibly stackoverflow and Reddit will start supporting LLMs. Unless you never use these in your business you will be using AI.
Location: Poland
Remote: Yes (EST/PST timezones OK)
Willing to relocate: No but occasional travel OK

Technologies:
* Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, FastAPI, GraphQL
* AngularJS, ReactJS + Redux/Redux Toolkit, NextJS
* Airflow, Kafka, ELK, TensorFlow, NLP/NLTK
* AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://michallech.info/static/Michal-Lech-Resume.pdf
Email: michal [AT] michallech.info
Website: https://michallech.info

I am a Full Stack Developer and Software Architect with 13 years of commercial experience (esp. FinTech, Healthcare) in prototyping, MVP, backend and frontend development as well as maintenance and DevOps.

I can help you accelerate development and solve difficult architecture problems.

Great communication skills, Startup experience, team leadership, passionate about programming, self starter, OK with freelance/consulting as well as full time work.
Does a human really reason if they don't answer every question they are asked correctly?
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Beacon is driving the next-generation development of precision therapies for brain disease by making EEG-based brain monitoring accessible, interpretable, and actionable at scale. Come help us accelerate the development of new treatments for millions of patients with severe neurological and psychiatric disease!

We're hiring for several roles across engineering, including engineering managers and experienced mobile (React Native) developers. Our tech stack includes TypeScript, Julia, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Metabase, PostGraphile, React, React Native, Node.js, K8s, and AWS.

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You’re going to develop this software in house and not allow your engineers to use AI in that process?

That’s not only unenforceable, it’s business suicide.
Every invasion of Russia in modern history has been defeated by winter, and now NATO is gaining the world's best winter fighting forces as an ally. Even Moscow knows not to f* with the Finns. Couldn't be happier about this alliance.
hey kybernetikos, appreciate your input here!

wanted to clarify that contributors get 100% of the bounty

our fee is paid by the bounty creator (org) on top of the award
Of course I validate the tests. I get it to churn them out then go over them to make sure everything is sane and covered as expected. I'm surprised that people would assume otherwise.
Location: Vermont, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:
Rails||React||TypeScript||JavaScript||Ruby||SASS||tailwind||CSS||HTML

Résumé/CV: https://www.johnfarina.co

Email: johnfarina8@gmail.com

I'm currently looking for a Full Time Frontend or FullStack role. I have about more than half a year of experience in an internship with the company Bedroom Producer where I have helped create and manage APIs that save user scores and display them. And of course, I would always be ready to learn new technologies needed fit for the role you need - Please don't hesitate to contact me if you think id be a good fit!
I am finding the combination of LLMs and strongly-typed functional programming to be incredibly potent.

By building programs out of small, single-purpose pure functions, it is much easier to review the output of the LLM, whilst also giving me the ability to grok and steer the overall direction of the code. A traditional type-checker catches many of the looks-right-but-is-subtly-wrong hallucinations too.
We'll stop being sure when the ratio of ad revenue to hardware sales flips completely, yes.
You can't.

There is only 1 Mac Mini available with M1 CPU

He stated specifically Intel machines. The M1 isn't an Intel processor.
| If he is using it to reword his papers but the content remains the same it's less concerning.

How is that less concerning? Rewording conclusions or the abstract, even subtly, can change the meaning of those words and of those sections.
You can give it puzzles that require understanding cause and effect, and it'll get them right. So this comment is wrong.

"Next token prediction" taken to a certain mathematical limit implies reasoning.
Great work! I love it!
Why? Shipping, VAT and all the customs fees will easily double the price of the product by the time it reaches your door.
Column: Afraid of AI? The startups selling it want you to be
Not just startups and tech companies, lots of boring non-tech enterprises offer Macs too for technical roles because you lose out on good candidates if you can't offer Macs. This side of the pond (Europe) those are also way more likely to allow employees to upgrade after a few years.
I would vastly prefer private security forces to provide defense for me than the police. History is full of examples of neighborhoods and ethnic groups organizing their own defenses to manage misbehavior from within and without those groups.

The existence of police dramatically harms the possibility of an ideal society, because they do so much violence with such immunity.

You seem to think that I believe that the status quo is somehow acceptable or tolerable.

This is like saying 'if the US military didn't initiate war against another country, how would it ensure compliance of that population with the wishes of the United States?'

Obviously the answer is to not go to war, and not concern oneself with whether or not another population is sufficiently compliant.

The full and detailed answer to your question is outlined in a book titled 'The problem of political authority: and examination on the right to coerce and the duty to obey'
How is this a breakup if Alibaba is just going to become a holding company owning those six new companies?
Is there an art historical critique of the 68k, x86, arm, riscv instruction set?

Is x86 worse than 68k like how Greek math notation had happen to it?

page 26 paragraph 39

We have here an instructive illustration of the
fact that a mathematical topic may have an amount
of symbolism that is a hindrance rather than a
help, that becomes burdensome, that obstructs
progress.

A History of Mathematical Notations
by Florian Cajori
I don't think the parent refers to/includes non-browser based bugs...
So you're comfortable giving a black box secretary powers, including accessing and using remote APIs on your behalf, while you have zero insight or control over its decisions? Or will you be second guessing it every step of the way rendering it little more then a fancy autocomplete?

I don't think you realize the amount of risk involved in giving these opaque probabilistic systems control over data and compute. They are not people replacements and assuming so and acting on it will create more problems than it solves... Because extending thee lines to wrap around your needs is wishful thinking and there is a lot more complexity and hidden unintended consequences than assumed when saying chatbots capable of using APIs will be dependable personal assistants, which is the point I'm trying to make.
> seem to be saying the same thing

Many companies (mostly tech) increased hiring of all kinds, bullshit or not, during the last years. Those are the excess jobs. Reversing them is the short-term correction. For much longer, corporate America has been staffing up departments which practically do nothing. Eliminating them is the longer-term trend.
AI is confidently wrong about a lot of things, but that doesn't mean it's useless. It means you need to verify what it generates. Doing that for code is much easier than prose. AI that produces wrong code is immediately and obviously wrong. It can't really fool you. It's easy to test. You can even ask AI to write tests for the code it produces to demonstrate it's correct.
> Niklaus Wirth's Pascal was more of a teaching tool than a useful programming language.

Which is one reason I don't like self-conscious "teaching" programming languages: They rarely escape the stench of condescension that pervades such endeavors, which means they lack features some designer or team of designers though were "too advanced" for early learners but which are essential to writing any nontrivial code. See also: BASIC, another language where the standard is honored more in the breach than the observance, to the point that "Basic" is more of a "vibe" than any actual set of syntax and features you can point to. (In fact, modern nice Basic dialects have nearly converged with Object Pascal.)

> Pascal did, however, have a very nice feature - nested functions. It's the one feature from Pascal that I incorporated into D, and they're such a nice feature I continue to be surprised they aren't adopted by other languages.

Not that you don't know this, of course, but GCC has long has nested functions as an extension to the C programming language. Which, again, is an example of a nice quality-of-life feature added to a somewhat lacking language as a nonstandard extension. Oh, well.
Why maximize paperclips when terms like "vegetative electron microscopy" could be trending in the literature.
See https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1642681623765471232
This review would have needed to fit in a newspaper at the time of publication.
"Computers will not steal your job. People leveraging computers will steal your job."

—1963, 1973, 1983, 1993...2023
>strings as objects and integers turning into floats when NaNs are introduced have been a much bigger annoyance to me, than it ought to.

Nah, you rightly are annoyed. When I am writing unit tests, it is especially annoying to fix the type.
> Given the rate of progress in the past year, the scenario I describe is a possibility that is insane not to consider.

Personally speaking, there's no point to me considering that. If what you are projecting turns out to be true, all it means is that there no place for me anymore.
It's normal for academics to publish a study every 37 hours?
Please show a link where this was reverse-engineered. I'd be curious to see it.
It doesn't know the difference, because it doesn't know what knowing and not knowing is.
I get shin splits on grass, artificial turf, unpaved tracks and treadmills. I've had it looked at by a podiatrist, and he recommended stretches for my tibialis anterior. I do them before I play sport and they generally work if I'm only playing once a week, but much past that and I'm in pain again.
Yeah, the billionaires who have armies of AI bots.

Eventually, anyways.
Honest question: why was this downvoted? To me it seems totally reasonable that:

> The U.S. should continue investigating splitting up Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
Pentimento: Data Remanence in Cloud FPGAs
I'm a self-taught full-stack JavaScript software engineer and I've been running a bootstrapped solo business in Houston, TX coming up on 3 years now. I have 3+ years of holistic experience involving designing, architecting, and programming software-as-a-service (SaaS) web apps that scale.

I'm looking for a full-time role as a full-stack engineer. Feel free to email me below.

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Location: Houston, TX, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
* JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js,
* Express.js, React, React Native, Redux, Next.js,
* Gatsby.js, Svelte, SvelteKit, TailwindCSS, GraphQL, SQL,
* Supabase, NoSQL, Firebase, MongoDB, Mongoose, Vitest,
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Portfolio: https://jake-hatfield.com [0]
Résumé/CV: https://jake-hatfield.com/resume.pdf [1]
Email: me(at)jake-hatfield(dot)com

Clickable links:
[0] https://jake-hatfield.com
[1] https://jake-hatfield.com/resume.pdf
I’m still running Windows on a PC with just 8 GB without any trouble. Of course I don’t do 4K video editing or similar.
Horrifying story, it really doesn't take much, and I'm sure a lot of people feel the same way to "Pierre" in the article - overwhelmed by all the catastrophic news and events.

As I was reading that, the image where "Eliza" describes methods of suicide was so bizarre to me. I thought what an absurd tone change bordering on dark comedy, and then caught myself, I was doing exactly that adding value and assumptions based on online human interaction to a "text generator".

It's going to be an interesting experience as more LLMs become humanized, by naming them, using 3D models or preset video animations, text to speech generation, more personalization to the prompt creator, etc. and that line becomes increasingly blurry for folks.
"AI don't take jobs from people, people take jobs from people."

We hear this kind of argument from gun lovers all the time.
New functionality for developers – brought to you by WebAssembly
Nobody is going to read your syndicated blog link unless you tailor your content to the platform. There is a different way to present it to say LinkedIn, TikTok, HackerNews, IndieHackers, etc. People hate syndicated accounts, they bring very little value unless you’re already well established with popular ideas.

ChatGPT is a great litmus test here. Ask it to syndicate the main ideas of your content to a respective platform.
Oh, got it. That makes more sense. I don’t know if it’s true even from that angle… but I get it.
That's the key: you don't need to know it.
> A culture that’s always willing to accommodate new people

What America are you talking about?
Immigration to the USA has always been hard and a very contentious topic.

The previous president was largely voted in on his anti immigrant policy (both for legal and illegal immigration). We’re still undoing his damage to the immigration system today.

Prior to that, America has had a very fraught history with immigrants and abuse.

It’s not a culture that’s willing to accommodate new people. It’s a capitalist machine that sees new people as valuable buyers and workers.

Immigrants have always been treated as a form of cheap labor to import. Whether that was the boom of Italians or Chinese or Mexicans in the past. Then they’re immediately vilified after the work is done.

I think what the culture has in difference to others is valuing the results of capitalism more than anything else.
I have a personal example of this. My father died largely because of his annual physical. He hated doctors, became nervous around them and thus expressed hypertension in-office. He did not have material hypertension but did defer to his physician. Over the long term, despite my best efforts, this killed him.

His blood pressure medication regime was poorly managed and severely impacted his quality of life. He eventually suffered a syncopal episode while climbing stairs and died.
no I'm talking about the part where poor Americans who join the armed forces go to foreign countries, are asked to kill people and sometimes die themselves
Which was good advice, and I would argue still is. But even if you think it is no longer good advice, would you at least accept it was good advice for a very long time, leading to a lot of lucrative careers?
The degree to which it enables undesirable behavior. A disturbed guy may want to murder everybody in a nightclub, but his chances of success go way up when he has a gun vs. a knife. A company owner may want to automate your job away, but without AI the automation is too expensive and unreliable.

The big concern with AI isn't so much the Terminator future, but the Cyberpunk future, where all wealth is concentrated at the top and economic mobility is stopped. A dysfunctional feudal system that is impossible to reform because the small handful of people who own everything also control the politics and the police.
M2 is kind of a stop gap. I decided to wait for the M3 macbook air to replace my 2015 macbook pro.
This is called a rotary encoder [1] and is still common in various control knobs on electronic devices.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_encoder
All of them, all the time? Assuming it does fail does it have sound reasoning, or is it nonsense?
AI is yet another technology that can help you escape the labor class.
> anyone who mentions the "petrodollar" in a geopolitical context knows knothing about geopolitics

I'm curious about this. The petrodollar is clearly a real phenomenon and policy decision. You might say that it's the replacement for when the dollar was backed by gold; instead of being convertible into gold, it's now the currency that's de facto required to purchase oil (which is basically liquid gold), as well as being the currency of the world's foremost military that protects the trade of oil.
Between the input tokens and output tokens there are like 10 layers of mystery meat, though. I think while at the end of it all it's a fancy autocomplete, there is a lot going on inside the model before it spits out the next token.
Wow, I hope the world can keep that rain forest pristine, but as you know, doing that will be very difficult.
Agreed 100%. It's absurd. The results get distilled as "more data leads to worse outcomes" and that's ridiculous -- it should be: "more data leads to bad decisions which lead to worse outcomes". We should ALWAYS strive to have more and better data. What needs to change is how we (and our doctors) respond to that data.
Brought to you by some doctors in Denmark, a country with socialized healthcare.

Can we cut the cynicism for one minute to at least check the source?
Thinkpad T440 - 7 years of daily use (could probably use some cleaning inside). I expect it to last quite a bit longer, still. It did cost $500 + some upgrades. Windows 10 is still supported. :)

17 or so year old IBM T41 stopped working about 2 years ago.
Comparing to outsourcing or, even less fitting, immigration is a terrible analogy. Those jobs and their income go to other humans. Other humans who will consume goods and services, this is especially true for immigration. I'd also argue that offshoring is morally positive because it moves the work and associated income to where people need it more, that's why the labor is cheaper there

Both automation and global movement of goods and workers increase productivity which is highly desired. However, automation allows for the owner of the goods of production to retain much more of the value created. This leads to higher wealth concentration. I'm fine with some people being super rich, but I'm worried about there floor. IMO, we need something like UBI to raise the floor. Leaving AI assignment concerns aside, I'd be incredibly excited if the productivity gains from AI were to somehow be used to raise the floor for everyone on the planet. Instead I'm worried that we'll see more unemployment or more low-payed gig/service work on which, in the US, people might struggle to afford basic things like health care, housing and education for their children. Edit: This also carries a high risk of getting some form of violent revolution, or more push towards a too extreme solution like communism. After all communism was born as a response to the automation of the industrial revolution.
> But tests have to be correct.

From my experience, ChatGPT-3 has been pretty good at exercising all meaningful branches (I look at code coverage results, I don't care for percentages at all), in the least amount of tests, on the first go. I definitely have to modify each test quite a bit, because it frequently hallucinates API calls that don't exist, but the code that it produces is an incredible blueprint. And I haven't even attempted to use RCI yet: "improve your answer" or "your answer is wrong because..."; ChatGPT-4 is supposedly extremely adept at reflecting on its responses. I can only imagine where this will be in a few years.

I was about 6 months late to Copilot because I was incredibly skeptic about it, without having used it in anger. My skepticism was mostly (but not entirely) wrong. Having actually used ChatGPT in anger, I find the degree of skepticism extremely skeptical.

It's like picking up C in the 1970s. We're at the very beginning when things are pretty rough, but the skills that I am building today are going to be foundational in the future. If you're dismissing AI without giving it a few weeks to earn its keep, it's going to be rough to catch up when things improve to the point where it is required.
I am so fucking tired of this argument. We have no idea what reasoning is. If this insanely complex model approximates it, who are we to say whether it is merely parroting or "actually reasoning"? I say that for the usecases we are seeing today, it is impressive enough A) for it to not matter and B) for it to be impossible for us to tell right now.

One of the main lessons this whole GPT fiasco has taught us is that if you make a super-duper fancy autocomplete trained on terabytes of textual data, it develops some sort of internal logic/understanding. That is very exciting to me.

It is truly impressive.
Initially I didn’t like the drug addict analogy, but maybe it’s a good one, maybe you’re right. A drug addict did have a choice, and exercised it, and addiction was the consequence. With AI we’re at the first stage where we’re not yet addicted, but once we become addicted, it will be very very hard to wean ourselves off of it if/when we find out it’s doing more damage than good. We do have a choice right now, but you might be right that we’ll lose it soon.