skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What’s the job market like? You mean fewer jobs?

Based on my anecdotal data it’s not good. And yes - fewer actual jobs. Last year I did some interviewing throughout the year and it seemed things were picking up to before-COVID level. After I left my previous place last September I got a nice (although short) outside IR35 contract. That finished just before New Year’s. Since then it’s been absolutely dead. Most recruiters are just CV harvesting. A lot of the job ads on LinkedIn, JobServe and others have been put on repeat for months. It seems a lot of companies are waiting for recession and have paused hiring. OR I just have had a bad luck, which is possible of course. It should be noted the financial year has just ended, so that period being Q4 for a lot of companies with uncertain budgets played a part for sure, but time will tell.

> Where would you go next?

There are a couple of options. Have a good friend in Switzerland that can help me out if I go there. Can go back to Bulgaria which has a very healthy IT market or might make the jump across the pond. I haven’t really decided, but I’m thinking on the matter.
Do they not deport foreigners who try to flee justice or is she a citizen in either country.

Both are allies of the US and even though France is from time to time prone to do some diplomatic PR stunts they don't exactly love her kind of fraud.

Israels government is currently busy with internal politics and America can lean very heavily on them.

Her only realistic option would be someplace that doesn't like America and is big enough to not be worth the effort of pressuring them.

And they would need to be willing to take in someone who defrauded patients for profit. Not quite eye to eye with someone like snowden
Thank you, that is really helpful to hear. I think I have been hoping that the next big development is right around the corner, because I agree with you, the current VR systems we have are inadequate for many cases. I am really curious to what Apple is going to come out with this year, AR seems to have so many advantages to VR that I would love to explore. The only AR glasses I've used have been Magic Leap's and they were not all that impressive (in 2019).

In the neurorehabilation field, at least, there are clear use cases for VR, and some even have advantages over traditional rehabilitation. I am worried that with all of the negative sentiments towards VR technology right now, breaking into this industry will be impossible, even with a brilliant idea for a new use case. So I am doubting whether I can convert what I have done in my Master's thesis into something that can pay the bills. If all else fails, though, there's always academia.
If I recall correctly, Twitter has explicitly said before that they do rank topics very differently because otherwise Justin Bieber would be trending all day, every day.
The article describes how the author's best friend murdered his fiance in a psychotic episode, while his support network stood around and praised him for his individual spirit.

The GP distinguishes between psychotics, who require institutionalizing, the mentally unwell, who need guidance, and their victims, who are dead. You glossed over the first and last category, so it's fair for the GP to point out that ideological blindspot.
This reminded me of something I'd love to have - a physical text/graphics terminal with a full (at least as complete as the last DECs/Boundless units) implementation of ANSI codes, as well as a good, high-resolution implementation of Sixels, ReGIS, and Tektronix graphics, smooth scrolling (but now speed-adjusted - the more backlog, the faster it scrolls), as well as terminal-side windowing for multiple terminals (as the Blit family had).
> your bio says 'fuck elon musk.'

My Twitter bio does. Added shortly after he banned links to Mastodon, broke Tweetbot (and lied about them breaking the rules), and announced breaking changes to the Twitter APIs I use extensively at work with a few days warning.
Python, Django, PostgreSQL
I bought a couple of Frixion pens after reading a similar thread here. I like them. But keep them away from kids, Stiftung Warentest (essentially, German Consumer Affairs) found lead in the ink and recommends other pens.

https://www.test.de/Stifte-und-Tinten-im-Test-Unterm-Strich-...
Not a lawyer nor a rust dev. But looking at the reaction on twitter and youtube, this policy doesn't seem well received and most people seems to echo your sentiment.

I think most of us understand the need to bring some consistency to echo system which might help both new comers and industry adoptions. It seems that this both poorly worded and more importantly decided (as in drafted) without really consulting the community.

I am surprise i am not seeing more comment about this seeing as anything rust is usually a big news on HN.
Databases can be altered, blockchains can't.
Would lawsuits targeting SBF and CE put those investments at risk via clawbacks. Kind of like how many Madoffs investors who made money were forced to return that.
If I’m living in an area where they don’t go off often (like right now) and a car alarm woke me up, I would definitely check.

And I imagine if I triggered a car alarm, I would back off.
I've tried setting up clight on various occasions and now gave it a shot again, whilst I appreciate all the documentation I'm still struggling to get it working on NixOS with swaywm on a laptop. I'm primarily interested in adjusting screen brightness based on my webcam. I'm already using redshift/gammastep.
I'd even buy a season of a single team's games as a block, if there were never black-outs. I grew up in Boston, so I usually want to watch the Patriots, but NFLST would sometimes black-out their games even though they were almost never available over boadcast in my market. No idea why, but I still had to pay for those weeks!
This is what worries me the most when it comes to job losses and downward pressure on wages.

If we hit the point where a senior engineer reviewing the output from an AI can effectively replace a team with a senior engineer and 5 junior engineers, you’re right that it isn’t wise to simply replace all those junior engineers with the AI. Unless you’re confident that the AI will be able to replace that senior engineer soon, you _need_ junior engineers who can build up the experience needed to step into that role once the senior engineer moves on.

But you _can_ get rid of 3 or 4 of those junior engineers. The remaining junior engineer(s) will still need mentorship from the senior engineer and will still do “trivial” work that needs oversight, but they will be able to pump that out at a high enough rate to replace a few of their pre-AI peers.

Basically, I’d imagine the org chart at most companies will look pretty similar to now, except you’ll just have fewer people at each level.
And so is googles, Facebook are spending more than $10B a year on VR. For context that is more than Nvidia's quite large R&D budget, which they have ramped up on consistently over years. Facebook has gone from 0 to 10B real fast.
>When I finally got him to reach out to care providers (since as just a friend, there was no way to setup inpatient care as an intermediary) they made it so difficult for him to enroll that no only did that moment of clarity pass without getting treatment, it also burned up whatever status as an ally that I still had with him.

That is tragic. There is no ready alternative when health care providers fail.
If anyone from JetPens is reading this(?) - would love to hear about the effects of this article ending up on HN today.

Why? Because I'm about to drop ~$40 on pens as a result of the post, and discussion here.

Echoing other people's sentiments here - love the site, love the density, love the niche'ness, love the information.
But is twitter really dying? The fields I watch (AI, software engineering, writers), all thought leaders are still there, still posting regularly.
Let me be more concise: whatever grows inside the simulation will never know the rules of the simulation better than the simulation's maker. At best, it will know the rules as well as the maker. In the case of AlphaGo and AlphaZero, while they can better grasp the combinatorial explosion of choices based on the rules of the game, they cannot suddenly decide to play a different type of game that is governed by a different set of rules. There are allowed actions and prohibited actions. Its understanding has been shaped by the rules for the game of go. If you make a new simulation for a new type of game, you are merely imposing a new set of rules.
Training is a waste of time when you know exactly what you want to block.
Not to mention olivetti mode[0] in Emacs.

[0]: https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti
> Jacobin

> Why Do We Even Need Private _____
people treat facebook as if it were like their myspace, something dumb they did in their youth that's not longer relevant and is dying

reality is pretty different, fb business is doing great despite all their missteps
Notion's editor is great for this, publishing not so much
A private blockchain still is distributed across many servers. Key difference is an immutable record of what happened.
I'm reading it totally differently. I've been giving an interview in a similar vein, and for years have been an outspoken opponent of leetcode for exactly what this interviewer is explaining.

We have a proper domain-specific programming test in the later stages of our pipeline, so my phone screen is a smoke test I expect most devs to complete in 10 minutes (we give the full 30 just in case).

We talk through a simple word problem, and at no point do I even require it to compile because I understand that not having your coding development environment choice can throw you off. At most if I spot an obvious syntax error I'll nudge to make sure they spot it and move on.

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Yet the feedback I get is extremely bi-modal: People who write code for a living love it. They had mentally prepped for inverting binary trees while some CS-guru stares them down over Zoom, so having a collaborative problem that takes the same mental process your day to day does is great for them.

But for people who have hyper-optimized for leetcode, it's like their brains shut down. Simple problems they should be able to solve with basic control flow suddenly become these insurmountable wall because they can't pattern match against something they memorized.
This criticism feels fairly ironic, since the first guideline at lawsofux.com is the “Aesthetic–Usability Effect: “Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable” (https://lawsofux.com/aesthetic-usability-effect/).
I think this era of thinking is over.

People judge apps by how they look more than how they work.

If it looks professional and good looking they give it more credit and chances than it deserves. If UX is good but looks are not airbnb/apple wannabe they tend to distrust it.
Anyone can submit these.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-omar-ipv10/
Google’s core businesses are doing just fine too.

Twitter has suffered financially but I’ve seen little evidence that they’ve lost substantial numbers of users — Twitter posts are still in news articles and sites like HN as if it’s still serving it’s original purpose despite the noise.
I know, did I say otherwise anywhere?
Because the Federal Reserve has done such a bang up job.
As the sibling comment mentioned, you don’t need to demodulate first, because that is actually what the sampling process of your ADC does.

You can think of it as multiplying the original signal by a comb (in the time domain) of delta functions, which folds everything (in the frequency domain) back into the nyquist frequency of your ADC. Each delta function corresponds to one sample. If your original signal was truly band-limited to 100MHz, then what comes out is a replica of the band limited signal.

One catch (which is actually fairly easy to do in practice) is that the sampling window needs to correspond to around 1/f of the carrier frequency. This is what YakBizzaro is talking about (ADC analog bandwidth) in their sibling post.
Design like most words has a definition that’s generic so it can be applied as needed. There is no immutable rule when to use it.

The cone of shame my dog has right now “looks cool”; very sleek and streamline for a disposable thing, the designer surely was paid a premium, but the fasteners mechanics were poorly designed; vet tech said even she struggles with them and she puts them on dogs all week.

Design is how it looks and works as “designers” come up with both. The whole idea we can just put our foot down regarding definitions is not at all how reality works since nothing works on divine mandate. It’s relative.
I am not familiar with that work.

> where small enough subsets can be chosen and disparate workers broadcast the small changes at small enough intervals that the net gain in learnings is still larger than the loss in fit due to de-cohesion

I think this really probably depends on the terrain of your loss landscape. My intuition is that many are too spike-y and if you take a step or two in each of your subsets and then average them, you will end up on a steep hill rather than a valley between your two points.

But this is an active area of research for sure.
> However, digital synthesis does not require this sort of conception at all, and can be constructed without any summing of a harmonic series.

Yes, but you also cannot just make something that goes from -1 to 1 and then wraps back to -1 again, in a discrete-time (sampled) world.

You will get aliasing, because at some point your harmonic series will have partials that are noticeably large and exceed the Nyquist frequency, which will fold back into the output signal's spectrum. And, wouldn't you know it, except for a few very precise frequencies, those aliases will be inharmonic as all hell.

Here's an example (headphone warning - excessively loud) from a daft idea I had to implement a "virtual analogue" synth on an Arduino. Yes, one of the 8-bit ones, that can't do arithmetic.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ErroneousBosh/slttblep/mas...

The first sweep is generated with bandlimiting disabled, and you can hear the "swoopy" noises as the aliases slide up and down. The second sweep has some bandlimiting applied by "bending" the points where the signal resets to roughly correspond to a weighted sinc filter, eliminating (most of) the partials above Nyquist.

It uses 16-bit arithmetic on 8-bit lookup tables, and is output through an 8-bit PWM abused as a DAC, so it's not super clean, but it is at least not grossly incorrect.

You cannot filter the synthesized partials that go past Nyquist out after the signal has been generated, because the damage has been done.
There is no discharge of a round with a misfire, at least US terminology, misfiring is synonymous with failure to fire, it happens when the hammer / firing pin is released but the primer is not ignited. There is a stigma around unintentional discharges for a good reason, because it is almost always a _negligent_ discharge and not an _accidental_ discharge, if someone NDs I do not want them around me and a firearm.
The PSVR2 has persistence problems due to the pancake lenses taking up too much light. Basically the strobing can't be short enough (to not induce smear) because that would dim the picture too much. It makes everyone sick.

The top of the line is still Quest 2, the display (120Hz) and fresnel lenses are better than most more expensive alternatives.

And with DAS FrankenQuest you have comfort.

Unfortunately Echo VR (the ONLY native game) closes in August!

I do not expect the Quest 3 to deliver much benefit over the 2. Maybe the Quest 3 lite they are talking about.

Surprisingly the Quest 2 is still DDR4 and has the same GFLOP as a 1030.
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I'm somebody who usually finds himself defending Stallman, so please let me gently nudge you to read at least the trivially discoverable criticism of him before making the assumption you're making.
Surprisingly Youtube did have that functionality, though it was removed quite a while ago. I specifically remembering being able to subscribe to "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?" (in the late '2000s time range), without also subscribing to the other videos on the channel.
ON ERROR GOTO NEXT, 2023 edition
Apparently GPT-4 can't handle "all this talk about only getting explicit meaning across would be easily dispelled in an afternoon if you only bothered to try.", which isn't simple as "Ace Attorney" but I'd think it's still a small stretch to say "everything he says is just plain wrong".
Garry Tan - current president & CEO of YC is very active politically in trying to course correct SF (as is PG from afar)

He retweeted this on the matter of Whole Foods ->

https://twitter.com/mattdorsey/status/1645547717714915328

(1) https://twitter.com/garrytan

(2) https://twitter.com/paulg
I'd like to know more about the chip designer who, perhaps unwittingly, created the alarm-filled soundscape of most American cities https://youtu.be/tmCnleSBAIg. Would love to know more about the composition process that went into it.
you could use mechanical turk for 10k tasks per day
But if we look at the "mainstream" usage, like English-language thought leaders, they are still there, still posting regularly. Like for example in the AI field, all relevant people are on twitter.
I’m about as evasive as possible when people seem to be transitioning to asking that question. It doesn’t come from a place of genuine interest but from status negotiation. The interlocutor is trying to sort out relative status.
It's odd how vilified Holmes has become, and how gleeful people--even in these comments--are at her lengthy prison sentence for a nonviolent crime.

She faked it until she (didn't) make it--a strategy praised in other startup narratives. Most of that faking involved secretly running blood tests on traditional test equipment instead of her in-development devices.

I believe there were a handful of tests done on their development devices that returned questionable results for actual patients, which I'm hoping is where all the angry people are focused. But to that point, how accurate and responsible are traditional testing facilities? I personally have had my bloodwork mixed up with someone else's, causing quite a lot of anxiety and extra work from me to sort out.

There are countless instances of labs forging results[0][1], making mistakes[2], and issues with equipment[3] (citations are just the most easily at hand).

Some of the stories cited resulted in criminal convictions, like 3 years for someone who faked thousands of drug-test results leading to false convictions. Compared to what Holmes did, it's hard to see how 11 years (and our society's complete fascination and vilification of her) is appropriate.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epic-drug-lab-scandal-r...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/13/scath...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-63795285

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn
That HN artcile is "[flagged]". Reading the comments I think it's because there is no analysis of what "UkraineCrisisTopic" actually means or does? Author seems to just grep code base for "Ukraine" then draw what conclusion fits narrative.
I think it’s quite likely that the RAM onboard these devices expands pretty massively, pretty quickly as a direct result of LLMs.

Google had already done some very convincing demos in the last few years well before ChatGPT and GPT-4 captured the popular imagination. Microsoft’s OpenAI deal I would assume will lead to a “Cortana 2.0” (obviously rebranded, probably “Bing for Windows”, “Windows Copilot” or something similar). Google Assistant has been far ahead of Siri for many years longer than that, and they have extensive experience with LLMs. Apple surely realises the position their platforms are in and the risk of being left behind.

I’m also not sure the barrier on iPhone is as great as you suggest - it’s obviously constrained in terms of what it can support now but if the RAM on the device doubles a few times over the next few years I can see this being less of an issue. Multiple models (like the Alpaca sets) could be used for devices with different RAM/performance profiles and this could be sold as another metric to upgrade (i.e. iPhone 16 runs Siri-2.0-7b while iPhone 17 runs Siri-2.0-30b - “More than 3x smarter than iPhone 16. The smartest iPhone we’ve ever made.” etc).
From what I could tell the sweet spot for HTMX would be much more targeted at adding some JS magic to an existing backend server based web app (i.e. Django, Flask, Rails) where the developer primarily is a Python/Ruby, HTML/DOM and database expert and doesn't want to get bogged down into supporting a full fledged frontend like React, Angular, etc. to add some UX flair to their mostly CRUD based app.

Native apps (i.e. iOS, Android, MacOS) purely in HTMX is probably not its sweet spot. Probably Electron (or Godot) would be better.
The most surprising thing, someone worked out how to tilemap all the Modern Interior walls properly.
Yeah but that doesn’t mean anything. Kodak saw a train coming, did a study that told them that they had to do something, but then sat on the tracks.

Fuji, who was also big in the chemical film business, came out just fine.
>Expand where?

Think of the ocean bed as a trampoline. Obviously much more rigid, but that's the image in my head.

>It can't go down because there is already other stuff there.

Why not? Rocks and sand can be compressed with sufficient pressure.
With this and what happened with Bob Lee, what is going on with San Francisco? Cops not doing their jobs? DA's not prosecuting criminals? Couldn't Whole Foods hire armed security to dissuade theft?
Is your assertion that I'm using it in bad faith?
> LLMs use reinforcement learning
> LLMs go even further where they train a model to judge what people would deem to be high quality, so it's another layer

You're describing RLHF (Reinforcement learning with Human Feedback) used by ChatGPT, right.

I wouldn't say that LLMs use it, but RLHF is used to create a higher level model on top of a LLM.
> It particularly interested me that Twitter under Musk is trying NOT to discuss Ukraine, and PENALIZES people who attempt to interact with those outside of their general political circle.

While Musk's Twitter explicitly censors references to Russia's genocide of Ukraine, Musk himself feigns ignorance and false indignation accusing the "western press" of insisting "on pushing such a lopsided view of the conflict".

https://twitter.com/VsimPohuy/status/1645699649003569152?t=v...
Hate is just confused admiration
In my communities most people are double posting on mastodon and twitter. So much so that I only check twitter every few days for the stragglers.
Use fewer borders.
Borders are a great way to distinguish two elements from one another, but using too many of them can make your design feel busy and cluttered.
Instead, try adding a box shadow, using contrasting background colors, or simply adding more space between elements.

Everything I hate in UI right from the start. To the point that I have to re-add #0004 borders in settings.json - workbenchColorCustomizations to make it look decently delineated instead of looking like one muddy blob. Most real world objects have distinguishable 3d borders and we are trained to detect and follow them. I know your designer soul doesn’t like it, but deal with it please. Use a normal amount of borders.
Yeah, but generally that was on a channel by channel basis.
more deets?

I want to use Postgres for JSON, I know it has specific functionality for that.

But still, what do you mean by that and does it apply to JSON why or why not?
In situations where you don't need the archival to be at "perfect reproduction" quality (including things like broadcast archives or recordings of voice comms) you can get by with a 12kHz maximum frequency without losing the essentials (especially clarity of voices). Many adults can't hear much past 12kHz anyway and most music and voice content doesn't have content past 10khz. You don't lose much, but you save half your file size by x2 downsampling.