skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the concern and think it can even be broadened. Generative AI also threatens the pay and livelihood of graphic designers, artists, journalists, copywriters -- people who tend to be far more poorly paid than tech workers already. This application of generative AI to code-writing is really just automation coming home to roost. The question is, why should software engineers represent some special protected class from the dangers of automation?

I guess my point is there has to be some consistent standard here. Software engineers have no greater claim to their public-facing work than writers and artists, and are paid far more. If there's an argument to exclude open-source code from training sets there should also be an argument to exclude essays and journalism, digital drawings, and music from such training sets.
If the company went through the approval chain and got everyone to sign off on you being worth $comp + $relo, and you're value isn't effected by not choosing to $relo (because, in this case, you're already there), it should be pretty trivial to get everyone to approve a change to call that $comp + $signing_bonus since everyone involved already agreed to spend that portion of their budget on you. The case this doesn't apply is if their assessment of your value changes because they no longer trust you as much -- which does hint at an underlying rule of "even during a negotiation, don't be a dick" -- but the failure risk here is that you're providing symmetric access to the information that you're an asshole they might not want to work with, not that you asked for the compensation to be categorized differently.

So, yeah, I definitely have never solicited a bonus buyout and then done a bait-and-switch. But I've never actually solicited a bonus buyout -- I negotiate in terms of compensation I receive, not labels on it. I've had companies offer me bonus buyouts before, sometimes quite significant, and I've always taken that as a direct indication of their assessment of my value, not as something specific to the time of year.
good looks on the link! I was experimenting with script writing the other day and thought "gee, I really wish I could finetune on Beckett plays specifically".

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this same tipping point, but when I used to have ideas, I would look them up and discover that implementing them was probably out of scope. These days, I think "wouldn't it be cool..." and immediately stumble on a way to make it happen, by accident.
Maybe. Could also be Linux guests running under z/VM. z/VM itself might be running in an LPAR.
Why do Lyft and Uber incur so much costs when they operate on a global scale? Forget global, let's take just the US, if Uber is the default ride app across the US, the cost to create the app, run the service should reduce drastically over time. It's been more than 10yrs and by now they should be doing really well. Same for Lyft. But from everything I hear, they are not. Am I wrong?
Surely they're trying to squeeze customers for tips because the base pay just isn't satisfactory, right?
Yup, the TPUv4 pod is highly optimized

They are claiming to be the first to achieve >50% saturation during training. Pretty sure I recall Midjourney is using TPUv4 pods too

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g...

https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/system-architecture-tpu-vm
The coming war? It's been a protracted war since the 1980's. The NSA and the FBI have been hazing, threatening, infiltrating, and backdooring end-to-end encryption since the early days of PGP.
Where do you get that stat? It's interesting because I think I read that (uber 70, lyft 30) in 2018 when Uber was in deep trouble. After 5 years, Lyft can't do better than that?
'Devastating' melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found
Are there any cheap big-endian cloud VMs available?
Almost no one is banning existing ICE vehicles on the road; just sales of new ICE models.
I suspect that it is the other way around and the Finder and standard dialogs (both of which use slashes as path separator when you type the path) simply shows colons in filenames as slashes.
This processor is terrible for servers because of the asymmetric design.
I don't think this contradicts what I'm saying. This is happening now. Not 15 years ago.
There's this idea that someone shouldn't run against an incumbent. It goes against both parties. The boomer generation was a large group, they often see the world in a more common way (that world of the 50s and early 60s?), they still want to see themselves as being in power, even as they are all getting close to age 80 (made a typo here originally, I put 60 instead of 80). They don't want to give up. That's why these elderly politicians stay in power.
Not anymore.

CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35649935
> Can anyone seriously imagine a 'digital first strike' without AGI?

I don't think you need strong AI to massively enhance suites of hacking tools, design misinformation campaigns that root out and target specific individuals, etc. all with the ultimate goal of disrupting your adversary's nuclear command & control structures just long enough to launch an actual first strike?

Unlikely? Sure.

Possible? Why not, with enough compute?
Yes, there are tradeoffs with all of these. We can easily get one or some good looking stats, but to get good results with all of these parameters is the real challenge.

The claims about new battery chemistry are rarely farfetched or inaccurate, but we as a society (and especially the reporters) don't do a good job of interpreting the claims, focusing on one promising sounding parameter and neglecting all others.

The manufacturers are also not helping by omitting this sort of critically important information that you have highlighted (lying by omission).
Allistic seems pretty useful here actually (first time encountering the word). “Normal” doesn’t describe along which dimension the person is typical. Allistic specifies the relevant one.
There is 0 need for a large development team for Lyft or Uber once the core tech is built out. In fact its a liability at that point

The marginal cost to provide a ride is all that matters to their business in the end. Any meaningful improvements to this via software has likely already been achieved
One of these tripped me up, the "Disallowed Names" section has a bunch of not-too-wordlike names, except one.

When I made carefulwords.com, which I made because I wanted a thesaurus where you could just write eg https://carefulwords.com/book for "book" and get the results, I found out the hard way that you cannot make a file named "con" on Windows. Or "con.html", or any file extension. You can try to force this, make it via a script, but then programs like Git will hang when they come across it. So in my thesaurus the actual page is /con-word.html and I just have it rewrite to /con
https://archive.is/NtJ8u
The police have confirmed that they were at the location but there are no further details. Could be anything.
This doesn't seem correct to me. I've been in the industry coming up on 20 years, and I've never seen a company send someone home after putting in notice of resignation. Perhaps it happened and I didn't know about it, I can't rule that out, but I know that the majority of cases have not worked this way.

It's difficult to imagine why they would do this, since it would remove all the cushion that 2+ week period would provide the company for getting projects closed and documented, and bringing new people on to take over the employee's projects. It turns an unfortunate situation into an immediate crisis.

I have seen (recently) a company say "please, we are begging you not to resign, would you like to take a sabbatical and we can talk about it when you're back?"
I just use the dictionary definition, it makes things easier:

"Malice definition, desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness"

The examples I've seen check all the boxes. They don't even see end users of these services as people, just as a potential source of revenues.
Playing? Actually enjoying their childhoods?
That's 20. 1/5 of all senators.
PgOSM Flex for Production OpenStreetMap Data
Certainly "for a few good years."
The Myth of the Fast Learner
And you know, the boomers felt exactly the same about the generation they were replacing. At least some things don't change.
I imagine the ideal market for this product is diabetic children; both the finger pricks and CGM need to break the skin, while this is the equivalent of picking your nose kinds of easy. Even assuming it's only 50% as accurate as other methods, the ease of use in an otherwise difficult situation is valuable.
It's possible for the deserialization library to know the type from the payload itself, but of course it has to "happen" to coincide with what's being cast to. You don't need to pass the Class object at all.
Drago Anguelov: Waymo and Autonomous Vehicles
Thanks for pointing that out. I actually didn't know that bit of history.
On the day I give notice, there is a bit if a shock and a "what are we gonna do now?" attitude. On the second day, word has got around and everyone wants to know where you're going, etc. On the third day, i brief whoever will take over my job. On the fourth day I am no longer invited to meetings or really have anything to do for the next several days until I leave.

In practice, even two weeks is more than enough for your role to be taken over by someone. I really see little value in giving more notice that that for either the employer or employee.
Ahoy's channel is amazing. If you haven't delved into Iconic Arms and all the Retro videos, man, you're in for a treat.
> Even if electric cars would be cheaper, faster and longer running - some people would rather die, than give up their ICE cars and motorcycles.

Well lets stop calling this the reason for unbanning until EVs get cheaper, faster and longer running.

I mean, sure, some people are like that, but we won't know how many there are until EVs are cheaper, faster and longer running. Painting the opposition to ICE bans as "they will argue the same even when EVs are cheaper, faster and longer running" is irrational.
By accepting their framing of "CSAM vs personal privacy" as the moral conundrum, you have already lost. You will be forced to compromise over and over, trading a little liberty for a little security, "for the children."

As if the "intelligence community" that ran Jeffrey Epstein is going to use their shiny new surveillance powers to eradicate pedophilia.
Nobody's talking about giving up, they're talking about whether an organization is effective in its existing form (unsure).

E.g., I stopped giving money to Mozilla because I was dissatisfied by where that money was going, what it wasn't being spent on, what it was being spent on instead, and how ineffective they were.

Great that Rossmann got results, but is the methodology that the EFF is using the same as what Rossmann has used? Is it even an appropriate comparison when one is a threat from government, and the other is a matter of anti-consumer ethics with corps?
Ask HN: Able to code fluently a special trait?
I did competitive programming and being able to write extremly complex algorithm after studied 1 week for Python.

Then I started to write a 4000 lines of program for a personal project because I didn't know a shit about hashmap/function/class/importing/library. Using an extremely limited subset of the language still deliver the stuff. Cos I only know looping in that time, I can comprehend 6 layers of heterogeneous for loops, each layer doing different thing.

I can lay out the structure of code (100lines) in my head then write them out.

I can translate everything I want to do in code.

But then I meet other people in university labs, I find that people actually struggle in coding, even in top tier university's CS department.

How do you guys code?
Wyden is great, he's my model of what I'd like to work on if I was lucky enough to be a politician.
It's the main problem, as far as I can tell. I guess charging / "pump" time is an issue for cross-country road trips, but my personal needs would be entirely met by home charging.
Really short answer: They want back doors to all this stuff, including your cc info. As long as only the "good guys have" this ability, what could go wrong?
Yes! I remember reading a long blog post or something about this very thing a few years ago, with photographs. The difference between a CRT and an LCD was amazing. Sadly, I couldn't find that post (and I did search...)
I contend it's a perfect analogy. Entity A decided to try thing to get things back from Entity B.

Entity A did not think the plan through nearly well enough to possibly conclude that the action was unwise, attempted it anyway, and it went real bad real fast.
GPT being used by candidates is not a problem, it doesn't need fixing. Candidates are only defending themselves from a garbage pseudo-scientific, long, and needlessly excruciating recruiting process. Now, THAT needs to be fixed.
That’s interesting because we’ve all had the same two decades to learn new things

and I know many people her age that have

there’s people that make excuses for it and there’s people that don’t. I don’t buy “brain plasticity”, my observation is that it comes down to who your peers are, what social consequences you have
This is such bad advice. My last career move I 2Xed my income. This guy is advising me to lose thousands of dollars so I can be more well liked at my previous company and stick around for longer? Cmon.
That's likely to be due to the NTFS file system. Another piece of legacy Windows drags along
That page literally hurts my eyes. You may want to rethink the visual design.
> I've generally given a lot of notice as an IC, 2-3 months in some cases. and I have to say, I think it's not been appreciated, not even once.

I personally think it's the right thing to do, not for the company, but for your colleagues. If staying longer can help your colleagues to take over your stuff, some will be grateful and will remember it if your paths cross again.
Why is the "bar" for hiring designed around code puzzles(leetcode). Maybe that is not a good signal for hiring at all. You are optimizing for people who just grind away at these silly puzzles vs. having domain experts who have both depth and breadth across a technology stack. I have worked with many a engineer who aced these exercises who imho was entirely unfit for working at a large tech company, their communication was absolutely terrible, and their thinking was quite flawed from a variety of perspectives when it came to systems design and operational rigor. I think we will look back on this time and think what a mistake it was to optimize for employees who were good at solving leetcode.
I think you can say the same thing about California. Your mistake is conflating "Silicon Valley's interests" with "wealthy California interests". I imagine it is also true that Kentucky does not have one monolithic base of wealthy or elite agendas.

I think it is more accurate to say that both of them have transitioned into iconic status. The political/marketing machinations have lofted their identities so high that it barely matters that they are humans at all. They are brands. There is also the basic senate rules mentioned elsewhere, which institutionalize seniority.

Look at the list of longest serving US senators and ask yourself if Feinstein is really an anomaly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_United_...

Edit to add: remember when we used to have this conversation about Strom Thurmond or Robert Byrd? It's idiomatic.
That's the other Eid,[1] which is related to the islamic pilgrim which occurs in Mecca mainly

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha
Github had DAYS of an outage because they unsuccessfully tried to scale out SQL rather than dealing with NoSql.

There are very few things that structured NoSql can't do if you ignore reporting. Once you scale out traditional SQL, you aren't going to be using it for reporting either way though.
Well, HTTPS is not end-to-end. That latter term is reserved for encryption that encrypts the messages between clients so servers can’t parse them.

When you have a centralized system like ICANN DNS, the governments know which IP addresses the domain points to. They can go and serve them National Security Letters or shake them down to install secret backdoors.

WhatsApp and Facebook can lie to you that they’re end-to-end encrypted. There is nothing stopping them from shipping custom updates. In facg they’ve been caught red-handed spying on both your video and audio. The only way you can be SURE an app isnt lying to you is with open source software, then you only have to trust the OS and browser (the Trusted Computing Base).

(That is why I am a big fan of blockchain-based smart contaracts. But blockchains are slow, so the next best thing is hosting your business logic using open source software on servers you control.)

Why do so many people trust Big Tech? Simple. We have no other choice!

Where are the VIABLE AND USER FRIENDLY open source alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, Telegram backends?

No one seems to have built anything better or more efficient than, say, Mastodon.

Except us. It was a labor of love and cost me a million dollars to date: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

PS: If you play with it for a afternoon, post your experience or email me. I would be thrilled to hear about your experience, good or bad. And of course use it for anything you want.

I would be very happy to be proven wrong and see some more competitors being mentioned here, but if you do, make an honest assessment of how they compare! People need alternatives to the closed walled gardens, but having all these features working and up-to-date with browser tech is extremely hard: https://qbix.com/features.pdf
Unless it's ranked choice doesnt it still fall to the "least bad" fallacy? Like, people aren't sure that everyone else is going to vote the democrat they want and are afraid if they don't vote for the most likely, then they'll dilute the vote to the point that none of their chosen party wins?

I mean, sure, if the democratic vote was a monolith that was capable of making a single choice or even knowing what its own choices would be we could say that it must be this way because people want it like this. Rather than it being yet another consequence of antiquated voting systems incrementally improving while claiming all the hard work is already done
Not necessarily:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
There are even more "strange" cases, JFYI:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/131103-win_nt~bt-can-be-omitted...
Driven By Compression Progress (2008)
what is your time horizon? not commercialized today == bullshit?

i like these sorts of stories because they have prepared me a bit for some of amazing technology changes i have seen over past decades. by the time i can by an iphone i was at least expecting it. when email hacking stories started appearing in politics, i already knew the details. the first time i bought an electric car was not the first time i had thought about the issues of range and charge speed and so on.

surely not everything that looks promising becomes popular, but that is also useful information, to me, a person whose job is building/helping to build novel systems.
This has actually changed in Windows 11. You can use "con.html" without fear. "con" is still a bit of a problem. ".\con" will work but not a bare "con".
Yeah, lots of negativity here but I think its nice someone can get paid for their work on a foss project.
It’s cool, but it needs Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong, among many others mentioned here.
> I think the reasoning behind not having an age cap in Congress is that if the people want to elect someone who is old, they should be able to do so.

If that were true, why aren't we allowed to elect someone younger than 30?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy_laws_in_the_U...

"United States Senator:

Minimum age: 30"
The problem is last time her opponent wasn't reputable enough to be a good counterweight. I wish Katy Porter had run and replaced her. I think she was barely in politics then.
> and refused to pay out my 3 weeks of unused vacation

That is overtly illegal in most/all of the US. Accrued vacation is like money, it is already yours. It's why so many companies have now switched to unlimited vacation, to get that liability off the books. The icing on the cake being that most people end up taking less vacation, not more, when you remove the limit.
Please make your substantive points without calling names.

No one is saying you owe your least favorite senators better, but you owe the community better if you're posting here.

I can't link to the guidelines because I'm on my phone - but this is in there!
Will a company give you notice when they fire you? Especially if it's a toxic company? No.

You don't reciprocate (as long as you're okay with burning some bridges - which should be fine with above criteria).
Farmers already keep tanks around to refuel at home. As do several of the other niches that I see as more likely to keep a gasoline car. If you live in the city you won't have a place to store fuel - but also won't need to since an EV is more likely to meet your needs.
I guess you're right, I'm being too loose. I should say, I expect google to at least give some consideration to the quality of the source it considers when ranking results and giving me an answer, and for queries about pop culture stuff or news something it can access wolfram for, who am I trusting more there? Google? Or the sources it pulls from? I agree it's not magic but to waive liability of consideration for search results off under the guise of "don't trust a google search" seems reckless?
Exactly. Slashed tires and/or keyed paint. Hopefully they won't come back to exact bodily harm.
Instagram's Rumored New App 'Barcelona' Aims to Take on Twitter
You're right, and it's not just a minor pet peeve. It's a major error that recurs throughout the article and it destroys the credibility of the website and reporter.

They even refer to "energy intensity", which as far as I am concerned doesn't refer to anything.
I think it would be much more likely that a startup comes along and makes the transaction tracking efficient, like with a trusted payment app, than finding some way around Orwellian government motives.
Sufficiently advanced satire? Or genuine proposal? Either way, I like it.
> Mm not sure that bound applies because neurons are neither of fixed size nor fixed energy

Neurons are not of unbounded size nor energy.
Not a new problem. Powerful people and groups always have an interest in controlling narratives. They have also made effort to do so, and they always will.
Like any skill, you will find a spectrum of natural talent. For sports, only a few get to do it paid. In most professions, the best pull an order of magnitude better salaries.

With programming, probably less so. You will need interpersonal skills to be successful in a career. It's a good time to check the ego and develop the non-technical skills.

Another point, having taught first year programming, students learn at very different rates. Some excelled early with the easy stuff but had trouble making the transition to more complicated. Others struggled and then one day it just clicked for them. One in particular was struggling the whole way through, but came to office hours every day. By the end they were a top student. Effort to develop the skill of coding can pay off.
That's my point, a drone operator in a trailer in nevada will never be in those situations. Health risk and appearance are a different topic but body fat does not automatically mean unhealthy.