skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Seattle, WA, USA (citizen)
Remote: Yes, West coast or central time zone preferred.
Willing to relocate: Possibly, but it depends. Please enquire.
Technologies:
- C, C++, C#, Ruby, Javascript, Java, Python
- React, Ruby on Rails, AWS (Lambda, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, etc...), .NET
Résumé/CV: PDF available upon request, summary on https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-m-8320755b/
Email: curtmccoy at gmail
Work History (9 years):
- Amazon (2017 - 2022)
- Nintendo Technology Development (2013 - 2017)
Education:
- DigiPen Institute of Technology (2009 - 2013) (BS in CS in Real Time Interactive Simulation)

Hello! I left Amazon late last year looking to take a break before getting back into things, only to be interrupted by mass layoffs - oops! I'm looking for the next step in my career as a software developer, and would like to find a role either in web development (with a focus on back-end services), embedded systems, game development, or something similar.
Hmm. How many layoffs have they done, again?
Build support in general isn't great. The way external objects are linked is a bit hinky, cross compilation support is poor, and running multiple instances of the compiler at the same time on the same machine isn't supported.
I’m honestly more interested in jRuby at this point. I think the coming combination of jRuby with fibers is going to become extremely compelling based on the early numbers that Charles Nutter was seeing. This is approaching BEAM levels of concurrency.

https://twitter.com/headius/status/1653051050285203456?s=46&...
I'm unclear how that would lead to undefined behavior on stack overflow. Stack overflow on Rust is specified to immediately abort the entire process (with some aforementioned wrinkles as to how achievable that is on certain targets), which necessarily nukes all TLS.

The fact that the linked issue isn't tagged with "I-unsound" suggests that nobody has ever indicated that that might somehow be a soundness issue. If you think otherwise, I encourage you to bring it up so that any soundness issue can be properly tracked.
I'm not here to have a Death of the Author debate. Aristotle said the mark of an educated mind is the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I just thought the parallel was particularly insidious in the context of AI.
> Iowa is mostly a rural state

Iowa isn't mostly a rural state (though I'm sure plenty of Iowans think that way). It's approaching 65-70% urban - not even close to being in the top 10 most rural states in the US.

What is really surprising it that the small towns all over Iowa have excellent urban form. Suburban sprawl is mostly limited to Des Moines, with a little bit in Council Bluffs (part of the Omaha metro area).

Check out the US Census urban area map and notice how many urban areas there are in Iowa (If a city is represented with a dot, it is an urban area of fewer than 10,000 people):

https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/UA20/UA_2020_WallMap...
Ask HN: Recommended blog posts on data engineering at scale?
hehe thanks!!
AI Is About to Make Social Media (Much) More Toxic
It might be my imagination, but it seems like the team over there has some smart people but they happened to hit the ML lottery at the right time, really don't have a clue about business, and now they have to scramble to top what they did before. Brockman and a few of the ML researchers are definitely good at what they do. I don't see the company itself really turning into something profitable when faced with sustained competition.
> Why would those areas be overcrowded instead of just appropriately dense? The suburbs, for example, are under crowded and that's a huge problem.

Why is that such a problem though. As suburbs become denser, exurbs form. There is always going to be a huge chunk of the population that don’t want density but also don’t want rural life and since there is demand, the market will create supply especially since it is usually cheaper and easier to build on empty fields than in a dense area.
If you know little about prompt engineering and want to throw together a demo of something that kind of works extremely quickly, or experiment with an LLM agent exactly as it's defined in some paper, LangChain is pretty useful.

If you want to develop a real LLM application, you're probably better off skipping the library completely, or at least fully understand each abstraction to make sure it does everything you want before you decide you want to incorporate it.
I find the notion donating to your alma mater kind of odd.
You don't donate money to the local McDonald's that made a burger for you do you?
I mean, you could but that's not something that's regularly done.

The service was provided and paid for and now there's some expectation to give more money after the fact?
>Hinton: The reason I’m not that optimistic is that I don’t know any examples of more intelligent things being controlled by less intelligent things.

He worked at Google, right? Does he think he was smarter than his bosses? If not, then he has his example.
> At best, administrations from the past may be somewhat credited to foster an environment favorable for something like this to happen.

That is exactly what they did and lots of politicians tried to prevent it.

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

We need something similar in the EU... and we definitely need less France in the EU.
That's like saying you have to reimplement assembly arithmetic, you can just use the Calculator app to do so.

Bad websites are the results of bad developers, not the tool. You can have your history messed up by any kind of website.
This blog post doesn't look like a valid show hn[0]; "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with", the first example of off topic is a blog post

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Sounds like your context window is too short.
I bought a P765 tower last week for EUR 90 (incl shipping) off a German eBay listing (commercial, so I can even deduct VAT). Not sure about other parts of the world, sorry!
Yup, thanks! Need to get to that.
It's these kinds of unprimed expressions of authentic astonishment that can mark off the entrance to new cultural territory in tech. They don't always accompany quantum leaps, but whenever you do hear such noises, you can be sure something big has happened.

I heard such sounds only a few times in my life:
- When the internet entered my brain, life, and social circles in the early mid 90s
- When the iPhone landed
- When ChatGPT tore a hole in the sky just a few months ago
In the US this varies widely by state, My state requires non-married fathers to take additional legal action in signing an additional document declaring parentage before they are allowed on a birth certificate in the first place.
A non-trivial amount of folks have died from the pandemic or have some degree of long covid as well.

Meanwhile, large conglomerates use the supply chain scares to arbitrarily raise prices causing real inflation.

At some point, the BS required to do an entry-level / retail job isn't worth it (min wage doesn't pay enough these days), or you're simply incapable of doing what you could before.
COTS began under W.
This is precisely what I do and it's great. Built myself a workstation desktop last year that I wanted to access remotely via an older laptop and it's worked beautifully, even when I was out in Europe for a week last summer.
> Our lives are still tied to our corporate overlords, and very few have the luxury to pack up and get away from the grind.

then find ways to change that. it's painfully clear your incentives -- and those of society on the whole, honestly -- don't align with theirs.

push for some changes, or watch as each generation gets poorer and poorer.
My computer use is heavily keyboard-driven. I don’t find it common to encounter things that are broken. Problems, sure (e.g. airlines’ date and airport selection dropdowns are pretty consistently poor, normally breaking basic usability stuff like “if I type MEL and then press Tab, I selected Melbourne, I didn’t throw away what I typed”; and improper killing of focus indicators is still stupidly common), but seriously with no extra or special software installed for the purpose, having no mouse would only slow me down in some places, without ruining anything for me.
Point your RSS reader at https://hnrss.org/, namely https://hnrss.org/replies?id=redonkulus
LORA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
They've attempted to serve Page via conventional methods, have been unable to physically locate him, and are now requesting the power to serve him via "alternative means." That seems substantive to me.
Yep.

The tax brackets mostly eliminate the "marriage penalty", though there are some true edge cases that might make filing separately better. Generally speaking, most married couples do the same or better by filing together.
Some smaller bands used this to record audio in 90s home studios because it was really cost effective. I believe Fektion Fekler [1] used this for their album From Here To Heaven.

[1] https://www.discogs.com/artist/53935-Fektion-Fekler
Still not buying crypto.
Out of curiosity, have you used hyperview? Do you consider it production ready?
Exported food is eaten, not burned. Hunger won't stop at borders - it's how the war in Ukraine is making food everywhere more expensive.
Just enabled!
There are about as many billionaires in China as in the US.
Apple paying for your first aid certification (even paying more than it costs to get it) would seem reasonable; having the ability to have employees who are paid more for it would open them to amusing liability, I'd assume (imagine someone has an incident and nobody currently in the building is one of these power-employees, or one attempts first aid and something occurs).
Digital Twin for Paul Graham
Hi y'all. I've been working on this side project where I index content from famous people and expose it to ChatGPT. I just indexed all of PG's essays and made it available on Whatsapp. Let me know what you think, and who I should add next!

P.s. I know there are plenty of these out there. I just wanted a fun hackathon project.
ooooo oooo do me.

Northern VA: 22030

I've got 3 kids, so no bungalows, and nothing that's in the ghetto, cuz SE DC almost certainly has cheap real estate -- and the highest murder rates in the US.
I generally don't enjoy something being diminished on account of being "not really that novel".

Your comment essentially says - this is not a high quality submission because readers might not actually read it, which is no fault of the work, or submitter.
Why? They work just fine.
Thanks! The you might also enjoy my articles on sonnet.io as well as my page with doodles https://potato.horse
Who defines "thievery"? The RIAA? If I buy something, I expect full rights to it. Dead simple. I pay for the content, and then I pirate it because the distributer somehow invested millions of dollars (instead of distributing to authors, mind you) into making a less consumer friendly platform than piracy.

Not to mention, internet piracy is not thievery. The only thing in limited quantity is the silicon that enables it.

If piracy did not exist I would likely not buy these things in the first place, because the stupid restrictions mean I can't consume what I paid for. In that way, my hand is indeed forced.

Tell me, who is being cheated here?
From the google leaks paper:

'LoRA is an incredibly powerful technique we should probably be paying more attention to

LoRA works by representing model updates as low-rank factorizations, which reduces the size of the update matrices by a factor of up to several thousand. This allows model fine-tuning at a fraction of the cost and time. Being able to personalize a language model in a few hours on consumer hardware is a big deal, particularly for aspirations that involve incorporating new and diverse knowledge in near real-time. The fact that this technology exists is underexploited inside Google, even though it directly impacts some of our most ambitious projects.' [1]

[1] https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...
Kiwi browser, is Chromium without extensions disabled by Google
https://kiwibrowser.com/
Could the title of this submission be edited to prepend "Introducing", the actual title of the blog post?
A combined $400k is not remotely normal income.
The attacker doesn't have to compromise the backend to achieve XSS.

Suppose your website displays user-generated content (like HN posts). If the attacker finds a way to bypass encoding and instead injects JS, then without CSP, the attacker gets XSS at that point. With CSP, even if the attacker can get user-generated content to render as JS, the browser will refuse to execute it.

My understanding of htmx is that the browser would still refuse to execute standard JS, but the attacker can achieve XSS by injecting htmx attributes that are effectively arbitrary JS.
To-do list is sabotaging your true productivity. Here’s what to do instead
We're talking about the Patriot act... Not "everything that ever was wrong with the US"
In fairness, long before the age of apps, I didn't reach a 3rd-5th date with most of my prospective partners, either...
Thanks!
Yeah there's a selection of different voices and you can even clone your own. Length is really up to you, no restriction!
That's a different definition than 'out of the gate' covers to me. Besides that, from those days I mostly remember IE as the utility to download another browser after a fresh windows install, and the thing that it was nearly impossible to get rid of. Not through any merit of its own, in spite of many non-standards compliant websites that favored IE.
what do you mean by "dubious trend from certain elite circles"?
I know this is not what the article is about, but I read a lot of junk and Dean Koontz has been on my Do Not Read Not Matter How Enticing The Blurb list for decades after being burnt twice by terrible (and terribly long) novels.
retro doesn't attend itself, which is a big difference
It does. It's irritatingly stilted in exactly the same way as The Daily.
It seems like it definitely solves a problem, though, that of automatically expressing, summarizing, and refining ideas.

Those are interesting problems, though, like where it doesn't seem like it's a problem at first, but then you find the solution, and then you're like... holy moly, how did I ever manage? The hidden problems.
I'm more of a big picture guy when it comes to this crap. What's the general policy direction here.

<googles for forty five minutes>

OK, I get it. Higher mortality, that's at least consistent with the worldview. I do hope someone's planning to pay ladies dump trucks full of cash to pump out these little workers, because there's some bad news about single income households.

That's even assuming said ladies can convince earners to rent wombs for the dubious honor of chucking genetics into this fantastic new future that's being created.

Anyway, single income households. Huh! An article from the 1980s saying they're ALL subsidized in one way or the other! Look at that old-fashioned typesetting. Not sure how that took everyone by surprise! Oh wait, it didn't take anyone by surprise WHO ISN'T A GODDAMN <1990s MODEM SOUNDS FOR TEN SECONDS>
There is suing, and there is collecting. You may win in court but never see a penny, and that's assuming you can find someone to summon.

Might not even be worth the trouble.
So just use chatbot-ui
There is an issue with correlated vs uncorrelated risks. This is the reason that only the federal government can offer FDIC insurance for banks and disaster insurance in Florida. When banks fail, they tend to all fail at the same time and there is no insurer that could hold enough reserves to actually pay out if they all fail together. Private insurance can cover fire insurance for homes, but is unlikely to have enough in reserves to pay if a category 5 hurricane floods half the homes in Florida.
Any JSON parser that re-orders array contents is broken. Just like any JSON parser that reverses the letters of your strings is broken. For objects, you generally shouldn't rely on them being in any particular order when you iterate them. I believe perl intentionally randomizes the order to discourage you from relying on it whereas python and ruby now promise they'll be in insertion order.
Took me a bit thinking through it all, but I arrived at the same place as the author in the end - use the pattern matching system, and if the types don't match then the block you're dispatched to just raises an error. The rest is just finding a satisfying syntax.
For what it’s worth, I make drip coffee with a 120V kettle, and it boils plenty fast for my needs. A several hundred to thousand dollar electrical project seems overkill to save what I assume would be a few seconds to a minute per cup of coffee.
Pegasus didn't have much of a path towards bigger payloads, though.

(It's launched from underneath an airplane.)
Any Americans here had any luck/experience with whistling kettles?
>OP solved that by having a link in the top of the page that will skip to navigation.

Just tested that, and it doesn't skip to navigation. It scrolls down, but the next tab is still the links in the content.
but that is literally what I do, which is why I recommended it, I am in the same situation as the OP.
"it's the stuff dreams are made of"! also, flight of the navigator is an amazing movie https://archive.org/details/FlightOfTheNavigator1986
Combining Knowledge, 2 Scholars Are Deciphering a Long-Lost Native Language
Will a withdrawal make any difference in on the tactical or strategic level? If there already combat ineffective it may make a PR difference but is unlikely to make a difference on the ground. Don't listen to anyone who claims they know how this war will go and what major turning points are in real time.
Language is also about replication. Ideas have a lifecycle, they get born, spread, evolve and die, but it's a different cycle from that of humans. We act like fertile grounds for language. Up until now language could self replicate only by humans and copying. With the advent of LLMs language gained another vector for replication.
China: Anti-espionage law heightens risks for foreign firms
Kemal Kilicdaroglu: The soft-spoken reformer threatening Erdogan’s grip on power
The problem they're to solve is labor costs.
I am a little religious (deist and Quaker background) so it's easy for me to hand-wave away the origins of life as divine, but I often think about how life could have arisen completely randomly. This line:

> everybody in the world hitting the lottery number every day for a billion years. or something.

is something I totally agree with, but the amusing confounding factor is that if "time" is infinite, then this exact scenario would happen infinity times.

Whatever the origins of life are, I'm certainly glad to be here.
What gynocentric laws are you referring to?
First, just a high-level overview over how it would work as an app/consumer which is not terribly centralized outside of requiring browser support:

Passkeys are an open standard, and they basically are just public/private keys with a wrapper. When you create a credential which is just a call to `navigator.credentials.create` with options to indicate a PublicKeyCredential type and that it should be a client-side discoverable key and a user ID to associate with it (and some optional info). Its gives you back some meta-info and the public key to store.

For a login flow, similarly a call to `navigator.credentials.get` indicating you want one of those discoverable keys to be used and a challenge. The browser returns a signature to you along with the key info (that user ID from the creation) and you are responsible to verify the signature is appropriately signed.

---

So, on the actual crypto side, nothing about it requires any centralization, there is no required phoning home or to a remote source. On the creation/storage/retrieval side, the WebAuthn Authenticator Model is defined as part of the standard so anyone can implement it. I don't know enough about how you'd register as such an authenticator. Dashlane already supports passkeys, so it is possible for a third-party to do so, Bitwarden and 1Password are also working on it.

So my understanding would be that self-hosting is more just a matter of giving it time for others to implement the necessary components and not there being any restriction on who can do this.
I am just wondering if this is the normal meaning of "digital twin"? I saw that terminology used in some other contexts as a term of art, like where nvidia showed digital factories that are kept in sync with real factories. Is an AI model trained on something considered as that thing's digital twin now? It's OK with me if it's true, I'm just trying to keep up with what things are called.
Hmm, I haven't used an RSS reader in many years. Thanks for the tip though.
If you train on your own work, are you speeding up a creative process? Or more of a derivative process?

Will you become more of yourself yesterday than yourself tomorrow?
if I’m watching something for the emotional impact and experience - i.e. drama - then music is absolutely welcome. if I’m watching it because I want to learn about something and make my own opinions - i.e. documentaries - I can’t stand music as I feel like I’m being emotionally manipulated

then there are the absolute best dramas that do not need music to have an emotional impact and on the flip side the absolute worst documentaries that do to be of interest
Reminds me of Drupal's AHAH implementation.
I run a 36 bay supermicro server I got for $900 on ebay which could easily host all this. I buy used 6tb sas drives off ebay for $26 a piece. They'd be even cheaper in bulk. That's $4.33 a tb, or about $520 total. You'll want to add a handful of drives for redundancy (we are talking used drives here) but either way it's entirely possible to host this entire thing including hardware for under 1500. Well within reason for someone passionate about it.
> Which requires more interaction? Clicking a button to see available actions or scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page

I mean honestly clicking the sitemap button on the OP is faster than than any SPA opening a menu.

Your average site already has a bunch of links in the footer, if the argument is that footers are useless and should be eliminated then sure. But otherwise embracing their existing purpose is a good thing.
Except the title doesn’t say that?
They couldn’t physically get it to him, so they are now mailing it.

The article title does not say that. The title seems to be trying to imply a huge link between Page and Epstien, and get clicks off that.

Him being served is not new.
If you need fast performance you use C++ or C. There are less guardrails so more unintended or bad results can happen. But you have full control of things. Sounds like things have gotten so good with Java that you don't need C for many use cases anymore.
I worked with somebody who developed MULTICS but struggled constantly to do even the most basic tasks on a Mac even after using Macs for a decade. It was painful to watch them slowly move a mouse across the screen to the apple, take about ten seconds to click it, and then get confused about how to see system info.
> Ask them all to work for minimum wage or less in those industries.

You're introducing an interesting counterpoint but I feel that it's not the question I was attempting to respond to. I was commenting on the matter of huge taxes demotivating everyone from creating anything.

I am assuming that any more or less reasonable taxation would either decrease the revenue of everyone or decrease the revenue of most of the members of the wealthier N% of the population (as usual, the richest will somehow manage to avoid most taxes). Do you believe that such a scheme would make your wife leave her career for something less creative/generally useful?

> I would highly recommend “basic economics” by Thomas Sowell.

Adding to my looong list of books to read, thanks!