skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! Whenever I see an extraordinarily broad claim I immediately go looking for references.

Imo the article has been referenced well even if the references are mostly second hand; it repeats claims made by other articles which may also be repeating claims made by others.

To me, the key fact that I wanted to check in on was this

> Up to 70% of employees received their current company position through networking.

The reference for this probably comes from a 2017 linkedin survey[1] which polled 15,905 linkedin members in 2016 and received this as one of their answers

> ... 70 percent of people in 2016 were hired at a company where they had a connection

I find that this kind of stands at odds with the words "received their current company position *through* networking." That makes it sound like the networking was the reason they were able to get the job. The linkedin statement makes it seem like that's just how they may have found out about the job. I won't accuse the article of directly saying what I'm assuming it means. But I also think the rewording changes the meaning too much for me.

Wherever I have worked, whenever there's been a job opening I have forwarded it to friends who might be interested. For the ones who got into the job, they had a connection, but that had absolutely zero weight on whether they got hired or not. I was just a more efficient job board promoter.

Not to take away from everything in the article but I definitely would encourage people to break any numbers they find interesting down into what they might actually mean by visiting the sources and trying to read into the claims fully.

[1]: https://news.linkedin.com/2017/6/eighty-percent-of-professio...
I'd wager that depression is merely a symptom of learned helplessness, a natural response to being repeatedly powerless in circumstances one is vested in the outcome of. A result of being repeatedly and extremely frustrated, and/or being in circumstances of great cognitive dissonance despite ones attempts to resolve it.

It seems to me the best way to fight depression, is to contimually distract yourself (particularly with an activity you can control), from whatever is depressing you. As if, by being busy, so much, that you end up forgetting about those depressing things. I know it's easier said than done, but to me, it seems to work if you're able, whereas focusing or dwelling on the depressing things, seems to further depression.
Interesting phrasing on "container registry dependent" regarding distribution security. I tend to prefer control over my supply chain

I'm not sure how much more automatic '-v /srv/some/path:/var/app/datadir' can be for persistent storage

Strained comparison to say the least
Thanks for putting to this together.

I have a suggested modification. You are mixing references in your document.

Re: '~$1 million: Cost to train a 13 billion parameter model on 1.4 trillion tokens
The LLaMa paper mentions it took them 21 days to train LLaMa using 2048 GPUs A100 80GB GPUs.'

The LLaMA-13B model took 2.75 days of 2048xA100 (135,168 GPU-hours) with 1 trillion tokens. The 21 days for 1.4 trillion was for LLaMA-65B.

I would suggest using the LLaMa-13B numbers since those are the most relevant for this section, or at least modify "21 days to train LLaMa" to "21 days to train LLaMa-65B" for clarity.
Any unemployed programmer or designer can call themselves a freelancer and start trawling Upwork and Fiverr. Customers usually can't evaluate skills and choose based on price, so they get what they pay for. And the freelance marketplaces teem with low-skill/low-cost people from around the world, along with plenty of scammers. That creates the trust problem.

I have freelanced for almost 15 years. I work through a reputable agency. I have never used a freelancer marketplace, relying on word of mouth and reputation, and the higher-end customers the agency caters to. No trust problem for me or the other successful freelancers I know, but I understand why businesses approach freelancing with skepticism.

I wrote some articles about freelancing and working with freelancers on my site typicalprogrammer.com. Free, no ads or popups.
I think the author here has made one big mistake here though: there are multiple ways that economic growth can stall.

Sure, it could be caused by policies pushing money from growth into more sustainable and socially conscious policies, but I haven't seen a whole lot of evidence of this.

I suspect the real reason is simply that the economy has pivoted away from innovation and production and into rent seeking. I see quite a lot of evidence of this, one of the biggest being the increasing focus on property investment (existing property rather than construction) and ponzi schemes like crypto.

The degrowth we are seeing isn't due to any deliberate push for degrowth, it's just capitalism eating itself.
Why do we need skyscrapers? Why don't we spread horizontally? When we are spreading horizontally can we ensure that most of the daily commute is within a short radius. If the commute has to be outside of that short radius can we use info highways before actual ones a.k.a work remotely.

Europe does not have skyscrapers so it is possible.
Damn. This database quacks. Huge list of awesome super helpful tools.

Tons of great features & speed for everyone. Also love the stuff from the edge, such as Arrow DataBase Connector support,

> From this release, DuckDB natively supports ADBC. We’re happy to be one of the first systems to offer native support, and DuckDB’s in-process design fits nicely with ADBC.
Ah, interesting, thank you.
Subway sandwich shop encased in bulletproof glass pic

https://preview.redd.it/sjkdeavpg7r31.jpg?width=1024&auto=we...

https://whyy.org/segments/council-vote-set-bulletproof-glass...
n=1, but I've never gotten a job without networking. It didn't matter how well I did at school, or how well I was evaluated at my previous jobs. I couldn't even get IT jobs for less than minimum wage at times, it was truly ridiculous.

I spent a lot of time studying and not networking in university; my family was (and is) mostly asocial (the prototypical hard working first generation immigrant), and no one really clued me in. I didn't get that important context until years later (thank you internet)

Living without a network in a foreign city, I managed to move from tiny 1000$/month contracts to consulting gigs then to a bigco. Every step was accomplished by meeting people, and solving problems, and then having them tell other people about me (and a blog article that weirdly went viral in the small space I was in). This might sound like an RPG, but it was not fun and the constant terror about missing rent was something I'm glad to have moved past. I don't recommend this at all, I'm way behind someone who got hired out of school by a friend at a BigCo.

As a result, I have a lot of sympathy for people without a network and I try to evaluate them fairly when I hire people. Sadly, without a prior relationship, it's hard for the evaluator and the evaluated to really know what to make of each other. It's always going to be easier to hire someone you know or someone a friend vouches for, as you will have the ability to have trust each other from the beginning.

So yeah. Tough problem. I don't have a solution.
I think there’s some concern over manipulation of content and surveillance of users by a foreign adversary.

The Wall Street Journal recently published this article that I think shines a light on some major areas of concern.

“TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness: Self-harm, sad-posting and disordered-eating videos abound on the popular app” [0]

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[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-feeds-teens-a-diet-of-da...
The problem is more so if I have $42k (in cash or other assets) but would rather not spend it on someone else’s truck bumper. Which I think is a common sense stance.

Minor accidents happen to everyone. They should not be life-ending/cause total devastation in life.
I guess it’s because we still cannot clearly explain how all those nuances are parsed by the LLM and reflected in the output? For something you can’t thoroughly explain which yet works quite well, it’s clearly hard to believe.
Language models cost much more in some languages than others
Yeah, I second this. I use this frequently and lots of models downloaded that I test out with it. I'm keen to see a more API led approach.
Manhattan is a huge peninsula. The boroughs around it do spread out. But having people together is the essential distinction of a city.
AWS to Invest $12.7B in India
It works most of the time but sometimes the system malfunctiones

A similar story: Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84phU8of02U
This might be dumbing this down very very much but it all boils down to having some sort of a special lookup table and you give it a "query" and a bunch of "keys" and the "value" is the most likely next word. As you input something into the network, a network of these tables are consulted and you are given most likely next word.

The novelty in this paper is this "query-key-value" relation that gets learned. A lot of previous work in this area was focused on learning a rough state machine to which you input a set of state transitions and it will give you the most likely next state. This will also work but training such networks is very slow and you also don't have the capability to train the network to "attend" to certain part of the inputs. This lookup based technique lets you do that plus this is also very compute efficient (compared to previous techniques).

I'm missing a lot of details but that's basically the intuition behind this.

These are very excellent resources:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptuGllU5SQQ&list=PLoROMvodv4...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyFJWRnt_AY&pp=ygUfYXR0ZW50a...
What does free speech have to do with this?
Neat. Will have to have a play with this on the weekend.
This really feels like one of the ideas a tech exec would come up with in the Silicon Valley TV show.
Python is in no way better maintainable than bash. If you'd used Python, most of your scripts would be broken right now. With bash, that just doesn't happen (to that extent).
So, nepotism and not meritocracy huh?
No, it doesnt cost half of vehicle sticker to replace few panels. Someone is taking a piss and exploiting insurance system with insurance companies in on it like in health care. After all bigger payouts lead to fatter premiums.
>had a connection

Since it was a LinkedIn poll, it might have been interpreted as "had a connection in LinkedIn that worked at the company". Which can mean a lot of things, including being "connected" to somebody you've never even had an internet conversation with, didn't cite when applying for the job, etc.
They are prohibitively expensive to train from scratch but one does not need to train them from scratch any more as long as there is a base training (these are available). With improvements like LoRA, it's possible to do fine-tuning and even stack these
This is what scares me! Now that she’s a symbol it’s easier to take the gloves off. You can project all your hate (yourself, the media, the rich, her) onto this one person. You want punishment not just for the fraud, but for stupidity and hubris and luxury which are not crimes.

You’re giving yourself credit for not wishing ill on anyone in the same sentence you’re essentially fantasizing about her death in a prison fight. That’s not justice, that’s not even vengeance, it’s beyond!

Again, not saying she’s not super guilty. I don’t give a shit about her. It’s this reaction in ourselves we need to temper.
This is fixable and has already been fixed: Install NixOS or guix to live in a world where neither "/sbin" nor "/lib" exists.

NixOS has also reduced "/usr/bin" to containing only a "/usr/bin/env" symlink and "/bin" down to just "/bin/sh".

So, why not apply the same philosophy to any other linux distro? Well, debian or ubuntu or whatever has plenty of user-written bash scripts, aliases, etc that are _not_ managed by the package manager, and would promptly explode with that change, causing people to switch distros, never upgrade, and probably write angry articles online.

There's plenty of sites that let you download and install a deb which isn't in debian's packages (i.e. chrome, zoom, slack) which would also all break. There's third-party package managers, like steam (which downloads and runs executables) which would also break.

Of course they won't do that, they don't want to piss off their users for minimal benefit.

NixOS has just accepted that "download zoom-installer.sh" or whatever does not and will never work on their distro, and people deal with it. Other distros are unlikely to make that choice.

Android has ensured those also never work by limiting people to just the app store. In a sense, ubuntu + snaps is trying to do that for their distro, but it's neither been that well received, nor making quick progress.
It might have to do with the fact that most of Congress is old and understands the mail system, but not so much digital communications.
Presumably if the debt is liquidated at 2%, it doesn't make a material difference in offering credit, since it's pretty much a write-off for the credit-issuing institution anyway, right?

I'm not seeing how the debt collection in this case helps provide more credit for the economy - might as well just write off the non-performing debt altogether.
Isn't there some filtering that happens before a person is even visible to your interview board? Maybe networking was involved there?
>/bin/sh is mandated by posix

Where? POSIX says:

Applications should note that the standard PATH to the shell cannot be assumed to be either /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh, and should be determined by interrogation of the PATH returned by getconf PATH, ensuring that the returned pathname is an absolute pathname and not a shell built-in.
After trying a product’s sign-up process again, my friend decided to quit
> Europe does not have skyscrapers

There are two dozen in Paris alone, going by the modern definition of a skyscraper being a narrow building at least 150m tall.
Maybe you should buy a copy of this book [0] and subtly display it on your desk. Then hope he shows an interest to read it so you can gift it to him.

[0] https://algorithmstoliveby.com/
I can guarantee you right now I could send a few emails out and tell former coworkers who are now managers or former managers who have moved on that I’m looking for a job and someone would find a position for me or worse case hire me as a consultant.

I am no special snowflake but I keep my network strong.
Do you have any resources for someone that needs to learn to and learn how to network?
> Error budgets and the SRE model are haute couture.

The error budget does not mean that you don't read the errors. It is just a way to adjust the amount of time you spend fixing bugs versus pushing new features.

Also, as mentioned...

> Over the next six months, the team iterates, listens to customers, and delivers a ton of value. As a result, traffic levels grow to a rate of 10,000,000 requests per year.

The people who advocate looking at errors in aggregate may have much, much busier services.
Curious whether there were any attempts to “read” them with AI. Is this something a LLM could do these days?
Or sales. The startup I used to work at, absolutely everyone in sales had some kind of Director or higher title regardless of seniority or role. I guess the theory being you're more likely to take a call from the Senior Executive Director of Business Development (never mind that said Senior Executive Director is 23 years old and has zero decision making authority). I always wondered if people actually fell for this crap.
There are all sorts of esoteric debt markets (and claim markets).

Not too long ago, people were selling claims on FTX deposits (a sort of debt) for pennies on the dollar since they assumed the money was gone... now the estimated recovery rate might go as high as 30-50 cents on the dollar, so whoever bought that debt claim will make out like a bandit.
Google’s close relationship with Obama White House (2016)
maybe they are referring to this?*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria#Metabolism

"In general, photosynthesis in cyanobacteria uses water as an electron donor and produces oxygen as a byproduct, though some may also use hydrogen sulfide[77] a process which occurs among other photosynthetic bacteria such as the purple sulfur bacteria."

* I found it by searching for "oxygen"
You stopped reading too soon:

> Since Liebeck, McDonald's has not reduced the service temperature of its coffee. McDonald's current policy is to serve coffee at 176–194 °F (80–90 °C) [...] Similarly, as of 2004, Starbucks sells coffee at 175–185 °F (79–85 °C), and the executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America reported that the standard serving temperature is 160–185 °F (71–85 °C).[citation needed]

Any of this coffee can give you life changing injuries. That's why it is important that it be served in sturdy cups with safety warnings.
Skyscrapers aren’t that much taller than normal city buildings. Don’t assume a city filled with 30-40 story buildings is particularly different from one that has a handful of actual skyscrapers. Even 20 stories is a freaking huge building and London has 12 50+ story buildings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_...

Going horizontally requires ever faster speeds to have similar reach. Walking 3.5 MPH past 100 story buildings is the same as 175 MPH going past densely packed 2 story buildings. That’s why cities go vertical.
While you're not wrong I want to point out that you generally don't get the opportunities to practice staff-like skills until you've proven you can do the 'boring' work too. The system does incentivize performative leadership, but only for a relatively short amount of time in your career, so I don't think this is a huge deal.
It feels like you are arguing against a point I didn't make. I was responding to this section from the parent

"it'll be much harder to restrict benefits only to specific income brackets, but it would be much simpler and cheaper for taxpayers."

Also to "Take a moment to look outside of your borders.", I'm a German citizen where my dad is a retired tax officer and Iia business degree which involved accounting and taxation. I'm familiar with some taxation outside the US. If I weren't, there'd already have been dozens of other posts here describing the better tax filing solution in every country.
> Manhattan is a huge peninsula

No, it’s an island. You can’t build horizontally on an island very much.
Saw this a few days ago. Really enjoyed it.

I thought he made a good point about dictatorships being positioned fundamentally differently than democracies with respect to the current technology that's out there now.

I also found his answer to the question someone asked at the end about hackers in their basement pretty interesting. He was like well hackers in their basement can't create these big models yet, so we can still regulate it. That's true in a sense, but I did notice the other day on that mdegans HuggingFace incident that someone offered up their 200x GPU crypto mining cluster to train uncensored models in support of ehartford who was copping a lot of abuse from this mdegans character. So, I wouldn't be so entirely sure that there aren't at least in principle _some_ hackers that can do it.
Cutter (Reverse Engineering Tool) v2.2.1
Once your NPCs get good enough, you could connect them to the real world (via APIs) so they could do goal-oriented sensing and actuation there too. I'm fairly sure it would be wonderful for all involved.
I mean, we don't have to hack the elf loader if we just rewrite every elf binary using patchelf: https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf

The parent commenter is already suggesting "just run a regex", so it seems like a trivial extension to their simple solution to "just run patchelf on every binary on your system"
This is hilarious, also basically why Chief Diversity Officer is such a degrading position. Like oh crap our executive team looks like this https://www.apple.com/leadership/ we need to hire a non-white person, oh but they aren't suitable for CFO etc. etc.
I'm surprised to see typos and how simplistic this article is. I'm not a frequent reader, but I would have expected more from architectural digest.
Google has a whole bunch of products/tools in the healthcare space, and it seems like their contribution there is only growing. I've been working with FHIR/EHR adjacent tooling lately for a personal project, and a good number of both open source resources and SAAS products I've seen have been from Google.

More broadly, all big 3 cloud providers (Azure, AWS, and Google) have offerings for FHIR data storage and API access, as well as common NLP based healthcare data analysis workflows. Many of these seem relatively new, or as if they have had a lot of recent attention focused on them. I'm definitely interested in how/why these companies (as well as some other VC funded ones, like Medplum), are entering this space with products that are not directly sellable, but are rather things that other tools would have to build upon. It seems like AWS works directly with end-customers to use their APIs to build products, but I'm not sure what Azure and Google are doing.

This one's probably too complex for my use case, but I thought the concept looked very neat and wanted to share.
I'd prefer not to destroy the environment unnecessarily, personally.
I work for a CDN, we are handling billions of requests a day. With 10s of thousands of servers around the world, we are always going to be having thousands of errors for all sorts of reasons outside our control. No way we can look at all those individually.
ok, but don't start looking at runtime errors till you've fixed/eliminated every warning during your build
I don't think any of this has anything to do with attorney-client privilege, which is the only thing I'm here to talk about. Postal mail metadata is about the least interesting possible thing to discuss; the privilege thing here was the only interesting angle I saw.
This is similar to wordpress websites or android apps. Iphone store had a high toll bar, $99/year .

There will be a lot these quick to build interesting utilities to show off. There is room to feed the demand in wordpress sites and ad-word based websites.

I think OpenAI will keep the platform cheap long enough to collect the small toll and make the innovation go wild.

There is perhaps room for one more OpenAI style provider, like what Android did to iOS to feed this demand. It is a pity if its not Google.
right back at you, thanks!
The word freelancer seems to be wrapped in this gig thing, when you say freelancers to people they immediately think of low cost few days job.

Yes it's true that web is flooded with tons of random people calling themselves freelancers and they are ruining the reputation of others by upselling low skills for low price.

I am working now on a platform to actually build trust in freelancers and enable them form teams to take on bigger projects as teams so let's see how that will work out.
That’s a pretty awesome little dashboard. I’m not sure if it’s there but I missed it, is there any idea how much data or how many objects they need to archive?
I think there's not much point in purchasing your own debt as by that point the creditor has written it off anyway (and as someone said above - paying it off at that point will not do anything for your credit report, and the debt will fall off your history after 7 years either way).