skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This incense stick machine is a common incense making machine on the market today. The agarbatti making machine automatically coats the bamboo sticks with incense powder to make various types of incense for different purposes. The incense sticks are commonly used for religious incense (e.g. Buddhist incense), mosquito incense, toilet incense, and other kinds of indoor incense.
Oh god. It's too real. This was soul-crushing. Thank you for sharing.
Because that potentially allows all distro-supplied files to live under one (eventually read-only) directory.
My theory is there is a server glitch that causes it to default to type password in.

E.g. if the token can’t be refreshed.
Most of the human traits missing are things we share with many animals. Not that that diminishes them.

Things like high-bandwidth senses tied to a body, stream of subjective experience, control seeking, self-centeredness, self-preservation, reproductive instincts, emotions. Also GPT doesn't have certain types of adaptivity yet. Or anything else that is part of being alive.
not my expertise but a few thousand dollars seems like a pretty minor cost if you are going to end up paying them 75k a year plus benefits. the amount they spend on training will also be a few thousand.

if it cost them a few thousand dollars to expand pool so they hire someone 20% better then that seems worth it.
This "fact-checked" "research summary" has sources that include:

- "Business Pundit. “25 Best Places to Network""

- "Undercover recruiter. “Why Employee Referrals are the Best Source of Hire”

.. and a bunch of corporate blogs.
There are many situations mentioned, but the same value proof of digital ownership brings elsewhere. Happy to answer for a more specific case if you want to provide one.
As somebody involved with the team developing a GUI desktop editor... no not really. Outside of the very, very occasional use of the VSCode integrated into GitHub (like you mention - even then most of the time I just use the standard GH editor). I just don't really have a need for it.

Saying that I do quite like the Phoenix project (https://phcode.dev/) and I know some people like using GitPod but personally I don't really "get it" over just having everything local where I can use any tool I want that I have at my disposal on my system.
> that drags down compensation in the US, but it also pulls up compensation in the rest of the world, and there's just a wider range, more developers available in general

Agreed. And my point is that is horrible for American middle class, great for American shareholder class and great for software industry in cheaper places. Just like it was for manufacturing.
My perspective is pretty much opposite yours. A really common trouble is when programmers implement a working solution to a poorly understood problem. Building a good specification is oftentimes much, much harder than implementing that specification.

Maybe what you're referring to is what happens in a lot of software organizations, where the "what" is often just phrased as a poorly-thought-out, loose problem, and it's actually up to the developer to come up with the specification and the implementation at the same time. But that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is that if you're good at specification, your job is about to get a whole lot easier, and therefore more valuable, by using these models.
Gregory Mankiw is pretty mainstream and anyone who's taken an economics class in college is not unlikely to have come in contact with him. Per OpenSyllabus, he is the most frequently cited author in college economics classes: https://opensyllabus.org/results-list/authors?size=50&fields...
What if you had just filled out a form in an app for help. Maybe you got a text and then a call... would you be pissed then?
I believe keying is now generally discouraged since it necessarily involves weakening “good road” around the pothole by undercutting it and replacing it with cold mix, which is fundamentally weaker stuff.
They already do? Plenty of apps are banned in various countries, if I recall correctly.
It's a shame that some studios are extremely against modding. Take for example Riot Games, I love their games but no modding support at all for League of Legends or Valorant. Considering their competition (Dota2 and CS:GO respectively) have an active community of producers and consumers of custom game content (maps, skins, game modes, etc), it's a real disappointment. I know leadership must believe the benefit isn't worth the cost, but a small part of me believes it's because the studio doesn't want to be "shown up" by the community getting excited about content they didn't make. I'm reminded of the Replay system in League of Legends. The community requested it for many years and was always told it wasn't going to happen, but once a third party releases a web app that allows you to download your previous games, suddenly the studio allocates a huge effort into getting an official version out the door.
It's the Dastardly doctrine[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/6rq0RXRnWJU?t=7
This was the first thing I thought of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_KRk4q3Y44
If this ends up being the case, expect the costs to insure these things to skyrocket soon.
DEI concerns comprise a subset of ethics, not the other way around. This isn't hard.
Indeed. The idea that software engineers could be in the top 85th percentile of American income and be identified as "indentured servants" is an absurd notion.
I think Dropbox won on doing something well when anything similar really sucked, and I think a lot of that was in making the syncing 'just work'. A lot of online cloud drives were (and still are) untenable because of the babysitting and frustrating as files don't sync or are slow to access.

With all these ChatGPT wrappers, the hard bit is pretty much a monopolized commodity, so they better do the annoying bits really really well.

This is the second PDF chatbot I have tried, and they both suffer from the technical constraint of how many tokens you can fit into ChatGPT, meaning they refuse to answer global questions like "are there any mistakes in the document since the ChatGPT may be unaware that there is a document at all, but can answer, for example for a CV, "what jobs might you hire this person for".

This might be fixable by making round trips, for example asking chatgpt YES/NO for does this query apply to this 1000 token section of a larger document, etc. etc.

And of course if they get this right, and do it well, it becomes very useful. If it can answer based on 10000 stored pdfs, word docs, JIRA tickets, confluence pages and slack threads, then it would be super useful for organizations. It would hardly be just a wrapper then though.
It might not have been a direct hire because there was a connection in the company but I bet that most of the interviewees found out about the position because they had someone in their network tell them about it and gave them tips on how to get the job.
I would speculate that roles which are filled through networking never get to the posting / interview stage. If that were the case it would make sense that being involved with interview boards would lead to seeing very few candidates getting a position through their network.
Can chatgpt do it for you?
Depends on the industry and moats these companies have. eg. I don't see any competition emerging for operating systems or adtech or healthcare systems from nimble players anytime soon. I see plenty of nimble competition in the nascent fields of AI, Crypto etc.
Shout out to my little service which tracks time on page: https://watch.ly/
Yeah I totally agree, but there seems to be no trust in freelancers when it comes to big projects.
Hi,

Sorry about the delay, HN doesn't seem to notify me about comment replies.

I wrote a simple PHP script that generates the labels. It just pulls a bunch of data from our parts database and positions the text/graphical elements on a PDF page using fpdf. The Datamatrix/barcode is generated using Zint.

Once the PDF file is generated, the script passes it to /usr/bin/lp for instant printing to a Dymo LabelWriter, or sent with an attachment disposition for downloading and printing locally.

Hope this helps, please let me know if I may be of further assistance
> and is very cheap at the tradeoff of these limitations

Where can I get SMR drives that are a good deal? And what percent price improvement are you seeing?

When I look at the drives I can easily buy, the bigger models are all CMR and the smaller models keep having SMR snuck in without any notable price reduction.
Never? That’s interesting. I don’t know the hiring percentages but I would say at least 30% of the interview loops I’ve been on at a FAANG have been with someone who was referred in from a person on my team or who had another connection in. I haven’t done 100 interviews (maybe lifetime total I have, but not in tech), but it’s a solid 40 or 50. Again, the person who gets the job isn’t always someone who has a connection to the team — I would say except in rare circumstances, their chances are no better than anyone else’s — but there are usually at least two people per loop who were referred in through their network.

Even in my own experience, I’ve had only one job as an adult that I didn’t have some sort of connection at or where my network wasn’t part of why I was recruited (so even if I didn’t know people hiring me personally, they knew of me). Now, my career has largely been in roles where I’m publicly visible (and that visibility is part of the job), so I won’t try to attach that to anyone else — but even for a non-public facing role, I would still leverage my network first and foremost I think.

I don’t think it’s so much that knowing someone guarantees you’ll get the job, but I do think it makes it much more likely you’ll get to the first or second stage of an interview.
According to some guys informal LinkedIn survey of 3000 respondents "most of whom are in staff or management roles", had to go 3 links deep to find it.

Edit: and it's "critical jobs", some term that guy came up with, not all jobs.

Idiots.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-survey-reveals-85-all-job...
I view this as an engineering failure. The entire purpose of the bumper in a car is to absorb impacts and limit damage to the rest of the car. Here it is the opposite. The proper way to handle this is to price Rivian insurance accordingly. That will motivate owners and manufacturer to fix this quickly.
> each word in a sentence ...

Does each sentence stand alone, or is the meaning of the sentence, and the words in the sentence, influenced by the sentences that come before and after it?
Ah. If so I still think we don't understand each other.

It's not "we don't know what to do with you go read some books". It's "we have 80,000 time and labour business rules that are unique to our public sector organization and you should not code any business rules into our payroll system until you have a vague understanding of how we operate". That IS a serious client and a serious project and that study time IS serious. It's important. It's a success predictor. If you ignore it or are coxky and go "meh I've seen it all before " you'll make an expensive business error. Not necessarily a technical error, not a memory leak or suboptimal sql. But people will get paid wrong or your ledger will be wrong or another business impact.

Again, I may live in different it world than average active HN participant. But developers on my projects speak business to functional analysts. They understand payroll or Financials or hr or whatever in general, and also understand them in particular as it pertains to client. It's not wasted time or inefficiency. Not sure if I'm presenting my case well or persuading anybody - but I'm used to paying people to learn when they join projects, including senior niche experts :-)
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-e...
I can second using a vertical mouse. It has helped my wrist pain immensely as well.
Oh, this is 100% true. Or if they do have a posting, it’ll be for legal reasons only but the person they are hiring has always been planned from the beginning.
you can buy comma.ai hardware, its base use is "dashcam"

you can, at your discretion, load self-driving software (openpilot), which can take over driving for you, in addition to maintaining dashcam footage

they have a subscription that will store footage in the cloud too, iirc

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot
Show HN: An AI assistant to help you stay in the loop
Thank you for your service. Solaris felt more considered and reasoned than AIX and microchannel Linux I was learning in ~95 and so helped me learn more.
In general, the big advantage of going in network is the much higher chance of passing interviews vs the random person off the street that hands you their resume. I've seen this done all the time in fortune 100 companies, but it only really works if you aren't hiring so much your network is depleted. Even when the interviewing team is not aware of the reference, there's just a higher success rate, as the worst candidates just don't get recommended.

Still, positions change. I've had to do full interview rounds after strong recommendations, and I've been hired by SMS in 10 minutes, salary negotiation included. One size doesn't it all.
One the big banks surprised me initially, most of their leadership wasn't from Stanford/Ivy League.

But most of them were McKinsey or Booz.
The motivation is because systemd is compelling them to change it. Systemd decides how Debian may operate, and decides how users, processes, and files work, not the Debian Technical Committee.
How far do we think this product is from something that use uses langchain to parse pdfs, create & store chunks / embeddings, and feed them to ChatGPT (or a local model)? Do we think there's any secret sauce?
Hi! Author here.

Maybe it doesn't when applied correctly, but IME whether or not the technologies are a good fit aren't even discussed. At least in technical ("soil") terms; discussion is all about risk aversion in non-technical terms ("atmosphere") without saying that's what's happening.

I don't think folks should sweat every technical decision and I think there are many ways to fail with exotic tech (I'd be hard pressed to think of a better choice than Redis or Postgres, for example) but somehow certain technologies seem to be used even though I feel they're terrible in for cases like server programming.

Thanks for the read and thoughtful comment!
A survey of our network suggests that 85% of jobs are filled via networking.

Ok. Not 100% sure of the statistical validity here.
In the watch world Rolex has a bit of a “poser” quality to it. It’s what watch people who are trying hard to show off get.

Unlike Patek Phillipe which is for true sophisticates.
You never had anyone at the company refer a friend or former coworker for a position there? That seems... unusual.
Can’t your drop the full text into Claude?
Employers making home loans, hmm
Statutory rape is not rare among rock musicians.

While there are quite a few rock musicians notorious for having sex with really young girls, young musicians banging girls a bit shy of 18 years old is not uncommon.
It's a kitset, not a finished end user product.
Networking, and leveraging pre-existing work relationships into jobs, is not a skill that's exclusive to white guys from Stanford/Ivy League. It could be just as effective between two friends from a Step dancing group in Brooklyn who also happened to go to a coding bootcamp together.
From photosynthesis to navigation, life may exploit quantum effects
This is probably it +/- implementation details
This is correct - I don’t have as much knowledge about Jewish law and its usual interpretation circa 0AD, but Matthew was one of the first gospels to have its traditional authorship questioned because it is written in masterfully crafted classical Greek - not anything accessible to a rural Aramaic speaker. Since the birth of Biblical exegesis scholarship in the 19th century it has been widely accepted that none of the gospels were authored by the traditionally associated apostles, or any apostles, or even any first-hand witnesses to Jesus. The book I immediately recall about this is Forged by Bart Ehrman, but gospel authorship is one of the most well tread and thoroughly analyzed areas of biblical scholarship and the fact that the apostles didn’t write them is one of the points closest to consensus in the field.

I am intrigued to learn more about how Roman currency was managed in Judea at that time. As far as I know Jewish law did forbid carrying coinage with images of the emperor, but obviously many Jewish pilgrims to the temple had to exchange some kind of currency for shekels.
My pixel 4 died because of poor heat management.
freedom of speech for republicans.
The reason I don’t have rental property as investment is from seeing how much work it was for my parents to rent out half a duplex and, later, a 3 BR SFR. Both places were completely trashed at least once by tenants and even the “good” tenants were frequently late with the rent or had other drama for them to deal with.

The idea that a typical small landlord sits on their ass and cashes fat checks is not matched by what I’ve seen not anything I’ve heard from friends who wouldn’t take my advice to stay away.
> California's fire suppression complex is very well funded

Perhaps very well funded for putting out an existing fire at a specific spot.

Controlled burns for prevention need to occur over VAST areas--it's an O(1) vs O(n^2) scaling problem.
The age of consent being a bit shy of 18 is also not uncommon, though.
Anyone that ever worked for a sufficiently large organization knows that $600 hammers are common, and in the grand scheme of things, one of the smallest grifts possible. I don't want to call it "corruption", but the scale of "questionable waste" within large enterprises and goverment agencies is absolutely breathtaking.
Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe (2013)
Detecting when scripts fail to load is actually an excellent incentive to address script load failure, regardless of the nature of the script. Users who cannot reliably access your networked thing will be better served if you know that than if you don’t.
And that candidate leaves as soon as they find a better paying job.
In 2+ years, I've done 331 interviews to hire in single digits.
If you're already fitting a kernel on a 1.44MB floppy, you've got enough space to append a tiny cpio with a static binary that makes a few syscalls.
I am not now nor have I ever been a lawyer.
I don't believe this would count as a community contribution, which is generally I believe about contributions to Google's community.

While I don't think it's a bad career move, and that may have been part of their consideration, I find the trivialization of the work put in by someone here to open source something they thought would be a positive contribution hurtful.
It was checked for facts and they ensured that none made it into the final product mistakenly.
Just a quick clarification, attention of the same sort transformers used was already being employed in RNNs for a while. Thus the name "attention is all you need", it turned out you can just remove the recurrent part which makes it hard to train the NN.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35975204
Great suggestion, thank you!

Done - https://github.com/AdmTal/PostgreSQL-Query-Lock-Explainer/co...
Isn't this a bill of attainder?
Correct, which takes us back to my initial observation that the current consensus is to protect children at all costs from immorality, and not lift a finger to protect them from firearms.
Off the shelf $300 FPV drones are outgunning this https://gagadget.com/en/170708-aerovironment-received-206-mi... $6000.

This is how this works: https://twitter.com/M0nstas/status/1657270184338497537 https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1658906844167905284 https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/16585330182884147...

Switchblade 300 has small anti personnel warhead. DIY UKR drones are carrying hilariously big mortar shells with equally oversized batteries, here one that failed to detonate https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1658962434235801605

As for DJI drones for observation duty, russian sources estimate average drone lasting a week when operating by Arty units and ~one day in infantry. Drones like Matrice are >$10K.
Thanks CaliforniaKarl, that's a good point! Unfortunately we don't have much of a choice as the room is small with windows on the other sides.

I also appreciate the link. Looks inconclusive overall.
Ya I’m really interested in what I do and side projects I work on but I feel like absolute shit after focusing on either. Not sure how to solve this. it feels unsustainable to find equal amounts of joy(?) and ~bad feelings physically and mentally~ from partaking.
It's hard to find them these days, but some of the blogging about blogging/internet marketing crowd used to post data on headlines and what got clicks based on different sources like Facebook and Twitter.

Examples from one of the larger still active blogs here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=titles+site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fmoz.co...

There were also lists of headline swipe files that provided lots of templates.
This is the sort of thing that enabled me to do an entire 30 minute programming conference talk on Timekeeping (both calendrical and chronological) and how it works outside computers, and what to do when your programming the computer if you want to hedge your bets and try and get it right (or as right as you need it to be)

Most people just internalise the 24hr clock mental model and then whatever version of remembering days, weeks and months works best in their part of the world.

It makes so much more sense when you understand the whole pyramid of time keeping and calendar making where they overlap and very importantly, when they don’t.
No, I don't think we are in full agreement. In the part of my comment after "as you say", I did call out that her reasoning re: the marginal utility of $1M for someone who has $3M vs. ~$0 is (imo) correct, so we do have that common ground, but you ought to read the part of my comment before "as you say" and compare it to the context of the comments above it.

You might accuse me of splitting hairs, but I think it's an important distinction in the context of vkou's comment and parents.
The idea is that bringing on a wrong candidate will cause more damage than missing a right one.

There's definitely a balance to strike, some companies would rather bring on everyone and find out who sinks and who swims, others hate firing and will do virtually anything to avoid hiring someone who needs to be let go.
I can say as someone who made something similar (Docalysis.com) that there's a lot of "secret sauce" in actually getting the outputs to be higher quality, especially with processing larger files. Just today I got another email from a user saying the quality was better than other AI products they tried.

I also don't use Langchain.
it's not even commitment. it's discipline. many of us know what we should be doing, and how to do each of these small steps. most of us (including me) don't have the daily discipline to pull it off.
The 2023 house they’re looking to buy costs more than the 2018 house they could afford at 5%.

We bought in 2007. Our house more than doubled in price since then. I’m not sure I could afford to buy it now if I was a typical 20% down buyer.
Who have I turned a blind eye to? I’m not worried for her, I’m worried for all the people in here obsessing about this.
Sure, you do statistics on them and you look at random samples in detail. But that's different from 'Reading Every Single Error' like the submitted article suggests.