skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You either need to find something adjacent to what you already do, or you need to build trust where you work and jump on any opportunities that come up. You can get noticed for work by giving conferences talks or being active on the right mailing lists or getting to know the right people.

In my career I built trust internally and so got interesting work. I talked about that work and so got approached about other jobs, and I’ve been able to move when I’ve wanted to because I’ve kept in contact with some former colleagues.

I would however like to stress that the most important point of this is doing the aork, and doing it well. If you don’t do that then everything else is pointless.
Twitter Staff Fact Checked by Community Notes over Bellingcat 'Shadow Ban'
I remember Pelosi telling people to go dance around the streets of Chinatown and celebrate the new year or they're racist.
I wonder what gpt.com.au are thinking. They pre date todays GPT usage so they're surely safe but their name just became confusing overnight.
I believe the technical term is "bloodbag"
This is entirely theater. It's arresting the kids breaking windows while you let the murderers roam free so that you can say you're tough on crime. The USPS is so low on the list of government agencies violating your privacy that they might as well not be there at all, but they are also mostly inconsequential. Senators can go after them with no real fallout, not actually impact the the massive data harvesting system, and still claim to be "doing something" while the intelligence agencies run roughshod over your basic rights.
I strongly disagree. “Staff engineer” as a construct should be understood as an alternative to the previous dominant paradigm, which held that manager track is the only progression track beyond some point (usually Senior or a “Senior II” level).

This toxic concept was pretty commonplace through 2010, particularly outside Silicon Valley.

Any system can be done wrong. But this system is, I believe, objectively better than the one preceding it, as having a dedicated IC track gives a way of growing your engineers who aren’t interested or talented in management.

What you are complaining about sounds like an instance of poor management or poor team composition, not anything to do with the concept of Staff Engineer; if people are not doing their job then they are not being performance managed properly. Showing you can act at the level above is great but you still need to nail your core responsibilities too.
> On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Hell, even work deadlines don't work for me because I know they're made up and irrelevant. The only thing missing it is going to do is throw off someone else's bonus. Meeting it probably means I worked for free at some point as a salaried employee.
They too will be links to /usr.
No, he didn’t “invent” Chat with PDF use case given there were already Chat with PDF SaaS apps around even in January, and Langchain etc had PDF loaders even back in Jan. Plus most of this code base seem to come straight out of OpenAI cookbook.

But yes Twitter is a wild Wild West right now of people ripping ideas off any trending repos
YFJ Bot
I keep stumbling into this misconception of degrowth.

Your argument about the Sri Lankan and the Congolese is actually aligned with the degrowth movement. One of their key points is that economies of the global north should consume less so that the global south (e.g Sri Lanka and Congo) can continue to grow to support a baseline standard of living for their citizens. In other words, rebalancing the global "budget" - assuming the world actually cares to lift this people out of poverty.
> Why should I have to cover the cost of someone else’s poor decision to buy an ultra expensive to repair vehicle?

You don't.

You have to cover the cost of the damage you caused unlawfully, not the cost of their decision to buy an expensive to repair vehicle. Routine repairs that aren’t due to torts for which other people are liable are the reaponsibility of the owner, and those are the only ones that are natural consequences of the purchase decision. Consequences of tort are...consequences of tort. Victims don’t owe tortfeasors a duty of care to minimize likely damages in the event of tort.

As to why you are liable for harms you caused even though they might have been cheaper were the victim
differently situated, well, that’s basically the well-established “eggshell skull” rule of tort liability.
This is their web analytics product which is different from their server side statistics. I'm not sure which one you're talking about.
Sigh. I guess this means I can no longer keep my root image on a 1.44MB floppy and a separate /usr on an iomega Zip drive.
I just made my template dump a word count and nobody seemed to care after awhile.
english is not my first language, but the following fits and sounds reasonably correct:

"Cops say they're being poisoned by fentanyl. Experts say risk is 'extremely low'"
The article and author assumes that the readers are humans, not going to Cellular life forms.
This reminds me of the research on the effect of order of sentences on the intelligibility of a text.
No one knows for sure.

The museum was one of Paul Allen's pet projects. The one two punch of his death and then COVID hitting is what shut the museum down.

The building is still there with everything in it (at least it looks that way from the outside), so I guess there's hope. Also, another one of Allen's projects, the Cinerama in Belltown, was also shut down around the same time and that just sold and is now re-opening soon, so I'm hoping we'll see something similar with the computer museum.
Thanks for this explanation. I couldn't wrap my mind around the "differentiable hash table" analogy, but "distribution of keys" -> "distribution of values" starts to click.

I'm not an ML expert either but I have taken graduate level courses and published papers with "machine learning" in the title, so I feel like I should be able to understand these things better. The field just moves so fast. It's a lot of work to keep up. Easy-to-digest explanations like this are underrated.
The county -- via its contract with 4Leaf -- has already issued 180+ build permits specifically for fire rebuilds.

The number of completed homes is low.

The number of issued build permits is not.
Does Wake-On-Bluetooth work anywhere?
Pay for a subscription.
I live in Tahoe and firefighters do controlled burns feet from houses all the time (in Nevada) without a problem. I see them rake the debris into piles and burn them.

… not that hard.
The USCIS doesn’t make the law, Congress does. Its regulations are interpretations (and workarounds) of the statute. The statute is clear that H1B is a non-immigrant, temporary worker visa. “Dual intent” appears nowhere in the statute. It’s a legal fiction created by the regulation that’s necessary precisely because the statute requires non-immigrant intent. It doesn’t mean that the H1B visa allows either non-immigrant and immigrant intent. It means that you have both at the same time—the immigrant intent from filing for a green card, and the non-immigrant intent required by the H1B visa.

The reason for all this is that the 1952 INA promised the American people that it would not change America’s demographic makeup. Nobody can get the votes to change that in Congress. But the executive branch can change the regulations unilaterally.
With all the money and equipment being donated I am surprised that they need budget drones
>I’m struggling to come up with reasons to actually use it (which is fine! As long as the author is enjoying the work, why not?)

I wish more people, or at least more HN commenters, had this attitude. Don't have to look hard to find negativity in response to folks getting out there and having a go. How many passion projects went nowhere* but taught authors valuable shit that lead to incredible engineering and projects? Besides, I love writing software and anyone who says I shouldn't because it isn't going to be better than the status quo can beat it.

*not implying Bun is going nowhere. Be gone, pedants.
If they are indeed replying to you, I suspect they are coming from a freelance background where it’s sometimes beneficial to have a hard line in order to either get the project moving or drop the client (and move on to more serious ones)
Of course. Email, SMS, Twitter, and whatever aren't "papers" in a 4th Amendment sense. Fred Meyer coupon circulars on the other hand...we need to circle the wagons for those.
> I feel we have "depression" the same way we get "colds", try to rest hoping it goes away.

There's lots of evidence that doing the opposite of rest - aerobically exercising - helps tremendously with depression (and lots of other issues).
'We don't read your emails (just their metadata)' has also been a contentious topic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/email...

There are good reasons to defend civil privacy.
Montana becomes the first US state to ban TikTok
Finally, I can have a conversation with Pepsi Gravitational Field[1] by Arnell Group, and Chicken Chicken[2].

1. https://archive.org/details/pepsi_gravitational_field/mode/2...

2. https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
Now I’m imagining him sitting down with the lactating pigs and asking about cheaters.

And in the darkest night, after the moon has set, the pigs reply.
The oldest known blueprints depict Stone Age ‘megastructures’
We generally don't employ hypnosis. Sometimes we even skip the hypothesis step, because "what the hell is that" is enough to start generating data. Don't confuse all of scientific research with the scientific method; it's just one method of investigation.
That's not an industry standard either though. With a lot of equipment it would be technically impossible, because the pre-heated brew water is what's keeping the standing coffee hot.
In answer to file security: "We utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS) for uploading and storing files, ensuring robust security measures, including data encryption and access control."

Well, sure, but that's the file at rest. What about the security / privacy of the data as it's fed to ChatGPT? More and more of these "ask your doc / data a question" apps are popping up. Isn't this about equivalent to putting the document on the public internet or is there some sort of sandboxing involved?
does that mean that every time you hit a key (after the idle timeout) you have to wait 5 seconds for the pi to boot, wasting 5 more precious joules (a minute of active usage battery life at 100mW)

or does the pi zero have a submilliwatt suspend to ram and i'm just the last to know

i think that it could be a fun hacker toy if you put a low-power microcontroller on it with access to the screen and keyboard and control over the pi's power rails (and the rp2040's if you put that in too)

as a bonus if the low-power micro was an esp32 you would have wifi and bluetooth

then you only need to fire up the pi when its computational gronk is really needed, and the ui stays responsive the whole time

2 amp hours (why would you say 'two thousand milliamp hours', that's four extra syllables for no reason) is 27 kilojoules at 3.7 volts; that's ten months at one milliwatt, a weekend at an esp32-like 100 milliwatts, 7 hours at an optimistic one watt, or three hours at 2.5 watts, which i think is more realistic for the pi

you won't even be able to use this thing all night with the pi running; you'll need an external battery to recharge it before the sun comes back up, like that old laptop that you used to take out of the house back when its battery lasted more than two hours

also 2 amp hours is somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 grams of battery, while the rest of the device is i think around 15 grams. admittedly still pretty small and light compared to the fragile monsters that pass for android cellphones nowadays
> The hot coffee lawsuit ...

So much lawyers' propaganda. We are engineers here. We are aware that coffee is water that boils at 100 degrees centigrade and gets no hotter than that. Every damn idiot and those more intelligent know full well that writing "Caution: contents hot" in microscopic text does absolutely nothing to make recently boiled water more safe.

Sure we should all feel sorry for someone who is badly burnt. Absolutely we should. It is inhuman not to feel so. And who can fee sorry for a corporation? Nobody should.

And we've let the lawyers use that sympathy to run riot writing themselves cheques on society's labor. As engineers we look at it and cry "Tort reform now!" and it is further and further away? Is it what killed Carter's presidency? Dunno. Last time it was anywhere near having anything done and that was 4 decades ago?

But go ahead and keep repeating it like the water was super heated to a 1000 degrees and writing text on the foam cup stops anyone from being burnt by boiled water.

Or don't. Really, just don't. Just because something sounds insane doesn't mean to say it actually isn't.
I have activated that same beeps on my casio F91W..
Go library for the WhatsApp web multidevice API
Need to add “here's what you need to know” to the automatic clickbait remover.
It is not now banned, it is scheduled to be banned in January 2024.
Such a stupid article in my opinion. I hate this automatic idea that its all about reducing profits as well, there is also upside to using self serve checkouts for customers.

Did people simply forget when a cashier had to jump on the intercom and call for service because an item wouldn't scan?

It feels awkward to me that I need to unload my groceries onto a belt, so that someone else can pick them up, scan them and bag them, when I can do all of that myself. I completely understand if you're elderly or if you have a lot of groceries, but apart from that, it's better for me as a customer.
this is more promising but you forgot the keyboard

can you plug in an external keyboard

or are you supposed to program it via whisper.cpp speech recognition
Of the things they report it commonly being laced with, which ones are more potent than fentanyl?
What are the limits of serverless for online gaming?
Both of those are significant outliers over our peer countries, however, which tells us that this problem could be easily solved if we wanted to. Licensing would help if done properly, as would restrictions on type, storage, etc. – Switzerland has tons of guns but they also have those kind of restrictions and a much lower rate of death or injury. All we need to do is roll back some judicial activism earlier this century and agree that the preamble to the second amendment still has the meaning the founders intended.

Similarly, America has reversed the declining vehicle death trend by subsidizing massive trucks which are designed to maximize the harm they inflict. Some of them would not be legal in other countries due to poor visibility or safety, and others are dangerous due to our culture of not enforcing traffic laws and designing unsafe roads.

All of these are choices and we could simply copy what our peers do to save thousands of lives per year. We have chose not to, but we could make better choices.
Fair enough, though I don’t touch consultancies. Which seem to be the mass of jobs I see right now.
The fuck I am, which antivax conspiracy theor(ies) were actually proven true?
My dad was in purchasing for various aircraft manufacturers, including McDonnell Douglas and Boeing.

It was literally his job to try and keep this nonsense under control.

It was extremely frequent that the engineers would request some screw with hyper specific requirements and would end up costing dozens of dollars or so per screw. Even more for the specialized tooling that would go with it.

From his perspective, the engineers loved designing new things rather than looking up, if anything previously existed.

So he would try and take the requirements and see if there was some off-the-shelf substitution that would meet the requirements. Saved companies a fortune again and again.
Confluence of Pandemic and Technology
The previous pandemic, in 1918, was not associated with and did not cause a major disruption in communications technology.

The latest pandemic, starting in 2019, was associated with and did cause a major adoption of communications technology, vis. the rise of WFH.

2019 seems like a peak of a wave, a combination of the forces of biology and computer technology.
How do we know ChatGPT isn't hallucinating parts of its answers? I think this is an interesting service but what are the guardrails so we can trust the answer?
That browser marketshare is primarily due to mobile. On desktop they are still around 6% on statcounter. Which is admittedly still not great, but not nearly as disastrous as 3%
Obviously, it depends on the work (why would we try to have a discussion like this without setting parameters?). But in general, I think the places that need 10x the code are outnumbered by the ones that would be better with 1/10th the code they have, written by fewer people. It doesn't happen, but that's better explained by organizational reasons.
Being born in America is winning the lottery in many ways. Should Americans pursue jobs in third world countries to avoid failing to succeed on their own merits?

Shoot, you'd really need to pick the worst job in the worst country as your starting point to know you really had what it takes.
The interesting aspect to me is that the lower inequality wasn't because there were more transfers then.
This line from one of the comments resonates with me. And I wish it didn't. One of my first product designs was too tightly integrated from the beginning between enclosure, PCBs, sensors, and even the firmware. There was never enough time to fully disentangle things, even some small changes took far more effort than they should have. Eventually we had to do an almost complete redesign while keeping all the important bits. I can't imagine doing that with the complexity and integration of a car would be easy for a young business to do.

"I’m pretty sure I’ve said this before, but the biggest concern I have with Rivian after watching the Munro teardowns is that those trucks are full of too-complex designs that are so tightly integrated with the rest of the truck that you can’t trivially fix them up in a mid-cycle refresh."
> you assume the universe is finite. This is a very long shot, not supported by mainstream science or theories

> Software growth can leverage the increase gains from hardware (more storage density, lower power requirements etc)

You should probably learn some physics if you want to make statements about what's phsyically possible. Whether the universe is finite or not is completely irrelevant. The portion of it humanity can access is finite, thanks to dark energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVoh27gJgME

Of course, even if you reject dark energy, you're still limited by pure geometry and the speed of light. Human resource growth has a hard upper bound proportional to (elapsed time)^3, because of three spatial dimensions and the speed of light. And as we all know, any exponential growth is faster than any polynomial grown, in the long term.

And at the other end, there is a maximum efficiency possible. You cannot work below particular thresholds, thanks to uncertainty.

There is no escape from the fact that exponential growth always ends.
That sounds like a significant and helpful addition to those scores. Have you tried contacting the Library to see if they could host the changes so they are available for others?

Alternatively maybe even github depending on the legality
these aren't 1980s lcds, they have an order of magnitude better contrast (slightly better contrast than a swindle), reportedly an order of magnitude lower power (i haven't measured mine yet), and much lower latency. this memory-in-pixel stuff relies on fabricating an entire flip-flop in every pixel, made of a layer of silicon on the glass, and that capability seems to be only about 13 years old, and only sharp has it

they do have glare but are quite readable in direct sunlight or outdoors in the shade or on a cloudy day

also they cost almost three orders of magnitude more

but they definitely aren't epaper. aside from the glare, speed, contrast, and power consumption differences, they fade in about 30 seconds when you unplug them, rather than staying stable for years, and they don't have grayscale
Yeah, Quantity has a Quality all its own.

Every time I hear an argument for surveillance that boils down to “well they could just stand there and watch you do the $activity,” I lightly lose my mind.

CCTV, ALNRs, facial recognition, etc. All of these are technically “just” advanced versions of the old fashioned stake-out. But that makes all the difference in the world.
That's surprising! It was easy to do on my G Pro wireless. I don't remember clearly at this point but there were only 3 or 4 screws under the feet (which I used a hair dryer to heat up to ensure they came off cleanly). Then under the paddles for the main buttons was I think one more screw holding the PCB down. The only tricky thing there was making sure I didn't lose the tiny spring used for the middle click.
This happened at my last employer all the damn time.

One time that employer charged the DSNY $500k-$700k to do a "site migration". I ended up doing 99% of the job (not exaggerating), having to remote into their old locked down windows server that runs their busted CMS by HP, and format the html and inline css for every page then paste into the new template. It was long (number of pages and slow as hell load times) and tedious, but easy as shit.

Guess what I got as a raise. Jack shit, while they made out like bandits. My salary was 5 figures, they pulled the same shit with NYC Dept of Health right after that project, and once again I got stuck with it and didn't get a raise.

Additionally, they internationally outsourced nearly every government project. I was the only dev there and they didn't want to hire any others, even though it seemed like a security risk and the shit we got in return was well... shit.

Bitching aside, government should be more stingy with contractors, scrutinize them and every line item, and change how they handle budgets from a "if you don't spend it by fiscal end you don't get a budget increase or rollover, rather a decrease" approach to something more efficient.
Almost each of such guys didn’t have to respond to Jira tickets and answer to shit asked by PMs and TPMs on a daily basis while standing in a circle and showcase/demo “progress” weekly, be part of a trillion meetings in a day, while also preparing documents for things you provably never understood the why of, and in general justify your existence there in a quantifiable way to every TDH in the team and the company.

So when you’re looking for that role after you think you’ve got that stamina/perseverance/commitment, do remember that maybe you still have to find that right place to work at.
> The Three Dimensions of DevEx
Our framework distills developer experience to its three core dimensions: feedback loops, cognitive load, and flow state
. These dimensions emerged from real-world application of our prior research, which identified 25 sociotechnical factors affecting DevEx.

Very solid groundwork for analyzing your development.