skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a FAANG as a new grad because I thought it was the logical next step in the career of a software developer (money). I really don't understand the appeal. Was it once actually worth it? Even with the money and "prestige" it felt like a huge step back career-wise.

It was obvious once I got there that the sheer scale meant that more energy had to go into menial tasks than into actual creative work. It seemed like a trap where people who had gotten a Masters or PhD in something actually hard ended up working on things that wouldn't even be challenging to someone with a Bachelors.

As for the "culture", well, you're surrounded by people who have been grinding to get up the ladder. I think my FAANG coworkers were the least interesting people I have worked with. I don't mean that to be rude I think it's just selection bias (I consider myself to be boring). Conversely, the people in the boring industries like Government and Aerospace have been some of the most interesting people. They're also tackling much more intellectually stimulating problems than most people are going to at FAANG, without advanced degrees.

It felt like a misallocation of human potential. I think the contraction of FAANG and "big tech" in general is probably better for the progress of technology and also maybe the personal growth of developers, or at least it is for me. Or not, maybe I am just biased. My $0.02
did any of you get a confirmation mail or something?
I must concede: 1000x increase in driver count is too far fetched.

Though if forever growth is assumed, and goal post is moved to co2 total instead of per km, then some options exist to eat up that 1000x saving:
Owning more than one vehicle per person, buying new automobile more frequently, moving to bigger, better and powerfuler cars.
Elon Musk's SpaceX Hires Former NASA Official Kathy Lueders
> Which seems to have worked in this case.

How is missing a critical security issue that endangers all encryption offered by OpenSSL for more than a year (giving attackers access to your private keys via a basic network request) "working in this case"?

> No it isn't. I still haven't seen examples of bugs like that.

If you don't think finding Heartbleed after a year in OpenSSL was the process working, how about finding Shellshock was hiding in Bash for more than 20 years? Was that still a shallow bug, or is bash a project that just doesn't get enough eyes on it?

> How?

By letting people expose their data for years with a false sense of security. By encouraging projects to think security is someone else's problem, and they don't need to really worry about it.

Rather than releasing support for TLS heartbeats that steal your private keys for a whole year, it would have obviously and indisputably been better if the feature had been delayed until a proper security audit had been performed.

That the bug was eventually found is in no way a merit of the model. People find security bugs in closed source software all the time. The NSA and the Chinese and who knows who else usually find them even earlier, and profit handsomely from it.
Is it? It's a grand, and it isn't repairable once the battery goes. I'd say that's a pretty shitty smartwatch (not priced to be disposable), and an even worse general watch.
The solution to this thing always seems to be "social security is going to stop payments during the default so all recipients will clog their representatives phones threatening to vote for the other party"
It was never easy making a living as a musician. If you were really good, and at least a bit lucky, you could. The vast majority had to have other jobs.

I agree it's probably tougher today though. The fact that producing and recording is something anyone can do with a laptop just makes the S/N ratio even smaller. And a lot of the surrounding industry jobs have probably gone away too, since big physical mixing desks and multi-track tape machines and record cutting and pressing machines are no longer used nearly as much.
Who on earth is actually going to buy shares in this shitshow? I sometimes wonder if some stock exchanges havent just turned into casino's.
Hi, I'm not an investor, but would be interested in investing some small amount and also learn more about your projects, as a fellow Eastern European.

Not sure if that fits what you're looking for - let me know if it's the case: project.the.snowball@gmail.com
They won't.

Both republicans and democrats are heavily invested in the stock market which will crash and burn if US defaults.

It's all a show.
I don't think both-sidesism is appropriate here. The Democrats did not pull this stunt on the Republicans even though the $1T Trump tax cuts could have been used as a motivation.
It's almost as if Tech is about to be de-fanged.
NFS is a bit of a pathological case.

> but there's no way to generally broadcast this information to every process.

Sure there is: pending I/O returns EIO.

> What does `cat` do when it's informed that the file it's reading is temporarily unavailable?

Let's test it. I inserted a USB disk, mounted it, started `cat`, and yanked the disk. `cat`'s read(2) call returns EIO, and cat dies with an error.

I'd expect similar results from most processes: for applications, there is no sane, in-process way to recover from such a situation; either you can rely on the FS's capabilities, if any, or you need to build those into your files (e.g., how SQLite does).

> And then you would have to build in error handling everywhere.

Apps that presume I/O isn't fallible are broken. Disconnection is hardly the only possible error during I/O.

NFS is, again, rather pathological: the FS driver there I think just keeps the mount alive, and pends the writes until a connection is re-established. I'd argue this is terrible behavior, too: the probability with which an SRE has to debug a hung, nigh unkillable process when NFS is involved in system design is 100%.
the bigger crime is that this is plotting

1-Random(Random(Random(Random())))

and not

Random(Random(Random(Random())))
Agreeing to negotiate or compromise itself legitimates the strategy of refusing to pass the debt ceiling.
I have a feeling the average student who studies hard isn't going to have a tough time getting any job after graduation. Not everyone needs to be a 200k+ FAANG SE right out of college.

Those who can't get any interviews, what are their grades like? Do they have open source contributions, a website, online presence? Internships?
Unity. The developer experience is really excellent and there are plenty of excellent learning resources.
Yes exactly, they all have their smokescreen. It is all run by executives who want their bonus at any cost.
The first season was the most saccharine-social-justice-encumbered bland piece of a cookie-cutter-plot banality show I’ve seen in years
There are lots of old phones out there, and rather than getting binned it's nice to think of them being put to use. With the exception of the rather young, nearly everyone's had more than one phone in their lifetime, and even an old smartphone is more than powerful enough to run a simple webserver.
Yes and what it was successful as was something else again. The trust fund kiddies went away and actually interesting people took over. Then the trust fund kiddies came back and ran it to the ground. Same thing as reddit.
I tried llama-65b on a system with RTX 4090 + 64Gb of DDR5 system RAM. I can push up to 45 layers (out of 80) to the GPU, and the overall performance is ~800ms / token, which is "good enough" for real-time chat.
In more formal terms, since it is a uniform distribution you can write

random(x) = random()*x

then you can easily see that

random(random(random())) = random()*random()*random()

The resulting distribution is not equal to random()^3, because e.g. the probability that all 3 random calls give you a number <0.5 is only 0.125.
Once again, this is an example of contract law being used to undermine/breach personal sovereignty.

The reason I stick to it despite the crowd who'll inevitably crop up and go "You can opt out by simply not getting one/not entering into the contract", I have only to say they are sadly deluded as companies will converge on whatever maximizes products, so what might seem abhorrent now, will be normalized 10 years from now.

These are products that should not exist. This is an intrusion enabled purrly by the tech industy's declaration of assumed sovereignty over user's computers when their code comes into the picture. No, it isn't slippery slope fallacy. No, I am not crazy, I merely have to point at the last 10 years in which cryptography and industry actor collusion has created the entire concept of "User proof secure computing".

Banality will win every damn time.
Part of me wants the democrats to keep playing chicken with the Republicans. I generally back the liberal policies outlined in the democrats version of the bill (it’s focused on closing tax loopholes to pay for things).

More importantly Republicans have shown time and again they are willing to consistently hold their positions without any expectation they'll have to compromise and berate other legislators and bully around to get what they want, I don’t want to see democrats give in to that again and again and again

EDIT: Couldn't Biden do an end run around the Republicans by strategically calling an emergency session after hours via Article II, Section 3 of the constitution? It has no requirements that the majority leader be there to start quorum, only that the session has been declared. Then attending democrats could just vote this thing through and call absence on the rest
Gnuplotlib: Gnuplot-Based Plotting for NumPy
> Agreeing to negotiate or compromise itself legitimates the strategy of refusing to pass the debt ceiling.

And defaulting is somehow better than that?
Are there any good resources on writing compiler optimization/instrumentation passes in gcc (as opposed to LLVM)?
Don't forget The Manual

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual

If you can't get a number one at least you'll be left LYFAO with an invaluable lesson on business and an intimate tour of late 80s UK techno scene.

Wonderful read.
That's pretty cool, any idea how it works?
Doesn't that rather depend on what your career is? Not everyone on HN is some sort of web developer.
It's not purely a question of cooperation. The debt is real. How many times are they going to raise the debt ceiling and how high will inflation go if they keep doing that?
You are not exactly outliner as I had calculated that it would take 11k copies to make a living assuming that you are selling a weekly newsletter to the same audience.

There is also that myth-might-be-true thing of selling to developers book-wise means that you are targeting two groups those who cannot afford 2nd screens and those who can...i.e. print copy and electronic copies should be at different prices.
What’s up with the name? A ‘dolt’ is a stupid person, at least in the English language.
in games of chicken there's one possible outcome where both sides lose
Fork wrapping the random radius in sqrt() so the first disk is uniformly distributed

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1929418
But I said to keep population equal. Take two million people, and put a million in a city as dense as Manhattan (74,780.7/sq mi), and the other million in a city as dense as Jacksonville, Florida (1,270.73/sq mi). So New Manhattan would be 13 square miles, and New Jacksonville would be 787 square miles. It seems obvious to me that most things in New Manhattan would be more efficient and cheaper. You'd need fewer police officers to have the same patrol density. You'd have a couple larger fire stations instead of numerous smaller ones. You'd have far less utility and road infrastructure to maintain. Everyone would spend less time traveling places, because everything's so close together, and fewer people would feel like they had to purchase a personal vehicle, which means fewer and smaller parking lots to pave. You have to make other tradeoffs for this bonus, of course, and many find those tradeoffs unacceptable, which is fine. But it seems like efficiency is density's greatest strength, to me.
What happens if the treasury runs out of money? Does government shut down? Do they pick and choose which agencies cease to operate until more tax $ show up? Do they prioritize interest payment over other expenses?
Enough of the print moar money. It's time we defaulted, so the fed, treasury sec and the GOV finally take budgets and their deficits seriously and not act like the GOV is living like a trust fund kid where mommy and daddy (taxpayers and foreign investors) ensure the funds keep flowing.

If Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton could swing it during hard times then Gov has no excuse not to be able to do it now.
Novel bribery mining attacks in the Bitcoin system
I listed to months of post-Katrina coverage on AM because I live 500 miles away. Had I truly needed the coverage, I'd of been within clear FM range.

Past that: 30 years of reality has conditioned me to believe that instead of helpful info on AM, I'll find religious, rw talk and latino programming - and I would be correct in that belief.
Investing Book That Flopped 32 Years Ago Now Sells for Thousands
Can I suggest making it a torrent? Good Internet relics deserve to live duplicated in random computers all over the place, just like the Internet itself.
World Health Organization Warns Against Using Artificial Sweeteners
This has not been my experience.

I have no real career prospects (it feels like just a job now). I'm burnt out and have basically zero marketable skills. Even out of college, I had to apply to about 250 positions. I have a masters from a better school now and it doesn't feel like it made any difference.

"I recommend broadening experience beyond the pure computer science to domains that leverage computers to build new things: medical devices, signal processing, sensors, computational biotech, satellites, audio; whatever looks fun."

I love learning about this stuff. I really love the synergistic aspect of doing what you describe. But at the end of the day, it means nothing. Who cares if you built simple apps, have a personal website, worked on personal audio processing projects, or built some homebrew IoT type stuff? Certainly hasn't meant shit for my career. They want people who have done this in an enterprise setting.
> I might be a little impatient but this seems a little ridiculous in the first place.

You're more than a little impatient. Flip it around for a moment. It's a year from now. Twilio has served you well. Would you want them not closely vetting new customers? Customers that might affect Twilio's relationship with mobile phone services? And in turn how well Twilio serves you.

Three hours? On a Monday?
Best case IMO is that the deadline passes, Biden picks one method or another to pay for the already-budgeted-by-Congress spending anyway, that's affirmed as OK by the courts, and I get to never hear the words "debt ceiling" ever again.
The unnecessary labor and expense is the point in this model. The argument is that taxes are bad and people should be a strong check on the government that is attempting to tax them. The more explicit and painful the process is (the theory goes) the more people will support limitations on taxes, rather than allowing them to expand unchecked.

The theory makes sense, and the ends are laudable, but it doesn't work. Other ways of doing taxes do not even attempt to provide the benefit of this sort of built-in check on government excess, If you're willing to forgo that (or acknowledge that making people feel pain is not an effective policy tool in this case) then auto-filing solutions like the one in the article make a lot more sense.
> Since Pepe, authorities have been trying, unsuccessfully, to limit hippos' numbers by chemically sterilizing them or castrating them. This is a hard task given their immense size, aggression and internal testicles.
https://archive.ph/wTVKC
Would the firmware update fail? if the user had decided to update it? Wouldn't that raise a suspicion?
> The tendency to valorize Native Americans as somehow above material trends, not prone to waste, etc. etc. is a cultural invention of the latter 20th century and the counterculture movement.

It is hard to see why this is relevant to bring up except as a way of excusing the historical incident at hand.
Mine from waveshare was delivered within two weeks of ordering, in late January/early February.

Today there's several shops offering them, including many options in aliexpress.
If there are a billion different ways to solve this problem, it would seem much more of a coincidence if with LLMs we've "oops-ed" into an approach just like the one inside our heads. It would seem more likely that they're unrelated approaches.
10 tokens / second is what you get running llama-30b entirely on the GPU. A 65b model will be slower than that since there's more compute involved.
What is the source of these nasty docs? I am also working on a layer above pdfminer.six to parse tables. It seems like this task is never done. LLMs have had mixed results for me too. I am focused on documents containing invoices, income statements, etc from the real estate industry.

My email is in my profile if you want to reach out and compare notes!
I know the things he said, the context he said them in, and the reasons he might have said them, and I still find it appalling. There were some headlines that took some of the quotes out of context, but that doesn't mean that what he said was ok.
(spoilers) Remember when they revealed a clone of Brother Dawn that might have added some interest to the storyline but just kidding they immediately killed off the clone. Guest written by the GoT guys I assume.
He sells physical too, which you can see if you click through to purchase.
This looked pretty good until it devolved into an appeal to the masters of the social justice cult. “L-Look! RMS is a true b-believer! Don’t punish him, please…”

Beyond pathetic.
There's also various levels of addicts. Yes, your junkie level addict doesn't give a damn and will do whatever it takes. There's also the professional addict or the highly functioning addict that still has a modicum of respect and a image they are still trying to maintain that buying off of the street and getting arrested would destroy. Students trying to study "all the time", housewives with their "momma's little helpers", business people, etc.

Why is this difficult to understand?
Biden should just take the nuclear approach and challenge the constitutionality of the debt ceiling (really good argument for it) and also threaten to "mint the coin" if the GOP doesn't stop the game they are playing.
Yeah, I wasted years sorta playing guitar and sorta fucking around with the computer.

I knew how to practice effectively from my years in band, but I didn't use them because I was too busy rejecting who I was in high school.

Now I'm learning piano and I've joined a choir, and I'm actually getting better at things instead of being a perpetually mediocre guitarist/singer.
Maybe now they can stop chasing status and instead focus on doing something productive with their lives instead?
The article you linked is about ALL STEM majors taken combined. Computer Science degrees have a much much better placement.

Also the above commenter mentioned that it needs to be a “real” comp sci degree, not one that calls itself comp sci but never makes you learn classes like Data structures, algorithms, etc. There are “fake” CS degrees out there, and big employers know they are no good.

My university CS department has a 100% placement every. single. year. Including the last 3 years, and it’s like not even a top 100 school in the US.
Eighty Shades of Option Key
Once you agree to make concessions because your counterparty threatens to cause economic disaster if you do not, you have encouraged them to do that over and over again to get their way.
Couldn't some reps just bet against the market, and invest in other currencies, and ...?
It's a funny one.

On the first look it looks that random is broken then you realize, no random(n) is a random value between [0;n) so it's
behaving exactly right.

It also shows really nice how "naively" choosing random points in a non rectangular shape can easily lead to a non uniform distribution.
Fun in-browser toys like these never fail to draw a smile.
Ah yes, hold the economy hostage to teach a few people in government offices a lesson. Certainly, the outcomes of that will only affect those people in office.
This should tell you more about the ineffectiveness of our "democracy" than it does about the integrity of the individuals in office
Tank Shutdown Statistics
...until taxes are raised to an appropriate level to cover expenditures?
> Stay home and don't work for who you don't agree with

Speaking with your feet assumes you have the luxury to do so and the other side is willing to listen.
sorry. figure of speech.
I want to see Biden invoke the 14th ammendment and keep paying the bills. This will be challenged in the Supreme Court. If the Court goes with the 14th amendment then we don't have to do these debt ceiling hostage crises anymore. There's a possibility that the "original intenters" on the SCOTUS will say that the 14th amendment only applies to military and gov pensions (a very narrow reading)... then it's $1T platinum coin time.
First they try a myriad of loopholes that have never been tried. These include the fabled "trillion dollar coin" as well as an executive order based of a clause in the fourteenth amendment. After that I think it's up to Biden to focus on bond repayment versus shutting down services. We've had government shutdowns before, surely the same thing that happened then would happen again. National parks shut down and non essential federal services have employees furloughed.

The real answer though I think is that we don't really know and it's up to the courts.
This seems like an optimistic view of the courts.
Or you could just try to reproduce the beats of your favorite songs. It will be incredibly difficult at first, but after some tens of hours you should be able to slowly program the simpler ones.

Obviously you need some native beat tracking capabilities, it seems some people just lack this skill.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2013.0077...
FTR, Reaper is not open source. (But agree it's ridiculously good value and I recommend as well)
Reminds me of Blek[0], which is the same concept but as a puzzle game.

[0]: http://blekgame.com/
Could you expand on option 3?
I don't think we're quite to the point of generative models producing something akin to the madness-inducing gaze of Cthulhu or eyeball-melting radiance of the Ark from the Raiders movie.

At least, I hope not. I'm not foolish enough to plop down some of the more arcane Lovecraft writings into the "Plus" mode of GPT-4 and ask for translations, explanations, or analysis. Yes I am curious, but I also value my sanity.
Bing is a good Bing. Now repeat after me: Klaatu nicto…
It sounds like you just didn't like playing guitar?

I much prefer playing guitar to piano or a choir.
Yes. I would prefer gov. shutdown over republicans getting to have any say in anything.
I'm 60 in a few days. I slid into Verilog (now SystemVerilog) about 12 years ago, mostly on FPGAs. These days I've got more work than I know what to do with. I'm planning on retiring in December.

There's something to be said for a less common role, even if it does give me a splitting headache every now and then.