skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went the other way, from a manual laborer ("able seaman") on a cement tugboat to an engineer. I would never go back for any reason. Parts of working with your hands or working outdoors can be rewarding, but it was extremely brutal and backbreaking work. Aside from the physical demands it was also very unhealthy breathing in powdered cement all the time. IMO if you want to use your hands more start a garden, fix up a house or a car, or get some productive physical hobby. Don't quit your day job until you're very sure you want to do the thing day in day out for a living. Just my two cents.
How do you get someone through a hiring process unwittingly?

"Hey, can I see your resume, I just want to have one to look at?"

"Oh hey, my boss wants to talk to you, and maybe a couple more people too, can you show up at the office all day?"

"Don't worry, it's not a big deal, but can you maybe drive me to and from work every day, and to save gas, maybe you should stay at the office; you better tell your employer you won't be making it in anymore"

"Oh, can I have your bank account info to pay you for gas?"

"Hey, since you're here, can you work on this list of todos?"

"Oh oops, I deposited a salary instead of gas money"
> Modal windows and how they interact with the user is obviously something that should be standardized,

It already is. It's called tabs.
> It could get really ugly

Indeed, and not just there.

What pains me the most is that we collectively could be mitigating this with far more vigor but that would be in conflict with the worship of the quarterly profit report.
In some language all functions capture their environment, making that original statement more true than you make it out to be.

Personally I think the term closure should be banned, because it only adds confusion.

There are just functions, some named some anonymous, some capturing the environment, some not, some being disallowed by some constraints from the host language. The term closure cuts through this space in a useless and rather ad-hoc way.
> There’s a deep satisfaction in putting forth real effort - mentally and physically with sweat and sometimes blood - doing something that’s taxing, alongside and for the people in your community you know and love.

I don't know if I'm alone in this, but I've never felt this. I have no interest in this and take no satisfaction from it. If somebody wants something from me I'll give my money. Obviously I give my time for my job so I get money but that's only because I have to work.

If I didn't have to work, I wouldn't. I took 3 years off once and kept to myself and loved it. Didn't contribute to society besides spending money.
All too true. Was talking to a buddy and he said this was service should be called the "Doula of Death"

It is a fairly brutal process - especially for people who've never gone through it before (which is most founders). So many steps involved and traps to fall into. Botched one thing for my own dissolution (and I paid a lawyer thousands of dollars to help) and had to pay out of pocket a year later :(

Really appreciate the kind words though - thanks for responding and taking a read
"intelligence"

This is a very problematic word. For example if you were a civil engineer and went "throw me any old design for a bridge, I have a river I need to cross", you'd have your license removed.

Intelligence is too massively loaded, and too much of a gradient even across humans to try to some up human or AI abilities. It is a multitude of different capabilities that don't necessarily have to be bundled together for something to be 'smart', 'useful', 'capable', and/or 'dangerous'.
So weird, I posted it with almost the original title (only slightly abbreviated to make it fit: "Why the Original Transformer Figure Is Wrong, and Some Interesting Tidbits About LLMs".

Not sure what happened there. Someone must have changed it! So weird! And I agree that the current title is a bit awkward and less representative.
Not OP but I do something similar, because I know each ad I see costs someone $$$. This leads to odd behavior like making sure I let youtube ads play for their full duration and I'll usually click on sponsor links + their pages enough to trigger the first flag of a sales pipeline, ensuring the company responsible for the ad pays as much as possible for it.
Having a tool that'd make it easy to run the app locally for development and at the same time have roughly the same files used in production. Docker compose got this mostly right, compare compose with the complexity of running locally service in micro Kubernetes cluster.
Hell, I've been programming (among other things) for 20 years now and never even come close to $100K.

Granted, I live in a rural area, so CoL is lower, but still, that doesn't entirely balance out.

Not every tech worker works at a tech company, and not every tech worker makes bank, in either relative or absolute terms.
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/23/climate-change-unprecedente... ("Nearly 2 billion at risk from "unprecedented" climate conditions")

> Of note: The study found that if countries only meet existing emissions reductions based on current policies, and warming were to reach 2.7°C by 2100 (4.8°F), the top 5 countries most vulnerable to unprecedented heat (based on the number of people exposed) would be India, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines and Pakistan.

> In this scenario, up to a third of humanity would be exposed to such extreme heat and be well outside the human climate niche, the study found. The heat would not hold off until the end of the century, but ratchet up noticeably over time.

> The study concludes that for every 0.1°C (0.18°F) increase in global average surface temperatures, another 140 million people will be exposed to dangerous heat.
I try to be positive about everything, but this entire idea is terrifying as someone who spends time on the water.

I highly doubt your pilot can spot a small fishing vessel or a kayak going over 100 mph.
I suspect there are quite a few software engineers who have been making $250K+ for some years who could live on the return on their investments alone.

I mean, I guess it also depends on live at what standard of living. At the standard of living they are "accustomed to", or at the standard of living of someone making $50K a year? Some larger number of software engineers who have been making $250K could live on their investment income alone for equiv of $50K/year after taxes.

So, right, more of a spectrum than a binary -- you see why some people are dubious of whether a software engineer making $250K a year is really in the same class as a retail worker making $50K a year (or less; federal minimum wage is still $7.25; my state's minimum wage is $13.25, less than $30k/year, a shockingly small amount to many of us, that many people actually make)

On other conversations, people have suggested that whether you are a "boss" and can hire and fire is determinative. But again, a fast food "manager" might be making only $50K a year, while a software engineer who does not manage people might be making $250K or more. The software engineer is a "worker" who definitely has the same class interests as a walmart worker, but the fast food manager is definitely not? Doesn't really check out.

You say "the Marxist definition", but I think that's actually a huge over-simplification of a Marxist analysis. Your class position and interests have to do with your income, your "relationship to the means of production" (role in the economy), your wealth, and other things. And it's probably useful to consider more than 2 or even 3 classes, and sub-classes within classes.

I think it's a huge over-simplification to claim that every software engineer making $250K surely is in the same class and has the same class interests as every fast food worker making $12/hour. That's not in fact a good Marxist analysis at all.

The pandemic made it pretty clear to me that there is definitely a class divide between the people in jobs where they paid to work from home (or in many cases, especially at first, stay home and not work); and the people who had to come in to get paid and/or who were were told not to come/laid off because there was no work to do.
So was Kodak with digital cameras.
Write lint rules in natural language, enforce policies your linter can't
Generative Fill, a new superpower integrated throughout Photoshop
This article points out what is probably a real trend, but is hilariously blind to the fact there may be legitimate reasons WHY this is happening.

1. Perhaps the "regressive attitudes and censorship of sexual minorities and sex-positive content" represent a real popular movement that believes that sexual liberalization has been a giant boon for predators and we need to set some collective limits. The insinuation that this is all just an effect of FOSTA is idiotic. The wind shifted and people with different concerns than before now feel comfortable voicing them.

2. Perhaps fandom is just irredeemable. There is an unresolved deeper tension with the fact that the "sex-positive" undercurrent where fans fill-in-the-blanks from a very sexually sanitary show gives sexual identity to the characters (especially female) that wasn't there in the original. If you embrace this as a first-class part of the culture (which is what is being celebrated in the article), it makes everything very weird and you draw into the same space some adults who are obviously into it sexually and some kids who just enjoy the characters. Your two points of reference for developing a common ethical framework are a corporate-controlled piece of fiction marketed towards children and horny rule34 fans. It's basically cultural jurassic park.
Not necessarily. For a worked example, it's cheaper to power Boston with a large number of local solar panels and batteries than it is to power it with a small number of solar panels and batteries in Arizona connected to Boston via HVDC lines.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/the-future-of-...
Not entirely clear why you need to rewrite if you're also doing vhost based "routing" (wildcard certificate).

But as the saying went with apache, if you have a routing problem, you can fix it with mod_rewrite - now you have two problems!

You might want to (re)read:

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html

and skim:

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/load_balancing.html

And (re)read:

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#pr...

It seems dubious that you need any rewriting for your setup.

You might need a handful of server blocks (vhosts) with either proxy_pass or a few locations with proxy_pass?
Jupyter in the Emacs Universe
In my experience they tend to flee upwards - in the extremely unfortunate event you get one of these on you, (I've walked into their webs several times) I recommend raising your arms near a tree, it will probably scamper up and away.
1000% needed this when I shut down my startup
I mean they definitely know what they’re doing when it comes to advertising but what’s with the Metaverse? I mean what problem are they trying to solve there?
That’s why they pay double what normal employers do, who will also fire you at any time.
For my private network, I used The Black Company for characters. Logging on CROAKER. Primary Domain Controller would be DOMIN8R; Backup Domain Controller is THELADY. Heavy wizardry on ONEEYE or GOBLIN. Various servers got CATCHER, SHIFTER, LIMPER, and the like.
At the same time, your education costs were much lower - through no fault of your own. Why should younger borrowers be penalized for market forces they did not contribute to?
I wonder if for example a function is an example of a transformer. So the phrase "argument one is cat" and argument two is dog and operation is join so the result is the word catdog is operated by the transformer as the function concat(cat,dog). Here the query is the function and the keys are the argument for the function and the value is a function from word to words.
> And this produce what is objectively an historical howler right at the start.

What howler? You quote it ascribing actions to the Guatemalan dictatorship in the 1930s which is accurate. Then you claim the piece says the CIA was active in the 1930s, which it does not say anywhere.
You’re not wrong, but this is also probably not the best time to point it out.

By analogy: the cost of achieving 0 deaths from automobile accidents is probably not worth it. Still, prob best not to mention it at the funerals.
The idea of flooding some desert at first seemed gobsmackingly useless to me. The article talks about a 6mm drop in ocean levels.

The article does say it could potentially increase total water evaporation by up to 6% though, and that could be useful.
I had a similar background. Grew up doing manual labor on a family farm, then college then active duty military for several years. There's a huge difference between "manual labor indoors normal hours" and "manual labor outdoors all hours all weather". For the first 15 years of my software career I couldn't believe my good fortune; awesome pay, intereting work, smart coworkers, dry and warm! Heaven!

Now at 20+ years in software I'm so fried I can barely push a key a lot of days. My body is wrecked because I haven't kept fitness up. I need to make some changes for sure. Looking at possible hardware start up now.
Why should I pay for the fire department when my house has never caught on fire? Why don't we instead have the fire department directly bill the property owners after they put out a fire?
To be fair this is debt they take on willingly. Now if the government should be letting 18-year olds take on huge amounts of debt without understanding the long term consequences...thats a different story.
I pay €0,394/kWh (Tax included, Netherlands). That price does not include fixed connection costs (0,19 per day) and a bunch of other things.

Prices are insane here. The provider will pocket the money they make off of cheap production of energy. Us consumers will see nothing of the low electricity price.
>having already accepted the framing that the only way to prevent this police overreach is to restrict everyone from doing similar things.

My position is people should be free to photograph in public anything they can see. That's currently how the law is written. I don't think it's perfect, but I can't think of a better alternative (thus this discussion).

>The cops aren't the public and should be subject to additional restrictions beyond what the public is subjected to.

I agree as an ideal, but in practice there are a lot of barriers.

- They can legally arrest you, even if you didn't break any laws and aren't required to even know the law.
- They aren't legally required to help anybody.
- They have blanket qualified immunity granted by the SCOTUS.
- Each police department and sheriff's department is their own jurisdiction, so any blanket restraint would need to be done at the federal level.
- They have one of, if not the strongest unions in the country.
- They have strong political support that is just now eroding a bit in blue states.

We are having a hard time just managing police brutality and unnecessary force currently.

An interesting irony is that the more laws / restrictions we ask the government to put on people, the broader jurisdiction the police have over our everyday lives.

An old example is jaywalking. Since jaywalking became a crime, the police can stop / detain you, legally require you to identify (and arrest / charge you if you refuse) and possibly Terry frisk you just because you walked across the street in a certain way.

Because of this, when people propose making a law to prevent people from doing something not-egregious, like say smoking at the beach, I'm against it. It's not worth the intrusion for me and my kids and my kids' kids, etc.

Anyway, I've gotten way off topic. Thanks for the discussion.
> Misspelling "Attention is All Your Need" twice in one paragraph makes for a rough start to the linked post.

100%! LOL. I was traveling and typing this on a mobile device. Must have been some weird autocorrect/autocomplete. Strange. And I didn't even notice. Thanks!
Conversely I love that I can set it to use the system browser, I absolutely loathe in-app browsers.
=(

typing this from my ~12 year old lenovo x201.
Relic lays off 121 employees
Plants will grow more easily... due to increased temperature and CO2, just like in a greenhouse

This in the long run will reverse the climate change, so after we go extinct, the remaining species will thrive :)
I rarely see articles as stupid and poorly thought out as this one. Much as I've detested the VCs I've personally met, are we supposed to replace new business funding with GOSPLAN?
This would probably be achievable once framework releases an ARM motherboard. At that point, it's looking more like they'd release an ARM board than a trackpoint keyboard. I can dream...
trash also disproportionally punishes the poor. said poor also would benefit from picking up said trash and redeeming the cash. consumables tend to be more unhealthy, which you guessed it, also disproportionally punishes the poor. if we hire more people to manually pick up trash or add more trash cans, that results in more taxes or reduced spending on other things, which, well, you get the idea.

I doubt any meaningful reform on any issue will not disproportionally affect poor people.

this is probably why the government simply does nothing instead due to the endless bike shedding by constituents.!
This is not about your local elementary/middle/high schools, this is about higher education and their costs for both private/public universities. These costs have been increasing YoY at a much higher rate than inflation and for what?

More administrators? More useless degrees?

The entire premise of student loans is everyone is eligible for them, regardless of their potential future financial ability to pay them off. They're also not ever allowed to default on these loans.

These loans should be dictated by the free market for a multitude of reasons. One, it prevents the sociology student from incurring a 200k student debt that they'll not be able to repay because loan issuers will in fact realize that these students will never repay these bills. Two, if students cannot afford these outrageous loans, they'll have to cut back on their overpriced degree fees.
I've found you really do need to use sweet Onions like Texas 1015s or Vidalias if you want good, quick(er) carmelized onions. Adding sugar is not the same thing at all as having the sugar grown into the onion itself!

Adding water early on in the cooking process to steam cook and soften the onions really speeds things up, too. (See Lan Lam's YouTube video on cooking carmelized onions. I use a slightly different method, but she got me on the track of adding water early, which really does help...)
i had cervical disk hernia them prevented me from looking at sceens for over a year.
The video seems to have been made private unfortunately.
You mean ReFS?
While you could be right, just want to mention that the comment you're replying to said 1% rather than $1.
800 billion dollars in PPP loan forgiveness seems more palatable to you, maybe?
wezterm added support for it but that's not the only option.
I don't really know much about webgpu but as far as I know wezterm does not run on the browser.
https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/front_end.h...
I've been a software engineer for 25 years. I'm currently at the Principal level and I'm thinking about retiring from tech. I'm "only" 41.

I'm not sure how valuable my input will be, since I haven't actually done it, and what I'm thinking about leaving the tech sector for is not exactly "manual labour" even though it is way more physical.

My wife and I are semi-professional performing magicians. We've been developing our act on and off for the last 7 years or so and do weekend gigs. And we're thinking about giving up a cushy > 200k / year base salary to become starving artists.

Why? The obvious one is that we're extremely passionate about our act and love it.

But I'm also tired of the tech industry. I don't have the enthusiasm for technology that I used to. I never jumped on the smart phone bandwagon. I'm sick of the direction the industry has gone in with cloud and SaaS. I'm a tinkerer, a maker at my core. That's not only why I love magic (the prop building, problem solving, script writing... producing something that is MINE) but it's what got me into technology in the first place: being the master of the machine. Building and creating something tangible that has a real effect on the user. That factor seems to be eroding more and more as specialization takes hold in the industry and the machine we're programming is some virtual computer in a data centre.
You are heavily downvoted, but I think you’re right. The Windows + Intel combo appears to be in serious trouble for the PC and laptop markets.

The main problem I see is the slowing of Moore’s law and Dennard’s scaling. It used to be that you didn’t have to innovate on a laptop. You only needed to get the state-of-the-art chip on board to beat the competition. This is less so nowadays as can be seen from the Apple laptops which have improved on all layers on the stack. The newest Intel or AMD laptop doesn’t necessarily beat a 2 years old Apple laptop performance and usability wise.

Regarding Windows, Microsoft does care according to the build conference from yesterday: they announced plugins inside Windows and other cool new features. However, according to Nadella, Google makes more money on a typical Windows laptop than Microsoft does. I think this partially explains why Windows seems to have stalled innovation wise.
> If anti-piracy did not exist within regular countries, then literally zero content that required investment would get made, it's that simple.

Of course, there's always the same model other people use: If a cabinet maker wants to make money they have two options: They can find someone who wants something made, tell them the price and if they pay that price make it. Or they can take a long look around and say "you know what, I think people would like to buy chairs. I'll make a chair and put it up for sale" - note that the second option doesn't have any guarantees. If someone takes a look around the shop, decides to not buy the chair and instead makes one themselves that's absolutely okay.

Copyright is an anomaly, not the rule. Most people can only sell something once.
Power series, power serious: Talk by Doug McIlroy (2007) [video]
Absolutely. I've found doctors in multiple countries to be highly available. No such thing as an appointment 6 months later.
Sure but I can find examples of this in both directions. GPT-4 fails spectacularly at any task that doesn't have very precisely sanitized inputs presented to it in a certain format. It also fails at any task requiring any sort of interaction with the world. I think criticisms that it isn't a general intelligence are entirely fair even if it seems a bit more like general intelligence than most things that came before.
"Efficient allocation of capital"[0] does not factor-in human misery.

0. Assuming for a moment yhat such a thing exists.
Kitty is my favorite but acts weird when ssh-ing into other machines for reasons discussed on their github. (To do with setting the $TERM correctly)
Certainly, and there is nothing wrong with pointing out that a publication is biased is favor of its owner's interests.
I finished my AS and BS as a non-trad at the ages of 29 and 35. I'm currently in my mid 40s. Debt from my AS was paid by my parents, but the $31k in student loan debt and $20k in credit card debt for my BS was paid by me[1]. Most of that in the past 5 years, meaning that I lost out on the stock market gains by prioritizing the debt pay off. To add insult to injury, my final payment was Feb of 2020, just in time to miss out on the forgiveness (I accelerated payments with the proceeds of a second job).

[1] - When you're hourly, and maintaining a household, it costs money to take time off from work to go to school.
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