skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they might as well get them for 1/4 of the price from Central and South America.

Where can I find these mythical Central and South Americans that are "just as qualified as US engineers" and 1/4 of the price?

I keep hearing about them, but the only devs I've met who would match that description were very much charging US rates.
Oh ya we have open water covered. Coastal travel = coastal destinations. The trips themselves can be coastally proximal or over open water.
Agreed. Another way to justify this behavior is that "pessimists don't get promoted" So you're either a growth CEO or a restructuring CEO. Wall Street has no interest in administrator CEOs.
How exactly do you propose a mid-level software engineer affect the working conditions in a warehouse?
This kind of sentiment is both in tech and also in every other field that has or could have unionization, and it's never true.
Pretty cooL!
Honestly, good luck trying. Seriously. (Fellow founder here.)
I think you’re right. It’s irresponsible/dangerous for a business not to try to grow as fast as it can, especially in as cutthroat a market as tech can be. Just how the system works, for better or worse.

However the “poor CEO gets fired with only a $10MM golden parachute” angle doesn’t play as well with the average reader
There's no need to detail how individual bricks of a house will be laid out when discussing the overall plan of it. Current LLMs, from my experience, don't branch out too well when facing ambiguity, but rather pick the most likely answer consistent with the history. But it's imaginable that these concerns will be addressed once systems start maximizing the returns over whole conversations and not just individual interactions.
Faster token generation at 1/10th the cost per token seems like a great indication, unless they're just fleecing us with -003
That's me. Just testing comments.
Sold any for the San Francisco Bay Area yet? Half Moon Bay would definitely benefit from hosting some of these.
He owns a car company and wants people to use cars.
You:

> Literally no one in the Push's audience is looking to replace/upgrade the Push's hardware.

Ableton:

> Replace processor, battery and hard drive as technology improves

And why do people want to throw around the Dunning-Kruger effect in so many discussions. Does it help your point ?
Andrew is a genius. He's the man!
> Teacher strikes and unionization efforts have been winning

Citations needed
Whenever I see a claim about GPT I get temporarily interested until I learn it’s GPT3.5 and not GPT4.

4 isn’t just marginally better at most tasks I use it for, it’s operating at an entirely different level to the point where I have little (no?) day-to-day use of 3.5 at this point.
It took me a minute to realize that this isn’t about the Zed text editor.
My advice for developers has been to write comments before writing the code. That way they describe the intention followed by an implementation. Even if there was a bug somewhere or code was poorly written at least i knew what the intention was.

So maybe training a model against some really well documented codebases might help?

Perhaps unit tests are a also a must since proper unit tests force granularity, thus in theory you’d have a good description of what the intention was + small chunks of code to correlate with.

The issue tho is that most open source code is technical code and code that relies on it serves a business function.

Either way i think the key is finding well documented well tdd’d business function code. Even if what you wish to explain is not clean and tidy but certain bits may fit in patterns that make sense when individually fit against a model. If it makes sense.
Yeah, and I think they are using an old version (3.0? 3.5?) of ChatGPT, not GPT4, which is way better. Can anyone verify? They confusingly list GPT4 as a separate LLM, even though ChatGPT supports GPT4.
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Why the ceremony around signing with on-screen mouse movements, if the resulting digital signature could be copy-pasted into any other draft?
The "stream of bytes" model is what lead to easy data interchange and interoperability. There were plenty of proprietary "structured file" schemes invented in the past, but (fortunately) none of them seem to have become widespread.
Taking the argument seriously is exactly what he wants - debating the position makes it a valid position. There is really no argument there, just self-interest. If its immoral to have more or different privileges than someone else, thats literally communism. He should give up all his wealth in that case.
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You are presupposing that boom and bust hiring is bad, and worse than a more steady state approach. If one assumes perfection is impossible, it seems you suggest erring on the side of perpetually under-hiring as opposed to ever over-hiring. Why is that better?
I wonder if it might be worth having a little change-plane station at the half-way point - Cambria is nice!

Or do that thing Tesla tried to do: Land the plane, swap out the battery for a fully charged one, take off again.

EDIT: Here's why swapping batteries isn't likely worthwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36053417
>If you want to go faster, you're taking a helicopter. If you want the relaxing scenery for a longer duration without driving, you take the Surfliner.

The cost difference between a helicopter and a shuttle is huge though. I can easily see this being closer to the shuttle cost, while also closer to the helicopter speed. Seems like a sensible middle ground to me.
Wave heights in the 8-13ft range are common along the US west coast (Northeast Pacific Ocean) and that doesn't shut down commercial aviation at coastal airports.

https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46042

But still there are many more protected waters where a WIG vehicle could be viable.
That's kind of my biggest issue with Co-pilot at the moment... it can turn comments into code, but the amount of effort required to produce the comments is greater than the effort required to write the code.
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What does your planning process look like? I’d like to get more structure in my workday, maybe not that much… but how do you deal with the Stuff that inevitably Comes Up?
The law of gross tonnage is in fact derived from classical Newtonian physics.

Can't remember if they're considered "working vessels" over a sailboat, which would make them the stand-on vessel based on maneuverability anyway, but it's just silly to get in their way in the same way that it's silly to dawdle across train tracks.
I find it intriguing the first page of this site, and they all come from NAVAIR. What’s the link between Pais’s patents and the DOD ufo videos?

https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/documents
The issue never seems requirements gathering at some point in time. The issue is that the requirements change in the future and may change not in the ways we predicted or guessed from this weird exercise.
how much is one of these going for?
Don't you reach a point of diminishing returns even with that?
A boom/bust cycle is over-hiring to the point that you need to lay people off. You can over-hire or under-hire in moderation.
Thanks for the feedback! We can't figure out how to hack together something like that just yet (and if it is even something that should / can be solved by a tech product) but if we do, we'll definitely share that as an update! :)
This whole WADU system and secrete "employee scorecards" that can only be viewed by management is total bs. JPMC can get away with it now that they employ so many people but nothing lasts forever and the bigger they are, the harder they fall eventually.
Air - hot reloads when a watched file changes.

https://github.com/cosmtrek/air
> For me, in large part, the borrow checker is encoding in the compiler rules that you should be following in C++ anyway.

My experience was sort of the inverse of yours: I knew a little C++ before learning Rust, and being educated by the borrow checker has really helped me writing C++.
Ask HN: Do average tech companies care about felony probation for SWE?
I know some will and I assume some won’t, but if anyone has any insight into how most companies feel about hiring a software engineer with a felony probation please share
How did you start this venture? Very impressive work
I've tried writing a fast flood fill in JS and it's a lot more challenging than you and GP make it out to be. If it's really so straightforward, you should produce code. Otherwise, these comments don't add much to the discussion.
Crazy. Suspended due to "the potential to bring drugs and homeless people to Kauaʻi".
From what I see practically everyone is making this comparison and it is bs. As you stay, 4 is an entirely different beast to 3.5.
I'm assuming you use gpt4 via ChatGPT plus. Does the message cap bother you? I heard it's something like 25 messages per 3 hours. That sounds so low I don't even bother subscribing.

I guess this doesn't apply if you use it via the api.
Also Esperanto has native speakers, i.e. children who grew up speaking Esperanto from an early age. It even has second generation native speakers: native speakers whose parents were also native speakers. Klingon has nothing like that.
Do you have weird post-processing/sharpening on your TV (other than "soap opera mode")? There's really no reason to watch 1080p instead of 4K. Your eyes aren't somehow low resolution with 1080p closer to that realism.
I think the simplicity and flexibility and lack of overall framework is the benefit. Dead simple bytes that may or may not be arranged in a way that works with the program you’re trying to open them with. Then build the relational model on top of it.

Git’s now out of style and we’re onto ____ but my storage is identical. I used to use flickr but now I dump directly to s3 and my jpgs are indistinguishable.

Especially so some consortium of tech companies don’t come up with the next-gen db/fs with bolt on features that no one’s asking for and telemetry to improve your file recall experience. Or logging into my fs because I need customization. For instance any modern web app is built with overkill tech that adds complexity because in certain scale uses that is necessary.

Give me trees of utf-8 encoded flat files any day. Not nested object relational models of stuff that ages faster than milk.
I haven't seen any near me in the Carolinas. But I'm going to stock up on vinegar and salt just in case.
Yes, I include maintenance in the cost of running the system. And I agree with you that a well–written Rust program usually has quite low maintenance costs.

In principle you should be able to approach zero maintenance costs with any language, but writing your system in Rust generally means you have abandoned complexities like garbage collection. Garbage collection speeds up development by an order of magnitude or more, but at the cost of having to monitor the performance of the GC, tune it as loads change and computers get more and more memory but don’t get any faster at accessing it, etc, etc.

Exceptions are another thing that speeds up development at the cost of maintenance down the road. You have to log the exceptions that are happening and monitor them to make sure that they are rare otherwise they’ll silently become more common over time as your program gets more complex. Meanwhile Rust’s explicit error handling really makes you think at every step about exactly what odd conditions your program might encounter. If you use Rust’s type system correctly, you can encode very specific information about exactly which errors are possible or impossible at every point in your system. It’s more work up front but it saves a huge amount of time down the road.
To be clear, seagliders are limited to ground effect in that it is physically impossible for the captain to remove the vehicle from ground effect. The flight control system locks the vehicle to within a wingspan of the surface.
hmm.. by the time i was a junior in high school i remember everyone just carried around a binder and a book for their next class or two.

i can't remember if it was because having a backpack became uncool, or the school mandated no backpacks because of columbine.

i do specifically remember trenchcoats were not allowed and one very likeable and somewhat popular kid had to give his up (that was sort of his "look").

anyone remember?
The most important number sequence is of course in there.

Simply search for 8,6,7,5 and you should find it.
What about it not being a binary indicator invalidates the analysis?

Dick's writing was obviously a byproduct of his mental state. That's where writing comes from. Just because someone else made similar works in a different mental state doesn't invalidate that.
Yeah I'm using raven. Raven does work better. And I'm on the discord.

Unfortunately I really would like machine readable responses and raven is a bit too verbose.

Looking at fine-tuning right now.
https://archive.is/X39tD

lol yeah right. He got plenty of money, income sources. Like believing Tim Cook is poor because of his $1 salary.
I was recently let go by JPMC last month b/c I was doing a javaScript tutorial on w3schools.com when I had no other work to do and the alternative was being on my phone the rest of the day. It's completely oppressive and management is extremely toxic. Constantly going behind each-others back to HR -__-.
Interesting! We are personally not the most comfortable with editing things directly from the terminal, especially when GPT hallucinates, but we can definitely see how this would provide users with more flexibility. Thanks for sharing!
That's a different thing; it would (ab)use some package tools' preference of public packages over private ones (at least in some configurations). It's not really a "supply chain issue" but more of a "footgun in some package tools"-issue.
> It has been proven that knowledge workers can work productively and efficiently without being required to be in the office a set number of days.

I'm a big proponent of "I don't care where you work as long as your work gets done" and have been since before covid, but I haven't come across anything that actually proves that, so... source?

If there's a good study out there that shows that that is true, I'd love to see it so I can use it as evidence, but so far every study I've seen that claims this tends to either have some very narrow definition of productivity (like number of emails sent) or fails to take overall impact on the organization into account (more work completed, but less coordination between teams may not be a net positive).
They were probably all stoned
Also, we’re getting things that can seek a lot faster than disks: Flash Storage.

NAND FTLs are by necessity log-structured because of the nature of the medium: pages can only be programmed in sequential order in each block, only entire blocks can be erased at once, and ideally you want to evenly use all blocks even when you're just updating a single (logical) sector repeatedly.
Why monthly pricing for what is a 1 time agreement
Umm, this is exactly what they are implementing. $7.99 per additional household, billed to the primary households account.
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A proper flood fill needs to iterate over an enormous ImageData object (or at the very least a huge 2d array) and page in/out memory as appropriate. Your code appears to just increment a variable. This is not a valid comparison.
> The protesters' concerns were that a ferry of this size could strike and kill whales during its voyages despite this never occurring during the years the faster Seaflite interisland ferries operated.

NIMBYs ruin everything, I doubt they were really concerned about the whales.
It sounds very low and somehow it very rarely bothers me. It sure is annoying when it bothers me, but it's a lot higher in practice than the number feels.
Those types of surveys are meaningless. Attach a number to the belief and you get vastly different results. The number doesn't even have to be big.

> To combat climate change, 57 percent of Americans are willing to pay a $1 monthly fee; 23 percent are willing to pay a monthly fee of $40.

https://apnorc.org/projects/is-the-public-willing-to-pay-to-...
Well, it's not ready for prime time:

https://interop.seemann.io/

A more or less full list of implementations is here:

https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations

But I personalty would have qualms with all the C implementations. Crypto and very complex protocols are nothing one should implement in C, imho. This cries for disaster. And what's left, especially in an usable state, is quite underwhelming currently.

Higher level libs / frameworks like Java's Netty and Rusts Hyper chose Quiche for QUIC.

The only other ready to use libs I've found were AIOQUIC for Python and quic-go. Those are also the only ones with a working WebTransport feature currently.

Looking on the above linked inter-op tables MS will need some time to catch up. QUIC is indeed complex.
Superferry was a huge case study for us. We went to Hawaii, interviewed everyone involved, and learned the lessons.

We're taking a different approach that focuses on community and environmental considerations first. Look for more exciting news in Hawaii soon!
Ask HN: What do you find most difficult about fine tuning AI models?
Those of you who have fine tuned NLP (GPT-X/Llama) or diffusion models, what was the most difficult or annoying part about the process?

I'm trying to help solve problems in this field, so I'm curious about your experiences.
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I’ve been using CommonPaper since they first put up their concept and it’s all sorts of awesome. Awesome in principle and very convenient for my boutique security consulting business.

Absolute no brainer for us to use what they have built. It was instrumental in getting us off the ground.

Congrats team on YC and the launch.
This is a great market that nobody has run away with yet. If you find the right combination of features around contract lifecycle, it could be yours.

Common docs (clerky), redlining (ms word), esigning, tracking self serve contracts (ironclad), contract lifecycle management (pandadoc), employee onboarding (gusto).

There’s a lot of good criticism here about edge cases and getting buyin from large customers. But at the end of the day there are a ton of companies with zero game plan around their contracts process, plenty of room for a good product.

Curious how you’re thinking about dealing with ms word and ‘track changes’. Every lawyer wants to live there. Do you fight this or build your product to work word-first?
Applied to YC! :)
Among the urban working class in cities like Chicago, union interest has been rising rapidly across a variety of sectors. Retail, education, warehouse labor, museums are all seeing increases in union activity. The mayor-elect is a former union organizer.

Chicago is certainly one of the more pro-labor cities in the US, but they’re not the only ones seeing growing interest in organized labor. The Democratic Socialists of America membership grew from 6,000 to 90,000 in less than 10 years.

https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/5/11/23720181/chicago-dep...

https://www.afscme.org/blog/workers-at-another-chicago-insti...

https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2023/5/8/23715750/rei-...

https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/5/12/23720406/chicago-pub...
Counterpoint: Berkshire Hathaway owns practically no commercial real estate assets.
Poll: Who Is Paying for ChatGPT? Why?
I'm curious about who are willing to pay for chatGPT. Can you comment why? Is it increasing your productivity? Make your life easier? I do see the value of the free version, but wondering about if the paying option worth it
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Bring on San Diego to Santa Barbara! Hopefully it's cheaper than SurfAir was.
Doesn’t matter. It’s a cultural thing. Mexico can get as young as they like. Won’t matter. Look at the work culture in China vs Mexico. That’s where all the answers lie.
>The incentives just aren't designed to plan for decline.

I wonder how managed printing service companies deal with this

I brokered a five year deal earlier this year, and all vendors put a 7% yoy decrease in print volume

I wonder what it looks like at the top of these companies like Fujifilm or Ricoh for printing sales people - are they diversifying or trying to converge on a sustainable level of revenue?
With Caddy, you can cluster easily by either sharing its filesystem data storage across machines, or configuring a different storage driver (redis, consul, db, etc.) and they will automatically coordinate for cert issuance. Caddy writes a lock file to the storage which prevents multiple instances from stepping on eachother's toes.
https://archive.ph/B305F
I'm generally in this camp of statistical importance when it comes to things like this, but the US is just about the only country where it happens this much. It shouldn't happen.
Nearly all of the things in this list can be blocked by simply disabling JavaScript, or selectively enabling it for certain origins. NoScript is a fantastic extension for this. I don't even have any other ad blockers installed. Just blocking JS and I don't get any of this.
Apart from algorithm commentary by folks who are certainly wiser than me on the topic: since you’re already using a worker, you would probably benefit from using OffscreenCanvas[0], which is transferrable to worker threads and otherwise should be optimized for heavier computations.

0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OffscreenCa...
It does bother me, I’ve been hit by it 3 times now (I use it as a daily driver, for code you spend enough time between prompts working that it’s rare to go through that volume)

When I hit the limit, I work on the problem myself and wait until 4 resets instead of relying on 3.5. 4 is so much better that I don’t trust 3.5 with my work anymore.
I wonder if there are any startups that specialize in extracting the actual content from bloated web pages, caching it, and serving it via API.

To do the extraction effectively you might need some kind of hand-crafted scraper, or maybe access to GPT-4-like image understanding. Or just extract all of the text and process it with Claude or another system that has a large context window. To throw out all of the extraneous text like ads, navbars, random junk that is only slightly related, etc.

Or just serving cached static content would be useful to speed up the process.

Does Bing search or Google Search give you some of the actual content?
I love the idea of using this to more quickly understand otherwise badly-commented or uncommented code.

I'd hate the idea of this leading anyone to avoid commenting their code ("just let the AI do it!"), since comments also need to be about the why and how to use and how not to use -- not just the what.
I did some searching & am a bit shocked: I couldn't find any way to adjust io priority other than by altering the entire processes io level. I would have though this would be a semi-commonly used routine to make high/regulae/low priority QoS for io, but indeed, per your claims, I can't seem to find anything.

Hypothetically one could maybe spawn a bunch of child processes and give them each their own io priority? Maybe io priority is sticky, and one can change io priority just before doing io work, and the io priority for that work would stay when one changes the io priority before the next operation?

I feel like we have a bunch of possible things we could to better qos with what controls we have.

Therw are also a variety of madvise hints we can provide, telling the kernel what we will need, what to drop, what we won't need, what will be random access (not benefit from lookahead) Vs sequential. These already are some pretty useful knobs. Which I'd guess are quite broadly underused.