skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: The Job Search Sucks
Here are a few things I've noticed after 9 months of job hunting:

1. Applications that look worthwhile are tedious, if filled with the kind of attention to detail they expect.

2. There is no guarantee of response (not even by a bot), which raises serious questions about the value placed on potential hires, and the thoughtfulness expected from them during the process.

3. The hiring pipeline takes a long time (could be several weeks), which seems to be at odds with the idea of "actively recruiting" companies.

4. "X years of professional experience" requirements can make it difficult to branch out of a stack/space, limiting the pool of opportunities.

5. Sometimes, you're required to sign up to the company's job platform, which adds more friction to the process. It's worse when creating an account is sold as a way to help you "stand out" from the crowd.

How could it suck less? For those in the position to hire, how much does it suck on your side?
Apparently 30 days of things, per the article.
Imagine the speed you could play Pacman on a modern CPU! You could probably play a whole level in nanoseconds.
So do I. Often I upvote interesting stories with little or no comments if I would like to read a discussion on the topic but I don't have anything worth to contributing personally.
The cat is out of the bag on globalism ending. California has started their decline for the first time ever. I dont blame them at all for withdrawing from CA.
"It understands how to electronically file a W-2 report in all 50 states."

Filing a w-2 is payroll related not accounting related. While lots of accounting software does payroll it is not a requirement for accounting software to do so.
Being able to prioritize building projects like this is a skill in itself, and I think it's a really important one.

People seem to chronically undervalue optimizing for shipping something. Mitchell does say "I don't talk about shipping", but shipping a demo for yourself is still shipping!

It doesn't matter how good you are if you can't stick at something for a long period of time. You're probably not going to be able to do the thing for long enough to generate big ROI.

Optimize for something usable. Go one step at a time. If you get discouraged or lose motivation it's game over, you gotta prevent that at all costs.
There would also be a difference between deletion and replacing with a space character. Ie shorten the program file by one char (however many bytes depending on encoding). Can anyone explain what deletion means in this useage?
Database Review 2022 and 2023 Prediction
give gusto a try, you will never go back.
"I don't understand how a popular product like Reddit has so atrociously bad UI"

Do you mean like... HN?
At least the students or their parents can buy it if they so choose because it's not banned from being sold.
“I wish it was that simple, that it was only an implementation detail.” I suppose “would that—” isn’t a particularly common form these days.
Can anyone comment as to whether there are any problems associated with using emojiis to enhance the entropy of passwords? For passwords you only need to autofill but never actually type, I feel like it would be an easy way to augment passwords but I don't know whether it would directly translate in every situation.
Seth Godin on Marketing, Meaning, and the Bibs We Wear
MSR-poking Tool for Zen1 Ryzen CPUs to disable C6:
https://github.com/r4m0n/ZenStates-Linux/blob/master/zenstat...

Not sure if this is applicable to EPYC CPUs, probably not. But I would expect that it's possible to disable C6 in some similar way on EPYC CPUs without rebooting the system. (If you are actually at risk of running into this issue, you likely don't want to reboot the system…)
I am somehow drawn to the old Dutch masters and early Impressionists. Previously, I never was much of an art guy, since I took up photography again I look at art differently. Especially the play with light and shadows, composition amd colours.

I guess the closer paintings are to reality, the more I can take from them, and thus I am drawn more to them. For more abstract works I need time. Strangely, I develop a fondness for some of Dali's work... That being said, when visiting the van Gogh museum, I much preferred his earlier work more resembling the old Dutch masters. Still do.
I honestly believe there is more good news than bad, it's just that people and news organizations have a negativity bias.

For an example of some of the big ones from 2023: the amount of renewable energy that is being installed each year, the growth rate in adoption of electric cars, record low teen pregnancies, and a record low unemployment rate.
Despite my doubts about Mastodon being able to become popular Twitter alternative, I wish there was the same wave of migrating to the Fediverse-based open source Reddit alternative. So far I don't see them very popular.
> Have you been paying attention to French politics lately?

To be fair, the last revolution in France was 150 years ago, things change quite a bit in 150 years.

> your whitewashed, simplistic interpretation of the French Revolution

You seem to be equally biased, if on the other side. Events as large as a revolution are complex enough that it is hard to fit them into a manichean assessment.
Despite it's flaws, HN has a far superior user experience compared to Reddit. It's not even comparable.
Huh I misinterpreted the error messages in the example, I thought those were compiler output. This is quite cool then.

EDIT: although, it seems like this looses much of its power once you start passing these buffers around to functions that do not use these macros.
If it's through Apple payments, you should have some page somewhere with all your subscriptions?
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I feel my strongest skillset is in SQL though I haven't ventured out of MariaDB, InnoDB and MsSqlServer. Big gamer, motorcyclist and electronics tinkerer
There's also a fair amount of open source short of full engine management. Things like read/write into the CAN bus, altering fuel curves without fully taking over the engine computer, burning altered EEPROMs for older ECMs, etc.
Weird! Are AI edited MRI scans reliable enough? What if the AI hallucinates instead of clarifying the photo? If the info is not present, how will it be able to recover details?
This article predates the Cochrane review and pandemic so I doubt that was their goal.
“As god is my witness I thought turkeys could fly”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
Shareholders are parasite in the first place. They can't be philanthropists. It's like saying "generous thieves". Doesn't make sense.
Here in TX they put caps on awards for medical malpractice. As far as I can tell it hasn't helped costs all that much. Also if my Dr. leaves me paralyzed I can only get 500k damages. Malpractice law is a problem, but I don't think it's the one to focus on.
> It doesn't require active collusion. This is one of the things that many people fail to understand

Exactly. Interested people should look up Keen & Standish critique of the theory of the firm (e.g. http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue53/KeenStandish53.pdf), they have a really nice and simple computer simulation where competing firms collude only on the basis of knowing the current price, without even being aware of each other's existence.
Testosterone levels are drastically lowered in women going through menopause.
Isn't the best way to open old.reddit.com in a desktop browser?
How is the human FOV relevant? I just want to be able to fit as much vertical content into the visible area as possible. Because almost all documents we use are vertically organized.
Right, it's a slippery slope. Today they're making your car save lives, tomorrow they'll be draining your bank accounts and seducing your significant others.
Conceptually there should be a predictable tradeoff curve between memory size and execution time. This could be quite useful (e.g. if 100hrs is ok, so are 200hrs), after all you don't train such a model every day.

But in practice this curve is probably very non-linear in the low end. This writeup shows nicely how lumpy the various steps of loading kernels, model etc

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/perf_train_gpu_one
I.e they only care about their viewpoint and no one else's
I do! Day 72 post layoff

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Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: not a dev
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If you're being paid by the government to manage homeless people, your incentive is to keep them homeless. Else your contact would end.
Reddit is both fascinating and infuriating. It's got more good content leads than any other social media site, but most sub-reddits seem to be inhabited by bored, angry 15 year old males.

I'm waiting for something similar, but more mature, to emerge. Won't that be nice!
You can learn more about the current system at https://stripe.com/blog/markdoc. It was never WordPress.

You may be over-indexing on “packaging”. It’s been a while since I’ve worked on docs, but much of what you’re calling “packaging” is simply routing to another app.
Oh, I often do. It increases productivity by orders of magnitude.
If we want to learn to build something better than GPT-4, research that shows how to train older models like BERT using a fraction of the hardware that was used when that model was originally training is enormously valuable.
"'Brother,' says he, 'greetings. Didn't I see you in Southern Missouri last summer selling colored sand at half-a-dollar a teaspoonful to put into lamps to keep the oil from exploding?'

"'Oil,' says I, 'never explodes. It's the gas that forms that explodes.' But I shakes hands with him, anyway.

...

"'Listen,' says I. 'I instruct her to keep her lamp clean and well filled. If she does that it can't burst. And with the sand in it she knows it can't, and she don't worry.

— O. Henry, The Man Higher Up
How long until there's a commercial product that has a built in LLM?
Some device that is like a personal encyclopedia that you can ask about anything?
Ask HN: Long term local physical backup media?
In the 90s, used to be I burned docs & data to CDr media and put them in my bookshelf at home for long term archive. I can still read these CDs today, 30 yrs later. Success.

What is today's equivalent?

Hard drives make me nervous because they have moving parts. SSDs make me nervous because :shrug:. Tape backup seems like a hassle and expensive. I don't want cloud storage (e.g. amazon glacier or the like) because I don't want ongoing costs.

Are CDr still a thing? Am I being too anxious about HDs or SSDs?

Advice appreciated.
Yet here you are, alive and commenting on HN.
Everyday the AI community is breaking boundaries at design front.
Can this be used to make similar styled websites replacing odd photos? I guess "yess".
You bring up an interesting point, not all modern art is directed at anyone other than the artist themselves. Its less likely in that framework that a particular artist just happens to create art that most people would also like and create a name for themselves and there are fewer trying to show off an absurd quantity of craftsmanship in a single work.
I am an amateur when it comes to these models. What can I do with this model and how?
I believe that the statistics are that most people don't brake anywhere near hard enough in accidents, because you're just not used to pushing the pedal that hard.
it had irc client, rss feed reader, mail client all builtin. Its local caches were portable. Had shortcuts to hide images in current page, disable js (imagine early 2000s web ui with gifs everywhere) etc. Early opera truly was the best browser that ever.
Not really that interesting when the very best is still missing,
greg7mdp/parallel-hashmap
Powerful AI ban possible, UK government adviser warns
I want measurements like fatalities per 100 million miles driven to guide this conversation because there are so many emotionally driven reactions to Elon Musk and AI/ML that I can’t help but think that comments are motivated by things other than human safety!

That being said, I do think that touch screens are a terrible design decision on almost all devices.
I use a MacBook Pro and I developed left shoulder issues. Sounds silly but I am thinking it could be due to heavy use of double keys like Cmd-tab, shift+ for upper casing. I unconsciously avoid typing the colon (:) and write (-) instead where applicable, like in “about this — “ instead of “about this:”, because this feels less painful. Not sure if I am just an example of 1 here

I also think the issue could be the mushy MacBook Pro keys. Not sure how to articulate this, or whether this is a known issue, but these mushy keys over time seem “painful” to use. However my problem with switching to non mushy mech kbs was that I had to always reach for a mouse or trackpad. The convenience (and ergonomics?) of the trackpad under the thumbs is great and normal mech kbs loose that.

So I am now going to try the UHK V2 split keyboard with a trackball module.
Disclaimer: I'm not a therapist.

Try to find out whether your own emotions are blocking you - when I was going through a major depression without treatment, I felt like the worst, an absolute impostor even though I luckily wasn't perceived as such.

Personally, getting treatment made me feel much better and relieved the pressure I was putting myself under - my own perception of the quality of my work improved and it was easier to get into a flow state at work.
I was trying to indicate that most of the work is implementing a frontend design - as with any website.

> Most CMS platforms on high traffic sites need caching, but not to the extent WordPress needs to be buffered

I continue to disagree with you on the WP side. Setting up with a CDN was not difficult. First with Akamai and later moved to Fastly for the ESIs. No more effort required of any other CMS - thats not at WP specific.

In terms of WP specific work that was required, again, not a big effort. Caching was not an issue for us on that side. We made use of Transients API here and there for some larger queries (curated homepage) but no big hurdles.

> If I make people use the wrong tool then I'm doing it wrong

I'll stick with my original meaning. The tool is fine if you know how to use it. I'm able to demonstrate that that WP is fine for several high-traffic sites. Some of which were getting ~30M unique visitors (not pageviews) a month without being on fire.

Its very possible your editorial workflow requirements, or other site needs were very different from ours, and we did not need to contend with those pain points. We were fairly ruthless about what plugins we'd allow and they'd been mostly pre-vetted or semi supported by WP/Automattic.
Good luck to you. A close relative just spent a few weeks in the hospital, it was awful. I think Covid really took something out of the medical profession-- the hospital workers were mostly de-motivated, hard to find, and did not seem engaged in their tasks. It was an eye-opener.
Not everyone :)
The problem with C and buffer overflows isn't that you can't guard against them, or that there is no existing, reusable code to do so — it's that none of this functionality is standardized. Adding another one to the existing 41383 ways of doing this is in fact the exact opposite of what's needed. Ideally C needs one way of doing this, and that would be described in the standard.

But that's not how C "rolls", and we'll never get that. So I guess we now have 41384 ways to do buffer overflow guards.
A research institution can produce bad researchers (Harvard, UC, and Google included), so we can't go with this suggestion either, instead we'd need reputation for each individual researcher in the world.

how many such reputations can you keep track of and gauge trust along?

and how is reputation gauged if peers don't review work?
And it's not RMS who said it :-)
I cannot make it anymore clearer: statins reduce your absolute risk of mortality by at most 2%; not smoking reduces your absolute risk by 7%. Statins provide meager benefit for the associated risks. It does not take an expert to do math.
You don't need to be that arrogant. The number-one reason why there are no new (No)SQL-Databases for one node is that the existing databases are great and you can't monetize them.

Failover is automatic for PG when using e.g. Patroni. Of course you lose active transactions and that might be a showstopper, but monitoring failover? I am curious when you'll have to do that.
I can't help but think that it sounds like productised Gell-Mann Amnesia. If a system is useless and/or counterproductive in areas you're an expert in, but appears useful in areas that you aren't, shouldn't it be a red flag? How would you know if solutions it comes up with are bad, wrong, or just bad practices?
The erroneous physics behind “The Dark Side of the Moon”
404

This link works:

https://dailyartificial.com/news/ai-drone-kills-human-operat...
> Mostly ads

Mostly features.
https://dailyartificial.com/news/ai-drone-kills-human-operat...
I don’t think you need to go full Reddit to replace it, just an interest in a niche and a desire to host a website.

The struggle is that it takes more than love of a subject to bootstrap a community. I could see someone broadly succeeding by building modern forum software alongside an optional discovery platform that links forums together. I know there are federated platforms out there, but I think a large portion of them have lost the thread of the user journey in attempts to meet the technical challenges of federation.
A few years ago, our management summoned some contractors to enlighten us on how to properly estimate a project. They taught us The Way (TM), and proudly stated that they were renowned for their respect of the deadline.

I wasn't snarky enough to remind them that shipping is extremely easy when you take no responsibility for maintenance, but I expressed my curiosity about how much time would be devoted to the preparation of the estimation itself.

I appreciated their honesty when they replied that, for a typical 1000-hour project, 250 would be devoted to the estimation.

I then strolled back to my boss and thanked him for letting me enter the Illuminati circle, and showed my impatience for showing him my progress with the next project. I promised him the best estimation he would ever get, and just warned him: "It usually takes us two years to develop a new machine. Next time, just let all of us (~100 people) disregard any other task and focus entirely on the estimation, and in six months top you will know whether the new machine is feasible."

He was not thrilled.
They recently killed the .compact view on mobile. The default is unreadable, i don't spend much time on the site anymore.
> Reddit and advertisers won't get the same "audience measurement" analytics data

It's pretty crazy that a site like Reddit needs this to target ads effectively. You often have your interest groups already self-sorted thanks to subreddits.
This is why I unsubscribed from OpenAI.

They seem to be virtue signaling about their lack of progress now. Months later, GPT-4 still slow, still not multi-modal as they advertised, still significantly limited, you need to sign up for a waitlist for almost every feature, no sense of privacy, no understanding of their plan for improvements.
Google is full steam ahead and consistently improving their free LLMs.

They actually had a genius strategy. Put out Bard with a very stupid LLM, so people aren't blown away and it doesn't get the doomsayers on their case. Now they can continue to quietly upgrade Bard. Eventually it will be so obvious that they have surpassed OpenAI.

OpenAI must enjoy watching their unsubscriber count go down. After all, Sam did say at the congressional hearing multiple times "We would prefer if people used it less".
Then we are at an uncrossable philosophical chasm.

I don’t consider 2% ARR huge — especially when the risks of side-effects have been down-played. We can argue about this all we want, but it’s no longer a matter of fact, but of opinion and values.
I wouldn't avoid plugins, I'd just be very careful about which ones you allow.

There are several ones that are good-to-go and I'd use in any standard instance. Beyond that, code review!
Hahaha, the long awaited news line of AI has finally came! (even though it's not real, probably)

"... a drone decided to “kill” its operator to prevent it from interfering with its efforts to achieve its mission."
Has any lisp like language become popular ? I think the most popular was Dylan and o know the racket team is doing something similar.
Agave (YC W22) is hiring Founding Eng to build data infra for construction
Agave (YC W22) | Founding Eng #4 | Backend, Full-Time, On-Site (SF)

tl;dr: back-end SWE role (4th hire) at YC Seed-stage API startup in construction.

What we’re looking for:

- Back-end or full-stack dev. with experience building complex systems quickly.

- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, multi-tenant systems, and building dev. tools (e.g. APIs).

- Self-motivated, high ownership, low ego; desire to work on a fast-paced, intense, fun team.

- Excited to be our second Eng. hire; passion for building a world-class Eng. culture, on par with Stripe.

More about us:

- We’re a data-integration API and analytics platform for the $12T construction/real estate industry.

- We’re a team of 6 who worked together for 8 years, first at Graphiq (acq. by Amazon) then at Alexa.

- We raised $3M from YC, Accel (Facebook, Slack, Cloudera, Segment, etc.), founders of Plaid and Mailbox, and founders/execs at Procore, Autodesk, PlanGrid, Fieldwire, and others.

- https://www.agaveapi.com/careers

Apply Here:

- 1-5 Yrs Exp: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agave/jobs/jryB4nr-sof...

- 6+ Yrs Exp: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agave/jobs/6QgUaxJ-fou...
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Same with where I train BJJ. Everyone is supportive and it helps make training fun.
Paul Carter here. Yes, as someone already replied. It's online. I would have liked to update it to 64-bit, but I jumped to industry and don't have the time to do a decent job of it. I didn't realize that Randall had a 64-bit version out. I'm sure it's very good. We both used to hang out on comp.lang.asm.x86 back in the 90's.
Why cosplay that you are some important exec?

If they aren't paying for you to be in business you aren't that important and can put the laptop away for the flight.
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Developer with over 6 years of professional software development experience. I am a generalist but focused on the front-end development.
Maybe we should all push to use Lemmy[0] :D

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)
That one of the bigger security companies seemingly didn't have MDM screaming bloody murder or outright blocking authentication for an endpoint this out of date is more than a little concerning.

Props to their SIEM for detecting it in the end, but this seems like it could've been detected and remediated a few weeks in (assuming it didn't also have the ability to spoof the iOS version).
Ok yes totally agreed!
Isn't "the tendency of the rate of profit to fall" what ultimately prevents new companies to enter the market, causing "the tendency of the rate of profit to rise because of greed" due to price collusion of existing companies?