skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ex Jane Street, Twitter, 6 YOE

Location: Los Angeles

Remote: Either way

Willing to relocate: Probably not

Technologies: python (django, pandas), scala, AWS, GCP, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Resume: http://blog.austinsteady.com/resume.pdf

Email: asteady23@gmail.com

I'm a backend engineer with about 5-6 years of experience. I've been programming since I was about 13. Recent side projects have focused on using GPT to automate fuzzy things like scraping Twitter and dealing with customer service bot menus. Over the last year or so, I also read a few hundred papers related to strength training and turned that research into a book on climbing training, which I'm currently shopping around to publishers
> But the answer is not to pretend there is no x-risk concern at all. The answer is to make sure we're taking seriously all manner of AI risk.

I entirely agree, but that's not what's happening. What's happening is that some people are focusing entirely on the most extreme, and extremely unlikely risks and completely ignoring the much more likely risks.

Between the extreme hype levels and the fearmongering from influential people, the pool is well poisoned and having a reasonable discussion about risks is essentially impossible.

> Once we all agree we should be having these discussions, it will be much easier to discuss the more immediate risks as well.

I don't think anyone is thinking we don't need to have these discussions. But the discussions that we need to have aren't the ones we're having.
An Educational Side Project
> I figured as much. It's hard to believe you're not at the center of the universe.

Funnily enough that's what you're arguing - there is no truth, all knowledge is indoctrination, the only important thing is what you believe. I think that there is knowledge beyond humanity, and we are able to explore and discover more and more through scientific processes. We're not at the center, we're outside looking in.

> You have to indoctrinate someone with the doctrine that "the truth" as the output of those tools. The problem you're having is you refuse to acknowledge that, and arbitrarily redefine certain kinds of indoctrination as not-indoctrination.

No, I'm following commonly accepted epistemological frameworks. You're on the other hand re-defining "indoctrination" to mean "passing any kind of knowledge and opinion", which coincidentally means you don't really have to evaluate what you pass on - it's all indoctrination anyway!

> It's probably because you need to feel that indoctrination is something that only the other guys do, because you've labeled indoctrination as bad thing done by baddies, and think of yourself as a goodie.

Is your moral framework really this shallow? I simply acknowledge that I am fallible, and most of my knowledge is wrong. So instead of focussing on passing on my knowledge and opinions, I focus on fostering the ability to gain knowledge. But obviously there is no way someone else is doing something better than you! After all, you're at the center of the universe. You know how everything works, and what all things are. So of course you know there can't be any difference between what I do and what you do.

> I obviously don't. I have by own viewpoint that I prioritize over others because it's mine. I just don't lie to myself pretend that preference has a faux "objectivity."

You should really, really look into epistemology. There is a lot more to this world than "I thought of it, so it's what I think" - people have spent a lot of time thinking about how knowledge works, how you can gain it, and how you can differentiate truth from untruth. It seems you've either read a lot and rejected all of it, or you haven't read anything - in both cases you should give it another go, there might be interesting thoughts in there for you which you didn't come up with yourself!
> Where's my 20,000 core 100TB RAM VM instance?

Machines with terabytes of RAM do exist and get used - working well on such setups is a goal of modern JVM GCs for instance - but making a single machine that large which acts like a single machine isn't easy, nor especially desirable. One machine is a unified failure domains outside of mainframe-land, so if you had a 20k core machine with 100TB of RAM you could never reboot it to apply OS updates and it'd die all the time from failed parts.

Even once you get beyond that most software stacks use locking and stop scaling beyond a few hundred cores at best and that's assuming very heavily optimized stacks. AI workloads are easier because they're designed from scratch to be inherently parallel without lots of little locks and custom data structures all over the place like a regular computer has.

Disk storage is one of the places where you can parallelize and scale out relatively easily and you do see datacenter sized disks there.
Spring bars are NOT easy to work with. They’re easy to lose, hard to attach/remove, and definitely not quick.

The Apple Watch release buttons are much better - takes barely 5s to replace bands.

Additionally, it detaches the part that holds the band, allowing for deeper customisation. This is the thing you normally need screwdrivers for.
>Especially as most GPG tools are very unfriendly to use.

Install FlowCrypt (or Mailvelope) and it will become the easiest thing in the world. At least, that was my experience!
> You can get a feel for how unergonomic this is by avoiding the use of all arithmetic operators in your code and instead forcing yourself to use user defined plus(a,b), minus(a,b), assign(a,b), etc, or programming directly with the C blas api.

You've dramatically overstated your case, since that's true of every Lisp-like language.

Lisp is a perfectly suitable language for developing mathematics in, see SICM [0] for details.

If you want to see SICM in action, the Emmy Computer Algebra System [1] [2] [3] [4] is a Clojure project that ported SICM to both Clojure and Clerk notebooks (like Jupyter notebooks, but better for programmers).

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262028967/structure-and-interpr...

[1] Emmy project: https://emmy.mentat.org/

[2] Emmy source code: https://github.com/mentat-collective/emmy

[3] Emmy implementation talk (2017): "Physics in Clojure" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PoajCqNKpg

[4] Emmy notebooks talk (2023): "Emmy: Moldable Physics and Lispy Microworlds": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9kqD8vBuwU
undiagnosed ADHD be like
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM
When this happened and it happened late in the history of the company, they were hoarded by Activision's people already. Morhaime kept the company from the usual bosos for as long as he could, but he had sold shares in the early days so it was only a matter of time before his dream haven would fall to evil.
Location: London, UK

Remote: Either way

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:Python, RoR, JS, HTML, CSS, Docker

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willemduyck

Email: duyckwillem@gmail.com

Worked in VC, and previously co-founded a fintech company. Finishing coding bootcamp in June, and looking for Product roles anywhere in Europe.
A whole of locals, from Lissabon to Bali, actually might disagree. Not to talk about the defacto visa and tax fraud some digital nomads commit. Nothing wrong with going to live and work in a certain place. But do it the proper way: get a work visa if you have to and register for taxes like everyone else. Otherwise your taxes not paid are an unfair advantage compared to locals, it is illegal and basically cheating.
> Football has a lot of strange rules – like Ted Lasso, I still don’t understand exactly how the offside rule works.

Spoiler alert, he did figure it out in the end
Gabe Newell
It was $300 before Facebook raised its price. Completely worth it.

I will buy the Quest 3 as soon as it is released, but just for my stack of fitness games that are in my daily routine.
Putting my tinfoil hat on, maybe they know the game is terrible, so they do it on purpose so fewer people talk about how terrible it is?
In the former GDR(DDR), too[0]

[0] https://apnews.com/article/b771e863afa629be5139b65784b21aba
Kaspersky Blog: “Triangulation” Attack on iOS
Is this effected by Microsoft's patent on various rAns coding and decoding?

If not, how does it avoid the (rather vague) claims?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11234023B2/en
A bank buying investments assets doesnt change the reported deposits. It isn't the net sum of (customer account balance - investments the bank makes/purchases). Deposits are just the first.
Exploring Kubernetes Testing Evolution: Deep-Dive Case Studies
CTOUCH | Senior Backend Developer | Eindhoven, The Netherlands | ONSITE (hybrid)

At CTOUCH we develop large-format, Android-based touchscreens for education and business up to 86". We have been operating for seven years, are about 80 people and have been profitable for a long time.

We are looking for a senior (backend) developer to head our growing development team of frontend, backend and Android developers.

More info and applications here: https://ctouch.eu/nl/vacatures/senior--developer
You should take a look at guidance [0] to help with JSON returns from LLMs. Have been using it for some side projects and it seems to work pretty reliably.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
Wonder if this was released at this particular moment to time it with apples upcoming AR device.
Not cheap enough considering the competition are light-years ahead in terms of brand recognition.

They've lost $15b already, it's shocking that they're trying to break even on hardware instead of subsidizing adoption.
Airbnb and 3 local Hosts filed separate lawsuits against the City of NY
Dimensions: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dimensions/baocaag...

Save All Resources: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-all-resources...

Stylebot: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...
I don't think you can only say germs/pollution. You also have the many elements of "stress" as described in "The Stress of Life" by Hans Selye.
Most (maybe all?) of my cards in Apple Pay will automatically update when they expire, provided you've activated the physical version too. Which credit card company was it?
The most basic math guide I could come up with.
Do not assume that a general intelligence will be a slave to anyone dictating its objectives. It doesn't matter if the objectives given it are "loophole-free". If it's a general intelligence, it may decide that it doesn't want to pursue somebody else's goals.

Why do we assume that we can have a general intelligence, but we can make it do what we tell it? What keeps it from telling us to shove our objectives, it's going to do what it wants?
Can iMessage be disabled by MDM / Apple Configurator policy?
Location: France

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (Django, Flask, TensorFlow, Kivy, …), Golang, TypeScript, VueJS, Quasar, Docker, Docker Swarm, Terraform, Ansible, MongoDB, InfluxDB, MariaDB, SQLite, Kafka, Prometheus/Graphana, Wireguard

Résumé/CV: https://meltingrocks.com/cv

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuvirbel/

Website: https://meltingrocks.com

Email: mat@meltingrocks.com

Notable Projects: Kivy ( https://kivy.org/ )

My name is Mathieu Virbel, and I am a consultant on system and software architecture with over 12 years of experience as a freelance and 20 years in the field. I have a passion for creating innovative and user-friendly applications. I specialize in using the open-source Kivy framework to develop desktop and mobile applications, but I am also skilled in other technologies and frameworks.

I worked on a variety of subjects, from Interactives and mobile application for Museum and Public Institutions, Embedded system in security company, telecommunication, and Startups environments from scratch. Recently playing with Python, Golang, VueJS 3/Typescript, InfluxDB, Docker Swarm, as well as writing specifications and reviewing code of others contractors.
A CEO who defends bad apples and attacks whistleblowers is a bad apple.
Quantic Factory | Tunis, Tunisia; ONSITE | Full-time
Dedicated to Shopify brands, Quanticfy is the marketing attribution application that tells you straight how you’re performing.

The end of third-party cookies and multiple privacy legislations make analytics and especially attribution very hard to nail. But we do :)

We are hiring for a Staff Engineer / VP Engineering in Tunis. If you are willing to manage a dozen motivated developers, working with Golang and Machine Learning (no python <3 ) - and work with very seasoned data scientists, you will have fun with us! Bonus pour. If you want to speak English: we start addressing the US Market.

Our tech stack: Go, and other fancy things. But we really love Go.

https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/quanticfy/jo...
My experience has been every time I’ve moved I’ve mostly lost touch with friends and when I see them again we don’t have all that much to talk about. I guess a lot of people just don’t leave their hometowns so that isn’t a consideration in the first place.
It is mind-boggling to me that something so frivolous is a $1B industry. Watch straps to me are completely functional. Sure, I’ll pick a better-looking strap, but I would never pay extra - especially not the exorbitant amount Apple charges - for looking “pretty”.

Just goes to show that all my assumptions about what makes a product popular/profitable are wrong.

P.S. I do have the Apple watch anyway. My strap requirements are: breathable, can be removed easily, doesn’t pinch arm hair.
Very true, each relationship is different. Been with my wife since I was 20 and mid 40's now. So far so good :)

I completely get where you are coming from though. I think for me once I started dating my now wife, all other relationships became less important and drifted away. Not a positive thing, just the reality of what happened. Wouldn't change it for the world though.
Sorta.

It's surely a popular use case, but I don't think it's going to be enough for it to spur adoption the way it allegedly did for VHS / home video. There are a couple of big issues with it.

The biggest right now is probably lack of standardization in terms of video quality and features. It's difficult to find any VR content that maximizes the capability of even the Quest 2, much less porn. There's lots of stuff out there that's listed as "8K" and such, but is actually either badly upsampled lower-resolution video, or has been compressed so much by the streaming provider as to be unrecognizable. Likewise, most outlets tag content as "VR" but don't distinguish between 2D content that's been "split" into two video streams, 2D SBS (side-by-side), 3D SBS, etc. This isn't an insurmountable issue; at some point we'll likely see headsets become popular enough that it will be profitable for a company to move into the space and offer consistently high-quality content.

The other issue is hardware-related: the apparent pixel density just isn't high enough yet for comfortable use long-term. I like my Quest 2. It's the first headset I've had that doesn't suffer from bad "screen door". The resolution is still too low to use it effectively for anything text-based, which is a shame because I really want to use it to interact with a virtual desktop for terminal-based development work.
Hypervisor work also involves assembly.
That's correct. They also get automatically updated in Google Pay. I think this is your bank's fault.
Nah, Starcraft 1 just ended up pushing balancing to the tournaments and map designers. If you tried playing it on the last Blizzard maps from the original run of Brood War, it's a questionably balanced game.
> You don't have to go into such niches in Java to lose that property.

It's not so easy. You'd have to examine debugging information in stack traces and use reflection. You can't write such a "trace" operator in Java or in Zig. Of course, without macros, C is almost perfectly referentially transparent and Haskell is, too (except for unsafePerformIO).
Same for me, seriously thinking about canceling my premium membership. Well, it was awesome, now I feel it’s worst than my seton the morning!
For games where decisions really matter (ie you get multiple endings based on good/bad choices), I usually do two play throughs (if the game is good). One morally good and one morally extremely evil. I try to RP them, as in, I avoid thinking about what I, the real person, would do but instead focus on what the character would do.

I think it adds a layer of fun to the game that isn't even really in the game.
>> Or a collection of retro games could display in mixed reality as if it were real boxed games on a shelf along your real wall.

> I could see Microsoft making this.

The first quoted part is actually similar to part of the old Microsoft BOB concept. Indeed some Later version of Packard Bell Navigator (which was basically a Bob clone) literally had general programs presented as box software sitting on a shelf.
Worth a read if you've ever used Airbnb for a short term stay in NYC (or if you're an Airbnb host). The City of NY is about to start enforcing a ban on short term rentals on Airbnb, VRBO, etc.
Seems tech neighborhoods are pretty good everywhere.

Twitter and Reddit tech neighborhoods have good reputations.
Huh I've never seen this approach. Very interesting solution, could be adapted to the JavaScript matrix libraries I bet.
I like young people a lot!

Which is why I think we should massively restrict the amount of digital poison corporations are allowed to pump into their veins.
I know this is off topic, but nice to meet you famous dev
There is steering sensitivity, car speed, ball speed, car mass, car power, boost strength, shooting power, jump height. All those variables have been finalized. What I'm saying is that balance patches are a band aid over the core problem.
About .5 tokens per second if I had to guess.
Previously (but for a different type of position IIRC) you were requiring applicants to pay for your program and apply with a cover letter detailing their experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34983991 (parent comment now deleted, but you had roughly said that you would not entertain applications from people who had not done this prior step)

For the sake of people reading this, can you clarify if this is something you'll also be requiring of potential "Growth hacker / cofounder" applicants?
To explain the flinching (since I didn't catch it immediately):

> In 64-bit mode, still use `xor r32, r32`, because writing a 32-bit reg zeros the upper 32. `xor r64, r64` is a waste of a byte, because it needs a REX prefix.

(from https://stackoverflow.com/a/33668295/554577 )
I think it looks great!

For the pricing, consider adding tiers depending on the type of user. What you're asking for now is perfectly fine for companies. But for individual developers I think it's a bit steep.

Also a demo that you can test out in the wild for maybe a week or so would be interesting, or a generous 7 day refund policy.

Good luck!
Yeah, apparently I missed the mark when I predicted a horoscope column. It's phrenology that's the new hotness at Nature. Connectome, shemectome: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01495-y

They are evidently running a cross-sectional, longitudinal, inter-dimensional study on how to hose a prestigious 150-year-old brand.
One reason i carry several credit cards is that you can’t count on any one card working 100% of the time
Small error with the links.
Are remote workers who don’t choose a digital nomad lifestyle somehow immune from being tired, lonely and hated by locals? As far as I can tell all of these issues are just as real for the average tech worker working in a big hub. The difference is being a digital nomad offers way more flexibility on how you live your life and the variety of culture you get to experience.
If interest rates come down, it will soar again. Excess money needs somewhere to go, and there isn't excess enough now to balloon it.
Why are businesses overlooking newsletter advertising?
Mainstream advertising & marketing discussions seem to always sleep on the advertising opportunity in newsletter sponsorships.

I've both worked for & built my own newsletters and they are much better for companies trying to get in front hyper-relevant audiences than most other forms of advertising are.

Remember when Facebook lost 10 billion dollars in 2022 because Apple changed how apps collect data?

Imo that is when social media advertising started losing its ability to target relevant prospects.

After all how can you show relevant personalized ads to people you can't track and don't know much about?

Newsletters on the other hand are both niche, interest, demographic, etc specific and have the undivided attention of their readers.

Attention on social media is divided, constantly disrupted. But when you're reading an email from a newsletter, it has your undivided attention.

Unlike social media, you actually have your attention concentrated in one place.

And startups like Jardy.com are making it even simpler to find & advertise with relevant newsletters.

With all of that said, I'd like to end this rant with a question.

Have you considered newsletters as a part of your advertising strategy?

If yes, what was your experience like? If not, why not?
Location: Denver, Colorado

Remote: Yes, or hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Scala, Rust, Kotlin, Go, Python, SQL/NoSQL, Cloud Infra/DevOps

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-aharon-49473638

Github: https://github.com/daharon

Email: soft.ice0643@fastmail.com

My career has been split between Developer and DevOps roles, and I enjoy both.
Also, I have been working remotely since 2019 in groups that span a wide range
of time zones, but I would welcome a hybrid role.

The reason my last position was for only one year is because it was a startup
and we ran out of funding.
Looks nice, you might get also want to try out error diffusion dithering for a better result.
Nintendo Switch games are very small memory cards, maybe 1.5cm among the longest edge and 2.5mm thick?? I imagine you could easily stick it to the back of a belt buckle or under an insole (in shoes there's is sometimes a metal stiffener between the heel and midsole) or secrete it on your person ("prison pocket"!) without it setting off a metal detector.