skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to survive in an AI world? Shift your mindset from “I write code” to “I deliver value”.

Now instead of AI replacing you, it’s helping you get more done (in theory). Everyone wins.

Staking your career on being a pair of hired hands that executes somebody else’s exacting specifications was always a long-term losing proposition. And we are very very far away from AI being able to ask the right questions to help business stakeholders and customers clearly express what they need.
It could just be a parts issue. A lot of mechanics will work on pretty much any car, if they have the parts, but if it's not a popular model then they don't want it sitting in their shop for a week while they order parts.

I guess some mechanics will prefer to work with a smaller number of models, because they're much faster if they're familiar with the model, but new models come out every year, and they need to learn how to fix those. If a mechanic can learn to fix the newest VW, they can learn to fix the newest Renault, it just might not be worth their time if they have enough work to do.
EU antitrust team closer to full-blown Microsoft probe, say sources
About a year or 2 ago I started to mainly buy games on Steam (and even wait if they start out exclusive to something like Epic) just so I can get the "free" Steam Proton compatibility for my Linux machines (NixOS), my Mac, and my Steam Deck
Do you have any info page for how you implement stuff like funnels, journeys, etc. without storing any PII?

Also this paragraph from your GDPR page had me scratching my head a bit:

> Usermaven agrees to abide by the standard contractual clauses where data is transferred from the EU to the US.

Is that written before Schrems II?
What build system did you use? I thought the JSON compilation database is relatively well supported to generate these days (e.g. used by the language server in VS Code).
It was 100USD per month per seat some time ago, with a high number of devs it may actually be beneficial to roll something on your own.
I thought Azov promotion was banned on Twitter?
Not available on Github or Fdroid.
> "The absurd levels of pornography"

I am an anonymous user on Twitter and never saw any pornography. What do you think did I do wrong?

I get that advertisers and credit card companies get careful here, but I think sanitized content will just never be popular. It won't be restricted to pornography, it never is. No platform is interesting if advertisers and other stakeholders prescribe "positivity content". Instagram was successful because people connected with their friends. They will struggle as well if the platform gets more and more commercialized. Celebs will only ever attract certain demographics. New users might look into new platforms. Those will probably be just as shitty as the last one and the cycle continues.
I don't think you even need to make an efficiency argument.

More doctors can provide more benefit even if you gave them no medical devices and medicine. They can answer questions, diagnose, triage, ect.

There is a whole class of knowledge services in the economy that can scale without consuming more resources. Therapists, musicians, architects, educators, home-decoration consultants, ect.
1. If a web browser can display content at a URL, why would ChatGPT be violating IP rights by doing so?

2. If a web browser can display all the content much faster, why not use one?

(plagiarizing the linked Twitter thread)

...maybe the answer, now that I think of it, to item (1) is as simple as it doesn't respect robots.txt.
I understand embarrassment, but anger might be misplaced. Red Hat was a newly public company trying to turn a profit. It identified its market and Red Hat Linux wasn't serving it, and the model they were pursuing with Red Hat Linux wasn't working.

But I am a solid supporter of the "pay for RHEL or use Debian" philosophy. If you need promises about the future, pay for RHEL or use a project that doesn't have commercial motives. Debian is great and I wish more companies would standardize on it and support it.

I'm not such a fan of the middle road of hoping that vendors will continue supplying things of value for free. It's especially ironic that an insurance vendor got burned by placing a bet on a free operating system with no assurances whatsoever. The RHEL subscription is insurance.
These things are a matter of writing a correct prompt. Like "use this and that naming convention for variables and keep this and that style".

You can also ask it to write tests for the code so you can verify it is working or add your own additional tests.

Even if the produced code is wrong, it usually takes a few steps to correct it and still saves time.

It is an amazing tool and time saver if you know what you are doing, but helps with research as well. For instance if you want to code something in the domain you know little about, it can give you ideas where to look and then improve your prompts based on that.

In the context of taking anyone's job is like saying that a spreadsheet is going to replace accountants.

It's just a tool.
The problem is that we think that developers make software to be useful, the truth is that developers make software because their companies need to make money.
It was really hard to accept this as a developer when I started to do this as paid job
One wonders if European lawmakers have any idea what a business is.
We hired 2 junior developers for maybe 20K more total, in total compensation, than their original quote.

But you (and child) comment made me realize that I don't remember the terms of the proposal, whether it was per year or for 2 years. So it might have been a 1:1, not 1:2.

In the end, their product was just completely insufficient for our needs, and it was clearly just gluing open source tools together. The part we couldn't do as well was the front end, and they clearly put a lot of effort into it. It looked and worked nicely. But that didn't help us when they couldn't parse the code to populate it.
> but I've heard (mind you, a few years ago) of people squeezing in Google Deepmind just by knowing the topic they're supposed to work on

What position? No coding test for a research scientist is more plausible than no coding test for a software engineer.
Qualification is also just a box. Of course will nobody be hired if they lack even the basic qualification. But the boxes can influence on whether you will hire the top-notch performer, or the just barely good enough dude who checks more DEI-boxes.
I love stability AI
Reminds me of the times when Facebook acquired Friendfeed, a brilliant micro-blogging platform with real-time feed and "like" features before others. Back then, Twitter favs were anonymous while Friendfeed used usernames. It was innovative but it's left abandoned after acquisition until shutting off.
Is the "% Verified" going down just because the number of games that are either "Playable" (or "Unsupported" is going up?
High levels of toxic chemicals in pets living near US manufacturing plant
Some people have an opportunity to undo twitter’s damage to the world and they just build another twitter? Lame.
To me it seems Valve correctly realised their Steam Machines failed due to software and too many different hardware combinations, and since then prioritized getting games to run better on Linux before trying again with a single device that's supported well and can run thousands of games at release.
> Mastodon doesn't have any categorization/classification/tags tools, everyting is dumped into a single gigantic realtime thread

I don't know whether it helps your use case, but Mastodon has a "Lists" feature, which allows you to group the accounts you follow into separate realtime threads. For instance, one list could be for small accounts from which you don't want to miss any post, while another list might be for high-volume daily news accounts (and IIRC, there's even an option to "hide accounts on this list from your home timeline", so you could use lists for the noisy accounts and have everything else in the home timeline).
The wealthy ensure their perpetual dominance by making it easier for their kids to be successful, in a myriad of ways beyond legacy admissions and trust funds, at the expense of everyone else. Another issue is the perpetual amplification cycle effects on winners and losers these systems of exclusive selection (discrimination) create.
Zuckerbot controlling an even larger portion of the public discourse is somehow a good thing?
Those full building works are awesome. I question whether the lack of billboards is truly related to the rise of these murals. They are on MASSIVE canvases that surely were not previously covered in totality by an ad. If this rise in these works is a response/reaction to the lack of color, then the quote in the article that “Advertising is both an art form and, when you're in your car or alone on foot, a form of entertainment that helps relieve solitude and boredom” has some validity. I would much prefer a ban on ads, but I question that correlation on these two.

We have murals and billboards in our town. The mutual started showing up in force with the rise of instagram.
It is deeply bizarre how much worse GA4 is as a product. I don't understand it.
what is a terrible talent market? is it when major corporations reach all time high profits while laying off most of their employees?
You're looking for specifics from people that don't necessarily have them. Not because their reasoning isn't valid, but a lot of us don't use the ecosystem frequently enough for them to be in the foreground of our minds.

I had to use an iPhone for a few weeks when mine broke. That was enough to convince me to never touch any of their products again. I'd love to tell you more about it but it's been 4 years and I just don't remember all of of details. The main thing I remember is that it was anything but intuitive to use and it was an entirely frustrating experience. Easily the worst phone experience I've ever had
Unless we get rid of capitalism as well. Or, at least, force these people to pay taxes that prevent the accumulation of wealth and its undue influence in politics.
> The actual mRNA vaccines are pretty technologically simple,

Apple vision is even more technologically simple. You get the screen, attach some sensors to it, sprinkle cameras, add CPU, battery, lenses and you’re done.

> the complexity in differential gps is in its algorithms rather than hardware,

I could somehow understand your ignorance when it comes to mRNA - it’s outside of typical software engineer field of expertise. But GPS?

Yeah, complexity is just in algorithms. Building a satellite that can survive decades in space, building and attaching extremely precise clock to, some solar panels and antennas, thrusters and few other minor details, then getting that onto the rocket and injecting into very precise orbit - that’s an easy part! And especially doing that in 1970s!

All those things are easy compared to leet code! /s
putting the lie to the end of coders
LI and FB def not similar. just that whatever is on the LI feed is consumed more.
You must surely realize "tech books for girls" comes across as sexist, yes?

This isn't about tech textbooks, but books about tech. ("So we set out with the audacious goal to define the best books about tech out there.")

For me, I've only read 2 of these books. Many of them look good. I would also like to read "The Friendly Orange Glow: The untold story of the PLATO System and the dawn of cyberculture".

I think the restriction to "books still in print" makes things complicated as it biases the selection to newer books. Is "Inmates" (from 2004) still in print? How many of these books will still be in print after 20 years?
how refreshing it is to see technical details in a technical report /s
Thanks. I hadn't heard of bunny.net before. I'm going to give this a shot.
This should be a standard.
How is this different than searching crunchbase or pitchbook for a list of companies?
Price of US stamp rises to 66 cents, the 5th increase since 2019
Immortality in this universe is a physical impossibility, and even if it were medically possible, it is easily lost.
Article suggests more research and prep for a 30 minute first round than I’ve ever done for a half-day loop. Good lord. If you have to work that hard to seem like a good candidate, the real job is going to be a nightmare.
> Formulate high-signal questions (to get interviewers thinking). Interviews are often won or lost by the questions you ask the interviewer at the end. Half of the battle is preparing well and showing up to answer the interviewer’s questions; the other half is asking them questions that get them thinking (and make you stand out).

I've performed hundreds of FAANG interviews, and I categorize this firmly in the "interview astrology" side. In my company we don't use questions asked by the candidate to determine the outcome (at least not for software engineers), and often we don't even record them. It sounds good to "impress your interviewer with your questions" but we are mindful about biases that might favour some candidates e.g. those with particularly good storytelling skills.

My advice would be to not overthink it. Just ask the questions that are genuinely important to you, and don't try to focus on impressing your interviewer.
I'm surviving just fine by not using any LLMs.
I believe the concept of 'meaning' is inherently human because we are intrinsically teleological beings. We habitually seek meaning, purpose, or goal-orientation in every aspect of our existence.

I also believe that the concept of 'meaning' exists only within the realm of human consciousness. Outside the human experience, the concept of 'meaning' is virtually non-existent. For instance, the cosmos doesn't assign 'meaning' to celestial events; they simply occur in adherence to the laws of physics.
Is there anything in terms of healthcare that is only available to billionaires today (not available to middle class)?
Did you speak directly through cold email ?
GDPR is OK, but has so many holes in it that it is almost worthless in terms of actual enforcement
Duo is compatible with dumb phones
You can have TOTP as a browser extension. Not saying you should, just that there is a possibility. A bonus is easier backup of secrets so loosing your phone does not lock you out.
> The recent rewrite of github search has probably made sourcegraph irrelevant.

It only makes it irrelevamt if all your code is hosted on Github.

I'm quite tired of Github-proprietary solutions being hailed as the "industry norm." Or vendors like shipping products and integrations that only work with Github. Git is a decentralized protocol; please treat it like one.
Similarly, the emergent generation in American often reject learning to drive a car, as renunciation of the anthropocentric lifestyle.
I also find it bizarre that so many people feel precious about the code. They have too much ego attached to what they type in and the AI kind of make them feel insecure.

I couldn't care less if I write the code, the AI or someone I told to write it.

What matters is the value it provides.
And what about embedded videos? Some local government agencies are using Youtube to post instructions how to use their complicated service system. Will those be blocked too?
The author was clearly making a point to make us ask explicitly even after we expressed concerns about their and their publications sources. Yes, I was annoyed by this. You however grossly misinterpreted as me being upset and demanding sources IMMEDIATELY, which wasn't the case. I made a single request to follow up on what the initial commenter in this thread said to reinforce that there are multiple of us in the comments that are highly skeptical of the claims in the paper, especially in light of a lack of byline or citations by the publisher.

The author then happily obliged in a timely and respectful manner and addressed my concerns. You, however, are the one that took issue with it.
Every interaction that may be abused and spammed should either require payment or require strict identification of a user that it is this particular human being with permission to perform this action. In this case any spam attack can be countervailed either by rising a price for interaction or by withdrawing permissions.
> AIs, at their current level of development, don’t perceive objects in the way that we do – they understand commonly occurring patterns.

You see this claim everywhere - that AI operates on statistics and patterns and not actual understanding. But human understanding is entirely about statistics and patterns. When a human sees a collection of particles and recognizes it as, say, a car, all they are doing is recognizing the car-like patterns in how the particles are organized that have a strong statistical correlation with prior observations of things classified as a car. Am I missing something?
So what if this becomes super cheap? Would dental treatments or insulin or whatever other basic medication become affordable too? Because otherwise that's a hell of immortality being offered to the masses...
Metaphors for AI, and why I don’t like them
Great, so we can look forward to having presidents who are 200yo instead of 100yo?
I am not sure if this is the best. But, YC (Y Combinator) provides some resources about startups. You can check them out at https://www.ycombinator.com/library.
Recommend a VS Code extension for managing Git user configs
Do you ever have one more git user configs( for example one is for open source(GitHub) and another is for Work(GitLab))? And you use different username and email for your commits at work or for your open source repositories by mistake?

Git User Config Manager extension helps you manage and switch your git user configs easier and smarter. What's more, it also support SSH Key generation and configure gitdir config.
The only reason it works in a telemarketing context is because "hellbanning" doesn't exist for phones, it's a synchronous medium where you need to keep them on the line somehow, as you note. That's not a concern for asynchronous mediums like forums.

In addition, banning someone in the context of a forum is the responsibility of the operators of the platform, but stringing along a telemarketer is the responsibility of the individual users of the platform. It's not equivalent to a hellban, it's the equivalent of trolling, but now automated. If it ever started happening in large numbers, the platform operators (the phone companies) would change their terms of service to make it illegal, because having machines trolling each other indefinitely uses up their network capacity for no reason.
This reminds me: what's the interview approach when someone was fired from their previous job? Just lie because disclosing that information will very likely disqualify you?
It's great, just not fantastic (yet). I'm kind of eager for further hardware revisions, but on the other hand, I've already used it a lot when I otherwise wouldn't have had the option to start up the big desktop for gaming (commuting, or even just to use some time in between things). And while I bought a Switch before, the main benefit here is of course the entire Steam library being available, so no buying the same title more than once.

Biggest dislike is the on-screen keyboard. On the one hand it's usable with the two trackpads, but, I still take way to long to enter text, even compared to a phone screen. It's also very slow to appear and bugs out too often. I really hope that that can be improved so it can pop up and disappear without noticeable delay.

I'm not sure about underpowered, I was actually quite happy to install some rather resource-intensive (Windows!) games and while it's getting quite warm, I never ran out of battery immediately, but yes, if you've got to save energy, better turn on all the options for that. And that's actually quite cool to be able to turn down energy consumption on a whim, or with per-game profiles, etc.

As long as they're going to optimise the experience more and not just keep it as-is, because "it works fine", then it could be a really good platform going forward.

Same question for the dock though, is it worth it?
Seems rather backwards to me. Insurrection doesn’t take very long and the stakes are much higher when you have immortality.
Except that external contributions to a full product are usually minuscule (mostly typos) compared the codebase.
At some point stuff gets tested in humans.
I used to ride the red line when the Metro first opened and you're right. I miss that patterned concrete atmosphere.
My first step when using an LLM is asking it to produce a test suite for a function, with a load of example inputs and outputs. 9 times out of 10, I've been presented with something incorrect which I need to correct first.

I'm reasonably good at being specific and clear in my directions, but I quickly arrived at the conclusion that LLMs are simply not good at producing accurate code in a way that saves me time.
What is so crazy is this seem like a disincentive to publish and share ideas. If anything you say can be used in an AI against you... or the alternatively that is not your idea the AI came up with it...
This has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with the crackpots in charge.
PSA - your comments are never going to stop people from posting or commenting.

This forum has many different personalities and perspectives. People with soft skills and people with almost none.

Work on the soft skills mate. No need to be so abrasive.
Research into quantum silly walks.
[4] is not really a usable 'product'. Livegrep (https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep) was inspired by it and is very usable.

[3] used to be a Google open source project as well, but it fell out of maintenance, and Sourcegraph took it over. It powers most of the basic regex/literal search in Sourcegraph.

Mozilla's code is searchable in Searchfox (https://searchfox.org/) which uses the indexer from Livegrep, combined with their own Git indexer and language-specific cross reference databases.

OpenGrok (https://github.com/oracle/opengrok) is also rather well known, but I have found it to have a slightly worse UI than alternatives.
> This is why a lot of American centric sites block us from accessing them, they want your data, and they don't want to ask for it.

Also, requiring it when it is not technically required for the product is illegal. So even throwing up a splash screen for EU visitors with a single "allow all" button would be illegal.

The GDPR is actually a quite well designed law for what it tries to do, its just that enforcement lags behind.
Koyeb (disclaimer I work there) lets you run workers and provides a free $5.50 credit that covers the cost of running 2 nano services.

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Post this comment on LinkedIn and see how long it takes for some unqualified tech 'speaker' to tell you you're about to be left in the dirt!
Great achievement! How many additional years did it take compared to FF on Windows?
This is literally a dream for me. I think of it often, what if all form of advertisement was banned? For me it is one of the two big cancers of the 21st century and contributes to an overall massive feeling of restlessness.
more like lixo am I right fellas
Of course, but this is like if the whole interview were they have you sight read 10 bars of music, and then 8 bars of a different genre, then 18 bars of another harder one. Then they just spam those at you for the duration of the audition. That is the whole thing. Like, yes. It is “a” way to do it, but it is understandable that there would be musicians who aren’t fond of that interview style.
What sad state of internet are we in, when users have to jump through hoops just to make browsing websites a little bit more convenient.