skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am an "L4" because I, on-paper, lacked the experience to be considered for L5 roles when I had joined.

I had been previously rejected from vacancies because, according to HMs, "I would find the role and responsibilities boring", and the company didn't want to "hire me and on board me, only for me to leave 3 months later".

> It mostly talks about “scope”,”impact” and “dealing with ambiguity”.

Yet, here I am, org-wide impact, and, deep in ambiguity, project-wide scope with no requirements and specs outside "do magic" to make it happen. So much ambiguity that no other team wanted this part of the project, and all managers were worried about us delivering, yet we are the only team ahead of the schedule.

I am not a back-end engineer, I don't know frameworks, I don't "know" cloud or front-end either. What I am good at is finding the right models to use to think about problems and then asking the right questions.

I understood what needed to be done because I understood what we were actually solving, I built the prototypes and showed that it works. The two actual SDE3s we have treat me as an equal and everyone else asks for my opinion and listens to me.
Probably the most shocking revelation I've had in my time as a developer has been that testers are never paid the correct salary (some too high, most too low), and that if you have someone who is good at testing and is becoming proficient at coding, their smartest move is not to become a FT developer, but to skip right over developing and go into security consulting. Instead of making 75% more money by switching careers, you can make 150% more.

Software needs people with the suspicious minds of good testers, but security people make more money for the same skillset.
Yessss! I looked into building some self contained "slow tech" generative art using eink a couple of years ago but it was just impossible for my tiny budget. This is great, thanks!!

Edit..: I'm so hyped about this; the example image on TFA takes +2 hours to generate, but who cares?! I'd love to have a little display that churns around in the background and creates a new variation on my prompt every whatever hours, displaying the results on an unobtrusive eink screen.
I thought of this immediately but was too lazy to edit so this is what I deserve
To clarify, the Federal Reserve is owned by the 12 Federal Reserve Regional Banks which are in turn “owned” (as in stock that pays a dividend but can’t be traded) by the commercial banks in that region.
Yes a certain set of people do seem to be obsessed. And when you point that out their response is “no you’re obsessed!” No hints of irony or self awareness detected.
The ban on bearer bonds should be repealed. People worry about cash because it is the only legal option left.
So it's like a Bitcoin exchange, but with dollars!
Oh, that is interesting. I can see it.
I believe it was an ideologic position by the author, but maybe it is not too far. I can't tell for others, but depending on what I look for Google is not the best option. I find that now there are too much ads which kind get in the way of the answer. There are too many crafted results to appear more relevant than they are and they tend to sticky to the top for a long time.
The supported Windows version is WSL.

Everything else is weirdo legacy crap.

/s
I literally search "xyz reddit" on google if i want reddit refs lol
I think what everyone is getting wrong is that the key pain point to solve is moderation. Solve moderation first.
> Freeze-drying goes back to at least the 1930s and was used for medicines in WWII, but cost too much for wide use.

Okay, so... the tech existed but was too expensive to actually use, NASA threw a bunch of R&D at making it practical, and now it's cheap enough to use. I'd say that's a great case for NASA getting credit for making the tech useful; that they didn't literally invent it from scratch seems rather beside the point.
I've put in the notice a few weeks ago and coordinated the announcement with my team.
There's no new feature. It's an old feature (transferring money) but faster.
“You could have a potentially […] darker world where the government decides that units of central bank money can be used to purchase some things, but not other things that it deems less desirable like say ammunition, or drugs, or pornography, or something of the sort“

Eswar Prasad, WEF Annual Meeting of the New Champions, June 2023
Ask HN: How to send mass email with high delivery rate
I don't run it as a daily driver but sometimes I'll fire it up on my MBP or Chromebook for a few hours of work. I dial back a lot of the effects somewhat. I like the low-fi focus I get from using it it.
The end users of FedNow are financial institutions, so not directly.
Classic political rhetoric. Who cares about “free”? I’m already paying for TurboTax. This only needs to be cheaper.
For most of the FBI’s history, it was run by J Edgar Hoover, who used it to spy on and blackmail innocent Americans and as a political weapon.

It’s still the same organization, from spying to entrapment to outright murder to authoritarian political influence (and don’t be mistaken - it’s not on any particular party’s side, it’s on the FBI’s side.) The real question is my mind is how some people came to be convinced it was respectable organization - maybe through its portrayal in pop culture shows? Just institutional power?
We have independent central banks because we don't want the "government" (I mean politicians) to control our money.
PSA: houses don't 'get termites'. They get water damage, and then the water damage gets termites.

Most problems with houses come back to managing water, air, or some other infiltration. But mostly it's water.
This is definitely the first step to having a true personal assistant. What OpenAI and the rest of the AI providers have to do next is come up with a secure way of storing all my personal information, using it securely/privately, then convincing everyone it'll be safe for AIs to use. (Believe it or not that last part is the easiest.)

By personal info, I mean my age, gender, sexual preferences, education, health data, home address, relatives and contacts, passwords, bank info and credit cards, SSN, place of work, resume, calendar, email, devices, interests, entertainment and news preferences, etc.

The privacy obsessed HNers will come up with all sorts of reasons this is a really bad idea and impossible to secure from various technical perspectives. It doesn't really matter, because the majority of regular users don't think about it and all that data is out there already. To most people, the loss of privacy/security is worth the benefits, if they think about it at all.
Same here – if you like doing your taxes on paper, AND you post on this site, you'll love it & it'll save you some cash over Turbotax/friends.

I will say it isn't the most user friendly application, as evidenced by the error I received this year by email:

Issue : Business Rule X0000-005 - The XML data has failed schema validation. cvc-complex-type.2.4.a. Invalid content was found starting with element `QualifiedCareExpensesPaidAmt`. One of `{"http://www.irs.gov/efile":IdentityProtectionPIN, "http://www.irs.gov/efile":QualifyingPersonSSN, "http://www.irs.gov/efile":DiedLiteralCd}` is expected.

The following information may help you determine the form at issue:
Field/Xpath: /efile:Return[1]/efile:ReturnData[1]/efile:IRS2441[1]/efile:QualifyingPersonGrp[2]/efile:QualifiedCareExpensesPaidAmt[1]

It did help me find the form & line at issue instantly, but I'm not sure a non-programmer would have as much luck.
It is live on star one credit Unions mobile app. On their interface, it still requires you to specify the target’s routing and ac number like an ACH transaction. So not the most usable now.
> maybe that would help people behave better, with real-world decorum, in those specific identities

I don't think that would be the result, really, because when sites do have real identity requirements, it doesn't increase civility much, if any.

I think it's the absence of a physical presence that makes people feel OK with being less civil. Emotionally, it doesn't feel like you're talking with real people.

But I don't know.
Seatec Astronomy was an anagram for Too Many Secrets, not No More Secrets.
Yea, seems pretty loose to assume those dollars would have generated three times the economic impact of the space program if they'd been left in individuals hands.

Companies certainly innovate, but the government innovates a _lot_ (primarily through research grants which are eventually developed into products by entrepreneurs as far as I can tell, also the military).
I've heard people describe "prompt engineering" as just people who know how to craft prompts well.

I hope we converge on a better definition than that soon. Maybe the name can change too.
It shows a huge disregard for non-technical users. Very just-use-Wireguard (tail scale) or just-ftp-rsync-your-data (Dropbox).
Minus all the profits the companies take…
Not the OP but it’s a good way of encrypting your shell.
https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/governments-progra...

The above has some chatter about non-US nations exploring the expiry/programmability aspects.
Plaid: Pain-free deployments at global scale – CNCF
Would you consider respecting my inbox instead?
in order to reduce hallucinations one can use other tricks, chain-of-thought and reflection being two popular ones
No, quite the opposite.

Technical discussions are fine, but more personal things are probably what the parent comment is going for. I can totally see an extrovert being annoyed and uncomfortable with the "realness" of conversations that only have place within very small groups.
Wow, if only I knew. Thank you for curing me kind internet stranger!
seems like they run the generated response through the typescript type checker, and if it fails, retry using the error message as a further hint to the LLM, until it succeeds.
Intuit is a bunch of vampires stealing money from Americans. Every developed country in the world has a relatively easy tax system for citizens, but only the US operates in this insane way where they willingly tax citizens by not providing them with an easy way to do taxes, and instead sends them to the wolves of Intuit and others.
Yep, I'm aware of this for the API, but even then - the API never says this to me. One time I have had a disclaimer shown by the API when I was asking about some exploit stuff many months ago. I've spent a lot on the API too, so I've been through a lot of responses and not even a 2021 in there. It's all in the UI.
We can’t have a complete conversation about the anti-FBI sentiment without mentioning how a twice impeached former president, who is facing a half dozen federal indictments, drummed up said anti-FBI sentiment in order to discredit our federal investigative bureau in hopes of looking less guilty.

He is literally attacking the institutions of our country to distract from his crimes.

I would expect law and order conservatives not to stand for such blatant self serving behavior.
> It also allowed us to join the conversation with many other blogs by increasing our keywords from 300 to over 7,000, which led our website clicks to jump from 100 per month to 4,000.

That is... unreasonably effective.
At a whole $25 per bank, why even bother charging anything?
All the grievances of Whitey on the Moon can be, and regularly are, offered today. Yet Whitey hasn't been to the Moon in 50 years. It's almost as if one has nothing to do with the other.
At least with OpenAI, wouldn't it be better if under the hood it was using the new function call feature?
I don't want to take away from Theo Baker's work here. The articles are well written and well researched. But ultimately they are simply reporting on other people's actions and formal investigations. I don't see any evidence that these articles were a driving force in this set of events.
Idk, google scholar still works for the most part.

Seems there is a gap. If you're looking for astroturfed opinions a search like "<thing of interest> reddit" works pretty well. If you are looking for scientific content, Scholar is at least a good starting point. In the middle there is a wasteland of listicles, SEO spam, etc.

It's like that IQ bell curve meme template.
Brokerages and banks already send the IRS your info about 401k plans, HSA/529/etc. accounts, and stock dividends/sales. Most (not all, but most) 1099 employers send the IRS your 1099 as well. Filling these out yourself is a pointless formality and duplicated work in exactly the same way that filling out your own W-2 is.

Government-prepared returns won't cover everybody, but they will cover a much larger share of the population than you're assuming. At an offhand guess, I'd say maybe 90% of people will be just fine.
now that I think of it, if farmers had already owned their farms, Mao & co wouldn't have gone through the trouble of redistributing it via Land Reform.

I might suggest that drawing boundaries around a plot of land and calling it "owned" was the beginning of politics, as it represents collective agreements and mechanisms to arrive at them. Have you dug into Elinor Ostrom's work around the tragedy of the commons being an unrealistic model given that people don't just let other people's cows overgraze? We create rules and sanctions before the resource collapses (or rather, we try to; and that attempt to prevent collapse could be called government).
I hope so, when it trickles down to the commercial bank user level.

That's how it works in pretty much the entire rest of the world. PayPal is mostly incomprehensible to Europeans, it solves a problem that they never had.
You can't make the voter turnout argument because the US election system is awful, and people know when their vote doesn't matter, or when it's being suppressed, and choose not to vote
I think this gap in understanding is more of an underlying psychological phenomenon, that those people struggle to grasp the concept you're describing because they just don't get it. Like how people learn, say, math differently. If they had the capacity to understand then they might've already and this wouldn't apply. How to deal with this in a society is a complicated matter.
Housing Costs and Affordbility
I encourage people to create organizations that help make housing more accessible and affordable in their own neighborhoods.
No, obviously I do not. However, I am capable of nuance and can find a tool useful even if it has flaws.
Do you know that it was NASA's R&D that made it practical or is that conjecture?

From Institute of Food Technologists (IFT):

Freeze-drying was invented by Jacques-Arsene d’Arsonval at the College de France in Paris in 1906. Later, during World War II, it was widely implemented to preserve blood serum. Since then freeze-drying has become one of the most important processes for preservation of heat-sensitive biological materials. During the 1950s, industrial freeze-drying of foods began. Freeze-drying is currently used as a preservation method for foods, pharma-ceuticals, and a wide range of other products.

https://www.ift.org/news-and-publications/food-technology-ma...
> For example, type 2 diabetes is reversible...

Sometimes, but not always. I know at least a couple type 2 diabetics who aren't overweight, eat generally healthy diets, and get regular exercise - but still require medication to control their blood sugar. And that's leaving aside the very real difficulties most people have in making the lifestyle changes necessary to affect the disease.
Congrats, this is an awesome milestone!
This is doing inference on the CPU, right?
Your example basically says they are in the wrong bubble, as far as high schoolers are concerned.

If they want to look for something/someone, why would they go to the most unreliable places with totally random people to get gossip instead of reputable sources?
"Spend" is a loaded term when it comes to the way governments work.

If I have $100 then I can choose to spend it on say a book. I have a book, my $100 is clearly gone.

But when the govt spends say $400 mil on a lunar landing, they get the lunar landing, but they also get a bunch of money back. Firstly, a chunk of that money goes to salaries, so a decent chunk comes back as primary taxes (income tax etc) and secondary taxes (sales tax, gas tax, taxes on booze and smokes).

What isn't taxes is mostly then circulating in the economy (generating yet more taxes) while giving the economy a nice boost.

Now we can argue about opportunity cost etc, but the govt has no issue borrowing all the money they like - so there's no real lost opportunity.

We can quibble about edge-case budgets all day long, but its hard to avoid the jobs program that is "military spending". In truth what does all that money buy? The lunar program, the Mars program, curing cancer, these are rounding errors compared to the military budget.

I'm gonna get crucified for saying this, but what do invasions of Iraq, or occupations of Afghanistan for 20 years actually really achieve? Instead of picking on NASA it might be time to wonder what the Defence trillions get us?

Which brings me back to my first point- most of those trillions circle round in the economy anyway, so its all funny money.
Yes, that part is unfortunate. It requires full routing number and account number. Maybe the phone number to account number mapping might be seen as a privacy risk in USA.
> Since the RTW laws weaken the unions, we expect that hard work is more likely to be rewarded with higher wages and the shirking behavior among innovative employees will decrease, leading to greater innovation productivity.

The paper is full of conjectures like this.

I wonder if the authors considered that, in a scenario of perfect inequality, patent output may not follow the expected outcome.
Yes absolutely, this is classic Linus before he changed his approach. He's really made tremendous progress and I hope this post doesn't come off as modern criticism. It is more intended as a fascinating historical look into how thinks used to be, especially since the Linux kernel's userspace policy is fairly unique and something most people don't know how strongly Linus feels about it.
The wobble and stickyness made it easier to arrange windows side by side without overlap.
I guess I did! I thought you were saying it as a way of recommending it outside of IT.
'What is necessary (and severely lacking) is two-way communication. Enabling OSINT. Enabling people to form well-founded opinions. To discuss and receive constructive criticism of their views and ideas. Facilitating self-reflection on a society-level. '

Can't agree more, but how? Any insight?
Yes, you could probably do things like "drill each component rapidly", but it's more important to be motivated to learn stuff. If you have something to look forward to, even if it's not the most efficient or optimal way to learn stuff, it will keep you coming back.

If you're a nerd, you probably already know why the boring stuff is important because you've already aware of the domain and you can connect back. Just like the author, who also ONLY in hindsight started to realize that the boring stuff was important, doesn't mean everyone else will magically realize that as well. You need to make an explicit effort for them to do that, for example, through projects they can connect to.
Is that a special call? The api by default still gives me safe responses.
Well, that is highly dependent on the type of information. For simple facts nobody goes past Google, for actual research you do more digging, and for some tutorial type stuff it's actually probably youtube. The only thing I think ppl'd look for a Reddit thread or Discord server for is a somewhat technical topic they need help with.
I know you're making a point but there is a distinct difference in risk: FedNow transactions happen instantly, therefore fraud can take place faster.

That's all though. That's not a good reason to stay on FedACH.

For the HN crowd the best way to describe the difference between FedACH and FedNow is migrating from a batch-based system that settled transactions a few times/day to a real-time system. Just like such migrations developers and engineers encounter in many normal IT environments, real-time systems have their own issues but are also capable of so much more and are generally easier to improve/evolve.

FedACH was made for big, one-time transfers between bank accounts where it wouldn't matter too much if settlement took a few days. FedNow was made for lots of small(er) instantaneous transactions.

At first FedNow will likely be used as a simple replacement for ACH transfers but I suspect that it will eventually replace the back ends that handle debit card payments (because the prize--which would be taken from Visa, MasterCard, First Data, and similar--is too big to ignore).
Security alert: social engineering campaign targets tech industry employees
I’m immediately reminded of the healthcare.gov project, starting out with a budget of ~$90 million (which is already suspiciously high) and subsequently costing ~$2 billion, before launching with so many issues that it was initially unusable.
Are you interfacing with external apps or systems? If you can keep everything INSIDE airtable, it gives a lot of value out of the gate. If you need to tie into it externally, it's a pain in the ass and some things are simply not possible.
A couple feet of water is still disastrous though. You're insurance most likely doesn't cover it and you could be left with tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage easily.
Yes that’s what I’m doing for now, but I left android because I didn’t like sharing so much data with google, now I’m still sharing that data with google, and now apple too.
> it would be impossible to know whether one or other member of the Ukrainian delegation was actually working for the Russians.

That. That's the big argument. And it's a terrible argument.
.. that over-reliance on things one does not understand guarantees one will get stuck in new problems said tool can no longer solve?
What’s the best option for unfiltered?
> How to send mass email ... ?

Don't. Just don't.
Notion is definitely quite slow

But I also think a lot of companies in the same stage as Notion have fallen into the trap of shipping features (namely AI features) ahead of fixing perf bugs
Verify. Me?
Gotcha, and too true, least it is an option.
Whoops - thanks for catching this. Earlier iterations of this blog post used an different schema where `size` had been accidentally specified as a `number`. While we changed the schema, we hadn't re-run the prompt. It should be fixed now!
NativePHP
They shouldn't. They should go work in a different industry.

The butter churners didn't just die, they became professionals doing something else.
unless the intent of the code is to demonstrate some implementation where the optimisations would be distracting
An iPhone doesn’t force you to you iCloud backups (or iCloud at all). Or does it in China?
I don't want a free tax filing system.

I want the IRS to give me form - paper or digital - with the data they already know from my employer, bank, etc already in.

I'd be happy to enter the other things myself.
The UK is still the 6th biggest market in the world. Enough potential profit that most companies will be happy to follow slightly ridiculous laws.

The only reason Apple are saying this is because it's good PR and nobody in the UK uses iMessage anyway, so they won't lose any money.

Wake me up when WhatsApp say the same...