skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Professional organist here! Having a VPO at home is life changing. I'm lucky to live within a ten minute walk from my current employer, which has quite legitimately one of the best organs in the world, but even then, being able to practice at home occasionally is wonderful.

I bought a new home organ about two years ago and (long story) hoped to integrate a pedalboard I already had into it. I still haven't gotten that working, so I'll definitely be looking at this site's pedalboard controller to finally get that working.

(Also, feel free to ask me anything about organs, organ software, etc.)
> throw away lots of good candidates.

You say this as if it's a bad thing.

The reality is, companies have multiple qualified applicants for each open role. Hiring teams are actively raising the bar and trying to find more ways to narrow the pool down. If there are 10-20 qualified applicants in the pipeline, and half of them interviewed terribly, it's very easy to cut the applicant pool in half by rejecting the people who couldn't communicate their experience clearly during the interview.

Remember, "interviewing skill" is just another way of saying "how good are you at communicating with prospective employers".

Communication is usually an important hiring criteria. Ability to communicate well in an interview ("good interviewing skills") is a good proxy for ability to communicate in general.
Is that still satire? The URL says The Onion, but the article sounds totally serious.
Nah man, just you and me we start buying less stuff and this whole corporate machine grinds to a halt by the power of our wallets. /s
I'm surprised anyone enjoys anything besides the cheesecake. I've been to several locations with different people so it's not isolated to me or one restaurant. The pasta sauce is so watered down it doesn't even stick to the pasta. Their food is mediocore at best.
Factory Farming Is a Petri Dish for the Most Dangerous Bioweapon
Show some examples of previous newsletters. As it stands right now, there is barely any information on the page itself what you're actually offering and how high the quality is.
I think that’s just selection bias. Managers became mangers because they’re the type of person that keeps in contact with their prior coworkers and associates.
What does this have to do with OTA updates? It could come with the same software “built to lie” from the factory as well, couldn’t it?
Sure, anything that acts as an external structure to not even know the very basics is not a good sign for their odds..

People should write you a cover letter on the off chance that you open a spam folder of such volume that you can't bother to manually label a mail as belonging in it?
Your timeline is wrong (Figma wasn't even released until 2016). I have a piece covering Photoshop to Sketch to Figma that I think illustrates in detail how the rise of Figma happened https://blog.robenkleene.com/2023/06/19/software-transitions...
> _wild_ title inflation

I'm wondering if it's important to put a specific title on one's resume. I assume many companies don't have any titles at all and everybody is just a "software engineers", whether they are a fresh graduate or 10 years of experience tech lead. What is more relevant is the scope of the job done which should be listed in a job description.
Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)
Grab Reduces Traffic Cost for Kafka Consumers on AWS to Zero
Not everyone gets accepted into YC
It is ridiculous. Excluding drinks, you can eat for $25 per person at a casual restaurant even on the US west coast. But pre Covid, I would say that may have been $15 to $20.

If you are getting an appetizer, dinner, and dessert, then add another $20 to $30, but very, very few people should be eating that many calories and sugar/sat fats.
No, 1 stellar dev for 5 years.
https://www.photopea.com/
You get the same cost with closed source software and it's as old as software is. Try getting support for older versions of windows. Or DOS. MS walked away from that at some point as well.

The benefit of open source software is that as long as the code is out there, somebody could take it upon themselves to fix things and share the results. You don't have that option with windows. And you only have that option with Dos because somebody created an OSS version of that; which is still being used by some to run stuff from last century. Windows is probably a bit more tricky.
The TLS treadmill + certificate authority lists are antithetical to stability.

HTTP + merkle-tree based integrity checking + having the merkle root in DNS could be way more stable.
Even the the SHA1 deprecation would barely affect this, as long as you're not using the hash tree to vouch for content provided by 3rd parties collision attacks don't matter.
You could disable javascript or try reader mode on Safari but sites have wised up on both. Plus there's no quick toggle for JS, it's buried in the settings.
Cardinal Richelieu apparently. Yes, a great quote.
I know people with 20y that can’t do that.
Alexandra Elbakyan is a real life hero. She's done more for the democratization of science than just about any person alive at the moment, and at great personal expense.
Yeah this is weird. Work is not just a place where you transact time/utility for money. You can also get to know people and form friendships. I still regularly chat with past work colleagues and meet up with them when I travel.

In the last 20 years I’ve interviewed for exactly one job, and that was my first one out of university. Since then it’s always been people I know offering me new positions. People don’t just hire a random person off the street unless it’s some MegaCorp sausage machine or they’ve exhausted all other options.

Look you can follow this disengaged, unsocial approach, but it’s suboptimal.
I wouldn't pick anything Linux in general if moving fast and breaking things is problematic.
> if the W3C had any actual power in anything web/browser related

National language advisory councils around the world come in mixtures of two flavors:

- Authoritarian: Govern the correct use of language in the country.
- Documentarian: Maintain the record of how language evolves dynamically.

W3C never had any authoritative power.

But they do have some power by documenting and recommending what most agree on.

Chrome introducing DRM into websites makes it hard for W3C to be anything.
Htpasswd – Manage user files for basic authentication
No, canadian carriers are exceptionally good at making everything miserable, there is no technical solutions to a business wanting to create problems. If they could not make esims terrible they just wouldn't support esims at all.
$235K does not seem like the amount of money needed to take on Adobe. At the very, very best this gets you 4 developers and an artist for a year, I don't see how that is enough to even compete with the numerous FOSS alternatives.

This is an artist wanting to make multiple high effort products. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some serious confusion about what it takes to develop software going on here.

I also don't think that having Adobe, but without subscriptions, is really the solution to the problem. There are already usable, if not good FOSS alternatives out there. Maybe building up those is more productive?
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[PDF] Scaling TransNormer to 175B Parameters
Is that true in languages like Lisp or Smalltalk? Is it true with Rails?
Floating garbage arrives on the coastline of Guatemala
Not who you’re asking, but it can take almost no time, or decades. It has nothing to do with years.
There isn't a free lunch, but there certainly is a lunch you've already paid for.

E.g. I was at an 'all-inclusive' resort for work and some of my colleages seemed to think it was their duty to get as much value out of the meals as possible, even trying to calculate the actual cost of different dishes.
Absolutely correct, publishing false news is acceptable as long as it fits the agenda.
It happens. I’m currently working on a project where the CRM tool I need to access for data, actually does not have a unique id in its db. I have no idea if I will be able to successfully complete the project yet.
Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Store API rules
I wonder what other tools are there to track Windows 10/11 performance and kill -unneeded services/ - I miss those lean Windows builds.

Sometimes you get sluggish performance context switching app windows.

Task Manager and Resource Monitor shows that everything looks okay

- CPU
- Memory
- Disk
- Network
All running at less than 20% - yet computer feels sluggish switching apps.

What is interesting is that two computers with seemingly similar hardware - same corporate issue manufacturer can have different performance.

Surely there is something in SysInternals to help track down this issue.
I was wondering if this was Vyatta... it seems it is the community continuation after Broccade ceased development. Used to run this over a decade ago on a 'router' (ThinkCentre Tiny), but eventually went to a Fedora installation a few years back. Might have a look again.
Isn't the $235k only really needed to get them through their first prototypes?

When they can show working progress they can then do more fund raising, or maybe outright sales of the early releases?
> “She had already seen what happened to spirited girls and gay kids in Ireland, and to her it wasn’t an abstraction, it was her biography,” said Mr. O’Doherty, who grew up gay in rural Ireland and moved to the United States in 1996. “She came out of an era of silence that swallowed spirited girls and gay boys, that consumed Irish life, and that you could vanish into. And she nearly did.”

This leaves me with a sense that "spirited girls" has some sort of specific meaning which I am not aware of. Does someone know what it is?
The irony here is that hardcore Buddhism does debate the benefits of breathing. Nirvana is not something to be shunned. Not necessarily lusted for either. The correct attitude is ... up for debate.
>If we say "security updates only" for the kernel, does that mean we won't support new processors and graphics cards?

Why would you need support for new hardware if the use case is hardware that's going to sit for 50 years doing one thing and doing it well?
$566 is right. SI and everything else got it wrong. Most significant figures should come first. Unit is the most significant figure.

"Five hundred...." is meaningless. "dollars five hundred..." is a useful preliminary approximation.
Crazy how anemic their margins are for being deemed an exceptional business in their market.

Have no idea how people have the stomach to invest in the prepared food business.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CAKE/cheesecake-fa...
Not automatic but historically a good but not exceptional developer would expect to make senior after maybe 5-8 years of experience. Someone who was still needing close supervision - which is what "junior" traditionally meant - after 5 years would be exceptional and it wouldn't reflect well on either the developer or the places they worked at the start of their career.

Of course this is about the level the employee is capable of operating at in absolute terms but hiring is relative. In an employee's market someone might be able to land a "senior" role before they're really ready for it. In an employer's market the average candidate who gets hired as a "senior" might have 10+ YOE. We've gone from one to the other recently and everyone's expectations will need to adjust accordingly.
Because it's easy to see for people that don't have the software (like me), and is something approaching evidence.
> …no one was lifting the most centrally important functional objects in our lives into the domain of beauty…

Jony Ive wept.
How was Congress exempted from insider trading laws yet powerless to enact laws that restrict their own conduct?
I don't want to work on your team anyway.
The problem is, the only people left who want to talk to chat bots are the ones making chat bots.

No normal person will care what the article says when reading that headline, they've already been burned by modern support.
Grover's algorithm is not quite as powerful as popularly described. In particular, it (roughly) divides the number of times you need to run AES by the number of times you run it sequentially. So it effectively square-roots the time requirement rather than the difficulty, and those are very different if the attack is parallel.

Eg if you were planning on breaking AES-128 by running 2^30 cores for 2^98 AES calls, it now only takes about 2^49 calls per core (2^79 total effort) plus the overhead of Grover's algorithm itself. There are also huge overheads from running everything on a quantum computer, some of which are theoretically avoidable (100x cost for error correction; gates take one clock cycle) and some of which are probably not (you must rewrite AES so that all computations are reversible). So breaking AES-128 might eventually be feasible, but AES-192 probably would not be.

There is a theoretical barrier against efficiently parallelizing Grover: all generic quantum brute-force algorithms (the kind that would work against a random function in a black box) require Omega(searchspace / depth) queries, at least for some model that may not quite match reality. (Edit: Omega and not O, since it's a lower bound)

Of course, AES isn't a random function in a black box, so there may be better attacks against it, but I'm not aware of any.
AFAIK this chain has no footprint in the UK, so for quite a while wasn't sure if it wasn't a fictional restaurant invented by the Big Bang theory writers!
Rest assured this is coming for the UK and Europe soon too.
It imposes some limits, but they're pretty basic. Mastodon then adds a few more things. E.g. @vidar@galaxybound.com is my Mastodon handle, but that resolves to an ActivityPub actor via webfinger [1]. The ActivityPub actor is at [2].

Basically ActivityPub sets out a very basic skeleton for passing messages ("activities") between actors designated by URI's. Those messages must be JSON and has a few very basic requirements, such as having a "type". E.g. "Announce" is a type that corresponds to "boost" or "retweet", "Create" is a type that means you're creating another object such as a "Note" (toot/tweet) which follows the same general structure.

Those messages can be addressed to specific other URI's representing audiences with to/cc fields. When you add that to your outbox, you or your instance also need to post them to your followers instances.

So as long as you can receive POST's w/JSON, and return a list of JSON versions of messages, you have the basics. The JSON in ActivityPub is verbose but it's not very hard to generate, so bridging is likely doable.

[1] https://webfinger.net/lookup/?resource=vidar%40galaxybound.c...

[2] https://m.galaxybound.com/users/vidar but needs Accept: header:
curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" https://m.galaxybound.com/users/vidar | jq .
Do you know any adults who will literally only eat chicken tenders or a cheeseburger at restaurants, thus Thai/Vietnamese/Indian/new hip joint, etc. are not going to work?
The amount of alpha radiation isn't a problem as that'll be stopped by a layer of skin etc. Plutonium mainly emits alpha with only a little gamma.
And if humans were reasonable Google would've been irrelevant a long time ago. I really don't understand why we're so gullible and complicit, such a waste of potential.
It's more like 100% accuracy vs 95% accuracy, and the super large models are now able to extract non-trivial derived info from a regular human speech as well. While cost-wise it's not efficient right now, this will change over time (you skate to where puck will be, not where it is now), making the current fine-tuning way obsolete. Academically I am not thrilled as I built my research on fine-tuning, but as a producer of a product this solves so many issues at the same time, making me pretty happy.
> I suspect a lot of it has to do with the type of companies that tend to hire 3rd party recruiters. Namely, startups, and typically early stage startups who don't have any in-house recruiting staff.

That hasn't been my experience. In a startup people often wear multiple hats, so it's not uncommon for CTOs or CEOs to be directly involved in the hiring process. Startups usually list their open positions on their site and screen applications via email, or post on the HN Hiring and other niche job boards. Startups certainly don't want the cost and communication overhead of dealing with recruiters, especially because it costs them much more to make a wrong hire at an early stage.

In contrast, large and mostly technically out-of-touch companies love 3rd party recruiters. They give them a bunch of vague role requirements, and let recruiters do the dirty work for them. If there are problems with filling a role, they can always blame the recruiting agency.
Arguably reducing LOC helps maintainability, as long as it's done in a clear manner. That's one of the main points of abstraction, and all programming languages offer various abstraction facilities, unless it's a language like brainfuck.
I'm still looking, do you have recommendations?
> As someone in a middling HFT shop

Hey, since we're on the topic of HFT developers...

How do people break into that area?

I've done a lot of performance-optimization work, so I thought I might be a good candidate for some of those roles.

But for all the job postings I've seen in the past ~4 months, they want significant prior experience developing low-latency systems.

Is this just a temporary thing, where the pool of already-experienced candidates is sufficient?
Funny you should mention health influencers, as they're also prone to blanket suggestions without taking their audiences needs into account.
Have you tried niching down on a tech stack, an industry, or even the types of teams you want to work on? It's a good way to stand out from the crowd. You might have to turn away more recruiter screens, but it gives you a much stronger profile against everyone else with the companies you have strong fit in.
Used XMR for the first time this past week (Anna's Archive and Mullvad VPN subscriptions) - pretty seamless experience due in part to Monero GUI Wallet and LocalMonero.
WebArena looks interesting, though the main topic of autonomous agents is not my expertise at all.

However, I am wondering.. this submission is now 10 hours old, still middle of the front page on HN, and only collected 39 points and 4 comments in that time. I wonder a) what keeps this so long on the front page? and b) why so few comments for what seems like a very innovative approach?
I think most of the critique is coming from the people that made their mind up already or used only GPT-3.5 in the past.

Then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: a) "ChatGPT is stupid! Also, plagiarism! No value!" b) " I wrote a carelessly bad prompt and it responded with a seemingly bad answer!" c) " This confirms my biases!"

I find that when I provide it with enough context and a set of requirements (as I would with a non-AI engineer), it's very good at problem solving.
Can you go into your results with the reduced glasses therapy?
Windows and Microsoft are worth respecting for ensuring ancient code will run so long as it follows either of two requirements: Code according to documented standards of the time, or become significant enough that Microsoft will write special patches for you (eg: SimCity).

Windows is a really interesting stark contrast to the rest of the computing world that prefers moving fast and breaking things, much to the chagrin of most users.
Python is almost as good as Ruby. They have slightly different takes on a few things (taaaaabs) but you can easily jump from one to the other.
I find the normal European names but spelt weirdly gimmick in Westeros much more jarring than the foreign sounding names of Essos. FWIW, English was the third language I learnt to speak.
Located in France. A senior developer who performs bad work with a wage of 65k€ costs 100k€. Plus the office, wfh, computer, etc.

So $235k is 200k€ so one developer and one PM, because the dev alone has a brownian behavior concerning progress (unable to take initiative).
What do you mean? Who are they hiring instead? Or do you mean full-stack is the bare minimum now?
Crafting Superior APIs with Design Guidelines: Set Up for Success
What is this for, bots?
You can use deepgram who has their own model but also has an option to use whisper hosted by them
> I'm not going to name names, but if you are thinking about the "outsourcing nations", then I don't know about you,

I hate this crap. Some of the absolute worst code I've seen in my career was written by US programmers working out of tech hubs, as is some of the best code.

> But anywhere that has genuinely talented developers, the developers will still want a decent salary.

You're assuming that all "genuinely talented developers" are motivated solely by money and will move away from home, friends and family for a "decent salary".
A salary of £80k in the UK (ignoring london just for a moment), or $100k USD is reasonable for a senior level engineer in the UK, will give you a very comfortable standard of living, and is less than you'd pay a junior in many parts of the US.

> The Quality Control simply is not there

That's not because of an "outsourcing nation", it's because you paid for a shitty outsourcer. See healthcare.gov [0] for a textbook example. Similarly, I've worked with "outsourcing nations" via EPAM with contractors in Mexico, Belarus, California, Hyderabad Romania and Bangkok, and the quality of code has not been tied to the location, it's been tied to QC at the relationship level.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCare.gov
I work in finance and we have lots of mandatory training about to do about "gifts". Game tickets are a specific example used to illustrate corporate corruption...
> Some people with 2-3 YOE will operate better than some people with 10 YOE.

That's true of every field, and doesn't really relate to the claim of bimodality. If ability followed a perfect normal distribution, it would still be true that some people with 2-3 years of experience are better than some other people with 10-15 years of experience.
Navigating the Web: Understanding Trackers and Protecting Your Digital Identity
>I have successfully challenged IP owned by Tiffany and Co, Pantone, Mattel, and others over the years

So their rip off versions of Tiffany and Co, Pantone, and Mattel presumably failed? Or surely they wouldn't need a kickstarter for this one. Doesn't inspire a ton of confidence in me.
I think yes. While many companies have unprefixed titles, others have just plain "Software Engineer" as one step above graduate and even some otherwise decent companies will discard resumes applying for senior/lead positions when a HR drone does a first pass and decides "no senior level experience", even if your descriptions are full of business impact and leadership experience.
> no software that infringes on any of Adobe’s trademarks has been produced

Yeah but a damn company that infringes on Adobe's trademarks has been produced
To play devils advocate interviewing isn’t far from presenting your ideas to a skeptical audience. This is a good skill to have for any engineer. I don’t think it’s necessary or sufficient but it is useful.
Could it not take an elevation rate measure though?

Related to my other comment, it may be more difficult if it’s relying on weather station data rather than local car sensors though.
Introduction to the Node.js reference architecture: Testing
This looks decent but sadly you can get better results with OpenAI