skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted something similar just a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876485

I worked as a cybersecurity engineer for 2 years and I've applied for over 300 _entry level_ developer jobs over the last few months and still haven't heard back from most places. It's definitely not just you!

I've heard from family and friends that are still in the tech field that most companies still have a hiring freeze in place and that this will probably stay in place for the remainder of the year, maybe even into Q1 or Q2 of next year.

The best idea right now might be to get _any_ job (even entry level positions) and just hunker down while we wait for the market to recover before we can apply for jobs that are more commiserate with our experience levels.

I decided to go back to school and get my Masters in CS while I wait and I'm also planning on doing some web or app development on the side just to pad my resume a little.

I'm sorry I can't help any more, other than to say that you're not alone in this :)
Interview with Yael Tauman Kalai, a cryptographer at Microsoft
https://archive.is/JlfD7
I tried to change config.py to use ggml setting, but I did not see any request going to local llama-cpp.server. It keeps on asking for openai key. The local llama-cpp.server is up and I was able to make swagger calls for completion.

Assuming that may be I missed something, I deleted ~/.continue and trying to start from scratch (vs code message: Starting Continue Server ...). I do see FastAPI is up on http://localhost:65432/ still vscode dialog shows same message. Where I can see the logs what its trying to do? What am I missing?

Anyone else able to use local ggml?
I’ve seen people pitch plastic mulch as a no-till and organic farming solution. Never made much sense to me - but I’m not a farming expert at all.
> Nothing else is close to vegan, unless you're into ordering Chicken Lettuce Wraps without Chicken.

They just haven't figured out how to keep vegans from spoiling in a commercial kitchen yet. They're high maintenance, a bit too big for the freezer, and the vacuum packer tends to deprive them of oxygen.
The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships
Sex 2: Dawkins vs. Rose on whether there’s a sex binary
Tech bro was chasing a startup dream. Now he’s accused of faking a PhD
Intellectual monopoly for me, destitution for thee.
It didn't. Others did it, OpenAI used it. https://commoncrawl.org/
I agree, but I wonder how people feel about Racket in this context, where the "language oriented programming" approach is common and the idea that you solve problems by creating a DSL is the norm.
> I’m very closely connected to one of the foremost Western experts on the Himba and have spent time with them myself

This is such a strange sentence that makes it sound like they're some exotic, uncontacted people. Give it a couple of hours until its waking hours in Namibia, and we're going to have Himba people in this thread.
I’ve used 1Password for over a decade, and I’ve worked in that part of the industry professionally (secrets management specifically). I was an early adopter of 1Password.com and was involved in private beta tests (that are long since concluded).

Over that time I observed that they were very aggressively repositioning the cloud offering as the only one, or as one that was the most secure for every use case. New users eventually only saw the standalone options as a small link.

I was in various public and beta test groups for 1Password 6-8, and 7 felt like the sweet spot, but somewhere around 7.4, they started rapidly changing onboarding screens and release note screens to feature only 1Password.com.

Only after doing that did they start discussing how many “new users were signing up for the cloud, and skipping standalone.”

I felt that was disingenuous because I saw them constructing that very outcome. I even discussed it with them, but actually saying that aloud seemed to be like taking a leak on the third rail. I’m not arguing with your logic, but as someone who was close to it at the time, this outcome was very carefully constructed over a non-trivial period of time.

All that said, my big gripe is that when you try to talk to them about backups, they refuse to talk about anything but sync. They still don’t have actual account-wide backups. They have CSV and 1PUX exports that only capture vaults currently present on the exporting client.
I hate Stalin and severely dislike Putin.

I respect Elbakyan a lot and her contributions have benefited hundreds of thousands of people.

And we should not practice cancel culture when recognizing contributions of people.
If you want to look at it with 21st century eyes, sure. Things were VERY different back then though. What you would call prudent and common sense safety measures, they would have called something that you would think they should be fired for saying. And the boss would have sided with them.
On the other hand, it also implies the reverse: the features that one would normally expect to be _negatively impactful_ to one's perceived sexual attractiveness shouldn't actually do so in reality, as long as those features aren't hereditary.

So, things like bad haircuts, horrible burn scars, a constant need to derail every conversation into a digression about Klingon culture, a humorless personality--none of those should matter in the long run as long as the man would be attractive without it.

I can't say that I'm onboard with this idea or not. I only read the article because of the funny name.
They're not. They have a copyright. Practicing artists usually benefit professionally from maintaining a public portfolio. Data being public is also notably not a license to use it for whatever purpose you want. Have some respect.
Instruct-FinGPT: Financial Sentiment Analysis by Tuning of General-Purpose LLMs
Congrats on the launch! The "answer format" parameter is a nice idea for advanced use cases.

If someone wants to compare, Universal Summarizer [1] can do real time summarization of audio/speech, with unlimited input token length and is free (for Kagi members or can be tried with a trial account). Just point it to the URL of the podcast/audio/speech file.

Paid API is also available [2].

[1] https://kagi.com/summarizer

[2] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/api/summarizer.html
Of course. It’s a pure scam except for btc which is just infeasible.
I condemn Patterson's behavior (in my view the gorilla can't be held morally or legally responsible for it's actions, the handlers are responsible for them) but I don't see why that should change my mind that she probably knows better about what Koko meant?

If they organized some kind of Weinsteninan cult of silence and abuse then I could see how we might view them as dishonest and refuse to take them at their word, but that's not what the article describes?

Am I missing something? I read that section of Wikipedia and the Slate article it cites (though that was more about the hypothesis Koko couldn't speak and that it was a Clever Hans scenario - an argument I'm open to as a refutation of what I said) and I'm not seeing a suggestion of a cover up, I'm seeing someone behaving inappropriately and being a missing stair in the weirdest way, and then getting sued for it. I have to take care of some household stuff, so I don't have have to read more articles at this particular moment or I would try another source, but if I picked the wrong one let me know.

None of this is an endorsement, if we take these statements as read (and I have no reason to doubt them), Patterson (and anyone else who behaved that way) is guilty of a serious crime and can't be trusted to supervise anyone or work with animals.
Hi, I'm also interested in an invitation if you have any left (my email is in my profile)
What does this have to do with the article? The lawsuit against Subway was dismissed.
And usually it is not ends well…
Do you want this unpaid job, from which we can lay off you anytime regardless the effort put in it by you. Send us your resume and previous experience in the field.

The arrogance of these tech companies has no limits.
Uh, aren't all of these transmissions happening between live pigs and humans?
At least it will come bacon wrapped [1].

[1] Totally worth it.
Impressive project, although not what I thought of when I saw the name [1][2].

[1] https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html

[2] https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/who-is-using.html
Review: Chris Rufo's American Cultural Revolution
> It's more of a sense that people with patience and a kind of outcome oriented approach (over fixating on why something is done a certain way) will have an easier time unwinding the complexity.

You hit the nail on the head.
What? Fine tuning has been a common technique for years now. Fine tuned BERT models were behind a lot of retrieval-based systems and they work well.

A more recent example is stable diffusion fine tuned on specific subjects.

Whether fine tuning can reduce hallucination is first of all a question which only pertains to decoders and which is highly dependent on how the model has been fine tuned.
I have a feeling hygiene and reducing concentration of animal production would have a significant effect.

Turns out when you have thousands of animals living their entire lives in a packed building makes it pretty easy for disease to spread. And when you have humans that regularly visit those buildings...
There's a lot that I like about this book. Splitting up the mandate between platform and products teams, and eliminating friction, letting each team be good at their thing is I think an efficiency many companies indeed could benefit from.

But I've also seen this book promoted heavily within an org, and the one core strength kept feeling like a core weakness that mades me incredibly sad, about how isolated it made work.

It doesn't insist it has to be so, but the org I saw that was so excited for TEam Topologies loved how it continually stressed independence of teams. And as a direct result, I've seen cooperation, coordination, & cross-team planning plummet. In ways that keep having suboptimal plans get put into action with bad outcomes. Stream aligned teams would turn into complicated subsystem teams, after they created something complicated and gnarly while being stream/product aligned, and unchecked.

I think the topologies here are quite useful framings, and as Fowler says the idea of trying to reduce cognitive complexity is an interesting one we haven't heard well represented before. And is probably due given how impractical making each team truly full stack devops has become, as the CI/CD/observability stack complexity has expanded. But I caution so much against the messages this book gives management, which is that stream/product aligned teams just need to be racehorses with blinders on & interference is bad. The book glories the stream aligned team, the value creator, and makes everyone else auxiliary, which is sort of true & great. But the book's glorification of execution speed doesn't leave much space for how and where cross-team wisdom happens, what kind of processes you have there. Broader cross-team architecture reviews, brainstorming, systems planning, systems coordination aren't well captured here: most teams need a strong collaboration mode to build good software that fits the architecture well. But the book only really regards a single collaboration need: those of platform teams to get feedback to ease their Developer's Experience.

The missing element was ubuntu. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. - African Proverb
I feel CTRL S is one of the best computing work habits you could have, even if there is an autosave.
The state of software development in Latin America
I've read that several times...

And yet, I drive by there every morning on my way to work, and twice a week there's a Sysco truck backing in to their parking lot. What exactly are they delivering, if not pre-made.

If I wanted to spend $150 eating out, I'd want something slightly less nasty than their crap. It tastes like microwaved Stouffers.

Rather than them being supergenius restauranteurs, it really does look like they just managed to survive the last decade when so many other chain restaurants went tits up since 2008. That coupled with covid cabin fever that seems like it never went away, makes for the sort of busy some mistake for grand success.
Car floor tunnels serve the same purpose. Increase rigidity at low material cost.
Describing use of required reason API
If you want to join us in the peanut gallery, AWS originally "adapted" Google's crosvm for firecracker.

gVisor, if not using hw-backed virtualization, has absolutely horrendous performance because of, amongst other things, ptrace, which is one reason why this blogpost exists.
Also a more modern take on Inkscape.
How to Roman Republic 101
I do, yes. It'd also be nice to know things like state of charge/how much gas I got, whats the car temperature now - tell me when it reaches X, look at my car's cameras. There are plenty of compelling use-cases.
The market is bad. I've been unemployed for 9 months, almost no interview invites and the ones I did have led to nothing (also to no alternative hire of someone else for the allegedly position). And I've got almost 20 years of Product Leadership experience, Stanford, Google, myspace, Booking and Trip.com Groups, that stuff. The market (in my case APAC: HK/SG/AU) is shit and frankly not really worth engaging in right now.

I'd love to be employed, but a low IC position (haven't done that in 13-14 years) for 60-70% less pay (the last one who contacted me) is a bit of a tough pill to swallow in a market with (last year) 10% inflation.
When Children Are Bought and Sold
As I told my kid at supper tonight, words are meaningless, people judge you on your actions.

And Elbakyan's actions the past decade are commendable.
I own an Efoil, and probably the chief topic of discussion among other Efoil owners is how far we can push our (lithium ion) batteries and what we have to do to achieve that.

My personal best is 17 miles, but I can only do that if I ride a certain way and have my board configured in a certain way.

As the battery level dips, it gets increasingly difficult to stay foiling or to restart.

And no brand, none of them actually live up to their marketed ride times because it's so highly variate.

I get the need for alternative fuel sources, but I really don't want to have to figure these dynamics out in an automobile and am staying away from full electric cars for now.
Firecracker is hardware-based virtualization. gVisor is not virtualization at all but more like advanced sandboxing - it intercepts syscalls and proxies them on processeses behalf. That means gVisor is slower on i/o (which this new feature is trying to solve) but it also means it’s easier to implement and operate and you can run it in more environments (for examples in VMs where nested virtualization is not supported).
This is Cloudflare's new blob storage product R2. Putting the free Cloudflare CDN and cache infront of R2 doesn't work with HTTP Range headers, likely for product differentiation from their Video CDN. The latency of R2 is also much higher than S3 or GCP, but I know the R2 team is working hard on improving this.
> I know persons with no usable vision whatsoever who are considerably more capable of navigating than legally blind yet partially sighted persons. It goes to show that it really is a skill.

It's more than that, too, especially with progressive eye diseases. The path of least resistance, and the intuitive thing to do, is to rely on whatever vision you have left. At some point, though, your vision degrades so much that qualitatively different approaches— like ones that don't rely on any vision at all— will serve you much better. But even when that's true, switching to something radically different is scary and hard. So many people cling to navigation strategies that don't really work for them anymore much longer than they should.

> Most blind persons have sighted parents since most conditions are autosomal recessive [which can lead to a] lack of support

The inherited retinal disease that runs in my family is autosomal dominant, which means it has appeared all over my family. In fact, on my mom's side, it's appeared in every single generation for at least 5 or 6 generations, maybe more.

And tbh just having that context makes my own disease somewhat less scary for me. I've seen a lot of people in my family go blind, so I know what's happening to me and what's coming. I also know that it's not the end of the world, because blind people in my family have still had friends and hobbies and food and shelter everything else that's really essential in life!

It's definitely still scary, though.

> denial, from their sighted family

I think to some extent, parents just become desperately optimistic when they know that their kids have a struggle ahead. My mom (who is legally blind) has failed repeatedly failed to hear my sister (who shares her condition) about the progression of her own vision loss. In a lot of ways she does 'get it', of course. But there are also moments where she acts surprised by something she's already been told repeatedly, or where she expresses thoughts that are weirdly grasping at remote or fantastic possibilities, like that maybe it will only affect my sister in one eye, or that the progression will stop, or that a cure will be developed in time to stop the progression before my sister goes blind. For blind parents, I think a sense of guilt about passing on what has already been a horrifying trial for them to their own children can unfortunately motivate that same denial or wishful thinking.
Creativity apps for Android tablet and foldable phones
LAN parties were such a product of their time. Before high-speed bandwidth was ubiquitous (ADSL was just starting to spread). Before e-sports, and the skyrocketing of skill (ie when I could still have fun playing CS with friends without getting obliterated). Before all the AAA games were primarily online...

Perhaps my appreciation then was also a product of my age, and I've outgrown what they've become?
I guess that's one way to justify having strong opinions about bills without having to actually read the text.
Indian state passes a gig worker welfare law
The daylight PBFs are difficult to combine without a lot of RAM, there's no way around it right now. Either do that or hold out for potential newer releases of the data delivered as Parquet files.
Try applying with a different name, maybe there's some discrimination factor at play as well
I've seen that while hiking. It's better when you get 1/4 hour away from buses, but is definitely getting more crowded. I hiked to the top of some "fourteeners" in the Rockies, and you had to wait your turn to stand at the summit.

The earth has too many people.

I'm willing to do my part by not being fit enough for those grueling routes. ;-)
That article ties growth to consumption, and consumption to energy use. This does not have to be true.

We could all decide to multiply every currency with 10x and nothing would change except the number and we would have 10x economic growth as measured in the currency.

That is an obviously simplified example, but it is not that contrived. Modern money is not tied to energy use. Money is created out of thin air every day and that is ok.
-Elbakyan's actions are directly against private gatekeepers of publicly-funded knowledge

-Signal is an alternative to the messaging apps that hoover up all your data.

Not sure about that 3rd org but I'll be sure to look them up
Or misread calculations?
Would really appreciate an explanation in the README about how/why this works.
WinAeroTweaker is a good example of a program that does things to your OS the OS probably doesn't want you to do, but has an explaination of how/why it works for every different option so you can feel slightly more comfortable.
Nobody should have to work 60-80 hours a week in a high productivity modern economy, independent of the job.
I use HostGator and they rarely go down. Over the years, I have found them quite hug resilient.

They are actually back up now.
Part of this comes from the fact that Seattle's SODO area is built upon slews placed over glacial rock so the reverberations from the Stadiums basically bounces down and is reflected back.

I'm trying to find where I heard the whole description of this, I believe it was from `hugefloods` youtube channel.

I believe it was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuK2kGeV15Q
But I don't have time again to search through it, so this is pretty lazy proof, sorry.
The "search vs display" logic is incredibly tortured, the legislative intent is more than clear, and no reasonable regulator or court would arrive at this interpretation of the statute.

I agree that amending the text to mention "display" would improve the statute, but I doubt it much matters. If the regulators and courts are this unreasonable, they're going to do what they want and do damn with the letter of the law in an case.

Allowing Meta et al to run amok unchecked on America's youth for fear that politically motivated AGs will weaponize this statute is ridiculous for another reason: KOSA isn't a necessary precondition.

If state AGs want to go after sites that host trans content, they will do so with or without KOSA. KOSA will not make their job any easier, because abuse of KOSA in this way is extraordinarily tortured and there are any number of other federal and state statutes which can be used toward the same end with less tortured legal theories. An AG that dogged and a judge that activist won't be stopped by the mere absence of relevant statute.

And hell, in the majority of those states, the general assemblies will almost certainly pass much more explicitly worded statutes about displaying trans content to children.
You sure they are not trying to draft you? Don't be a fool, smart engineers let other idiots do the actual fighting.
If you're going to give rails the credit for the successes, you should probably give it the blame for the failures, too.

I've worked for large companies and startups, and seen rails several times, along with .net, java, scala, php, node and other backbends.

The only thing that mattered in any of their technical successes was the quality of the engineers working on them.

There were certainly minor differences- irritations like compile times or dynamic typing- but the trade offs were 90% of the time personal preference, when compared to the difference made by the strengths of the actual people writing code.
Obama publicly changed his mind over 10 years ago. Has Eich?
Stop moving the goalposts: your answer to a commenter who stated that Common Lisp was faster than Python (a fact) was a list of packages, many of which are (1) not even written in Python and (2) some of them actually do have Common Lisp bindings.
Depends how it’s used. If it’s used in an org where major, high impact problems are ignored, as a way to just say “ignore all problems”, then yeah, it’s a shit comment.

However, if it’s used to legitimately say “don’t just complain, fix”, then I think it’s a positive. An organization where everyone is constantly negative and complaining about every little issue, but not working to implement improvements/fixes, is essentially a failed company. Successful companies are full of people who actively fix the high impact problems, while also being realists, who can accept that the low impact problems aren’t worth the effort to fix, and aren’t worth endlessly complaining about.
My circle is 97.1% perfect, can you beat that? HTTPS://neal.fun/perfect-cir
There is. That’s why you get the love.

The state public service / utility commission is similar with utilities. Verizon let some of their phone infrastructure rot, it fell and was dangling over my yard between a couple of poles. I called them and got all sorts of runaround for days. I filed a complaint and a guy was there in 2 hours assessing the situation and it was fixed by bedtime.

Their newfound responsiveness was because they have a limited number of hours to respond, at which point fines accrue hourly.