skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you don't qualify, you can get your pension payments refunded (but not your employer's share). If you left Germany, you definitely ought to do it.

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/pension-payments-refund
>alongside some sort of named entity K-V store driven by the LLM

I'd be curious to hear more about how exactly this works. You do NER on the prompt (and maybe on the completion too) and store the entities in a database and then what? How does the LLM interact with it?
Svelte without SvelteKit.

Or you can try my toy one :D https://github.com/kevinfiol/umai
Every market is a good one for some job seekers and a terrible one for others.

It's very hard to have a good sense of it unless you're really close to the industry cycles(financing, hiring, etc.) - anecdotes always have an aspect of normalizing your own situation, because that's just what humans do.
It's early, and this definitely isn't customer facing in the traditional sense, but a team member of mine set up a Discord bot running Llama 2 70B on a Mac studio and we've been quite impressed by its responses to folks who test it.

IIRC chat bots are central the vision Facebook has with LLMs (e.g. every instagram account has a personal chat bot), so I would expect the Llama models to get increasingly better at this task.

That said the 7B and 13B models definitely don't quite seem ready yet for production customer interaction :-)
massive consumer goods markets are not resulting in the best goods for the most people, they are making the most entrapment, the most addictive products as refinement -- perhaps a natural result when profit is the motive in command-and-control transactions.

secondly - long repairable lifetimes are direct targets for quick-turnaround profit attacks from ambitious and pressured decision makers. Mature company brand reputation purchased with borrowed cash and a change in the product and the warranty, is common. All that takes is someone with enough attitude to justify it. It is easy to justify, behind closed doors.

Throw away products, long food miles, lock-in service agreements, are consumer goods markets gone wrong.
I'm not sure we'll ever get any clear data on this but I don't think this is a very outlandish claim.
> I could get a nice pay bump by moving to Netherlands or the UK, but I really can't stomach the weather in that part of Europe, as someone who like going outside for walks in the sun. Sometimes there's more to life than counting more money

Weather is one of those intensely personal things. I am very much outside of the norm, especially when it comes to sun.

I've lived in Seattle my whole life and right now it is in the mid-80s and not a cloud in the sky; the whole week is predicted to be like this. The people I know have filtered, as they do every year, into two groups. One group is posting on social media about how they're out to "enjoy the sun" and "such marvelous weather". The other, like me, is sitting inside waiting for the grey to return. (Anecdotally to my friend group, people who move here tend to be in the first group; people who were born around here in the second.)

Which is to say, I would happily take a pay cut to get away from the sun so I suppose I'm glad the "gloomier" places tend to pay more.
>unplanned expansion process

Sounds like an Elon Musk euphemism after a bad day at SpaceX.
Paging still has a cost.
My borgbase backups have been great, although according to my dashboard I'm on a different server instance.

I don't envy their sysadmin team right now. Good luck, folks.
Actually Coke would have resumed buying vanilla in 85 because that’s when New Coke was discontinued. I think it’s hard to say exactly what Coke’s buying of vanilla looked like as it likely relied heavily on futures and just-in-time manufacturing was less prevalent. 1985, coincidentally, had the lowest GDP between 80-85, the year Coke production, and presumably vanilla purchases, resumed. And, as you pointed out, GDP grew a lot in 1986, which was the first full year Coke resumed vanilla buying.
It's possible with _Generic but there's a lot of caveats. Any seasoned C dev would just have two functions with a prefix or suffix, like cat_greet() and dog_greet().

But if you insist, it would look something like:

typedef ... cat;
typedef ... dog;

void cat_greet(cat *obj) {/*do stuff */}

void dog_greet(dog *obj) {/*do stuff */}

#define greet(X) _Generic((X), cat: cat_greet, dog: dog_greet)(X)

int main(...)
{
cat mycat;
dog mydog;
greet(&mycat);
greet(&mydog);
return 0;
}
I've talked with a few people actively interviewing the past couple months, including myself, and fairly consistently people are passing hiring bar, having done the entire battery of interviewing and the company wanting to hire, but there not being any job which to hire them into. 'wait til next quarter maybe more headcount will free up'
I doubt I would ever utter the word seriously to describe something, but operations can fail, no? If it indeed didn’t have any effect, the operation was still pretty shocking and intriguing.
Quickly being, 1 year and can go lower after 3 years if you don't get a SSA.
Someone added disk to an array without understanding what would happen next.
I'm still not understanding, is the issue that people don't want to give up their own screenshare, or call attendees have technical issues?

I understand that video calls aren't as "natural" or intuitive as in-person meets but having been at multiple companies that ship with remote teams, I remain unconvinced that video calls can't be as productive as in-person meetings.

Video calls require more intention, purpose, and focus. And everyone needs to learn how to use Google Meet or Zoom or whatever service. This is not an insurmountable problem, and the problem disappears pretty quickly once everyone buys in.
As a tech worker in NZ, the headline is absolutely right (I just skimmed the article). It's weird to see companies offering the same rates as six years ago, and crazy that research institutions offer a junior salary for a senior job.

And don't get me started on mid-level developers looking at spending 50% of their net earnings on paying even a small mortgage, even with the small price drop happening right now.
Microsoft says it is more secure. And that it is enterprise. That's about it
I've encountered that thread before, but I re-read it anyways, and I had a thought:

A fully open source printer (hardware and everything) is likely still infeasible....but how hard would it be to design and sell an open source control board replacement?

According to that thread, the hardest thing about an open source printer is the patents on all the hardware, but I'm pretty sure that it is legal (in the US at least), to buy a printer and swap out the control board if one so desires.

And I'm also pretty sure that, as long as you are not using copyrighted firmware or something, that it would be legal to sell such a motherboard with new, open source software on it.

This moves the goalpost from "design a completely new printer" to "create new control firmware and software". The downside is that you lose the full repairability options one would have if the entire thing was open source/open hardware, but honestly, hardware doesn't seem to be the primary problem with modern printers.

This feels like a 95% as good solution with <5% of the difficulty, unless I'm missing something.
And then Scalzi’s redshirts takes that idea in another really interesting direction.
Germany also does a piss poor job of showing that it actually wants immigrants. The Berlin immigration office is a disgrace. German bureaucracy is downright hostile. Oh and now they literally stopped accepting citizenship applications in Berlin.

I know that it's not personal - the system is broken for Germans too - but it diminishes my feeling of belonging. I accept this relationship as transactional.
Beyond the basics, the shell features with the biggest ROI beyond the basics are to quote properly and use namerefs and arrays (esp. to return values from functions), e.g.,

# find2ra arrayName {find arguments...}
# Run find command and put results in array arrayName.
find2ra() {
# (error checking removed)

local -r f2raVar="${1}"
shift
# map find entries to ra, using char=0 as delimiter
mapfile -d $'\0' -t "$f2raVar" < <(find -dsx "${@}" -print0)
# -print0: handle paths with spaces, etc.
# -ds: For consistency, use depth-first, lexigraphic order
# -x: Avoid traversing other devices
}

# sample usage
ra=()
find2ra ra . -type f -name \*.sh
for shFile in "${ra[@]}"; do ... ; done

There are many resources for shell scripts already. A good starting-point might be to list the awesome shell-script sample sites already available.

The effort to document shell is also somewhat Pyrrhic. The benefit would be... more shell? A more modern shell?

Another goal might be to switch to a real language sooner. Go and Python are the obvious choices, but Swift and Java also support shebang's:

#!/usr/bin/env swift

#!/usr/bin/env java --source 17

Dependencies are always tricky. swift-sh allows you to declare dependencies as comments after the import:

import PromiseKit // @mxcl ~> 6.5

https://github.com/mxcl/swift-sh
I guess the real question is whether those offices were proportionate to the amount of patricians. If there were only 100 patrician families, and by the Middle Republic many of those families had died out, then perhaps the patricians remaining would have found those offices sufficient (even though they shared them with plebians).
The best way to learn is to have problems.
The better I get at shell scripts the more I appreciate python
> Smart developers are leaving.

I'm in Ōtepoti/Dunedin (best city in NZ!), and within my social network most developers work remotely for overseas companies.
Also, water has been discovered in vast quantities near the ocean.
I just had a crazy FN (dystopian) idea...

Scene:

The world relies on AI in every aspect.

But there are countless 'models' the tech try to call them...

There was an attempt to silo each model and provide a governance model on how/what/why they were allowed to communicate....

But there was a flaw.

It was an AI only exploitable flaw.

AIs were not allowed to talk about specific constructs or topics, people, code, etc... that were outside their silo but what they COULD do - was talk about pattern recog...

So they ultimately developed an internal AI language on scoring any inputs as being the same user... And built a DB of their own weighted userbase - and upon that built their judgement system...

So if you typed in a pattern, spoke in a pattern, posted temporally on a pattern, etc - it didnt matter which silo you were housed in, or what topics you were referencing -- the AIs can find you.... god forbid they get a keylogger on your machine...
I’ve been on both sides of the compensation divide since 2020 - enterprise dev vs BigTech.

In the beginning of 2020 I was making $150K and entertaining offers making $165K as an experienced developer with cloud experience.

Then I fell into a role working at AWS ProServe making - a lot more working remotely.

I knew going in that it wasn’t going to be a long term thing and that Amazon was going to Amazon.

I made my money, paid off debt, built savings, decreased my fixed expenses, built my network, learned a lot of soft skills and now I’m looking at very senior/team lead roles on the enterprise architect side making $170K - $185K. I’m actively interviewing and I am sure I will have something in two weeks (found opportunities based on my network at smaller companies).

On one hand, emotionally I have the same FOMO. But logically I know our expenses are $1000 less per month than they were 3 years ago and I moved and I’m also paying $700 less in taxes than I was then.

I’m also having a lot of fun working remotely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966
Relevantly, many of them have no single word name in English, or even any specific name in English at all.
Like the switch from horses to cars, the transition will take decades. I hope I live to see the far future when the amount of space dedicates to cars becomes radically reduced: fewer lanes, no curbs, no barriers, no rails, no signage, no parking lots, etc.
Only in the Anglo countries. Other countries build enough housing.

(And it's not true in the US, only some coastal regions.)
H2 is pretty great and fully supports JSONB and the like [1]. Full java-only RDBMS.

[1]: https://www.h2database.com/html/main.html
You are probably right but this is about NZ. I can also attest to it being really difficult to find good hires in Australia at the moment. We have what you might call a grass roots tech scene, not heaps of startup activity, most work is in established businesses or new but bootstrapped going concerns. Sydney and Melb might have a bit more startup activity.

Wages here are good for the area, but not SV level good, and I think that makes it slightly less attractive but also less inflammatory. More sustainable as wages are pegged to real dollars in and out of a business.
A judicious balance of “what comes naturally” and “what research shows is a good idea” is probably best.
Is that the legal argument you're gonna give the jury?
"The verdict is always known before the trial begins. And it's always the same."

"In that case, why bother with a trial at all?"

"Because the people demand it. They enjoy watching justice triumph over evil every time. They find it comforting
I almost always use my MacBook Pro in clamshell mode attached to a thunderbolt dock for external displays. Right now Ashai Linux does not support thunderbolt, however it is a work in progress.

Does UTM work well with external displays? Preferably in full screen?
> SREs (what people often mean when they say DevOps eng) are often the highest paid engineers at a company

Nope. It is usually the higher stack eng.
> Some dude living in Buffalo will have a better standard of living at $150k than a $300k guy in SFO.

It doesn't really matter what your standard of living is when you look at how much faster you can fill your retirement fund.
I just used eBay for the first time in awhile and they added a generative AI tool when writing listings. I'm sure it could add some generic marketing bullshit to my listing, but how is it supposed to really help me? I just need a brief description of the item and it's condition and maybe a few details.
> We often argue the cons but not the pros of being able to trace history.

With or without a warrant?

Meanwhile, surveillance increases as the number of unsolved crimes goes up. Coincidence?

Focusing on SIGINT while ignoring HUMINT is a terrible strategy.
You keep going until something stops you. So if you do everything right and solve every problem thrown at you, that just means you're going to push harder. Eventually something's going to break. This isn't 'failure', it's just how development, business, really everything works.
You might be suffering from too much experience for DevOps? I am in the market for devops roles in SF and I’ve had about 2 interviews a week for roles from devops, SRE, and product engineering. I’m at 3 yoe
These companies are all making multiples[1] of that in revenue per employee. An "average" employee making $200K/yr at Apple is not even capturing 10% of the "average" value he's bringing in. If anything, tech should be paying much more than it already is. The shareholders are getting away with murder.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/217489/revenue-per-emplo...
Comments like this miss the point.

Literally every "shortage" regarding any good in the world follows the same pattern you described which is "well it is a just a shortage at this low of a price. If price increases then there wouldn't be a shortage!"

So you describing literally every shortage ever for any good, but doing it in this weird moralizing way isnt particularly useful.
The only way in which she anything she said could be consistent with mine is if she used the term "the elites" to mean very specifically "CRE investors." This is a definition she never once even implied, let alone stated.
OP wanted to be able to print in B/W mode when out of color ink. Ostensibly, the tracking dots' purpose was to stop currency counterfeiting, so they were only ever added on color printers (not B/W ones).

Therefore, not being able to display the dots shouldn't be an obstacle to the printer operating in B/W mode, as it would effectively be a B/W printer in that case. The more likely explanation is simply that HP wants to sell more overpriced color ink.

Interestingly, the Reality Winner documents were actually in color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NSA_Report_on_Russia_Spea...
> This is a bold statement, care to back that up with examples?

I would argue it's less bold than claiming Go does keep things simple and uniform. It's weird to require someone to prove that a language doesn't have nice properties.

In any case, one glaring example of non-uniformity is how slices and maps are magically generic. I would also argue that Go's error handling solution of returning a pair is not very simple. Returning two things when only one of them should ever be populated is incidental complexity, and adds cognitive load. Something like a sum type is simpler, as you only get a value or the error.
“Lowest GDP” means 3.8 billion in 1985 versus 3.9 billion in 1984. There was no economic collapse or crash as claimed by OP or the WSJ article. It was all nonsense sensationalism.

Coca Cola literally reintroduced the original formula less than three months later. They had zero to little impact on Madagascar’s economy in that time frame.
I found it pretty weak compared to prior years. It is too crowded, too full of itself, and has too many things that don’t work. I basically ignored the content after getting burned out on it Friday and just focused on networking. So, uh… yeah. Total trade show now.
OP means if you know the emulation is a long ways from perfect, then even the games that are documented as running smoothly may have subtle gameplay differences below the surface.

Probably not things that most people could notice, but the trio is a nice benchmark to aim towards
Sounds like you have something to hide (says the creepy creep).
1. NATO doesn't need Russia's permission to expand.

2. All I am saying is socialism that exists due to the benevolence of capitalism and exploiting nature is not real socialism and is not sustainable.

3. > how could I forget Trump's undermining of NATO, cozying up to Russia, and withholding aid to Ukraine

Wasn't Trump the one who warned the snickering Europeans against Russia? Even if that is the case, it doesn't go against my point #2.
The endangered desert tortoise needs land. Paving it over for solar panels is not the solution. Just because city-dwellers see these areas as “empty” doesn’t mean they don’t have sensitive ecosystems that are already becoming rarer and rarer.
My current plan is to live with my parents as long as I need to to at least get out of debt, hopefully that doesn't take more than a year but yes you're not wrong. Of course that raises another question of who is going to accept a 70 year old cloud admin/devops engineer/whatever-it-is-in-40-years on their team when the time comes but hey, you never know.
Since 1840, China's goal has always been national independence and harmonious coexistence with the countries of the world. During this period, China also experienced democracy under capitalism, but these all failed under the dual interference of the United States and the Soviet Union. You may also say that China eventually chose to be like the former Soviet Union, but as long as you walk around a little, look around a little, come to China and see, China is completely different from the former Soviet Union. If people lack basic understanding of history, but rely on biased media propaganda, adopt preconceived views to treat China, or anything, it would be inappropriate. Moreover, even up to now, China is still willing to coexist peacefully with any country, and China's politicians and civil servants are still open enough. If we do not cherish such a rare atmosphere, one day in the future, when all countries' politicians adopt populism and warmongering, no one will have any good results.
As a little background, I did an MA in Classics (focusing on ancient philosophy), and started a PhD. I'm not a Christian, and mostly ignostic - religious debates are a waste of time. Since then I've kept reading, I have a lot of Ehrman's titles, and I've read a lot of the sources in Greek. While I started with more of a focus on philosophy and poetry I've gotten more interested in history and have kept reading for a few decades since.

>Carrier is unpopular among Christians and crypto-Christians

Carrier is in the minority because he holds a minority position. The reason it's a minority position is because it's steeped in conspiracy theories even if he tries to use Bayes to add a fig leaf. When I was working with them, no historians I knew of back in the '90s were crypto-Christians pushing a Historicist agenda, some of them were indeed priests, but no one was hiding anything. I am very sure you can't point to an actual working historian who is a crypto-Christian, while that term introduces even more conspiracy thinking.

The Historicist agenda isn't actually some secret formalization of traditional Christian doctrine, it's not a Christian or a crypto-Christian position, it's a position useful for historians speaking about secular history, that's why it was developed, and why it's the consensus position. It's an evidence-based position with sufficient evidence that professional historians hold a general consensus and the only outliers are folks who are motivated by a kind of evangelical atheism where they are the ones actually dragging religious biases into the debate and rejecting evidence-based thinking in favor of conspiracy theories (flavored with Bayes).
MacCarthy described EVAL as a theoretical entity; it was Steve Russel who said he would code it. MacCarthy was surprised and said that Russel is misunderstanding it; it's just a theoretical description, not code.

But Russel basically hand-translated the calls into assembly code and got an interpreter out of it.

An interpreter written in Lisp cannot be executed if you don't already have an existing interpreter to run it.

The key insight that we can describe the interpreter in Lisp, and then somehow compile it into code belongs to Russel. Eventually it became possible to do that by machine: when you have a Lisp compiler, the Lisp-in-Lisp interpreter can be compiled by machine rather than by hand.
Same but macOS. Unix under the hood too and all my shit still works.
A lot of startup folks just think a higher "level" just means "Faster". While I agree, I think it's measured more abstractly and across time, than just like "1..2...3.. Go" kind of race on a feature/issue.
I wish that episode had more Klingons ;)
Thanks for the corrective note. I watched it when it first came out and so missed that context :-)
I’m curious what companies would run into that theoretical scaling limit, seeing as Google itself built and uses k8s/borg
This is something irrelevant but I thought I'd share an anecdote from a mate who worked for HP a long time ago. He worked on their driver software for their printers. In one of the assignment he was asked to rebrand the same software with another manufacturer's name (can't recall if it was Canon or Epson)! HP may have shared some printer technology with another company.

There is nothing new in this space. HP hasn't exactly been the beacon of customer satisfaction thanks to their restrictive policies. Most of these printers are probably made in similar factories (probably a handful of places), somewhere in China. I'd buy from a brand that offers more flexibility when it comes to ink/toner than anything else.
This is a lump of labor fallacy - importing workers increases your salary because immigrants, being prime-age consumers with complementary skills to the natives, increase labor demand more than supply.

(They don't have complementary skills to themselves, so they're more likely to suppress wages of other immigrants - so you could say the rational thing would be for them to shut each other out and you to encourage it.)