skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that it's managements job to identify, correct, or quarantine all those bad reports. There's also easy and cheap ways that devs, QA, and product are labelled as "incompetent."

Proving that management is incompetent is a fairly large task in and of itself, and the people that can hold them accountable are all peers who generally wouldn't dare to "rock the boat" so to speak.

I've termed this whole set of phenomenon as a "managerial crisis", and it's been written about extensively since the last 60's.
Loved the historical examples of ISRO and Stable Diffusion, and how they show that anything is possible with determination and creativity.
Go on record and keep a record so you can see how proactive you are and demonstrate it to others. It may seem you are loud and clear but in reality they didn't hear and you just didn't repeat it again. I am guilty of forgetting that the problem (and that I told about it) is top of only my own memory but for the boss it's very remote and needs repetition to sink in. Also guilty of trying to teach a lesson to make people listen better to me the first time but that's a bad idea too. And if people blame you later you can always throw email transcripts at them.
https://layoffs.fyi about as granular as it's going to get unfortunately and that is overly broad, but we can at least see it's been happening for mid 2022-2023 so far and it's not just me.
Thanks for pointing this out... Quite some progress has been made in making BB safe, but I am still encountering new things along the way. Let me study how to address this in the next finetuning.
There's no single number. Ranges from 1/4MM to 1/2MM depending on when/how you account stock grants, 401k matching, ESPP, etc.

If it doesn't change anything why make a big deal about it?
> How does one go about adding “extra information” (e.g. types) to an AST?

Can someone who's more familiar with compilers ELI10 the problem? A layman like me is left wondering - Why not add (say) a type field to each node?
I don't really care about pay as I've said I saved a lot already. Just looking to do something Good (USCG, for instance).
Agreed. Once the wages got noticed, a lot of ppl got into programming for the money not the passion. Now don't get me wrong, I'll retire the second I can and am not programming for fun all the time, but I did get into out of legitimate passion and truly enjoy solving problems in tech. I do agree part of the situation now is a lot of ppl who only went into it for the money.
My personal recipe is: add “potential criminal” to any human entity mentioned in a formula. Thus, “I have nothing to hide from the FBI” should be more correctly formulated as “I have nothing to hide from potential criminals working in the FBI”.
Do you have data to indicate that companies are not doing raises or bonuses? or is this your opinion based on anecdotes?

We don't spend a lot more than a few years ago. Mortgage is fixed and we work from home so we don't drive much, so gas prices don't affect us much. Groceries and eating out is certainly more but wasn't a high percentage expenditure before. We get a lot of our groceries from Costco, who seem to pin the prices of certain staples, so we really aren't paying much more for milk, eggs, and of course rotisserie chicken.

overall inflation is entirely dependent on your personal "basket of goods" so some are affected less than others.
isn't it one guy??
It is true. BB is a substitute for a friend but not for a mental health professional. The teddy bear costume is really to remind people of that!
The tall, dead yellow grass in California is non-native avena. A pesticide that selectively killed it (and actually succeeded in killing nothing else) would be an ecological miracle.

Having said that, people in the cities should plant natives and consider replacing lawns with native wildflower mix and paths. They attract beneficial insects, and those attract and support native birds. It’s also much lower maintenance.

Native insects and birds typically cannot survive on non-native plants. From animals’ perspective, your lush non-native garden may as well be asphalt.

You can find local natives for your neighborhood’s microclimate here:

https://calscape.org/
No, they aren’t.

British police, significantly, police by consent, are operationally independent of HM government, and cannot (currently) prosecute without the aid of the (equally independent) CPS. In England there isn’t even one single police force, and unlike the FBI, no normal part of the police is a part of a government department. (MoD Police are, I guess, but their remit is military policing).

I was responding to the somewhat hysterical parent post to correct the conflation of: the police literally are not the government, do not spy for the government, and do not routinely surveil the population; their surveillance powers are limited and regulated.

Does any arm of the state surveil the populace in any sense? It falls within MI5’s remit to spot domestic threats. Their surveillance operation surely operates far less less broadly than that of the NSA, which has far less oversight.
It's just a matter of time gamestop's volume dries up. It's a long game and we keep setting records as people continue to register shares directly with computershare.
Base64 is just one of the components of the JS that YouTube uses to generate the actual video URLs. It's been at least a few months since I took a look at it, but I remember it having a substitution cipher and some other transformations, but no "real" crypto like AES and such.

That said, if they're effectively giving you both the lock and the key, is it really circumvention of access control to unlock it with anything other than a user-agent they "support" (i.e. approve of)? As I mentioned in my other comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37114697), a lot of people "download" from YouTube not to infringe copyright but to simply use alternative software to view the content.
Most hacker news people aren’t experiencing any positive effects from inflation, since the tech industry is fundamentally about future growth rather than present income. Higher interest rates means less funding for ventures.

According to the economic stats, the average US worker is receiving raises that are slightly above cpi. Most workers aren’t professionals whether in tech or not.

The current situation is monetary deflation but price inflation. The same amount of money will buy more of the long term hard assets, but less consumer goods. That weirdness is due to government policy; large deficits on the one side drive up demand for consumer goods, and industrial policy constricts supply of consumer goods on the other side. Then in order to reduce the impact of these policies, the federal reserve constricts the money supply causing monetary deflation. So there’s less money, but prices are higher anyway.

Of course since there’s less money available for long term investments, at some point in the future the price inflation will worsen due to a reduced supply of consumer goods unless there’s countervailing effects.
I tried today for it to draw a horse with pink shoes (or sneakers). Could not do it.
Don't see the implied disconnect between people being in bad situations in the past and me not wanting to be in one now.

That said, I would like a family. Preferable I'd have some way to provide first though.
Exactly.

Since mix phx.gen.auth handles the authN side, it’s really just authZ that will be idiosyncratic to your application logic.

In every authorization system I’ve written in a Phoenix app (which 8 now), I’ve taken this approach above.

Make a pipeline of rules that take a conn or socket and authorize or not based on what’s in the assigns. Better yet, at the very top of the pipleline, wrap the conn or socket with an auth struct that holds metadata like authorization status and any redirection to be done. Unwrap that struct into the conn or the socket at the end of the pipeline, where the status is resolved.

This way, every request can be default unauthorized and you can apply complex, composable rules for granting permission to take various actions on resources.
This is not possible since this information is not available at all times. For example imagine C++ where a variable is typed with auto. Just after parsing you have an AST which doesn't yet include the real static type the variable has.
OK, now someone add direct peer-chat to a Mastodon client, and integrated web based click-to-conference options. =)
Can you also do same thing with some open-source model that can also run locally?
> In ethics, you can learn as much from negative examples as positive ones.

Can you learn as much from examples that are self-promoting (in the universe where the cause of cancellation did not occur) or responsibility-deflecting (in the universe whwre the cause occurred, but for some reason the lecture occurred anyway) lies, though?
When I started university I spent a while reading up on neural networks and Everyone Knew that they were a dead end. So I'd be a little hesitant to pronounce a specific set of machine learning techniques to be 'a dud' after only a few years.
Also the recyclability of those toners and ink cartridges, they'd rather sell you a subscription for cartridges than allow 3rd party refillable ones
JaaS is a pretty nice solution. Well documented and works effectively.
Happy to share. I am not that good of a developer - the stack that I cobbled together is as follows: FrontEnd/Database (Bubble.io, this is a no-code app) + Middleware (my own AWS server with python) + Backend AI engine (nlpcloud.io <- juliensalinas is the founder and he is a user here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=juliensalinas)
Yes, actually that is how it works. Breaking the conditions of your bond may lead to forfeiture. It is up to the judge to decide this.
It is broadly useful for bit vectors and integer algorithm performance engineering, showing up all over the place. One advantage the instruction has is fast constant-time performance, whereas algorithms composed from ALU primitives either have performance that is highly sensitive to the bit distribution or have consistent performance but relatively slow. It also uses less space in the instruction cache.

The non-classical bit-wise instructions that I find indispensable are popcount and PDEP/PEXT. For some codes, these can turn very messy integer work into a tight, elegant algorithm. Where performance matters, I would not want to live without them.
Black Hat was contrived as a device for getting corporate IT departments to pay for their staff (who were already going anyways) to attend Defcon. Since then, it's become one of the primary venues for non-academic offensive security research, so anybody dunking on it is telling on themselves a bit. There are higher-end vulnerability research conferences, but they're not less corporate.

There are regional conferences that are much closer in spirit to the Defcon of the 1990s, but while some of that is due to not having a vendor expo (not my favorite Black Hat innovation either), some of it is also due to early Defcon being pretty superficial and non-rigorous. Better if you're looking for a particular kind of social scene, worse if you actually want to see interesting new research.
Three chest freezers, one fridge freezer, dryer goes five to six times a day, three heat pumps and two radiant electric heaters.
How are you tracking these emails? Do ppl submit them or you are actually subscribed to them?
I would think this is more valuable for startups where roles are less defined and less for big companies. Then again I'm at a ~2B company and product-focus is still appreciated and considered in hiring.
Housing is very much what I mean. The car-centric approach to life that the US takes dictates a very particular type of city construction and infrastructure to facilitate it. Single family homes require more land, low density housing costs quite a bit more to supply with power/water/sewage/roads. Even apartments in the US frequently feature parking and the streets for you to take your car and commute to work and back. As I said, it's quite apparent comparing the US to dozens of other countries, the amount of space dedicated to cars, huge parking garages.

Every apartment I've lived in outside the US I've been closer to at least one grocery from my front door than a parking space I'd be likely to find in a US suburban shopping center would be. A two minute walk down a cobblestone street usually. When I was in the US I tried to stay in as "walkable" places as I could and (other than in NYC* ) I still needed to hop in a car and drive 5 minutes down usually a 6 (!) lane street, wait at no less than two traffic lights at large intersections. We are talking about around $15-20 million of infrastructure involved in my trip to the grocery, plus wear and tear on my car, gas, a parking garage at my apartment compared to some trivial amount to maintain a pedestrian walkway. You don't notice it when you live in the US because it's just part of the background.

Not only are there the direct costs of the infrastructure, but the wasted space reduces available land and drives up prices significantly.

* NYC is a special case, Manhattan is essentially the only walkable place in the country (and even there it falls short of global standards), the geography and history impose unique constraints, and the city draws a lot of people for reasons that aren't generally relevant when we're talking about the housing situation globally.
This is so much valuable but a bit late, i was looking for such flutter plugin like crazy specially during the pandemic for usecase of making online live class in my application. At that time went ahead with BigBlueButton, but that was a monolithic application.
No, it’s not just that he is wrong a lot. It’s that when he is wrong he (and his fans) refuse to actually admit that he is making false claims and poor arguments, and pretends “I was joking!” is some kind of clever escape, and not a sign that nothing he says is worth engaging with. I don’t bother to disprove it when a five year old says “you stink” either, because they also couldn’t care less about the truth and logic of their statement.
I've used borg with rsync.net for several years for my primary off-site backup and have had fantastic reliability and support from them. They cover the usage of borg on their website[1] and support a range of other backup tools as well (including even just simply copying data over SFTP and relying on automatic ZFS snapshots on their end). I pay something in the region of $100 USD a year for this service.

My secondary backup is borg as well, this one hosted on a Hetzner Storage Box[2]. Having seen some bad practice in this thread, I want to make it clear that I am not duplicating the rsync instance to Hetzner but have created a separate instance entirely to avoid issues with the primary borg instance being replicated. From what I understand this is best practice (although it does mean I have to run the backup process twice--once to rsync.net and then again to Hetzner). Hetzner also provides info[3] on using their service with borg. I pay around 3.50 EUR a month for this service.

I chose rsync.net due to their CEO being active on HN and also because they're based in North America (away from me in the Pacific). Hetzner , I chose because they are based in Europe giving me both operational diversity (operated by two different unrelated companies) and locational diversity (Western US for rsync.net and Northern Europe for Hetzner. Hetzner sharp pricing also helped as well.

I'm sure I looked at BorgBase at one point for my EU-based backup location but something must have put me in Hetzner's direction instead.

I also store photos (not my general backup, for now) in AWS S3 (largely because that makes it easier to deploy my static photo album site which it itself deployed via S3+CloudFront). I use S3 standard storage (for the time being) for a bucket in Sydney (nearest to my location) and then a glacier storage in Ireland for a bucket which is automatically replicated from my Sydney bucket.

Hopefully all this is enough redundancy! But all up I only spend ~ USD20 or so a month for this peace of mind.

[1]: https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html
[2]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
[3]: https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-and-configur...
https://archive.is/odFAy
Invoking rights like this creates a bridge between the normative (what ought to be) and the descriptive (what will be, whether it ought to or not). Often, yeah, to borrow the obvious "truth" of a normative statement so a false descriptive one looks true.

It lets you say "I really, really think that X is good" but act as if you're just reporting "Everyone agrees with me that we should do whatever 'X is good' implies." It muddles the meaning of rights, tarnishes the concept by equating the support for rights in general with a specific, controversial position many people will reject, and all to make an argument that won't stand up to scrutiny and makes your audience feel cheated.

It's confusing even trying to describe what's normative and what's descriptive in the headline. Arguing descriptively that something is a right, which isn't widely thought to be a right, because it ought to be a right, because then your claim would be accepted, is too convoluted. It's making a descriptive claim about what normatives I do accept that's actually a normative claim about what normatives I ought to behave as if I accept. What?

If you want argue for specific action, just do it. Don't try to tell the audience what they believe.

The framing also means that people argue about rights instead of whatever the point was, like we're about to do here.
Coca Cola’s revenue grew from 7.9 billion in 1985 to 8.67 billion in 1986 [1]. In that time frame Madagascar’s GDP fell from 3.9 to 3.8 billion.

+770 million => -100 million.

Coca Cola’s revenue fell from 8.67 billion in 1986 to 7.65 billion in 1987. In that time frame Madagascar’s GDP rose from 3.8 to 4.3 billion.

-1 billion => +0.5 billion.

There is no correlation. It doesn’t pass any smell test.

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/KO/revenues_annual
I got my first remote gig (firmware work) through a friend's referral, however that was years before COVID-19. These days I'd suggest looking for a remote-first company. Or, maybe apply for remote gigs that say US-only (assuming there's not an obvious or stated reason), then bring up your location when talking to a real human.

FWIW - technically I run a NZ company, so am a contractor and not an employee of the company that my day-to-day manager works for. This arrangement seems to be common among people who work for US companies, or are US citizens, which brings up some questions about the stats in the article...
It fits very comfortably into the category of "time management" game, which was a fairly popular casual genre 10-15 years ago. Cook Serve Delicious is probably the one notable example which is still going strong.

Definitely distinct from idle games.
Your solution is the second alternative proposed in the article: the “Nullable field” solution.

It’s an example of a classic tradeoff between enforcing correctness and invariants “by construction” vs at runtime. Since the field is nullable, the AST is not necessarily correct by construction, as the programmer may have forgotten to include a type when required. The correctness of compilers using such representations involves either checked or unchecked assertions where the type field is used to ensure that it is set appropriately.

The article continues with various strategies to avoid needing to defer this correctness checking to the runtime by providing various statically-checked alternatives.
You seriously underestimate just how much _not_ having to tune your llm for SF sensibilities benefits performance.

As an example from the last six months: people on tor are producing better than state of the art stable diffusion because they want porn without limitations. I haven't had the time to look at llm's but the degenerates who enjoy that sort of thing have said they can get the Llama2 model to role play their dirty fantasies and then have stable diffusion illustrate said fantasies. It's a brave new world and it's not on the WWW.
DC @ AP was probably peak 'con. You can't even reference pool numbers with kids these days...

The AP _hated_ us but they had a multi-year contract.
But we are not far now from Github being all you need to manage a global dev project. There is no “coders without borders” as there are no real borders to begin with. The only sticky things are legal issues / culture / time zones.
Farscape is an absolute masterpiece
Aren't we are the operating system and the main character in all the game?
So given the followups to this post, by "a" new hire you mean "one particular" new hire, not "a representative" new hire. Which, sure. There are highly sought-after candidates who get absolutely ridiculous offers in most markets. But the starting TC at MSFT is not at all "250K" under any normal interpretation.

(For context: I've seen new-grad-adjacent offers break 400K at FAANG for particularly in-demand candidates in the past, but I'm not going to claim that the starting pay at any company is 400K. It's not).
I don’t trust the Science that censors dissent. It’s not science. The people that propel climate doom are also ok with depopulation of millions. The incoherence is absolutely staggering. The entire climate agenda reeks of malaise, dishonesty and authoritarianism. You will live in a pod. You will eat bugs. You will euthanize people on a mass scale. You will be happy.

We have limitless resource - Nuclear energy both in the form of Uranium/Plutonium and the sun itself. Climate doomers are Marxists who don’t want solutions. They just want state power expansion and erosion of rights through the bullshit excuse of climate.

It’s year 2050 and there are climate activists for space to keep space pristine. Mark my words. The roots are in place at cities like Berkeley.
> The closed source players have the best researchers - they are being paid millions a year with tons of upside - and it’s hard to keep pace with that.

Llama2 came out of Meta's AI group. Meta pays researcher salaries competitive with any other group, and their NLP team is one of the top groups in the world.

For researchers it is increasingly the most attractive industrial lab because they release the research openly.
Yep, the incentives need to change -- water contracts need revisiting.

And those basins and other flow control techniques should be embraced ubiquitously in the west; we could green a lot up if we collaborated properly.
One option is to start a small business to provide a product or service. It is permissionless so it won't matter if you have a degree or not. You can also leverage resources such as capital and human talent later so that you don't need to worry too much about being smarter than average. Most rich people or business owner aren't smarter than average. You do need to be relentlessly resourceful though as written by PG.

Alternatively, it is never too late a go back to school and get a degree. Bootcamps may also work. Try to build (open source projects) or generate content (like teaching people to code in youtube)
according to their download page, yes: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/?ref=btn
> They could probably dramatically reduce the amount of water used by agriculture...

Politically, "they" could not and that is the problem. Think about this. Who is "they?" Who could have the political power and will to do something like that without the support of the agriculture industry?
How much was the contract company getting paid? How much overhead did they have? I saw what the blended rates were grow our negotiations with one of the big players and it wasn’t what the people on the ground were getting paid.

I’m guessing you were getting contracted out at minimum 45 USD an hour.
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Rocking that IPX/SPX!