skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to tell without knowing much about you, what sort of work you’ve done, what sort of education you have, where your passions lie if not in software, etc.

> I'm barely 1.5 YOE, unemployed now, sending out endless applications, but by my estimates a mediocre programmer.

Yep it’s a bad market right now. Luckily this industry seems to be teeming with idiots who never learn and continue to cyclically do the same thing over and over again, and I imagine eventually the market will pick up for “mediocre” types again. Ofc, do what you have to in the meantime.

> Considering all this, should I just focus my efforts on starting my own business, or switch career paths?

Start a business doing what? Switch careers to what? As I said at the start of my comment, it’s hard to give any sort of insight to something like this without knowing a bit more.

Personally I hate professional software development. Hate the work, hate the companies, hate the people, but I’m going to try to stick it out for at least a bit longer. Why? The money is unmatched. Passion is great and all, but it’s expensive to pursue outside of the most casual way. I’m not someone who pursues money at the cost of anything else, but denying that money, often a lot, is needed to seriously pursue other things is stupid.
"So if you want a reasonable portion of users to see your email as intended, let's say 95%, you have to stick to the most basic features of HTML and CSS..."

Or, you know, you could just SEND TEXT.
Definitely not the case. At least here in Japan, right now the seeds are large, but the fields are mostly not flooded. I believe the reason for flooding the seedlings is to crowd out weeds, which unlike rice are unable to get established.
I agree. Twitter/X seems more “alive” now than it was before. I’m really enjoying being on the platform now.

I’m glad that scientists such as Dr Robert Malone have been unbanned. I’m not an expert in his field so I cannot tell if he is a crazed paranoid lunatic, or if he is the most important whistleblower of the 21st century.

Either way, I want to hear him out and see his arguments judged by the wisdom of the crowds. While science converges on the truth, it SHOULD be messy and there should be disagreement with consensus views occasionally. When disagreement is silently removed, we’re not doing science anymore.
I didn't misread it, at least I did read it as 'or', I just don't like that either. Yes I will reply Hey no sweat yeah just doing your job cheers whatever - but it's definitely making me feel even worse than I already was about whatever the negative thing was you had to say to me in the first place.

The whole thing is just making it more about the counterparty, like they're the real victim for having unfortunately to give you this bad news - it's not their fault you did the bad thing after all!

I'm afraid the Reddit parlance is lost on me, what's YTA & ESH?
As someone who is starting a master's in science and will be looking at lots of research papers, I've been wondering what the best use of this could be.

If I have my own PDFs, I guess I could get ChatGPT to create summaries in some structured way, perhaps in a single file with citation:summary, and then send up that file with every question I ask?
JRG Systems – BSDcan 2023 Trip Report
I disagree. The attribution of money/credits/wealth points to a person or entity follows the exact same logic as the attribution of these hazardous emissions. You can’t have one and not the other.
Which vim way are you refering to? I'd like to check it out but I have no idea what to look for.
I think you've missed my point: San Francisco is a poor choice for the earliest market of Cruise.

This argument comes from my interpretation of two books: "Crossing the Chasm" and "The Innovator's Dilemma."

Cruise can choose any market they want: any city, any municipality, any closed road network like a resort. I keep arguing that San Francisco is the wrong choice right now.

Choosing an early market is an important step in developing a technology business. It doesn't matter how wonderful your technology is, your company needs to succeed in its first market in order to move to another market and then to larger markets. Furthermore, your customers must be willing to put up with the bugs and shortcomings of your product compared to existing technology.

If a company overestimates the maturity of their product, they can lose the goodwill of the future customers who don't want to put up with bugs or other shortcomings.

I think the big problem that Cruise is facing is that they will be regulated out of existence before they fully debug their product. (For the sake of argument,) if they had used resorts as their first customer, They wouldn't have to worry about being regulated out of existence because they would only have to deal with a government; and they would have had a much easier situation to debug the product.
Consider this scenario: Say one execution thread's working memory footprint just barely fits in cache. Now with 2 execution threads sharing that same slice of cache, you have more cache misses and trashing. And cache misses can have disastrous effect on performance. It doesn't matter that there's CPU available for hyperthreading to use during the cache misses.

Visually, say we have 4 slots of cache available, we'll mark cache misses with capital letters, and we have an algorithm that goes like

time goes this way-->

ABCDabcdabcdabcdabcd

Now put two threads there

AB C D A
EF G H E
^--cache now contains DAHE
^--cache now contains CDGH
^--cache now contains BCFG

Related, I've seen situations where algorithm 1 wins every microbenchmark, while algorithm 2 is faster in the real app. Why? Because alg1 needed more icache space than the simpler alg2, and in the real app there was more icache pressure than in the microbenchmark.
I’m wondering it that was all done over text (slack/teams etc) and could have been aided by picking up the phone?

It reads like a guide to not giving the wrong impression and how not to annoy someone over a chat system.
Also, sunblock makes your skin stay young.
Huh this is really good to know, I have a drive where the head seems to "stick" to the drive (or something)... I wonder if that's a potential common solution, just jostle it around and/or lubricate it to free it up a bit??
How long is an inverse bald eagle?
I'm not referring to normal users that are trying to generate ROI. When your actual cost is $0, even GPU mining Monero or shit coins is cash flow positive and relative low risk.

A "few dollars a day" is good money for people in some parts of the world.
Society does not dictate the truth; the truth should dictate society. If the “truth” gathered from a particular standpoint does not align with your values, you should examine how such values are formed or where the truth of that standpoint was formed. Only then will you begin to form any concept of the “truth” which is in itself a fascinating and multi-dimensional entity who can dissolve your ego and your convictions.
Yeah I just like pointing out that GPT-4 is multimodal because most people don't seem to realize this, as they never read the GPT-4 papers.
evidence: amazon.com
I would say a lot more verbal conversations and a lot more verbose longer form written communication, where the tone is formal anyway.

I don't see many doctors and lawyers using real time IM like slack etc., which is generally a lot more conversational.

I use emojies in slack, but I wouldn't use them in emails.
I hate how hypocritical it is trained with Islam and Christianity in regards to LGBT rights. It'll question Christianity's bigotry and subsequently support Islamic bigotry.
If you can get the app IPA, I believe you can still codesign it yourself and dump it on your iOS device without jailbreaking.

https://rderik.com/blog/resigning-ios-apps-from-an-ipa-for-m...
This is not merely dumb but actively harmful -- people will read the headline and think, "I'm not in the elite, and therefore have no climate responsibility."

(It's dumb because the measure of interest is consumption, not investment. It's not exactly the gas companies' fault that consumers use gas; if they quit, someone else would start.)
This applies both ways. You'll win a Turing award if you prove NC ≠ P, which is kind of what you said — at least, that the best way I see of reading your first and a few following messages.
If you have a growth company with high return on capital the worst thing to do would be to return the operating profits as taxed dividends or just sit on the cash or something like that. If you can grow the business then the best thing to do with those operating profits is to pump it back into expanding the business and the capital and capturing more revenue next year. You aren't losing money, you're building a larger economic engine for capturing future cashflows, which is doing your investors a favor since they'll own a larger chunk of the economy next year.

This assumes that the business is, of course, growing though and growing at a faster rate than the economy and its competitors, and that it has a positive return on capital from the core of the business.

A growing company with high return on capital which is not aggressively reinvesting in itself would be a red flag.

This should go in one of those "Myths that Engineers Believe about Finance" that all companies that don't produce profits are bad.
I see two traps here that I largely blame, curious if there are more.

First is that documentation is only worth it if you are keeping everything surrounding it stable. Software has been changing a ton in the past few decades such that a lot of documentation from last year is irrelevant. I /think/ this is slowing down, but I can't say for sure. Examples for this are many. Python 2->3, Web frameworks 10 years ago (this one has legit gotten better), general systems management and deployment.

Second is that it was easy to get burned by documentation that was really more of a promise of things to come. By that I mean you think you are going to buckle down, research the right way, and make progress. Only to find out that all of the time you just dumped into the "right way" doesn't actually work today. It may work next week, but if you want to do something today, you have to do it the way they did it before. Which is a ton of warnings about how you will need to be prepared to upgrade, at this point. Examples of this, for me personally, have been trying to use XHTML back in the day, WSDL promises, and now OpenAPI.
As stated advertising on children's videos is legal and commonplace, so singling out yt is a little weird. The whole situation is a bit of a paradox to be honest.
There's plenty of snippets that are well known per language/framework, and might as well be instant AND consistent instead of spinning on an API call.
> > Amazon lost a shitload of money before it started turning a profit

Amazon businss model was/is based on selling books/toys etc. online. Basically Walmart but online + obsession over customer and improving the quality of life of the customer + AWS Cloud.

Tesla business model is based on the political choice to do away with fossil fuels. They aren't the same.

Tesla is the product of a centrally planned economy because the avg. person didn't jumpstart the Tesla/EV phenomenon. Matter of fact when the avg. person is left free to choose with their wallet they stil buy ICE cars, despite all the billions in subsidies, funny math and psyop over the population to convince them that they are evil because they don't have the same time horizion of a SV billionaire who thinks that we should go to Mars because the Earth will be destroyed by the sun 5bn years from now.
Genuine question, Do we need Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, etc. ?

It's glorified to-do lists with an opinionated cadence on how often features get deployed. Do we really need an entire discipline to communicate those simple things.

How flexible are we with requirements ? How many stages are in the to-do list ? How many hierarchies are in the todo list? How often do we features to be deployed ? What more do you need to know ?

Takes 1 long meeting establish a well-communicated bespoke development cycle for each team. Do we really need a phrase for that ? My experience tells me that the system gets sub-optimally molded to suit the implicit development style of the team whether you like it or not.
for me it’s the vocal Twitter users who say with a straight face that it’s the “town square” and who talk about “the global conversation” and just won’t accept that only a vast minority of their town or globe actually post on it or participate in the way they’re suggesting.

the whole platform — users and owners — are just incredibly full of themselves in an _annoying_ way.
Oh boy, if you start going through old posts you will find a lot of interesting stories. And once you subscribe to some of the stories with that reddit bot, you have a weekly/monthly series of stories to read.
Columbia does if you're in the College (aka 90% of students)
It's a sign of the last stage of an economic cycle when money is made by creatively destroying value, instead of creating it.
I think what people are getting at is that Elon made a lot of noise about fairness and free speech, but in the end he really cares about neither of those things. Shocking, I know.
“As you move up the income ladder, an increasing share of emissions is associated with investments,” said Starr.

It's not rich people flying first class or whatever, but their investments in the worst CO2 emitters.
Facebook's Galactica.
> we won't see a Rust compiler shipped with an operating system for a very long time.

I can't figure out what this constraint means.

My Windows laptop doesn't seem to have provided a C compiler, so, maybe that's a problem for Windows?

Huh, well I guess I can buy or download a third party compiler, that's easy enough, but then, I can do that for Rust too, so, doesn't seem like a difference.

Meanwhile on this Fedora machine, the Rust compiler came with the OS. So, is this not an operating system? Maybe the stuff it comes with isn't "shipped with" it somehow? And so there's no C compiler "shipped with" this operating system either, although GCC was installed too ? I just don't know what to make of such a criticism.
Ah yes, that was it, sorry for mixing those up. But regardless, bad idea to eat any sizeable quantity of bitter almonds.
What am I looking for in this 300 page document? Proof by intimidation, eh?
I guess that's why the article says at the end "The primary barrier to entry for farmers is a 500,000 rupiah ($33) weeding machine."
I don't think most employers are out there looking at the timestamps on your commits to see if you really completed it within the timebox or not -- I certainly wouldn't.

I don't think that candidates who spend less time or turn in incomplete take homes are necessarily at a disadvantage. Sooo much can be discerned from a take home even if it's not finished. I can evaluate a candidate's familiarity with modern syntax, how they organize functions, how readable their code is, whether or not they used ChatGPT/CoPilot or copy/pasted from an online tutorial (surprisingly easy to discern when you're evaluating many submissions), and so on.

All of that tells me a lot about how well someone functions as an engineer, as well as what level they're operating at, and it doesn't require the completion of the take home problem.
> Consider going into it on an empty stomach.

Yikes
What do you mean by 'same logic'?
Younger Dryas Impact Theory has always been somewhat controversial but it has basically become political due to being JRE listener coded now.
> Take collective action

There aren't enough environmentally and collapse-aware vegans ... yet.
I support the OP. If the article provides value then who cares if it is an ad? You think companies write great content and open source libraries and all that stuff for fun? It's all an ad to use their services.
Because Americans are permitted to travel to Canada
> When this happens, it seems like it'll be possible to get the LLVM bits out of the bootstrap process and lead to a fully self-hosted Rust.

What do you mean by "when this happens"? GP's point is that this has already happened: the Cranelift backend is feature-complete from the perspective of the language [0], except for inline assembly and unwinding on panic. It was merged into the upstream compiler in 2020 [1], and a Cranelift-based Rust compiler is perfectly capable of bootstrapping another Rust compiler (with some config changes) [2].

[0] https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/77975

[2] https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift/actions/ru...
Fiddler is a MitM proxy with knobs on. I don't deny it is rather handy. I use a lot of tools.

Wireshark simply listens. If you give it the private key for a TLS exchange it is able to decrypt the stream.

Fiddler makes changes to the stream - it turns a single stream into two streams with the Fiddler in the middle, Wireshark does not - per se - it just listens but because it will be a tap in a stream it will slightly affect that stream, unless you use a switch that can mirror ports - and that's what I do.

When it is your web server (int al) then you have access to the private key and then Wireshark's minimal touch is indicated. Otherwise Fiddler or similar (Squid and others for me) is indicated instead.
I'd say it's more like defensive driving techniques. They are not guaranteed to save you from a wreck in all situations, but they maximize your chances of getting the best outcome possible. But still, sometimes you just get t-boned by a lunatic.
I have a general opinion about this sort of thing: no programming pattern is always bad or always good. Even gotos are not always harmful.

The important thing is clarity of code. If arrow code makes that part of the code easier to understand and less likely to lead a future dev (who may be you!) to make a mistake, then it's a good thing.

If setting flags makes that code easier to understand and less likely to lead a future dev to make a mistake, then that's a good thing.

It all depends on the project, and has to be balanced with a consistent approach also being a good thing. If flags are used everywhere else, then use them even if arrow code would be more clear for a given section, and vice versa. This is the purpose for "house rules" about coding style, and such house rules are usually the best way to go.

My TL;DR is: anytime someone says that "X is always good" or "X is always bad", that person is wrong. X may usually be good or bad, but there are always exceptions.
I didn’t discount what you said at all. I just clarified that mining is less of a concern these days. It isn’t even a few dollars a day at this point, it is pennies.

Monero is far more efficient to mine with CPUs, not GPUs.

Easy to mitigate with credit card signup and individual approval.

Go try to get an account with CoreWeave and you’ll see what I mean.
Let's start in the other direction.

You have a client-side web application. You want the initial-state HTML to come over the wire on the first response rather than wait for the client application to load, make a request, and then render the result.

So you use a tool like those listed in TFA (like Next.js) to run your front-end app logic on the server to generate the HTML and send it to your client where your front-end app mounts to that HTML and takes over (cutely named rehydration).

This is relatively cutting edge stuff which is why it's weird to assume OP is an idiot who never knew about PHP or CGI when he wrote an article that is obviously talking about client-side applications and rendering them on the server.
I worked with Fred in the late 80s (he was our tools/compiler guy, we ported Unix onto new hardware) he was a great guy to work with
Don't worry about SpaceX, it's now an essential part of the US military. Without SpaceX's satellite internet the war in Ukraine would have been much hard to deal with. SpaceX's capacity to launch rockets two or three times a week is something the US military is war gaming around, never mind the same thing but soon with the Starship. SpaceX is in good hands just as its increasing enterprise value shows.
That's interesting but is sadly unhelpful without knowing how many gallons or liters it's able to pull out per day, or how far down it gets humidity, or how quickly it goes through salt.

E.g. my $200 dehumidifier pulls around 3 gallons of water out of the air per day, on a hot and humid summer day, to keep indoor RH around 55%.

It's very hard for me to imagine a bucket of rock salt pulling 3 gallons of water from the air, or being able to bring RH down to a target ~50% range. And even if it did, it seems like you'd probably spend more on salt over the course of a couple of summers than you would on a dehumidifier in the first place.
Because their cameras didn't include fully automated digital skin filtering?

I agree that everyone (and their mom) looks young on Instagram nowadays. But meet them in person and you'll sometimes wonder if they sent their parents instead ...

Also, old camera tech used to have a good local contrast but bad overall dynamic range. If you use a high contrast HDR tonemapping on modern photos, that alone will also really highlight wrinkles and skin impurities and make the person look old.
Yes, military service emancipates you for FAFSA purposes.
Ah the penalty of dated LLM models
And where in Job Corps does it train you for lower-end service work in large, expensive cities? Most of the people going to Job Corps are not from large, expensive cities, and none of their centers are in large, expensive cities. The work they're training for is skilled blue collar work, all of which pays relatively decently and is not "low-end service work".
Actually studying their culture through their classical literature, philosophy and history instead of just a goofy song or some cartoons which were created by the "Good ones" (i.e., client states).
Good will has to be rebuilt. If someone has exhausted all goodwill, then your relationship should take a transactional form. Transactional relationships don't have to be malicious. They're just all 'over the table'. I ask you to do X, have you done X ?

Mental illness is just 1 cause for breakdown of goodwill. It's better to ignore the cause, and focus on the optional communication mode for the level of goodwill you're operating from.

just to be clear, trust != good will.
Surely!
tsx was a MIT server that hosted minix, Linux, etc. It wasn't a distribution per se.
I'm sure it is - but sleeping in his friend's mansion is most definitely not indicative of Elon needing money to fund his 'uber-rich' lifestyle.

You haven't refuted my points of him not owning anything indicative of his 'uber-rich' lifestyle, and considering the amount of work he is very visibly doing, I see no reason to somehow assume he's just laying around buying stuff for the heck of it.
Surprised to see emoji. I feel like those almost always come across insincere when they're not expected. Idk why, maybe I'm the odd one.
I think pretty much all public works projects are now viewed as "political," while military service is not. So we send the military in to do non-violent work. It's considered totally normal that a lot of domestic, civil projects are handled by the Army Corps of Engineers.
I do have it enabled, that's why I notice a difference between XWayland and Wayland, otherwise I don't think I would have ever searched for the environment variable.
It looks like an entitlement is one kind of legal right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights
Reminds me of 'fruit-only-diet influencer dead at 39'. However 'healthy' an extreme diet seems, in extreme it almost certainly isn't. Yes most people should probably eat more fruit; no they should not eat exclusively fruit.

(random source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/01/zhanna-sam...)