skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an apartment in Portland proper with a studio at $1,310/month: https://www.live230ash.com/floor-plans/?floor_plans_list

It's odd to me that at these prices, roommates (the kind you share a room with) are not more common.
I'd recommend it if you're like me and basically only care about having a quiet life with your family. I'm on the extreme end of not enjoying big events, though, to the point where I didn't even attend my own birth.
I mean, that's a good signal, they're actively letting you know you should avoid them at all costs.
Yeah I'm not sure I see the point of "JSON mode", in its current iteration at least, considering function calling already does this more effectively.

I suppose it could help to make simpler API calls and save some prompt tokens, but it would definitely need schema support to really be useful.
Sometimes. Once every few months. Sometimes it conveys useful information. Sometimes it just hits the "product imported from previous VCS a decade ago" commit.
Why Psychotherapists Don't Give Advice
I was always thinking, could we combine incineration + plasma gasification? What if we burn the garbage, which results in a lot of heat + clean + noxious gases, and then we just pass the gases through plasma? That should take care of anything that is dangerous in the emissions, but also make it more efficient, because a lot of the mass has already burned, plasma doesn't have to go through that much material anymore
Neither of those things were ever universally true (I don't remember ever encountering either of those issues, personally). They may have been a problem with the particular program(s) you were using?

Regardless, as I said, some things are better now. But a lot of other things are worse. I suppose that whether software is better or worse overall now depends on which things bother you more.

For me, there's no question that software overall is not as good as it was.
> Meaning quite good bit would have started saving before age of 18 right?

Not necessarily. It is quite possible for the median to be 19 even with nobody saving before the age of 19.

Consider a case of 10 people. 6 started saving at the age of 19. 4 started after the age of 19. 0 started saving before the age of 19. The median age is: 19.

> That sounds off... Considering what type of jobs they would have had.

Why?

1. Jobs aren't the only way to get money.

2. Typically parents cover living expenses at that age, so job income is pure profit.

3. You don't need huge sums of money to invest.
Is that new? I'm sure I looked into this last year and it couldn't be done.
> then animals will become larger with more food

But see the "temperature size rule".

There's too much uncertainty in most aspects of a climate forecast that far out for it to be a meaningful exercise. The same way long term climate average is a more accurate forecasts than attempting to use a weather model two weeks out.
Very cool project. Not commenting on that. Lisp and it's derivatives often hits the front page of HN and I always wonder why. What is it about lisp that is so powerful? so much so that some see it as the platonic ideal of programming languages or so it seems?
Working on AI characters for companionship https://netwrck.com keeping going with the digital embodiment then one day we will have physical embodiment AI they will be in the world with us helping out.

Building a token economy for it too
The way around isn't true though, which you claimed when you wrote is essentially the same
Some people have pull set to merge, which is a "I don't know how you can live like that" feature.
We essentially implemented this matrix version in Lean/mathlib to both compute the fibonacci number and generate an efficient proof for the calculation.

https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4/blob/master...

In practice this isn't very useful (the definition of Nat.fib unfolds quick enough and concrete large fibonacci numbers don't often appear in proofs) but still it shaves a bit of time off the calculation and the proof verification.
No yeah, absolutely do squash those commits, they are actually polluting the git history.

The issue for me is when commit who are about adding a new value in the env file become mixed with template and responsive handling, mixed potentially with a bug fix.
Is this why companies have such weird job titles these day?
Unfortunately that's bash-specific I think: the POSIX shell spec still hasn't picked it up. (Though strictly speaking, my 'local' is out of spec too.)
Yeah, these researchers should have included a cafe server or two in their study - the people that walk with coffee for a living, kinda makes sense.

Having been a cafe server for 4 years I can say from experience that you can practically run with a cup of coffee without spilling it. Several times a day I would pour a cup of coffee while I brought it to a table - often without constantly looking at it, my eyes were always scanning tables.

That said - if you take enough steps with a full cup of coffee it will eventually spill, that's something that us wait staff actually talked about. We rarely spilled coffee.
The answer is because the bot market is a creator economy market.

It takes significant effort to come up with good use cases, build the prompts, and advertise the bots.

So a company can get a lot of value by going after this up and coming type of "content creator".
>perhaps if a society is interested in perpetuating itself, it should try and make people happy to live in it and reproduce?

I agree with you. Currently at odds with the goal of having a society of happy people is the society-wide tendency to attempt to extract value from others. This can make for a lot of very unhappy people who have no resources to reproduce.

Regardless, society is made up of people, and people come from families. The tendencies those families normalize are likely passed down. There are negative tendencies that damage society, and positive tendencies that support society. Working for and with each other is one of those supportive tendencies, and while it can be learned at work or school, kids imprint and learn from their parents the most.

My main point is that if a FIRE couple ends up raising a family but don't have to work for a living, the kids may be missing out on a fundamental aspect of society in their day to day lives. Obviously entitlement is an issue with humans in general, but at a societal level FIRE feels a lot like a selfish "FU, I got mine" and that's not a great tendency to pass down to kids.
> He's done plenty of it himself, retweeting nazi shit and great replacement shit and all types of horrible shit he supports on twitter.

What "nazi shit" has he posted? When has he posted anything about a global conspiracy to replace white people? What "horrible shit" does he support on twitter? Do you have a handy example of this "overt evil"?

> It takes a real boot licker to... believe it's some media conspiracy.

There is no conspiracy required to generate hatred of someone who has become inconvenient--just a large number of journalists acting on their own desire to take him down a notch. How else do you explain the prevalence of hysterical knuckleheads accusing Elon of insane nonsense (like being "overt[ly] evil)?
Exactly what I was hinting at (Well i was trying to say it outright but obviously not using the right words!)
Landing still requires a lot of fuel, which needs fuel to be carried up. It was a waste and still is.

If they come up with reusable fished from the ocean, that'd be useful.
> Based on the Element blog-post as well as comments they have made here... I doubt they plan to keep that clause in place.

I'm trying to understand your objection, but I can't see how the community can suffer here. Even in the worst case scenario where the foundation versions wither and Element takes their versions closed source, can't the community fork the latest open source AGPL versions and continue the work?
For clarity, this response is personal.

Attitude is a potion or a poison.

Make the choice.

Want demons? You'll find them.

Want help? You'll find it.

Many, many people have spent time figuring it out.

Many, MANY people have went into professions or made life style choices to help.

The will to overcome your own narcissism and self pity are key to any healing.
If things are heading towards a single commit an amend commit works fine for me. If I need a previous state I just get it from reflog.
Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Do Not
Oh, so modifying and releasing source code automatically makes you sign the CLA and contributes those changes back to the parent project? I'm not seeing how forcing modifications to libre software be published as libre software is a bad thing.
They should have to produce and justify it on the basis of the previous salary the position required to fill. And I mean this is the sense of them being forced to err on the side of disclosure, I'm sick of this shit where companies always get the discretionary aspect when they need cold, hard, regulation and absolute liabillity. The burden needs to start shiftingto the more facile and natural starting point: the business/hirer. They're running the ship, they need to start charting a legal and practicable course that respects the dignity of the sea of jobseekers.

This whole "based on qualifications" is stupid because there's obviously a base level of competency required for candidates and successfull candidates and at the end of the day, its more reasonable to make the previous salary the baseline unless the position has radically altered. If they lie, charge 'em with wire fraud and swoop in as a lesson to the next jerk who wants to play games with hiring and payroll

Hell crowdsource it and turn the panopticon back on the abyss where it belongs.

Edit: just have a simple test like how much does the least qualified yet acceptable candidate demand and work your way up from there if they have your "special magic abillities"/quals.
As mentioned, such an approach is an immediate red flag to anyone applying.

But also, judges and courts really aren't impressed with the "but technically" argument. You will get locked up if you try to play the smartarse.
New Critical Atlassian Confluence bug exploited in Cerber ransomware attacks
I mean, Ballmer was kind of right about that, for business use. As soon as someone wants to reply to an email now they pull out their laptop. What he didn’t realise is that pulling out your laptop is easy enough that you can lose the keyboard on the phone. But it did mean that the smart phone did indeed fail in the way that he expected, in that the business market that windows was serving at the time did not end up using their iPhone for business tasks. In fact people clung to their blackberries for years for that reason, even after the iPhone became an undeniable hit. The iPhone never became a significant business machine for text. Of course he also did not realise that an entire new consumer market would appear for smart phones too, but if you look back it’s not clear that apple did either. They still pushed a somewhat business angle, not a “literally everyone” angle

He was panicking in that interview though for sure, but I think people give him more crap for it than they should
Weirdly, I've been asked to do the virtual version of this with a remote job.

The company's business analysts started tracking everything in dashboards, including our Slack messages. Apparently they would pull up charts of things like messages sent by team or by person, and charts showing when people sent Slack messages.

They tried to claim it was just for fun, but then someone slipped up in a meeting and said that they didn't think a team was working much because their Slack activity was low.

After that, managers asked us to move more conversations into Slack channels, send morning and evening updates, break up long messages into smaller messages, and other things to get our numbers up. You could tell the managers hated it as much as everyone else, but I guess they were doing us a favor by telling us how to play the game.
Evan wants to control the technology. That's a management decision that makes it unfit for purpose. This is a legitimate criticism that had long ranging impacts. I have seen no reason, no commitment from the management side, to believe this won't happen again. It is worth bringing up when there are similar alternatives without such a spotted history of lockdown and control issues from management. I know nothing about the fellow. This is not personal.
This comment reminds me of “What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it…”
Fan-in is the other way, but yeah you can do batches of concurrent operations in JS fairly easily.

I still like "pipelining" over that, but that can also be implemented with just an iterator, pretty trivially.
100% of job offers I've had over the last few decades have come with access to information like "we cover PPO but not HSA" and "but no matching, or 1% matching".
I used to commit and then rebase -i to squash interactively, but I always had troubles with which commit is the oldest vs youngest and wether I need to pick one and squash the rest or squash them all.

Now I make a single commit per PR that I commit —amend —no-edit until it’s merged. I sometimes have to rebase it onto main for conflicts but that’s easy.
That's an absurd example, but you see what I mean. Change it to $150-275k if that makes more sense. That's still a huge range: it probably fits 75% of software jobs in the U.S. The point is that you could still comply with the letter of the law without giving candidates very much actual information.
Voting in blocks is a problem, but it's not the problem we're talking about. It's about voting participation. Only 3 in 10 Nigerians voted in the last election.
Hey, looks like your (very interesting) link got formatted incorrectly! Should be https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/technology/chatbots-hallu..., right? :)
Nobody cares if some performance is lost when you are good enough for 99% of payloads and you save tons of money by retrieving the expensive part of the rocket
Then make it less obvious? Pay scale for this position:

Grade | Pay Range
E | 40k-50k
D | 50k-60k
C | 60k-70k
B | 70k-80k
A | 80k-90k
A+ | 90k-150k

Grade will be determined by qualifications. Doesn't this sound more like a good faith pay scale?
I tried this nonsense in multiple places - never worked, not even once, for anything over three points.

Best part of it is how it represents the disconnection between management, engineering, and agile coaches.

Agile coaches would tell you that story points do not represent time, but complexity, and that they are not absolute, so different teams may assign different values to similar tasks.

Engineering takes that, and scores tasks based on perceived complexity, sort of. Junior devs start by underestimating, then they overestimate. Senior devs do the opposite. Again, anything over three points either gets done too quick, or lingers for over a week.

Management, obviously, keeps looking at these estimates in terms of time. They don't care about points the slightest.

At one of the companies I worked at, we started by using planning poker. Ended using a dice as a joke.
It's forced for those who can only use it under the license (everyone except Element/Matrix). It isn't forced for the copyright assignee (Element/Matrix).

That isn't more open to me.
A species doesn't automatically get more altruistic towards other species once it gets smarter. Look at how many species humanity drove to extinction.
> As an aside, doas and sudo are conceptually broken from a security POV because the user's shell can be played with to elevate privileges. The real fix is dump doas and sudo entirely.

Could you elaborate on this?
This is really interesting.

Can you please elaborate? How were you able to write highly technical blogs without seemingly doing anything that technical (playing with libraries)? Did you have to reach out to big companies or did they reach out to you?

It'd be great if I could contact you to ask you more.
I'm guessing it wouldn't work because it is quite a lot easier to tell when a company is being hostile when they're disclosing information, as opposed to a company being reluctant to disclose information. I mean, given the choice between a job listing stating a pay scale of $0-$10000000 or $75000-$125000 it'd be very optimistic to assume the former will actually lead to a higher offer.

Basically by forcing employers to state a scale you force them to bid against each other not only on the total amount but also the specificity. When there's only a few companies disclosing any information at all this competition has little effect, but this changes when they're supposed to say something (and I think courts will rule that $0-$10000000 is not a real pay grade, one end is below minimum wage and the other is probably higher than can fit in the budget).

Of course is there's no enforcement at all it can still devolve in the same meaningless pay scale everywhere.
Nah, it's training quality and context saturation.

Grab an 8K context model, tweak some internals and try to pass 32K context into it - it's still an 8K model and will go glitchy beyond 8K unless it's trained at higher context lengths.

Anthropic for example talk about the model's ability to spot words in the entire Great Gatsby novel loaded into context. It's a hint to how the model is trained.

Parameter counts are a unified metric, what seems to be important is embedding dimensionality to transfer information through the layers - and the layers themselves to both store and process the nuance of information.
It doesn't hurt that HN is written in LISP.
You also sort of know it's definitely not a $1M or $100K pay for either of those
Well, Y combinator, the domain of HN is intimately related to Lisp, as the founder Paul Graham. That is how I landed in this site to begin, and I assume is so for many around. That could explain it a little bit.
Thanks for the reply, I'm also a big fan of documentation living inside the repo. I appreciate the framework you describe for the readme as well. Similar to _kb's sibling comment, that sounds like a sane approach to meeting the needs of contributors to and supporters of the codebase.

FWIW, I'm struggling with documentation that support the mix of roles on the team in addition to coders/contributors - QA engineers, product owners, project managers, support teams, etc. A big part is the capture of requirements flowing into proposed solutions and out into support documentation.

In reply to _kb, it did occur to me that there are many job descriptions at play here, and that change is inevitable. Perhaps the answer is simply that it takes many people and several genres of software to keep things from falling through the cracks.
This was my first computer, too. I have fond memories of programming it in 6502 machine language and saving programs on cassette tape. I still have it, along with the power supply my grandfather built from the specs they provided in the user manual. And it still works!
But then you need to run your business with that salary range - if you put it in writing to your hr people or hiring managers that the maximum they can actually offer is $less_than_that, those emails will come out in discovery.
Are tax deductions really subsidizes?
"Works fine" is an interesting choice of words for the absolute tire fire of a tech stack that modern tech currently depends on.

You should probably see a doctor about your hyperemesis.
>Now we're back where we started, with the candidate having no valuable information, and the company seemingly in compliance with the law. Why wouldn't this work?

Maybe that doesn't tell a candidate the actual pay range of the job, but it definitely is valuable information that tells you about how the company operates. I wouldn't want to work anywhere that does that because it shows a contempt for both the law and prospective employees.
That would be SEKO. I'm personally hoping for them and Finansförbundet (bank employees) to signal on Wednesday or Thursday that they'll be joining in, together with an expansion of Transport's involvement. They're all members of the umbrella organisation LO.

Finansförbundet will probably not signal until the strike has been going on for at least a few months, but I believe that a couple of other sectors will.

Tesla is like that guest who comes to your house only to refuse to follow the ways of those who actually live there. Tesla, Amazon and the rest of all these companies that are coming here is acting like it's America - it's not, and they will know this soon enough.

Collective agreements is how you do business in Sweden and their arrogance in thinking that they can come here and impose American business culture on our nation is so nonchalant that it probably have secured the support from the general public in favour of the unions.

Let the games begin...
nice it is live now!
>Are homemakers really excluded from any GDP calculation?

Yes.
It's true... before software was continually updated, a software update (aside from small security/bug fixes) was something people got excited about and anticipated for good reason. Now, they're things people tend to dread.

A lot of (but absolutely not all) FOSS software still comes with that sense of excitement for updates rather than fear.
I am CEO and one of cofounders of Vectara. We are very proud of the release of this open source eval model. We certainly would like to add more LLMs to the scorecard, and would love to collaborate with others to make the evaluation model even more accurate. Please reach out to bader@ or simon@ if interested.
I find NORMAL ChatGPT a good programming Rubber Duck and use it often.
> I applaud pay transparency, but reading the text of my state's legislation regarding it (RCW 49.58.110), all I see is that it says most employers must have a pay scale that is known to candidates. My initial adversarial response as an imaginary business would be to say "okay, the pay scale for this position is between $0-$10000000, depending on qualifications". Now we're back where we started, with the candidate having no valuable information, and the company seemingly in compliance with the law. Why wouldn't this work?

tighten up the disclosure requirements

example: produce the distribution, at 5% resolution with a range 2 SDs around the median
Exactly, which is why we check for ourselves instead of expecting it to hold our hand.

Unixy tools tend do what you tell them, nothing more and nothing less. No confirmations, no output if successful, no progress bars, etc.

That's a feature in my mind, but I can see how it is easy to have your day ruined if you're expecting it to ask you again.
Based on the argument, would it be easier to do programming in Japanese I wonder. At least it is a living language with Rpn, sort of as the paper said.
Is Azure adoption really that slow? Ugh.
I need to check if their cables are available outside of the US. A quick search didn’t look promising.
An A-to-C cable is limited by what an USB-A host can supply, since that's the limit which a compliant C-device sensing an A-to-C cable or adapter would observe.

Depending on the combination of host and device, that would be 4.5W for standard USB 3, 2.5W for USB 2, up to 7.5W for USB Battery Charging (BC), or possibly more for non-USB-C PD (highly unlikely, since it would require legacy PD signalling on the voltage pins, which almost no USB-C devices support as far as I know).

I strongly suspect it's USB BC, rounded up to 8W by Apple.

As an aside: Apple's USB power controllers used in their laptops are surprisingly flexible based on my observations: In addition to the obvious USB-PD, they support at least USB BC and Apple's proprietary USB-A resistor-based protocol. I was able to successfully charge a MacBook Pro at 12W and even 5W supplied by an old iPad/iPhone charger and the appropriate combination of adapters once.