skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For tuition I don’t think you even need the tech approach. Just cut university administrative and construction overhead. Both of those areas have bloated massively, fueled by lots of easy student loan money.

Student aid and subsidized loans should require that the admin to teacher ratio not exceed a certain value. That would help a lot.

For the others you nailed it. Housing is tough though, because the existing policy is a massive success for older homeowners who bought before the prices rose and property speculators.
I have to disagree.

It can't be that that design pattern because React did not invent it. Every server-side templating library is a pure functional transformation of application state. I can tell you that many people also ported that design pattern to JS.

What tripped library writers up is once they applied that pattern to JS, there is no way to actually define the transformation because to do that, you either write a template or the code-equivalent (i.e. using DOM as your data model). And that's where JSX came in.

Also, I think you have patterns completely confused.

Backbone is NOT in the same class as jQuery or React. Backbone is more like Redux, mobx, or React hooks because it's a data model library. In Backbone, you define "models" and "collections" -- basically, you use Backbone to store your application data in memory.

Backbone did have a views component to it but it actually could not generate any HTML. Look at this example from their docs:

var Bookmark = Backbone.View.extend({
template: _.template(...),
render: function() {
this.$el.html(this.template(this.model.attributes));
return this;
}
});

It literally has jQuery and underscore.js! Backbone had no templating/HTML generation ability so when you used Backbone, you combined the fat Backbone classes with whatever horrific HTML-generation method you used to create a huge monster.

You can actually use Backbone.js with React since they are not in the same class. You would not, of course, because mobx is basically the same style of data modeling as Backbone.js but with almost no boilerplate.
Have you ever heard about "road trains" in Australia? We have some truly absurd allowances for how long these vehicles can get. It makes driving between capital cities a wild experience, trying to pass them (they're almost as bad as the suicidal kangaroos that jump in front of cars at night)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
Nil errors are still there, but you are just forced to handle them. It doesn't mean your app is not broken.
sorry - was cleaning up :)
https://github.com/stellar-amenities/assistants
How have "they" or "vaccine" changed in definition? I'm curious.
A simple WebSocket benchmark in Python
Ask that to an Amazon warehouse or a 3rd world factory worker.

Quit and do what? Starve? Become homeless? Destroy the little of what is left of your family's stability? Lose access to treatment of your health condition(s)? Die?

Perhaps if there was some way to survive in this world without relying on a greater force to put a roof over your head and bread on your table, then anyone could quit without being compelled to stay with the lesser suffering.
Show HN: An Open Source Version of OpenAI Assistants API (With Source)
I love that the thread is on /r/AskHistorians!

I'm not that old... but I remember watching the show!

I guess it's like a show from the 60s was to me to a Gen Z or young millenial from today!
Can you share how many employees are at your company and your YOE? I definitely feel underpaid, but not so terribly that I'm actively searching for another job. I know FANG pays well, but it isn't easy to get into those either.
Looking for Startup Job in San Francisco Bay Area
Hello all,

I'm a software, electrical, and ML engineer who double majored in Electrical Engineering (with a focus on ML, robotic controls, and intelligent systems) and Economics at UC San Diego (class of 2021), and I'm looking for a new role at a startup in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I just moved here from San Diego after taking a short career break. I have previously worked at a biotech startup subsidized by Invitae as a software engineer, have had a handful of machine learning and software engineering internships and co-ops while in college, and have been awarded several research fellowships as an undergrad. I have a wide ranging skillset from working with ML models, building scalable backend systems, and working with clients to troubleshoot problems and create blueprint solutions for their needs.

Please reach out on LinkedIn if you or your company is hiring. I am interested in a wide range of roles, and I would love to connect!
CC BY SA 3.0: https://github.com/amir-zeldes/gum/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

I didn't know about that project, that's really cool! I'd be curious to know whether the person who devised this scheme was aware of structured meaning representations (UCCA, AMR, ...), and if so, why they chose to create a new meaning representation. Maybe the goals of the project and/or the constraints of Wikidata necessitated this.

Anyway, GUM (and its sister corpus EWT) does have a lot of parsed permissively-licensed text, so whoever's in charge should definitely consider using them. (Amir, the maintainer, is also super friendly and would respond to an email.)
My results are disappoitingly noisy but I love the concept

https://dalle.party/?party=bxrPClVg

https://dalle.party/?party=mmBxT8G-

https://dalle.party/?party=kxra0OKY (the last prompt got a content warning)

https://dalle.party/?party=Q8VYXU0_
You may be subject to litigation. Not worth the risk.
Judges don't give out injunctions forcing the govt to do something outside the status quo easily unless there's a strong case.
Very nice! A companion to Rachel Binx' Amtrak Explorer, which shows routes. https://amtrakexplorer.com/
Because the right to strike is written in the constitution. Postnord isn't really in the wrong here, but instead it's the Swedish DMV that has a questionable inflexibility of using something else than Postnord. The state is not supposed to partake, intentionally or not, in this "game of chess" between employers and unions.
If by “code” you mean “the source code people wrote”, then, that source code by itself does not determine the behavior. The behavior is determined by the numbers.

Saying that understanding that code implies understanding how the network works, is like saying “John wrote this emulator for GBA games, therefore he must understand how the game [some GBA game] works”.

Except, instead of the game being written in assembly, it was written in malbolge.
Stolen goods are also not in the possession of the original owner. Anything still in the possession of the original owner isn't stolen, by definition. The notion of "stealing" doesn't really work for piracy.

Stealing: perpetrator has 1 apple, victim has 0 apples.

Piracy: perpetrator has 1 apple, victim has 1 apple.

A better analogy is required than "possession of stolen property". Saying it's stolen is like saying "someone copied the movie, and therefore the studio can no longer stream it".
Re-purpose Discord as a Google Drive/Dropbox alternative for free
I feel like we're a few more paradigm shifts away from self-driving cars, and this is one of them - being able to actually understand neural nets and modify them in a constructive way more directly - aka engineering.

Some more:

cheaper sensors (happening now)
better sensor integration (happening now, kind of)
better tools for ml grokking and intermediate engineering (this article, kind of)
better tools for layering ml (probably the same thing as above)
a new model for insurance/responsibility/something like this (unsure)
better communication with people inside and outside the car (barely on the radar)
That's like anthropomorphizing utility functions in place of the humans that (are conjectured to) have them, isn't it?
Sorry, here's a slightly more serious attempt at a decent comment: my hunch is that most of what people look for in Docker could be accomplished by simple file system isolation and a few env variables. Something that could be hacked together with chroot and shell scripts.

This much simpler solution could be replicated in basically any decent OS and wouldn't require shipping an entire Linux kernel and deal with slow IO and the network hoops to jump through on anything that isn't Linux.

The same directory of ready-made solutions that Docker enjoys today could be rebuilt uppon this simpler stack.

When you realize that linking to the right libraries gets you most of the way there already, you begin to think there's a gem of a solution hidden in plain sight among all this mess.
thinking about this more (i'm replying to myself!) -- i guess what the experiments for D/K show is exactly that performance on a test is uncorrelated with your idea of the performance on a test.

yes, it's kind of surprising that, having dropped the "real" results in a vat of acid, our hapless researcher replaces the missing data with random numbers and gets the same result -- but that's only because we didn't expect random numbers to model the outcome.

instead, we would have expected that, towards the bottom of the distribution of test-takers, those folks would rate themselves lower, while towards the top they would rate themselves higher. at the extreme of perfect self-awareness, the line for subjective results would exactly match the line for objectively-scored results.

this is the exact argument that is made in the post linked in the top comment:
> by using random data to argue that the Dunning-Kruger effect is not real, the author is arguing to default to the base assumption. But which base assumption do they make? One even more radical than what’s proposed by Dunning-Kruger. In the author’s world, the Dunning-Kruger study should be interpreted in the reverse direction, claiming that there is at least some self-awareness in the way people self-assess.

source: https://andersource.dev/2022/04/19/dk-autocorrelation.html
For Americans without rich parents, tuition has gotten cheaper. Sure the base number has gone up, but that's to soak it to the rich and to foreigners. The availability of scholarships and bursaries is much higher than it was 40 years ago, reducing average costs significantly. For example, Harvard is free if your parents make less than $85,000 and not much more if their income is less than $150,000.

Life as a college student is definitely more expensive than it was, but that's mostly because of housing.

https://fortune.com/2023/10/04/college-tuition-isnt-getting-...
You must not believe in human free will then. Or maybe you don’t believe the brain is the key aspect of human intelligence. Or believe the brain is more than just a organic NN
The cynic in me says that this is more correct as a statement about the author's patent possesion than it is about the items themselves.
In photos: Tokyo's new 'city within a city'
Aside from the standing desk, I had already noticed that I got more done when I:

- Create my own agenda and set a target to get through it. It's like playing your own game.

- Tend not to fall asleep if I eat a light lunch or eat less during the working day. I don't recommend this for people whose work is physical in nature though.

- Tend not to need coffee if I get a proper full night's sleep.

- I get better sleep when I'm physically tired as opposed to just mentally tired.

As for the standing desk. Standing all day is much more difficult when one has nothing to do. It was also a small way for me to not get fat, especially with all the free snacks available at the office.
I honestly don’t understand why. On my computer I log in once and that’s it. They don’t automatically log you out. I haven’t logged into GitHub since setting up my computer.
I don't think people were born to grow the economy and shareholders' bank accounts.

Also, "whacky" is British English. But you could make an argument that "tech bros" become "whacky" when they start going full Pinkerton.
Based on the proliferation of smaller Discords for example, I think people are re-learning why being in a public space with all other humans is not desirable. I may want access to observe that public space, but from a distance... with friends I respect and like.
BYD have conflated their hybrid and pure EV sales for several years now to try and make their EV sales volume look more impressive. It's disappointing they still do it. Here's the same misleading press release from Jan 2022:

https://en.byd.com/news/byd-starts-strong-in-2022-with-sales...

"New Energy Vehicles". Every time they do it, large sections of the media report them as a "Tesla challenger". I do agree though that they are making increasingly good EVs.
> The course on reading and using lambda calculus is similarly longer than than the actual lambda calculus expression

I'm not sure what a "course on reading and using" has to do with description complexity? In any case, it takes 206 bits to implement a binary lambda calculus interpreter (that's Theorem 1 in http://tromp.github.io/cl/LC.pdf )
AIs won't grow teeth, but people controlling AIs will use their own. If you want a scary outcome of AIs, is giving those few players (big money, big corporations, tech giants, governments and their intelligence/defense agencies, etc) even more power and control.

It is not something totally new. Internet did the same for them in different ways. but this will put things up a notch.

And as with internet, you can't just refuse to use that tool, at least without serious disadvantages for you in the modern society.

If you want to draw a line, leave the control out, like with open source, let everyone innovate, try different things, push the boundaries and democratize the access to this tools. Community is the opposite of centralization of power in the hands of a few.

And if there are risks, for sure the ones in control won't be the ones putting limits on what they can do, or giving teeth to them.
I am envision them still running a 1999 VB6 app ported in 1999 from an old DOS Fortran EXE to calculate the exact kilos of pure metals to compensate for alloy composition differences as they melt the scrap crucible to keep the alloy in spec.
Perhaps this is what reaching the top of an S curve looks like. There is no economic growth wave due to population growth wave to surf.
Check out other prices on https://gpumonger.com/

Disclosure: I collected the data and built the site, but it has a ton of comparison data for GPU clouds.
Ask HN: Quitting a Job to Deal with Burnout?
I'm a software engineer with slightly more than 2 YOE.

Lately I've been feeling extremely burnt out, and struggle to find motivation to work. As a result, my performance has been slipping and I find myself working nights and weekends to try to meet deadlines. I realize this is a negative cycle that leads to more burnout, but I don't know how to stop at this point with so much work to do.

I haven't found what keeps me engaged and happy outside of work and I am considering quitting my job to travel for a few months. I have a decent amount of savings and can afford this. But I feel like I'm letting myself down by giving up a chance to build a career. I also fear that I'm just being weak because most burnout stories seem to involve people who have been working for a while.

I know there are less drastic options (e.g. taking a week or two off, switching teams) but at this point I feel I need a considerable amount of time off to just reset things.

Does anyone have experience quitting a job to reflect and recharge, especially early on in one's career? How did it turn out?

p.s I've tried therapy and it hasn't helped so far.
Hi,

I tether via a cable.

Because it's my work (Dev/Tech/Nerd) I have multiple phones with SIM cards.

So I physically tether a phone to the device.

I don't believe the device OP linked can a bridged WiFi network as such.

You can do a similar thing with a Mac:

Plug in your iPhone via a cable, then share the iPhone's tethered data connection over the Macs WiFi or ethernet port.

It's actually a good way to get around restrictions on some mobile SIM plans that don't allow them to be used as Data SIMs!
> Healthcare and tuition are less fundamental need

Eye, people who are sick and uneducated are very employable, have good prospects in life

> Food, water, and clothing are cheaper than eve

yes and no, we prodyce loads of unhealthy food cheaply, you wont starve. Fresh produce costs, organic, ethicslly farmed stuff us really expensive. The latter is probavly a closer comparison to food as it was produced in good old days
The manufacturer. Scandinavian Motor Center.
EU and the country I live in try to battle super fast fashion:

https://www-srf-ch.translate.goog/sendungen/kassensturz-espr...
I didn't say HyperV/RHEV was bad, just VMware is gold standard of virtualization.
Michael Brent Rothenberg

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothenberg_Ventures
Yes, companies will bitch about piracy, but should they? :)
This will be closed, there is a monthly "who wants to be hired" thread at the start of each month (e.g., last month, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38099084)
You need port forwarding to be an effective seeder, and many VPNs do not offer this feature anymore. Mullvad was the most recent one to announce they're pulling port forwarding support.

So then, you're stuck with spinning up your own VPN, which pretty much means you're stuck renting a server from some cloud provider, which then have your info and payment information so any warrant would give you up. Could find a provider that allows crypto payment, but then it's definitely not $3/m. Not to mention bandwidth costs.
It's one thing to deliberately anthropomorphize in order to construct an analogy.

It's another thing to anthropomorphize by accident or by illusion, as per pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia . Just as in pareidolia, where the human brain is primed to "see" a human face in a certain pattern of light and shapes, it seems that human brains are primed to "see" a human intelligence in the output of an LLM, because our brains are pattern-matching on "things that look like human speech". But that's a reason to not anthropomorphize LLMs, precisely because people are inclined to do so without thinking.
Voice-over-LTE: The Reason Why Your Phone May Soon Stop Working
Their range (excluding infinity) is slightly higher than floats, but still abysmally tiny compared to the BLC encodings used in the article.

PS: I still prefer type 1 unums, due to their fallback to intervals :)
Wow, much better answer than I expected on Reddit!
Yeah, many things are just random chance. Just bad luck. Can't be helped. But many things are a result of our actions given the constraints. I wouldn't trade my life for Al Bundy's.
Puratto Kodama is available basically always (for slower Kodama trains only, of course) and around a third cheaper at Y9,800 for Tokyo-Kyoto.

https://nihonshock.com/2010/02/puratto-kodama-cheap-shinkans...
Not good for us seeders anymore due to port forwarding being dropped.
Awesome response, and a reasoned take.
> forced 2FA bullshit... all this makes long term customers want to self host.

An objectively positive security feature makes people want to self host?
Take a 1 hour nap at lunchtime
The HN crowd will just rebel against it, but they are such a Big success story.

Another thing most people can't see is how Shein is good at logistics. Just wait a few years and you'll see in how many other verticals they will operate.

Big business. They will completely disrupt fast fashion.

I bet most people here buy fast fashion or even worst clothes for the environment, but as they are buying it in Zara or H&M, they feel they are less worst than Shein, but it's all the same... Despite that you pay more.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Server
I just realized I have the transform of the dump1090-fa data to MQTT message already written up:
https://github.com/idatum/adsb2mqtt
What's missing is the client that enhances flight info and uses TTS to play the generated wave.
I also wanted to play around with Home Assistant's TTS.
I'll get motivated to write this up more fully, blog style.
LoRAX: Serve 100s of Fine-tuned LLMs for the Cost of 1
Sometimes people don't want to go on the record talking about their employer, for fear of repercussions. Employees have minimal protections in the US, and if you get fired, there goes your health insurance, all your prescription medications, dental and vision coverage, your ability to pay rent, pay for auto insurance, etc. We have very poor social safety nets and if you lose your job you mostly lose your life. If you're lucky you might have a couple months of savings, but even that is uncommon outside tech circles.

Not worth it just to appease some journalist.
I still have a few things from F21 and H&M that I bought 7-10 years ago. Definitely the exception and not the rule, but I don't think any Shein clothing can last even a fraction as long as that.
Send AWS SES emails via a self-hostable web UI
Broadcast is messaging only, localStorage can elegantly handle messaging and state data.
Really elegant and beautiful design. The fact that this can be done as an add-on to the vehicle without having to touch any of its existing parts is impressive. It means that basically the truck doesn't have to be taken out of commission for an 'upgrade' and that makes the design highly practical (for anyone who has a business to run.) What a great idea.
they are suing both
It's not really a private company. It's wholly owned by the government of Sweden and the government of Denmark.
You have a custom prompt enabled (probably from viewing another one and pressing "start over") that is asking for opposites which will increase the noise a lot.
Running SQL Queries on Org Tables
It's easily more complicated, civ 5 is like poker, except you have to manage the location of each card, an economy, map control, barbarians, nuclear weapons, warmonger penalties, forward settlements, citizen management, wonder rushes, map scripts, restart.
As a Pilot, this is amazing. Bravo!
More people are reading more things more often than ever before.

Indie hackers (as well as anyone else) can now cheaply publish their own magazines to the globe.

I don’t think we lost something other than paper and postage.

Pretty soon (in the scheme of things) they’ll stop printing books and paper money too.

(I say this as a vinyl and book collector. It’s just facts. Our great grandchildren will not use physical books.)
Just because Switzerland is rich. Then it's easy to "battle" a battle you've already won
Or fund with charity money, like Quanta
All this anthropomorphizing of humans strikes me as very odd. None of these humans "want" to do anything. They respond to specific input. Maybe artificial neural networks are the same, but in the case of humans we at least know it's a simple reaction to neurotransmitter signals.
My undergrad computer architecture class we built a processor over the semester with an FPGA. So writing all of the different math circuits and a logic circuit and then combining them together.
You must be in great physical form. You seem to have your priorities well sorted.

My rule of thumb is that we have 100 (24-10)*7 hours a week to manage. I arrived at the 10 hours downtime / day as sleep + grooming + essential eating. It appears that you work for half of those hours. I admire you for allocating time to work out and spending time with family. You don't mention how much time is taken up by commuting. If it is more than 20 minutes then I would suggest audio books, etc as way of being more productive during your commutes.

If I were in your situation, I would try to get an hour each evening to read/learn. Then perhaps two blocks of a couple of hours on weekends to work on your hobby, etc.