skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had a number of people approach me, at work and elsewhere, asking how they too can get one of those programming jobs. I always mention the timeline I was on, having started learning as a kid, making it a major hobby, getting a CS degree, internships, etc. and people are surprised and disappointed there’s no quick path.

Or is there? Has anyone here done one of those 0 to 1 bootcamps with success?
Then explain why I refuse to go to Burger King in reaction to their commercials this football season with that god-awful song.
I think a vicious PR campaign against the people doing the lobbying and the people being lobbied is a good first step in situations like this.

THe public should know the names and faces of the people involved and they should associate negative and petty emotions with them.

Most Canadians hve no clue about this bridge or the people like Moroun and his lawyers who are involved. These should be names that people spit on the ground when heard, there should be political cartoons and memes that satirize their faces everywhere. There should be boycotts against his businesses and the businesses of his lawyers and accountants.
This is a no-brainer to me - get your degree.
Nobody needs monster trucks either. People will continue to use ridiculous machines as they become more affordable.
You won't need to scan the entire document because pretty much anything can make the P tag close, including closing the element containing it.
also, if you really need to transfer hundreds of TB's of data from South Africa to the US, put it on a palette of disks and send it via bulk shipping.

then load the data into the datacentre and then just pay for the last sync / delta.
Amazon's random $11 vinyl records goof-up [video]
louis rossman on youtube premium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q3ZXQZZlcE

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That "shortly" was 2 years, that Cloudflare post had nothing to do with it, Amazon barely considers them a competitor to begin with.
MLK's Story Behind "I Have a Dream": MLK's speech is selectively remembered
And yet Home Depot is regularly unable to find items using its internal search. So I fall back to using a web search engine to find things on Home Depot’s website.
That ain't google
I don't agree with you at all.

Angry birds, Slender: The Eight Pages, Kerbal Space Program, Plague Inc, The Room, Rust, Tabletop Simulator, Enter the Gungeon, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Clone Hero, Cuphead, Escape from Tarkov, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Hollow Knight, Oxygen Not Included, Among Us, RimWorld, Subnautica, Magic: The Gathering Arena, Outer Wilds, Risk of Rain 2, Subnautica: Below Zero, Superliminal, Untitled Goose Game, Fall Guys, Raft, Slime Rancher, Firewatch, PolyBridge, Mini Metro, Luckslinger, Return of the Obra Dinn, 7 Days to Die, Cult of the Lamb, Punch Club.

Many more where those came from
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The Source Code of Defect Process
How does it find you? Do you have a large network? Do you keep getting referrals/opportunities from former employers or clients?
30 unstoppable seconds of ads every 1 minute of video, as well as ads that are inappropriate, scams or outright illegal.

People do deserve to get paid for their work. But the only way to safely browse is to block this shit. If Google did a halfway decent job of managing their ad network to keep the scum off, I’d consider turning off ad blocking.
Pascal's Blaising Barrel – Exploding Glass Barrel with Water Pressure [video]
Yeah, doesn't make Rust's dependency on C++ go away for its safety.

The point is the "look at what I say, not what I do", when talking about safe languages and dependencies into C and C++ libraries and compiler toolchains.
It makes very little sense, and has been thoroughly debunked in the literature for decades before Three Body Problem rehashed the idea.

One of the main critiques is the vast cosmic waste. It makes far more sense for the hypothesized psychopath top-dog civilization to hoard all negentropy (grab the resources) then let no other civilization emerge. Such an entity would be (1) plainly visible, and (2) have prevented us from emerging anyway.

Second major problem: why don’t we see a diversity of outcomes in unreachable galaxies? They are ALL dead.

Dark forest is NOT a Pareto optimal strategy.
From 2007 to 2017 US age 10-14 suicide rate tripled, quadrupled for girls
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I wonder how much of my $14/mo Premium subscription is paying for YouTube Music, which I have never used.
I'm not in the US, but anyways - the SIM I have in this device is from T-Mobile.
As someone who's done quite a bit of astronomy programming, I can say the Julian Date is not really a replacement for decimal time. The Julian Date really isn't much different than a Unix Timestamp (in fact, you can convert between the two quite easily: jd = UnixTimestamp / 86400 + 2440587.5). They are both good for punching in to algorithms, but not good for direct use by people.
That might be wrong, i just did a paid subscription for my dad at xmas time, pretty shure you can still get paid subscriptions for ChatGPT+. We used his Googleaccount for this.
To be fair Elon Musk crypto scams are ignored even on Elon Musk's own platform.
Holy crap! I stand corrected. That's quite a waist of energy to have that ethernet block powered up all the time.
Of course wealth is power. If you have 10 million dollars and I don't, you have more power than me. You can do many things I can't. But perhaps you did cancer research for 20 years and found a cure for cancer while I spent my money on vacations and partying. This incentive acted as it should. The world now has a cure for cancer. We can't now say that you should have the same wealth/power as me because power/wealth is bad.
Does anyone know of a simple way to use this against LM studio?

It mimicks OpenAI's API, but Vanna doesn't seem to allow me to point the OpenAI integration against my own endpoint.
> MSFT only ever cared about reconciling what was in use with what was paid-for. I've been asked for photos of OEM key stickers attached to hardware but never asked to retrieve keys from installed software.

If I recall correctly, CALs don't really get 'installed', so my guess is that going off of 'provable licenses' keeps the audit process more uniform and streamlined.
uh this is ai apologeticism, you keep making up a very low baseline and keep being impressed when it is reached.

i insist my cat too can make decompilation mistakes if only i equip her with the keyboard paws
Canada likes SPOF bridges. There's a single bridge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipigon_River_Bridge - that is the only paved land path between the eastern and western parts of Canada. When that bridge is out, people have to drive through the United States to get from Montreal to Vancouver.
Different user, a different comment.

I didn't say that. It was someone else that replied first, and then you and I started replying to that reply. But I hadn't been directly arguing that persons post.

So guess we got off-track at the beginning.

Though, given that the Governor of Texas, someone that is significant in the republican party, has advocated shooting immigrants. I'm not sure the sentiment is wrong.

I also agree Left and Right Media, both 'skew' what they say. I find the left has less outright blatant lies. They certainly 'frame' what they say. The Left will be very careful in what words they choose. The right will actually just say 2+2=5, and trust nobody checks.
Wouldn't all this data be pretty low quality?

1. An advertizer would want the info on users who spend lots money on the internet, but you have to be pretty poor to consider selling all your data for a few bucks per month.

2. Money will attract fraudsters. Think VM farm simulating traffic, or students leaving "human simulator" apps running while they go to class.
It's just the free market, dude.
20 years ago we didn't have cheaper and more efficient options. Now we do.
Gnome is 120FPS butter on Javascript.

As far as I know, Gnome profiled a bunch of their biggest UI slowdowns and none of them would have been (much) improved on native.

Bad code is bad, JavaScript isn’t the main culprit here.
That's why I said 'virtually'.

Hurricane Electric does 40gig/sec IP transit for $2k/month.

Assuming you used 50% of the capacity of that link that's about 1/200th (I think, numbers are so small) of the cost of AWS for bandwidth.
The only people I've seen do the bootcamps with success were already very smart and/or coming from technical or heavy math backgrounds.
Do you mean S3 or all services?

If all services, then things like whole or most of a single AZ being borked happens fairly often.
Can you recommend any primers about running small models on-device, training/fine tuning on particular datasets (e.g. a specific code base), etc?
When I started my CS degree and one of the first classes was how to use Microsoft Word I lost my shit.
I pay Nebula.

I paid YouTube Premium Lite to get rid of ads, I will not pay 2x for the same feature since I do not need offline, Music, nor background play, if they decided to cut my use case from their offering by forcing me to pay extra rent then I can decided to not pay them and use an adblocker.

I do not need to bend over for a digital feudal lord.
If you want a N=1 "study" https://blog.imraniqbal.org/advertising-works/
Like what? There is no real open source comparable option to VMware if are running your own hypervisors.

KVM? Not even close, you need a host of other tools to get what you have with esxi and vcenter. You’ll spend months just finding and configuring a disjointed hodgepodge of tools to get what you could have setup in a day. And even then you have a fargile system that is likely to break any time you update one tool in your stack.
Sure small restaurants such a sign I might have seen but not at a drive in window or the hours the fast food restaurant posts online.

Think we've been talking about two different types of places to eat :-)
How can you spell such a mistake in ALL CAPS and don't see it? ;)

I don't know about the rest of your comment, albeit I consider myself more in the non-Chomsky camp. This emergence thing seems a little more than an elaborate hoax to me.

Well, maybe they've just trained GPT-4 to wiggle my balls, when I ask it to analyse a poem that I wrote 15 years ago.

The local llm scene, regardless of this debate, is nevertheless the hottest topic IMHO atm.

Several finetunes have repeatedly blown my mind even in the past 2 weeks. On a Raspberry Pi.

AI can interface. Natural Language Processing. This is the first time in history humaity has such knowledge and technology.

It's basically C-3PO.
I think a lot of HN crowd hangs out at FAANG/FAANG adjacent or at least young/lean shops, and has no idea how insane it is out there.

I was at a shop that provisions AWS resources via written email requests & clickops, treated fairly similar to a datacenter procurement. Teams don't have access to the AWS console, cannot spin up/down, stop, delete, etc resources.

A year later I found out that all the stuff they provisioned wasn't set up as reserved instances. We weren't even asked. So we paid hourly rates for stuff running 24/7/365.

This was apparently the norm in the org. You have to know reserved instances exist, and ask for them.. you may eventually be granted the discount later. I only realized what they had done when they quoted me rates and I was cross checking ec2instances.info
I can guarantee you less than 20% of my org (its not a tech shop) is aware this difference exists, let alone that ec2instances.info exists for cross reference.

No big deal, just paying 2x for no reason on already overpriced resources!
Eh. There isn’t enough on YT to be worth Premium. I subscribe to a bunch of streaming services, always paying the higher price to not watch ads. YT just doesn’t have anything worth the money.

The only reason I use it is because I work on vehicles as a hobby sometimes and people often put up a video of how to do some specific thing. They don’t get paid for it because it’s niche and views are too low, but I still have to sit through ads.

Also, I do not click on ads. In fact if I see something being advertised I immediately put it on my shit list for interrupting me and am LESS likely to buy the thing in the ad as a result. I know that’s not everyone, but I also don’t think I’m alone. Ads are a scourge. YT can bite the bullet and go subscription only and I am sure that would change a lot. But as is, it’s getting less usable every year while providing fairly marginal value to the users.
Don’t guess. RTFP.
Apple’s best selling laptop, by far, is the Air. And most likely the cheapest model.

So that’s $1100 or $1200.

Yes other models go way up from there. And many PCs are sub $500. But $2k is not the normal Apple price.
Houthi ballistic missile strikes US-owned and operated cargo ship
In my experience solving several years of Advent of Code, this is only true for part 1 of most days. A lot of part 2 solutions rely on heuristics to be solved in reasonable amounts of time.
I was with 16 audio students and we did an eu-exchange thing. Our foreign guests were great at maths but bugger-all else.
We went for good sound, they went for good numbers.
Only occasionally did both match and we spent a lot of time analysing precisely 'why?'.
Most of the time 'move it and see' gave better results (for the majorities of up to 50 people at times) than using a tape measure, for example, to accurately place speakers.
So far it's a grand decade for billionaires: new report. As for the masses
They sell us to their real users...the advertisers. They're following their own advice.
Because advertisers pay for the eyeballs anyway.

I started paying for YouTube a couple of years ago and decided it’s worth the money. I watch YouTube a lot more than, say, Netflix and they’re priced around the same.
Ok so they did use ML for something. They did a brute force exhaustive search across the whole solution space - which is not ML - and used neural networks to reduce the computing power needed for the "fitness function" (yes, GA term but I understand they didn't use GAs here).

Nowhere in the article linked to by HN they say that, so it's easy to assume their use of ML is just marketing.
Who is the "user" in this case? The viewer, the publisher, or the advertiser? They all have very different needs. Two of them are being served very well in all of this as long as not too many viewers are being pushed away.

I am not defending this. In fact, as a "user", I am actively using Youtube less over this. Just providing the example of these internal concepts can be twisted by perspective.
At least you can still block them by installing a separate app (forgot the name. not an apple user).
This trades costs for latency.
Which is not a big deal for some use cases, but may be a real breaker for some of the others.
Agreed. In fact there are significant parts of the US where 1 or 2 day delivery is not available. But people who live there, like me, use Amazon often because it's the 'easy button'.
>From different treatment by the government, to the justice system, to access to health care, education to getting in a position where being rich means you can exploit poor people to get richer with zero consequences

All the things you mention are problems that need solving, but they are wrong in themselves separated from the wealth. A wealthy person might not be doing any of those things.

Wealth in a free capitalist society is generally the result of increased economic activity which often benefits many more than the billionaires that appear as side effects. This is a good thing which should be kept, but we need to ensure that society isn't corrupted in the process.

We used to have much more extreme divisions of wealth than we do now, kings and nobility a few hundred years ago, and we made laws to limit their influence. So it can be done.
Enterprise Ireland hunts for hidden unicorns
Htmx is now BSD Zero-Clause licenced
This is true in any profession. Building intuition comes from doing more and more with incrementally difficult challenges. There comes a point at which one can make connections and apply what you know from one area into another, and creativity kicks in.
Haven't done one, but have hired out of them. Limited data conclusion: just like traditionally trained developers it's hit or miss. Best results: some other "classic training" (like physics or chemistry or engineering) with a desired career change == advanced junior with an accelerated learning curve. If you want to add motivated newbies to the parts of your software where pure programming is not as critical they can be great hires; the standard deviation is huge, but not sure if it's any larger than say a 2-yr diploma grad.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38987489
Is there a way to mute the speaker while the translation audio is playing? I'm hearing both voices simultaneously, is that intended?
Exactly. The newer teaching materials and resources are great, but they don't change the advice in the article about how to learn programming. In fact, they might make it harder in some ways because of the temptation to take shortcuts.
This is a common argument that some people are using. Maybe it works for many people but for me ans my circle we usually would ignore the products that spam you with ads everywhere. So for example if I am looking for a VPN service I will never even consider Nord VPN in my search quest. Their claims in the ads are unbelievable. I apply this at all products in different areas. So my mind ia trained to, oh this was thr product I saw these ads over and over encouraging me to buy it, so it must be bad let's look into something else.
Yes, and some people just want to take their car to the mechanic, while other people want to fix theirs. It's a classic struggle in any area. The big difference though, is if I use my car in a professional capacity, I want to know how to change my own oil, because I'm not an idiot. I want to be able to fix simple issues, because that's just being professionally responsible.

Windows discourages this kind of professional responsibility, hides everything it can that would give you an inkling of what's going on under the hood. Microsoft wants you to be dependent on them for doing ANYTHING out of the ordinary. And of course, when anything out of the ordinary occurs, there is wailing and gnashing of teeth from millions of windows users, billions of dollars lost by their employers, and all the Linux users just stare in disbelief that y'all don't know how to change your own oil. If you use a computer for work, should probably know how it works. Microsoft has intentionally made it difficult, so... Have you tried Linux, the backbone of modern computing, installed on more devices than Windows by at least a factor of two?
A motorcyle is not "man-sized".

There's a simple test - can you put it on your porch or in a hallway?
Not if you abstract those reads. It's not like the application is directly opening a file handle. Instead it goes through the sqlite library which accesses not only the db and the wal file but also a non-persistent shm (shared memory) file used for maintaining a consistent view of the write ahead log.

When a reader is reading, it puts a shared lock on the specific data it is reading in the shm file. The checkpointer respects that lock and may (potentially) continue working elsewhere in the db file, slowly updating the indices for checkpointed data in the shm file.

The checkpointer won't change the underlying data that the reader has a lock on but they may have created a new location for it. When the reader is finally done reading, the checkpointer can quickly grab an exclusive lock and update the header in the shm for that data to point to the new destination (and then release said lock). Since the checkpointer never holds this lock for very long, the reader can either block when trying to get a shared lock or it can retry the lock a few moments later. Now that the header in the shm only points to the new location, the checkpointer can safely do whatever it needs to with the data in the old location.

Slowly rinse repeat this until the checkpointer has gotten through the entire write ahead log. At that point there should be no remaining references in the shm to data within the wal file.

Now the wal file can be "unlocked" and if the other wal file is large enough, it can be locked, writes switch over to the other wal, and the cycle repeats anew.

Edit: Importantly, this requires that all readers be on a snapshot that includes at least one commit from the "new" wal file. So compared with wal1, wal2 allows you to have long running readers as long as they start past the last commit of the "previous" wal file.
You can "pin" Nixpkgs with this style of invocation as well, see https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix-shell_shebang#Pinning_nixpkgs. But I agree that if you're writing a shell script (or small Python/Ruby scripts) that you'll be running often, it's better to package it (e.g. with writeShellScriptBin) and install to profile.
Started my career as a Reactor Operator (injury sidelined that a couple years in), then moved to expeditionary aviation, which led to LCACs.

Seen quite a bit, and you aren’t wrong.

Honestly, a choice I made any given day running my section had more impact than my lifetime of private choices for emissions. Just another thing to fight with as far as ethics after retirement.
Interesting. Do you have any sources for this? I wasn't aware the price of ads had gone down; in fact, I assumed the market was doing very well.
When I owned an Apple table I saw this beer ad about 20 times in a row, while watching a conference video. It had an annoying song. And I made a solemn oath to myself I will never buy a beer with that brand again in my life.
Yes, for sure. Even if you are coming in 10k or 20k under others, having a 0 contingent offer is so much more clean and more likely to get approved. My last offer I went even further and added a note "I know both the roof and HVAC are old and ruined, I will not ask for either to be fixed as part of closing" and I won the house despite not being the highest bid.
Sentience is a property of animal life. Electrons, software, rocks, etc don't posses sentience, so the notion that ai which is software may be sentient is nonsense.
Advertisers can pay a premium to frequency cap their ads. Usually they get a sweet heart deal on remnant inventory, which sounds like what you’re watching.
Inertia helps. It's common knowledge that you'll get paid more if you switch jobs. Which means Company A gets a discount until the person leaves (but maybe they'll take a matching offer)
Hey there. I must have missed the section that handles encrypting the session key, my bad.

It's more the struct method of embedding though that I was emphasizing. Structured encrypted data has high entropy which can give away it's presence. Try running some of your before and after images through aperisolve or the cyberchef entropy analysis tool and see how the analysis changes.

https://www.aperisolve.com/

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=Entropy('Curve')
At CES 2024, amidst the glitz of AI buzzwords, true pet tech innovations emerged. As Pancho, my Pekingese, might attest, not every flashy gadget is a game-changer, but a few genuine gems promise a brighter future for our pets.
Post-Job Whiplash
https://archive.is/JOzTY
Glad to see at least another perspective more or less echo my experiences/observations. You can't discount motivation, and bootcamps are filled with either those chomping to learn and explore, or those looking for the next goldrush. Adding to the challenge of differentiating is sometimes they are the same person.
It's funny. On the threads about the 23AndMe sorta data breach where 14000 users fell to credential stuffing 23AndMe was criticized for not requiring MFA.
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