skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and: The US dollar is worth as much as the US military says it is.
One wonders how much of it is incompetence and how much just plain corruption. Anyone remember the glorious 5-year plan to build a European Google? I think they named it Quaero.
> Interesting they went straight from "1 box running shell scripts with flock" to "mega custom thing"

I’ve ended up building a custom job scheduler at a couple companies I’ve worked at. It’s a fun little problem. I don’t think it’s fair to characterise the problem as a “mega” thing at all - you can build a custom task scheduler on top of a database or Kafka that’ll be way more reliable than cron in a few hundred lines of code, in just about any language.

Are those lines of code wasted? Maybe. But the trade off is that you’re the world expert in that little thing you made. It’ll be easy to connect it to your dashboards for observability, and add the exact set of features you need in your org.

I don’t think everyone should roll their own task runner. But it’s not the mega engineering problem you’re imagining. A week or two of one engineer’s time is peanuts at a company like slack.
Maybe, but you would look like a dork. Most people don't want to look like dorks, so I doubt we'll see widespread use of this product in public.
> is there any stigma with using ChatGPT in the workplace?

Any? Sure. At the organization level, there are workplaces that completely ban ChatGPT and will fire you for using it, and there are workplaces that buy all their engineers a subscription to it and actively encourage using it. At the individual level, there are people who make heavy use of it, people who can't stand it, and (most commonly, imo) people who have nothing against it but don't personally find it very useful.

Don't use it if your company bans it, but otherwise do whatever you want and maybe check with your coworkers about how they feel towards it before revealing to them that you're using it, just to be safe.

> Am I too reliant on it? Is this a “healthy” relationship with AI?

Based on what you've said, your relationship with it seems perfectly fine. The concern with coding AIs is that novice programmers will encounter a problem they can't solve on their own, ask an AI to solve it for them, and copy and paste the output without understanding the problem or the solution. In the best case, the code can work but have subtle flaws that won't show up until later. In the worst case, the code doesn't even make sense and you annoy your peers by making them review zero-effort garbage.

But if you're just using it to further explore the solution-space of a problem that you already know how to solve in at least one sensible way, there's no danger there and you're just learning and improving. Just be sure to fully understand any AI solution you encounter before internalizing it as a lesson.

If we froze all coding AIs right now and prevented them from continuing to improve, I'd think you'd find them becoming less and less useful to you as you gain experience. Obviously, they do much better solving common problems with lots and lots of public solutions already available, and more senior engineers don't tend to need help with those or have much to learn about them. That being said, I know plenty of very capable senior engineers who use AIs to generate repetitive boilerplate (often tests) in verbose/inexpressive languages like Go. Anyway, depending on how quickly these AIs continue to improve, you may never get the chance to "grow out of them" and they might be able to keep teaching you increasingly complex things until they finally replace all of us. Who knows!
Isn't the pay smaller compared to other big companies in NL?
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They don't have to. The US is doing the banning.
Even then, escitalopram and SSRIs are not without side effects that make them unsuitable for many, so an alternative that works roughly as well, with different side effects, is still valuable, even if it turns out not to be the magic solution it was once promised to be.
Doesn't the client actually ring the bell for the notification? They client could be told "ring on the top of the oncoming minute".
I bet many don't even notice the motor, but I do. It comes with two discs. I think you could put any slide film in there too, if you really wanted.
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There has been a dramatic rise in spam and hate speech, starting the day of the first moderator strikes. This hasn't gone unnoticed by the community, you see this observation being made by people all over the site.
aw on mobile doesn't have that panel
But after the trade war with Huawei and zte they don't really have a choice, do they?

A multi billion dollar company will not just lay down and die when its shut out from the open market, it will use its muscles to create its own.

Hisense is not the market leader, but they have done a significant leap in the last 5 years (Not all of it through legal means thought)
“The actor was even an early user of CoSa After Effects, the post-production program used for green screen and other effects work, which was eventually sold to Adobe.”

As a longtime After Effects user this blew my mind. Very cool, thanks for sharing this!
I think it might not be completely unrealistic, after all, the goal of the Chips act is to support, to promote investments in the semiconductor industry. There are currently 7 factories in construction and 8 more in planning stages. This info is from December 2022, so by now I will assume something is already finished or in the final stages and possibly more plans have been made.

Also, setting high goals might not be a bad thing, even if you don't reach them you might still get far and do enough change to make a significant impact on something.
but it's a ladder where the first rung is too high up to reach without the help. you still gotta climb the ladder and do the work, but without the help, you can't even try to climb the ladder in the first place.
I've wondered if there might be room for services that use email as their communication channel. Something like this would be perfect for it. The forges would send emails to communicate in issues, information is distributed via mailing lists, but forges parse and display the information in their own way. They become fancy single-purpose email clients basically.

With such a system, people could also contribute by writing the same emails by hand, as long as the format remains accessible. And no special protocols necessary, all existing mailing list infrastructure can be used instead of designing new complicated ways of doing the same thing.
Would you be willing to write a blog post or do a code tour or... I dunno, something. This sounds fascinating.
>you can't zoom on the images

I enjoy picture books, which went through a golden age of illustration that ended when 32 bit computer graphics became available. Often I look at scans of picture books, and the experience is disappointing compared to printed paper. It would help if I had a giant A3 size tablet, so that I could see the whole illustration at once at the intended size and hold it like a book, but even if the scan has good resolution there's still the matter of gamma or contrast or color balance. I don't want to adjust these to some theoretical perfection, I want to adjust the actual lighting under which I look at an actual picture. So maybe a gigantic e-ink tablet could be ... as good.

Searchability, it's true, is an advantage. Physical books offer an advantage in discoverability, though, because of the way flicking through the pages works: not only is it very fast, but you can see multiple pages at once while keeping the places with your fingers, utilizing basic monkey hardware to great advantage in ways which swiping hasn't yet replicated.
Oh please it’s dead simple to make a biowapen. Just play a bit with measles and you’re golden.
> Maybe in the future everybody is going to use LLMs to externalize their thinking. But then why do I interview you?

It will become a skill. In 1900 you'd interview a computer (a person who does math) by asking them to do math on paper. Now you'd let them write some code or use software to do it. If the applicant didn't know how to use a (digital) computer, you'd negatively rate them.

I don't love it, but we may reach the point where your skill at coaxing an LLM to do the right thing becomes a desirable skill and you'd negatively rank LLM-illiterate applicants.

Looking at LLM quality, we're not at that point for most fields.
Someone close to me has the original of the “Car” cartoon. Gary gave it to him as a gift shortly after it was published. It is pen and ink and Letratone on paperboard and is about 18” wide.

For a year or two in the late 90s, the artwork went missing and was thought to have been stolen, but was eventually found to have been put in storage.
> don't punish individuals and companies trying to get work done and benefit your economy

Getting work done is one thing, why should locals support tax breaks for expats?

"Technology companies including ASML Holding NV and Adyen NV called on the Dutch government to maintain a tax break that seeks to attract expatriates to the Netherlands.

Ingrid Thijssen, head of the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers, said the government for budget reasons is considering shrinking or scrapping a rule that exempts 30% of an expat’s salary from income tax for five years."[0]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-06/dutch-tec...
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Nothing, really. I have been using matplotlib for years and it's... fine.
The only problem I have is that is has number of minor annoyances that are never getting fixed, despite being well known and the project actively maintained.
From the top of my head: the Tk backed not supporting DPI scaling on GNU/Linux; the aspect="equal" not working on 3D plots; covered parts of 3D objects appearing in front of the objects covering them, twin axes not having the origin aligned, etc.
I just tried airplane mode on my pixel 7 pro and it seemed to be able to translate from the camera without problems

It doesn't seem to do it "live" in the preview without network access, though.

And the translation app seemed to get into a bad state and fail to download the language packs without first clearing the data, saying I need to download the pack, but the language list showing it already was. Though I haven't even opened it since I transferred it from my old phone, so if there's some phone-specific stuff going on that might have got messed up.
Garry is lost in the rat race of politics and is clearly crushing himself under the pressure of his own ego. I would not trust the future of ycombinator to someone who cannot articulate in a disagreement. What things is he saying behind closed doors that will be revealed?

"When asked if she felt personally threatened by Tan’s behavior, Chan responded “Seeing what my colleague[s] received in the mail? Yes, absolutely. I have a 10-year-old. I do not tell people where my child attends school.”"
Doesn't this mean also you need to get an estimate on a more complex number, which is how much of US assets can be liquidated in a way that would help you pay the dept?

I know that this is true in case of companies and individuals but how this will play our with governments? I don't know. It does not own the majority of these assets but we are talking about government dept as liabilities. Yes, they will not default as they can keep printing money (and compete with cosmic inflation rate /s) but it wouldn't help the economy and will make matter worse with time.

But you will need to fight inflation which in part means you raise interest rate which in turn increase dept service and that would make you more dept. I probably wrong but I don't feel like this is a black and white situation.
As a recent graduate (in SE/CS I presume) you should have better quality knowledge than exhibited by the volumes of tutorial materials that ChatGPT was trained on.

I have decades of experience as a SE and taught postgrad SE courses at uni. And I have experimented with ChatGPT, BING. With well thought out questions, LLMs return better answers than Google, etc searches. But not always. Distrust and Verify!

Somebody described LLMs as "Endlessly Enthusiastic Savant Intern". Just don't try to get it to do high-level systems design or to understand business domains, requirements, etc. If you treat ChatGPT as a gofer to research information, then you can certainly save time. But you do need to apply your judgement and knowledge to ensure that what you produce is appropriate and functions correctly.

In due course, you will gain experience and expand your knowledge horizons with your professional experience. By all means, continue to read widely and in-depth. Never forget that ChatGPT, etc are just one of many tools that you use.

In my father's day, proficient use of the slide-rule was mandatory. For me electronic calculators and computers were the tools of trade. For the emerging generation of engineers, AI is the contemporary tool. We are yet to glimpse what will be next. However, foundational knowledge in your discipline with on-going learning remains the essential super-power.
> I don't try to print it

Well, you can even without consuming a single sheet: just print to PDF.

> Preview seems confused (gray background instead of white)?

It tries to render it and fit in the preview.
Anxiety disorders do seem to be much more tractable than depressive disorders even with traditional treatment approaches and we seem to be making meaningful progress from many directions. The Bergen papers are absolutely wild - I don't think I've ever seen d > 4 in a real psychiatry paper, nor have I seen people continuing to improve post-treatment at anywhere near that rate; obvious caveats apply regarding generalisability and healthcare economics.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37127598/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36418989/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29774005/

I think you're probably right about multiple depressive subtypes that are inadequately differentiated; I think there's a particularly acute problem with the failure to differentiate between short, self-limiting episodes induced by specific life stressors and more durable illness characterised by chronicity and treatment-resistance. The data we've seen regarding elevated inflammatory markers and the associations with severity and chronicity might point towards a meaningful subtype that would benefit from a novel treatment approach, but it's still quite early to say; minocycline has fizzled out as a potential treatment, but the inflammatory pathways are at least worth investigating.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36103181/

PTSD is a bit of a strange one at the moment, because of the active debate about diagnostic criteria and thresholds; I'm somewhat concerned that an increasingly heterogeneous patient group might muddy the waters in research. I'll elide over the debate regarding cPTSD, because there seems to be far more heat than light. I'm not especially excited about MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, but only because we've been seeing comparable effect sizes for specialised psychotherapy without MDMA; again, probably not a breakthrough, but potentially beneficial for a subset of patients.

(Es)ketamine is clearly very useful in the management of acute depressive crises, although I'm somewhat more sceptical about the general applicability for less acute and less severe depressive illness. If I had to wager, I'd say that the next meaningful advance will probably be novel NMDAR antagonists.
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> That doesn't happen without a very good reason.

That reason is that ASML wouldn't be in the position it is without USA's early investment into EUV technology, and ASML relies on its own imports from USA that USA could block (not allowed under current US legislation but they could obviously change that if there was enough political pressure).

No need for NATO conspiracy theories. USA is a good partner to ASML. Why the hell would they piss off their most valued partner to satisfy a country (China) that is dead set on copying as much of their technology as they can?
People who are making plots in the terminal don't want to type out the fully qualified library name. Majority of plots are written and read only once during data exploration and analysis time.
I don't live in a reality where people have 1.8 gonads, I live in a reality where people an integer >= 0 number of gonads (which may be more or less than the mode of 2), so I feel like we're not quite speaking the same language and aren't quite understanding each other.

How many times do you have to forget your keys to be neurodivergent?

If you lived most of your life always remembering your keys, but when you entered your 40s you started to experience some pretty radical shifts in your personality, and as a result you start forgetting your keys - are you neurodivergent now? Were you always?

Similarly, what if you keep forgetting your keys, and you have a lot more trouble at it than other people, but over time you develop systems and skills that work for you. Did you stop being neurodivergent?
It is called the 'Accruals concept', expediture must be matched to it's revenues. This is a fundamental principal of accounting.

It would be extremely novel for tax to be on a 'cash basis', but I'm sure there are places it is true. I think it might be an option on micro entity accounts for instance.

A classic example of this in action is with stock/inventory. Things still in stock at the end of a period don't hit the profit in that period, only things that are sold.
This is most likely going to fail.

Just like how the EU finance a hundreds of millions of dollars for a Google competitor that we haven't heard of today. [1]

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/07/eu-approves-16...
points for couching the correction in such flourid language so it comes across ever so gently
I’ve personally disliked Zeihans gung-ho rants about how everyone is nothing without the US but I do have to say, he has nailed the China issues pretty well, him and Kyle Bass.
Most distributed systems at least promise they do something at least once or at most once. You can often achieve exactly once in practice with a combination of idempotent APIs and a shared database.

For a task runner, there are a lot of different behaviours you might want if the system crashes. Maybe the runner should “catch up” after coming back online. That’s easy enough to achieve if you move away from cron and track which tasks have been run in a small data store somewhere.
I have a roborock vacuuming and mopping every weekday while I am gone. It’s great, I never even see it work. Just change the water.
> One wonders how much of it is incompetence and how much just plain corruption

Well, one doesn't need to look very long at Von der Leyen to work out it's probably both.

Look at what she did before becoming EU Commission president ("Among friends and foes alike, von der Leyen’s stewardship of the [German] defense ministry, which she [..] headed since 2014, [was] regarded as a failure."[0]), and look at how she ended up with the job of EU Commission president. The best (worst?) bit is that she wasn't even a candidate for the job she got.

I have several ex-RAF friends, and their joke back then was that von der Leyen had more children than her ministry had working fast jets.

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-biograp...
I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly, but if you mean the pay compared to US tech companies active in NL then I would say it depends very much on your specialization.

Engineer: 40k and up, team lead: 70k and up, project manager: 90k and up. I don't have much data on other roles but the 'and up' is the big factor, depends on seniority and specific skills. What really strikes me is that an extremely high fraction of the people that work there speak highly of their employer.

I'm sure Google or FB would pay more, especially if you're prepared to move the USA.

Other 'big companies in NL' can pay crap or good depending very much on the company, the field they are active in and the kind of job you are looking for so that's a bit too generic to do something with. HTH.
The docs link to the "guide" right at the top. This has basic usage examples and images: https://github.com/dkogan/gnuplotlib/blob/master/guide/guide...
Do you know if the APIs are usable for regular people as well?
I do hate when f holes are too short and fat, but yes: understanding the parts you generally ignore might help.
I can imagine that a world like that could work (with some care to make it less error-prone for common command-line scripting, since command lines can sometimes be small scripts and evolve into large scripts). But I think it's too late to do that for CLI tools without causing widespread breakage.

I think we might be able to do better in something that isn't a traditional shell, and that uses ptys instead of pipes, together with builtins that replace standard UNIX tools with escape-aware tools.
I think part of the issue is also the complete lack of thrust. If you state that a candidate must know git, and the candidate say they do know git for basic committing, branching, merging ect, then fine - let's move on.

I've learned that prior work history, talk and basic problem solving is in no way indicative of performance at all. I've found that the only guaranteed process to find excellent candidates, is hiring interns and part-timers currently finishing education, and pick the ones with the right mindset and intelligence.
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Rich + Rich = Richer

Richer + Richer = Richest

Richest + Poop = Trump
But then you will shrink your global market share. Semi conducting fabrication on a sub 7nm can only work if you have big market share to keep the factories running 24/7..
The botanical imperialism of weeds and crops
I thought "statistical reanalysis" afterwards was verboten, is there something that makes it ok here?
Yes, I said quite clearly not to write a 2Mloc server in Python. Honestly, I would lean towards not writing servers of any size in Python, but if scalability and performance are of low concern, it could be a productive language for certain apps.

"If we encourage developers to use static typing they will be writing 2Mloc monolithic servers."

I don't even know where to begin with this wild assertion. Ill-advised as it was, Dropbox wrote its two million line server long before typed Python even existed. I wasn't around when they started cracking it up (see blog post below), but I strongly suspect the type annotations in the codebase helped rather than hindered that effort.

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/atlas--our-journey-from-...
I found out with some iterations you get raw videos.

First check if negative filtering works. If not, give up straight away or use a different search engine.

Then add the term `-news`. This filters out a lot of these videos, but not all.

Look at the video headings. Most of them contain the name of the company. Add about three to five of them. Like this for example: `-NBC -"Fox Weather" -Guardian -CBC -CNN`.

Then just scroll about three pages till you find a raw video, or add more negative terms and repeat. Be careful not to accidentally exclude raw videos, for example if there is something about people guarding something, don't use `-Guardian` but perhaps `-"Guardian News"`.

Or just give up and don't watch Internet videos.
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As a local I support this. Simply because having more smart people eventually benefits Dutch society and the long term is far more important than the short term. Usually this argument is based in some for of jealousy, but consider: an expat gives up their current life to chance it all on another, has stupendously high private costs if they want to keep up with their family and has to start all over again from scratch which also carries a lot of costs. Giving them a five year tax break seems like a smart thing to do to me.