skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The inequality partly driven by these mega tech corps essentially forces both parents to work. Good luck with 'more involved parents' becoming the norm.
I respect landscaping as a profession but idk what reality you're in that you think a software engineer job is just being able to "think on your own" in a way that even 1% of landscapers can be plopped into it productively immediately.

Of course people who sit all day like many engineers will have problems doing manual labor. The problem is a good amount of them have enough experience with their hands to be a landscaper on demand. You will not find any but the most Einstein level landscapers able to immediately do productive software engineer work.

The % of people able to do it is much lower in software engineering and that reflects its compensation compared to landscaping.
Yes, and that makes me happy every time I see it.
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I was pleased with Prometheus
An apology contains phrases such as I'm sorry or my apologies.
Hobby EV community sounds fascinating, are there any links to active community?
Around this same time, also inspired by Scott Adams (who I got to thank personally a couple years ago for getting me interested in programming), I played around with making text adventures on the Apple II machines at my elementary school. I never actually made a complete game, but it taught me a lot about BASIC. The year after I graduated from that school, I was back there for some reason, and some of the kids where playing the games I wrote. When I told them I'd written them, they asked me how to solve the "UNDEF'D STATEMENT" puzzle. I felt bad.
Leading with Data: Cascading Metrics
The problem with InDesign is that publishing industry is too small. Most people don't know InDesign but its used to produce practically every single print, book, label, poster ever. Yet it is too small for any company to care about to create competition (except Affinity).

Funny thing is InDesign by itself already had most of what you need for digital design tool like Figma (and more). At some point (when InDesign still used to get some new features) responsive ebooks/pdfs were all the rage and InDesign even has "responsive" modes (something Figma doesnt). They wouldn't be able to make it multiplayer but with quite minor tweaks and better positioning InDesign could have been the tool for UI design.

Who knows maybe it means Affinity is well positioned to make UI design tool. I know that many designers are starting too see local only software as advantage because their work can't be stolen by upcoming Figma AI designer.
I think that an auto-highlight-on-move, similar to mashing CTRL constantly on Windows, only with the screen-darkening ability of the double-CTRL-tap of Microsoft Powertoys, would be more effective for you.

As in, with every significant (user-magnitude-defined) motion of the mouse, all screens darken/grey-out except for a bright spotlight surrounding your mouse. Allows you to always see where your mouse is even up to near-blindness, as that spotlight is going to be 3-6cm in diameter regardless of the screen resolution, and obvious as heck.

Edit: been looking for a tool like this myself. Still have decent vision, but with six monitors at ≈1.5-2k resolution each, a cursor can go missing, fast. Would love to have cursor highlighting (no stupid Win98 “tail”, thanks) on any mouse movement.
Can you give any example queries where the result quality is far away from the rankings on the leaderboard? In my experience it's pretty spot on, so I'm curious if you're asking different sorts of things, or have a different definition of a good answer.

I have for example asked "Write me a very funny scary story about the time I was locked in a graveyard", and the simpler models don't seem to understand that before getting super scared and running out of the graveyard they need to explain how exactly I was locked in, and what changed that let me out.
It's a much smaller model, it didn't ingest the knowledge of the world. It is great at working with the information you give it, but if you want to extract information like a search engine, GPT4 is the king because it is so much bigger.
Yes, that's the confusion I was talking about. Sorry, I meant to say the image generator was confused. The confusion how I came to the assumption that it was an LLM hooked to an image generator.

Interestingly, I did break it on flower + eclipse.
Show HN: Goodreads still doesn't let you sort books by rating so I made a tool
> The buy-in of Adobe's subscription model was a compelling reason for my employers to provide only XD to me for my work.

And this is how we all end up using spatulas to drive nails.
Try a bad fiction book. The 'entertain you' category in the article, but a bad one. You'll fall asleep :)

Don't try a good one or you'll fall asleep at 4am when you finish it.
This reminds me of when i was studying electronics and we had to design a circuit with some purpose. I made a “Light indicator” with an LED a photoresistor and some other stuff.
Oh funny, I actually came to this comment thread to point out that they'd accidentally used a picture of macarons instead of macaroons in the blog. But I guess not necessarily!
They'll change the questions.

No chance in hell leetcoding is going away. It will be even more important, with even greater ceremony.

> employers will bring people back into the office to interview.

Nothing stops people from getting the questions they'll be asked ahead of time from insiders, like their friends or a recruiter, which is really how people have been cheating. This is how it is possible to be Google and have identical standards for years but nonetheless observe overall quality of hires go down.
Try marrying a billionaire.
An apology should be heartfelt while acknowledging responsibility and showing you’re taking real measures to not do it again. What he said was fumbling legalese and besides, I am not so sure Mr. Zuckerberg has a heart. You don’t get to his position in the world by having one.
They should just get AI to write the code.
When you press-and-hold, the menu pops up, and you swipe in a direction for an action. Think of it more as gesture navigation with an on-screen aid to show you what gestures you can do.

There used to be a thing nearly a decade ago to do this on Android, before the current gesture navigation:

https://www.androidauthority.com/permanent-navigation-contro...
> Even if a four legged table's legs are all perfectly equal so their tips lie in the same plane, that perfectly will be thwarted by an uneven floor.

Unless you're able to rotate it: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-...
if static assets arent being requested from their server then it would not contribute to your bandwidth meter
That’s a lot of words to say that you either own a Tesla or really really want to.

Your whole comment is absolutely drenched with elitism. “The only reason you don’t agree with me is because you can’t see the future, old man! Did you know that cars have actually been around for a while?” Give me a break.

Modern EVs have blindly copy and pasted UX mechanics from smartphones without first looking at things from a first-principles perspective to determine what a good car user experience even is. It plainly, without argument, is not a Tesla, or anything like it. Having a touch screen interface that frequently changes with software updates intended to be used by someone ACTIVELY DRIVING A CAR is not the way to go. If anything, the opposite, as it’s actively unsafe.

If you think that the world is asking for this, you are very obviously living in a bubble. As someone that doesn’t have many computer nerds in my social circle, people at best see this stuff as a flashy passing interest. Give people CarPlay / Android Auto so they can “use their GPS” and be done with it.

I say all of this as someone in their late 20s who owns an EV and who is generally an early adopter. So the answer isn’t another lecture about how my feeble mind can’t understand the innovative concept of “what if we put a crappier iPad in your car?”
That's the starting point. If you want to design boards, you can put down ESP8266 castellated modules (easy) or the ESP8266 chip itself (somewhat harder).

Because of issues with electronics supply chains, often complete boards are cheaper than you can buy the modules and chips at low quantities (things are really optimized to sell a thousand units or more). Even buying blank keycaps at low quantities was very expensive compared to finished products of printed sets of keys.
Much of the cost is probably compute.
Now do it a million times and see if a failure mode crops up.
Feed it my source code to use as context for how to refactor things. the bigger the context window, the more source code it can "read".
This conclusively tells us that the Leetcode grind has been (without any dispute) been gamed to the ground and is no longer an accurate measure of exceptional performance in the role. Even the interviewers would struggle with the questions themselves.

Why waste each other's time in the interview when I (if I was the interviewer) can just ask for relevant projects or commits on GitHub of a major open source project and that eliminates the 90% of candidates in the pool.

I don't need to test you if you have already made significant contributions in the open. Easy assumptions can be made with the very least:

* Has knowledge of Git.

* Knows how to code in X language in a large project.

* Has done code reviews on other people's code.

* Is able to maintain a sophisticated project with external contributors.

Everything else beyond that is secondary or optional and it's a very efficient evaluation and hard to fake.

When there are too many candidates in the pipeline, Leetcoding them all is a waste of everyone's time. Overall leetcode optimizes to be gamed and is now a solved problem by ChatGPT.
Well, that may explain dragonpope.
InVision + Sketch was trivially replaced by Figma in my workflow long ago, cross platform support and working in the browser left them in the dust.
I wasn't saying that the object/spacecraft can fall into the sun from a L1 point. My english is probably not good enough. I was talking about balancing the forces of the solar wind with a little imbalance between Earth and Sun gravity.
In a boom time there are almost no regret hires, every organization basically needs estimated future capacity that is supposed to work out sometime and to maintain a delusional prognosis..

In some of the downturns that unlikely capacity keeps getting new jobs simply by having been the excess capacity at the right places.

I think we are we are deeper into a downturn where almost everyone is seriously trying to filter to capable in the near term and that is extremely hard given that you almost always need actual time at an organization so a measure of useful on day one filters everyone but returning employees.
Knowledge + Mud = Politics
lol these are fun
Simplifying Event Sourcing to Boost Product Velocity
Well, I do like to park when I go shopping, but it's still going to increase the ratio of spots to cars, even if 10 cars park in that spot over the course of the day. I just don't see a ratio of 4 spots per car being particularly egregious.
Any time I learn about a new retro system that I have never heard of, is an interesting day.
Non-deterministic execution of Python functions
Training the neural network in your skull is worth it, even if a lot of information that's ingested isn't immediately actionable.
If you need to pin your content anyway, it's actually faster and less expensive to host a normal website then. And if you want to get it to readers faster, there are a lot a cheap or free CDN available, but that's generally not even an issue with the kind of website we're talking about here when they're served normally, over the web.
Generating Fantasy Maps (2016)
> There's a lot of folks out there who can do basic testing work with Jepsen. I've taught... I dunno, maybe a few hundred people directly in Jepsen workshops.

I don't know why all the DBMS vendors don't just have a guy on the QA team whose job is to run and interpret Jepsen tests for every new version. It's certainly a better option than eventually getting a damning report written by you.
Great to see someone still experimenting with alternative UI paradigms - the video looks amazing!

Sadly it doesn't seem to launch on an M1 Macbook Pro - the process(es) start but no application/interface appears
You’re conflating very real usability concerns with a very nerdy wish list that has little to no broad appeal. Realistically people aren’t fussed about tracking and they certainly aren’t fussed about open source.
I've found retrying after a bit will often return the new result. I suspect the frontend is timing out before the backend comes up with a result, which is eventually cached by the time of the second attempt
Yep, the best example is our little EV - the Volkswagen e-Up, I love that little car, it still has normal analog gauges, basic bluetooth radio, physical controls for AC(!!!!), no touchscreen anything.....it just works day in and day out. 150 mile range in summer, 120 in winter, it's enough for us, fits a baby seat, stroller, shopping from costco...and it was "relatively" cheap to buy too.

I wish we had more of this, rather than modern EVs which apart from pushing the electric drivetrain have to push some crazy complex infotainment system on you.
I believe that. We're well-calibrated to handle some amount, and some people really need that beer or two to bring them down to earth. Definitely contributes to overall happiness.
It's a bit puzzling to hear such an opinion from an entrepreneur. The problems on this road clearly exist, but it's so unclear that those problems are unsolvable.

For example,

> which organization would decide for all of humanity

- we have UN, and while many would criticize it for slow or clumsy actions, it's still a venue. Prototyping - which is a reasonable intermediate step - could also be done under a scientific organization, like those studying atmosphere and oceans.

> the risks from destabilizing our world even further and then having no 'undo' button

Technically risks always exist, in practice humanity does new things often and for long time. The structures in space could be removable, so at least that part should be clear.

> High tech solutions like this will only be used to postpone the inevitable need for real action

This sounds like an old grumpy. We're actually doing real action, for many years already, it's just not as much as ourselves would like to have when looking into results. And yes, we need and we're going to do more - and this high tech solution is a good example of that. Why should we limit ourselves looking for solutions?

> they are more likely to make matters worse than better.

There could be very different opinions, and there's no explanation why "will only postpone" and "make matters worse" - so it looks like just an opinion, of somebody who either lacks imagination to see alternatives or numbers to support the opinion.

> The developed part of the world needs to get its emissions under control and needs to curb its consumption. The rest is a sideshow.

Again, no clear explanation or reference why such a dismissive approach.

Of course we need to solve problems. And the lack of action - while enough talking - demonstrates that the problem might be bigger than somebody thinks. We learn of our limitations, but limiting options to solve an important problem looks like adding to those limitations, not overcoming them.
Basecamp Valuation Tops $100B After Bold VC Investment (2015)
I would grind it out until that's more like $10k/month. At that point, if you have good growth and retention, you could try to raise enough money to keep going full time for another year.

Can you do a friends/family round?
That sounds a little like the delayed-gratification experiments where they tell children they can have a single candy bar now, but if they wait a half hour, they can have two.

In general I would take the dividend, if the expected value over that time was greater than the immediate lump sum, plus what I might get for investing that lump sum in something over those few years.

And in reality it's usually not over just a few years; the dividend is long-term. I'd much rather build something valuable and get steady income from it than build something to flip.

Now if the risk of no dividend payout is high enough, I'll take that lump sum. But I feel like those sorts of deals -- huge money now, or very risky, uncertain money over a number of years -- just aren't really a thing that often.
Hypothetical risks of hypothetical machines. We don't even know if it needs solving.
They could have picked the PC keyboard protocol and used their own connectors, if they wanted to.
> Interviews should be consistent with what day to day work actually looks like, which today means constantly using LLMs in some form or another.

Consider that this may not be typical.
Yeah, and systemd is an excellent example there.

I can totally understand the issues of unification there, and very much understand issues with poetterings perfectionist attitude to some issues. But do you know how much time I've spent on shitty, arcane, hand-crafted init-scripts?

Containers as a whole would be another great question there. I have a certain class of applications I wouldn't want to run without a container orchestration anymore after a certain scale. But on the other hand, I do have a bunch of systems I'd almost never want to run as containers for serious data.
The only people I know who drink daily are the ones that definitely drink more than one beer most days. Most other people I know who drink beer recreationally (i.e. outside social events and somewhat frequently) don't drink every day and rarely drink an average of a beer a day.

I'm very inclined to believe that the former group would likely claim to be drinking "one beer daily" if this is self-reported. I'm also very inclined to believe that the latter would report less even if their average may go over one beer a day in some weeks (e.g. heavy drinking at social events).

Let's keep in mind that even if we're talking about averages that's 356 beers in a year (or 366 this year). Even if you on average only drink once a week that would mean you'd need to drink 7 beers each week, i.e. there would need to be 52 events each year where you would drink an average of 7 beers (or 3.5 gin and tonics, depending on ratio, which sounds more manageable but still like a long evening).

Or to put it another way: a standard glass of wine for statistical purposes is defined as 150ml. An ordinary wine bottle has 700ml. Rounded up, that's five servings of wine per bottle. One drink a day on average would mean a bottle and a half each week or 78 and a half bottles per year. For one person. I like wine and I don't think I've ever bought (let alone drank, by myself) even half that many bottles in one year.

So in other words: I think people who say (self-report) they drink "one beer a day" or "one glass of wine a day" are understating their consumption and people who actually drink that amount on average also underreport their consumption because they likely get there with hard liquor and frequent (but not daily) social drinking.
> …can just ask for relevant projects or commits on GitHub of a major open source project and that eliminates the 90% of candidates in the pool.

Get your hiring done now while you can, when the economy rebounds you won’t be able to hire anyone. Also give your team a raise, because they’ll probably be the first to go once new options open up.
Very unlikely: note best GPT-4 estimates put at it $45 million
Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes to Families [video]
This is pretty standard for Axios. I hate it, but it's really popular in tech circles. I don't understand why.
https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/20-gasoline-don-t... is a short opinion piece on it with some links and such.
I don't remember this game from back then, but I do remember playing adventure games on the TRS-80 with my aunt being a very formative experience. The TRS-80 was also one of my early introductions to computer programming. I wish I had any records of what code I wrote back then and I can imagine how good it must have felt to be able to dig up and clean up the old code. I do still have 5.25" floppies with a game I wrote in IBM PC Basic somewhere. At one point I had rejection letters from Broderbund and a bunch of other game publishers. It's a lot to deal with all of that as a tween.
The now-sadly-cancelled Bollinger project was the electric vehicle I really wanted.
Swamp + Surfer = Crocodile

Nice!
Don't get me started on the Geometry Dash craze. Zero redeeming value.
I never said it wasn't constitutionally protected. That status isn't relevant to the point.
so like 10x less funding than OpenAI and 100x less than MSFT, AAPL, Google, Facebook, ...
> Malaysia-genocide

I think you mean Rohingya genocide [1] in which human rights organizations asserts that facebook playing/ed role [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutupalong_refugee_camp

[2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
32K tokens = "context size" = sum of input tokens + max output tokens
Not everyone works in the open. I do have open source side projects and contributions I’ve made on my own time - but almost everything I’ve done at work is closed source.
AWS is holding onto those routers running something earlier than, what, IOS 12.4 from 2005? And all those servers with iDRAC6s from, what, 2012?

Some day people will stop pretending IPv6 support is something that hasn't been ubiquitous in network gear for a decade or more.
Brooklyn Bridge towers illuminated with new LED lights
I can neither confirm nor deny, but oh boy does uncle iroh seem cool
Cybertruck is drive by wire.
Business Attorney Here.

I would speak to an attorney to see your next steps both in terms of setting up your business for success as well as making sure there are no issues with your current employment.
Have you tried ollama? It’s another llama.cpp server implementation that is becoming popular.
Thanks, Curious as I havent been in a forum where Ive seen asked:

Have you found a particular manner in which to feed it in - do you give it instructions for what it is looking for, what kind of phrases are you directing it to do?

I am about to start a try at a gpt co-piloted effort, and I have only done art so far - so curious if there are good pointers on coding with gpt?
Dinosaur + Clock = Clockosaurus Rex.
I mocked up an "infinite" circular menu concept last year. Idea was to use for navigating a non-linear timeline of photos / dates (in limited space on a website / map). Felt like a good use case.

Still think the use case feels solid.

https://codepen.io/theprojectsomething/pen/JjmgXrg

I'd also say keyboard shortcuts can work really well alongside this kind of UI, giving a single mapped key much more depth.
I doubt it. Seems way too strongly correlated with the end of LIRP.