skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bought one such monitor.

2 years later switched from m1 to m2 and it no longer works well enough (may also be the Sonoma upgrade stil gotta verify that). The devices get disconnected and glitch etc.

Went to check with dell and monitor is "not supported" on macos.

I am at a loss for words.
I bet he configured a dashboard on some BI that somebody else configured for him and now thinks that "coding" is trivial.

I've seen this attitude a few times with accountants that learn to use Access. One of them named his PKs "useless" because he didn't know why they were needed
He also joined tables with the values, not the PKs.

Another accountant I witnessed write a web system with very secure 2FA, that actually meant nothing because the whole thing was prone to SQL injection.
Between the vendor lock-in and egregious costs it's a sad state for so many in our profession to call this 'the future'.
I work for a self driving doing mapping. There are definitely roles out there, more broadly look into other areas of state estimation.

It gets interesting when these systems need to be productionized and scaled. A strong software engineer who can speak the math is invaluable. My first year on the job was basically removing N^2 loops and making 3D visualizations.
Let's be accurate: Google Gemini Advandced vs Microsoft ChatGPT.

Both are vanguard/blackrock companies anyway, internal struggle.
You don't need a bazillion keycloak instances, it has realms.

1 keycloak instance can have many realms.

I won't get into the nonsense of having a single database server per any instance (not limited to keycloak).
Such a waste of resources.

You can have a system, postgres in this case, and make it listen on the docker iface, set it up to launch after and require docker.service.

The nginx conf was interesting and I'll adjust mine.
Cool, I just recently wrote a Python script to automate commit messages using ChatGPT [1].
Since then I was working on GPT powered scripts similar to loz, but did not publish it anywhere yet.

[1] https://github.com/jen-ya/commitgpt
Why would blood work tell you the answer rather than measuring their blood pressure?
After reading your articles, it looks like Wikipedia does not need to be updated at all.

The group is still indeed a nutty cult and while the gas used may contribute to a fire, there was evidence that the Davidians did start the fire, whether or not the gas helped it grow.
Online Reviews Are Being Bought and Paid For. Get Used to It
<< Cities exists because they do something economically and socially valuable for humans.

And they will continue to exist. Because of remote, they will maybe shrink in size, which is not a bad thing.

<< If we want to unlock the most value, then yes we do want to solve commute 2 hours a day, especially for people who still need to commute.

And that part is definitely solved by remote.
I have a posix script does the same thing but after a few months the screen was dead, somehow I feel manual switch screen input is safer.
how would you recommend a software dev break into the industry over the next 3-5 years? Preferably without going back to university. What sorts of projects are best to focus on initially?
PCem Windows 98 Setup (Pentium II andVoodoo 3, all files provided) [video]
Except natural gas is a fossil fuel. The name is somewhat misleading.

I'm not aware of any way to create synthetic propane using renewable energy sources, but that might be my ignorance speaking. A quick googling indicates it's not possible, but I'm happy to be proven wrong here if you want to provide a reference I didn't find.

Easier and cheaper doesn't really cut it for the climate. Petroleum is easy and cheap, and so is coal. Both are terrible ideas in the long run though
Last year or before, someone posted an article here about using AI to replace middle management or even higher up management and the general consensus was this was stupid and impossible.
The only downside is that Hetzner does not allow you to set a limit to control the egress traffic expenses, does it? So that you can be protected against the so called "denial-of-wallet" attacks.
A highly curated LinkedIn is a red flag - nobody producing value has time to tend that walled garden.
> Eating can be a pleasure or pain, but eating for weight gain isn’t fun, particularly when the weight gain is elusive.

I've never been the recipient of cancer surgery or had to undergo this kind of long recovery the author has, but I was a professional nutrition coach in a previous life and I have eaten for weight gain in the traditional weightlifting sense, both "clean bulks" and "dirty bulks" and about everything in between.

I would much rather be 30 pounds overweight and try to lose that weight than be 15 pounds underweight and try to gain it. If you're really killing it in the gym, 4-6 days a week, 60-ish minutes of heavy weight training at bulking RPEs of 8-9, and hitting the numbers of sets you need to be for muscle hypertrophy, eating becomes the worst part of your day. The classic "dirty bulk" of a couple big macs and a non-diet soda for lunch is great for the first few days (maybe) but it becomes a chore very quickly, and it's easily 5x worse when you're trying to eat clean and realize your lunch is going to be 2.25 pounds of chicken breast plus multiple normal servings of rice and broccoli. It's a big part of why people bulking end up eating less healthy foods (the caloric density), and seeming eat all day every day (because they do).
> I’m not looking to find blame, but to find anything that I can grasp onto as an explanation for why I’m different and I won’t randomly lose an organ or limb.

That would be nice but unfortunately the human body doesn't seem to work like that. You can try to live a healthy life but there is no guarantee you'll make it into your eighties.
Thanks, I'll take a look later.
“You should base your life decisions on the koolaid flavour you prefer”
I guarantee it. My first impression when seeing this list of companies is that is likely the primary purpose.
Ask HN: Including irrelevant documents improve RAG accuracy by 30%?
I was very intrigued after reading "The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems" paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.14887.pdf), where they explored the impact of relevance, position and the number of retrieved documents on the accuracy of a RAG pipeline.

The authors defined 3 sets of documents:
1. Golden document - One which contains the answer to the given question.
2. Relevant documents - A set of documents that talk about the same topic but don't contain the answer to the question.
3. Irrelevant documents - A set of documents that talk about different unrelated topics and, naturally, don't contain the answer to the question.

Key takeaways:

1. More relevant documents = lower performance as the LLM gets confused. This challenges the general notion of adding top_k relevant documents to the context

2. The placement of the golden document matters: start > end > middle.

3. Surprisingly, adding irrelevant documents actually improved the model's accuracy (as compared to the case where context is just the golden document). It would be interesting to validate it further on more powerful LLMs and other datasets, as this observation is highly counter-intuitive.

What do you think- Does the third observation make sense?
One way is to charge high prices from the get go, and then proactively contact you, and offer to help to reduce your bill by doing some cloud optimization magic ;)
Short answer: yes, exactly

Long answer: trying to make it much easier to do simulation-based research using OpenTTD, and for any results found to be as reproducible as possible. There have been a few papers/dissertations that use OpenTTD, but it's tricky to do exactly what the authors did, or even in a few cases I suspect it was hard for them to repeat their own experiments or extract results from them. OpenTTDLab seeks to make these easier.

And, such research seems to often (/always?) use AIs, so that's the focus.

I also would like to be able to train an AI in some automated(/formal?) way, and maybe use OpenTTD to investigate something a bit more... supply-chain-y, but that's a work in progress (I've not even written an AI yet!)

But also a bit of a less formal "just run an AI/some AIs over some seeds and see" is also very much a use case. Am trying to strike that balance between something quite... exploratory, but still reproducible.
I love that the title is a reference to a truly bad horror movie for teenagers from two decades ago. Thanks for the memories!
Yes, it would still be logical. You translate from English “Text-Color” to font size. To a computer there is no meaning in what the words ever meant. There is just the logic of the parsing and execution. For example, it’s “font-size: 20px”, which is not English and already requires translation. That is would be “Text-Color: red” and that results in a font size of 20 pixels in a consistent manner is still logical!
For anyone, considering authentik, I want to warn you by saying "here be dragons."

To start, I have protected 10+ services at any given time. Both in docker and k8s. Unless you enjoy configuring protection for each service independently, you'll have a bad time in authentik.

Authentik suffers from a debilitating bug[0] where when using a single config to protect all services on subdomains (i.e. app1.example.com, app2.example.com, etc.) your users will be randomly redirected to a different service when reauthenticating after the session expires.

[0]: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/issues/6886
No -- it's born of attempts to cut costs.

I've worked with teams from Bangalore who were staff of the bank I was contracting for -- they were amazing, but also not appreciably (if at all) cheaper than employing someone in London or New York.

Several well-known banks had large offices, and competition for talent was high. No race for the bottom there.

It doesn't particularly matter where you employ people, if you're trying to save costs by paying people less then you're going to have a bad time.
Western countries do that to each other and within themselves. Maybe it’s not the west or countries it’s people.
What is questionable-value? People pay for questionable things, that brings value to them, though that value is questionable? Do not get it. Though i understand the personal resentment.
Came here to write the same thing. Bizarre that there is literally nothing about his death on their website or social media accounts.
> the above would need to install to all computers which is a no go for me.

With your solution, one needs to install the AHK script on all computers though?
Your heart's in the right place, but if making Free Software was as easy as drafting a manifesto then Linux would have photoshop alternatives a hundred times over.

People will continue developing closed-source AI because AI is expensive to train. Someone's gotta foot the bill, and it's not going to be the Open Source community doing that for quite some time.
Companies should rather ask the candidate to describe a project they completed.

Let the interviewer then dive into any technical challenges such a project may propose, in order to vet technical skills.

This allows a chance for candidate to show they can connect high level big picture thinking with low level technical skills.
I'm not sure I see why it was revoking the certificates, when you renew a certificate that's about to expire you can just let the old one expire, right?
"political paralysis in Berlin is intensifying long-standing domestic issues such as creaking infrastructure"

That is exactly the opposite of my impression. I'm seeing lots of useful initiatives finally gaining momentum after the previous (conservative) party had delayed/suppressed them for years.

That said, it seems that some German companies refuse to pay high salaries on principle. And that's very dangerous, in my opinion, because it forces the most experienced employees to work for US companies instead.
But LLMs are apt at producing nonsense???
https://easings.net/ is popular in gamedev circles to quickly visualize different types of easings
Reptilian brain?

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain
It has been years since I read it, but iirc the main point was to build businesses that once they are up and running don't require much much work to keep bringing in money.

I suspect achieving what he was aiming for is much harder now than it was when he wrote the book, as the barrier to entry to starting businesses goes down and the competition continues to rise.

But I think there is still something to be said for the goal of building a "lifestyle" business rather than trying to build a hyper-growth startup. If you are strategizing through the lens of "How can I make enough money to survive and thrive with the minimal amount of time spent?" vs "How can I grow my business to $100m" you'll come up with very different plans.
Right, but the mistake wasn't an issue with Excel, it was with the professor misusing it.
The turbine is an implementation detail, not a goal.

The power output is the goal, and justifies implementation details such as whether paying for a tall mast is worthwhile.
> if you're a US citizen entering without one, I don't think they can do much more than give you a hard time

I’ve always wondered what they would do.

In the 90’s, I once showed up at the US border without documentation and basically was let through after a 30 second lecture. I wonder if it would still work like that?
ah yes. the internet autism diagnoses.
It would me amusing to log my supercharger vs home charger sessions with “lubeloggger” which I assume is a reference to oil changes!
Big+1 to the level 1 techs kvm. Ive had a little over a year and it's flawless.

2 2.5k/1440p monitors both 144hz and it switches every time. Highly recommend. Albeit a bit pricey.
I’ve been using display-switch[0] for this for a while now. No problems whatsoever. Works on windows/mac/linux.

[0] https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch
Not mentioned in the article, but I bet seasonal/time-related passwords are due to password rotation policies. I work for a company too slow or stupid to have understood how counterproductive such policy is, and all my passwords are an update of the former. Because we humans cannot remember multiple strong passwords.
This is my thought. For most of us, any exercise is more than what we're actually getting, and the best form is the one you're likely to keep doing. Even people who look unhealthy may be healthier than if they didn't exercise.

My main source of exercise, for 40+ years, has been cycling. Therefore I have very little upper body strength. This may be a liability when I get older and start losing that strength, increasing the chances of injury.

I personally think that young people should do some strength work in addition to the easy and fun aerobic activities like walking and cycling. The dangers of over training are their own beast, but not a worry for most people.
If only anything closer to hardware wasnt paying this bad...

A lot of SEs leave industries like semiconductors for web dev jobs that pay waay better
You wouldn't want to interview someone with bad taste in music.
The older generation always had railroad simulators, for the nerdier grandpas out there who really wanted to replicate the railroad signaling systems from the late 1800s or whatever age they were simulating. It just cost real $$$ 50 years ago, since each toy-train and toy-track would have had to have been actually made out of plastic.

OpenTTD is easier than that, but harder than most games. Its a better balance (less to learn) than hobby-railroad hobby... cheaper... but still with the complex paths and simulated traffic needed to build a game off of.

Its a toy. Plenty of old folks have toys, and IMO it seems like the healthier retired folks I know of are those who continue to play with toys into old age. It could be a selection bias thing, but you have to keep the mind active in the retirement years.

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It could be a weird generational gap thing, wherein older folks play with expensive toy sets (ex: lots and lots of rails) in their basements. But younger folk today would have a toy-like video game (like OpenTTD, Minecraft, etc. etc.) instead.

I don't think its appropriate to ever "grow out" of toys. I think that... maybe... you run out of time to play with toys during the busier stages of your life.

Unlike a "game" where there's a set purpose and therefore a set limit to the complexity... a "toy" game (Rollercoaster Tycoon, OpenTTD, Factorio, etc. etc.) are designed to instead have the players reach complexity levels above-and-beyond what the designers dreamed of.
This video is good, but it seems to ignore that stuff like OLT and FreeTaxUSA exist where you can file federal taxes for free and state taxes for a small fee ($10 or $15).

It's true though that Intuit spends so much on advertising that few people understand that there are any alternatives to TurboTax or a CPA
I have limited experience with ktor, but I know that Graal can do hot reload well (better than hotswapagent). Maybe worth an experiment.
"Coding" meant something different back then, didn't it? The enumeration on p. 2 has it listed as an activity distinct from "programming".
I've been using this for years, simple and gets the job done. Perfect when you just want to add an http endpoint to an existing java application quickly without including tons of libraries.
Oil changes.

Think “jiffylube”, not pr0nhub.
But it says 55% faster coding right there on the website: https://github.com/features/copilot

Never mind that number came from an in-house experiment with deeply artificial conditions where the study was designed to show the product in the best light.
> But it's really a scourge on this world that the top tier pay in the industry is to shove ads in front of people.

This cannot be said enough, IMO. The web software world's endless quest for the shallow and lucrative is exhausting.
> It does imply if you go this route that you are stuck with a single monitor setup

Not if you use DP-MST (DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport, to "daisy-chain" monitors).
European and American manufacturers are treating electric cars like many organic/natural brands treats their foodstuff, charging premiums like sort of a guilty tax targeted at affluent clientele. You pay a lot to feel good, but if it's not made affordable for mass adoption it doesn't really make much difference.
I came here to ask the same question. Anyone?
There you go https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/269772
Reinhart, Rogoff... and Herndon: The student who caught out the profs (2013)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22223190
The title misquotes UBS's Chief Economist. Here are the only two quotes it includes from him:

>"much of computer coding already has the look of a stranded asset," something that "loses its value earlier than expected."

>Donovan calls all STEM skills "vulnerable," and notes that they become "obsolete more quickly than other skills."

This is as much commentary on the way things have always been with coding as it is anything else. If coding is an outdated skill, then it always has been according to the rationale provided.
The strength will come back much quicker than it took to attain the first time. I never worked out a day in my life until I was almost 30, and with the exception of the deadlift, all my numbers are quite a bit lower than anyone my same age who worked out even sparingly in their 20s. The people my age who were high school athletes make me look like an old man, and the people my age who were college athletes make me look like an even older woman. I always liken it to blowing up a balloon, you feel a certain amount of resistance the first time, but if you let the air out (lose strength) and blow it up again it's much easier.
You should care about the work you do. Just remember who you are doing it for. They own the work they being the company. If the company wants to reward incompetent kleptocrats then I salute them as long as I get PAID the second they stops happening they can with the greatest of respect get f’d. then you just take your trade and apply it somewhere else having learned expensive lessons they paid for about what worked.
The distinction becoming vague is due to the changes regarding the Bologna Process/European Qualification Framework - whereby both Universities and Technical Colleges both award bachelor degrees (EQF6) ... and if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and awards the same EQF paper at the end, then it's the same! I've taught in a programme that is offered in both Universities and Technical Colleges (Law) ... and the distinction becomes that universities are more theory based, whereas technical colleges are more practical ... and that matriculating into a university offered masters programme in NL from a technical college awarded bachelors is made harder (even with the same EQF6 paper) ... not that any other university in the EU would care about the distinction!
>low drive + high aptitude: hire for targeted use cases where you need expertise

If you do choose to hire this person make sure to isolate them from other. I've seen a single low drive + high aptitude person single handly ruin teams. They are a cancer.
People are living past 30 with startling regularity, when you realize that for most of human history that wasn't the case. Cancers were one a very long list of things that could kill you and no where near the top.
I've used vert.x in a big project once. I don't ever want to do that again. Performance is pretty good, but the developer experience is beyond clunky.

My current favourite Java server framework is Micronaut.

Great performance and easy to develop for!

https://micronaut.io/
A Raspberry Pi Pico has a large multiple of the kind of compute that cruise missiles have so should be more than plenty for a programmable drone.
> And yes, location matters: the company usually needs to create a subsidiary in the country of the employee, get familiar with their judicial and tax system, then there's also the issue of time zones, travel cost to company meetings, etc.

B2B contracts are a thing. It's very common for many devs that work remotely for other companies.

There's also companies that offer something like "Payroll as a Service".

Still B2B is superior in every way, and can often net you much more money than just being an employee due to being able to leverage tax-optimizations.
Do you know of any solid KVMs with EDID emulation and 1.4 DP?
I always wonder why employers don't just set passwords for their users and only give them the option to randomize them. Seems like an ideal solution, if using passwords is a requirement.
How This Guy Makes the World's Best Puzzle Boxes [video]
Sleeping our way to being productive
I have a very soft spot for this kind of "campfire story". Open Office not printing on Tuesdays comes to mind. Anyone got some more?
I don't know one bar that closed because of the smoking bans. not one.
This doesn’t seem to work on all setups, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39333869.
They could build more apartments.
As far as I’m aware, we have no method by which to prove something is conscious. Self-awareness and consciousness (by which I mean qualia) are different.

Many believe that self-awareness implies consciousness, but I’m not aware of any method to prove that.
Last Week on My Mac: Back to USB Basics
Can you name a few who are reaping rewards from doing that?
This is the biggest question to me. Who cares even if the reviewer did use ChatGPT to write his findings. The findings themselves are what is important.

This is just another example of the abysmal state of affairs that is modern peer-review.
Stopping the Cop Cities Countrywide
My crocodile tears are yours.