skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on your local energy prices and your internet speed as well. It may actually be cheaper and faster to spin up a cloud instance. I bought an 80 core server to do some heavy lifting back in 2020. It doesn't even have a GPU, but it costs me around 4 euros per day to run. For that price I can keep a cloud GPU instance running. And even the boot up time isn’t any slower.
Because they rely on billions of other people to do other things, so they can specialize in mining.
> Netanyahu’s and his party kept Hamas alive

That's some bullshit right here. Nothing like that happened.
> It WOULD work, but alas, you don't do it. This is also why the USA has all those anti-strike laws.

My mom did it reasonably often as a teacher. The state made it illegal for her to ever strike again. Maybe not being willing to go to jail for refusing to work is why she doesn't do it? It's crazy to me that the law is basically "show up to work for whatever we decide to pay you, or go to jail" (via contempt of court, usually, if they continue to strike after a judge orders teachers to go back to work and fines them for each day of missed work).

So the other option is to "strike" by quitting and starting over in a completely new career. Enough people have done that that some schools are having trouble opening[0]. Somehow even that doesn't seem to raise wages. So -- for teachers at least, striking literally doesn't work. Enough teachers quit that schools can't stay open, and yet the wages don't rise to hire enough teachers. It's insane.

0: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/03/us/teacher-shortage-lowering-...
* I don't know "what type of person uses this" in general, but I use it whenever I need to typeset music, which happens when I need to sing something with others. This includes be re-creating sheet music I have for better readability. I've never done any composing.

* It's not very similar to the source code. Basically you put in note names (c d e f ...) and durations (c4 e8 g8 c2). The rest is commands and markup to deal with the remaining very complex needs music typesetting has. Think Latex for music.

* I've never seen any git repos for that, but there are sites like CPDL and IMSLP that sometimes also include Lilypond source (or other sources).

* "How expressive is sheet music": I guess the easiest way to find out is to actually play an instrument or sing? It's a bit like asking "how expressive is the written word, like books and these things".
Your comment could have been more constructive if you have included more "common mistakes" than things you just don't like, the only exception being handle squatting. Like, what is a specific benefit of `user@host` as opposed to a single domain---which can be generated on demand---as an identity? (And who is "everything else" here? Almost all non-Mastodon social networks don't use them.) Also a value of the common schema language is not that high, especially when that language is coupled with the serialization format and prevents any improvement.
Interesting to read you say that, last time I posted on here that climate change was a major component of my wife and I deciding not to have children, a bunch of people pissed all over that, and I was surprised because It thought it was relatively pragmatic?
As freelancer in The Netherlands it’s easy to earn 100.000 EUR a year. Can’t imagine it would be much different in France as freelancer.

However, as freelancer it’s your own responsibility to save money for holidays, pension, sick leave, transportation, etcetera.

However, in the end you should still be financially better of than a “wage slave” so to speak.
There is also a similar thing for CSV files encoded as JSON arrays - csvj.org
60k EUR before taxes and healthcare + retirement deduction I suppose.
So after taxes and mandatory deductions it is 45k USD, which not that much if you are in a city like Paris.
But why you completely dropping the idea that CTO drove company to the bankruptcy?
you can work really hard but if you don't have required skills to do the job it does not metter how much you work.

And OP admited he never worked with hardware before
SmartTube - a 1 person project that plays video files on Android devices

SponsorBlick = SponsorBlock - an ad blocker
Average salary isn't an excuse if it's unlivable.

It's hard to live on 60K in Europe when a goddamn power cord costs 15 Euro
It's strictly worse, actually.

ndjson specifies sane newline handling, since it works with terminators.

jsonlines works with separators and thus fails to detect truncated values. As a result, it can silently produce incorrect numeric values.
I know from people at another Ubisoft studio in the EU that they keep losing senior developers when they get tired of the crunch and go next door to write boring business software for 30-100% more money.

Throwaway because my user name can be associated with said people.

Edit: I wonder if HN could have an option to post without your user name for cases like this... maybe allow 3 anonymous posts per month per account? Or one anonymous post for every 10 posts with your user name?
I feel frustrated by all the people who resisted fixing the climate and fought and didn't believe, and they will die without any of the consequences.
From a survey [1] released just this month.

> In this study, we conducted a representative survey across 125 countries, interviewing nearly 130,000 individuals. Our findings reveal widespread support for climate action. Notably, 69% of the global population expresses a willingness to contribute 1% of their personal income, 86% endorse pro-climate social norms and 89% demand intensified political action.

And an interview of the authors [2]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01925-3

[2] https://www.carbonbrief.org/interview-why-global-support-for...
French employees are generelle low paid in cash. however, a big part of the compensation is through labor protection - something that is not worth a lot to a software developer.

currently, France had a serious issue with brain drain. software developers move to Germany or the UK to get higher salaries.

This gives a situation where all advanced jobs move out while simpler job stay back with really expensive labor protections.

IMHO, France need to assimilate more with the countries they live among, or other countries need to adopt better labor protection systems - this is solely a comparative thing. as an employee myself, I would hope for the latter.
Podcasts got their name 20 years ago this month
https://archive.ph/RnXBI
I know it’s unfashionable to say on a venture capitalist forum, but millions die under capitalism too.
Not that I needed convincing but the Covid pandemic demonstrated how hard it is to fight nature. When nature decides to have a go at us, earthquakes, tsunamis, pandemics, technology always seems to be on the losing end. We think we're so powerful with our technology but compared to the forces of nature we are not.

EDIT: We also can't really seem to get our act together and collaborate across the planet.

The hope is that we don't get to a place where positive feedback really pummels us and find some sort of equilibrium. It's hard to say and these are the sorts of games we should not play. If the earth completely changes into a human or life unfriendly place our technology won't save us.

Another bit of hope is that the planet has been warmer in the more distant past. I think we're technically still in an ice age.
Exactly. And you rarely see machines from Germany on vast. Might as well run a data center in Bermuda. [0]

[0] https://www.royalgazette.com/general/business/article/202307...
lol. When data is not cherry picked then those better equipped people’s opinion might be worth listening to.
No dogfooding demo on the site to generate leads? That's one way to ensure no hallucinations -- canned video demos.
Didn't say that, I just mean, it's great to have a new demo each week, but it's getting less and less exciting. Same things over and over again.
They do generalize. The claim is that the fine details are not the result from generalization, but from repeating test data verbatim. That seems consistent both with my intuitive understanding of neural networks and with the behavior I've observed, so I'm inclined to agree. So what does that mean? It means that while LLM:s can produce impressive output, the most impressive results that people are touting probably have a significant amount of verbatim training data in them. In other words, they're good but not as good as they seem to be.
Such an odd story on that angle.

Apple negging Microsoft for not investing more in Bing and "monetizing" better (i.e. vacuuming more data), but from a business perspective, that means you should want to buy it _more_. And how does Google know?
Cities have grown and many temperature measuring stations report higher temperatures as a result. As buildings trap heat as well as concrete.
As someone with a B.Eng in Information and Communications Technology, I don't really think the education part is that impressive really. Pretty sure there's a lot of programmers in my company that do not actually have an engineering degree.

Meanwhile the nurses who did a 3.5-year program (as opposed to our 4-year engineering program) at the same campus probably make less than half of what I make.
a = b - c

if a != 0 then x = y / a

Here you can infer that the type of 'a' inside the 'then' is a NonZeroNumber. "All" you need is for the type checker to be able to recognize when a conditional acts as a guard against a subset of the possible types.
I use the same trick today! I have some "benchmark" macros set up which forcibly override the background color when I want to see where in the frame my operations are taking place.

> Didn't know there were people still trying to squeeze more out of that chipset nowadays.

You will be amazed. The demoscene has gotten insanely good since around 2017. Here are some of my favorites that all run on a stock Amiga 500 (with the trapdoor memory):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jciCr8zEhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD9xk3SDSYc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtleuGV7ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0OzX7plbeY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIV4AhfugIs
Oh, I didn't know there are VSCode plug-ins for Lilypond.

Which one are you using?
That would mean the earth is tilting and the change in temp is not man made.
I made $250k selling JavaScript
accessing chromium safe storage? maybe they are trying to get session cookies for something, seems naughty
To be honest I’ve been noticing how many times chat GPT loses meaning and becomes grammatically correct gibberish. When it has really good examples this is fine but leaping into almost any new area it gets quickly out of its depth. Our brains can look at their own learned patterns and derive new ones quite easily. The transformer seems to find this really hard, it is very good at some party tricks but I wonder if it will remain good at derivatives and completely useless at less common ideas for a while yet? Personally I’m not sure AGI is a good idea given the history of human beings who think they are superior to their ancestors.
And how did you get to the point to be able produce do much ore? Where did the need, the ingenuity and the technology come from to enable you to this?
As a standard, when an article poses a question in the title the answer should always be no.

When journalists, bloggers, or humans in general have data or evidence we don't ask questions we make statements.

Lack of definitive evidence is noted with the question in the title.
I strongly disagree with the article but what's with the ad hominim? - "...mostly by critics whose personal positive contributions to human improvement are unclear"

We're way past population levels where the traditional reaction to dissatisfaction with circumstances lets you pack up your tribe and move away to somewhere else. Everything is fenced in, and we are our own worst enemies. If you are nice or powerless you get trampled by the not so nice.

Maybe we'll adjust to a society that's equitable, for some high value of e. If so, I think we'll have evolved into something not human any more. Humans don't do nice.

Right now, it looks more like we're on the way to becoming morlocks and eloi.
> I wish there was a better way but I can't think of one.

There is: RFC7686: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7686
Meanwhile my doctors are incompetent at diagnosing most of my symptoms, so I'll take ChatGPT over nothing until the medical system can gets its shit together.
You Need a Regular Retro
Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed works. -- Gordon Gekko
Meta: typo in title; last word should be "stRike" obviously.
What I'm doing isn't nitpicking. I don't know the point of linking to studies is when you draw conclusions that have nothing to do with the study.

I just watched a video saying people are confused about what these models can do because

1) tech companies don't tend to say what they can do and leave users to figure it out.

And

2) Tech enthusiasts tend to exaggerate what they can do.

In your case I'm sure ChatGPT itself will tell you your comments are wrong- but for tech enthusiasts like yourself the AI is only wrong when it tells you it isn't all knowing, apparently.

It's like the bit in Monty Python's Life of Brian where the protagonist says he's not the messiah and a woman shouts "Only the true messiah would deny his divinity!"
Calling BS. He is grossly overstating A"I" capabilities because he is selling it.
I sincerely believe it’s just a matter of question of determination whether we want to solve this problem. If we were able to send people on the Moon as fast as we did, I don’t think we can’t do something in a decade to significantly reverse this trend. We clearly aren’t determined enough…
Oh I know, just messing with him.
Evidently not. Among all Americans, I have the least in common with those who are most passionate about these rituals.
How readily does reputation change with scandals ? Because we seem to be in the middle of a pretty big one, where the functioning of the whole system is in question.

Starting with a milder example :

https://www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-invention-how-to-be-...

Followed by a more... radioactive one :

https://alexwasburne.substack.com/p/the-sausage-factory-of-p...

BTW for this last one, HN seems to be outright blocking submissions, with the dreaded (and in this case disingenuous) "you are posting too fast" error. Now I'm willing to leave some benefit of the doubt that this is done in order to minimize flamewars, but it does still leave a bad taste...

But to conclude, some wise (??) words :

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...

(The links to Paul Graham's and Scott Aaronson's takes are also worth reading.)
Looking for startups that struggle with product design or branding
I'm a highly skilled product designer looking to be involved with startups that need to improve their UX, UI or branding.

I'm used to working for startups and scale-ups where I typically make a massive impact in a short amount of time. I also work as a consultant for companies and brands such as KLM, PwC, Transdev and many others.

I'd love to schedule a brief intro call to see if we're a good fit for each other.

Cheers,
Tim
This is remarkable. It's terrible to see how in some creative industries the workforce is managed, with hiring and firing practices. However, it would be great if the industry could adopt a more sustainable approach that benefits both the employees and the company's growth in the long run.
Sorry but you’re mistaken. 60k€ in France or Germany is a decent salary. Power cords don’t cost 15€? What are you talking about? I see prices way below 10€
I think it's because those are completely unrelated
Also, the web ‘public suffix list’ should be a DNS property instead.

Unfortunately the public suffix list has serious security implications, so it isn't safe to distribute it via unauthenticated DNS.

It also has very serious availability implications, so if you sign it with the WebPKI-maximum validity of 90 days and somehow and those signatures expire, you either get major vulnerabilities if you fail open or else an entire TLD (like ".com") breaks if you fail closed. You get to play this game every 90 days. Sounds like fun.
https://www.digicert.com/blog/chromes-proposed-90-day-certif...

This is the fundamental problem with trying to have DNSSEC replace DNS (instead of augmenting it): signature revocation is Byzantine-Generals-complete, which means that you either sign something forever (like ssh keys) or for a fixed time period and treat nonrenewal as revocation. Nonrenewal-as-revocation sorta works for signing single domains; if one website's cert expires it isn't the end of the world. When you start trying to sign larger and larger fractions of the Domain Name space, moving up to ccTLDs and then the root, the stakes are just way too high.

This is why DNSSEC will never displace unauthenticated DNS.

The choices are to stick with unauthenticated DNS, or maintain both systems in parallel forever. There is no third option where unsigned DNS records just go away.
It's tragedy of the commons at all levels.
It does make sense — the Unix debugger has always been *db, with no bridges in sight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Debugger
When I applied to a Ubisoft studio in 2011, the recruiter sent me an email during the hiring process:

> [...] we would like to move forward in the process. As you may know, our salaries in the games industry do not compare well with overall IT industry salaries; however, we can offer one of the most prominent development studios in the world [...]

I don't have more information, but they seemed well aware their salaries were not competitive.
I don't think you are entirely wrong, but it's also not as simple that every tech company can do everything well.

Apple has not been able to make Siri work well and has completely fallen behind on AI/LLMs.

Apple has been trying to build a car for a decade and restarted/rebuilt teams many times with layoffs in between.

Not every culture can support every product
Or a good way to teleport out of local minima while training. Create a few clones and take the one with the steepest gradients.
Nah it seems Elon only wants more crypto peddlers, agitprops and other sockpuppets that will gladly pay for "verified" status
The earth is tilted and the bulk of change in mean global tempreture over the past 150 years is due to human activity, principally from change in atmospheric gas makeup.
I'm almost at the point where my hiring decisions actually turn the other way - rattle down the SOLID principles and I feel like you're more occupied rote learning random SE bits than internalising what they were born out of. Every time I see the list of what SOLID stands for my eyes glaze over because, despite its name, it's not very solid (and frankly often awkwardly vague) advice on its own in my opinion.
No the automation would not increase if population would fall, because there would be less demand for iron ore. Your machines would rust away and the knowledge to make them would get lost. We are not living in Star trek utopia where with a push of a button a machine makes whatever you want. Less people means less specialization, less creativity and less activity.
Sweden has such high taxes that Spotify pays like double the average salary to hire foreign talent so they don’t feel the loss of income from being taxed though the butt.
My favorite MUD is definitely Midnight Sun II. It's one of the MUDs in the selection you get when you start Mudlet from mudlet.org, which is an excellent/modern client.
A Retrospective on Requests – cat /dev/brain
In summary for me: hledger has better csv importing system and ledger has support for lots. I use both.
I understand, sorry but I was thinking of all the frequent comparisons made with the bay area on this website. But true enough Scandinavia is at the top of european salaries, at least Stockholm. Not down south where I live in Malmö, because the cost of living is much lower.
Ok, big vacuum systems, (you need about 1E-4 torr for an e-beam) are not efficient for garbage treatment. Your comment is a good one; although I thought it was the low throughput that made e-beam photolithography impractical. Ok, so we don’t need nm precision. Still an order of magnitude or more too expensive, I’m guessing. And water treatment…
"Yes, but". It's possible for large nations like USA and China to grow rice in heterogenous regions and meet domestic demand with rice grown in low-arsenic regions (California), and export rice grown in high-arsenic regions (Texas).

That said, few people trust China to provide good numbers/testing/pro-active enforcement for consumer safety. They are good about applying very tough penalties (including personal executions/death penalty for corporate officers) after quality issues reach a certain level of public outcry. But most issues involve slow poisoning, don't directly kill/maim anyone, and don't reach any level of public outcry, so they go unenforced.
I don’t know about Netherlands but if you say it’s easy there, then France is different. It’s possible but not easy to earn 100k€ a year as a freelancer. Unless you work with companies located outside of the country, but then it’s mostly about luck and mostly for top performers, not really something I would consider easy or accessible to the average engineer.
I live a Paris, with 45k net, you live very comfortably and have an active social life.
If you get satisfied with a 60k gross salary as an engineer wherever you are in Europe you should maybe question yourself unless you’re full remote in a Bulgarian country side. Cars cost the same everywhere, same goes for flight tickets , electronics, top universities tuition, major food or fashion brands, etc etc.
> There’s many bad (financial) incentives to push the human induced climate change narrative

What those incentives and how exactly are they stronger than the financial incentive to not do anything and continue at full steam?

Sure there are some players than would benefit from the transition but that seems like the minority to me.
> but good management isn’t about control. It’s about understanding the work system and manipulating it so people will succeed

I happen to agree, but obviously the RTO people don't.

I'll make a bet that you have worked as <whatever the people you're managing do>, and were good at it, before going management. You understand the work from the inside.
I yet need to finish reading, but the first quarter already rang so many bells. Thank you for posting!
But if we're dividing by (a-1) then recognizing that it's safe may require a type NonOneNumber. And in other cases perhaps NonFortyTwoNumber. Where does that end?
Men and women aren’t equal, there are absolutely differences.
Okay, so what is actually happening in El Salvador?
With all due respect to Steve, he only demonstrates how the AT protocol ecosystem has ways of passing the buck from content creator to (uncreative but rich) middlemen, for dissemination, moderation, content curation, etc.

That is antithetic to what the indie web should be in my opinion: allowing corporations, because let's face it who'll be able to scale better, to control who sees what I post and who I see is not what I want from my social media. We have enough of that as it is.
Between 9-5, you are right.

Then, the action starts.

(When I worked in Germany, they practically locked the doors at 5.)
ssh is just as easy to use on the client side
€2 at Aldi, I have no idea what the poster is talking about. €60k is a very decent salary.
Back in the aughts I thought Vice felt legitimately edgy, surprising, adventurous. Then, they realized they could get boatloads of money from 'traditional' media companies, that desperately wanted to look not-traditional and thats when the character changed IMO. Then numerous sexual misconduct cases, key leaders replaced, and it was dead.