skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get your CV/resume reviewed by friends/former colleagues or hell even here on HN. I have seen some ... let's say "wacky" CVs.

It feels like though the market is somewhat in the doldrums now - I have no direct experience of current conditions but at my BigCo (deliberately not naming) hiring is basically stopped, even for backfill/attrition. Seems like companies are kinda spooked at the moment and not really hiring, and letting headcount naturally shrink.

Have you considered contract work? If companies are not hiring FTEs, they may still be looking for temporary contract work as that is lower risk for them.

Good luck.
Small reminder:

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/06/pentagon-socom-deepfake-...

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-...
Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little
Silly troll.
Nobody ever needs an “IT system” to support all of the relevant processes, no matter how large the organisation.
This rocks, it's for sites like this that I religiously check show and shownew daily
that's what i said
From our experience simple RAG is often not that helpful as the questions itself are not represented in the vector space (except you use an FAQ dataset as input). Either a preprocessing by an LLM or specific context handling needs to be done.
I'll probably be (relatively) poor soon
> That is completely trivial for a machine

If given as arbitrary images the tests become a bit more 'fair'

It will be fascinating to see the race between the invention of new tests which humans excel at and the progress of models.

... until neither us nor the machines can think of any more categorically different tests
APL and Syntax (2022)
You might enjoy F#. It's a lot like OCaml (which others have mentioned) but being part of the .NET ecosystem there are libraries available for pretty much anything you might want to do.
Printing directly to the console, even in a console app, is for debug purposes only.

If your console app is writing output to any device, it must, for instance, handle errors gracefully.

That means, at least in Rust, write! rather than print!.
Russia says it is considering putting a nuclear power plant on moon with China
And I'll add that sometimes contracts lead to permanent jobs.
Can either of you point out examples of the media eating out of his palm? I haven't seen it.

Here's what the NYT said about that "hagiography":

> Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur depicts a mercurial “man-child” with grandiose ambitions and an ego to match.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/books/review/elon-musk-wa...
FTP support was removed from Explorer years ago I thought?
This. Reliability in F1 20+ or so years ago was appalling, even though cars back then had the complexity of a toaster compared to the hybrid cars of today with their split turbos with energy recovery. Advancements in CAD/CAE simulations really made an impact since manufacturing tolerances were never an issue.
I think these cars and planes will run on cutting edge technology like Andreessen-Horowitz AI HotAir for power and Block chains for seatbelts. This will change everything.
Retro.rsvp: 1-click ratings for Google Calendar meetings
> the touchscreen, as long as it is responsive (of course the vast majority of car touchscreens are not, but some are)

Normal refresh cycle period for tablets(iPads) is ~5 years.

Normal life of a car is 10 years (2x).

That means that by year 7 or so, multi-touch performance in autos starts to seriously lag consumer tablet market.

Perhaps we need to have a replaceable/swappable infotainment console now
This is pretty cool, what model do you use?
I think it is too flippant to say "lose basic reasoning abilities". What they are probably doing (further research required, I didn't read his referencee) is re-contextualising the problem from a logic puzzle to a situation where they have to demonstrate in-group allegence; which has a higher priority than getting the technically correct answer and/or accurately showing their reasoning.

Ie, they can reason fine and know what they are saying makes no sense, but the situation is one where the speaker believes a technically correct answer conflicts with their best long term interests.

It is like fashion. The point isn't that anyone thinks there are new innovations on how to look good every decade or so - the point is to keep making arbitrary changes to figure out who is in the in group. The political equivalent of fashion means believing things that don't make sense.
Granted 2 of those mistakes were chose oracle and listened to oracle.
>The problem is that car racing is very boring if you allow engineers to go wild.

Or ridiculously dangerous. The cars are much less fast than they could be.
The idea is that they make the best decision for themselves, not the right decision (which is a completely meaningless definition). And since they are the majority, at least the majority of people will be happy. Rather than the minority being happy.
Honestly I wish I could use it more for boring back end business logic, too.
> when you finally have chance to work on a greenfield project

the person that comes along next is going to moan about how much of a mess of compromises and hacks your, now, legacy codebase is
2020 is ancient and the second link doesn't look impartial. Denying cryptocurrency facilitate criminal activities is as like denying the sky is blue.
From your answer, I assume you're a KDE contributor. Thank you for your contributions (regardless of what kind). Plasma really made me feel like the desktop is trying to accommodate me, the user, instead of the other way around.

I have a large collection of images saved in my computer, which I often send to other people through chat programs. The file picker with thumbnails is a godsend.

Nice work!
”The richest man in the world does not own a house and has recently been selling off his fortune. He tosses satellites into orbit and harnesses the sun; he drives a car he created that uses no gas and barely needs a driver. With a flick of his finger, the stock market soars or swoons. An army of devotees hangs on his every utterance. He dreams of Mars as he bestrides Earth, square-jawed and indomitable.”

https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2021-elon-musk/

This was the dominant storyline in 2010-2021 until he shot his foot off with the Twitter purchase.
This is why it's a good idea to use ninite for installing The Usual Suspects on windows. Among other things, they make sure to avoid any adware.

https://ninite.com/
"speed of light can get before interstellar travel is outright impossible"

Time is relative to your frame of reference. If you travel to Proxima Centauri at 99.99% c, it will take you 22 days from your point of reference sitting in the spaceship, which is quite acceptable. On Earth, 4.24 years have passed. So, your family and friends grow old quite fast when you do interstellar travel without them; hence, it's better to take them with you.
How about physical office jobs in your area? Have you applied to those? Remote is tough these days but willing to butt in the seat for 8 hours with a 2 hours commute might put food on your plate and buy you time.
The canonical reason a language adds a utility like print over just offering the services of the underlying console is to make the Hello, World example as terse as possible.

IO is inherently extremely complicated, but we always want people to be able to do their simplified form without thinking about it.
But the system prompt is just what comes first on the same channel.

Having entirely separate inputs can't be a novel idea, can it? It might be enough to have a set of input neurons to indicate what channel the current input belongs to.

After that, I imagine the nn could be trained simon-says-style with commands in the email channel, and punishment if it responds at all to them.
Visualizing Multitenant Data Flows in Serverless Postgres
The market did get tougher. It's not you. That means that you have to put considerably more effort, or a different kind of effort, to land a job.

Think about landing the job as a numbers game. There are a bunch of steps, connected into a pipeline. Roughly, it's 1. find offers 2. apply 3. prescreen 4. interviews 5. offer

At each step of the pipeline, you will have fewer and fewer offers that will remain. Your goal is to bring one through the whole pipeline.

Think about the pass rate. Say you got 3 offers, but two were bad, and you accepted one. That's 33% pass rate.

You got invited for interviews at 20 firms, and three ended in offers. That's a 15% pass rate.

You were sent 30 pre-screening questionnaires, and got 20 interview invites. 66% pass rate.

You applied to 100 jobs, and got 30 pre-screening questionnaires. 30% pass rate.

These numbers are made up. You can work on any step of the pipeline and try to do things differently to see if it improves your pass rate.

In your case, are you not getting enough interviews? Or are you getting tons of interviews but are not getting any offers (or are not getting invited to a 2nd interview).

If it's the first, maybe you need to devote attention to your resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile.

If it's the latter, maybe better interview prep or coaching will help.

It's a numbers game. You have to keep trying, but also tweak the steps along the way.

If you have any concrete questions or would like some help, my contact info is in my profile.
> Rust is often not a good fit for the software architectures required unless you are comfortable writing a lot of awkward unsafe code.

If you have to write "a lot of awkward unsafe code" in Rust, you're doing something wrong. I use C++ rather than Rust, but any time I'm implementing any sort of non-trivial data structure or inter-thread communication, I encapsulate it in a "safe" interface that is impossible to misuse (at least in debug mode) and clearly deliniates the boundary at which e.g. a memory safety or data race audit would have to cover. In general, minimizing the volume and surface area of "unsafe" code is a generally useful heuristic in any systems language.
Small clarification but there’s a gap between the chassis and the mesh that is just open (almost forms a triangular hole opening).

He’s blocking the gap between the mesh and the car, not against the mesh itself. If you google “nascar window net” you can see what I mean
My favorite:

Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY

If you're interested in kids + computers + education, this 1955 Technology in Education House Committee Meeting is a surprisingly great watch, and has Kay alongside Seymour Papert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwsQn1Rs-4A
GCP, Azure and AWS have been here for more than 10 years, free to do almost whatever they want. Did the prices decrease and competions pop up everywhere ?
Ukraine Is Now Fighting Russia in Sudan
Yeah, Time's author was hyperbolic and colorful, but in both directions. He wasn't eating out of Musk's palm:

"This is the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit: clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman, cad; a madcap hybrid of Thomas Edison, P.T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie and Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan, the brooding, blue-skinned man-god who invents electric cars and moves to Mars."
Is there really that much of a distinction between OpenAI and Microsoft at this point? Not talking about on paper like tax documents but in the real world of interests, objectives and decision-making.
Related:

Some more discussion:

Tesla Berlin gigafactory goes dark after alleged eco-sabotage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604320
GPT-4 vision and but the magic is in the code generation optimization algorithm. Quite the technical challenge, but makes it more effective by mitigating hallucination!
Daily recommend fluid intake for men is 3.7 liters (20% from food).

2l of something doesn't seem excessive.
Crypto firms are hiring like crazy right now for software engineering positions. Whatever you think about the space, its a solid paycheck until something else comes along.
Palantir wins $178M Army deal for TITAN AI-enabled ground stations
Successful Lunar landing rate is about 60%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing
I'm not in Europe, but at least in India, I hear a lot of news of layoffs.

I left the field but my friends tell me the market is brutal.

So maybe it's not you.
Musk is CEO. Shotwell is COO.
The fun part of F1 races nowadays is watching Ferrari repeatedly kick itself in the balls by fucking up the strategies of their drivers in the most creative ways possible, despite having a great car, great drivers and more money than God.
Bit Magnet:
https://bitmagnet.io
Funny this has come up – I've literally just finished building a RAG search with Postgres this morning.

I run a directory site for UX articles and tools, which I've recently rebuilt in Django. It has links to over 5000 articles, making it hard to browse, so I thought it'd be fun to use RAG with citations to create a knowledge search tool.

The site fetches new articles via RSS, which are chunked, embedded and added to the vector store. On conducting a search, the site returns a summary as well as links to the original articles. I'm using LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Supabase.

It's taken a little while to figure out as I really didn't know what I was doing and there's loads of improvements to make, but you can try it out here: https://www.uxlift.org/search/

I'd love to hear what you think.
Then you should have no problem elaborating.
Good luck with your trolling.
They seem to be trying to jam AI into a bunch of things now.

As an aside, I work on a product that should be considered feature complete, but PMs keep dreaming up features so they can get promoted. I wish we could just take some time to clean up the horrendous tech debt accrued over the past 10 years of feature proliferation.
There was always obvious utility to the Internet. None of the ideas behind why bit coin is useful are panning out besides it being the best way to pay for illegal activity by criminal gangs internationally.

The fees are more expensive than banks and credit cards.

Its value is extremely volatile, so legitimate businesses immediately convert to cash if they accept it.

It's not anonymous like cash. Funds are actually easily traceable. So it is pretty much a guarantee that any scam involving bit coin crosses an international border with the blessing of the state.

Mining is a massive waste of energy at this point and if it continues will likely become a major contributing factor to climate change.

I would say bit coin was a nice idea, but currently is a failure in every way except to the people who got in early and to scammers.

Maybe a future crypto could solve some or all of these problems so I'm not in favor of banning the idea, but there's a legitimate argument to be made for banning bit coin. But the people who made a bunch of money from it will fight it extremely hard.
Deep learning-based space debris detection
> What if we were making a language like Rust, but one that was meant to feel more like Java or JavaScript, and less like C++?

That would be Swift?

Interesting experiment. But it does seem like there are increasing numbers of languages trying to crowd into the same spaces.
The Dumber Side of Smart People
I feel you. I've been there a couple of months ago. Luckily it turned around and I got two offers in one week after months of nothing. I have 10 years of fullstack experience and some tech lead experience. The job market feels hard now. Few years ago it took me a few weeks to fill my calendar with interviews...
[dupe]

Some more discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604320
I thought this article was very insightful.

I think one element to recognise is that politics is the fundamental way we make collective decisions. It is extremely important, both in a rational sense and (with humans being social animals) emotional sense.

The article focuses on the irrational or pathological aspect of toxic politics, and that is definitely relevant. But also important is to recognise that a strong emotional response is not irrational, even if the resulting thoughts aren't. The outcome of the political process _does_ seriously affects our lives.

I think that be acknowledging this, it's easier for us to notice and mindfully accept our emotional reactions to politics, see through the filter of our experience, and therefore make more informed decisions — and ultimately that's our only way out of a trapped prior.
I create a lot of webapps. The last couple of years I started using only system-ui as font @ 100% size.

Nobody ever commented about this because it just looks good.

When you are building a web experience I can understand the need for other fonts (although I block downloading external fonts). But I totally agree with you when it comes to (web) apps.
I've witnessed what Casey calls "Conway's Nightmare" (at 32:04 in his video) firsthand- it is definitely real. Basically, a software system isn't necessarily just a reflection of an organization, it's an amalgamation of all of the organizations that worked on the software system in the past.
Hitler and Stalin were Time's men^H^H^Hpersons of the year.

So were you in 2006.
This sounds like my exact experience at another big tech company
Why do you want to be a <insert job you're passionate about>, just do it as a hobby spend ~8 hours a day doing something you hate.
Thanks! Reeder is a blast from the past! :)

I can't find any info on whether or how well it handles video feeds and podcasts. Do you use it for either of those things?
Do you happen to be hiring for customer support roles?
You have to look beyond the surface. Cryptocurrencies work specifically to address a system where no node can trust any other node. If I cannot trust any other node, why would I fetch anyone else's index, or ask them for the results of a query, or even talk to them ?

Unless there can be a way to trivially verify what others tell you, crypto currencies are a dead end
> Ancient warriors apparently didn’t get PTSD

Ancient warriors didn't get PTSD because they fought the "normal" way that we'd evolved to fight: hand-to-hand (and of course there were arrows).

Not sitting in a trench for months in awful weather, suffering disease and exhaustion while you wait to be bombed, or ordered to charge into machine guns and mortars with little chance of even encountering the enemy before you die in the mud.

Not living in a base among a potentially hostile populace where anyone could shoot you in the back, or lay a bomb for you, or box you in traffic and machine gun the whole vehicle to Swiss cheese.

The "you vs your opponent, fighting to the death" is not the traumatic part; it's the constant waiting for a pervasive, effectively invisible force that kills off or grievously injures your comrades one-by-one (losing friends until you finally stop making them in order to keep the pain at bay), and you're powerless to stop it because all the weapons are so huge and deadly and attack from range or concealment, at all hours, and your own personal strength and training - although they help - aren't going to count for much against it.
The introduction sounds very GPTy:

> His journey was marked by challenges: from the nuances of remote work to the struggle of influencing company culture, and a critical incident that put his principles to the test against the company’s push for speed.

>Chris’s story highlights the tension between the need for innovation and the importance of project health. This all led Chris to a pivotal decision: to stay and compromise his beliefs or to leave in pursuit of work that aligned with his principles.

>He chose the latter. Join us as we dive into Chris’s compelling story, exploring the challenges of advocating for principled engineering in a world that often prioritizes quick wins over long-term value.
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Hey, I'm in the Netherlands. We don't hire remotely, so you'd need to move here if you're not here already. I don't know if I can help, but my company is doing well. Feel free to email me for more info.
Ask HN: Why don't we turn government into a subscription service?
Every service government offers today could be thought of as a subscription service which we are forced to pay for.

Every service exists to offer a benefit (direct or indirect) to the taxpayer.

Why don't we let companies compete to offer these benefits, and let people pay for what they want?

A good way to explore it is: if government ceased to exist overnight...what would be the order in which you would be impacted by the lack of services, and what steps would people take to plug these gaps, considering the fact that we live in a technological age with the internet and nascent AI.
>My understanding is consumer prefer buying the biggest and tastiest looking items

Yes, when they don't have a choice, yes. /s
> I don't understand the obsession people have with throwing out LOC

LOC is the metric I get to remain employed or fired on.
The argument that crypto bros are useful idiots to criminals, sanctioned states and rich early adopters is much more reasonable, no?
That's because you aren't using Modern C++. You can write Modern C++ safely, you just need to use the right set of features and not the other ones.

Here is a short read on this topic,

https://www.amazon.ca/Embracing-Modern-Safely-John-Lakos/dp/...

It's only 2661 pages. Yes, that is almost 3x longer than The Rust Programming Language, 2nd Ed.
I think they won the spam war ages ago but AI might take the lead now, true.
What is Dada?
So Dart is moving in the Swift direction, which has

if let value = value {
// a new binding named ‘value’ refers to value, unwrapped
}

or (newer syntax that I initially found even weirder than the older one, but both grew on me)

if let value {
// a new binding named ‘value’ refers to value, unwrapped
}

(The old version will remain, as it is more flexible, allowing such things as

if let baz = foo.bar(42) {
// a new binding named ‘baz’ refers to foo.bar(42), unwrapped
}
)
And we have cloud caching for the "build from scratch" case so even that can be pretty quick. This all just takes a little time investment.
Isn’t that quote exactly the image Musk is trying to project?
Where did you get that from? It seems pretty clear to me that language models are intended to be a component in a larger suite of software, composed to create AGI. See: DALL-E and Whisper for existing software that it composes with.