skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cannot afford FAANG salaries

Avoid recruitment channels (like HN!) where FAANG people and FAANG-apirants congregate.

> with lots of FAANG experience

Use FAANG experience as an exclusion filter, not an inclusion filter.

First, as you said, you can't afford the compensation that they're used to.

Second, FAANG companies can absorb tons of bad talent in their hiring process and have mechanisms to both push that talent back out and table it internally once it's known for what it is. There are many awful FAANG engineers. Some of the top performers in the world work for FAANG companies and they're often better at recruiting those people than almost anyone else, but FAANG experience does not identify someone as one of those top performers. It's a really misleading and noisy signal on resumes.

Third, even among talented people who shined in their roles at FAANG, they did so in a radically different work environment than you'll be offering them. The way they spend their days, the pace of deliverables they're calibrated to deliver, the amount of support/independence they need, etc are nothing like what suits your organization. Some may do well (or better) in your startup, but many are not going to be suited to it at all and (if hired into FAANG early) may not even have had the experience to know for themselves.

TLDR; you are not a FAANG company and looking anywhere near FAANG-associated candidates is your problem.
Especially if you're working as team.

Caring obsessively can be a negative in some competitive environments, e.g., a very insular/non-collaborative university department. But I suppose I might not call those other professors coworkers.
One concern I have with this is I don't see the benefit of using a fuzzy blackbox in an area that has largely been solved with traditional tree-based one-shot approaches that doesn't require AI.

Granularity and explicitness is often written off as expensive in this space but throwing a large model at a largely solved problem with existing tools and techniques seems spirit of the times.
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lots are the same size today, or maybe slightly smaller. back then everone had a garden which took up space.
You don't need a license for matches. They're not even age-restricted! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-154040...
so? if they stop vaccinating it WILL come back. FAST. also the ONLY way to eradicate an infectious disease is through vaccination. even then we only manage to do it once with smallpox
Take away enough dark patterns and you eventually kill Capitalism. :)
I've had this issue a lot, usually secondhand (search for a solution to X, find a bunch of forum posts that scold about X being bad and wrong even though it is absolutely the correct approach in my scenario).

But realistically, any kind of programming Q&A forum is absolutely flooded with beginners and dolts and literal children, so if you've somehow decided to be a power user that answers a million questions, it's probably reasonable to assume that they really want Y.
An old executive that I know once said that he saw multiple times in his career a back office task being automated away, but the person that did that one task had 20 other tasks beyond that single one that were not yet automated, so the job remained.

Maybe now we can get closer to completely eliminating some jobs? But I think this challenge will still present itself.
I don't use discord much but joined to provide any additional thoughts.
Yep, you captured the moment ^_^
I don't have an inner monologue as I find it explained in many of these articles, in the sense that I don't notice myself addressing myself with it. I would rather say I have a constant _dialogue_ with what I would describe as projections of people I know. I guess I must have developed that as a strategy to prepare for conversations, to evaluate how they might respond, but now it's so automatic that it can be really annoying, and even with a lot of meditation exercise I haven't managed to switch it off yet. There's a lot of arguments going on between different "people" in my mind quite often, most of the time actually, each "telling me their opinion". Which I know is simply me imagining how they might think of something.

I am also considering that this may be what people describe as "different parts of themselves"? In these sense that I sometimes find it hard to make a decision because I am "still engaged in conversations around it inside me". It also feels sometimes like I am never alone: there are always lots of witnesses to anything I do.
Older unlocked hardware will still be available. Also people still buy the Raspberry Pi anyway which doesn't even run Windows.
Sure -- but lets be clear about what this is a function of; this is misplaced incentives.

There's nothing (yet) incentivizing a clean, efficient, pleasant web, owing to the fact that scale of the stuff the web connects to/makes available doesn't have any meaningful "competition" whatsoever.
Input type=“date” was added and is supported in HTML5, no js required. Same with time!
It's always the same story with web scraping product building: On the surface it's very interesting work. There is joy in seeing the fruits of your work automating human hours. There is also pain in seeing race to the bottom in that its very tough to get a recurring client who is always looking to reduce the cost.
Stop trying to imply we should be in these 600 sqft shoeboxes where the only escape is to go outside in a dirty urban city and walk around.

I want a large home I can decorate, with lots of light to keep me happy, and space to invite friends and host a variety of activities, a garden I can tend to and see animals, or just be at peace enjoying the quiet tranquility of not being attached to a neighbor.

If I had no choice but to live stuck in a tiny apartment all my life – I’d just kill myself.
No, I'm excited. Better tools mean I can achieve more.
What's more, this isn't history. Code from the Celera assembler lives on in a lineage of assembly methods (Canu, HiCanu, Verkko) which have ultimately _completely automated the process of complete genome assembly_
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-01662-6. The fact that this assembly approach remained relevant until practical resolution of the assembly problem is a testament to its solid theoretical foundation (the string graph) which relates read length, error rate, and information theoretic limits of genome assembly https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bti1114.
Perhaps what causes this is managers who want to level up usually do so by commanding ever larger groups of people. And when they hire for that scenario they don't really care what kind of people they hire.
Are you being sarcastic or do you actually believe that nonsense? There are a huge number of places outside the SF Bay Area that have good jobs available. Lots of openings in North Dakota for good oil and gas production jobs. Plenty of high paying work in Cleveland for anyone with healthcare skills. The list goes on and on.

Personally I wouldn't want to live in SF proper even if it was cheap. Most of the city is kind of a shithole and the governance is atrocious in a way that goes far beyond just failed housing policies.
Survivorship bias seems heavily at play here though. You don’t hear about all the people that just die way too young.
The term 'senior' is completely meaningless. I've seen people get a senior role ~1.5 years after graduating bootcamp.
I can personally say that this single image would preclude me from recommending this platform to 95% of my social circle.
Any system that involves an electrical solar panel connected to a low-temperature electrical heater is likely to be better served with a solar hot water panel, by about a 10:1 ratio.
I do like Bluesky's take on identity in particular. Mastodon is pretty catastrophic in the way that identity works, and AT proto offers some really compelling ideas here. That said, I don't know. I desperately hope for Bluesky to succeed, because some of the ideas would be great in an ideal world where they've got it all figured out, but I hope that the resources necessary to run relays winds up being a lot less than its made out to be. Otherwise, if it really does require massive amounts of resources, I just can't see anyone choosing to do this. For Japan, I think it is much more likely they would pour resources into domestic SNS services like Misskey.io, as Skeb, Inc recently did.
I've been on large and small teams of people that cared and didn't care. It feels noble and reasonable and right to tie it to a greater purpose; like your soup kitchen vs supermarket example. It's not that type of care the OP is getting at.

It's closer to a craftmanship kind of care. Being proud of what you're putting into the world. Caring that it works well, not because the purpose is important, but because it's something you're doing and you want to do it well.
yeah - its hard to remember how many people out there haven't seen a 'down' market before. 2008 was literally 16 years ago...

Anyway, I'll take today's economy over the dot com bust, the early 2000 off-shoring craze, and 2008 recession..
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That map interface is maybe a bit better if you’re looking for a specific route
Thanks for posting this.

I work in data science and I haven’t seen anybody claiming that PCA, an unsupervised technique, is a good classification (supervised) technique. I think this is the framing that the author is pursuing.

That said, some candidates might mention clustering because it’s easy to understand and you can apply an action (this group is high but also good customers so they get a special treatment).
Not discussing the trivial example (since for any model there exists a distribution and a dataset on which a model will not perform). Just a general thought. Intro to ML teaches us this: if we want to "learn" a hypothesis class reasonably well with a finite sample, the class shouldn't be too complex. Otherwise we lose precision and/or any guarantees. This implies that for any DL algorithm A(S) on sample S, there exists a data transformation g such that B(g(S)) will result in a lower* risk for some simpler algorithm B. The question is not whether linear models are good or bad, but how complex/expensive is the transformation g.
I would be glad to apply and can do some decent Golang backend work for a much more reasonable $$. How would I do it?
> One of the top things that I want in a job is coworkers who care obsessively.

While I agree with the premise, the "downstream" really matters though.

There's a lot of different ways to care obsessively and many are quite toxic if you've ever worked with them. One example comes to mind is I've been there were PR comments are way overbearing. There's definitely good points/notes, but nitpicking, snide comments, holier-than-art attitude easily comes along with the boat.

"With love" is such a blase statement, but it really has to be the starting point. That caring combined with respect has to be present to be a healthy, long term working environment.

Like with many things, there's a balance.
> I had one person today - with lots of FAANG experience who’d recently gone freelance - tell me that they weren’t willing to work with me to write code but they were willing to do advising for $450/hr. We just weren’t on the same page.

I don't know. If you're not hiring them full time, it might be a bargain, and save you a bunch of money. Particularly if you're trying to architect services from the ground up.

Some people are "force multipliers". In that the work they do can save 10x the engineering time. Dennis Ritchie was maybe a 1B force multiplier.

I was paid $100k/year about a decade ago and saved the company I worked for $4M.

In short, you don't know what you don't know. How much is it worth for you to find out?
!remindme 50 years
> My father called me in exasperation last night after trying and failing to book a plane ticket

I've been going through really infuriating experiences with airlines' software too. Web apps, totems for luggage dispatching, everything. I know it's hard to pinpoint a single cause, but I believe that the current trend of overemphasizing aesthetics plays a major role on the current deplorable state of affairs: applications get too hard to design and build and at the end of the day there's simply not enough time to properly test things and fix its bugs.
I'll disagree. The last 20 years I've been a DBA/DA/dev at a slew of medium/large/ultragiant mining/construction/engineering companies. In almost every single one, there's a young gun quietly operating somewhere there, the equivalent of a 10x developer, a "Senior Engineer" in their mid-20's.

Sure, they're the exception, but with enough numbers you'll always find exceptions.
One of the automakers in the article claims that voids your warranty. It may or may not but enjoy the legal battle should you ever need to make a claim.
How would you describe the difference between thoughtful and caring?
This is a perfect response, well done good sir. Stay classy
usa is so funny, the 1A this, the 2A that...

Nobody has thinked this is just another anti competition practice more in a large list of similar cases?

Read something about ur country that wasnt written in ur country please
So, delayed to may to give them more time to polish up their core apps (terminal, text editor, app store). I’m excited for the release.
Probably not relevant to the specific problem at hand because sand that's getting heated to 600 degrees is going to quickly boil off any residual moisture. As a warning, though, so that people don't experience the pain I got to experience, a pile of sand is really good at holding onto water internally and freezing when it gets cold. We had to replace our sewer line a while back and for various reasons were taking care of filling the hole and redoing the concrete ourselves. The sand guys left a big pile in the driveway for us and as soon as winter came the whole pile turned into a single giant rock despite having been out in the hot sun previously.

Exactly to your point, though, one of the great things about using sand for this application instead of water is that you can probably just shut the thing off for maintenance without having to worry about draining all of the sand out. If it freezes up due a bit of residual moisture content it's not going to expand nearly the same way that a silo full of water would, and it should be easy enough to thaw out just by putting some heat into it.
I've physically disconnected the modem in my Audi, though when it goes to the dealer for a service (still under extended warranty) I cannot help but imagine that they download the data.
The assistant has its own "instructions" (replacement for system prompt)

and then on each run, you have the option to add more guidance to the run explicitly, without modifying the assistant instructions (system prompt)

It's a little bit different but kind of the same
This has been around for a long time. The Detroit VA hospital used it, I believe with tanks under the parking structure. I also believe there were problems related to the maintenance of the tanks.

But the important aspect is that this is a cost saving technique, not an energy saving one. You’ll spend more energy because of the thermal losses of the tanks, but hopefully it is more than offset by the cheaper electricity rate.
I mean it’s all but spelled out in this quote.

> "There are very big individual differences," he said, "Some people have absolutely none and some people have pretty close to 100 per cent
Less politically radicalised maybe? America should have all the tech and resources required to pull this stuff off, but it just doesn’t happen.
Why WASM and not gVisor, which runs any program compiled to your architecture with similar isolation from the host kernel?
Those are "castle builders". But I've also seen people hire bad people to be tossed to the curb for an upcoming 5% across the board layoff.
Ok, Russian government to be clear.
I appreciate you sharing this! But to be fair, those exceptions are presumably granted with some honor for proven work.

Titles were never normalized in the software industry because we've resisted licensure -- so organizations freely make up their own, rotate them, inflate them and workers don't complain so long as it sounds no less cool/marketable than their last one.
NASA has been investing in hardcore knowledge management and information organization for well over half a century now.
The temperature also matters. If you need at least 50 C water to run district heating, about half of the energy stored in near boiling water cannot be utilized. This is much less with 600 C sand.
Clean and efficient web (for consumers) isn't terribly profitable.

Craigslist could make a lot more money, especially in the short-term, with different design and monetization choices.
> Could be driven by a solar furnace.

Perhaps more interestingly, it could be driven by combustion of an e-fuel as a backup in case the sand becomes depleted.
The GPL is quite conscious of the fact that several of its terms would be useless in a sensible copyright regime.

That said, although both are "broad" they are quite different concepts. The linked "interoperability" cases involve 3 works/parties A, B, and C, and the EFF's claim is that A should have no rights regarding B+C just because B+A existed first. OTOH, the GPL's relevants to linking is that A has rights regarding A+B.

The US definition of "derivative work" is quite broad, and seems to cover linking just fine.

The Berne Convention, however, doesn't mention "derivative works", only specific traditional examples thereof, so it's possible that countries other than the US may have implemented it in such a way that linking doesn't count as a derived work. TODO look up "compilation" (in the copyright sense) and "collective work", which might actually be more relevant for linking?

Edit: "GPL is MAD in the copyright cold war" is a good phrase to describe things.
Everyone should send an email to taylor @ blueboard . com about this. Just my two cents here as an ex employee
I am afraid there are no such thing as "friends" when it comes to international politics...
> But.. somehow, they still account for only a small fraction of papers.

They are only going to publish results which have no effect on their competitive advantage as a business ... which could be a small fraction of their results.
Much of the US has access to cheap natural gas. And a good amount of oil. The greater the cost of energy the more it drives innovation in energy usage as well as incentivizes projects that would have a longer pay back period where energy is cheaper. Although Norway has abundant energy but socialized the profits and is using them to advance their usage of renewables and electrification. In the US we privatize the gains and only socialize the losses.
My company's profits were up in 2020-21 and then we went back to the office in 2022 and our profits and stock price dropped. We had 500 openings in 2020-21 and then we laid off 8% of the employees in 2023.

I joke in meetings that we just need to go back home and we will make more money.

I work for a fabless semiconductor company that makes chips for data centers and other applications, not a software company.
I am happy to continue to shed light on Boeing's MBA-fueled mishaps over the last decade but the 777 is generally a well designed airplane from the 90s...

Unless they somehow managed to infect even the 777, or newer variations of it?
Finding rotations that maximize variance is not that far from euclidean based clustering.
No, they shake their fist and blame "nobody wants to hire juniors and train them any more, everyone just wants to hire seniors!"
He does not appear to be subject to the contributor code of conduct.
https://docs.kernel.org/process/code-of-conduct.html
Did you forget the part where the bots simply lost twice against pro teams?
There are ways to cool it faster, but I haven't figured out one that is reliable enough. Put in the fridge? Depends on how full it is, what type of vessel it's in, etc. Put it in a tub of room-temperature water? Depends on the conductivity (not sure if that's the right word) of the vessel it's in, exactly how much room-temperature water you use, etc.
For some reason this description sounds exactly like a computer, and specifically the CPU/GPU, and I love it.
...which is great as long as you don't need a calendar on the page itself, or a calendar that shows two months instead of one, or a calendar where you can display information on dates or block selection of certain dates, or a calendar you can add any CSS styling to, or... you get the idea.
what are some other solutions that can browse the web for me and do what I ask. The requirement is that it should take natural language instructions as input.
Throwing a feature request in here just in case someone from OpenAI sees it.

I'd really like it if the streaming versions of their APIs could return a token usage count at the end.

The non-streaming APIs do this right now:

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" -d '{
"model": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "A short fun fact about pigeons"
}
]
}'

Returns:

{
"id": "chatcmpl-92UiIWQaf442wq7Eyp7kF8ge0e3fE",
"object": "chat.completion",
"created": 1710381746,
"model": "gpt-3.5-turbo-0125",
"choices": [
{
"index": 0,
"message": {
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Pigeons are one of the few bird species that can drink water by sucking it up through their beaks, rather than tilting their heads back to swallow."
},
"logprobs": null,
"finish_reason": "stop"
}
],
"usage": {
"prompt_tokens": 14,
"completion_tokens": 33,
"total_tokens": 47
},
"system_fingerprint": "fp_4f0b692a78"
}

Note the "usage" block there telling me how many tokens were used (which tells me how much this cost).

But if I add "stream": true I get back an SSE stream that looks like this:

...
data: {"id":"chatcmpl-92Uk81oNjrcUJQnPX8fSNqFINLfSI","object":"chat.completion.chunk","created":1710381860,"model":"gpt-3.5-turbo-0125","system_fingerprint":"fp_4f0b692a78","choices":[{"index":0,"delta":{"content":"."},"logprobs":null,"finish_reason":null}]}

data: {"id":"chatcmpl-92Uk81oNjrcUJQnPX8fSNqFINLfSI","object":"chat.completion.chunk","created":1710381860,"model":"gpt-3.5-turbo-0125","system_fingerprint":"fp_4f0b692a78","choices":[{"index":0,"delta":{},"logprobs":null,"finish_reason":"stop"}]}

data: [DONE]

There's no "usage" block, which means I have to try and account for the tokens myself. This is really inconvenient!

I noticed the other day that the Claude streaming API returns a "usage" block with the last message. I'd love it if OpenAI's API did the same thing.

I need this right now because I'm starting to build features for end users of my own software, and I want to be able to give them X,000 tokens "free" before starting to charge them for extras. Counting those tokens myself (probably using tiktoken) is code I'd rather not have to write - especially since features like tools/functions or images make counting tokens a lot less obvious.
But the government hates online privacy. It stops them from spying. And (though I don't know this for a fact) I feel tech giants could be lobbying against privacy laws.
I think he's focusing too much on the runway, and not enough on growth frankly.

Investors these days want a return on investment in 18-24 months, not 5 years.
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This is compex. Rural gravel roads are likely cheaper per capite than paved roads, but they don't scale to the triffic of a suburb. A city street needs to be more expensive yet.
it's a double-edged sword. I want balance rather than obsession.