skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's also a growing realization that, along with what you've said, putting large emphasis on leetcode skills, or using leetcode at all, is not leading to the best hiring results. That doesn't mean leetcode shouldn't be used in interviews --- I'm sure, for better or worse, leetcode style questions are here to stay in tech interviews; but, that there's a growing sense that people who are simply good at binging and purging leetcode might not be the best fits for experienced roles that require experienced skillsets.

It's partly the result of software dev as a field maturing (quite literally, most are now older) after the ZIRP bonanza of the last couple years.
I do not see the point, there is not much syntactical sugar.

Basically all non-systemverilog HDL languages suffer from the issue that they make development maybe simpler, but on the other side it will be much harder to test the code, because the systemverilog output has to be simulated.
Additionally of course, synthesis and timing reports will tell you line numbers in generated systemverilog files instead of the line number of randomHDL.
> "I think most people are mistaken about it," said Hurlburt. "People are hyper-confident. 'Yes I have inner monologue.' And other people say, 'No I don't have a monologue.' And the chances are pretty good that both sides of the debate are mistaken."

I think this is the answer. I think it's likely we're all experiencing something similar, but we're all describing it in different ways. People in the article who seem shocked at the idea of an internal monologue are getting hung up on this assumption that people are hearing an audible voice commenting on their every move, but I don't think anyone is actually experiencing that unless they're schizophrenic.

Some people reading this will say "no, I really do hear a voice!" But I'd ask if the audio of that voice is capable of drowning out the noise around you. I'm guessing it isn't. And if that's the case, we've discovered we're both working with different definitions of what it means to hear.

I think the more likely explanation is that many of us have developed a habit where we activate this pseudo-voice in order to have pretend conversations in our head, and others just didn't develop that same habit -- although they could probably do it if they tried.
Don’t you also get this functionality from a combination of BigQuery, Connected Sheets and ImportRange nowadays?
That sounds like exaggeration to me, in service of a bias against "formal education". But OK. YMMV.

My statement applies only to the experience of working with the things, and relates not at all to "formal education". If I have to learn the subject to debug what they're putting out, then the rate-limiting step of using them is...learning the subject. Same as it ever was.

Having a stochastic parrot spit a stream of 20% nonsense at me doesn't make learning go faster -- it definitely does make work go faster if I'm already an expert, however.
What do we expect ai to be some kind of god level intelligence. The fact that it even understood the request is a paradigm shifting event.
Wouldn't a general purpose 3d AI learn just as quickly about those issues in the real world as they do in-game issues?

Video game physics can also be made more difficult - it's not a stretch to think about a reality simulator that dials these real-world effects up to 11 for AI to train in, at which point you need the meatspace bot and many things start to happen.
Does it in fact "rely" on it, or does that merely expand its scope? Even if its claims of what is "derivative" were diminished to exclude linking/API calls, the GPL would survive, albeit as slightly less viral.
You should use distilled water to avoid volatiles in tap water, like chlorine.
Only a company that is decrepit and unable to figure out how to invest in their own growth and improvement does buybacks. Actually investing is a far better for long term shareholdes. Once company uses buybacks accessibly, you know the management doesn't have it.
For the record, my analogy was to describe Apple as a government, not to describe government as a private corporation. I don't think it's in any way "twisted" to describe Apple as the government of the landscape it birthed. And of course people don't get voting rights. It's a benevolent dictatorship open to anyone who considers the terms acceptable. Wouldn't imply otherwise.

I think it's absolutely the case that Sony "governs" the PlayStation ecosystem. That town is way more restrictive than Appletown, but plenty of happy people live there too.
This is especially painful for college grads, who don’t have specific experience to fall back on.

There is no training or university pipeline any longer?
Yeah downvote me more. Marx was a moron and labor doesn’t make the cost of a product. You would have to be intellectually disabled to not see that.
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It can be counterproductive though.... reminds me of quite a few OSS projects where the user asks "how do I do X?" only to be met with "you shouldn't do X, <insult>"
What I desperately want is the generation of a lock file so that environment installs are cryptographically guaranteed to be repeatable byte-for-byte. I recognize that this means either checksums every platform supported, but I’ve been startled that none of the options I’ve found seem to have the capacity for this.
>I think the original plan was to convert the heat back into electricity with a turbine.

Is that just speculation or did you read it somewhere? IIRC the original motivation of PNE was a bunch of engineers at uni speculating on how to build the perfect building for engineers, and making it self-sufficient would require handling its own heating, which they originally thought would be best done with a big hot-water tank to store the heat. No turbine was suggested, IIRC.
If an index is being touted and it's garbage it is harmful. (I have not formed an opinion on the index being assessed).

The point being if it's extremely variable it /will/ be gamed and will work against you. The circular arrow symbol on plastics is a recent example where poor definition of what it meant has even led to consumers believing a symbol indicating non-recyclable means recyclable. A superior indicator for consumers that would get vastly less wrong is "plastic is not recyclable."

This or any index to provide information to consumers should be aggressively scrutinized. What it is today will not be what it becomes unless it can be defended, which requires thorough and widespread understanding.
I'm about two hours into the audiobook version of Dogs of War by Tchaikovsky. The narration is a little rough on the non-dog chapters, but the plot and setting is interesting so far.

I'll always recommend his Shards of Earth series for sci-fi enjoyers, I love the worldbuilding in this one. And if you're really into the intelligent animal/alternate timelines tropes, his Doors of Eden wasn't a bad read either.
> is good for ...

... creating a massive pressure for sideloading and alternative/non-official app-stores. Don't for a minute think that those millions of people who currently enjoy that platform will suddently want to stop. Necessity is the mother of invention.

(No, personally I don't use TikTok, YouTube or any other cat video sites. I'm not in that demographic)
Good to see this interesting and very fundamental topic getting attention, and looking forward to the next post, where hopefully the algorithm's cleverness will be explored.

>It does this by being greedy, that is trying to consume as many lines that are the same before making a change (therefore avoiding the “wrong end” problem), and also by preferring deletions over insertions when given a choice, so that deletions appear first.

Not really. The algorithm guarantees to find an alignment/diff/edit script of minimal length, but whether it prefers the "leftmost" such alignment ("wrong-end" here and in many similar cases in source code) or the "rightmost" ("right-end" here) is not a crucial aspect of how it works. The preference can be switched by reversing both inputs before diffing and then reversing the output afterwards -- but that's also the case for any other algorithm that solves this problem optimally.

Myers's algorithm is greedy in another sense, however: It greedily hunts first for a solution in which no edits are necessary, then solutions in which 1 edit (insertion or deletion) is necessary, then 2, etc., terminating as soon as it finds a solution. Clearly this leads to an optimal (smallest-possible) diff. It also means that it takes time proportional to the amount of difference between the two inputs, which is the clever part: This is what makes it much faster than other approaches in the common case where the two inputs are highly similar.
I would totally welcome good and adjustable on-console AIs to play massive online battles alone or with a couple of friends rather than playing against actual humans, tbh.
> Is there a specific reason such a feature doesn't exist

Maybe no one has, or not many people have, asked for it? And I'm not sure what, if any resources YC would be willing to devote to adding something like that.
Text-only, no Javascript, works where archive.is is blocked:

x=https://fortune.com/2024/03/13/nvidia-founder-ceo-jensen_huang-stanford-students-genz-grads-low-expectations-successful/amp/
busybox wget -U "" -qO/dev/stdout $x \
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firefox ./1.htm
Relatedly: "The Extraordinary Lives Of Coast Redwoods."

"A mature redwood adds, on average, a ton of wood to its mass every year."

https://www.noemamag.com/the-extraordinary-lives-of-coast-re...
The general pattern with these sorts of things is that it's a combination of temperature and time. For any given microorganism there's some temperature it thrives at, some temperature at which it will start dying and if left for long enough will completely kill it off, and some temperature at which you can be assured that even brief exposure will completely kill it off.

Most microorganisms start dying above 50C (122F) or so. Roughly an hour at 50C should sufficiently pasteurize water for drinking. Or around 15 minutes at 60C and so forth. As the temperature increases the required time decreases. The common advice to boil water to render it safe for drinking is conservative and is given for a number of reasons: to err on the side of caution; because there are extremophiles that can survive at higher temperatures; because water boiling is an easily visible cue; and because by the time water reaches boiling it is sterilized so there's no need to time it (which is something people can screw up).

I found two sources on the temperature resistance of Naegleria fowleri. First the CDC [0] says it grows best at 46C (115F) and survives minutes or hours at 50-65C (122-149F). I also found a paper [1] which showed no detectable Naegleria fowleri after pasteurization at 68C (154F), unfortunately it didn't give a time though.

The upshot of all this is that Naegleria fowleri is somewhat temperature tolerant but isn't an extremophile; it's killed off on a temperature-time scale that's reasonably typical for water-borne pathogens. By the time water reaches 95C (203F) it is 100% dead and probably was already by the time the water reached 70-80C (158-176F).

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/pathogen.html

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5057267/
"Most people have heard of Giant Redwoods, possibly as Giant Sequoia or Wellingtonia, and probably know that they originate from somewhere in America. In fact, although relatively rare, they can actually be found in many towns in the British Isles."

https://www.redwoodworld.co.uk
I think most AI projects are thriving off of investor money and media hype. I don’t genuinely believe any of them are making any kind of profit.
> It's also sad that pretty much any sort of defense is illegal in Toronto

Could you elaborate on this?
Low-res video! Basically the width of the rope!
Is it? I'd watch the cyborg Olympics.
That's my reading too, it's not really 'YX' problem (that doesn't even really make sense to me by analogy?) - it's when someone claims you have an XY problem and No actually you do need X, you just didn't bother to go into why because it's not relevant/none of their business/etc.

I think this frequently comes up in the form Well actually the idiomatic way to do this is not X but X'; but X really was needed by OP due to some unstated constraint. (Because why would you state it, especially if you're unaware that you're doing it a remarkably unidiomatic way. You're just asking how to do what you're doing.)
We need to know why to optimize or refine the suggestion but nothing really says we need to halt any suggestion until that point.

For almost all real world questions a more neutral mix of "Well, you could try ${x} by doing ${xthings} but it might also make sense to do ${y} or other things depending on the ultimate goal" actually gets better results faster than a pure XY or YX approach.
Any way to have a consistent system prompt across queries without sending it (and using tokens) for each completion?
That's my big challenge, I want to get the money for the experience I bring, but ultimately companies don't see it that way. Just more bets I can't really afford to take. :(
Yet another reminder that PCs boot alternate operating systems only because Microsoft allows it for the time being.
Fun fact: the vast majority of the NYC system was built between 1904 and 1940 when there were several competing subway companies. Since the subway companies were unified in 1940, essentially no new lines have been built.

The NYC Subway is a relic from a foregone age, from a time when we built things and wasn’t mired in bureaucracy and carbrained thinking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City...
You can certainly buy more things in this world with dollars than roubles
First they came for the trans people...

And to answer the question at the end, no you're not overreacting.
This really needs to be used to make a tool to automate all the "delete my data" requests and have users map out deleting their data/PII etc from data brokers to a git something and people can submit the recipes to delete your personal data.

I just did so on one of the more terrible ones yesterday - and the dark pattern was it would put you in captcha-loops... and youd have to reload/retry several times before stopped asking you firehydrant bus traffic motorcycle crosswalk over and over.

but to save unsub/delete me scripts with this would be nifty.

A recipe bounty would be neat - for example - Optery found me in more PII dbs than I expected - and it would be cool for people to see which brokers they are found in and there is a bounty list for all the brokers people are finding for someone to create a Delete-Me for each thing, so that one hopefully has the help of many to navigate the minefield of dark patterns in such.
Well, you and I will stick to what we know and see how it goes! The world has a nasty habit of changing around us.

I note that, sadly: grammar, punctuation and basic prose construction seem to be wandering off into the mist and getting lost.
A style guide/analysis for these pedagogical films should be written, so it can be applied to new things
Thanks. Need to try MSW, but right now it's not clear to me how it can be used more than a fake HTTP endpoint. With Storybook, I can create links with any set of props I want for each component (or change with the controls). A lot of state doesn't rely on a back end (client side history or user prefs stored in local state, etc.).
The factory manager and staff have their own way of doing things, and part of working well with them is figuring out what that is. Especially when you'll be thousands of miles away if problems come up. It turns out some things were intuitive, and some things weren't.

The people on the ground made a judgment call that this wasn't the thing to communicate harder or spend political capital on, and I support them making that call.
I'll recommend a couple of other channels:

- Old Royal Navy instruction manuals and documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/@davidbober7035

My favorite is Hands To Flying Stations (1975): https://youtu.be/cALccuPShQc

- Historic films and clips, mostly focused on workplace safety: https://www.youtube.com/@markdcatlin

My favorite is NASA's Toxic Propellant Hazards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND2TeNfcmKA
Not all experience is equal, but people expect to be compensated for the "experience" (time since entering the workforce) they bring to the table regardless. That's the issue here. There is plenty of software that needs engineering, but we can't make a market.

This specific person has 17 years of experience. Are they a staff level engineer, critical to their group? 17 years is more than enough time to become more competent than >99% of software engineers, if they have the aptitude for it. It seems unlikely that a company would layoff someone keeping all the juniors unblocked, unless management is totally incompetent.

Or are they a senior with a decade of negotiated raises, who hasn't learned anything meaningfully new in that same time? They have something like 7 years of real learning, and the company is paying for 17. This is an obvious choice for a layoff.

I haven't seen any signs that smart people who can write software are valued any less. They are just as hard to find, and are getting paid just as much as ever.
I think just because we are cheaper.
I'm not sure when booting a computer became so complicated. Reasoning about this patch is near impossible unless you know the inner workings of EFI and TPM. It does not bode well for user privacy.
Nope. An "entry level role" requires ~3 years experience in the precise tech stack being used.
At today's price, MSTR owns about $14B of Bitcoin and has a market cap of almost $30B.

Has anyone here actually used MicroStrategy, the product/service offering? Is the software company behind it worth the implied $16B, or is MSTR essentially just a Bitcoin ETF with a really bad fee ratio? (I’m not even counting the $2B debt on their books)

Would I be dumb to do a long BTC / short MSTR pair trade?
I don't give a shit about touchpads. Apple for the majority of its history didn't have superior performance and even today they have some product that are under-powered in regards to ram.

I can flip it and mention features that Apple products don't have that I like.

But this isn't actually an argument for monopoly. That just an argument that you like a company more then the other.
Are you raising money and getting investors immediately?

If not, don’t prematurely optimize. You can always reorganize an LLC as a C-Corp later on.
The Assistant API handles that, it has the system prompt as part of the assistant that you interact with.
"I'm working with a second-party pre-compiled library and don't have a lot of wiggle room. After careful consideration (of both the library and my other job prospects), I want to do $DUMB_THING. Yes, I know it's dumb, but trust me, $SMART_THING is not an option. Unfortunately, $DUMB_THING is not well documented, because it's legitimately a bad idea, so I was hoping someone could fill in some gaps."

If you ever help someone in that situation, know that you are a hero among programmers.
>The US only has a single family home space crisis in over-urbanized areas.

FTFY, but fully agree.

In urbanized areas (where most people live), we have hit the capacity of the automobile transportation infrastructure. This causes a cascade of real estate prices in urban cores, making the vast majority of these areas unaffordable for normal folks. This is leading to myriad crises, like a massive teacher shortage in California, simply because lower-income people cannot build normal/desirable lives for themselves.

The issue is that automobile-centric infrastructure makes this cascade inevitable in areas where cities grow to the point of infrastructure failure, but the cost of maintaining the infrastructure creates financial problems in areas that do not grow to this point.

None of this would be an issue if jobs were not clustered in big cities, but they are.
> but QM requires the state be real-valued (having infinite information in the computability sense).

The unobservable state, which is merely a physical model that may have little resemblance to reality. All observable states necessarily have finite precision and beyond 60-70 digits are effectively undefined due to the uncertainty principle, which is yet another reason why people suggest physics is effectively computable.

While the types of information you mention are not strictly equivalent in some 1:1 sense that I don't think anyone has really suggested, there are formal correspondences, so your explanation ultimately just seems like a lot of special pleading, eg. you can derive a Bekenstein Bound for bits, thermodynamic entropy, information in QM, and so on.
It feels like having niche skills like Rust or Transformers makes it much easier. I found a new job very quickly after being laid off.
Quebec ends a rebate for electric vehicle purchases
And the other side (people with fiat) are incentivized to preach that gospel as well, as the value of their tokens continues to decrease relative to crypto.

Disclaimer: I actually dislike bitcoin (and other proof of work cryptos) very much, but the jury's still out on which side is more correct in their criticism of the other.
I like how it's nearly two minutes of men standing absolutely motionless, with a completely stationary camera, with no score, no building tension, no close-ups showing emotion or what we are supposed to be feeling, as they listen to a whirring sound. Riveting television
12 years, still looking though this month looks promising, its been a shit show after shit show since covid tbh
I hope that person got an exit interview. It might well be that they’re just useless but someone quitting after two months ought to be a warning sign for the company, clearly something went awry.
OpenAI has a voice to text interface for OpenAI…
Sequoia: Speculative decoding boosting LLM inference by 8-10x
In the EU you can boot any OS you want. It's a little annoying to click through 15 "are you sure?" screens but it works.
i got the impression that atonal music is less commonly used in recent movies, past decades made more use of it, is that true? Now they still use it at moments of tension, but less frequently in other scenes.

i wonder if that is done in order to appeal/be accessible to a younger audience (that's where the movie going audience is)
Actually I think that one of the specific problem of IT is that experience is not really "usefull" because - from outside of IT (management, HR) - there's always new tools/technology/buzzwords that SEEM to replace old technologies...

So why pay more to hire an experienced IT man that will not know the latest techno-fad when all you need is a junior that knows them a little bit and is waaaayy cheaper.

Moreover - from a management & HR point of view - there's always IT problems. You know: nobody notice when everything run smoothly (and it's a signal to let go some people) but everybody notice when there's an IT problem!

So let's take the cheapest...

BTW I'm 52 in France and notice this too here. And I don't know how to explain why experience matters... :-(
Resources? All they need to do is treat them the same as other posts. Comments are already implemented on HN, in fact, this thing you wrote here is one of them, so you already knew that.
Reminder that PC hardware has multiple sources and even if it splits into Windows-booting and OtherOS-booting hardware, someone will probably sell you such hardware when the time comes.
Not in 3 years each of experience in 'this specific nodejs library' and 'gcp networking' and 'foundationdb'.