skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what looks like ageism is often not (but probably sometimes is).

It's more that, for most business programming roles, experience stops being cumulative at some point. For example, for a Java developer, 5-7 years is probably about where experience tops out, and beyond that it doesn't really help if you have 15 years experience in Java, or you have experience in Perl before you did Java, etc.

Cumulative experience of 10, 20, 30 years is really only useful for highly specialized roles (writing compilers, database engines, operating systems), management, etc.

I would worry less about ageism, and more about working on a track where experience is valued.
I don't and never made a claim to such effect. Past returns might not be indicators of future performance, but that's true for every investment out there, including vending machines. Moreover the performance of the entire US economy is probably better diversified and managed than whatever side hustle you can dream up.
Ask HN: LLM token window the limitation for replacing our jobs?
Hey all! I obviously saw the Devin Demo and while I think this is just Vaporware at this point[0], it got me thinking what actually is missing to make it work. Such a tool probably should have access to most if not all of a codebase during a conversation to make good choices. Which means having the directory tree available at all times, knowing what is actually in some, not all, files and how to add features in an efficient manner. All this boils down to a huge token window, currently we are fairly limited with GPT4 through the UI it's still only 4K tokens, the API apparently supports 8K and 32K. But when making a useful "AI software engineer" we need at least what? > 10M?

What is the actual technical limitations for holding 10M tokens in a single conversation? Is there any hardware limitation which we are 5+ years away from having or is is getting as much GPUs of the current generation as possible and solve things on software side?

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1bd12gc/comment/kujyidr/
> The extension of that principle is that we should ban anyone from Iceland because they have nearly free electricity and so it's unfair that they can run data centers cheaper that US based ones. Or any country with welfare that enables them to hire for cheaper, since that is a direct gov subsidy.

Electricity... No because that's a market commodity (presumably). Gov subsidy? Yes we should impose a tariff on that. Same with slave labor or other non market inputs.

Either way, substantially different than government owned.

> You're also trying to prevent others from engaging, where the justification is that you want to prevent others from engaging because of uneven competitive costs.

Well... Yeah. Others cannot engage with the CCP as legal equals in the United States or anywhere else. Allowing them to do so creates unfair, non free markets.
Internet Problems in South Africa
I know it's a separate tool, but HTTP Toolkit is great: https://httptoolkit.com/
Java only promises to protect integrity of JVM itself, not your data. If you accidentally write to a non-concurrent collection from multiple threads, it's not a program-corrupting Undefined Behavior like in C/C++/golang, but it can still misbehave by corrupting the collection itself, causing it to mangle or lose data, or in the best case throw an exception. Either way you don't get the intended program behavior, and you may be unaware of using a wrong collection type until you create an invalid access at compile time.

This is different from Rust, where thread-safety is part of the type system, so multi-threaded code that could write to a shared HashMap instead of a ConcurrentHashMap just won't compile with a type error.
I personally like the Economist.

They do have a some bias, but they make that pretty clear most of the time.

The articles don't contain too much fluff or "storytelling", but mostly get very straight to the point. Also, I really like that it's a weekly magazine, no "Breaking News!!!!" type of content.
I rather prefer,

Go is the proper succesor to Limbo/Oberon and Inferno, to Unix.
I'm toying with the idea of building one of these to use as a pool heater. Has anyone here tried this?
What training? Beyond supplying context, I don't think assistants has any fine tuning involved.
That an HTTP client raised $225M at a $5.6B valuation.
I think GP's point is that the name will need to compete with existing much more popular uses in online search results and similar limited spaces, which makes it a bad choice even the the hotel chain doesn't have an exclusive claim to the name.
SimpleX Chat adding quantum resistance to Signal double ratchet algorithm
Nobody seems to be talking about the main point. Latency.

> very low earth orbits (VLEO) ranging from 340 to 360 kilometers

> Starlink currently has nearly 6000 satellites orbiting at around 550 kilometers

> its service ... with average latencies ... over 30 milliseconds at best, and double that at peak times.

What is unsaid in the article is how much of that latency is due to time of flight and how much is due to buffers and processing inside a satellite.

The stated fact that the latency "doubles at peak times" implies that some portion of the stated 30ms is not time of flight So how much is actually due to time of flight? One of the linked articles claims:

> 8 ms is the absolute minimum latency for a satellite at 550 km

When a satellite is exactly above head the round trip time at the speed of light is a bit shy of 4ms. This "8ms" must be some average over a minimum solid angle that still allows for an acceptable level of signal reception. It is a reasonable number.

Lowering to VLEO gives the above head latency of a bit over 2ms. Being lower, the solid angle for reception is less. They may actually need in total more satellites than at higher orbits. In any case, the average would probably be something less than the 2x from the 550km case. But, let's say "4ms" compared to "8ms".

So, by going to VLEO, the best they can do is knock off about 4ms from their "30ms at best". It seems that polluting VLEO will not even achieve "The biggest single goal for Starlink from a technical standpoint is to get the mean latency below 20 milliseconds," said Elon Musk.

There is some other reason for pushing into VLEO than reducing latency.
Modern capitalism has created a sort of new type of nobility out of corporations, a layer of entities above that of citizens. Just as you say, their actions are not judged by the same standard we'd use for normal people, and they can actually just get away with fines for breaking laws that would land normal people in jail. And actions we'd deep deeply immoral for normal people to engage in are morally acceptable for them.
Can You Replace Your Software Engineers with AI?
This article is about Cognition Labs Devin and what’s in the benchmarks used to assess it and AI on coding tasks.
HTTPie does it better, though.
I don't understand what the boxes on this diagram are meant to represent.

It feels like an elaborate mechanism to draw something wrong in the hopes people will correct it.
You’re starting from the assumption that no one thinks what Apple is doing is wrong or immoral, but that isn’t true. They have been and continue to be criticised to no end, for this very matter and others, including on Hacker News.

Search for Apple and Right to Repair as keywords and see for yourself. Add Louis Rossmann to the mix and you can’t miss it.
Insomnia, Hoppscotch, Bruno, HTTPie are a few.
This is exactly what I'm looking for. Would you mind sharing what specific 40G card(s) you're using?
More generously, those examples just hadn’t come to mind when they were writing their comment.
Exactly LTE or 5G... If there is enough demand, supplying that should be reasonable enough if the system wasn't entirely broken. And if there was no demand, well there would not be enough paying customers either...
Yeah, I think "awful" isn't the right word. Absurd, incongruous, or something else is probably more appropriate.
Is a river, the sword is just an isolated object displaced by the current or washed by a flood. All the context is lost. The chance to find an archaeology location here with more objects related with the sword is close to zero
I don't have an issue with people who have other opinions, and I found that off the internet it doesn't seem like most other people do either. Everyone pretty much gets along

edit: seriously, just go outside you'll realize none of this stuff is actually a big deal off the internet
Thanks, I like the Spaceflight Now commentary the most. Best analysis.
You realize how silly your argument sounds, right?

“Accept unsafe planes because more people get hit by cars when walking around”
Switched two years ago from Postman to Insomnia. Now Insomnia is also adding lots of logins and paid stuff and I am switching to Bruno. So far it seems great!
Boeing overwrote security camera footage of repair work on Alaska door plug
I guess the main issue is that with Kubernetes, and chiseled containers we are quite close to the same idea, even if a full kernel might be underneath, and thus it is quite hard to gain adoption.
I've stayed with Airbnb once as a large group, but as a terminal cheapskate I always check to see if they have a good deal available. I almost stayed at one in Memphis, then checked the Google street view and realized it was a shack, and a recent review mentioned that there wasn't a functioning toilet on the property.

I've stayed with a couple small competitors to Airbnb, though. Mint House was a good one, with solid rates and a nice living space.

I'll be trying Vrbo for my bachelor party next month.
A000796 – Decimal expansion of Pi (or digits of Pi)
The US (and Germany where I'm from) seem to be the exception. Most countries have virtually complete coverage.
Sorry to nitpick on your nitpick. I interpreted the original point as Mars being as the first stepping stone to further colonization of space. It's not that Mars is a particularly appealing goal in itself. But we're going nowhere until we make that first step.
How does the FCC have jurisdiction in space?
If one was to say its because signals are being sent back to the US, fair enough but why would the point of origin of the satellite from earth come into play.
At what point does their jurisdiction end?

Genuine questions
Totally bizarre, it's the second time in the thread I saw this comparison being drawn. From what I've seen in the past HN seems to fail to understand ideas like "design systems" and "component libraries" or sometimes even frontend at large, perhaps the confusion comes from there...
'The Rest of the World Disappears': Claire Voisin on Mathematical Creativity
The Sokal article wasn't retracted and the editors still claim that they didn't make any mistake allowing his nonsense to be published. Can you see the difference?
The first two points seem subjective. Let’s face it, you’re not accessing people where they are. Your filling positions. Otherwise you’re an agent, or their mom.

“…large chunk of them wind up being jerks.”

Attitude is a problem. Defensiveness.
You aren't more productive when building websites but when maintaining them. Suddenly you don't need a way to scale the insanely complex bundling & caching anymore with each feature you add or deal with the js upgrade churn.

The more developers you have, the less React SPAs are scaling in my own experience. In my current company it's even visible on the bundling graph itself over time.
Or just young - T-Pain was most relevant around 15 years ago.

He popularized using Auto Tune for electronic voice effects.
Maybe closer to earth -> better signal -> less processing needed / cheaper satellites? I don't even work with RF so this is baseless guessing.
My postman is Jupyter with the 'requests' module loaded.
Whoever solves the orbital debris issue will be more important than Gates, Steve and Musk combined! It is a real issues, and nobody has a properly solution. Before we launch a bunch of tech into space, let's figure out how to do that. So we don't turn or orbit like the landfill here on earth.
"OPS is explicitly built to be able to run standalone static binaries such as Go and C"

presumably Rust apps will work on this too then
Personally, I'm just jaded. Corporations have acted this way as long as I can remember. I just accept that corporations act like sociopaths and the people running the large corporations are more interested in buying a new yacht than doing the right thing.
> Just get rid of that nonsense. No more problems.

What the license in question does is that it makes the publisher potentially liable for publishing stuff that shouldn't be published rather than the journalist for writing it. That license is not the problem.
Not combining threads, but it was a rather obscure reference. The president of Harvard recently testified before congress that calls for genocide may not violate Harvard's code of conduct 'depending on context'. Which makes a widespread effort to censor Parler for hosting calls for genocide rather hypocritical IMHO. Hope that's clearer.
New Robot Is So Far Ahead of Elon Musk's Optimus That It's Almost Embarrassing
How does it compare to Catch-22?
His short stories are also hilarious and in the same vein as Svejk's adventures.
Slint 1.5: Embracing Android, Improving Live-Preview, and Pythonic Slint
I would refine your statement slightly, it's modern corporatism, not capitalism.

We hold corporations in too high of regard and have intermingled what should be free and open exchange of money and goods with governmental power, lobbying.
Yes, I wouldn't mind. But i also won't take the time for it. Go look it up yourself. My id: 8202192491
How worried should people be about the measles?
Perhaps Slashdot had the right idea.
This development is being built on the waterfront across False Creek from downtown; it is prime real estate. Given that + being brand new, units will sell far above the Vancouver average. As a guess, studio units in this complex will start at 750k, 1 beds at 1m and 2beds at 1.5m. Maybe higher.
Store simple text information (http requests method, uri, headers and content) in an obfuscated form (the json file for collections) that doesn't feel right to be put under version control, but that often needs to be.

Which is why I use IntellIJ's HTTP client.

Worse is Postman wants you to share collections on their SaaS thing that doesn't add any value to me over my Git host or my company's.
Magic squares of 7th powers (2014)
Yes, that makes sense. You grow in the industry you started in.
Yet the US spends a greater amount EVERY year on building fiber into ever more remote areas (between FCC and NTIA programs, over $10 billion per year) than it has cost Starlink TOTAL to build a network that covers the entire country. Starlink needs more satellites to increase the max number of subscribers they can support, but their costs are actually going down.

Digging trenches in the ground is expensive. It’s a big country. You need immense amounts labor and at the end of the day, you just have a barely profitable fiber line, if that. Many of the new fiber lines will only survive on further government subsidies. Meanwhile, Elon builds a spaceship to launch satellites and people pay him handsomely for access to it. That’s not to mention that construction is heavily unionized, requires locality by locality planning permission and rights of way, etc.
It's the UK, it's fine, it's not like its going to suddenly import hundreds of green tropical parakeets or anything...
Maybe its my personality or upbringing but I saw many instances where parents forced their kids into something because it was what the parent liked or was interested in (not just sports but same concept) and I didn't want to do that at all. I saw kids have a love of something and that get completely ruined because the parent basically made it their kids' job.

With my kids there wasn't any natural interest in it from them. Their interest in anything related to computing is consumption based not creator based. I've let them know if that changes, I'm here and can help. I try to encourage them in the things that they are interested in.
> So you can use bluesky with 90% of it not under any US authority and if you give it a year that should be 100%.

Yes, it is theoretically decentralized but that isn't all that useful. If you still need to go through Bluesky-the-company to interact with 99.9% of the users then you really haven't gained that much from running your own server and building your own app. This isn't very far from claiming that everything is decentralized because you can always build your own network.
It's sad to see the level of aggressive ignorance on HN sometimes. Many investors prefer to have the capital returned through stock buybacks and/or dividends than sitting in a corporate treasury where it can potentially be squandered. The fact that investors can also sell their shares is irrelevant.
Loved watching Švejk films as a kid.
The Timeless Wisdom of Sanpo-Yoshi for Present Day Businesses
Doesn't matter what you do, some places are more desirable than others to live in, and the end up attracting a premium.

> Homeowners demand the value of their home keep going up and they vote.

Bypassing the will of the voters is ... difficult. It's not impossible to force your moral mores onto voters who don't want it, but it sure ain't easy, and it ain't easy for good reason!

> The first step to fixing the housing crisis isnt to figure out what kind of housing to build, it's to convince enough of the voting population there is a housing crisis that needs fixing.

The "convincing" is never going to be persuasive enough to convince the specific voters that they need to take a financial hit of several years of salaries "for the greater good".

The only permanent fix is to make less desirable places more desirable. With remote work a large and significant percent of the population can just buy somewhere cheap and far off from where they work.

By draining the currently highly contended places of workers, those accommodations will cost less, and the migrating workers will pay less anyway because they are, by definition, buying in a cheaper CoL area.

Highly contended centers that everyone migrates to is going to expensive no matter what you do. it doesn't matter if you double the housing in the next year, the demand will grow to fill it at current prices anyway.

The only solution is to reduce the contention for those centers. It's not a full solution, but it's a damn good start: leave the downtown offices all empty of workers and prices will adjust to reflect reality.
He should rename it to GrugScript
I'd also include security concerns. Not as scary as anti-cheat rootkits from TenCent owned companies that millions of people willingly installed. Concerning nonetheless.
Young men and women are drifting apart
So, the Assistant API in OpenAI is just a wrapper over the Chat API. They let you choose which model you would like to use, so as a result of you fine tune a model you should be able to use it.

However I never tried fine tuning, I rely on RAG and the Assistant API does provide you some tools to make this a bit easier. What tools? They provide an "editor interface" where you can set function calls, upload some files and access the code interpreter.

So if you are making a chatbot for Company Y, you can create an assistant which has information about Company Y in the system prompt and also can access up to date information about the company through function calls you define and the files you upload.

If you use only Chat API, you will have to handle these stuff yourself. Actually, though I'm using Chat API I do use the Assistant Editor UI to manage the functions and the system prompts. What I do is, I retrieve the assistant info from the OpenAI Assistant API and then I use this on Chat API. This way I don't have to bother with creating my own UI or fiddle with text files or the code.

As Assistant API is just a wrapper, most the data structures I receive from Assistant API directly work in Chat API.
I’ve been an early adopter of mobile devices of all sort, but I don’t get much value or excitement from them these days, I barely use one during travel and vacations.

I use mostly a full fledged desktop workstation, the touchscreen gadget can be replaced by more specialised and better devices when needed.

Good cameras are still miles ahead of any smartphone bullshit algorithmic photography, same with GPS if you’re hiking. And for taking phone calls, well anything goes.

It is possible to keep an old smartphone alive for a very long time, replacing the battery is not that difficult or costly.

Nah, we have choices, it is simply not that convenient if you’re a normie.
And here I am using ASN.1 for a couple of new projects. :P
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Pain

R&B Artist. Recently had an album of covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4nMjyT4epA
Going to be sharing this snippet with non-technical friends and family:

“ SIMA agents trained on a set of nine 3D games from our portfolio significantly outperformed all specialized agents trained solely on each individual one. What’s more, an agent trained in all but one game performed nearly as well on that unseen game as an agent trained specifically on it, on average”

Many people I talk to assume that when a LLM gets something right, it’s because that specific thing was in the training set. Although the experience of human transfer learning is intuitive to people, I find people have a hard time appreciating that it can happen in algorithms too.
My understanding is that the big difference between the US and the EU is that in the US rail prioritises cargo over passengers. Amtrak is already competing against a lots of other companies for track time, it's just that those companies are moving cargo rather than people, since that is apparently where the money is.
Create Systemd Service
"When the war is over, let’s see each other", said Švejk. "You will find me every day after six o’clock in the 'U Kalicha'"

"Then, see you after the war, at six o’clock in the evening." Vodička said.

"Better come at six-thirty to be safe if I’m late," Švejk replied.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:U_Kalicha_(Pra...
> execute assembly

I always thought that assembly was a type of programming language.
In Sweden I haven't heard of a single person moving to a shithole because of WFH. Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö metro areas are nicer to live in than bumfuck nowhere.

Probably related to public transport existing and commuting being less soul crushing.
I do too, and I’m in group #2. Are you saying you’re not?
Yes. Balance.

It is okay to care, but nobody is always right, and noone has a monopoly on good ideas.

It follows then that the person who just 'cares too much' will be on the wrong side of a decision. At that point the best outcome is for them to either change their mind, or let go.
Joseph Heller claimed he would have never written it had he never read The Good Soldier Švejk.
I'd argue that this is caused by two factors, both which would be really simple to fix if we cared enough.

Easy access to large amounts of debt allow people to become heavily dependent to the value of their home, and we have been sold a story that your home is an investment that should play a large factor in your future net worth.

Go back in history and two things are true, debt wasn't much less common in general and homes were more often built to last. I honestly don't understand considering most homes built in the US today as an investment. The average home is poorly built using cheap materials that won't last. Most major components of the home will need to be replaced in a couple decades if not sooner, meaning you're left chasing large repairs and remodels when you should be paying off the loan and building equity.

I'd propose that the best way to solve the housing crisis is for us to stop treating it as a get rich quick scheme.