skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

I'm reading that there are actually more jobs being created than the layoffs are producing people looking for jobs, or, basically, like op said, layoffs make news, but the dozens of small companies hiring 1-2 people don't make the news.

So, it should still be 'ok' to find a job.

But, antidotally, all I hear is how hard it is, sending 100's of applications out and getting 1 or 2 calls.

So which is it? Is it just big correction in skills? There are jobs, but not for what people know? What is in demand?
I fully support the schemes for telemetry that already happens. It’s just obnoxious that there’s no apparent reason behind the support of one kind of anonymous telemetry versus another. For every 1 person who digests the package repo’s explanation of the telemetry strategy, there are 19 who feel okay with GitHub having all the telemetry and none of the open source repos they host because of vibes.
This is basically Cartesian dualism, which posits that the mind can be detached and conceived independently from the body... which I'm not convinced.

Without any perception or relation to the physical world, and without memory or language, you wouldn't really "exist".
“a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice.” So yea that sounds like Uber/Lyft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi

I regularly see people say they’ll call a cab and then use Uber/Lyft.

Ride sharing generally means carpooling/picking up hitchhikers etc. Where the driver is going on the route anyway and is adding passengers for HOV access, gas money, or just conversation. https://rideshare.org/

Uber’s initial intention was carpooling where someone would put in their intended destination and could pick people up for money. However the business model clearly switched to a taxi model with a paid driver not staying at the destination. They still wanted to call it ride sharing because what they where doing was often blatantly illegal

PS: Their initial subsidized prices convinced many people to advocate for an exception which was often granted. That’s the bit that’s rarely talked about, they essentially bribed the general public.
Letting people know how why their opinions are getting dismissed in a productive way is done by citing well-known sources in low-effort way, or by explaining things thoughtfully in a high-effort way: Karpathy has chosen the highest-effort way of most anyone, it seems unlikely that anyone is at a higher rung of "insiderness" than he is, having been at Toronto with (IIRC) Hinton and Alex and those folks since this was called "deep learning", and has worked at this point at most of the best respected labs.

But even if folks don't find that argument persuasive, I'd remind everyone that the "insiders" have a tendency to get run over by the commons/maker/hacker/technical public in this business: Linux destroying basically the entire elite Unix vendor ecosystem and ending up on well over half of mobile came about (among many other reasons) because plenty of good hackers weren't part of the establishment, or were sick of the bullshit they were doing at work all day and went home and worked on the open stuff (bringing all their expertise with them) is a signal example. And what e.g. the Sun people were doing in the 90s was every bit as impressive given the hardware they had as anything coming out of a big lab today. I think LeCun did the original MNIST stuff on a Sun box.

The hard-core DRM stuff during the Napster Wars getting hacked, leaked, reverse engineered, and otherwise rendered irrelevant until a workable compromise was brokered would be another example of how that mentality destroyed the old guard.

I guess I sort of agree that it's good people are saying this out loud, because it's probably a conversation we should have, but yikes, someone is going to end up on the wrong side of history here and realizing how closely scrutinized all of this is going to be by that history has really motivated me to watch my snark on the topic and apologize pretty quickly when I land in that place.

When I was in Menlo Park, Mark and Sheryl had intentionally left a ton of Sun Microsystems iconography all over the place and the message was pretty clear: if you get complacent in this business, start thinking you're too smart to be challenged, someone else is going to be working in your office faster than you ever thought possible.
Yes it would have to be transient, though thats not to say a continuous experience couldn’t be created by connecting together the transient conscious experiences in sequence because of the persistent state of the context window. My only point though was that nobody who says an LLM is conscious thinks the conscious part is the weights sitting on a hard drive.
Two functions solve this (in Go):

func Must(err error) {
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
}

func Panic[T any](v T, err error) T {
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
return v
}
> I was in SF for the first (2000) bubble.

I wrote the below in 2006. <https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178846&cid=14824754>

>I moved from NYC to the Palo Alto area in May 2000. That's right, just one month after the start of the long stock-market collapse and two months after the NASDAQ's peak, although of course no one knew these things at the time. I thus got to experience both the highs (insane traffic on 101, Sand Hill Road absolutely packed for two hours each afternoon) and the lows (significantly-better traffic on 101--admittedly a good thing in and of itself--and hordes of people losing jobs and moving back home each month).

>It's important to distinguish between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The Valley has recovered--traffic on 101 has long since become awful again, as today reminded me--but San Francisco still hasn't regained the equivalent of all those bubble-related jobs that vanished into the wind in the 2001-2002 time period, and probably never will. (I've been living in San Francisco for going on two years now and have yet to meet anyone who is working in a "Web" or "e-commerce" job up here. It's like a neutron bomb; the people went away but the buildings stayed.) By contrast, yes, the Valley lost tons of jobs, too, but at least the Valley had, and has, a longtime core of companies that made real products that do real thing dating back to the Fairchild/HP/Intel days. And on the Web side, of course, Google and Yahoo! are leading the charge. They're down there, though, and not up here. Unless and until another bubble develops, I expect San Francisco will remain a remarkably tech jobs-free (but with plenty of finance, retail, and other non tech-related companies) city on the edge of the world's greatest concentration of tech jobs.

Obviously I didn't know that there indeed soon would be another bubble in SF, this time a social media-driven one.
I don't think it's the Fed's job to support the housing market?
Do we have any recordings of the lectures?
What volume of data do have going through this process, roughly?
Apologies from the rich hard drug users who pushed legalization will not be forthcoming.
I don't know of any state that does that. What state is your company in?
I think my committee is good and other committee is bad
For those wanting to go beyond hobbyist, talking to a company of your aligned interests in their product often magically provides you with their SDK or facilities. With the dispersed world wide development these days, that can add some complication to this formula.
Probably testing new reconnaissance capabilities to see how effective it is.
What I wonder is if a radar is watching drones, what is it missing?

Could a drone swarm be used to draw attention away from another incursion or are radar systems able to handle slow and low things at the same time as higher and faster objects?
I have never heard of any company who would entertain substituting RSU compensation for cash. If you asked your Google recruiter for 500k in cash instead of 250k in base and 250k dollars in annual RSUs, you'd be laughed out of the room.
It used to be called Bing Chat (aka "Sydney"), if that rings a bell. It made headlines last year for its creepy behavior.

https://fortune.com/2023/02/21/bing-microsoft-sydney-chatgpt...
I have no idea how you've wandered all the way to Napster, Sun, hackers, etc. Really incredible work.

Well, I kind of know, you're still rolling with "this dude's a google employee", so the guy foaming at his mouth about Google makes sense to you, and now you have to reach to ancient lore to provide grounding for it.

I don't work for Google.
I’ve been getting Apple and Meta recruiter emails recently, in particular. I pretty much didn’t get anything in 2023 in comparison, which was ominous.
> typing in golang isn't superior to python's type annotations.

Yes it is, in every way. When the first job of choosing to use types is choosing which of the five or so type checkers, each deficient in their own way and incapable of dealing with the poor idioms the language encourages to proliferate, you know you're on the wrong path.
The Commodore 64 (or, staying on-brand, the Apple II) wasn't ready for the masses. Still if we hadn't had that, the computers that followed would have been worse due to not benefiting from lessons learned, built up user affinity etc.

And being there it was hella interesting to see it develop. Most tech isn't born right for the masses. And without the pioneers it likely won't get there.
Years ago, somewhere in Northern California, there was attack of (I think) power substation.

Someone was shooting at parts of the station. As described it was a very well run, very knowledgeable operation. The shooting was quite precise.

Far as I know it’s unsolved.

And I, too, thought it was some kind of red team style thing to test who knows what. It was very direct action, seemed a bit much for an exercise. But it can also be thought of what the attack didn’t do, how far they didn’t press even with the evidence that they probably could have.
How can this have a copyright and also be GPL? Or maybe a better way of asking it is - what does a copyright even do if you give limitless permission to copy?
Godspeed, non-Putin Russians!
Memcheck disagrees: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/04/23/valgrind-memch...

Technically, this is still a memory leak, it's just considered less serious.
I, too, enjoyed your book. Everyone go buy it, it's good.
I've known two people that managed substantial weight loss in the ye short run. Imo they made a huge mistake not initiating a substantial physical exercise regimen now that they were lighter and the stress on tendons and ligaments reduced.

Javier Diaz, the featured success story appears to have done that.
Yeah go check out what the QuickWit guys are doing.
With apps, you can certainly grant access to individual repos instead of all repos. Yes I’ve tried.

Here’s how this thread went:

brycelarkin: Mintlify’s GitHub app asked for permissions to access all my repos.

You: Developers don’t have the option to not access all repos.

Me: False. GitHub apps do have fine grained permissions, as in they don’t have to have to access all repos.

You: Even with apps you don’t have fine grained permissions “you’d think you’d get”.

So what are you talking about? What’s the thing I’d think I’d get but not getting and how is that related to “permissions to access all repos” as discussed here?
I've been around here a pretty long time, but I could still be off base here: as far as I understood people generally posted links to their own blog [1] in their HN profile because they want people to read them? I read your blog and particularly the posts about Gigadiffusion because I wanted to reply from a position of having put some effort into understanding where the poster I was replying to was coming from before popping off with what could be taken as a criticism. If that offends you or creeps you out I'm more than happy to steer clear of it with the parting remark that I really like Material and had hoped that any follow up would give me the opportunity to compliment you on some nice work.

If that's not your blog, you should probably take it off your profile?

[1] https://www.jpohhhh.com/
Just some.

What if the effort discussed in the article does find some way to test for this.

But then some humans don't pass?
Parody?
Implementing the Blum Blum Shub algorithm was my first real programming task for a gaming website in 95.

Way too slow on Alphas at the time for primary use but OK for seed at the time.

I still remember SGI publishing LavaRand, using lava lamps and cc'd cameras as an entropy source around the same time.
No, it's not "mostly worthless" and yes, some of the top models were removed a few months back from being trained on benchmark data.

I urge you to at least think through what alternative you propose before posting so aggressively in these situations. Lmsys doesn't have Grok, or I would have included it. And having _some_ data is better than none.

I also had someone arguing with me 6 months back that we can't trust any benchmarks at all from vendors, which would exclude the blog post. Instead of just repeating that back vehemently, I filled a gap. It's important we don't self-peasantize as a species, all data has its issues, that doesn't mean we throw it all out.
I used to work as a partner at an S-corp contracting firm. My client axed the project I was on and our sales team didn't have anything I was interested in. The founder was still hiring people despite our business being on downward slope for some time so I left to transition to another industry (defense/military, I was in Fintech for years) as an FTE (I already had another client but I did not trust the stability).

My current employer (also an ESOP) snatched me up aggressively as I was over qualified for their budgeted salary. It has been awesome for both of us. I got more stability and, for once, interesting work and they got someone who could drive a new product from scratch. My contributions are really starting to punch high and win us new business, so my pay should bump back up soon. I took a chance and it seems to be paying off. My health definitely improved. I recently received my last dividend check from the S-Corp and it was not pretty--I was already bitching when it was twice as much as this last one. So their business is still on a decline despite being, traditionally, a first call from clients.
Why would it be good to be less susceptible to influence? If I have a misunderstanding about something, or fail to appreciate its merits, would I not want to be “influenced”? Is it only bad when you feel cool saying that you, homo rationalis, disregarded it?
That is not the goal of capitalism.
You pasted in a lame conspiracy trope meme and when politely pressed, you are replying with a wikipedia link to Manufacturing Consent. This is unserious to the point of trolling.
It’s actually bizarre how so many vague comments come to mind when reading this list. It makes me kind of happy that I’ve dropped it some years ago now.
> directly highlighting the branches and commits that are most relevant to your current work

How exactly is it determining the "most relevant" commits? Is this just filtering out commits that don't touch the current file(s)? Or some kind of scoring metric?
I'm not doing a faux-nice thing with you. You made up an elaborate argument, to justify rank fact-free ranting, based on false information. Thanks for your time.
The mystery deepens..
Well, it predates the deep-learning ML approaches to protein folding like Alphafold. But people have been applying ML methods to protein folding for decades -- that has long been the two camps in the protein-folding bioinformatics world -- whether the best way to get structures was to simulate what the protein was actually doing or if there was a computational shortcut.
Is this the same as the Copilot that is in VSCode via the Extensions?

It's possibly confusing, or just very simple. I'm not sure :-D
You don't have Showdead turned on, do you? There's a plague of posters who are apparently banned, but just keep posting anyway. Lots of COVID denial, and other conspiracism.
You can't make an 83b election for RSUs. RSAs yes. Option grants for sure. RSU taxation is very straightforward compared to those. They count as W-2 income when they fully vest and turn into shares. There isn't anything to elect as 83b because they don't get any special tax treatment after that vesting date.
When I hear that this military base on US soil, with dedicated security and surveillance, can't recover one drone, or get photos to trace who or what sent the drone, I think of the London airport shutdown from 2018. There is no super drone swarm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatwick_Airport_drone_incident
> FYI - 2600 Hz is a common handshake tone used in telco.

Was a common supervision tone used by the NA toll network prior to the introduction of SS7. Also practically everyone here knows (or ought to) that already, given that Jobs and Woz dabbled in making Blue Boxes for profit, and Blue Boxes produced 2600hz (along with the set of MF tones used to encode numbers). The fact you posted your redundant FYI with a mobile wikipedia link (phoneposting) is even more egregious.
Seriously. I could just hose down my car while I’m hosing off the driveway and no one would be the wiser
Depends where you live. In Texas you want to wash occasionally and reapply some type of wax or you'll lose your clear coat in a few years to UV damage.
Without a copyright, there is no GPL, because there's nothing to license.
me. i went into one of these car washes, got the hard sell from some poor person standing outside, didnt realize it was subscription - to cancel you have to call a phone number between 8 and 5, which of course i forget to do for several weeks ,
For a minimum wage job at a car wash? Seriously? Absolutely not.
> I'm not sure what you mean about OxidOS not being the OS?

Meaning, it's sort of "GEOS" in that although it has "OS" in the name, it sits on top of the "real" OS. Tock is apparently its "native" kernel/OS, but it can also sit on QNX and Linux in the form of a Wasm runtime.

Android is an OS that uses a heavily-customized Linux kernel.
Personally I can't stand it, yeah?
Weird: Docker Registry returns 500 only from Vultr
Since last Friday, we've encountered persistent 500 Internal Server Error responses when accessing the Docker registry (https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/) from certain Vultr servers. Interestingly, this issue is not universal across all Vultr instances nor is it present when accessing from local machines, other hosting services, or even some other Vultr servers. The problem seems to be isolated to specific Vultr datacenters, resulting in an inability to login or pull images from the Docker registry.

This issue is significantly impacting the Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE), hindering any deployment efforts that rely on Docker registry and preventing the addition of new nodes, as they depend on Calico, which is hosted on the Docker registry.

Vultr's support suggests the problem originates from Docker's side. However, the absence of widespread complaints or discussions on platforms like Twitter about Docker registry outages affecting Kubernetes deployments worldwide makes this unlikely. Notably, discussions on Docker's Discord and Reddit indicate that the issue is confined to Vultr users.

This situation raises questions about the underlying cause and potential solutions. Has anyone else experienced similar issues or found workarounds? Any insight or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated as we navigate this problem.
Without having thought much about this, surely datadog only want to store your data and have you pay for the storage/indexing/querying? I guess your worry is something like datadog making themselves the only possible backend? I don’t feel like that’s a very big risk – I think trying it would just lead to a fork of vector. Perhaps a more realistic risk is that vector would implicitly assume datadog’s constraints, eg (making these up without knowing much about datadog) field types or required information or the expected number of unique fields across all messages.
Yeah technically, in the current formulation, but I think at this point the smart money is on Hawking radiation being correlated with something on the inside. For instance this is my favorite solution for the information-loss problem, that the info is carried away by hawking radiation.
Normally radars are configured to detect aircraft faster than a small drone. They just filter that out as noise. Now the military could obviously afford multiple radars to fill this gap, but they haven't focused enough attention on this.
> I believe there's no point on discussing this with particularly you since you have been commenting all around trying to just confirm your view instead of just comprehend that this is not sustainable for new developers

I don't need to confirm my view at all. Advocating for one's view doesn't imply a lack of conviction, rather the opposite.

No need for a personal attack here. It's definitely sustainable for new developers who learn the stack. It has a learning curve but so does everything else. I've built applications in just about every stack there is (except for the more esoteric stuff like OCaml, Erlang, etc) and over those years complaints like those you raised are easily levied against any language or stack that is practically used in the industry. The common thread is that these sorts of complaints arise when there are more unknowns for a developer than knowns-- and as developers we are in the business of eliminating unknowns. When you encounter unknowns and your response is "this is why this tool isn't fit for use" instead of "let me turn unknowns into knowns", this is often the result.

> (try to follow the conversations on packaging, lol)

There isn't a packaging system out there without complications, but my posts regarding NPM's behavior points to how it actually already works to reduce or eliminate the version pinning failures you appear to have hit. Now if you are using very old versions of the tooling or if you do things like remove or ignore the version pinning tooling and how it should work, then yes the kind of problems you hit can happen. But that does not mean this problem isn't already solved, or at least the problem becomes an education one; which is why I'm out here trying to solve the education problem.

> It's simply too much burden just to maintain someone else mess. We will pay a high bill in the future for all of this.

That's, like, your opinion man. I've yet to find a development stack without it's costs, and once you are fluent in how to work in the ecosystem, Javascript's are not significantly higher than any of the others. And personally the cost/benefit of the Typescript ecosystem for me is quite rosy compared to the limitations of other stacks. I'm clearly not alone in that calculus.
Why would you assume OP owns a car or has any use for a rental one?
X.ai's Grok-1 Model Is Officially Open-Source and Larger Than Expected
A dusty car body is no more "filthy" than the soles of your shoes. Do you wash your shoe soles?
I think it really depends on 1) salary requirements 2) experience, and 3) skillset.

If you have those 3 things in balance relative to one another, you probably won't have too much trouble finding a job. If any one of those variables are out of whack, you'll have a hard time.

Companies are definitely still hiring. They just aren't throwing offers at everyone. More selective, and salaries/comp is down due to less companies competing for the same candidate. These issues are worse for juniors (companies less willing to invest in career training/development).
My point is that once you do that any subsequent deficiencies in your server-side validation become invisible during normal usage (because the client-side validation will prevent you from even trying).
> the relativsitic singleton case ehhhhh I don't think you're ready for it

You're probably right, I appreciate your frankness. :D I'll start with trying to wrap my head around negative heat capacity.