skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>everyone's "day job" is full of nuance and subtlety, but GPT is really good for automating everyone else's jobs

That's not really where I was going with that, but can see how it may come across as such.

My point wasn't that one job has nuance & high level skills while the other doesn't but rather that ChatGPT has different usefulness at the low end of each.

Or put differently for coding ChatGPT use generating boilerplate is the obvious win at the low end. I haven't found the equivalent low hanging fruit in my day to day despite enthusiastic trying.

>google to lookup a snippet. By the same token, asking "what's the kelly criterion"

Think a step slightly more complicated than wikipedia like info retrieval. For coding it can do a fair bit more thanks to vast amounts of github code...for other jobs there is no equivalent depth of knowledge baked into the models. Maybe a couple of medical journals, some transcripts of law cases? It's just nowhere near though in scale, code or applicability and that shows. Nor are the other jobs as inherently machine readable (or modular as I said - code is usually split nicely into functional procedures etc)
This on the heels of microsoft's garnet announcement (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39752504)... Would be a shame to see this be the death knell of redis.

Or in the spirit of YC, is there yarcdis (yet-another-redis-clone-dis) awaiting in the wings?
Is this some kind of joke? So who but Canada is your 'close ally' then?
Steering vectors, now available in the largest open source LLM webUI
I can't speak for US but in Europe there is significantly less working options but old rusty corporates like insurance companies or banks are always hiring because their rusty boring old systems need mainteance and constant rewriting. At least thats my bet. Wait through bad times here. You can get easily starting point of six figures per year. Heh.
It is not much but it's honest work.
> the M chips in the Apple Studio and Mac Pro (and those used by other manufacturers in servers) are a different category than "laptop".

The M2 ultra is basically two M2 Maxs stuck together. It's the same chip that's in laptops, and was designed around a laptop power budget.

In what way is it in a different category?

Designing for different power targets has a significant effect on power and performance metrics. When a chip is designed to be able to take tons of watts, that hurts its efficiency even when you're currently running at a low wattage. So comparing chips with different wattage philosophies gets tricky.
>ongoing training of even-more-interesting generative AI depends on the ongoing labor of artists.
What does that mean? That you need artist to produce "even-more-interesting" art to train new iterations of generative AI? Could you point out some of these superfresh new art artist are doing that are completely different than things already done to exhaustion in the 1970s (other than anime)?

I don't think you need artists for that anymore. Certainly you don't need them for commercial purposes. If they are going to survive as an artist professionally, it will be because of the people that refuse to use AI art for whatever reason, but I don't see how that won't be short lived in the market.

Artists will survive, not professionally, but because they are doing it for the arts sake, even if that doesn't offer them any financial reward.
This is incorrect.

Yes, people appreciate the subways but not in the way you just described. It's the "wealthy" that use the subway as well as a car, but the expensive condos in Gangnam are not using or caring about the subway. The subway is just a plus.

People living in the expensive parts of Gangnam(-gu) are not riding the subway. People living in the affordable parts of Gangnam(-gu) are.

In fact, if you look on a map in Gangnam, you will find the apartments at the doorsteps to subway stations are huge complexes for generic wealthy people. But the expensive apartments are as far as possible between the subway stops, but still in walking distance:

- 서초그랑자이

- 래미안 리더스원

- 서초푸르지오써밋

- 신반포 area services insanely expensive apt blocks but is just 1 lame station.
Yeah, I love that feature. It's really not helping here though.
Indeed Redis was open core before the switch, sorry that I didn't check. And being open core was not enough for them, SMH.

Maybe such is the destiny of foundational open source server software... If it's "cloudable" no profitable business will come out of it.
It’s called hustling. Not everyone makes it, but putting in extra effort improves your odds. It’s pretty amazing to me that this is now considered controversial.
"It's based on the source code of Pixel Dungeon, by Watabou." I also played the original Pixel Dungeon, great game and bonus points for being free and open source!
Rare genetic disease therapy becomes world's most expensive drug at $4.25m
Not all software is compatible with arm64. Specifically I would be worried about attempting to run Windows applications not compiled for arm64, for which there are many. The compatibility layer Windows ships comes at a significant performance impact.
Because it forces the EU to depend on the US to access space. The main points of the ESA and Galileo GNSS are so Europe doesn't have to depend on the US for access to space.
Every GPT I've tried has been GPT-4 plus or minus an imperceptible difference in quality. It's like Atari publishing a game, and thousands of clones show up that are functionally the same, and zero other original games.

They should scrap this failed idea and just give us MedQA, AlphaCode, etc. Specialized GPTs based on custom RAG or symbolic reasoning overlay or whatever, that actually do something that base GPT-4 can't do, in the sense of having an unmistakable step-change in quality for one type of task.
https://archive.ph/SWHvg
Not sure. Read the recent PG essay. But I reckon you are going to be writing the procurement app for a midsized building firm, or a ERP for a road haulage firm, or a shift management system for a hospital, rather than some low hanging tech bro idea fruit. What they call “IT”.
The fun part is trying to identify certain items before actually using them. (The guesses won't always be perfect, but you can greatly improve your odds.)
That would make sense, if companies and executives paid their damn taxes in the first place.
Eye tracking does not work nearly as well as people imagine. It cannot directly replace a mouse pointer the way you want it to. The accuracy and reliability are not good enough and never will be due to physical constraints. This system is likely already working better than an eye tracker would for cursor control, and it will certainly improve.

Apple has done great stuff with eye tracking on Vision Pro, but it required completely rewriting the UI for literally everything. Not something we have the luxury of doing for accessibility for quadriplegics.

Source: built an eye tracker and eye-controlled UI at a startup and got acquired by Google
Was absolutely obsessed with it couple of years ago. Hard, deep mechanics for its genre, super fun. First finish was quite the ride. What a win for FOSS.
GOOD! I wish anti-EV states would follow suit. EV chargers are a landmine for business/income taxes. Unlike a gas station, people have to wait at least 15 minutes to charge their vehicle. You could have TikTok-theaters (theaters that show trending videos across TikTok), pop-ups, restaurants, etc.
> The rest left tech for good.

This is an important reality check for many people.

I entered tech in 2004, during the immediate aftermath of the dotcom crash. At that time software engineers got paid well, but not insane. Additionally, every software engineer I met was passionate about writing code.

Honestly, around 2019 I was really missing those days. The field has become flooded with people looking for a high paying job with essentially no interest in software or computer science beyond the paycheck it provides. I don't blame people for wanting to make money, but I do miss virtually everyone in the industry being genuinely fascinated with software and programming.

The good news is, if you're the kind of person who would write code even if it paid minimum wage, you'll survive this. People whose book shelves are filled with CS books, who find themselves working on coding problems at night because it's fun, who can't help hacking around with new ideas on the weeked, will very likely continue to work in software. You'll likely make less money, but you'll also have more fun.

Unsurprisingly, in this current market I'm getting paid less but having more fun at work than I've had in nearly a decade.
In Myanmar, since the 2021 Military coup, there have been conflicts and wars between the military forces vs anti-junta ethnic armed organisations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021%E2%80%...

https://myanmar-now.org/en/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfo_5Cnf4A0
Having an agenda to push much?

Anyway, this is strictly one level up above that debate, as here they are scraping source code which is NOT free, and whose licenses could explicitly forbid copy for use in training datasets, or by the military, or even by people whose eye color I don't like.

For example, example code for proprietary tools which usually allows you to only copy it strictly for purposes of extending the proprietary tool.
I think this is very unreliable channel, but something worth to try in parallel.

To be specific, I am not looking for a job atm, but current approach seems broken, and wondering why companies don't like to use more efficient ways to hire.
That’s because Beirut is 60 miles from northern Israel and Tinder’s max is 100 miles IIRC. These are small countries we’re talking about here.

Phones don’t use GPS these days if they can help it - WiFi triangulation is significantly faster and uses much less battery - so GPS jamming wouldn’t have anything to do with Tinder matches.
I spent the start of my career in Defense in the late 2000s. People told me it was foolish to leave defense for less money/benefits in tech startups where nothing was guaranteed. I ended up finally leaving and it was the best career decision I ever made.
It is for me!
very nice. I hadn’t seen that expansion set. Cool. I expect the customs market will definitely contribute to the official sets.

What I have read elsewhere is there are 6 adventurer characters and 3 Skelton “freebies” and a couple of micro figures. It is somewhat irregular since the minifigs often drive the sale of a particular set.
My city spent a stupid amount of money to build 13 slow chargers across the city based on public feedback. I have zero faith that this will fare any better.

The best EV charger is the one installed in the home. If the government actually wanted to spur adoption it would be through easing permitting and creating boilerplate contract language for apartment and condo chargers.
There’s a good paper on how effective networking and “weak ties” is for getting a job. It’s silly that this person is blaming AI resume parsers. https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/4865899/mod_resou...
It's important to deal with reality as it is. Perhaps government is not always the best way to prevent poor people from starving to death.
> I think it's only marginally useful for programming to be part of a broad education.

On the contrary, I think a few semesters of basic computing can teach a lot of valuable skills:

- Basic Python skills are sufficient for a lot of scientific data analysis.

- Computing has become an important part of society; so, understanding how computers work is important for being an informed citizen. E.g. understanding the limitations of Incognito Mode in a web browser; or what Bitcoin is and what it isn't; or the difference between centralized platforms and the fediverse.

- Perhaps most importantly, teaching people Python will help dispel the myth that software is some kind of incomprehensible magic.

Certainly, a few semesters studying Python wouldn't be enough to get a high-paying CS job; but it would be no less valuable than a few semesters spent studying French.

> The self-identity of "computer people" has long been as an aggrieved, besieged outgroup. To whatever extent we are alien I think we chose that for ourselves.

There's a very real history of negative stereotyping about nerds. It's not OK for you to ignore that or pretend it didn't happen. I never consented to be stereotyped, excluded, or treated as alien.
The same reason we all use structured programming instead of goto.
Without question. I had a kid around that time so startup life seemed really mismatched, so now kinda stuck.
original creator: https://twitter.com/watawatabou

Was always free... now people have gone to town with the source code.
Any open positions there?
No, you are not.

Mozilla bricked SSL certificates that are mandatory for everything, including Browser Extensions.

There is a flag for about:config to unbrick it. Problem is though, that this lasts less than a second because of the remote settings service running in a loop. If you block that services domain with a host firewall (like opensnitch), Firefox will do an endless for loop using 100% CPU load trying to request the shavar and other services domains.

So, effectively, you cannot run an old Firefox version, and especially not a version that uses the old bundled mozilla certificate (which is all provided download variants).

That's what the previous commenter was (likely) referring to.
It is a joke but it's also true. The entire Japan South Korea Taiwan situation is at a high risk, if actual conflict breaks out, Taiwan is out, and SK and Japan become trickier on shipping insurance costs alone, assuming they choose not to get involved (they probably will)

Obviously Mexico is also a close ally.
Given you are happy to work say 60 hours a week, what is the optimal use of the extra 20.

For some it might be free work for their employer in return for something. Example might be in financial trading etc. to get a bonus or raise or promotion in a shop that is killing it.

For some it might be leetcode and reading everything on levels.io and teamblind.

For some it might be active investing for example property renovation.

For some a side business.

For some TOGAF and Scrum qualifications.

But remember 1000hours a year is a lot to bet on your company or colleagues vouching for you and being in a position where that matters.

Etc.
Simpler languages often put more burden on the programmer.

There's a balance.
Not just similar wealth but — as you source indicates and other sources indicate — more!

It’s an indication of how powerful narrative is: despite the facts, folks just believe what they want to believe.
Then you're either not American, very well-connected, or you graduated during a bull market and always had the "right" amount of experience.
Article seems to be unclear as to whether this is a hardware or software problem.
I think you mean 18650? Unless 1865 is a new battery standard that has 10x the capacity, in which case EDC light with 1000 hours runtime here we go!
it has nothing to do with ideas. It's about opportunities: and right now there's not very many of those.
Looks like I struck a nerve if you're googling me to insult me now.
Is UBI the same as a negative income tax that Milton Friedman advocated for?
So will car manufacturers lower the price of electric cars or will they just pocket the difference?
This is not true. The one benefit of all the AI hype is that there are many small teams of smart people getting funding. Maybe in 2-5 years they'll all get acquired or go under, but right now is some of the most fun I've had in industry in a long time.

And, despite all the hype, there is a lot of unexplored stuff in this space that can be done on hardware that can be run in a home office.

Yes, it's not literally coding apps any more, but I know quite a few people working on small, funded teams having a lot of fun right now.
This has been the case since professional HR came into being in tech, and people (mainly women) with no domain background were given a major role to play in shortlisting candidates.
You would enable it if you are a high value target that people might hire NSO to go after you like some billionaire or journalist etc.
Unpopular to say, but probably is relatively strongly correlated. Yeah some people will be horrible at a regular job and amazing at a CEO of their own startup job, but I bet the qualities like good time management that make one successful at a regular job are qualities that would make one successful at the other. I’m open to being completely wrong here.
The flip-side of this is that there are so many activities that people do all the time that carry risk. Plenty of them are not really necessary, and create some risk for other people, and yet they are perfectly acceptable.

A good analogy is the use of candles. They are pointless and fundamentally dangerous, but some people like them. People who like them even think they are calming, which is a very bad reaction to an open flame from a risk-assessment point-of view.

If i knew my neighbour liked candles, i would hope that they are being safe and accept that they have a right to take socially-acceptable amounts of risk, not berate them on the internet.

I don't see how repairing battery-containing electronics is any different. Both are unnecessary, and both could turn a small mistake into a fire.

So, I'm quite happy replacing my own phone battery with reasonable precautions, but no, friend, you may not charge your sketchy e-bike in my hallway.

The level of risk that is acceptable is socially defined, and far from the black-and-white view that some people seem to have.
I'm glad you love it; it's a fraught, difficult subject, for obvious reasons, and yet also, I think, an important one, despite the difficulty. Recent experiences have made it unpleasantly germane to me.
Did this post get removed? Why? Isn't this an important topic for the community right now?
Are you speaking from experience in a job market not in the US? This is absolutely the experience of junior engineers.
won't be a joyride but won't be living close or in starvation and in an overly cold/hot house...

settlement on Mars/Moon is a multi-disciplinary act! figuring out efficient and safe geothermal or nuclear or whatever technology to improve Earth's life, definitely translates to future settlements... so why not do it here? it isn't about eradicating suffering, as it's part of the existence (probably) but it's about providing a decent life for everyone
Thank you, wasn’t aware of this. Learned something today!
I sympathize with your perspective, when most programmers were really nerds was a magical time.

I do wonder if we are indulging in an “eternal September” mindset though.
I can imagine indonesia's low wages supporting manual labor to rebuild these battery packs, but in the US or Europe surely the cost of such labor precludes such labor, or otherwise requires more automated methods?
Go for small firms, apply direct, see if you can mingle with the employees or even hiring manager somehow - a meetup they are attending, friends of friends, who knows.

One time around 2008 I was at a horrible conference put on by Blackberry (even then it was clear they were going to die), and I wound up talking to a guy for an hour about this and that, and it ended with an offer for a job at his firm.

Essentially you just need more hustle. When the standard situation is mass applications that are ignored, you need to try something novel and higher-effort.
It is very bad for juniors and new graduates. It's fine for seniors and good for seniors who have good skills and connections.
Thank you. This article is just downright silly (and that does not mean I don't have a ton of empathy for people who are job searching right now). All of the following are true:

1. There was a massive amount of tech hiring not just over the pandemic, but really in the whole period from the end of the Great Recession until the latter half of 2022.

2. Many of those jobs were not just unsustainable pandemic hiring, but they were really just speculative hiring enabled by the ZIRP era, where more companies were worried about being left behind than overspending. Some examples: during the "Big Data Boom" there was an explosion of "data scientists" and "data analysts". I put those titles in scare quotes not because they're invalid jobs or something, but just that there was so much of a "just throw bodies at the problem" attitude that many of these roles were poorly defined at companies. Similarly, lots of companies staffed up massive user research teams. Turns out a lot of that low hanging fruit has been picked, and many companies have realized they can get by with much smaller, more targeted user research.

3. We are now undergoing a massive job restructuring, I would argue even stronger than what happened post dot com bubble, for a bunch of reasons: (1) the end of the ZIRP era coinciding with the end of pandemic-specific overhiring, (2) I've heard it said "Elon Musk showed with Twitter that you can run tech companies with a lot smaller teams" - while I strongly disagree (I'm always thinking, have you actually even used the complete garbage cesspool X has become, even more than before???), I think there is a valid point that a lot of companies just had way too many people than they needed, and (3) Gen AI really is having an impact on specific roles, e.g. copywriting roles and low-level data analyst roles.

It's simply a game of musical chairs where a ton of chairs were taken away all at once. Yes, the job application process is painful, AI-assisted ATS tools can feel like a labyrinth, and there are a lot more scams. But that is not the root cause. There are just a ton more people looking for jobs than there are roles available.
Living in Texas and Manhattan you should aware that we very good at adapting to our surroundings. The relative noise is not comparable between rural Texas and Manhattan.

I agree the city was quieter during covid, and would be quieter without cars. It's ridiculous to debate otherwise.

But a major is vastly noisier without cars than any normal suburb with the rare car passing by a residential street.

NYC will always be loud, cars are not.
That does seem like it would be a problem! Like if you imagine 50% of people have an easy time (1 month search) and 50% have a hard time (2 months) and each person had two searches with no correlation:

The groups will be 25% each, ie .25 EH, .25 EE, etc., if you track only people who start looking for a job during the first month of their search. In the second month it will be 50% EH and 50% HH. So a total of 3/8 EH, 3/8 HH, 1/8 HE, 1/8 EE. Or 3/8 bad, 1/2 same, 1/8 better.
I hadn’t played games for a long time, mostly because of school, but recently I picked up Cogmind, a fantastic sci-fi roguelike. Basically, you’re a robot that can attach and replace different items, including utilities, propulsion systems, weapons, and power sources. It’s some of the most fun I’ve had playing a game in ages.

The developer, Josh Ge, is also very kind and deeply engaged with the community, which is great.

Highly recommended!
> nice job, if you can get it

TSMC is paying around $23/hour to manufacturing technicians in Arizona. They’re also sending people to Taiwan to get trained and apparently it’s brutal enough that most people drop out of the program.

Asianometry did a video on this recently: https://youtu.be/Nk-lBok9_TU
> I feel as though your question conflates FOSS with free SaaS compute

My comment did not. The comment I replied to did. It said:

> especially with the number of actual FOSS alternatives available right now

I find GitLab quite lacking to GitHub and don't particularly see it as a compelling alternative to GitHub. Plus, there is no actual benefit to it being FOSS.