skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applied to AWS and Microsoft last summer and I directly got invited to interviews for jobs here in Finland. However, I decided not to proceed and took a break from working and studying (I've returned to the country from Germany for doing my Master's degree). This year, since graduating just now and after many applications I've had a couple of interviews – one with a large consultancy and another one with a smaller boutique firm.

Generally, the AWS listings for the country are suddenly zero – nil. Microsoft's are close to zero and I haven't heard back from them at all. I saw one Google job ad in a smaller hometown of mine where this region's GCP servers are located which I applied to and came across later on LinkedIn, but it showed that the job had over a hundred applicants in under a week.

The salary ranges mentioned to me during my interviews I did have, e.g. for the larger consultancy role taking place at the country HQ in the capital city were abysmally low (like ridiculously low), so I guess they went with someone more eager to work for what they were willing to pay. That is, earning half of what the local junior factory welder does here in northern Europe (they do night shifts though etc.). The title for the role was: Data & AI Consultant, and it's one of the Big4 accounting / audit / consultancy firms. Anywho, they were telling I'd be working at 100% capacity without a lot of time for self-development or anything else for that matter, which is fine, but in essence, and to summarize, I've personally seen a huge shift downward in the last year in the job market and frankly, it looks rather terrible right now.

I have no visibility into the layoffs happening in the industry, but looking from the outside it does indeed seem grim. By now I'm actually thinking I should've seriously considered taking anything they were willing to offer me at all, or even working half-free to get myself back to working again! Well, I guess I'll just continue looking, but my expectations have been calibrated in a major way, that's for sure... So I guess we're all sailing in the same boat right now job-market-wise.
Did we give it, or was it taken? Yeah, maybe we consented to The Patriot Act. But when it was renewed, it was *expanded*. Too late now.
it's one of those small things that are also brilliant in hindsight
20 yrs here, going on my 2nd month. 300+ applications, about 1% return. I tell myself that after 6 months, I'll sell my house and buy a farm or travel for a few months or something. I can't imagine how many qualified people the market is losing to this line of thinking.
Isn’t this policing of Iran needed because of the US supporting Israel?

I know there are other interests (oil), but the complete freedom to do anything that the US gives Israel is not entirely helpful to the US.
It's very real. Having smoked or taken other illicit drugs in the recent, or not so recent, past is a major source of stress for people applying for clearance. You have to be sponsored at a significant expense by a current employer and if you don't get clearance your career is going to be upended. It's up to the worker to judge if they pre-qualify based on opaque information and anecdotes you find on Reddit.
I'm not sure what's being debated here, but I just want to point out Manhattan is less than 20% of NYC's land area. And as you point out this is only about half of Manhattan. So 10% of the total city?
The problem is that Gladwell comes off as trying to be scientific, when really he's just a persuasive storyteller. If you view Gladwell as a purveyor of facts or a science communicator, then he does a horrible job and yes, it's hard to trust whatever he presents because he's at best not very careful about his facts and conclusions. In that case, why would you ever pay attention to him?

On the other hand if you see Gladwell for what I think he is, which is an entertaining storyteller using science as a backdrop to present his view of the world, and willing to twist it to suit his view, then he's really no different than many other writers. In that case you can enjoy him or not, at your leisure, just as you would any other editorial or op-ed piece. Entertainment is entertainment, and his content is entertaining even if I don't expect it to be true (to be clear, I'm approaching this as someone that mostly consumes his podcasts, which some chapters of his books have been directly converted to. I wouldn't want to spend the time reading this content that's not true, but I'm happy to listen to it while on a drive).

Whether he's causing more harm than good overall to the public is another question, but honestly that's a much bigger discussion with a lot of much bigger problems than him, so I'm not sure it's worth getting worked up over.
I guess all of those tax deals that were made are going to really pay off now?
For things to get this far is a failure of accounting. Engineering may have set the stage, but it's accounting's job to respond appropriately rather than letting (or not seeing) this play out. Treating accounting unseriously is an extremely obvious, avoidable mistake that a mindboggling number of businesses make. A substantial portion of the finance and accounting industry thrives on cleaning up the outcome of accounting being pawned off on the owner's spouse / kid / niece / nephew. They'll figure it out, right? It's just math.

I was thinking, surely it can't be that stupid in this case, but then I checked. Who knows, maybe Geeta Gupta-Fisker really is a profoundly skilled financial wizard. The founder's / chairman's / CEO's spouse is always the wrong person to be managing finances for so very many reasons. At the very least the optics of undermining of a firewall between accounting and equity undermines trust in finance. Such a relationship inspires extra special attention from auditors and regulators when mistakes happen. It's a clear sign that leadership doesn't take accounting as seriously as they should. Yet nepotism keeps being a normal thing that happens often.
I used to fly through the interviews. I ace all the interviews I'm given. Never had issues before. My interview approach didn't change at all, I just know more now. Last time I got to final stage of interviews at a major tech company a few years ago, I aced all the interviews and tech tests but for some reason, apparently at the last minute, the head of engineering didn't show up to the final interview which was supposed to be a 'just a formality'. My problems started happening in 2019, quite suddenly so the contrast was noticeable.

When I talk to recruiters, initially, they sound excited but for some reason ghost me or they invent new job tech requirements which were not listed on the advert (and which are trivial and I could easily catch up on). I've heard stuff like "Although this position is for a Node.js role, the head of engineering is particular and likes candidates who have some past experience with C#..." WTF!!

I think my problems may be related to my involvement in crypto. I tried to actually improve things there. Feels like what happens to heads of state in foreign countries who try to improve their people's lives to the detriment of foreign investors... But weird because I'm literally a nobody! I didn't get much exposure outside of my immediate community.
The 5-year old Google Coral Edge TPU does 4 TOPS for $40-130. Comparing exact features, the $70 BeagleY-AI probably most directly compares to Coral's $130 option.

https://coral.ai/products/

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806327903926.html?src=goo...
Did you read the comment you replied to? There are already a bunch of taxes in place on it, and this is adding another tax. They aren't saying there should be no taxes at all. As far as cost-of-ownership, the trains are actually the thing being subsidized here, not cars.

I hate cars in the city, and I think the argument that cars are a negative externality and that for car owners to pay the true cost requires some taxation, but let's be honest about what we're arguing for.

but strawman arguments don't help anybody.
In my experience the biggest source of noise is homeless people cosplaying as roosters, maybe I just got unlucky with my apartment location though. Police sirens only last a couple seconds because of the burst setup theyve got.
The MTA is also -heavily- subsidized. It doesn't cost the MTA merely $2.75 or whatever it is nowadays to provide you a ride.

I have no idea whether roads or MTA is more subsidized, but certainly there's a lot of upstate tax dollars going towards NYC transit...
To be fair, samsung pay is only avaible in like 10(?) countries.

But yeah, point still stands
Comparing Resource Usage: Grafana Agent, Prometheus Agent Mode and Vmagent
Model weights are just constants in a mathematical equation, they aren’t copyrightable. It’s questionable whether licenses to use them only for certain purposes are even enforceable. No human wrote the weights so they aren’t a work of art/authorship by a human. Just don’t use their services, use the weights at home on your machines so you don’t bypass some TOS.
#1. Biggest constraint for me is I do embeddings locally. It's absolutely _bonkers_ that these "vector DBs" are storing a ton of private content. But its _barely_ possible, it's about 30 ms to get an embedding for 250 words on an iPhone from 2 years ago. So once there's a ton of downloaded URLs to choose from (say, 100), it's a fantastic way to filter between "oh these are from your query about quiche, and these are from your query about LA Lakers stats" to still get an answer in under 10 seconds.

#2
Real talk? I hate to assert something that sounds so opinionated, but for brevitys sake:

The long context stuff is miserable. More hype and a somewhat decent scratchpad than useful. I have a feeling the next GPT will be much better, Claude 3 is a qualitative jump from both Gemini 1.5's "1 million" tokens and GPTs 128K. Seems to me the long context stuff was a technical achievement layered on top of models using 4K token training materials.

Whenever I see people asserting long context will kick RAGs ass, I can tell they they're either "arguing eventually, on a long enough timeline" or they don't have a practical understanding of how its working. Ex. one of my final user stories was translating entirety of Moby Dick into over-the-top Zoomer. You simply can't get it done with chunks larger than 5K tokens, with any model.

It's pretty darn expensive to just throw tokens at it in any context outside using the cheapest model for extraction. Like, the latest round of GPT-4 price cuts finally gets answers my anesthesiologist friend loves underneath $0.15, and that's just 4K input tokens, about 12 pages.

Random anecdote, re: irony in that Claude having a qualitative leap in using the long context causes novel issues:

It's kinda funny because it's actually caused a nasty problem for me: conversation flow used to look something like:

1. USER: question.

2. (programmatic, invisible) USER: Please generate 3 search queries to help me answer $question.

3. (invisible) AI: $3_queries.

4. (do all the humdrum RAG stuff to make #5).

5. (programmatic, invisible) USER: Here are N documents I looked up, use them to answer $question.

6. AI: $answer.

Claude is the first that notices I don't inject $3_queries back into the question before $answer. So it thinks it still has to answer #2 before it answers #5. So $answer starts with 3 search queries.
It seems quite plausible that another aim of today's war on Gaza is to push the international community into accepting the evacuation of Palestine on humanitarian grounds. Netanyahu might be prepared to accept some Palestinian Arabs in his Israel, but he'd be even happier if they were all gone.
BlackRock CEO Suggests Working Longer to Avoid U.S. Retirement Crisis
I think microeconomics is an under appreciated class / study. Thanks for that point. If more people understood those concepts we could skip some of these basic arguments which is why I think people love HN. You can get to the meat of tech discussions without wasting time on the basics. And I wish we could do that with economic discussions.

But to add on - congestion is not just a negative externality problem - it’s a policy problem to get a throughput of people to a location that the road infrastructure cannot support and therefore must incentivize people to a new transportation method which I’m not sure has a solution outside of economic incentives (New York’s solution) or strict regulation (Beijing with no drive days based on license plate number). No solution is perfectly equitable or efficient. But it’s a fun policy academic discussion with a lot of data! I am biased towards the economic incentives based on studies of the two.
You're missing the fact that class mobility has changed wildly over time. Delaying having kids is class mobility play, trying to give your a leg up socioeconomically based on your own heightened socioeconomic status. This was a VERY effective move during the 20th century, because the economy was in the biggest growth spurt in history.

In contrast, you go back 150 years, and class mobility was for the cut-throated, extremely ambitious entrepreneurs. The idea of "get a better paying job working for someone else and fundamentally change my social standing" was laughable. Go back any much further than that, and socioeconomic class was basically immutable.
I think it's still worth exploring your options and taking some mock interviews, just so that you have some data to calibrate on.
This works pretty well for running macOS on Linux:

https://github.com/notAperson535/OneClick-macOS-Simple-KVM/

Mostly used it when trying to track down reported macOS bugs for an OSS project, so maybe once every few months. But it's worked quite well at those times. :)
> All plant foods contain all 20 essential amino acids including the 9 essential amino acids in varying amounts.

> Though historically, protein combining was promoted as a method of compensating for supposed deficiencies in vegetables as foods, studies on essential amino acid contents in plant proteins have shown that vegetarians and vegans typically do not need to complement plant proteins in each meal to reach the desired level of essential amino acids as long as their diets are varied and caloric requirements are met. The position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is that protein from a variety of plant foods eaten during the course of a day supplies enough of all essential amino acids when caloric requirements are met.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_combining
Guilty. I could make the math work for another mode of transportation very easily in that scenario..
What the h-ll does McKinsey know about open source software development, much less any other kind?!
The concepts of beauty and attraction should not have been mixed up by the OP. The underpinning article speaks only of attraction (and intelligence, ambition and other parameters measured separately) and never mentions beauty - which is also, and arguably, linked to aesthetics rather than to pure personal choice - at least from a scientific paper standpoint.
The article states the 7C13, priced in the $1900-2000 range, seems to be a low-cost version of the more common retail 7713P, priced officially around $5000 about 2-3 years ago. But the thing is the 7713P itself is such an old processor that it can be found for even cheaper: from $1300 to $2000 right now.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=amd+7713P&_sa...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRR2369B (listed by small third-party vendor)

https://starmicroinc.net/amd-epyc-7713p-2-0ghz-socket-sp3-64...

Of course these are sellers who sell low volumes and who are not well-known, but that's just because all these processors, 7C13 or 7713P, are at their end-of-life so none of the big retailers have them in stock.
I always liked cachyos over endeavouros for arch....
TIL there are vegan sources of MSG, and that peas, tomatoes, and processed meats have high amounts of glutamate: https://www.webmd.com/diet/high-glutamate-foods

Muscles burn Lactic Acid before they burn glucose.

FWIU LAB Lactic Acid Bacteria use Glutamate to control pH by GABA production.

And GABA, well https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93-Aminobutyric_acid :

> [GABA] is the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter in the developmentally mature mammalian central nervous system. Its principal role is reducing neuronal excitability throughout the nervous system.

So, IIUC, when you feed LAB glutamate, you get GABA?
> If I feel the need for a "theft preventer" I can get one that takes 12ga. 3" magnum shells. Alternating 00 buck and 3/4oz slug. Works equally well on moose, bears, thieves, and dealership service managers ;).

It doesn't tend to work very well when you leave the car unattended, unfortunately!
The issue was comparing the City of London to half of Manhattan, for purposes of comparison. I felt like some clarity on the sizing would be helpful. I think you're correct in the 10%. Also, I should have compared Half of Manhattan to the City of London, but I couldn't find a good illustration of that. Hopefully, the links are found to be useful.
However, Andrew Sharp, Ben’s cohost on SharpTech was a lawyer and he also says that the judicial system is not the way to go and they should pass laws.

But you don’t have to be a lawyer to know the statements of fact are in correct as far as the technology.

They also condemned EUs ruling against Facebook where Facebook can’t even give users a choice of having an ad free experience by paying.

I have no problem paying money for stuff I want. I think that’s an honest transaction.

On Dithering, Gruber commended the EU for actually passing a simple law forcing Apple to open up NFC and the USB C mandate for iPhones instead of dragging it through some arcane legal doctrine. He didn’t necessarily agree with the law. But it was at least straightforward and honest.

But even if you aren’t a lawyer - the things that most HN users care about were not addressed at all in the lawsuit. For instance there is no mention of the App Store at all except concerning NFC, cloud gaming (that Apple has already addressed) and whatever apps are called with other embedded apps.

And no one in the Apple commentary community thinks the anti steering provision for Spotify and Kindle and Netflix etc is legitimate nor the former ban on cloud gaming.

Right now I’m listening to the Talk Show podcast with Gruber and Jason Snell (former editor in chief of Macworld) and they aren’t giving Apple a pass at all for the three items I mentioned
I don't like how, in their attempt to make the rules "simple", they've left them underspecified. It doesn't even say who does the opposing roll, or how many dice they use. If they use one, isn't it really easy to beat them if your skill is higher? If they use as many as you, isn't skill advancement moot?
You still get that with traditional languages that don’t use keywords like java. With Swift you have to read a lot more to get the right function since many vary in the number and type of parameters.
It's because they're such a sick cesspool. It puts off normal people just looking for a bit of privacy or a breath of air from all the restrictions.

Especially the onion verse is bad.

It's like the nazi bar. Once there's a few the bar gets a name and atmosphere and nobody else wants to do there anymore.
Dell: Return to office or give up promotions
In both situations, is it 100% certain that war wasn't seen as a good thing?

There were plenty of Ukrainians who wanted Ukraine invaded.

There are some hawkish types in Israeli politics.
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You worked 16 hours a day for 7 days? I doubt that - you would be getting only 3-4 hours sleep max?
Make sure you’re using an objective lens. I don’t know you, but I do know my co-workers. One of my co-workers in particular talks a very big game. According to him he’s the best coder in the company, and at every company he’s ever worked at, but his soft skills and social skills are so bad that no one wants to work with him. I also don’t think he’s as good as he claims… he only seems to know 1 language and refuses to improve shortcomings of his code, always pointing the finger at others.

I’m not saying this you, it’s just an example from my life. If your experience is in sharp contrast to how you see yourself, it’s worth taking a look at how others might see you.
Again, the City of London (1 sq mile) is not London and the UK has a rather convoluted municipal system. The comparable region would be a borough, like Manhattan.

I used the term Greater London to try to make the distinction. I failed you.

Since the toll and comparative congestion pricing are municipal concepts, the arbitrary sizes matter for the purposes of figuring out consequence. The post was not very illustrative, since I compared LA to London, as opposed to NYC to London. The greater LA area just happens to share arbitrary terminology to my choice of description, rather than specific relevancy.
Yeah it's kind of weird, I'll assume for now they're just busy, but I'd be lying if my gut didn't immediately say it's kind of sketchy.
Yes. I've always considered Havana Syndrome to be a workplace-injury.

You can be sure the government will always blame some 'adversary' rather than admit any sort of liability for a lot of workplace injuries which could cost them billions.
And some will be better at being a director than they were as a manager.
Except this one is only locally sorted.

You would have to merge sort sub vectors to get all items in order.
It should be assumed that if the banks get an opportunity to implement their own NFC payment system on iPhone, they’ll switch off Apple Pay. Otherwise no customer would have any incentive to migrate over. And the incremental cost of Apple Pay is too little to be redirected towards some customer incentive program.

(Of course that doesn’t preclude a bank from making an irrational decision.)
We will when you are willing to pay for the massive cost of redoing everything which already works well. Also, are you going to buy everyone new hardware for your new better architecture?

Note that we would probably end up with something which has just as many problems or maybe even worse. Rewrites are very hard and you really need to know what you are doing to get everything right or to even to make things better.
It’s good to recoup some energy. But in a cold climate, you could be using a heat pump to move 2-5x more heat into the home for the same amount of energy as electric resistive heat.
Illinois is welcome to pay teachers more. However, if there is literally no-one in Illinois willing to pay teachers enough to teach the kids, then I put that it isn't reason to be embarrassed by the education system.

Either Illinois is in a state of poverty where parents can't afford to educate their kids, the people of Illinois don't value education. They are, in practice, signalling quite clearly that they think there are more important things teachers could be doing. It isn't that hard in principle to set up a private school, you need a building, some desks, a chalkboard and a teacher. Pay 'em what you like. I'm sure there are a lot of helpful regulations to comply with too that'll push the complexity up but it isn't that hard.

This is the families with children making choices.
Microsoft has an idea to make ray tracing work better even with lower-end GPUs
Driving into NYC is already a massively expensive pain in the ass and nobody does it for shits and giggles. The only people deterred from driving by this will be the working poor (think doorman who needs to be at work 5 am and lives in outer queens. Might be a 20 minute drive or an hour bus+train ride - that's the kind of people that might hesitate at $15 a day extra)

Everybody else either HAS to drive for whatever reason and will suck up the extra $15 or is too rich to care. It's a pretty naked money grab by the city precisely because demand is kind of inelastic.

You can imagine anything else being taxed in the same way. If the government decided to raise money by making your cell plan cost 3X, you'd grumble but pay (it's not like you're gonna give up your phone) It's not a great reason to tax.