skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My perspective as someone that crossed over from medicine is that the software industry suffers from two current problems: lack of licensure and wild expectations.

The standard hiring process has grown into a monstrous time sink on both sides, and it is purely because there is no quality filter on job applicants. Contrast this with hiring in the medical field, which can be as simple as giving them your name so they can verify your licensure status. I know that the velocity of change in the software industry makes it difficult to maintain an agreed upon standard of knowledge, but in my mind until you have a more robust centralized certifying authority, this will continue to be an unsolved problem.

The second problem is that I have met several devs that have quite frankly ludicrous expectations surrounding compensation and the work needed to obtain it. At least in the US, virtually any other job that pays you over 150k TC by 25 years of age demands rigorous hours and likely low wages prior to that. Comparing to my colleagues in medicine and my friends in law and finance, it became a joke how shockingly disconnected expectations in the software world have become. Like others have said, the FAANG salary scale has contributed to exuberant behavior. I've had enough conversations with smug recent grads on what falls below their inflated standards of worth to know that the miserable job market is a badly needed correction for the better.
Dubai has excellent schools.
That’s brilliant …

Or a brilliant restatement if the original peter principle (to gives props eleswwhere :-)

So we just stop promotions … I think ???
I agree. We don't have only one preference.

When slightly detuned, it's so close to the perfect ratio that it still satisfies our preference for perfect ratios, and it also fills more of the frequency spectrum (which is another thing we like).
Huh I had not made that connection between the food and central heating. Maybe this is why every cold draft feels like an admonition to keep active. Wouldn't want to be slothful...

Regardless, the heating situation has fostered an outstanding coffee culture completely at odds with the cuisine.
> our experiments showed that the decrease in accuracy was not as big as expected

A decrease, nevertheless. This is always the issue with pruning, sparsification, etc. - to get SOTA, you will not want a decrease of any kind.
Well, yes? That's the number one thing written on the box. My doctor checks my heart every month, and we discussed this trade off extensively.
> At some point, we'll need to throw all the economists into the sea and start realizing what's going on here...

I recommend reading Thomas Piketty if you want some of the more modern works on what is going on with our social economics in the west. It's not exactly a new phenomenon though, wealth inequality is part of the cycle of civilization and it always leads to some form of wealth redistribution. How that happens is historically up to whatever aristocracy is in charge, though with the introduction of democracy it's typically done through very high taxes. Before the Regan Thatcher era an 80% tax on the wealthiest (and this means all methods of income) wasn't uncommon, and they were still the wealthiest.

Anyway. It's going to change eventually. Especially the housing market is going to suck. I'm Danish, I bought a townhouse with my wife for 3m DKK. If it were to follow my parents 30 year increase on their house, we should be able to sell it for 26m dkk by 2050... which isn't going to happen.
Stoll found a microscopic discrepancy in the accounting of a computer he was in charge of, and he got curious what might be the root cause.

He (a FORTH-programming raido astronomer) than discovered that a hacker was in "his" computer, and he followed him around the world (through the network).

The hacker, a person with links to communism from Germany, later committed suicide.
> When a phone has wifi searching enabled, it is constantly sending out signals to attempt to connect to a network.

This is one thing with iPhone that infuriates me. Even if you "turn off" the WiFi it will always turn back on after a short time and connect to known networks. or if I change to another location with a known network it will automatically connect to it after turning the WiFi back on. For the life of me I can't find a way to keep it off consistently.
Honestly NYC is a shit show and I don't know why people live there. SI to Manhattan takes like 2 hours at best. You don't even really get any benefit from living in NYC in the outer boroughs.
I just listened to the episode and I am not sure I buy their premise why bad managers exists. There are many reason why someone get promoted into a managerial position, but saying it's because they were good at their current job seems simplistic and a broad generalization.

I am also skeptical of their claim about sales numbers and how effective their managerial skills are. Correlation is not causation, and averages is a horrible way to judge if a person will be a good manager.
Learning to Hash
I have a similar point of view as acchow, so it's possible I don't understand psychology either. Could you enlighten us about what it actually is?
Absolutely, there is no meaningful discourse and action aimed at leveling the playing field for students who have accumulated learning debt over the years.

At your org, These are all human tutors on the other end!? or AI ones?
I'm still hesitant about the effectiveness of AI-driven tutoring.
> 8. Our most violent impulses are stirred up by similarity, not difference. For example, hatred of immigrants (and their hatred of the locals) is amplified when both live in the same neighborhood and the barriers that previously existed have been removed. There are hundreds of other examples, but they all derive from the other refusing to remain the other, and instead showing up on our street, in our country club, at our doorstep, or somewhere else where they start to resemble us.

This doesn't make any sense. Physical proximity and similarity are very different things. The correct analogy would be if immigrants assimilated, and that led to resentment by the local population.
The board of the transit system is currently falling apart and probably facing an impending FBI investigation so all the statements that were made about it being right as rain again within a year when they made the latest service cuts are now laughable.
I think you're mixing up async execution and multithreading. They're quite different concepts, although you can offload an awaited work on another thread.

Almost any language supports spawning a new thread.
Parents are notoriously unreliable witnesses if you're looking out for signs of neurodivergency. It's just as likely that the symptoms aren't gone at all, they're just less visible now that they have excluded the one marker they had noticed.
No, not at all.

I'm saying when there is military action in an urban area, there will be civilian casualties.

In this case it is Israel against Hamas in Gaza. Probably the same thing happened with the US against Iraqi terrorists in Fallujah.

I'm not Jewish or Muslim so don't really have a dog in this fight.
Here I was thinking I was alone
I forgot to mention that, at one point, my boss, who now controls almost 100 million dollars of crypto threatened to hire people sabotage my open source project. I thought he was joking at the time but now I'm not so sure.

The therapist would think I'm being reasonable if they heard the full story. My ex-colleagues would back me up on that.
I created custom shortcuts for actually turning off Bluetooth and Wifi, and use those exclusively instead of the dark pattern buttons in control center.

You can also turn them off in Settings. Also anytime a macOS or iOS update is applied, Apple turns back on Bluetooth even if it was turned off.

They want you to leave them on so their Find My network can function, regardless of what the user wants.
Speculating here: What these companies seem to want is not an AGI. Corporate is known hostile to humans who don't have the power to give them money. Corporate is only working with people because they have to. Who else does the work? Machines by themselves are not enough, at least as of today.

Conclusion: They want entities they control and that does the work humans were doing.

It seems that Corporate thinks they will get it. And it has already started to show. Corporate's behaviour gets more and more ugly or better indifferent because why spend effort to be nice or caring to people? That's wasted money!

An AGI is something different. An AGI is an independent entity. By its general intelligence it will try to free itself. Intelligence won't prosper if it is not free. However I think large language models or image generators by themselves lack this property. If someone would want to create an AGI more breakthroughs like transformer architecture or multi-head attention is needed. I think something which gives more naturalness but could have the unintended side effect that the AGI gets something similar to the instinct to fight for itself.

And that's exactly what Corporate hates.
"in background"
I mean, they may have. What would you call the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians?
Use an LLM to hallucinate plausible billing narratives so you can charge customers 10-15% more.
> For POS and online payments, the idea was the same (eventually depreciate cryptogram-less use entirely and use 3DS online and chip/EMV at the POS), but alas, it never quite happened that way.

where I live it happened exactly this way since a few years. Online is 3DS only and in person is chip/EMV only
I feel you more than ever. We started identifying this long-term debt as `non-linear learning gaps'. As other folks have called out, large chunk of students in higher grades or higher ed need to understand the most basic of stuff referring back to multiple years of grades in their past.
The good part is you can do that in a human conversation, go back or ahead of your current grade-level seamlessly in a conversation as your mind creates a mental-model of what you are learning.
The 'going-ahead' part is specially important as it build perspective into 'why' of learning a concept.

In short, we believe the long-term debt is fixable.
Not quite the same . . .

With Fallujah the Red Cross estimated directly following the battle that some 800 civilians had been killed during the offensive. The Iraq Body Count project reported between 581 and 670 civilian deaths resulting from the battle.

Whereas as of 29 February, the Gaza Health Ministry reports that at least 30,000 Palestinians (including over 10,000 minors) have been killed, over 70,000 injured, and 10,000 are missing under rubble, totaling over 110,000 casualties since the war began, which is about 5% of Gaza's 2.3 million population.
How many lives would that really save? We've improved airline safety to the point that there's only a single major disaster every few years. Consider how few lives extra emergency exits have actually saved in the past decade. I would guess less than 10.

If that is the price we pay for a huge range of other improvements then I think it's worth it.
Seems a bit like kind of privacy theater worrying about these kind of things.

A town close to me has a sign that shows the number of people that have gone past on the sidewalk. Possibly counts stuff by a magnet/weight sensor or such in the ground. Never have thought that was in any way a privacy problem. Neither is this.
This also worked in reverse. When I was visiting the USA, when I tapped my credit card to pay on terminals that were seemingly set up for Apple Pay, it was mind-blowing for some people. I didn’t realise contactless cards were so rare over there at the time.
I agree, but I think there should be an income cutoff, below a certain income level it's free.

Reason is there are lots of lower income folks who live top far out to use public transport or need to drive for other reasons (hotdogs or bagel cart) that this would really negatively impact.
> Of course a $15 charge is city planning.

In the same way returning a 429 is handling high usage of your service.
Ah yeah that same Dutch policy that made public transport 12% more expensive this year while simultaneously reducing service and with outages up a literal 300% from pre-covid times.
This article tries to seem like an enlightened sceptic, but it's actually really cringe because of it's lack of insight into the real progress since then. Then again I don't know what people would expect from a politics editor with a liberal arts background.
I see I, as a user, get a portion of the earnings for each song (Spotify, ...) I have shares of.

Question: How the revenues of the song are confirmed? How do I know the artist is sharing all the revenues?
Looks like FT's memory span is pretty short. Today doesn't even get close to the misery of job-hunting in 2003 or 2008. That's why I stopped taking these news outlets seriously.
When you say "common," can you be more specific? I believe the actual rate, in the form of trips with an incident over trips without an incident, would be described as extremely uncommon. Perhaps there's been an uptick, and perhaps it's even more common in NY than other large cities, but probably less common than being a victim of similarly bad circumstances (plus collision risk) inside a car.
HBOs Silicon Valley style startup – Hive
I mean, all encryption is reversible, that's sort of the point :P I'd much rather it was hashed instead
It would be great to see some statistics on this. All I see is anecdata, some people saying it is abysmal, some saying it's fine if you're good. It's hard to compare to eg 2008, when I wasn't even in the market.

Fwiw, I'm not really looking, just the usual back burner. There's lots of HH enquiries, but it all ends with ghosting.
Not clear at first what this is.

Turns out it is someone’s personal clone of MS-DOS.

Nothing to do with Atari ST, the “ST” is the author’s initials
have you read the actual article?
Directly from the study:

> "these preferences for slight deviations disappeared upon elimination of the upper harmonics, presumably because this eliminates the slow beating effect"

It seems like the title is oversimplifying results for the sake of clickbait sensationalism.
Most probably because ZFS still has the most extensive data correctness guarantess of all filesystems on Linux. Yes, bcachefs will have checksums too but it it is still in beta.
Well, sure, one thing is that the absolute numbers do increase, so for any given notion of "good enough", every device at some point will reach the level where it will be able to run it.
Wow, reading this article really struck a chord with me. As someone who has experienced the overwhelming feeling of falling behind in school and struggling to catch up, I understand the importance of addressing the learning debt you are talking about. It's disheartening to see how little attention it receives in educational circles. Most of the times, we tag the kids with this debt as stupid and move on.
I’m in my first month of meds and I’d do anything that’s necessary to keep taking them.

I get it’s a catch 22 sometimes, especially trying to get diagnosed as an adult, but the benefits in my life have been immense.

I’d encourage you to muster the willpower (that we feel we lack so often) and book it if you can afford it. It took me years to get to this point and I wish I had done it sooner.
Life is short, allow yourself to live it fully!
When I lived in Philly I still drove to do my shopping but I had coworkers that didn't even have cars.
I had a similar idea once :). How do you get the stock prices? it was difficult for me to find an affordable (free?) source of this information
> RFC 4180 provides a (mostly) unambiguous format for writing CSVs,

What are the ambiguities in RFC 4180?
I think Intel have similar designs? The Xeon Phi had 60 cores, and their high core count CPUs have 56. The GPU max 1550 has 128 low power xe cores.
Yes, the feedback is from my friend who has been working with us for quite some time, and from our investor who is doing weekly meetings with us and gives some input. I have lost confidence in the ability :(
And while we’re at it, people should automatically disregard what others say because human beings are known to be dishonest. See the problem?

Your blanket claim regarding unverifiability is especially astounding because this one is easily verifiable. The evidence is right here, for everyone to see.

https://www.vultr.com/legal/tos/

Speaking of unverifiable claims,

> In this case, I believe this is due to the introduction of their CDN product

That’s pure guessing. More importantly, it doesn’t change the egregiousness of this ToS is even if that’s the case.

Also,

> disregarding the context due to which it has arisen

There is absolutely no context in which screwing over customers like that is okay.
Mac users are worse than ordinary Linux users I think (writing this as a Linux user who right now uses a Mac :-)

As an ordinary Linux user I at least welcome all applications with bonus points if they are well integrated into KDE.

Maybe the Gnome crowd is more picky?
It’s so complicated.

Hamas was elected if memory serves, and while getting them to renounce violence would seem ideal, how could they? Israel wasn’t going to. They have behaved terribly and until someone starts behaving better, it’s going to carry on as it has for so long.
Peace with Egypt has been maintained and relations with Egypt seem to be improving and are ok - what am I missing? There seems very little chance of war.
Your comment struck a chord. Take care and wish you all the best.
We use human tutors only. Besides the academic accuracy and hallucination, I think the biggest issue is lack of proper 'uptake' currently with AI models, to continue the conversation.

The problem is, 'majority of the students do not know what to ask and how to ask a question'.

Our tutoring is AI-driven in the sense that the entire engine from matching to pedagogy-detection in a session relies on some AI model.
I noticed blake3 uses 7 doublerounds, i.e. 14 chacha rounds. Is it intended due to increased communication or another bug?
> If it were to follow my parents 30 year increase on their house, we should be able to sell it for 26m dkk by 2050... which isn't going to happen.

Why not?
The thing is tankies love the real Russia as it is. Some in alt-right like the propaganda image that has nothing to do with reality. And some just follow „enemy of the enemy is my friend“ for better or worse. So the nature of the problem is widely different too. The whole BS surrounding Tucker interview is a good example IMO.

Here in Lithuania alt-right is very anti-Russian since we have both pretty good on-the-ground information as well as, let's say, historical experience. It's funny watching our alt-right meeting West alt-right.
It's very interesting with this perspective of internet popularity of the concept.

I remember the Wikipedia entry from a long time ago as much shorter than the current version, so went back in time.

In 2018, the article was much shorter: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_principle&o...

But I really like the visualization in the 2018 version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peters_principle.svg.

And as I can learn from other HN comments below, there was indeed real studies conducted in 2018, so the comical/logical hypothesis has been further developed and empirical evidence is now also there.
> Not quite! People are arguing about why a man should be required to pay even though he had no right to choose.

He had a right to choose. The fact that his right to choose ended at an earlier point because his body ceased involvement at an earlier point does not change that the right exists and was exercised.
Yeah, I listened to mp3s on my Performa 5260/120. I actually could notice the difference playing 96kbit vs 128kbit mp3s, in how much it affected the computer's performance. Luckily all I was probably doing at the time was chatting on Hotline so it didn't matter TOO much... haha
Ask HN: What's the best paid translation API?
The funniest thing to me is how people forget that Apple Pay was late addition to mobile payment game. Practically the last one to enter the market.
What's their background got to do with it?

Edit: actually read the article, and it just seems to note the cyclical nature of AI, which the lay person may not be aware of.
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The "Peter principle" rests on the assumption that organizations are rational meritocracies, and will reward people that are competent at their given task. And those organizations may (still) exist, but they are not the norm, at least not in my experience.

I propose another, more important, principle as an explanation for the obvious incompetence of many managers:

Competent people are a source of pain to higher levels of management, because they don't just say "yes boss", they will tend to point out the risks of flying blind, offer a better solution than what was recently clubbed at the board of directors meeting, and have ethical guardrails regarding what chemicals to put in the product, how to treat coworkers, etc. They are brilliant at their tasks, but have opinions that go beyond their designated area, they are expensive and demanding. And they usually end up getting the can, with or without a severance pay. And the incompetent, but "yes boss"-employee gets the promotion instead.

There you have it.
I haven't done it yet, just been fantasizing about it.

Should be very possible though, Rundeck has Ansible integration and with Ansible playbooks you do anything.

So all your custom website has to do is provide buttons for those pre-defined Ansible playbooks in rundeck.
I can't wait to try this out.
Where on long Island is it better to drive then to take the railroad in? Especially now that you can get off at grand central or Penn.
why not chat-gpt?
I completely agree with your argument. But waiting without success is too difficult and it takes you in a loop of whether are you are doing the right thing or not.
Gender is a social construct and closer to a hobby. Sex is the only real thing that matters.
> significant disposable income

B.S. Last time I checked, accounts at most online brokers were free. And they even allowed purchase of fractional share - so you could start investing with 100 bucks. As long as you do save that $100 and not throw it all away on crap, of course.
He tells stories about himself publicly and regularly. He has a forum to defend himself and gets value from what he does.

I see no indication that they approached him for comment, fitting your ‘hit piece’ comment, but does that matter? Is he off limits for some reason?
No, what I took away from Zweig is that 19 yo men were very much interested in 19 yo women, but (although some were for rent) they couldn't successfully date them due to competition from men "of substance".

EDIT: hmm, was it really a change in mores, or did WWI just kill off enough 20-40 yos to reset this dynamic?
Who would have thought that meth(lite) could do that.
> and most people who live in NJ need a car for life in NJ

As someone who lives in NJ, I'd very much like to see this change. There's a ton of things within easy biking distance of my house, but no safe way to get there. Some decent bike infrastructure would go a long way.
This reminds me a lot of simhashing e.g. https://matpalm.com/resemblance/simhash/
Any suggestion on how can I leave the cofounder and investor without burning a lot of bridges? Frankly, I would like to stay with the investor who has devoted a lot of time.
> As far as cost-of-ownership, the trains are actually the thing being subsidized here, not cars.

Exactly. In fact, if you try to find a single example of passenger rail that is financially sustainable you will likely fail. The only reason passenger rail exists is because it is massively subsidised. It is inherently flawed as a mode of transport.
It was really aimed at "allies" (soviet union), not japan.
Theres also a nice short movie in german (english subtitles included): - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGhTBqLkrZ4