skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making 500-700k at a FAANG right now.

Money certainly makes me worry less, not complaining.

I still feel like a cog in a machine.

If anything, it further isolated all the problems in my life that money could never really solve.

Meaningful friendships, dating, self-control and discipline, self-esteem.

Before, I could go by telling myself the story that "if only I had X amount of income, I'd be happy".

Now, I don't have that excuse any more.

I stare at the mirror, still see the same person, and realize that no amount of money will help.

A nice problem to have I guess, but problems that have plagued me my entire life.
Would be interesting to know what the median salary was. A couple executives could skew that average drastically.
And then there’s radians, which make sense at a technical level but really ought to be rendered in degrees if a human needs to look at it. 360 feels really good to work with. Maybe I’m biased.
Hah, I’ll admit we didn’t punish her further because we thought “wow she’s very resourceful!”
It's not surprising. The usual quality metrics that video-encoder people use tend to be positively correlated with saturation (and in fairness, this is what people think is better 'quality').
I agree but it's more important that we share a common system and it's incredibly expensive to switch (not just monetarily). For better or worse, if there's gonna be one system it will be decimal. Take heart that decimal time didn't catch on.
Meh, every base is base 10, in that base.

The Babylonians had base 60 (more or less) and they did serious astronomical calculations way back in the day. Maybe we could do that again.
Once you’re familiar with bible, aristotle, platoe snd few other foundational sources - no movie or book can really change your perception. Whatever you see - It’s all been described many times.
Yep, I know it could only invite more trouble. It was fun to fantasize about though, especially after watching the video I linked to in the post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzz3NeDz3E
Yep, agreed. I'm sympathetic to a large amount of what I'm saying here just being growing pains as they figure out how to do a new thing. But IMO, monopoly utilities, and especially their regulators, have a responsibility to figure more of this stuff out beforehand.

People can't say "I'm not happy with how you handled this, so I'm switching to your competitor", and that necessitates a higher level of scrutiny and responsibility.
> How many other companies of that size can say the same?

This is a bit of a strawman argument. How many other companies exist on planet Earth of this size? Very few. And are you insinuating that Walmart is paying well because they want to? I doubt it. They are tried-and-tested mega corp that responds to labour market pressures. I don't attribute anything else to this level of pay. Finally, average isn't a good metric to use; median is more useful.

If we leave size aside, I would say that Starbucks and Whole Foods are very good employers and large.
Aah, so sshd gets backdoored because systemd calls xz.
I'm going with the scientists on this one, not some random dude on HN.
Show HN: Semantic Search React Component
If you've ever used CTRL+F on websites or documentation, you'll love this functionality.
You've been lucky. My sister in law and my wife's best friend were both killed in car accidents (not as pedestrians) in the US.
For automatic cleanup, you can try bash's trap command. Set up a cleanup trap when you create the file.

In .ssh/rc:

if [ -n "$DOMAIN" ]; then
# ... create socket & report to user

clean_socket(){ rm /tmp/test.dev.tld.socket; }
trap clean_socket EXIT INT HUP;

fi
If you work on the tech side of finance (banking or hedge funds) then you would be much better off in being:

- NYC (still the hub)
- Chicago (although that's declining in my opinion)
- South Carolina (lots of banking tech jobs there)
- Austin, TX (similar to SC above)
- Miami (crypto friendly and a large hedge fund just moved its HQ there)
a good engineer understands the value of not using something you never read the manual for. and how simple it feels after you did read the manual.
I'm late and not sure who will read this, but I've ended up at the "why do we have kids?" question.

Honestly speaking from someone who has 2 beautiful little girls and very squarely middle class life with all its ups and downs. I've recently, but slowly mentally shifted towards being a nihilist.

There are so many things to live for, I agree, but at the same time there's like a 10:1 ratio of why living sucks. My privilege, I feel, brings that closer to 1:1 but I'm pretty far from the median/bulk of the world's population. Most of the world struggles - constantly.

If life isn't enjoyable (very hedonist) why do we bother producing offspring who will be forced to endure "life"? Why does it matter that the human race survives?

I'm not the first to ask this, definitely not. I'm just sort of here and am unsure where to go next.
Not if you're joining on a filtered table or a result of another join.
Make or get a human to stare at streams long enough and they’ll attune to the patterns. We’re wired for patterns. It doesn’t even have to be conscious and explainable. The signals just suddenly aren’t right.
Yeah, I suspect it's quite likely that autism is correlated with/caused by genetic disorders in general, rather than being its own thing that just happens to be comorbid with a suspicious number of other disorders.

There's too many correlations that aren't common enough, I really think we've got the causality backwards. But then again I don't know anything
Would that one-huge-library that depends on so many others be solved with, for example, smaller scoped libs/processes?
It’s usually easy to see if someone full of shit or not.

Just gather few interviews, check out opposite perspectives on the person at question. And with a little bit of intuition and some logic - it’s no brainer.
Carl from ATHF when asked by a job search site where he wants to work:

"Listen, just put Kansas City or Nashville or somepin'. It don't mattah. None a' this mattahs."
I believe EveryBuddy was the first multiprotocol client, but then Gaim got revived and took a bunch of the work the EveryBuddy developers did. As time went on Gaim became Pidgin, and EveryBuddy became Ayttm.
So what's the drawback of this? Because otherwise this sounds like what's actually needed.
In addition to what you’ve shared, I find RAG to be useful for cases where LLM has the world knowledge (say it knows how to write javascript) but I want it to follow a certain style or dependencies (eg use function definitions vs function expressions, newest vs es6, etc). From what I’ve heard, it’s still cheaper/more performant to feed everything into the context than finetune models.
That stat alone doesn't tell us if the disparity is due to different rates if criminal behavior, or different treatment by the system. A useful check is to look at murder victimization rates, since a) murder is almost always reported, and b) most murders are intra-racial.

The doc you linked says 39% of inmates are First Nations, and this[0] says they are 37% of Alberta murder victims.

Of course this isn't saying that there isn't inequality in the system, but just that happens before someone gets sentenced.

[0] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=351001...
Writing this post did make me think that if someone had a well-trained dog, they could hook up a monitoring service to something that makes a particular sound, which tells the dog to alert the person.

Her name was (I sadly lost her to cancer) Bamboo! Because one of the first things she did after I adopted her was to try to eat my bamboo plant.
Well…anybody got an invite? Would like to give it a whirl.
> It is quite unfortunate how it is embedded in society now.

It's been this way for a couple thousand years
Do we even have a definition of of biology or biologist that’s acceptable to the vast majority?

e.g. some of the very small viruses, viruses and similar structures seem pretty close to chemistry.
Whether or not there are "legal issues" with "Purl" being confusingly similar to "Perl" would be up the judgement of a court, should it come to that.

Mostly, when there are other open source projects whose names conflict with your trademark you ask nicely and people change the name. That's the path I'm hoping to guide the OP down — please just have some sympathy for your fellow open source developers!

Occasionally, trademark conflicts in open source become high stakes, painful affairs. For example, with the last few years, there was the "Commons Clause" situation (where among other issues "Apache License Version 2 with Commons Clause" infringed upon the "Apache" trademark owned by the ASF.)

This is unlikely to become a problem with a solo personal project unless it gains sustained traction. But I think it's valid feedback to offer, because if you have ambitions for your open source project you are eventually going to have to deal with trademarks.
I would continue living in the Bay Area even if I changed my career. I love the vibe and culture. Oakland First Friday is a fun street fair. The multiple rode gardens in about every city are fantastic. I lived an eight minute walk from the Oakland garden during the pan and I was there every day. SF is one of a small number of cities that almost every musical act will play when they tour. And there are lots of art galleries. If the tech scene is the only draw for you, there are still a lot of reasons it’s a great area. And there are so many beautiful trails to hike that are just a short drive away.

If you wanna buy a house with a yard and the above doesn’t draw you, it’s probably not for you.

Edit: and fresh produce at the farmers markets!
So only people who know how to code should be allowed to setup and configure system services?

What an awful way to gate keep computing.
Yeah, I'm not buying it being useful at all for learning a language as such. For getting used to target language sounds and relating those sounds to a text, it seems good, though.

The key to learning is comprehensible input. You want to understand 98% of what you're reading. You can get that through repeatedly reading the same things, through graded readers, and through the use of bilingual dictionaries. Once you get to the point when you can make a switch to interesting arbitrary target language reading using only a target language dictionary, it becomes a virtuous circle and simply a matter of time.

If the orthography of a language is weird, I could see this being useful to get to the next step, but as far as I know Polish orthography is straightforward (unlike English, French, or Chinese for example.)

edit: on second thought, it might help with acquiring the prosody of Polish even if you're just listening (and hopefully reading along out loud) to the sounds like a dog would. Prosody is half the battle.

edit2: also translations are a pretty bad idea. You're trying to pick up the prosody of Polish, but you're reading people trying to imitate English in Polish. Unless it's a very free translation to the point that it distorts the original work. Just find out what Polish people are doing; their cultural references are part of the language anyway.
Indeed, but many of the people writing early HTML came up that era and often those habits remain.
His previous post 'But what is a GPT?' is also really good: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/gpt
I get how a film buff might care, and agree the original version should be available, but isn’t there space for people who just want to see the story but experience it with modern levels of image quality? The technical details of technology at some point of time is definitely interesting to some people, but as say the writer or others associated with the creative and less technical aspects of a film I may find the technical limitations make the story less accessible to people used to more modern technologies and quality.
We put several men on the moon and have sent unmanned spacecraft past the solar system with base 10. I think it gets the job done as far as astronomical calculations are concerned.
How about multiplying? Do quickly 10 * 10 * 10 * 10 vs. 12 * 12 * 12 * 12
> from Morocco, Yemen, Iraq, Ethiopia, and other countries in the region.

So, you agree with me. These are Jewish settlers from OUTSIDE Palestine. These followed after the initial European Jews had already engaged in violent ethnic cleansing.

When the English directed their colonialism against Ireland, the settlers were "from the region", but still settler colonialists.

This is what happened to the Palestinian _survivors_ of the original Nakba (violent ethnic cleansing of Palestine to make way for Jewish settlers):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Palestin...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Ol...

Zionist Jews poisoned wells, planted bombs/threw grenades into bus stops and shopping centers, mortared Palestinian villages, etc. to mass kill Palestinian civilians and "encourage" them to flee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_and...

What Israel is doing is putting Jews, Zionist or not, in danger everywhere, as many see the people of "The Jewish State" as committing genocide, and the Zionists are doing their best to conflate Zionism and Israel with all Jews (criticism of Israel is "antisemitic").

Outside the US and parts of the EU (especially Germany) news outlets are actually reporting on the genocide-- In the US, CNN even sends all their Israel stories, to Israel to be censored to ensure the "proper" narrative on the Israeli genocide and other atrocities i.e., Americans never hear about them.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/04/cnn-staff-pro-...

E.g., did you see images of the row of Palestinians lined up, face down, on the ground, hands zip-tied behind their backs, then run over by a truck, crushing them-- on your US news broadcasts (or German)? Someone, anywhere in the rest of the world might have. The Israelis are committing monstrous acts for most of the world to see, while claiming that they represent all Jews.

I'm curious, why do you defend them? "Never again" should mean Never again for anyone.
> There are a lot of jobs that are 24/7/365 without proper coverage from coworkers so people are always available and can’t turn off.

This comment is oddly specific. It reads like you are writing from personal experience. Besides emergency medicine, what else qualifies?
> Staffers from Microsoft and Amazon — both headquartered in her state — have been among Cantwell’s biggest political contributors over the past five years, according to OpenSecrets, an organization that tracks campaign donations.

The elephant in the room.

Without imputing evil motives (not that they might not be present): lawyers and politicians don't want to solve problems. They want to make a career of them.

So if there WAS a bipartisan bill passed and she didn't get the credit, then she'd lose all those campaign contributions.

Some politician said, "It's amazing how much you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit." The converse is also true.
Security is in terrible shape. Right now for power-consumers the most secure OSes for access control are GrapheneOS (AOSP) and Qubes OS. Windows (with privsep) and desktop Linux are (were) good at stopping drive-by printer driver installs but terrible at keeping your browser running rogue glowware exfiltrating blackmail to use against you (or planting felony charges to leverage). Qubes puts everything in boxes and you keep the spam and ham in separate boxes, and Graphene gives you Android's use of SELinux as well as Storage Scopes (it's like unveil()).
Real base 60 would be way too many glyphs.
> This fact only seems to bother one of the groups.

Because people think other people who they're not paying should not be allowed to rely on systemd for things and support other service managers.
Oh, Qdenga already seems to be authorized for use in the EU, I completely missed that! Dengue has always been on my mind when traveling to SE Asia.

A real shame that the FDA is dragging its feet once again.
Do you really want to have to learn 60 different symbols for digits? Or a 60x60 multiplication table?
Easy counterexample: dumb unsharp masking will ruin close-up scenes that are shot for softness and/or have bokeh. ML upscalers can do this too when applied mindlessly. But you can also train an upscaler on the same type of footage, or even on the parts of the same footage available in higher definition. Even if you don't, matching the upscaler with the intent behind the content is your job.

The separation you're talking about is imaginary, the line doesn't exist. Any tool will affect the original meaning if it doesn't match the execution. Remastering is an art regardless of the tool, and it's always an interpretation of the original work. It's fine to like or dislike this interpretation.
I can tell you my use case. I have a lot of systems which I'd like to use on a single computer AND at scale.

That's sometimes even just for development work.

A lot of these use a common API to a more complex distributed store, as well as to something simple like files on disk, in memory, or SQLite.

I'm most cases, it's one user at a time, so performance doesn't matter, but simplicity does.

It can also be for the project which has a 1 percent chance of going viral.

Etc. But I find relatively few cases between truly small scale and large scale.
I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while without coming up with anything to post, and I think this is part of why: the handful of titles I can come up with were influential to me around ages 12-18 but I now consider a bit trite (I’ve now read and watched their influences…) and I’ve watched and enjoyed a lot of films since then, but I mostly get mood and vibes out of film these days. I think it’s because some time in high school I began to outrun, if you will, the maturity of the films I was watching with the reading I was doing.
By definition the vast majority of relatives of the vast majority of people are just average in virtue, or not too far off.

Expecting more than one or two to demonstrate something more is already a pretty high bar.
> Person 1: Has $5k in cash. Person 2: Has $5k in cash and a house that is paid for, worth $100k.

Yeah the guy that has a paid-for house and zero stocks loses out asset-wise. That's a weird-ass balance of assets though.

> Ok so yes, if your stocks outperformed inflation somehow

Well again, I was talking to someone else, using their inflation number of 30% as the basis of my comment. Stocks objectively rose by a lot more than 30%.

I don't want to argue with you about what actual inflation was.

> Actually yes you can. Money buys 30% less. If you had assets that rose with inflation, you can preserve your spending power. But your salary is not like that, nor any cash-adjacent instrument you have like savings, CDs, and treasuries.

I addressed salary in my earlier comment. If your salary didn't have any extra increase because of inflation, your employer is screwing you over, stop letting them do that.

Salary and savings are two separate arguments and I made both of them.

> You can't point to inflation avoidance schemes

"Own some stock" is not a scheme, it's what you're supposed to do with significant amounts of savings.

> or occasional salary increases and say that shit offsets the actual price increases in a meaningful way

I think it's fair to count on an extra salary increase. Tons of people got extra salary increases from inflation. Were they enough to compensate for all of inflation? Usually not. But they were enough to reduce the losses. Which is all I need to make my point.

Especially because lower wage jobs got better increases, and higher wage jobs correlate to owning at least a few thousand dollars of stock.
I've been in tech for almost 15 years and never lived in the bay. My pay puts me in the top ~1% of U.S. compensation. My city is around 1.5 million metro population.

I've worked for prestigious, recognizable, tech companies and local no-name companies.

As long as you're in a metro area with at least a million or two people, there'll be enough software engineering and data center business to go around.

Most of my teams over the last few years have all been geo-distributed, anyways, so its much less common for everyone to even be in the same place, anyways, even if you live in the bay area.
Nearby site generator? Diesel or Natural Gas, depending on reliability during power outages?
Both are the same in their own base. 9+1 isn't inherently easier in arbitrary bases - do you know what 10000 is in hexadecimal without working it out?
Worth keeping in mind that even a lot of these cases weren't treated as murder...
Number of ADHD Patients Rising, Especially Among Women
walking the gemba
Thank you for your suggestion. In fact, some people have already recommended Joplin to me, but it seems that it was a bit late. Where I am, not many people seem to be familiar with this tool. After being suggested, I tried using Joplin and it turned out to be a good tool. However, you know, I had already started developing Notas a few weeks before, and abandoning it is the saddest part. That's why I initiated this discussion, and you contributed to it.
If you add extra numerals for eleven and twelve (lets say A and B) then 12 (base ten) is written 10 (base twelve) and multiplying in base twelve becomes just as easy as multiplying in base ten usually is.
While you're at it, round the number of days in a week by adding another Taco Tuesday!
Less than 1% of what Chinese has
12 * 12 * 12 * 12 in base 12 is 10 * 10 * 10 * 10 though, it's exactly as easy.
Ask yourself if you'd be willing to painlessly end your life, if given the option. Most people prefer to keep on living, which is strong evidence that on balance, despite all the bumps and grief of living, life is still pretty awesome.
I’m here and grew up here but I don’t really have friends or belong to a startup ecosystem. I just do my job and then go home. Idk how to take advantage of the area.
Speaking for those of us who were born and raised here, please don't come. We have enough. Nobody who has been here for any reasonable period actually left.
As someone who worked in the field, I think there were 3 big directions in the last ~20 years that remain relevant:

* Experiments in interface design, the equivalent of language design. These balance being able to guide the system and being able to maintain code written this way. Cleverness here ended up leading to a lot of gains in the more practical systems, and IMO, is one of the more important problems in scaling LLM tools to be a bigger part of how teams build software.

* Optimized search procedures. Ex: Concolic execution and counter-example guided execution, that are the outer loop and tricks over whatever per-step model (SMT, LLM) is used. Think algorithms behind optimal agents that go beyond "we run lint, feed it into the LLM, and loop until the output is good."

* How to discharge useful fragments to SMT solvers and other technologies. Not used much publicly nor discussed, but we already find value here, such as generating database queries.

The last 10 years has seen a move to combining neural methods with symbolic, so I view them as complementary, and so should most folks doing agent-based LLM work (read: most). It was frustrating to me that the ML methods (largely bayesian) at the time I was attempting failed so our group found more mileage in sticking to the symbolic side. Likewise, even LLMs aren't the be-all for AI methods -- there's a lot of cool recommender work we do that is outside of the LLM.

Nowadays, we're building louie.ai to finally do both sides of the equation. Our focus is less on SMT and more on search + LLM, but we've already found cases where combining LLMs with classic PL approaches helped some of our query synthesis problems. If folks are interested in opportunities here, the graphistry team has open roles, immediately on a security principle researcher / senior SA, and we expect a senior backend/infra SE soon as well.
But in base 12 the number 12 would be written as 10. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, 10, 11, etc.