skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I do. It works very well for me, but I won't claim that it works for anyone else.

First, I contact everyone in my professional network to tell them I'm looking for work and ask if they know of anything interesting that's available.

Second, I apply directly to companies that I think will be a decent fit. If they have listed openings, I'll apply for one of those. If they don't, I'll send in my CV and cover letter anyway. I do 10 of these per day.

Third, I work with a recruitment agency. I'm lucky here in that I've been working with a great one for decades. Finding a good one is hard, though, so YMMV.

75% of the jobs I've landed have been landed through that agency.
Even better, add this to block the websocket connection for the pointers:

! Annoying pointers on blog
wss://tonsky.me/ptrs?*
Thank you! That really makes my day.
I would propose issuing a passive-aggressive press release titled, “Inside the Wall Street Journal’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Amazon”.
Depends on the plastic and the wall thickness of the part. We don't know what the requirements actually are, but I bet they would be a way to make 4 times as many parts in a cycle half as long if you had to.
Asserting Exceptions in Laravel Tests
> Salaries are usually low, issues with mental health are rampant, and it’s generally a career of high suffering. (For a white collar role)

Are you specifically referring to grad school and work in academia, or is this very location specific for people who've started their career? Because I know tons of chemists who went into industry after their Ph.D and they earn on the high side of overall STEM degrees.

Pharma, polymer producers, chemical bulk goods, petro, ... They all pay 6-figure salaries before mid-career. Of course it's not FAANG, but it's very comfortable.

So either my chemistry friends purposely got skills in grad school that transfer well into industry, or the German language region has unusually strong pharma/chemical industry.
Yeah, but most of the things that need exclusivity or consistency are relatively rare or very narrow.

You need consitency when you update the socket tables. (Relatively rare, but can be a bottleneck for use cases with frequent open/close and maybe accept)

You need exclusivity when send or recieve on tcp sockets. (Very narrow)

You also need exclusivity when putting packets one of on the NIC's sendqueues. That one's not really rare, better NICs have more queues for less contention though.

For really high volume packet processing, it's helpful to align socket processing so everything is pinned to the same core: nic interrupts, kernel rx, application read and processing, application send, kernel tx, etc. But last I checked OpenBSD doesn't do cpu pinning, so there's that.
Right? You're hurdling through the sky at 600mph in a vehicle which is safer than driving a car, at a cost less than a half-week's pay for the median income in the US. This is still utterly magical, even if we don't seem to care any more.

I remember the first few times I flew a plane, I simply stared in awe out the window for the entire flight. I remember telling myself "No matter how many more times I fly, I must never forget how amazing this feels", and I like to think that I've kept that amazement alive even though I've probably flown over a hundred times now.
This was definitively broadcast by a Tell HN post[0] that 'dang made 9 years ago.

He has been consistent in his communication of the HN policies around paywalls across many comments every year, increasingly so over the past year.[1]

Submitters should note that "hard" paywalls are banned. If readers can't use something like archive.today, 12ft.io, or archive.org to get around the paywall, then the article is not allowed.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

1: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Thanks! Complying means what, to you?
There is no cheat code and never has been. Looking for a job is itself a full time job.
“If you want to change the formatting, warn people to merge any big PRs that are ready. Then, you fix any merge conflicts that result in the outstanding feature branches. Do this twice; once as a dry run where you get the tests to keep passing, and once for real while the team pauses merges for a short window.”

In general, any software engineering thing that causes multiplicative work for the rest of the org should be handled this way.

For instance, at a prior job, it cost 100+ engineers a week or so of productivity to rename master to main because tooling and automation had hardcoded master all over the place.

It cost the person that initiated the change an hour or so, and I’m sure it helped their promotion case.

Of course, accounting didn’t compute the cost of this to the business ahead of time. If they had, I’d hope they would have insisted we spend the money on recruiting and hiring more diverse candidates instead.
On that note, legacy computer vision models have exceeded humans at identifying pathologies from images of retinas, etc., for probably decades now.
Or save a bookmark in your browser and edit its destination to be this Javascript bookmarklet to let you load the archive.is version of any URL you're currently on without even needing to remember the domain or type anything:

javascript:void(location.href='https://archive.is/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href))

Or version for IA's Wayback Machine instead:

javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href))

(The archive.is one takes you to it in the same tab, while the wayback machine one opens a new one - because personally I use the former when I can't load a page, so don't need that tab kept open, and use the W.M. for comparing current to old versions of the page. But it should be fairly self-explanatory how to swap one URL with the other if you prefer it differently.)

Or this more complicated version of the Wayback Machine one, which if you click while on an empty tab will instead give you an alert with a text field in which to type or paste whatever URL you want to look up:

javascript:(function()%7Bif(location.href.indexOf('http')!=0)%7Binput=prompt('URL:','https://');if(input!=null)%7Blocation.href='http://web.archive.org/web/*/'+input%7D%7Delse%7Blocation.href='http://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href;%7D%7D)();
I’m not forcing them to provide me a service at all. I’m not using their service. My customers happen to also be their customers.
I've always wondered what the health trade-off is for a less mentally stimulating role if it dramatically reduces your stress levels and offers better work/life balance.
Seems to completely disregard basic physics and chemistry which determine whether baked goods work. The conclusions at the bottom underscore this, in things like casually mentioning acidity, or the idea that you can't knead a high-hydration dough, or mentioning a "leavening ratio" of dry good without considering the other ingredients that will be modifying pH, mechanical action (mixing/kneading changing the result), cook time.... I'm a little shocked that people in the comments are calling this science.
Regardless, it doesn't have agency and isn't clever. Personally I belive in a Designer, but since middle school I've been bewildered by the way evolution is almost always presented, outside of rigorous scientific literature, as if there is agency, intelligence and intent behind it.

I don't have a problem with that, but materialists don't have that luxury and use language in bad faith when do it.
Humans have reaction times on the order of 100-200ms. But interestingly if you measure reaction by you moving your hands or torso about 10%-20% of that time is just the time it takes for the signal to travel from your brain to the right muscle. Nerves aren't all that fast. That's why many reflexes happen outside the brain, closer to the relevant body part.

With that in mind, it would make a lot of sense if time perception scaled with body size. If you are a big elephant signals need to travel very far, and your muscles have to overcome a lot of inertia. If you can't react quickly anyways you don't need to perceive time as quickly. A fly has little inertia, fast signal times because of the short distances, fast processing because there just are fewer neurons, so there is more advantage to perceiving time more quickly
isn't that what marketing is? inflating your product with words
At some point they will lose more money from people that stop to shop there... I stopped using my local Kroger for other reasons though (food not fresh because of storage issues, etc).
You can. As I said, you welcome to cut off yourself from the internet completely.

You can't filter traffic at the nodes that don't belong to you.
lol .. I should’ve posted this autocomplete answer to start with
Possibly both? Modern AI models often include a "temperature" parameter which produces a certain level of randomness in the output. But the inner models are also opaque in a way that makes it impossible for humans to reason about them, so the output may appear non-deterministic for all practical purposes even if it is technically deterministic in a purely mathematical sense.
That is imprecise, I can understand. Why do you think it is wrong?
Because the loophole was you could get it back at any time if your parents came down to claim it. And (for me) it was always easier to get it back at the end of the year than to tell my parent, where I would still lose the item (via my parent's revocation) AND catch an extra punishment on top of it.
No. In many places in Europe (at least in my country) it is illegal to record specific people (and use the footage for anything other than completely personal use). People have a reasonable expectation of some privacy while out in public spaces in most circumstances.

Now, if you're at a public concert or any type of large gathering, you have less of a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Remoovit.com does this exactly. They pick up your stuff, then either sell, donate, or dispose of it. If they sell it, you get 50%, or if they have to pay to dispose, they charge you for it. Works great.

Service area is just SF Bay and Phoenix so far.
I suppose it would be nice to require at least 100% line coverage for tested encryption-related functionality, when tested by a fuzzer. Deviations from this could be easily detected in CI.

Testing cannot be used to prove that a flaw doesn't exist, only that it does.
Those claims come nowhere close to the outright fraud laid out in the CFPB complaint.
On a similar note, I've often wondered what the optimum amount of exercise is if you don't like exercise, but want to maximise your time not exercising.
"Large language models approach expert-level clinical knowledge and reasoning in ophthalmology: A head-to-head cross-sectional study" (2024) https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/j...

> [...] We trialled GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 on 347 ophthalmology questions before GPT-3.5, GPT-4, PaLM 2, LLaMA, expert ophthalmologists, and doctors in training were trialled on a mock examination of 87 questions. Performance was analysed with respect to question subject and type (first order recall and higher order reasoning). Masked ophthalmologists graded the accuracy, relevance, and overall preference of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 responses to the same questions. The performance of GPT-4 (69%) was superior to GPT-3.5 (48%), LLaMA (32%), and PaLM 2 (56%). GPT-4 compared favourably with expert ophthalmologists (median 76%, range 64–90%), ophthalmology trainees (median 59%, range 57–63%), and unspecialised junior doctors (median 43%, range 41–44%). Low agreement between LLMs and doctors reflected idiosyncratic differences in knowledge and reasoning with overall consistency across subjects and types (p>0.05). All ophthalmologists preferred GPT-4 responses over GPT-3.5 and rated the accuracy and relevance of GPT-4 as higher (p<0.05). LLMs are approaching expert-level knowledge and reasoning skills in ophthalmology. In view of the comparable or superior performance to trainee-grade ophthalmologists and unspecialised junior doctors, state-of-the-art LLMs such as GPT-4 may provide useful medical advice and assistance where access to expert ophthalmologists is limited. Clinical benchmarks provide useful assays of LLM capabilities in healthcare before clinical trials can be designed and conducted.
You're misunderstanding the statement (probably because of hubris). Linus has a long tail of hubris-informed acts that have been blessed off, accepted, and rationalized. No one is saying this particular rejection is one of those: Just that if it's ok for Linus to be full of hubris (and it incontrovertibly is) and then it cant be a criticism of this guy either.
Thank you for the pointers!
What are some good places to look at which are relatively stable and pay fair?
I have good experience both on programming end and AI prompt engineering.

Thanks!
IDK why you are getting downvoted. Evidently some Covid-deniers here? I hope you get better soon; no question losing your mind is terrifying. I'm watching it happen to my FIL, formerly a very sharp engineer and excellent writer, who can no longer even roll dice and move a gamepiece. Seems terrifying indeed.
WSJ links are allowed. You can access this article using Bypass Paywall Clean extensions. Another commenter also posted the archive.is link to this article: https://archive.is/CHgpq
There's a video on YouTube of a doctor showing his beeper/pagers how it works and why he still has one. He goes two or three floors down in the hospital into a shielded room. His phone utterly lost no bars but the beeper worked fine.

Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAwW9arTxGo
How does your technology compare to Nuclera's chip based system?https://www.nuclera.com/technology/
Also Marc Andreesen, weirdly:

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1778898760971821271
They’re huge. I’m sure their toilet paper rolls are make of $16k bills

I used to worry that the biggest threat was them releasing an API.

I’ve since learned that they won’t do that because they charge monthly fees to their customers and when a customer doesn’t use their credits, the credits don’t roll over and Midjourney pockets the cash.

Pay per use is bad for their business model.
iPhone 17 Plus to feature a smaller screen than current 'Plus' phones
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Yeah, I've heard of that decompilation, and have been more closely following the complete decompilation and PC port of Perfect Dark, which is pretty amazing.
EDIT reply to your EDIT:

>I literally said it’s “a rewarding read.”

At the risk of stating the obvious, you wrote that reply to gp ctenb's comment _after_ he already gave up on the article and not _before_. You'd have to tell him before he considered reading the article for it to be more analogous to The Marshmallow Test. In other words, he can't "fail" your Marshmallow Test if you never set up the proper conditions for the test.

>It’s not a random article. It’s been upvoted to the HN front page.

Yes, being on the front page is one potential signal of quality but HN audience is diverse in reading preferences.

Because you happen to like this article and the front page upvotes confirms your bias, I just want to go meta and point out how some others on HN would dislike this type of "long-form human interest" article. My previous comments about that

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24270673

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698153

This thread's article is not a fast-moving explanation about undersea cable logistics (e.g. Wendover Productions style). Instead, it frames the narrative around people such as Mitsuyoshi Hirai with long biographical sentences such as this:

>, Hirai’s mind leapt to what would come next: a tsunami.
Hirai feared these waves more than most people. He had grown up hearing the story of how one afternoon in 1923, his aunt felt the ground shake, swept up her two-year-old brother, and sprinted uphill to the cemetery, narrowly escaping floods and fires that killed over 100,000 people. That child became Hirai’s father, so he owed his existence to his aunt’s quick thinking.

[...]
Hirai’s career path is characteristic in its circuitousness. Growing up in the 1960s in the industrial city of Yokosuka, just down the Miura Peninsula from the Ocean Link’s port in Yokohama, he worked at his parents’ fish market from the age of 12. A teenage love of American rock ‘n’ roll led to a desire to learn English, which led him to take a job at 18 as a switchboard operator at the telecom company KDDI as a means to practice. When he was 26, he transferred to a cable landing station in Okinawa because working on the beach would let him perfect his windsurfing. This was his introduction to cable maintenance and also where he met his wife. Six years later, his English proficiency got him called back to KDDI headquarters to help design Ocean Link for KCS, a KDDI subsidiary.

A lot of readers prefer not to slog through text like that if they're really just interested in the undersea cables. It's not just the dynamic sliding photos that would dissuade potential readers to finish the article but the style of writing itself.

EDIT reply to >Lots of people don’t like dense books either.

Well, this subthread you replied to was literally complaining, ">, since the information density is too low"
Because 1Password started charging a subscription for the exact same features they were charging a flat fee for. And when customers that had bought 1Passwords product year after year every year started to complain, they just ignore them. Then to attempt to force people to upgrade, they stated they would stop updating old versions of the app so at some point you’ll have to pay to continue accessing your passwords.

Are you really unaware if the password vault highjacking 1Password is and has been trying to do for 5+ years now?
Thanks for being honest about your experience. All of the Lambda grads I’ve talked to in person have similar negative stories about how their experience felt like it was being made up on the fly.

It’s difficult to speak out about problems with your educational institutions because your own reputation is partially attached, at least in early career. I see a couple people in my Twitter and LinkedIn feeds defending BloomTech publicly today despite having previously complained about their experience in private. It must be difficult to see your educational experience being exposed as being poor, which probably prevents a lot of people from speaking out. The Lambda/BloomTech grads I know are actually smart people, but they had to self-teach their way there. Lambda lured a lot of smart people in by proximity to Paul Graham and all of the positive press they received online when they started out.
This is premeditated nefariousness! Horrible
One with lots and lots of time on their hand and countless trial and error, and parallel projects.
Is this real? Seems suspicious given that its just one model not a family of models like llama and llama-2.
I built something similar to this for a client in 2002, I still have the Java source code. It was called CurbDiver [1], and the idea was that a local agent (a "broker") would list the thing for you on eBay (including taking nice photos), and if it sold, they would package/ship it for you and give you a percentage of the selling price (80% if memory serves).

It had some promising early uptake, but it fizzled after a few years. There just wasn't much money to be made, even when being discerning about what items were allowed. It was a weak, inconsistent stream of nickels and dimes, and a lot of work to get it.

One element that we underestimated was the volume of low value/no value stuff people wanted to try to push through. Pretty quickly agents learned when/how to say no, but even saying no consumes some resources.

At its core it's not a bad idea, but such an operation would have to be very optimized to be profitable.

[1] https://www.damninteresting.com/temp/curbdiver.jpg
No unfortunately not. We tried out snowflake and bigquery and landed on bigquery mainly because of how well it integrated with existing company workflows (a looot of google sheets floating around the org).
Use it or lose it, as they say.

One of my parents has decided that retirement means to live entirely within their comfort zone, avoiding any kind of changes or challenges to their life. Not surprisingly, they have begun to show signs of dementia.
The effect is real, every generation will feel an effect that is slightly new and relevant to their time.

But if it's going to lead to the complete downfall of society and lethargic adults who cannot deal with life, I doubt it.

I'm playing devil's advocate here because I truly believe that kids should not have smartphones at all. But that's because I was raised without them.

And also I've seen in practice a great example of a relative who raised his first child (male) with no screens, and his second child (female) allowing screen time. The son is now 15 and the girl 9 and the difference is shocking. Most well behaved, calm, focused young man I've ever seen. Compared to a little animal who snarls at you for taking away her phone at dinner time.
Employers feel the side effects of drugmaker control over Wegovy, Ozempic costs
It’s amazing it worked. Especially “electrical” non fiber optic cables.

There is a museum on cape cod which was the end point of some early electrical cables (1891). It’s kind of interesting.

https://www.frenchcablestationmuseum.org/

Of course eclipsed by the wireless Marconi station..
When I got to go to Cycorp in the late 80's for training, I had some really interesting talks with the people there. They got funding from a lot of sources, and of course each source needed their own knowledge encoded. One person mentioned that they had a fairly large bit of the knowledge base filled with content about military vehicles.
> ARM achieved economies of scale that Intel never did

I'm not sure how does that work. ARM doesn't produce their own chips they are licensing their code designs to 3rd parties which funds their R&D. Supposedly their royalty is around 1-2% per chip which is peanuts compared to what Intel is making (most ARM chips are very low cost and even the high-end ones like Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 are only ~$200). Apple and now Qualcomm and Ampere are developing their own chips these days but that's not really benefiting ARM directly in any way...
The cheat code is called nepotism.

Bill Gates's Mom knew the chairman of IBM.
> No, but you can expect none of them to have been lied to.

The CFPB report really doesn't make this obvious. All I've seen in this thread and in the CFPB statement are claims with nothing to back them up. The worst I've seen is "100% cohort", which doesn't seem to condemn the whole program.

> The defense is he's a fraudster, but incompetent?

The defense is I'm having a difficult time finding actual evidence of fraud.
People who think that living healthy cosmically entitles them to live to the age of 85 without any unfortunate events are (cosmically) entitled. A sort of “I deserve better” attitude towards unhealthy people who happened to be more lucky reveals a nasty moralistic attitude.

Living healthy is extrinsically rewarding in itself. You better your odds at least. Maintaining this latent chip on your shoulders towards the unhealthy is weird.

EDIT: I wonder if there is a (channeling Nixon) silent majority of health-“nuts” who just live healthy without advertising it (beyond their inherent health and vitality!). We naturally mostly notice those who make it part of their persona.
well in that case, the israelis would be doing a terrible job as gaza in terms of pop growth is exploding (no pun intended).
Their population pyramids IS a pyramid.

There are definetely war crimes - you cannot avoid it, especially when both sides are mortal enemies for generations and palestines tactics dont shy away from using civilians, fighting in civilian clothes etc.

Its a perfect environment for hate crimes.