skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is unlikely. There has never (in the visible fossil record) been a mutation that suddenly made tigers an order of magnitude stronger and faster, or humans an order of magnitude more intelligent. It's been a long time (if ever?) since chip transistor density made a multiple-order-of-magnitude leap. Any complex optimized system has many limiting factors and it's unlikely that all of them would leap forward at once. The current generation of LLMs are not as complex or optimized as tigers or humans, but they're far enough along that changing one thing is unlikely to result in a giant leap.

If and when something radically better comes along, say an alternative to back-propagation that is more like the way our brains learn, it will need a lot of scaling and refinement to catch up with the then-current LLM.
One All-Consuming Swamp
How a Perpetual Calendar Watch works [video]
Userify doesn't seem complicated.. it is just Linux users, created with adduser just like you'd type in at the command line: https://github.com/userify/shim/blob/master/shim.py#L227
You know schools are locally run and controlled, right? Those so-called "liberal elitists" can only do what a locale allows them to do, meaning, those "liberal elitists" aren't the problem.
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Fullstack Engineer (£65-80k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer into our product and engineering team of 8.

We're a small product-focused company, we don't employ any salespeople, and we are cashflow positive.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec
Location: Rochester, NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: | Languages: JavaScript/Typescript, Ruby, Python | Frontend: React, Redux, D3, i18n, a11y | Build: Webpack, Rollup, Babel | Backend: Rails, Node, ExpressJS | Cloud: AWS (S3, Cloudfront, Appsync) | Database: SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis

Résumé/CV: LinkedIn.com/in/JonathanTR

Email: jonathan.d.reilly at gmail

10 years building consumer-facing software: 3 backend/full stack, 5.5 building/leading frontend product/team, 1.5 management. I’m a people person and love building teams and consensus as much as software. Looking to plug back in as an IC or tech lead primarily, but open to management if the fit is right.
My real estate doesn't move though. So while maybe applicable to a GEO stationary orbit, it doesn't really fit LEO oribts.
HN discussion [0](66 points, 22 hours ago, 28 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40215071
I've been thinking about this as I recently reset Windows but didn't format my hard drive and create a new version of Windows. How do rootkits work? Can I look this up somehow?
The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think)
As long as they're willing to pay the actual costs borne by the rest of us for their decisions, sure, why not? The problem is they're generally not, and when you suggest that they need to, they have a very not adult-like temper tantrum.
That’s offloading nearly a quarter of a person-year of work onto the 250 candidates—potentially much more, if it’s more than a truly-two-hour assignment. To save yourselves a far smaller amount of work. And that’s for just one stage of the interview process!

249 will receive no benefit for their work.

Nobody with options is gonna take that offer and you’ll be left with the desperate. It’s beyond rude, it’s a bad joke. If desperate’s what you want, then I guess go for it.
The Twitter acquisition is like paying 500k for a house that’s worth 300k, turning around and gutting it so it’s only worth 175k, then claiming victory because “hey at least it didn’t burn down”.

I think it’s hard to see what has happened to Twitter as anything but utterly breaking the business.
Yea, infact the backend is really complicated, we have to go and do a lot of extra processing in order for the information to be displayed. The line there, just dont worry about it, I will edit it, I mean something else by that line, like you can't just steal our name and stuff like that.
Have mass layoffs ever wound up working out well for a tech company?

I was at Google from 2013 -> 2015 as an FTE. My impression was that there was a mix of dead wood and high performers. I knew people that basically did nothing but come in late, find the best cafe for lunch, and leave early. While others worked 12 hour days.

But the problem with laying off the deadwood, rather than firing them for cause, is that it causes the high performers to look at other opportunities and leave.
How’s your career going?

I’m often worried that I’ll look like a dummy when I have to look up basic loop syntax. I’m not dumb, and I’m somewhat experienced… I just write code in Python, Matlab, Fortran, Bash, whatever else. It is shocking that the basic shape of syntax can be so different!

And also the degree to which it doesn’t actually matter. It’s just when starting a new file. My brain needs a little bit of syntax around to get locked into the language I think.
Imagine if all these protesters did was to sign a letter. We could only wish, and get on with our jobs
Location: Portsmouth, UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: Rust, Go, C++, C#, C, V, WinAPI, COM, Reverse Engineering,
Résumé/CV: https://cv.emily.gg
Email: emily33901 (at) gmail (dot) com

Hi, I'm Emily, I've been programming on my own projects and contributing to others for the last 14 or so years, and I have 2 years of professional experience as a native windows desktop C# / C++ / Rust developer and 2 years as a python dev working on robotics automation.

Recently I've been working on remote which is a proof of concept remote desktop program for windows.

I have a history of working with WinAPI, COM and other lower level programming constructs, along with a lot of time spent reverse engineering x64 assembly.

Please feel free to get in touch with me and let me know how I can be an asset to you.
Having a cap makes absolutely no sense except politically. There’s not a diminishing impact here whatsoever.
The team I'm on at EnterpriseDB is hiring experienced developers to work on a distributed Postgres product. One position in US, one in Europe. All remote.

Email is in my profile if you'd like to chat.

https://www.enterprisedb.com/careers/job-openings?gh_jid=593...

https://www.enterprisedb.com/careers/job-openings?gh_jid=594...
Twitter thread on rabbit's founder and his previous involvement with NFTs that he scrubbed:

https://twitter.com/Andyparackal/status/1785676408280498655
The proposed Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will need one of them a day: https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/04/future-telescope-arr...
Kelly Shortridge's post about the DBIR is great https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/shortridge-makes-sens...
> The huge volume of boilerplate makes the code harder to read, and annoying to write

That may be superficially true but don’t forget our brain is structured to optimize every repetitive work or some boilerplates, we can basically use “strcpy” and “string_copy” we are so used to all these that even if repeated a billion times it can be processed fast
I second that thought. Years ago on a Nortel PBX, we had a line in the factory where I work that had a fault. It would intermittently dial my extension (411) and I figured that it was from pulse dialing. Eventually the fault in the line was fixed and, along with that, the 'phantom' calls I received from that extension. Interesting coincidence that in both cases the number dialed was 411. I guess I'm lucky our phone didn't dial 911!
Xamarin has reached End of Support
Interesting! USA seems to be the only country I've visited that drinks tap water, let alone has water fountains.
Shneor Elmaleh

Location: Italy
Remote: Yes (CET or EST time zone)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Cython, Rust, Go, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, Bash
GitHub: https://github.com/shner-elmo
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ixU7m0dxpXhi99bvvJToEj13IDFj7YBX/view
Schedule a chat: https://calendly.com/shner

I am interested in Backend dev, Data Engineering, and general scripting (interested in contract work).
Intertie | Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer | Hybrid (SF Bay Area) | Full-time

We're a clean tech startup working with solar/storage systems, backed by top tier VCs including True Ventures. We've developed an AI driven energy management system along with our own UL certified battery based energy storage systems for commercial properties. We also have ancillary products (EV charging, sales tools, etc) to make building and operating clean energy systems easier. We're running a number of live sites, have a good pipeline, and just finished raising our Series A.

We believe great software is the core of great products, especially when working with hardware. We're looking for a strong senior full stack software engineer to anchor our software team as we grow.

Lead Full-stack Software Engineer - Go/Golang, Python - Javascript, Devops, energy domain experience a plus

Reach out to me (BC, CTO) at jobs+hn [at] intertie.com to make a difference in the world and help build a great company (no recruiters please).
I'm guessing Paul Auster fans will comment here. 20 years ago I read a book that I cannot remember the name and I vaguely remember it was from Auster, but I'm not sure and I have been looking for ages. It was a compilation of short stories with the Noah's Ark somehow in each of them, but the stories were very different besides that part. Does this ring a bell?
DFINITY | US, Remote, Zurich | https://www.dfinity.org

Our mission is to develop technology that supports the Internet Computer network and ecosystem. The Internet Computer is a general purpose blockchain that can replace traditional IT and host a new generation of applications and services that can run 100% on-chain without the need for traditional IT. The DFINITY Foundation was founded in 2016, has raised over $150mm from top-tier institutions including Polychain Capital and Andreessen Horowitz and has attracted over 200 of the top computer scientists, researchers, engineers and operators in the world.

If you’re interested in joining one of the most ambitious projects in tech today, you can find our openings in US and Zurich here: https://grnh.se/54c9b2722us

Some select roles:

Developer Relations Engineer (Zurich) - https://grnh.se/7164271f2us

Front End Software Engineer (Zurich) - https://grnh.se/3b93f4ee2us

Software Engineer, Low-Level Systems (Zurich) - https://grnh.se/f76e2b0f2us

Software Engineer, Low-Level Systems (US, Remote) - https://grnh.se/944d29fd2us

AI Lead Engineer (Zurich) - https://grnh.se/b12f42ec2us
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40219339
Someone else brought up that superoxygenator salts form in the upper layers of the soil due to the high UV radiation on the surface. It's possible the oxidation here is due to those superoxygenators but the original manganese is due to the ancient lake. So basically manganese is embedded in the rock while there's a lake, then the lake dries up as the atmosphere disappears. And finally the UV gets strong enough to create oxidizers in the soil which react with the manganese.
In U.S., Physical Health Plummets After the Pandemic
IheartMedia | https://tinyurl.com/2bkr2nfp | Senior SRE | Remote US | 136-170K

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for leading a talented team of SREs/DevOps Engineers across a wide variety of Cloud Services. He/She will be our leader as we move toward a platform / systems architecture and infrastructure that is highly automated, fully instrumented, self-scaling, self-healing and loosely coupled. Must be a go-getter with efficient multi-tasking abilities along with efficient people management skills.

The infrastructure is entirely hosted on AWS, utilizing a variety of services. Core functionalities leverage AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and IoT Core for serverless computing, API management, and IoT device connectivity, respectively. The environment also incorporates multiple Kubernetes clusters, managed through both Amazon EKS and Kops. Infra is provisioned with CDK (typescript) so experience on it is highly desirable.
"Messed up Mars" = Rendered into a dry wasteland where maybe there might be fossils of microscopic life

"Messed up Earth" = Making it very uncomfortable for Humans, causing large losses of life in poorer parts of the world, causing mass extinctions, but otherwise life will go on

Comparing the two is peak climate alarmism
Seeking work. New York, NY. Remote or in-person.

I'm a game developer who has worked with various game engines ranging from Unity, Godot, GDevelop, RPG Maker and GameMaker Studio.
My specialty is mainly programming in C++, C#, JavaScript and GDScript(Godot's native language).

I have done various projects and some of them can be found on my github here:
https://github.com/SengokuNadeko

Here's my email: https://veilmail.io/jihadbeydoun
CISOs aren't the only heads that roll.

Security incidents will often directly impact platform and infrastructure teams, who's leadership and EMs heads roll as well.

If there is a very public breach, literally everyone director upwards will inevitably get purged over the 12 months post breach.

I've worked on enough cases like this to see it happen.
Redundancy is a cost. Why pay the cost when your customers can't leave?
A shopping center nearby uses flock to "ticket" and fine employees that park in residential streets (which creates bad relations with neighbors) instead of the designated remote parking. I guess part of the lease/employment agreement states the proper directions or fine will be incurred. An employee drives around in a golf cart with an app/website/scanner/not sure. I know they use Flock though because it's been mentioned in community zoning meetings w/ regards to their expansion efforts.

Kind of interesting you can pay for a private service which will uncloak license plates. I wonder how much it is as I'd love to uncloak neighborhood speeders too.
Currently using LiquidWeb for my sites, having been moved over from WiredTree when the former bought the latter. Not particularly cheap in either case, but found the support excellent, since they actually knew what they were doing tech wise and were willing to reconfigure half the server if something went wrong when upgrading libraries or language versions or setting up domains.

But you may want to provide a bit more detail as to what you're after here. What languages/frameworks do you plan to use, how much support do you need and what kind of pricing are you looking for?
Um, the github link is a 404, and the paper link links to the webpage itself (— the paper is not on arxiv). Probably they put the website on too fast?
It’s somewhat hilarious that the pro-choice camp has decided to go with the same arguments used to justify slavery. Is a minor not a human? A geriatric? Just because a life stage is given a label doesn’t eliminate its humanity (but using the phrase in place of other terms is used to dehumanize).
I applied last month for the infrastructure engineer positive as it sounds really exciting but haven't heard anything back yet.
It was very hacky and no guarantees of it working for anybody else, but a quick dump of the project folder :)

https://github.com/shish/esp-ping-leds/
""""The whole time that we were dating, he was also my boss at work, which created some awkward situations," she testified, according to The Wall Street Journal. Describing Bankman-Fried's attitude toward risk-taking, "Ellison recalled on the witness stand how Bankman-Fried once spoke of a coin-flip scenario where if the coin landed on tails, the world would end. But if the coin landed on heads, 'the world would be twice as good.' Bankman-Fried [said] he would take the bet if there were a chance of making the world better, Ellison said."""" - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/sbfs-ex-girlfrie...

> what would happen if the president was shot

Judging by all the presidents who have been shot, at most an airport gets named after them or a statue gets built.

> or if Dali lama was chosen by china

Not much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Panchen_Lama_controversy

> The leaks seems to have stopped much more since assange is gone.

"Seems"? Plenty of new ones listed on the Wikileaks website.

> assange definitely does deserve credit

For what? Snowden went to… a newspaper. Didn't need Wikileaks. Plenty of whistleblowers did the same before Wikileaks. It's a new brand, but not a new thing.
>Just because a company is based in China doesn’t mean it is fully controlled by the CCP,

If I were a non US company I would automatically assume said company is fully controlled (or I should say compelled) by the US .gov to gather information on foreign companies and governments. US companies such as Apple have had to outright public battles with the .gov to stop this data collecting, and we've learned again and again a large portion of companies just go silently with it.

What I would ask is, do you think China is not asking their internal companies for this information. And if you think no, how nieve do you have to be?
This selects for people that are chained to their email and slavishly do whatever the company says immediately -- probably intentional, and you dodged a bullet.
Collaboration with Manufacturers
We're actively seeking partnerships with manufacturing companies. By collaborating with us, you'll not only enhance the way your team navigates issues on the floor but also assist us in validating our product.

In-crew.app is an industrial issue tracker equipped with AI-powered Continuous Improvement techniques, along with a unique feature for interactive representation of photos and videos from sites.
I don't understand the part about the assembly editor, but I'm not sure I agree with the rest.

Whenever I hear someone describe their software as "opinionated," I have found what that usually means is that the developer thinks they are smarter than everyone else and all of the unfriendly attitude that usually comes along with that.

Whoever made the decision that run0 should turn your terminal red by default doesn't understand that there are practically infinite terminal configurations out there that this will interfere with or be outright incompatible with. My argument is that the decision comes from a place of ignorance of the sheer diversity of the users of the software, not from a place of, "we are so smart, and are the first ones to think of this feature."
Most people aren't technical.

An enormous number of people don't even realize Google isn't the internet.

Defaults are the most powerful force field imaginable at population scale. It's like lead in the water.

Even technical users are dragged down by the second and third order impacts of defaults imposed upon the masses. For instance, Google gets to control how the web works and there's nothing you can do about it.

We should favor robust and healthy competition. Make Google sweat a bit more to earn their place, and give the ecosystem vibrant alternatives that force more rapid innovation.
Revised Chinchilla scaling implies higher compute requirements for small models
The San Franciscan mind simply can't comprehend this
You can publish across platforms with modern .NET
Ask HN: Guidelines for making clear architecture diagrams
I’m new to making software diagrams. I come from a mechanical engineering background, and when drawing free body diagrams there is a set of conventions commonly followed to make a clear diagram. Is there such a set of conventions for software architecture diagrams? I googled briefly, but seem to be getting low quality articles, most of which are pushing a product :(
What happens if your JSON key has a slash?
idk what to say, its cool to see a bunch of gears tracking time and stare at it while it works ._.
To each their own. I am far from outraged but I guess it depends what biased lens you look at it through.

Why does a position need to be political? Of course in modern US politics, party lines are stronger than ever and by identifying strongly with a party you generally identify with certain positions. But I don't believe its true that to have a position or view of the world means you have a political position. Being political, and outraged for that matter, happens when you tell someone to go somewhere else to live or explicitly bring (by naming) politics into a discussion.

I like the idea of having cameras everywhere, along with the idea that I like all police to wear cameras to hold everyone in the interaction accountable.
> Vacant land attracts higher taxes in Japan than land with buildings

A hell of an incentive to build or sell your land to someone who will build. We've struggled with land speculation in the US for longer than we've been a country despite an obvious solution being available to fix this. We really could benefit from taxing land value alone, regardless of the value of any structures on top of it.
That's what I use as well, except for Aeza. I'll have to check that out, I come to HN for the opportunity to see what like-minded people use.
Well, if you aren't keen on doxxing yourself you shouldn't use arguments that require the reader to trust you. Internet is full of liars who claim to be everything from astronauts, to law professors, to IT employees who have gone through "countless mandatory annual trainings that effectively says expressing opinions on non work related subjective political topics with coworkers/employer is not advisable". I have not gone through "those annoying trainings" and since you can't offer a single shred of evidence for their existence...
This is a gross misreading of what the article actually said.

The real meat the article (as reflected very clearly in its original title, not the mangled caption that was unfortunately used for the post; and throughout the article body itself) is that Google apparently fired some 20+ employees who either weren't involved the protest at all, or whose alleged participation remains unclear.

As if the higher-ups got together and said to each other: "Ya know, 28 heads just isn't enough. We need to go out and bust some more, to you know, make a point. Plus there's that sound their skull makes when hitting the pavement. I just can't enough of it!"

Google might dispute this - then again Google lies about a lot of things. We'll see how the complaint process goes.

Either way you're going off on an ancilliary aspect of the article, not its main thrust.
I don't know about your first point. We recently hired two persons who came from VeryBigBusiness Inc. and VeryImportantCorp Inc., so I assumed that they were at least slightly above the average. Soon it became evident that the only field were they both excel was the art of arranging unending meetings, being very vocal in those meetings, looking always too stressed and too busy, getting themselves in key projects while avoiding the day to day work, and never getting any real work done.

One of them was causing such friction with endless meetings and mail chains, that a project she coordinated that was a quagmire for six months was finished in the two weeks after she left.
My cheap gas car gets 40mpg on the freeway. With our roughly $5.30/gallon cost here, a 40 mile one-way commute is around $300/month. That's < 1/10th the housing cost for living near work.

If free electric charging is available where you work, you can save even more by buying a low range, used, electric that nobody wants. I picked one up for $8k. The savings will pay it off in a few more years.
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Product Manager (currently in proptech)
Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/gsokolov
Email: sokolov.georgi at gmail dot com