skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Structural unemployment happens when the perceived skills of the workforce don't match the perceived needs of employers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons : when "buyers" cannot distinguish between good and bad due to informational issues, even the good products (or in this case employees) cannot find buyers. Market failure.

It might be improvable by the relevant parties getting together and agreeing on a curriculum and exams so people only have to take a test once, for example. But I think that's a long way off.

Of course, ChatGPT makes this a lot worse since it reduces the cost of fakes on both sides: fake applications and fake job adverts.
I don't agree with this outlook at all and I think it is apparent they took cues from sexual fantasies to be honest.
it was finnish deadpan humor
Ironic, just about every time I see industry propaganda that defends some toxic chemical, they use two tactics. First, compare it to something else everybody uses and considers harmless. Second, repeat over and over again there's no studies that show it's harmful at very very low doses.

You managed to do both.
What's that thing? Much harm is attributed to Tinder and I don't know how to boil it all down to something that would be a positive for jobseeking.
Pro Israel articles get flagged much faster.
you can already hire and fire fast in the US but nobody does it.
there is just a bunch of BS talk about "cost of hiring" and "risk".

i also found that "verification" consists of "trick questions".
if you can't answer the trick question, then people assume you are lying or a fraud.
this doesn't work very well and optimizes for people able to answer trick questions and for those who get turned on asking these type of questions (i.e. people who are labeled "smart").
I also refurbished my 50 year old apartment which is part of a cute concrete monster i wouldn't change for the world. I've had no issues doing this and attained the highest possible energy rating because the architect that designed the building was a genius.
It's amazing what bipartisanship can quickly accomplish for the rich.
This was absolutely created with ChatGPT. To be reading AI slop in a thread about the future of the internet is some meta-level awfulness.

I’ve been migrating away from social media forums back to email newsletters just for better content. Feels weird to be saying that.
> People with machine learning experience are getting 7-figure offer

This sounds like a gross exaggeration. Unless they did something like start a company. For an IC at least, even at FAANG it would be bit crazy to start at more than ~$400k. If a project lead, then its obviously more and you can make bank as you move up the ladder.
They don't have to jump though, many iOS developers also do watchOS/macOS apps but they are still "iOS developers".
If they can bring one more platform under their belt with little effort, I would say that many of them would consider it.
I've been using shell-gpt[1] for the same, and it is almost irritatingly useful. I fear that my somewhat decent shell-fu is going to atrophy pretty rapidly in this new world.

in my experience, this is the kind of thing that LLMs are great for - small, one-off tasks with clearly defined parameters. (and, with careful application - low stakes.)

[1]: https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt
> but can’t code their way out of a paper bag, fire them.

This is a bit of an inhumane way of looking at it. Sure, it's "business", but asking someone to quit their current job to come work with you should only (IMO) be done if you have the intention of actually keeping them there and not "seeing how it works out"
I've gone through a lot of job seeking in the last year (two companies in a row I've worked for have closed). Didn't have a single leetcode challenge. And I'm looking for us companies who hire remotely from other countries but pay at the us level, so it's supposedly about the hardest difficulty setting possible.
I notice every time somebody gets a new phone because it says "Your safety number with x has changed" but whenever I've spoken about it with friends, they have no idea what it means. An additional sentence could help here, such as "You might want to double check that you're really talking to x" or the classic "It's possible someone is doing something nasty". Although I understand that this would definitely scare a lot of people, maybe even push them into thinking Signal is insecure.
I guessed this is a type of XSS but it seems not. The TL;DR is a bit vague on the impact. It says "This bug allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code as soon as a malicious PDF file is opened" but PDFs can already execute arbitrary JavaScript as a feature (as noted in the article).

Hidden in some paragraph it does say

> Instead, PDF.js runs under the origin resource://pdf.js. This prevents access to local files, but it is slightly more privileged in other aspects.

Seems like it's not an XSS letting you take over the website origin, but it lets you run JS under this resource://pdf.js origin. Could be an interesting vector when combined with other weaknesses, but not an instant knock out as I expected when I read the title and saw the points :)
Students uncover security bug that could let millions do their laundry for free
I would seriously consider an open source business model with an appropriate licensing model. I see lot of companies are open to experimenting with open source db's.
It's nicely itemized for your convenience.

There will be a charge for the facility itself. There will be a charge for the nurse that initially took you in and triaged you by looking at you and deciding you weren't immediately dying.

Then after sitting there for 4 hours, you might have gotten 10 minutes with a doctor who'd have said something like "You are ok, take a tylenol". This is not any run of the mill doctor, this is an ER doctor, so obviously their charges are in the thousands too.

Whenever this gets brought up someone replies with, "Well, it needs medical training to confirm that you are indeed ok", and I completely agree. And I won't be complaining if the whole visit costed a few hundred dollars. But a few thousand?
https://archive.is/fZn6b
> Several studies show that people who live near parks, canals, rivers – any green space – are less likely to struggle with mental health issues. And this is the case even after we account for individual differences in socioeconomics. The risk of developing depression is about 20% lower in people who live near or spend a significant amount of time near green spaces. But what we don’t know is which specific aspects of the natural environment are beneficial.

So when you control for socioeconomic status, and an effect remains, is the remaining actual effect 20% or something much less? Worth asking anyway.
To steelman the argument for human spaceflight:

If launch becomes sufficiently cheap, then the cost of supporting humans in space also becomes cheap. The cost of developing space robots doesn't decline nearly as much. At some point, "why not robots in space?" has the answer "because on Earth there are plenty of applications where people are cheaper", and cheap space moves that argument to space as well.

Note that this implies the overriding importance of reducing costs vs. just sending people expensively for symbolic reasons. The latter is as idiotic as it has ever been.

I seriously doubt NASA as it is currently funded and constructed can deliver this.
It really isn't. The first years dominate the value and later years are worth nothing due to inflation. Google a calculator and use a reasonable discount rate and I suspect you will find that todays value for an infinite perpetuity is a lot less than your intuition might guess. It always surprises me.
People have commented on the rest, but on “Also, job posting and application management platforms are usually quiet expensive”, I haven’t found that to be the case. For small startups, ATS (applicant tracking software) is pretty inexpensive and usually includes integrations with LinkedIn to post jobs automatically. Given the time it saves on the process parts of the candidate pipeline, it’s easily worth it.

If you are the founder of an early stage startup, you should also take it upon yourself to do candidate sourcing. Nobody knows your space and the gaps you need to fill in your company better than you do. Get a LinkedIn Recruiter Lite account and cold message people who have the skillset you are looking for.
Will LLMs make programming languages obsolete?
I'd rather not. Frankly, it's grim enough that I don't really recommend doing the research on your own, and just staying ignorant if you can.
Yea this is my biggest issue. I make a point of pushing for hiring green devs in our company. A balance of green and senior. My argument to management is that we’re never hiring people for what they know, we’re hiring people to learn our problems and figure new ways to solve them.
That is a further endorsement of human exploration.
Bonus points for "out-flirt".-

I am keeping that one ...
> We covered more ground in a lunar rover in a week than any of our mars rovers covered in a year.

And this counters my argument...how exactly?

Even forgetting the fact that scientific progress isn't measured in "kilometers driven" (just count the number of experiments that Perseverance carries, and compare the amounts of data produced(, there is no technical reason a robot cannot drive as far as a vehicle carrying humans.

In fact it's the opposite: One of the most important restrictions regarding the LRVs driving distance wasn't technological in nature, it was due to the the fact it had to carry humans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle#Usage

An operational constraint on the use of the LRV was that the astronauts must be able to walk back to the LM if the LRV were to fail at any time during the EVA (called the "Walkback Limit"). Thus, the traverses were limited in the distance they could go at the start and at any time later in the EVA.

And even though they relaxed the constraints later on, the fact still remains: As soon as you have a human in the mix, things become more cumbersome, way more expensive, slower, less risks can be taken, and if things go wrong, the results can suddenly involve dead people instead of just trashed equipment.
They have never been an attempt to force Canadians to become Americans by killing them or occupying them. This is the reason why it is a bad example.
And you may find yourself binding a parameter
And you may find yourself with a free variable
And you may find yourself down in subtrees equal to cousin branches
And you may find yourself with a beautiful rep, in a beautiful type
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3EDCM461jQ
In the past, I've seen examples of D-shell connectors with molded all-plastic connectors.

The most common example is perhaps the Atari 2600's molded female joystick connector, but I've also seen male iterations (usually on IDC connectors).

Other than lack durability and lack of built-in shielding, I don't see any problem with the idea of 3D printing such a thing.

With a decent resin printer, one should even be able to design it to use removable pins that just snap into place (which are things that are still made in factories every day).
That penalty exists, and e.g. Purdue Pharma was subject to it. But of course, Purdue also shows why it's complicated:

* When you dismantle a company, you have to figure out what to do with its assets. You could just burn them all down I guess, but if the company did something wrong that we want compensation for, it usually makes more sense to try and maximize the value you can get.

* A large manufacturing company is going to have factories, distributor contracts, etc. with no liquid secondary market. The value-maximizing play is most likely going to be selling the package to an existing company or setting up a new one, rather than holding a piecemeal fire sale.

* But if you have a new company/division with all of the old company's assets, doesn't that mean you've just renamed the old company? Kinda, yeah. You could disrupt the sameness by firing all the employees and hiring new ones - but that's going to hurt the value of the assets too, and it's not clear what the point would be of punishing the employees for executive misconduct.
> Some will find a job before they finish you interview process.

"one quality candidate might be perfect, because then the hiring process can go very fast"

> Some (many?) will ask for more than you can offer.

This seems to ignore my point 1 about listing salary/compensation on the job posting.
Current tech meets the needs of normie home users (most of whom will never see even a full drive write) and big enterprise (servers have specific retirement schedules, each and every server is fully disposable, complete redundancies abound) but leave out in the cold those of us running small businesses and smaller data centers where machines are overprovisioned and not on a depreciation schedule, hopefully with a RAID 1(0) or ZFS/LVM being the safety mechanism in place.
The point is more that compared to prior landers, the Starship version at least has a uniquely high center of gravity over a narrow base, which makes it a whole lot easier to tip, and amplifies the consequences of, say, leg damage.
60 years on we haven't forgotten how to read EBCDIC. Punch cards can still be deciphered. Most languages aren't unrecognizable from what they were 200 years ago. I don't think we'd have much issue reading an USB stick in 200 years.
CSS: Has(), the God Selector
He didn't lie under oath, but both you and the article are extrapolating quite a bit from the testimony of one guy who's not an authoritative source of anything, absence of evidence and all that.

The 6ft (really the 2 meter) rule didn't come from nowhere and does have research backing -- a lot of it going back to the late 1800's. Here's a great overview of the research and history surrounding it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8504878/

Were it gets interesting is that this model of disease transmission doesn't fit covid (and might not fit anything really) but the take-away is the opposite -- that it's actually worse and that 6ft isn't enough. It would be easier to take the criticism leveled from the anti-social distancing crowd seriously if they were arguing for more distance and isolation, not less because that's just fixing wrong with different wrong.
As someone who has no technical knowledge of Llama or any of the LLM work, from conceptual understanding to technical implementation, is there any benefit to sit down and go through this from start to finish? Or is effort better spent somewhere else?

Like a roadmap, do A, do B And finally go through this in the end.
Swift is a nice language. But unfortunately it heavily overlaps with C# making it difficult to justify picking the former anywhere besides macOS application development.
MIT 6.S191: Deep Generative Modeling [video]
The Technology one? Just optimizing the Algorithm....
There was a small Scrabble-related discussion recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391290 Scrabble, Anonymous
If you are a boomer company that does not know how online works, then you can also afford a boomer-style business class flight tickets to do a secret $25M transaction face-to-face.
This sounds like the study on the residual coffee material injected in rats that obliged California to say coffee causes cancer.
You don't even need HTMX - see the PHOOOS technique: https://github.com/niutech/phooos
The enemy of humanity are those we thought they were...
https://archive.ph/Ji7Xd
Does this also apply to hiring as well as firing? Should companies hire more to make more money in times of growth? Is this a coherent position?
I've seen people with like 10 jobs in 8 years.
Feels a bit like rage bait to me.

“I’ll never buy another Tesla again,” he added. “That’s the long way of me saying stay the f*k away from Teslas. They’re brutal cars, brutal manufacturing, and even worse, they’re a 10-year-old company.”

It's an 11 year old car, so, this person bought the first generation and it's broken down. Do people think EV's somehow magically last forever?

Related: Do Tesla's have a 12V battery too or just the big 48V? Both of my EV's have had 12V issues that cost around 100$ to fix, but the 10 year old Volt outside is still running strong with it's main battery and a few oil changes on the generator motor.
> "corporate death penalty" needs to be enacted

This is fines with extra steps. That’s the point. Talk of a “corporate death penalty” is a red herring.

The article mentions the $62bn “researchers estimated…that the costs of just two forever chemicals, PFOA and PFOS — in terms of disease burden, disability and health-care expenses — amounted to,” which “exceeds the current market value of 3M.” A $62bn fine would cleanly end 3M.

You know what 3M would love instead of a $62bn fine? A “corporate death penalty.” Unprecedented and thus practically infinitely appealed in the legal system, riddled with ambiguity, and a political football they can play with for years.
While your broader point is well taken, isn’t Uber a famous Go shop?
If the customer demands it they'll sell their integrity, and damn the taxpayers. I have little sympathy for this.

If this sort of continued honesty-free space program is what Congress + NASA are going to give us, we'd be better off without a manned space program.
Are LLM models approaching a saturation point?
LLM benchmarks are normalized between 0 and 100.

The main benchmarks alredy close to 100:
- common sense reasoning (WinoGrande)
- arithmetic (GSM8K)
- multitasking (MMLU)
- sentence completion (HellaSwag)
- common sense reasoning 'challenge' (ARC)

The only thing is if the Transformers architecture changes or if there are new benchmarks that measure the performance of models in new properties.

What's next? Increasing performance and decreasing token cost has the potential to open up more complex use cases.

This will lead to the emergence of LLM processors and models will run entirely locally. This is a likely development scenario.

Any thoughts?
People letting some other entity control their dollars with an expectation to grow by itself is flawed. These people are handing their money over so the corporations use it to their advantage by introducing these toxic products to begin with.

If “every day people” lose their money because they handed it over to someone else—that’s on no one but themselves.

People need to be investing in local businesses instead and take FULL responsibility for an investment that they actually understand.
I don’t know, but I found the muLISP/muSTAR-80 Artificial Intelligence Development System Reference Manual on the Wayback Machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140530042250/http://maben.home...
OpenAI: Exodus
> Some will find a job before they finish you interview process.

The more this happens the greater the chances your interview process is too long.

A fast interview process has many many benefits.
In the vast majority of cases, integer overflow or truncation when casting is a bug, regardless whether it is undefined, implementation-defined or well-defined behavior. Avoiding undefined behavior doesn't buy you anything.

If you start to fuzz test with UBSan and -fsanitize=integer, you will realize that the choice of integer types doesn't matter much. Unsigned types have the benefit that overflowing the left end of the allowed range (zero) has a much better chance of being detected.
Ask HN: Finding a part time dev job
I am looking for a dev job that requires less than 9 hours a day. Is it a unicorn?
And thus I have never applied to Google. I’m fine with Google shipping my code though…
Various childhood experiences convinced me that adults were stupid. One was wearing a belt I didn't need, because that's what one did, and scratching my Dad's guitar. This cost me a career of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

I rejected cursive after one year, reverting to printing despite all pressures. I couldn't see any upside to cursive. It was harder to read, a concession to lazy adults with poor motor control. A few years later I won a penmanship contest.

What I want to do with these ideas is automate turning computer-generated animation into animation with a hand-drawn life, using machine learning to tune the parameters to express my tastes.

This is all connected: My brother and I were fascinated when we learned how animation worked. I then found myself deathly bored in an hour of school penmanship printing practice, so I worked on animating letter F's turning into letter G's, and so forth. The teacher left me alone until other kids asked what I was doing, and I taught them. She swiftly collected all papers, went to get a primitive projector that barely escaped incinerating our work, and praised various students' penmanship. My collaborators were trembling that they'd be chosen next. We didn't yet understand that one attempts to stop a revolution by cutting off the head.

I was stunned to realize that the ridicule didn't hurt. These experiences helped me learn to think independently as a mathematician.
I have never heard of this. Must be a commercial solution?

Are you saying it can take a point cloud 3D representation into a fully working and clean 3D mesh for VR?
For every person saying the year is 02024 there are at least a few who are thinking "its not year 1044 decimal?"
I sort of like Go, but also can't bring myself to write it that often. I don't know why--although part if it is fetching libraries directly from git repos.
A Tale of Two Clouds
It was the 1990s and we were in the US.
People cannot distinguish GPT-4 from a human in a Turing test
Nim (https://nim-lang.org/) originally had "syntax skins" with thoughts like these in mind.. e.g. braces vs. indent for block structure as per user-preference. The particular feature was unused enough to be dropped as not worth maintenance, though.

Also, Mathematica since forever (maybe version 1.0 in 1988) has had things like `CForm` and `FortranForm`.
Experimental obesity drug packs double punch to reduce weight
How would serving the PDF on a sensitive origin help the attacker? Wouldn't they need to serve the vulnerable PDF viewer on a sensitive origin?
Are single prompt python wrappers Show HN noteworthy now?
Maybe that's part of it, but I think not having any personal experience with the constraints of early computing is also a factor. The demoscene does try to keep that spirit going on modern platforms with artificial constraints like "Windows exe limited to 64kb" but I think it's harder for someone coming in fresh to appreciate the appeal of that handicap. They definitely won't appreciate the actual retro computer targets like the C64 and Amiga, why would they, those systems came out before they were born and unlike early game consoles they have almost no lasting appeal outside of nostalgia (sorry Amiga fans).
There are 61.44 TB NVMe drives (best price I've seen right now is ~6200. They were ~4800 earlier this year). You can have a 1U server with 32 E1.L slots so you should be able to fit ~1.9PB raw storage into 1U for a little over $200k. Don't know how business financing works, but at 8% interest with a 5 year amortization, that's a bit over $4k/month.
I'm not just talking about population level racial minorities. It can be things like disabilities, or even white people in areas/industries/ teams with a majority Asian population. It could even be somewhat based on political or religious beliefs and the other cultural-social background that forms what hobbies and other activities you might meet someone at.

Yeah, certain minorities can benefit from programs that value them above others, but the above and beyond results you talk about come after the main connections are made. This doesn't extend to all minority groups either, like those with invisible disabilities (after all, it's mostly about how things look).
Why is YT still available in Russia?
I doubt that rule applies to pasting URLs in comments. It's about code.