skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RSU’s most of the time are not gambling. You’re talking about gambling in startups (or small companies ) that can get acquired, run out of funds etc. Tech layoffs, people don’t realize that after the dot com crash this might be the first time layoffs happened at big tech companies (even then Apple and NVIDIA didn’t layoff).

Not taking RSU’s in these tech companies is a very bad idea financially, I like to think of it as equivalent cash. You can always sell your RSU immediately to get cash. But another advantage is when you individually invest in stocks, you rarely have a large fund into 1 stock, you probably diversify into index funds. This gives you consistent returns but leaves no shot at making a fortune. In my experience RSU’s as by default are fully invested into the 1 company you’re working for, give you that outsized return opportunity. Just ask employees at snowflake, NVIDIA, Tesla. Heck even MSFT RSU’s have doubled in value every couple of years and Amazon had insane growth from 2010 to 2022, where if you had gotten equivalent in cash you would be more than 10 times poorer than someone who just held Amazon RSU’s. Yes putting large amounts in 1 stock is risky, but not nearly as risky as you make it sound to be.
I paid $50 to rent a gazebo at our town hall. No regrets having an inexpensive wedding.

I remember the honeymoon we splurged on, much better value, much less planning and coordination to worry about.
> You can't just change job locations.

Also when a family has/needs two parents working, Spouse A's next job becomes limited to locations that do not require Spouse B to also quit, and vice-versa.

I have a pet theory that dual-incomes are one cause of movement to urban locations: The family needs to be in a location with enough overlapping opportunities in each person's role/field.
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> Most of Google's revenue, to pick one example. For every flashy start-up or cool open source project, there is an army of people quietly delivering 10% relative improvements that drive $100M revenue lift in their particular niche at a huge company.

this is true for previous generations of deep learning but still not clear for current GenAI wave.
Groq's chips are 10x faster and 100% US-sourced. Nvidia has existential threats afoot.

I don't see our compute appetite going anywhere generally. But 90% of that will be for AI compute. Nvidia without that is, well... rekd.

(I'm an ignorant fool just reflecting what I've seen. If someone has better perspective, please enlighten me.)
You think you feel stupid, I don't even know what a Honeykrisp Compliant Vulkan is. Sometimes Hacker News makes me wonder if I've had a stroke.
The conclusion is somewhat biased: The employees who jump a lot often implies he hit the salary increase ceiling quicker than other who don't.

In fact, what I observed is that people are constantly looking for place with better pay, regardless if he/she ACTUALLY finds one.
> And really try and avoid non organic wheat, as it is harvested with roundup

That appears to overwhelmingly not be the case, at least in the United States.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wheat-toxic/
> In effect this means that while companies that give paltry pay bumps that don't keep up with the market may successfully hold on to lower performing employees, they'll be continually churning through top performers.

The same effect might even be partially responsible for the OP observation. I.e. the cause and effect might not be "job-hopping gets you paid more" but it might instead be "having a lot of skill gets you paid more and also enables you to job-hop more confidently".
I have read the guide, although i appreciate reaffirming it as the source of truth. What’s hard is from a glance at the posters history their comments don’t seem to break the guidelines, but instead fall into the camp of spirited (albeit strongly so) opinions. Are there specific comments made that weren’t in the spirit of the guidelines? It feels “primarily for ideological purposes” is hard to counter in a discussion because “ideological” itself is a murky term at best.
Your response is curious to me because it suggests multiple unstated biases. I am inferring you suggest:

1. Ambition is more a product of social mobility than product delivery.

2. Success is more a product of prior established salary than personal goals.

From an economics perspective these seem weird to me for two reasons. The goal of economics is always to redistribute resources to a more desirable pattern.

One of the first things I look for in job interviews from interviewers and hiring managers is perception of bias. This is easily discovered by looking at what they want which can be some mixture of technical competency, charm/vanity, or communications dominance. Interviewers want to control the conversation, so just let them until the conversation concludes or I achieve communications dominance passively. I don't want to play games, but when there is noise in the inter-personal communication I have to be a little bit smarter than I appear. I just want a job doing what the paper says, but people are silly.

The second reason why its weird is that in the past I have been that 10x (or much more) developer because my goals are different. The only point of software is automation, which means if I can automate my own job then I don't have to do it either. I usually keep this to myself, because the goal is time maximization so I can do other things with my day while delivering superior quality work. If I told other people about it my peers would whine and I would be tasked to do things outside of product delivery to compensate for their whining. I am certainly not looking for anybody's adoration. I just want to do less stupid.
Why would apple Implement an API they have zero control over? That's just stupid. In contrast Apple already is a member of khronos and you get DirectX for free anyway if you have Vulkan due to dxvk. There are only downsides to implementing DirectX.
Are you thinking of Searle's Chinese Room or another famous thought experiment? Is your issue that an AGI wouldn't really "understand" concepts, despite being better at using them than a human?

>and as a trained philosopher, I don't buy into the whole AGI nonsense

It's hard to imagine Socrates using this form of argument.
Nice game! I played it yesterday and came back to it today as well.

One question, and I think you partly already answered it - are the boards generated manually?
Vulcan-Centaur is the rocket that replaces Atlas V.

The BE-4 is the engine on Vulcan-Centaur's booster stage, which replaces the RD-180 on the Atlas V booster stage. Both Atlas V and Vulcan use RL-10 engines on their main stage (what ULA calls Centaur).

And to add more confusion, the new engine for Ariane 5/6 is the "Vulcain". :D
All things being equal, you'd want a CEO who understands the business, either by coming up through the ranks or a long career at another company in the same business.
> It's just that Godel's proof cannot be rendered in PA

This is incorrect, the proof can be carried out in very weak subsystems of PA.
>> As a non-coder I can get away with asking this: Why is it so hard to simulate reason?

It isn't. We know how to do reasoning with computers. The discussion about reasoning in LLMs is carried out in an echo chamber that ignores the prior work on reasoning (for a bit of a summary see my bio). Which of course makes it very hard for the people involved to understand why their systems fail at it; or, often, that they fail at it.
> The most misused SSN of all time was (078-05-1120). In 1938, wallet manufacturer the E. H. Ferree company in Lockport, New York decided to promote its product by showing how a Social Security card would fit into its wallets. A sample card, used for display purposes, was inserted in each wallet. Company Vice President and Treasurer Douglas Patterson thought it would be a clever idea to use the actual SSN of his secretary, Mrs. Hilda Schrader Whitcher.

> The wallet was sold by Woolworth stores and other department stores all over the country. Even though the card was only half the size of a real card, was printed all in red, and had the word "specimen" written across the face, many purchasers of the wallet adopted the SSN as their own. In the peak year of 1943, 5,755 people were using Hilda's number. SSA acted to eliminate the problem by voiding the number and publicizing that it was incorrect to use it. (Mrs. Whitcher was given a new number.) However, the number continued to be used for many years. In all, over 40,000 people reported this as their SSN. As late as 1977, 12 people were found to still be using the SSN "issued by Woolworth."

https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html

As late as the 1970s, the first 3 digits of your SSN told what office issued your number to you. And the next 2 digits told workers at that office what filing cabinet held your application.

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v45n11/v45n11p29.pdf
Cool. Hopefully they do actually change things and not do that any more.

I guess time will tell. :)
If you're a reasonably well-performing IC at US big tech, your "boss" is often also a grunt with little real control over your salary. Just a different flavor grunt from you. In my experience, these managers are often happy to throw money at you but don't have much latitude to do so. Having a competing offer gives THEM leverage to try to convince those guarding the money hose to open the faucet a little.
Providers managed secure shared environments for decades before ultra inefficient wrappers and runtimes like gVisor existed.
Meanwhile U.S. Lawmakers - or at least the U.S. Government - is targeting Israel with a fake peace proposal so that sort of makes it even:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-03/israel-sa...
Sort of like pre-historic Sea Monkeys. I think that would be super cool to be able to grow at home.
Why is your definition of democratic the valid one?

Mine is, a country is only a real democracy if ALL people it rules over have the same set of rights. Israel isn't a democracy and so isn't the DRC, despite the fact that it has democratic in its name.
Boost as in push it to a different orbit?
People perceive parasocial relationships to fulfill emotional needs
>invasive examination of your finances,

The househpold income is voluntarily self-reported.
Same, but with age and also being on the "piece of shit" side a few too many times -- I've realized most of it just circumstance and the more-often-than-not conclusion of a series of unfortunate life events.

I don't know. I try to maintain empathy, even for the most despicable -- but that doesn't mean their actions need to be tolerated.
You have bots that are ideally not controlled by the system.

But remember that we rely on the lambda scheduler to run it

That does boy have perfect accuracy, so that helps too

Finally, you aren't publishing every 5 minutes, you execute it once a minute, and have 25% chance to publish, so it's going to be mixed
> Probably we can take their word for it, but in the simplest case they could just lie (in either direction) and we would have no way to tell.

Individually, no, but in general, for people to consistently lie about this particular thing at scale would be extremely unusual, given that people rarely lie if there's no reason for it. Going by this baseline, you could assume upward of 50% of replies are honest (even if mistaken), otherwise you'd have to explain why do you believe people would suddenly lie about that particular thing.
I would be very surprised though if the people who actually implement the control systems (as in doing the hard math) don't use radians, though. Is that really not the case? Using degrees just seems like unnecessary extra steps when dealing with transfer functions...
Yeah we bemoan how short-sighted people are, but that's because we only live for a handful of decades. Think of the kind of progress that we could achieve if people were free to follow their dreams for centuries, alongside the kind of respect for the life and nature that would be necessary to live as a citizen of the world for that long.
> o you think that AI is having a big enough impact already to generate this valuation?

Stock valuation is based on speculation. I don't think I understand the question.
Conceptually, any information created or consumed outside your organization is not valid as part of a surrogate key, so SSNs are not a surrogate key. Furthermore, any time you reveal the primary key, that key can become the thing that people come to depend upon to find that database row, which leads to the possibility that someday, someone will have an important need for some primary keys to change, even if the primary key was supposed to be a surrogate key. The longer a database lives, the more likely that surrogate keys morph into natural keys. That's what happened to SSNs.
Known from a friend, he could choose RSU’s, options or cash from Tesla. (You would get more options than RSU’s to compensate for risk). Also Tesla stock price 10xed in the year 2020, even after all the hits , it’s still like 6x from pre 2020. Your brother had to join after 2020, which is unlucky I guess.
| something I'd do for fun for learning - Yes. The answer that comes above is good from web specs pov (or theory in general), otherwise it's not, as it complicates things.

All major langs already have good support async/await, and where is not requirement to rewire your brain to use it. Also, you don't have to write a lot of lines to dealing with websockets, just take lib which build on top of websockets.

Anyway. If you need chat with simple feature set (1 to 1, text, imgs), then, as mentioned below, it is not hard to write it in just two weeks max.
Otherwise, for chat with some specific feature set, it is actually better to buy one.
The first point sounds insane.

In my vicinity the trend seems completely opposite - HR is trying to get a smoother rehiring experience for employees they lost due to their high turnover.

This might be because the talent pool of people willing and able to do IT jobs in my country is very small, so you run into the same people over and over again in this field.
Excessive job hopping simply does not look good on a resume! I want to work with engineers and PMs who build lasting monuments, seeing them through to completion, dealing with both the fun and the unfun bits.
Discussion [0] (88 points, 1 day ago, 20 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576030
Nit: the Israeli government is in Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv.
> I wonder how feasible a Metal compatibility library wrapped around Vulkan would be?

Sort of an inverse of the MoltenVK project? I don't see any reason why that would be infeasible other than "no one really wants this but me".

> Also, what is the best resource for learning Metal if all you know is some OpenGL 1.x from the old “Lego” book?

To be clear, I am not a graphics person, I'm a dude who dicks around with graphics occasionally to play with some kind of more graphical algorithm I read about, but I really don't know what I'm talking about.

That said, I went through this book, It's good enough: https://a.co/d/b3yjPMp

A former coworker of mine also wrote this one if you're interested in iOS game dev, though I have not read it so I cannot speak to its quality: https://a.co/d/c99oE0Q
It's NewsBreak, based in Mountain View.
It really doesn’t seem so when we experience Russia doing the opposite. It only seem to work if both parties to the conflict are democracies where meaningless war can put a toll on the government
It might be that things that take more effort to produce also take more effort to consume. When readers face a choice between a well-researched 100 page article versus a short (maybe low effort) quip of 100 characters, they are more likely to view the latter.
As stated in the article, he was talking about targeting waste and fraud, not benefits. And he’s already been president and took a hard line against entitlement cuts during his term.
Their Florida 'Paradise' Keeps Flooding, but Some Can't Afford a Solution
God I hope something comes out of this. I have IBD, and it's very difficult to put into words people can relate to how debilitating, uncomfortable, inconvenient, embarrassing, and painful these conditions are.
Real VT102 emulation with MAME (2020)
Is the Wittgensteinian problem that the AGI wouldn't understand concepts like we do, or is the problem that it wouldn't be able to use them better than a human?
In fact, when I compared it to Prolog, it was exactly with the view that, back in 2011, it was already possible to define a sentence/text as grammatical or ungrammatical with just a few lines of code. What LLM models like ChatGPT do is generate text based on corpora distributed across the web, grouped, tokenized and trained with a general purpose, but, in the end, they still need the same rules as Prolog to determine whether or not they can regurgitate the text to the user.

The problem is that most people can't see that rabbit r1 is a deceptive product, at least. chatGPT (and Gemini, Claude and many others) doesn't do this (it doesn't trick its users into thinking that the product does one thing, but it actually does another).
> Question for HNers: Do you think that AI is having a big enough impact already to generate this valuation?

I think that's the wrong question: "impact" is necessary but not sufficient for "valuation", as the latter also requires you to not have much competition driving down your margin, and there's a lot of competition in AI software.

NVIDIA, being the metaphorical shovel-seller, can probably justify current valuations from current or near-term hardware sales… but I'm not sure the people spending the money to buy NVIDIA hardware to train their own models can justify those expenses, which means I'm expecting NVIDIA's sales to collapse when the "not invented here" bubble collapses and everyone becomes willing to use an existing off-the-shelf AI.

> Is it changing your life?

Yes:

1. LLMs by being the easy first step on side-projects I'd otherwise not have time to get into

2. Google Translate in general
I'm sorry your son has Crohn's disease. You did nothing wrong. I don't enjoy how people immediately blame themselves or others for "eating wrong foods" when they encounter a new disease. Some diseases will be caused by diet (or viruses, or bacteria), but many others are not. Metabolic versus genetic causes. Consider Celiac's disease: genetic or metabolic? It's a genetic deficiency exacerbated by a metabolic pathway.

Also watch for lactose intolerance, it's easily controlled but can cause discomfort when eating (I'm not saying your son has exclusively this, but rather in addition to).
Sure, friends also won't let friends skip the fact that circulating supply of ETH is now decreasing instead of increasing.

Also, only ~30% tokens are staked. The 30% who chose to stake essentially tax the other 70% in use. Each of the validator do the same amount of work (ok, strictly speaking you get to do more when you have more ETH staked, but being a validator is cheap and does not cost significantly more energy even if you are being selected more frequently because running one proposal is too cheap, that's the whole environmental point, right?) except what they receive is proportioned to how much they stake.

I hate being mean, but sorry, remembering to check one's assumption is a habit I gained after elementary school, so maybe that's too hard for you.
Actually, if you want that, go with a rapberry pi with a hidden Ssid

All you need is to e loitering nearby, connect and drop the data then move

But phyaical tracking is very much a threat
I’ll give you the startupper’s sad side. See, if we want to hire, then a team of Matrix people in full remote isn’t going tk be sexy. We need young faces on the pictures, and we need to make every day an event worth instagramming. First hire for a team of developers should be a community manager. The scene is as stupid as it sounds.

I’ve walked the path. Developers won’t develop anything good for $200k, but they will if you give them attention, care, events, and hope. I literally have to refrain myself from giving higher raises, because I’ve made people rich in the past and they’ve stopped being motivated. The more you pay them, the more they have the thrill to play competition.

(Please watch me if I don’t give them fat equity for the exit event, God, they deserve it).
> LLMs are not reasoning machines. They are basically semantic compression machines with a build in search feature.

This is just a god of the gaps argument. Understanding is a form of semantic compression. So you're saying we have a system that can learn and construct a database of semantic information, then search it and compose novel, structured and coherent semantic content to respond to an a priori unknown prompt. Sounds like a form of reasoning to me. Maybe it's a limited deeply flawed type of reasoning, not that human reason is perfect, but that doesn't support your contention that it's not reasoning at all.
Yeah, I took a huge pay cut for what I thought was stability with an 85 yr old company. You have to hire on to learn the real deal. Turns out they are having trouble managing the changing workforce and shifting market conditions.

Everyone crooned on and on about all the "boomerang" employees and long tenures during interviews. I realized after joining that the employees were coming back after being laid off!! WTF!?

They were absolutely over the moon to get me and have been blown away by my work and are remodeling a new office for me and queuing me up for bigger projects but I can't leave my eggs in this basket. This will be my shortest tenure ever at under a year.

An old CIO friend is creating a new Principal Architect role for me now at another company. I will dive into that startup for 3-5 years until it is acquired.
It's probably more that non-game-dev-Swedes actually make significantly closer to what game-dev-Swedes make in general. Regular software engineering jobs have pretty inflated salaries in the States - Swedish take home salary for software engineers (and indeed, much of the rest of the Western world) is about 1/3 of the equivalent USA salary. Obviously there are other factors at play here, like the functioning healthcare system and social safety net, but all other factors aside the take home pay for non game dev engineers is significantly inflated in the States compared to the rest of the world.
It's just like the hype about self driving vehicles. 5 years ago I had bought into the hype and thought that most long haul truck drivers would be out of work by now.
An analogy is kind of like a car ... OK no. Not going there. I'm out.
The studies do not appear to sustain the headline. We need a difference in differences analysis of countries against vaccination rates and types to conclude anything like it.
Because he’s the worlds oldest 14 year old boy
So it tunnels TCP/IP over Wireguard UDP?
That analogy makes zero sense, the Allies were not a settler colonial organization trying to ethnically cleanse natives. Maybe start learning a bit of history before Oct 7, start by reading about the actions of early Zionists[0].

"The organization [Irgun] committed acts of terrorism against Palestinian Arabs, as well as against the British authorities, who were regarded as illegal occupiers.[7] In particular the Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by the United Nations, British, and United States governments;"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun