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I've posted about my Lambda experience in another thread. I started Lambda School in 2019. I was in one of their first part-time evening cohorts. The original program length was 9 months. I went into the program with a lot of prior programming experience as a hobbyist and MUD programmer, but no professional experience. I had been trying to get a programming job for over a decade without success. I hoped it would help me build a portfolio and network of peers.

At that time, I was working in a helpdesk role that I had had for about 5 years. It was a call center job, so I didn't have a lot of control over my schedule, but was able to arrange to keep my schedule for the nine months of the program. About 3 months into the program, they completely changed the structure of the program, which doubled the length to 18 months.

I completed the core curriculum and the capstone project. Throughout the program they kept promising to connect us with career counselors, but kept pushing it back. First it would be after we were halfway through the core curriculum, then when we finished the core curriculum, then when we started the capstone project, then when we finished it. I never once got to speak with any kind of career professional. The closest we got was a peer reviewed resume.

After the capstone project, we started a "computer science" module, which was supposed to be the end of the course. I did a few weeks of the computer science module, but couldn't continue when my shift changed, since this was outside of the original nine months. I tried to make arrangements to finish the module on my own time, but they wouldn't allow this. The only option I was given was to withdraw from the program.

By the time I had finished, the reputation for Lambda was already tanking. I tried sending out resumes, but I couldn't get any traction at all. I did Triplebyte and passed, but only got one interview from that process and it didn't lead to a job.

Meanwhile, I got a pay bump that put me over the 50k. Lambda came after me for the ISA, since I had a job in tech. It didn't matter that it was the same job I had had for 5 years before starting their program.

I went to a lawyer and was told that the contract required arbitration in New York City, which would be too expensive to bother with, so I just paid the ISA.

I later went through a different bootcamp on scholarship and did end up getting a SWE job after that, but was laid off in 2022 when our project was discontinued and am back on the helpdesk. Guess I was never meant to be a programmer lol.
There was one apartment they built at my old college that was so expensive it pretty much exclusively targeted the subset of foreigners who parks supercars illegally full of tickets on campus. Not just your bostonites or whatever but children of saudi princes and chinese billionaires who effectively lived on a blank check.
It's awesome to hear that there are more scrupulous alternatives. You say everyone is working in industry - if in a %, you mean to say like 100% of those who graduated with you work(ed) in tech afterwards, right?
As always, "it depends." But for those that are dubious: VCs generally dont like companies that have super high gross margins, because it signals you might have left growth on the table.

In general, if you set your original pricing to yield an acceptable gross margins % and you cut your costs by 10x, you pass roughly that on to your customers if you're being smart
FINRA is not a bank, its regulatory purview doesn't include the banking sector either.
No. The scale is galactic, not planetary.
Methods to Load Data in Svelte and SvelteKit
The final "oh oh!"
>- situations where remote workers are domiciled in a different location from where they were hired AND they didn't tell HR (this leaves companies legally liable for various tax, business incorporation, and safety regulations)

This right here is entirely a result of government leveraging employers as a social control mechanism, that hitherto hasn't been so much of an issue; but with things like the Internet and computers, has now become highly disruptive to comply with.

The answer to "who gets the tax revenue?" has previously been "the jurisdiction of record for the employee". Anything more fine grained than that starts to become indistinguishable from serfdom, and reels of government overreach.
Austen seems to finally have given up on trying spin every story about him that reaches HN, no posts in the last 9 months.[0] A sure sign of the dismal state of things at Lambda/Bloom.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=austenallred
Could liquid hard drives be the next big thing?
Rich people have RE holdings, it's part of a diversified portfolio.

Why would it have to be just the board? Why not the many, many well-heeled execs at the companies themselves?
Svelte. It's the only front end framework that "clicks" with me and I find I can build MVP/prototypes and simple apps much faster than in other frameworks.
Are you sure? TFA doesn't state what you're saying, it mentions Universe 25 was designed to support 3000 mice but things broke down at a population of 600 and never recovered.
ICQ will stop working from June 26 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467625 - May 2024 (751 comments)
Well, firstly, if you plot the first n degrees of monomials and keep the scale invariant, the visual difference between x^k and x^(k+1) literally gets smaller the higher up you go.

Secondly, presumably the distinction of "straight" vs. "curved" is quite deeply programmed into the brain's pattern recognition machinery. The degree of curvature is a quantitative parameter on top of the qualitative categorization. This may or may not have something to do with the fact that a modern human sees straight lines everywhere (something that very much was not the case in the ancestral environment).
Ice freezing and sinking would be an issue on earth, but the habitable zone extends much closer to the sun than the earth because extremophiles can survive up to at least 122 C.

Similarly a denser atmosphere more eventually distributes temperature so planets don’t actually need to have very high surface temperatures to avoid water freezing.
Are we going to start seeing Google Maps offer alternate routes to avoid sketchy bridges?

Seems possible. Airline booking sites already offer filters to exclude 737 Max planes.
If you've ever watched the movie Zero Theorem, their data analysts use data captures in fluid dynamics to manipulate and process the data. I always that that was a really interesting concept.
What year did you attend? Did you have actual teachers, or just other classmates conscripted into teaching you things they themselves didn't understand yet?
Yeah, you don't play with the weights in language models, you play with the residual stream by prompting (and occasionally by direct modification if you're being clever). But that does affect the model's generation! (obviously? otherwise there would be no need for a prompt in the first place, and all the recent residual stream modification research wouldn't work).

But I think if we just banned the word "generator" we probably wouldn't disagree on much here.

> Good luck with your effort!

Thanks =)
When Lennart is telling you to not be a dick then you know you've really fucked up
> Mercury and Gemini both had used pure oxygen environments with obviously no mishaps.

Pure oxygen atmosphere is pretty dangerous. I worked with it at a steel mill where it was a process gas. Oxygen lines had to be "oxygen clean" before put into service. This meant no oil or grease or particulates that could strike a spark if propelled along the line. Also the line had to be sized for a maximum flow velocity or the oxygen would "scarf" the line. Think rapid oxidation like combustion.

I read a fatality report where a pipe fitter descended into an oxygen valve pit and burst into flames. The report speculated that the fitter had some grease on his gloves that spontaneously combusted in the presence of pure oxygen.

I suppose it's less hazardous at reduced pressure, but still not an atmosphere I would want to work in.

A search finds more info at https://www.eiga.eu/uploads/documents/DOC013.pdf which discusses this.
This is Dell we're talking about. They can always find a PE shop to take them private again like they did in 2013.
So if Bob from accounts needs a new report generating, he has to wait for 6 month for an IT guy to do it? Who probably won't do a very good job, because he doesn't understand what Bob needs as well as Bob does? Bob is going to hack something horrific together in Excel instead. Better surely to let Bob have a GUI point and click tool more appropriate to the job?
As a former instructor (not at Lambda), I'm kind of inclined to believe it has more to do with the fact that it takes a certain kind of person to put up with the demands of corporate software engineering.

Getting both kids and adults (especially kids) to figure out how to program is easy if you understand that most of the concepts are better taught visually through p5js or what have you. Once they leave that sandbox, however, and have to contend with what has to go into developing a production React app, it's a different animal.

Programming is easy. Putting a bunch of black-boxes together in order to build some app or whatever is much, much harder and more complex (and, arguably, I think that calling it programming is kind of deceptive. You're technically doing programming, but you really feel like you are? I can't say I do.)

Incidentally this is perhaps why I'm calmer than others when it comes to AI getting better and better at programming. All these researchers and companies have done is given me another black box to manage. They mean to assault my castle by first repairing its walls.
The documents for chat control got leaked by the press. Nothing was released by the EU.
> Primary goal is to up my step count. With a busy job and babies at home it’s difficult to hit 10k steps at the mo.

Why do you want to hit 10k steps a day?
About as soon as a SaaS self-service to order a piloted jet plane.

Either you're really big and can put serious resources into R&D and production, or you can have a few toy-sized offerings for the lowest end that are only good for highly custom or testing purposes, or you are too small to care.
What do you hate about software engineering? “Software engineering” is a very wide, encompassing term, and software engineering practices can vary wildly across industries, companies, domains, and even across teams within a company. There’s a big difference between writing Web apps for the state DMV versus working on an experimental operating system at Microsoft Research.

However, there is a fundamental difference between solving programming puzzles versus working as a software engineer. When you work for a company, you are working on a product, whether it is customer-facing or an internal tool. Products have target users, and products also are expected to deliver business value. When you work for a company, you are expected to deliver value to that company. If there is only one lesson to learn when working for someone: everything the company does, including your employment, is constantly being evaluated for the value it delivers to the company. To put it succinctly, at the risk of being harsh: you aren’t hired to solve problems; you are hired to deliver value.

Programming for personal enjoyment is different from programming as a job, since all jobs must deliver value to the person or institution paying the employee. This doesn’t have to be soul-crushing, and there are many software engineers who enjoy their work. But even when working in the most enlightened environments, you’re still an employee, and enlightened environments typically don’t always stay that way.
Blacksmith (YC W24) is hiring a front end engineer to improve GitHub Actions
Right. Then it feels like we only disagree on the surface :-). You seem to say "Socialism as it used to be has disappeared" and I say "Socialism has evolved".

My original reaction towards US people is that I really feel like whatever is left on Barack Obama sounds authoritarian to them. You say "public transport should be owned by the state" and they say "you deserve to go to jail, you socialist" (I exaggerate obviously, just to make my point).

They tend to forget that there is a world of opinions to the left of Obama (which, again, is on the right wing in my book), and that those opinions are still compatible with democracy.
Is there something that saves the extracted documents so they can be accessed again?
> It's easy to get stuck in the "data driven" mindset, as if data was the be-all and end-all, and not just a stepping stone towards an ever more refined mental model.

Yes. "Data driven" either includes sound statistical modelling and inference, or is just a thiny veiled information bias.
Management is usually heavily compensated via the stock of the company they are managing, precisely to align incentives and overcome conflicts of interest like that.
Show HN: I Made an App to Track Expenses in Natural Language with LLM
I was getting kind of similar vibes. When they reveal the story, it’s basically “traceroute identifies 2 choke point routers, and I DDoSed them with traffic”.

That’s cool and neat for guerrilla warfare, but I would assume the NSA and DoD are already aware of that possibility? I wouldn’t even be surprised if they saw the DDoS happening on network monitoring tools. Why clandestine meetings for that?

I get why the media is interested, it’s an awesome story.
Fq – Jq for Binary Formats
Note that this means that conntrack's window tracking has to be perfectly in sync with both endpoints (assuming TCP invalids are dropped). Given endpoints tend to be updated more often than middleboxes, this isn't a great assumption to make.
Storage is only 1/2 the problem. You still have to access it in an organized way.
Since we heard the news yesterday there has been a continuous stream of people paying their respects at his statue here in Willie Mays Plaza, bringing flowers and saying their goodbyes. There were people there at 1am and in the morning when we woke up.

When he would come to games I remember people being extatic that he was just attending that day. Imagine seeing him play.

A truly beloved man, and deservedly so.
Like with most things Apple puts into the OS, it's designed to serve the 80%. For power users, or anyone who doesn't fit into Apple's implementation, 3rd party apps can fill the gaps. These utilities will either adapt to better serve power users, or they'll shutdown. That's usually how it goes.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of… (the rest is left as an exercise to the reader)
> This right here is entirely a result of government leveraging employers as a social control mechanism

Not everything is a conspiracy.

I like using roads, my local library, my public schools, and my local park.

The issue is if my employer thinks I'm domiciled in Texas but I am actually working from Portugal, then my employer is paying taxes to Texas but not Portugal.

This pisses off Portugal as there is basically an additional person who's using public services but not paying for them (income and corporate taxes make the majority of tax revenue).
Ooo pretty:

https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/18/apple-vision-cheaper-halts-wo...

"Report: Apple halts work on Vision Pro, aims to release cheaper Vision headset next year"
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@dang Black band, and change HN post title to the article's current title, "Arvind, longtime MIT professor and prolific computer scientist, dies at 77"?
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No that's barely a bad excuse. The projected market for the new line is 500 000 passengers a year, that's 2 trains each way per day. That doesn't even begin making the slightest sense. As passenger traffic cannot be a valid justification, they turned towards fret trains. Too bad, fret has been dropping between France and Italy for some years. Fret trains have dropped dramatically in France well below the European average (17% of cargo traffic) to 9 to 10% of traffic. If you want to revive freight trains, you can't just build one frigging tunnel, you need to rebuild almost from scratch the whole thing first because Fret SNCF has been closed down in 2023 and dismantled!

With the amount of money invested you could probably fly everyone from Lyon to Turin on expensive aviation biofuel for centuries before recouping the humongous investment. This is just stupid grandiosity allied with corruption.
I answered in another one of your comment :-).

You think that it's not socialism anymore (which is fair, "socialisme democratique" is not "socialism" anymore), and I say that socialism has evolved ("socialisme democratique" is an evolution of socialism that works in democracies). In the end it's just a difference in the definition.

The fact remains that the US don't really have the equivalent of "Parti Socialiste": the democrats would be on the right wing in France, right?
Wouldn't that require a concerted effort since rich people probably don't have a stake in the buildings they're forcing their employees to return to.
The rationale: it's a manageable number to "easily" differentiate regulated parties.

How they got to this number, I've got no idea, but having reviewed training, it's easy to demonstrate whether or not your model should be regulated. It lets companies "self regulate" and as an engineer, if you build a model exceeding these parameters, you should be complying with the rules.

How do you know: take your hardware specs and multiply them by how long it takes you to train your model on that hardware. It's straightforward and only enforceable in hindsight.
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Likely 180 nm is fine when you have little and slow logic, don't care about power efficiency too much, and want to integrate output pins rated at 500 mA. Much of car electronics is like this.
That's one of the points in the video: the paperwork tends to obscure the state of the system to decision makers. It's easy for the bridge inspectors (or even a random member of the public) to see that it needs to be closed down and repaired, but it's not what the decision-makers see: they see a 100-page report with a long list of action items, many of which are not actually incredibly urgent, much like every other bridge they get inspected. It makes it difficult to actually get a good sense of where the bigger problems are. (of course it should actually be the case that they are on top of everything that is highlighted in the inspections, but that's expensive and it seems like no-one wants to pay for it)
(For the record, I find it telling that the feature is listed amongst the site's "MOST POPULAR" reads ...)
This is a good point. I don't think anyone wakes up wanting to make a new serializer. At this point, I was already pretty deep into making and releasing tools for my game projects so doing this didn't seem like such a stretch (although it actually ended up being one of the hardest things I've ever done).

A lot of small to mid-size games (which are the focus of the tools I provide) want to save data into JSON, whether it is to be mod-friendly or just somewhat human-friendly to the developer while working on the game. Not familiar with Thrift, but PB is obviously for binary data and has a focus on compactness and performance, which isn't the primary concern on my list of priorities for a serialization system. My primary concern for a serialization system is refactor-friendliness. I want to be able to rework type hierarchies without breaking existing save files, or get as close to that as possible.

I suppose you could say I'm only really introducing "half" of a serialization system: the heavy lifting is being split between the introspection generator (for writing metadata at compile time via source generation) and System.Text.Json (which handles a lot of the runtime logic for serializing/deserializing things).
Tone aside, the post contains some hard truths. I'm curious to see what the HN audience think of the point the author makes.
Comprehensive generalization of the Friendship Paradox to weights and attributes
The MIC is surprisingly fragile when it comes to longterm stress to the economic system keeping it alive. So important is not how "advanced" a drone is, but how cheap and easy it can be assembled and supplied long after all supply chains collapse. He whos garbage air force circles the wasteland long after all opposition perished we shall crown victor.
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Good point. What is hard is not programming, but taming complexity and scale.
While you don't need the relational features, some games do need the ability to make partial updates to make auto-save performant.

Do a search for something like "Minecraft save game size", and you'll see some people have multi-gigabyte saves. Similar issues crop up with some Paradox Interactive games.
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It causes a panic if the write to stdout fails (e.g. if it's a pipe and the other side was closed, or if stdout is redirected to a file and the disk is full).
The rust compiler requires handling this potential error in some way, or you get a compiler error. unwrap() "handles" the IO error by crashing the program with a panic, which is the simplest way of avoiding the compiler error. It's fine for such a toy program, but would be inappropriate for production code.
I have no experience in the manufacturing domain but it fascinates me as a data engineer. I do have experience building data lakes at scale with sub-day (microbatch/“realtime”) latency and with disparate sources. I don’t think this needs to be as complicated or painful as you expect but I don’t know enough about your data or needs to be sure. If you want to discuss specifics send me an email at the domain in my profile, I’d love to know more.
I just started using sqlglot to convert Microsoft SQL Server code to Databricks SQL, and it has been able to automate 80% of the translation (assuming it's just a select statement). You might take a look.

https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot
> Is this just easier to SEE in a bootcamp type scenario?

You can certainly find universities that charge high prices, deliver a poor education, don’t have their act together, and leave students with a lot of debt and little to show for it.

The difference in this case was that Lambda School was pushed on everyone as the superior bootcamp. It was supposed to be a top-tier bootcamp. One of the best. Famous people like Paul Graham touted it constantly on Twitter and even wrote an essay defending the Lambda School founder when the first criticisms started gaining momentum.

> Is this maybe an easy to see problem that is part of a larger education problem none the less?

Trying to reduce all education options to the same level removes the nuance that makes this story what it is. Of course you can find bad education experiences in many forms, but it’s also easy to discover that Stanford has an excellent CS program while some private no-name for-profit university has no reputation. In this case, the most reputable bootcamp that was being touted by industry titans as the superior education option turned out to be one of the worst. That’s the story.