skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market over the last 2ish years is significantly worse then it's been over the past 10 years with the exception of Covid due to the rise of interest rates and change in tax incentives. This has hit large companies pretty hard, so there is a double whammy of fewer jobs from the biggest sources and more competition with other engineers. Anecdotally it does seem to be warming up, but it is uneven with significantly longer timelines to get a new position.

So what can you do? 1. Update your LinkedIn with descriptions of all your jobs so it looks similar to your resume. This should include technologies you've worked with. This is basically doing some SEO work so you get inbound recruiter emails (understanding that the quality of those inbounds will vary dramatically). 2. Apply to jobs directly and actually write cover letters (take a look at Who's Hiring, etc).

In terms of new skills or certifications, it's usually easier to add something adjacent to what you already do instead of learning something completely new. If you're a backend engineer, maybe you learn about data pipelines, or cloud infrastructure. If you're a front-end engineer maybe learn to write some backend code using nodejs. Put a side project on your resume, and ideally online.
More hostile as in... you open some random webpage, you get 3 popup windows with porn ads playing at full volume? And when you close them, infinitely more open, like a hydra, until it locks up and you have to reboot.

Or you drop into a public game of CS, and a dozen teens start screaming at you over low bitrate compressed audio streams, to logoff and kill yourself because you sound like an n-word.

This was my internet experience in 1999. I think the derangement has been a constant over time.
Well if you come from a third world country like I do and see first hand just how well capitalism works when lifting your family up from literal slum-like conditions to something middle class, you would understand why people say "high five, guys!" Does it have its problems, sure, but one cannot deny its effects. Every system has its flaws, it's just that certain systems like capitalism actually do what they say they'd do.
> Sweden and Norway both have recently declined to expand their interconnects with Germany.

Sorry. Just reporting the news: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/swedish-government-s...

> Elections carrying electricity do not have the quality of being “cheap” or “low quality”.

They do. Because electrons, that are forced to move by the wind, cease moving when there's no wind. And this happens for weeks at a time in winter in Germany.

There's a fix for that: capacity markets. In essence, if you can guarantee that your source of electrons will always be available, you get paid for that. Europe has pledged to "do something" about that EU-wide by 2028.
I think this is insightful, based on my own experience. I think the two traits are orthogonal. I'm naturally(?) extraverted, but have always been shy and am still anxious in most social situations.

People would probably recognize me as extraverted, but it requires something like mental/emotional gatecrashing (or some disinhibiting agent).
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Wow, looks strangely organic, like lipid structures in primordial ooze.
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> Do they distill knowledge or distill the relationship between words (that describe knowledge)

Do we know that there's a difference between the two? Maybe this distinction is just a god of the gaps.
This is probavly the correct link: https://toonk.io/navigating-infrastructure-outages-battle-sc...
This might have changed but for most highly sensitive enterprises I’ve worked at android is typically banned. Even if select phones from Google or Samsung aren’t full of supply chain compromises, the number and variety of android devices that are decidedly untrustworthy is breathtaking. Apple makes this stuff pretty simple and unless your internal security team wants to become an expert in every manufacturer and version of hardware and its interplay with every version and derivation of android, just banning every outside of iOS is much easier.
I also did some experimenting with number packing and ended up creating a QuickSet implementation[0]. However, it turned out that operating on TypedArrays proved more performant, which I settled on in the end. I've collected some related packages here:

[0]: https://github.com/dleeftink/QuickSet

[1]: https://github.com/dleeftink/QuickSet?tab=readme-ov-file#see...

Of note is FastIntSet, which uses the technique you described, but I think is only able to store 4 unsigned integers as one JS value (I might be wrong).

[2]: https://github.com/TheLucifurry/fast-int-set/blob/main/src/s...

This notebook demonstrate a MVP bitpacking technique using BigInts (see the 'bitpack' and 'pack' cells):

[3]: https://observablehq.com/@dleeftink/array-bitbuffers

SimSIMD offers various similarity measures and quantisation levels for TypedArrays:

[4]: https://github.com/ashvardanian/simsimd#using-simsimd-in-jav...
“We don’t know how we do it, so we can’t say this isn’t how we do it” isn’t a valid argument.

We may not know exactly how we reason, but we can rule out probabilistic guessing. And even if that is a part of it, we’re capable of far more sophisticated models. We can recurse and hold links. We can also make intuitive leaps that aren’t quite built on probability.
Before Trump v US, if the President had somehow ordered all opposition murdered and the army agreed, exactly what would have happened differently? This is the point of the grumblings that I just don't understand. They imagine wild hypotheticals and erroneously believe that before Trump v US there would be some magic law enforcement agency stepping in to set things right.

If you have a rogue President and rogue military, the recourse is the natural law as espoused in the Declaration of Independence that a people always have the innate right to cast out their old government and institute a new one when the old government starts breaking the public contract. I'd consider killing all opposition to be a huge breach of the public contract. Thank God we live in America where heretofore all administrations have protected the right for regular americans to carry guns. Good luck to anyone who wants to actually try a coup!
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I did in the past.

Now I just run `:PlugUpdate` and hope that whatever comes from GitHub, is seen by the manyeyeballs. I certainly don't check all the diffs.
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> Alberta doesn't lack for hills, which is what's needed to build pumped storage which is what's cheapest for seasonal storage.

From what I understand, BC has a lot of hydro dams. I wonder if there is a way to use them for pumped storage.
This. The seemingly neverending run for foundation models only works as long as companies can afford it. If one of them spends 100+B, it will be a long time before compute catches up to the point that a competitor could reproduce it at reasonable budgets. This is essentially the race of who's going to own AGI and it shouldn't be surprising that people are willing to spend these amounts.
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I imagine it would require a network, otherwise how do you connect to it? That said, it might work if you setup a wifi hotspot on your laptop and the KVM is configured to connect to it.
aka aristocracy and not meritocracy
> Suleyman called content protected by robots.txt a "gray area ... that's going to work its way through the courts."

robots.txt is not and has not ever been a matter for the courts. It's a social convention, and if you ignore it you get blocked. If you use your tech giant power to avoid a user-agent or IP-based block, then eventually everyone gets blocked, the content is behind a login or paywall, and you've made the internet worse for everyone and still not gotten what you want.
Given my total experience with code reviews, he was probably spot on.
It seems straightforward but it isn't.

Alberta is about twice the size of Germany, 50% larger than California and has a meager population of 4.3 million spread out across that area.With a latitude that ranges from 48' to 60' and a wide variety of geography there's a range of availability in solar and wind.

Alberta politics is also a factor.

Alberta is a complete aberration in North American democracy in that more or less one party have been in power there for over 50 years. While the party has always been blatantly pro O&G industry at the expense of everything else when they issued an unexpected moratorium on a solar and wind projects last year.

This has thrown the renewable industry in Alberta into chaos and has likely damaged investor confidence in Alberta for decades[0]

https://www.theenergymix.com/tsunami-engulfs-alberta-renewab...
I disagree with the title, but it's an okay rundown of the various package managers. Wish the author had tried out hatch though since it seems good. Also rye is not abandoned. You can see the repo has updates within the last 24 hours for a new release. I think they want uv to eat rye, but that hasn't happened yet.

My current favorites are uv + mise. Handles lockfiles, multiple versions of python, and it's very fast since uv is very fast. Have not tried pdm or hatch though.
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I have family that are lawyers, some that are 'high up' in their respective areas.

The answer is 'networking'. Very well paid lawyers are very good at being lawyers. Meaning that yes, they placed well in their law schools and that they really truly do know their stuff. In the US, common law systems are not an easy thing to master [0]. If they go to trial, they know how to run one and how not to run one, depending on circumstances.

But the real thing that makes a very well paid lawyer as such is the 'networking' element. They know which judges will rule what way, what other lawyers in the local system are like, who the right secretaries to talk to are. And they know how to determine such things with little information. Most importantly, they know who not to talk to and get information from. And they know how to 'work the refs' to their advantage and how to ditch clients too.

Is this scummy? Oh, absolutely, no questions. But the law in our system is not about the truth, it's about winning. That's why we pay lawyers to begin with: to win. If we want to change that, sure, fine, most lawyers do too. But you have to play the cards you're dealt.

[0] Life tip: If you ever meet a Louisiana lawyer, you've met a very very smart person. Having to master two different law systems interacting at once is blindingly difficult. Louisiana's legal system is based on Napoleonic era civil law and the rest of the US's common law.
I had to restart Pipewire just this morning when audio randomly stopped working. It's funny as this is the first time it happened then an hour later I'm reading in this thread about Pipewire acting funny on other people's computers.
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Based on wikipedia original viewership numbers, the office UK saw about 63 million views during its original run, and the US show saw about 1,463 million, so it definitely was the more popular show by orders of magnitude.

It also seems to be on-again-off-again the most streamed TV show in a given year, competing with the likes of Friends, Suits, and Grey's anatomy. I can't find UK stream numbers to compare, but it doesn't seem like it's ever made one of the top 10/25/etc lists that netflix or neilson publishes.
> This is not “the plan” although getting rid of all coal is part of the plan.

It is: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-agrees-subsi...

> The ministry said hydrogen transition plans should be drawn up by 2032 to enable the plants to be fully switched to hydrogen between 2035 and 2040.

> "Germany last year agreed with the European Commission to tender 8.8 GW of new hydrogen plants, and up to another 15 GW that will run initially on natural gas before being connected to the hydrogen grid by 2035 at the latest, but Berlin and Brussels have disagreed on how the gas plants would be subsidised."

So basically, Germany is _paying_ companies somewhere around $20B to build new gas power plants and make _plans_ to switch to hydrogen by 2032. The switch itself can go into 2040-s.
Or fixing a borked update that left the Proxmox node unbootable, for instance.
A summary of click-to-raise and drag-and-drop interaction on X11 and Wayland
Japan's digital deficit might be a good thing
I certainly agree about dark modes being different. I've used vim with black background and white text (and bright colors in the syntax highlighting) for many years now, but whenever I try dark mode in other editors they are mostly shades of grey and completely unreadable. Do people really use dark grey background with a less dark font?
But it may be that the best you can do with a simulation is make arrangements seem interesting

It may be, but is there any evidence of that or reason to believe it? How would one even go about defining that problem or proving that? With computer graphics we can produce worlds that approximate the real world well enough to understand and reason about them in similar ways, even though they don't really work like the real thing at all (e.g. hollow 3D objects suffice for a lot of things). Why could we not produce code that makes a character in that world pass for "intelligent"? We don't need to copy the model of life. We just need to understand what parts/features are necessary to create a system that has enough potential to develop something we find sufficiently interesting.
It was delayed a looooong time and the hardware/OS was locked fairly early. If it had been released when originally planned, it would not have felt so old. I still don't think it would necessarily have rocked the world; too many other issues.
One thing the conversation seems to be missing is rocks and handling.

Rocks are mostly an off-piste issue, but I have seen it happen on piste. Especially early and last season when cover can be low. Will occasionally also happen near the lift when a spot gets warn low. When I get rock gashes, it's always easier to just send them to the shop's machine.

Handling also introduces a fair amount of nicks. In theory, the edges should never meet at an awkward angle, but it happens. Skis slide around on the rack, skis flip out a position while carrying them, things shift in the car, etc, etc.
Since in LLM what is important is the result, I wonder if all those dimensions are dependent of accuracy, so that the dimension can be low if you want low accuracy but you need a high dimension (a large number of parameters) in order to increase accuracy. If this intuition is right then dimension is not the key concept rather the key is how minimal dimension at required accuracy scale with accuracy. A metaphor is the way in which humans structure knowledge, we don't learn by heart, rather we learn by considering local and global relations with other areas in order to construct global knowledge. So the curve that reflects the best tradeoff of dimension versus accuracy is an important curve that merits to be studied. In general, to learn well you need to separate clearly the main parts, so the regions should be structured in such a way that they provide rich and independent information, so simply using the number of regions don't seem to me to be enough, it can contain a lot of noise or randomness.

Another point about the number of regions: if the number of regions is similar to the number of clusters in a clustering algorithm then the number of cluster is not a key factor since very different number of clusters could give similar performance and looking for a minimum number could limit the generalization capabilities of the model.

In support vector machines there is the concept of margin between regions. If we fix a threshold to separate regions by a fixed margin then the number of regions is less noisy since you eliminate redundant and low information regions. So fixing the minimum margin or threshold seems to be the first step prior to studying the relation between the number of parameters, number of regions and performance of the model.

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> This is for a criminal case. The victims don't play a prosecutorial role here and are not actually parties to this case.

The desires of the victim in making formal accusations (“pressing charges”) are certainly considered by the prosecutors even if the victim is not a party to the trial. I’d image the prosecutor takes it into account in other situations too, like the terms of accepting a guilty plea. Do you have a link to something that suggests otherwise?
For the targeted use case, their drivers tended to work just fine.

It was when you went outside said use case that things started getting worse, and you had to wait long time for fixes. Sometimes it was because the changes in XFree/X.Org were effectively fixated on how some other vendors did things (cough intel cough), or involved things that effectively nobody wanted to spend engineering to fix properly (like rebuilding rendering path to be able to handle hybrid graphics properly when hybrid graphics came into world years after critical set of X.Org devs decided to stop any real development into X.Org...).

Vulkan Compute also is nowhere close to feature parity with CUDA, so not sure it would be picked up instead.
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Being larger isn't a disadvantage. Wind correlation drops exponentially as a function of distance. Land use becomes a non issue.
> I only saw install instructions for NPM so maybe it just needs built executables

Sorry for the confusion, this is an Electron app. I just didn't ship an executable with it at the moment.

> I could see an easy integration to push your page up to a CDN or GH Pages instance.

That is certainly in the cards. Though, in my opinion, it becomes more useful to edit complex web application since there are many tools supporting static sites but not many for production web apps.

> user needs often seem straightforward or even intuitive, but that’s heavily skewed by a completely different approach to using and reasoning about software than end users have

I am guilty of this. My long-long term hope is to be able to collaborate better with my product folks where they are able to enact their own intuition in the product instead of having to go through me for every change needed.

While this is easy for a marketing page, it's much more difficult to do in a complex application context.
Is unclear. On one side they send deliberately many jailbirds to a certain death, but also lots of young and naive Russians that weren't criminals. On the other side, every Russian soldier that will survive the war has became a hardened war criminal. Just read today about the treat to the Ukranian soldiers captured by Russia and exchanged later. If a tenth of what the Ukranian soldiers say is true (and their body supports the history), the Russian army is broken beyond repair.

The relationship between Putin and Russians (or between the government and the Russian army) is an archetypical abuser/victim relationship.

This will normally finishes with the victim killed at the end, as a lot of Russian soldiers had discovered too late. The lesson is: psychos don't care and will never care about you or your feelings.

In rare cases the victims kill the abuser, normally after a traumatic shock or external forces breaking the spell. If the killed soldiers would have instead turn around and take the Kremlin, their chances to survive in the end would have boosted. Putin was really in danger when Prighozin realized that their expected role was to die in Bahmut. He tried to get himself out of the frypan but failed. Putin's face on video was of somebody mortally afraid those days.
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Reminds me of this episode of The Outer Limits https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667978/

> A desperate dying man injects himself with experimental nanobots that can supposedly cure anything. It works, but then his body starts to hideously mutate. He asks his soon-to-be brother-in-law, who invented the nanobots, for help.
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>It does however taste like soap. So I always tell restaurants no cilantro and often end up having to pick it out of dishes that I didn't expect to contain it.

Same. I don't I've ever actually smelled cilantro, I just taste it in stuff and it tastes like soap. I'll have to make a point of smelling it next time we have some in the house I guess. So many restaurants now think throwing cilantro in everything is some cheat code for making dishes taste fresh and original that they add it to all sorts of stuff. Long before I knew about the cilantro tastes like soap thing, I assumed some restaurants just weren't good about washing the soap off their plates and cups. I knew I was tasting soap but had no idea where it was coming from.
>Bureaucratical bullshit to get simple things done
>Lack of product vision where everyone from sales to marketing to support is driving it.
>Lack of ownership in product; the inability to effect a positive change.
>Pointless meetings and discussions.
>Process, procedures, having the upper-hand, and getting things done taking a back-seat.

I'm fortunate enough to not have to deal with this the majority of the time and I'm still sick of programming. I couldn't imagine doing anything else for a living though. Maybe I'm just sick of working all the time.

I've been professionally doing this since 1997. I've been through the Windows revolution, the internet revolution, the cloud revolution, the iPhone revolution.

Just brainstorming as to why

- I'm sick of being spied on all the time.
- The interwebs is dead.
- I'm sick of new frameworks that don't really offer anything new except to obsolete old frameworks that work fine.
- You can't just write something neat and make any money off of it unless you allow yourself to get hijacked by some VC or other investor.
- The market for software is flooded by absolute crap software with massive marketing budgets.
- There are a lot of people who got into it for the money are hell to work with.

Maybe I'm just old. I certainly don't do much coding on the side. About 5-6 years ago, I'm program almost every waking moment, now I don't wanna touch an IDE outside of work.

The grind continues.
Let me expand GP's statement a little to show it's not aristocracy, and is indeed meritocracy.

Building a $40k device for cheap is amazing, but only part of the problem. After that, you need to salesmanship to get the device in front of customers, and persuasiveness to get them to try it, and business acumen to scale and provide support like the big kids do.

Once you do that, you can disrupt a $40k device with a rasp pi and some adafruit sensors.
yeah this is an immediate show-stopper for me, at least for professional usage
If I recall the original 'Bullshit jobs' post, even before it was a book, food service jobs (and hairdressing) were specifically mentioned as not bullshit jobs; and that distinction between liking the job vs it being bullshit was stated
sounds totally like an LLM.
Xrdp is really good.

I'm amazed by the quantity of different Linux remote desktop solutions covered in this thread. Is the fragmentation a good sign of a healthy ecosystem?