skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been in programming for two decades and one of the things I enjoy about it is that things change. I did my stint in both architecture and management because I thought what you were supposed to do, but I went back to programming because I like programming. I’ve worked on so many different technologies that I’ve probably forgotten more than some people even learn yet I’ve always liked it.

I do get how you can burn out, especially on the business side of things. A lot of jobs just aren’t important. The trick is to avoid them if you can and leave them as soon as possible if you can’t. Every non-startup / non-economic boom job comes with some degree of Kafka, and you’re either going to learn to not care about it or go crazy. I’m not sure that is especially unique for programmers though, this seems to be most things. Unless you’re extremely talented at the HR part of organisational politics (which most programmers aren’t) you’re also going to have to build some really stupid stuff during your career because change management is hard. So hard that it’s virtually impossible for talented HR staff to do when the direction is upwards, which it’ll always be for programmers. Again, it’s something you either learn to laugh about or burn out on.

The change in technology, however? Isn’t that part of the fun? If it isn’t, is that because you don’t have the time for it? Because if don’t (and a lot of jobs won’t give you this) then you’re frankly in one of those “leave as soon as possible” positions. Even so, niche work rarely dies. The author mentions mainframe work, but mainframe work is still some of the highest paid work in the world because those grey beards who actually know and want to do it are so retired that a lot of them are frankly dead. I’m not sure how you could ever work on mainframes for 40+ years and then not be able to get paid handsomely by banks.

Anyway to each their own. It’s a nice perspective, and it offers you a few insights into just how much of a cog in the machine you’re going to be in virtually any job. Even one where you’re extremely well liked and rewarded. I think the best thing I learned from my stint in management is how everyone, and I do mean everyone, is replaceable. It’s just a matter of cost. Which can sound depressing, but it’s also very liberating because it teaches you to not get overly attached to jobs or employers.
> Do famous paintings/artworks count as securities? Some people like to invest in them […]

Just because you can invest in something does not mean it is a security: it can be a commodity.

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/commodity.asp

* https://www.investopedia.com/commodity-vs-security-7509422

* https://www.findlaw.com/consumer/securities-law/securities-v...
They weren't actually called energy beers.

In the US, they fall under the same legal category as beer, which is "malt beverage", but beer is just one type of malt beverage, drinks like Four Loko are another.

They're closer to drinks like "hard lemonade" or "hard tea", which aren't beer. They're made by adding malt liquor to some flavored drink.
To put that into perspective:

The AC cools the house using about 3-4kW, total.

The roof on the house (assuming 29N because the article is about Houston, so between 10AM and 2PM, that's a Solar irradiance of 1kW/m^2) is receiving 157.9kW of sunlight, and then absorbing about 85% of that.
That's what I'd have thought, but it's looking bleak. Who do you have in mind?
It's ~50 bucks for a second hand X86 laptop that can run this game (less than an Apple thunderbolt cable), if you actually want to play it now, instead of waiting for a Mac port to fall out of the sky.
That was my point, look at the budget this agency has, it is incredibly huge, they can afford to accommodate the request.
Effectively HIV stops replication in a presence of the drug, similarly to HIV drug regimes used today. However HIV is a very nasty virus - it’s called retrovirus because it writes itself into cell’s DNA (nucleus/core). So while those cells are alive as soon as you stop taking medications you will have virus resurgance. Some of those cells are in bone marrow and permanent. Hence stopping the replication of HIV isn’t enough for cure.
I would beg to disagree with you. Many attempts have been made to replace music notation as we know it, and all have failed. In fact, more cultures around the world are adopting "western" music notation than ever before. It turns out that the expressiveness and information density of the notation are hard to match with any other system.

In turn, the notation that we use has become more flexible than ever. There are rich notations for microtonal music, various playing techniques, clusters of notes, and many more things. If you took a score by a modern composer (see Saad Haddad's pieces on YouTube) and showed it to JS Bach, it would be unrecognizable to him. Music notation is a living language just like English is.

By the way, I have been an on-and-off professional in the music world, although it is a "side gig" to programming, including some composing, tuning, and playing.

However, it is undeniable that music notation is a system made for power users. It's not an easy language to learn. The ideas of "information dense" and "expressive" should remind you of the ideas behind the A programming language.
I always make better decisions the day after a big decision is presented. I can't make a good decision only moments after new information comes to me.
Dual-Mode between what and what?
Similar age point, the problem is not keeping up, is fighting the continuous push to management, which I don't plan to ever do, unless forced by life circunstances.

It appears that the only path left for us in many European countries, is to go freelancer, and I vouch for the same problem regarding skills, forget about having Github repos, or open source contributions, if the technology company X is looking for isn't the one we haved used in the last 5 years or so on day job.
I was with you on this
It depends. I had a pension plan that grew x2 in 17 years (don't know what they invested into). My own investments grew much faster than S&P though.
Hi

This is a really exciting area to build a software business, there is huge potential.

Think about the audiences you need to get through to: potential customers yes, but maybe also systems integrators, consultants, agencies.

We can assume that there are many B2B service-oriented companies that have good client portfolios but do not have RAG-LLM-integration skills, some of these could be good targets to partner with.

You could consider focusing on a particular industry segment. Do an analysis to identify the most promising sectors. Build knowledge and contacts in your chosen sector(s).

More accurate target marketing in specialist media for that sector will give you more bang for your marketing bucks.

You could also contract with one or more independent sales reps who specialize in software sales. There are a bunch of platforms for 'commission based sales agents' that can link you up with software sales people.

I have more thoughts and will email you if you want to chat further.
transactions are securities, assets are not

we’re agreeing
> hacking is cool

Hacking will always be cool now that there’s an entire aesthetic around it. The Matrix, Mr. Robot, even the Social Network.
The prediction markets always over hype recent events
Work on shit you like that pays you well.

It’s this second part that’s the stumbling block for most of humanity.
Resource Management and Generators in Python
>it exists outside of spacetime

So I guess this theory won't be subject to empirical testing any time soon?
Apples to oranges.

Usernames are public now.

Back then, your username was public, and your password was assumed cracked/public, within a designated time-frame.

Your analogy would hold if when your cert expires, everyone gets to spoof it consequence free.
I don't think that they contradict.

Maybe AI-generated books should also be a part of Librivox.

I tried to listen to some, but the quality of narration was bad.
It must have been nice in the early 2010s to be so smart to predict AI would be a huge hit (after a couple previous AI winters) and that GPUs would be the key and that NVIDIA specifically would reap the benefits. But I'm sure you're smarter than me and a lot of other people. And AMD also did pretty well during much of that same period although I sadly sold my modest holdings after they went nowhere for years after spiking with some adoption by the big server makers. It would probably have made more sense to bet on Intel during that period.
It's all up for grabs, compound with glue
How is that successful? Sounds like his days involve working like a dog.
Turns out it won't be a paperclip maximizer but a battery optimizer.
I don't think it's high quality, tbh

Much less enjoyable than with OpenAI TTS.
Do you think it may be possible to use philosophy to change the world in a positive for most way (say, 80%+ of the global population), to a "substantial" degree (based on a global survey)?

As an analogy: consider perspectives (on whether flight may be possible) 100 years before and after flight was ~mastered (based on a global survey).
Out of sight out of mind? How non-consumption shapes desire
As I grow older, and perhaps comfortable in my skin/being fired/whatever, I will actually just ask for the document to be shared before leaving the meeting in these cases
I spent so much time with moray. First in dos, then in windows. The material editor was pretty good.
You're in like, 0.1% of programmers financially. I know living in certain bubbles it feels like everyone makes that kind of money, but it's absolutely not. It's like a lottery winner telling people that if they plan to work over 50 they are fools.
Right, the value in holding the stock certificate is that it provides the bearer with entitlements to control and a share of the assets of an intangible thing - a company.

The value in holding a painting is that you own some aesthetically arranged atoms.
Of course they don’t explain how it found the copper, but I suppose the article is less about A.I. and more about the need for copper.
“The only winning move is not to play."
I'm a bit older, I don't really feel trouble keeping up but looking at the landscape it's just not that interesting anymore. So many "new" ideas are actually old ideas but the people pushing them are too young to know that.

I don't have any doubt in my ability to learn new languages and frameworks, but running in that hamster wheel just gets boring after a while.
Even then, a lot of insurance does not cover the newer PrEP (Descovy) even though Truvada is harsher on the kidneys.
Different drives which you can choose trough the settings button, have different sounds. Try the E drive.
Incompetence doesn't often give rise to criminal liability, though.
I really thought that 1.5x playback speed would be the same as 1.5x generation speed. Wow. Looks like I was wrong.

Regarding the subscription — I thought that no subscription was actually a competitive advantage, but now so many people are telling me to do it, that I'm really not sure anymore.
I see your point, that it's really just an overall normalization for the size rather than anything to do with the shape. I can accept that, and I'll grant them the "four non-zero parameters" claim.

Though in that case, I would have liked for them to make it explicit. Maybe normalize it to "1", and scale the other parameters appropriately. (Because as it stands, I don't think you can reproduce their figure from their paper.)
Discussed earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40957658
Really interesting take!
So I guess "A.I." is the new buzzword for how we describe all digital technology going forward. FWIW I thought this was a better article that described the actual tech used by KoBold, https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-mining. Now, that article was written by the KoBold CEO, so there are certainly parts of it I'd take with a giant chunk of salt, but I think it's easier to read that article (and read past some of the AI buzzwords) to see how they're probably using (a) better surveying tech and (b) standard machine learning techniques to generate maps of potential deposits.
There is no ambiguity with significant whitespace.
Any chance the name clashes with WB's trademark of the Bazinga! catchphrase?

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=85210239&caseType=SERIAL_...
His performance in US version of “Whose line is it anyway” is the funniest I’ve seen on that show.

https://youtu.be/b-r4Flc_d2M?si=tUJEl-i1eSa00t4_
Something I've wondered is how index funds effect companies entering the index for the first time.

Like, let's say there's a company (TryerCo) that is the 501st biggest in the US. Big, but still one step away from being in the S&P 500.

Then, one of the S&P 500s collapse. They exit the index, and TryerCo enters the index at position 500, despite no material change since the day before.

Doesn't this mean a whole _heap_ of index funds will suddenly start buying TryerCo stock, sending it up thanks to the arbitrary number 500?
Sorry. I've had so many "jokes" taken literally that I don't even try it without the /s anymore.
I think you should look into making your extension 'private' at least at first and only grant access to people who pay for it. You need to add each user's gmail account to a list in the Chrome Webstore or associate a Google Group with it and then add peoples' emails to that list.

Maybe set up a server where people can pay and people can auth against later on to automate the payments and updating the users list.
I am familiar with the literature on reinforcement learning.
Look for corporate jobs outside of California/SV-type places. Financial firms, insurance companies, also universities. You won't be blazing any new trails and you might be shocked by the pay difference but you'll work 9-5 with your weekends free and probably good benefits.

You'll have to be able to tolerate some level of Initech-style management but if you just accept that and play along the work pace is pretty relaxed.
Or with past California
Beware, this used to install some sketchy launchd daemons on macOS that ran as root. I don't remember the details, but look into `/Library/LaunchDaemons` and `/Library/LaunchAgents`.
I’m 55. Started as a 6502 cracker on the C64.

I still get enjoyment out of some coding - C++ on Linux for enterprise applications - but I do miss the “magic”.
People would and still do deliberately raise some children to be without their own families so that they can be dedicated care takers. Ie not allowing a daughter to marry and such.

Listen, somebody spending years or a decade taking care of a family member is a story as old as time. But let's not pretend it's not an enormous sacrifice.
This comment ignores Five Eyes.

Some countries are happily turning the other way, because they can't extrajudicially spy on citizens, but they can happily accept data from an ally.

Not saying it's right or wrong, that's just the political landscape.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908526
I want Thunderbird.
It was. I was employee number 10. Just started and was entirely bankrolled by that CTO

The CTO sold a software company he bootstrapped in 2008 and afaik has been working as an exec since.

The CEO, a close friend of Mr CTO, said that the system was going to be Mr CTO’s career encore. (Read: they were very full of themselves)

The CIO quit 4 days before I started for, rumor has it, butting heads with the CTO.

Mr CTO ended up firing (with no warning) me and another dev who were vocal about his nonsense. (Out of 5 devs total)

A 3rd guy quit less than a month after.

That’s how my 2024 started
Dont forget the takeover of Cingular. That always seemed to be when the old DNA was comprehensively switched out for the new. No more ATT with sleepy offices in San Antonio, now it was a mobile company based out of Dallas.
Batteries charge for free when renewables push spot prices to zero or negative and discharge when most needed and getting paid to do so; they comin’ for fossil gas generation that pays to burn (fuel) and spin (per hour O&M).
That's exactly what I did, which confused me a lot:

* See an article about something called "UTM SE"
* See a linkified "UTM SE" in the first paragraph, thinking it would take me to a homepage or GitHub project or something
* But instead it takes me to another article on the same site that talks about JIT and apt-get update and how Apple disallows that. Not very helpful
* Further down on the first page is a link to "the 'real' UTM", but guess what, it also goes to some other article on the same blog that doesn't explain anything

I realize that most of this has been fixed now, but seriously, to me that just looked like some sort of SEO by using dozens of intra-site links, or something.
Steelmanning for a moment: I think what the author is trying to address is overly targeted "patches" to security vulnerabilities which fail to address the faulty design practices which led to the vulnerabilities. An example might be "fixing" cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in a web application by blocking requests containing keywords like "script" or "onclick".
Yes unfortunately all the better-paid jobs start before I get up in the morning.
nice, i'll be there.
Thanks! Macro-expanded:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742163 Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial (bloomberg.com) — 24 days ago, 438 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40882506 A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial (npr.org) — 9 days ago, 5 comments

Others?
Id be interested in this also
People flag political stories, which makes sense for most political stories as the site guidelines explain. I've turned the flags off this one now. It's late for that, I know, but I was away over the weekend and didn't even hear about this story until I got back a few minutes ago.
> Frankly the argument "they shouldn't need to query the data in their system" is kind of silly.

Neutral party here: that's not what they said.

A) Quotes shouldn't be there.

B) Heuristic I've started applying to my comments: if I'm tempted to "quote" something that isn't a quote, it means I don't fully understand what they mean and should ask a question. This dovetails nicely with the spirit of HN's "come with curiosity"

It is disquieting because:

A) This are very much ill-defined terms (what, exactly, is data lake, vs. data warehouse, vs. database?), and as far as I've had to understand this stuff, and a quick spot check of Google shows, it's about making it so you're accumulating more data in one place.

B) This is antithetical to a consumer's desired approach to data, which will described parodically as: stored individually, on one computer, behind 3 locked doors and 20 layers of encryption.
TIL apple is dumb

just... why
Not regular i7's, "Core i7 K-series CPUs also have high crash rates".
Motorola dropped support for the moto g within 6 months of me buying it. I got either one or zero android version updates iirc.

“A year and a half of OS updates” rapidly becomes 6 months of OS updates if you don’t buy on launch day, wait for prices to drop a little bit and inventory to normalize, etc.
Relevant...

https://reddit.com/r/decaf
My imagination tells me that they 'fed' it with all geographical/geological data available, and cross referenced them with various locations of mines (different ores)(gold, cobalt, copper, etc.) and the "machine" "figured out" that (silly example) river + mountain + over500m + earthquakes (or lack of) + various other parameters = so-and-so ore.

There may be some 'coincidences'/similarities that require many parameters that the eye misses, while the "AI" can combine far more parameters.
Why? Why does this new innovation in the california grid have to be all about dunking on texas?

(As a californian) It's especially annoying coming from anyone californian, the state of Enron and PGE wildfires. Like we are so caught up in the vanity of comparison that we quickly rush to forgive our past sins while condemning the mistakes of others for forever and ever.

How about as technologists, we just focus on innovating (which is not a zero sum game) and we don't compare ourselves to people who aren't doing as well.
Plex has done a great job with their lifetime subscription. I paid something like $250 ~7 years ago and it's still the same.
The thing is ... The industry needs us. It's making a mess all over and valorizing complexity and novelty. Constantly. Programmers with experience in our age range have, I think, a better sense of how to manage this and encourage simplicity (partially out of necessity). But age and novelty bias in our industry means this knowledge doesn't pass on.

It's tough to tell younger engineers that have cut their teeth swimming in intricacies and edge cases and integration nightmares and constantly surfing on the edge of chaos, and managing it, that they're likely contributing to the problem, not fixing it. But someone needs to.

I can't remember details like I used to, things mark&sweep out of my brain much faster they used to. (Probably not just because I'm older but because as a parent, home owner, and spouse... I just have a lot to manage on top of it.) But.. really... a good system, a well-built system ... should be resilient to that, and people with experience.. that's hopefully what we build.
Where does he mention how the keycaps feel to type on?
One sample here, but I hate taking notes and I am not good at it. I have very poor handwriting. I do scribble stuff but it's mostly useful for local, short time sketching of problems and when the issue is so complex I can't keep it all in my head.

Anyway, I am also quite literate(I think) so I am confused by the bundling of note-taking with literacy.
Isn't that half the point of new AI, or "AI" stuff? That it can't tell you how it knows X?
> Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy. THAT's what's needed most.

And this is also not a hard problem, just expensive, tedious, and politically unpopular.
The Most Powerful Programming Platform? [video]
What are some examples of new ideas that are old?
I forgot to mention that we were building all this in C#, as mandated by Mr CTO.

He also couldn’t decide between windows server and some .RHEL or Debian flavor

I doubt this guy even knew what a kernel driver was.

He very transparently just discounted anything he didn’t already understand.
After poorly explaining why he didn’t like ring buffers, he said we should take inspiration from some system his friend made.

We started reading over the system and it all hinged on a “CircularBuffer” class which was a ring buffer implementation.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2023/12/14/google-...

""And there are lots of ways of doing the legal process (including Google's warrant policy, although that's just one way) that are a lot more privacy protective than ordinary warrants. But I can see why this might be in Google's business interest. If there isn't a lot of economic value to Google in keeping the data, and having it means you need to get embroiled in privacy debates over what you do with it, better for Google to drop it.""

The public has the government to thank for this change because if they had not inundated Google with warrants, Google would have continued to collect and keep this data. The data collection and storage caused the warrants. The warrants caused the decision to purge.

These so-called "tech" companies will collect and store data to the detriment of the public's privacy even when it is unclear if doing so has any economic value.
I always thought the litigation and regulatory pressure over this was misplaced. Consuming a single serving of the most outrageous product described in the article (22oz, 12% alcohol, 156mg caffeine) is not acutely dangerous to a healthy adult who isn't about to drive a car. Chugging multiple of them is a bad decision of course, but it's just as easy to drink other alcoholic beverages to excess - perhaps easier with hard liquor.
On one hand, there's like a 1% chance the data was actually fully deleted. OTOH, $370,000 is literally nothing to AT&T, so paying "nothing" for a 1% chance of maybe the data getting deleted seems like a decent wager for AT&T to make?