skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it so hard to make software developer jobs that are humane and dignified, where you cooperate with people to make interesting and useful things that also provide a decent living? The bloat of VC and the expectation for company profit and 'generated wealth per worker' has such terrible implications for salaries and expected duties.

Ah! It's greed once again!
Agree. Outside of the fancy pants FANGetc architects who have promo'd to the point of only work on bleeding edge new stuff, we all have to fix the last person's stuff. That is the job.
Is the data harvest restricted to that particular device or is it an Android feature?
A single example does not make for a generalization.

I don't know where you are getting $400K from. The median yearly total compensation reported at Netflix is $375,000 which is famous even within FANG for it's high comp.

Microsoft Average total comp for Engineers is $177K from leaked data. That's the average, with the expected distribution I would expect median would be lower. Say ~$140K.

And yeah, ~$140K total comp is a middle class to me. Upper class is when you don't have to work to live anymore.

People remember higher numbers more because they covet them, but they tend to ignore a huge sea lower numbers that exists on average.
Still, L10 is patently ridiculous. He is not L10.
How Did Phrenology Get So Popular in Victorian Society?
Does depend on how heavily the item was… “Tested” before it was returned.

Many products will also have inconsistent weight, not only between units (not everything is made to NASA specs, and anything handmade or harvested will have huge variations) but also after shipping (labels on box, seal tape or cellophane removed, cardboard absorbing moisture, …).
Do people really reply to work emails with just "great, thank you" to the point where it would be distracting (e.g., many people on the email)?
I think the fact that nobody knows how to deal with negative correlations in functional connectivity takes away from the validity of the whole concept. People literally throw out negatively correlated voxels/ROI's. This, on top of the fact that functional connectivity is only related to physical connectivity in the abstract. (it's about the correlated time series activity in pixels over time, and isn't bound by any cellular connectivity). I just struggle to discern any meaning from the concept.
It depends on the kid and on the type of “immersion” (for lack of a better word). I grew up in Romania in the ‘90s, when we had 2 hours of English per week starting with the 5th grade. I turned up fine when it comes to speaking/writing/reading the language, of course that I’ll always carry an accent when speaking it but I don’t care.

Looking back at it, after 3 decades, what helped me learn the language was that immersion I mentioned, i.e. I was watching English TV programs (Cartoon Network, Eurosport, MTV Europe) for a big part of the day, without that I wouldn’t have been able to pick it up so easily.
> increase shareholder value

Given the current CA tax situation and the fact that other companies have already led the way he's probably doing just that. Besides my understanding was that the bill was "the last straw" according to Musk.
Can't have been trained on hackernews then, this is the most anti-crypto space I'm aware of besides /r/buttcoin. i'm also softly anti crypto so not criticizing, just pointing out you're literally in an environment where the opinion you're talking about gets eviscerated every time so it can't be what "everyone is saying"
didn't they say that many times before?
The primary bottleneck is the PSU. Limit the current draw to 65W (also during turbo boost) and you've got yourself the perfect workstation at a very reasonable price!
>I guess I'm not moderately well read.

At least you're honest about it. Assuming you aren't just being sarcastic. A lot of people never read much beyond whatever is required for their schooling but pretend otherwise.
After reading this site I can't tell what this actually does that github actions doesn't already do except the integration of a datadog exporter.. which we already did that in our shared workflows but w/ openmetrics/prometheus. Also what 'enterprise' only has 50 pipelines.
I liked the idea of mini PCs, but for my usecases, they weren't powerful enough. In the end, I went with what I'd call "medium PC" - Intel NUC 13 extreme. Desktop-level components in a small form factor. At the time, I couldn't fit more powerful components into similar SFFPC. Of course, I paid premium price for it.

In the end, Intel gave up on the whole idea and sold NUCS to Asus, which means I'll never have another NUC, sadly (I wouldn't support company with as bad customer service as Asus).
While it's amusing in the short term, the long term side effects for me were awful. I felt like my brain was slow and unfocused, I was no longer quick in conversation or able to concentrate as well as usual, I felt disconnected from myself, sort of like when you recall a memory so old that it seems like it belongs to someone else, I had a headache for almost 3 weeks.

Throwing this in here as there are a fair few "dude just take drugs" comments and worry they might be the religious types.
I don't think Canada even has testing for it. If you get symptoms of Covid (which are pretty similar) you're expected to just stay home a couple of days, and then return to work with a mask. So we've done a complete 180 in testing for these kinds of things.

I just ran a search on SARS in Canada, and only 2003 comes up. Ironically also a Lancet article about Covid - what we learned from SARS. Today the author would be surprised.
For over 10 years we've had people do a paid ~4 hr take-home which is very similar to the work they'll actually be doing (here's a dummy codebase, add a few features fix a few bugs).

If they're not interested in getting paid to do that work now, it's a good signal for us that they won't be happy doing it when they're working with us. It's helped us find really wonderful people to work with.
As always, level matters. $180k/yr is quite low for Google and frankly and near or post IPO company at least at a non-junior level.

> You are paid an absurdly comfortable salary to basically solve puzzles all day
No, you are paid commensurate to the value you can deliver. This "be grateful" attitude is becoming more prevalent in tech and is leading to companies getting away with lower pay and worse working conditions.

Companies are waking far more $$ from you than they pay you. Especially profitable tech companies.
That's what the post you responded to said, did you mean to respond to someone else?
Thank you for this. Love the simple design. I hope this DB keeps growing!
One note: Sorting on Ram Size column seems to be string sorting (e.g. descending order gives 96, 8,...,7.34,64), when it obviously should be numerical.
I think it depends on the use case and how you define hallucinations. We've seen our metrics perform well (=correlates with human feedback) for use cases like summarization, RAG question-answering pipeline, and entity extraction.

At the end of the day things like "answer relevancy" are pretty dichotomic in a sense that for a human evaluator it will be pretty clear whether an answer is answering a question or not.

I wonder if you can elaborate on why you claim that there's no ability to detect with any certainty hallucinations.
The issue that stuck out to me is the fact that top hits of "how to do X" on the web, often lead to bad solutions, bad practices, outdated info. And, they keep spreading forever. Someone finds the bad solution, copies it into their code, someone else references their code, copies the bad solution again.

I have no solutions to fix this but I sometimes see it happen where someone asks a question on S.O. or Reddit. Someone posts a bad-practice solution that happens to work. It's marked as the answer, upvoted, and now it spreads like an infection.
The memory overhead of threads.
Now imagine combining both video game streaming and generative AI to create generated video game streams.

Given the relative simplicity of video game worlds, it should be far easier to generate those than than photorealistic video (i.e. Deep mind Veo, OpenAI Sora).

Yes, it might just saturate the world with low quality content, leaving the good stuff still distinguishable, but many content business models are built on low quality content.
Beautiful shadows need beautiful colors
Did you actually try to run this thing? It will overheat and be very unstable. With modern mini-PCs you need active cooling even on DDR5 and SSDs!
> Rising seas wiped out an entire US species

This is it, this is the countdown to extiction.
> You can start feeling like you KNOW big sweeping Truths.

Yep. During a pretty bad episode of delusional schizophrenia (for lack of any better diagnosis) I had that, many years ago.

I felt like I was either on the verge of a huge epiphany or I'd just had one, for a few weeks. Every time it was nonsense or couldn't be explained.

Luckily I have not relapsed and I have been off the antipsychotics for a few years

The only permanent damage is that every medical professional says I should never do psychoactive drugs. Which sucks cause they sound fun and I wonder if they'd help me get over some other problems I have. Maybe after I've retired.
>> but a CEO is supposed to make decisions for a company to increase shareholder value

If many tech workers will move out of crazy California then Musk will get them, increasing shareholder value.
GHA already has approvals.
> i say this as an independent that wants both parties banned.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
It's interesting to me that he refers to association arrays as "newish", when they showed up in Lisp nearly 20 years earlier.
I don't think it's satire.

The "Experience" section looks like a big complain about the world not recognizing his genius.

I really don't think a lot people would call him for an interview just by looking at this resume.
Working as a graveyard security guard for california-equivalent minimum wage beats working your butt off in retail or a warehouse for the same slim pickings. Bonus: literally nothing going on 90% of the time so could skill up or just piss-off.
A psychedelic state arises from desynchronized brain activity
I think that LLMs are hallucinating by design. I'm not sure we'll ever get to a 0% hallucinations and we should be ok with it (at least for the next coming years?). So getting an alert on hallucination becomes less interesting. What is more interesting perhaps is knowing the rate that this happens. And keeping track on whether this rate increases or decreases with time or with changes to models.
CPU/memory/performance are nice, but not the only things I'd care about, e.g.

- number and speed of ethernet ports - if you want to build a opnsense router for example

- number and kind of video outputs - if you want to build a media pc

- MSRP

- passive vs active cooling

- power draw

- USB ports and USB version

- m2 nvme and sata connectors

- m2 lte (key b) connectors

all of those could be filters - see pcpartpicker as an example of good ui
It's not the treaties that protect Taiwan.

If China takes TSMC, the USA may loose their dominance in IT.

The NASDAQ would collapse overnight.
Greenlets ultimately have to be scheduled onto system threads at the end of the day unless you have a lightweight thread model of some sort supported by the OS, so it’s a little bit misleading depending on how far down the stack you want to think about optimizing for greenlets. You could potentially have a poor implementation of task scheduling for some legacy compatibility reason, however. I guess I’d be curious about the specifics of what pron is discussing.
(I am in the end unsure about your question, but will try to answer it, if, by asking, you mean my general use of ".-"?

I nonetheless appreciate your curiosity).-
I remember I once applied for a job that was entry level mortgage customer service or something like that, paying just $45k/yr, can't remember exactly. I had to go through 5 interviews over the course of 4 weeks, with the final interview being with the VP of Marketing. Got the job offer, was waiting for the paperwork, and was called the next day that they are actually going on a hiring freeze and cannot hire me.

It was absolute buffoonery to me. Why on God's green earth is the Vice President of Marketing interviewing the candidate for an entry level customer service position? Especially after I already interviewed with an HR rep, the Head of HR, and the Team Manager before them. Do they not trust their team?

It makes me feel like these interviews are just to make management feel important again since it was a WFH role.
I'm sorry but this is not what we do. We don't use LLMs to grade your LLM calls.
I've seen it happen to multiple people..

You may need a "study" to believe it, but I no longer do..

I enjoy psychedelics, but I am also aware of the potential risks because I've seen them. I don't pretend that incidents don't happen just because they are rare, and because I enjoy them.
Considering that the core behaviour of message queue (like RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, etc) and streaming log system (like Kafka) is wildly different, I'd rather claim that the very idea of using Kafka as message queue is the core problem.

You can use a distributed log to approximate a dedicated message router (which is honestly what "message queue" systems actually are - the queue is an artifact of limited capacity not required behaviour) but such uses are going to be wrong 9 out of 10.

OTOH if you want multiple readers observe same event stream, including across time dimension, not just receive messages, then message queue systems are going to be wrong solution and systems like Kafka are going to be good options.

Both have their pros and cons, both have their uses, both are shit solution when you need the other.

The more important question is "which of those, if any, you actually need".
I've seen DUST3R and MAST3R in posts like this, but it's not immediately clear how to put it to use. Are there any (relatively simple) utilities out there for someone to try these algorithms out?
Huh. Sway and Wayland was such a nightmare on Nvidia that it convinced me to switch to AMD. I wonder if it's better now.

(IIRC the main issue was https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1317 , which is now complete.)
> Now, if you're paying attention and reading this with a critical eye something in your brain just told you "Wait, this is just waterfall! We can't know everything up front!"

The article presents the "story points" problem to be caused by an ignorant or presumptive misunderstanding of how the system works by outside parties.

I think articles like this are an interesting and necessary part of the overall project-managent discourse. However, they tend to infer that the problem of ignorance can be resolved by the management framework directly, to which I disagree.

Ignorance, regardless of project-management, has to be addressed by clear communication and boundaries.
the only approach to practical programming with Ar is to have external dependencies on hard to compute functions until I implement them :)
I knew about the banks attempt to prevent him publishing the flaws but I did not know they had prosecuted customers.
In lieu of a moat, they've always relied on going to social media to say "but we did it first!" when a feature was "copied" by Github, which is retrospective isn't very effective.
At some point FOSS will need it's own agency, at this rate :)

PS. The GNU GRU?
So their politics on freedom and privacy of blah blah blah non-cohesive ideology doesn't correlate with their actual stance on crypto. A politician being pro-crypto does, however, tell me that they are dumb enough to be duped/greedy enough to be paid into wasting time giving lip service to something that, regardless of ideology, is actually completely worthless.
> and they're expensive to maintain as they consume quite a bit of memory just to exist, even if you don't need it (due to how they must pre-allocate a stack which apparently is around 2MB initially,

I'm not familiar with windows, but this certainly isn't the case on Linux. It only costs 2mb-8mb of virtual address space, not actual physical memory. And there's no particular reason to believe the JVM can have a list of threads and their states more efficiently than the kernel can.

All you really save is the syscall to create it and some context switching costs as the JVM doesn't need to deal with saving/restoring registers as there's no preemption.

The downside though is you don't have any preemption, which depending on your usage is a really fucking massive downside.
>I don't think it matters so much how the brain is made, what matters is the training data.

I agree that training data is hugely important but I think it does matter how the brain is made. Structures in the brain are remarkably well preserved between species. Despite the fact that evolution loves to try different methods, if it can get away with it.

> Searching the environment provides the data brain is trained on. I don't believe we can understand the brain in isolation without its data engine and the problem space where it develops.

I completely agree and suspect we might be on the same page. What I find most compelling about the idea of Darwin Machines is the fact that it relies on evolution. In my opinion, true Dawkinsian evolution, is the most efficient search algorithm.

I'd love to hear you go deeper on what you mean by data engine and problem space. To (possibly) abuse those terms, I think evolution is the data engine. The problem space is fun and I love David Eagleman's description of the brain as sitting in a warm bath in a dark room trying to figure out what to do with all these electric shocks.

> Neural nets showed that given a dataset, you can obtain similar results with very different architectures, like transformer and diffusion models, or transformer vs Mamba. The essential ingredient is data, architecture only needs to pass some minimal bar for learning.

My understanding of neural nets, and please correct me if I'm wrong, is that they solve system-one thinking, intuition. As of yet, they haven't been able to do much more than produce an average of their training data (which is incredible). With a brute force approach they can innovate in constrained environments, e.g. move 37 (or so I'm told, I haven't played go :)). I haven't seen evidence that they might be able to innovate in open-ended environments. In other words, there's no suggestion they can do system-two thinking where time spent on a problem correlates with the quality of the answer.

> Studying just the brain misses the essential - we are search processes, the whole life is search for optimal actions, and evolution itself is search for environment fitness.

I completely agree. I even suspect that, in a few years, we'll see "life" and "intelligence" as synonymous concepts, just implemented in different mediums. At the same time, studying those mediums can be a blast.
Doom Clone in Pure CSS
Annual mean wage for Software Developers, 2023, according to the BLS:

Metropolitan areas with the highest employment level in Software Developers
Metropolitan area Employment Employment Location Hourly Annual
per 1000 jobs quotient mean wage mean wage
New York-Newark-Jersey City,... 119,010 12.53 1.15 $ 73.12 $ 152,100
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 96,590 84.60 7.75 $ 96.06 $ 199,800
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA 83,920 34.65 3.18 $ 87.13 $ 181,220

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm
Very interesting writeup!
CoT prompting

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01687
Ah bummer. I’m just a lowly consumer.
One place to find volunteer opportunities is at https://justserve.org , if available in your area. It is free and connects available volunteers with organizations who need the help.
Nothing is permanent like a temporary solution.
4070 worked out of the box on my arch system. I used the closed source drivers and X11 and I've not encountered a single problem.

My prediction is that it will continue to improve if only because people want to run nvidia on workstations.
I received 1/3 of a deck chair in a box too small to house the whole chair, that, upon receiving the whole assembled chair later, clearly had not come from the factory even remotely assembled.
If they become part of Datadog, that kills the likelihood of doing business with anyone who as had a bad experience with DD (I'm in that camp)
No, I am am saying that 1) I prefer sites that do not require JS and 2) its not what most sites should do given their aims.
Could you expand on what

> conversationally fluent in the theory behind writing code

means?

It might be my insufficient command of the English language, or I might be outing myself as being outside said group, but I'm unsure what that means. Is this just referring to a vocabulary for discussing the structure and creation of software, or is there a deeper mystery I have not yet grasped?
"... Linux GPU Kernel Modules" is pretty unambiguous to me.
AFAIK I believe all they did was move the closed source user space driver code to their opaque firmware blob leaving a thin shim in the kernel.

In essence I don’t believe that much has really changed here.
If you're looking to tinker the Amazon Prime sale has some reasonable deals on N100 mini-PCs right now, at least in the US. Popular models like BeeLink and Minisforum are down from $200 to $160.
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
I’m not sure what connection that has to the topic - it sound tautological to say that good oversight will lead to better outcomes than poor oversight.
These are all outdated and old. I have a Beelink with an Intel N100, that's over a year and a half old CPU, and has been super common on the market this year. They only list 3 brands with an N100 on here, and I have never heard of any of them. Looking at the Beelink PCs they do list, they all have CPUs from 2016-2017
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It's been a really long time since I dealt with anything this low level, but in my very limited and ancient experience when people talk about context switching they're talking specifically about the userland process yielding execution back to the kernel so that the processor can be reassigned to a different process/thread. Naively, if the JVM isn't actually yielding control back to the kernel, it has the freedom to do things in a much more lightweight manner than the kernel would have to.

So I think it's meaningful to define what we mean by context switch here.
I agree it was an incredibly awkward interview
A Game to Visually Understand Active Learning in Machine Learning
Graunt and Statistics
Apple's Mac outpaced an already recovering computer market