skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Designers need to present designs / their portfolio.

As someone married to a designer, this is soooo much easier than the hoops programmers have to go through.

Might take a little more work upfront (or just printing out work from previous jobs if allowed), but then you just flip through an existing portfolio the night before, and bring the same portfolio to every interview, no extra prep required.

Meanwhile, a programmer has to perform intense 1-8 hour tests every single time they apply anywhere, and make sure they remember the answers to gotcha questions in about 30 different subjects they could be asked about.

My wife always goes to way more interviews and talks to way more recruiters than I ever have (probably 5x more), because all she needs to do is read through her portfolio and practice some questions for 30 minutes the night before. And her interviews are usually just one or two hours long.

Meanwhile I always have to spend weeks brushing up on Leetcode before making a big new job push to make sure I don't have too many surprises, and I avoid going on interviews because it'll be long grind that I usually have to take half a day off work for.

I still had to do the stupid technical tests for a mobile app job where I could tell them to go to the app store and download a game of mine, with my name on the title screen, and they could play it, and they were really impressed with the game (the Xbox 360 version of it won a game design award in a contest hosted by Microsoft, and it looked and played identically).

Like... come on.
> Always interested in product feedback.

While I share your concerns about the security implications of sending video to the cloud, the way I see it if someone's burgling my house they're probably going to steal whatever I'm using for on-prem video storage while they're at it.

And while I could secure it in an impenetrable or hidden box - if I have such a box I can put all my valuables in the box, and feel peace of mind without needing any cameras.
By dominant media narratives you mean a self evident train of scams and security incidents? There's no conspiracy or undue effort to make crypto look bad, that happened in a decentralized manner.
Ironically HN is one of the few websites that works well on my phone, because it uses so little of modern web technologies. I use a 7-year old smartphone, it's painful or impossible to read many websites. I have to use old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com. Twitter stopped working on my phone a few years ago, good riddance. But my phone is with me everywhere, my laptops are not. So HN is one of the permanent tabs on the phone.
> The military views security as time-limited.

In my time as a computer security specialist, this has been the most difficult thing to get other computer people to understand.

Especially when it comes to cryptography. No cryptographic system can, or is intended to, keep something secret indefinitely. The whole point is to keep the secret for long enough that by the time it's cracked, the information itself is out of date and therefore disclosure is no longer harmful (or, at least, is much less harmful).

All security, computer or otherwise, is like a fire door. No fire door will hold back a fire forever. They are all rated in terms of the number of hours they'll be effective in a fire. Security must be thought of in similar terms.

But I understand. People want perfect security and wishful thinking is seductive. People also want security "for free" -- meaning something they can install or configure and then not have to worry about it anymore. But that's impossible, in large part because actual security doesn't have a technological solution. Security is a process that depends on proper human behavior. Technology can and does act as a "force multiplier" here, but a security approach that is 100% technological is a security approach that will be subverted sooner or later.
clearly built on a macbook with smooth scrolling. My mouse has a discrete scroll-wheel -- it snaps to the next position -- it makes this site a stuttering, jittery mess.
Curious where you're moving? About to begin finding a tool similar to Notion (but not Notion).
60. Radiant.AI
61. Weights & Biases (Weave)
62. Quotient AI (some observability there)
The entire history of at least the USA is that if conservatives want something, it will have extremely large negative consequences down the road for many years to come.
Not sure but with the Turing series they support having a cryptographically signed binary blob that they load on the GPU. So before where their kernel driver was a thin shim for the user space driver, now it’s a thin shim for the black box firmware loaded on the GPU
Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say
I don't think the schooling of that period was the same as the schooling of today in all regards.

You could read more in my book: https://www.wyclifsdust.com.
39-Year-Old Pac-Man Bug (Partly?) Fixed: Commodore 64 [video]
I built my new-ish computer with an AMD GPU because I trusted in-kernel drivers better than out-of-kernel DKMS drivers.

That said, my previous experience with the DKMS driver stuff hasn't been bad. If you use Nvidia's proprietary driver stack, then things should generally be fine. The worst issues are that Nvidia has (historically, at least; it might be different for newer cards) refused to implement some graphics features that everybody else uses, which means that you basically need entirely separate codepaths for Nvidia in window managers, and some of them have basically said "fuck no" to doing that.
Dowager is essentially widow, I think it comes up in UK english still. I wasn't familiar with step-dame, but understand step from stepfather and other step relations, and obviously knew dame was a female, so assumed it was stepmother or similar. I feel like most people would have similar thought processes to figure those words out.
The market is down this week because it is already anticipating the market will tank if he gets in because of these policies he would enact.
This is your periodic notice that the tech industry is very cyclical.
If China takes TSMC, then make no mistake; the United States will carpet bomb every facility and ASML's policy towards China will not budge. There are no contingency situations in which China steals TSMC's tech; it's something that Taiwan and the United States simply refuse to let happen. The running "joke" in the industry is that TSMC's foundries are rigged with explosives wired to a red button on the US president's desk. The real-world situation isn't that far off.

America would fall behind in this scenario, but ASML will still exist and advanced lithography can continue independent of Taiwan. TSMC is a big part of the puzzle, but the importance of the first island chain is 10x more important than anything TSMC owns.
> I think that there’s at least an order of magnitude more “happy L5s” older than 40 at FAANGs

This doesn't match my experience. Can you say which FAANGs?

I think in a healthy company it should be true, but my org at Google (~50 engineers) had one 40+ L5. He told me he was frustrated after repeatedly being passed for L6 promo, and he retired at 45.

The L7+ people (my managers and directors, as well as the org staff+ engineers) were all over 40.

I didn't interact much with principal/distinguished engineers, but I think even L7 is pushing 7 figures nowadays.
Sometimes, in the echo chambers on the interwebs, some people might not actually realize they are the minority
Average time use and participation in daily activities in the UK
Another point for open source communities, and having many interested eyes on the discourse.
> A lot of my blog posts are pretty technical, and intended for a narrower audience than “people who understand how to use a CLI”.

Yes, it depends on what your aims are. If you have unusual aims youc an do unusual things.
Earlier I received a strange call from someone. The voice asked if I could hear him. I said "I can hear you, now who is speaking". Then they hung up. I'm pretty sure they were hoping that I would respond with the word "yes". That is a very dangerous word in the wrong hands!
Excellent advice.

I’m not convinced that it’s possible to get the 100-day integration to start only after the earn-out is completed.

Anybody managed to get this in the sale agreement?
Don't forget to update that hardware then. And to inform whoever inherits the infra to update te ca after 10 years.
HN just loves novelty, once crypto made mainstream news HN fell out of love.

The pattern has applied to Tesla/Musk, cryptocurrency, language models and probably much more I'm not aware of.
Different 'you' forms?
Doesn't it depend on the purpose of your life? I have written about this at my web site (in profile, nothing for sale, no stylistic ambition). You can email me if you can't find it in there.
For me, it is to have joy, by glorifying God through learning and service to others. And he gives us all, in return. We all have to choose.

(I agree; it is an interesting challenge.)

(Thoughtful comments appreciated with any downvotes.)
Were you actually confused? Did you not read the title of the article but still somehow clicked it? really baffling comment
Elon doesn't live with most of his kids - why would he even care? His reason for moving is the taxes are less in Texas for now and the laws will turn a blind eye to environmental damage his companies do. As the population continues to grow in Tx that will change. Elon should be required to get a trolling license.

Yes - I agree (I am a parent) that the law is stupid. If a kid doesn't want their parents to know something they should do it the old fashion way and lie as I did and my parents did before me etc:)

My favorite thing lately is that NYT dedicated and entire article [1] to Elon goal 1 million people on Mars in the next twenty years. Tesla has been working almost that long not getting self driving cars to work. Why on Earth would anyone bother to take seriously putting 1 million people on Mars in 20 years - something several orders of magnitude more difficult.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/technology/elon-musk-spac....
At my faculty, we always "joked" that the acknowledgements were the most read section of any thesis. First thing everyone did when they got handed a new thesis was looking to see who was mentioned in the acknowledgements.

(we joked about it, but there's a grain of truth to it. the chapters themselves were usually published long ago already and only people in your specific field would care about them anyways).
What I meant we don't have a "click here to buy" just yet.

We can still figure out how you can evaluate if you're interested.
Are these records assumed to be in order?
What patterns does async/await solve which virtual threads don’t?
There's a more comprehensive interview that also includes Aho and Weinberger in the book Masterminds of Programming. Highly recommended
There is a reason "boring" websites are popular... It's cause they work...
You were the one that brought up the media (nobody said conspiracy?)
Better as of extremely recently. Explicit sync fixes most of the issues with flickering that I’ve had on Wayland. I’ve been using the latest (beta?) driver for a while because of it.

I’m using Hyprland though so explicit sync support isn’t entirely there for me yet. It’s actively being worked on. But in the last few months it’s gotten a lot better
The article talks about AI, but I think it's interesting that Ted Gioia ("Honest Broker"), similarly, talks about the lack of a counter-culture [1]. I propose that the avant-garde has been synonymous with deconstruction / meaninglessness and the Enlightenment project of personal freedom. Now that we've come to the place where anyone can define their own gender, or, indeed, choose to identify as a completely different species from Homo sapiens, where is there left to go? The avant-garde has been completed.

So if we want to look for the counter-culture or the new avant-garde, we're going to have to look somewhere else. I think that, in a culture that systematically stripped all meaning out of life by atomizing it--how can humanity have any meaning if even being human is up to each individual--I think things like religions which offer meaning are going to be very appealing. In today's culture, someone converting to, say, Eastern Orthodoxy (in the West) is very counter-cultural: they are old, odd, hierarchical, are insistent that truth rests not in ourselves but in God, and say that fulfillment comes from ordering our lives based on an external Other not our internal feelings; all of these are opposing current cultural values. Similarly, I think Jordan Peterson is part of the new counter-culture (not that he is E. Orthodox). However we aren't conditioned for "counter-cultural" to look like anything like that, because that has always been seen as "conservative" or "reactionary". But since there is nowhere else for the Enlightenment project to go, it seems like the only possible change is back towards the way we came, and hence, this is the only sort of direction remaining for the advance guard of the culture to go.

[1] https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-vil...
Given how much the author talks about professional standards, one would think they would write professionally.

Also, is the author aware of why people use Anaconda? Conda environments can make it significantly easier to link CUDA or Fortran libraries properly, which are quite prevalent in scientific computing. Many people who use such code bases are professional scientists and not professional programmers, so I understand seeing that generally conda-based packages are poorly architected.

It's almost like other people sometimes do things differently because they have different needs or have thought of things you haven't, not just because they're too stupid or uneducated to know better.
Founder Gigs
The current stable proprietary driver is a nightmare on Wayland with my 3070, constant flickering and stuttering everywhere. Apparently the upcoming version 555 is much better, I'm sticking with X11 until it comes out. I never tried the open-source one yet, not sure if it supports my GPU at all.
Tried teaching my young nephew about math. He just bashed me in the head with the abacus. Then started crying.
> In the spirit of terrible rabbit-themed puns, I'm naming the jailbreak "carroot".

This is good.
Why Progress Seems Stalled
I use pyenv, seems to work very well.
What I'm going cook for dinner.
Speaking about Germany: This is because many CS degrees do not include sufficient practical projects. If you get some degree concluding practical project, you can already be happy. The real practice most CS students get, they get "off the job", in side projects. Or on the first job they somehow manage to get.
As the major purchaser of Russian oil, this is shift by China will seriously weaken Russia in the long term.
>“This is the final straw,” Musk wrote on X, the social-media platform he owns. He cited the law as well as “many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies.”'

Man who hates that his trans child hates him angry that the government isn't forcing trans children to tell their hateful parents they're trans.

If your children aren't comfortable telling you things like this, that's a failure of you as a parent. I'm not going to pretend there isn't social contagion or a bunch of teenagers questioning things out of peer pressure or that actual rates of transness are much lower than their visibility or a million other things. What I am saying is that if your kids are not comfortable talking to you about serious topics like this, you've failed as a parent. Your kids should know you'll love them no matter what and will support them in trying to build a happy life for themselves.

My friend's child believes they are trans, and while the parents are skeptical, there was never any doubt in that kids mind that their parents should know what they are going through and feeling or that they would love them no matter what.
>> Most jobs are now hoops after hoops.

I had no idea it had gotten so bad. 4th of July was talking with my brother-in-law. His daughter just got some awesome job working for an insurance company (they do commercial insurance) and she had over EIGHT interviews she had to go through, which involved not one, but two days where she spent the day at the company.

I could not believe it takes companies and managers this much work to try and hire someone new. She was fresh out of college, and I was stunned that she stood in there and kept going back for the next interview.

As an aside, I've found the same thing at the very large corporation I work at. The company has made it all but impossible to move laterally to another team you might find interesting and to grow your skills. We have an internal job board and they have lengthy lists of requirements and if you don't meet every single one, you won't get a whiff of an interview. They seem more bent on more outsourcing and contracting at this point. So not only lateral movement is all about impossible, moving up is even harder for the same reason - they're only looking to hire unicorns that come from other FANG companies or on the similar order.

I can't remember a time when I was a developer I had so few people reaching out seeing if I was interested in roles at various companies. At the time I thought it was just a gold rush that seemingly never stopped, even when I thought it would. Even during C19, I still had recruiters contacting him asking me I was interested in remote contract work. Post C19 and everything has dried up. I'm not getting 10 emails from recruiters, I'm not seeing interesting or great roles anywhere that haven't already had 100 people apply. Everybody in my networks are just staying where they are and waiting out the storm so to speak - so no leads from that area either. I apply for a job here and there and never get a response or confirmation they've moved on.

It looks like the writing is finally on the walls that the party is over huh?
Huh? Not really. AWS is a marvel of engineering in that it can be everyone's redundant IOPS but being your IOPS isn't such a big deal. Most folks are single region and rent-a-datacenter colo operations can get you two racks with separate power/uplink no issue.

I hope everyone at least once in their career gets to experience just how god damn fast hardware (especially networking speeds between your own servers) is. Sweet lord loading up three bare-metal dbs with 1TB ram each and bonded 10G nics where the app servers didn't even have to hit a router to talk to them. We initially thought the replication lag being pinned at 0 was a mistake.

Don't take this as any sort of condemnation of cloud offerings, being able to spin up comparable infra in my underwear and not having to think about purchasing and dealing with hardware vendors are truly a gift.
Absolutely not.

Feeling "it is just a feeling" is being grounded in reality and affirming your senses and convictions are volatile and shouldn't be trusted.

Feeling "I solved the world, everybody listen to me" is... not.
Nuclear power is the most expensive option, though. They could shift a large percentage of their electrical generation to renewables with that much money.
This is lacking most of the useful specs you’d want to search/filter for, like internal and external connectors, Wifi/Bluetooth capabilities, passive vs. active cooling, dimensions, and so on.
Not really, have you ever tried to articulate one of your "big epiphanies" while on hallucinogens? In my experience (and experience of people I'm with) it inevitably comes out as babble. Maybe that's just because the insight is too profound to capture with language but somehow I doubt it
That's understandable. The thing about asking others for help is that if it's something that will require more than a small amount of time or effort, then it has to be either a friend who is willing to sacrifice for you, or someone who is really into this stuff. The latter is more rare than the former.

You certainly can hire a contractor to help you out, but that's not going to be cheap. If you can afford the time, I think the best approach is to study up and achieve the level of expertise that you need for the task. You'll gain on two counts this way: you'll solve the issue at hand, and you'll have a new skill in your collection that you can leverage in other ways and on other projects.
Yes, but is there any evidence that this sort of thing would be anything but low quality? I'm friends with an unusual number of college professors. Every single one looks at announcements like this and tears their hair out. "If only I had a chat bot that could act as a TA when students have questions about my lectures" is so far down the list of things they'd like to have to solve problems.
Or job market remains agile while people are becoming stateless (or homeless in extreme cases).
JavaScript Promises from the Ground Up
Oh good, now everyone can spy on me, not just Apple.
I have a 3070 on X and it has been great.
The popover API is pretty much brand new. Sure, that would probably work. That misses my point, however; lots of basic building blocks of modern UIs users expect are missing from browsers today (or on the popover case, yesterday) and need to be added manually.

HTMX is the same story—it's what HTML could be, but isn't, unless monkey-patched in userland.
This is from the first edition free PDF online of The AWK Programming Language:

"Associative arrays were inspired by SNOBOL4 tables, although they are not
as general. Awk was born on a slow machine with a small memory, and the
properties of arrays were a result of that environment. Restricting subscripts to
be strings is one manifestation, as is the restriction to a single dimension (even
with syntactic sugar). A more general implementation would
allow multi-dimensional arrays, or at least allow arrays to be array elements."

Stable release - SNOBOL4 / 1967

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL
That's kind of what we were thinking about as a next stack to experiment with.

How difficult have you found scaling Loki?

One concern I have with our current setup is the frequency that we need to step in and manually intervene.