skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll jot down the highlights (or perhaps lowlights):

To start with, 12-18 months of active search before finding a job was not uncommon. Interview cycles were shorter than the current norm, but you needed personal connections to reliably even land an interview.

Very few companies were actually hiring. They had roles open, but were unwilling to fill them with anyone other than the perfect[tm] candidate. Majority of the jobs were never advertised openly, but got filled based on, you guessed it, personal networks and existing professional relationships.

There were essentially no entry level jobs in technology sector. This feature was amplified by a peculiarity of the Finnish education system: people took longer to get through the uni, but pretty much everyone started working ~full time during their studies. (And how did you find a job as a student? Through personal networks.) As a result, fresh Master's graduates were expected to have 2-3 years of industry experience out of the gate.

Practically all job descriptions had hidden requirements, and as a result, the people who were hired were suitably overqualified.

As a result of all of this, the scene was equally grim for trying to actually hire someone. Open roles either got NO applications, or they were flooded by hopeless hopefuls. The need for personal networks went both ways, and you needed them to find quality candidates at all. I never saw or heard anyone actually pulling the Random Cull ("we do not hire unlucky people"), but I know several who seriously considered doing so at some point.

Ghosting was the norm.

I left the country in 2013, but from what I have heard since, the main changes have been:

- Ghosting is no longer a standard practice
- Universities now enforce faster graduations, so the initial career speed boost is gone
- Hiring cycles are longer, and use more leetcode style hazing
- There are less hidden requirements, and the job descriptions are actually representative
- Roles in general have to be posted openly, filling them only through networks is not the norm

Yes, it was brutal.
FTA: “the argument against RCS is strong and simple: it doesn’t support end-to-end encryption”

“SMS and traditional telephone voice calls lack any encryption at all, but they’re firmly established. Just like email. But anything new should only be supported if it’s fundamentally based on E2EE.”

“Perhaps, someday, the RCS spec will support an open standard for E2EE. I’m not holding my breath for that. For one thing, industry consortiums tend not to produce good solutions to hard problems, and an open standard for E2EE messaging is a very hard problem.”

So, they argue

- new communication standards must be end-to-end encrypted

- that open end-to-end encrypted standards cannot be developed

If both are true any new communication standards must be proprietary.

I don’t think that’s a conclusion shared by society.
Thank you. It seems largely ignored that LLMs still sample from a set of tokens based on estimated probability and the given temperature - but not on factuality or the described "confidence estimate" in the article. RAG etc. only move the estimated probabilities into a more factually based direction, but do not change the sampling itself
I've no plans for it myself, but that sounds like an interesting project! It should be fairly easy to hack together. The actual logic itself is just a few dozen lines of glue code around a single HTTP POST request.
The result is no less valid with a log scale. It's very typical to determine a linear regression on a log scale.

It's a paper aimed at those capable of understanding statistics and analysis. It's assumed that the reader is sufficiently educated to understand the implications of a log scale. If that assumption is out, the rest of the article is going to be meaningless to the reader too.

The article does say it has a US sample space too.

I didn't read too much into it, for the more detailed conclusions, however from a skim read the high level conclusion "richer people are more likely to happier" is correlated within the given income bracket.
$27M San Francisco Mansion Claims Billionaire Sam Altman is a 'lemon'
I love this as an expression of peak consumerism. Let those warehouses full of cheap mp3 players rot, don't bother trying to upgrade an old ipod with a new battery and storage (which it wasn't designed to be upgraded with anyway), buy the most expensive gadget you can and then add another gadget to it!
In the grand scheme of things it's not as bad as my overseas holiday or anything, but conceptually it's quite impressive.
You're right. We don't really know how to handle uncertainty and fuzziness in logic properly (to avoid logical contradictions). There has been many mathematical attempts to model uncertainty (just to name a few - probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, fuzzy logic, non-monotone logics, etc.), but they all suffer from some kind of paradox.

At the end of the day, none of these theoretical techniques prevailed in the field of AI, and we ended up with, empirically successful, neural networks (and LLMs specifically). We know they model uncertainty but we have no clue how they do it conceptually, or whether they even have a coherent conception of uncertainty.

So I would pose that the problem isn't that we don't have the technology, but it's rather we don't understand what we want from it. I am yet to see a coherent theory of how humans manipulate the human language to express uncertainty that would encompass broad (if not all) range of how people use language. Without having that, you can't define what is a hallucination of an LLM. Maybe it's making a joke (some believe that point of the joke is to highlight a subtle logical error of some sort), because, you know, it read a lot of them and it concluded that's what humans do.

So AI eventually prevailed (over humans) in fields where we were able to precisely define the goal. But what is our goal vis-a-vis human language? What do we want from AI to answer to our prompts? I think we are stuck at the lack of definition of that.
HTMX veering into SPA territory will produce the same kind of code we got when jQuery did it. The apps would work but they would be wholly unmaintainable. HTMX evangelists will just say "See? It CAN do it.", completely disregarding the ergonomics as if they're irrelevant in software development.

HTMX beautifully captures the zone between static and SPA, but devs already seem to want to use the hammer for everything, because all SPAs are suddenly not true SPAs. Well it was similar with jQuery too. The apps were considered to not be complex enough for a different tech stack, but eventually many apps grew more complex in their requirements and there is no sane way to move from jQuery to Angular and those projects got left in the dust.
With the size of liability judgments, that is not a profitable strategy.
Absolutely, that's why the toolchains (gcc and llvm) support specifying which extensions to use.

Most people are gonna build for a profile, but embedded can build for whatever custom set of extensions the core they are using has, which does not have to be a profile.
The smartass answer is that evolution can't do things for reasons, it is just a matter of side-effects and one central tautology: that which grows and survives you wind up with more of.

Self-awareness is a spectrum instead of a binary anyway.
>pointer arithmetic in deep nested loops

What's wrong with that? Pointer arithmetic is just indexing with different syntax.
It has to be "Simple ways to make the next generation more intelligent"...

Can't really "raise the IQ" because it's defined:

"For modern IQ tests, the raw score is transformed to a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. This results in approximately two-thirds of the population scoring between IQ 85 and IQ 115 and about 2 percent each above 130 and below 70."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
Why does the Meta Threads API make me feel so disappointed?
Mark Vue/React Easier to Use [Limf]
Lim is the abbreviation of Less is More. It is essentially a compiler that compiles Vue or React code, allowing developers to avoid using Composition API or React Hooks.

Lim statically analyzes the dependencies and changes of variables in the code to find out the variables that the UI depends on and have or may change. These variables are rewritten to the corresponding framework and all their references are modified at the same time.
<< if anyone really knows what's going on

I have long maintained that real knowledge is a well guarded secret.

<< in the sense that there are just a ton of companies out there that are near incompetent.

I want to say no, but I am old enough now to be able to compare to some of the previous positions and I can't help but wonder how much of all this is just posturing and bluffing ( fake it till you make it kinda deal ). I accept it was always there to an extent, but the current project I am a part of makes me question a lot.
When I graduated from eighth grade, we had to choose a graduation song. A classmate laughingly suggested Pink Floyd's “We don’t need no education” and I seconded it. Our teacher dismissed the idea in a way that offended me, so I turned it into a big argument about freedom and dignity. It became a shouting match.

The authorities ended up choosing a song from the Muppet Movie, instead.

I didn't even like Pink Floyd. I think I had heard the song once before in my life. But I did think it would be funny to sing it at graduation-- ironically, of course-- and also as a reminder that education is all about helping kids become functioning adults who make choices for themselves, not drones who pretend to feel and believe what the elders dictate.

I'm sure the class would not have gone with Pink Floyd, but I wish our teacher had let us go through the process of debating it properly. Then it would have been our decision.

I suppose this comment is not that relevant to the article, but what the hell. You only live at least once.
The AIs are doing an ironic highlighting in reverse: that many of the ways we benchmark humans are actually kind of sucky.
Transition is not done until their drivers are upstreamed into the mainline kernel and ALL features work out of the box, especially power management and hybrid graphics.
That’s really cool! As an ex EE turned Software Eng this is something I’ll look back to when I start getting into electronics again :)
>in C every copy, every destructor, every alloc, is explicitly declared everywhere. Explicit is much safer than implicit

Unless a programmer forgets to call a 'destructor' on some code path in C's explicit error handling maze.
What an awesome thing in the spirit of the early internet, love it.
This is obvious because a straight line is a (degenerate) example of a quadratic or cubic Bezier curve.
Why do you want to do it in the first place? It will make accumulation of capital and making profits overall harder, will increase the amount of government violence necessary to maintain order (smarter people are harder to bullshit into obedience through TV -> they will have to be imprisoned, tortured, and killed). Will make the world overall worse. The elite is smart and educated well that's enough.
Now imagine people want to replace developers with AI, not only we won’t have control over those problems but even worse the code behind it as well if no one reads back millions of lines of code to identify problems in rules (which already seems to be the case here). What a nightmare
The blinky bars were great! Already forgot about those. If I remember correctly, a problem with those were people with displays that had funky refresh rates? I think that in the current era that would be much less of a concern.
Conceptually it's great to have an actual physical, airgapped device under your full control as your signing device.
Guess being a wizard makes me less than human, huh? (I know this isn't about us/me, but these posts aimed at "normal" people can be so...)
Markus Persson, after selling Minecraft for 2.5bln:

"Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated."

"In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor."

Fortunately if you're a billionaire you have plenty of time and opportunity to reflect and find something truly fulfilling.

Persson, getting somewhat sensible again:

"To people out there with real problems: I’m sorry the whining of a newly wealthy programmer gets more attention than yours. Stay strong."

Anyway, the billionaire tier (or even just UHNWI >$30mln) are the extreme outliers. I would imagine that it can be really tough to form new close relationships or find life partners if they didn't before they got ultra wealthy.
That will only make him even more excited to vote for Trump. Just look at his unhinged bigoted misogynistic transphobic posting history (with showdead=true to see his most vile posts, as well as all the unsubstantive comments and flame bait that dang has to keep asking him to stop repeatedly posting). Project 2025 was designed to appeal to hateful bigots like him. He's an archetypical walking talking example of why it's so important to vote against Trump.
Have you tried reading Tweets while not signed-in in the last year? Twitter is not a public forum any more. And it shows that these companies will alter the deal whenever it happens to serve their interests.
That’s one of the points made in the article - intuitively it feels mad.

But there are experiments out there that have shows ‘conscious decisions’ about an action coming after the action rather than before.
Must be a sad living being miserable all the time.

> Let those warehouses full of cheap mp3 players rot, don't bother trying to upgrade an old ipod with a new battery and storage (which it wasn't designed to be upgraded with anyway),

Any of those can integrate into modern Apple ecosystem?
I wouldn't expect anything else from Google...
What if Satoshi knew that, and used this technique to convince everyone he is not actually Satoshi, but instead some charlatan called Craig.
Oh, they have rules and regulations, for sure. Take a look at their certification page: https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/certification-complia...

Question is, do they live it or is it just some binder sitting on a shelf.
Out of all the ways discovering music, surprisingly Soundcloud has been the best. Being able to curate a list of DJs in various genres means that I'm constantly finding new music by being exposed to what they're putting in their sets.

It's kind of a meta music discovery, I can piggy back off others who have tastes that I like.

The biggest benefit of this is that I don't necessarily get recommendations of music that's adjacent to what I already like. In other words, if I like Depeche Mode, I don't want to listen to bands that sound vaguely like them.

What I've yet to see someone do, is track what music someone listens to after listening to a song. Often when I hear a piece of music, it makes me want to listen to something else that feels the same way or reminds me of being in similar place in time. A music recommendation engine based of this concept would be interesting.
I’ve come up with some of the core solutions in my org to solve massive big data problems and had to depend on intuition and theory instead of the web. I still failed a merge sort whiteboard challenge in an interview. Some people just can’t deal with these inane questions in an artificial environment.
What a confusing article.

I think its trying to say that self-awareness developed for the purpose of social cohesion, to help communicate emotions with the group.

Fair enough, but i thought that had already been a popular theory for a very long time. Am i incorrect about that or do i just misunderstand what is new about their theory?
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There was a $600 deduction, so common laborers didn't pay any income tax.
>Arm64s simple fixed length instruction set is absolutely central in this.

Note that doing variable instruction length is not an issue per-se as proven by more dense, yet still easy to decode RISC-V.

The way x86 does it, however, is very costly to decode and overall awful.
The question I'd ask of people making 500k is, what's stopping them from living frugally for a few years and then spending the rest of their life in the "do whatever you want" category.

But I guess it's selection bias. If you're the sort of person who likes living frugally and otherwise doing whatever you want, you're less likely to end up making 500k to begin with.

It's kind of like asking why are assholes and psychopaths over-represented in the ultra-rich, it's possible to make it to eight figure net worth on talent, hard work and good luck, but to make it that far and wanting to just keep on going says... something.
Lots of people have a lot of negative stuff to say, but my take is: if you do psychedelics, you need to do the work and you need a firm ground before that. We have research that it might help with PTSD, depression, etc. but it's not like you just take it and you're done. It's a powerful substance and with power comes responsibility. I like to think of it more as an enhancer as to what's inside your head anyways. If that's fucked already, how are psychedelics gonna help you?
> It's of course very silly, and I'm sure commenters here are going to talk about all the ways that it isn't practical or that it's a niche idea, but I love whimsical silly niche hardware ideas that make it into actual hardware

It's crazy how I miss my 2nd gen iPod Nano, even though I wouldn't really have any use for it today. It was really a stupendously satisfying specialised device whose use is completely obviated today by general purpose smartphones.

But then again I wear watches...
You Can Never Have Too Much Money, Happiness Researcher Finds
The FTC should collect stories like this if they ever want to build a monopoly case.
https://archive.ph/gNhdB
As someone who has also lived in some of those places. This is always my reaction when I hear that quote.

It's like, no, some places really are just filled with assholes.

Maybe in America it's still true, but there I also feel like it's changing for the worse as well.

Not many friendly people walking around this planet anymore it seems.
Then that's good enough for me to use it :)
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I wonder if a clipboard or a ladder would work better with the bouncers at a club.
Some high paying jobs also come with high pressure and little free time which could harm life satisfaction. It could be that high earners that are likely to participate in such a study are the ones that have more free time to dedicate to spontaneous endeavors, therefore might already have a higher life satisfaction.

This bias can also exist for lower-paying jobs, however I would guess proportionally there might be more 80-hour/week type high responsibility jobs in the higher paying brackets.
This article is very misleading because it only looks at data up to 2022.01, e.g. zero information about more recent or current strains. We can't even extrapolate if the risk kept going down, since COVID has exhibited really high symptom variability from strain to strain, and there's unlikely to be any selection pressure against long COVID.
Investigate the change of BP in older adults with hypertension didn't take drugs
I was/am a Rebol developer, and all Rebol developers know about Red as it was/is the next of Re(d|bol) languages, after we came to terms that the Rebol 3 which was about to concretely improve on Rebol 2, and be open source just won't happen.

Red also improved on Rebol 2 a lot and is a proper Rebol successor. It was started by a very productive and prominent Rebol developer, that I greatly appreciate. The only problem I see with it is that maybe they were too ambitious. They started with their own low level language (compiler) Red/system, and out of that built Red interpreter. They are really doing things as they should be done I think, but it's taking quite a lot of time.

Red, like in a way Rebol has a lot of focus on GUI and I needed a language for backend development. I was waiting for their "IO branch" for years, it was hard for me to contribute in a concrete way, since their approach was quite low level and at around 2018 started making a simple Rebol like interpreter in Go, because Go is great on the backend and I just wanted something that works, hence the higher level language than C/C++, that's now Rye.

Red is still moving forward, their community is mostly on gitter I think. It is small, but so was Rebol's and it's much bigger than Rye's, which doesn't really have a community yet :).
I don't think those actually hit 350 kW; they generally top out in the 200s even though the plug might say 350 on it.
Who is your target customer, specifically?
That's also idiotic because we don't put a leading zero in front of 1, 2 or 3 digit years, and neither will future historians put one in front of 4-digit ones - it's just gratuitously annoying.

Charlemagne was crowned in 800 AD, not in 0800 or 00800.

Pompeii was destroyed by the Vesuvius in 79 AD, not 079 or 0079 or 00079.

The battle of the Teutoburg Forest was in 9 AD, not 09, 009, 0009 or 00009.

Also why stop at 5 digits while you're being ridiculous?
GoManageDocker: TUI tool to manage your Docker images, containers and volumes
Could you not detect likely hallucinations by running the same prompt multiple times between different models and looking at the vector divergence between the outputs? Kind of like an agreement between say GPT, Llama, other models which all agree - yes, this is likely a hallucination.

It's not 100% but enough to basically say to the human: "hey, look at this".
Just plugging in Molly White's great investigative work: https://www.followthecrypto.org/
I for one am very pleased,

I had thought of climbing Everest but my conscience had other plans.

It was the fact that getting to the top of such a beautiful mountain I would inevitable have to dump all my rubbish and garbage and leave it on the mountain with all the other cretins who's main aim is to get the badge so they have some interesting after dinner chats.

It really is like getting the initiation badge from Alcoholics Anonymous after your first visit. You can wear is so proudly, you have taken the first of the 12 steps to climb that personal mountain.

I can just watch the video now without destroying the environment just to get a badge.
Sure, you can also just not buy their coffee.
It’s an interesting presentation and I like the analysis of how science fiction has changed. This bit seems like feel-good anti-growth boilerplate though:

> What if we reject the notion that the economy must produce more and more, but rather embrace the notion that a functioning society is only as successful as its least privileged soul?

Among other things, I think the world is going to need a lot more air conditioners, and the energy to run them. Economic growth is a vague abstraction, when you get more specific, there are some important needs.
If you're making 500k and living paycheck to paycheck, that suggests some insanely expensive habits, there's something wrong if you don't have the self-discipline to get a bit of financial leeway at that level.

Either you're spending like there's no tomorrow, or you've over leveraged to try and live like someone wealthier still. And the actual material difference is in diminishing returns territory at that point, so there's got to be a psychological driver there.
> The HTMX hype vastly underestimates what a good SPA can do.

I don't think there is such thing as an HTMX hype outside HN. There is definitely a SPA hype outside HN though. A shame, since a large number of applications would benefit from being a MPA.
In other news, water is wet.

Is today a slow news day?