skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which foreign companies are paying FAANG rates? Outside of Chinese ones I can't see that happening much.

Why pay easily 50-200% more for US talent when they can often get solid talent in Japan / Europe / China / etc. Outside of a small business and localization team, why bother?
Last I checked it out, no tags, but aiming for good full text search. I would like tags too.
Try this: https://www.turtlelm.org/en

And actually I haven't write anything here. Will publish the first post before Auguest.
> Is it not friendly and normal to ask young wait staff what they are studying on the assumption that they are students earning their way though college?

I think any "… on the assumption that …" is going to cause trouble on a sufficiently large sample size, so why make the assumption?

> And most young wait staff are? Except for California, where they are aspiring actors?

How do you know? But note also that the author is specifically referring to older waitstaff ("There is an assumption in this country that wait staff above a certain age are where they are because they lack the skills or gumption to “get a proper job”")—and also that this is about the UK, whereas it sounds like you might be thinking about the US.
Cool story bro. I should write the same article but from a SE’s point of view.
There's a paywall so if you're wondering, here's the 'one question customers ask that shows a lack of respect':
(Although really the article is more about general experiences and the 'one question' part was probably pulled out as a headline by a sub-editor)

Customers in restaurants have a fanatical interest in the level of education achieved by the people serving them. In the odd instances where I would have time to talk to a diner about something other than the day’s specials, I would always be asked what I did at school. What did I study? Did I complete a master’s degree? Good grades?
"Better than average" is a pretty low bar. I'd certainly hope that a winner of one of the more recognized SF awards would be somewhere on the upper end of the quality distribution whether or not it's a great indication for
systemd is, but it has a well integrated ecosystem of other binaries that are managed in the same project (ie. systemd-networkd, systemd-resolvd, etc.). These generally follow the unix philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well and are almost all completely optional.

I personally find systemd-networkd to be a tiny fraction of the headache that NetworkManager is, so I'm glad it exists.
I think most would agree $250k is a comfortable lifestyle, but if your neighbor is making $1M/year in the same profession just because he works at a different company, a bit of bitterness and or desire for more is hard to combat. Your neighbor can retire at 45 with $10M+, why should you be content with the low end of upper middle class and working until 60 for a more average retirement?
Ask yourself the underlying reason for that assumption?

Is it because you can’t imagine someone wanting to be a barista?
surprised the article doesn't mention use of pgbouncer, do you not use a proxy in front of your pg instances?
This is cool. When dealing with tables, you might want to explore departing from markdown. I’ve found that LLMs tend to struggle with tables that have large numbers of columns containing similar data types. Correlating a row is easy enough, because the data is all together, but connecting a cell back to its column becomes a counting task, which appears to be pretty rough.

A trick I’ve found seems to work well is leaving some kind of id or coordinate marker on each column, and adding that to each cell. You could probably do that while still having valid markdown if you put the metadata in HTML comments, although it’s hard to say how an LLM will do at understanding that format.
I think the assumption is you're paying for the coffee, and what the staff spend their wages on is their own business.
It's in the uBlock Origin dialog, just one click.
Werewolf Multi-Agents Arena
"This repository is the code for the paper "Exploring Large Language Models for Communication Games: An Empirical Study on Werewolf". In this paper, we explore the problem of how to engage large language models (LLMs) in communication games, and in response, propose a tuning-free framework. Our approach keeps LLMs frozen, and relies on the retrieval and reflection on past communications and experiences for improvement. An empirical study on the representative and widely-studied communication game, "Werewolf", demonstrates that our framework can effectively play Werewolf game without tuning the parameters of the LLMs. More importantly, strategic behaviors begin to emerge in our experiments, suggesting that it will be a fruitful journey to engage LLMs in communication games and associated domains."

arXiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04658
Or retirees who have plenty of money but still choose to work because they're bored.

If getting your needs met was a disincentive for work then why are all the multi-millionaires still working instead of downsizing their lives and playing video games / smoking weed for 40 years?
I don't assume that what they say is true; in fact, I think that they're wrong. It was an example of even the people in whose interests it is to deny that warehousing happens, not denying that it happens.

As for the difference between renting and selling, luxury and non-luxury, apparently "supply is supply", so it doesn't matter in the aggregate. The details kind of don't matter, because at market scale, some factor should make "move it or lose it" on empty units the norm. Homes are to live in; if you're not filling them with people who are living in them, something has failed, socioeconomically. It used to be a matter of taking a lower profit in the interests of community stability and vibrancy (which a local landlord or seller would want; many aren't local), but now that everything is hyper-efficient, perhaps the cost of holding unproductive property isn't high enough.
Most of these jobs would never get posted in the first place, you need to already be a known entity with these groups/be trusted before they let you close to the mainframe. Have a friend in one of these roles currently, ~10hrs/wk, remote, 6 figures.

People in these roles don't want to draw attention on their sweet comp packages which is why you won't see them crow about who/where they work.
Related: https://front-end.social/@ashur/112820329021521965
Maybe. In genre fiction generally, I find series can be pretty interminable even if I like them.
Shiny for Python 1.0
Great news!! Shiny for Python 1.0 is now available! As an enthusiast, I've been eagerly anticipating this release. Congratulations to the Posit team, who, with Quarto, Shiny, and so many other open-source projects, are bringing superpowers to a whole new kind of user. Shiny's ease of use is a bliss for a lot of new coders, including those who don't see themselves as traditional programmers.

Check it out: [Shiny for Python 1.0 Announcement](https://shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/shiny-python-1.0/)

Happy coding!
Another good tip is to just be empathic. They are doing each small action all day, every day, repeatedly, probably a hundred times per shift. There is no reason for you to make more work for them than is necessary, even of you pay their bosses well.
Couldn't agree more. Information hoarding is one of the main pitfalls of Knowledge Management. One must select the right sources, and curate relevant information (unless if it's all for fun).
> stop looking at the customers as walking wallets

Maybe that would help if the salary was enough to be self-sustaining and tips weren't necessary to make ends meet.

Also, it's a vicious circle. It's harder to be nice to staff when they're not pleasant, it's harder for staff to be pleasant when their customers are brats with copious self-entitlement and condescension towards service workers.

Empathy goes a long way here.

> 99 % of the time, it's the staff's fault

If that's your experience, I'd try looking inwards to find reasons why as well.
> Put me in the disrespectful category.

> > I had a first-class honours degree

> If you want to pay for your own education then feel free to pursue any field of study you like. Why do you want me to pay for it if you're then going to wait tables? Let me guess you are working on the next big break in theoretical physics like Einstein at his patent clerk job.

You've started off by saying that you're going to be disrespectful, but let me say all the same, this is profoundly rude and disrespectful. Do you think service workers should not be paid? Unless you think that, what do you think is wrong with working service to pay for an education?

(Besides which, notice that this is written by someone who has completed their education, so, even if you are really horrified at the idea of paying for someone's studies, that's not what's happening here.)
New Car Smell Turns Toxic in Summer Heat
Any personal homepage of the pre-blog era is a good example.

See here the personal homepage of the late Sheldown Brown, famous for his technical articles on bicycle maintenance, that is still maintained by his spouse Harriett Fell[1] who still add content regularly. I still visit once in a while:
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/personal-pages.html

It may look like a big mess and it is ugly by modern standards[2] but it is a real pleasure to visit with tons of articles classed by topics. I find it more interesting to visit than a blog.

Here some humor pages Harriett Fell added in recent year to make fun of Zwift or OpenAI:

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/time-travel.html

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/openai.html

[1] which also happen to have her own personal page:
https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/home/fell/

[2] it doesn't have to be, this one simply was built in the late 90's
From the Boston(ish) area, the Smithsonian has a 200 year old house they reconstructed from Ipswich. Really cool exhibit detailing all the different people that went through it and the renovations it underwent.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/within-th...
I am part of the group that misses unlimited PTO. I was averaging 8-9 weeks of time off under the unlimited model while I am capped at 5 weeks at a company with actual PTO.

The only difference is that I get paid out any remaining PTO, should I leave, whereas with unlimited, there was no expectation that it will be paid out on departure.
> balanced budget

Governmental budget shouldn't be treated as your household budget.

It's different. It allows us to invest in the economy, create jobs, create new innovations etc. [0]

> If Trump wishes to dismantle democracy and our constitution I'll never see that day anyway'

This is what the MAGAs / Heritage Foundation have achieved so far:

- Take away woman's reproductive rights

- SCOTUS undid a 40 year old law that now makes it harder for federal governments to regulate, this includes clean air, water etc. So corporations can focus on increasing profits and screw the little guy.

- SCOTUS reduced the scope of the anti-bribery law - weakening democracy.

Just some examples.

Some things that will happen when Trump gets into power again:

- Women's reproductive will be further decimated

- Schedule F will be reintroduced - making it easier for Trump to replace administrative employees with Trump loyalists.

- Higher taxes for the working class - more tax cuts for the rich. That's why Elon and other Billionaires are donating heavily to Trump's campaign. Selling out the little people.

Look up Project 2025 for more.

Are you willing to gamble our rights and the rights of future generations?

What if everything or most of it comes to pass outlined in Project 2025?

Would you be OK with that?

[0] See this book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/economics-and-philos...
I think the glyph for "Q" should be the same as "O" but with the bottom-right diagonal element on too.
Building a Copilot: #1 Servers, Streaming and Fundamentals
Founder of https://windmill.dev here which share many similarities with Maestro.

> Maestro is a general-purpose, horizontally scalable workflow orchestrator designed to manage large-scale workflows such as data pipelines and machine learning model training pipelines. It oversees the entire lifecycle of a workflow, from start to finish, including retries, queuing, task distribution to compute engines, etc.. Users can package their business logic in various formats such as Docker images, notebooks, bash script, SQL, Python, and more. Unlike traditional workflow orchestrators that only support Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), Maestro supports both acyclic and cyclic workflows and also includes multiple reusable patterns, including foreach loops, subworkflow, and conditional branch, etc.

You could replace Maestro with Windmill here and it would be precisely correct. Their rollup is what we call the openflow state.

Main differences I see:

- Windmill is written in Rust instead of Java.

- Maestro relies on CockroachDB for state and us Postgresql for everything (state but also queue). I can see why they would use CockroachDB, we had to rollout our own sharding algorithms to make Windmill horizontally scale on our very large scale customer instances

- Maestro is Apache 2.0 vs Windmill AGPL which is less friendly

- It's backed by Netflix so infinite money but although we are profitable, we are a much smaller company

- Maestro doesn't have extensive docs about self-hosting on k8s or docker-compose and either there is no UI to build stuff, or the UI is not yet well surfaced in their documentation

But overall, pretty cool stuff to open-source, will keep an eye on it and benchmark it asap
Yes, it's vague because it's quite a fundamental part of Notion. There's no way to describe that feature separately from Notion. Tables, Kanban boards, gallery views, subpages... everything you can't do in basic markdown is powered by a Notion database.
Johnny Decimal is fine (same with PARA, or the combination of both) as long as you have automation in place to avoid worrying about what should go where.

In my own system, JD + PARA + Templates + Automated filing works like a charm and saves me a ton of time.
In DayJob we've had to block (actually block, because people didn't listen to being asked not to use it and similar tools) Grammarly because it sending text that could potentially include client data off to their servers for checking would have given us a nasty fail should a client request or conduct an audit.

As an alternative there is LanguageTool which you can install locally. We have it running on a small VM that people can configure their installs to talk to, and block the public service end-point (as sending to that would be a big no-no for us for the same reason as Grammarly). It doesn't have all the features of Grammarly so isn't a complete drop-in replacement, but the self-hosted version works as well as the free features of Grammarly.
>While the United States does indeed have a national shortage of affordable housing

Note, an affordable housing shortage, not a housing shortage. In other words, there are not enough suitable houses on the market at affordable price points, not an absolute shortage of housing. This does not need new builds to remedy, in full; transfer or rehabilitation of underutilized housing would be a major component of a solution. A major and full correction incentivizes owners and investors to sell-at-loss or walk away from unsustainable ownership of housing that then becomes available as affordable units. Affordable unit count must increase with the basic affordability of units.

>as owners and sellers can outlast buyers.

That's a big assumption to make. Unfortunately for owners, their housing values are tied to other parts of the economy that are not as resilient, and vulnerable to developments that are already well underway. For example, the commercial real estate market is going to correct, if not collapse. This is a certainty. Admittedly, the timeline has been shifted back, but through tactics that, ironically, reveal the fundamental weakness of the market. These are foundational holdings that support - as collateral, as capital - the positions of the entities who themselves support residential property values with their activities.

You should also look for the rental market cartel to be broken soon. The RealPage lawsuits will dismantle the unlawful pricing power property managers have wielded. That will increase competition and affordability. Hopefully attacks on unfair pricing schemes ("specials" that amount to lowered rents that only apply for the first year) follow, further increasing affordability.

>There is no bubble

I'm just highlighting this so that others can see how disconnected your argument is from reality.

>"We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price."

Now you're just taking the piss. I'll bite the bait. We're both aware of the context of that quote and how it refers to grossly unethical, quasi-legal actions taken by a desperate entity on the precipice of biting the curb for their financial hubris and malfeasance. I don't know that you want to be taking that affect? It would mean that your stance is one that's in grave jeopardy if people figure out what you're doing before you can lie and cheat your way to safety.
Yes, many AI startups pay more than FAANG for ML talent.
It would probably have sufficed to excerpt the clickbait. The one question, as near as is articulated, seems to be three:

> Customers in restaurants have a fanatical interest in the level of education achieved by the people serving them. In the odd instances where I would have time to talk to a diner about something other than the day’s specials, I would always be asked what I did at school. What did I study? Did I complete a master’s degree? Good grades?
I've used (and loved) Rust for ~10 years. Here are the ways it disappoints me
It would have been better to comment on the original blog post so I could get notified rather than someone else telling me about this comment - we can all learn from different points of view.

As you will see from the blog post, the project started as a community project with no thought of monetization. It was only after it took off and over 1 year since it was created that we decided to work on it fulltime and turn it into a SaaS.
My favorite is the apostrophe. Simple and yet works very well.
Go structs sorta behave this way if you put a "parent" struct in the first field of a struct definition. They are, of course, not maps though. But a map with statically defined keys/values/types is basically a struct.
Yes I’ve read this is a huge problem for these agencies. They invest in training people, getting them clearances, etc and then the people leave for the private sector because they make 5x as an ex-NSA cybersecurity expert etc.
How do I, as an individual investor, capture the return of sending a shell to Ukraine?

> If USD lost the status of world's reserve currency it would have pretty catastrophic consequences for US economy

.. but for everyone at once. Collective action problem. You've argued why it's in the interest of the US government to tax people and send shells to Ukraine, but this is not an argument for Blackrock to divert VC funding to individual armored brigades.
I also like delaying "organization" to later points in time. I do this by using daily notes as the single entry point (bullet points), and rely on weekly/monthly reviews to extract whatever makes sense to extract into separate notes
I'm using pi-hole, uBlock Origin, and Privacy Badger on Firefox. I checked my network tab before complaining and didn't see any resources that failed to load.
Can't expect an organization that believes it deserves to exist and threatens and harasses people who don't pay for it's existence relentlessly to be ran in any way that's conscious or responsible with it's own budgeting and costs.
The article doesn't explain why Shiny _is_. I see both an AI chat, and data tables, from a thirty-second skim of the blog post. And the main page says, "fresh, interactive approach to telling your data story". That doesn't actually help!

Since you know the tech, would you mind explaining to readers like me what this is about, please?
Here's the issue, I think (as discussed in a sibling comment):

If you're right about them being a student, it's pleasant small talk.

If you're wrong about them being a student, you may be highlighting the fact that they're in a dead end, low income career path.

The second case is sufficiently painful and likely, that it's probably a bad idea to lead with this question.
ah, I think I misunderstood. Still getting through the Idris book :)
Been using windmill for a few months and so far it's rock solid keep it up!
Your morbid sarcasm does not add anything to this conversation. GP doesn’t bring arguments neither but at least stays courteous.
>-- Are there people outside of FAANG and Big Banks / HFT firms making those kinds of monies?

I'm very confident there are, but should there be?

>-- if So who are they? and what do they do?

A lot of times it will be things that are a lot less ethical than big tech or financial firms.

>Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?

As to the title question, stick around and you'll notice messages from people on the payroll of many of the biggest tech outfits who confirm that you can be quite gainfully employed there for years without having to do any real work at all ;)
Show HN: V1.0.0 Release DuffMan – Fuzzer for Postman Collection
The tool allows to parse and fuzz all API Endpoints defined within a Postman Collections. It is created to help Security and Software Engineers to test and catch not properly handled errors.

First Stable release:
## Features

- Parse collection and environment files
- Fuzz GET parameters
- Fuzz form parameters
- Fuzz multipart parameters
- Fuzz path parameters
- Fuzz JSON bodies
- Filter output by response status code
- Filter output by response time

## Improvements

- Enhanced JSON body parsing

## Fixes

- Fixed a bug with custom variables
Mainly academic and military and spouses and family, yes.

FWiW shitposting on UseNet started very early on - binary porn coming from German airbases was a thing and while many official things were sent from @MyRealName there were plenty of handles used and an0n postings.
The second law of thermodynamics is about systems that are well described by a small set of macroscopic variables. The evolution of an initial macrostate prepared by an experimenter who can control only the macrovariables is reproducible. When a thermodynamical system is prepared in such a reproducible way the preparation is happening in the past, by definition.

The second law is about how part of the information that we had about a system - constrained to be in a macrostate - is “lost” when we “forget” the previous state and describe it using just the current macrostate. We know more precisely the past than the future - the previous state is in the past by definition.
I'm zfs on root and haven't set that up yet! I should
"Colorless" is probably referring to the thing in Rust where functions are "Colored" for async or sync execution

I can tell you as a non-Ruby, non-web dev what the Ruby mindshare feels like to me:

- I hear that Ruby is slow

- The syntax looks odd

- I know Ruby on Rails was very popular at some point but I think it's been displaced almost entirely by C# and Node.js

- I have no intention of learning Ruby. If I was going to invest in learning web tools, and Rust was not an option, I'd prefer TypeScript first, Python second, and something else third
Why would gambling be high risk for employees?
Unless you compare it to some cushy govt job it isn't really more "layoff-prone" than others.
Yeah like the customizable home screen and widgets. They ain't perfect, but I think they really wanted it done right for Mobile. The widget itself isn't new in Apple's ecosystem as Macs always had it.
I've always said: Good artists borrow, great artists steal. You can quote me on that.
That or cryptography.