skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The quality overall has increased significantly. Pretty painful to try to read eg Asimov nowadays

I wouldn't go that far, Asimov is still awesome, with all the weaknesses that have always been in his works but with all the strengths, too.

That said, I agree that the SF/Fantasy scene has gotten some really amazing works lately. I don't agree with all the Hugo winners of the last few years, but that's because we have so much good competition lately :)
This. Also, how does PulseAudio not support videoconferencing?
> Posting to Goodreads people seem to appreciate more.

Yeah because reviews there are put into context of other reviews. I never google for book reviews, because I expect mostly spam. I always go directly to goodreads or amazon.
> I asked on their forum if I could use that to somehow bypass the scanner,

Oh that is easy. I think jellyfin can read from a sidecard file that you can place next to the media file.
Are there any independent statistics for how much AI based coding assistants like GitHub CoPilot improve an average software developer‘s productivity?

I had hoped for something around 5%, which is not massive, but still a non-trivial number.

Not sure how AI assistants in other “high value” professions far. Say in legal, healthcare, finance, civil engineering, business consulting to name a few. Does anyone have reliable figures?
Can someone explain to me how a young security company with few employees can be worth millions?

It's not like Google is after they client list, they would probably limit them to Google services after acquisition anyway.
Here's an idea for an interesting hack: a piece of kernel resident code that feeds fake data into eBPF so that an eBPF-based antimalware will see nothing bad as the malware goes about it's merry way.

Sandboxes are safe, but are ultimately virtual machines, and virtual machines can be made to live in a world that's not real.
The market feels crap compared to the years before.

I used to be spammed few times a week, if not per day in previous years, now I get contacted like once a month at best.
> when we met up in person during conferences, we talked a lot about blog posts

Now people talk about high engagement twitter threads, linked-in posts or just film each other filming each other for their "content".
Wanting attention and for other people to remember you with the purpose of getting ahead later on, by getting favors from the audience, selling things to the audience, etc. Commonly done back in the day to later send traffic to whatever SaaS you'd try to start.
This is an infinitely clearer headline than the other two (from newspaper article headlines).
ChatGPT and other AI are useful at generating functions based on patterns of text they've learned, but at the core they have no awareness or intelligence, and never will. You can't trust it.
At the SVP level, sure, but at the IC level, I doubt any accountant gets promoted for saying "looks fine", whereas highlighting details that superiors can use to make a decision like this might be something that gets you promoted.

This is a misunderstanding I think many non-googlers have, thinking people only get promoted for launches (or in this case acquisitions). It's more nuanced than that: people get promoted for impact and while launches are one obvious form, you can sell pretty much anything useful as impact if you can show how it's useful. In the case of M&A, avoiding a bad acquisition, if you can justify it, would be impact.
I was also confused by this bit. If ALSA is part of the kernel, how can it not be installed?
It's pretty brutal here in Australia.

Higher interest rates mean companies are aggressively reducing headcount.

Insanely high immigration means statistically for every 1 job being created we're importing 1.4 workers.

Job vacancies across the economy are down 16.4% yearly change according to ABS.

Also according to ABS, Job vacancies, change from February 2020 to May 2024, for IT is an increase of just 1.8%.

In summary, jobs market is getting ugly out there, triply so for IT.

The simple solution to this & the housing crisis is to restrict immigration, but instead we have record immigration because without it we'd be in recession(our economy grew 0.1% last quarter, GDP per capita went down).
>First, there's no such thing as a "free" market.

Sure, economic theory is just that. There's no true free market and no true socialism.

But I think a more charitable interpretation of GP's comment is "the market is free enough that customers can make a product successful if it makes their lives easier". Regulation in tech aren't so high that a few people can't make the next Whatsapp, if the market resonates with that.

>Second, companies collude to dilute labor power.

Yes, but ultimately new companies make sure they can't ever truly control the market. In some ways that is another sign of a "free (enough) market". There are more than 6 compnaies with money to throw at a good idea, and the current publishing mechanisms make it easy to ship.

>Notice how pretty much every company decided to start doing that at about the same time? You ever wonder why?

external stimulus. Money isn't free, R&D costs aren't easy to write off for taxes. investors are pulling out and putting money into savings. It's the perfect time for layoffs when you need to do a pseudo paycut, especially when it's hard right now for a new company to start scaling up (due to said investors pulling out).

From there, sure. There's a lot of trend chasing. Google does something and they know their stuff, clearly our much different company must follow suit!

>Lastly, it has long been observed that the tendency is for profits to decrease over time

sure, tech stabilizes and customers won't stay and spend forever. Very few products can grow year on year on their own merit.

Companies in the 2010s were indeed in "grow market mode", which is why they were hiring for every blue sky idea they had under the sun. That's obviously stopped, but doesn't prevent leaner startups from trying.
Thank you for taking the time to expand that, you've said it more clearly than what I have been able to find elsewhere.
The subject in the picture is the bottle of wine, not the plant.
Be careful though. It's found to probably cause suicidal thoughts to some people (myself included).
There's definitely been a dip in the UK since 2021. Hiring went crazy and has calmed down a lot, back to pre-COVID levels.

I think people just expected the mad hiring to continue but it clearly wasn't sustainable.
The people in your real life don't give a shit about your blog.

But random strangers do! At least, if you're contributing something to the world which is wonderful and useful.

In my experience, the posts which get the most traffic are simply not going to be the ones you think they will be. I am thinking of both my public and internal blog posts at my company - the most read articles are dumb basic shit that nobody thought to write down (but should have), and my greatest masterpieces languor in obscurity.
> it would take 100% socialization of income to reach that level of UBI

I want to see you attempt to do the math to show that.

Here's my rough math: Mean income is about $60k. If we take the extra simple option, we can increase all tax brackets by 20% and give everyone a $12k credit, and it trivially balances. The median income increases, the low end of income drastically increases, and higher incomes drop.

Such an outcome is very far from total socialization. The effective tax rate of anyone below $60k income drops, and the max marginal rate is a not-crazy 57%.

But also we can make the tax increase progressive as well. And we can include capital gains as income and lower the percents. And we can cut a good chunk of existing welfare which decreases the tax burden. This isn't a suggestion for an optimal method, it's a basic sanity check.
May be it's about a higher layer of ALSA API, not about actual hardware drivers.
It's not a kickback because Cyberstarts is providing 'points' which eventually equate to carry for them as advisors to the startups in the fund, to which they donate their time, expertise, and so on.

The implication, you could argue, is that that also includes purchases from the startups, but that isn't at all a requirement of the program, at least as far as anything legal is concerned, to my knowledge.

That said, it makes sense that if you're advising companies that are building products with your advice in mind, they're going to be solving problems you need solved, so you're more likely to buy from them. The fact that you have a good working relationship with them already is a bonus, of course.

That's the optimistic view.

The cynical view is that it's no different from drug companies paying doctors to shill their pills.
Great story. With most interviews nowadays happening on-line, how can you recognize companies such as your friend's?
One can let users pick a time and then just replay the closest backup? Why create empty backups?
I think there could be, sort of. I am currently using Migadu, which works great and I don't plan on leaving. Their selling point is that the amount of domains you add is not limited. It's affordable and reasonable, and a great option as indie dev with multiple projects. No fictional per-seat pricing that does not correlate with costs to the provider.

What I think is outside their target market, but what would be a great next step for projects with slightly more needs would be a Google Workspace/Outlook sort of service with a similar approach. Simple CRM features, shared contact management, calendars, signatures, etc.
Roughly what Proton is doing without the Silicon Valley pricing, or maybe even Hubspot.
Is this necessarily correlated? I would think that the potential to cause disaster is rather linked to whether AI is given authority to enact autonomously decisions, i.e. given access to critical systems.
No. Lightning simply gives up more decentralization and security for the illusion of scalability.

I say illusion of scalability because it's still hamstrung by Bitcoin in a major way. You still need to use Bitcoin to enter the system, which is a big bottleneck. For security you also need to be able to settle to the Bitcoin blockchain in a cheap and reliable way, which just won't scale with a congested blockchain.

Lightning is honestly pretty shit and it's not at all a solution to Bitcoin's problems.
tbh, Google itself rejected the acquisition.
To be honest, I wouldn't say it requires arcane knowledge these days. When setting up both Arch and Gentoo, I did a bit of research, determined that Pipewire was probably the best for me (because it seems to be largely a superset of the other options), and installed it following the wiki instructions. That's it. I haven't had to configure things in any sort of detail, it just worked smoothly the first time without any config.
How do you know it's from fin? And are you sure it was caused directly and not from another side effect? Eg sexual disfunction.
I don't know what Pipewire is as well. I've used Linux daily for 10+ years, but I've never bothered to use Wayland.
Image is really a lot more important than conventional wisdom would say it is (and people would hope, since judging people subconsciously on appearance isn't very fair), and a lot of people get a long way based mostly on image. People who are perceived as more attractive really are treated better for no real reason apart from that, and there are negative stereotypes associated with baldness.

In fiction there are tons of evil bald villains, but not that many bald heroes - you've got The Rock, Jason Statham, who else? And when the heroic character is bald, it's almost always combined with being jacked and tough - whereas being fat or skinny and bald is almost always a negative. Think Baron Harkonnen or Blofeld.
how about no.

People do all kinds of things to look good. People dye their hair, put on makeup, wear lipstick, buy clothing that matches their personality whether that's high fashion or skater threads. You can usually tell every hippy by their clothing and often their hairstyle.

So why should hair be any different?
I feel like at least part of the problem is that tech hiring as a whole just hasn't adapted to remote work. Companies are still using the same hiring pipelines from when everyone was naturally filtered by being within X miles of the office (or motivated enough to relocate), so they get bajillions of applications they're unable to handle properly, which leads to devs who would previously stand out also having to apply anywhere and everywhere to get noticed at all, which exacerbates the problem even more, and the entire process slows to a crawl for everyone because of the sheer mass of applications on every side of the equation.
Men could also stop policing women's bodies and activities. I have had my doctor tell me to do load-bearing exercises but I've also heard men mock not just masculine-looking women, but women who are interested in male-coded activities like weight lifting.
Oh yes, I fancy that. Quite a lot actually. The joy of seeing equal humans.
I'm sick of these people telling others people just accept it and shave it up.
Most people look better with hair, losing your hair is a drastic change, for most people it takes years to cope with it and if someone want to go to treatment it's ok.
A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace are two of the best SF books I've read in the last 10 years. I loved them.

Three-Body problem is one of the greatest SF books of all time, IMO.
Music isn't very different either. A common recommendation is to first learn to play songs you like, and then to start diverging a bit and to adjust the things you don't like and merge the ideas you like later on.
> Can someone explain to me how a young security company with few employees can be worth millions?

I assume you meant to say billions, since this is a $23B offer they turned down.

If I had to positive spin on the valuation: it's chump change if Wiz (who seem to be a very capable cybersecurity firm) are able to integrate themselves deeply into Google's infrastructure and secure it up the wazoo, since a 5% cost to Google's share price for reputational damage caused by GCP getting r00ted would be ... 5% of Google's 2.25T market cap ... $112.5B.

cf. Crowdstrike's share price after some bad news: they are down 30% over the last five days.
Can confirm the 500k+ jobs in HFT/crypto (well the latter might not be a life insurance). I saw a couple of these job postings mostly in the Cyprus/Switzerland area.

You could also make these amounts in adult/gambling marketing but that's another can of worms..
> Hmm the article says it is believed to be "as effective as Minoxidil" - which really doesn't cure baldness, more like prevents its onset. So if you're already bald - tough luck.

Minoxidil can reverse _some_ baldness. Apparently by stimulating blood vessels and waking the dormant hair follicles. Once you stop taking it, they revert back to the dormant state, and you lose the hair that you gained.

You're probably thinking about finasteride.
I've been a WSL user for years now. Way less effort.
Guidelines. Also, that all-caps does not have a clear interpretation.
Say more please.
Good for Google.
And the right tool for the job when I'm not at my desktop or laptop is my phone. Imagine that. What the fuck is going on here? Why is HN trying to gaslight me into believing there's never a need to ever use or manage documents on a mobile device? What in the actual fuck.
though if you do, it's useful to perpetuate the idea and it probably doesn't make much sense to discourage this, especially if you would not want to do it yourself.
For all of those candidates remote is a taboo word, if they even mention remote work, any potential interview gets blown.

Companies are treating it as a crime to ask for remote work.
> With a query like the one in your example, someone else might be completely justified in expecting to find the team with the best financials, the best little-league option for their child, etc.

They would be, yes. My point is don't optimize for emotions, optimize for most probable interpretation of the query, and then yes, if it can be misconstrued, give me options, and give me a boat load of filters. I've been using the time filter in Google recently, I didn't even realize they had it because it's so well hidden.
the Cognitive Reflection Test is not an IQ test

Its a maths test
It's easy to be 50% faster at coding when you spend a lot of time discussing with the LLM before you start coding.
lies, damn lies, and statistics.

It's an oft-mentioned point in the last few yearss to focus on raw income and not on spending power. if you get 50% more pay but rent doubles, the vast majority of people would have less spending power. same with job numbers. "Unemployment is historically low!". meanwhile, gig and part time worked soard while full time jobs dipped.

In addition, you look further and realize how people who "gave up" after 2-3 months without an interview are not counted as "unemployed" and you realize there's a lot to break down, that no one is breaking down
The level of resources it would take to even try something like that is way beyond what even China can afford. Just completely unrealistic.
These numbers sound like a complete out of world fantasy to me. CRWD has a product that the user is not going to notice, best case. Now you said Wiz doesn't even have that one (what does it have then?)

And their valuation is on par with the whole annually Western support of Ukraine. A country at war and with 30M people in it. That for some completely invisible product.

It is also 17 millions of these most expensive brand new 155m artillery shells.
I understand that. That's the encoding of being "connected".
I hadn't heard of either Wiz or Crowdstrike before... while reading the article I was thinking "$23B? Probably AI! And called Wiz? Yeah, must be AI...". Turns out I was wrong after all...
That's not a problem, as the GP's post is trying to state a mathematical relation not a historical attribution. Often newer concepts shed light on older ones. As Baez's article says, Gibbs entropy is Shannon's entropy of an associated distribution(multiplied by the constant k).
The article doesn't note kernel-ALSA and the old userspace-ALSA libraries that apps use to push audio.
Dutasteride is more effective and has less side effects :)
I just install fedora and everything works out of the box.
So you're essentially saying, baldness doesn't really matter, but posture and overall good shape do.

Presumably, add clothes and manners and you're set, no matter if you're baldy or not.
It's tech market for senior dev positions for almost all of them.

They are in all sorts of tech like Django, React, pure python, full frontend stacks etc.
Uh, exactly. You've got 3 blue in that 5.
> A "do what you want" policy would not result in the tasks people want done getting done.

That sounds weird to me. If people want it done, they would get it done, wouldn't they? Can you maybe expand with an example?
Well, time to move with the progress. I've been using KDE Wayland session for several years already.
I'm never paying for Alexa.

They get latinum enough from datamining and privacy intrusions.

As soon as they put adverts on, or charge for the smart timer/lightswitch functionality, I'm out.

There are OSS projects and I have RasPi devices sitting around. Burn an SD, plug a mic in, off we go.

Alexa found its way into homes because it was free and does what people want. Don't screw that up, add value. Make people want to give you money. Don't tighten your grip or star systems will slip through your fingers.

What do I know though, I'm only a guy who has one or more of these things in every room of my house. SMH.
Dutasteride and finasteride can also reverse some baldness.
Some of us look more like Uncle Fester vs Patrick Stewart with our bald heads. Bring on the cure.
They only need to learn patterns and apply them contextually to be useful. What they don't have is human lived experience, so we are still necessary to guide it
I'm in the EU, I just picked up a new job as a senior dev. I had been a team lead / manager but struggled to find another role as I only have two years experience in management. Picking up a dev role was easier.

Things I've learned in the process (and from being on interview panels myself)

1) I tend to stay in a job a long time (5 years plus) and this is highly valued by interviewers

2) in tech interviews you need to constantly remind yourself that you are not really coding, you are demonstrating knowledge. Talk through every thing you do, explain why you did it, or what an alternative way could be.

3) referrals really help. I've gotten interviews from referrals when there wasn't a position advertised yet

4) every place out there is doing something with AI. Put a bit of python on your CV and play with ChatGPT, ask them about it, work in into conversation that you're learning it.

5) I put side projects on my CV and I get asked a lot about them. If you have something semi serious, employers will listen.
Who can afford it? It sounds like the expectations are higher than the total funds available. What do you think would be a suitable amount for Ubi?
Along the lines of Julia Evans’ “Optimize for conversions” [1], can you gauge the popularity of your post by the replies you get?

[1]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/02/20/measuring-blog-success/
I don't think it's just there.

I am from India, but the people I am talking about are from everywhere, but specifically, US, UK, Germany, India and Australia.
> It’s not just salary.

The "not just salary" bit is very often used as a mirage intended to fool employees to take a lower compensation than what they can get, and then tag a bunch of conditions that can't possibly or realistically be met.
I have to take the other side than most comments here. Most of the coverage about the Wiz offer called out that this was an odd way for them to end up in - as the founders openly talked about waiting for that $1b ARR since almost day one

To me it feels like Google was trying to put pressure on employees and any other non board option holders. There were dozens of articles and analysis of exactly bow many new millionaires / billionaires will be minted after the sale in Israel
Yeah. Anything being done to solve man’s issue is evil. No matter how much we gear the world towards favoring woman in school, academia, politics and work place, we have to insist we still are basically Saudi Arabia.
my impression is that you can't replace competent programmers with chatGPT, but that hasn't stopped companies from trying (or simply accepting incompetency).
I'd recommend Kestra[1] since it can be run on a single node

[1] https://kestra.io/
No, that's what I'm saying. You're either a member of the 3-group or you're not. It clearly requires 3 members, so...
The solution to a housing crisis is to limit immigration? Wouldn’t it be to build more dense housing (thereby spurring economic activity and lowering a primary expense of households)???
I took finasteride for about 2 years then stopped as it did lower my libido. Which returned over time.

After another 2 years of stopping I haven’t noticed my hair loss starting again.

At least in my case it’s like a miracle drug with minimal side effects.
Useful tip, on linux (not sure about other *nixes) you can view the ascii table by opening its manpage:

man ascii

It's been useful to me more than once every year, mostly to know about shell escape codes and when doing weird character ranges in regex and C.

It can be a bit confusing, but the gist is that you have 2 chars being show in each line, I would prefer a view where you see the same char with shift and/or ctrl flags, but you can only ask so much
Jigsaw Puzzle Robot, Or: How We Solved a Puzzle in 15 Months
What does a low level wizard need to know more specifically?