skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's papers that I haven't read or analyzed but I just trust the summary.

https://rpc.cfainstitute.org/en/research/cfa-digest/2015/10/...

I also listen to some trustworthy YouTubers like Plain Bagel and Ben Felix.
You can't go to the doctor for your free annual visit because your OOP max is too high?
JavaScript almost certainly got map, filter, reduce, some, every, etc from Lisp.

Scheme is specifically mentioned as an inspiration in the spec.
Agreed. One of the most common objections against democracy is that popular vote does not select for competence and therefore our politicians are not acting in the best interests of the population.

That isn't actually what voting is meant to do. The purpose of democracy is to kick out the old guy and stop the concentration of power by rotating the people in power frequently. The problem is that when you get rid of the old guy, you also need people to agree and consent that the new guy is indeed the new guy.
I don't care about promotion. what gets lost here is how we drive the product. we vest all the authority to a manager, and the manger rightfully sees their role as mataining the culture and the group. how do actual engineering decision get made. how to we decide how to evolve the product? thats not in the wheelhouse of the manager. increasingly ICs are encouraged to see their work in isolation - they get a task, they get to decide how to do it, and retire it in two weeks or less. How do we set direction as a group? How do we actually make a cohesive design rather than just dig a pile of feature requests. mostly it seems we just don't.

as an engineer I don't want to deal with scheduling people's vacations. I do think there is a real need for a manager to build and shape a group. To treat people like people instead of just contributors. but broadly as an industry we are totally failing to make decent strategic technical decisions and follow through.
Often it’s enough to compile in debug mode and maybe set an env var! This sounds like a horrible approach by all measures I think.
> How much should it cost?

Since the diagnoses are not followed up by treatments, nothing?

> Is that too much or too little?

It would be too much, if no students were admitted to those schools.
Individuals might have small gift amounts, but the office itself might accept gifts and distribute them accordingly.

Your partner may not be able to accept $50, but their hospital absolutely would accept a check for $51 million.
Nah, you're supposed to play PM and manager so those people can do less than nothing.
> You can't just write some code and then say it must be secure because Rust was involved.

The article doesn't claim that at all.

The cryptographically secure part comes from doing cryptographic verification of the code before running it.

The article talks about using Rust to improve memory safety.
I am sorry if I have caused any misunderstanding; the point I was trying to make is that, as ownership is a nebulous concept, yet one that must be protected, one with physical access to a device ought to be able to do whatever they want to it. To imply that bootloader locking is not primarily used to restrict what the owner of a device is able to do with it is disingenuous at best. I fundamentally disagree with the concept of bootloader locks in general under the idea that the evil that corporations are able to enact with them has historically far outweighed the real life security concerns that they actually protect users against. I understand this may be a controversial viewpoint but personally I feel (opinion) that the erosion of ownership is one of the most important issues we face today.
Reminds me of some kind of proto-vaporwave art
I'm not optimistic.

Every leader of independent Bangladesh was an islamist, dictator or both. Sheikh Hasina was the exception.

I hope this transition is peaceful and democratic.But looking at the opposition, I'm not optimistic.

Between Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Srilanka....that's a lot of recent instability in the subcontinent.
Maybe you should ask the people who currently aren't covered if it's a good idea
As someone who lives 30 minutes from Garden City, KS and butchers their own beef and pork, I have some notes.

1. There is a big difference in how between how packing plants process beef and how small butcher shops do it. Carefully processed beef that's not aged is better than aged stuff from the packing plant, especially ground beef. The beef that jklinger410 ate was probably both aged and carefully processed.

2. Most people who are used to grain-fed beef do not like grass-fed beef. It's an acquired taste, though I can definitely imagine how someone who is used to it would not like grain-fed beef at all.
Warhol is one of those artists that leaves the layperson scratching their head... how did this guy's work get recognized as high falutin art?

For example, see Warhol's soup can: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79809
> I have yet to see a game on my computer that uses more than 0.5% of my CPU.

Just a nitpick here, you probably have some multicore CPU while the render-dispatch code is gonna be single threaded. So that 0.5% you're seeing is the percent of total CPU usage, but you probably want the % usage of a single core.
A sewing machine that connects to your IBM or Macintosh computer (1991) [video]
The Meme that gave me Imposter Syndrome
At some point CPU manufacutrers started treating overclocking as a feature rather than somethings hobbyists do and then computer OEMs started to tune things for this, but due to the quick generation cycles without any kind of long term testing it's only been a matter of time until we started seeing these issues since Moors law hasn't helped much with single core performance for years.

My current laptop was getting uncomfortably hot when some random browser pages started pressing the cpu, after searching I noticed that the default setting was to enable some kind of "Boost Mode" (that's basically overclocking in the classic sense), disabling that made a world of difference and looking at the failure rates of the Ryzen 5000 series in the article I'm not a single bit surprised about it.

Googling the laptop family you get tons of Reddit hits, https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/comments/gho535/importa...
The 8k size long predates SSDs or 4k sectors.
The headline doesn't match the article all that well. It talks about sex, but that isn't even a category on their chart later in the article, except possibly under the "jailbreak" category at 4%. I do suspect that the number would have been much higher if the bot did not have NSFW filters in place.

A bit surprising how this text only bot was used to generate prompts for Midjourney or Stable Diffusion some 6% of the time. I would have thought that would be a far more niche activity.

The homework category at 18% doesn't even include the "search and other inquires" at 17%, which suggests cheating on homework might be the #1 use for LLMs, at least the ones that ban porn.

The better title would have been "What do people ask chatbots? It's a lot of writing and homework."
The problem here is branches. since you can jump to pretty much any instruction, every instruction needs to be a valid place to start decoding which makes the idea non-tenable.
I started my own software company 34 years ago after 10+ years in tech (operating systems & networking at a laser printer spinoff from Knuth's TeX project in SV and a mini-supercomputer spinoff from Josh Fisher's VLIW research at Yale (CT)).

So I effectively vanished into our own little world (the world of print publishing), building plugins for first QuarkXPress and now Adobe InDesign. We've been a 4-man company for some decades now, all working from home long before it was cool. ;-)

After all this time, I've lost almost all contacts with folks from SV. Don't really miss it.
My experience is the exact opposite. I like jazz because it engages my brain, but it can be fatiguing. (One does not simply not count while enjoying Take Five!) Hit me with a standard 12 bar blues, or even a four-on-the-floor pop anthem, and we'll be back in business!
Interesting technique. Thx for sharing
A couple more all-hands Teams meetings ought to fix that!
I enjoyed it a lot, though was a kid. It made a statement similar to the movie Network (1976), that I somewhat understood at a young age—they’ll do anything for ratings.
Good luck moving the needle faster than the total fertility rate declines. Based on the evidence, this is unlikely to occur even though it is the only path to success. It’ll take decades for the old folks with their ideas age out [1], and young folks can get leverage.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ijiLqfXP0
> If I had a family to provide for, I think it would be a much easier decision to take the money.

On the contrary, I find that the first or second line of managers above ICs is almost always insufficiently compensated to offset the extra hours/stress/bullshit.
I can’t parse your last sentence
A lateral move, maybe, but have you taken a good look at Sveltekit?

Specifically, Sveltekit + drizzle-orm + zod + SuperForms. It works pretty well, IMO.

Still, nothing comes close to the out-of-the-box functionality which Rails offers.
Ever hear the saying "If you owe the bank 1 million dollars it's your problem. If you owe the bank 10 billion dollars it's their problem".

You list listed off the largest airlines on the planet of which pretty much every other airline has to interoperate with. This isn't "AA just has to deal with it", it becomes "This is now everyones problem".
Elon Musk files new lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
M1 has CRC32 acceleration intrinsics.

https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/05/22/faster-crc32-on-th...

https://github.com/corsix/fast-crc32?tab=readme-ov-file#appl...
I concur with the comments that soft skills are necessary to excel even as an individual contributor. An anecdote comes to mind:

A student publishing their first paper was remiss that their name was only one among many. Their mentor said, “That only matters if this is the only paper you ever write. Publish a lot of papers, and you won’t care for the placement of your name among any single one.”

The point is to do a lot of teamwork. You can scale yourself and others that way. I like to think that the job of an IC is more “make software happen” than “write all the software on your own”.
Great article. Read all of it twice. Don't fixate on one or two sentences.

I once worked in Fed Govt IT system. Remember the 2015 OPM (Office of Personnel Management) data breach? If not, read up on that (use a search engine). Over 22 million government personnel records were released into the wild. The Wikipedia article "blames China," but some folks told me that multiple agency personnel and multiple agency contractors had simply put everyday Fed Govt OPM spreadsheets on everyday Web sites to make them easy to share.

"Experts" rarely grasp the everyday 1. incompetence, 2. indifference, 3. recklessness and 4. even corruption pervasive across and thriving in all our "elite institutions."

We need to take Robert Salow's Productivity Paradox (look it up) very seriously. All the incentives line up for "experts" to sell more things and sell newer things. But we are often (always?) selling bandaids for the previous bandaids, while users (customers) are swallowing birds to catch the spiders to catch the flies. Solved problems cease being problems. That's sadly bad for the IT business.
Ok, so you don't want to be a mechanic but learning how to change oil and a tire comes in handy. Sure you'll usually pay someone else to do it but the skills are useful and can get you out of a pinch.
TruffleHog now finds all Deleted and Private Commits on GitHub
Nope. The GP asserted something without evidence so I am engaging with that same standard.

What makes you think "every other developed nation" has higher quality (and single-payer) healthcare systems?
The $15B isn't the cost of the visits, it's the nurses adding on extra billable diagnosis to the patients to bill Medicare outside of their doctor's reviews/knowledge. This was largely just a way to collect higher payments from Medicare.

> Sixty percent of UnitedHealth home visits generated at least one new revenue-producing diagnosis of a condition no doctor was treating, the analysis showed.
>Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun will serve as a technical advisor to Groq and Stuart Pann, the former head of Intel’s foundry business and ex-CIO at HP, will join the startup as chief operating officer, Groq also announced today. LeCun’s appointment is a bit unexpected, given Meta’s investments in its own AI chips — but it undoubtedly gives Groq a powerful ally in a cutthroat space.

How is facebook ok with this?
Drivers are spending >10% of their time on phones?

Before the start of the trial, the participants all averaged more than 6.4
minutes per hour of handheld use while driving...
Paying drivers on top of competitive gamification was the most effective way
to get them to put down their phones. This group reduced its handheld usage by
27.6 percent, or 89 seconds/hour, compared to the control.

But monitoring and paying them reduced this to only 7% of driving time.
For botulism, how risky is making jam? It's not that acidic, not salty, the fruit isn't heated to a high temperature, and the jam is put in a sealed container after so there's risks? I've seen white/green mold in homemade blueberry jam before but never figured out what went wrong there.
I wondered this too, let's find out. I am looking all this up as I go, partially as an experiment to find out how easy it is to use Rhombus.

$ raco pkg install rhombus --auto

which should work if you have some vaguely recent install of racket on your machine and handle the dependencies without prompting.

(I started installing this several hours ago on a slow machine but it's still going.)
Location: India
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Technologies/Skills: Product Management, SaaS, Gen AI, Rails
Résumé/CV: https://www.resumonk.com/experienced-founder-and-a-generalist
Email: Available in the resume & HN profile.

I'm a versatile generalist with programming background, adept at product management, and thrive in roles involving learning & exploring unknowns.

I currently run a bootstrapped micro-SaaS that has been used by over 1.7M users and we use Azure OpenAI GPT-4 for its AI features.

I'd like to contribute as a product manager, or take on any other role where I can leverage my zero to one skill set and founder experience.
Part of the problem is sometimes the company doesn't have the license to release (i.e. "redistribute") the server code. In that case they're stuck - the law requires them to both release and not release the code.

Or what about scenarios where the company doesn't have code access to a critical dependency? It's not so unusual either - using a non-OSS DB or cloud service would qualify.

I think a better version of the law should mirror right-to-repair efforts: service providers have to release an API spec and not block attempts to point the client code at the new server, analogous to improving the "repairability" of the software with third party components. Constraining this event to when the service shuts down should mitigate economic concerns for companies.
> My hope is that it’s always been like this and we are simply more aware now / the public is fighting back.

Things used to be so, so, so much worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system

Don't get fooled into pessimism by the treadmill of progress. The fact that all of this information is available and gleaned by public filings is in itself a testament.
I fundamentally disagree with the author's perspective on a "Staff+ Engineer". This is why organizations have management tracks like "Director of Engineering", "Engineering Manager", "VP of Engineering", "Head of Engineering", "System Architect".

For a Staff+ Engineer, aside from being an excellent IC, I'd make the case that there's only one primary skill (from which several others follow) at which they must excel: they must be able to write, write well, and write prodigiously because this is the most important form of communication within an engineering team.
Mint employees 'inadvertently sell' valuable items from the museum's collection. How gullible do they think we are?
Found with Webb: a potentially habitable world
If Jackson Pollock is any example, probably a CIA psyop.

At this point nothing surprises me anymore.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
It stops being their property when they sell it. They keep owning the IP, but not the individual copy. Anything else is just someone coming to your house and stealing something you bought back.

Basic property rights are not up for negotiation.
U.S. FDA Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database
As is often done in Indonesia, most would probably opt to leave that unmentioned.
Yes the right person should be able to handle any or all of it.

If you don't do it right it won't necessarily be more suitable than it already is, and when that's the stakes there's got to be a responsible individual who can put in full-time effort however much it takes, with the resources appropriately allocated to back it up. The same CTO needs to be capable of single-handedly being the only "tech" employee, served by their own carefully orchestrated select contractors, or at the other extreme capable of building an in-house team to make things better from the ground up if more beneficial.

One person will have to make sure it comes out better than it is no matter what, or it's less likely to come true.

Regardless, it can be like servicing airplane engines in flight, so that's another outstanding skill to keep an eye out for.
That is not the real cover of Electric Ladyland...
wow I didn't expected that

That doesn't invalidate the parent comment tough
I'd guess that this means they'll get access to Groq's chips.
Best time to buy in a few months, but maybe the sale isn’t over yet?
I don't think you are understanding the mechanism here. This is not costing $15B because they are consuming $15B worth of health care.

Medicare calculates what it costs to cover an average beneficiary by region, age, etc, and then private insurance companies can sell Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to people in place of standard Medicare coverage, and Medicare reimburses them for providing that coverage. Medicare is essentially saying "it costs $10K/year to provide standard Medicare benefits, if you guys think you can do it cheaper we'll give you the $10K as long as you provide the exact same coverage".

What are they reimbursed is also risk-adjusted so that if any given plan covers a sicker than average population, they get reimbursed more.

What is happening here is these plans are adding superfluous and questionable medical diagnoses to drive up that risk score and get higher payments from Medicare. The theory behind it is if having condition X means you cost an average of 10% more than an average beneficiary, and every person who buys an MA plan from a given company has condition X, they get reimbursed 1.1X the average. They are adding these dubious diagnoses to drive that number ever higher.

What this has led to in practice is MA costs the government much more than standard Medicare. And this is despite the fact that MA plans tailor their offerings to attract a healthier than average population, but then they goose the risk score so the financial effect is the opposite.
it is fine. there's nothing wrong with being a senior eng for the rest of your career. but everything above senior is a sort of management position even if you're an ic. you have to work with stakeholders to make strategic decisions and to do that you need people skills, even if you're not managing direct reports.
See the link for more on the idea and technical underpinnings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_compass
Real talk.

I’ve been working in tech for 20 years, am coming off a year-long sabbatical, and for the past couple of months have been struggling with the feeling that the joy is gone and I should consider a radical career change.

Reading (what feels to me as) the aggressive pedantry of parent commenter in this thread is giving me a straight up anxiety attack. I’m not sure I have it in me anymore to be in meetings with people whose brains work this way.

Is it like this in every industry or is it more concentrated in tech? I don’t know who’s going to see this, but if you have any perspective or feedback you’d like to share, I’m all ears.
I mean start here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/18/ai-bubb...
Cool. I have joined the waiting list.
Like how Warhol took a stock dpaint image recreation of Birth of Venus and copy/pasted a third eye on it? Who ripped off who here?
Your and Fuzzfactor’s points are very well noted. To do this well we’d need someone who understands the domain/industry/business and who is able to set a coherent strategy. The rest follows from there.
Fugato: Stateful Property Based Testing for Clojure(Script)
On the other hand, early in my career as an IC, I was already working as many hours as I possibly could (out of interest/passion and driven by myself rather than a boss or PM). As I transitioned into management, there weren't any more hours possible (though I was already well over 40/week).

Fully agree on the incremental amount of excess bullshit, though. :)
The Fed deserves a lot of the credit.

Biden deserves credit for not screwing things up. "First do no harm", "a steady hand at the tiller". Trump has promised to meddle a lot more -- massive border tariffs, taking political control of the Fed, taking political control of the bureaucracy, etc.

It's sad that not screwing things up is high praise, but it is.
(Jan 2023)
The difference is you are an individual and Delta is a public company. For enterprise purchases, you would have SLAs and contract terms to protect your company when something bad happens.
In society what is done is almost irrelevant.

The really relevant information is who did it.

More so when the law is concerned.

Actions are only crimes if the "wrong" people perpetrate them.

For the right people, "crimes" are nothing but expressions of their right to power.
For the wrong people, "crimes" are conclusive proof of sociopathy.

Art is no different.
AFAIK RowHammer attacks can cause multiple bits to flip in a row[1], no?

But sure, it's not for the vast majority of folks.

[1]: https://www.vusec.net/projects/eccploit/
The Fed will always fix it as _thats what the fed does_. Debt, spending, interest payments are all treasury- The stability of the system is the fed. They often work together but I'm willing to bet the fed is very unhappy with the level of debt and unable to do anything about it. Fed just controls the money supply and interest rates in an extremely technocratic way, divorced from the government or policy making.

> Cumulative inflation of 66.3% over the last 20 years (based on CPI, it's probably actually worse).

While this is bad, if you check the cumulative inflation from 1999-2019 where inflation had essentially been "missing" in the 1-2% range the cumulative inflation is 55%. Regardless though looking at inflation numbers is only half the picture, if you look wage growth in the same period, comes out to several percentage points above inflation/price growth. Even with all the big numbers we are doing pretty well!
Typically these prices are for unlimited print runs as opposed to a run of a 100 or less (which command more money obviously, due to supply). I have a Haring print in my home that was about the same price (I think around $250 in total for print and frame) that's signed by the artist.
This guy is a legend!
'Tis true, but it's also true that Eumenides is an actual Greek deity (and The Eumenides is a play) that sounds the same (at least when pronounced by this monolingual English speaker.)

So I feel "Eumenides trousers!" is a slightly better variant of the joke.