skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It isn't normal for it to be hard to get a job, what is hard is to get a better job than you have now since you worked hard to find that job.

That seems like a weirdly narrow perspective. Seems like it entirely depends on every aspect of circumstance, micro, and macro economic, as well as all facets of personal luck, industry, roll of the dice at birth. This is true of everything, not just the job search. Every one of my friends for example has a job and has no reason to think it's hard to get one, but they only know one guy in software, and my perspective for the last 8 years has been it's hard to find a job. Meanwhile, they're all lonely and desperate, struggle to form long term connections, and this is a sentiment shared by many on their 30s atm, but not me, it's normally easy. I'm sure when I get my next one, there's enough likelihood of meeting a few people who've been employed their whole life but haven't made any new close friends since school, to wit we'd reach a similar difference in perspective.

It's my impression though that it's nearly always been easier to get a better or different job than it is to get a job without one, which informs the general cliche, however factually true it is, that it's better to look for a new job while you have one.
.. and how does it fare with devin/cognition etc - have not tried them just youtube videos.
Just Another GPT Wrapper
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41227792.
It seems they reacted before the team even sent over a report in one case:

> Before we could even finish sending our report or see if other endpoints were accessible (e.g. adding points to a customer rewards account), the points.com team had detected our testing and had completely shut down United's production points.com website. Bummer!
While I dont condone the concept that one group should pay more that the others based on thier identity, I do recognize that there is a concept of "lady's night".

One thing about that though in many cases the ladies end up being part of the product. Lady's nights are typically not a thing for thier benefit or in recognition that women often get paid less. The idea is that a lady's night brings in more paying men who anticipate that there will be more women at the bar.
My read is that any finish within the same 0.01 second is a tie, but a hypothetical finish of, say, 40s.009 and 40s.011 would be ranked 1st and 2nd respectively, despite being only 0.002s different.

The docs I've linked aren't fully clear on this and I've not found official rules.
Oh god why. I thought (and hoped) that GP didn't actually mean this.

I see how a team or an organization can eventually get to this point. It just saddens me that they got there.
Heck. I see your (well put) 100, raise you 100: One of these here newfangled AI-automatic materials-design iteratively setups (prototype, print, test, improve, repeat ...) could probably do a good job of it ...
The body styling is more 1990s than 1980s, also. To my eyes, say, a 1999 Acura Integra looks more dated than this thing. :)
Gemini is the default Pixel 9 assistant
Show HN: AI Bartender in a Virtual Bar
Note: The avatar will talk to you, so make sure you check your volume!

Hello HN! I've seen a bunch of AI character type stuff online, but all of them were boring chat interfaces. I thought it would be more fun to give the characters an avatar and a 3d environment to interact with.

The stack I'm using is Claude 3.5 for the LLM, OpenAI TTS, Stable Diffusion for generating drinks, and three.js for rendering. I exposed the prompt I'm using so people can play around with it by clicking the robot icon.

If people find it interesting, I might add more environments, character customization options, etc.

Hope you enjoy and let me know your thoughts/questions in the comments! If you want to know more, follow me on Twitter or join the Discord!

https://discord.gg/VZSk9yjVcz

https://x.com/neelmango
Fibonacci example:

include "cores/select.cal"
include "std/io.cal"

func fib begin
let cell n
-> n

if n 1 <= then
n return
else
n 1 - fib
n 2 - fib
+ return
end
end

9 fib printdec new_line

The vocabulary is visibly more verbose than Forth which is good IMO.

> It also has a subset called CallistoScript made for scripting languages like Lua, and it's still sort of low level

I wish Garry's Mod WireMod CPU's ran on something like this rather than Lua, for the sake of health of my wrists if not much else. For those who don't know, Garry's Mod is a sandbox game and WireMod is an addon from Steam workshop that allows one to put microcontrollers in one's physical contraptions. The physics engine in that sandbox leaves a lot to be desired though, with all the phasing through geometry.
This is so true. I feel like I've learned more about programming in the last two years making Cassette[1] than in the past decade of professional software development.

Every developer should make a language at some point. I want to see everyone's weird, half-baked languages! I want to hear about what other people struggled with, and the tradeoffs they've made!

[1]: https://cassette-lang.com
Wages have not kept up with living costs because of a decline of unions and labor bargaining power over the last few decades. People fill the wage living cost gap with credit, which then takes more from them through interest and fees. If wages go up, the need for this credit declines. If wages do not go up, the need for credit remains, as well as the burden of carrying this debt.

The need for high priced credit is an economic story.
May I offer, even if from some nobody on the internet, my most sincere condolences? Ever so sorry.-
My understanding of EU labor laws is limited, but generally even in the EU an employee refusing to work during the remainder of their term of employment can be used as grounds to deny both severance and unemployment benefits.

This might make a great story for fake internet points, but seriously, don't do this in real life.

Just do the bare minimum required.
Newer indeed. Caddy isn't even 10 years old itself yet. I'm not sure how you can be sure it's all-in-one is going to handle long times gracefully. But for short term few to handful of years use cases, sure.
XTX? I know that they use a lot of Go.
It propagates through static linking too, if anything in the program is compiled with -Ofast
People-Search Site Removal Services Largely Ineffective
Three month suspension for Python core developer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187470 - Aug 2024 (73 comments)
It means that a chunk of space with length 1 megaparsec will be 67.4 km longer a second later. If you divide that new length by the old length, you get the factor by which space expands each second. It’s a very small factor (i.e. very close to 1), but there are also many seconds.
That makes sense; it's a predatory business model. It's like auto title loans. They want you corner you, offer you money when you're at your most helpless, then take your car away. If not that then they want to lock you in a debt spiral you'll never get out of and just be a leach on your paycheck forever.

Everyone I've ever talked to has an antagonistic view of these companies and most other american institutions, and the more you hate them and recognize they hate you, the better off you are financially.
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Interest rates are usually set above inflation.
Why is this being downvoted? These are all valid concerns.
What's the policy on the length of security updates on recent Google-branded phones these days?
For them and all other 50 AI PDF scanning wrappers that were featured on Show HN in the past month.
Yeah, I didn't read the entire thing (it was torturing my just-waking brain), but I did notice a shift at one point, when he seemed to be trying to defend some well-known fundamental, which IMHO ideally wouldn't need defense nor explanation in context of a bylaws discussion.

I suppose, even to very seasoned operators, sometimes it's hard to know when is time for patient and diplomatic explanation, when is time to get worried and make more passionate argument, when is time it's time to shift to "commit" mode, and when it's time to resign with the right decorum so that you still look like a sophisticated team player to future opportunities.

I also suppose it's easier if the first priority is to be an operator.

As for the other key party, besides whatever else is going on, publicly suspending someone in the tech industry like this seems like a big deal, and can damage the career of even the most accomplished people. It had really better be necessary and appropriate, or you're looking at damage to your org reputation and your culture, and maybe legal liability.
Do not waste your time studying business for your degree. It's useless. It's for people who lack intellectual curiosity. You can learn it on your own time if you need it.

Study something that you want to study. Study something that's harder to learn outside of college.

It could be CS. It could be math. It could be economics. It could be history. It could be anything. But let it be a real subject.

Read this btw: https://paulgraham.com/hs.html
Just a PSA - I (and probably others) find the "Sign in with Google" pop-over extremely annoying. It annoys me both because it's over the top of stuff I might want to read, and also because it's Google threatening to tell this web site who I am even though I have no desire whatsoever to do that. Please hide it behind a login button or otherwise only show it when the visitor has actually demonstrated a desire to log in specifically using Google.
The EU AI Act Is Here. We're Screwed
Integrating Random Functions on a Cluster with Temporal
Lots of prior art here so I knew I was not reinventing the wheel. I guess I just had to see what the challenges were first hand!

FYI, if you have control over the repo ... the URL on the sidebar, "lookerproject dot org" goes to a scammy-looking crypto thing, might want to take that down.
2. I think that "AI" and "unstructured data" sounded "cool" 5 years ago :)

I'd be mindblown if you said, "We turn PDFs into structured data with 99.99% accuracy. Here is how:"

And then tell me about fine-tuning human-in-the-loop stuff.
We use poetry for dependency management in production, and it's fine.
Not AFAIK, and IIRC (at least as of this conversation, which was probably around 2010) he doesn't think cows are sapient either.
War is profitable in capitalism, because the dogma is that capital is productive and must net a positive return.

In the underutilized capital scenario, idle capital incurs costs, but no benefits. It must be destroyed. The easiest way to maintain the facade is to send the capital to war. If you acquire new land, congratulations, the "investment" paid off. If it doesn't, then the destruction of capital at least maintains the profitability of domestic capital.

War is really that simple. If you had a war for any other reason, everyone involved would see the stupidity after the first few skirmishes.
Thank you! Would love to catch up sometime assuming you're in NYC with the rest of the Pinecone team!

Yes by 100M+ users we definitely mean end-users, wasn't intentional to mislead so thanks for flagging -- we'll update.
1. Dreams, so probably yes

2. I'm saying everything is
Didnt work for me as expected
"Unlock Gemini Advanced for a year on us ($239 value)"

Who thinks they are booking phone sales as AI revenue to juice the numbers?
Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True?
> fixing it requires about the same effort as writing it from scratch

Today’s research AI doesn’t work, but that’s independent from why a working version would be problematic.
For me, glasses get smudged and fog up, slip down my nose, and are something to worry about during sports. Contacts “just work”.
I tried it, other than the high latency, it is pretty fun.

can't wait to see something similar in a RPG game.
When skeuomorphic GUIs were hot, I remember thinking the LCARS interface in Star Trek computers looked so cool, and why current GUIs couldn't be like that. Little did I know that they looked cool and modern, but were less functional, sometimes even less ergonomic.

This could be perceived different by generations that didn't grow up with mechanical knobs, buttons and thingamajigs, though.
Looks like an iPhone...one of the things I like about the other pixels is the curved bezels..
I've had do some of this recently, as a one-off, to extract the same fields from thousands of scanned documents.

I used OpenAI's function calling (via Langchain's https://python.langchain.com/v0.1/docs/modules/model_io/chat... API).

Some of the challenges I had:

1. poor recall for some fields, even with a wide variety of input document formats

2. needing to experiment with the json schema (particularly field descriptions) to get the best info out, and ignore superfluous information

3. for each long document, deciding whether to send the whole document in the context, or only the most relevant chunks (using traditional text search and semantic vector search)

4. poor quality OCR

From the demo video, it seems like your main innovation is allowing a non-technical user to do #2 in an iterative fashion. Have I understood correctly?
Aren't you talking about references or pointers? C++ and Rust have those - are these disqualified for not being high level?
The problem for me is that all of them look more of the same. I have a feeling of dejavu every time I see a Show HN of an AI generator, AI nocode, AI supabase, AI PDF scanner, AI monitoring startup.

I'm developing an "AI wrapper" myself and I know how difficult it is to create a reliable system using LLM integration and I guess these many similar projects are competing on being the one to create something that won't risk ruining their customers reputation. But I see no differentiation, no eye-catching tech, algorithm, invention.

YC and HN used to be the bastion of innovation in tech.
32% is referring to the survey respondents, not an interest rate. Although that is by no means an unheard of interest rate for credit cards.
If anyone is interested I'll talk about the system they used to coordinate all the rendering (no it wasn't k8s)

most certainly, please share. and thank you, this is very interesting.
I found the name confusing, thinking this was a tool to create stipple effects or implemented a stipple effect algorithm, whereas it's the name given to the pixel art editor. It says so in the title and directly in the repo, it was just my oversight in not properly interpreting it.

I think the name comes from trying to be a pixel editor analogous to what After Effect is for video, thus the play on words.
I wear soft contacts and one of my eyes has astigmatism. I've never understood how a symmetrical lens can correct an asymmetrical eyeball. Another strange thing I've seen is that after having put these things in my eyes about 2000 times at this point, I think I can tell that they vary in thickness, sometimes even in the same pack, but it doesn't seem to affect their performance. It all seems a little magical, so I guess I should find some time and go down the youtube rabbit hole that probably exists.
Some context: The Point/Counterpoint debate between Curtin and Ackroyd was a recurring feature on SNL, and was a parody of the Point/Counterpoint segment on CBS's "60 Minutes":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes#%22Point/Counterpoi...
Honestly most of the code I saw inside of Facebook was pretty solid, and some of it was exceptional.
7 years, until 2031[0]

[0]https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en#zippy=...
I suppose there could be a gradual change over distance, i.e. the first derivative of this change never varies.
The only thing that would make a new phone interesting is Linux support.

Otherwise email works, the web works, mms works, and the camera, screen, and RAM, on phones ten years ago was already way more than you need.

The phone specific software barely justifies maintaining a phone (and doesn't for me so I don't even own a modern smartphone.) There's certainly nothing to justify upgrading it.
The Perils of Future-Coding
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41207355
In which country? Germany and France put some effort in and it’s still not great most of the time but most languages dub only in 1 or 2 voices for all characters. Just look at the ridiculous long credits of Netflix shows.
I meant only that larger town/cities can take hurricanes a bit better than smaller ones can. Same reason that large trees weather the storm better than smaller trees do. If you increase the size of the system/thing, then it necessitates larger negative stimuli in most cases. Consider the size of a wave that would topple a canoe versus standard war ships.

At any rate, this is a hard analogy to stick with as it isn't the hurricane that makes things stronger. It is being ready for the hurricane. And, yeah, you can argue that getting hit by hurricanes is why the city was prepared, but that is kind of silly. Are non-coastal towns that don't have to evacuate for large storms somehow weaker than the ones that do? Not really, they are prepared for other shocks.

Again, muscle growth would kind of follow an antifragile model. In that you have to have some resistance for most growth. Maybe the old SR-71 was an even better example. Literally needed the resistance of flight so that it wouldn't leak. The saying for it was the faster it went, the faster it could go.
It seems that there is a generational divide between glasses acceptance. When I was a kid in the 90s, having glasses was seen as cool and desirable. I remember being puzzled by all the 80s movies which mocked characters with glasses, when having glasses was seen as a positive trait among my peers.
CallistoScript compiles to lua so you can use it for garry's mod, but I'm not sure how well it would work
I think you are intentionally obscuring the difference between "no standard solution for cryptographic check of what you're booting" and "solution that provides that which one of the vendors pushed to make switchable in ways that keep it open for others as well, even if only because it makes business sense for them as well"

Trustworthy computing, even in Microsoft way, involves owner deciding what's running and being able to verify that. Funnily enough Microsoft's "solution" here involves removing Microsoft keys and owner signing specific binaries they allow to run.

We don't have yours (2) because of various gaps you could drive an American freight train through. The options that exists are all even more closed down than SecureBoot (which is just one leg of Trustworthy Computing).

N.B. the main subversive component in all of this, and tellingly implemented because stakeholders of "trustworthy computing" actually care about owner control, is protected media path, foisted by MPAA and streaming industry through closed blobs in Intel ME and AMD PSP
Every ~3yrs an article like this floats across my screen.

Every time, I think it sounds SO fun.

And then do nothing.

Given this time I have the excellent excuse of a new job, I don't expect to break the trend this year.

But one day . . . one day . . .
"Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL will receive updates for 7 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US. See g.co/pixel/updates for more information."
IMO its a huge opportunity cost for humans to land on moon if it comes at cost of gazillions of dollars. We've been to moon, many countries have spent probes on the Moon. Humans are fragile blood bags covered in thin skin plastic. It takes a ton of other infrastructure around to sustain them. Even losing a single human is a disaster.

That money and time could be spent building better rovers. We could likely send 10 +rovers to different planets for exploration at the same time + cost factor.

Spirit & Opportunity spent ~21 years combined on Mars.

We could have an army of rovers for years on Moon and build habitable bases. It'd be cheaper than sending a few human astronauts to the Moon for a few hours of "we did it" videos.
Yes exactly, that's what I guess I meant to imply. If a project is expected to have a long tenure, it would have been an odd choice to pick Coffeescript (just talking out of my ass a bit here, never used it, it seemed to come and go quickly) as the backbone since it was more of a short-lived novelty and maybe not worth betting so heavily on. Tailwind as well should be considered thoughtfully based on the project, and maybe it's the right choice long-term for a substantial project or maybe better for short-lived sites that favor quick turnaround over longevity.
The federal minimum wage has zero chance of increasing unless we get a supermajority of Democrats in both wings of congress and the presidency. Republicans, voters included, largely do not want the minimum wage to go up.
Its not symetrical, one part is heavier and turns in the eye. What optometrist told me.
Exactly! We must show that computing R will let us compute Σ(n). Not the other way around.

Actually, my version has an issue, which is that (while you can read the Σ(n) unambiguously after reading |Σ(n)|) you can't unambiguously get the |Σ(n)| without knowing their length.

The most efficient way, I believe, is to just include ||Σ(n)|| as well, and so on recursively down until you have only one digit. But then you'll also need to keep track of the length of the sequence, so it's a mess.

Better just write everything in unary. So (1, 4, 6, 13) gets encoded as

R = 10 11110 1111110 11111111111110 ...

After-all, we are not trying to be efficient with out digits. Just making a theoretical argument :-)
The first time I did this, I ended up writing stuff that could use replace strings with regular expressions, do arithmetic, string concatenation, and a few other things. It was honestly kind of cool but it was horrible to maintain and I wish I had just kept the JSON as data.
Agreed that there's definitely something different in the behavior.

I looked through the HAR files I've captured comparing my company's app to Termly. After clicking "Continue", in both cases there's a redirect to a URL of the form https://accounts.google.com/signin/oauth/consent?as=redacted.... For my company's app, hitting that URL results in another redirect to my Auth0 tenant, whereas for Termly, hitting that URL results in HTML showing the loading indicator (no immediate redirect).

Why the difference? As you said, maybe it's something in the OAuth consent screen configuration (though there are no options I see that could explain it). Maybe it has to do with the age of the account.
7 years for the 8 (of full OS updates). I'd be surprised if it's less for the 9.

https://store.google.com/intl/en/ideas/articles/newest-pixel...
Pixel Buds Pro 2
Not super familiar with Zenoh! At first glance, it seems to focus more on the robotics use case and support higher-level data manipulation.

Synnax also follows a pub-sub model, which enables functionality like having multiple clients/consoles be able to view and monitor their physical systems.

I'd say we try to reach closer to the edge to help directly facilitate sensor abstractions. In this vein, Another way Synnax seems to differ is to try to cater more to the hardware control aspect. So for example, we have a panel for users to create schematics of propulsion/electrical systems which they can they link with automated scripts to command that actual system and override with manual control when necessary.

Using multiple nodes of Synnax in a distributed fashion is also still a WIP but a goal of ours as well!

If you use Zenoh would love to hear how you use it and if my impressions of it are correct.