skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think so. If an LLM is sufficient to write your code, then your code probably wasn’t unique enough to contribute to the shared knowledge anyways. You could make the same argument about coding frameworks,

“If everyone uses react rather than vanilla JS; won’t we lose the critical mass of minds necessary to keep momentum with innovation?”
Easier said than done to get an accurate estimate.

If you could do a better job, I'm sure the Federal Reserve would be interested.

This is a ~30% miss for the year, which is historically large, but not egregious.

https://www.marquetteassociates.com/nonfarm-payroll-employme...
I feel depressed every time I read posts about finding tech jobs on subreddits
Have you tried the latest model? It's night and day.

Edit:

There's obviously still skill involved in creating a good song, it's not like you can just click one button and get a perfect hit. I outlined the simplest process in my first comment and specifically said you could create a "listenable" song, it's not going to be great but it probably rivals some of the slop you often hear on the radio. If you're a skilled music producer you can absolutely create something good especially now with access to the stemmed components of the songs. It's going to be a half manual process where you first generate enough to capture the feeling of the song and then download and make edits or add samples, upload and extend or remix and repeat.

If you're looking for links and don't care to peruse the trending section they have several samples on the announcement page https://www.udio.com/blog/introducing-v1-5
You're literally commenting on a thread for a NYTimes piece reporting on the corrections.
I wish you could just set the default search engine to "none". I just disable it eventually anyway, but it still leaves a bunch of garbage behind, like having "Search <whatever> for <blah blah blah>" in the context menu.
Claiming disability benefits is way harder than you think.
No matter how you define "hacker", "argues about the definition of 'hacker'" certainly should be included :)
this is also very interesting...not sure what parcel is for tho, just a quick way to get a server up and running?
I actually meant DNS prefetching, not HTTP prefetching. I don't think browsers will prefetch (make HTTP GET requests before they are clicked) links by default (maybe slack does to get metadata), but they quite often prefetch the DNS host records as soon as an "a href" appears.

In case of DNS prefetching, a wildcard record wouldn't be needed, you just need to control the nameservers of the domain and enable query logging.

But I'm not sure how do browsers decide what links to DNS prefetch, maybe it's not even possible for links generated with JS or something like that ... I'm just guessing.
If you can’t program why pretend to be a programmer? What could possibly go wrong?

JavaScript is not assembly and life isn’t so hard to warrant the level of sympathy asinine comments like this expect. I am merely suggesting people should know how to do what they claim, and clearly they cannot. I have no sympathy for that.
I spend almost all my time around conservatives. I live in Texas.

What I'm telling you isn't the fringes of conservative belief. It is literally the core, the reason why conservatives are conservative.

To... conserve. That is not only their end goal, but also their ONLY goal. And in order to conserve, you must destroy what has the ability to change things.

If you don't believe me, go back and read Project 2025. It is a vessel, a means to an end. The end being conserving the status quo and strengthening it.

Conservatism is the goal of being something old, doing something old. Progressivism is doing something new.

Again, if you don't agree with that definition, look through the entirety of human history and come back. I mean, just look at gay marriage. Allowing gay marriage is something new, something not done before - the progressives advocated gay marriage. Not allowing gay marriage is old, it is the status quo. Conservatives opposed gay marriage (and still do).
I haven't received a meaningful human response to my CV for two years now. First contact of any human is salary requirement and it's not 120% of pre-Covid levels but rather 80%. Big businesses shook off all employees but the most desperate and docile.
> Can someone who has a DUI really never regain full status and privilege in society?

So you recognize that your neighborhoods are planned so poorly that lacking a driving license relegates you to a lesser status and privilege? Why not address that car dependency, rather than letting drunks continue to drive? Because, believe it or not, there are people out there living without a driving license through no fault of their own.
Honestly the most plausible explanation for same is that tech people are so overpaid with so much excess savings that they can easily spend years between jobs for no reason.
Me too but I only ever do this unintentionally, and it usually corresponds with a delay in the reply from support coming back to me. (Ie I’m now focused on other things or have solved the problem a different way).

Whenever I’m conscious enough of it I do try to thank people - trying to remember how hard it must be on the other end!
how would releasing this new info be helpful? or are you saying this latest release is not by the current administration but the previous inaccurate release is?
That is in fact what I was referencing when I mentioned that California universities have the power to stop paying for journal access, but not to force researchers publications to be open access.

Your information isn't quite accurate anymore, actually in 2022 Elsevier and UC reached an agreement, and they renewed the subscription. Everyone in the UCs currently has full access to Elsevier articles, even the non open access ones. It was indeed difficult and harmful to researchers during the period when access was lost.
Many "senior engineers" are BS and are just posturing. To be honest, this idea alone has been really, really hard for me to understand personally. I learn a lot by watching other people work, and I spent way too much time seeing people posturing when I really should've been watching kind, responsible, vulnerable, open-minded people with values.
So a young hacker turned tech bro learned about the financial markets and told himself he was still a hacker working in tech and financial markets. But I see nothing of hacking here. I see pontificating about an "ethos" and how great hackers are, and making it seem like financial markets, bitcoin and startups is some mysterious unknown to "hack". Really it's just a job. Hey, you wanna nerd out on this stuff, that's great. But just doing a job in financial markets or silicon valley doesn't make you a hacker, or what you do hacking.
> my main job is trying to come up with "elegant" architectures for complex business logic that interacts with an existing large code base

Right, that's surely the main job of nearly every experienced developer. It's really cool that LLMs can generate code for isolated tasks, but they can barely even begin to do the hard work, and that seems very unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
Yeah, it was strange to see the reports.

The numbers were rosy but all the people I knew looking for jobs had a hard time landing things in contradiction of the numbers. People started doubting themselves. But I think to anyone it was obvious the numbers were wrong. In previous years, even 2022 and 2023, there was a constant stream of recruiters who late last year and all this year had dried up...
regarding bad design, for this blog post:
font-size: calc(1vw + 1vh + .5vmin);

i can not zoom in or out, makes me go crazy
Why was yacht move to deeper waters shortly before it sank ??
A submarine needs depth
A large submarine venting it's ballast tanks beneath a ship could easily sink a 52 metre yacht
Bodies found aboard yacht, most likely dead before yacht was sunk
I had a near miss a couple weeks ago in SF, when a woman in a car behind the car waiting for me to cross decided she didn't want to wait.
Are they? Scientists are utilitarians. If they don't have a good answer for a problem they assume it's not a problem. (I get the argument that's made. If you waited for perfection you'd wait forever. But it's a fundamentally philosophical position. You should be allowed to disagree. For example, you could choose to wait for ever. Hell, you could choose to be wrong, and as philosophy goes, that's certainly a valid position. There's people arguing that an example of choosing to be wrong is morality, and it's a pretty good argument)

For example, what does every theoretical statistics textbook say about both kinds of out-of-distribution predictions? (statistics can only predict continuous functions in the ranges it has data about. And this is badly expressed. In reality there is a "minimum smoothness" the function must have if you want to be successful in predicting (ie. no spikes), and the smoothness requirement gets relaxed somewhat if you have more data, but not much, even with extreme amounts of data. Out of distribution predictions, of course, lead to disaster regardless of how much data you have, as the data is irrelevant).

I get it, "theoretical statistics" is a synonym for "nobody has ever read it, nor ever will", but it kind of is what the whole thing is based on nevertheless.

No worries, I'm sure machine learning will solve it all, of course.

Not that the IPCC report uses theoretical statistics. I would call what it uses "political" statistics. Not in the sense that they choose the outcome (perse), but in the sense that they use methods selected to maximize participation (e.g. giving absolute maximum credit). For example, how do you average 20 models, all based on different principles? When you don't know which is right? Well, it's easy, really. You take out 2-3 models you don't like (but still mention and credit them), then average the models' predictions. And that theoretical statisticians say "that's unfair! Here's a proof can get any prediction you want that way!" is met with "shut up" comments. Well, after checking if that proof wasn't wrong, of course. It wasn't.
If the base model will work for you, then it can be super cheap, but when you need upgrades, it gets expensive super fast.

I’m optimistic that the M4 chip based Macs will have better IO across the line and better RAM specs for AI, and overall not get us sucked into upgrades for no purpose. If you use multiple displays, you basically have to get pro or ultra chips, but rumor is M4 will offer way better options in this regard with more display engines and thunderbolt ports.
These numbers are calculated with a lot of statistical inference. That means, among other things, that the numbers calculated at the start of a downturn end up being way off because the markets change quicker than calculations of trends.
According to the latest data I could find, 2022 had the lowest rate of uninsured Americans on record: https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/key-facts-about-th...

There were some pandemic era programs that increased the number of insured people, so it is possible things have changed since 2022. Either way, there is no evidence that the repeal of the individual mandate actually resulted in less people with health insurance.
If you want metaphysical certitude, then some people seem to find that in religion, though I never was able to. Models are what we have, and yes, rather limited. To me, that's terrifying because it means that there could be truly world-ending, mass-extinction level consequences lurking in these systems. And we know that events like that have happened in the history of the Earth when the carbon cycle is thrown off balance. My biggest comfort in all this is that I don't have children who I will have to explain this to or who will live to see the consequences; frankly, I'm scared of the consequences I'll live to see.
> The expensive part used to be the voltage conversion stations at the ends, but with mass production of MOSFETs for EV's these have now become far cheaper than the JFET's and other exotic silicon that used to be used.

Why do you believe these things are related?

HVDC lines operate in the hundreds-of-kilovolts range. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink operates at 400kV. There are no MOSFETs or JFETs directly involved in stepping down that power.
> any way you look at it this nation is almost dangerously over-employed

Look at labor participation rates. And percentage of stem degree holders working in stem fields.
One, you either didn't understand your link or over simplified to extract the scenario that fitted your view, that is not a very healthy way to discourse for you nor for the community. Saying you have long covid does not mean you can claim disability nor that you get money for said disability, it's like step one on a thirty step process.

Two, you would be surprised at how quickly staying home not doing anything gets boring. Ask any at home parent after the kids "went away". That there is a share of the population who would enjoy this yes, that this is most people no. We're simply not made to not have challenges and activity in life, both physically nor mentally.
Machining is fine, but in the context of the article the problem is that it usually starts off from plates or otherwise block-shaped materials. That means that if you have a weirdly shaped part full of holes and/or with many protrusions in weird angles (as vehicle parts tend to have), then you either have to combine many smaller parts into a final part or have to machine away a huge amount of material from a solid block to come to the final shape. It would be much better to cast or forge the part into roughly the right shape straight away, so you'd need only minimal finishing work. That is what these presses enabled.
The traditional method of control splits helm(rudder control) and lee helm(throttle control). Both are under the direct command of the conning officer, who is responsible for all orders to the helm and lee helm and setting and maintaining the course ordered by the officer of the deck.

You need to be able to shift control of steering to aft steering in case of battle damage or steering failure on the bridge, and you need to be able to shift throttle control to the engine room for the same reason.

The concept of splitting throttle control of engine 1 and engine 2 between stations as a part of the normal transfer of control is absurd and I have no idea why that was even a thing. I never heard of it when I worked on this system.
That's a valid sleep mode for some people. My wife wakes up in the middle of the night, reads for a bit, then goes back to sleep. That works for her. I absolutely cannot do this. When I fall asleep, I stay asleep for 7-8 hours and only then wake up. In the times where I've been unable to get that uninterrupted sleep.

In the case of the Navy, I can guarantee that 6+6 shifts didn't come about because of advanced sleep research, but because "it was good enough for me and now it's good enough for them".
> You might see them add a script here or there that ends up being "critical", either for telemetry/logging or investigating state at some stage of a build.

I don't see how that translates into gen dev environments either.

I would love to see the use case for a dev env that requires OMP (or OMZ, or Prezto, or even Starship) to be a functioning dev env.
Any estimates on how much this will relieve our healthcare system.. aren't diabetes and CVD the biggest burdens?

Will insurance costs come down if the US becomes healthier?
The article doesn't suggest doing this would have helped the current administration at all. Considering this was always going to get corrected around this time, quite the opposite. Any objective look at this is going to suggest it doesn't help the current administration get elected. So if we are considering conspiracy theories...
One non-boogeywoman scenario is that they were hoping the numbers would reverse and look good --so they bet things would get better, but they didn't. It's a chance people will take, sometimes.
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In other news, Lunchables may soon be meeting its demise: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lunchables-lead-sodium-consumer...
While we need to hold data to the highest standard, these wild thoughts without proof are dangerous. The new norm of suggesting conspiracies without any evidence is a scary future for me.
Yeah, I was in the navy actually, but my lane was purely electronics, I too only drive a 15' fishing boat.
Level ends up depending on two things:

Skill - Do you have the raw skills to do the task at hand.

Scope - What scope are you doing that task at.

Example:

- Setting up a single file server for your team, pretty easy, low effort.

- Setting up a file server / SAN to hold corporate data.

- Designing file servers for the core of your business operations.

- Doing that for a vendor, where your software and architecture choices will impact possibly impact N companies.

(Ironically the last two are closer than you think.)

But it isn't about setting up the file server software, it is about the scope, the size of the team you are likely leading, the impact of the decisions etc. Automation, repeatability, etc... Actually architect the thing instead of winging it...

The bigger the numbers get... the bigger the title, and the better, you better be, both as an engineer and as a human, willing to accept that you are wrong, and find that better answer... People are relying on you to deliver.
My solution largely came out of recognizing this reality. So I just don't do side gigs. I channel that energy into little tech projects that do not seek to be a salable product. So I make my living 40 hours per week, and then do the rest on my terms.
you honestly think that Googs spend the time and money to develop automatic transcription/translation for anything other than figuring out ad sales to videos? anything else they've done with it is just bonus features from the work on how to direct ads. how is that difficult to grok?
"By the current administration to get re-elected" how? Without more specifics, this is a statement you could write about literally anything the current administration is doing or not doing, so it has no explanatory power at all.
The sustainability angle is a bit suspect, although of course it's smart of them to make that pitch. Many large motors don't use permanent magnets, and even for the ones that do, neodymium isn't all that rare and is mined in the US. Most of our copper comes from friendly sources too (US, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Australia). When we talk about sustainability for EVs, I think the main concern is batteries, not motors.

But the most interesting (and problematic!) part of their design is the use of a dielectric liquid to increase field strength. They don't give any specifics, but reliability and weight issues aside, I'd imagine that drag-related losses would get significant at high RPM. Maybe the point is to go slow?
That might be the case for the top 5% of earners, but I doubt those are even the same people who have been hit by recent layoffs.
Yes, the federal government could never just make a mistake.
Damn, that molecule!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirzepatide#/media/File%3ATi...

This seems to work very similar to Ozempic?
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Median tech people don't fit this narrative. Maybe the top 10% (if that) of tech people do.
"The people who like suburban density went ahead and made zoning codes to basically prevent building anything but sprawl"

What, exactly, qualifies as "sprawl" to you? Houses with yards? How do you propose we build those to make them "non-sprawly?" Most of your statement is true, though: "People who like suburban density went ahead and made zoning codes to basically prevent building anything but" that density. So?

Those codes exist in SOME areas. They give people a choice of what kind of area they live in. Yes, yes, they were all racist and evil back in the day. Today they serve a valid and non-nefarious purpose: giving people a choice.

"the few remaining places that don't require a car are rare and super expensive." Do you have specifics on that? Are you saying there are no small towns to live in? That condos and apartments in the downtowns and city centers and town centers and boroughs of United States cities are more expensive than houses?

Take L.A. for instance. It has become very popular to piss and moan about "single-family homes" and to pass craven developer handouts in the guise of sham "housing reform." Meanwhile, dead or dying malls sit with boarded-up anchor tenants (there's an abandoned Macy's a few miles from me) and vast empty parking lots growing weeds.

Also, downtown L.A. is not "full." Nor are other high-density areas across the county, if you look at vacancy numbers. And then there are the tracts of disused, formerly commercial or light-industrial parcels all over the city and county. And yet already-residential areas are targeted for destruction.

And I do mean destruction. In a drought- and heat-plagued area, there is no excuse to promote the wipeout of every last tree and the paving-over of every last yard for the construction of 10 units where a single house stood. Yes, recent state legislation allowed just that, WITH NO REVIEW REQUIRED OR POSSIBLE. A developer's dream.

Meanwhile, vast tracts that have already suffered these effects of "density," the aforementioned malls and parkingn lots, sit empty.

And on top of all this, nothing is being done about the corporate buy-ups of entire neighborhoods. This is even worse than the "shortage" itself, because it takes what housing does exist off the market PERMANENTLY. Corporations don't typically die and leave their homes to their kids. But people do, and corporations are scooping up those houses as fast as they can, exacerbating a home-ownership crisis that deprives Americans of their best way to build wealth.
If you want to keep posting numbers that show that some metric is getting better and better, you are mathematically forced to go back and reset the baselines every so often, because otherwise you're going to claim that the United States has a billion and a half jobs before long.

Plus, revisions are expected and normal. These stats are hard, and over time more data comes in about the past. What gets suspicious is how consistently the revisions are always in the direction of worse, for whatever "worse" is for the given metric. "Random" errors ought to be distributed more-or-less around zero. It indicates, if not proves, that there are more politics in these numbers than we'd like for supposedly objective metrics.

But... if you think about it hard enough, and perhaps have a dash of cynicism, it's what you'd expect. It just requires something that pretty much everyone reading this has personal experience of doing with their own managers. You know which direction to shade the results, to indicate how far the bug is towards being fixed or whatever. Nobody has to tell you. You figure it out pretty quickly.

Well, it's not just you and your manager.
They should really work on homebrew cruise missiles for Ukraine. Constructing backyard pulsejet engines with nothing more than common welding and CNC machines and strapping an explosive payload to them with a mass-produced jamming-resistant guidance module.
You are saying one should learn to fish with a spear not a fishing rod
item 2.6 kneecapped item 3
Nix is so awesome. I use Claude ai refactor parts of my os into modules so I can just turn them on and off and it does an awesome job!

My concern with using Nix on Mac is that the uninstall is not as good so you can’t just comment out something and the Mac will just eliminate it from your system and it will be gone, but I’m considering switching to Nix darwin as well. Let me know how it goes for you!