skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're entrepreneurial minded, head to your nearest startup meetup/founder networking event and chat to founders. Nearly all the founders are non technical and have the same problem, no tech talent to build their product and no funding to to hire one.

But you could get a significant percentage of the business if you become a co-founder and you would basically have the pick of the bunch.

You probably don't even have to leave amazon if you can smash out a quick prototype over a weekend, then only leave if they get funding and the startup takes off.
launched twice? gotta launch as much as possible in this competitive landscape
It’s actually pretty easy for me to empathize with them. FedEx is pretty reliable. It wouldn’t surprise me to hear that the biggest inherent risk in mailing cash was police stealing it.
Opinions are like arseholes. Everyone has got one.
It's been recommending that movie to me, and it looks excellent, but I know if I watch it it's gonna end up with me throwing the TV out the window out of rage.
D&D (and much fantasy) is the inverse of theatres staging Shakespeare in modern dress. Macbeth can be made to look modern by having modern suits and a set resembling an office or whatever, but the language and cultural attitudes depicted are still renaissance.

D&D has the swords and castles which makes it look somewhat medieval on the surface, but the culture of the world does not resemble medieval times at all.
It depends on how you calculate the "earnings".

If I calculate my hourly rate to $200 and take the hours it took to write and market the book, I lost a lot of money.

But would I have worked instead of writing the book? My book is $30 and I get 80% selling through Leanpub. So I got quite some money, and a trickle of money every week since it peaked.

Can you earn money with a book through a publisher (if you're not already a famous name)? Not so sure. Probably better for your branding than your wallet.

So as I've said, it depends.
since Wayland there are some issues with DBeaver; this project seems like a great way out!
Multiple puffs of hydrazine every day to keep the craft stable, for more than 50 years? How big are these tanks?
Lack of social support will kill your confidence. He found the best possible way to rebuild it.
I got engaged before the iPhone came out, but from what I've heard from my friends who are still dating is that dating apps are pretty terrible for dating, so there's not much to supplant.
Another similar/related idea to Google is the “onion architecture”.
Here's one of those cases:

United States v. an Art. Consisting of Boxes of Clacker Balls, 413 F. Supp. 1281 (E.D. Wis. 1976)

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/4...
>The guy sounds like the epitome of the sociopathic CEO. Smartest guy in the room, knows better than all the trained, experienced engineers who urged caution. Too bad his passengers listened to him.

No, he doesn't sounds sociopathic at all. People who "know better" than all the specialists aren't showing a sociopathic personality trait at all. Arrogance and stupidity, perhaps, but those aren't equated with sociopathy.

A sociopathic CEO would be someone who has no empathy. There's no evidence of that here, in fact probably the opposite. Stockton was just a fool.

Seriously, people need to stop using the "sociopathic" label for everyone they don't like.

Edit: to add to this, this reminds me of young people constantly using the word "gaslighting" when they really mean "lying". People who lie to you aren't engaging in an elaborate plan to make you question your own sanity; they're just liars. Please go watch the movie before ever using the term again.
Henry "America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests" Kissinger would disagree.

(I'm willing to bet that in a decade the US will still consider their interests to be closer to the Athenians at Melos than to JFK being summoned by the trumpet. In particular, I'll bet that the US will remain interested in carrier strike groups, and remain uninterested in having either universal health care or skilled labour)
The sample code reminds me of PHP and Perl CGIs from 1999 where concerns are jumbled together. For a tiny hobby site that does one thing, sure, it's fine but for scalable, maintainable patterns there must be order, separation of looser concerns, and layering.
>* Claiming it's predictive text engine that isn't useful for anything

This one is very common on HN and it's baffling. Even if it's predictive text, who the hell cares if it achieves its goals? If an LLM is actually a bunch of dolphins typing on a keyboard made for dolphins, I could care less if it does what I need it to do. For people who continue to repeat this on HN, why? I just want to know out of my curiosity.

>* AI will never be able to [some pretty achievable task]

Also very common on HN.

You forgot the "AI will never be able to do what a human can do in the exact way a human does it so AI will never achieve x".
I’ve witnessed a room full of half as smart people trying to get a project done many times. They’ll take 10 months setting meetings and talking in circles, because no one knows enough to actually get started.

Generally, there needs to be at least one lone wolf (or someone who wishes they were a lone wolf) who reads the manual and starts building the thing. At least then everyone else has something to talk about and the discussions can start to have some real direction to helping shape what comes next after the base is laid down.

While it’s great if this person has people skills, it isn’t always the case. Either way, the person is needed. I think somewhere around 1 in 5 people on a team need to have some of that in them. They make the seismic changes, and the others are around to support and maintain.

Problems arise when the person in question can’t back up their big talk with getting things done, and their personality isn’t just a quirk worth dealing with, but an obstacle that drags the whole team down. I’ve experienced this as well and it wasn’t fun.
That is ridiculous. The idea that you can go after someone’s possessions to avoid due process is bonkers. The whole idea of civil forfeiture is archaic and should be inconceivable in a country presumably ruled by law, with its completely arbitrary character and unaccountable enforcers.
You can't afford to send a wrong command and have the luxury of undo.

Indeed. We used to do this all the time. Cars without OTA updates, games and software shipped on disk or floppy or cd, all very make or break.
Meanwhile las vegas metro PD is happy to take anything they can get. The last year they reported seizures there were a few under $1.
It makes sense because regulatory capture has become such a large part of how dominant American firms maintain their position. They don't maintain it through talent. They maintain it by breaking the law. Google's now been found guilty of antitrust violations in two markets and a case about a third just kicked off. And of course this is not just in tech, take a look at the cases against the Kroger/Albertson's merger or Ticketmaster.

The Biden administration is basically the first one to take these violations of antitrust law seriously since Carter.
Probably? I don't think masscons are big enough of an influence, but what timescales are you talking about?
JK's a prolific micro-blogger. I'm not sure her tweet engagements have surpassed her book sales yet but sure feels like we'll get there at some point.
(Because the diagram gives a better TLDR than than the hexagonal equivalent diagram, IMO)
I’ve had a skim through bits. It look good and thorough for ML Engineer / Data Engineer stuff.

Definitely recommend checking it out yourself, even if it’s only to bookmark for sending onto others as a reference manual.

> And fortunately whenever actual math and code show up, the AI maximalist/doomer blabbermouths tend to stay away.

When I see something mentioning machine learning + engineering, I’m interested.

When I see AI mentioned I automatically discount it as marketing fluff.

It’s worked well as a filter for almost 10 years now (the last hype cycle).
The point of K-9 units is to manufacture probable cause. Yes they can “smell” the cash if the handler wants them to.
What books did you write? And what do you mean by "analog publishing?"
You didn't sit on the little shelf for bagging when no one was looking? Lol
Reminds me of the HoloTile omnidirectional treadmill floor developed by Lanny Smoot at Disney Imagineering.

[1]: https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/lanny-smoot-to-be-the-first...
In the US you can sue anybody for anything. If its not completely and absolutely spurios it will get at least a hearing.
vomit.

if you're going to do that, launching your own SaaS product is better
How well does it work? With Sequoia I've been thinking of going MacPorts a go over Homebrew, haven't used it in about a decade.
I had the fun of briefly checking yesterday that the long-forgotten Vagrant packaging for 13.4-RELEASE still works.

It does! And FreeBSD is a real fun, calm little playground for those of us who spend most of our lives on Linux. I'd recommend people try it out if for no other reason than just to see how things could be done otherwise, and to get a chance to read Michael W. Lucas's stellar books on the topic.
> While I can push back, I can’t always outright say no, unfortunately.

That sounds rough! It's extremely hard to outright say no when you are not the decision maker.

> Sometimes they go above my head

I am all too familiar with it from my days working in corporate environment. It's frustrating.

> He is the hero of the day, but maintenance has become a nightmare

100% with you there! It's like taking a loan to pay back your loan. Eventually, it's going to catch up.

Kudos to you for putting up a fight and making things to work. It's easy to follow the norm but hard to cut against the grain. Cheers to the rebel in you!
It sounds like you are training multiple low rank adapters?
US strategy for anti-ship weapons to counter China: plentiful, mobile, deadly
Cannot find the story now but there was situation where they sentenced woman for drug possession ONLY because dog indicated so, but they found no drugs on her or in her car.
Don't forget about the satellite companies and that one missile company and the one with the orbital drop pods and their entire subbatch of biotech startups (biotech is famously capital intensive).
France uses tough, untested cybercrime law to target Telegram's Durov
I always find it amusing, reading comments from all these people who claim to be more productive working from home, or think that it works better. It proves they work in silos and contribute little.

But HN is like “no WFH good, WFO bad, me downvote you cos I fink I know wat I talk bout”
Drivers more likely to be distracted while using partial automation tech
Free entertainment is great. it prevents additional resource extraction from the environment and allows acceptance of relative masspoverty (compared to our parents ). panem and circensis indeed.
The Supreme Court usually sides with the cops. The current majority is pretty deferential to the police in matters like this.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-585_k5fm.pdf
Kurzgesagt has a good video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71eUes30gwc
Of course this is true, YC is a sweatshop explotation model which works on finding winning lottery tickets through a "million monkeys" method. They can't afford to give anyone much money, they spread their bets thin. That's why they fund anyone with a pulse, and most of these founders will end up trashing their careers on failure.
What do you think about these remote CEOs/executives (like the new CEO of Starbucks or Elon)? Do they contribute little too?
A number of people do not care enough for things getting better. The OS they are running is fine, it solves their problems and does not have gaping holes. But they do care a lot about things getting worse: something breaking during the upgrade, something degrading or becoming incompatible, and requiring more work just to get to the previous position. So an upgrade has basically no upside and a significant possible downside.

I'd say that you either live in a rolling mode, when you spread small-scale fixing and adaptation efforts over a long time, or you stick to a particular release and only apply security updates, and never upgrade, but instead build your new iteration from scratch using new versions of everything.
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This literally just happened and now I’m posting a weak comment on HN at 2:19am.
It sounds more like being fired with cause?
It probably bothers anyone that has a physics or music background.
> but then do you seem like a creep if you try to inveigle yourself in with them?

who cares, you would not see everyone every week

a lot of guys have the same anxiety, sometimes leaving the field wide open
> (...) but this does seem to be intended to sway voters.

I don't know what point you tried to make. All discussions comparing candidates are intended to contribute to the decision-making processes followed by voters. What exactly do you think takes place in an election?

I mean,the article leads with this observation:

> Kamala Harris has plans to improve health, boost the economy and mitigate climate change. Donald Trump has threats and a dangerous record

If you're deciding who to vote for, you're still undecided and those values are important to you personally, don't you think this information is decisive?
they really did? where could I read about this.

I prefer to stay with addon

Edit: I see it, this is in their newest blog post
Oh, I’m yet to find a good alternative to Cursor’s RAG-powered side chat. It helps me work with huge codebases so much. Tried Continue, but it’s very unstable, and doesn’t work as well. Would prefer a command line solution, vscode plugin is the next choice, having a separate editor is not ideal, but I’m glad there’s some competition.
Wow, look at the number of comments. Lots of entitlement around here. We have a saying around here, "give them a finger, and they will demand your whole hand." Fascinating how a single precedence case can raise expectations through the roof. The office will not go away, no matter how much the priviledge people rant.
Speaking of jargon, what does "on main" mean ?

EDIT : This is the issue with «write like you talk / being too 'cute'» : with too much slang you're losing part of your target audience, especially as the blogpost gets older !

Other problematic examples in there that I got, but barely : «top text bottom text» (though thankfully solved by the author following their own advice about multimedia examples), and «galaxy brained».

(Great advice otherwise.)
So given infinite time and resources it can solve any problem? Hardly groundbreaking is it.
Larger, sure, but it's not obvious to me the resources would be better spent on labor law violations than on egregious forfeitures? They're both pretty piecemeal, small-dollar fights that in aggregate take billions of dollars each out of people's pockets.

Mostly I was shocked/amused at the juxtaposition of apparent opinions. "Cops are abusing people? Well what about about the employers abusing people?" is just a weird stance to take?
Qualcomm have designed their own CPU cores for some years, but their design capacity could not keep up with the Arm company, so, exactly like Samsung and NVIDIA, they have given up and they have started to use the CPU cores designed by the Arm company, already for many years.

Only now, after buying the Nuvia CPU design team, they have begun to use again their own CPU core designs, first in the laptops introduced a few months ago and then presumably also in the smartphones of next year.

While many companies have designed Arm cores, only Apple has consistently outperformed the Arm company and now Qualcomm might have a chance to do that, with a team that includes many former Apple designers.

The server Arm cores that have been demonstrated until now by the Ampere company are not impressive, being weaker than the Arm-designed cores used by Amazon or Microsoft.
People have different work preferences; some thrive working from home, while others do better in the office. I think the strong opinions about mandated office days stem from the fact that the job doesn’t necessarily require employees to be physically present.
Curricula lags the industry by lots of years; in the early aughts concatenated SQL queries were the norm for database APIs, but prepared statements have been the default (or at least easily afforded in the default) for most APIs for a pretty long time now.
In most cities CrossFit is a really good, supportive community. I know a few dudes whose entire social circle is built around CrossFit.
The YC deal documents are famously public, right? You don't need "insider information" on them.

This is pretty basic stuff. YC has blog posts about >1x preferences being a "dirty" term (as in, not a market term).
What a well written reverse engineering project :)
> But over the course of centuries, the opposite was more common.

I believe capital investor like parents invest in the shorter term.
It seems this is fixed:

https://x.com/lemire/status/1835703765191573740
I joined a company in late 2020 that had gone remote at the start of the pandemic, and this crossed my mind.
The deciding factor for me? The founders had since moved to different locations across the US. That put their money where their mouth was more than anything.
Hi OP I hope you figure this out. As most folks are saying if you’re a talented Amazon engineer basically you’ll have the “pick of the litter”, companies should be fawning over you. I think you’ll be fine finding new work be it at Microsoft or Google or at a bank like JPMorgan or a startup. Of course be sure they do fully remote before applying or during the process but I think you’ll be fine. You’re a SDE3 at Amazon!

Pivoting to an unrelated thing: do you know the PM for Redshift? I don’t want to shit on the team but Redshift compared to BigQuery or Snowflake sucks.

It’s missing features both at the SQL level and the developer UX level. For example the amount of hoops one has to go through to create an external table against S3 of parquet files is far more involved and annoying than say defining one against GCS on BigQuery.

I’ve tried engaging in conversation with Amazon people on LinkedIn or otherwise to no avail.

I just want to know what the roadmap holds and if there will be more efforts to bring it to parity with its main competitors.

I figured it was a long shot to ask but considering you’re a DB focused dev I thought I’d try.
They announced it with their new round

https://x.com/SupermavenAI/status/1835743882971426837
We're approaching LLM prompt evaluation at QA.tech
Waterfall has feedback in it. You got to zoom in on the development V-charts to see it ;)
That's interesting actually, I didn't know they even had a community edition but as I am reading anyway it seem it supports only Android, Swing, and JavaFX. That's quite a limitation no?
You have, in some countries, the legal right "to request" work from home under laws typically aimed at flexible working. But that's it.

A company can, for any reasonable reason, decline the request.
> demonstrably a better person currently

Yeah, but thats the point. How should I know. Its a matter of trust. If you have made decisions like that in the past, why should I trust you to have changed? People are deceptive. Better avoid the drama altogether.
But are there any platforms that help with managing the payouts and tracking these events? That's the daunting part that I don't want to do manual accounting on every month...
PRC population of skilled talent (ones driving innovation) is exploding even if net population decreasing. Last ~20 years of aggregate new births ~200m, at current rate of tertiary enrollment (60%) and talent generation which bias STEM/technical, will be adding ~120m tertiary talent, who'll be in the workforce to 2040s-80s and beyond. About ~40M STEM, around current US STEM total, and estimated US pop increase by 2040s. AKA US can keep pace if EVERY new birth and every immigrant coming to US somehow end up STEM by 2040s. Charitably US is gaining skilled talent at 25% rate of PRC (education + immigration). That's not mentioning some % of remainder 80m new PRC tertiary are still going to be doing some sort of technical work, just not STEM credentialled. It's not an exaggeration to suggest in next 20-60 years, PRC is going to benefit from the largest HIGH SKILLED demographic divident in recorded history.

Meanwhile most of PRC population loss will disproportionately be low skilled, old unproductive cohorts (farmers/informal workers who never had chance for tertiary or even secondary education). One way to contexualize that ~400m loss in population by 2100 is that there are ~400m extremely unproductive low income farmers (by design as jobs program) who can be replaced by 40m skilled farmers using machinery. Of course losing 400m of consumption hurts, but buttom 40% of PRC GDP is like 700B... around 3% of total GDP. 40% (really ~60%) of PRC is EXTREMELY unproductive, and will remain so by virtue of being left behind by modernization and too old to be retrained. If 120m new skilled workers makes more than ~6000 USD per year, or ~50% of current per capita, then productivity wise, that cohort would have broken even. The transition to 2100 is present PRC with ~4x more people than US but with near parity in skilled talent to a PRC with 2x more people than US and 2x-3x more skilled talent.

E: Ultimately, it's about ability for talent to innovate / capture market share / reconfigure global trade patterns for high end goods. IMO total population will be less useful indicator for predicting GDP (especially nominal) / productivity since they're down stream over big levers like FX / reserve status that's dependant on ability to control / influence critical tech.
Unsloth have a bunch of notebooks that actually tune LLMs on the free Colab tier.

https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth
I've never understood it when I meet men who only have male friends. I understand people are the product of their environments, how they grow up, etc. - but so many of the comments sibling to this one just confuse the hell out of me. Many of my closest friends are also male (I'd say it's close to 50-50...), and none of them have feelings, either. Do these commenters also think gay men have solely female friends, and that non-binary people all live in remote caves, isolated from each other the same as with cisgendered folk?
> At some point it's dangerous and immoral to stay neutral, particularly for those dealing with hard facts and science.

Relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
One of their linked articles is also about being unable to open a tesla from the outside (also with a child trapped inside) because the battery died. Not to mention the articles when someone dies because they couldn't get the door open after a crash.

It's just mind boggling to me how this problem came to exist at all. It just seems insane to me that basic safety features like door handles need passengers to be briefed (if they can actually open the doors by themselves which these kids - or unconscious people - couldn't), or whatever happened here and the other article where the battery was dead and they couldn't open it from the outside. Tesla has got me wondering all sorts of things like 'do we need to legislate functional door handles on cars?' (...or perhaps legislating that wipers, headlights, hazard lights, and other critical safety equipment must have physical controls and not be primarily touch screen controlled).

For me it's simple; I will never get in a tesla, no legislation needed. I just don't think people should need safety briefings, manuals, software, or power to be able to open car doors, call me old fashioned.
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MS is hardly remote. Lots of people being asked to come back. Just not a blanket statement like Amazon.
I'm sorry...

https://franzelio.franzai.com/?share=eyJsaW5lcyI6W3sieDEiOjA...
"this book fills a much needed gap in the literature."