skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those creators are still making orders of magnitude less money than people who make zero content attention grabbing controversy meme slop videos.

Off the top of my head, Gamers Nexus is a counterpoint. Obviously not Mr Beast-scale, but we're also looking at a huge difference in target demographic breadth.

Besides, is YouTube any worse in this regard than what came before it? Substance-free reality TV predates YouTube. For as long as cheap printing and mail services have been around, artists have had strong incentive to go design ads rather than pursue their art independently.

YouTube definitely has a race to the bottom going on, but it's not all-consuming and well-researched, high-quality material is still profitable for creators as long as you know how to play the thumbnail game.
Solving a decidable problem is a large subset of reasoning tasks. Counting is also a critical reasoning task, since it requires you to both understand natural numbers and the concept of distinct instances of objects belonging to a general category.

Two centuries ago there were no computers, everything had to be done by humans. Get to that level first before you whip out code.
People can resist it! Violet shift!
You can use AI to do that.
Sounds like a recipe for trust.
I lasted about 10 seconds before I gave into the irresistible urge to read the comments about this on HN.
> "It tagged a few of your terms as important based on its training data, then did a weighted search for words to respond, then as it built the response, continued applying importance-weighting to its “own words” as it did further searches, to avoid writing gibberish or going off some weird direction."

what specifically would you or I do different, apart from having less training data?

> "There’s no “understanding”, nor anything particularly close to it"

any evidence for this claim? It explained, it responded in context to a followup question, it gave other relevant examples, by what measure does it "not understand" but I "do understand"?
iOS 18 Now Offers Financing via Affirm After 'Apple Pay Later' Discontinued
Let's fact check that final comment:

"I Built 100 Houses And Gave Them Away!" 127M views, mentions Jamaica 45 seconds in: https://youtu.be/KkCXLABwHP0?si=3oMfNy0iAGVrTwqo&t=45

"I Built 100 Wells In Africa" 202M views, mentions Kenya 12 seconds in:
https://youtu.be/mwKJfNYwvm8?si=qYc8jZWsYXwF1qrm&t=11

"We Powered a Village in Africa" 26M views (different channel), mentions Kenya 12 seconds in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FQvRZg3bcg
Even if that was the intent, which it almost certainly isn't, why would it be strange enough to warrant discussion?
AMD's Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines
When JavaScript was introduced, Java was already gaining traction, and the name JavaScript was chosen to ride on the coattails of that popularity. From that perspective, there’s a pretty good argument in favor of whoever holds the Java trademark, which happens to be Oracle.

I have definitely run into people who say things like “they wrote a Java script”, which actually turned out to be a Java program.
Please log off hacker news and get back to work.
He can afford the top-shelf blood boys
Ask HN: Web page instead of pitch deck?
I'm curious to hear if anyone has decided to build a nice looking web page instead of a pitch deck for their startup?

I'm looking to raise my first round and the traditional PowerPoint pitch deck seems so outdated and boring. I'd love to create a nice, landing-page like web page to send to investors, but not sure if it's a good use of time if they're all going to end up asking for a PowerPoint anyway.
> Amazon is truly the arm pit of software engineering careers. One can only hope this hastens their demise.

The only thing that will hasten their demise is if the government rips them a new one (which this Amazon shareholder says it should). Otherwise, absent some black swan, their demise will be slow and measured in literal generations.
Sadly Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Julia, OCaml, F# and Haskell jobs are quite scarce.

For example, right now, I can only see ~50 LinkedIn EU Clojure ads. A dozen more mention Clojure but it does not seem to be the main focus of the job.

Would love to be proven wrong, though. Perhaps these jobs are sometimes not advertised via LinkedIn.
NY Times Big Reveals on Deliberations in Three Trump Cases
I actually think that's generally true. But a lot of workers are distributed anyway. And, with the pandemic, a lot of additional people became even more distributed and many CEOs ended up shrugging their shoulders about a great deal of co-located work being gone for good even if they didn't really like it. That's more or less what happened where I used to work.

Past some point, what are you going to do? Fire half+ of your workforce?
Frankly, I’d rather do Everything at zombo.com
> In the end, it's not the process you follow, it's the results that matter.

I was nodding along with this post up until this last sentence.

Yes, the results are what matter, but process is what drives the results. It is thus critical to the success of a project to ensure that the process is appropriate.

For example, the entire purpose of agile is to have short iteration cycles where you deliver to customers and get feedback before starting the next cycle. If you have a product where you cannot get feedback, agile is a bad solution! You will deliver every two weeks - and then continue to do what you would have done anyway. That makes all the agile ceremonies quite the waste of time.

Conversely, if you ARE getting feedback regularly it's insane to do waterfall when you're two weeks into a 6 month project, and the customer doesn't like what you're showing them.

This can get a lot more detailed at the micro-level for managing process on teams - there are tradeoffs between developer happiness, speed, quality, visibility, and many other axes that process can adjust, and a team that is set up with good process will be set up to execute better than one that isn't.

I tend to be someone that is perceived to "hate process", but I don't, I hate bad process that is counterproductive to execution and achieving results.
In French, we call it "Le cycle en V" and we think it's beautiful.
What's the reasoning here? Housewives and househusbands gossiping at the quilting bee?
> The only gripe I have with Rust's unsafe is that I can't mark methods with preconditions as unsafe while still requiring `unsafe` clauses within the function body.

This is being fixed in the 2024 edition. Or now, with `#[warn(unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn)]`.
Which LP would this policy most align to? and is there an LP that can enforce the 996?
I’m kind of worried about something like this where it backfires. Not sure it would be the therapist’s fault but in terms of an “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. The nagging curiosity of wanting to unpack my baggage is so insanely small. I am mostly fine and don’t dwell on it much at all. As I’m beginning to think it would be nice to verbalize the past a bit and how that’s made me who I am, I’m also not necessarily looking for change and it seems overwhelmingly risky that opening the bottle may actually cause me to get depressed or somehow interfere with the good in my present life. For that reason I’ve held off. It’s still a curiosity of mine, it’s also probably going to take hundreds of hours to fully unpack so it’s a little expensive too.
If you're not joking right now, then I don't think you understand the point of English class or perhaps even education as a whole.
Well, that certainly proves my point.

Apple and Microsoft made a fortune by stealing code and branding it as their own. Later on, both of them targeted a specific segment of users. Apple now consists of its own ecosystem, and they know that once a person gets an apple product, 99% chance he will get another one.. it makes use of psychology. Whereas microsoft simply catered to youths (gaming, and shiny things things) and businesses willing to pay for an unexisting customer support..

I am a computer scientist, and I say this: whatever universities teach you about code, microsoft does the exact opposite. Whatever you think it's normal, right, you deduce it from your teachings, it's always the opposite on their side. Windows is catered to idiots, easy to fool: because after all, how much salesmanship do you need if you have shiny thing to sell? And how much do you need if you sell the intelligent people? Do you see?

NVIDIA followed the game industry and produced over-priced crap, applied handicap to their own devices so as to force people to buy newer models.. And hindered linux progress for decades. Developers of nix what nothing nothing to do with nvidia. And that's not changed - if they change, their revenues drop? Why? Because being fair equals no money..

Amazon uses tactics to lure customers. Once you understand how business work, everything is just so transparent..

All of these share the same principle: beautiful surface, barren and dead beneath it.

Let's take an example: if Microsoft would have been honest, do you think they would be were they are now?
It is a common trick. There are many culprits using same tricks: Gardenscape, Whiteout Survival, Frozen City, Township, Fishdom, Hero Wars and to some extent Royal Match.

All of these appear to enjoy a lot of downloads, so whatever tricks they are using works very effectively.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558554.
I've worked full time remote for over a decade, with most of that as an IC but several years in management as well. It really depends on who the teammates are in the quote. You can definitely get more focus work done in a quiet environment free from distractions, such as at home. But that comes at a pretty big sacrifice for the type of collaboration that higher level ICs (Staff+) and managers often, but not always, need to do.

Think things like quarterly and annual planning, or getting a group of cross-team engineers together for a day or a week with a whiteboard to design a new system or major improvements. Miro exists for virtual whiteboarding, and I successfully use it all the time, but for big planning I would much rather do that in person.

If you move further up the chain to the level of VPs and Execs, their entire job basically consists of attending meetings to solve problems other people can't. For them, they probably would heavily prefer working in person.

My preference is working at home with quarterly week-long trips to the office -- it's historically the best for me and I'd recommend it to anyone wherever possible.
Music to my ears, thanks!
Tell me you've never used Chime without telling me you've never used Chime.
1st Prediction: the rest of FAANG will quick-follow.

2nd Prediction: the rest of industry will not quick follow, unless they are in the same pay-range
That makes me appreciate that in Vancouver we have Weatherhood, which is free to use.
I understand that polyglot means at least three languages most commonly, but I’m bilingual and haven’t experienced this effect. Would it come with my third language?
Genuine question for the folks over at Amazon:
What is the value of working at Amazon (or even just AWS) these days? Every now and then I get a ring from a recruiter gauging my interest and sometimes I get the itch to just to go through the process so that I can have a FAANG in my resume.

I've heard from others that Amazon could be an amazing place to work, citing fantastic colleagues and work opportunities. But then again, Amazon doesn't claim monopoly on those and one has to assume the risk of working for a place that churns people out and has upper-level management that are hostile to IC's needs/wants.

Perhaps a better question is - if one can get an offer at other FAANGs and the equivalents... is there a reason to choose Amazon over others?
> Medical apps are allowed, but there's a higher bar for evidence.

Except when you are Apple. /s
I cant tell if you're making fun of or trying to justify scrum masters
Most older DMMs. Modern ones synthesize a steady or intermittent tone in response to steady continuity. Older ones just use an instantaneous voltage threshold, which is much better for diagnosing an intermittent connection than the newer style, where the tone generator inadvertently does so much time averaging as to be useless outside steady state.

I keep a 30-year-old Triplett around more or less just for this reason. My Fluke from 2019 is much better at everything else, but...
I'm looking for a plain-text solution that also knows about inventory (counts, FIFO, dollar cost averaging) along with invoices/POs (AP/AR.)

Also, I wish they would use words like "debit" and "credit" instead of trying to hide this under +/- notation. It makes translating from real financial documents or scenarios into plain-text reports somewhat painful because we're not speaking the same language.
Do you think they have metrics showing the opposite? or just nobody even wants to look into it since leadership wants it badly?
Followup sucks in most part of the world, unfortunately, which leads to awful compliance.

Best thing to do is install Oscar [1], take screenshots of your data, and post it to Apnea Board [2]. The folks there will likely be able to offer some solid advice.

Without knowing anything about you or your data, all of this speculation, but: APAP sucks, it is always too slow to respond, it won't know to increase the pressure until after you needed more pressure. This is especially true for wide ranges which are often the default (like 5-20cm). If you need 15cm, it will take forever to get there, because you'll start at 5, start to drift off, get an apnea, the machine will increase the pressure, you'll wake up ever so slightly from the apnea, the machine will decrease the pressure because now you're breathing fine, and the cycle will continue.

[1] https://www.sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/
[2] https://www.apneaboard.com/forums/
Because your airpods and OTC hearing aids are using about half the number of microphones and speakers, with half the quality, and with an amplifier with about half the cost and quality as well. Airpods actualy do a little better than the 'OTC Costco' type amplifiers.

The lower quality amplifier means worse ability to tune, which trickles down to the other products.

The markup is probably closer to 300% which is no more egregious than Apple in this case (probably less tbh given their $2,000 wheels and $2,000 ram) -- with REAL hearing aids costing about $350-700 to manufacture for the more entry level 'real ones', which can go up as those components increase in quality.

Note the source you used also going back to early pandemic times, before the world experienced 30-40% inflation on everything. AND it's quoting a 2015 report. This is USELESS in terms of evaluating a comparison today.

NO ONE has tried to say Apple shouldn't be able to offer these products -- I have enthusiastically supported all of the developments assuming the consumer is fully informed. This is not happening, by design.

And then you have people like you with complete blinders on pretending its 'A or B' when its really 'A-Z'.

There is nothing wrong with critiquing the WAY a change happened, especially given all the other 'definition' changes we have been subjected to forcefully by the media and the state the last 5-7 years.

Go ahead and buy use 'acceptable' hearing assistance devices with apple, from costco, or wherever you feel like you are getting a bargain on your physical and mental health.

It's doing a huge dis-service to those who actually want a rock-solid product and to avoid succumbing to dementia because they can't hear anymore because they just kept jacking up the volume on their apple "hearing aids" (lol).

Anyway I'm done here because you have tunnel vision and are only latching onto shit to argue about instaed of the whole message. Enjoy your hearing-loss-induced dementia!
Google flights lists legroom for most flights. Although it doesn't seem like you can filter on legroom.
Ha. That’s funny. I had a friend go work there years ago. He came back because they worked him like a dog.
I'm reading Ansible for devops (imperative, isn't it) but find declarative configuration management intriguing also. On paper NixOS premise is wow, super. But some random blogging say that not so much in real life. How's adoption/hurdles, in the field?
It's good for people to change their mind in response to data.
>you don't have to learn any DSLs, unlike bash, zsh, and the like.

I'm not sure I follow. Surely you need to learn PowerShell. What other DSL do you need to learn to use bash?

If you mean, for example, grep syntax: primary use case of a shell is running shell commands, you need to know regex to search using PowerShell too.

I agree that powershell is a better programming language than bash, but I don't really write programs in bash (or fish, which I primarily use). And for serious scripts I prefer Python anyway

>Also, unlike bash, you can use the output of commands like ls directly without worrying that some characters might break your code,

Actually, unlike bash, you can't use the output of arbitrary command. In bash, everything is a text that you can prices generically, grep, less, tail, etc. Unlike in powershell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm4LYX3xdkU
They really announced that? They really have no self-awareness, or they've decided to fully embrace this whole double speak thing. Why not even both.
I went through a round of layoffs last year from a company doing this. But not only do they still have multiple cross-continent HQs (so now they just have multiple "local" teams!), they're also struggling to re-fill some of the roles they cut. Turns out it's easier to source people with certain niche talents when you don't limit yourself to one or two metro areas.
TBH for the GUI work I do, Flutter has been fantastic. Really great developer experience with hot reload and hot restart even on Linux. It’s a great technology and I think more people should give it a try
There are 3 license:
1. GPL
2. Royalty-free (free of charge for desktop)
3. Paid license (which we hope is less constraining than the Qt commercial one)
Please don't recommend sleeping pills to people who have sleep apnea. They can make apneas worse.
I agree It is time to let JavaScript go

I do not mean the trademark
The File Struct Is Smaller in Linux 6.12 – May Help File Heavy Workloads
the amount of effort going into people either:

- straightup forgetting to free shit
- writing horrible to read code making it impossible to do cleanup or track allocations

why try to make c into c++ or rust? those languages already exist.
Actually that is how it works in many companies in Germany. It has its benefits and drawbacks, like every system ;)
Does this still run in Azure? I can’t imaging wanting to use such a system with that caveat.
> Nobody is forcing you to work for Mr Beast

No, being unemployed is the coercive factor here. It's not fair to treat at-will employment as non-coercive unless non-employment is actually zero. Non-employment currently stands at about 7.7%: https://www.richmondfed.org/research/national_economy/non_em...

Why would anyone turn down a chance to make a living if a job is offered? Why do you think the fed ensures that there are never enough jobs for everyone? Why do you think the fed and the business world talks about the economy in terms of "jobs" and "unemployment" when these are metrics largely unrelated to stuff like "am I actually getting a fair wage" and "is housing priced anywhere near rationally"? etc—the non-coercive labor market is a complete illusion.
> It's going to be great. Bring in people for "in person collaboration" only to have all of them talk to each other on Zoom because every single team is distributed.

It just goes to show how executives are either are stupid, think everyone else is stupid, or most likely some combination of both.

People aren't stupid, and they can see blatant contradictions like that.

> It is that way because the same set of leaders pushing for RTO, hired people all over the world when remote work took off.

Oh, they started before that. I haven't had a real in-person meeting since maybe 2016. It's always something like Zoom, because there's always at least one guy located at another size (and probably in an awkward time zone to boot).
Money, but that has diminishing value. The quality of life I would lose by going into the office 5 days a week is too high.
I liked making gears. The pay and commute sucked, but it was rewarding knowing that things I helped make would long outlast me. For me, I knew that if I could just hold on until I got social security, all would be well. I'd have lots of time to relax, and not have to worry about money any more.

Then I got long Covid, and was ripped out of the work force in 2020, at 56 years old.

It's no fun having nothing to do, and no purpose. The resonant idea for me from the article is to find your joy outside of work now, while you still have the time to explore the possibilities.

All those things that are totally fun for a weekend off are not sustainable for long term happiness. It's like ice cream... great stuff when you're a kid, and it's a treat... and just ok when you're an adult and could eat it exclusively.

I wish I had engrossing hobbies that could fill my days. I've watched everything interesting on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and YouTube. I played Universal Paperclips through 100 times in a row. I've spent thousands of hours in Factorio. I swore off Reddit when they sold out... so now it's here, twitter, facebook and youtube to occupy my days.

Get out now, find your passions that have nothing to do with work! Don't expect to find them magically when you retire.
It doesn't take care of the errors. They still "accumulate" over time, leading to the same divergence that traditional physics-based weather models experience. In fact, the hallmark that these AI models are _doing things right_ is they show realistic modes of error growth when compared with those physics-based models - and there is already early peer-reviewed literature suggesting this is the case.

This _class_ of models (not Aurora, or Silurian's model specifically) can potentially improve on this a bit by incorporating forecast error at longer lead times in their core training loss. This is already done in practice for some major models like GraphCast and Stormer. But these models are almost certainly not a magical silver bullet for 10x'ing forecast accuracy.
Reducing the number of managers is an interesting decision. I briefly worked at Amazon, and the only way for managers to get promoted is by hiring more people under them. There isn’t any other way to get promoted, which incentivizes managers to grow their teams and sometimes add features that may not make sense. Any opinions from ex-Amazonians?
Also any machine learning use cases! There’s a big caveat with uv where they merge your Pipfile and pip installations. For example if you do
uv add flask (this is added to pipfile)
but then you need to add PyTorch with custom indexes (because most ML libraries distribute driver specific versions) and you do
uv pip install PyTorch —-index-url
what you end up with is a pipfile.lock that merges the two. uv won’t automatically add your dependency to the Pipfile.

https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/
I was surprised: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09363

It's not exactly an LLM but it works in a similar fashion.