skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be a small bit of truth in each claim, but they are mostly false.

> LLMs and Agents are not automating SWE, but they are changing it.

LLMs are maybe a slightly larger threat to SWE careers than the ability to copy/paste code from stack overflow.

> Interviews have become nightmares

Interviews if anything have gotten slightly better. Companies stopped asking riddles like, “how many windows are in Seattle”.

> A lot of SWE work is objectively make-work, and a lot of startups are building fluff or things that are net negative to society.

This has been the case for a long long time.

> Beyond this, the supply for SWEs vs the demand is clearly imbalanced on the supply side.

Tech salaries say otherwise. They don’t pay 3-4x the average household income out of kindness.

> Is SWE a sustainable career anymore?

Definitely, though it depends on your definition of sustainable.

If you want a remote position, 30 hour work week, and a $200k+ salary maybe not.

But lots of people will continue to earn a good amount in an overall cushy job as SWEs for the foreseeable future.
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It cuts both ways… you need to believe that most humans aren’t actually intelligent as we don’t have any data that suggests that most humans aren’t.
My only concern is that none of his work is being picked up by Rails. As a matter of fact, it isn't just SW's work, the whole async story on ruby, it seems neither Fiber or Ractor has reached any mass adoption.
I'm not saying GitLab is poorly designed, but a poorly designed website will be slow on the fastest of languages or frameworks. It's not necessarily a Rails or Ruby problem here.
Metasploit and homebrew also come to mind

EDIT: also cocoapods
The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater

(so hard to pick just one, and I may be affected by recency bias, but that's my finalist right now)
Type defaults are a nice addition, they were something I lacked a lot back when I was still writing Python code.

The new interpreter is nice, but I wish they had incorporated the display of variable values in the traceback (similarly to ipython's xmode attribute, or to traceback-with-variables), this is something I've always missed in Python.
While this bug has been around longer than merely since 3.10, I am betting this is the one, based on the description of the issue:

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/84904

(Don't let the associates with asyncio throw you: that was merely the code in which it was first found; later code transcends it.)
Well, the smart tyrants are certainly making productive use of StarLink, to be sure.
I think you misunderstood the Australian slang. That person was not referring to the XKCD concept. They were referring to another meaning of the word "root."
Or, consider using Wikimedia Commons, where images are painstakingly categorized, documented, and freely licensed:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pavo_cristatus_(...
I'm not super-stoked about the idea of building SPAs on top of htmx, but what I have found works incredibly well is to build a traditional MPA (SSR etc), embed islands of interactivity where needed, and where something fancier is really necessary, embed a React or Svelte app into just that one portion of a single page.
Meth addicts are often very thin as well. /s
I didn’t know it at the time but Walden by Henry David Thoreau. I read it in high school and didn’t think it meant much to me. I’ve been rereading it recently and realized a lot of insights and observations it has on living a simpler life are core beliefs I follow. It’s funny reading it again and discovering how great of an impact it had when I originally read it to write a paper for a high school English class.
New assessment suggests Anthropocene started in the 1950s
>Not because I remember anything about it, or believe anything it espouses, or even like it all that much, but because it's a useful filter for obnoxious people in meatspace.

Nietzche fills this role for me. Thinking he was right is a big red flag. But not knowing of him makes your opinions on philosophy meaningless.
So now the question is, why didn't it get traction in over a decade?

Not excluding the possibility of an "hidden gem" here, and people in embedded tend to be conservative, but to be honest "professional" and "easy" in the same sentence looks a bit suspicious to me.
Have you been able to find safety statistics for pedestrian collisions? I tried looking them up, but was unable to find any.

Naive comparisons like "the hood is lower" are not enough to make this kind of statement, as the remaining differences (sharp angles and a very different material) are too large to make this determination without actual testing.
This author is by far my favorite. Everything he wrote was amazing and made me think so deeply about things.

I recommend Dragons of Eden especially because it sheds light on how fabric of our culture is woven by old thoughts that are recycled in interesting ways. The Demon Haunted World does a good job at explaining how we have to escape magical thinking and be more rational about how we approach life.
True, but why pay for the obsolete tech in the first place? A simple amplified speaker system and slot for a tablet would cost a lot less and avoid much of the obsolescence one faces with cars. Oops, the obsolescence is a key part of the profitability of automakers.

Wait, the "big 3" should have gone under in 2008, likely bought up for scraps by Toyota, etc.

Even Tesla is propped up by 100% tariffs on competition.

We have no American innovation or reason these companies should even exist. This is not capitalism. It's a big wealth transfer to the incompetent, a giant corporate welfare project we should all be ashamed of.
> Where is the investment into a real smart phone that protects your privacy.

I'm just guessing it just doesn't make financial sense to develop one.
Lol, I understand Fifo (well the concept) I had an IT career for 20 years, although I was never an expert at much. In theory, if ordering were coordinated better, we wouldn't have test that spent 80%+ of their useful life dying in a warehouse. I love the idea of the program. I just hate that the funding isn't being used well and we are throwing away so much that could have been used. Maybe there is not help for it, but so far even the best answers I had on the other post couldn't explain the only 60 day viability guarantee
Suppose you have four boolean variables A, B, C, and D. You can calculate X as the result from A, B, C assuming that D is false, and Y as the result assuming that D is true. Then, a third ternary operation can switch between X and Y depending on D. This creates a tree of 3 operations, which I suspect is the best you can do in the worst case.

For five or more arguments, this naturally extends into a tree, though it likely isn't the most efficient encoding.
https://www.amazon.com/Socratic-Logic-Questions-Aristotelian...

https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/...

https://www.amazon.com/History-Civil-1861-1865-James-Rhodes/...
And it's hard to fully trust any post 2021 text as well. It's pushing me to seek information from pre 2021 books for information.
Ignore the talk below about pyenv, it’s not even slightly suitable for this task.

You want precompiled Python binaries. Use “uv” for this, rather than hacking it together with pyenv.
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
I can’t reply to the other comment, but “soulless” was to quote the other commenter. Having a soul (whatever that might mean) holds no bearing on what I’m saying.
Gohufont
If you let money drive, you end up where money wants to go.
Hey kids, remember jQuery plugins? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Anna Karenina is a masterpiece of a novel. I highly recommend it as well.

I often jokingly mention that this is the first book that ever made me want to get married. While many now that the novel describes the tragic life and relationships of Anna, only those that read it will now that here is another, as important and positive story, about the love between Kitty and Levin.
Can you be more specific about "all execution after a mispredict is thrown away". Are you saying even non-dependant instructions? I thought the CPU just ignored the registers resulting from the wrong instruction path and started calculating the correct path - that the way the register file worked allowed it be to much better than just junking everything.

A little less verbosely: "is non-dependant ILP work also tossed on a mispredict even though that won't change?
It was proposed in the sense that Ruby, or python, or whatever webserver language you used (Perl, php, even JavaScript) was slow, single core, synchronous, database blocked, or whatever else made it “unscalable” and you built this tiny service that only focuses on your core bottlenecks like an api call that only returns coordinates of your map position on things like aws lambda.

Then for some reason some junior engineers thought that you could make everything an api call and you can make services in the most optimal language and glue them all together to have functional “scalable” apps.

And thus the horrors of being a web dev in 2016+ began.

Of course it didn’t help SPAs were encouraging backends to be decoupled from front ends and completely hidden in their implementation so the fact that “it was now possible” enticed backend devs to experiment with multiple api services.
This is not a good analogy.
California in this regard seems to be a good example of why direct democracy is a bad idea, at least in practice.
I have bought and read the entire decalogue of the Thomas covenant series. The first 2 trilogies were prime fantasy. The final quadrilogy probably deserves a re-read but it wasn't quite at the same level on the first read for me as the others.

It's the only book that I can remember that has sent me scrambling for a dictionary as the sentences contained words whose meaning could not be discerned by inference.

"The surquedry of the Elohim was their downfall", for instance.
Cactacea Shrugged

Before I made a judgement about someone making that claim, I'd need to know in what way it 'changed their life'.
Litmus: LLM Testing and Evaluation Tool for AI App Development on Google Cloud
Slippery slope arguments with taxes make no sense. A new tax could appear any day on any income level.
In NJ we have traffic circles which are larger, much higher speed, and consequentially much more dangerous. They have been re-engineering them in recent years to be more like roundabouts but it used to be you could slam around one of them doing 55mph or so without stopping or slowing much to enter (until it backed up).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_circles_in_New_Jerse...
>The ultimate motivator for building this project was the opportunity to join the crew of the S/Y Southern Star yacht, which sails in the Arctic.

Anyone know how he got this opportunity? I'd love to join something like this if all I had to do was make a cool Iridium transmitter!
Shin Bet and friends don't have a magic wand making pagers explode. NSA can't circumvent math. Etc.

This 'but X will get you anyway if they want' or '5$ wrench' is used by alot of people I know to rationalize selling themself out privacy wize.
How does your worldview explain the GPL?
In our area of the rural Midwest, a local AM station made a niche for themselves being the critical go to point of information during tornado, storm, flooding, and derecho warnings. Sadly as the storms keep showing up more often and more powerful, I've actual bought a couple more portable AM/FM radios spread around the house because of it.

There have been several times being in a car during those warnings that that AM station was the only reliable source of information.
No. Python is orders of magnitude slower than even C# or Java. It’s doing hash table lookups per variable access. I would write a separate program to do the number crunching.

Everyone must now pay the mental cost of multithreading for the chance that you might want to optimize something.
I am super glad you like it! The primary reason I haven't introduced support for iframes is that it requires much wider permissions (instead of just access to the current tab after clicking the "ARIA DevTools" icon you'd need to grant access to all data on every website you visit). I will research if things changed since I last checked, though.
Building a Robust Data Synchronization Service with Rails
thanks. you seem to think that a spiking multimodal variant of transformers on neuromorphic hardware would demarcate a goal of some sort, which one?

for as far as i can see, the achievement would just be a spiking multimodel variant of transformers on neuromorphic hardware.
You should train an AI to search for tech news that doesn't talk about AI.
And matcha tea?
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. It changed the way I think about what's important, both to me and to other people and societies.
> Florida's homeowner's insurance market being so dysfunctional is a blinking red warning sign that things like Hurricane Milton are only getting more common. That's a market sending out a reasonable signal- hurricane risk

Reinsurers have an even more accurate model for this that they've shared with NOAA but that information is subject to NDA for now.

So the insurers absolutely know that this is just getting worse.
For very small number of keys, an array with linear searching can win out.
Yup, subscribed to that one already!
IME, Htmx is best for enriching server side rendered (non-SPA) apps. I'm having an great time with single file web apps using FastHTML (python).

I've rewritten a bunch of my JS framework apps for simplicity and don't miss much.
I've taken L-theanine for anxiety before, and it seems to help. I'm not sure if it's a placebo or not, but either way it seems to help
I still think, pound for pound, it’s hard to beat the productivity and stability of rails as a framework for new web projects. Welcome changes here, but most notably, this new major version update doesn’t appear to have any real breaking changes with the apps we’ve been running in production for years.
What's a "plain" monolith? Is a modular monolith "just a monolith except we don't suck at coding"?
Threads knows it has an engagement bait problem
Yup, the article admits:

> "Because the testing took place with a new, default account, the team did not test to see the effect that user changes to privacy and security settings might have."

And bizarrely the article claims:

> "You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance..."

Well sure, you can't say no if you refuse to even look at the privacy and security settings.

The "Even With GPS Disabled" part of the headline is particularly misleading, since location data often (even mostly?) comes from WiFi too. The idea that turning off GPS would disable location data isn't how location data works.
OK, but still:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–FBI_encryption_dispute

Apple's reaction to a number of such things has been to further enhance encryption.

They go to a good deal of trouble to make things they can't break. Look at the new cloud compute model they're introducing:

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

And if you've missed it, note the prior "verified contact" key exchange added to iMessages, as well as the "sorry we can't read your backups to help you recover your data" security added to iCloud (provided you only use devices up-to-date and opted in). This one is a customer service nightmare, they added it anyway.

All that said, this article is less interesting since (a) if your cell phone uses a telco, "they" know where you are, and where you've been, no Apple needed; and (b) unlike Apple segmenting your Maps directions to prevent themselves from knowing where you are going, Google's always been about your location.
Try this talk about sqlite!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKLA81tBis
A phone has several levels of software and hardware, the OS that the user knows is not in charge of communications, its main role is to interface the user to the computer inside the phone. The phone OS sees the phone communication hardware akin to the way it sees an Ethernet card. The phone communication hardware (named baseband modem) is also under control of the SIM and every time the mobile operator wants to change the behavior of the baseband modem it can through the Sim toolkit.
I am hoping someone knows something. The post that got deleted yielded some useful information that seem to be copied and pasted from somewhere but it only helped concrete my current belief that this program is very wasteful. I was hoping to either understand why it can't be better, or if this or the other got enough views for maybe catch the attention of someone with pull e.g. a journalist, or a representative that might push for better management of the program
>Buying a vehicle coming off of a lease is often a good bet. Most of the quick depreciation is done and now you're in the period of a slowly depreciating. You also have a relatively new vehicle.

I assume you mean buying a used car that someone else leased from the dealership. If you leased then want to buy out your leased vehicle at the end of the contract, you end up spending more than if you bought it outright.

>Always put down at least 20% of the vehicle's purchase price, i.e. don't finance more than 80%. This does two things. One, it ensures your loan is unlikely to be upside down. Two, it limits how much you can borrow which keeps you from financing fantasies. For example, you had $4K cash for the last car you purchased. Given that, I would say that you should have kept your budget at $20K or under. $20K, even today, can get you a nice used car.

You may not be from the US, but this is typically poor advice. Even with 20% down, you're likely upside down on the loan regardless after a year. US auto dealerships (credit dependent) have great loan rates, zero percent to 3%, which means every dollar you put down is wasted versus putting it in a money market that are getting nearly 5% now. The optimal strategy in this setup is to put zero down, borrow at ridiculously low rates, and get gap insurance for the portion that you're upside down on.
I believe that I've read that elsewhere. They allow for better and higher flow than an intersection, but have a weird failure mode at very high rates where the circle gets loaded and all directions thus stop.
The deist/materialist position is that God, if He acts at all, must be just another cause working in the universe, in the same manner as gravity, heat, charge, or whatever. Once this assumption is established (though rarely voiced), the "god of the gaps" attack is made. The idea is that God's action is a bad hypothesis, while [insert-theory-here] is a better one.

But of course, this is question-begging. It assumes what it is trying to prove, namely that the totality of reality can be explained by scientific hypotheses of one kind or another.

>But is not the existence and continued functioning of second causes miraculous?

I mean, I wouldn't call it miraculous, since a miracle implies some sort of interference with the usual course of things. And calling it miraculous would also imply that second causes have no kind of explanatory power whatsoever, which is clearly false. This also gets us dangerously close to occasionalism, which is the idea that God causes everything independently of their visible causes, a kind of equal-and-opposite error to deism/materialism.
I read Cuckoo's Egg when I was in 6th grade. It didn't immediately turn me into a CLI junkie (we likely didn't have a computer with a terminal until upgrading to Mac OS X a year or two later anyway), but I do credit it for not being scared to open up the terminal to kill parental controls a couple years later.

The early experience with the command line in turn made me much better at using it when I started working - new people at my company often struggle with the basics and take much longer to get comfortable with it than I did (the vim learning curve is steep indeed...). Now I prefer doing all my day-to-day computer stuff in the command line.

A more tenuous connection, but it's possible Cuckoo's Egg seeded in me the drive to spend unreasonable amounts of time tracking down root causes of issues and figuring out how things work. But that didn't really manifest until I started working.
Suggest a low-end hosting provider with GPU
I want to do zero-shot text classification with this model [1] or with something similar (Size of the model: 711 MB "model.safetensors" file, 1.42 GB "model.onnx" file )
It works on my dev machine with 4GB GPU. Probably will work on 2GB GPU too.

Is there some hosting provider for this?

My app is doing batch processing, so I will need access to this model few times per day.
Something like this:
start processing
do some text classification
stop processing
Imagine I will do this procedure... 3 times per day. I don't need this model the rest of the time. Probably can start/stop some machine per API to save costs...

[1] https://huggingface.co/MoritzLaurer/roberta-large-zeroshot-v2.0-c
>Then I pray with all my heart that GitLab moves to it,

YJIT does make Ruby fast, but that doesn't mean it makes _Rails_ fast. (yet) At least dont expect multiple times improvements.

Hopefully in the future.
D-Sat – Decoding a 1990s file format
Mine does cover as long I use a termite service for prevention. But wouldn't for this house.
I should have pointed out that $20K is your max budget, and you don't have to budget your max. Getting a nice used car for $4K is a bit challenging but do-able. Under $10K opens up a lot of options for you. But yes, we're both in agreement that paying the kind of money people are paying today for a car is unnecessary. It's about want more than need.
In many fields, but not all, essentially only a few small number of people can win. You must have trained with someone who won or was part of a group who won. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-024-04936-1

This isn't impressive. It's a sign of concentration of power, of nepotism, and of exclusionary policies. It's the usual dirty politics we see all over the place.
Love the simplicity of just selecting the area on the map.

Great stuff!
An old cloud learns new tricks: OpenStack Dalmation
The good news is that some AI company will invent this, to provide a source for their LLM.
Next up is how forms with (multiple) attachments are uploaded with Content-Type=multipart/form-data; boundary=$something_unique

https://notes.benheater.com/books/web/page/multipart-forms-a...
Is the location they're referring to supposed to be just the country code field in that screenshot?
> Aman (00:12:20) Yeah, I mean I think this is a space that is quite interesting, perhaps quite unique where if you look at previous tech waves, maybe there’s kind of one major thing that happened and it unlocked a new wave of companies, but every single year, every single model capability or jump you get in model capabilities, you now unlock this new wave of features, things that are possible, especially in programming. And so I think in AI programming, being even just a few months ahead, let alone a year ahead makes your product much, much, much more useful. I think the Cursor a year from now will need to make the Cursor of today look obsolete...

One of those things where it seems like they have all the pieces, but are not making one final, crucial conclusion from them. Like, ok, we've got a bigger wave now, what happens eventually to waves?? How could you like be an investor and feel at all reassured by this.

The point where you have to become a True Believer in order to make everything you are working with make sense, be viable, should be the exact point you start to get a little worried about your paycheck.
Ever used SBCL?