skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how any deeply honest, earnest feedback can come from me when I am told "this is anonymous" and there's a 99.999999% chance that it isn't. If it came from a position of mutual respect then maybe I'd reciprocate, but it doesn't.

It's hard for me to take any of this seriously. Industry-wide we're told layoffs have to happen and these same corporations go on to post record numbers, far exceeding internal and external expectations. Executives are lavished with bonuses while many of my colleagues are getting < 2% CoL adjustments while taking on more and more responsibility and accountability. But also, please, tell us what we can do better! We're listening and we care.

So, no, frankly I don't feel like I owe my employer a single fucking thing beyond showing up, doing my work, and leaving. I certainly don't owe the top-level leadership team the truth when they aren't honest with me.

But I want to make it clear, too, that I'm not lying on these surveys. But, they're not getting a full accountability from me, from my perspective, either. And even if I wanted to give that, it'd be pretty hard when the questions are worded in such specific, guided ways and there's very little space for providing direct feedback.
This is happening to me in the trades.

Im in maintenance as an industrial electrician.

New plants came to town paying current market rate and snagged most of the top talent.

Then the company started quiet-firing to avoid layoffs. It killed all motivation.

Then they froze hiring as we kept losing people. We are now short on HVAC, mechanics, and electricians.

Lucky me I'm the only guy who can do all three so im running ragged all day.

We have response times we have to meet but our vehicle (an electric GEM) had the charger die, it's only $2k but they won't let me order it so we all walk everywhere. Huge plant I easily bust 30k+ steps and 20+ stories climbed via stairs.

We then had a mechanic and an electrician take paternity leave so we are even more shorthanded. Still wont let us hire.

We lost the maintenance manager and cant get another one for what we pay and the condition the business is in now.

I love my job andy co-workers but I'm sending out resumes and interviewing because I can't take all the extra workload with no extra pay while our administration keeps getting more money and bonuses.

How do companies keep making the same mistakes over and over expecting different results? They don't, they know what's going on and are getting theirs before the bottom falls out.
Ah, bummer. Guess you'll have to do the prints for her? Should be easy if she just makes a shared "print these" album with you.
> Shadow stacks are cool but aren't they limited to a fixed number of entries?

Current available hardware yes. But I think some of the future Intel stuff was going to allow for much larger depth.

> Is the memory overhead of lookup tables for very large programs acceptable?

I don't think SFrame is as "dense" as DWARF as a format so you trade a bit of memory size for a much faster unwind experience. But you are definitely right that this adds memory pressure that could otherwise be ignored.

Especially if the anomalies are what they sound like, just account for them statistically. You get a PID for cost accounting in the perf_event frame anyway.
The old way has literally no way to differentiate between a frozen process and one that just simply wants to keep on running after the session's end, e.g. tmux, screen.

It's trivial to run these as a user service, which can linger afterwards. Also, systemd has a configurable wait time before it kills a process (the "dreaded" 2 mins timer is usually something similar)
SQL x Awk x Pig: a side-by-side reference sheet
Uh the UWA would beg to differ. American production has only been shrinking as they have demanded more.
Fourteenth Century LLMs
Okay. How? They're all individual binaries that just happen to use the systemd name. You realize systemd isn't just one big program, right? It's like 30 programs, all independent of each other, with integrations to other programs.
I guess it's because the software engineer union members are the ones who run that part
Simple HTTP Server Implemented in Mov
Hey HN, a few years back I came across this talk about how `mov` is turing complete and how this can be hacked into writing programs that run entirely using only `mov` instructions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EEoWg6Ekk).

A couple years later I stumbled across an article explaining how to implement a simple http server from scratch (https://bruinsslot.jp/post/simple-http-webserver-in-c/).

Naturally, I tried to combine the two concepts but the AI models weren't good enough at the time and I didn't have the bandwidth for yet another questionably useful rabbit hole. Fast forward to today and o1 was able to implement it with some iteration.

I hope you enjoy this quick weekend project. I tried to make the README as helpful as I could to get it running on your own computer easily, though I probably missed some steps. I also tried to use o1 to review our conversation to add reasoning for various changes that were made between the original server implementation and the one that is `mov` compatible.
> - Is using the whole 8 bytes right for the estimate? Pushing the stack pointer is the first instruction in the prologue and it's literally 1 byte. Epilogue is symmetrical.

I believe it's because of the landing pad for Control Flow Integrity which basically all functions now need. Grabbing main() from a random program on Fedora (which uses frame pointers):

0000000000007000 <main>:
7000: f3 0f 1e fa endbr64 ; landing pad
7004: 55 push %rbp ; set up frame pointer
7005: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp

It's not much of an issue in practice as the stack trace will still be nearly correct, enough for you to identify the problematic area of the code.

> - Shadow stacks are cool but aren't they limited to a fixed number of entries? What if you have a deeper stack?

Yes shadow stacks are limited to 32 entries on the most recent Intel CPUs (and as little as 4 entries on very old ones). However they are basically cost free so that's a big advantage.

I think SFrame is a sensible middle ground here. It's saner than DWARF and has a long history of use in the kernel so we know it will work.
The next challenge is getting the protein in there.
Revisiting the failure that was the Bill Gates deposition
It's called a dance floor
Pound-for-pound, Vogue by Madonna is one of the most remarkable examples of artificial stereophonic sound ever produced.

As a lover of hi-fi, Madonna wasn't really on my radar until someone steered me toward this gem. After about 50 listens and some really interesting research on QSound (the tech used to produce it), I ended up featuring it in my hi-fi music recommendation newsletter.
"Here's What They Found" - I thought HN had a filter for clickbait titles.
The entire lawfare approach thus far has been via patent dispute from what I understand, so the gameplay is actually what's being argued.
Janis Joplin sang the kind of music he liked, but her current band did not. Keep reading the rest of the article.

> an album cover for a band he does not care for

> playing a music style he does not listen to

While he did not care for her current band and the psychedelic spin they took on blues, he recognized her ability to belt out the good ol’ blues: “Janis had played with earlier bands just playing country blues and it was much better. Way, way better. She’s singing well, not screaming, not playing to the audience that wanted to watch her sweat blood. In the beginning she was just an authentic, genuine Texas country-girl shouter.”

Getz adds: “The next weekend Crumb came to our show at The Carousel Ballroom, sat on the floor in our backstage dressing room and observed. He really wasn’t into our music but it didn’t matter.

Getz is understandably mild in his description of Crumb’s opinion of Big Brother and the Holding Company. Here is Crumb’s version, unadulterated: “She was a swell gal and a very talented singer. Ever heard any of this pre-Big Brother stuff she recorded? She was great. Then she got together with those idiots. The main problem with Big Brother was they were amateur musicians trying to play psychedelic rock and be heavy and you listen to it now and it’s bad… just embarrassing.”

> appealing to an audience he does not connect with

But Crumb came from another era, mentally, and to him this music was commercialism personified compared to the roots music from the 1920s and 1930s that moved him: “I had no patience for any of that psychedelic pop music or crap that came in the 60s: The Grateful Dead, Jim Morrison, The Doors, The Beatles, Bob Dylan. I had little or no interest in any of that. I thought I had found some music that was much more real, that came from the heart of people’s culture but had been wiped out by mass media and commercialism.”

He liked some aspects of the Hippie movement, what he termed as seeing through the hype of consumer culture. He valued how they strived to live simply and saw the ecology movement being sparked by that. But he quickly became disillusioned by the movement: “Since it was mostly children of the middle class, it was immediately something for them to be smug about. ’Oh, I have seen the light and you haven’t. I’m beautiful, I’m spiritual. I lost my ego and you haven’t.’ It became where in any social gathering everybody sat around trying to out-cool each other.” But as he admits, he never felt comfortable in that environment anyway, even when it was at its peak of innocence: “I couldn’t kick off my shows and go dance in the park. I didn’t have it in me.”
"Forgotten" in the sense that everyone who knows anything about CS knows who he is because of the Church-Turing hypothesis, Church numerals, lambda calculus etc, and anyone who reads "On Computable Numbers" (only the most famous paper in all of computer science) knows that Turing actually quotes and credits Church and his work in that paper.

Here's a link to "On Computable Numbers" for easy reference for anyone who wants to read it/read it again. It's a cracker https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf
> Europe isn't booming economically like the US

This would be an extreme understatement.

> but if you've ever traveled there, their quality of life seems perfectly fine

I'm not sure if traveling there is much of an indicator of anything. Doing business there over the course of many years might be a very basic table stakes start to get any idea of what is happening. Even then it will have large blind spots. Most folks traveling to Europe are also traveling to the richest parts of the richest countries and ignoring the rest.

Inertia is a hell of a drug. For how much longer can western Europe stagnate and continue to fall behind the entire world little by little? There are bright spots, but those seem to becoming fewer and further in between. Talk with the younger generations and you may start to get different answers than you expect.

The US system certainly isn't how I'd design things today, but I very much would avoid what the EU is seemingly running headlong into. How much of that has to do with worker protection laws is certainly highly debatable though.
I have a question for all the LLM and LLM-detection researchers out there. Wikipedia says that the Turing test "is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human."

Three things seem to be in conflict here:

1. This definition of intelligence...i.e. "behavior indistinguishable from a human"

2. The idea that LLMs are artificial intelligence

3. The idea that we can detect if something is generated by an LLM

This feels to me like one of those trilemmas, where only two of the three can be true. Or, if we take #1 as an axiom, then it seems like the extent to which we can detect when things are generated by an LLM would imply that the LLM is not a "true" artificial intelligence. Can anyone deeply familiar with the space comment on my reasoning here? I'm particularly interested in thoughts from people actually working on LLM detection. Do you think that LLM-detection is technically feasible? If so, do you think that implies that they're not "true" AI (for whatever definition of "true" you think makes sense)?
Python package compatibility with free-threading and subinterpreters
I disagree here. For this, a memo application, I think the metadata (date, length, name, etc) is the true content here you’d want to scan, not the actual waveform itself. There’s some content like images that should scale to full bleed just fine, but for something like a table row, as-narrow-as-sensible is better for usability even if there’s a lot of unused horizontal space, because there’s not advantage to making the eye scan across a wider distance.

The same goes for the width of paragraph text in general. A paragraph stretched to full screen width is much harder to read than a paragraph wrapped at paperback book width. If wide paragraphs were better, books would have a different aspect ratio.
Do you think people should be compensated more because they feel poorer, regardless of the actual costs of living...? As an avid Scanlon reader I personally think you're misrepresenting her position
Yes, I don't outright lie or try to sabotage, or otherwise do anything anti-social like that, but I approach it from the position that I am in fact standing in a room with an executive being asked these questions and if I were in that position how would I answer?
What's the argument to not be able to fire someone because you can hire someone with better or relevant skills instead? That makes the business stronger, which means it can make more money, which means it can hire more people.
Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and LLMs apparently.
> I’ve seen cases where folks completely checked out and were contributing nearly nothing, making no commits, writing no code, and faking it at standups. Simple metrics can help surface cases like this.

Of course we've all seen varying degrees of this - but these kind of people can only exist because of terrible management. Throwing metrics at the problem just introduces a more insidious version of this individual, one that knows how to game whatever metrics are used (managers especially will do this). I've been on teams where such an individual could thrive for years, even with promotions, and on teams where such an individual would be outed within a week.
Can AI Take over VC Associates' Jobs by Screening Companies?
With AI now capable of analyzing pitch decks, predicting outcomes, and comparing startups based on key metrics, it's fair to wonder if it could replace some of the early-stage work traditionally handled by VC associates. This technology could streamline the screening process, offering quicker, data-driven insights that potentially reduce human bias and speed up deal flow.

But is this enough to replace the nuanced judgment and intuition that associates bring to the table? Or will AI simply assist by handling the repetitive tasks, freeing up associates to focus on more strategic, relationship-driven aspects of the job? Curious to hear where people think this trend is headed.
> We’ll be posting a lot more about Gitpod Flex architecture in the coming weeks or months. I’d love to invite you on November the 6th to a virtual event where I’ll be giving a demo of Gitpod Flex and I’ll deep-dive into the architecture and security model at length.

Bottom of the post.
How about medical appointments with nurses instead of doctors?

I wonder if there is a similar measure for time kids spend in school. My kid comes home early every Wednesday, and there’s are ~15 other early dismissal days during the school year too.

I would bet almost everything that relies heavily on labor has been increasing in price faster than official figures for the basket of all goods and services.
Instead of trying to decode the password from the huge decompiled file, can you use a debugger to intercept the call to sqliteopen? Or shim it out?

I’m not familiar with Android development enough to know this is possible but this is what I’d do in x86 world - so just thought I’d offer a suggestion
Most families don't have a strong union that can negotiate a decent wage.
Current SOTA (state of the art) treatment for cancer is:

Sequence patient's tumor mutanome distribution, create personalized therapy encoding the top N neoantigens

+

Anti-PDL1 checkpoint inhibitor

+

mRNA encoded albumin-IL2
>I was apparently reading off the latest UnixWare marketing material.

https://www.xinuos.com/wp-content/uploads/Xinuos-Data-Sheet-...

>>Increased memory support. With 64 GB of memory, you
can support powerful applications and hardware (upto
32GB general purpose memory and above 32GB to be used for
dynamically shared memory)

>>Utilize graphics, network, and HBA drivers, including Intel, LSI Logic and Qlogic HBA drivers

So we have a bigger problem here then reading?
Totally agree on the challenge with welfare programs. To me that's more a sign that welfare programs were never going to be sustainable though. We still haven't found a way to secure our borders, without that welfare is a blank check.

I don't hold other countries to a standard only because I have no say in how the are run. I would actually prefer to see countries freely allowing immigration and emigration, but I'm not going to say anyone else has to or even should.

What's often lost, in my opinion, with regards to the statue is that the whole point was that anyone should be able to move here if they want to give it a shot and none should be able to take away that right from anyone else.
There's a picture of Janis Joplin standing on the sidewalk in SF in which the city looks exactly the same, as though frozen in amber for 50 years.
Touch on a stove makes any stove I know gastritic. A drip of water and it turns on power mode by itself and melts lids. A bit of oil and it randomly turns on itself. A piece of wet cloth and it does the same. Sometimes even nothing at all triggers it.
Strand is one of the languages that particularly blew my mind,
I think it was Armstrong that said that Strand was "too parallel"

Strand is a logic programming language for parallel computing,
derived from Parlog[2] which itself is a dialect of Prolog[3].
While the language superficially resembles Prolog, depth-first
search and backtracking are not provided. Instead execution of a
goal spawns a number of processes that execute concurrently.

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/strand/strand....
Amazon Kindle Colorsoft e-reader shipping is cancelled
> Set in all capitals, the word NEXT is sometimes confused with EXIT possibly because the EXT grouping is so dominant. A combination of capitals and lower case letters alleviates this problem.

Huh. Never knew why the 'e' was lowercased until now. I thought it was just "style".
> But you don’t get to complain about the outcome of the election because you decided to opt out.

Why not?
You can always do a quick HN Search before posting (using the search box at the bottom of most HN pages). But dupes are a fact of life, so don't worry. We merge them when we find out about them!
Show HN: Fast and Cheap Llama-405B
Today we launched our GenAI platform. Our ambition is to make the cost of LLMs as cheap as possible without sacrificing performance. I would love your feedback.
Generally when I am seriously looking for a jobs, I look in multiple places not just one.

I look within my direct network: Do I know any companies that are heiring that I have contacts at? Are any of my associates/friends/former colleagues posting job openings?

I look at places I would love to work: Make a list of companies that you would like to work for, then go to their job boards and see if there is anything that interests you. Make a list of fields you would like to work in (Security, bio infromatics, whatever), get a list of companies in that field, and scour their job boards.

Finally, the usual job-posting aggregators like Indeed and friends.

I will say that with my last job search I also worked with a recruiter. This was a very positive experience. I got lucky with my recruiter and she was very helpful finding positions and getting me an edge when applying.
Pennsylvania, a Swing State [video]
Agreed that is silly. But it is equally silly, and telling in my opinion, that that is what you're focusing on.
For a start all implementations of such protections i'm aware of don't apply till you have over X employees which rules out your specific example. eg. Australia allows businesses with under 15 employees to fire at will. Small businesses have very little employee protection for exactly the reason you stated; You need to be able to hire/fire since each individual employee is such a large part of your workforce. It's generally understood that if you work for a small employer you are more at risk because of this. Large employers are seen as a safer job.

So these protections are always tradeoffs. You can actually earn more at the smaller companies and those places are typically good to get your foot in the door. The larger companies where these protections apply can afford to follow the process and having the process there gives stability that some people need in a career.

I actually think it comes down to the viewpoints on careers. There's no risk to any particular business since the laws are written to only target business that can reasonably follow the process. There is a different viewpoint on working at bigger stable companies vs smaller companies though. One's seen as a stable career and the others seen as temporary (of course exceptions apply).
I felt the same but my preference is to have enough PTO to take off for that.
I highly doubt your claim. There is no mechanism to send money internationally (at least in Canada) that is both near-instant and free or near-free.
Unless you live in a third-world country, I don't think you have to worry much, especially if you live a very uncontroversial life.
The thing about batteries is that those big discoveries in the lab take a long time to reach the market. By the time they do reach the market, they're just an incremental improvement over all the other big discoveries that are already in production.

So we never seem to get a dramatic breakthrough, but what we do get is steady improvement over the course of decades. And that's why we have electric cars now with ranges over 400 miles, while back in 1996 the EV1 had 70 to 100 miles.

I think cancer treatments are pretty much the same.
States are free to implement such provisions to protect their workers, in fact not all states are "at will".

As a foreigner, do not forget that USA have several government layers, federal ones and state ones.
A better analogy is the usual "car" analogy: I bought my car in cash as a one time purchase. Even though Toyota needs to maintain their network of dealerships and service centers, finance their factories' operations, and pay their employees, I still don't have to pay a monthly subscription for the car (yet). If I drive it, I pay to put gasoline in it and maintain it every so often, and that's it. If I don't drive it, it sits in my garage and I don't have to pay monthly for it.

This idea that customers should need to pay for all of a business's business costs and overhead as the overhead happens is a new one, and an annoying one.
There’s a huge gap between at-will-employment and no ability to fire people at all.

FWIW, it looks like 11 US states have “Implied covenant-of-good-faith and fair dealing” which mean “an employee may only get fired for a reasonable, lawful, and sufficient reason.” The list is also interestingly bipartisan, Alabama, Utah, and Massachusetts are on there. And it must not hurt business too much, since Massachusetts has that very high GDPPP stat.

https://clockify.me/learn/business-management/at-will-employ...
"Food" listed in there is not food at all. Thats some cheap filler that isn't really affected by inflation that much because of its just cheap garbage subsided by govt.

Look at the junk in this section for exampe

> Cereals and bakery products

And ofcourse all the items in fruits and vegetables had the highest inflation.