skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That assumption is also wrong... Women are interested in all STEM fields

The research contradicts you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox).

>We have tons of data on that, including experiments where using a feminine or masculine name changes how contributions are received.

Your link is to reporting of a viral anecdote shared by an editor for a movie review site. It's also about how clients responded, not coworkers.

Aside from the "experiment" being N=1, easily confounded by any number of factors (such as the simple fact that, from the client's perspective, a supposedly troublesome contact was being replaced at all), and at least partially an excuse for Mr. Schneider to complain publicly about his boss, all of this clearly has nothing to do with "STEM", let alone programming. Historically it has been common in programming circles to receive contributions under pseudonyms (or, for that matter, first-initial-plus-last-name usernames) that don't disclose gender.

The argument you present here is simply not intellectually honest (and I have seen very similar arguments countless times over the years).
I'm gonna need more information here...

It WAS to invite shadowbanned sites that they don't acknowledge exist ... why? Is there some other euphemism that they use to describe these sites, and that would make some sense as a group of people to give special attention to?
I think something as important as accurate and quick search should be definitely something that people are willing to spend on. $20 / month for something like that seems absolutely a no brainer, and it should for everyone in my view.
GP must live in the UK or India. Well, actually, some homes in India do have A/C.
notice conspicuous lack of New York Times. the partner vs lawsuit stakes of traditional media vs openai are playing out now.
There are probably several, but one of the ones that made the rounds a while ago is "The Man Who Killed Google Search" by Edward Zitron: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
It's a long article (thanks for linking to it) but it seems Heaviside isn't mentioned in it.
Perhaps you're thinking of Wildman Whitehouse?

"[W]hat Victoria was to monarchs, Dickens to novelists, Burton to explorers, Robert E. Lee to generals, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse was to assholes."
That's wild, I'm aware of that one and I spent my life between Ireland and Italy, so to say it's forgotten/whitewashed is simply not true.

It's obviously not how things should be done, and there was some agitation that led to the tragedy, but a massacre, it wouldn't reach that in my book. THAT would be considered a civil unrest tragedy. And it came to a resolution with changes made around the Jura. I can't say the same in China, you're right, but they're not the same.
I like your suggesting actual features/systems, and the idea that we can make hn/jobs the better job board, but I think this targets the wrong problem:

I don’t care if a company ghosts me b/c they hired someone else—I care that/if I spent the time applying to a role for which there was no intent to hire.

How can we mandate that only roles that are actually open get posted? Does hn/jobs require confirmation that a hire was made within a certain timeframe? (say, 3-6 months?). It may be non-solvable as you obviously can’t mandate that a company hires, but if we can mandate that a company not advertise unless they’re going to hire it is certainly non-solved.
That's because Teams purpose was to replace Skype. You can't replace Skype with a working tool, it will disturb the users.
That was notable because of how unusual it was. Chinese cities are extremely safe, generally speaking.

In the West we have a general consensus that any encroachment on freedom in the name of safety isn’t worth the trade. People even go so far as to claim that those who would choose safety don’t deserve it, which I find completely uncalled for and unnecessarily strident. A lot of Asian countries (China, Japan, Singapore) have no such problem, and view the US as a generally unsafe country.
That's the repo Trail of Bits was working with; the PR they ended up submitting is at https://github.com/mchehab/zbar/pull/294.
> Getters return values. This returns a pointer. So it's an accessor. With unchecked semantics. It's bizzare to me that anyone would use this technique. It's all downside with no upside.

When I use getter, I want to see the value of a field. I don't want an owned copy of said value, I just want to look at it, so returning reference makes _a lot more_ sense than returning a copy. In example it uses `i32`, but that's just for readability.

> I'm expressing surprise that anyone would do this. I'm sure you were capable of understanding that.

Yes, and I'm expressing surprised that you think it's bad. I'm not even sure what is bad? Lifetime elision that is well documented and works in a non-ambiguous manner? Using references instead of values? Do we need to memcpy overything now to please you?
house passes all kinds of bills which never happen.
> It provides Google with engagement and a prime source of user data, so subsidising it has been an acceptable trade-off for Alphabet.

If this is true, why bother with ads? It's completely ruined the platform.
> If they ask what you made before, you can say something like “I was underpaid at 80k, which is why I’m talking to you now.”

Agreed that it's best not to give false information but you can also respond with something like, "What is your budget for this position?"

It makes it obvious -- at least, it should -- that you know they're only asking, as patio11 puts it, as an attempt to get you to compromise your negotiating position.

Giving the number and calling it out as low isn't a bad idea, just offering another for those who would prefer not to give a number at all.
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then you are blissfully unaware of how much data is already being interpreted for you by computer algorithms, and how much you probably actually really like it.
Wish you and your project well!
I think they might not pay it
It generally comes down to the age old question, pick two out of: Quality, Speed or Cost
I prefer Linux, but I dual-boot Windows for gaming, since I haven't been able to get my Nvidia card to work at its full capacity on Linux.
Maybe after fusion.
Sugar in first 1k days linked to poor health later
Same with 'Claude 3.5 Sonnet'.

At first I thought it was some piano piece like "Mazurkas, Op. 59" by Chopin, or had something to do with some French guy in the AI field.
>81% of recruiters admitted to posting ads for positions that were fake or already filled

Ah... recruiters at it again.
You still have to consider what is worth optimizing and what is not. Getting your task done because of a superior search engine also saves total energy spent on getting that task done.
Did they figure out how to scale them? Because if not, we are working that out.
Linking the slide deck that caused Google to start encrypting the traffic between their own data centers running on their own fiber is perhaps not the most compelling argument that Google is a state asset.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/tech-companies-s...
>I miss the era of Internet that lead to people creating works of public art like this.

I understand that for some, anything that gets people talking about it meets the definition of art. Unfortunately, this definition of art includes bum fights and taco stands that give you diarrhea.
Right I'm not suggesting inside a vm or LXC, I mean directly on the debian operating system of the proxmox host. Then kubevirt and proxmox would create vms on the same metal. They are both qemu under the covers
I would pay that to stay on win 10. There are no compelling reasons for win 11 or 12 right now and lots of downsides.
the only people who think wikipedia is a legitmate source and can be used as reference material are lazy students. chatgippity is even worse on this point..an absolute black box. providing references like search does is a step in the right direction. We will have to see what those references turn out to be.
ycombinator/jobs would presumably not be the right venue for an open job board but yes we could build software to better support Who Is Hiring threads. I've always resisted doing so but maybe we eventually will. I'm not sure how that would help with the ghosting problem though...
The original bot was undoubtedly using the Search API and not Firehose (real-time tweet stream).
Back then, the title of "programmer" tended not to describe the person who came up with the logic, but rather the person who punched the holes in the key cards.
Ah, I remember installing WfW 3.11 around the same age as well! I don't even remember if we already had a home network at that time (the first one was NetWare 3.11 based), but I do remember the subtle differences that somehow made it fun.
On one hand, e.g. Tesla make their batteries on the US soil, in Nevada. OTOH they don't make the batteries from the US soil, with more than half of the lithium coming from China.

I'd expect a Tesla Gigamine then, somewhere near the recently discovered giant lithium deposit in Arkansas. Drones could use some of that, too.
>this is about an area that lacks any science

Incorrect. An absence of evidence is not the same thing as an absence of science.
> Traditional search is a mutually beneficial arrangement, but LLM search is parasitic.

Traditional search is mutually beneficial... to search providers and publishers. At expense of the users. LLM search is becoming popular because it lets users, for however short time this will last, escape the fruits of the "mutually beneficial arrangement".

If anything, that arrangement of publishers and providers became an actual parasite on society at large these days. Publishers, in particular, will keep whining about being cut off; I have zero sympathy - people reach for LLMs precisely because publishers have been publishing trash and poison, entirely intentionally, optimizing for the parasitic business model, and it got so bad that the major use of LLMs is wading through that sea of bullshit, so that we don't have to.

The ad-driven business model of publishing has been a disaster for a society, and deserves to be burned down completely.

(Unfortunately, LLMs will work only for a short while, they're very much vulnerable to capture by advertisers - which means also by those publishers who now theatrically whine.)
>We’ve been getting far too much money, for far too long. In normal office jobs, it takes a lifetime of sacrifices to get to higher pay grade.

Normal office jobs don't bring the value that STEM jobs do, that's why STEM jobs command more money. It's like comparing doctors to other careers and being surprised that doctors get paid more.
This is especially useful to archive ai chats on github. It works with email so you do not have to install any app
Ok, we can make it like this:

NEW RULE: Please only post a job if you intend to fill a position and are committed to responding to everyone who applies.
Yeah, to me this kind of thing is much better than the carefulness knob.

Delaying or just not doing certain features that have low ROI can drastically shorten the development time without really affecting quality.

This is something that as an industry we seem to have unlearned. Sure, it still exists in the startup space, with MVPs, but elsewhere it's very difficult. In the last 20 years I feel like engineers have been pushed more and more away from the client, and very often you just get "overspecified everything" from non-technical Product Managers and have to sacrifice in quality instead.
We could have many different LLMs trained to be biased in different ways and have some form of bias checking tester, like ground news - then everyone can get their bias and live in their echo chamber.
OK, but someone still has to publish the subset of good content that the LLMs slurp up and republish. LLMs still need fresh quality content from somewhere.
Hn/jobs may not have the interest, sure. Job posters in general may not have an interest. I think monetization here comes from candidates. As a job seeker I would be willing to pay for access to a job board where listings/posters are somehow vetted to protect me from filling out ghost applications.
>What isn't stressed enough is that they both came up with their respective proofs independently.

They just happened to have the same teacher...
Not sure why this was downvoted. Obviously it is by people like who will keep bending over until they become a circle.
> This feels like a philosophical question at this point.

Kind of, but a) not all questions of semantics make for interesting philosophy, and b) the semantics in this case absolutely map to meaningful concerns regarding performance, behavior, and debugability/tactics for inspection of runtime environments. The fact that ruby doesn't have the concept of a function without a parent object whose method table is referenced by the caller complicates (for instance) passing around functions as values as well as whether or not you can expect the same function to even behave the same way when calling it twice.

Of course, much of this is hidden by syntax, and it certainly doesn't restrict you from acting as if it has proper functions rather than just methods, but it absolutely does matter if you want to understand how your code is running, particularly details like memory usage and garbage collection and whether or not ruby can inline code (spoiler: it generally can't).
I've done tech interviewing for years. Job listing that are to various degree fake are quite common. Of course, fakeness comes in many flavor, from listings posted just to "see if there's anyone out there" (I had a boss who did this regularly) to jobs a supervisor really does want to fill but which they know they won't because the bureaucracy has forced impossible requirements on them. An example: "Junior programmer, 10 years experience in language X" (that's existed for five years).
The costs are too great. We can't go on like this.
Do you live in NYC?

Anecdotally, when I go out there for business events the locals invariably suggest walking if the distance is ~1 mile or less. Do that there and back and you've hit 3 km walked on a single event.
I do the same but with Kagi.
What if the new rule required a company to link to their last "who's hiring" posting if it was within, say, the last 3 months?

That makes it easy, within HN, to see if a company is just doing copy/paste spam, or if they're posting new/updated info each month. It also has the advantage of being easily verifiable (and enforceable? not sure what the enforcement actions would be...) here on HN versus random anecdotes of "I applied but never heard back", which I doubt would have enough weight for anyone to do anything about.

Users here could help police/moderate by simply replying with a link to last month's posting if there is one and the posting omitted it. That would somewhat-gently "call out" the company for not reading/following the rules, without users leaving negative comments on the thread.

(Just thoughts from a user skimming by, I'm not in the market for a new job at the moment so I have little skin in the game)
They can run the whole park with minimal staff for up to 3 days. You think that kind of automation is easy? Or cheap?
I don't think the problem is that they are profit oriented, but is more of an issue of unaligned incentives. Same as with insurance and LinkedIn type apps.

I thought of a dating app in which I would charge a hefty ($1000 usd) initial fee, and return a percentage daily until I found the right partner for you.

That way our objectives will be aligned.
In the past year, I have seen Wikipedia go from a decent source of information to complete fantasy on a specific topic. Obviously biased mods have completely pushed the particular subject narratives.
Would you be open to having people email if they send an application and get ghosted so that you can potentially take action on future hiring threads? (or stuff like the mentioned copy-pasted job posting that got caught in an argument) Since I know that emailing you is already the best way to ask for moderation help.
I set out to create a "simpler HTTP" once. Ended up concluding that by the time you've added the basic features, you need most of what a minimal HTTP request gives you. There might be some marginal gains to be made, but it's simply not worth it. HTTP is too good.

Commenting on this proposal directly, I don't see how a stateful protocol could ever be simpler than a subset of HTTP/1.1 with range requests.
Thank you! Do you know if T-Mobile has such number to report spam? Until now I was just blocking, but now I am willing to do the work.

edit: Apparently, there is a built-in reporting functionality ( just need to forward offending message to 7726 number ).
I applaud the initiative. I waited until the beginning of 7th and it was pretty hard, honestly. We don't give them free access to it, though (but ironically it's most valuable to ME for them to bring it to school).
Batteries? Assuming a $150/kwh cost for batteries, that would be $14,700 for a 98 kwh pack, or $19,650 for a 131 kwh pack. I think the rumor is that GM is hoping to hit ~$100 for their batteries in 2025. It will be a game changer once batteries get below $50/kwh. And some Chinese batteries are getting close.
No. Not a single time I can remember in 40 years of existence living in Europe.

Shops, restaurants, airports and things like that which are attached with revenue streams have them.

I never been in a billionaire palace thus said.
If it’s a publically traded, report them to the SEC for trying to manipulate the market with the illusion of them hiring a lot as in growing
That's a good rule, the followup question is what does feedback for and enforcement of this rule look like?
I live in Strasbourg, France.
This is all a function of interviews sucking right? Leet code is essentially completely independent from dev skill. Projects take too much commitment and time from the team and devs.

So, what option do teams have? Just hire the people that your good devs say are good is honestly the most effective practice that I've seen.
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The ones at Amazon were super generic. SDE skills were supposedly "fungible."
I said "your phrasing sounds like" specifically to make it not personal. Clearly some information was missing but I wasn't sure exactly what. I'll try to phrase that better in the future.

It sounds like the information you need is that cp has a flag to make cloning happen. I think it even became default behavior recently.

Also that the article quote is strictly talking about dedup. That downside does not generalize to the clone/reflink features. They use a much more lightweight method.

This is one of the relevant syscalls: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/copy_file_range.2.html
The reason this is so appealing is because Google is almost useless these days.
Everyone? Applicants are using AI to mass apply for jobs. Not everyone deserves a response.

Why not: Please only post jobs if you are committed to interviewing and filling the position in the next 3 months. Accounts posting the same job opening for 6 months may be banned.

In this market if it takes 6+ months to find someone there is a fundamental problem with the opening.

At the very least it should be: "Please only post a job in this thread if you are committed to responding to all qualified applicants."
After high school ended (2:30pm) most days I used to have some kind of club activity (2:30pm-3:30pm) and then hang out in the cafeteria or by the front of the school, waiting for a parent to pick me up on the way home from work (5pm).

I had a dumb phone so I could stay in touch, and I could also walk home if I wanted (40min / no sidewalks / 35mph roads), but most of the time I just sat down and did homework and read books. Spent a ton of time on the computer at home.

Got through "Brothers Karamazov" and "Anna Karenina" that way -- just 1.5hr a day of focused, uninterrupted time. I absolutely never would have read them and would have spent the whole time scrolling TikTok if I could have. Hrmm.
Why is "Qodo" "better" than "Codium"?
Ah! That’s actually recursion again.
We have a house phone, which is normally in the unihertz "student mode" which prevents installing apps and only allowing use of some apps.

When our kids ask for their own phone, the answer is always an easy no. I have no problem with computers. But the internet is not your friend. Endless content is hard for me, a developed adult to resist at times.

If they want to stay up late, their forced to sneak a book into their bed.
> I want to see the value of a field. I don't want an owned copy of said value, I just want to look at it, so returning reference makes _a lot more_ sense than returning a copy.

You can look at it with an owned copy. What is the issue? Is premature optimization the default mode in writing Rust? You don't see the issues with this?

> I'm expressing surprised that you think it's bad

You're surprised that someone simply has a different opinion? Your reaction failed to convey that.
> Not a single one in the last 100 years

Here is a ChatGPT response to you because I wont bother with kneejerk responses:

In the last 100 years, the United States has been involved in several military invasions and interventions in various countries. Some notable examples include:

Mexico (1914) - U.S. forces occupied Veracruz.

Haiti (1915-1934) - U.S. Marines occupied Haiti to stabilize the country.

Dominican Republic (1916-1924) - U.S. intervention to restore order and protect American interests.

Korea (1950-1953) - U.S. involvement in the Korean War, supporting South Korea against North Korea.

Vietnam (1955-1975) - Extensive military involvement in the Vietnam War.

Grenada (1983) - U.S. invasion to overthrow the government and restore order.

Panama (1989) - Operation Just Cause to depose Manuel Noriega.

Iraq (2003) - Invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein, followed by a prolonged military presence.

Afghanistan (2001-2021) - Response to the 9/11 attacks, targeting the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

This list highlights significant military actions but is not exhaustive, as the U.S. has also conducted numerous smaller operations, interventions, and covert actions in various countries over the years.
Also along with ghost jobs do we have ghost candidates? Every job posting on LinkedIn have hundred plus applicants within the first two hours. Maybe many of the applicants are not eligible but this phenomenon points to a massive increase in labor supply for tech jobs. Automation and opening up competition globally is gutting out most of the tech jobs it seems.
I agree with your sentiment, however its not exactly true.

According to his son, Milton Friedman used to say this but stopped because he realized that trade itself is free lunch- because its a win on both sides- consumer and producer surplus. He replaced it with "always look a gift horse in the mouth".
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Tried "Sailflow Galveston Bay", which for google search returns the Galveston Bay / Kemah wind/weather report for sailing in the area. For GPT Search, returned the Galveston Buoy as the first result, which is WRONG, as it is 10+nm off the coast of Galveston with often VERY different weather than Galveston Bay. The second GPT search result was just the Sailflow home page.

So in this case at least, GPT Search is far inferior and dangerously incorrect were someone to rely on these search results for weather information.
> the only people who think wikipedia is a legitmate source and can be used as reference material are lazy students.

100%. Students who can do the work know the winning move is to use it as a way to find the sources you actually use.
Fair enough. I feel you'd face the same issues with the original idea as well. But I can't think of a better solution.
Don’t use nvidia with Linux if you want easy. That’s nvidia’s problem. I use Fedora/gnome/phosh on a tablet and it’s getting better every day. Already meets my video tablet needs and could do office and games etc.