skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically when you start a new dev job the company will provide you with a pre-provisioned laptop that has their security stuff setup and maybe dev tools already installed, eg source code, compilers, VMs, Nix, and a supported editor, so it's not exactly a personal machine that they're messing with.
Last year (2023), $57k and change for the year (post tax). So about $4,750/month.
Review: the document starts strong with a methodology and numbers. It covers 3 approaches: Copilot code assistance, Llama3 fine-tuning on their codebase, and RAG on documentation. The first one is the only one supported by numbers, with 27% of code suggested being accepted by developers. Although they set up a control group they fail to relate the LLM findings to it.

Fine-tuning is suggested to improve jobs like tooling upgrades but no concrete numbers are offered.

Lastly RAG on documentation. The RAG has a simple system prompt to improve uncertain responses. They're tracking meeting and support requests but don't show any results. They mention frustration with nonsensical answers but use a RL human feedback technique to improve responses. No numbers offered.

Overall a simple overview of what they tried but the strong methodological start doesn't get reflected in the numbers reported later on.
Where does the future come in to this? This title seems like a stretch.
each family makes their own decision how to split responsibilities at home. Its possible that men take care of children, while women work more.

my position is each wife's gender gap is compensated by husband's gender gap, and on balance it all comes down to individual choices, division of labor at household level.

Using motherhood as a wedge issue between genders is an artificial issue that ignores incomes and choices at the household level.
I'm not sure that this really answers their question.
That's because nobody has yet solved the side effect problem of the sugar.

All the proposals that have ever been given have ultimately boiled down to essentially `return err`, which, while suitable for meme comments on an internet forum, cannot be used in a real production application for many obvious (and some not immediately obvious) reasons.

At least under the direction of rsc (the new leadership is still settling into the role so that is less clear), the will to add such sugar was there if a good solution was found. But the solution has yet to be found.
>> I've worked for like a dozen companies full-time. Most people don't know what they're doing.

This is why I reflexively chafe when I see "Software|Data Engineering".

I've never witnessed it in practice anywhere I've worked.

Sure, embedded systems for a pacemaker/defense industry or something is probably proper engineering, or graphics programming where you're concerned with creating approximations of real light transport with a time budget per frame or whatever, but most of this over-architected junk involving putting strings in databases and sending clients 10MB of JS to render a list is the farthest thing from "engineering".

A decade+ of inflated compensation really went to people's heads with these silly titles.
Indeed artificial housing supply restrictions are about 100000000% more important. Alas, a portion of the progressive left was co-opted by the housing barons many decades ago. I believe California voters would be more progressive otherwise.

Here in SF, a good example is the leading progressive mayoral candidate, Peskin. He's basically a housing subversive. He'll pay lip service to it, then sabotage YIMBY efforts. Earlier this year he sponsored an ordinance blocking higher density in parts of his district. The current mayor vetoed it [1] but he got the board to override the veto [2].

The barons originally sold suburban supply restrictions as anti-sprawl measures, co-opting the greener factions of the left. Then they sold density restrictions as anti-traffic measures.

No suburbs + no density = no new housing.

Luckily this unholy coalition has started to crumble a few years ago. A large majority of Democrats is now in favor of more housing.

[1] https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/14/san-francisco-breed-peskin...

[2] https://sfist.com/2024/03/26/supervisors-override-breeds-vet...
See also this image from the article. The design of the Aldebaran is a giant flying boat, with air intakes in the wings to help create the nuclear exhaust exiting the reaction chamber nozzle.

https://up-ship.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/image25....
You're making a fine argument against optimizing for one variable. But that doesn't discredit the "law".
Gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses
The "It Might As Well Be Swing" album by Frank Sinatra with the Count Basie band was my introduction to Quincy Jones, who did the arrangement. It is one of my favorite albums in Sinatra's discography.
Heather MacDonald had a good article about this in City Journal
https://www.city-journal.org/article/journalism-dies-in-lock...
Critics have mocked the owners’ explanations as just so much smoke obfuscating a desire to curry favor with Trump. This knee-jerk invocation of self-interest is facile. There is no indication that Bezos and Soon-Shiong are anything other than sincere in their stated desire to dial back on the media’s partisanship. Bezos is refreshingly clear-sighted when he observes of the Washington Post and the New York Times: “Increasingly we talk only to a certain elite.”

The problem with their stated reasons is not that those reasons are false but rather that Bezos and Soon-Shiong have massively underdiagnosed the problem. Endorsements are a trivial part of the media’s loss of credibility. The erosion of public trust derives from daily news coverage in which reporters uninhibitedly pass off their own political views as “fact,” editorializing with as much abandon as any editorial writer. It was under Bezos’s tenure that the Washington Post dedicated itself to its anti-Trump Democracy Dies in Darkness crusade. It was under Soon-Shiong that the Los Angeles Times ran one white-privilege mea culpa after another during the George Floyd race riots.
It's going to take you over a year to save for one month of an emergency fund at that rate. Does that include any retirement savings?

I don't think it's corporate brainwashing, I think it's realism about how much you need to save for retirement so you're not dependent on social security.

My bills are ~$4730 and my savings rate is $4500/mo
Be aware the poster has a history of being very active on posts related to diagramming tools to discourage his competitors' solutions and/or promote his own tool without disclosing affiliation.
Amazing that such a successful businessman is also an expert in oncology and biology. Usually, people struggle to master one of those fields!
Umm...unless I added wrong - that ~ $5700/month, which is 68K/year. While commenable - I don't think your surviving on $60K/year ??
If Q is not a written source, the Q hypothesis falls apart. The point is to explain what Matthew and Luke (but not Mark) have in common, much of which is word-for-word the same. Whole sentences between them that are verbatim in the Greek point to literary dependence, not oral tradition.
Chinese researchers develop AI model for military use on back of Meta's Llama

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/c...
> four legs, ...

If we, as a society, want to encourage more kids, we should to allocate those funds as a society, much like roads or anything else (we do, tax benefits, ..., maybe we should do more). If we want to offer welfare for people regardless of their life constraints, that's again a societal decision (and one I'm mostly in favor of).

Pushing that to each individual employer sets up a cat and mouse game where the shadiest organizations barely not getting audited are able to leverage that inequality (supposing we did fix the wage gap at an employer level without addressing underlying factors) to achieve higher profits and outperform the competition.

And that's one of the _better_ outcomes. Switching gears only slightly, suppose (using round numbers for simplicity) the average cost to the employer of maternity leave is 6 months salary and you have a 10% chance of incurring that cost. An organization like the NYT can absolutely self-insure, but at the level of only a few employees you cannot.

Something kind of like the unemployment insurance situation works much better in those kinds of scenarios. The government acts as an insurer to provide the service we as a society have decided is worthwhile, and each employer only has to send in a check for their average liability instead of dealing with a different mountain of paperwork and existential risks.
I would agree that she doesn't "have to" be detailed, but the person I was responding to claimed she had a "detailed policy proposals for most topics". She doesn't seem to have a detailed plan for anything let alone most topics.
The concepts of internal DSLs and external DSLs is relevant here. The article is an internal, to Python, DSL. It runs in the language the tool is written in. Mermaid is an external DSL. You can’t build a Mermaid renderer in Mermaid. For diagrams I’d rather have an external DSL or a macro system than an internal DSL because it looks cleaner IMO. But it’s nice to have syntax highlighting already working in internal DSLs.
> the way pricing works is generally not sufficiently granular

Is this caused by regulations or the insurers approach?

Genuinely ignorant here.
Revamping a five years old Node.js project
It looks like CEPR is funded mostly by donations, but some think tanks also make money by performing specific studies for funders. Sometimes a government agency or corporation wants to study the potential effects of a policy change or something like that, but doesn't have the capacity or expertise to do it themselves, so they will contract a think tank to do the work. There will be a clear disclaimer if that is the case though.

> Are there unknown backers paying them

There should never be any unknown backers. If you ever see an article like this that doesn't have a big "Our Funders" link in the page footer or somewhere else, you should be suspicious.
How about daft https://github.com/Eventual-Inc/Daft - also looks like a new multimodal dataframe framework
This links to the top level of the blog (https://calnewport.com/blog/), where the post is currently at the top. The post itself is here: https://calnewport.com/after-you-vote-unplug/
North Korea's New ICBM May Have Biggest Transporter-Erector-Launcher
Did what I could - a single ballot...

Talking with some folks out here in SoCal - they're like why as Cali is already a given for a particular party/candidate...

Response - it's the popular vote for one as to the Pres/VP slots, but it's also the undercard - the Senate/House on a national level, and the local things like Mayor, Country/City Commision, the judges, even for some governors...

Your local schoolboard needs a hand or two - and in Cali, school bonds...

Fill it out, turn it in to a dropbox, or mail it in - voting in person - that's good as well.

We all have a single ballot - fill it out, and let your voice be heard.

And then take a break...
I was one of the original authors of the p2p QuicTansport API and the WebTransport API which is based on it.

I've also recently discussed this new local p2p API with the authors. And I'm in the favor of it, at least in principle.

The difference is that local p2p does not require signaling like, say the p2p done by ICE, WebRTC, or p2p QuicTransport. So for some uses cases, this would be better. And, if done right, this would fit well into a cohesive set of APIs that cover both kinds of p2p.

I'm also in favor of making APIs low level, but I'm not sure if raw sockets is going to work. Keeping congestion control working is pretty important.
> and export them as SVG files -- yay! I can version them again.

However depending on how the resulting SVG looks like this may not be different than just putting a PNG into a git repo
How the British Airways' breach kickstarted today's web security challenge
Same. That's the beauty of automatic thermostats. They target the temperature you specify automatically. So you specify your favorite temperature once and never interact with them again.
I agree. My understanding of layoffs is you're closing out the role, and thus, the person holding the role loses it. This is separate from the actual performance of said person. Conversely, for a poor performer, you're cutting off the person but intend to refill the role with a better one.
What would differentiate this from renting an AirBnB and inviting people over? Assuming I don’t want random strangers crashing my party.

I mentioned AirBnB, but a lot of them now explicitly state “no parties.” I’m sure this wasn’t without having some bad experiences. Don’t imagine people like you using the service, imagine the people who are trashing hotel rooms. What will the cleaning fees be like? If events are posted publicly, who is liable for damage when randoms show up? I’m picturing these places looking like college rentals after a short period of time. Too many rules to guard against this kind of thing and people will get too worried to have any fun.

When parties get out of hand, how would that be handled? Private security? The police?

I could see buildings, or cities banning this pretty quickly.
Location: Seattle

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, C/C++, Python, SQL, Kubernetes, many
others

Résumé/CV: https://ahicks.io/files/resume.pdf

Email: ahicks@ahicks.io

My first resume-worthy project was working with Mozilla on the Rust compiler for 6 months [0], implementing the ability to reorder fields in structs to eliminate padding. My work here was primarily a cleanup project which also unblocked many other Rust layout features that people benefit from today. I then detoured into Python/Django on top of Kubernetes, writing scalable infrastructure such as a giant media transcoding cluster. After that, I pivoted back to C/C++ working at Backtrace I/O. If you play a lot of videogames, our software is probably on your system, as we indexed and processed native crashes for many of the largest videogame publishers. This was big data on the order of tens to hundreds of terabytes per day. I was able to attain exposure to the concerns at that scale--including custom database design. While there, I spearheaded the adoption of Rust in the org, initially for microservices and later as part of our C codebase. I'm now one of the most experienced Rust engineers you'll find. We did neat things some of which are open source, for example our feature flag system that rewrote code at runtime [1] and our Sqlite VFS that replicates to S3 [2]. As a benchmark of our success, we managed to be acquired by Sauce Labs, a company easily 10 times our size.

Though we weren't successful in the long term, I also bring some business experience to the table as some friends and I did manage to run a contracting company for a while.

Outside of work I play around with DSP and audio synthesis projects, including optimization using lower level details such as SIMD. I also think about programming language design. Recently, I've been working to mod Factorio to make it playable by the blind. I am 100% blind myself, and I've managed to win it multiple times. You can get info on it at [3], and I did a stream which also demonstrates my ability to speak ad-hoc without much preparation at [4]. It also answers the question "how do you use the computer?", one of the more common questions I get. In terms of technical skill, when I joined the project it was one 20000 line file, and now it's maintainable and nicely split up.

My salary expectation is $200k+. I'm looking for mid-sized to small startups. At this point, I'm able to take some risks. Hopefully this interests you. I know I've said a lot. That's because I'm looking for the right fit, not the fast fit. If you hire me, I want to be there for the long term.

0: https://ahicks.io/posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reord...

1: https://engineering.backtrace.io/2021-12-19-bounded-dynamici...

2: https://engineering.backtrace.io/2021-12-02-verneuil-s3-back...

3: https://github.com/factorio-access/FactorioAccess

4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW2-ujG9PSE
Have a look at this (and other repos/website) https://github.com/30hours/blah2
wifi 6 can’t do shit given that there’s crazy overlap if you go for 80MHz channels. Most situations tap out around 700Mbps over usually a 40MHz channel.

Wifi 6e/7 6GHz band with a bunch of non overlapping 160MHz channels is where the juice is at. But even then a lot of devices are limited to smaller channel widths.
> Interesting that they say this cable is “potentially for AI”

Where did you read that? It’s certainly not in TFA. There’s a second article from the same substack linked on the page that speculates it “ may be heavily influenced by AI considerations”, which is not really the same as “potentially for AI”. https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2024/10/facebooks-semi-sec...
WebRTC (with p2p) was done within the W3C, as was a p2p QuicTransport. And this new API is similar to the open screen APIs that have been done in the W3C.

So I'm pretty sure work like this can be done in the W3C.
Yes, and it's the same with FOSS software.
Elixir is "more secure" than Go due to its isolated processes, functional processing, and immutable data.
California has already taxed everything that can be taxed, and raised taxes to the point that further tax increases are likely to result in a decline in tax revenue.
GH Archive: public dataset of developer activity on GitHub
I'm not sure why do you think any of what I wrote was provocative. Do you not agree that if you'd predict (or imply) immediate catastrophy for Bitcoin at any point in the past you'd be wrong every time you did that?

Isn't it just a factual observation of reality (even trivial one) that you also agree with? Or did you observe something different?

I just stated something. I did not propose argument for anything. I didn't even tell you that you are wrong, only that you'd be wrong if you said it at any moment in the past. I don't find it even mildly provocative. You might still be right right now. It's just very unlikely in my option.

> Exponential growth tails off when resources limits are met.

Do you believe that Bitcoin grows exponentially when I just told you it fits logarithmic curve not straight line on logarithmic plot?

Are you sure you are basing your reasoning on relevant first principles?

> What are the underlying principles and systems that make your curve predictive?

Statistics. Large number of uncoordinated trades so far and large number of capital exchanging hands in various ways, places and contexts makes it unwise to dismiss it as purely accidental and prone to flipping on its head any moment. Global "once in a century" pandemic didn't affect it. Neither associated disruption to global trade nor partial transition to remote work. No political changes. Nuclear power instigating war in Europe didn't affect it. Raise of AI didn't affect it. Evolution and degradation of global economy didn't affect it. Brexit. Trump's win. Trump's loss. Loss denial. And if we are looking at events "closer to home". Countless bankruptcies of crypto exchanges didn't affect the fit. Billion dollars scams in crypto coming out didn't affect it. Bans on mining in leading countries. Forking of BCH, BCC and Bitcoin gold. Invention of stable coins (also NFTs) is not visible on the fit. I'm sorry, but all that makes it super hard to believe that suddenly it's gonna deviate from the fit when it stayed pretty much on track while all other real world and crypto charts were going bonkers due to real world events and trends and whims of the markets.
Aren't wildfires a natural part of the ecosystem in CA?
AWS is literally a hardware business... That's the entire point of it.
Murray McCory, 80, Dies; JanSport Founder Created the School Backpack
Changing Cain: How My Fan-Edit Became a Brian De Palma Director's Cut
I expect the company sees them as private, so that they'll only share capacity with competitors when they want to and for the right price, untilllllll ....

Some other country decides to pull shenanigans and cut / hack the cable, in which case the company will insist the U.S. gov't get involved, maybe pay for the repair. Saying it's crucial for national security.
Because of the high latency between messages? After all, eliminate the latency and the N+1 problem goes away.
Trees and empty land cost nothing. But:

CA Insurance Claims USFS Wildfire
Year and Settlements Management Budget
2018 $13.6 billion $2.5 billion
2019 $2.8 billion $2.4 billion
2020 $3.5 billion $2.35 billion
2021 $4.75 billion $2.4 billion
2022 (unknown) $2.65 billion
2023 (unknown) $2.97 billion

The expensive part of forest fires is paying back homeowners who lost their homes in places guaranteed to be lit on fire, at prices for homes as though the fires didn't exist. The way we chose to do this is by saying it was PG&E's fault, and in exchange, PG&E gets to recoup those payments via permanently higher rates.

It is a little complicated, but it isn't that complicated. The simple question is, should the government pay a safe home's price for a burnt down home?
Presumably there are higher CDN limits for paid Github accounts.
https://archive.ph/EYcGy
Legislation generally opposes granular insurance policies, as it is discrimination.
After years of 3D printing, a technology I love, I thought I'd try CNC, and make a PCB.

Oh boy did was it ever a hassle building the machine then trying to sell everything on eBay.

I am super impressed by people who actually put in the effort to make this stuff work.

The biggest issue is the vias. They have to be done by hand or with more expensive machinery. Then there's solder mask. Then there's cutting the board outline, it's nasty fiberglass.

Once it's all done, you have to actually solder the boards, which is even harder than it would be with a commercial board.

I have a hard time imagining wanting to a DIY board or even hand populating a commercially made board again.

It's so much fun to be able to use accelerometers and USB-C and modern power management chips in DIY projects.
https://archive.is/VvBcB
> I can't see why any side of the political spectrum(s) would be opposed to IVF

You haven’t looked far enough right. Not everyone is pro-IVF.
Quincy Jones went to Garfield High school in Seattle's Central District, I lived very close to it for a while. Garfield and nearby community are very proud of that. The city/school district did an amazing job rebuilding their performing arts center to the world standards as part of a comprehensive and expensive renovation back in 2008 https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2024/11/legacy-of-a-centr.... It is a lovely venue now, much appreciated by the local community. Quincy came back in 2022 for the 100 year anniversary of the school too, very lovely celebration.
What’s the problem and why is it newsworthy?
Serious question.
If they asked for your permission to publish, then it means that they do not think that they currently legally have the right to publish.
New OpenAI Feature: Predicted Outputs