skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a three fold problem of the mental health crisis, decreased social trust (broken communities etc) and algorithmic feeds.

I don't know if Alex Jones is mentally ill or pretends to be. His targeting seems suspiciously self-aware and lame compared to how it usually sounds when people wander down that path.

But I guess most of his viewership is. But they existed on the internets in the beginning too. Plenty of them. Maybe the recommendation engines bring more people into the "self-sustaining" circle, than would be otherwise?

I think what has changed is mainly that there are more 'leaders'. I might have had the wrong conception of what it was like earlier, but apart from Alex Jones and the lizard guy (David Ike?) it didn't seem to be that many.

Something has changed. There are so many lunatic "influencers" nowadays that keep getting pushed to the top. Earlier you had to get out of your way to stumble upon them.
Honestly, this bit about genAI being good at generating boilerplate is correct, but it always makes me wonder... is this really a thing that would save a ton of time? How much boilerplate are people writing? Only a small fraction of code that I write involves boilerplate.
I don't see what they can do about this in general, short of requiring sufficient explicit type annotations to mitigate the combinatorial explosion of possible combinations. But if that is an acceptable solution, you can already add such annotations to your code regardless.

C# actually has a similar issue with lambdas passed to generic functions, for similar reasons. It's just what you get when you combine overload resolution with type inference.
Why Do We Like Functional Programming?
tl;dr people are not inclined to pay for search, so Perplexity's hand was forced?
Maybe Daisy has become sentient and has taken over all operations at 02. No one noticed.
This is not a constant fact, though. In 2021 there were not enough qualified US work eligible candidates to go around. Right now is going to be a very different story for many roles.
That part hurt a little bit, recently had to start looking at family just like this.
That should depend on what you read. There's more than enough in the history of our species and in books about us to make someone love humanity too, at least conceptually if not in daily practice.
Thanks!

You're right - the trained-model is proprietary to our business and currently in production.
LinkedIn remains a reasonable substitute for emailing around PDFs of resumes/CVs.

Any usage beyond that, for "networking" or "social sharing" is terrible.
> AI works really well on very legacy codebases like cobol and mainframe

Any sources? Seems unlikely that LLMs would be good at something with so little training data in the widely available internet.
When I try to read code on GitHub that has the var or val keyword, I have no fucking idea what the types of the variables are. Sure, the compiler can infer, since it’s just ingested your entire code base, but I have a single page of text to look at.

Some boilerplate is good.
A lot comes down to timing. More and more law firm partners these days are digital natives who grew up using computers. They're accustomed to using really good software, and they expect the same in their workplace.
What do you mean, is Washington DC not a comedy circuit? /jk
Or the past? I wasn't around back then, but I've heard the 2001 recession was the same.
Supply chain security is very important, and this seems like an important step. Seems absolutely essential that something like the Mozilla foundation, or EFF, or some other open-source friendly entity help provide such a service, instead of corralling users into companies with exploitative business models.

I am in no hurry to be pushed into using Github, Gitlab or whatever else. Programmer's open source code has been monetized by these companies to feed AI LLM beasties, and it's fundamentally objectionable to me. I self-host my code using Gitea for that reason.
My Kiss The Chef apron says yes.
RIP to RPA: The Rise of Intelligent Automation
From the GitHub UI, very simply. Go to a repo you administer, in the /tags page, and each tag has a ... Drop-down menu with a delete option. Then upload a new tag by that name.

Tags are not automatically updated from remotes on pull (they are automatically created locally if it's a new tag). This doesn't mean that the remote can't change what the tag points to, only that it's easy to spot.

Edit: and to be clear, for many years after release, this was the recommendation from the Visual Source Safe team (Yes, that team developed GitHub Actions) for managing your actions. Tell people to use "v1", then delete the tag update it each time.
True, if you're using LLMs as a completion engine or to generate scaffolding it's still very useful! But we have to acknowledge that's by far the easiest part of programming. IDEs and deterministic dev tools have done that (very well) for decades.

The LLM gains are in efficiency for rote tasks, not solving the other hard problems that make up 98% of the day. The idea that LLMs are going to advance software in any substantial way seems implausible to me - It's an efficiency tool in the same category as other IDE features, an autocomplete search engine on steroids, not even remotely approaching AGI (yet).
Have any of them been confirmed yet? No.

You can't even bring yourself to mention that the Defense nominee has actually served in the Army, and is a decorated veteran.

Stop acting like such a partisan; it is far too early to commence the bed-wetting.
It's not permitted on the browser main thread, but works fine on the Node main thread.
Making life harder for your competitors is fine. Doing so through illegal practices isn't.

If you want to operate as a marketplace, the EU denotes certain practices and standards for doing so. Don't like them? Don't operate as such.
I was so frustrated trying to find a headlight that not only lit up the road/path sufficiently but also didn't blind people or cost an arm and a leg that I had to build my own. There were literally no suitable options on the market when I looked, even though it seems like it shouldn't be a hard problem. Automobile manufacturers figured this out over a century ago.
H1B auctions are perfect, so long as you want to maximize the total dollars "saved" by American businesses, by hiring cheaper foreign workers.

But if you actually want a way to hire top-skill foreign workers in specialties where America is short on local talent? No, sorry. 99.5% of specialties don't and won't pay enough to win an auction where Big Tech has opened its checkbooks.
> what's the experience of the crowd on this?

It's very hard to retrofit quality into existing code. It really should be there from the very start.
Here's the secret to grokking a software project: a given codebase is not understandable without understanding how and why it was built; i.e. if you didn't build it, you're not going to understand why it is the way it is.

In theory, the codebase should be, as it is, understandable (and it is, with a great deal of rigorous study). In reality, that's simply not the case, not for any non-trivial software system.
Google Docs is a step in the right direction but has several limitations.

1. Lawyers don't want everyone holding the pen at the same time. Specialists want to make their changes and have them reviewed in isolation from other's changes. Think of a redline like a pull request. You don't want other people's changes in your work when it's getting reviewed.

2. Google Docs breaks down when even a single person drafts outside of it. See the section of my essay about why lawyers will never stop using Word. Even if you managed to get an entire firm using Google Docs, it still wouldn't work because they need to exchange drafts with external parties.
I'm sure Zombie Kaczynski will have cogent contributions to make still.
Internally we are debating on releasing a Hackable DIY kit. Feel feel to send a message to support@usetrmnl.com.

It's shipped from USA.
> Grandparent is implying that all the execs making the RTO decisions are personally invested in business real state (why would multiple execs own a bunch of downtown real state?)

That is not what I am implying. The owner/investor class have portfolios that depend on commercial and prime real estate holding, and continuing to increase in, value. They might not personally own buildings themselves, but they own companies and financial instruments that do.

Maybe execs themselves are lucky enough to be that asset rich, maybe they aren't, but it's their jobs to call the shots based on the desires of their respective boards.
I agree, sorry, I just have a grief against scammers jeopardizing kids education.
UK Government Announces Ban on New Coal Mines
It is 100% required for employment-based green card from a H1B. Anyone that has gone through this process knows this as their own job had to be posted to several job posting sites and each and ever candidate had to be reviewed and discounted in some ways (my company added crap to the posting such that it was simply impossible for someone to be as qualified for the job as me unless they sat next to me and did what I did for 5+ years…)
Is the (US) Internet Slowing?
Bringing React Server Components to React Native
Referring to Jones as "...the hapless owner of InfoWars (a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name)..." in the announcement is a masterstroke given Jones' ridiculous ego.

I hope Jones is never named on the new site, but frequently and flagrantly referenced in a manner like this.
This is not a new phenomenon. It is quite common, and has been for decades, to to publish a job opening for a position that has already effectively been filled in order to nominally fulfill various legal and bureaucratic requirements to provide plausible deniability to senior management that the "best candidate" was hired.
What is the chance we could get this to be used when drafting laws?
VCs these days always ask or check a startup's website and job listings to see if they're growing. So one advice we keep getting is "fill up your jobs page with fake jobs to look like you're high growth".

I'm sure that's not helping.
Thanks. I upvoted you because this is all great advice. I'm politely going to decline it though. Not because I don't think it's valuable but mostly because I already have alternatives to achieve those results that I know work better for myself.

Unfortunately right now I don't have the time to follow through with most of it. Life happens, and right now it just happens to be happening more or less all at once. Urgency trumps priority.

Furthermore, I'm a night owl. I have at different times in my life tried to change it. I followed all the advice I could find (including a lot of the things you mention). Ultimately, if I have to wake up early in the morning for work, I might end up with a cycle of 8h on the first night, with some luck another 8h, then it goes down to 6-5h, 2h and in some occasions an all nighter to top if off.

My current sleep deprived cycle is one of relatively regular 5-6h per night. It's not very good but mostly because of the time I have to be awake.

If I could wake up at 9:30-10:00 every day, I would be able to sleep those 5-6h per night and be in top shape. I know because I've done it for a few months in the past. I was at top physical and mental shape, consistently.

Waking up at 7:00-8:00, even if I could sustain 7-8h per night, I'd still be sleepy, tired and unfocused for the most part. My brain suffers and so does my body.

At this point I just decided to accept light sleep deprivation vs. the worse alternatives.
And the flat earthers.
Aren't their existing commonly used file sharing solutions for law which should implement a version of this? I would imagine it makes more sense as a feature there than it would in a whole new app.
Looks very similar to C#'s `ref struct` (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...).
I don't think you interpret the Apple case correctly. They got fined for advertising PERM job postings differently from regular job openings, distorting the test in the view of the agency. That has nothing to do with the post you are responding to.
A diverse coalition is also what enabled the N side of the aisle to take power in Germany in 1933, so that's not exactly an argument against the comparison made by the grandparent.
Total Recall and Spaceballs are almost cartoonish. The Expanse was more of a punch in the gut.
> surprised there aren't any comments whining about this

This is called a totem.

You’ve invented or learned a caricature to rail at which may have once been based in truth, and from time to time again approximates it, though never with the fidelity you ascribe to the original. It’s commonly done by sides in partisan polarisation, the most common being a two-mode system that pillories its picture of the other.

If you picture the person writing the totem comment, you probably have a clear idea of what they do for a living, how they dress, et cetera. Totems are why both deification and demonisation work; they’re a hack of the human ability to visualise and project.
Who would've thought that sleep is good for you, right? Apparently we needed several million dollars in research to find out.

> The findings, published today in Nature, could help to guide care for people after a heart attack,

This is just hilarious. Remember to get enough sleep after a life-threatening heart attack, folks!

But your comment resonates very much with me. I am tired of this capitalist culture that reduces the human essence to value output and shames people for not pretending to be working hard enough. Part of the reason I like working from home is that I can take that fucking 20-minute nap after lunch and be infinitely more productive throughout the rest of the day.
Imo real tech debt is when the separation between business logic and implementation details get blurry.

Rewrites tend to focus all in on implementation.
Hey Elliott, long time .
I think the key issue is with the assumption that anything beyond the license will happen. Any assumption that there's another (moral?) contract is wrong. If the OSS is free, then the product can't be the OSS. Any unaligned incentives can put the community in conflict which is something that was common in the Apache ecosystem. So the problem is not with OSS itself, but the sustainability assumptions around some OSS efforts.
"Chef" is a specific job title. Anyone who has that job, regardless of qualifications, is a "chef", yes.
Yes, then those specialties will have to pay Americans more, rather than dump cheap foreign workers into the labor market. It's by design.
Hegra (Mada'in Salih)
>> In 2021 there were not enough qualified US work eligible candidates to go around.

That is only ever true at a certain salary level. If they (hypothetically) 10x-ed the salary, do you think they would still have a shortage?
I'm still not following.

Facebook isn't setting prices on Marketplace -- sellers like you and me are. We're not getting any data from AcmeShop.

When you say "Yes, it's a better deal on the face of it", I don't know what "deal" you're talking about.
First, see some of my previous comments linked to here for background - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138469

What you are pointing out are extreme cases which is generally a small subset. So before jumping to this conclusion one should first setup one's daily life around circadian/natural rhythms and in general establish a healthy relationship between ourselves and the environment we are embedded in. This is fundamental to everything else.

In fact many doctors themselves are now saying that drugs are overprescribed and you don't need them for most (not all) cases. Watch the following documentaries;

1) The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs (Medical Documentary) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_ggnhpGvvA

2) The Truth About the Medical Industry | The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs | Part 2 | Documentary Central - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33RuKhr9pag
Contracts do run society, along with legal codes that are written in much the same manner, by the same body of experts.
"If you leverage your business, and data obtained for other reasons, to unfairly depress competition, the end user loses out, and is part of why antitrust legislation exists."

This is the most salient point on the thread. People are studiously refusing to frame the discussion around this as pro-consumer, and prefer to maintain that it's nothing more than a proxy success-tax on BigTech.
The author mentions needing a small storage service and paying for JSONStorage. In fact, when I've needed this sort of thing in the past, Google Sheets is an amazing tiny database for projects. It has pretty generous API rate limits and it's convenient to be able to manage your DB live in a spreadsheet. In fact, even levels.fyi got away with a Google Forms / Google Sheets backend for a long time[1].

1. https://www.levels.fyi/blog/scaling-to-millions-with-google-...
I'd prefer a permaban over permadebt to Amazon!
While I'm disappointed at the scientific merits of the paper, I'm glad it was posted here which invited discussion on this topic. Someone feeling frustrated with their job app right now might find a speculative answer here.

(Currently waiting for "final decision" on 2 interviews which went well, but after 3 weeks, I'm starting to feel they're ghosting me)
Dares, Costly Signals, and Psychopaths (2016)
Assuming this is a rather complete list... It's interesting that most were written in Go.
That's a myth. How is it hard to fire someone?

I live in Austria and you can fire people for pretty much any reason. You have to give them 6 weeks notice, and there are some extra protections for people who are old or who have disabilities and who have been working for your company for a long time, but even then you can fire them.

You can even fire people for getting sick a lot.

And that's assuming you directly hire them as employees in the first place. Many people work via agencies or as contractors, and they have practically zero protections.
One thing that stuck with me from the book Stroke of Insight (memoir of brain scientist who has and recovers from stroke) was how intently she prioritized sleep when everyone else kept trying to drag her out of bed.

In a more mundane context, I've been fortunate to organize my schedule such that I don't use an alarm to get up in the morning. So I can let my body figure out how much sleep I need.
I don't think that headline is true: What about the line used by rich people chartering/owning airplanes?

Surely that's faster and less-well-known.
Have you heard of "Supply and Demand"?
Fox news is pushing an agenda first and foremost. The ad money was just a bonus. Rupert Murdoch didn't need the ad money. Just like with Sky News he was more interested in the "reasons of prestige and politics for keeping it" than the profits.
The NPR article conveys that this was more than just a very clever stunt

> "The Connecticut families agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion's bid, enabling its success," according to their lawyers. ... Jones was hoping a bidder ideologically aligned with him would have bought Infowars and hired him back to keep doing his show.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5189399/alex-jones-auct...
too cool, thanks so much. assembling + shipping your device myself in a few minutes.
old good ole Twitter was when your feed was only those you followed.

new X is when your feed what Elon wants you to see and react to.
> SQLite isn't competing with other databases. It's competing with JSON and XML files for persistent storage

It competes with both. its clearly used for local persistent storage. SO are quite a lot of other things. It also competes with other RDBMSes where a separate server process is not a requirement.

That does mean it serves very different requirements, its just that its use case are a lot wider than just replacing JSON and XML files and similar.
I find this excuse depressing. We live in the age of computers. If you don't know how to use one you shouldn't be employed where they're necessary. Rather than making a dumbed down workforce we should be building people's skills up.

Git for normies already exists even MS Word has document versioning. If they cannot be bothered to use the software and technology they need to then they should be unemployed.
And here's the source
https://x.com/USTechWorkers/status/1803926021542154323
How did you find and validate the problem? Happy for you to share your startup if you would like, I would not consider it as advertisement.

I believe honing the first step is 80% of the job. Would love for you to go deeper
How to Destroy a Generation
You mean the sales department?
AIs talking to AIs... at the end of the day the real winner is always Nvidia
If using git as the backend were an option, this problem would be hundreds of times easier to solve. Legal documents have a lot of complex formatting and include elements like tables, images, and footnotes. The diff function needs to handle all this, so it needs to be custom built from the ground up.
Wondering if that's what Mike Judge is waiting for: free inspiration enough for a 12 season long "Idiocracy: the series".
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That's the goal!
That is a hilarious point. They do hook up on occasion
I've been using some AI for evaluating company pitches and just digging details out of the diligence process. This is exciting.

Hard to see how AI can identify if the company is really innovative, novel. Or if it's a disruptive tech. How could AI even see that?

How can AI help determine the coachability of the team?

These seem like judgement calls that only humans can make.
> Only to spend the next year systematically restoring most of those pieces of complexity as whoever was on pager duty that week got to experience a high-pressure object lesson in why some design quirk of the original existed in the first place.

Just to emphasize the point: even if it's not obvious why there is a line of code, it should at least be obvious that the line of code does something. It's important to find out what that something is and remember it for a refactor. At the very least, the knowledge could help you figure out a bug a day or two before you decide to pore over every line in the diff.
20£ per month is a pretty steep subscription
1. According to anyone paying attention. Again, if you actually look at the media coverage and what GOP members choose to talk about, it's mostly penis and crack.

Does penis and crack relate to democracy? No. Then this is objective. Additionally, Hunter is not even in politics. I mean, come ON now.

2. It was not "debunked". Many people believed that's what he said, and they spread that information around - this is called misinformation.

This isn't the only misinformation around Covid. There were people saying masks kills brain cells because of CO2 (false). There were people saying masks don't work and raise your risk of Covid (false). There were people saying the Covid vaccine makes you more likely to get Covid (false). There were people saying there are microchips in the Covid vaccine (false). And on and on.

Nobody is trying to censor conservatives. It's just that, well, 99% of the people saying this stuff are conservative. So where does that leave us?

> It's not playing stupid, you're just not getting a free pass with this sort of rhetoric.

No, it's playing stupid. None of this is groundbreaking information and I know that you already know it. If I have to tell you things you already know, that means you're playing stupid.