skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you producing? Or are you learning?

> AI makes me at least 2x more efficient at my job. It seems irrational not to use it

Fair, but there is a corollary here -- the purpose of learning at least in part is to prepare you for the workforce. If that is the case, then one of the things students need to get good at is conversing with LLMs, because they will need to do so to be competitive in the workplace. I find it somewhat analogous to the advent of being able to do research on the internet, which I experienced as an early 90s kid, where everyone was saying "now they won't know how to do research anymore, they won't know the Dewey decimal system, oh no!". Now the last vestiges of physical libraries being a place where you even can conduct up-to-date research on most topics are crumbling, and research _just is_ largely done online in some form or another.

Same thing will likely happen with LLMs, especially as they improve in quality and accuracy over the next decade, and whether we like it or not.
It's a sad day for our community
The USA has an adversarial legal system. Jones and his lawyers didn't do anything that they could have done to prevent this.

My understanding is that the suit against Jones was pretty standard in what damages it asked for, and that defendants (Jones in this case) are giving every opportunity to negotiate and legally lessen the damages. Jones' lawyers did not do this, apparently at his direction. Jones also refused to produce evidence that is always traded between parties in suits like this. There was a "Perry Mason" moment when Jones was on the stand testifying that revealed (due to an incredible screw up by his lawyers) that Jones had apparently withheld info he should have disclosed during discovery.

Basically, he directed his lawyers to do nothing, and they did so. The size of the judgement is statutory. It's not that there was a governmental thumb on the scale, it's that Jones and his lawyers didn't do anything to scale it down, or even do much to contradict the plaintiff's claims.
'spectral fingerprint' atlas of satellites aims to improve space security
Yes, but that is not the point. The point is it was a favorite attack point used by Brexit supporters. A whole lot of the accusations against the EU applied just as much - sometimes much more - to the UK itself.
I think the main problem with looking and identifying ghost jobs is that we categorize them wrong when measuring the economy and "the number of jobs out there" we need a mechanism where a place reports to the government what they actually need for headcount. Maybe they need to do some sort of weighted average of number of job openings vs EDITBA or something.
I always got the feeling that the distributions were different for men and women. Male professionals seem to be normally distributed, with a lot of mediocrity, some excellence, and some incompetence. In women, the mediocrity part of the population seems to be missing, so the distribution looks more bimodal.

If that's actually the case and not just a warped perception on my part, it could easily happen that, depending on your own skill-level and environment, you'll be more likely to work with one of the two groups in the bimodal distribution.
Also discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136327 (nbcnews.com)

And here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136259 (nytimes.com)

And here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136590 (theguardian.com)
This reminded me of the first(?) sub-pixel typeface (by Miha as posted on Typophile in 2009) https://adamnorwood.com/notes/typophile-user-miha-is-doing-s...

And the first sub-pixel font Millitext from 2008, as mentioned in another comment.
Love it. I love when AI gets angry and shows a bit of emotion.

Humans are overrated.
Most people get on with life without inventing much new stuff themselves. It was interesting trekking in Nepal that you could go to places without electricity or cars and life went on really quite similar to before and probably still does. Though they may have got solar electric and phones now - not quite sure of the latest status.
How can you protest something that's not officially happening? It's just an SMO after all. Honestly you and all your bot account friends should just go crawl back into whatever kremlin gutter you came out of.

Maybe one day you'll learn to get off your knees.
The amount of money versus the damage
char (*(*x[3])())[5]

I'm more of the mindset that writing something like this is probably a code smell to begin with. Is there any reason I'm not thinking of right now, that this couldn't be typedef'd and refactored into something far more readable?

C gets a lot of blame for pointer gibberish like this but quite honestly you can write gibberish in any language. I don't see any fundamental or technical reason you couldn't write clean, readable C.
What benefit do you hope to realize from distributing via the App Store? They aren't going to handle payments for you. They won't market your app for you.
Prob everyone is usually AI at this point, only a few bother to make the solution mor human-made-like.
Personally, there is not way I am writing boilerplate again unless you are paying me hourly for the test.
fly.io actually requires credit card nowadays.
May you be at peace where ever you are.
The past 10 years feels surreal...
You think the world has gotten dumber? By the numbers it’s smarter even if it’s unevenly distributed and less smart than people’s vain sense of cultural identity leads them to believe.

For example; ~15% in the US have earned more than a bachelor’s. While public polls show people believe close to 50% have a PhD. Close to 50% have a bachelors.

So the majority misunderstand ground truth but understand how to abstractly find the answer.

Seems better to have people know how to count their way out of a bag and miss some inane specific than everyone being actually uneducated.
C++/Rust Interoperability Problem Statement
I agree, but I want to add the unofficial FAQ maintained by minimaxir https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Yeah, I mean it's pretty silly to declare something "the worst song of all time" - everyone has their personal taste and their own personal songs they love to hate. For me, it's (of course) Wham's Last Christmas and I Will Always Love You (sorry Whitney, but back in the 90s when I was watching a lot of MTV, listening to a lot of radio, and ads for Bodyguard were all over the place, I seem to have developed an allergy to this song).

And BTW, I wouldn't even call this the quintessential 80s song, for me that's Stevie Wonder's I Just Called to Say I Love You, with that cheapo synthesizer bleeping along in the background. Oh well, to quote Calvin Harris, it was "acceptable in the 80s"...
we go into debt 2T every year without the extra money I would argue a lot of the nice to haves get cut from people's budgets.

where do you think Netflix and google ads fit in Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

Also, big tech had a huge amount of jobs cuts recently.
It was a favorite of mine as a kid. I can still sing the whole thing, including the radio DJ part.

But I also liked Styx. So.

I probably would have liked Rush then too, but wasn’t really exposed to them until later, so they remain in the pile of culture-things I’ll simply never understand.
Worth checking other discussions of the issues:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Ghost%20Jobs&sort=byDate&type=...
Really curious what the bidding was like or who else made an offer, since it seems that the Sandy Hook Victims (who own all of the debt?) wanted the sale to The Onion specifically
They'd better think twice as long as Ted Kaczynski remains on The Onions editorial board[1], he also knows a few things about splitting things into multiple solids.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/iNDpZt2.png
Obligatory mention of Shedskin¹, which is an honest to goodness Python3 to C++ transpiler.

1: https://shedskin.github.io/

Edit: wonder if the contributor John Nagle is that John Nagle...
I think the Babylon Bee has been a good replacement.
What meritocracy? It's not about meritocracy at all, the talent flocks to what makes most money because that's the whole incentive of the system. Only a few of the talented ones are not attracted by that and have their own desires to fulfill which they can apply their talents to.
The damage is tremendous, there are still people that are radicalized by it and spouting his lies today. Doesn’t sound like an unreasonable amount of money to me. What is unreasonable about the amount of money, what should have it been?
it absolutely can not, satire is protected under the first amendment and there are piles of precedence
I'd chip in just to have that shit destroyed and see them selling onions instead.
Better arguments prevail only works when participants argue in good faith grounded in curiously, evidence and reason. The guy who flips the table isn't proposing a novel gaming strategy, you just kick him out of board game club.
As a paying customer for the last five years, I can’t wait for an alternative that also allows inline adaptations of the translations, like DeepL does. The quality of the translations is worse now than in the beginning and the customer service is abysmal, should you have a problem
In the games I make I always track positions at a subpixel level and then I can choose whether or not to draw things with that accuracy depending on my needs. I might want a shape to move more smoothly at a sub-pixel level, or round things to whole pixels. Both ways are useful for different reasons or in different situations.
> we have to be careful to keep it up to date; if we fail to take down a message that no longer applies, it confuses her.

Could tweak the UI to add an expiration date on the initial input screen, with a sensible default (maybe 2 weeks?)
Great point! When The Onion starts making threats against survivors and relatives of school shootings, they should also face defamation lawsuits.
The funniest thing would be to keep running the site as-is but swap out the insanity for stuff that reads like insanity but is legit or morally sound. The audience might not notice, and could (IMHO) easily be duped into supporting good causes!
There's no VC money in Europe, you have to be profitable early on
> As for the vitamins and supplements, we are halting their sale immediately. Utilitarian logic dictates that if we can extend even one CEO’s life by 10 minutes, diluting these miracle elixirs for public consumption is an unethical waste. Instead, we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal.*
I implemented Keras in Production in 2019 (Computer Vision Classification for Fraud Detection) in my previous employer and I got in touch with the current team, they are happy and still using it in production with small updates only (security updates).

In our case, we made some ensembling with several small models using Keras. Our secret sauce at that time was in the specificity of our data and the labeling.
Is everyone ignoring the fact that companies do this to make themselves look bigger than they are compared to the competition and/or to pretend economic success?
I think this is the one that broke Time Machine for everyone with a third-party firewall wall
Yeah, and I thought Altman + Tan was good https://youtu.be/xXCBz_8hM9w
I'm not aware of him suggesting people harass anybody. There's a wide line between saying crazy things and calling people to take specific action against specific people.
>The trend could be due to the low marginal cost of posting additional job ads and to maintain a pipeline of talents. After adjusting for yearly trends, I find that ghost jobs can explain the recent disconnect in the Beveridge Curve in the past fifteen years. The results show that policy-makers should be aware of such a practice as it causes significant job fatigue and distorts market signals.

Very interesting.

I certainly have "gotten" what I thought was a ghost job. I went through the whole process ... they "wanted" to hire me. But didn't actually have a start date / couldn't actually hire me. For everyone involved though they seemed to be able to justify posting the job, interviews, because IMO, it made THEM look busy / effective.

The whole hiring people industrial complex seems oriented to be focused on the process of hiring (high fives for ever more complex hiring processes / delays) ... and not at all on the outcome (did we hire someone, were they good?).

It's the ultimate system where simply doing anything is "success" / and more processes rewarded, and there's almost no good measureless about outcomes for the company.
The media seems to think the great resignation has ended, but really it’s just that jobs have dried up. Professionals, especially good ones, are eager to leave their current jobs, but the pool is so small, there’s just nowhere to go.

And with so many people looking for new positions, if you’re not highly keyword targeted, you won’t go anywhere.
There are SaaS products for managing sales/compliance/billing for just about every licensed profession that deals directly with customers. I regularly get emails that are "from" my HVAC contractor or optometrist, but are obviously sent by a SaaS.
I made an AI for podcasters better than ChatGPT
Looking Glass: "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" occupies that space in my brain.
AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it
I'd be surprised if there weren't any safeguards to prevent Infowars from posting hate ever again.
Both ghost jobs and opportunistic hiring should ideally be labeled as such. Nothing wrong with opportunistic hiring but without a label as such it most definitely distorts the market signals, especially if the ratio of such posting to real postings that will be filled is as high as paper suggests
The Onion is truly a national treasure.
No, look. If a student (I'm not a professor, just a post-doc) doesn't know this stuff, I'll point them to the book so they can look it up, and move on. But the student will not tell me I'm "not even wrong" with the arrogance of fifty cardinals while at the same time pretending to be an expert [1]. It's OK to not know, it's OK to not know that you don't know, but arrogant ignorance is not a good look on anyone.

And there's a limit to what you need to look up in a book. The limit moves further up the more you work with a certain kind of tool or study a certain kind of knowledge. I have to look up trigonometry every single time I need it because I only use it sparingly. I don't need to look up SLD-Resolution, which is my main subject. How much would Feynman need to look up when debating physics?

So when someone like Feynman talks about physics, you listen carefully because you know they know their shit and a certain kind of nerd deeply appreciates deep knowledge. When someone elbows themselves in the limelight and demands everyone treats them as an expert, but they don't know the basics, what do you conclude? I conclude that they're pretending to know a bunch of stuff they don't know.

________________

[1] ... some do. But they're students so it's OK, they're just excited to have learned so much and don't yet know how much they don't. You explain the mistake, point them to the book, and move on.
Pimeroni has a selection of eink displays up to 7.3" including some with various buttons and LEDs to make whatever you'd like. https://shop.pimoroni.com/search?q=inky

All boox tablet/e-readers just run Android. They can do literally anything Android can for folks asking about the loading and displaying of the web page. There are several "kiosk" apps and browsers with kiosk modes. Also fairly expensive Android automation tools.
The biggest benefit I'm looking for is one-click install for non-technical users who (as I understand) would otherwise be faced with the "unknown developer" warning and would need to be directed to these steps -
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mh40616/mac

I should really emphasize that the target market for this app (eventually) isn't developers or hackers, it's artists, musicians, and event hosts who want something much simpler than the existing paid options.
That's a really good point. It's public data, so it's also a way for investors to gage success.
macOS Sequoia "autocorrects" .sql extension to .sql.s
Algorithmic governance
In psychology memory is divided up into various groupings depending on what people are interested in, e.g. explicit (remembering that Paris is the capital of France) and implicit (remembering how to ride a bike). You can further subdivide explicit into semantic (Paris is the capital of France) and episodic (events that you have experienced), and implicit into procedural (how to ride a bike) and emotional conditioning (memories of feelings). Those categories aren't related to neurophysiology though, which is where I think it gets really interesting because I doubt matches those rather Platonic categories.
Well, it moves the claim. Now the dictatorial power lies with the jury.

The normal corrective for such a thing is to appeal the amount of the award, on the grounds that it is clearly unreasonable. For Alex Jones, it probably didn't matter - he was bankrupt either way, so the extreme amount of the award is just a middle finger from the jury, with no practical effect.
Some IT service corporations that are known for a very high employee churn rates often post the same position a dozen times, for each of their office locations.

Sometimes it's a 100% remote job, and they still post it multiple times with different locations.

They probably litter job portals this way so that they can compensate for the frequent personell changes. They are impossible to miss.
I've been reading it for 20 years and it's as good as it's ever been

https://theonion.com/biden-trump-die-2-minutes-apart-holding...
Cost and Usage reports tells you what services you are paying for and which regions they are in, but doesn't give you a list of resources themselves.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Being funny is great, but for years people will continue to go to the website not knowing what has transpired.
Show HN: Unin – A platform where recruiters find you
Did your old mini have FileVault enabled?
Anil is a given first name, maybe just not in your culture.
And growth.

It’s a pretty bad signal if your series B startup isn’t hiring actively all the time.
Does privacy still matter in crypto trading bots?
I’ve been working on Gunbot, a locally installed crypto trading bot, and I’ve always prioritized privacy and control for the users. As cloud-based bots become more mainstream, I’m curious if privacy is still a significant factor for traders. Does anyone still prefer running a bot locally on their own device for privacy reasons, or has convenience with cloud solutions completely taken over the market?
I have to put out a ghost job req and interview every person applying within reason for every green card a direct report is applying for. I have to show there are or aren’t any residents or citizens that can fill the job

The main problem is: even if the interviewee knocks it out of the park, is an amazing engineer, I still am not interested in firing my OPT/h1b team member who can still legally work for 2-3 years. So while I will deny their green card application and not submit it, I also won’t hire the interviewee
Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742M years ago
Spotify is actively trying to enshittify the podcast ecosystem, so you’ve jumped from one bad actor to another.

I’ve found that Apple Music and Tidal are both superior to it anyway (and you can automatically move your library between those three services, and more).

I prefer Tidal because the recommendations are ridiculously good for niche genres. I think they take things like producers, labels, etc into account.
This 2016 article (posted on the song's 30th anniversary... we're now coming up for its 40th anniversary) is too old to note the LadBaby cover: We Built This City on Sausage Rolls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iEB8bfP7wE

"Worst Song of All Time" or not, it's still an immensely popular song. If you want to poke fun at the 80s and their obsession with synths, poke fun at Scritti Politi instead! (e.g. Boom! There She Was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QmDUkxAHgQ)

Meanwhile, the feeling of that 80s synth sound has been reimagined by modern composers, giving us synthwave and all its spinoff genres, and music videos made with an AfterEffects "VHS" plugin, like Turbo Killer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er416Ad3R1g
Not Satire: The Onion Acquires Infowars
Your team doesn’t post the ghost job, the HR or talent team does. There’s a variety of reasons why they do it.

Low quality postings are often just there for compliance purposes to justify visas. Less ethical companies may casually mention to outside HR people that folks are applying.

It happens all of the time.
Are you as confident about the 22nd?
Sure, also HR needs to do this to look busy. They will sell management on doing this instead of being downsized themselves.
Congratulations on the kid!
The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast
> Whether this is actually true or not (and I haven't looked into)

sounds about right
I'm very excited this has come to fruition!

PyPI's user docs[1] have some more details, as does the underlying PEP[2].

[1]: https://docs.pypi.org/attestations/

[2]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0740/
A question I've had on my mind for a while now, watching this progression of fake or poisoned jobs, and miles of automatic systems to navigate:

At what point do people consider the well poisoned? Where they just check out and stop applying, to specific companies or in general, because its very very obvious that there isnt actually a valid hiring market at all.

I ask this question, because I've already passed this threshold, and have instead devoted the maximum of my time to personal ventures.
Yes, but not to the point of melting in this case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction_stir_welding

> Friction stir welding (FSW) is a solid-state joining process that uses a non-consumable tool to join two facing workpieces without melting the workpiece material.[1][2] Heat is generated by friction between the rotating tool and the workpiece material, which leads to a softened region near the FSW tool. While the tool is traversed along the joint line, it mechanically intermixes the two pieces of metal, and forges the hot and softened metal by the mechanical pressure, which is applied by the tool, much like joining clay, or dough.
Right. It is all about the team's level of selectiveness at that moment, which does ebb and flow over time.
in the modern world extra network hops, novel userland network stacks, and additional cycles of decrypted/re-encrypting traffic make your apps go faster, not slower.
> give us hard spend limits. Then offer a way to set those limits during onboarding

GCP requires this when you set up a new project. GCP deserves as much credit as AWS does scorn.
In what universe is "We built this City" the worst song ever? I love that song. Awesome bit of 80s power pop.

I'd rather hear We built this City 10 times in a row than any 10 songs of Taylor Swift's. How about that?
On the hiring side of this, we receive a _ton_ of resumes that have no experience in the technologies we're hiring for. Each day there are 5-10 automated resume submissions to our job portal for a single position, and we're a fairly small company. Perhaps hiring managers are both being (more) selective and becoming overloaded with the amount of AI/recruiter-sanitized resumes coming in as well.
Well it's your lucky day, they're working on rearchitecting cups to be, among other things, more secure. See https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/presentatio...
I'm watching his stream just to see how the drama goes down and a silly tech-adjacent bit popped up when he started ranting about Linux and how if "they" were trying to take Linus Torvalds down, they still couldn't ever own Linux!