skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all fully explained by salaries going up, and the pool of young applicants getting bigger faster than the number of jobs available, while the pool of highly qualified applicants remains small. Jobs at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, are all legitimately competitive, and because more people are applying, those companies have the freedom to be choosier and the incentive to compete for the good ones. Because salaries have gone up (or even simply the perception of salaries), and because salaries are high compared to other jobs, more and more bright-eyed kids are hoping to punch above their weight in interviews, which is why companies are flooded with low-quality applications and don’t have a choice about needing to sift them efficiently.

This is the natural state of a competitive environment, and interviews will get “better” for candidates when there are more jobs than good candidates. But be careful what you wish for; if the job market gets less competitive for candidates, salaries and benefits and working conditions go with it.

While there might be some truth it to, framing it as an arms race is a mentality that will not help the average candidate, and might do them harm. Employers always have and always will want to pay as little as possible, obviously, that’s the definition of a company. But they do actually compete with each other for good talent, and they do pay a lot relative to other jobs, and some companies’ definitions of pay as little as possible is still to pay enough that employees are well compensated and don’t leave.
The problem with the "try a lot of projects, see what works" is that you lose out on exponential growth every time a project fails.

A lot of people would be better off doing "intra-preneurship", meaning trying to innovate and strategize within their current company to make the job more fun, gain more autonomy, and advance their career prospects.
Being single for a couple years isn’t the end of the world. Besides, he’s in the climbing community, which (at least from the outside) appears to be chock full of barely-employed attractive men and women who all sleep with each other.
I'm pretty sure you could do something with TOTP yourself, Keepass allows you to make arbitrary ones.
Peesonally im a Typing Mind user but it got too slow and buggy with long cbaglts. Ended up with boltai which is a natice mac app and found it very good after months of heavy use. I think it could also improve navigation coloring or iconography to help distinguish chats better but its my favorite so far.
I do something similar but pipe a dump of the whole db with pg_dump into restic. Only works well for small to medium sized DBs.
I point it out because he's leaving out a very important part of his story. He's come to the end of 2024 with no money left and no stable income, yet he talks about continuing on more of the same in 2025, so he's got to have some other significant support from somewhere, and that's critical to his story. In my mind the better analogy is fitness influencers that go into detail about their diet and exercise regimen, and then conveniently leave out their weekly testosterone shots.

I don't judge him at all for being privileged or what he's done. I judge him for leaving out what I think is the most important part of the story: how he could go on this journey and come to a point where he's got no money left but he isn't freaking out about being homeless or getting food.
Okay thank you that is certainly a good feature to have and might have that in the backlog somewhere. Much appreciated
Clay Shirky: Bluesky Is Different from X. For Now
attracting capable engineers building a reliable product would require that the employer ensures they get to work with an interesting & modern tech stack (e.g. regardless what one thinks of Rust or Nix).

Whether Rust is mandatory to create defense Tech, that decision might have been influenced by many factors that apply also to any other start-up (time to market, access to talent, maturity of the ecosystem, skill distribution in founding team, etc)
https://archive.ph/NqM1H
There's a good alternative for everything google does except Youtube - and if you are looked out of a consumer (not creator) youtube account, you can always just create it a new one. For the creators, make sure you are building views on other platforms so no one can ice you out.
Two years ago Altman made clear that progress needs more than model scale / parameter count to scale.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mlscaling/comments/12mktym/sam_altm...

This summer he made a comment saying "we can make GPTs 5,6,7 more powerful" and someone editorialized it as being "via parameter count/scale" which he didn't say.
> The skills built up by European carmakers over decades are simply not directly transferrable.

Germany does have a giant, excellent chemistry industry.

> China's interest in batteries is not a recent trend. It has been investing in their production for many, many years. It has been attempting to dominate not just the production of cells but also of the cathodes and anodes that go inside them - not to mention the chemicals used to make those electrodes. It has been firming up the entire supply chain - all the way down to the mines. And while you can find only so much lithium and cobalt in China, Chinese firms have been buying up mines in Africa and elsewhere for years.

The fun thing is that the west saw it coming and didn't try particularly hard to forestall it. Consistent, long term industrial policy is very effective.
verboten!
> how gigantic $100 billion models are all you need for AGI and that it’s just a matter of time until we reach this scale

> Obviously massive models aren’t enough to get to AGI, but all we have to do is scale up inference time compute and we’ll get there!”

Corporate wants you to tell the difference between these two pictures...

Obviously the latter was a step required to make former work. Always has been.
It seems like democracy is not as good as it used to be because of online bubbles and personalized/targeted media. Propaganda has levelled up.

Despite this, "democracy is still the worst system of government we know of... except for all the other ones" is still true.

We need to get better at it though because it's not trending in a good direction at the moment. Because it is and will likely always be the best option, we should really be making sure that it works as well as possible and produces the best quality results.
Did we read the same article? This guy is spending his time learning music, mastering a sport, spending time with close friends, and your takeaway is “he should be grinding away at a corporate like everyone else”?

There’s a lot of different ways to live. Personally I like taking periods of voluntary unemployment to explore other interests. Finding a job after has never been a problem.

A large percentage of the population has at least some safety net. Probably the average 25 year old could move back in with their parents for a year if things got really bad.
It is cynical, but quality over quantity is bad advice if you want to grow your career as a manager. It's a real failure mode. Not being aggressive about growing your headcount will hold you back. Pretty much all managers are evaluated on amount of headcount when it comes to promotions, especially if you're not tied to P&L.
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 dev 6
It's funny because LLMs are now also using diffusion.
Ah thank you, I modified it away from scraper (just thought that would help people understand how it functioned)
My Samsung s24 ultra chugs at like 10fps or lower when scrolling on this site. Needless to say I won't be taking recommendations from the author, if I can't use their website smoothly on one of the most Powerful phones on the market.
I wonder: if a LLM can answer typical interview question better than a human, what kind of questions should we ask so that using a LLM becomes worthless? Something that LLMs are forbidden to talk about? Something that LLM doesn't know well?

In my experience, LLMs are pretty bad with low-level languages like Rust/C when you need to deal with pointers and ownership, avoid extra copies.

Another option is to ask for something impossible, as LLMs usually do not admit inability to solve the problem and prefer to hallucinate a fictional solution.
yes i wasnt specific. however, most city recycling is just plastic and sometimes but not always paper.

the majority of city recycling is a waste.
> who just went through the process and got hired.

You say that as if there's The One True Interview Routine™ and it doesn't change from team to team, person to person, month to month. I actually would bet that no single organization interviews with the consistency you're describing, not even FAANG with their holier-than-thou grinders

If it wasn't such a monster drain on human productivity, I think it'd be funny if there was "rolling interviews" where each new hire got to send prior hires though "the process" on the yearly anniversary of those prior hires
For those who want something similar but for YouTube, there's DeArrow, to eschew clickbait thumbnails and titles and replace them with crowdsourced ones.
Semantic Pinching
What if you can pinch your screen to turn an article into an emoji, and reverse?

I made a fun, simple prototype that uses LLMs + gesture recognition to transform text between different levels of abstractions: emoji ↔ word ↔ sentence ↔ paragraph ↔ article

Demo here: https://semanticpinching.vercel.app

Code here: https://github.com/chuanenlin/semanticpinching

Transforming between modalities could also be interesting: emoji ↔ text ↔ image ↔ video

- emoji → text: LLM

- text → image: image generation

- image → video: video generation

- video → image: highlight detection

- image → text: image captioning

- text → emoji: LLM

Please let me know your thoughts!
Five years for illegal arms trafficking while pot smokers get the book thrown at them. Sometimes I think the US needs a federalized/nationalized police system—I think there would be fewer instances of reluctant prosecution if the cops were not from the local area.
Can anyone help decipher this, in terms of the concerns about owning my own computer and controlling what happens?

I intuitively distrust any vendor pushing this kind of requirement. This was probably caused by reading Slashdot back when the first TPM modules were introduced!
This is the tech equivalent of ‘my year of rest and relaxation’, enjoyable to read with talk of sports and projects. I think I will try this after my current job runs its course.
jobfunnel is FOSS and accepting contributions: https://github.com/PaulMcInnis/JobFunnel

Currently supports indeed, in the past supported glassdoor and others.
Thanks.dev
The scrolling lag also makes it unsuable on Firefox mobile, my s24 ultra chugs hard on the top part of the website...
Who says I’m offended?
Ok fair. Some devs do not respond well to advice and consider it just as condescending. Most I've worked with aren't like this though. Yes, we should use our own judgement.

My response is based on my own experiences with management that are incapable of moving the needle on anything, rarely have any constructive input, and ultimately cause their team to either quit or be fired. Then they themselves get pressured to quit.

It's very obvious to devs when someone delegating couldn't even do the work themselves or would do an even sloppier job. It's one thing to expect higher performance, but quite another to demand it while spending all day in meetings giving limp wristed handshakes and bullshitting their way through every question they get from anyone.

I understand that it's already hard enough to hire good devs let alone promote one into management. I'm suggesting how an organization goes about making and promoting those people from within. This industry cannot go on like this. I don't care if someone isn't perfect when I hire them, but I do care that everyone wins.
Strategic lawsuit against public participation
If I may ask, what type of use cases are there for which a graph database is well suited?

I could imagine there to be a few (that I can't think of and haven't seen). I have seen graph databases used where they didn't make sense though.
It’s not binary. Humans generate plenty of knowledge from pure abstract thought.
I have encountered the following interface in a real productive code base:

interface ILoadData<In, Out> {

Out Get(In input);

}

So essentially this says that to implement this interface you must have a function that takes in something (you decide!) and outputs something (you decide!) and it's called Get. Totally useless.
> It is a BASIC based language

By which they mean Object Pascal, but I suppose expecting a line-number BASIC these days is a bit much.
What browser are you using? My phone is a fair bit older and downmarket than that and has no issues.
Just: Just a Command Runner
How do you find out this information? Are there any websites that publish this information? Are these websites reliable/reputable ? Thanks!!!
Exactly, when you pass laws that create a marketplace for a product which is legally available just over the state line from California, and then exempt one class of citizen from the enforcement of those laws, this is the predictable result. The California law in question has always allowed police to sell those firearms to civilians.
What browser you are using. BTW it takes 5 seconds to show.
Standard exemption in the US for a married couple is around $30k. If your mortgage is so massive that the mortgage tax deduction is better than the standard deduction then in most cases you bought a far too luxurious house or in a far too “prestigious” location(SF, NYC, etc.). If you’re not already a millionaire you shouldn’t buy such property.
“They can’t buy from you until they are in your store.”
Unless you have a long list of eager clients, an initial meeting is about selling your expertise rather than assessing the client. For many potential customers, especially those on the fence, even a small fee will discourage them from reaching out. Instead, consider making the first meeting free and using it to showcase your value, win clients, and get referrals.
Interesting. This page is easily max framerate on my Pixel 4a, which I'd expect since the effects should be hardware accelerated fairly easily...
Creating and maintaining popular open source software seems like a reasonable criterion for deciding between two otherwise-similar candidates for a software development role.
> Russia built up its invasion troops months before attempting the invasion

In direct response to an official declaration of military action by Zelensky against legal Russian territory [1]. Sevestapol is a Russian city according to Ukranian law. When Russia did invade, it struck hardest at the neo-Nazi Azov battalion which was massing in Mariupol preparing to invade Sevestapol or outmaneuver a Russian counterattack.

Why do you consistently ignore these crucial facts, but for that they undermine the political narrative you are tirelessly pushing? You write many verbose comments on this matter but clearly don't have a handle on the basic facts beyond the same tired, opinionated talking points we've all heard a million times.

[1] - https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/1172021-37533
Heat disproportionately kills young people:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/06/young-adults...
I guess FAANGs in particular have rather messy recruitment due to the amount of applicants, but my experience is from a giant multinational, talking hundreds of thousands of employees globally here, not "small" by any stretch.
Wow I hope that's temporary - I looked at the site less than a month ago and it was still up.
I find it hard to take anything seriously where "imposter syndrom" is mentioned. That said, I think having full time managers at all is a mistake. This was discussed in detail in this podcast: https://37signals.com/podcast/everybody-works/
First, this was way longer than anyone not involved in those events organization would read. I'm on the board of open source projects and had a hard time keeping interested even though this is a topic very close to heart.

But the little i got out of it is that defense is a good patron and nothing else matters. That Nix is a bunch of either conscientious humans or sensitive liberals (depending on who you ask, i'm on the first group if you care), and that rust was always about the missiles anyway. Did I get it better than an AI?
It can't, that's why I said it's deficient when it comes to healthcare. Market forces are good at balancing capital allocations in general.
fwiw i'm surprised by the downvotes too (and upvoted it to compensate). that said, complaining about downvotes is usually frowned upon here.
I would rather have my data collected by CCP, that has no influence on my life, than various American 3 letter agencies directly wired into Instagram servers.
Suggestions:

1. Maybe explain what Chat
Embedding
Image generation
Completion
Audio transcription
TTS (Text To Speech) means?

2. Put a running number on the left, or at least just show total?
What sort of manager work was ignored?
Ugh:

The process might be akin to a chess-playing AI playing a million games to learn optimal strategies, Subbarao Kambhampati, a computer scientist at Arizona State University, told me. Or perhaps a rat that, having run 10,000 mazes, develops a good strategy for choosing among forking paths and doubling back at dead ends.

Lab rats don’t run 10,000 mazes! They don’t live nearly long enough for that. They run less than a dozen, and seem to have a good strategy “baked in” as part of their spatial reasoning abilities. What Wong is really saying here is that o1 is like a very slow and stupid rat which cannot actually reason about anything.

The way AI constantly ignores and trivializes animal intelligence - a trend dating all the way back to Alan Turing - is in my view the root cause of AI winters, including the one coming in the next year or so. Investors don’t want to ask “is this thing actually smarter than a fish?” and executives don’t want to know the answer.
It's a search problem.

By definition, an infinite game is as boring as real life. To make it interesting, the engine must be able to search for a good story based on player actions. You can see this today already. Many games will guide the player into one or a few predefined stories. A better game would not have them predefined, but generated on-the-fly based on player actions.
Phi Silica, small but mighty on-device SLM
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and hearsay and unnamed "statistical estimates" are hardly extraordinary.

The claim is definitely extraordinary since both wars are extensively documented, and we just know (like, we have verifiable videos) that Russia has much, much less regard for civilian casualties, employs much less precise fires, and Ukraine is more populous and dense than Iraq.

Besides, the numbers I could find are the other way around. This study [1] estimates 3,750 civilian deaths in Iraq, and this UN report [2] says 10,582 recorded civilian deaths (that is, it's definitely an undercount, unlike the estimation in Iraq).

[1]: https://www.comw.org/pda/0310rm8.html#3.3.%20Total%20Iraqi%2...

[2]: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/two-year-u...
No, it's not. You can see the screen here. It's clearly optional. If anything, people complain they see it too often.

But don't click yes if you spend time nude in your garage like the people in the original claim.

https://www.teslaownersonline.com/threads/data-sharing-scree...
How Chardet Works
this seems mostly about VW, a company that is both a huge presence in the EU economy and probably irrevocably f---ed

VW is slowly vanishing from US markets (EV or ICE) and tried to enter the Chinese market only to get the crap kicked out of it

I'd mention Stellantis which is also mostly an EU company now, but they are so screwed at this point it isn't even sporting
OP's point is orthogonal to whatever legal regime is in effect. OP's point was that fraudulent claims are at a residual level. If anything, general insurance is expected to have higher rates of fraudulent claims than health insurance.
In other words, the parents protect the kid from real life. No thanks.
I'm not sure why journalists continually feel the need to ruin their own credibility with this sort of hyperbolic nonsense, but the overall story seems legit.
I wouldn’t say it’s instant. These kinds of models have been out for at least 6 years (depending on if you think BERT, or GPT-2, or whatever is the first).

Their capabilities and short comings, at least in a general sense, are pretty well known.
Going in the wrong direction: we need more LOCALized police force ao that local community's needs get met FIRSTLY.
Luma Photon
> Because Elon lied to humanity about their mission, in order to secure his position.

Setting aside feelings about Elon and whether he misled anyone about the mission of SpaceX, saying "Our mission is to put humans on Mars" didn't help secure any position, except some popularity with the Mars Society, sci-fi fans and nerds. It certainly didn't help SpaceX get financial support from big money hedge funds, governments, Wall Street analysts or NASA administrators.

If anything, setting a goal of what was then only a nerd fever dream, and which even today has no clear path to profitability, hurt SpaceX's early position substantially. The only thing that eventually turned around that "screwball billionaire blowing his money on a vanity project" perception was developing a launch system able to deliver orbital payloads at a dramatically lower cost per pound than anyone else.

As to whether Elon misled anyone about SpaceX's long-term Mars goal, anyone who listened to his in-depth interviews from early on heard him repeatedly say that getting there would first require making SpaceX a highly profitable commercial enterprise because Elon didn't have enough money himself, NASA payloads alone wouldn't be enough and government can't tax a meaningful portion of GDP only to spend it on a goal most people don't value much. Even if Elon hadn't said it, it was already obvious to anyone who understands how government, finance and funding multi-billion dollar projects work. There's no other realistic way it could happen. Starlink and payload delivery are on track to make SpaceX profitable, so how was anyone misled about SpaceX's objectives?

Personally, Elon's Mars talk turned me off too. While a permanent Mars colony is inspirational for sci-fi fans and Singularity types, there are much more productive things to focus on first if the goal is to accelerate humans becoming a space-faring species. The hardest part is lifting large amounts of mass out of this planet's gravity well economically. To then immediately go drop that astronomically expensive mass down another planet's gravity well seems kind of... unproductive?
> I am sympathetic to the argument that software engineers should be licensed, which would reduce the need for dumb technical interviews. But I imagine HN wouldn't like that very much.

Oh yea, HN hates this idea, but I'm sure it would cut down on all the screening, FizzBuzz, hazing that happens during interviews. If you had a - basic, barebones - certification or exam, that all software engineers must pass, that at least says "This candidate can function at a very minimal level" it would at the very least filter out the 50-75% of candidates who literally cannot code or even speak coherently about the basics of programming.

I think people here are really in love with the romantic ideal that someone with no college, no credentials, no formal-this or certified-that can (in theory) jump right into a senior FAANG job. Yea, that's great I guess, but in practice does it really work? It seems to me that in practice, it just means every company gets thousands of totally unqualified candidates every time they post a job offer, and this helps nobody.
That is an excellent suggestion. I have a few mobile devices that could be effectively utilized as a home server. And with Docker, we can deploy a multitude of applications.
> Should not have bought a house. I'm basically screwed

Sell your house. You can't afford it.