skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see several big issues with SWE roles

- it's hard to have a complete career only coding (assuming that you'll still enjoy it at 40-50-60). Ageism is a thing.

- you're extremely dependent on economy. Sure, you can earn $500K+ at FAANG, but you can also get laid off and earn much less. You probably won't earn such high salary for your whole life (see above point)

- SWE not a respected profession. What do you do for a living? I'm a coder VS I'm a doctor.

I'm not saying being a doctor is perfect, it certainly varies. But I feel it's more future proof than SWE. Also it's easy to code as a hobby. Perhaps even more fun than doing it professionally. Another point, in some developed countries, having access to healthcare can be increasingly difficult. If you're in the system, you make it easier for you and your family to get care when you need it.

I hope this guy can do whatever he wants, but I can understand his parents.
Correct. I think of it this way: The reduction rules prescribe an encoding for functions, but don't describe it for other (traditional) data. But there are very canonical choices of course, which the demos on the website follow:
* false := t and true := t t
* Pairs are t first_elem second_elem
* Lists could be encoded as (t first_elem (t second_elem (t third_elem ...))) with empty list being t
* Natural numbers as lists of booleans (LSB first)
* Strings as lists of natural numbers (unicode code points)

These choices will affect what the functions that operate on data look like, concretely.
JavaScript is a very capable language. It has better functional programming support than Java and Python. It has fewer footguns that C++. You can start with a scrappy prototype then gradually add type-checking later. Of the mainstream languages, it's actually one of the better ones!
Collection of cross-platform one-file C/C++ libraries with no dependencies
Important to note that this too big to fail point occurs very quickly in some cases. Non-IT companies are generally very risk/change averse in regards to their IT infrastucture (and for very good reason, see e.g. [1] and [2]). So if you are capable enough to learn their legacy codebase you will be very quickly the only person worldwide capable of maintaining it.

[1] - https://www.cio.com/article/274138/enterprise-resource-plann...

[2] - https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/06/birmingham_erp_budget...
Look, almost every large study has found that bike lanes reduce congestion because, when you get down to it congestion is made up of cars and the only way to have less of it is to reduce the number of cars on the road. Whether that’s biking, transit, carpooling, etc. doesn’t matter as long as you’re reducing the total number of cars – the math of needing over 100 square feet per person is just brutally unforgiving. Urban areas don’t have the space, rural areas usually don’t have the money, and nobody wants the health impacts or pollution.
Thank you!
That's the sort of game that springs to mind for many when we explain the concept, and they were definitely an inspiration for us. This however is a more linear adventure, focused around solving enigmas. No choices and no way to lose. Once you know the answer to the puzzle, like "whose fingerprints are on the gun", you turn the next page and the story continues.
That last point is also important; if it's not surprising, people will just accept it without being too critical about it. And since these AI tools are trained with real / existing content, creating realistic-enough content will be the norm. I think the first big AI generators - dall-e and co - had their model trained on more fantastical / artistic sources, and used that primarily as their model, also because realistic generation (like humans) wasn't yet good enough, or too uncanny. But uncanny and art work well together.
This article is pretty on point with my experience. I'm a "senior technical" manager (of about 60 engineers) and with that comes a ton of responsibility that pulls me away from coding at every turn. I have to be in every call, I have to know everything that's going on and I have to be able to be able to communicate all of this in ways that advocate for the team but also navigate the politics of the organization.

All that said, I often get criticism that I should not be picking up coding tasks every sprint. There seems to be some unwritten rule that remaining a coder is a net negative when you start tickling the upper management ranks. On the one hand I'm told that I need to train the other managers to be more like me and then on the other hand I'm told that I code too much, I'm going to burn out and need to find ways have others do the work.

I personally think being able to do all kinds of coding tasks (prototyping, bug fixes, major time sensitive features, etc) does a lot for me as a manager... the team respects me, I stay close to the code so I can speak about it as well as anyone can and I can contribute to just about anything if the need arises. If I ever get promoted to Director level then I probably will have to step away from coding as an official duty, but I'll happily keep enjoying that part of my job for now.
I tried Mosh but it didn't fit my taste. It tries to "predict" the state of the screen before being acknowledged by the server, but sometimes the prediction is wrong and Mosh reverts the cursor movement and redraws the affected area of the terminal. For example, when I'm using split windows in Vim or tmux, Mosh allows typed characters to overflow beyond the separator, briefly, until being told "no" by the server. Personally I find this behavior very disturbing. Enduring higher lags was more bearable to me.
If people have actually read the article, they will have spotted the bits where patio11 himself has been adversely affected by this at least twice!

> I think he is incentivized to try to make people believe that KYC is beneficial and highly effective

I don't think the article is arguing that at all. It's describing the "system", not endorsing it (and explicitly complaining about it in several places).
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The full part reads

Furthermore, we reserve the right to terminate the contractual relationship without notice for good cause. Such good cause is deemed to exist, among other reasons, if the Customer fails to meet its payment obligations or violates other important customer obligations. A further important reason which may result in us locking or terminating the Customer’s services or account without notice is if the Customer uses content that impairs the regular operating behavior or the security of our infrastructure or our product, or violates paragraphs 8.1. - 8.3. of these Terms and Conditions.
Revealing Hank Green's Sleep Timing Based on Hourly Posting Pattern
He sleeps from 11am to 7p UTC
Source: https://bskyinsights.com/hankgreen.bsky.social

It accomplishes nothing - but it's a fun experiment
I think you're dismissing his points too quickly. Even if he could be biased and his points could be presented better, I still think that, as a rule of thumb, anything past 1000 lines of code should be statically typed. If you don't have static typing, you have to keep track of the types yourself. It works for small scripts, but IMO it scales quite badly.
You would probably want the fall guy to be someone who can't defend themselves easily, like someone with substance abuse issues and prior convictions, not an attractive 26 year old valedictorian with an affluent family.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs surpass Satoshi's estimated 1.1M BTC holdings
TLDRTraditional observability focuses on production environments, while pre-production observability identifies issues earlier in the software development lifecycle, improving quality and accelerating delivery. This approach reduces costs, operational disruptions, and user impact by catching problems before they reach production
Your description reminds me of the opening scene of Blue Velvet.
> My bet is that every browser, search engine, and app is going to get represented by some kind of conversational interface

And how would those LLM:s learn about the world without a web to scrape?
Cannot even quality "It has always been shit, so no problem at it becoming even shittier" as a hot take.
That's a cultural issue that seems to have developed in the past years (decades? idk), where people take their own opinion (or what they think is their own opinion) as unchallengeable gospel.

In my opinion anyway, I'm gonna have to disagree with any counterpoints in advance.
That's the part that baffles me. Whenever something like this happens I re-engineer the planning as a mental exercise. I have never had any interest in offing anybody, but I never understand not having a plan and a basic disguise. The guy had IDs, but he also did nothing to hide his p[articular characteristics. If he had thinned his eyebrows and worn fake glasses and kept his mask on he'd likely still be at large. I would have ditched or reversed the jacket right away and thrown on a hat at the very least.
> per the building code, the propane tank was too close to the house.

I doubt that was a material contribution. It's hard to make inside go boom when the fuel is dumping outside except by freak circumstances (bowl shaped property, wind shadow putting a slight vacuum on the structure, etc).
> Sometimes I did have to run `pacman -Su archlinux-keyring` first to get new keys

That's probably what he meant. He may not have been aware of this command but why should he? This is not something any other distro seems to require.
Just the default one. I tried some alternative keyboards and they are better in some ways but in the end the default keyboard was enough. Termius provides input of some special keys (e.g. Ctrl, Alt, Esc, Tab, Home, End) so that's another reason why the default keyboard is enough.
I wrote a few programs on my HP48GX (which still works perfectly). Programs about Maxwell formulas and Einstein's effects where a little bit more complicated. Not once did I think, "But this is exhausting!". However, I stayed under 1000 lines.

But now, if something gets a little bit more complicated or repetitive in my cozy Neovim environment I think more about how to avoid this with ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf… maybe a restrictive environment is sometimes better to actually build something?
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Scraper of job listings directly from company websites. I found my last day job by using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned it into an app for others to use and access jobs that are posted on company websites (rather than paid employer ads on Indeed or wherever). This gives the job searcher an advantage to find jobs not listed on job search sites and show the company you have taken time/interest to visit their site.
Absolutely right. I would be happy to eat fish once and a while but only if I caught one myself. People imagine it is defensible because (a) the cognitive dissonance is too great for most and (b) industrial civilization has made it so that industrial farming is the only easy way to live.

Some people say, "then go live on a farm and grow it yourself". But the problem is that even today, to get any land, you have to have a lot of money first, which means working to further the system again. There is no recourse for the poor who might even choose a different life if that were an option.
MacBook Pro 2026 to feature OLED displays and hole-punch camera, ditching notch
Close to zero from the DSA given thats how several European cloud providers have acted for the last decade.

Theres certainly other (German) legislation in place that might be relevant, but whats the point of speculating if we can’t blame the EU for it.
Game developer builds a custom VR game engine using Python
Satellite offers clues about what went wrong with the Washington Bridge
Material sciences are generally electromagnetic effects only. I'd be surprised when nuclear changes alters chemistry or engineering in any way that has significance outside of nuclear reactors.

Well, I suppose, radioactive decay is of negative use in chemistry and engineering.
No, because it makes them a target for various frauds.
The Farage situation hardly applies as an example, if at all.

From the linked Wikipedia page:

> NatWest, the owner of Coutts, initially claimed that he failed to meet the Coutts eligibility criteria of holding £1,000,000 or more in his account, following the expiry of his mortgage. NatWest instead offered him an account with the retail side of the bank.

So it's hardly a case of debanking a random Joe. It was only a higher-end account that was closed for not keeping the requirements for keeping it, and Farage was offered a normal account.
My bank uses TOTP with pin.
Sure when the fire expands into other rooms the battery storage may go off too. By that time I hope I'm upwind of the whole debacle. Many "general" fires do not go beyond one room though.
It definitely is. His first example is Assembly. That's like saying someone saying 'don't program in assembly' is being hypocritical because everything they program ends up in assembly.
Have two backups, the most recent data and everything else. Archive data to different databases, e.g. only have the most recent 6 months in a production OLTP database.

"daily test restore is infeasible for anything but toy projects. "

It probably depends on what you call "toy" project. If you work for Google, yes I think everything is a toy project, and you're right. I only worked for ~$200M ARR/1M DAU businesses and restoring was no problem. From your point working for a FAANG business it's a toy project I can see that. But there are many more "toy projects" of this kind than FAANG companies.

"10+TB backup for example, and thats a _tiny_ backup size for a b2c product."

Sure.
Both sides promise to fix everything all the time. That's essentially the whole game.

I don't even know how long ago people stopped believing they had the agency to improve things in their own lives themselves, but it seems.to have coincided with the 24-hour worldwide news cycle.

It used to be that most of the bad things you found out about in the world were things you might be able to do something about. Your neighbor's car breaks down and she needs a ride to work. A family has a fire and needs furniture or clothes.

These days it's hard even to find those kinds of local mews stories. Instead you're reading about gigantic crises all over the world you can't possibly touch and need to be solved at a scale far, far removed from your influence.

I'm not saying having "low information voters" because people are illiterate or innumerate isn't a problem. I just don't think it's the primary one influencing the kinds of candidates that run or the kinds of promises that get them elected.
More than ever basic computer science, economics, political science, and security fundamentals are needed to at least avoid being complete NPCs. Unfortunately intellectual pursuits are looked down upon (perhaps by design)
The hunt for hidden cells in Sednaya prison
>That kind of statement about my business being mine in public, is usually tied to tracking and/or persistent, shareable surveillance video.

Sorry for the late reply.

Exactly.

From a fairly broad perspective, I do mean "my business is my business," but as another commenter noted, it's not only my business. And I agree. It's also the concern of those with whom I interact, both directly (e.g., talking to a cashier as I make a purchase at a grocery store) or indirectly (e.g., whether or not I litter).

In those cases, it's also the cashier and whoever maintains the street's business as well. Which is so blindingly obvious I didn't think it needed explication. My apologies for any confusion.

In any case, I find the idea that I, Nobody9999, should be tracked, surveilled and/or otherwise profiled, in the course of my everyday activities to be quite offensive.

Unfortunately, unless I want to live "off the grid" (i.e., cower in a leanto out in the woods somewhere), I have to submit to some of that. And more's the pity.

But that doesn't mean I have to like it. Nor does it mean I have to pretend it's not a direct affront to my (and everyone else's) privacy.
> The second problem is, what does it mean to choose a real at random ?... So effectively it is impossible to pick a random real number

Yes, it's established there isn't "uniform distribution over all real numbers" without violating axiom of probability. You're 100% correct on this.

But it doesn't make Colin's solution wrong, because e > 0 for any* well-defined distribution.

> Which is a different problem than stated originally

There are two ways to inteprete the original problem:

A. The numbers are truly randomly picked over all real numbers.

B. The numbers are picked from a well-defined distribution which is unknown to the player.

Since A. is invalid mathematically speaking (without changing the commonly accepted definition of probability), it's reasonable to only consider B., in which case, Colin's solution is correct.

I made a more intuitive explantion on why a strategy better than coin toss exists here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372972

*: More strictly, any distribution that guarantees the probability that the two numbers in envelope are the same = 0.
In a not so distant future we might need to have some sort of regulation that forces uploaders (or content creators) to declare if videos have been generated with ai tech or not and depending on the content such declaration might carry legal consequences. On the other side hosting platforms should display clearly if such content was declared ai generated or not as well. Right now I can't see a simple and good enough solution as this that could mitigate the spread of malicious content.
Not sure if it’s the people who survive med school or just who’s interested in being a doctor but every medical doctor I know has serious personality flaws that makes them hard to be/live with.
I don't think much of that matters in the day to day.

What we do have is food, clean water, climate controlled housing, and sanitation - all better than the richest royalty of the time.

In revolutionary France one particular cold snap without enough logs on the fire could kill your children.

Our actual quality of life in the day to day far surpasses the aristocracy of revolutionary France.

You don't rebel because someone has a nicer car than you, you rebel because you're starving and miserable. We're just not. We're comfortable and mildly annoyed someone else is more comfortable.
Ford Mustang GTD sets a sub-7-minute Nürburgring time
I didn't buy this at all.

Weight is a function of calories in and calories out.

If you removed the calories from sugary drinks from your diet and kept the same level of activity, you will lose weight. Conversely, if you replaced those calories or reduced your activity, you will maintain weight.

More than likely you unconsciously compensated for the loss of calories elsewhere in your diet.
Are you seriously asking people that lost family members because of the greed of C-level individuals to not lose hope on allegedly democratic processes that can't solve their issues?
Why is the linked post so long?
Do add "in my opinion" or prefix with "I think", because your definite wording implied you were stating a verifiable fact. Telling opinions like they are facts and then backtracking with "oh but it was just my opinion" is a big problem in (online?) society / discourse, and has led to a lot of misinformation and anti-scientific takes spreading.

"The earth is flat" - "Can you prove it?" - "Oh it's just my opinion". It's dishonest.
I wish I could do it. I find even just texting annoying. Also Galaxy phone.
I wonder if my fingers may just be too fat. Although I don't think they are.
Actually I hate doing most things through a phone, and e.g. if a food delivery app has a desktop version I will always use that given the chance.
It took a while to find an actual explanation for the Polish data issues they mention. It's at the end of section 5 of the Reader's Companion document, under "Overall assessment of data quality" [0]. Click saver:

> In Poland, nine interviewers were identified as having a relatively large share of cases with unusual response patterns of respondents, using the same criteria that led to the identification of cases in the other countries. All data from these interviewers (774 cases in total) have been excluded from the data used to estimate the population model, which establishes the relationship between the variables from the background questionnaire and performance on the direct assessment to generate proficiency estimates (OECD, forthcoming[1]). This exclusion enhances the robustness of the model, by ensuring it is estimated based only on the cases considered to be of sufficient quality.

> Moreover, stronger evidence was collected that six of these interviewers in Poland breached data collection protocols throughout the survey. For instance, some of these interviewers were implausibly productive, conducting many interviews on a single day. Others did not record interviews or obtain respondents’ phone numbers, which made validation of interviews more difficult. Yet another interviewer was found to have falsified seven cases during data collection (cases which were immediately removed from the dataset as part of the quality-control process and are not included in the 774 cases under consideration in this note). Twenty-seven other cases collected from this interviewer were, however, validated and remained in the dataset. Since these factors raise concerns about the quality of all cases completed by these six interviewers, the responses to the cognitive assessment items for all cases of these six interviewers were excluded from the database (559 in total). Plausible values for these cases were then estimated using only their responses to the background questionnaire (for which no unusual patterns were detected) and the parameters estimated by the population model.

> In Poland, other cases with unusual response patterns that could suggest possible disengagement or lack of a reasonable level of effort during the assessment were identified. As these cases were not clustered within any particular interviewer, they were left in the dataset and treated as all other cases, given the difficulty of establishing objective criteria to determine whether reasonable effort was exerted, and whether the results of the assessment truly reflect the proficiency of respondents. While similar cases are present in all countries, the number of such cases in Poland can potentially have a significant impact on the estimated proficiency of the overall population. This should be kept in mind when interpreting Poland’s results. For this reason, in OECD (2024[3]) results for Poland are flagged with an asterisk.

[0]: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/survey-of-adult-skills-...
I wish you were right that there is no way to completely fool viewers, but I know you are not. I was fooled! Note that I call out "AIGC." If that wasn't there (I only noticed it on repeat views), I would have simply had no way to tell. These are early, primitive AI generated videos, and I'm already unable to differentiate. Many in this thread talk about movie CG; there are countless movie scenes that fool all viewers.
> Does that apply to US citizens (legally residing in the EU) that routinely get denied bank accounts because the bank don’t want to deal with the IRS ?

Yes, it applies to every legal resident.

> Beyond that, I wonder if you really believe that the EU has no Anti-Money Laudering / Counter Finance Terrorism laws.

Why should I not believe this? I know it does.
Volkswagen CEO's Speech to Workers Drowned Out by Boos
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Remote: In-person preferred, open to remote.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: Efficient Real-Time Systems on GPUs

Résumé/CV: https://jbakita.me/CV.pdf

Email: (see CV)

I'm currently finishing my PhD in CS at UNC-CH, and interested in academic or industry research positions starting after May 2025.
I am not, as I'm sure you guessed, the CEO of a healthcare corporation. I'm probably as equally guilty as you are, in your own terms.