skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My summary: job satisfaction correlates positively with your age and educational level. Low-level manufacturing and service workers tend to have lower job satisfaction. People who work in social care tend to be satisfied; clergy in particular are highlighted in the article. It's good to work for yourself; work for the government if you can't swing that.
sometimes having a higher quality product makes the marketing easier
Nice work, can see this naturally extending to commercial spaces too (e.g. coffee shop menus).
I think it's about evaluating the practical strengths and weaknesses of genAI for coding tasks, and trying to pair your skillset (or areas of potentially quick skill learning) with the weaknesses. Try using the tools and see what you like and dislike. For example I use a code copilot for autocomplete and it's saving my carpals; I'm not a true SWE more a code-y DS, but autocomplete on repetitive SQL or plotting cells is a godsend. It's like when I first learned vi macros, except so much simpler. Not sure what your domain is, but I'd wager there are areas that are similar for you; short recipes or utils that get reapplied in slightly different ways across lots of different areas. I would try and visualize what your job could look like if you just didn't have to manually type them; what types of things do you like doing in your work and how can you expand them to fill the open cycles?
Expect lower prices?

Doesn't the author realize that they are all produced abroad--and Trump has promised massive tariffs.
Currently starting my first project integrating with Azure OpenAI using the new MS C# AI framework. I'm guessing that having experience actually building systems that integrate with LLMs could be a good career move over the next decade.
>the consequence would be the CIC is fined

Does this in practice mean that the original human person would have to pay that fine? What would the consequences likely be for the original human person?

If those consequences remain severe, then it's not a simple legal manoeuvre after all. This reduces farcicality, but also means there's no way for an individual to safely run this kind of website.

If those consequences round to zero, my next question would be: Can a large company spin up a CIC just to shield itself in the same way? (If so, it seems the farce would be complete.)
Oh yeah. I've been burned a few times.

One heuristic I use is to find out where the item was manufactured. If it's China or some other place where they probably chose because of cost, it's a signal that they may have made other concessions as well. That podcast talked about this a bit. The good trimmer is made in Japan. The crappy ones are "made in a country that is arguably known for some lower quality production methods". I was guessing China, but I really don't know for certain.

That said, China can make some great things as well. For example, millions of iPhones and Macbooks are manufactured in China.
I don't think there is anything controversial here- the Difference Engine was a calculator that could only do a predefined set of hardwired computations, the Analytical Engine a true turing complete computer.
Of course, it depends on how you define "worse". If you use life expectancy, infant mortality, and disease, then life has in the past gotten better (although the technology of the past 20 years has RARELY contributed to any of that).

If you use 'proximity to wild nature', 'clean air', 'more space', then life has gotten worse.

But people don't choose between these two. They choose between alternatives that give them analgesics in an already corrupt society creating a series of descending local maximae.
Optimizing tail latency isn't about saving fleet cost. It's about reducing the chance of one tail latency event ruining a page view, when a page view incurs dozens of backend requests.

The more requests you have, the higher the chance one of them hits a tail. So the overall latency a user sees is largely dependent on a) number of requests b) tail latency of each event.

This method improves the tail latency for ALL supported services, in a generic way. That's multiplicative impact across all services, from a user perspective.

Presumably, the number of requests is harder to reduce if they're all required for the business.
Oh lord. My father also always seemed to pick gifts that appealed more to him and his impulsivity.

I got the vectrex too, and an Atari STM I think, it wasn't quite the same as an Atari STFM. When I wanted to learn piano/keyboard, he bought me a frickin keytar, a Yamaha SHS-10, instead of lessons or a simple full size like I asked for.

Instead of a gift certificate to get some clothes, he got me a gimmicky Canon SLR that ate batteries and that I couldn't afford to develop the film.

He was a very strange person. Sometimes incredibly funny and generous, other times hateful and selfish.

Edited to add: sorry for the trauma dump. I have no idea what point, if any, that I was originally trying to make.
I think the real world improvements will plateau and it'll take awhile for current enterprise just to adopt what is possible today but that is still going to cause quite a bit of change. You can imagine us going from AI Chat Bots with RAG on traditional datastores, to AI-enhanced but still human-engineered SaaS Products, to bespoke AI-generated and maintained products, to fully E2E AI Agentic products.

An example is do you tell the app to generate a python application to manage customer records or do you tell it "remember this customer record so other humans or agents can ask for it" and it knows how to efficiently and securely do that.

We'll probably see more 'AI Reliability Engineer' type roles which will likely be around building and maintain evaluation datasets, tracking and stomping out edge cases, figuring out human intervention/escalation, model routing, model distillation, Context-window vs Fine-tuning, and overall intelligence-cost management.
This is the kind of petty, childish behavior that reflects badly on all involved. I'm too invested in WP to change now, but if I was starting out I'd choose something else.
I worked on a large makeup website for a while, and it was common for us to place test orders and subsequently cancel them. The dev doing it usually put their name and the office address as the shipping address.

One day, we got a big box of makeup at the office - turns out their warehouse had gotten so fast that in the time it took us to cancel the order they had already picked & shipped it.

After that we put "TEST DO NOT SHIP TEST DO NOT SHIP" as the shipping name and "123 Fake St" as the address to try and avert this scenario, which seemed to work until we could modify the system to hide those orders from the warehouse entirely.
Why don't you share some of your videos where you draw these bikes?
Yes, they are pretty big. Just the pump alone is larger than the pump + motor for a vibe pump, and the motors for rotary pumps are like 4-5x the size of the pump. So you're really approaching 10x the size, it's kinda wild.
I honestly don't throw this phase out there lightly so please don't roll your eyes, but this would be an ideal application for AI. "See all this neatly formatted text? Yeah do your deep learning thing and make this ugly text look like this neatly formatted text. Bonus if you make all the adds look like blurry blobs but always show images that are part of the article"
Nah, you only write it and it runs by itself forever in the AI cloud.

Sometimes I wonder if people saying this stuff have actually worked in development at all.
I'd have to agree here that success at this drawing test/challenge is strongly correlated with experience repairing/maintaining (one or more) bicycles, a lot more than it is correlated with riding them.

I also suspect it strongly correlates with knowing the term "diamond-frame". In addition to bicycle-repairers probably knowing the term, it's also used among people who like/know other frame styles--in my case recumbent bicycles.
I have Hue lights, they're nice, always just work. But now (some time back) they suddenly require an account and I get ads in the app. I have always easily moved Hue lamps from the Hue bridge to the Home Assistant SkyConnect (now called Connect ZBT-1, much better ahum). I sleep better because I know I can do this.
Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language (2017)
The fact that anyone would ask this question is incredible!

It's so we can in a fraction of those cases, develop real relationships to others behind the content! The whole point of sharing is to develop connections with real people. If all you want to do is consume independently of that, you are effectively a soulless machine.
Subs float in the water column by having the same mass as the water they displace.
The reason why it's unenforceable is probably unconscionability. There is no value that the contract provides that wouldn't exist if there was no contract. You have a right to use hardware you own and the software that comes with it, just because you bought the device. It's not the EULA that allows you to use the TV and software, simply having it in your legal posession means you have the right to use it.
As far as hardware, you can just get https://www.home-assistant.io/green (plus https://www.home-assistant.io/connectzbt1/ if you need Zigbee and Matter).
The sqlite model is that only one write transaction can be run at a time. That's kind of a defining trade-off because it allows simplifying locking.
Such a fantastic resource
Looks like https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/16/britains-ofcom-brings-tough-... has some background. Readers may want to look at both.
I mean, that’s what I call “rules lawyering” in game parlance. When someone utilizes the rules in such a way as to cause legal harm in service of their own interests, regardless of the intent of said rules in preventing harm.

It’s why when a law/rule/standard has a carveout for its first edge case, it quickly becomes nothing but edge cases all the way down. And because language is ever-changing, rules lawyering is always possible - and governments must be ever-resistant to attempts to rules lawyer by bad actors.

Modern regulations are sorely needed, but we’ve gone so long without meaningful reform that the powers that be have captured any potential regulation before it’s ever begun. I would think most common-sense reforms would say that these rules should be more specific in intent and targeting only those institutions clearing a specific revenue threshold or user count, but even that could be exploited by companies with vast legal teams creating new LLCs for every thin sliver of services offered to wiggle around such guardrails, or scriptkiddies creating millions of bot accounts with a zero-day to trigger compliance requirements.

Regulation is a never-ending game. The only reason we “lost” is because our opponent convinced us that any regulation is bad. This law is awful and nakedly assaults indietech while protecting big tech, but we shouldn’t give up trying to untangle this mess and regulate it properly.
Huh? There are well known mechanisms after that point. Such as a resolution of the UN Security Council.
> If there’s ever a day where there’s an AI that can do these things, then I’ll gladly retire. But I think that’s generations away at best.

People really believe it will be generations before an AI will approach human level coding abilities? I don't know how a person could seriously consider that likely given the pace of progress in the field. This seems like burying your head in the sand. Even the whole package of translating high level ideas into robust deployed systems seems possible to solve within a decade.

I believe there will still be jobs for technical people even when AI is good at coding. And I think they will be enjoyable and extremely productive. But they will be different.
I got some of those Yeelight ones (gen 1/gray plastic and gen 2/white plastic!) but my experience has been really bad. Even if their app allows you to enable local mode it's laggy and just... stops working after a while, it also seems to break if it can't reach xiaomi servers (pihole). Wondering how you got yours to work, mine are just trash at this point and i've since switched to proper local devices.
Submarines have roughly neutral buoyancy when submerged; how will you detect the mass?
> Is there some expectation that these things won't improve?

Yes. The current technology is at a dead end. The costs for training and for scaling the network are not sustainable. This has been obvious since 2022 and is related to the way in which OpenAI created their product. There is no path described for moving from the current dead end technology to anything that could remotely be described as "AGI."

> This is ego speaking.

This is ignorance manifest.
It's not that hard to create privacy friendly age verification. Have a system like Sign in with Apple vouch that you're over 18. Go to Apple store to flash your ID and they just set a flag on your account. Apple doesn't give the site any personal info when you use Sign in with Apple. Apple isn't giving the government any of your details without a warrant. No Apple store nearby? It doesn't have to be Apple, licence it out to a few companies.
Decision Drill
> that do exactly what they want

This presumes that they know exactly what they want.

My brother works for a company and they just ran into this issue. They target customer retention as a metric. The result is that all of their customers are the WORST, don't make them any money, but they stay around a long time.

The company is about to run out of money and crash into the ground.

If people knew exactly what they wanted 99% of all problems in the world wouldn't exist. This is one of the jobs of a developer, to explore what people actually want with them and then implement it.

The first bit is WAY harder than the second bit, and LLMs only do the second bit.
in it's current state, it's already useful for b-roll, video backgrounds for websites, and any other sort of "generic" application where the point of the shot is just to establish mood and fill time.

but more than anything it's useful as a stepping stone to more full-featured video generation that can maintain characters and story across multiple scenes. it seems clear that at some point tools like this will be able to generate full videos, not just shots.
> You presume it has to be incredibly long range?

EM waves fall off exponentially inside a conductor like saltwater. A 1 kHz wave has a skin depth of 8.75 meters, vs the Virginia class' 10m width. A signal from the front to the back of the submarine would be attenuated by 10 million times.

Note that this is in addition to the normal problems with antennas. Your home router transmits at <100 mW. Say you spent a ton of money and made a super sensitive receiver that could operate from 140m on the low SNR of your router. In order to receive the same power at 140m on 1 kHz, you would need a 1 megawatt transmitter. It would be dumping 60% of its power in the first 8.75 meters of water. Not quite enough to boil it, but not far off.

That's your first problem. The second problem is that the wavelength of a 1 kHz signal is 299.8 km. Antenna effectiveness also falls off exponentially with size, and the smallest antennas are maybe 10% of the wavelength. A 1 km antenna does not work well for 1 km, and even then you have to let out a buoy with a long cable- which is how current submarines do it.

The third problem is that if the drones are 10s of km or less away from the sub, there's no point. That means you know where the sub is. The problem is knowing where to aim active sonar or drop depth charges, not aiming.
You can export electricity in the form of product that needed electricity to make, like a bike.
"Nothing because I’m a senior and LLM’s never provide code that pass my sniff test, and it remains a waste of time"

That's why the question is future proof. Models get better with time, not worse.
Them:

> The key thing is that us Europeans generally trust our governments, whereas the US population doesn't even trust the government to the point that there is one single federal ID and drivers license card.

You:

> The notion that a single federal ID card should be mandatory for everyone or that the federal government should handle driver's licenses is just stupid and reflects a total misunderstanding of how the USA is structured.

Seems to me they accurately described the reality and then you're substantiating their description...
I understand this is here because there is a subset of HN readers that are on a campaign against seed oils but the dailymail has to be in the bottom tier of places I want to read anything on, let alone about health opinions.
Framework Mystery Boxes
When a sub is submerged, by definition it is buoyant and therefore has the same average density as the surrounding water. Unless your gravity sensor is so sensitive it can detect the different densities on a per-cubic meter basis (or smaller).
He is a Databricks co-founder: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2021/05/26/accidenta...

Likely worth at least $500M, even if his stake was smaller than some of the other co-founders.
Ha, I'm pretty into bikes, to the point where at least I understand the questions here but the most complex things I have ever done were changing a normal BB and set of cranks, and replacing some STI cables.
I'm somewhat this way, but more than somewhat when it comes to TV shows. I think something like 80% of my favorite shows were cancelled early. Firefly, Freaks & Geeks, Shadow & Bone, ...

Perhaps I should set up a Patreon where people can give me money to not watch things.

(Admittedly, this may be a mathematical artifact. Cancelled shows have less opportunity to decline in quality. At one point, The Dragon Prince was my all-time favorite show. I haven't even bothered to watch the last several seasons. It is even possible that the people cancelling the show are able to accurately predict that something is going to go downhill in the future, though I doubt it.)
Related. Others?

Hash matching proposals for the Online Safety Act's implementation are dangerous - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38217439 - Nov 2023 (17 comments)

The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38048811 - Oct 2023 (159 comments)

King Charles III signs off on Online Safety Act with unenforceable spying clause - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38044973 - Oct 2023 (72 comments)
Who's going to build, maintain and admin the llm software?
What blows my mind is the fact that the jet emanating from M87 is thousands of lightyears across. This means you could live out your life on a planet orbiting a star near the jet and probably wouldn't notice anything out of the ordinary. The scale of that structure is absolutely mind-boggling.
Thank you for letting me know! I apologize for the tone and inconvenience caused and will try to make the necessary edits/avoid biting the bait. It was definitely not my intention to start the flamewar.
just convert it from space and into time, duh. can't weigh time
From a comment:

> juvenile and silly. So much wasted time and resources. If you need to take legal action against another company, then do so. But please leave the users out of your shenanigans. It’s unprofessional.

I think I disagree, at least to an extent. They are leveraging an open source tool. They made their business built around that tool.

And as for the innocent users--this is such a small impact to users that I am not to worried.
I am glad to see that 'Johnny Dollar' is one of the offerings. I used to listen to that radio drama with my grandfather; it is a fond memory.
Dangit, I should've gotten the 16.
Even if AGI suddenly appears we will most likely have an energy feed and efficiency problem with it. These scaling problems are just not on the common roadmap at all and people forget how much effort typically has to be spent here before a new technology can take over.
Intellisense style systems were a huge feature leap when they gained wider language support and reliability. LLMs are yet another step forward for intellisense and the effort of comprehending the code you're altering. I don't think I will ever benefit from code generation in a serious setting (it's excellent for prototyping) simply due to the fact that it's solving the easy problem (write some code) while creating a larger problem (figure out of the code that was generated is correct).

As another senior developer I won't say it's impossible that I'll ever benefit from code generation but I just think it's a terrible space to try and build a solution - we don't need a solution here - I can already type faster than I can think.

I am keenly interested in seeing if someone can leverage AI for query performance tuning or, within the RDBMS, query planning. That feels like an excellent (if highly specific) domain for an LLM.
> I go through liters of water a day with my two humidifiers just to try to raise humidity by around 20 percentage points. In a small urban apartment that isn't much bigger than some people's whole suburban kitchens.

No surprise, that's because your water gets vented away…

My brother had a broken ventilation for a whole northern England winter in a flat he rented (and the landlord was too busy fixing this shit up), he had massive humidity issues with fungi spores making him sick before he understood what the problem was, and he'd tell you how much discipline it takes in manually venting your house by opening the windows to keep things from molding!

> A damp sponge isn't going to do a thing, and I can't imagine where you would ever have gotten the idea that it would.

Hey you know what, just do the math by yourself, it's just one pV = nRT away ! But of course, this is assuming you're not removing all that water directly as it evaporates.

> Moisture is not the primary reason for ventilation, except above showers -- it's to prevent CO2 buildup along with other toxic gases like CO and VOC's.

Maybe have a look at your local building code and see how the ventilation requirements are made. I've refurbished a house by myself and I did just that, it turns out the regulations are built on water extraction, as CO2 won't realistically kill or harm you, CO only matters in kitchens if/where you have gas stove (and in my country, this is subject to additional ventilation requirements in the kitchen itself independent of the house's ventilation), and VOC are only a recent concern. That's also why there have been hygrometer to pilot ventilation for a while.
So is fiat paper.

With crypto there is not even the pretense of ethics or oversight.

Which is why central banks are interested.
Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi24-wydrowski.pdf

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSP3GrZP2oo
Because silicon is a robot. A camcorder can't catch a flick with me in the theater even if I dress it up like a muppet.
"Gaming The Law"
With everything going on in politics right now, the one thing that unequivocally makes me proud to be American is that we have improved pizza

We improved burritos, and sushi too. We even put sushi in a burrito and Indian food on a pizza.

You can’t stop us. We will continue to disrespect your narrow ideas of what it means to make your national dish by making it far more delicious.

You want to deny anyone entry into your food republic? Give us back the tomato. You don’t deserve it.
This looks awesome and the site looks like it’s custom built. For anyone looking for a tool I’ve been using Pyro (https://www.pyro.app) to collect startup pitch videos (https://video.heystartup.com)
CO2 and chemical off gassing from indoor items. Eg: manufacturing chemicals from furniture, natural gas, cooking fumes, etc.
My job is determining what needs to be done, proving it should be done, getting people to approve it and getting it done.

LLMs help more with the last part which is often considered the lowest level. So if you're someone who just wants to code and not have to deal with people or business, you're more at risk.