skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually these are Sams independent repair manuals.

They existed because the manufacturers would not always release the factory schematics or service manuals for mass-produced consumer products.

This proliferated once consumerism & disposable-ism really took off, before that most electronics came with a schematic, but it was still not often up to the standards of places like HP or Tektronix.

So Sams took what info they could get and reverse-engineered the rest as they tore down and scrutinized new equipment to produce these fairly standardized publications that were available by subscription to independent repair operators, covering each popular model from many different manufacturers as they emerged in the marketplace.

A lot of the repair operators were very familiar with gear like HP and Tek and so was Sams.

Most of them had successfully leveraged that kind of top documentation and serviceability to have materially contributed to the winning of World War II. Slouches they were not.

There was a preference not to want to settle for less in consumer electronics so they published their own to make up the difference. If the skills are there why not use them? Especially when a failure is usually only one or a small number of the most common dirt-cheap components that need to be replaced to fix.

Which is what electronics servicing is supposed to be all about from the beginning.

I know it's not the beginning any more but still there was a time when the pros had in the back of their mind the kind of things it might take to win World War III, more so than now.

With people like that around you didn't need right-to-repair laws to be enacted, the whole country was still aware of the benefit of field repair if not improvisation.

All of the overseas Communists were certainly not going to sleep on it.
The way you write this makes be think you rawdog'd Hibernate and Spring Framework. Don't do that... you will hate yourself.

Boot is something entirely different. You write very little code and get a ton done. The trade off is you are firmly now a "Boot" codebase, but once you learn how Boot works it's not a big deal.
What about macs? The perf report in the release notes[1] mention [arm64-darwin24], so they're likely on a Mac.

[1] https://github.com/ruby/json/releases/tag/v2.8.0
GPS navigation, at least on Google Maps, is there free to get you to click on paid ad places.
>You have to be eligible for a Secret security clearance

Nope. Not doing it. Not going to argue politics, but this is a huge RED FLAG for a lot of people. And I feel I don't need to submit to mandatory drug testing as well.

>The most harmful thing the products I build do is quantify in precise detail how climate change is dooming us all

Then why is it classified? How separate is your branch from the weapons branch, that you acknowledge exists?
I have both an Apple Watch 8 and the Garmin Fenix and I use the Fenix for sleep tracking. I find the Apple Watch to be too general with the stats. The Fenix gives a lot more detail. You can debate if the extra detail is useful or not. I also like the heart rate variability tracking with the Fenix (it seems to mirror how tire I feel pretty well). Lastly, the Fenix can hold a charge for several days. I can use it to sleep track and run and repeat and it charges quickly. If I sleep track with my Apple Watch, it may not have enough battery for the rest of the day. I run with both -- the Fenix for running specific tracking and the Apple for calling friends, listening to Audible, or podcasts.
> If it's not a negative, you should have no problem doing so, right?

Faulty logic - it can be bad for specific individuals while being a net good for society at large.

NOTE: I am not the OG claimant, I'm not supporting their argument - I'm merely pointing out your rebuttal is weak (to the point of not working at all).
So many contradictions!

You pay well, but not so much.

You search for qualified applicants but can hire a student.

You require linear algebra but ok with technical writer.

Looks like your managers don't know who they need to hire or don't want to really hire.
Very impressive. Was it a React application?
exactly my thought. If you think java makes a good scripting language, you will be really happy with scala
When someone "eats less", insulin sensitivity also improves, in theory. But the catch is that situation represents a vicious cycle: if you just eat less, you also get less nutrients, and it may be not sustainable if you eat highly-processed foods lacking the nutrients in the first place.

So a better idea is to eat less + consume more vitamins + consume more natural foods (to get those vitamins). Junk food + metformin combo works to some degree but in the long run it is more like a hack than a proper fix IMHO.
I think very many people are confusing H1B and straight outsourcing of talent. While there is some overlap, they are not nearly the same.

Ive worked with both, and very few of the H1bs were below average. Otherwise they aren't worth sponsoring.

There was a time in the mid 2000s when the Infosys/TCS/wiPros of the world were gaming the H1B to bring offshore bodies onshore.. but most of that died off as far as I see.
Is there anything like this on Windows? Logitech mice are mostly nice, but one of their major flaws is that their macro capability is not onboard but requires some kind of supplemental software like this, so even just binding a single button to multiple keystrokes as a chord is not possible without G-Hub.

Linux has stuff like Solaar and Piper/libratbagd, which is great. For macOS, it looks like SteerMouse does quite nicely, even for mice with many extra buttons. So does G-Hub have any alternatives like this on Windows? It would make recommending Logitech mice to Windows-bound friends and family so much easier.

(My favorite forever for these reasons was Roccat, everything their mice can do they can do onboard. Configure your mouse once and you can purge whatever software you've used to do it if you don't like it, without limitations. But hardware quality control with them has long been iffy, and I think since their buyout by Turtle Beach it will only get worse.)
Is there somebody not researching faster llm performance?
>I watch people navigate code in VSCode and I want to pull my hair out.

For me it's the other way around, when I see someone using an IDE instead of a lean editor I see their struggle. Multiple seconds to open the IDE (sometimes tens of second), multi-hundred millisecond lag when opening a file, noticeable input lag. And when you have to edit a file your IDE doesn't understand, all you have is a bloated notepad.

I know I'm biased and I intentionally wrote this one-sided to counter your post. In practice, it just depends. Right now in my work I primarily edit scripts (up to a few hundred lines of code), do quick edits to various larger projects - sometimes few different projects a day - and read files in dozens of programming language (I only reall program in Python and C/C++, but I have to constantly consult various weird pieces of code). VsCode works great for me.

On the other hand, long time ago when I was working on large C# projects, I can't imagine not using Visual Studio (or Rider nowadays I guess).
My understanding is Sergey was just along for the ride and Larry was the one with the unique insights (pagerank) and led Google through the early years as CEO.
When it's finished and stable.
Defense contractors have loads of entry level jobs, but most require you already have a clearance (e.g. wanting US Army 17c or IC vets) or certifications which cost $500+ plus. Many don't sponsor a clearance, because it takes a long time, high chance of the application not passing and because they may just use you to get a clearance and job hop to a higher paying job.

Defense contractor jobs are the only ones I've seen that haven't been outsourced overseas yet, but good luck getting a CJO for one that will sponsor a clearance and actually getting cleared.

A top tier three letter agency sponsored me for TS SCI FSP and it took 9 months after the conditional job offer (CJO) after 10+ offers of personal interviews with me not counting my old jobs, college and friends/acquaintances just for them to cancel my app for "other traits, conduct or behaviour" and to reapply after a year.

I heard other applicants on the free bus ride that it was their 3rd or 4th try at the polygraph or that the agency forgot about them so they had to a Congressional inquiry after 2 attempts prior etc.

It's a lot of BS and I've tried for a few years now to work for the federal government and military, but they just don't want me. I've given way more effort than normal folks, so honestly screw them.
The Governor of Maryland posted a video of drones he saw hovering for 45 minutes, and he decried the lack of action and info from the feds. Something must be done!

It was the constellation Orion and some other stars. He literally saw some stars and thought they were drones hovering near his house.

Why shouldn’t I believe that they’re really this dumb?
A reply downthread is not an endorsement of everything said upthread. I'm happy to discuss the points I made, but I’m not going to be made to defend something I didn’t say.
I'm not arguing against types. I'm arguing against an extremely convoluted type system that is so complex it's practically a language on it's own. And it's sole existence is to make a dynamic language not dynamic.
I switched from JetBrains to Cursor after multiple years, and it's nowhere near as bad as the comments here make it out to be.

For most of the rough edges, I've found workarounds at this point.

I miss some of the refactorings, but half the time the AI does them for me anyways.

Smart links in terminal are supported.
Detection of run configurations is supported.

My main issues atm are:

- Quick search is inferior. You can't search for folders, and symbol search is global, without the option to exclude certain locations (such as build artifacts) from indexing.

- cspell is more annoying than it is useful. I don't want to babysit my spellchecker. Without extensive configuration, there are far too many false positives.
Interesting if possibly somewhat off topic (to this submission) - a discussion [1] about DES key length and some of the thoughts given to it in a taped meeting from 1976 -

[1] http://www.toad.com/des-stanford-meeting.html
> We cannot find qualified applicants.

Your company is incompetent. I've applied to hundreds of companies like yours within Huntsville, AL in the past year, rejected or ghosted all the time.

Defense morons will talk about how hard their work is and how they can't find anyone to do it. Completely skip over how prevalent affirmative action is in their hiring process; who were you guys interviewing in 2020? Why is the defense small business base completely dominated by veterans who stack 10% disability ratings and minorities with a preferred SBA sticker on their website?

Complete joke of an industry.
The larger lesson here is that soak-the-rich laws will never, ever work as intended.
A quarter of a second or a bit of a second ain't worth a dime.
Personally, I'm comfortable with cloud services, but only if I have some sort of backup strategy.

I store all my passwords in Bitwarden. One reason I use Bitwarden (as opposed to e.g. Keypass) is because it has cloud syncing. All of my passwords are synced between all of my devices.

Critically, however, if Bitwarden's server was to disappear tomorrow, it wouldn't destroy my life. My passwords would still be stored locally, so I could open Bitwarden and export them, then import them into another service.

Passkey by design have no solution this! That means I can't trust them! I need to be able to export all of my credentials to some type of local file, which can be transferred to a new machine or service without the cloud, as a failsafe. I don't care if this is less secure, because my Bitwarden setup is already very secure, and I am much more scared of being locked out of my own accounts than of someone else getting in.
I'm legitimately interested in this.

I run a one-man consulting business from the EU. I sometimes hire freelancers. I work with US clients anyway. Does that mean I can open a US llc and move?
When company says they cannot find good enough people to hire it really means they cannot find cheap enough people.
> it might incur a colossal investment of time and money to annotate all the training-documents with text should be considered "green" or "red." (Is a newspaper op-ed green or red by default? What about adversarial quotes inside it? I dunno.)

I wouldn’t do it that way. Rather, train the model initially to ignore “token colour”. Maybe there is even some way to modify an existing trained model to have twice as many tokens but treat the two colours of each token identically. Only once it is trained to do what current models do but ignoring token colour, then we add an additional round of fine-tuning to treat the colours differently.

> Imagine an indirect attack, layered in a movie-script document like this:

In most LLM-based chat systems, there are three types of messages - system, agent and user. I am talking about making the system message trusted not the agent message. Usually the system message is static (or else templated with some simple info like today’s date) and occurs only at the start of the conversation and not afterwards, and it provides instructions the LLM is not meant to disobey, even if a user message asks them to.
The moonbit compiler is available on GitHub
Logitech's mice can't do basic things like output a key chord upon a button press using only what's available onboard, sadly. The onboard capabilities are more limited than they have to be, probably to drive people to G-Hub.
Does Intel qualify? They seem busy making GPUs for midrange insignificant gaming builds, while all their AI offerings are hopeless.
Not necessarily but like much interpretations differ. An old retired pastor friend once described the story of Mary anointing Christ with the expensive oil and being chastised by Judas as a “waste” with Jesus correcting Judas (John 12). He expressed that story as possibly symbolic of how we should regard Christ as the glorious king of kings and despite His servant humility, He is still deserving of the finest we have including opulence in His houses of worship.

We had this conversation while I was struggling as a member of the church over a remodel of our sanctuary and what I felt were excessive expenses that were more for beauty than function. Essentially “a waste”. I asked his opinion

Always kind of thought provoking when an octogenarian pastor makes you realize that you identified with Judas’s attitude.
Diversity based on country of origin doesn't make much sense, though.
I don’t buy this and you should not be selling it :) if H1Bs worked 6/10+ while other employees did 45 all it would take is ONE of H1B’s to reach out to ONE hungry lawyer and the lawsuit will be plastered all over the MSM/Social Media/… the H1B gal/guy would go home to their country with a bag full of money :)

people here on HN (without any merit) make H1B program sound like farming jobs in Texas… too funny
That too would make people unhappy
Think you would also lose everyone that's not working in IT/finance in an instant (or until whenever their visa expires).

The biologist, geologist, physicists and the likes.
Classical sorting algorithms as a model of morphogenesis (2023)
Is there a same thing for macs? The native logitech solution requires me to install a .pkg and I'm not really a fan of it to say the least. I'd rather install something from homebrew.
Screw the company -- sure, maybe they can build a product with mediocre talent. But I don't want to work with mediocre devs, because they make my life harder.

I'd much rather wait for someone I want to work with, than hire the first person that is "good enough".
Narrator: It's not so they can pay their staff more.
https://archive.is/8PK8L
When the answers can be checked by another program and best-of-n results get better with increasing n, yes.

I think TDD code development is this, at least in principle.
Nice to see how Amazon leadership is *glances at 16 principles* diving deep into the details behind the RTO decision, using those to earn employee trust, being frugal with their investment in offices and campuses, attracting and developing the best employees with this policy, being inventive and simplifying how software work is done, and thinking of long-term growth rather than sacrificing for short-term results. /s
You aren't getting a clearance if you can't pass a drug test.
Tried metformin as part of a Hims package and cravings went away quickly.

I’ve wondered about ongoing use since they push other drugs as part of their cocktail of weight loss drugs, but not gone down the rabbit hole on dosing and maintenance plans.
- "The outage also hit servers that host procedures meant to overcome such an outage and hindered SpaceX's ability to transfer mission control to a backup facility in Florida, the people said. Company officials had no paper copies of backup procedures, one of the people added, leaving them unable to respond until power was restored."

"Yes, we have backups."
But it also doesn't jibe with the reported difficulty US tech companies experience trying to hire US developers.
OK, thanks for the feedback. I really only tested with English language input documents, so I had low expectations going in. And you're right that this is certainly a challenging case with a lot of document structure and not very high quality scans.
Remember, H1B isn’t always about tech, even if we’d all like to pretend it is. You’ll have to have separate bidding process for different occupations, otherwise you’ll end up with a system where Facebook will get all the visas, while in some cases, doctors would not be sponsored.
I'd still say that it's motor vehicles in general that are getting bigger and heavier. The unfair comparison (Mazda CX-9 SUV) has an ICE vehicle weighing in heavier, but even my small-by-modern-standards Mazda 3 Sport is <200kg from the base Tesla Model 3. Lighter, but not dramatically so. Same with the Ford Mustang fastback (~3600lbs), and the ragtop is even chunkier (at ~3700lbs).

EVs might have started heavier, but it's modern vehicles that are heavy more than EVs. Sure, you can point to the OEMs that brute-forced their way into the market (the Hummer springs to mind), but the truly preposterous are, fortunately, small in number.
Their best feature - and the one thing that I have most missed for years after moving to Linux - is automatically changing the active mouse profile based on the focused application.

It's so powerful. Any custom buttons for any program, without ever having to think about it. On Linux, without it, I'm stuck manually cycling through the 3 on-board profiles.
Yeah, there has been a steady stream of Bird Flu cases increasing globally and spreading over the last year. Based on the trend it seemed it would only be a matter of time before it finally spread to humans.
With our GitOps patterns, anything you could call an "environment" has a Git branch that reflects "intended state".

So a K8s namespace named test02, another named test-featurebranch, and another named staging-featurebranch, all have their own Git branch with whatever Helm, OpenTOFU, etc.

With this pattern, and other patterns, we have a principle "if it's in the Git branch, we intend for it to there, if it's not in the Git branch it can't be there".

We use Helm to apply and remove things -- and we loved version 3 when it came out -- so there's not really any way for anything to linger.
It‘s established patterns. Javelin or Micronaut are probably great, but not a lot of people understands how to build a real project with them. With Spring Boot you don’t even think about it.
Yep. I live near a major international airport. I see lights in the sky all the time. The last time I walked out my back door, I counted four moving lights - three that were obviously airplanes, and one that was far enough that my eyesight couldn't resolve the obvious red/green blinks, nor the tell-tale airplane shape. But what else is on an approach to a runway, following the others?
I'm a U.S. citizen and I've applied to plenty of these types of jobs. Had an offer at Palantir previously but would not take that now due to ethical concerns.

I'm an older worker in management. Willing to be hands on. Not looking to get paid as much as Meta (I've worked there too) but also don't want something that pays peanuts. Willing to relocate to many places.

Genuinely curious where I can find such jobs.
Maybe it's sort of not the same because it's compiled with graalvm and so not trivial to add any arbitrary Java dependency, but the tech that scratches that itch for me is babashka — a proper REPL, because it's a lisp, sensible Clojure syntax, and easy IO. And all the core Java libraries, available in a much snappier form than Clojure or other compiled languages
It's easy to do, it typically doesn't impact much, and it's great ass-covering.

If my child tells me she saw a werewolf outside, I'll bolt the door, regardless whether I believe there's a werewolf - or a dog, or a coyote, or a Bigfoot - out there.
Microsoft would need to pay me to use Copilot. Seems like a major scam for them to learn from our code and then tell us we can’t use it to make our own competing AI systems. “Limits on use of data from the AI Services. You may not use the AI services, or data from the AI services, to create, train, or improve (directly or indirectly) any other AI service.” From https://www.microsoft.com/en/servicesagreement#13r_AIService... TODAY — the ridiculous focus on AI over core business at github is the number one thing likely to kill the platform. They are coasting on network effects
If your mouse starts double clicking, play a game of Quake 3 for an hour, or just click a bit more aggressively for the next hour. It clears the problem, per my experience.

What I understood is, the switches on these mice (I have G700) are practically abuse-proof. However, they don’t like to be used lightly and start to glitch possibly from fine dust. Using the switches more aggressively cleans them up.

My first generation G700 still works great.
> The odds that I lose a piece of hardware that I’m carrying on me seems orders of magnitude greater than the odds of having my password cracked.

I 100% agree with you, but the counter argument I've heard is that "it's worse if someone else gets into your account than if you get locked out."

This does make sense to me in some scenarios. Like, if the author of some core Javascript package gets locked out of their Github, they can't push updates to the package; if a hacker gets into that person's Github account, they can push malicious updates to said package. Better to be locked out!

If this describes you, I think a Yubikey makes sense. Personally, I am not in this category!!!
yeah is that what "Hedera Consensus Platform" is?

Wonder what happens if that fails.
I'm writing a nonfiction book about why people play a certain video game. It's been interesting to switch between 'I' for when I'm making a novel or specific point and 'we' when I need the first person but what I'm saying is the consensus point or common experience. I recommend the same in academic writing. I'm sure that this is a flamewar topic now that I think about it though, aha.
Ironically I think I'd rather query a database with anything other than SQL ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lithium batteries (like the 1.5V energizer suggested) have extremely low self discharge. The reason why lithium batteries are used for long life is because you can actually reliably count on them to not self discharge after 20 years. As long as the mAh is 10x the coin cells they use, I’d totally believe the 10 year statement.