skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally it is not. Most papers in CS I have read have been bad and impossible to reproduce. Maybe I have been unlucky but my experience is sadly the same.
Other people have spent a lot of time on it and gotten nowhere, so I suspect there is some art to it.
In 1995 when I started at Apple, I was on the "GX team" (1). MPW was the environment. I remember a clean recompile of QuickdrawGX could take hours (maybe as much as 6 hours?). So you lived on incremental builds all day, kicked off a clean build before heading out at the end of the day.

1) Quickdraw GX was to be the next-generation graphics architecture for Mac OS — as an optional Extension though, it never caught on.
Yep, lots of phones do this and in big scary letters.
I didn't say it was for full-motion video or arbitrary images. Interactive calibration is possible.
Second this, try to stand out in some way. I mostly receive floods of terrible resumes, spam and obvious LLM generated text.

The worst hire I made also had university credentials and apparently wasn't educated in how to deliver anything but academic noodling.
Ruby annotations?[1] They were originally meant to provide pronunciation hints for Asian languages. The hints naturally float above or below the corresponding word. You do not have to play around with tables/grids/flex to make this happen.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ru...
Yeah.

I’m a software engineer, and don’t find much use for LLMs for coding.

But when I worked at a big (4k+ employees) org, the RAG service we used was very helpful.

Everything from surfacing documentation, to announcements on confluence, to spicy internal blog posts were much easier to find.
> disproportionately would affect developers

Developers of what? If it affected every software developer out there, then yeah this is a major issue. But it's a small subset of developers - mobile developers. Actually, a smaller subset - the ones on Android, not iOS. And even smaller than that - not the ones who develop apps in Kotlin (what we see on the Play Store), but the ones who hack in C++ on AOSP.

Every community likes to imagine that it is disproportionately large and powerful and influential (unless being tiny is a flex) and the ROM community is no different. To put it in perspective, the size of the LineageOS install base is 1.5 million, which is 0.05% of the total Android install base - 3 billion.

To claim that this community will make any difference to the vast majority of normies who just want to use WhatsApp, TikTok and their bank app - it's a bit delusional if I'm honest.

And to somehow tie this to the US government, that's full on tinfoil hat conspiracy mongering. You cannot be serious.
Seems really cool. Does anyone have any sample code to link to? Do RNN models use the same pytorch/hugging face Python stuff or is it completely different...?
Also, is there a reason that you are highlighting child models and underwear models? To me that sends a weird vibe. However, I am also surely not your target audience
The way you write this suggests that for each engineer at Meta there are 15k other people who applied for the job and didn’t get it, so their ~40k engineers correspond to a pool of 600 million potential employees. This is obviously nonsense. There are a few ways to explain your number:

- the same unsuitable candidates apply many times. This is not so surprising: suitable candidates get jobs and so stop repeatedly applying

- perhaps many people can be hired for a single ‘open position’, eg perhaps one is ‘software engineer based at headquarters’

- if many applicants are from people who are grossly unsuitable, eg maybe you must demonstrate job applications to get some state unemployment assistance

- maybe Meta aren’t hiring much at the moment and so it is harder to get in than other companies that are hiring

- the number might be misremembered

The downside to applying is trivial so even if chances do seem low, it can still be reasonable to apply. I think the probabilities implied by the comment I’m replying to are so extreme that you should have some higher estimated success probability from also considering the chance that the comment above is misleading.

The thing one often sees about automated cv filtering systems is mostly widely-believed nonsense. It is a story that is told to job seekers to sell cv-optimisation services. That’s not to say automated filtering doesn’t exist – a simple case is filtering out candidates that were recently rejected – but I think even if a lot of people are filtered out, that doesn’t mean you will be.
I have one with "Pixel Experience" and one with 'PixelOS". Both of which, by my understanding, are built on top of unofficial Lineage OS releases - but I might be way off base.
That is true.

When I look at 3d printing advancements, I have hard time not thinking that with scaled up to houses, they wont have similar advancements, with time and resources.

Kind of like Steam Engines. After the Steam Engine was invented, it took many decades to dial it in to the large 'more' efficient models we are familiar with. It seems like large 3d printing will take a similar time period to grow to industrial levels.

Even the Iphone, wasn't that great at the beginning.

Maybe my overall point. They have made an entire neighborhood with a 3d printer. That seems to be now over the hump of proof of concept, and now there can be steady improvements.
I really don’t understand that - if you have 20 SREs why would you need to be on call more than 3 weeks a year? If you do get called frequently then you should probably be working shifts anyway.
> fun, challenging, predictable, boring

All of these at the same time? Or sometimes one, sometimes another?
No, a baby is pre-trained. We know from linguistics that there is a natural language grammar template all humans follow. This template is intrinsic to our biology and is encoded and not learned through observation.
> I am originally from Brooklyn, but have lived in the Hudson Valley of NY these past 8 years after bouncing around the US and overseas. Where are you?

Rhode Island, so a bit of a hike :)

But the bigger issue is that it would involve one of us driving through Connecticut, which has been shown to cause terminal boredom in lab animals.
> 14.0" (355mm) WQHD (2560x1440), anti-glare, LED backlight, WVA,
300 nits, 16:9 aspect ratio, 700:1 contrast ratio, 72% gamut,
170° viewing angle

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T... (PDF)

Also, I use a 49" external monitor with it more than the built-in panel.
Is it me or does this blogs content seem AI generated?
> Are there any reasonable attacks against AES-GCM-256 where the key is a mix of a randomly generated 128-bit key and a password? If not then I have no concerns about an attacker cracking my 1Password database.

Hackers rarely break through the front door. They find a vulnerability elsewhere in the code, your OS, other programs on your computer, the companies servers, the companies staff, and so on. You have to have full faith not just in the encryption algorithm, but its implementation, everything and everyone around it and everywhere it operates and interacts with. Any one of these could be a route in.
I would second the mid-size B2B option here. I found professional services a bit stressful for what the OP is saying.

But I also think it’s really personal. Since turning 40 I tried: moving into management at a ~100 dev company; IC at a big tech firm (first time I’d worked somewhere really big as a dev); and now I’m back to running tech side of things at a startup.

I don’t think I could have known in advance which of those was going to work for me. There were a lot of positives to the first two, even though I ultimately left. Turns out I actually do prefer a) small places and b) a mix of management and IC work. But I’m absolutely sure that’s not true for everyone.

OP might feel like they want something very different from running their own startup – I also felt pretty burnt out on that after 7 years of my own – but once they’ve had some time they might remember why they went that way in the first place!
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42485795
Nevertheless, thanks for all the work you put into making it happen!
"Lucy Wins A Racehorse" -- was that the link you meant to post?
The official EU ROMs ship without ads
What is the argument here about the CIA / NSA or any other US Federal 3 letter agency? If your device is secured via TPM or some other scheme that relies on an industry to secure your device they aren't going to be doing "DIMM popping". They are just going to get the master keys from whomever issued them and use that bypass whatever they need to on the device.
What is 'accuracy' when examined at depth?

With the benefit of greater knowledge and context we are able to critique some of the answers provided by today's LLMs. With the benefit of hindsight we are able to see where past academics and thought leaders went wrong. This isn't the same as confirming that our own position is a zenith of understanding. It would be more reasonable to assume it is a false summit.

Could we not also say that academics have a priority to "publish or perish"? When we use the benefits of hindsight to examine debunked theories, could we not also say that they were too eager to supply answers?

I agree about models filling the gaps with whatever is most probable. That's what they are designed to do. My quibble is that humans often synthesize the least objectionable answers based on group-think, institutional norms and pure laziness.
The SIM card in my 2015 Tesla S is definitely not quickly accessible but it is fairly straightforward. Tesla's mobile service technician took close to 20 minutes to remove various bits of trim under the bonnet, replace the SIM card, put everything back together, and check that it worked.
I'm in my 40s and I (and the entire team I worked on) was laid off in 2022. After taking a week or so to relax, I was able to find a new position within about 4 weeks, which I'm still at now, and has turned out to be one of the better roles I've had in my career.

I realize this is just another anecdote, but don't be discouraged by the other posters here -- companies value people with lots of experience.
Very accurate. Every programming language or framework has this kind of emotional attachment of enthusiastic users, to a certain extent. But nothing quite like Rails. Its in the culture.
If you choose a manual or motorized standing desk with adjustable height (like the one I use), you can easily move the treadmill to the side when you're not walking and switch to working while seated.

I mean, you need to have the space to put the treadmill on the side, but other than that you'll have the flexibility to choose between walking and sitting as needed.
I am similar demographics. In parallel to my regular job I am registering myself as self employed electrician (in Germany). For couple hours a week at the beginning and let’s see how it evolves later.
I make my own encrypted backups from CSV exports.
I can’t say I agree with that. Frankly even most of the haters will dryly concede that the only thing McKinsey is good at is making powerpoints.

In my experience the slide decks are pretty solid, with occasional exceptions. For whatever reason the folks that work in the financial industry seem obsessed with truly pointlessly large decks that reach over 100 pages.

Otherwise I think the approach is good, clear, and concise.

* page one is a summary of pretty much every major point the deck will make

* if you only read the slide titles you’ll more or less recreate the summary on page one and get the story bit by bit

* if you want to understand that argument or question it you have the evidence for it on the same page

When done correctly it’s very much like reading good doc strings and collapsing or uncollapsing the function definitions to see the implementations

It’s the difference between good comments like

> sort the data by geospatial distance to the user

And classic bad ones like

> sort function
This is nice! Have been building something similar for Sanskrit (links in my other comment).

And yes, this is not helpful beyond a point. But most people never reach that point. So, any help is useful.
It is my understanding that if you are older than 35, have no C-suite social connections, and you lose your tech job, your tech career is over. Your only opportunities will be entry-level since none of your original education will pass automated filters, no entry-level hire is paid anything above subsistence wages, and at 35+ your rapidly-increasing medical issues (the piper's due for 20+ years of treating your body like shit pulling all-nighters 6 days a week) make living on subsistence wages an impossibility.

If your health is intact, consider yourself lucky and get the hell out before it gets worse. Find some non-tech job you can scrape out a living from and make tech your hobby instead.

If your health has already failed, well, good job making it this far, but the only things you have waiting for you in the future are losing whatever medical coverage you have, losing access to your medications, and finding out by experiment how long it will take for your conditions to become terminal when unmedicated. I don't see any reason to believe this situation will improve in the near future. It's probably time to make and/or exercise your end-of-life plans.
I noticed the lack of support from ollama and llama.cpp for RWKV. As those are (to my eyes) very strong drivers of experimentation (i.e. supporting them means vastly more outreach) I was considering whether you were considering taking this into your own hands by contributing code to them? Or rather is the fact that you are not (AFAIK) doing it because you lack the bandwidth in terms of man power or any other reason?
There are many cases where users are behind a forward proxy for security/compliance reasons. Most applications need to support these types of users.
There's still ambiguity there that doesn't specify private persons individually, because it appears to read as "the people" collectively as part of a regulated militia, not as private persons. The 2a wasn't written explicitly enough, but it's kind of moot at this point because the interpretation and convention equates to largely unhindered private ownership of all but automatic, compact, and/or explosive weapons of war that can also be privately-owned in some jurisdictions with additional costs and hurdles.
Contacts Picker API:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Contact_Pic...

Hardware APIs:
There is of course a good reason why websites don't get unlimited access to those APIs (and why they can't access them in the background). But Bluetooth and USB are both available on Chromium browsers on every platform except iOS (because Chrome on iOS is Safari).

Example: When Google closed down Stadia, they offered a way to unlock the Stadia controller so you could connect it via BT to any computer and use it as a regular controller. You just went to their website, hooked up the controller via USB, and the site would update the firmware on the USB device.

But sure, there are many use-cases for native apps. Also, there are many native apps that should just be a website (you shouldn't even need to install it if you only need to use it once or twice).
> The vast majority of users aren't going to have their laptop stolen at all

The vast majority of homeowners aren't going to have a house fire. The vast majority of drivers aren't going to have an accident. Etc. etc. etc.

It's insurance.

> The current recommendation seems to be against SMS 2FA because the security of SMS really is that bad, so if you need 2FA, use an authenticator app or similar.

This is correct. But SMS 2FA is better than no 2FA. The attacks you speak of are targeted attacks, where the victim and phone number are known.

> Any snake oil can be painted as defense-in-depth.

It's not snake oil, however.
Huh? I'm not sure I understand your post buddy.
> Or maybe IT departments are always ran by clueless fools, who knows?

I think IT has its fair share of clueless fools, but what I've noticed is that when the "security department" is separate, people there tend to have no idea what they're talking about and rely on checklists. Plus, "everybody uses X, that means we're missing out".
No chance at all? Surely creating your own site is creating your own echo chamber
Upon boot my custom ROM'd Xiaomi's give a five second warning page telling me the bootloader is unlocked, so, yeah, it's not hidden.

There may be ways to suppress that though.
> artists should be payed for creation, not for access to the works - that's how commissions work, and that's why AI pictures prospered

Looking through 1929s art that just entered public domain now in 2025, that's something that surprised me, how much of that stuff was commissioned by some wealthy individual who paid up front. Lots of popular stuff was created that way it seems, while I don't think that's nearly as popular to do today.
> almost no calorie impact from the exercise itself on your total calorie expenditure

This is categorically false. You don’t have a magical metabolic adjustment, you simply become more efficient in performing an exercise but the calorie use never drops to effectively zero like you’re claiming. Think about this for a second, it makes no sense to think that running could ever consume zero calories, basic physics still apply.
Then why did you switch (honest question, not intended to be snarky)?
That might be an option tbh, I have been needing another desk for non-computer work, so I could just swap them over. Do you have any recommendations for a desk? Is this HN Comment sponsored by flexispot? :P
> I personally spot g6e.48xlarge (384 GB) which goes for under $1.

How? I see this around $30?!
Cool game. But may I suggest, on games with a known, finite number of levels, you have an indication that I am now doing level "X of N" ? Otherwise it's not known whether new positions will keep popping up indefinitely, whether one should continue playing, whether progress can be saved, etc.
I honestly don't see it fundamentally different from most other code. I generated images and music (PLAY instruction) with GWBASIC back when I was a teenager. I generated text with Perl.

This is just the continuation of the same old, just a bit fancier.
Not really, because thinking by myself can easily be modified with challenging comments. It's much easier for a person to change their mind or ideas (at least if they're open minded) without a million people egging them on. The danger is when a person becomes hyped on their ideas because of mass support for them.
I guess one could also argue that actually Apple has diversified into so many SKUs that there is indeed a high end. HN/techie crowd is always buying the latest and greatest version Pro/Pro Max or whatever every year or two,.. but look at the phones your parents/in-laws are using.

Apple will happily sell you current year - 1, current year - 2, or the infrequently updated SE model. Mass market is the people buying those and holding them for 3..4..5+ years. We often go out with friends who are teachers and one had the iPhone 11 she apologized takes bad photos so please take group photos with ours, while the other had the 13ish with error messages popping up about his free iCloud being full. My FIL uses a hand-me-down iPhone Xs for banking because he doesn't trust his Android security, etc.
There is a Win98 x86 retro portable new laptop available to buy in some websites. I wonder if this could work in that computer making it some nice portable typing machine - although I don't remember if the keyboard in those laptop are ok to type or not.
'I could work every day of the week': life of a UK pet detective as thefts rise
I'm not sure if it is the companies who "trained" anyone that. I think it is more correct to say that many wants that and companies recognised this desire and are offering what the costumers want.

The companies do this simply because this is the way to grow their market. For every single person who finds enjoyment in twiddling with their tools, there are hundreds who just want the thing to work and get on with other things in their life.
In the orgs that I have worked in, there were very few developers who could actually handle coding complex features and applications. The people navigating the office politics are important, but let's not pretend they are actually capable of pulling off the work. They can understand that "system A interacts with system B" at a high conceptual level, but are not capable of digging down at the detailed level necessary to make it happen.
I’m kind of in the same boat, I did my first and hopefully only stint at BigTech between 46-49. During that time my youngest (step)son graduated and moved out on his own, we paid off some debt, downsized to a smaller condo , sold our big house in the burbs and started traveling a lot after I started working remotely.

Yes I am a “staff” engineer at a smaller company now - equivalent in pay to around what I was making as an l5 (mid level) at BigTech. But with a lot less stress. I have no need to make more money except for inflation adjustments
https://github.com/mit-han-lab/streaming-llm

On a side node, and that's what led me to the link above, I wonder if it would be possible to chain N streaming LLMs in an agent workflow and get a final output stream almost instantaneously without waiting for N-1 LLM to complete their reply.
How was your experience working with 0mq?
I've worked on heavy PP based companies, and in companies that requires 5 minute 2 pagers.

Both are here to write (info dense) but having a proper narrative structure with the 2 pager communicates far more than the PowerPoint does. A narrative structure can also drop down to bullet points it needed.

I've seen plenty of 50 page PP decks that ended up with slides full of paragraphs, basically being the worst of all possible communication formats.
What's CoT?
wasn't going to reply but you called out Accenture.

I work at the Government Contracting arm of Accenture called Accenture Federal and it is by far the best place I've ever worked ( I worked in submarines for a decade so probably nowhere to go but up from there). It ranks highly in those marketing pieces "best places to work" if you're into that sort of thing.

anyway, I highly recommend Accenture Federal. Great projects, benefits, and WLB
Totally understand the size of the install base for LOS. As someone else said, their target market is SE Asia.

Where I am, Xiaomi is pretty much an enthusiast / hobbyist only brand.
You rate limit them and then block the abusers. Nginx allows rate limiting. You can then block them using fail2ban for an hour if they're rate limited 3 times. If they get blocked 5 times you can block them forever using the recidive jail.

I've had massive AI bot traffic from M$, blocked several IPs by adding manual entries into the recidive jail. If they come back and disregard robots.txt with disallow * I will run 'em through fail2ban.
There are over 1.5 million active users of LineageOS, let alone other roms. A good chunk of these are Xiaomi. Not a trillion dollar market, but hardly 1000 users.
> Automatic Verification helps protects your privacy when you sign in to an app or website. Instead of being asked to complete a CAPTCHA:

> An Apple server validates your device and Apple Account.

> This verification is sent to a third-party token issuance server, which has been verified by Apple. The token issuance server generates a private access token that verifies you to the app or website.

This is definitely not better for privacy and gives apple even more control. I would rather 3 extra seconds for captchas.
Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you
I did not notice much of a difference in recruiter intensity before or after my short stint there.

(But I was at eg Google before at some other point in my career.)
Only being oncall 3 weeks a year doesn't work: you'll forget everything in between.

It makes more sense to split the work by topic or area or so.

But yes, follow-the-sun shifts make sense.
Problems of the Inhomogeneous Physical Vacuum [pdf]