skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I've been working at a smaller consulting firm for the past three years and doing fine. Also helped me update my skills, especially cloud skills as all my previous jobs were onprem.

I've been mostly getting away with just over 40 hour weeks, although if I was on any other client at the company I'd be expected to bill 45 hours. PTO is very flexible as long as I'm meeting my utilization for the year (working 85% of potential hours) and can get approval from the client (which for me hasn't been an issue). Even the year where I was a bit under my utilization due to no fault of my own (they didn't have me staffed on a client for six weeks so I wasn't billing anything and then when they finally did at first I could only bill 10-20 hours a week) it didn't stop them promoting me that year and giving me a pretty decent bonus.

Also the only job I've ever had where I can expect an annual bonus worth a damn. I had one for one other job briefly but it was small and they took all bonuses away after two years to save money.

They do encourage working extra hours on internal initiatives and things like that, but I mostly haven't and it hasn't hurt much (maybe I get a slightly somewhat lower bonus and I'm getting promoted a bit slower).

While there's a lot of younger people at the firm, there's several older engineers here too, including a few guys in their 50s.

I'm also like 99% WFH. I go into the office every once in a while for quarterly parties or for some important in-person event, but otherwise I'm fully WFH. Which has been especially important this year as I've been having some issues with my legs and have had to have several medical procedures on them and work on the couch a lot to keep them elevated.

I don't think I could work for one of the Big 4, though, those sound completely exhausting. I hear 60+ hour weeks is often the minumum expectation there. I've got a life outside of work, including games I'm coding in my spare time, I don't need that shit.
I plan on checking out RWKV and seeing if I can add my sacrifical training techniques to it this weekend. There is a reason quantization works, it is because models are very badly trained right now. I think we can get really good performance on .1b and 1b models which opens up the world to fine-tuning again. I was playing with fine-tuning llama 7b and 13b a while back but the HW/SW stack made it so unwieldy and the ROI was terrible compared to just adjusting prompts on gpt-4o-mini and the like. I have hope that we are about to see single GPU, very simple, fine-tuning again as models shrink and GPUs grow.
This relies on the totally unsubstantiated view that a less appealing outward appearance is more honest.

If you believe corporations tend to fall short of their external appearances, then what reason do you have to believe this isn’t still the case, but from a lower basis?

I.e. you assume:

Before: 8 goodness points (apparent) = 6 goodness points (actual)

Now: 6 goodness points (apparent) = 6 goodness points (actual)

Wouldn’t your logic actually indicate their new goodness points (actual) should be 4?
There could be library of UI primitives and backend in logical language, then you would write declaration of what you want exactly:

- I want window of these size, with such controls

- when this button is clicked, text from this control appears in that DB column

and system figures out all details making it cross platform, fault tollerant, etc if all infra is coded on that platform
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TPM can measure the Secure Boot state for later reporting (attestation) but when it comes to DRM, that’s not a terribly interesting bit of information, knowing the firmware and kernel are valid, when the configuration of the OS and installed applications is really the important part.

As far as I know there’s no real scalable way for that to work in the Windows ecosystem.
Ok, globalists, both neolib and neocon.
Oh, word has it that was pretty much just you.

But about a third of HN has wanked to John McCarthy's metacircular implementation of Lisp in Lisp, so that is porn.

And, look, he basically even admitted it in History of Lisp, in a paragraph directly referencing the implementation of the above interpreter:

"The unexpected appearance of an interpreter tended to freeze the form
of the language, and some of the decisions made rather lightheartedly for the
“Recursive functions ...” paper later proved unfortunate. These included
the COND notation for conditional expressions which leads to an unnecessary
depth of parentheses, and the use of the number zero to denote the empty
list NIL and the truth value false. Besides encouraging pornographic
programming, giving a special interpretation to the address 0 has caused
difficulties in all subsequent implementations."

It was pornographic programming, as admitted by the author, and hackers wank to it in a circle to this day. Open and shut case, pretty much.
increase -> decrease
As I recall, the term "rosebud" can refer to an intentional anal prolapse. I'm not sure if what porn actresses do is the same as the medical definition of an anal prolapse, though.
> If you look like a bot, how are they going to distinguish?

Some non-existant system of attesting that I'm person X (possibly through an e-ID card) who has issued a client certificate Y (cert chain, using my e-ID cert to sign) to be used with my device Z (presumably with a device fingerprint or IP range attached to the cert). Of course, this would mean no privacy, but that's not that different from being signed in through Google as an identity provider, we'd just shift the mechanism to be universal (like client certs already are). One of the options that would take more coordination than will probably happen (though very similar to some e-signature solutions in EU, which we already use) but I could see using something like that for a variety of professional/service sites, since signing in with the e-ID card directly is already a thing on some sites here (government sites, banking sites, utilities sites).
I don't think there was any shortage of medical professionals. There was a shortage relative to the demand predicted by models, but as that demand never materialized neither did the shortages (for COVID treatment).

Medical procedures were postponed because some governments emptied out hospitals in anticipation of huge influxes of patients, they believed this would happen due to academic models with no validity. So this then did lead to backlogs for non-COVID treatments, but it was an artificial backlog and how bad it was depended on how quickly governments realized the academics were charlatans. In Switzerland hospitals were only emptied out for a period of weeks because the private hospitals started going bankrupt and laying off medical staff due to lack of work which played very badly with the "we will be hit with a huge wave of demand" narrative, so they quietly reversed the policy and hospitals went back to work. In the UK OTOH the NHS stayed emptied out for months. With no bankruptcies to deal with the problem was able to remain ignored for longer, and so they ended up with unsolvable backlogs. They're working their way through it slowly now, but partly by just letting people die whilst waiting. Catastrophic :(

Everything I'm saying was widely known in the community of "sceptics" who realized that the government narratives were built on lies early on, but admittedly in 2020 when this was going down that community was quite small.
As Qt is a GUI library (among other things) I would guess that Paint Pro is written entirely using Qt.
I'm not sure what they'd be displaying their streaming media on if they're not using one?
Right wing think tank cited for subjective point-of-view validation, not enough facts about economic constraints included. This is an opinion piece.
That attitude will reap you a bitter crop, friend.
You can separately configure (to a large degree) the caching vs protection features, though.
That book has one of my favorite quotes, "What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?"

I don't know why but that brings me to the verge of tears when I read it.
This is very similar to an issue I had while playing games on a wired Windows desktop. I haven’t run into it in a long time now that I think about it. I wonder what might have changed.
Consulting definitely is a good way to exercise a bunch of different skills and languages. I'll say though that I feel like my resume is toxic for being one though. Bums me out
Depends on the country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
I've been curious about the opposite - a lot of times, I'll put a few keywords that get to the point of what I want, but it's incoherent English in - and yet, often the output is on point.
Good advice, but I'll add that there are many bad things smokeping won't detect.

My favorites are APs/range extenders/meshes that don't do multicast properly (mDNS in particular, breaking lots of LAN-based apps), and also ones that seem to semi-randomly isolate devices (i.e., prevent devices connected to the AP from reaching devices that are not connected to it, except the gateway).

There are a huge number of these devices (I'm looking at you, Netgear). Sometimes ICMP will work, but not TCP. It's nightmarish to debug, because it often seems to be some table-size issue in the AP, so devices will work for a while, and then some new device connects and the old ones break.
Does it have function calling and vision?
Having used a lot of the ULID variants that the UUIDv7 spec cites as prior art, including the ULID spec you link to, I've gotta say that UUIDv7 has some real advantages.

The biggest advantage is that it is hex. Haven't yet met a database system that doesn't have functions for substr and from_hex etc, meaning you can extract the time part using vanilla sql.

ULID and others that use custom variants of base32 or base62 or whatever are just about impossible to wrangle with normal tooling.

Your future selfs will thank you for being able to manipulate it in whatever database you use in the future to analyse old logs or import whatever data you generate today.
Um, yes? Always has been?

> Scholars tended to associate it with the theories of economists working with the Mont Pelerin Society, including Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, and James M. Buchanan, along with politicians and policy-makers such as Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Alan Greenspan.
How does it get around captchas?
It's a bad title but the article hits the point - cost of housing is too high and a generation of well educated Americans were unable to start a career due to Great Recession and the COVID recession era hiring freezes.
No, the -1% drop in 2024 was off of 2023's amount. It would have to be a -1% drop off of 2022's amount to cancel out 2023's gains.
Airlines are going premium. Will cheap tickets be harder to find?
There was this big pushback when replika put an end to sexual interactions with their AIs. People who pushed back were not just using the AIs for sexting sort of things, but it was part of the "connection" aspect, at least how I interpreted it. A lot of people seemed like genuinely grieving at the time this and some other changes happened (later at least the sexual thing came back). It is probably an aspect of what a few people want but not the whole thing for them.
I'm sure you were making a joke, but I'll answer anyway: probably not, since insurance is regulated on a state level. Although it might be better in the long term, federal regulation governing vehicle insurance would probably be unconstitutional as well as opposed by the states as well as the insurance companies themselves.
"In many ways, this age group is in a better place financially, on average, than their parents were at this age. The problem is that they don’t seem to know it."
> Not in my experience

Anecdotal. Just do a few google searches and the data says 20~30%. Torque, weight, etc. all conclude this. Just go into a discount tire and the guys will tell you this is true.

> Just because a car can accelerate quickly doesn't mean you should.

You've reinforced my point - which is most people don't know how to drive EVs with maintenance in mind.

> NTesla's and BMW i3's from ~2013 are testing at around 85% battery capacity.

So then why not warrant against it if this is so certain? Also, ICE gas tanks don't get smaller over time.
What are you talking about? You can connect your computer to a TV just fine. No, lost sales are not 'just a convenient excuse', the sales they lose to piracy are far more numerous than the ones they'd gain with this fictional system that relies on people being willing to throw away money for no reason. 'It's about control' is a favorite element of conspiracy theories but corresponds to no real-world corporate need.
If only someone could automate[1] the clicking and navigating part by writing in plaintext something like "Open airbnb and explore all the features as much as possible" :)

1. https://github.com/BandarLabs/clickclickclick - It does that and I am one of the authors.
Fuck sakes, millenials are nearing their 40s now. Will the paternalistic media treatment ever end for us? Hello, earth to WSJ and NY Times, it's not the avocado toast that's causing our woes!
There were dozens of recalls in December alone. Every manufacturer has software bugs that need recalls, or fixes for hardware issues that involve software workarounds.
> It's like saying "meh, our kids aren't worth the effort".

I don't think it's like saying that. In most cases the point is there is no amount of effort that an individual (or even a small group) can make that would solve the problem. I'm not saying I agree with that reasoning, but it is very different to saying our kids aren't worth the effort. Like if a child was sick, a parent might genuinely believe that they would chop their arm off to save them, but they don't because it won't actually fix anything.

I think very few people (1) believe that climate change is a real and existential threat; and (2) believe that their actions can stop climate change; but (3) decide it's not worth taking those actions.
If you are coming from a standard C family language like Java(script), Python, or anything really, Ruby looks weird AF. It for sure has a learning curve. No parens around function arguments? WTF is that?
What’s the strategy in open sourcing this?
You pay contract workers in a third world country a tiny amount of money per day, to spend all day clicking boxes.
Discounting the economic benefits of social stability to the point where you don't expend any effort to mitigate resource wars isn't good business for banks.
Advances in computing power will make some robotics applications feasible: hopefully that leads to advances we long hoped for in fluidity of motion and adaptability to the self-presence and the environment that come all too naturally to animals and humans (after some practice).
I'd rather have those who get high off this kind of attention satisfy that need with a bot than foster in echo chambers, which is what usually happens.
This isn’t the first time they’ve been accused of shady practices.

> MegaLag also says Honey will hijack affiliate revenue from influencers. According to MegaLag, if you click on an affiliate link from an influencer, Honey will then swap in its own tracking link when you interact with its deal pop-up at check-out. That’s regardless of whether Honey found you a coupon or not, and it results in Honey getting the credit for the sale, rather than the YouTuber or website whose link led you there.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/23/24328268/honey-coupon-co...
This video is just rage bait and weaponizing creators and their fans by singling out Honey and not providing any additional context. Anybody in the affiliate industry knows how last click attribution works. This isn't new or specific to Honey. CapitalOne Shopping, Rakuten, RetailMeNot...they all work the same way. Merchants partner with these shopping extensions knowing how they work, nobody forces them to do so.

The affiliate networks (CJ, Impact, etc) are the ones who determine what attribution method to use, shopping extensions just comply. The vast majority of shopping sessions don't have any prior attribution and merchants fund all of these commissions (nothing is taken from a creator or a user). Yeah, it does seem like the codes Honey has have gotten worse in recent years, probably just a consequence of PayPal acquiring them and not giving it any attention (and layoffs). But the example MegaLag points out of finding a better code on a coupon website DOES THE SAME THING AS HONEY (overides the attribution).

So are there some problems with the affiliate industry? Probably. But calling Honey a "scam" seems completely unfair and lacks critical thinking. It's saved me thousands of dollars over the years.
It depends on the defences. It starts trivial - just make a http request. Then there's http version, user agent header, other headers, header ordering, cookies, TLS ciphers, session resolution, timing, behaviour for page resources, ... and so many other things. It takes time, even if you order headless chrome.
How do people find these kinds of things out without idly brute forcing things?
It seems that if you use Firefox with an adblocker then cloudflare spam is all you see. Though I have experienced this in plain Firefox too.

Cloudflare are a scummy company trying to force you to use one browser and view all ads.
Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42560069
Moreover, it doesn't seem like static linking to me.

A similar example would be using a GPLv3 licensed JavaScript library in a website. What it implies to other HTML/JS/CSS code is controversial [0]. The FSF actually believed that they should not be "infected" [1], and the legal implications may need to be tested in court.

[0]: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/q/4360/15873

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#WMS
I have worked with colleges for most of my professional career. Kids these days are bleak. If they hit any obstacle, they just quit.

And most administrators don't understand it/want to blame this on 'today's generation' or whatever else nonsense.

They've been fed doom and gloom from politics, society, and climate science their entire lives. They can physically see that their lives aren't as easy as their parents and grandparents at the same age through photographs and home movies.

I get it. It's hard to be optimistic as a kid; parents have to try harder than ever to keep them pointed in a positive direction.
The continual popularity of Kraft cheese may bolster the argument.
Linux had this for more than 10 years with KDE Connect phone app. KDE connect has a bunch of other neat tricks, like letting you phone act as a touchpad for your computer .
Meta: Memory Layers at Scale
> Why would a 50yo be slower?

Well, our intellectual abilities decline as we get older. I don't know at what age effects become apparent but it's unavoidable so maybe i'm a bit defeatist indeed :) In my case, I can feel my memory isn't as good as it used to be and I do feel slightly slower to pick up things. I don't think it affects my job though. Performance isn't unidimensional.

Regarding being faster than someone in their 20s, it really depends on what task (and which someone!). Lots of the things I work on are rather new. For instance, if I'm writing Rust or using some internal tools, I'm not at much of an advantage compared to my 25 years old colleague unfortunately.

In any case, I try to not worry too much age in general. I do my job the best I can, I treat older and younger colleagues alike and just hope everybody else does the same.
what is the advantage here over just running 'firefox -ProfileManager' and making a clean profile?
I am not a bot. I’m just answering with the best knowledge of what was told to me by people much more smarter than me, in the hope that it can help somebody else.
Why are wood cutting boards outlawed for commercial kitchens.
MBA is early/mid career. You tend to be in your late 20s or early 30s and have 4-7 years of full time professional experience before starting one, and have hit a professional roadblock that requires to get one in order to be promoted (Sr/Staff Engineer to Sr PM, VC Analyst to VC Associate, IB Analyst to IB Associate, Accountant Manager to Director).

Which is my point.

Plenty of white collar careers with significant upward monetary and social potential are gatekept via higher education, and those fields without that gatekeeping are extremely commodified.

It's the same story of medicine, law, accounting, actuary, academia, and even engineering to a certain extent.

Either you spend an inordinate amount just to barely tread water in your career, or spend little-to-no money and drown with no career.

Forget about even buying a house or starting a family without parental support because you have a down payment's worth of loans to pay off.

Edit:

I re-read your post and I kinda agree. The era of being able to hoof it on your own is largely over, and parental help is increasingly critical.

This will require a massive culture change in America (eg. normalize living with parents after college like back in Asia, de-emphasize certain "milestones" like marriage and kids by late 20s, etc).
https://archive.is/HxhvK
It's true as I noted there is no final god-like arbiter. But that is not really an interesting observation imo. Taking that perspective to its logical conclusion we end up in a world where values are utterly flat and relativist, and the only thing we can say is that we can't say anything about anything.

It's also true the selection-bias you described exists, in some cases to the point of collective delusion. But note how I can say that and you can immediately think of cases that fit and cases that don't...

On balance there is something real and (despite my first sentence) I want to say "objective" in most cases of expertise. In practice everyone lives as if that were true, even if they are arguing otherwise.

Regardless, even if you want to make the most contrarian, relativist case possible, the phenomenon of expertise (simply viewed as a social pattern) does exist and governs nearly every domain where people talk about "quality".
It's actually pretty hard to design a non-llm system that can detect all the possible variations:

Lights on. Brighter please. Turn on the light. Is there light in here? Turn the light on. Table lamp: on. Does the desk lamp work? It's a bit dim here, anything you can do? More light please. Put the lights on for the next 5 mins. Turn the light on when I come home. Turn all the lights off together. Switch the lights off whenever its daytime or quiet at home unless I say otherwise. etc.

If you don't support every possible way of saying a command, then users will get frustrated because they effectively have to go and learn the magic incantation of words for every possible action, which is very user-unfriendly.
I get all kinds of free open source and contribute. I don't care that people or big corps make money off my contributions.

I get linux for free, an entire OS. Tons of giant companies contribute to it. I get llvm and clang mostly paid for by giant companies. I get python, go, node paid for by giant companies. I get free hosting for open source projects and free CI (github) paid for by giant companies. I get free frameworks (React, Flutter). Free languages, free libraries, etc...

My open source is just part of that. Contributing back to all the free stuff I get, much of it from giant companies.
"No conflict, no interest" is a common saying in investor circles, or so I have heard.