skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, React, Express, Node.js, Kafka, Debezium, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS (RDS, EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, Fargate), Digital Ocean, Docker

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Email: nick.perry604@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/nickperry12

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Hi there! I'm Nick, and I'm a software engineer with experience building fullstack applications, with preference in working on the backend. I most recently created Tumbleweed, an open-source framework that is designed for fast and consistent data propagation between microservices. Feel free to check out the case study at https://tumbleweed-cdc.github.io/
Are we supposed to feel sorry for him? Poor people have the same existential thoughts too. At least he has the freedom to choose what he wants to do and not to be beholden to anyone, which is the whole damn point of being rich. No one ever claimed wealth solves all of life’s problems. Anyway, his lack of grounding is most likely from lack of a family.
There is also no financially engineered solution possible when one of the groups has final say on whether anything changes and if it does, what exactly—at least when that group gains from the status quo. Cut x number of federal programs? You’ve now also directly reduced the amount of money flowing into y number of Congresspeople, and the number of districts in which that reduction doesn’t also make reelection more (marginally) troublesome is asymptomatic to 0.
Maybe you’ve got it right.

I lost it all. I spent some time grieving, did some crazy things, decided to build wealth all over again, but then didn’t. I instead picked a topic and started learning. Three degrees later I’m pushing the boundaries of a field I had never heard of in that past life.

I’m not rich, but I’m comfortable.

I’m happy.

Enjoy Physics. It’s awesome.
I'll be downing tools this year. Haven't seen 8" floppy disks but 5 1/4" sure. That's where we started.

I think even with a lot less one can simply let go and retire. But lots of ducks need to get in row.

Personal health
Family situation
Where you are
Where you came from
Hobbies & interests
Good spouse
You don't believe that web visitors are directly querying SQL Server, right? I can believe they are storing their employee database in SQL Server... they have hundreds of employees.
SO true. I am having a midlife sort of crisis myself (lost as a founder a bit) but my kids keep me going with a purpose. When you have kids, you don't have the luxury of not doing anything.
You’re citing a law that is about allowing the RBOCs to again provide local phone service as evidence of legislative intent around regulating ISPs. None of this is as straightforward as you’d like it to be.
The ISP doesn't offer me the capability to post this comment. Nowhere in my service agreement with them is hacker News mentioned.
thanks man, sorry if i came off harshly will edit my post tbh, its a bad look. keep working on your project. I do see the need for what you're doing.
For Those Who Don't Trust Tap, There's 'Raw Water'
Resemble AI | San Francisco Bay Area (office in Mountain View, CA) | Full-Time | Full-Stack Engineer

We're creating state of the art Generative Voice AI models. Looking for full stack, frontend and machine learning engineers that would love to create prototypes directly with the founders. Recently, we open sourced a state of the art speech enhancement model: https://github.com/resemble-ai/resemble-enhance

Here's what we're looking for:

Full Stack Engineer - We are seeking a skilled Full Stack Engineer with experience with both Javascript and Python to join us. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building and deploying web applications, a passion for working on cutting-edge AI technologies, and the ability to collaborate closely with our founders to create innovative prototypes.

Backend Engineer - Looking for Ruby on Rails and/or Python Developers to join our backend team. Scale up ML systems, make inference run more efficiently, and expose public facing APIs.

ML Engineer - Looking for engineers that are interested in deploying large foundational models and optimizing inference. Must know PyTorch well. Knowledge of ONNX, TensorRT is bonus.

If interested, reach out directly to me: zohaib [at] resemble.ai
I think that the problem might be that people don't trust that Windows 11 isn't enshittified somehow relative to 10 or that the upgrade won't screw them over somehow. Seems like corporate bad behavior coming back to bite us.
https://archive.ph/ht5Ca
There's the option of licensing a RISC-V microarchitecture, rather than an ARM one.

It has the advantage that RISC-V is an open standard, and there are many companies licenses for their own RISC-V microarchitectures, rather than being stuck with licensing ARM cores from ARM.
Im sorta where this guy is but not wealthy much and my money train could run out and I'd have to find a new one.

With that said I have lots of time on my hands, some work projects to focus on from time to time and currently single as of this summer. I live alone and a ton of my time is spent on apps connecting with people to meet up offline for adventure and adult fun in the hopes I will find my new person or new friend(s). It's a full time job but for me really worth finding my new person (or friends) to enjoy life with!

I definitely wouldnt be lost if I was completely set I'd have more resources to have many homes in different parts of the world, immerse myself in different cultures and enjoy my outdoor activities (skiing, hiking, kayaking, surfing, etc) with locals in different parts of the world (Iceland, Colorado, Miami, Hawaii, Australia) . As well turn my hobbies like songwriting and creating tech into more then a hobby and most importantly help people succeed!
such a bad take. as a software engineer thing like this happen all the time. no matter scale we will screw it.

what steps we can take is that it's now a lesson to make it more caution when we went into that path.
I guess the difference lies in ownership. If I pirate movies I won't claim that I own the rights to that movie. Can't really say the same when I have a product with stolen code.
Government agencies have been picking up the slack for a dysfunctional congress. Now that that power has been taken away the inability of congress to pass consumer protection laws will be on full display.
Hey Vinay, this part struck me:

> with all the mounting insecurities I had stuffed down over the past several years. I didn’t feel like I could work on them with her. So I broke things off after almost 2 years of unconditional love. It was extremely painful, but it was the right call. I needed to fully face myself.

You had something really special. You obviously miss her. I am not saying that anything will come from it, but why not try some therapy and see if you guys can work things out? What you had was harder to find than the dollar amounts in your blog post. A lot of people just don't find that at all.

All the best on whatever's next.
Wouldn't this be the equivalent of telling someone "before you try and build a business, try to take some business courses and learn how business works. Perhaps even an MBA".
Yeah makes sense, thanks.
> you cannot split up a large established codebase without first understanding it

I’ve seen enough wild rewrites to realise they often create more chaos than they solve. Over time, I’ve come to view older codebases as living libraries of knowledge, rather than something to refactor out of existence. Every quirk usually has a backstory or a user need behind it. It’s less about ripping everything apart and more about respecting those conventions so you can make use of them.
don't worry, he's starting with physics and will invent economics from first principles on his own because he's a genius
A few things I picked up that might provide evidence against easy dismissal.

* they have discrete state transitions, regardless of cillia. I'm glad they didn't jump to "behavior", but it doesn't appear random

* The bit about enabling healing by possibly (accidentally?) being a communication mechanism is really interesting. Might be that nerves just don't grow b/c they don't they they're supposed to??

But yeah - it's the beginning. Hype over possibilities hinted at in the first few observations are basically all you can get at early stage R&D, and it's great for generating grant funding. Hard to say it's not worth looking at, I think? IANABiologist. IAMARoboticist.
I read the blog post and many of the comments and can’t help but think… how is it you guys are so smart you can create enormous amounts of wealth with no idea what to use it on?

There are millions of people struggling to survive and you have amassed a pile of resources you’ve determined the best thing to do with is bury?
Ah, so is the quid pro quo here that if I want to run a hackathon in my city I can get Acme Corp to toss their brand name on it and fund it, but only if I get my participants to also star the repo? That does sound fraudulent. Do they put these agreements in writing?
Too bad the norm for FLOSS foundations is to take donations and use it for anything and everything except the purpose the foundation was created to promote.
Same problems here. Mac OS with firefox + ublock origin (and a dns based ad blocker) jams me up. Switching to Safari (with dns ad blocker still on) makes it work

Has become increasingly more common in the past few months across several sites.
You're arguing movies against drugs. Obviously buying drugs is bad, is downloading movies inherently as bad?
We're at an interesting inflection point with plastic recycling, where people have generally accepted it's a scam, and the environmental contamination with microplastics becomes too big of a cost to overcome.

This group is calling for foods companies to test all of their inputs. Eventually it is going to point to recycling's plastic processing & grinding stage.
books prior to 2023
I understand that AI can encourage users to engage more with the platform... but the original idea was that FB would count AI as a user, not that humans would interact more with the AI.

If FB was trying to mislead about their user counts, they don't have to use AI to do that.
I'm not an expert but I think depending on design this is sacrificing one MIMO channel when active and adding another PLL.
its huge, but i exhausted it completely, bad timing job market wise sometimes, other times roles too far outside my field
I got nothing here other than: this is very cool.
That article compares ASICs.

Companies that design ASICs buy microarchitecture licenses, not ASICs.

There are available RISC-V microarchitectures for licensing that aren't what I'd call slow. e.g. SiFive's P870 isn't slow. Tenstorrent Ascalon (which LG licensed for its smart TVs) is no sloth either.

There's a solid 3 year from the time a microarchitecture is made available for licensing, and the time the riffraff can buy boards based on the resulting chips. This has been consistently true, ARM and RISC-V alike.

Thus, increasingly faster microarchitectures are being made available, and the chips using them will continue to come.

The ones we have now, are of course the ones based on microarchitectures that were made available 3+ year ago.
> I cannot believe that "recording conversations and selling the data to advertisers" is something that actually happened.

Btw, I own the Brooklyn bridge, would you like to see it? It's for sale!

Of course it happened! How do you think Siri looks stuff up on the web? There has to be some sort of identifier that gets sent off, otherwise how else would that work? If that indentifier is sent to, say, a search engine, and that search engine is paying for that traffic, Apple is now taking ad money for Siri searches.
It says on wiki:

In 2022, according to Forbes, the firm was valued at $1.5 billion, having secured $200 million in funding from venture funds such as Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Coatue, and Kleiner Perkins.[1][2] It is remote, but is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in New York.

Why would such a seemingly simple product need so much money? It seems like the business was already done. Web video recording or facetime has been around a long time, but somehow this company carved a niche in a crowded market.
129 byes...supposedly that's 2 punch cards according to Dr gpt. Small program!
Start nonprofit businesses that hire, train, and support people with physical and developmental disabilities. For example, the Adelante of New Mexico. They create companies to provide jobs to people with disabilities. They also provide health insurance, a living wage, and housing assistance.

Make more companies like that. Put money to doing good, not just being good.
I have a special project, would love to tell you about our progress!
if I'm paying for coffee at a coffee shop and they don't have a ceramic mug, i cancel my order. I'd rather drink wine out of a solo cup
Thesis: Proprietary domain-specific data may have outsized value in LCM architectures, particularly when combined with MoE approaches for large context handling.

KEY ARGUMENTS:

1. Quality Over Quantity
- LCMs operate at concept/sentence level rather than tokens
- Paper [1] explicitly notes need for "careful data selection and curation"
- Domain-specific data often has inherently better semantic coherence

2. Context Window Advantage
- LCMs operate on "sequences which are at least an order of magnitude shorter"
- Each "concept" encapsulates meaning that would require many tokens
- MoE architecture could theoretically handle very long concept sequences

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS:

1. Organizational Learning
- Learn from historical decision patterns and outcomes
- Map complex cause-effect relationships
- Analyze what strategies succeeded/failed

2. Strategic Planning
- Pattern-match current situations against precedents
- Suggest actions based on proven approaches
- Identify potential pitfalls based on past failures

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE:
- Company-specific success factors
- Industry-specific dynamics
- Organization-specific execution patterns

CAVEATS:
- Unproven architecture
- Risk of invalid embeddings
- MoE+LCM combination theoretical only
- May still need significant general training data
Location: New York City | New York | Remote
Remote: Remote or Hybrid ok

Willing to relocate: maybe, but would have to be an opportunity make a serious difference

Technologies: Full-Stack Web; PHP; Node.js; MySQL; Mobile iOS; Web3; Solidity; Telegram; Solutions Architect, etc.

CV: https://magarshak.com/Greg-Magarshak-Resume.pdf

Email: heygreg@gmail.com

Over the past decade, I founded and grew two companies, taking them from 0 to millions of users in over 100 countries. I've had to wear a lot of hats, including: full-stack software engineering, hiring and training developers, working with them for years, architecting systems, carrying out multi-year roadmaps, interfacing with clients, raising money, and so on. I tend to think deeply about the social and practical business implications of technology decisions. I probably deliver the most value in roles where I can help shape the technology solutions and make sure they achieve your business goals.
Well I read the article in regard to an interview with Inman Grant but it did not sound like any advice for the US ...

What I was surprised to find though, it sounds like the under 16 ban might be a way to introduce no govt. id, no social media idea for the entire population the clowns in the previous govt liked a lot, since any online critics need to have a valid name and address ...

The thing of it is though, just saying no under 16s in Australia on any social media, forces any social media company to dispense with things like account name must be tied to real name BS, and as such, should not be discovered to be tracking and running algorithms to target any possible Australian under 16 participants. That's it, done, nothing further required until one of the moron social medias are found out they kept on targeting kids and their CEOs are flogged in public with a set of golf clubs.

TMI (Too Much Information) has in the past been determined to be not helpful for the naive general public - anyone here recall how they were affected by the great internet reset of the late 90s?
He's describing what many of people FIREing experience, lack of purpose and direction.

This also scares me as someone who's been saving and investing for that purpose and I would not want to go through it. I have few ideas (similar to his with robotics) or different ventures, but it still scares me.
Well, at least he got over his "mission of DOGE is extremely important" phase quickly enough. May he go off and learn something about himself and the universe studying physics.
The site is down right now, but there's a nice behind the scenes video hidden in the background: https://katalog-barbaraiweins.com/BEHINDTHESCENES/marbles.mp....

(or archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240624140531/http://katalog-ba...)
I've resorted to using Cmd-Shift-J (scrollback buffer) and grepping that, but its flaky about whether it will honor the command and emit a history file.
Does kinda feel like laptops and desktops are experiencing the same effect as the phones.

The specs are improving, but the experience is not improving in lockstep with it. Browsing & similar normal usage cases just doesn't need it.
I won't disagree with that. I will say pip and venv ending up being a massive chain is entirely unsurprising because Python environment management is a mess to begin with. But then there are a lot of gnarly topics that can be hard to find useful information on.

One thing that doesn't help all this is more and more tutorials going on Youtube (I admit I've made a couple, which were topic focused) is that so many people just want an entire soup to nuts answer instead of the tools to piece together their own solution from the parts, which makes gaining traction and getting that information to people a lot harder.

But without a general change in how people look at learning I dunno what fixes that problem.
Paul Allen comes to mind. makes a hobby buying the most expensive artifacts known, as well as a bunch of other stuff like starting a band.
It is not going bad at all. I work as a contractor with EU/US companies that outsource to Asia. And I get paid 35$-40$/hr, which here is a huge sum of money to earn here (2-4x the local rate). In 2024 I was able to choose from 6 different clients, I worked with 4 and made it into 2025 with 2 clients. I am expecting for 2025 to be the same. The interviews are usually all just meeting the team, no technical interviews, then start, work down a backlog in my preferred stack for months + meetings - rinse and repeat. Different clients, same work. Scrum seems to be dead in 2024 as well.
Is this about the impossibility of a government defaulting on its debt if that debt is payable in currency that same government can print? Or is it some stimulus thing?
I went to a bootcamp, (regret it), but the change from the learning process when i was in it (2021), to now, is steep. The use of AI in writing code has had to have an affect on the jr dev levels of hiring. How could it not? what seasoned SWE isnt more efficient now with the use of AI?
My guess at what it will look like:

* Ruthless budget cutting. Import social programs that (purely by coincidence) don't alight with the far right's ideology will be cut because e.g. only 1% of the population uses them, ignoring that 1% of the population is still 3 million odd people.

* Lots of brain drain. There are good people in government. I suspect the good ones won't much enjoy being told that they're morons who are wasting everyone's money. The actual morons won't care much, and the people doling out the firings won't be around long enough to figure who is who.

* Some low hanging fruit that requires a dictatorship and wide-ranging mandate to achieve. There's definitely inefficiency in government that can be solved by pointing everyone in the same direction and telling them their jobs are on the line. But not that much. I'm sure much fanfare will be made of what is solved though.

* Lots of corruption, cronyism and people under-qualified for their roles but over-estimating their abilities. This is a playbook we've seen from Trump and from Elon "I looked at Twitter's code for 5 seconds and instantly made 100x improvements' Musk. Thankfully, government projects span years or decades, so the effects of these terrible contracts and inexperienced leaders will be felt for years to come.
Google actually tried this, but it failed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor

Apple News+ does something similar: https://www.apple.com/apple-news/publications/

There's another system like this: Your local library turns tax dollars into free books and articles, sometimes digital ones too. Worth checking. At the very least, many bigger ones have on-site (on their network) access to digital newspapers, journals, and magazines.

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I think it's the same reason we used to have all streaming on Netflix, but now every content publisher has their own streaming service. They make more that way, presumably, and have a branded product rather than relying on some intermediary that blends them altogether into an amorphous blob of "content".

They don't want to see articles turn into generic commodities the way movies, games, and music already are. The newspaper industry is barely alive as it is, and losing money and people every year... maybe they'll see another boost from the inevitable controversies of the new administration (again), as they did in 2016-2020, but short of that, it's kinda a dying industry with a lot of consolidation and reused/syndicated content.

If you don't want to pay, just go to APnews.com. It's where most smaller papers get their stories from anyway.
When you become rich you need to switch from a goal oriented mindset to a value based one.

There are no more goals for you to achieve. Instead, focus on values you believe in and try to live those values every day. It will be an endless journey that will last the rest of your life. Values don’t need a reason or purpose, they just exist.

For example, if I became rich my values would simply be traveling the world and dressing fancy. Easy.
How is DOGE a grift? We need to curb our government’s absolutely excessive waste.
Too bad it's going to be non-VR. To me hybrid would be ideal. To have it like a normal game but VR as an option instead of VR-only like Alyx.

I've just replayed the original HL2 series in VR and it was amazing. A few community devs have completely made those games VR-capable and it feels like they were made for it. If they can do it so can Valve.
A lot of the world doesn’t have subsidized phones so I exclude carrier deals.

The SE is considered a mid range device imho in a lot of classifications. Budget is usually <300, mid range goes from 300-600 and premium is upwards from there. Of course with some deviation, but it’s how a lot of sales figures tend to split it up.
For whatever it’s worth, running cables through your vents in the US is an NEC violation (see 300.22). If you’re renting it might be your only feasible option but probably not a great long term solution.

Otherwise, I strongly agree with everything said above, wired networking is worth the investment.
It isn't unreasonable to imagine one recognizable intent to be teaching new terminology. That would allow dialogs where the machine doesn't understand the object of the command and the human then says something like "when I say x, I mean the y" and the computer updates the training set for the named entity recognizer and does a quick fine-tuning pass.
user mshockwave posted this the other day in a comment, might be of interest/tangential relevance:

Scheduling Model in LLVM - Part I
https://myhsu.xyz/llvm-sched-model-1
Why would anyone care about how a site displays on TOR aside from privacy nerds?

The average internet user doesn't even know what TOR is. Though they might have heard the words "Dark Web" once or twice.
No, only people who define their lives by their job. Most people have a life outside of work.