skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My career started really rough, first 1.5 years didn't get a job and I have another 1 year gap. I don't have that luxury. I have experiences in stacks for 6 months tops with most. If it's longer it's an esoteric language. No one cares about my CS degree(s) and the experience I gained there, despite the fact I learned more in some courses than I did in most jobs.

This is the first job I can fully showcase all my skills, so that's amazingly good. In that sense I need to seriously reconsider how I can make a career out of being a data analyst. But I'm not that far in my thinking yet and still see myself as a software engineer for my next job and while this job gives me great skills to learn in marketing and soft skills (and some stats and some dev), it doesn't give enough engineering skills.

As a SWE I'm in an odd place. I have never been in a place where SOLID is a thing. I don't know design patterns that well (I can recognize them and in many cases they make sense). But I have engineered quite a bit and I have seen enough 1 million LoC or bigger codebases.

So I'm still in a bit of a weird in between state and could use some mentoring with regards to good software design and just good ol' engineering, which is why I was thinking to help out with some open-source software or something like that.

I agree that the "always be programming" culture is toxic. It is what it is. I'm the type that just rolls with the punches. Much of my life has been on hard mode for a variety of reasons, so a toxic culture like "always be programming" is honestly not the worst thing.
Take the time to speed up my iteration cycles has always been incredibly valuable. It can be really painful because its not directly contributing to determining/fixing the bug (which could be exacerbated if there is external pressure), but its always been worth it. Of course, this only applies to instances where it takes ~4+ minutes to run a single 'experiment' (test, startup etc). I find when I do just try to push through with long running tests I'll often forget the exact variable I tweaked during the course of the run. Further, these tweaks can be very nuanced and require you to maintain a lot of the larger system in your head.
Totally. Even MsPublisher! because wizzards you know,...
You understood correctly, CS major numbers are still rising.

CS major numbers == supply

I'm speaking about jobs == demand
This has been discussed here for years. There are workarounds, so they're allowed.

https://on.ft.com/4j6J2gl - gift link, not sure how long they last for FT

https://archive.ph/7CZfn - archive.ph, may not work well if you use Cloudflare DNS
Trademarks apply to artistic works that identify an entity. See the TFL roundel.
Just celebrated my 10 year anniversary https://www.philipzucker.com/ten_year_blog/ actually. It has not generated new jobs for me, but I haven't been looking really. Writing is good. It's a good way to learn more. It's good to do things and have tangible results. If you don't enjoy it on some level or feel satisfaction, there are more direct ways to seek what you want.
I guess they need something to replace the captagon (fenethylline) that's now being clamped down on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bm9VKBrIC0
We should really prevent people from doing consecutive terms.
Aren't certain open-source projects like a job?
Yes. Only in the intro isn't paywalled.
> And your brain does it with chemistry.

Alledgedly.

> Define your test.

A pass is a model with no human training data input that is able to reason on human content.

> Every single test that existed when I was a kid has been bested.

The mechanical turk fooled humans for 80 years and passed all the tests at its time. As it turns out, the tests were not good enough.

> Coming up with a test is itself a challenge, these days.

My test is simple to understand and conceive. We just don't have any valid candidate to put through it. My requirements disqualify LLMs.
Ntsync Driver Ready for Enhancing Windows Gaming with Linux 6.14
The copyright exceptions in the UK are very limited. There would not be a copyright exception in this situation.
Cholula: Frameworks for Memecoin Theory, Valuation and Regulation
Cholula represents three research tracks on regulatory compliance, valuation models, and the semiotics of attention-driven markets. Current output includes three foundational papers exploring memecoins as a new medium with economic, cultural, and business implications.
My opinion, in two overall points.

(1). Like anything else in 21st century western world, decision making structures are beaurocratic to the point that 10 people need to get paid to get a new highway department truck ordered, another 5 need to sign off on firefighting equipment to be loaded on to it. not built or delivered or driven, ordered. This is the case in every state, either due to politics or due to cost protection policies.

(When it's then time to hire a driver, demands 110k a year minimum in most US states. And most of the time, their job isn't driving that firefighting equipped truck, it's sitting at the office.)

In this Firefighting scenario..... wildland firefighting can and does pay less than most fast food jobs on the coasts. Why is this the way it is?

We have as a society made wildland fire so taboo that it seems folly in most US states to employ a huge wildland firefighting department as a matter of the forestry department. And hey, most of the time it's "unskilled" and low stress!

(That is, until the fire comes and exponentially increases and destroys the most valuable land in america.)

Very hard to call in 10k emergency firefighters when the base pay is 16 dollars an hour in California.

(2). Air power in particular here is abysmal. I reguarly am tracking on flight tracking apps and acros this whole event haven't seen more than 10 copters across LA county and surrounding fighting the fires at the same time. That is unnaceptable in the most powerful, richest country in the history of the universe.

I understand that the SA winds prevent fixed wing aircraft from dropping fire retardant, but I am absolutley flabbergasted how the military and CALFIRE did not have dozens of rotary craft on rotation providing evac and water drops.
Which is why models like o1 & o3, using heavy RL to boost reasoning performance, may perform worse in other areas where the greater diversity of output is needed.

Of course humans employ different thinking modes too - no harm in thinking like a stone cold programmer when you are programming, as long as you don't do it all the time.
> why do you keep writing?

I'm going to share a drastically different perspective: I blog under a name that is totally disconnected from my professional name. I do not derive any obvious fringe benefits to my career for doing so, yet I persist.

I write because it forces me to become a more deliberate thinker and more effective communicator. This makes me a more valuable employee, and it shows in how I interact with the people I work with.

Dispense with all this branding and clout crap. Why play the rat race like everyone else?

Write for you, and for people who care about the same things you do. Who knows, maybe you'll find likeminded people and build a professional network organically?
Hello!

I want to share the knowledge I've gathered over 10 years of building products.

The idea is to help beginners and non-tech people understand how the magic works, without wasting a ton of time on useless stuff.

The guide has all the pieces explained and how they work together.

I've never worked as a programmer, never got a degree, and never did a bootcamp... Just straight to building things, so my perspective is more practical i.e. finding the easiest way to making it work.

Hope you find it helpful!

PS: Would love to hear some opinions on it!
As a bit minor criticism "Tasks Completed (Time)" is hard to evaluate without the time intervals or units. I'm not sure if it should just be "Time"?
Very interesting natural experiment for researchers who can start a study now and formulate strong links to cancer causes, diabetes, and all other ailments of modern westerns society
I don’t directly link my email, but people still find it pretty easily because I’m not trying too hard to hide it. Even the folks who can’t find my email managed to get a hold of me quite easily. I am not famous enough to be at a point where people wanting to talk to me is a distraction. I even have a Calendly page if people really want to hop on a call with me. I probably get five requests a year which is not unreasonable.
Damage caused by the customer isn't covered by any warranty anyway, and realistically, how many people would tinker with root access as long as the device worked as intended?

I'd be really surprised if the number was more than 1 in 100. And if 1 in 20 brick the device in the process, that's 1 in 2000.

According to [1] the average warranty claims rate for consumer electronics is 1 in 100. I doubt the difference in support load would even register on the scale.

[1] https://www.warrantyweek.com/archive/ww20240711.html
LoL.

Not only useless but also uncomfortable. My wrists get itchy when looking at those zigzag bevels...
The house is gigantic, housing billions of people. Very few people know how the plumbing works, not one person can "fix" it. Most people don't even consider the dripping water to be an issue at all, indoor plants are thriving. Others say the water has always leaked and it will stop leaking on its own. We for sure have to learn to live with it until it is bad enough for collective action to speed up. Unless we keep moving a way from being a shared-reality, knowledge based species.
I like Manor Lords. Yeah, I'm a big fan of all of the survivalist city-builders that have come out since Banished (Planetbase, Frostpunk, Timberborn). They don't remind me anything of RRT, lol. But I definitely think they appeal to the same type of gamer.
OpenTofu Turns One with OpenTofu 1.9.0
(REM) sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) is an early stage of Parkinson's disease
Yes.

I'd say that maintaining a personal blog is more about the long-term effect of building your content.

It's a way to express yourself in the way you want, having your own UI, your own styles, your own way to write things on it.

In the final sense, it's everything about you, having readers is more a consequence of it. And IMO you shouldn't care about if you have it or not.
Are you suggesting an offshoot of British Energy - as a lot of the costs are energy costs anyway?

Note the same logic as above applies for centralised services whether it be British Compute or AWS versus having your own - any central service is going to have overheads around managing the shared resources - virtualisation, scheduling, availability, security, billing etc.

As in the real world - sometimes a renting model sense, but you pay a premium for the convenience.
Same thing that's done nowadays, steer the riled-up citizens to label the establishments where gambling takes place as nuisance properties shut them down.
Tiger-repellent rock.

Snake oil medicine.

Silicon snake oil!
Over the years I have used top and friends to profile machines and identify expensive bottlenecks. Once one comes to count on those tools, the idea of one being wrong, and actually really wrong! --is just a bad rub.

Fixing it would be gratifying and reassuring too.
A corporation can donate to charities/provide grants/implement policies that help people based on their actual circumstance rather than their membership of some arbitrary group.

For example:

Offer wage negotiation coaching to the bottom x% of earners in any given position in the company (or just straight up give raises to them unprompted). Such initiatives will by definition disproportionately help disproportionately disadvantaged demographics without codifying systemic racism/sexism/etc. The reason corporations don't do things like this is because they are interested in scoring brownie points without undermining the status quo class related power structures.

Similarly when providing scholarships, don't limit them to certain ethnicities. Doing so tends to mostly favor the members of the given ethnic group who are already well off. Instead make the scholarship inversely proportional to household income and select applicants randomly weighted by 1/income without regard to skin color.

Build community centers and libraries in poor communities regardless of who lives there. Give money to the ACLU and other organizations that help victims of abuse rather than tweeting a rainbow flag in June while simultaneously organizing an industry event in Saudi Arabia.
> Coca-Cola Zero (US translation: diet coke)

Diet Coke and Zero are distinct products, both of which are sold in the US
Actually, it specifically calls out

> The OkCupid results are far from unique. But the graphs are stark enough to inspire mutual anger.

Presumably they're using the OKCupid graphs because the very illustrative of topic being discussed.
It helped me land my current position so I would say it is worth it. When someone is considering working with you, it is worth having something to point to that demonstrates your personality alongside your skills beyond what your resume can convey.
Hotels generally dislike third-party booking sites, because they're just skimming off profits while offering a worse service, so they usually offer to match all third-party quotes.

I wonder if a single computer with a VPN could generate screenshots of those discounted quotes for the sole purpose of price-matching.
Education is as accessible as it's ever been. We're probably just talking about different things.
it also seems like a very small savings. the thing sitting on top of it is full of lithium, cobalt, etc. so why should i care if it's sitting on a bit of plastic/aluminum/wood?

that said, a tutorial to turn the shipping box for your laptop (or a flat of diet coke) into a stand would be good. useful in a pinch

edit: keyboard box might be the best box to print the fold lines on. you need that for a minimally ergo laptop setup anyway
i'm not sure why you're mixing and matching stuff about electrical cables causing fires and the San Bruno explosion.

upgrades are expensive, PG&E is barely profitable, and it operates in a very challenging regulatory environment. California liability law + juries impose extremely outsized liability judgements compared to the rest of the country... other utilities have caused actions that lead to death but it generally does not mean billions of dollars in liability judgement. Compare the West fertilizer explosion in Texas, the liability it generated, with PG&E liability judgements.

I understand that it is always attractive to have a simple explanatory story with a clear villain. I encourage you to resist that appeal.
I'm taking an introductory economics course right now, and was surprised to find out that even hardcover books are a form of price discrimination: The manufacturing costs aren't significantly higher than paperback, but "enthusiasts" will buy them at inflated prices. I'm starting to think that like 80% of product diversity is really just pricing discrimination in disguise.
I quickly scanned all those examples, and it doesn't appear a single one had to do with laundering country of origin? That's specifically what I mean - not just fining US companies for trying to under report custom values, which seems to be the bulk of those cases and is nothing new.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197961495 I think is the best quick example of the problem I am talking about here. Outright actual fraud by foreign companies laundering country of origin through intermediary countries. There is next to zero enforcement on this considering how rampant it is. There seems to be very little interest in doing any sort of "hard" prosecution on this problem - likely because it is complex and difficult to investigate appropriately.

I consider it rampant and enforcement a joke since I have spoken to vendors about past and future potentially tariffs and they are completely unconcerned by them. Minor cost of doing business increase to have products shipped through an intermediary company and relabeled. Maybe some quick final assembly if they really are trying to play the game.

I think current enforcement works okayish for folks trying to push the limits. It seems to fall over on outright fraud imposed by bad actors.
a giant greenhouse
Applied Artificial Intelligence and Its Role in an AGI World
I’ve been meaning to write this for a while—an article diving into applied AI and what it could look like in a world dominated by artificial general intelligence (AGI). This idea has been on my mind, especially with critics claiming that the success of today’s AI startups is temporary, arguing that once AGI hits, their technical moats will vanish, leaving them wide open to competition. While I could talk about how these companies might adapt, build strong brands, or leverage non-technical marketplace advantages, I want to focus on the tech itself: will applied AI still hold value in an AGI-dominated world?

Read here: https://www.chrismaresca.dev/articles/applied-artificial-int...
Multi arm bandits are fine but their limited to tests where its ok to switch users between arms frequently and tests that have more power
I do not know where this notion that Meta has given up on the metaverse comes from. Mark continues to talk about AR/VR at every opportunity and Reality Labs continues to invest big on it. The metaverse is a bet but its a 10 year bet that has not been played out yet.
Not sure how many cereal boxes can hold a laptop... unless you're stacking them flattened, and then you need to eat a lot of cereal, but you can adjust height very precisely. :)
> If you can get an interview with a company that relies heavily on coding tests you might stand a chance.

Fair point. I think if I grind leetcode full-time for 3 months, I'll be there. I have around 250 questions under my belt (50 hard), and I feel definitely familiar nowadays. I'm mostly in the refining part, sometimes still in the "I don't see the trick" part.
Or a CyberTruck dumpster falling apart, bursting into flames, then exploding, naturally.
fantastic providing such knowledge for free, many thanks
Do Larger PRs Get Merged Faster?
To some extent, there is actually an incentive to have low-value paperwork in a health system. There's only so many resources, and adding friction to the process is a form of "how serious is your issue, really?" triage. It obviously falls apart where the doctor is doing the same thing they normally would, just now with more paperwork, but it may make them think twice about doing two blood tests when they have a hunch the first one is the most relevant.

Of course, that sucks for every metric of a health system that actually matters (outcomes), but this report could reflect one hand of the government not talking to the other.
Unfortunately not Open Source, in the common definition of the word.

From the license.md [0] page, under "Terms":

> Exemptions: Commercial Use: For inquiries regarding commercial use, please contact the author.

[0] https://github.com/f3nter/HardBreak/blob/fd3d2d4cd17624a3f62...
Just because they had cargo cults before WW2 doesn't make the WW2 cargo cults any less cargo culty.

>New Guinea people, and that the white man had no right whatever to these goods

And believed their ancestors were going show up on a cargo ship with free stuff. In the same way the oppressors came.
Yea I thought about that, probably game dev from the ground (with my own graphics engine) up or a web app that I find useful (currently no thoughts on that).
Yeah because everything is binary and if you reject any bit of consumerism your dream is obviously to live in a gulag.

This place is filled with very smart dumb people...
Thank you. I kinda got that from the context, I guess I'm a bit amused by why the OP went straight to "oh, you're using that term then you must be <the other side>", when there's plenty of (what I would call) virtue signalling on the "right" as well. "Respect the troops" (while defunding VA), "flags, jesus, stickers on cars", "It's merry christmas not happy holidays" and so on and so forth.
>London’s longest archaeological site

The English have a bit of a history when it comes to looting historical artifacts. They would like to exercise some control over when they are found, I imagine.
> Gamers and power users of course shunned them for so long saying, "you could get a better laptop for half the price!" but it's a testament to how good the build quality was that the full force of tech enthusiasts telling everyone not to buy it wasn't enough to sway people away.

I've had two Intel MBP cook themselves to death within two years.

The best laptop I've ever used was an Thinkpad X1 Carbon and I'll die on that hill - I find that Apple's build quality for a lot of stuff is ridiculously overrated and on-par with PCs that cost similarly. The lack of cooling is awful and the extra survivability of MacBooks is helped a lot by their status as shiny prestigious toys for people who don't care that much about using their computers.

Obviously plenty of people get real work done on them, but I'm not sure that they're actually more reliable for the price.
Let's Quit X
Huh, I've always just ignored the stock market and haven't had any issues.
Case in point, under Case Study > Reconnaissance > OSINT, these two paragraphs follow one another - same content but different wording.

> The first step in any hardware hacking project is research. I started by Googling the router model number, "ASUS RT-N12 D1", and came across an article about a similar model, the ASUS RT-N12+ B1. The article mentioned that the device had an open UART interface allowing unauthenticated root access. However, it provided no exact details on how to exploit this or where the UART interface might be located. Could my router model have the same vulnerability?

> In the first step I googled the model number for my router "ASUS RT N12 D1" and I came accross this article. It shows that a similar model the "ASUS RT N12+ B1" appears to have an open UART interface, which gives unauthenticated root access. It does not show how to exacltly abuse this or any details where to find the UART interface. Let's see if our router model may have the same vulnerability!
not really worth having a self-hosted blog. substack + twitter can work as well or better
Previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11437114

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4040022
> I fear you're failing to understand the distinction between having a perspective that something is wrong with the current system

The problem with that perspective is that the concept of copyright originates from and only exists within that system. Copyright itself is a legal contrivance. If you want to propose some other way of doing things, you need to argue from first principles and articulate the normative assumptions that you are starting from.

> I'm merely pointing out that your dismissal of the artists that wish to prevent Tin-Tin from being gentrified is shallow and essentially amounts to 'that's the way things are'.

And I'd like to merely point out that entire concept of a cartoon being 'gentrified' is something that you and/or the people you're attributing these opinions to have just made up out of thin air, and what you're actually implicitly arguing for is creating a new type of copyright that restricts what other people are allowed to do, without offering any justification for that additional system of restrictions in any meaningful way.

Copyright, at least in the US, stems from a pragmatic desire to "promote the progress of science and useful arts", and not out of some normative notion that ideas ought to be treated like rivalrous property simply because some people have emotional attachments to them. If that latter proposition is what you're bringing into the discussion, you need to explicitly argue your case for it, and not just sneak it in like it's something everyone already understands and accepts.