skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and frankly I'd need to build a bit of a narrative to be competitive with other product hires.

Understand that just about _everybody_ is doing that.

You should avoid telling lies in applications and interviews, but you should 100% be "spinning" your experience to make it look best for there job you're applying for. You haven't "only done technical product work" for a year, you "spent several years dedicating personal learning time and took advantage of internal company professional development and mentorship, and eventually were promoted to technical product lead".

You'll need references who'll back you up on that, and it needs to be at least "true enough" that if they go and find co workers you didn't put down as references they won't outright contradict it. But most people can push the truth a long way in the direction they want it to lean without it being deceptive or outright lying.
But this sounds like the TAM here is roughly "SWE compensation" versus the value of moving all business and social interaction onto the Internet.
Doesn't mean either are acting within the law
What social media has microtransaction stars?
I’d expect an SRE to know about all that.
The idea that a spam filter doesn't immediately check to see if the sender is in the recipient's address book when judging ham versus spam has always seemed just nuts to me. Hello? If I've emailed someone before, don't ever mark email from them as spam!

Even the SpamBayes plugin for Outlook wasn't smart enough to do that, IIRC. And it definitely had access to the address book.
It benefits from being bundled with other Google businesses like the ad network and all the data they collect from search. And there’s network effects of creators and users. But given how big it is, the platform should really be regulated like the communication utility and public square that it is.
or use Hidet compiler (open source)
>So just manual discipline? It works (most of the time), but in my experience there's a "discipline budget"; every little niggle you have to worry about manually saps your ability to think about the actual business problem.

>...but getting forced to update while you're in the middle of working on a feature...

I feel like trying to work on more than one project in the same session would require more such discipline.

>So how do you ensure that? pip dependency resolution is nondeterministic, dependency versions aren't locked by default and even if you lock the versions of your immediate dependencies, the versions of your transitive dependencies are still unlocked.

Ah, so this is really about lock files. I primarily develop libraries; if something breaks this way, I want to find out about it as soon as possible, so that I can advertise correct dependency ranges to my downstream.

The requirements.txt approach does, of course, allow you to list transitive dependencies explicitly, and pin everything. It's not a proper lock file (in the sense that it says nothing about supply chains, hashes etc.) but it does mean you get predictable versions of everything from PyPI (assuming your platform doesn't somehow change).

If I needed proper lock files, then I would take an approach that involves them, yes. Fortunately, it looks like I'd be able to take advantage of the PEP 751 standard if and when I need that.

>Putting pip inside Python was dumb and is another pitfall uv avoids/fixes.

Agreed completely! (Of course I was only using a venv so that I could have a separate, parallel version of Pip for testing.) Rather, the Pip bootstrapping system (which you can completely skip now, thanks to the `--python` hack) is dumb, along with all the other nonsense it's enabled (such as other programs trying to use Pip programmatically without a proper API, and without declaring it as a dependency; and such as empowering the Pip team to go so long without even as functional of a solution as `--python`; and such as making lots of people think that Python venv creation has to be much slower than it really does).

I'll be fixing this with Paper, too, of course.
The thing you always need to ask when you hear about "state rights" is "state rights to do what?"

The answer is usually something Federal law or the Constitution would otherwise forbid, or that most people would consider morally reprehensible.
Top actress Carlos Gascón.
Author of the article - and analyzed the likely impact of Section 174 in detail a year back [1], in Jan 2024, when it became clear that it was not being reversed like most assumed it would be.

I originally didn’t mention this because S174 impacts the US and US-HQ’d companies. In this data other countries like Germany, UK, France all see a similar drop. Also, S174 impact likely really started from early 2024, when companies impacted had to pay high taxes and realized the change is here to stay with no end in sight. Doesn’t explain the drop since 2022.

Updated the article to make this clear though. It was not in the original version - thanks for the note!

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/
A variant of this is watching someone demonstrate years of practice and assume you could as well(without practice). The underlying assumption is if something works that easily it must also be simple.
"maintaining order" by the same president that encouraged police riots last term? Just because you write a lot of polished words does not mean you're arguing in good faith - the fascist version of "maintaining order" is precisely what everybody is worried about.

I'm a libertarian. I will be overjoyed to admit I was wrong if we somehow come out of this with an intact democratic government bound by the rule of law and keeping the corpos somewhat in check. But all signs point to our country being well and truly fucked.
Because of how LLMs generalize I'm personally of the opinion we shouldn't have public sets anymore.

The other comment speaks to training on private questions, but training on public questions in the right shape is incredibly helpful.

Once upon a time models couldn't produce scorable answers without finetuning on the correct shape of the questions, but those days are over.

We should have completely private benchmarks that use common sense answer formats that any near-SOTA model can produce.
- Interest rates

- Offshoring, nearshoring

- Generative AI

- Coding camps

- Better and more open source libraries. More high level open source libraries

- Low code and no code

- Easier to use technology, more documentation
Later discussion on other url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43122871
Hmm...thats arguable.

But assuming thats the hook you want to hang your hat on, the guy in this post clearly had plenty of talent to beign with, and also many opportunities to develop it. Does he deserve all the opportunities? What entitles him? What entitles anyone to a scarce resource?
Subconscious synthesis of seemingly unrelated strands of thought is the basis of assessing an event's meaning, for me. A day or two will pass after the event, and I notice the meaning evolves even without new information and without conscious thinking about the event.

For me, the subconscious is the wellspring of sudden insights.
Why wait to spend that (magic) money at all then? What is the point of setting an annual budget? Earmarking contracts out for all these organizations by little million increments every year seems illogical when you can literally just put a few trillion in their hands today.

Why not spend all 500 trillion today? What are we waiting for?

I am entirely certain you do not believe in your own position.
Medieval intellectuals, including Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Hildegard von Bingen, believed that the fetus only received its soul around 40 days after conception.

No soul, no murder.
I cancelled my subscription and found I didn't really miss it that much, but could not find a good replacement for semi bulk or bulk purchases. Usually one to one items are priced the same elsewhere. But if I want to buy in bulk I have to go to Costco, but they are only good if I'm fine with anything, but out of luck for specific brands or any item they deem seasonal. They stopped carrying the only lotion I like replacing it with a different brand, the lens cleaners are now terrible, and they haven't had grape seed oil for months.

There used to be a bulk site I was on before COVID, but they were bought and shut down.
Ah, no.

Suppose you do all kinds of studies and not show any telepathy, precog, or remote viewing. You could still say that the brain was only a receiver. None of that would disprove the "brain-as-consciousness-receiver" concept, you would just say that, I guess it is one way, no telepathy.

It's not disprovable. And so, kind of boring.
At 30 you aren't the adult supervision hire, you're the guy the adult supervision hire brings on as a lieutenant.
> Yet although Iran, Russia, and China did run influence operations

biden harris and trump are hosting the most epic party this year

all the evil axis are coming

but guess who's not coming

it's you! DPRK!
Not huge, but the incremental approach pretty much couldn't have gone better for fish: https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/
Look, I don't like Elon. I don't trust him at all, but your proof that he is going to do X is that he said he is going to do Y. I was expecting some actual evidence, not mind reading.

It is also amazing how many people lose all critical thinking ability coming to the conclusion Elon will never tell the truth.

He is living rent free in the minds of the people who love him and the people who have this visceral hatred of him. It is so sad that so many people are obsessed with him.
I have always thought Linus may not like Rust or at least not Pro-Rust, and the only reason Rust is marching inside the Kernel is most of his close lieutenant are extremely pro rust. So there is this Rust experiment.

But looking at all the recent responses it seems Rusted Linux is inevitable. He is Pro Rust.
Is it a crime, god forbid? If it is strictly against the unwritten rules then I have to lower the frequency.
If this post is accurate (big if), wouldn't it prove that theory false?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891350795452654076
Best get the right attire:

https://www.threadless.com/shop/%40threadless/design/the-com...
Yup, it's semantics, because the comment I answered stresses "by definition." My point is partly that that isn't the definition.

Even if we decide that breakthroughs require some kind of discontinuity, break, or, as the comment said, "paradigm shift," such discontinuity isn't necessarily "against the grain," as this would imply some kind of resistance to or rejection of "the grain."
Only for information available on the Internet…
Firstly - thanks for the look!

On your question... Have gotten that a few times... here's an ad firm that sells "retail" [0] and has rates or you can go directly to Outfront [1] if you want buy in bulk (unit pricing will be multiples cheaper).

[0] https://www.bluelinemedia.com/subway-advertising#rates
[1] https://www.outfront.com/mta
I mainly work on a large complex SPA with UX that does not often look like a form, but does have lots of inputs. These days I'm much bigger on semantic HTML, to the small extent it matters in our case, but there is a large burden of pages which were just div soup and loose inputs.
Nice, that's a big differentiator! I use git sync with my mobile vault, but it's very hacky (using a Termux cronjon) and it's often flaky. Plus I have to open up Termux any time I need to troubleshoot, which is a bit annoying.
and well, I think it deserves to be advertised while it's not something that pops up immediately. it's not flashy. it's very profound though. that's why I am taking the liberty to spam a bit. I am sorry for that.
Yeah. Lots of startup experiences is a good indicator of lots of technical war stories, and having been "that guy" or part of a team where a bunch of seemingly workable approaches to problems failed spectacularly is a _very_ valuable skillset to bring to the table with a bunch of fresh grads or early career devs. You probably need another decade to get the same sort of collections of war stories about managing people and teams and higher management, which is another skillset the "adult supervision" needs.

Having said that, I've seen teams of fresh grads and bootcamp trained devs, where some 30 year old adult supervision might have saved projects or companies from expensive or existential disasters. "No, we are NOT going to build this critical project's frontend on the JavaScript framework you and two of your bootcamp buddies spent the last 4 weekends writing."
I personally think outsourcing hiring is the worst idea ever, and completely lose confidence in companies that do.
I can't imagine a talented employee crying to HN about how they can't compete with the ESL labor pool.

What's the matter? The market feeling a little too free for your tastes?
In Decisivly Optimizing for General Efficiency I'd recommend to resurrect and reinstate project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket) from 1962. 550 tons to LEO launched out of the ocean. No platform necessary, dead simple, and cheap materials, instead of relying on complicated toys from big boys.

And then build some real things up there, not tiny tin cans with foul air.

Like these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_wheel_space_station please?
Is it not the same pretty much in all systems with unitary heads of state? Prime ministers surely have similar powers, subject only to votes of no confidence by their parliaments. Kings, where they have power, are also like this.

> I guess it's a testament to American democratic cultural history that no coup has occurred in American history

The various assassinations of presidents were kinds of coups, don't you think? Soon we'll find out if the CIA did or did not kill JFK. Suppose the CIA killed JFK -for argument's sake-, surely that would have been a coup, no?
I have personally written VBA macros (or hell - just a decent Excel spreadsheet...) that have put people out of their jobs. I didn't know this at the time, I was just a young gun able to see how to make some slow repetitive jobs, faster.

Later moved to Oracle / SQL Server / C# / microservices / CICD etc etc) but hell, that was my whole career 2002-2012 across various companies. Making cool tools for smart people, things the accelerated the company in smal;l but measurable ways, that unbeknownst to me would absolutely have directly resulted in a team of 3-5 being reduced to a team of 1, or a team of 1 not being expanded to be a team of 3-5.

The same will happen (IS happening) with LLM's.
No, but it also doesn't let you store null in a string variable.

Well... it does, but that would just be an empty string.
I'm doubtful changing his plate would actually fix it. There's a decent chance that either his contact info would still be associated with null, or every record that currently has null would be updated to his new plate, which would probably make it even more of a pain to fight in court.
I wonder about a "clever Hans" effect, where they unwittingly suggest their discovery in their prompt. Also whether they got paid.
You will probably have fewer job opportunities than the people working higher up, but be safer from AI automation for now :)
pick up that can, heh heh heh
Which is most information...
Teaching math is a great foundation for learning how to think. Logical fallacies, for example, can be expressed as math.
Who said anything about relocation? That has to be a tiny percentage of hires.
you forgot the most important one, where s the browser native virtual list, grid and table?
Not sure why you're being confrontational? I'm not the OP but it's clear there's some misunderstanding

The quote is:
- neat
- plausible
- wrong

"Just get rid of the cancer" is
- neat because it sounds obvious and tidy
- plausible because we can and do cut out cancer
- wrong because it ignores the nuance that cutting into a patient's body can have massive impacts on long term health. It can also be wrong because certain cancers have no tumor sites.
but couldfix? noyoucouldntlol
Yeah this is the part I find hard to suss out. If they said we have people who are 104 and the next oldest is 150 holy shit. That's case closed, but the link you sent makes me suspicious of the bias on the other side...

I agree with original comment. I just don't know who to trust to do a deep enough dive to give me good information.
Can’t help hit feel a certain parallel to all the steamship operators and pickaxe sellers promoting all the gold to be found in California.

I’m not saying be so cynical as to never listen to advice, but carefully consider how the goals of the one given by it align with your own.
Teslas spotted autonomously driving from Fremont factory to loading dock
I can imagine a possible future of 100% Rust takeover of the kernel.
>It is wrong to specify the versions for your transitive dependencies except to achieve reproducible builds

Yes, and this is why many people have both pyproject.toml and requirements.txt. pyproject.toml is meant to specify abstract, unresolved dependencies only.

>If your application only works with specific versions of dependencies and has bugs in others, that should be described in pyproject.toml.

That's quite literally not the design, if by "dependencies" you mean including transitive dependencies. pyproject.toml isn't there to enable reproducible builds. This is exactly why I included that speculation about the post-PEP751 future: currently we can "install applications", but with tools that aren't meant to handle exact application configurations.

> Reproducible builds for the purpose of testing or producing hash-identical wheels, or similar situations where the goal is producing an exact snapshot of a build, is the only reason to be using lockfiles.

Some application developers would say that, as far as they are concerned, the code "cannot run" except in the context of a reproducible build. If it works otherwise, that's an "upside", but they don't want to support it.

I think we're just going around in circles here.
Like many things in US politics, “it’s complicated.” The program had to get approval from the federal government (which was granted by the Biden administration), it’s now up to the courts if Trump can rescind that approval.

The point is that saying power should go back to the states is really just a talking point conservatives use when it’s convenient for them, not actually a strongheld belief that guides their actions in any way.
"The Simulation" is the new modern religion. It explains everything yet explains nothing.
They already are using NeRFs for Street View. (NeRF is similar to a Gaussian splat with different rendering trade-offs) https://blog.google/products/maps/sustainable-immersive-maps...
true. See here for a map:
https://sfplanninggis.s3.amazonaws.com/hub/BIGmap.pdf

I live in the that space (between tower and the city) and the local neighbourhood group (HANC) is ridiculously NIMBY. rezoning is happening but it's slow going...
Yes, obviously. "Consolas"
Early in UNIX proliferation, each sysadmin in my department had a bespoke temporary hostname during manual localization. Flapjacks, Reaganaut, BobsCountryBunker.
I had the privilege of spending about 30 minutes at level 6 in May of 2023. It was as spectacular as you might imagine. I would say that if you have even the slightest fear of heights the whole experience would be a nightmare.
> It was clearly valuable from day 1

I’m not sure that’s the case even if in retrospect we can clearly argue this

In 1998, Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences, infamously predicted that “the growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’—which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants—becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s” [1] and even though that turned out to be spectacularly wrong it shows the attitude in the early days wasn’t one of absolute certainty.

And certainly the current AI boom is most visibly known for LLMs but there is a lot more happening beyond chatbots.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-internets-eff...
Opportunity: you can buy $1500 in shingles, put them on someone's roof yourself in 4 days, and clear $5000 profit -- somewhere where rents/mortgage are under $1500 a month and a nice restaurant meal for two is under $50.

It's rapidly looking like nerding out while pining for the old days where engineering knowledge and education was valuable is maladaptive. The sunk cost fallacy can be real.
Do you think all of the industry expertise for niche markets is published on the internet for free? Why would any company do that?
I wonder if this will hinder vote by mail somehow.
I didn't say any of the weird questions/statement you try to pin me for.
Maybe it doesn't make sense to you because you are confused?

Then again, you are confused, I never said they were buying mindlessly. They buy it because they are popular and confer status. This is why the vast majority of people buy them, not a well-reasoned and careful choice attained by proper comparison and knowledge after reviewing options.

It's not good for people who view those things as tools, because price increase and focus on the historical target group diminish tremendously.

It's not something that is exclusive to Apple but it's particularly painful because of the quirks of computing (having software linked to a particular hardware platform).

And yes, they didn't buy the Mini phone because they didn't like them. It confers less status and is not as good as a social media machine, so of course.

But by this logic McDonalds must be good because of how many people like them and somehow that's a desirable and valuable outcome.
Haha buddy they were still interviewing people in January.
Haven't written much Go the last year and a half...

Mostly novel limitations that I'm not used to from C++.

Instantiating generic parameter types is one thing I couldn't figure out at some point, but that's pretty much useless in C# and impossible in Java if I remember correctly.

I recognize the frustration from following implementations in both Java and C# though, it takes a while for generics to settle, each implementation has its own quirks.
Development always slows down in down turns and times of uncertainty - companies hoard their money and don't want to start on new projects.
Microsoft also knows that if they sell xbox's for less overseas people will start buying those cheap ones and importing them to the US for resale.
css noob here, sorry i still don't get it, perhaps a better visual showing what page layout looks like on both views
I don't think that's annoying. If they make a mess, then by the time they're done cleaning it up, they'll be an expert, and you won't even have to train them. That is exactly what you need when the system is broken. The existing people should be encouraging, let them try, and lend their wisdom when they can. Disruption has always helped the tech economy thrive and government should welcome the opportunity to learn this aspect of our culture.
The problem is no proper theory of backups exists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41173227
You can replace software engineers with anything else here. Most VPs and higher leadership I see at FAANGs (who're arguably the ones recognizing opportunity) come from a PM or other non-software background. As much as I'd like to believe we're special, it doesn't seem like we are any special. We have no protection.

It's best to start hedging and learning other skills. Or focus on making as much money as possible ASAP so you have some financial safety net to fall back to as AI and Trump/Musk and offshoring has increased in recent years. All of us need an escape plan ready.

I don't mean to spread FUD. Just hedge please. I assume I have at most a decade of tech career left in the best case. A couple years in the worst case.