skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do tech workers get so wrapped around the axle of layoffs when most people are in a chronic state of tech job hopping?

1) Because layoffs are a timeline not in your control.

Leaving a job under my timeline is very different than suddenly being out of a job on somebody else's timeline. On my timeline, I know what my financial situation is and have likely planned around it. Layoffs, on the other hand, can catch people at vulnerable points. Even if you don't get laid off, you will likely have hoarded cash and adjusted major purchases just in case you did.

2) Because most "tech" workers are NOT in a chronic state of job hopping.

Most people working "tech" are in boring businesses doing 8-to-4, have a mortgage, a spouse, and maybe a child or two. They have friends and support networks where they are. They are reasonable at their job, but nothing outstanding that would set them apart from the masses. Moving to another job in the same area is probably not an easy task--either the area has a single big employer or the scattered "tech" jobs are kind of rare. And even if the area has another job, your commute may change from reasonable to absurd. In the worst case, your spouse also gets laid off since tech companies are like sheep and will do layoffs simultaneously for "reasons". Now, you may have to completely leave the area to find a new job.

This all sucks for people who are just getting by day to day.

3) Unless you have really good personal networks right now, job hopping is really difficult.

Sure, senior people can just call up "so-and-so" and wind up with an interview tomorrow. Junior people, not so much.
Russia can just leave.

Chamberlain tried to bargain peace for Britain at the sacrifice of the Czechs and other nations and in the end his country got bombed to shit anyway. You guys make it seem like Russia has no agency here
The difference between Go and Java is that in Go a type need not declare its adherence to an interface up front—any type that has methods of appropriate names and signatures is considered to implement the interface, even if its designers were not aware of the interface’s existence. (This involves a small bit of dynamism in the runtime; easily cached, though, as the set of methods of a given type and the set of all interfaces are both fixed by the time the program runs.) Whether that’s a good thing depends on your design sensibilities (ETA: nominal vs structural).
I know you’re being disparaging by using language like “bake into their identity” but everyone is “something” about “something”.

I’m “indifferent” about “roller coasters” and “passionate” about “board games”.

To answer the question (but I’m not OP), I’m skeptical about LLMs. “These words are often near each other” vastly exceeds my expectation at being fairly convincing that the machine “knows” something, but it’s dangerously confident when it’s hilariously incorrect.

Whatever we call the next technological leap where there’s actual knowledge (not just “word statistics” I’ll be less skeptical about.
Yeah I used to do 2-4 2-liters per day before I gave it up around 12 years ago. I’m hoping that, to the extent it does damage, the effect stops when you stop drinking it.
Thoughts on Signed Distance Functions for CAD
Xi is not all powerful; no one person is. The state is powerful, not an individual. And all states are ultimately authoritarian. The only question is what form and to what end.
Announcers voice, 'No'
At the time the blog post was written, the .torrent file was not yet posted to tug.org.
I totally agree with you. Writing raw SQL, and really just thinking of usecases in a more data-orieted way I think leads to clearer and more maintainable code, even if it takes a little more time initially. Although even then, I have to say ChatGPT can spit out such good SQL and accompanying Go models now that its not even that slow to do.

We've taken over a rails codebase at work, and the number of O(n) queries that are being done instead of bulk queries is rather shocking. I'm sure that one can write efficient queries using the Rails ORM, but it does seem to me that the presence of it allows for more misuse.
Crypto Regulation largely falls under the CFTC (now headed by A16Z's head of lobbying) and CFPB (now disbanded by Kupor's OPM).

SEC manages regulations such as SPACs, public listings, and publicly traded securities - another thing A16Z has been lobbying to deregulate, but not directly related to crypto.

It was FTX and Coinbase that paved the way, but it's A16Z that's taking full advantage.
You can simply scroll and tap a black locked screen. No one’s going to ask anyway.
I personally don't observe this
Found the same thing.
I was toying with a Discord bot a few weeks ago that involved setting up and running a node server, deployed to Fly via docker. A bunch of stuff a bit out of my wheelhouse. All of it turned out to be totally straightforward with LLM assistance.

Thinking bigger is a practice to hone.
> Extracting the data should be the most challenging aspect of an ETL pipeline.

Why should this be difficult? It’s the easiest part. You run SELECT * and you’re done.

The difficult part is transforming all the disparate upstream systems and their evolving schemas into a useful analytical model for decision support.
> I am now at a real impasse, towards the end of my career and knowing I could happily start it all again with a new insight and much bigger visions for what I could take on. It feels like wining the lottery two weeks before you die

I envy this optimistic. I am not the opposite (im a sr engineer with more than 15 years of experience), but I am scared about my future. I invested too much time in learning concepts, theory, getting a Master degree, and in a few years all of my knowledge can be useless in the market.
Thanks for sharing! Yes, getting good performance out of pgvector with even a trivial amount of data requires a bit of understanding of how Postgres works.
As far as I've read, our coke zero has a lot of added phosporus or a source of, it seems to somehow bind to calcium leading to perhaps bone loss.

I had an injury I thought was unrelated, but could be. Premature ankle joint wear. On inspection from a CAT scan machine, I was told I seem to have some abrasions on the bone around the damaged area, likely from or similar to osteoporosis and/or osteoarthritis.
We make a lot of stuff. The manufacturing industry contributes >$2T to US GDP.

The US doesn't have an empire, but we do have a degree of worldwide hegemony. As a practical matter if the US turns isolationist then China will fill that gap. Will that make US citizens richer?
Tesla Used Car Price Crashes – Model Y, Model 3 Deals Explode
I love the idea of shortwave but all I ever pick up are Jesus channels.
The trick, of course, is in distinguishing

> THIS MANAGEMENT TEAM DOESN"T KNOW HOW TO MAKE MONEY AT THE MOMENT

from

> THIS WHOLE INDUSTRY IS FAKE

or, worse,

> YOUR SOCIETY HAS REACHED THE INFLECTION POINT OF A YEARS-, DECADES-, OR PERHAPS CENTURIES-LONG PONZI SCHEME. SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
Why does capitalism not make people fat in Japan, France, Italy and Spain?
I can't forge metal but I feel like my forks in my kitchen are mine because I can operate and maintain them until they fundamentally break. I do think that's ownership

But I agree there's more than one way to view ownership and I can see your point, even if I don't think I agree so long as the UK can truly operate it in every way, including software that might need adapting (like how I might bend my fork's prong back into shape, or out of shape for adaptations)
We are talking about Laravel. The primary way to interact with your app is either via HTTP requests or not, there is not much in-between, so I don't really get your point.

There is a very well defined architecture for the CRUD part that gives itself to "frameworkification". That part is free to call out to any other business code you deem necessary, this is such a surface you can trivially build on. Your software does complex route planning? Sure, have an endpoint that specifies a config and call out to however complex logic you need, and return the result (or just that you are working on it, and another endpoint will later be available for the results or whatever). But not everything gives rise to such stable surfaces.

> writing a basic CRUD in Go

Well, what about converting strings to business data structures safely? What about complex JSON parsing, serialization, CSRF, preventing injections, session cookies, authN/authZ, easy database CRUD operations?
We have come to the juncture where hosting a small bit of JS functionality requires a giant swamp^Wecosystem of bundlers, transpilers, packaging systems, and specialized servers.

All in the end to serve pieces of static content. It's mind boggling.

Yes, you could just go it alone and do your own NPM-less JS, but you really will be mostly on your own. Once you wander into front-end development, the assumption is you live in their nodejs city, and their city is a dirty dirty ass place.
Starbucks makes coffee flavoured desert drinks. We are talking about specialty coffee shops. I've also never seen starbucks use a single shot basket to pour a single shot. They always just split, this is broadly the standard. Nobody outside of Italy is making single shots with a single shot basket.
We see this all the time. There is some shock or reduction to supply and the price goes up but it always goes up way more than the supply change would necessarily warrant. Then it takes forever to return to normal (if it ever does).

Interestingly, in the early weeks of the Kamala Harris campaign last year, she actually advocated to fighting or stopping "price gouging", something that was wildly popular: 66% of respondents on a Harris Poll approved [1]. After bringing on her brother-in-law and the former Biden campaign staff however, she never mentioned it again because Wall Street didn't like it.

Now you will find all sorts of articles online from serious outlets about how price gouging won't work and they'll simply put a bullhorn in front of economists who say that but there is precedent, namely when Nixon put in a freeze on prices and wages [2].

Now one can agree or disagree with such a policy, whether it's a long term fix or not and so on but we can still say the following:

1. There is absolutely opportunistic price gouging going on, way more than the avian flu would otherwise warrant. This is true for so many things beyond eggs; and

2. Life is becoming unaffordable, especially with housing and food. Ordinary people feel this. Politicians who address those issues will resonate with voters; and

3. Gutting the executive branch, which is currently going on, will only make this worse as there will be even less enforcement of price-fixing than there currently is.

[1]: https://theharrispoll.com/briefs/america-this-week-wave-240/

[2]: https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/22/nixons-famous-price-...
Show HN
Tried out some vibe coding this Sunday - First time trying out cursor and pretty impressed with the guidance it gives and consdering alot i wouldnt have thought of and using railway
https://riscv.org/about/faq/
I'm from Kiev, Ukraine, and I have talks with Ukrainian scientists, and will tell shocking things.

All these are semi-truth. All what said everybody on these things.

Real truth is simple - we just don't know, because Ukraine is unexploited.

None serious researches made before become independent state, because Russia was higher priority in USSR.

None serious researches made after become independent, because approximately before 2014 was slow transform from totalitarian state (satellite) to democracy, and just after another step to democracy, began war of 2014, in 2022 transformed to full scale aggression.

So, before 2014 Ukraine had other priorities than resources exploration, and unfortunately, now also have another priorities.

What I really know, Ukraine just gather things just from surface. What I mean, before 1917 was known, that coal deposits and oil exist at east Ukraine and under USSR was large mining of coal and appear few oil rigs.

Some western companies tried to begin exploration in Ukraine, but because of political issues (just instability), all these tries become very long term perspective projects.

Even exist few rare-earth mines, but as I hear before 2014, they abandoned, because nobody in Ukraine or outside want to make investments, until Ukrainian government will become more stable.

You could google image: mineral resources of ukraine.
At least known large deposits of Uranium and Lithium, just because they are so large, don't need any special equipment to know.
Rare Earth things are usually seen in trace amounts in deposits of things like Uranium or Gold, they are not independent deposits, so need deep (and expensive) research of known deposits.

I believe, when we will achieve peace, even temporal treaty (like Korea live more than 50 years with temporal treaty), Ukraine will continue evolution to democracy country, but for now, nobody could answer, when will peace happen.

And yes, I already invested my time to know, how exploration doing and even seen some software packages to see deep under surface, and know few people who worked on this before.
The frequency of what you see isn’t a reason to take something seriously or not. A more specific argument might be helpful. To be clear, I like China and its people. I strongly dislike the CCP and how it operates, for a long list of reasons that are easy to find on Wikipedia or elsewhere. In the context of this discussion, I am simply pointing out that it doesn’t make sense for the allegedly free and democratic societies of Europe to increase their ties with the Chinese government at this point, unless they aren’t actually as free and democratic as previously thought.
"Processed food" is a term without meaning. Amost all food is processed. Yogert is processed. Bread is processed. Steak is processed. Even raw fruit is arguably processed as it is picked before being ripe to eat and then subject to an optimized ripening process (google the science behind banana shipping). All foods are either cooked or mechanically/chemically processed prior to consumption. We are aguably unable to survive on unprocessed food. Short of biting into a whole head of lettuce, or into the side of a live animal, one cannot avoid processed foods. Washing/cooking has saved us from all manner of paracites. The people who eat raw/unprocceed foods are the ones who wind up with worms in thier brains. What matters for health is the degree of processing that does not add nutrition or safety, with every pundit picking thier own arbitrary point somewhere between a healthy chopped salad and a microwaved hot pocket. Imho, just avoid anything with added sugar or salt.
These were 25 minute phone screens for candidates that had been sourced by recruiting, a few years ago at a company that was going through hyper-growth (hiring hundreds of engineers in a year). Phone screening several dozen people for 2-4 eventual hires doesn't feel too inefficient to me.
Redpanda Connect is a yaml file that has a cdc input and you can process the data and send it anywhere, no Kafka required.

I’ve seen postgres cdc directly being written to Snowflake.

https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-connect/components/inputs...
Honesty question, and leaving aside implications about what's possible and all of that, what was particular positive about the experience?

You didn't do anything, just asked a different entity to do it for you. And nothing noble or original, just a copy of existing games. I see no difference between this and getting a $500 coupon to use at Fiverrr and ask a freelance engineer to do the same while you chat with them.
This is relevant for running .NET 4.x apps on Linux or Mac. .NET 5+ is dotnet core, so mono is still relevant here.
Ok… I’ll be the one to rudely ask, how tall and how much do you weight. I’ll drink 1L of sugar free coke a day, but that’s my definite limit
Is it really specific to Aspartame though? What if you switched to a product with a different sweetener, such as Sucralose?
One case where this is very desirable:

def spawn_coroutine(func, /, *args, **kwargs):
# func can itself have a parameter called 'func' and nothing breaks
# we could have the user provide the thunk themselves but that’s inconvenient
def thunk():
return func(*args, **kwargs)
# put thunk on some sort of task queue...

But, as the PEP points out, sometimes you just don’t want the parameter names to be part of your public contract, and it’s nice to have a way to express that.
I think Trump actually demonstrates just how wrong this perspective is.

The U.S. cooperated with Canada to build cars together for generations. It’s a source of a lot of economic prosperity for both countries. And now the U.S. is threatening Canada with annexation while trying to destroy the current auto industry.

I know there would be bickering about the details because everyone has their own mood on how warmongering the U.S. is, and to whom. But whatever you want to qualify the past as, the present is considerably and undeniably different in contrast.

I guess maybe to Russians this would actually be backwards given the U.S. has always been aggressive towards them and now America and Russia are quickly becoming BFFs.
Here's the idiomatic Go style guide: accept whatever go format outputs. The fact that go formats code by default is one of the best things about the language. The whole point is that spending time either correcting whitespace (or even worse, arguing about how much whitespace to put) is an absolute waste of time and a comradery killer.
It's door handles. Surprised it's not in-dash ads (291 points, 27 days ago, 202 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43009682

Or physical buttons {although it kinda comes up} (21 points, 4 months ago, 86 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42025123
167cm, and 63-65kg.
Is there any medical studies on this or how did you know to try it? What’s going on at the biomolecular level?
Interesting, but it seems ridiculous to disambiguate “Programmer” vs “Coder”.

They’re synonymous words and mean the same thing right?

Person who writes logic for machines
Ok good, but I don't browse the web on my fone. Thank you for posting this
In Europe it's absolutely a majority. Musk is widely despised now. And this used to be a big market for Tesla.
To be very clear, we do live in a world where the distinction between legal and illegal, right and wrong, matters. And we will always live in that world.

Not to pick a fight with you. It obviously does not matter to the people running this administration, I agree with you.
neither can be comparable to what twitter was - not service not product
As I said, there are many exceptions. It is just a correlation.

There are people with ADHD for whom meds don't work at all, some for who it works in very low doses, some that need very high doses, everyone is different. Same with reactions to coffein.

Diversity is the norm in nature when talking about individuals. ADHD is super complex and how stimulants work is also super complex and the interactions, well we barely have any idea. It doesn't really say anything about your ADHD that you are more or less sensitive to stimulants other than that your are more and less sensitive to stimulants.

Like you wrote, it could be just some enzymes or whatever. Humans are just crazy complex. It is still useful to talk about fact that a statistically significant subset of people with ADHD react differently to caffeine than most neurotypicals.

For what it is worth, I envy you a lot being more sensitives. I can kill five, six, seven cups of coffee and not feel anything. It sucks.
Tracing Back to the Source – SPTM Round 3
> Outside of Italy nobody uses single shot baskets.
> All espresso based drinks you will find will be double-based.

Do you have a source for these claims?
Ultra-fast thermal mats could power homes, or reduce energy
I’ve read that Dorito book and it was excellent.
> So relaxing while also so darkly funny

it has that early internet screamer vibes, I was a bundle of nerves all the time.
There is value in having local consistency, which is usually achieved through having rules.

The more uniform a code base, the easier it is to breeze around and get stuff done. Naming things is already hard, so having rules around the annoying bits is nice.
B2c voice AI agents – thoughts?
Hi, does anyone have any good resources on understanding the b2c voice ai agent landscape as it is today and/or thoughts on the moats early startups can build in the space? i feel defensibility is a key concern due to large actors already having established distribution and was curious to hear what you guys thought would be ways to overcome the distribution challenge.
How do we measure sympathy?

That sounds like a thought crime.
The article makes a case on the merits for the failure of the project, in terms of its uptake, the direct value generated, and the costs of its rollout.
> They campaigned on a vague anti-"price gouging" promise while pretending they didn't even know who Lina Khan, Johnathan Kanter and Rohit Chopra were.

It’s so absolutely wild what the litmus tests are for each party. Absolutely fucking wild.
When I try to access Qwant I get "Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country". I don't think I've ever gotten this message from a search engine. I'm from Brazil.
They didn't sequence the whole human genome (~3 billion bases) for multiple reasons. I am not an expert on ancient DNA but I will try to explain the paper as best I can:

1. Contamination with other flora and fauna DNA
2. Relative low proportions of human DNA
3. The DNA is usually highly degraded, which limits the analyses to short read sequencing (in this case they used 76 bp reads). The halflife of human DNA is ~521 years.

To mitigate these problems they used multiple targeted approaches including one to isolate mitochondrial DNA, where they managed to sequence the whole ~16kb human mtDNA, where each base was covered by 62 sequencing reads on average (62x coverage).

They used another to isolate specific regions containing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which are DNA mismatches known to be related to ancient human DNA and humans. They targeted 470,724 single nucleotide polymorphisms of which 70% (336,429) were recovered.

They did perform shotgun sequencing on all of the DNA isolated, but due to species assignment issues they again focused on fragments that contain diagnostic SNPs in these cases they only recovered a small number of SNPs per sample, again due to the relatively low proportion of human DNA and its degradation (20,526, 3,734, 124,862, 85,901, 34,756, 41,632, 34,677 and 72,992) as per the legend in figure 3.
>any type of social media where you can see people's pictures can turn into a dating app. And LinkedIn is even better because it's not just showing people's fake lives.

LinkedIn is arguably as fake as Instagram, Facebook, you name it.

Sooooooooo
This is much like other advances in computing.

Being able to write code that compiled into assembly, instead of directly writing assembly, meant you could do more. Which soon meant you had to do more, because now everyone was expecting it.

The internet meant you could take advantage of open source to build more complex software. Now, you have to.

Cloud meant you could orchestrate complicated apps. Now you can't not know how it works.

LLMs will be the same. At the moment people are still mostly playing with it, but pretty soon it will be "hey why are you writing our REST API consumer by hand? LLM can do that for you!"

And they won't be wrong, if you can get the lower level components of a system done easily by LLM, you need to be looking at a higher level.
Mostly, yes: “in the monkey model, owing to technical difficulties and feasibilities, our current work did not include the impact of APM on atherosclerosis”.
> Cooked

People using this phrase should probably stop, it's become extremely tiresome as a cliche
> The US founding fathers included everyone in their vision, btw

Of course many were only 3/5th included. And half the population weren’t included at all.