skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t wrong. In every industry, there will always be people who struggle to find employment. It’s a necessary part of the economic machine. One hopes it is not always the same person suffering, of course.

Still, absolutely everything about this industry is inflated. Pepsi just bought Poppi for $1.5B. That’s a HUGE DEAL, but hardly worth mentioning when compared with the $70B that Microsoft spent on Activision-Blizzard.

Making $80k a year is a GREAT salary. That’s going to invoke a hearty yawn from many when comparing to dev salaries.

Hell, you don’t even need a degree to get in. Just the knowledge to back yourself up in an interview.

I’m old enough to remember the hiring frenzy of the dot-com bubble, as well as many smaller hiring frenzies since.

Having watched my parents claw their way to a very happy retirement, it’s insane how easy life is in this career field.

I bring great energy to my teams, but technically I’m not incredible. I’ve never been Big-N quality. Still, I’m going to retire earlier in my life than my dad, who (very regrettably) even got an infusion of life insurance cash via my mom’s passing. I’ll retire with more spending power too. I have one nice toy - a car I spent $45k on. Otherwise, I live a modest life on my income, but all of this is based on watching my parents’ spending habits and lifestyle, so it feels like a fair comparison to me at least.

This is an absolutely blessed field. Can’t imagine where I’d be if I’d been born even just a hundred years ago.
I doubt that AI will ever figure out 'what to do' since it doesn't have a body and can't get out in the world.

But, if it does, I will go the way of all those buggy whip makers and find something else to do. (And it will probably be doing something with AI.)
Ditto. I use Claude 3.7 to refine drafts of research papers and ask it “What have I missed?”.

Now I can prompt Claude to ping PubMed and make sure that its suggested references are verified. Each citation/claim should be accompanied by a PMID or a DOI.

I hope this works!
>do you think that would not affect incomes of those who are the current blue collar class?

Obviously it is affect. Supply of goods are increased and their relative market value are increased - how can this not increase their incomes?
> You know the pitch - beanbags in the office, free kombucha on tap, and "Agile" processes that are supposed to make everything more flexible, more efficient.

Does this still happen? This sounds kind of 2010.

What I find interesting about this page is how poorly written it is. It looks like a chimera of AI writing (bullet points) and someone on too much Adderall (…because that's happened to me). It's too long yet too short at once. I think the author should try reading it out loud to someone else.
How much experience with contract killers do you have to make that assessment?
ofc it is firefox
Being a worker doesn't mean "working class". That phrase pretty specifically is for people who do some sort of physical work. We fall under "professional class", people who mostly do knowledge work, traditionally at a desk in an office. They're both generally considered part of the middle class.
A lot of tokenization bugs came from odd Reddit subreddits, such as r/counting. And back then, we didn't have free model weights, which is they all converge to similar weights, might tell us a lot about how to design adversarial examples.
you may be right but money always talks and national interests go before “what ifs”
What? You claim to have gotten a nearly 10 figure exit, yet you claim you made 450 k$ TC in your last job [1]. Even a maximally conservative estimate of 100,000,001 $ for a “nearly 10 figure exit” (being literally 1 dollar over 9 figures) would get you over 4 M$ annually in risk free treasuries. Why would you work for 450 k$?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43429259
Check out this Dockerfile template if you're building Rust in Docker: https://depot.dev/docs/container-builds/how-to-guides/optima...

What makes Depot so fast is that they use NVMe drives for local caching and they guarantee that the cache will always be available for the same builders. So you don't suffer from the cold-start problem or having to load your cache from slow object storage.
I hate when they promote the use of low-flow toilets which save 1-2 gallons when compared to irrigation of farm land measured in acre-inches of water. A acre-inch of water is 27,000 gallons. Corn needs 12 acre-inches to grow to maturity, or over 325,000 per acre.
I remember they joked about given unlimited time and resources they will rewrite it in Zig for fun. But there were plenty of juice left to squeeze out from Go.

Turns out they have been doing it already behind the scene.
> I hear a few problems with the audio emulation, (mostly clicks that shouldn't be there)

Almost anything WASM+Audio seems to do that in browsers today, unless you're really really careful about what you're doing and leverage multiple threads. I think the issue is mostly around single-thread contexts, where it has to switch between playing audio and other things.

I hit the very same issue myself with Bevy not too long time ago, and tracking this issue which has some further links if you wanna go down a rabbit-hole: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4078
How's their lmarena ELO?
Oh, this person isn’t a worker class. They’re managerial class spreading essentially propaganda against something that would threaten them,
> See Gaza, most of eastern Ukraine. The existence of armoured equipment,... means civilian resistance is all but irrelevant.

I cannot say anything about Gaza.

But I live in Kyiv, Ukraine, and I have lot of talks with civilian resistance, from about 2012 (yes, Euro-2012 significant).

And I could say, map of occupied Ukrainian territory is very close to map of least pro-Ukrainian civilian activity.

I could state exactly - territory where pro-Ukrainian civilian activity (mostly in form of various Non-Government Organizations), was high before war, stay under control of Ukrainian government, but territory where previous power just physically destroyed civilian activity was lost.

Exceptions are Kharkiv and Odessa, where anti-Ukrainian Organizations was very powerful, but they appear very early and pro-Ukrainian forces successfully neutralized them.

What I mean saying about physically destroyed civilian activity, for example The deportation of the Crimean Tatars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat...
Many bring the same mindset to backend as well. In my small team of less than 10 developers we use C#, Java, Kotlin, Rust, Elixir, Go, Javascript, Typescript, and Python to worry about and maintain because developers have been allowed to pick what they want.

I have stopped caring about how incredibly short sighted this is, and just think of it as experience that improves my resume
Spend your prime making ads more effective instead.
I think the whole internet is a free lunch problem as far as that goes. I pay for web hosting because I consider the cost to be worth it to send my fabulous opinions into the ether.

The premise of this thread is that somehow the LLM builders are reading too much. I bet it's less than google.

I continue to believe, if you don't want everyone in the world to see and use your stuff, don't put it on the internet.
This seems like intended usage? The server actually executes the moves and interacts with the environment, the core orchestration or reasoning is offloaded to claude?
Did you try Kokoro? You can self host that.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS
Imagine putting your time and energy into something other than building a bigger imaginary pile for yourself.
Backbone sat right between the jQuery sprinkle and reactive frameworks era. It popularized a bunch of important concepts that quickly led to the next era:

- storing data in JavaScript, not in DOM elements

- separate models and views before JavaScript even had the class keyword

- decoupling from your back-end through a RESTful API

- templates that would be filled with data in the browser

- client-side routing

However, it was not in the same league as reactive frameworks like Angular.js or Ember. It was missing two big things, which destined it to be a bridge from the jQuery era to the present.

- Reactivity that stretches to the DOM. Backbone's views had a `render` hook you had to implement that expected you to either replace the HTML wholesale or go fiddle with the DOM yourself.

- Partials or Components. Backbone didn't support subviews at all.
Given the topic, does anyone has some cool homebrew ROM for the gameboy?
While I don’t necessarily disagree with the larger point on mediocrity, that’s a massive instance of survivorship bias. For every you there’s a hundred others that burned themselves out only for them to be fired a moment after.
Git is a pain
Something I don't see talked about often regarding passkeys, is that they seem to be useful in addition to other methods, not instead.

I've been thinking that they allow you to have long, non-memorisable unique passwords for an account (1), and then add passkeys on the devices you use often. The long, non-memorisable password isn't inconvenient because you don't need to use it, and the passkeys which are used day to day are resistant to phishing & keyloggers (as I understand).

However, I don't know if that is how they're being used or marketed.

1) Perhaps even 2FA too, which wouldn't be as inconvenient if it's only used rarely. Given the points raised in this article, I'm rethinking whether that is necessary.
Making streaming joins 50% faster
> Working nights and weekends got me a close to ten figure exit at a now publicly traded fintech. So yeah, I don't mind.

It's an entirely different matter if you stand to make huge gains if the company succeeds. That is not the majority of jobs in the field. Most of us will never even have the opportunity to be involved in one of those. That's not what this discussion is about.
Om Malik – Has Search Become Just a Feature?
Forgiveness: It sounds nice but what does science say?
you can put a lipstick on a pig with some linkedin lingo like “professional class” or “working professional” but that is just for bars to impress boys/girls. end of the day you are worker and working class. the fact that you might be in the office while someone is out enjoying the sun at the construction site is just geography
Why not? I am pretty sure there is no training data of “whales playing the guitar”, but if you ask a model to draw one, it will do a respectable job of imagining that scenario.
Actually, I’ve had a lot of realtors that added value. And lots that didn’t.
They are not all useless middlemen though.
This is amazing, this would light up r/showerthoughts.
Yeah and what are the numbers on how many employed engineers hold that accreditation? Just because it exists doesn't mean it's used.

I know for a fact that aerospace, electrical, and mechanical engineers working on designing rockets, nuclear reactors, space capsules, and electric charging infrastructure do not need this credential. And so most of them do not have it.
Great to know. I think the fear is that so many companies are prioritizing AI workloads for the valuation bump rather than delivering actual meaningful value.
Yes! Commonly known in Australia by the brand name Corten (COR-TEN)[1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weathering_steel

I laser cut and help press about half the cladding at MONA near Hobart, a gallery owned by professional gambler David Walsh.

If you haven’t been, go!

It’s an underground art gallery, complete with wind tunnel reminiscent of a vacuum cleaner tube, and a permanent installation of a digesting shit machine, amongst other subservience adult Disneyland weirdness.

https://mona.net.au/visit

https://www.discovertasmania.com.au/things-to-do/museums/mon...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Walsh_(art_collector)
I don't trust a credentialing board to vet my coworkers for me.

EDIT: i.e. I'm still going to want to interview them and have them prove to me that they can write code.
How to improve the Casio F-91 Backlight [video]
> Is there data for this question which would back restricting populations from having tools of self defense against tyrannic government(could happen in Canada too one day) and make it high priority for society compared to other problems?

The US has these tools and a dictator upending the country and yet these tools are not being utilized.
With modern Google, if I’m searching for something that could either be a band or a song, I can put “band” and I will get only results for the band, even if the page doesn't include the word "band."

But if you insist on a dumb keyword search, Google still does that fine if you use quotation marks now in addition to the operator (e.g. +"band"). But I just tried +"band" with my band-vs-song example and all I got were worse results that excluded the artist's website because the artist didn't write the word "band" anywhere on the page -- as expected for a dumb keyword search.

There was no easy way to perform my band-vs-song search back then because Google didn’t understand context and the website doesn’t have the correct keywords. But modern Google knows context and I employ this fact regularly, allowing me to find stuff with modern Google like a magician compared to old Google or even Altavista.
An Aphantasic's Observations on the Imagination of Shapes
They don’t though not really. We didn’t allow housing to have the same elastic market fluctuations all other markets do.

Yes, there can be minor variations in prices (especially with renting) but the fact of the matter is unlike any other market there is artificial scarcity up and down the chain with real estate
Because the post is basically an advert for a $150 workshop.

And there are 2 new accounts commentating on it, just smells off.
Detroit killed the sedan. Trump's trade war will make them wish they hadn't
I don't believe that is true. A woman and a child have distinct characteristics that are not interchangeable. A child for example can be detected by the shape of the nose and nostrils as just one data point. There are many more data-points that psycho-analysts use to determine if a person is attracted to children. AI would have to understand quite a bit of biology and understand how humans develop to get this right.
Once again, Rails is ahead of the curve on this:

https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/54693
half of the country supports him, so he is not really dictator.
You're comparing whole oranges with orange slices. When comparing vegan food with animal protein, bother to take into account the entire package rather than one part. Animals are actually a much more energy intensive source of nutrition, and excellent for efficiency in terms of calories delivered. Our bodies process more nutrients from animal protein, while deriving nutrition from grains is a more recent evolution for us. You could easily feed entire villages with a couple of cows (as is done even today in many parts of the world). And this isn't including their value as milk producers and fertilizer generators.

On the other hand, almonds are a very niche crop, grown for a select few types of customers, but the sheer concentration of their agriculture in California - that too by a single farming billionaire family, the Resnicks - has caused the situation to become dire to such an extent never seen before in any other place.
Ask HN: Do corporate OSS projects welcome major non-employee contributions?
Do company-backed OSS projects accept significant contributions from non-employees?

As a seasoned developer with no prior experience in Java/JVM projects, I've noticed it's often a requirement for open roles at companies and projects appealing to me. So, I'm looking to learn the language and ecosystem while building something I can point to if/when job hunting.

To give a specific example, extending Elasticsearch's query language with new features (or fixing bugs to get started) seems like something I'd enjoy working on.

I know the company drives development, and the project's open-source status is disputed -- and, honestly, I'm not too bothered by that.

Here's the question, though. Do they actually accept larger contributions from non-employees? Say I pick a feature from their query language roadmap and offer to implement it -- any realistic chance it actually gets assigned to me? (The repository has "help wanted" issues, but they mostly seem minor and already claimed).

What's keeping me from asking directly in a relevant GitHub issue is the need to familiarize myself with the codebase before I can offer to help with something specific. Given its size, that could take a while. So the idea is to find a popular project welcoming serious contributions from outsiders before committing time to study its code base.

Not fixated on Elasticsearch specifically, that's just an example of an exciting project. Maybe they're saturated with contributors, and I should look elsewhere?

Appreciate your experiences and anecdotes around this topic.

Thank you.

PS: I'm under no illusion that every employer cares about an applicant's open-source work. That's fine as long as the OSS project is interesting to hack on.
This is funny, but not the type of comment we really want here. Comments should get more substantive the deeper down a tree you go.
And her business is selling drinks infused with hemp which is federally illegal.
A TN visa is a non immigrant visa, you should not be building a life in the US with it.
It's not an alpine layer, it's a Dockerfile construct representing basically an empty tar file layer: <https://docs.docker.com/build/building/base-images/#create-a...> and <https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/8827>
Is that data that's generally available somewhere??
If you're building rust containers, we have the world's fastest remote container builders with automated caching.

You wouldn't really have to change anything on your dockerfile to leverage this and see significant speed up.

The docs are here: https://docs.warpbuild.com/docker-builders#usage
Nix is awesome for this -- write your entire series of CI tools in she'll or Python and run them locally in the exact same environment as they will run in CI. Add SOPS to bring secrets along for the ride.
This is imo one of the most underappreciated features of Haskell and its cousins: how it can contain booleans and banish `if` entirely. I've said it before, but future generations will scoff at our enthusiastic use of `if` in the same way we shame `goto` today.
we'll keep expanding these GPT-4o based models with more controls. Is the main feature missing we're missing custom voices?
Well, maybe. Maybe not. See "Why can't ChatGPT draw a full glass of wine?"

https://youtu.be/160F8F8mXlo

Diffusion models do posses some capability to synthesize ideas, but that capability does not necessarily generalize to every possible use case. So it's impossible to say for certain that that is what is happening.
I literally just invented it, so it's not published yet, although I'll probably throw it up on GitHub at some point. It matches all published results up to an exponent of 3 billion or so, so I'm quite confident it's correct.

The short explanation is that 2^x mod 10^k will repeat with a cycle length of 5^(k-1)*4. This is easily obtained from Euler's phi formula on 2^x mod 5^k, plus the fact that 2^x === 0 mod 2^k for all x >= k. So, after the k'th term, the rest will repeat with a particular cycle period. We'll manually test all of the 2^x for x < k (there aren't many) and then rely on the cycles to test all of the larger powers.

The algorithm itself is a kind of sieving + lifting procedure: it inductively identifies all of the candidate exponents mod 5^(k-1)*4 which yield numbers with k trailing even digits (i.e. all even digits mod 10^k). Each such exponent will yield 5 possible exponents mod 10^(k+1) via a lifting procedure, which we can test; on average, half of these will have a top digit that is even and is therefore a candidate for the next power of 10 (10^(k+1)). Therefore, on average, we grow our candidate list by a factor of 2.5 per added digit - thus, for each 10^k, we test O(2.5^k) candidates (approximately 1.6*2.5^k, experimentally). This isn't too bad - at mod 10^19, we test only 55097940 candidates, representing every exponent below 5^18*4 = 15258789062500.

My rather hasty prototype is actually implemented in Python - not a language you want to do tons of arithmetic in - but it's still fast enough to chew through all those candidates in ~20 minutes on a single core. Obviously, there's ample room to make this faster; I figure a good, parallelized native (C/C++/Rust etc.) implementation could easily be 100x faster.
We don't just have "bullshit jobs" (which is an actual term these days), we have a "bullshit economy" as well - centered around advertising because without advertising most of the bullshit just wouldn't sell.

Like, if you already got a car, you can drive it for 10-20 years easily, or more if you take well care of it. But advertising makes you think you "need" a new car every few years... because that keeps the economy alive. You buy a car and sell the old one to someone else who can't afford a new car but also wants a new one, so their old car goes off to Africa or whatever to be repaired until truly unrepairable. But other than the buyer in Africa who actually needed a new car, neither you nor the guy who bought your old car would have needed a car. And cars are a massive industry that employs many millions of people worldwide - so if you'd ban advertising for cars, suddenly the bubble would pop and you'd probably have a fifth of the size remaining, and most of it from China because the people in Africa can't afford what a brand new Western made car costs.

Or Temu, Shein, Alibaba and godknowswhat other dropshipping scammers. Utter trash that gets sold there, but advertising pushes people to buy the trash, wear it two times and then toss it.

A giant fucking waste of resources because our worldwide economy is based on the dung theory of infinite growth. It has worked out for the last two, three centuries - but it is starting to show its cracks, with the planet itself being barely able to support human life any more as a result of all that resource consumption, or with the economy and the public sector being blown up by "bullshit jobs".

We need to drastically reform the entire way we want to live as a species, but unfortunately the changes would hurt too many rich and influential people, so the can gets kicked ever further down the road - until eventually, in a few decades, our kids are gonna be the ones inevitably screwed.
You Can Just Take Things: Cyber Letters of Marque
Great!

But don't enforce that on your underlings. I have such a boss and let me tell you, it sucks!

Your underlings have lives and passions that have nothing to do with you or your work, and more importantly they don't have that founders' equity and opportunity for a 10-figure exit.

If you want that kind of excellence, be prepared to pay for it dearly. Market-rate TCO is not nearly enough.
Yeah, it's a bit overloaded. There are keychains (.keychain files) and keychain items (secrets inside of them). The keychains are visible in the Keychain Access app, but also available in the 'security' command line. And then there are modern keychains, those are more like SQLite databases and those can have anything from SQLCrypt type of management to Secure Enclave DEKs.

Security is pretty difficult to get right, so many tradeoffs as well.
> I was on usenet in 1995 but I have heard that was too late and usenet already sucked then.

BBS were cool(er) :-)
Confusingly, he reused the first part of the title from an article posted here [0] last year. This is newer.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345090
Won't be the next Enron until we get an administration that isn't owned by Elon.
It gets better. Grown in California for export to China and Saudi Arabia, where they're used for cattle feed.

Also fun fact, a lot of farm managers in Saudi Arabia are either Scottish or Australian.