skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree partially. I worked w/ youngsters that had talent and motivation to learn. Unfortunately, I saw it less and less in places where I worked.. Hence my comment here..

Industry shifted into weird direction here.. Youngsters are pet while old engineers that had knowledge and experience where squeezed more and more... It really makes you demotivated..
I liked the way I could download the PDF without accepting cookies. Not sure if that was a bug or a feature but I liked it.
ML and LLM system design: 500 case studies to learn from
I do have an idea which might work against squatting. Write a script to flood domain registrar and online domain tools with searches and make the squatters pay for tens of thousands of useless domain names.
You might be interested in this new "PDP-11/Hack de luxe" by Peter Schranz:

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/pdp-11-hack-de-lux...
Absolutely.
I think it is incomplete: good devs never complain… they just give their 2 weeks notice and find a better place.
IMHO it is random anyway. At least to some extent: you can check that the candidate seems somewhat competent (i.e. filter out all those who just cannot write code). But finding the one who would be the best fit for the position? No chance at all.

I believe a big mistake is to focus on the technical skillset for hiring. And then you risk ending up with a team of supposedly "all stars" (which is often debatable) that hate each other, can't stop arguing or just create a toxic atmosphere.

What I would do is try to find, among the candidates that seem competent enough, a good colleague. Someone with whom I will enjoy working. I am convinced that a team of friends will beat an individual jerk in the long run. It's great to have a team of superstars, but if they care more about their stock options than about your shitty product (really, who is proud of optimising Facebook's ad revenue? They must be there for the money), then maybe you are just building a company that will waste a lot of potential on a failed metaverse, or a failed VR headset, or a failed TikTok competitor.
Although these are all qualities of good devs, they are qualities of a lot of middling devs too. Reading the documentation and understanding the tooling isn't that rare.

Although I will say the "Status Doesn’t Matter" thing is a symptom not a cause. If there isn't any question you're one of the best then status doesn't matter - people know you're the best and there is no need to remind them. The people who fight strongly for status are the insecure ones who think they need to remind people otherwise they'll lose their place in the pecking orders. Typically people who are a few steps shy of the best - silver medallists if you will - are the ones who need to spend a lot of time reminding people they are almost the best.
I dunno, do they really make it that easy? From what I've seen they can give you some example code, and often it works, but when it doesn't, you actually need to know what you're doing to fix it up.

Fixing someone else's code is a great exercise, so maybe they're actually learning useful skills by accident? :)
Here in Sweden we have Swish which seems to be very similar (just send money to anyone with a phone number/QR Code), but Swish is a private company, not government.

Relatedly, most company payments here, including water/electricity/etc bills, are paid using a system called Bankgiro, which is also a private company (and you can pay Bankgiro bills using Swish, of course).

And even the de facto national electronic identity system, BankID, is developed and provided by a private company. It is used to login to your bank as well as most government systems and any company can use it for login (which most Swedish companies do).

So, it differs from the Brazilian model in that all services are provided by private companies, not by the Government. Not sure which is better, to be honest. On the one hand it's hard to trust a Government like the Brazilian one given its history... on the other hand, trusting a private company even for public services seems wild: what if they go bankrupt, get sold to foreign investors, started using shady business practices??
Qt is not just a GUI toolkit and it does not need X or any X libraries, works fine with a framebuffer.
They also seem to be needlessly doing DERP over TCP in some cases where UDP would actually work.
Can you be more explicit about what large, legal purchases you've made with crypto?
The same can be said about the other side. It is rarely phrased has "LLM is a useful tool with some important limitations" but "Look the LLM manage to create a junior-level feature, therefor we won't need developers in 2 years from now".

It tends to be the same with anything hyped / divisive. Human tend to exaggerate in both direction in communication, especially in low-stake environment such as an internet forum, or when they stand to gain something from the hype.
> What are the theatres where the US is supposed to be able to put on a strong showing? It doesn't seem to be Europe, they've got war on their doorstep and if anyone thinks the US is helping they should reflect on their reasoning

I think you have this backwards: the US was helping considerably, and then got taken over by pro-Russian conspiracy theorists.

But the bond stuff isn't "tribute" or nationalism; remember, it's being made by private sector investors, not national governments. Fairly straightforward calculation: which way is the exchange rate expected to move? Interest rate? Risk of default?

Up till now the US offered moderate interest rates, favourable direction of exchange rate movement, and imperceptible risk of default. There's still no reason to default other than madness and a desire to strap on the suicide vest and become Argentina.
levels.fyi has a job board with a "Fully remote" filter, might be worth checking out.
Fitch Ratings Has Downgraded China's Long-Term Foreign-Currency IDR
> The future is not about extremes

Yea, but right-wing ideologues are doing their best to prevent this and instead convince everyone that we must be ideologically pure (privatise everything for the sake of it) rather than just find the sweet spot and do what works.

Inviting scientists to come to Europe is a good sign that on this continent we're still open to reality and would rather know how things are than pretend they are how we want them to be.
Could they have avoided that issue by specifying the classpath without the star?

So -cp /jars/ instead of -cp /jars/*?
I've yet to see that proven though; alongside web technology based GUIs is also the concept of evergreen applications, that is, stuff that gets updated and kept up to date all the time, and force pushed to end users.

And while on paper a web application built 20 years ago still works today as it was, the same can't be said about the technology used to develop and build these; there's a ridiculous amount of churn in the libraries and frameworks, to the point where you have to set up your github actions or whatever to frequently keep your stuff up to date, because if you run more than six months behind, any updates will break your carefully balanced setup.

Of course, that's a choice. Ultimately there's no real need to use Typescript, a framework, or a collection of libraries, and if you do choose them, there's the huge complex but fragile ones like Angular and React and their ecosystems, or smaller ones leveraging modern web tech developments or solving only a single problem. (I'm aware React was intended that way originally but in practice it's a whole ecosystem you're pulling into your application)
> it's not just turtles all the way down

If you drill far enough... well anyway

> I don't know of any machine where dollars go in one side, are destroyed, and euros are created on the other side.

The Treasury is the machine you're looking for. And the wire transfer, SWIFT, usually, is the tool of choice. In a sense, yes dollars are "destroyed" in that they leave that monetary system. Banks like BoA hold a few kind of ledgers with the country's central bank one which gets discounted during the outflow.

So euros are then credited to whatever institution you transferred it to. That country just became that much richer.

This is why places like HSBC, CITI have free transfers for intra-bank but you still pay $15 for the same via wire transfer? Why would you ever want to do that? beats me, but the point is you can and it has a very real affect on the system other than some internal database going +/-.

But in the end, it's the country's central bank credit/debiting any institution and then just... printing? when it wants? but other countries... m1... foreign debt.

so yea, turtles.
At what point do investors lose confidence that the US govt will be able to make these bond payments in 10 years? Whatever was considered 'business as usual' through decades of republican/democratic presidents is chucked to the bin now.
Yeah, I find setting it in voice mode and then directing it to a specific site that I'm interested in discussing is super useful, so I start off in ChatGPT*, then I switch windows to what I'm interested in looking at. For instance, I want to go over a GitHub repo. I can ask it to verbally ask it to go there and then chat with it as I read through the README file, and it provides great a soundboarding experience. No pun intended. Heck, I'm even dictating this response through Wispr Flow, which I have found to be more useful than I had anticipated.

* Gemini lets you do this by actually streaming your screen through and verbally chatting about whatever is on screen. While interesting, I find the responses to be a little less thorough. YMMV.
Interesting idea!

I think this could really benefit from lazy signup, a demo directly on the landing page, or at least way more screenshots.

Given that making a checklist in my notebook or established organization-app of choice is almost 0 friction, signing up or downloading an app feels like asking a lot without seeing the clear benefit 100%.

Good luck with this :)
The weird thing is how conservatives get to play both the "federal government is inherently evil" and "look at all the stuff we're doing with our power over the federal government" cards at the same time, often for the same events.
I agree with all this, except that lets keep the number of thought leaders to a minimum.
> error in terms of who really holds more cards in the trade battle, specifically with China.

This isn't 1v1 though. Maybe there was a time when US vs the rest would work, but now?

The problem is this isn't about import / exports of physical goods.

Once tariffs and bans happen on digital goods, services, etc the US is toast. Has Trump forgotten about them? China is already onto things like US films.

Game studios, Disney, Netflix, Hollywood, etc are all on the firing line.

Even sports like NBA, major league, etc would all crash. A large part of their income is from advertisements and broadcasting deals overseas.
Interesting, thanks for the reply. Seems reasonable :)
I've always imagined it was supposed to be pronounced like 'psych', and that it was a corporate bullshit, marketing spelling, of that word.
I mean, it could very well be that it generates image patches autoregressively, but in a pyramidal way (first a very low resolution version, the "canvas", and then each individual patch). This is very similar to VAR [1]

We can't really be sure until OpenAI tells us.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02905
Regarding old features, Manifest V2 -> Manifest V3 was so painful to some that they dropped Chrome.
> if you read your SICP you will come across the aphorism that "programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

In the same way that we use AI to write resumés to be read by resumé-scanning AI, or where execs use AI to turn bullet points into a corporate email only for it to be summarised into bullet points by AI, perhaps we are entering the era where AI generates code that can only be read by an AI?
Especially in the current job market climate.

I talk regularly to recruiter friends and there seems to be a bimodal distribution going on, with some developers finding jobs straight away vs unlucky ones staying unemployed for months on end.

I recently helped a couple devs that were laid-off in 2023 and still haven’t found anything else.
Assuming you're based in the West, a fast-food joint will pay more than Upwork.
For others: if company mostly consists of devs, or God forbid management, like that - run asap and never look back.
Sounds like excellent hardware to run an old copy of Windows XP Media Player Edition!

Edit: okay so realistically that's probably not going to be of use to anyone until someone writes an audio driver for the HDMI out but maybe one of those USB sound cards will work at least?
Its because all those projects and ideas you had- where AI could do the fun work and you would be the middle manager- just became a job.
> dollar that encourages more and more consumption

Under consumerist capitalism, more consumption is generally considered to be a good thing. See all the people complaining about the price of eggs under Biden. I wonder how they're doing.

The tariffs mean that Americans will be able to afford less stuff. That's the stated objective: buy more expensive American goods rather than cheaper imports. It remains to be seen how a country which got started around a riot against import taxes is going to handle this.
"not random wilderness water of course. always filter and boil that"

To be honest, maybe I was lucky, but I drank plenty of wilderness water unfiltered and except for mild stomach problems, I never had any issues.
The a smart way to look at it. But for full generality, I consider cancer particles emitted from tumors such as during surgery as pathogenic vectors of cancer whether an underlying cause involves microbial hosted or just the cancer cells themselves cancer definitely has a bit of a panspermia thing going on.

That’s why I never wanna spend time in cancer wards. It is most definitely contagious across multiple vectors in unique ways.
I have lived in Germany for 5 years but am from the UK and I don't see much difference overall. The UK is just a bit more individualistic, much less racist, and has London, which has the highest wages in Europe. Germany has less income equality but far worse wealth inequality—most people in Germany will never own their own home because although Germany is rich, Germans are poor. Healthcare is better here, though. It's just a case of picking your poison I think. Also, believe it or not, Germany has its shithole cities too, I've visited a few of them.

But of course the received wisdom is that the UK is a third world shithole with more in common with the Democratic Republic of Congo than any European country, so as you were.
Are you talking about the "Never Blame the Computer" section?

I don't think that addresses complaining, but rather redirecting blame to something nobody has control over instead of digging into the issue and finding the root cause
Is the article saying we should build everything here? The article says that machine tools drive manufacturing innovation, and machine tool makers sell them close to home. So if the US doesn't make machine tools, the US will fall behind in manufacturing innovation.

The article is saying that the US should desire to have advanced manufacturing. I don't think the article is saying that the US should manufacture everything.
> Whereas a programmer who's either straight out of school or fresh off their first internship or short-stint job is essentially all potential. So you draw their line on the basis of just a few early dots, but the line can be steep.

> It's not that different from something like the NFL scouting combine. Teams fight to find the promise of The Next All-Star. These rookies won't have the experience that someone who's already played in the league for years would have, but they have the potential to be the best. Someone who's already played for several seasons will have shown what they have and be weighed accordingly.

I know that DHH is good at programming, but I am sure he has never scouted in collective sports and/or knows the difference between programming and seeing potential in sports. Since I have been on both sides, I have a few words on why his assertions do not hold water.

At the time that you do scouting, yes, you might want to have the promising QB/WR on your team, but those guys do not have what developers have, which is, for the lack of a better name, "skills transitivity" between their positions.

A QB that has some characteristics like strategic thinking and skills to read defenses (like Peyton Manning), precision for long-distance throws (like Tom Brady), or being a dual-threat plus pocket mobility (like Russell Wilson) but it's very unlikely that with those skill sets, you'll become a great wide receiver or even a Tight End/Wide Receiver.

As a developer, yes, one can optimize the process to have the most stellar coder, but by the force of their craft, the more time they have, the more their skills enhance transitivity to other parts of the same craft.

And the good thing is that, contrary to the promising QB, over time if his not the stellar player, his skills won't make him able to transition to other parts of the team.

In concrete terms, a developer that learned in their years 1-2 to work with TypeScript, in the years 3-4 worked with Java, and in the year 5 started to touch Docker will have a way more skill set and transitivity than someone picked out of the college that you do not know for sure how their learning will affect their skills transitivity.

And another flaw in the argument, maybe a minor one: stellar potential most of the time needs to find stellar environments and conditions to thrive. The NFL teams know so much about it at terms of fundamental level that even when the worst team of the previous season generally selects the 1st pick QBs in the draft, they know that if the conditions does not change, in a few years that stellar talent will go somewhere else.
Sometimes it can help to have a state-provided option to set a baseline that the free market needs to beat in order to attract customers.

Some things are just natural oligopolies and the danger of exploitation can be mitigated by just having an alternative that isn't trying to optimise for profit.
Google is shit these days, but not that shit
> I'm not sure if all this advice will become irrelevant or if those programmers trained in the 2020ies will not become those "best"..

It's how they use the AI. If they see it as a glorified StackOverflow where you paste a big chunk of code and ask "why does it not work", they'll be in trouble. If they are able to narrow-down their problems to a specific context, express them well and take the output of the AI with a grain of salt, they'll be 10x programmers compared to what we were in the 2000s, for example.
Yes.

ddg is often faster for when I want to get to an actual web site and find up-to-date info, for "search as navigation".

llm's are often faster for finding answers to slightly vague questions (where you know you're going to have to burn at least as much climate on wading through blogspam and ads and videos-that-didn't-need-to-be-videos if you do a search).
As someone who speaks English but doesn't live in the US or any other English-speaking country, this game is hard! I wish there was one for my native language and country culture to see the difference it makes.
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I will never understand why the rich people in the US let a man as stupid as Trump get to be so powerful and I am getting a lot of schadenfreude at watching him cause a stock market crash.
Tried reducing the space between the icons?

https://community.folivora.ai/t/reduce-menu-bar-icon-spacing...
This looks like a Mexican standoff…
The White House wants to use tariffs as leverage for concessions against the EU, Big Tech would also like concessions from both EU (less moderation, less antitrust probes, less privacy regulations, etc.) and the White House (less tariffs), while the EU is now more inclined to increase scrutiny of Big Tech as a way to push the White House to relent on tariffs. Popcorns anyone?
Good generic advice except for 'don't blame the computer' ;-)
For moment I was deeply confused about what possible controversy could involve https://bit-tech.net/ .
I use Kagi search + Instant Answer. Instant Answer is most often giving me the result I am looking for.
I'm South African, and international remote work seems to be popping up more these days on local job sources. Probably because we're relatively cheap.

Just worth thinking about what a company is looking for if they are looking at a foreign talent pool.
In addition to the (real, but somewhat overblown) downturn in tech, the main problem is that hiring is fucked. Both sides are in a scam/fraud arms race.

Getting a job through the front door is basically impossible now - and if you want to try, you will need to lie and do all the dirty tricks your competition does, and even then, your conversion rate will be minuscule.

An alternative is either to go through your network (where people you know can vouch that you are real and not just a monkey slinging ChatGPT'd resumes from a boiler room) or in-person (which is immune to a lot of the boiler-room scams and thus you have more chance your application will actually be considered).
Why? It's academic, so a "funny" acronym was to be expected. And the topic is called a "marketing mix model", so it's probably findable.
Even provided with an instruction manual, I have doubts about the efficacy of the people involved. Will they be spending the coin on a spine once we're done waiting for a proverbial flip?

I mean, they've been surprised by a decades-long campaign. Yuri told us what was going to happen! In interviews, in the 80s! I believe it may have even been Televised.

Truly ahead of an era.
The full quote being

> Most developers blame the software, other people, their dog, or the weather for flaky, seemingly “random” bugs.
> The best devs don’t.
> No matter how erratic or mischievous the behavior of a computer seems, there is always a logical explanation: you just haven’t found it yet!

I don't see how you can conclude from that that real issues would be overlooked? I interpret this to be the opposite.
> Sure, yes, the fact that the US now is in a weak position built up over decades is just the reality that has to be faced.

It's misinformation to say the US is in a weak position. It's not. It's just gone on to do other things. When we talk about these trade deficits do we include streaming services, television shows, films, games and whatever else?

> (including bringing them domestically where it makes sense)

It doesn't, that's the point. Would you rather have factories with workers below the minimum wage or industries like the NBA?
Global remote has been on a bit of a downturn in the last few years.

There are many decent job boards out there, but the bigger problem is that many of them don't allow specifying remote within a country, or the US-oriented companies that post on them never specify that they only want remote within the US.

You end up wasting time looking at a cool job that pays well, only to see "Remote (US only)".