skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your posts.

I've been battling RSI and stuff for the past two years and am starting to make progress although it's required me to get both of my wrists fixed and potentially both of my elbows in the future.

It's easy to just say "Oh, do this workout" but it can be very difficult to do that if you either lack the time or have other health issues that prevent you from doing them.

For me, I have rods in my legs and fused ankles so even though I try to hit the treadmill regularly, doing so means I wind up in a lot of pain.

None of this has got in the way of my passion for building software, although for me there is a distinction between what I do (or want to do) in my own time vs. what I have to do for work.

It's a good day when I can really apply myself to a problem at work.

It's less great when for whatever reason, I'm prevented from being able to do a good job.

And the sad thing is that often, you're not prevented from doing a good job because of any technical or time constraint, it's usually all political.

That's the thing that sucks most :)
Its not about transparency, it about what the interviewer assumes about you, first hand. Just like you assuming that whoever is looking up things must be doing it in secret, with the intention of cheating.
> a mouse, are they then entitled to human rights,

Well, you said it yourself, they are entitled to a mouse's worth of moral rights :).
Thank goodness the red scare is over and we live in a more enlightened age.
The 10psi is still essential, saying 'it's not boost like a turbo or supercharger' is not entirely correct.
>> So we are back at square one here, why do people not understanding engineering work, end up managing engineering work?

Because engineers are typically (although not always) terrible at business. Or marketing. Or Sales. Or whatever.

In other words, a successful business needs many skills. One of those skills is management. It's inevitable that top management (who's core skill is hopefully, well, business) needs to people to do the other skills. Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and so on.

Hence those skilled people need to communicate with management in ways in which management can understand. They can then make sure everyone has aligned goals. It's no good if engineers are doing one thing, marketing is doing something else, sales is targeting the wrong demographic, and so on.

It seems to be a unique conceit of software engineers that "management just gets in the way". When, more realistically, management is trying to communicate the business requirements, and we feel we know better.

Most engineers (again, not all) are terrible at the actual business part. The list of failed companies, multi-year solo projects that never sell a single copy, and so on are evidence of this. Joel made his name writing (literally) "The business of software".

So back to your question;

>> why do people not understanding engineering work, end up managing engineering work?

because how else will engineers know what to do?
A bold statement given the state of the US right now
Interesting project. We'd love to work together for better Lua support in Pixi (through the conda-forge ecosystem). We already package lua and a few C extensions. C extensions are the bread and butter for Pixi, so I think it could be a good fit!

- pixi.sh (docs)
- lua package on the registry: https://prefix.dev/channels/conda-forge/packages/lua
As I said many times, I have been in the game for 30 years. I started doing AI with rules as early as the beginning of the 90 and I never...never expected to see anything like LLMs in my lifetime.
When I read Marcus once again saying that: yes this time LLM have reached their limit, which he has been saying for 2 years in a row, I'm really feeling tired of his tune. The idea that LLM are a dead end, a failing technology is pretty weird.
Compared to what???
I use LLM everyday in my work, to write summaries, to make translations, to generate some code or to get explanations about a given code... And I even use them as research sparring partners to see how I could improve my work...
Gary Marcus has been involved in the domain for 30 years as well... Where is his technology that would match or surpass the LLM???
While I doubt it was the intent of the original poster's comment, there's no shortage of people who look forward to the death of old people they see as being in the way of change they desire.
> literally worse for the environment to try and recycle it

For example? What products do you mean?
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down (Google Translate.)
Thank you for the suggestion. We are indeed doing that both publicly and privately. We do learn a lot from this.

I very much agree that it is hard to remember the beginner's mind. I also find that a larger challenge is that there isn't a single beginner's mind, but many. When the space is large and there are many paths, people can come from different directions. Finding commonalities seems to be significantly more difficult in that situation.

But this still leaves the problem of how to explain it before people work with the environment. The conversations in posts like these are very helpful, for example. I'd be interested in other suggestions that could help with that.
It is the right way to exercise. I think that the modern "if it is fun and pleasant then it does not count enough" is what keeps people off exercising, off learning, etc.
As I learned, you can also be yourself, never wear a suit on the job and still wear one for the interview. First impressions count. Once people know I can wear a suit they just don't seem to mind me in shorts anymore.. So I might have a social skill after all :D
Please, no. I don’t want to travel hundred of kilometres each time I want to apply for a job.
I remember that guest! :)
how does the cognitive context graph work?
I mean that's already true to a degree. Pulling the plug on someone in a coma is a fairly normal thing. Unlike what you imagine a coma isn't a binary thing, there's degrees. When does it become okay to pull the plug?
Which was a rip-off of: https://robincook.com/product/chromosome-6
maps gives you "a" side of reality. All depends on your goal: define the goal, find the right map to get there.
True that, also the notice period I'm contractually obliged to follow is in the phase where I could leave at any moment, whereas waiting for the trial phase to be over would force me to wait 6 months to leave.

My fear is that, coming from a similarly dysfunctional place, I'll just put in hopes and efforts for a better workplace and end up somewhere even worse, at which point I'll have to slow down in order not to change 3 jobs in such a small amount of time.

Also, sometimes I just feel ungrateful for whining this much, especially considering I have a family (not my own, mind you) to support and cannot allow myself to simply be without a job (and a well paying one at that) for long periods of time - I would love to have some objective measures for saying the role is not worth it, but of course that is not feasible in reality, and that deeply bothers me.
I didn't mean it in a way that "all of the file is loaded into memory", just the parts you are always processing at the time (e.g. as you said line wise), which either way result in the same memory usage from the file being loaded.
Oh, nice to see that there are real-life examples of this stuff, thank you very much :)
Needless to say that I'll take a deeper look at the overlaps now :D
lol, you sound like honest & decent fellow, assuming everyone else is like you - but you've no clue who you're advising.
The main factor that you fail to mention is living cost, and not the internet, which made it possible and desirable to frequently move in search of opportunity.

It didn't mean there weren't people that lived long-term in communities. However, it did mean that you could find more lucrative opportunities in different places while also affording to move and live there.

That began to slowly change in the 60's, beginning with the death of single occupancy residences and a lack of funding/investment in affordable housing for a significant portion of income brackets.

The last 30ish years helped cement that for lots of reasons, but the ability to work remotely via the internet isn't particularly new nor causative for that change.
Thank you for the suggestion.

The documentation is available online at book.gtoolkit.com (linked from the menu of gtoolkit.com). Would you see ways to improve that visibility?

When consumed in the environment, that book contains live snippets that can be explored.
Darwin barely mentioned the whole human species in his Origin of Species but it still inspired his cousin Francis Galton to develop Eugenics[1]: Whether you selectively bread humans to improve the species or dumb it down, who's to tell the difference?
Darwin himself had less luck with his person contribution to the evolution of the species, his youngest being described as "backward in walking & talking, but intelligent and observant", which was surely due to him having married his cousin: "We are a wretched family & ought to be exterminated."[2]

The problem of a) people ruining their health and b) not having enough donor organs can be solved much easier by encouraging active transport over the personal 2t metal box, reducing sugar, salt and others in our processed foods and of course legislation to make organ donations possible even without the deceased having agreed before. The opt-out in countries like Austria and Spain raises the level of awareness but of course still needs excellent communication.

[1] https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jan/19/charles-darw...
The most important skills you've gained from your education so far is the ability to learn and process. Take any tech related job you can right now, don't be picky. Strive to excel in whatever that job is and not just from the tech standpoint; the business and the processes are equally important. Keep your eye on the horizon for what role it is you really want but be aware that that goal might change over time.

And keep in talking to your friends. Who knows if between the lot of you, you've already thought of the next big thing.
Married couple households, comfortable. Secure. ~30% of children in the US don’t even live with 2 parents.

“Middle class” was used once in reference here to class dysmorphia while working-class was used 5 times:

the very term middle class has become a meaningless catchall for a disparate range of lived financial experiences

Thus, a “comfort class”. Big enough to have seemingly hijacked the Democratic Party. Reads as less rare than distinct from the working class proper for me, personally.
I'm glad the EU and most Europeans disagree with you. Because this take is just wrong on so many levels and I'm not sure where even to begin.
Don't see the point of these "take home projects". Just ask them what's the most difficult technical thing they had to do before, and have them walk you through it, probe, ask questions. If you don't like the one they talked about, ask about another one, or another one. You can generally weed out the bullshitters, they talk alot about "we" and hardly ever use "I" meaning they didn't do anything.
How many satellites have to be destroyed to create chain reaction of debris destroying other satellites/polluting orbit with enough debris so its permanent danger zone for satellites and rockets passing through?
Critical Vulnerability: US Constitution v1.0
Kinda like prostitution where it has been legalized, in which the availability of ethically sourced human bodies (i.e., from licensed brothels) drives up the demand for unethically sourced bodies (sex trafficking).
DORY uses Neo4j to store browsing data with weighted edge relationships (semantic, behavioral, temporal) then applies stochastic block modeling for community detection and temporal-behavioral profiling.

It's an approach similar to how banks analyze transaction networks to detect fraud but works surprisingly well for teasing apart browser workflows.
Nice summary!

4. New contextual tools can be built inexpensively :)
Several backward states have already outlawed sheet meat. They'll never stand for this.
In practical terms you can hire someone. Mind you if you hit an audit, those hourly fees quickly add up.

Also side note, Estonian companies have been recently overrun with Russians. I don't deal with EE companies anymore. Got burned too many times.
(i'm not addressing the parent post's author personally)

i start to consider this "human value == intelligence" line of thinking as hate speech, eugenetics-based racism, and endorsement of violence.
no. human value is not based solely on intelligence level (whatever that would be - i doubt if scientists even broadly agree what intelligence is and how to measure it), but on being the member of the homo species. period. nothing else. a human is a human even he was born without an actual brain organ in his skull. stop killing the future of humanity.
I've got a number of vanilla JS, HTML, CSS libraries that work only from within the browser, using the standard tags to include them.

For me, not having a build-step means that, yes, I miss out on typescript, but the upsides are easier to read, easier debugging and lower cognitive burden during both writing and reading the application.

It means I will never, like the author in the article, spend $X weeks, and then spend a further $Y dollars just to build something "modern".

My "modern looking" applications are developed, and then tested, on a machine from 2010 (1st-gen i7) that has 16GB of RAM and oodles of slow spinning-rust disks, and it isn't painful at all.[1]

[1] It is, in fact, quite nice when I see a client use their system from their own PC and it's just a little bit snappier than I am used to.
I suppose you'd do it the same way any North Korean operative would. They'd offer you training on how to bypass the controls. They'd get you to exfiltrate the code and the product roadmap. They'd have someone more skilled suggest a plausible backdoor as part of an innocent change, like the xzutils one.

As for how they'd force you, just like any intelligence agency, they'd start with carrots. They'd offer you money, or the chance to feel you were serving your country (both are free to the Australian government, and likely more effective than a double ration of wheat). They'd have you do very innocent, justifiable things at first. They'd work their way up to higher demands. If you got cold feet, they'd tell you you were in too deep. They'd then consider the sticks. They'd threaten to expose your spying, or release some other compromat. They'd arrest you or a family member on a he-said-the-cops-said enemy-of-the-people crime like drugs, child pornography or terrorism, and make it clear that only your full cooperation would see a release.

Nobody thinks the Australian government relies on this kind of thing as much as NK, and the checks and balances of a democracy make it too expensive to do this at an industrial scale. But you'd be foolish if you thought the state doesn't have these capabilities, and the complete willingness to use them for matters of national security, and the ability to make it "legal", perhaps by pardoning people or not cooperating with any court.
imho I think the pagination example alone wouldn’t get you hired even if told correctly. In over a decade of experience my “coolest experience” related to pagination is about not using LIMIT and OFFSET because it’s not performant… but that’s 101 knowledge and doesn’t sell.
I get where you're coming from, especially on the cost of bad hires: it really is one of the riskiest bets a company makes. But I'm not convinced going back to the "fly them out and grill them on a whiteboard" era is the right answer either.
The LLM is a glorified autocomplete in as much as you are a glorified replicator. Yes, it was trained on autocomplete but that doesn't say much about what capabilities might emerge.
I thought that was because the lab meat competes with farmers. I can’t think of any similarly situated rival to the lab bodies for organ transplants that would lobby against it.
I haven't profiled this specifically, but my guess is that there shouldn't be any measurable performance gains. Most of the time, actors are randomly scattered in memory anyway, so having smaller actors doesn't avoid a lot of cache misses.
I’ve always been a decent runner, won some school and county races, but I’ve never enjoyed it, it was something to get through.

I stopped running years ago when I took up weight training and I didn’t miss it at all.

Last year my wife wanted to do some Spartan races so started training, I joined her for a few training runs and due to the controlled, slower pace she was running at set by the training schedule/app I loved those runs.

Turns out I was running too fast and hating every minute. I now run once or twice a week at a slowish pace, it’s been great. Speaking to “proper runners” since starting back up this is apparently very common, most people who hate running are simply going faster than they should.

Anything that gets you outside, run/sit/ride/tennis club is a good thing so well done them for organising something.
7-11 has surprisingly good coffee in the US too, or at least Texas. There was a 7-11 on the corner of the block I use to live on and drive past to get to Starbucks until I was running late once and decided to just grab the first coffee available. Now if I just want plain brewed coffee I'll find a 7-11. And if I'm wanting something more Starbuck-ish but don't want to deal with the morning rush, I'll go to a 7-11 and mix little over half a cup of the brew coffee then top it off with their hot chocolate.
I mean, this is literally what an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors (ABC) acquisition is (or an Article 9) and the specific goal of an ABC is to allow for some semblance of the company's assets to persist unencumbered by an acquirer and without creditors having any further rights to their debts, aside from what they can claim from the proceeds of the ABC.

It's an alternative to bankruptcy that allows for the continued functioning of the business in many cases, and it absolutely leaves behind an insolvent shell. (And acquirers will go through great pains to avoid incurring "successor liability.")
You do get the point, please be careful with the hammer now.
I remember a time when I bought an used laptop and was able to upgrade the CPU, RAM and hard drive.

While I might buy now a laptop such as a MacBook without being able to replace major components, I will never buy a desktop such as a Mac Studio and accept the same shortcomings. And it's not only that I want to tinker with hardware, but buying parts and assembling the desktop myself has a much better price/performance ratio than buying of the shelf parts. Being able to upgrade is a bonus and that allows me to have cheaper upgrades than selling it and buying another one.

How much more would Apple tax me for a Mac with the equivalent performance of i9 14900K, Nvidia 4090, 128 GB RAM and 8 GB SSD I assembled in a few hours.

If I were much richer so the few hours spent on assembling the thing were more valuable than the price difference, I might have thought differently.
There's also the whole issue of captchas being in place because people cannot be trusted to behave appropriately with automation tools.

"Avoids bot detection and CAPTCHAs" - Sure asshole, but understand that's only in place because of people like you. If you truly need access to something, ask for an API, may you need to pay for it, maybe you don't. May you get it, maybe the site owner tells you to go pound sand and you should take that as you're behaviour and/or use case is not wanted.
The imbalances also conveniently exclude services, for no good reason. Europe buys more services from US than vice versa, i.e. US is a net exporter. So that reduces the trade imbalance, and substantially so.
I don't know how to further explain that a person's external facial and bodily responses are literally their external state and not their internal state. Your interpretation of those is not actual knowledge of their internal state. To be even more plain, it's a guess based on external state. I know this is something that allistic people have trouble understanding, though.

You're mistaking the shadow on the cave wall for the thing itself. Inference is not the same as observation.

For the same reason that polygraphs are not lie detectors, the body language that you're convinced is "leaking" is not actually internal state.
There's some minor issues with the blog post though that don't make it entirely correct Genetic Programming as written by Koza's. I'd have to dive into it again but I think it was either with the way mutations are done or how fitness is evaluated.

Anyway, it should be close enough.
> We've also been the target of hiring scams in the past, so one policy we have is to only conduct "phone screens" on live video calls with the camera turned on.

Why are we calling these "phone screens"?
I haven't tested either, but I would of course give [1] a try for comparison purposes. If you already have, how did they compare?

[1]: https://brunberg.fi/en/tuoteryhma/chocolate/kisses/
This is like that old adage about conservatism.
> Yes, it was trained on autocomplete but that doesn't say much about what capabilities might emerge.

No, but we know how it works and it is just a stochastic parrot. There is no magic in there.

What is more suprising to me that humans are so predictable that a glorified autocomplete works this well. Then again, it's not that suprising....
Tool Automation for Compliance with AI Act and MDR (PoC)
Example video with a side-by-side view of the real and and adjusted video:

https://twitter.com/1030/status/1615342312296534017
Man, how annoyed do you have to be with someone to carve your complaint into stone!
shouldn't be too long at the rate we are going.
I don't necessarily agree with this take.

Lots of development shops care about UX/DX. Many Indie games are crafted with love and often many are successful -- even releasing bug fixes and updates years after it entered the shop on steam. Many high level developers learned how to write good code quickly, not just for themselves, but for the people that came after them.

If presented with a good argument, most people will agree to logic. Unfortunately, many business decisions are made behind closed doors to avoid dissent -- or even any discussion of alternatives.
That's great for you. I'm not diminishing your experience or taking it away. I think we agree on the hype.
The thing is, Rickover was working on nuclear submarines for the US between 1950 and 1958. He could attract the best engineers because nuclear energy was THE cutting edge technology of the time, the budget was enormous, the project was extremely interesting, and people were literally building something that they thought would protect them and their families from a nuclear attack from the USSR (or another Holocaust; Rickover was Jewish).

It's like, what if you were working at a Frontier AI Lab in 2024 but also living in the aftermath of a bioweapon that selectively killed INTJs that like rockclimbing and anime, and you need to build really good AI by 2030 because if you don't you and all your friends will die of Huntington's Disease?

And then you told people that building great teams and getting things done is easy, even when they're "Moving the Munitions Depot 30mi Down the Road Because We Didn't Renew The Lease" or "Integrating OpenTelemetry With The Ingestion Service For The Staging Environment"; just frame those as "Actually the Most Ambitious Logistics Project in the South-Central District Since the Similar One 3 Years Ago" or "Revolutionizing PreProduction Observability in the Portion of the EMEA SRE org under Joe"! It should be just as easy to motivate the 23 year old trying to secure the bag and become a passport bro to update staging as it is to motivate the best engineers in the world to use cutting edge technology to protect their loved ones from an imminent danger!