I have the opposite problem. I know exactly what I would do if I had enough money in the bank to live off the interest. I remind myself how lucky I am and to be grateful, which is probably the most helpful thing I do.
As someone who has developed software for almost 20 years, and who is also staying on top of LLMs because I genuinely enjoy it, I really feel like I will make some good money soon.
As a senior software engineer who was unemployed for over a year, I can confirm almost nobody is hiring USA Javascript and Python devs with 10+ years of experience with some big accomplishments. I got lucky with a backfill.
He says he has a hard time beating his feather in arm wrestling despite him working out. Anecdotally blue collar people have much strong wrist flexion (cupping) than us white collar people, but pronation and technique can help negate that. My experience shows that power cleans can help with arm wrestling but not many people do those.
Yeah, arm-wrestling is kind of a specific skill that isn't covered by most "exercise" (including strength training) unless you are specifically focused on it. It's like notorious for skinny-looking specialists being able to best jacked non-specialists.
I say convert it all to dispersed camping. Leave the zoos, I mean national parks, to the common overcrowding. Let us have our forests back. It’s obvious that their policies have led to many of it burning down in mega fires that get so hot it kills every living thing in its path.
While you're right, undeniably there are many parks where fencing and parking lots have desertified or made unsightly much of what is in and around the "preserved" areas. Very sad.
USFS campgrounds are setup (generally) in places to reduce the damage caused by the public, because given enough people, the ‘public’ becomes abusive and we can’t have nice things. And in many areas, there will always more enough people that it will cross that threshold, regardless of what anyone calls the place.
USFS campgrounds in truly remote areas excepted, but any available camping near a highway is going to be a public safety hazard quickly without someone responsible for keeping it clean and somewhat organized/policed.
USFS ‘managed’ campgrounds generally were setup where there was already a problem area.
So are you proposing Rangers sit there and drive anyone away trying to do what they want to do? Or we turn these spots into National parks? Because just saying ‘dispersed camping’ doesn’t work either without someone sitting there enforcing it.
This would be a fantastic chrome extension because Amazon would never do this. It would be great to vote on the reasons why to boycott, allowing the most egregious reasons at the very top.
I'm on the fence regarding a "likely boycott" for Ooni pizza ovens, specifically the Karu 16 dual fuel. There are many videos about defective or improperly installed thermocouples. Ooni has some really helpful FAQ guides for fixing it on your own, but I was amazed at how many videos exist about this problem for an $800 pizza oven.
It's just their new brand name. I get the impression they are bringing genAI to boomers in a user friendly way. While everyone of us on HN have used chatGPT and knows the pros/cons, the regular users need a more gentle introduction using the basic use cases such as proofreading and simple image editing.
I was underwhelmed reading the link about the upcoming Intelligence features, but I put myself into the shoes of my dad and thought... well I guess that's a good starting point.
Hi, I'm Jonathan. I am a Principal/Senior Software Engineer with high impact projects in backend, embedded and UI.
I have worked as a team lead in a small startup-like environment at VIZIO building embedded features in Python, Django and C++ and deploying my code to tens of millions of consumer televisions.
I have also worked and lead teams at Intel gaining experience with a high degree of professionalism, communication, and quality.
I embrace any and all technical areas because I love solving problems. For example, without any experience in embedded development, I was offered to write the bluetooth pairing for VIZIO's first voice remote. I love building products and I love gaining experience at lower levels of the stack.
Pay rate is not a concern but it is important to me to be a helpful coworker and to also work with those who are positive and enjoy what they do. Our industry has been gaining a bad reputation but I know there are fantastic and friendly people out there - I've worked with some of them, and I strive to role model their behavior.
Hey, thanks for the question. Are you talking about standard evaluation tools like promptfoo? These evaluation frameworks are often just tools that helps you grade the response of your LLM application. They however do not help you to build an LLM application that makes it easy to test different configurations of your application and evaluate them. That is where we different -- we help you build an application that is made for easily testing different configurations of your application so you can evaluate them much faster.
So the process we see when companies are trying to adopt a evaluation framework is that when they want to try a new configuration, they completely change their code-base, create the code to run an evaluation, and review that result independently and try to compare with other changes they have made sometimes in the past. This usually leads to a very slow process for making new changes and becomes very unorganized.
With us, we help you build your LLM application where it's easy to swap components. From there, when you want to see how your application works with a certain configuration, we have a UI where you can pass in the configuration settings for your application, and run an evaluation. We also save all your previous evaluations so you can easily compare them with each other. As a result, it's very easy and fast to test different configurations of your application and evaluate them with us.
That's an unrealistic fix. Even if Doritos, Big Macs, and french fries were expensive, most people would still eat them for their hyperpalatability.
The only "fix" is to ban these foods, perform public executions of food company executives, institute mandatory kcal rationing, and bring back relentless fat shaming and discrimination.
Personally, I prefer not living in a totalitarian dictatorship, so GLP-1 agonists seem like a slightly more humane option to me.
> How about instead we fix the problem by making healthy foods and active lifestyles cheaper and more prevalent?
Good luck with that.
Unhealthy habits and diets are popular (and delicious), and a lot of people resented even the minimal effort required to wear a mask during a pandemic of an airborne disease.
As someone who has developed software for almost 20 years, and who is also staying on top of LLMs because I genuinely enjoy it, I really feel like I will make some good money soon.