skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In reality, it will eliminate 10% of say two categories and maybe 100% of 5 others.
The ... value ... in at least fine or collectable art (as opposed to mere mass entertainment) or other assets (wine, ancient artefacts, first editions and original manuscripts, etc.) lies largely, though not necessarily entirely, in uniqueness, particularly in status signalling value, as a Veblen good. Costs of production and provenance here are actually favourable characteristics and establish signalling capability.

There is at least some likelihood that it's precisely the elements or aspects which are not automatable, or which are not automated, which will achive higher status.
And now I realize why I didn't remember it being Will Smith, because it wasn't. The song I remember is an earlier one with the same name, by Escape Club.
I wonder how this will hurt general product innovation in the long wrong? Seems like it could have a trickle down effect of diminishing companies money for research and development to come up with new products that benefit consumers.
Do I get the $400K salary? I’m not at the $400K salary level but neither are most people who work for $BigTech. The salary bands for the AWS consultants/solution architects/engagement managers are the same as the equivalent SDE roles. I would think the same holds true for GCP and Azure.

I can tell you according to levels.fyi that my salary is the same for my level as someone living in Seattle. I also know an SA living in MiddleOfNowhere Nebraska who is making the same for his level as someone in Seattle.
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Moving would also mean a change of diet or at least a change of food suppliers, and given how horribly adulterated things like bread could be especially in the big cities, that might have been a (probably mostly unnoticed) contributing factor to some people's recoveries too.
Yeah if you want speed go to a startup that is strugling to stay alive there you move fast or die. At large ossified companies you move fast and you die.
Yes there actually is "secret squirrel" business going on. Secrets are a thing, especially around money. It's a fact some computer programmers get profit sharing and it is not advertised.
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Ask HN: Dealing with Underperforming Co-Founder
I'm a co-founder at a young (1-2 years old) startup. We established an equal equity structure to indicate each co-founder would contribute equally to the company's growth. However, it has become apparent that this is not the case.

My co-founder (PC) is not technical. Our startup makes software and hardware, and PC does not have the knowledge to be involved in either. Over time, many non-technical tasks have fallen into my lap because PC has consistently missed deadlines and meetings, delivered sub-par work product (e.g. writing riddled with spelling and grammatical mistakes, misrepresentation of our product to potential investors, spreadsheets with completely incorrect calculations), and hasn't taken the initiative to learn on the job like me or my other co-founder (OC).

OC and I have had many conversations with PC about this, and we've been met with an acknowledgment and a promise to do better, but things rapidly devolve again. I've completely lost trust in PC, and ordinarily I feel this would not have been tolerated at other companies.

Problem is: OC and I are pretty much operating at 100%, and PC does do work. It's usually not great, and the output per time/money spent is low, but it's work. OC and I aren't certain we have the bandwidth to pick up PC's work; if we broach the topic of equity redistribution, we're afraid PC will demand equal equity or they leave the company, effectively taking the company hostage. We're also entering a funding round and we're scared to set off alarms.

After reading through HN posts, I have to say now doesn't seem like the time to act on equity redistribution or firing. But when IS the time? PC isn't pulling their weight, they're a drain on company resources, they've been given so many chances without improvement, but we do need somebody to manage a bit of work OC and I may not be able to handle ourselves.

Do we just have to let PC freeload on OC's and my work? Do we wait until the company can feasibly replace PC?
what if the research requires long/multiple exposures.
Will probably do nothing at least for now .. Google had the reputation to cut things that didn't grow as fast as it wants to, I don't even know for sure if Google Cloud will still exist in 2030.
The runner's high is understood to be a endocannabinoid/endorphin cascade.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-brain-effects...

Dopamine is mostly involved in anticipatory qualia.
Virtual Happy Hours also help. They don't have to be booze focused.
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Yup! Keep an eye out for it in the next week or so.

This is a Go service so it should be a lot simpler to get it running.
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> your name for the thirteenth month is questionable

In my plan for twelve 30-day months, I intended to call the leftover 5/6 days "Etcember", for et cetera. :P

(This submission appears to be a riff on the classic "Programming Language Checklist": https://www.famicol.in/language_checklist.html )
At my company, it’s about equality. Everyone gets paid within the same range for the same work after adjusting for cost of living. Move to higher COL, raise, lower, cut. It’s that simple.
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I recently made something similar, but for movie directors: https://directoralerts.website/
I noticed Amazon has stopped informing you what you actually purchased in their confirmation emails (though the emails still have other purchase suggestions in them). I'm guessing that might be partially to prevent the info from being conveyed to Google in Gmail.
That's a fair concern but in my experience you have lots of the benefits of being up near the edge with very little blood.

It helps to read the Arch news link but normally I've missed it the rare time I ought to have checked it and you can still just figure things out and move on quickly.

For years now I've had almost nothing break except some intermittent minor annoyance with trivial bits of KDE. I'll live!
Definitely something I considered while feeding it a tremendous number of famous paintings (Rothko, Pollock, etc). Considering the nature of random seed generation/traversing through latent space, I don't see a strong legal case to be made for infringement. The law has done crazier things, though, so I'll keep an eye on it.
Correct, it’s addressable in process memory space, but not guaranteed to be paged into memory until accessed.
Do you want to pay daily for car insurance only when you drive?
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How does it work: you will be covered by your current insurance company but will pay only when you drive.

In the end, you will pay the same amount of money or less if you drive less.

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Thanks for the input! I'll add that functionality and let you know as soon as it's ready.
Could prior momentum have been built remotely? Just because it exists doesn't mean it was caused by office?
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The trouble is that this assumes pre-determined quantity of work. The reality I've seen most in places is that there's no end of stuff to do. The work is never "done."

What there is instead is an expectation of how much work you're supposed to get done per unit time (albeit calendar time in shops that have things more together). But this is in turn informed by how much time you are expected to devote to work vs other parts of your life.
Heck yeah, there used to be an amazing sandwich shop just up the street from me. Was super nice being able to walk half a block to pick up something from them. Unfortunately they relocated to a more densely-populated area, but it was good while it lasted. There are other food shops nearby though! Very cool having this :)
for its faults aws takes data privacy super serious. if you are in support you cant even see attachments customers put on cases without providing auditable justification

and you def cant see in s3 buckets or instances. hell if a customer sends you a link to an object in their s3 youre not supposed to open it
If I was Amazon I wouldn't be selling purchase history to Google. Why would I ? I have no need of the money and Google is one of the few entities that present a visible threat to my well being.
There's not much detail but how would they gain access from a password reset if they didn't have access to the email account? And if they had email access then they already have everything.

The reset via admin tools must have bypassed the normal email workflow.
I have been a fan of DeleteMe now for almost 6 months. It promised to be the best product available, and they delivered. Great service (does exactly what it says it will), customer service, and easy to use. Big thumbs up.
When I worked for Garmin, we deliberately designed products to work for as long as possible offline - the Bike Speed & Cadence Monitors (~2018) are able to work for 1 year, riding every day, then a battery change, and then another year, all before a sync to a device is required. All of the rides should be stored on-device.
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> lots of enterprise sales companies already do annual "sales kickoff" events

Salespeople know, when they take their job, that they'll be expected to travel for work. Developers may not expect that to be a requirement of their job.
If your name matches a brand of a car it might be rational to sell that brand; assuming it's otherwise a completely arbitrary choice, it probably helps name recognition and memory, since some customers will probably mention it as a mildly interesting anecdote to their friends and family.
Except that this idea is always a farce. People talk about cost of living as though it doesn't vary wildly within a city from neighborhood to neighborhood.
Well, most people aren’t making $400K at $BigTech either according to levels.fyi

I had two choices when I could see myself topping out locally as a bog standard enterprise dev - either I could go the r/cscareerquestions route and “grind leetCode” so I could reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard, and move to high cost of living area or I could focus on gaining experience so I could be an overpriced “digital transformation consultant” somewhere where most of the jobs are remote with travel.

Right when I was about to pull the trigger and start applying for local companies, Covid hit, the local market dried up and I got an email from an Amazon recruiter.

I thought I might as well try. I can answer the “tell me about a time when...” questions with the best of them and I had the relevant experience.
It's like having a convenience store in the lobby of an apartment building. Seems like a great idea, but it takes a huge apartment building, or a city block of modest ones, to support a convenience store. Vending machines, maybe.

We see this with all those "mixed use" buildings going up in Silicon Valley, with retail spaces on the ground floor. It's really hard to fill those retail spaces.
Yeah, I think those will be some of the first wave of language generation applications. Stuff like Buzzfeed but without as many writers because the language model is generating potential articles and the humans pick which are good (and maybe clean them up). Similarly, disinformation or noise attacks on social media - with just a few people overseeing the language model as it generates potential posts/replies.
I think that people upset with the dominant narrative may be the reason Trump got elected in the first place. That same socially dominant sector has been railing against him non-stop for 4 years (as well as everything else they're doing). So if some people are afraid of speaking out against that narrative, the idea of secretly punishing it with their vote might come into play.
>making strawmen is fun

If only it was a straw man. Rejection of liberalism and its adjacent Enlightenment values/ideals is at the very core of the modern critical theories. It's written everywhere in the literature. Liberalism, debates and so on perpetuate inequities. I assume you are just not very familiar with this stuff.
The image being the product of a computer program processing data does not mean that it's a hoax. That's moronic, and it's not even remotely what I'm talking about.

Fixing the image is not a matter of "editing it out in photoshop". It's a matter of processing the data correctly in the first place, e.g. not editing it in. The author of the tweet stacked his images to show every satellite instead of removing every satellite, which is ass-backwards.
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I mean, the Soviet version of the B29 had extra rivet holes because one of the B29s they reverse engineered had a manufacturing mistake. Would they trust their engineers to make a close copy that wasn't exactly the same aerodynamically? I know that's in a different era of the USSR, but still.
Certainly a good point. Unfortunately, the output size is constrained by the training data (which in this case was ~800x800px). I think it would be kind of a pain to find 14,000 9000x9000 images, though, so I don't know if this will ever be able to fulfill this requirement. ;)
> Whenever anyone asks for evidence I start to wonder why they need the proof. Why did you need this link? Do you have a business relationship with Amazon?

I had made an oath to myself to not return to Hacker News and engage with the community after I was once temporally banned on Hacker News. But when I saw your stupid comment and recognized its disingenuous manipulation and misinformation, a pushing of an evil and harmful narrative ultimately made for whatever reason you might have, I returned to Hacker News to downvote your comment. Thanks for creating a vulnerability in the world for me to exploit the loophole in my self-imposed oath that allows me to return. I'm back.
Looks like AMD will get to 5 nm through TSMC before Intel will get to 7 nm.
I agree with this. I've known some of my coworkers 15 years. We talk now, but it's not the same as getting a bunch of people together to go to the terrible chinese place across the street for an hour and a half.
- No good reason really. I prefer having "app" in the URL and I was already using app.autogradr.com subdomain for an older version. During the migration, I had to keep both of them running so I opted to get the new domain.

- That's a good point about the role. Surprisingly, it is not common for users to switch roles. I had punted this functionality until I would need it but even after a lot of usage, no one has requested for this feature. However, as an instructor you can get the "student" view.
This makes no sense to me. An iPhone without a browser? There are a dozen other random apps and features in O365. Is bundling or building of these features prohibited because Microsoft Access competes with Airtable? I’d argue Teams is half zoom half chat. It’s about as similar to Slack as Access is to Airtable.

Even the selling separately argument seems absurd. How is this any different than adding another Office SKU?
If my company could lower the cost of its product by half and still make the same yearly revenue, it would. And all the executives would get huge bonuses.
Imagine you are shipping a library. Say, one that tells you about timezones.

You want your users to just be able to import that library and use it. The fact that you need a bunch of zone info files should be invisible to them.

Maybe those users are in a sandboxed environment that doesn't allow opening files, or you're in webassembly where files don't exist.

It's much simpler to just bake that data into the library.
The next step improving home office is not bringing office to home, but rather improving asynchronous communication, which is a whole different way to work.

Open offices are really bad for productivity, I don't really understand why don't people understand that nowadays. This device makes your home office an open office...
Well, if Starlink isn't profitable, it won't be long until all those sats have deorbited, either.
>but people can and do learn how to put in 6-8 solid hours of work per day all of the time.

This isn't true. It depends on whether the work is cerebral or not. Certain workloads are limited to as little as 2 hours per day, for 2-4 hours of real knowledge work per day. The rest of it is either extremely suboptimal or of a different class.

Something semi-mechanical like translation or categorization that isn't obviously mechanical could probably occur for a full workday.
Can you explain random rooms for those of us that are not familiar? Just rooms for random chatter, like watercooler?
I think tech workers that believe that remote is more productive really fail to grasp the enormous company incentive to have all workers remote if it were so, as it would be cheaper tax-wise, operational wise, legal wise, etc.

If it were that good, software engineering in the US would suffer the same fate as manufacturing: it would disappear to cheaper foreign workers and only specialties would survive.
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This is so wildly anti-competitive. I cant believe how many stories there are like this in this thread alone.
as someone who is waiting on their pinephone order right now, a major factor for me is supporting the existence of not-google not-apple. i want other options and even though they are not great yet, if enough of us support that niche it will become better. i hope enough people buying into it now will hasten viable daily driver phones running linux proper.
Yes, good point. I think a major part of the appeal is the backstory. I do love abstract art, though, so I'm probably a non-representative sample :-)
Whatever Apple is switching to won't compare to x86_64 anyway, especially AMD.
I’m aware there is demand for this sort of thing but I’d suggest that almost nobody actually needs it. This strikes me as a feature in search of a problem – especially considering how many of the examples in this document relate to static web assets.

If you’re considering bundling static assets into your binary for a service, you would almost certainly be better served by containerizing your service and copying those assets into the image.
These are gorgeous! Great work.
I'm in a one bedroom Brooklyn apt. Any time I open up my laptop, my 2yr old daughter climbs onto my lap and repetitively hits the caps lock key (it lights up on my laptop). Luckily, I've found alternative places to work from, albeit with less than ideal setups.
The problem seems to be finding worthwhile and realistic goals that are worth persevering for. And frankly I get depressed and anxious just thinking about that.

(Edit not at all being flip, How to spend my limited time creates a lot of anxiety and depression. I doubt I’m alone)
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23921206
> having one or two days per year which are part of no month is stupid
> having one or two days per year with no day of the week is asinine

These don't sound like real reasons to me. If it costs having a 13th month with just a few days in it or a NO_DAY_OF_WEEK constant in my DAYS_OF_WEEK enum, I'd take it if it meant all of the weirdness was limited to a few days always located at the end of the year. Sounds like a convenient place to put leap seconds as well! While you're at it, make those days holidays for most people, so that when tech inevitably breaks due to the weirdness, those of us who get paged for such things can fix them in peace before the rest of the world starts back up a few days later.
Russian surveillance vessels or warships in the proximity of Cape Canaveral and Kings Bay NSB have and will provoke a fleet-level response of hunter-killer submarines that harass them out of the Atlantic.

Russia has no capability to project naval power to this region.
> These big companies aren't dumb, your idea isn't that novel and they probably have the team and technology to do it better than you for cheaper.

This is only partially true. The thing is that even if your idea _is_ novel, giants like AWS can launch a similar product after seeing yours and thats a problem, imo.
Sometimes the point is to not use a container
I don't know the details of Apple's licensing agreements, but note the fact that the word "ARM" is totally absent from all their marketing. They own their own chip design company (PA Semi), we know they're using the ARM ISA, but I suspect they don't need anything from ARM the company anymore.
TSMC are gradually ramping up fab factories. So it's only a matter of time before they'll meet the demand easily.
There was zero inside knowledge and they were an ex employee at all times relevant to the incident.

The EC2 instance credentials via the metadata url is public documented functionality. Its how things like the SDK “just work.”

The S3 bucket policy, instance creds, and (inferred) overly permissive IAM policy is all public documented functionality. This looks like a simple case of an initial intrusion being escalated via permissive configuration and controls. There would be no story if the suspect had not been employed by AWS in the past.

Disclaimer: Im a Principal jn AWS but have no direct or inside knowledge of this incident. Everything I know or have stated here is public record (eg the indictment) or public AWS docs.
Absolutely! I was planning on providing this, but wanted to keep the model free of commercial services. There are open-source alternatives out there, though, which I may add support for in the future.
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Back in 1995 I wrote a library for creating BBS Door games using RIP graphics, in QuickBasic 4.5. Also created a RIP Door Game of the classic Battleship game. It never went anywhere as most of my local BBSs started shutting down the following year.

I wrote some JavaScript that draws RIP files into a web canvas, and an experimental RIP to SVG converter. It's still incomplete. Here's the source:
https://github.com/cgorringe/RIPtermJS

Here's a Demo page where you can see some RIP files rendered in a canvas and as SVG:
https://carl.gorringe.org/pub/code/javascript/RIPtermJS/

Specs for v1.54, v2, and v3 can be downloaded here:
https://carl.gorringe.org/pub/code/javascript/RIPtermJS/docs...

Some issues with the RIP format:

1. RIPscrip v1.54, the most popular version, was targeted towards 640x350 px EGA graphics, which is an odd resolution with non-square pixels. They tried fixing this in later versions, but they weren't as popular.

2. Non-standard bezier curves and the flood fill algorithm caused issues with rendering. I've had a lot of issues trying to get it working right as the flood fill would leak through holes in lines which aren't rendered exactly like RIPterm did. And the specs don't give details on how they did it.
The problem is that all of those places are planned. I get major 'Soviet Central Planning' vibes from the USA when it comes to zoning and planning out cities. Of course the people making the decisions on planning have no idea what will work. They only know what will work in the most rudimentary, scaled up, sense. Small shops need to be allowed everywhere, rules about minimum parking, lot sizes, use, etc need to be relaxed to allow those things to even be possible.