skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is putting the cart in front of the horse.

The thing you should be optimizing for is not geo-location, but time zone. The latter is only weakly related to the former. It doesn't matter if someone is within driving distance of the office so long as they are in (or willing to work in) the time zone that the office works at. Rejecting someone in Los Angeles because they're not within driving distance of Seattle would be penny wise and pound foolish.

> Once you have someone on your team who needs a lot of notice to attend any meeting, you are now planning every single meeting around their schedule.

This doesn't sound like you're actually running a "WFH" team then. You just can't demand short notice in person meetings with a remote team; that's an unreasonable ask. Hold remote meetings and schedule in-person meetups far in advance, or don't call it a "WFH" team.
I much prefer Andrew Ng's courses as well.

I tried Fast AI, but it seems to be trying too hard to take out the math, which oddly for me (as a STEM grad) makes it much more difficult to understand.

Had to stop when I saw him using Excel spreadsheets to explain convolution.
Solar storms don't work like that. It's not the movie-like electronics blow up left and right thing. It's quasi-DC currents in the ground thing.

What that means is that the power grid is designed for AC currents, and now there will be DC currents flowing through it, induced by the flexing of the Earth's magnetic field under the storm. That is very likely to saturate the cores in large scale transformers, causing them to blow up.

No more power grid. And these are not things you have spares for or can ship from China. You need to make new ones, in a country with spotty power and complete supply chain breakdown.

So your electronics would be fine, just out of power. Faraday cages are for the nuclear bomb type EMP events.
of course! that's a good idea.
Regulations like OFAC are still going to restrict payments, especially those made internationally or over a certain amount.

I'm not saying that the regulatory framework should allow payments to known terrorists or terrorist groups, more pointing out that electronic transfers are never going to be structured like a utility without significant restructuring of banking laws.
Understandable given France has invested heavily into such power generation due to policy many decades ago to be energy self sufficient. That has seen France build up a nice collection of skilled workers across the board from building such power stations thru to management.

You can read up some background here: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
I'd imagine having the green label will make export sales better as companies can bulk up their `green` quota of energy supplies much easier and that stigma hasn't helped.

[EDIT ADD] If you look at the commissioning dates of the bulk of Frances reactors and the life-cycle of those reactors. You will notice that within the next ten years - many reactors will need decommissioning. So a push to get them labelled as green is very much in Frances interest to justify replacing end of life reactors. Otherwise they may well fall foul of energy production quota targets down the line by the EU.
A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available
with their anti-nuclear stance the Greens have likely done more damage to the climate than the conservative parties...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02355
No, what language you like is often not based on objective set of criteria. It's mostly personal preference and emotions involved.

For example, the reason I like lisps is because they usually offer interactive development, something most non-lisps don't offer. That makes any non-lisps inferior to me.

For the future, you could do with less snark. I never said what I think is objective, and I'm pretty sure most of us know that what languages you like is very much subjective. The sarcasm in your comment just make this thread less interesting, not more.
B2B marketing tactics that work
Ideally, people would not be judged at all, but their actions would be judged instead (maybe their words on rare occasions too, but that one is too tricky to just call out).
Curious, what makes you think productivity has increased at your job? Like how are you measuring that?
The Dunbar number is about individual connections. The exponential scaling comes from the number of possible subgroups. I might have 5 close friends but each pair of friends has a different interest. From 5 friends, we have 15 interests. With 10 friends, we can have 90 interests.
I'm fine with using them, as long as alternatives are available for people with disabilities are able to participate as well.

Imagine if your bank started using these to access your account and suddenly disabled customers could no longer use their adaptive input devices to interact with their account.
Many employees voted with their feet. From the outside it seems like Amazon has already suffered significant brain drain, they are likely trying to stop the bleeding at this point. In addition to their poor reputation as an employer, seems like they've backed themselves into a corner.
They aren't so reluctant. I think they get off on the power of doing this, but that's just me.
It is available on Windows 10 and takes less than a minute to install.

Fair enough and your point about feature updates for 10 ending makes sense. My point is that I shouldn't have to use the store for a feature like this.

I avoid the store completely and have never installed anything from it. I don't think useful system features like this should be part of the store at all.
That’s just how it is now. In a few years, there will be old electric trucks to buy for such purposes. If combined with a phased banning of small ICE devices (such as that proposed by another comment on this story’s thread), the transition won’t be too bad. It’s never going to be perfectly smooth and it has to happen at some point.
Zendesk was still requiring third party cookies long after blocking them was the default configuration in all major browsers. They're kind of a sad joke.
> Management training programs for regular teenagers are common in the fast food industry, and it's a differentiating life skill

This may be different depending on where you grew up, but in my memory, the top students were too busy with sports and band to get McLeadership training as a high schooler. At least the marching band nominally had section leader positions, but the reality was more so that the adults in the room made all the decisions and section leadership roles were purely titular for purposes of helping the scholarship applications in the college search.
It probably depends on the type of account you have with the bank. I certainly don't pay ATM fees so long as I use my bank's own ATM but perhaps there are more bare-bones account types that do.
Yes? and coop's, Learning Hubs, Money for Home Schooling resources, etc etc etc

Unlike many here I am not opposed to capitalism
Yes, linking to a GPL library means you need to follow the terms of the GPL.
Or, just host fully remote meetings. Which, if your employer is large enough, you have to do anyways because there’s an office in Europe or India or someplace else.
I was interested to see it was in Western Japan, and after looking it up in context, it isn't surprising when almost all of Sony's foundries are all over Kyushu.

Always interested to understand why things are where they are (e.g. proximity to Korea/China, sheer expense of Tokyo or somewhere like Osaka for a large industrial operation).
Well Germany has access to lots of cheap coal so not so much stupid as teutonically pragmatic. Who knows might have been the coal lobbyists in this campaign as much as environmentalists
If you go back in the Internet Archive to this site from 2016, it's much the same.[1] This project seems to have stalled before they published the design documents.

Here are their videos on Vimeo.[2] Most of the activity was 7-10 years ago.

If you want a cheap tractor, look on Alibaba. There are decent offerings around US$2000.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20161207230929/http://opensource...

[2] https://vimeo.com/search?q=open%20source%20ecology
If we are nit picking, we can look at entropy and conclude no fuel is renewable :)
those PRs are appalling.. bots talking to each other, commenting to run bot commands, bots adding and immediately removing labels. as if the github PR user experience weren't bad enough
Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp
What's the bug here? It looks like you fooled the container codec with a incorrect timecode and then when it was uploaded to YouTube, the file was rasterized into a sane format. I don't really see an attack here, nor do I see a mitigation.
I don't fully agree. Instead, what I think, is that the stock holders of the company I work for are very fortunate that I work for them.

Are we better off compared to service workers? Oh yeah, definitely.
It will take some time, and ideally more stated will follow. If CA/WA/OR/MA/IL/NY/NJ/CT follow, then it could lead to some real change.
I guess taste is like assholes, everyone has one :)

Go is inferior (to me) because it doesn't have s-expressions, and it doesn't offer interactive development (who in the world wants to re-compile/re-run a whole program/tests on each change?).

Once you've got the taste for interactive development it's really hard to go back to anything else. Ask any Smalltalk developer what they think of other languages.
That doesn't really make sense. My bank's ATM has to be refilled with cash and they don't charge me. Likewise, I doubt the Walmart self-checkout is sorting bills and only dispensing $20's: they also have to be loaded with cash separately.

The only charges I encounter are from using my bank's card at another bank's ATM.
Tangentially-related: What's the state of the art for storing a bunch[1] of hashes like the OP (or pHash, etc.) in PostgreSQL and querying by hamming distance in a reasonable time?[2]

pg_similarity? pg_trgm? cube?

[1]: 10–50 Million

[2]: < 200ms
The linked list provided by the standard library is unfortunately not very useful. It doesn't provide O(1) operations on the middle of the list, making it more or less a worse VecDeque. Of course there are crates that provide better implementations but people really need to stop pointing people toward the one in std.
I would like to see some of the money from a voucher be allowed to be spent on Home Schooling resources and technology, Provide computers, internet, books, etc all in some way under the same School Choice Voucher system
What if a bank used this for authentication and disable people can't use their custom interface devices? Does that mean that disabled people shouldn't access to their bank accounts?

Maybe if this was the input device that interacts with the standard web, then there is potential here, but it would be unfortunate if a company used this as a primary means of input.
One solution: build enough nuclear to cover your nighttime load and run that 24/7, add enough solar to cover just the extra load during the day, and for remaining discrepancies with demand use either batteries or load-following by the nuclear plants, whichever is cheaper.

A while back MIT had an electric grid cost simulator online, and that was the cheapest fossil-free combination I could find.
> Electric trucks like the F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T with their built in electrical outlets and massive batteries would solve the problem almost entirely. With that you’d only need a couple of backup batteries in a charger plugged into the truck.

> Naturally companies won’t roll their truck/van fleets over right away but this pressure has potential to advance the timeline of that particular transition significantly.

Then you're just siphoning power from your transportation. With the limited-ish range on EVs[0][1], EPA estimates not being loaded down with the extra weight of equipment, and power losses due to voltage conversion I don't see this as a viable alternative...yet. Add in the cost of these vehicles being much higher than current ones[2][3] and this is most likely a non-starter for most of the affected.

[0]: F-150 Lightning is estimated at 230 miles on the regular config https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022/

[1]: Rivian R1T is very vague throwing out an EPA estimate of 314, then mentioning 400+ or 250+ mi https://rivian.com/r1t

[2]: F-150 Lightening starts at $39,974, a standard F-150 starts at $29,290.

[3]: Rivian R1T starts at $67,500
I think you'll find that it makes sense if you begin imagining non-productivity reasons why execs want workers back. Sunk cost fallacy over an expensive office is a regular guess, personally I suspect that it's got to be quite a rush to see hundreds of people working at your direction in an office and remote work cannot replace that.

That or bad management techniques work better in person.
"first time using javascript"

Impressive. I think the first time I used Javascript I made a button.
Sure, if that makes you feel good about yourself.
Why does China want to build a kilometre-long spacecraft?
There are good reasons for it, and I'm certain you will gain a better understanding as you gain more experience as a developer.
Lol, thanks. :)
I thought semiconductor factories couldn't work in places with lots of seismic activity.
we should aggregate all problematic words into a controlled list to identify problematic people with problematic attitudes to solve certain problems

- end sarcasm
> It concerns domestic net emissions. Meaning that the policy is incentiving to de-localisation of industry in China

This is simply not true.

The EU is trying to adress this with a mechanism called CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism). It's complicated and not sure how well it'll work out, but claiming that this is not adressed is wrong.
They should still have access to basic banking services, as a utility.

Would you think it's okay if their water company tried to cut them off?
Ada maybe isn't very well adapted to kernel code? From what I know of Ada, doesn't it get it's memory safety from either a GC or not freeing memory entirely? That is -- ownership rules are pretty new to Ada/SPARK.

C-style syntax and community interest also favor Rust.

This spec argument has always seemed like a red-herring to me. Can you explain why the Ada spec would be a significant factor in this instance?
>looking for an "engineer"

Are you a software developer or the other (traditional engineering, like civil, mechanical, ...) kind of engineer?

>because there are no similarly well compensated IC positions in the Netherlands

>IC

Individual Contributor, I guess you mean

Do you mean that Japan pay is higher than NL pay for the same position?
> This tractor is... too complex

Quite the opposite: It is incredibly _simple_, in that regular tractors need huge complex specialized infrastructure to manufacture, and this doesn't.

> too wide, has low ground clearance etc.

The shortcomings are due to this still being a prototype: The 6th iteration. And it's this way because it was easier and cheap to design and produce it the way that it is.

Now, let's say the current shortcomings are deal-breakers for 80% of potential users. Then you already have a tractor usable for 10% of people. In iteration 7 they'll address a few other issues, and still more in iteration 8 and you'll have something worthy of mass-production for a large fraction of users.

*Edit:* Well, apparently LifeTrac 6 is from 11 years ago! And there are newer iterations of it.
No, it isn't.

After "long talks" (maybe there is even money involved, who knows) with the parliament the things that the Council and / or Commission want get implemented.

Maybe the parliament is allowed to keep some wording form it's proposals as long as it stays mostly symbolic form the practical point of view.

The EU is a "democracy simulation" as we call it. Neither the Council nor the Commission are elected by the EU people but the laws are made by those institutions in practice.
Somebody needs to build cutting-edge node fabs given the rhetoric from China in the past few days regarding forced "reunification" with China.
As much as it may frustrate them not to use the buildings, it is still strictly costing them less given the lower maintenance and utility costs.
Assuming you didn't care about the path, could you also take some optimal path where you go east to west to prolong the days, then go west to east to shorten the nights. Could probably play with south/north too depending on the time of the year to get longer days. Or maybe you can go far enough to the pole where it's always day.
> to read this as though it is very obvious and commonly accepted fact

I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to by "this" but assuming you mean my comment, I think what I'm saying is very much up for debate and not an "obvious and commonly accepted fact". Karpathy has a very reasonably argument that directly disagrees with what I'm suggesting [0]. Of course he also agrees that in practice nobody will every use backprop directly.

Whether it's JAX, TF, PyTorch, etc the chain rule will be applied for you. I'm arguing that I think it's helpful to not have to worry about the details of how your derivative is being computed, and rather build an intuition about using derivatives as an abstraction. To be fair I think Karpathy is correct for people who are going to be learning to explicitly be experts in Neural Networks.

My point is more that given how powerful our tools today are for computing derivatives (I think JAX/Autograd have improved since Karpathy wrote that article), it's better to teach programmers to learn think of derivatives, gradients, hessians etc as high level abstractions. Worrying less about how to compute them and more about how to use them. In this way thinking about modeling doesn't need to be restricted to strictly NNs, but rather use NNs and example and then demonstrate to the student that they are free to build any model by defining how the model predicts, scoring the prediction and using the tools of calculus to answer other common questions you might have.

edit: a good analogy is logic programming and backtracking/unification. The entire point of logic programming is to abstract away backtracking. Sure experts in Prolog do need to understand backtracking, but it's more helpful to get beginners understanding how Prolog behaves than understand the details of backtracking.

[0] https://karpathy.medium.com/yes-you-should-understand-backpr...
It seems like it sort of counts as an amplification DOS. Enough people uploading smallish videos that unravel into terabytes could probably create an issue. It's bypassing the YouTube limits of 256 GB/12 hours.

I would guess YouTube will do some sort of fix or sanity check.
no, the parliament's aims and objectives are simply ignored
Yeah I've never been anywhere near M&A but that was my takeaway too. Steve blessed the acquisition, that's all you need from him. Seems like this guy would have been much better off keeping his mouth shut and letting the negotiations play out slowly. Truly a story of a social faux pas with huge consequences.
This is the most privileged, special snowflake and tech bubble thing I've ever read on this site.
Yes it's about signaling. But it's also more than that.

It might not change minds, but that doesn't mean it doesn't instill an initial position. And it definitely prevents many people from even considering an alternative position.

Look at the ivermectin controversy. It's an FDA approved medicine, listed as one of the most necessary in the world which has a Nobel prize for it's discovery.

But how many (even educated) people won't take the time to even realize that, because it's been branded nothing more than "horse de-wormer" taken by gullible idiots who buy it from the feed & seed store?

And you end up in a position where you can't even debate efficacy or ethical/philosophical questions re: policy and medical self-determination, but get stuck because the "more enlightened" side doesn't even realize it's real medicine, FDA approved and tested as safe, used all around the world regularly by human patients.
I also worry for Taiwan. If China chose to invade and the first invasion wave were not successfully repelled by the military assets already in the immediate area, other nations might try to intervene but few would be in a position to act immediately. "Defending Taiwan" is a tricky prospect if the PRC already invaded it yesterday; and as you say, possession is nine tenths of the law.
Not to forget that good amount of things like produce was destroyed as supply chain wasn't handling it anymore. It should be clear that just that alone would result in increase of prices as the food need to be replaced with something else. As supply-demand is at least somewhat balanced. Remove from supply side do to supply chain not accepting it, the demand overall is constant, prices go up.
Yeah I should know this. I tried to donate to WikiLeaks before. My bank flagged my account and alerted my mother.
I agree wholeheartedly. Without the support of a dozen offspring helping out with 'chores' around the farm the lack of labour is a real constraint in rural areas. I absolutely agree that a 28hp motor is simply too small to be helpful on a commercial scale, but I was thinking more about the 3-4 pod versions that offered a bit more grunt.

Regardless, most of the engines on a farm are sitting idle for vast portions of the year (i.e. combines, forage harvesters, swathers, sprayers, etc.) so a modular unit that maximized year-round utility could reduce maintenance and downtime caused by corrosion and other problems inherent in idle machinery.

Diesel engines hate sitting for long periods without running, as well as dislike running under excessively light loads for their horsepower. Being able to spin up multiple pods to match a load is an interesting solution.
There must be a bonus that's not properly represented on levels.fyi, because Amazon's cash compensation is pretty poor compared even to some non-FAANG companies.
Do Processed Foods and Environmental Contaminants Cause the Rise of Obesity?
> In a few years, there will be old electric trucks to buy for such purposes.

With degraded, old batteries to match.
This seems to be an unpopular opinion on HN but I just don't trust humans to manage fission power in the long term at scale.

First, there are the issues of storage and disposal of enrichment byproducts, specifically depleted Uranium Hexaflouride ("DUJF" or UF6).

Second, there's what to do with old fuel rods. Proponents argue this is a solved problem and it can be stored for the long term in geologically stable storage facilities. This is just one political change away from becoming a huge problem.

Neither really scales up to 100x or even 10x current fission energy production.

Third, there's long-term maintenance of a plant. Arguments about the relative safety of fission point to deaths caused by coal. Coal is really the worst fossil fuel. LNG is better. But regardless of the numbers, the failure modes are just much, much worse for nuclear. 35 years later, the Chernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone still stands at 1000 square miles. Parts of this zone will likely remain uninhabitable for centuries.

I just don't trust governments or corporations for the long term inspection, maintenance and management of fission power plants in the long term.

Lastly, the politics are against fission. This seems unlikely to change anytime soon.
I read that letter in the newspaper this morning and I had a few questions about the claims being made:

- They claim nuclear could create a million of jobs in Europe. What kind of jobs ? Is that job creation or job swapping ?

- Switching to nuclear power guarantees energy independence. But where is the uranium we need ? How can we guarantee delivery ?

The argument I hear against building new nuclear plants is that it's basically too late:

- it takes 30 years or more to build one

- it usually costs twice as planned

- it's way more expensive than renewables

- renewables can be deployed now

I do believe we should have built more nuclear plants 20 or 30 years ago but we were drunk on cheap oil and gas.