skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that last part unfortunately is what happens in a lot of companies. Basically taking something like your comment I replied to: "Look at metric X" and verbatim looking at that metric and only that metric (or maybe that and 2 or 3 others) and there's your performance review.

You mentioned another metric "code submissions", so say the number of reviews done is augmented by number or PRs merged. You've just created another incentive to just get a lot of code out fast.

After all, that's the point of the metrics, right? Have a few numbers that accurately describe the "value" of that employee. </sarcasm> No qualitative analysis needed, that would take time and money we don't have. Been there, had to do that (or write huge amounts of text to say why I think that this employee is actually really good at what they do and the number of PRs they did was low because they got the short end and worked on the hardest problems in the worst parts of our code base and did an amazing job especially given they were new.

If that's not how it's actually done where you work, great!
> Model training is done with mixed precision on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD-based Selene supercomputer powered by 560 DGX A100 servers networked with HDR InfiniBand in a full fat tree configuration. Each DGX A100 has eight NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs, fully connected to each other by NVLink and NVSwitch. A similar reference architecture is used by Microsoft for Azure NDv4 cloud supercomputers.

That is a big machine, how much does that run per month?
What social networks are you referring to?
Can't they add an option or something that specifies how backticks are handled with the default setting to be the current (so nothing breaks) and any new code or existing code that knows about the issue can set it to a better value?
upvotes: thoughts and prayers of the internet
Did it stop mixing YouTube likes with music likes? Destroying my 'liked' music playlist was an unforgivable sin in my book. Fortunately I was able to get my old GPM info with Google Takeout before it went away, so I just scripted up a solution to recreate those likes on Spotify.
I don't think metaphorically I think meta42ically. It's topical.
Thanks for your valuable input. Its very much appreciated.
Non-paywalled link: https://archive.is/PI7pl
Except that Crypto AG was not Swiss. It was american.
Does the paper pre-date Kyoto - or was there even a Kyoto unveiling?
Because for the PARC folks from back in the day, the true vision for personal computing was to enable lots of people to do new things. That’s why Kay laments that the personal computing revolution is yet to happen.
I don't think it's about the efficiency, it's about managing waste. Currently, a lot of hydro generation is wasted at nighttime because there is less demand, so it's burnt off. Even if inefficient, it would be better to shift this energy to somewhere where it isn't night time
Some guy who told me to try walking a mile in his shoes. So I beat him up and took his shoes.
you arent special, and neither am i. me not treating you special, isnt unkind.

not sure how you draw these conclusions.
> The app starts in under 3 seconds for me

For me that would be a showstopper. 3 seconds to open my notes app? I would have already lost my train of thought.

:wq
Your solution wouldn’t play real cartridges and cards for SG-1000, Mark III, Master System, Genesis and Game Gear without a lot of work, and it wouldn’t look good on my shelf either.
What kind of planning would it take for you to have a detox week? Do you have to call someone, tell them you won't be answering the phone this week? Do you need to notify your employer, work something out for that week to only come in on Thursday?
Are you talking about adjustments in hardware by drivers which can't even detect if my laptop is not connected to power source anymore and continue running on maximum frequency?

Please take a look at the auto-cpufreq demo video I made which should clear some things out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkYRpVEEIlg

It's old and many things have been improved and added since then, but it describes the essence.

You can also refer to blog post on what prompted me to make one such tool: https://foolcontrol.org/?p=3124
You had a fairly helpful and insightful comment until you ruined it with:

> Don't denigrate someone's work. That's childish.
I've got a bridge for sale...
Well, one of the GOAT mathematicians of our time, Jim Simons thinks math in America is in a bad shape.

And same goes for Terence Tao as he was unsatisfied with the low degree of collaboration between mathematicians and stepped up saying (politely) :"this sh-t has to stop"

Of course the rampant ego which is in the field prevents people from rallying around leaders like that or even arriving indipendently to the same conclusion because all these people see is the di-k measuring contest or slapping their name on a theorem.

You speak about practicality of math, what's more practical than turning Mobile, AL into a Cambridge or a Zurich.

If people in math cared about explaining their thoughts the way philosophers and rational thinkers do, then it could be possible.
Saved you a click: “Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Oregon each have zero or close to zero American bumblebees left, according to a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and Bombus Pollinators Association of Law Students.”
Just went through the examples -- I thought it was really neat!

Often times I want/need to display data in more than one format. Usually I just take up a bunch of page space by putting multiple charts.

Here's an example showing what I mean from actual project:

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-bench/raw/master/app/hasur...

If there was a solid and comprehensive charting library that could "tween" between the chart formats, only taking up the space of 1 chart, that would be a neat solution!

Have you found certain pairs/combinations of charts that expose hidden relationships when you display them by animating the data points between them?
> Its not handing out singles, they're using other instruments like buying paper

Infact they're only buying paper.

The handouts are from the federal/state governments. The reserve has to buy the paper for the government to give out these handouts.
> I'd love to see what different approaches produce

Worker-owned companies exist: they're called partnerships. Just add a line requiring all employees be shareholders so the partners can't hire staff. Lots of construction companies are organized like this. (Wholly employee-owned firms were more popular before WWII [1].) I don't see any evidence that they pursued profits less furiously than investor-owned competitors.

ESOPs have been more successful [2]. Outside the domain of highly-skilled artisans, it turns out most employees--like most shareholders--don't want to do the work of being an investor. That results in the sort of clubbiness that will be familiar to anyone who has been involved in small-town politics.

[1] https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/...

[2] https://hbr.org/1987/09/how-well-is-employee-ownership-worki...
> and updated old one-way dams with pumps to have them a large scale batteries.

can that be done in all cases? Most dams I've seen IRL didn't seem to have an area downstream big enough to collect the water to be able to pump it back up.
There's only 8GW remaining nuclear capacity in Germany. Shutting that down won't be a major challenge or matter that much in the grand scheme of things. 8GW is only a tiny percentage of the overall market. Germany had 22GW 20 years ago. 16 is gone, the rest will be gone in a few years. It won't matter. Wind and solar each provide close to 3x the capacity nuclear ever did.

Likewise, nuclear darling France is looking to reduce nuclear from about 70% of their energy supply now to about 50%
Just gave Snap another try last night and I was astonished at the slowness (both for package installation and program startup times)

can't really think of a single thing about the experience that I liked, and it even seemed bad compared to other container systems, like Docker and Flatpak
But all that research is not done on founders (haven't checked, but I've read research on this topic before) - so I'd argue it's basically difficult to know.
I am worth 'spying on' in my organization by the tens of non-workforce 'clients' that come into our office every day, including when I'm away from my machine. I don't 'just' Ctrl+Shift+F12 because I don't know when I might be called from one end of the office to another building, and I won't necessarily remember to stop and go lock my machine.

I don't drink by my laptop because that doesn't seem to be a worthwhile endeavor based on past experience. If my prints change then I can re-register them in about a minute or less. Enjoy your password/pin/whatever.
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This is separate from your question, but never trust someone who says “you’ll get promoted in X time” unless that person is directly responsible for making that happen. Promotions in large companies are done by committee, and you can be denied a promotion for a variety of reasons. When applying for a new job, the hiring manager has much more discretion over the leveling of your new job, so it’s almost always easier to get promoted via changing jobs. My wife was strung along at her last job with a promotion that was just out of reach. She finally got fed up and left. Within 3 months they reached out and asked her to come back at a higher level.

As for your question, the answer actually has very little to do with promotions and more to do with the company you’re leaving and the company you’d be joining. Software engineers get a majority of their salary as stock. If you have a large grant at a company with an extremely bright future, it can be very lucrative to stay. Similarly, moving (or even getting promoted) at the wrong time can be disastrous if the stock drops significantly. Whether or not you join or leave should be mostly based on the outlook of the company.
I think (though you can never be quite sure on HN) that this was a joke referring to initial reactions techies had to Dropbox.
I like the theory that 42 was chosen because ASCII 42 is *, as in the wildcard character. It matches everything!
No rational argument should ever include the phrase “exception that proves the rule.”
Changes in behavior, changes in body chemistry, appetite, lethargy, aggression and many more observable things I wouldn't know.
Born Secret
Am not a pro investor, and this is sounding out an idea and not an opinion or advice. That said:

Even without just being contrarian, it's worth considering whether bigger founder comp should be the norm. It may even be economically better to provide a founder with liquidity than redistributing cash back to investors where, if it isn't a significant multiple returned, the marginal value of the cash is net-negative.

If as a VC, a founder returns cash to you, you've disappointed your own investors (LPs) who were buying exposure to the game/market the founder was selling access to. It's like giving them their chips back from a roulette table and telling them you didn't play them. They're going to find someone who they can be sure will play them next time.

e.g. if a GP invests 2% of a portfolio in a company for 3 years, and the company gets wound up and returns that cash to the fund, what were the founder and their managers doing that they didn't invest the money to take risks for expected returns?

By returning money, the founder has deprived investors of the magic juice that the founder brings to their market, and has just cost their investors time. Honest and even noble? Sure, but not what you paid for, because elsewhere in your portfolio, some coke addled sociopath who is currently a fugutive from Costa Rican justice is getting acquired for their PMF. It's largely chaotic, and so a pulled punch is value destroyed.

A founder sells a ticket for a game with a chance at a 10x-30x return. Founders are in the lottery ticket kiosk business. When you buy a lottery ticket at a corner store, you don't care how the storekeeper or the lottery company spends it, you care that they are selling you a real and honest ticket to the game.

Investors have cash that needs productive assets that return better than inflation. Founders create companies that are really a localized mini-market game for converting that cash into in productive assets that returns growth. Most of those companies fail, but it's like planting fruit trees that take several years to yield fruit and most don't make it that long. The seeds are only going to survive a season, and if you don't plant them, they're wasted.

The quesiton should be, is higher founder comp necessarily inefficient? I'm saying it would be very hard to tell, because in a high risk venture portfolio with non-linear returns and dynamics, optimizing for frugal founder comp may be as likely to be destroying value in the portfolio as any other arbitrary constraint.

If a founder sells investors control of the company, I'd propose the founder should take a significant cut of the investment as comp, because by taking board control, the investor is paying to limit the founders discretion - and by extension the founders potential performance, and therefore attenuating everyone's exposure to risk and upside.

If you want to use your investment to attenuate the risk and upside of a company, then arguably, yes, the founder should extract a significant portion of that as comp. I'd be interested in the counter arguments to this.
How sure are we that quantum computing will ever work? I think this boils down to whether the wave function collapses as expected(?)

Perhaps reality is actually only approximated by the wave function but reality is something else under the surface which means quantum computers may need to be reconsidered.
Best way to find out if it'll help you is to try it out! It has 2 modes, "monitor" which help you evaluate what it would do for you without making any actual changes.

If you like what it suggest you can run it in "live" mode, which will make the suggested changes. But after you stop "live" mode after reboot all settings will go back to defaults.

If you're happy with results then and want to run it in background all the time proceed with "install".

Reference: https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq/#how-to-run-auto...

Also I suggest you watch auto-cpufreq demo Youtube video which explains it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkYRpVEEIlg
Tamil will, as all small local languages, soon be a dead language. The last users will be old people that didn't (or couldn't) keep up with the rest of the world.

The rest of the world will communicate in one or more of the popular languages as spoken on the Internet: English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian. The rest will be forgotten history in a few decades.
Quoting from that paper’s summary:

More work is needed to turn quantum enhanced optimization into a practical technology. The design of next- generation annealers must facilitate the embedding of problems of practical relevance.

Like fusion, current progress is promising, but practical results lie in the future?
Social networking/blogging whatever else fb does, mobile OS, desktop OS , web search, credit cards, online advertising, online videos, web mail, ... Maybe cloud hasn't found the clear winner yet
> Regarding new builds in Europe, those still being built are behind schedules

Given China appears able to build quality reactors quickly, this would seem to be the result of European policy preferences with respect to nuclear.
The one from Norway to the Netherlands has supposedly 95.8% efficiency.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorNed
When Will They Learn Algebra?
Honest question, as someone who's (probably) too young: What where these 3D sound cards and - just from the name - isn't that what Dolby Surround (etc) does?
I’m slightly relieved reading this. I see markdown everywhere, I can’t stand it, and I wonder why people are so crazy about it. It’s nice to know I’m not alone.

Unfortunately I don’t think markdown is going anywhere. I think I see it far more than ever and there’s no sign of it slowing down.
yeah seeing this transpire serves to confirm the decision to move to another line of work. i have only enough energy to solve real problems, cant be wasting energy on made up ones.
We should absolutely try to protect bee populations (for their crucial role in pollinating crops).

But for a bit of good news:

"A team from the University of Rhode Island has discovered the first American bumblebee in the state for the first time in more than a decade."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/american-bumblebee-found-i...
In Europe it is distinctly less risky as you get arbitrage between different parts of the grid. You make money as long as their is a price difference. The technology is well understood. California is hardly a good case study.

I think the way grids develop does still depend on local factors. In the UK rural substations have quickly become constrained and have limited export capacity. Urban areas have more capacity and are seeing peaker and battery installation. But large arrays of solar and wind just need a big connection to get power from the middle of nowhere into big cities. Places where land for batteries or peakers will be super expensive and where solar and wind are impossible.

Also, if you are going to setup this kind of generation why bother selling to the public anyway. Find a ceramics factory or an steel works and run a private wire. You get a guaranteed customer who will agree prices years in advance.
Thank you for posting this! I've been holding off on buying a Quest for a long time because of my 72.5mm IPD.
> and there is every indication that SpaceX will run their facility in a responsible way.

Wouldn't a "responsible way" include applying for a NEPA permit correctly?

A big problem with this PEA is this pipeline + fracking hypothesis. The pipeline, and the wells, are completely missing from the document.

The document has clearly made assumptions: they assume that a pipeline has built, and they seem to assume raw natural gas. But there's literally no disclosure about the infrastructure.

As such: SpaceX is already making an irresponsible move. A responsible company would disclose the details of their planned pipeline and/or mining operations.
Manually seeking works in Netflix and in ad video like YouTube and Hulu. Automated seeking uses the same APIs unless bugs.
False premise: "In general, buying and selling services and goods is all that interests modern society."

Everything that follows from this is merely a thought experiment disconnected from reality and, as such, is unsafe.

https://lethain.com/how-to-safely-think-in-systems/

Any economic theory that doesn't account for gifting as the root of human behavior is going to start off skewed.
That's funny, back when I worked at Bell Labs many years ago, back when we carried briefcases, mine was 314. I remember getting into an argument (friendly) with this guy when he noticed it and told me I should be using 137. We had a big long discussion about which number is more important or more meaningful, Pi, Fine Structure, Golden Ratio, Euler's, etc.
It would be funny if it turned out there is some mathematical combination of those that is 42 !
Your company will need some kind of collateral or a cashflow in order for the bank to extend credit.

When you file bankruptcy, the assets are auctioned the bank gets back some of that money, if not the whole 100k

You created money when borrowed the 100k. The rest of it doesn't matter.

It's the case with the government and the central bank too. Money is created when the government borrows money from the bank by issuing bonds. The idea of government "printing" money is plain wrong.

(except in a physical sense when the mints print your currency notes)
That’s a fact, in the same way that up is the same as down
Previous HN post on this article and the reply post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22591454

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955607
Unfortunately lots of windy locations in Europe are not good locations for hydro-works, too. I’m thinking Netherlands and Northern Germany (even though knowing the Dutch they might come up with something), and closer to me (I’m from Eastern Europe) the locations close to the Black Sea, which are excellent for wind farms yet are a poor choice for hydro solutions.

Of course, you could let’s say transport the energy produced by wind farms from Northern Germany to hydro projects built in South Germany, but that opens a new can of worms: loss of energy because of the transport itself, extra costs, actually building the energy transport infrastructure (a huge task in a NIMBY world).
The only barriers to them working are engineering challenges which may prove insurmountable, may not. There are not any theoretical considerations that would make them not work.
Her memorial statue:

https://www.space.com/felicette-first-cat-in-space-statue-un...

More at wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félicette

She had electrodes implanted inside her brain, received electric shocks to her muscles, and endured 9.5 Gs on ascent. :(

She survived, but was put down two months after the flight so that they could analyze her brain.
Based on the latest thing from Macron's admin I linked before, I think France is changing the plan.
Alright.. So then there must've been a time in between now and before where HN was accepting of it. Because I know for a fact I've seen posts and comments more so hyping up crypto currencies
You’re aware that is what people actually want though.
Maine has the same 65+ percent as Florida, a higher obesity rate, yet their delta wave peak was about 1/3 of Florida's by cases per capita, and around 1/4 of Florida's by deaths per capita. Maine's overall COVID profile looks a lot like Washington's, which is around 40th in 65+ percentage and has obesity rates about the same as Florida.

Age and obesity are certainly significant risk factors, but it sure looks like how well those risk factors translate into cases and deaths depends greatly on what protective measures against COVID are taken.
We are doomed. But on the other hand we created a lot of value for the shareholders for a few decades.
Looks like they had a contingency plan[0]. I'd argue that the more-cruel action was euthanizing her when several other animals had already been dissected to see the impact of spaceflight on their bodies.

[0]https://stuartatkinson.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/feli3.jpg...
I wonder how the social credit system interacts with sites like these.
Ask HN: How to Price a Slack App
We recently released our first Slack App (https://slacklatex.com/) and we're trying to understand the best way to structure pricing.

I think the options are:

1. $ / month
2. $ / user / month
3. $ / active user / month
4. $ / api call / month

But I'm not sure how to evaluate which is best. (Nor am I even sure what the criteria for best even is)

If anyone has any experience pricing slack apps (or know of any resources), I'd really appreciate any insight. (My email is in bio if that's preferred)
Ah yes, if bitcoin is useless them by definition all the energy is waste. That "if is important. It all comes down to "what is the value of bitcoin".
In Go

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> most private p2p conversations not being logged and monitored

FWIW, I think telephone company billing records have been doing this for nearly a century. Sure, it wasn't the official government policy, but the data was recorded. ECHELON has been around quite a long time as well, and that was indeed government monitoring of large amounts of international communications.

I'm not trying to normalize it, just adding some context.
The scene from "The Day The Earth Stood Still" just popped up in my head. LOL