skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago I was helping to build a startup, when I joined it was only founder and myself. In the peak I had 12 people to work on product. Unfortunately this particular startup was a failure, we only had potential customers and all of them - of course - huge but never cached in. There was no real direction, founder was picking up whatever catchy phrase was thrown in the meetings he attended. I never figured out how was the company surviving from month to month. I left and never looked back, they are still afloat. Funny thing we are still friends with founder.

At the point I was leaving I was in similar position as you are, with one distinction - I am not a dropout, so I suppose my choices were easier.

Straight after I left I thought that maybe I should look for a leadership role since I was leading the team, implemented scrum and generally kept everything together from technical perspective. But then I realized the environment I could strive was not what I would potentially join - I hired all 12 of team members, I was in privileged position. When joining established team it's not easy to assume tech lead role, at least I feel it's not easy from inter-personal point of view.

So I went for dev role in pre-round-A stage. And I don't regret, this startup is very well managed, they have very good idea of doing business and I learned a lot about the topic. I'm only dev here but most of the times when I had opportunity to listen to what CEO said about business plans, or sales lead about structured way how he approaches the market - I found it enlightening (even though I have gone through lean startup, mum's test and similar books packed with advice).

It's always good thing to step back and reflect on what you really want.
Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
To whatever extent time out of the workforce is a driver of future wage discrepancy, it seems like at least some women would make an entirely economically rational choice to minimize that time out of the workforce. (I’m not claiming it’s a good or bad thing, just that there exists a strong force that would motivate people in this direction.)
Twitter's hostility comes down to jealously defending their business model. They declared war on third party clients about a decade ago, and that hasn't really changed. You'll note the API available under the new, looser, rules does not include any equivalent of the home timeline endpoint, which would be pretty essential to the client use case. A third party client could do things like not show their embedded ads (promoted tweets), or display the timeline in a manner more useful to the user than to Twitter's engagement metrics, and Twitter don't like that.

They've been pretty ok towards e.g. making your CSR tool interface with twitter to answer support requests over Twitter.

This doesn't really strike me as a change in direction, though it does look easier for people in the second category to get started.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance talks about this topic in depth.
And this Intel Xeon E5660 overclocked to 4.1Ghz using DDR3-1600 makes it the cheapest 6-CPU per chipset evah … 7 years running (since 2015) and hopefully the safest.

https://overclock-then-game.com/index.php/benchmarks/1-x5660...
Luckily all DDR5 DIMMs will have on-chip ECC. My understanding is it's not a complete mitigation but does make exploitation harder.
Agreed, the situation is a mess. Lest we remember that even particle physics, the canonical example for the success of the scientific method, can be subject to systematic bias due to social pressure.

"Decades ago, physicists including Richard Feynman noticed something worrying. New estimates of basic physical constants were often closer to published values than would be expected given standard errors of measurement. They realized that researchers were more likely to 'confirm' past results than refute them — results that did not conform to their expectation were more often systematically discarded or revised."

https://www.nature.com/articles/526187a
Not disagreeing with the point of this comment, but just as an aside, pumping is something that even mothers who are on leave do. Speaking from personal experience as the dad, I was able to feed the baby pumped milk for some of the many daily feedings instead of my wife doing the breastfeeding, which let her get a few extra minutes/hours of sleep when the baby needed to be fed. Both of us were on parental leave during this period. That tradeoff (getting some extra sleep vs. pumping) is not one that all parents would make, but it did help us get through the first few weeks of a newborn.
I don't know how well it would work, but I think you could still perform alignment using a single column assuming that you would expect to see patches with the same color connected together more often than not. Especially if you're trying to do video since then you can also exploit temporal coherency (meaning that you expect many objects to be stable over time). I'm sure in my head it's much simpler than practice, but it seems like it is achievable at least in theory.

Sounds like a very fun problem for computer vision researcher to work on. Probably not terribly difficult to generate a bunch of test data from existing 360 cameras by downsampling.
I live in Europe and we became parents recently. The mother gets about four months of paid parental leave by default: two before and two after the day of birth (paid by the health insurer plus taxes). In addition, parents can take over a year of paid parental leave (paid by everyone, i.e. taxes).

That's the baseline and no company needs to bother with any company-specific policy, pseudo-benefit. No company incurs any explicit costs for that.

This is not even the most family friendly country in Europe, btw.
This has potential ... but it goes into one of several "you're too picky" memes for relatively "easy" requests ("I want a romantic dinner with my girlfriend in Oakland, she prefers Korean cuisine").

If you're all about AI transparency, maybe the system could show you workable filters that would still change results after each sentence?
Title suggests she stopped liking gnome, but its the opposite?
Yup. The moment he went to Microsoft his tune changed and now Google is a bad guy, too: https://infrequently.org/2021/07/hobsons-browser/

His twitter (often) and website (infrequently) is full of claiming Safari is bad, Safari is holding the web back, Safari is the evil browser etc. While of course ignoring all the issues in Chrome (until going to MS).

And he's not alone.
There is nothing wrong with parental leave, but I don't see a compelling reason to have it be mandated by law.
If company wants to offer it, good for them. It may help retaining senior employees who reached the phase in their life when they want to have children.

I don't think we should incentivise families with two working parents and young kids. It increases the pool of workers keeping wages down, benefiting employers, and increases stress in the family, likely contributing to the epidemic of broken families we're looking at - which have negative effects on these generations' mental health and crime history.

If you're middle class and you manage well your spending and are willing to relocate / look into alternative career paths, it's possible to maintain a family on one career and I firmly believe it's better for the children.
If you're having kids you can either outsource your kids early years education to the government or do it yourself. There are some studies (albeit I find social studies to be murky and hard to rely on) finding correlations between UK government programs paying for nurseries and increase in teenage crime roughly 15 years later. Study or not, I think that kids before 2/3 should not go to nursery, the social trauma of being unattended with other bigger kids needs to wait a bit longer, once they're ready.

In our family, we didn't send the kids to nursery before 2.5/3 years and my partner didn't work (for an employer, she kept working on her own personal projects, for "entertainment"). They integrated in nursery very well, we never had detachment problems and they're fairly well behaved.
We're both developers, so maintaining the family on one salary is trivial, but I've met people from all walks of life who managed to do it.

Sure, some people are simply not creating enough value for society to break even on one salary and that's suboptimal. I'd advise to sort their life out to earn enough to support a new family, before making babies.

There are plenty of studies that link stable family structures to success and unstable family structures to crime and mental health issues.

The last time the government meddled with families, it didn't end up well for the black community: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/03/the_decline...

And nowadays the stats for broken families, across all ethnicities, is higher than ever.
China had presented its concept of a Global Grid to the UN in 2015. (https://reconasia.csis.org/global-energy-interconnection/). They already have a ~3,200 km line at 1100KV UHVDC (https://www.reuters.com/article/china-power-transmission-idU...) Losses are estimated at 1.5% per 1,000km. 3.5% is for 800KV UHVDC. Implies a 23% loss for 15,000 km, which is very efficient. For perspective, ~20,000 km is the half circumference at the equator. Geopolitics should not be a concern for such a global grid. We are already living with a globally interdependent submarine internet cable, in the same geopolitical environment. This transmission line is a natural step for a much faster adoption into a renewable future, than batteries. In battery tech, research investments have to compete on multiple pathways for the development of battery chemistry which are very divergent from each other. UHVDC components and technology require very few fundamental breakthroughs in science and technology, and massive strides have already been made. A good read from ABB on the state and evolution of UHVDC technology here -> https://library.e.abb.com/public/db368ad7692f4c129637d9a7eff.... Do read the last two paras – “Conclusion” and “State of HVDC system and transformer technology”. TLDR: HVAC/UHVAC and HVDC/UHVDC are now almost fully interoperable to feed into each other at all voltage levels. Dielectrics supposedly the most complicated of the technology challenges also appears solved.
With global political coordination, it should be easy to commit investments and policy frameworks to rapidly transform the world into a renewable reality.
Hydro currently produces ~7% of US electricity. Things like pumped hydro and conservation are just a smaller nice to have part of the picture, they're not the solution.

CA uses ~15GW of gas power when the sun turns off at 6pm. It still uses 8-10GW of gas during the day when the sun is shining. That gas is going to increase another 2GW when Diablo canyon is switched off. During the day while solar is running it additionally imports 4-6GW from the NW and SW interchanges. When the sun turns off at 6pm it jumps up to 8GW sometimes more of imported electricity.

Meanwhile during the afternoon and evening the NW region is generating 20GW with fossil gas and coal power. While only managing to generate 16GW at these same peaks with its hydro power.

There is not enough hydro to do this, and you can't build more. CA is a power hungry state that has outsourced much of its pollution to other states. This is a result of targeting renewables rather than targeting clean power. It needs to build firm clean power, whatever form that takes. Targets should be for CO2 emissions. Not for some favored technology.
Looking at these maps makes my eyes roll back in my head so far.
I really want to stress that while the internet has enabled just about everyone to act as a citizen journalist, it is not the ubiquity of information that matters, but rather, the access to information. YouTube and Google wield great power when it comes to gatekeeping information. The sinister part is that plenty of people, left and right, will defend Google's ability to do this merely because they are "a private company".
My rule of thumb is "the longer the artist's statement, the worse the art". If more effort went into storytelling than producing the artistic artefact, I'm not interested in that pretentious puffery. Make art of concentric green circle because you enjoy the effects they bring through your eyes. No need to write an essay.
I see a lot of tech salaries. I assure you that you are not being paid at the 50th percentile. If your company is telling you that then they are lying to you.

It’s also clear that you don’t really want to be helped, and that you want to find every excuse to play the victim. I wish you luck.
I read it as "ended up liking it", "ended liking it" does not make a whole lot of sense as a native speaker would most likely say "stopped liking it" instead.
Quite possibly. I don’t disagree with that.

But that doesn’t give me much confidence when it comes to finding out how to fix things that go wrong.
Remembering climate change – a message from the year 2071
Did you learn that 'the implementation is the spec' ? (Does that mean Bitcoin is fiat?)
Russia just sends a message that when China starts advancing onto Taiwan and Russia simultaneously advances into Ukraine, the west should not get any funny ideas to defend anything.
Big difference between providing a free/affordable childcare center vs. paying the parent to not work for 5 years.
YouTube also just deleted the accounts of the German independent investigatory committee www.corona-ausschuss.de who are an important information source for many German citizen.
> Maine voters just rejected an interconnection from Hydro-Quebec. Which is disappointing since Quebec is blessed with near perfect geography for hydro-electric, and can no longer expand this energy production since it's capacity outstrips the demand.

That's completely crazy. HQ's offer was something like 5 cents per KW/h. That's 3 times less than what New England is paying for right now with natural gas.

The lobbyists really did a great job here.
This actually highlights a major misunderstanding in parental leave discussions: Most government-sponsored paid parental leave programs in other countries aren't paying 100% salary during the leave.

Sweden has one of the more generous programs that pays up to $41K/year (USD equivalent) or 80% of your income, whichever is lower. That amount is actually quite good if you're living modestly, but it may not be what people earning $100-150K have in mind when they see "paid parental leave".

Definitely better than nothing, though!
Thank you for saying it's cool! And you make a great point and one we didn't even consider. We were thinking the solution to window coverings (essential for privacy and to limit solar gain in the warmer months) was roller blinds and those are fairly rigid where they shouldn't be impacted by the heater. As for the insulation, yes, glass is of course the worst part of the house for insulation, but the heater is quite robust and thus far the windows, even in sub-zero temperatures, seem to perform well (a lot of solar gain obviously from that much glass, which brings us right back to the need for window coverings when it's warm out!). Great feedback though! I'm sort of kidding when I say it, but should add a warning "not for curtain lovers!"

The other thing your comment makes me realize is that we should do a similar winter test of the temperature inside without the heater running. Similar to how, if you read about it, we tested during the summer when it was hot out.
The additional investors are all individuals necessary in taking care of the new children directly or indirectly.

You introduce paid leave, which is fine, this creates more demand for children which is also fine.

So now you have more children. Who’s going to take care of these people? Presumably child care workers who are disproportionately women. And if those women have children as well? Who replaces them? And who replaces the women who originally were on leave?

If you think every industry can absorb 12 weeks (original proposal) of paid leave you’re in for a ride awakening. That’s if everyone only has a single child, by the way. Multiple children only compound the problem.

If you believe this problem will sort itself out you should consider that in San Francisco day care can be as high as 3000 a child per month. Keep in mind about 3 years of day care is necessary. So that’s almost 100k after tax. Even someone making 400k a year before tax would notice that. And that’s only daycare.

That being said this kind of Ponzi scheme isn’t really a big deal because that’s basically just having kids in a nutshell. However if you’re trying to convince your fellow citizens to pay for it you’re need some luck.
There's 4 times "Google" in your comment, but 0 "Apple".
Ask HN: Messed up my education, now 30 and regretting it. What to do?
I was always a straight-A student until I came to university, where I could never seem to care about the course material or putting effort into my classes. As a result I never even finished my bachelors degree, and I'm now in my early 30s and regretting it a lot.

Fortunately I was able to land a job in tech, an industry which cares a little bit less about credentials, and I've now held a number of jobs in software. I'm paid well and I think I'm pretty good at what I do. But then I look around and see the cool jobs in 3D graphics, in distributed systems, in machine learning, or other "hard computer science" fields, and it feels like I will never be qualified without a graduate degree.

It really bums me out and constantly thinking about it is starting to wear me out mentally. Putting my career on hold for a few years to go back to school has a very high opportunity cost right now, and even if I were to do that I would still feel like a massive screw-up for going back to university in my 30s. At the same time, I feel like I'm throwing away my potential and my curiosity about deeper technical topics.

Has anyone here been in a similar situation? What should I do?
Next up, finding D.B. Cooper.

Nah, I don't think they'll ever find that guy.
> I'm leaving apple for linux as we speak for two reasons, privacy and they can't help but mess with shit every time they release an update.

"Mess with shit" was what drove me to Linux by around 2015. It seemed like every major MacOS upgrade torched my Eclipse-based Java dev environment, generally requiring a reinstall.
I agree, I'm a social constructivist. I was just pointing out that logical positivism is only even viable within hard sciences so applying it to art is beyond nonsensical.
A proposed amendment to the U. S. Constitution called the Equal Rights Amendment, giving equal legal rights to all regardless of gender:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment
A a general rule, places where droughts are a problem don’t get enough precipitation to generate significant hydropower.

That said, when you start talking 0.01% edge cases plenty of options open up. Burning fossil fuels at that scale for example is nowhere near a significant CO2 source compared to current releases. I fully expect hospitals to have backup generators and that’s not a significant issue.
Is there anyone who wouldn’t high five someone who pays them for five years without needing to go into work?
So you would throw your life into chaos in an attempt to get a corrupt official removed (which probably wouldn't work), only to get a new corrupt, elected, unqualified official in their place? No thanks.
The same logic applies. Manhattan is only 10% cheaper and yet is 4x denser. Clearly density doesn’t solve the cost problem.
Interesting, yeah I always run the sink for 10-20 seconds after using hot water to clear the line. My house isn’t pex (I want to update it at some point) but I also thought it was more the water heater than my pipes that I was combatting but it’s very possible that it’s an old wives tale that I fell for decades ago.

For pasta I have a convoluted system of putting a small amount of cold water into the pot and then doing 3-4 rounds of the electric kettle (with occasional additions of cold water when the water in the pot reaches a boil but I still need more water).
I'm trying to find reasonable thresholds and weigh the societal pros and cons.

> The amazing thing to me is you think the OP was asking for something unbelievable.

The five years that OP alluded to is a really long time to not be working. That's 5/40 years for any given career (for a single child), meaning one eighth of a childfree person's productivity has to cover for it. At least at this extreme scale.

> Both of us had comparatively long parental leave for both kids.

How long was it? I'm genuinely curious.

Again, I'm not against subsidizing childcare and supporting children. Some of the expectations of parents seem to be really high, especially to someone whose parents both worked throughout my early childhood.

The current costs of childcare in my area are $80-$250/wk for infants unless you're going for something super Bougie for your baby.
> cultural taste is an aspirational social marker.

"Aspirational" means "you don't have it".

So all cultural taste is people trying to fake being in a better class than they are? Baloney. There are plenty of people who like things because they like those things, not because they think liking those things will make them look more upper class.

"Aspirational" taste is exactly what you get when people don't have taste, but want to look like they do. They copy someone else's taste (or a group average). And because they're aspirational, they try really hard to pretend that they do in fact have taste. But they just wind up cluttering up the discussion, because they don't actually know anything.

But there are people who actually do know some things about taste, and what is worthwhile, and value. They exist. They just get lost in the noise of a bunch of people who are trying to look like they know, even though they don't...
I think the workaround for the Control Center leak is to turn off Airplay target mode in System Pref -> Sharing and then restart (kill) the CC process.
I’m not sure I want to get into a pocket logistics discussion. I have kids. There are never enough pockets.
Remember that the 2007 iPhone demo had showed AT&T reception at full strength? That was hardcoded for the purpose of the Keynote. I recall iPhones having iffy phone reception for at least the first couple of years.
It's the difference between driving a regular car and one without a gearbox, brakes and clutch, in other words, not something suitable for use in traffic.
> That Apple's software is utterly broken and you won't find anything worse in the market is a fact at this point.

No, it isn't, and even repeating it once more doesn't make it any more true.
Aside from the weight of batteries in a long distance EV setup, having 4+ wheels with their own independent motors allow EV offroaders an extreme advantage if someone made a purpose built EV 4x4 / 6x6.
I think you have your target demographics mixed up for MacOS and Linux. Once you reframe it in that light, you've answered your question. One is a poweruser who wants complete control of their environment, the other is a much broader user who wants a convenience of experience and safe environment. Trade offs to both of them.

The only happy medium I would consider to your approach is that if MacOS had two set up routes, one defaulting as a power user turning everything off and then initiating things are you want and another as a general user. Maybe that would solve it (though would be a heavy lift I am sure).
They own all IP, why would they be subject to automated scans?
If the compiler can figure out that you are dividing by zero at compile time then you will get those results. That is not a realistic expectation in general.

Having to wrap every division call in a maybe monad or rust result enum is bad from a usability standpoint and potentially unacceptable from a performance standpoint.

Exhaustive pattern matching is great. But not a replacement for other types of error handling.