skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This example is misplaced because it illustrates the wrong conclusion based on an unrealistic scenario and doesn't factor in interest rates. When future earnings are estimated, it's almost never nominal (except for specific big contracts), but in real value. And with a real value future earning, high inflation / low interest rate actually helps it retain value and boosts those future earnings price. Whereas the real value today gets those $100, but has nowhere safe to earn interest and is instead inflated away. So in time of high inflation, low interest like we had, we saw these growth stocks value fly high. But now there's uncertainty where we might shift into the environment of medium inflation, medium interest, which changes how those growth stocks are valued back to normal.

I guess ultimately you're assuming interest rates or staying with inflation, but they don't and it's actually interest that's the bigger factor.
People here are really focused on the question of his family wealth, but it's such a distraction. Even were they extravagantly wealthy, it is an astonishing accomplishment for anyone, never mind a high-school student / college undergrad.
I think they are just saying that they don’t have a positive motivation to “cause drama” and don’t have any vendetta against anyone which would motivate them to act against the company,
but at the same time, that they don’t see “avoiding drama” as a reason enough to do an illegal thing asked of them.

I’m not sure quite what you mean when you say it «isn’t “causing drama”». It seems to me like some actions taken out of a desire to avoid violating labor law and anti-discrimination regulations, could result in people being upset with people, etc. which could be called “drama”.
If you interpret “causing drama” as meaning, acting with a motivation of causing drama, then yes, as you say, acting with a motivation of avoiding violating [stuff] is not acting with a motivation of causing drama.

(I have no comment on what they should do; I imagine you are likely correct on that front, idk.)
It neither a joke nor a meme, its a reality check for unnecessary https.
Oh heavens, this is really neat! Thank you! I love Squoosh but I often have a multiple photos to compress to WEBP.

On a similar note, does anyone know similar lightweight web/desktop apps for basic photo editing, specifically, resize, conversion, crop, color overlay, etc. I use Photopea[0] on Linux but I still feel I could go lighter.

[0]: https://photopea.com
There's a deflation of the asset bubble going on. Anyone compensated in options or RSUs is probably gnashing their teeth a bit but they're still pretty rich. And we may see a moderate cooling in the VC space. But nothing to indicate that business is actually slowing down at all. Quite the opposite. Valuations and P/E ratios have been sky high due to Fed actions but revenues are still pretty great.
Just keep in mind that the FPRs and vector registers are now aliased together (in VMX-only CPUs this wasn't necessarily the case). What is particularly stupid about my example is that it may have to spill to memory to move the uint64_t (a GPR) into the VSX register (an FPR) and then move it back because PowerPC famously had no direct GPR-FPR moves for quite a while. Since I didn't specify -mcpu=power8 (or higher), gcc doesn't issue the new instructions and I'm not sure it would know how to.

A better way would be to explicitly use the newer mtvsrd (mtfprd) and mfvsrd (mffprd) instructions and avoid the spill. So here's a revision 2.

#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
uint64_t v = 0;

if (argc != 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s quantity\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}

v = strtoull(argv[1], NULL, 0);
if (errno == EINVAL || errno == ERANGE) {
perror("strtoull");
return 1;
}

__asm__(
"mtfprd %1, %0\n"
"xxbrd %1, %1\n"
"mffprd %1, %0\n"
:"=r"(v)
:"r"(v)
);
fprintf(stdout, "0x%lx\n", v);
return 0;
}

If v is already in a register, then it can just stay there.
By resources the parent comment seemed to emphasize lack of “community”, and not training.
Except over here they do require all of that, unless we are talking about the basic ones with pedal assistant.

https://www.fahrrad-xxl.de/fahrraeder/e-bike/
>> This is hosted on a computer in my living room

Since you serve Swedish weather info from marginalia I'm assuming you live in Sweden, is that correct? Could you very briefly explain how you host and serve pages from your living room and what your bandwidth is?

Does your ISP get cranky when you see DOS type of traffic?

I'm a fellow hobbyist search engine dev, also from Sweden. Whenever I demonstrate my search engine by hosting in the cloud the expenses get so big I have to go offline after a short while and I've therefore been contemplating personal, living room hosting.
Where I work almost all capable engineers are Staff Engineers. Based on the rubrics provided to make sense of our responsibilities we need to “initiate work that has org-wide impact”, “influence the company’s technological direction” and drive large scale multi-team projects.

Looking at my change lists from last year, I made a bunch of new models in our backend and wrote a few pages in React. Added monitoring, alerting and shipped the product pages. You know, your typical “software engineering” work.

What’s amazing is that I keep getting “exceeds expectations” ratings for this work because I ship things PMs want.

The hard part is self review time where I put my fantasy novel author hat on and spit out some bullshit on how my React components changed the technological direction of the company. Maybe this skill is what makes me a Staff Engineer!
> If you take the attitude "I don't have any chance of investing in one of these outliers", you'll only invest in "safe" things and go broke over time.

This is an absurd conclusion from my comment. We still have unicorns and companies that grow 100x and 1000x without being FAANG. Those are great investments. I'd argue that they aren't safe either. I think you're finding a conclusion by looking at the answer. There's also only 4 companies there out of hundreds of thousands. You can't find the signal in the noise. As many others have pointed out here, companies you list also have another common factor: the internet was new. This offsets the industry experience factor that the paper discussed because there was no industry to speak of. This gives younger people an advantage. But there's not really something like that right now.
The states of Punjab and Haryana are known as the "food bowl" of India, as their agrarian economy provides a huge share of our food that India needs. The "green revolution" was quite successful in these states and made India a food surplus country, from one that used to face famine and depend on foreign countries for its food. (Despite our economically dysfunctional farming economy, India is currently one of the largest producers of food in the world).

An unfortunate side effect has been the overuse of insecticide, pesticides and fertilizers, and poor planning in the choice of crops leading to excessive depletion of groundwater for water hungry crops like rice (which is a staple food for half the country) - https://eos.org/articles/indias-food-bowl-heads-toward-deser... ... Due to this, the fertile soils are being damaged, and farmers are blindly overcompensating with even more fertilizers. The second problem that has now come up is that we are producing so much, that sometimes huge quantities of grain just rot in government storages.

So the new Chief Minister of Punjab had suggested a novel idea - if the central government were to increase their procurement price (the government is the largest buyer in India), a large number of farmers could shift to organic farming that would be more sustainable in the long run. While the produce output would be less by 25% to 40% with organic farming (hence the need of increase in the procurement price) less production can address the wastage that happens. Moreover, organic produce is said to be safer and healthier due to the very limited use of insecticides / pesticides and fertilizers, and that would make India healthier.
>They have 1/3 the guns and 1/3 the gun crime per capita compared to the US, and ownership is more highly regulated.

My quick stat check shows double the households with guns[1] but 6X the rate of gun deaths[2].

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Figure-One-Percentage-of...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm...
> I spent a week tinkering with 11ty and loved a lot of my time with it and would love to explore it more, but after a few days it ended up being far too complex

Yes, unfortunately is not easy, if you want a more fast and easy way is use GitHub Pages. With Jekyll is very fast to set up (like 15-20 mins), I think it's the same with Hugo (I've never deleved in Hugo).

You don't have the full control on your content like if it's hosted on your server, because you have to rely on GitHub, but you have your content and is a lot better than any other blogging platform and is also easier to maintain.

For me was a goal to understand how Jekyll works self-hosted, I love learn new thing, that's also why I moved my blog to my VPS.
> Looking at just the age of founders instead of other substance is stupid. But if we're just looking at age and nothing else, then younger founders make for better outliers, and generating outliers is the whole point of this endeavor.

they're not really outliers at all anymore if you're forming distributions and considering the mean.
PlacesAPI
What many people don't realize is that medicine as a whole is already some sort of expert system (i.e.: a flavor of AI).

There are researchers that conduct experiments to produce meaningful data and extract conclusions from that data. Then there are expert panels that produce guidelines from the results of that research. Most diagnostics and treatments are prescribed following decision diagrams that doctors themselves call... algorithms!

There are several limitations that prevent us from applying other AI techniques to the problem. Off the top of my head:

- We do not have the technology for machines to capture the contextual and communication nuances that doctors pick up on. There can be a world of difference between the exact same statement given by two different patients or even the same patient in two different situations. Likewise, the effect of a doctors' statement can be quite literally the opposite depending on who the patient is and their state of mind. One of the most important aspects of the GP's job is to handle these differences to achieve the best possible outcomes for their patients.

- Society at large is not ready to trust machines to make such intimately relevant decisions. It is not uncommon for patients to hide relevant information from their doctors, and to blatantly ignore the recommendations from them. This would be many times worse if the doctor part wasn't human.

- We cannot apply modern inference techniques (e.g.: deep learning) to the global problem because we have strict rules that prevent medical data collection and analysis without a clear purpose. Furthermore, these techniques tend to produce unexplainable results -which is unacceptable in this field-. As a result, there's not enough political capital to relax those rules.
Thats sounds like a downgrade. With mechanical brakes, you can cycle even if you've run out of power.
And what happens when you run out of power mid ride? Or you get some failure that causes intermittent cut out (corrosion on the connectors, etc)? You've more or less turned your bike into a 30kg dead weight that happens to have the shape of a bicycle and have to carry it the rest of the way vs just pushing it. Or worse, a bike that brakes on it's own without warning.

Like I said, what is the real advantage here trying to go wireless here that makes it worth the cost of loosing advantages of a mechanical or hydraulic system? I could maybe see some advantage of a full brake by wire system over mechanical or hydraulic, but wireless? The weight savings aren't that significant.
If you don't mind getting your hands dirty you can publish a static blog using Github Actions + AWS S3 + Cloudflare for cheap - the only cost being the price of the domain per year.

https://wooptoo.com/blog/github-actions/
The groups I've been in within Google are generally much healthier when there's a mix of L6-L9 SWEs complementing the eng managers / directors. It's something that I fear is being lost as the company grows and adds new layers of management, which seems to have the effect of centralizing authority away from the ICs.
I'd meet up with Alan Turing in 1950, and give him a modern desktop with Linux and all the languages loaded, and Wikipedia.

I'd do everything I could to help him avoid his fate, and all the politics of the 1950s, etc.

Then I'd give John McCarthy his machine, and as him to finish the system that Lisp was the intermediate language for.

Then on to visit Feynman. I'd of course give him a computer as well, and ask for his help building a time machine to get me home. I'm sure he'd get a second Nobel out of that effort.
You can use Mastodon for comments on static sites with a bit of javascript.

https://joelchrono12.netlify.app/blog/how-to-add-mastodon-co...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570268
The effects are also more likely to be noticeable if impersonating someone famous, whereas easier to skate by if the person is not famous so I agree that they should enable it for all.

I don't get it either why they're holding back. I'm at some point where I want someone to make a twitter like platform with mostly if not exclusively verified people, I hope twitter does it but I doubt it, so I hope someone else will. I can get really tired of interacting with people wearing masks or people wearing masks of other people's faces.
Time to buy. Buy buy buy!
Maybe a minimum karma threshold as well ? It would at least prove the poster has familiarity with the culture of HN and what content is most relevant.
Haha, the fansite-sphere is one of like 6-7 hotspots the random function favors. May be there's a smidge too many right now, but I've tried to get a good mix of bits and bobs with hopefully a little bit for everyone.
Mirror: https://archive.is/pTEMr
The dice deck is alright, but just alright. Even if you include the card that tells you to reshuffle the deck, the bell curve is just too smooth. If you have a roll drought, you know that deluge is on its way.

The best thing I have done for dice in my Catan set is to include a bag with a random assortment of 6 sided dice. At the beginning of a new game we randomly pick two dice. The random sizes, materials, and origins of manufacture keep the clustering of rolls inconsistent from game to game, which makes the game more enjoyable.
I think you're on the wrong perspective. If you look at the 5 year: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/.IXIC:INDEXNASDAQ?sa=X&...

Sure, there's a downturn and it's related to COVID and the US printing money, but overall there's not that much of a downturn. Will it continue? Who knows. Is it tech or is it more of a general downturn in the market? It's definitely not exclusive to tech.
The mechanism for "making" repayment mandatory is the state. Credit worthiness (or any other information) is useless if the debtor cannot be made to repay
The inverse stack overflow method
HN anecdotally attracts some very cynical and negative commenters.
Let's hear about data ux by soneone who blogs twitter threads
/s
NPC could be used whichever side you are on, it's an insult for someone that follows group think.

Russian bot can only be used on the side that uses Russia as a scapegoat for any political event.

When you call someone an NPC you are saying they aren't thinking for themselves, but the issue isn't questioned as foreign propaganda, just as parroting talking points without thinking.

When you call someone a Russian bot, you are saying either that's not a real person or what they are saying is Russian propaganda.
You can't exactly use tech stocks as a measure of investment as stock market performance is a measurement of trading and not tech investment. The major markets (NASDAQ, SP500, DJIA) are all manipulated/exploited by people who control the majority of the shares/price and are largely disconnected from actual company performance. Hence the "overvalued" tag that is often thrown around. Stock value does boost a company's market cap which does increase their credit limit allowing them to borrow more money to do bigger things though, which is important. But if they don't deliver and can't increase their value based on performance, it's just a ponzi scheme with regard to stock price.

Having said that, the Fed does also boost or squelch the ability of banks to lend to companies/their ability to increase performance not backed by actual profits and expenses (P/E). If you're an investor you look at P/E and the value of products. If you are a trader you look at stock price/performance almost exclusively. Traders trade both directions at all times (hedging long positions). Investors only play long positions. VCs seek to empower companies with potential.
Discouraging posting in general will decrease both the bad and good. That's bad.

I think the right focus is on increasing the amount of good content, not on decreasing the amount of bad. If you're focus is on the latter, you're more likely to put yourself in the situation of shooting yourself in the foot.
This is by Kent M. Pitman (KMP). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Pitman
posteo.de and tutanota.com are both affordable. I previously used the former for several years. No complaints.
That would overly favour high reputation accounts
There are a few different classes of introspection. The first is commonly used builtins like “isinstance”, “callable”, “getattr/hasattr” etc.

The second is the inspect module that builds on that, allowing you to get the stack frames, inspect function signatures etc.

The third is trackbacks, which need the stack and themselves are introspectable.

The fourth is metaclasses (making dynamic classes at runtime).

These are heavily used in Python, and are optimisation barriers. For example PyPy (Python with a JIT) disables optimisations when “inspect” is imported or used anywhere in the call stack.
Karma has no value at the moment. It's best that it remains this way.

I would however love to be able to bump up a post of my choice to the front page for every, say, 1000 karma points earned. Let it have above normal gravity (i.e. make it sink quicker), but a chance to promote a single post once in a while would be genuienly cool.

Edit - to clarify, I don't mean that 5000 karma will give 5 boosts. Just one. You use it, you then wait for another 1000 points to get this perk reinstated. Or even start raising the cost with each boost - 1k, 2k, 5k, etc.
> If there was a very simple IF on my prescription

This was supposed to be solved by rule-based/expert systems in the 1980s AI bubble.
Because, in some senses, the US is bloody poor and is a war zone.
There are at least two possible scenarios:

1) inflation continues to rise, keeping the pressure on the Fed to raise interest rates. This being so, entities like retirement funds that must have some yield, now have non-risky options to get it. They rotate out of tech stocks, which are generally considered higher risk, higher yield.

2) crash in stocks causes the Fed to lose courage, they don't raise interest rates after all. Now Treasury bills and other low-risk options are too low yield, not even keeping up with inflation. Whether they are confident in the tech stocks or not, entities that must find yield somewhere will invest in them because "lower-risk" options are no longer options, as they are guaranteed to lose money on an inflation-adjusted scale. This means tech stocks go back up, even if nobody much believes in them.

Whether or not the Fed (and European Central Bank and other similar entities worldwide) are more afraid of inflation or of stock prices crashing, is not a thing I can tell you. But those are, I think, the two scenarios.
At Google these trainings are almost exclusively for managers. They used to have a quarterly class for non-managers but it was always oversubscribed.

Managers have a network: lots of manager-focused meetings, trainings, perf rating calibration sessions, etc. Even if they don't work on the same projects they'll have much more interaction than ICs and TLs have which each other. ICs and TLs who work on different projects have to seek each other out, and there's no official forum for this.
I agree with this so strongly. The medical gatekeeping is absolutely absurd. I can't remember the last time I learned something from a doctor that I hadn't already learned myself with a quick online search. For every visit in the past decade or longer they either told me what I already knew or we were both stumped.

If drives me crazy that I can't make my own decisions about my own health, even for trivial cases. I've spent countless hours and dollars going to pointless doctor visits just to get a routine refill. Literally the conversation at most of these visits is as simple as me telling the doc that everything is fine with $medA, lets just keep it the same; followed by the doctor saying sure and writing me a new script. Such a massive inefficient waste of time.
Usually you have a pool of money to split between your reports, playing with say a 2-6% raise for them. If you have an underpaid report you try to favor them, that kind of thing.

If you get someone promoted, they get bumped into a new salary band, and thus get a larger raise — and this is outside the above pool.
It's not just the company internally that want (needs?) those big exits, the whole VC architecture is built around shot gunning out money for the occasional huge pay off.
Maybe you'd like to read my post again? Criminality is a trope.
Many people that you don't interface with, because they are low stature and status, transfer monies internationally. Pakistanis, Indians, Filipinos in the UAE, South Americans in the US.
These people all send money in small amounts. Paying a percentage to a bank on an electronic transfer is idiotic. Why does a bank earn more money for the same service relative to the amount transferred? Why would YOU agree to such a ridiculous term of service? Crypto is increasingly transactable, making conversion irrelevant. Not to mention all the ways we already achieve this be it through PayPal or venmo or Linepay, in-game currencies, reward points.... on and on.
It seems you just have a negative view of the technology or a vested interest in the established world of finance. If you are unable to see ANY value in the technology it is because you lack imagination or chose to ignore it
If only the shops that fix iPhones could get into the ebike fixing business
Staff is really in a different level. You don't have local/team level technical challenges anymore, but more changes that run across teams and that affect multiple teams.

You need to be both technically adept, and people adept, and have some experience in multiple+ year projects or transitions and have seen both successes and failures over time.

Companies that don't cater to them in some way, (i.e. give them freedom to operate), but leave most tech. decisions to management, end up in a bad place in the long term. Most career managers are removed from day to day coding, especially at the Director level, and often miss the small details that could derail a project.

My take: Staff is seeing a resurgence, as a lot of companies are moving away from 'Team Lead' positions, which is half IC half manager positions. They see that it might be better to have a pure manager and pure IC roles, but you want to have the deep expertise of the team lead level engineers, hence the titles of Staff and Principle, which have been elevated recently.

As in always, in some companies this is another inflated title, and in some it is actually respected and has more responsibilities. It all depends from company to company.