skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't exactly love the office but prefer it. I like to have a strong separation between working and living space/time. I have a room in my apartment that I could use as an office, but I rather use it for hobbies than work. Even when, almost a decade ago, I was freelancing and could work from wherever, I worked from home only an hour or two in the morning before moving somewhere.

That said, me wanting this separation is probably not stronger than a bad commute. It is currently a 15min stroll. Before that, it was an 45min train ride, but in Switzerland where trains are quite comfortable and I could use the time to work, do some admin, listening to podcasts, read a book or chat with friends.

Definitely not in favor to require people back to the office and thus force them living nearby. I like for people to have options.
Not bad really.. here Andreas ports bash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNK8vK-nkkg
To be honest, Lidl is far from the only company with a failed billion-dollar SAP implementation. In recent years this is becoming the standard.
Even rental income has a fairly generous allowance before you need to file a full tax assessment.

The first £1,000 is tax free (presumably the cost of admin makes it easier to let that go).

And up to £2,500 you just have to phone / email HMRC.
So the 10 10x multipliers you know make you 10000000000X more productive than a normal software engineer?
At no point. You’ll only hear the opposite from a small cohort that can hop around faangs. There’s plenty of people working in all kinds of industries that overall suck for humanity.
Well-deserved! Dongarra created ATLAS (automatically-tuned linear algebra software), which made fast linear algebra (BLAS and LAPACK) available to everyone, rather than just those willing to pay the big bucks for chip vendors' proprietary libraries. Basically, ATLAS tries out a bunch of different strategies for each routine at compile/install time, and picks the fastest, adapting to chip pipelines, cache sizes, etc. I'm not sure how it fits in to the modern world of GPUs and TPUs, but it made a lot of scientific software run faster.
...where musicians are graded on how dramatically they slap comedians before receiving their awards instead of how good their performance was, and comedians are graded on how well they take their slaps instead of how much the musician who slapped them just laughed at their jokes.
Haha, it depends on where you put the emphasis. I would say AWS is cloud services that happen to use data centers under the hood.
The multiple '???!' should be enough of a hint (as well as the obvious context of contradicting reality)
Yes, as you say, the main problem with this is that 3-helium has a much lower availability than even tritium, which has to be produced from deuterium, consuming a part of the energy output of a deuterium-tritium fusion reactor.

It seems that there is some 3-helium stored in the core of the Earth, but only a small part of it trickles continuously to the surface. When it reaches the atmosphere without being captured, it is lost quickly to the outer space.

Because of that, 3-helium is very expensive, but more importantly, the quantity that could be extracted each year is limited.

Even if the entire flow of 3-helium from the core could be captured, the energy that could be produced would be much less than what can be produced from uranium, not even counting the much larger reserves of thorium.

There have been some speculations that there might be larger reserves of 3-helium on the Moon, so that the only possible use of deuteron-helion fusion reactors in a not too distant future might be in some Moon stations.
> "I hate being back: My gear at home is better, I have to work in uncomfortable clothes and at a room temperature that makes me sweat within minutes. I have to work in an N95 mask since we are packed in small 4 person cubicles and COVID numbers are still too high in my area. I'm spending more on gas and wasting time in traffic. I'm eating worse quality food. I keep getting interrupted by exactly those sames guys that took the 2 year vacation. I feel hard to concentrate and I'm angry all the time so my output has suffered."

We start back at the office next week and this sums up exactly why I have no interest in going back full time.
Can I ask why you went with Oracle Cloud? It sounds very strange, like onboarding your employees with Blackberry phones.
As another data point to anyone else reading this, I live in Portland smack dab in the most densely populated part of south-east, and go to downtown several times a week. Homelessness is a problem, but I've never experienced the post-apocalyptic wasteland this person is describing. My friends, many of whom were born and raised here, have never described being mugged or being witness to random acts of violence like this. I have been here for 5 years and even when there were the nightly BLM protests in downtown I never saw or experienced anything close to what this person describes.
> I compared several different methods of generating polynomials of different sizes for speed and precision (spoilers: taylor series were the worst and minimax polynomials (Remez algorithm) were the best).

I would have expected at least an LSQ approximation with a basis of Legendre polynomials thrown into the mix. I got that as a basic homework in my numerics class once, after we've shown to ourselves in the class that [1, x, x², x³...] is not a really good basis to project things onto.
Is this specific to Mexico?
And, what breed was the dog?
It's hard to ignore Schumpeter when his circle of influence is pretty solid - his student was Paul Samuelson, and his adviser was Böhm von Bawerk, who also taught Ludwig von Mises who went onto teach Hayek.

Each one literally wrote the book of Economics for their time, and Samuelson's is still considered standard reading.
"all of them require you to call someone/send a letter/FAX to create a VM."

Have ordered servers from Hetzner online for the last 20 years, since their cloud offering via API/cli.
Agreed -- this is the kind of feedback that is actionable and, given OP's description of multiple employees feeling uncomfortable with the new hybrid arrangement, the kind of feedback that could improve the company's future.
I was skeptical for precisely that reason, so despite the fact that it isn't a secret (see for example https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/checks-balanc...) I didn't believe it until I saw the sausage getting made. Obviously I understand why you might not trust some random guy on this, but I've personally seen a billion dollar company where an outright majority of news coverage originated with its PR team, and nobody involved found this atypical or strange.
You can tweak and retrain many existing models with transfer learning and that does not require you to have Google-level resources ... only the people that do the original model.
Doesn’t the fact that it’s always the first chip that gets disabled disprove that theory? If it was to improve yield you’d see the other one being disabled at least some of the time.
I don’t mind the basic interpretation of abstraction that the article mentions, but I generally extend it to also mean that code (not just the coder) doesn’t have to deal with the underlying complexity.

For example, I consider most SDKs to be abstractions.

It’s really just semantics, as I guess we could argue that the “classic” definition applies to code, as well as to coders.
Keep it up! You may find the secrets of life encoded in the sand on the beach.
The Prospects for Democracy in Hungary
That sounds pretty regressive. A massive tax burdon on a low income family so that high earners don't have to file income taxes.
I have a cynical view about this, but also expect it all to come out in the wash over time.

My cynical view is that some older executives are, indeed, not as effective in remote companies and younger ones, because they have no practice running remote companies and haven't adapted. Additionally, many senior and middle managers never figured out how to assess and reward actual productivity on their teams, so relied on their ability to schmooze to create a veneer of contributing, and schmoozing is easier to do in person. Finally, managing facilities is a big job, especially at bigger companies, and few executives are going to point out that their main job functions are now outdated and the company should de-invest. Imagine being an executive who is overseeing the capital costs of real estate development for a very large tech campus as an extreme example.

However, it is also my view that remote work-forces are inherently more efficient in multiple ways for many industries. I have been working from home and managing remote teams since 2008. Every time I go to an office I am absolutely shocked by how much time is wasted in an office. Time that could be spent exercising, doing laundry, gardening, so many things that are beneficial to someone's health and work productivity. I believe that market forces will solve these problems of ineffective execs and managers. I could imagine some specific companies making a co-located office their competitive advantage by appealing to the minority of knowledge workers who prefer working that way, though.
We've used Hetzner for years. We never called or faxed them.
Great service, by the way.
Back in the day, I saw someone ripping a CD to MP3s. He lazily named the first one 1.mp3, the seconde one 2.mp3 etc. After 9, he found he ran out of numbers. So the next one became ... A1.mp3 !

I always wondered, if he thought this trough a little bit further, he'd independently reinvent the arabic number systems.
This time is different: This is not backed by the govt or german telecom but by the richest German alive (> 50B net worth). I think (hope), the chances are much higher that he's in for the long run with an appropriate amount of ressources.
>That's unlikely. For a start, many people like living in the city. It's fun and their friends and family are all there. Then there's everyone with children at school so they're not going to mess with the kids' education and friendship group

Down on my imaginary future ranch, I have a 10kw solar array charging my cybertruck and it drives me to the concerts, friends/family, and all that for free.

Children playing at the park? Is that even a thing anymore? Xbox/PS# seems to be replacing that entirely. We could discuss if this is a good thing or not but that same cybertruck can self-drive the kids to wherever they are meeting up.

>Another big problem is rural broadband. I know the countryside is nice, I may well retire there, but it's not where I am now and it's only a very small number of people who like the isolation.

That's what just broke. Why suddenly this became a thing. Starlink or 5g with long range 5ghz wireless backhaul. Rural suddenly has good relatively reliable fast internet access.
Hannah Gadsby on her autism diagnosis
> What is the tenability of cities without fossil fuels? I think we do know, it's really the cities that collapse.

I walk everywhere. It's suburbs that collapse without fossil fuels.

> How does public transit work? Generally speaking they are all diesel. Do we have a plan to spend a trillion $ converting this all to electric?

Our subways have always been electric. Our street cars are electric, and have been for a century, before that they were horse driven. All new buses are electric.

> What's even the point of giant office buildings anymore? Downtown cores are dying if not dead as it is.

This is probably true.

> I really dont think we have quite thought out the consequences of our actions.

The consequences of NOT following these actions will horrific.
While the bureaucracy certainly applies to German government, companies here are no better and no worse than anywhere in the world.

If you have an example of a German IT company requiring a fax, please share, so I can mock my German co-workers ;)
German Newspaper (2018):

"...Two-thirds of German companies regularly use faxes, whereas only half of them use video conferencing technologies, and just one-third use messaging services or online collaboration tools..."

https://www.handelsblatt.com/english/companies/digitization-...
Good luck getting anyone to do anything about it though, tobacco was an easy target because it causes cancer... Americans are much better at solving medical problems than mental health problems.
Complexity of the tax code is just part of the system Intuit wants. If taxes were simple you wouldn't have to pay for unique software right?
Persuasive tech company accuses persuasive tech company that its tech is too persuasive.
> To my knowledge dealing with drugs is still illegal in Germany. So I hope the police would do something against weed dealers and consumers.

That does not follow - there are many things that are illegal put are not expected to be proactively investigated or stopped by the police except when carrying out a court order.
Had to send documents to substantiate the business location on account creation, but nothing asynchronous after that.
Lidl are a big employer and I'm sure they're not perfect: I don't like the "others are worse" metric for arguing but unfortunately Lidl are consistently one of the better chains so it's hard to buy this.

It's also true that Amazon is consistently the worst employer in all areas including their AWS staff, where they are worried about (and I quote) "Burning through all competent human capital"[0] in certain parts of the world.

With those two factors (Lidl being above the baseline, amazon being below): your comment seems like FUD.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-turnover-wo...
Speedy ARM machines with plenty of resources for free.
More than enough to play with hobby stuff and see where ARM is going.
"You need scalable enterprise cloud solutions for digital business processes while maintaining complete data integrity?"

Nitpicking here, but my god, can German companies/universities/organizations please start paying for native English speakers to do their copy-writing and STOP translating directly from German?

It's "Do you need". Not "You need..."

This is the typical translation of the German marketing "Du brauchst <blah>?" or "Du bist ein <blah>? Dann...". I see pattern this all the time, such as "You are a student who wants to work on innovating projects? Then apply...".

This may sound like a rant, but I genuinely think these little details would go a long way to actually showing that the German economy does have some sort of international mindset. This persistence in sticking to these wrong ways just makes me think that 'OK this is another conservative old-school minded German company trying to play unicorn'. If there's no attention to detail or care for the little things on your front-page marketing website - your first contact with your customer - it just leaves me with a bad feeling about the parts I don't see.

I don't know why it frustrates me enough to write a comment in the middle of the day, I guess I really can't understand how global German corporations still, as a rule all make this same error, which I suspect is just the tip of the iceberg of a larger symptom of not wanting to think outside/beyond the DACH bubble. And I feel a sense of sadness that such a country with great prospects just drags its feet lazily into the the future.

Edit: I also see this all the time in Email correspondence, you can immediately tell if a person is a native German speaker because they don't capitalize the first letter in an English email after "Dear X, we are writing <blah>" (which would be 100% correct in German, but somehow no one teaches this in English classes in Germany that in English it is capitalized). For a country that loves rules, this drives me mad.

Edit2: This is definitely a rant and it triggered me emotionally for some odd reason. I concede that my interpretation is quite exaggerated, so please do excuse me! I'll leave the comment however because I'm curious to know whether any others feel the same way.

Edit3: I will also say that translating between German and English is hard as there are some fundamental differences in their structure. There are very colloquial ways to say or not say certain things. That is why native speakers are essential for such things.

Edit4: Please take this comment with a pinch of salt. This is the rant of an fatigued expat who decided to blow some off steam about the oddities of their host country that drive them bananas. For posterity, I will say there at least 10 amazing wonderful things about German culture that I love, for each odd cultural thing. But you know, at some point when you see something for the umpteenth time, something snaps inside of you and it all comes out, especially on a mid-week day like a Wednesday.
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* Dynamic Programming and the related concept of Memoization.

* Recursion - most complex problems seem to have a recursive solution which you can actually implement in a language like Scheme or Haskell that does not limit stack size.

* State machines.

* Monte Carlo methods.

* Unification - see SICP.

* Hand-rolled parsers instead of regular expressions for debug-ability and readability.
Ask HN: Tracking use of component library I'm creating
Hello, I am PM (with coding experience) for a project building a React framework of different components and hooks for the new job I am at. I want to measure how often components are being used by other developers to measure the success of them and try to prioritize which components to build next. Does anyone know of a technology that enables this?
Taxes are kind of understated. Even if you take an average tech salary in a major city, taxes and rent just eat a large portion of it. Then it takes a deliberate attempt to not spend what’s left to make any forward progress towards a mortgage for example.

If you spend casually on what’s left, you are essentially working to live.
I see, I thought you were using it for business
And Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Baby -- who ever knew a baby could play a synthesizer so well?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k66nGplNRmQ

At least the Android Sisters play their own music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeerjrFjgT8
Cubicles, as opposed to an office with a door that closes mean someone is likely to walk by and see what you are wasting time doing. Once in a while everyone has 'compiling' time to waste, but eventually it gets obvious
> But the thing is that the pay is good, that I'm of an age prone to experiencing ageism in the job market

Your decision to not even try will cost you more jobs than ageism

All your reasons is why I have never had any interest in working in an office, ever. Now that my current company has been remote since the start of the pandemic and I've gotten an exception to be permanently remote, I will never step foot in an office again if there's anything I can do about it. I couldn't care less about supposed career growth impacts, free snacks or food, collaboration, all the other propaganda they put out. You are right to be insulted by not having an option to work remotely and you should just start looking for better jobs
It's interesting how the UI animations provided as juice by the game developer end up becoming anti-cheat devices. For those who haven't watched the vid, they discover video splices by observing a spinning animation (think circle loading animation) that plays during a full combo. If the animation jumps, there was a splice.

All a developer has to do is randomize the starting position of the spinner during a full combo and it creates a non-deterministic signature for the run. Take note, game devs!
> I'd leave

I've found that once you start having thoughts like this, you've left already, if only in spirit, and you remain physically only as a form of self-delusion or rationalization of fear. You can find good pay and slack elsewhere. Your current employer sounds like a nightmare.
Still, this site has no prices, only “contact us”.
Given that hf-speech-bench, is there any easy way to tell if they support streaming speech? Or do all models support streaming speech?
Thank you for building this! I now understand the LEFT JOIN story shared a couple days ago.
Understanding of your organizations ways of working and making connections across teams.

Understanding how your organization works: This is not about sucking up to 'important' people (atleast not when it concerns productivity). This has got to do with understanding which how the different organizational parts work, so that you can be most effective.
e.g. There's tons of planning for resources/budgets that happen once in a year and if you are aware and can put in your requirements into that list, it would help.

Making connections across teams: In large and complex organizations/products, a lot of knowledge is tribal. It helps to have friendly relations and people whom you could chat with informally in teams that you depend on. Many conflicts can be resolved faster.
> I think they'll have a hard time finding people to staff that, Lidl has a long history of underpaying and abusing their personn

Not sure what branch you are refering to, but that's definitely not the case with their IT department. Their pay and benefits are well above market rate.
Poster said these days, so it may be HFCS just hasn't been common in Poland for long enough to have a demographic effect. Personally I think yes HFCS is a problem, but basically it's just massive consumption of surplus calories.
The Rock Band team was pretty much the Guitar Hero 2 team. Harmonix made Rock Band because Activision chose to hand GH3 development to another team. Activision even had the option to use the Harmonix engine under license, and chose to allow Neversoft to fork the Tony Hawk engine and bolt a beatmatcher on top (which they did horribly, by the way, ExileLord has some videos on YouTube discussing some of the more egregious bugs).

It's entirely possible that, had Harmonix developed GH3, it may have been a full-band game. We do know that they considered drums as early as post-GH1 development, there exist a whole array of drum gems in the 4-song OPM GH2 demo, as well as some leftover code fragments (for example, there is an entire DrumTrackWatcher class with several functions like AddFills and AddLanes, and the OPM demo build itself actually also at some level checks for Konami/Topway drums for PS1 DrumMania, and has controller detection script that recognizes Topway drums).

GH2 also has leftover "band_version.dta" files that, across all builds of GH2 and GH80s that we have, always contains the same contents: "Build: 060302_A" (HMX dated these builds YYMMDD, best we can tell). band_version.dta is the file later used in the Rock Band series to contain the build date. There is also a separate file "gh2_version.dta" that is different between PS2 4-song, PS2 10-song, PS2 retail, 360 retail, 360 10-song, PS2 GH80s press review, and PS2 GH80s retail. I'm pretty sure there exists within Harmonix, a disc with that very build date written on the label (including the A, which I feel signifies that they'd burnt a second distinct build that day), and my feeling is that if we had that disc, it would have whatever drum support active that they had at the time. Perhaps 060302 doesn't have drums active, but 060302_A was a branch that did? No way to know unless someone steals those binders from HMX and leaks them to us (fat chance lol) or HMX themselves decide to open up their archives to our dataminers.