skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Something I never understood about embedded systems work: why is the pay so bad?

I think it’s because the software is generally simply considered part of the BOM and thus a cost to be reduced. Also, the hardware side typically rule the roost in such projects, and hardware engineers tend to look down on software developers because, after all, how hard is it to just type code in (if you’ve ever looked at code written by EEs…ugh).

As supporting evidence: the pay is better at companies that do take software seriously. Examples: at one class, Cisco; at another, FB, Google, Apple…
When people start using abstract measures to describe something easily quantifiable, it's usually because they're dissembling.

We have a pretty good idea what Errol's net worth is, and it's a couple million bucks.

The emerald mine in question was purchased for the equivalent of $40,000.
"Since 2016, the FDA has corresponded with Owlet that the Owlet Smart Sock meets the definition of a device under the FD&C Act and does not fall under the compliance policy for low-risk products that promote a healthy lifestyle (General Wellness guidance)."

Yikes it does seem that they were playing games with their marketing and stringing the FDA along.
Why would you want to broadcast to the world that you're an idiot?
I needed a reminder, so I opened a new tab in Chromium and typed in 'the halting problem' and hit return and Chromium immediately crashed :)

Which is not only funny, it's exactly why the halting problem is so hard…
A "successful career" that our culture elevates as a path that will be good for you doesn't always fulfill the needs in your life that you truly are seeking. Usually that path doesn't even give you the space to figure that out.

You end up in a situation where your desires don't match your environment and trying to get whatever you're truly missing takes abhorrent shapes.
Let’s not diagnose him sympathetically without evidence

He’s posting his cold brew pics to Twitter. Caffeine is a psychoactive substance that can foster manic behavior. Lack of sleep can create cognitive stability issues. Been there with both.

Who knows if he’s taken other things here and there as Mr Private Plane bounces around socializing.

Despite Twitter, how much of Elon’s life we don’t see is significant.
The situation is still in progress, but if Russia can get out of this mess with just loss of Donbass, Crimea and the Black Sea Fleet, they would have to gratulate themselves for unexpected salvation. That would be akin to the Russo-Japanese war, where their diplomats were able pull off a much more reasonable peace than one would expect from the actual war result.

The worst case scenario is a civil war like the one that followed their military collapse in WWI. Only with nukes in the mix. Yuck.
> Jan 6th wanted to stop / prevent a democratic election process.

And possibly abduct or murder congresspeople (thinking of the guy with clearly visible tie wrap restraints, or the republican that was telling where to find democrat members of congress)
> Smaller communities tend to be more familiar - people recognize each others names

It feels like there's a certain number (maybe Dunbar's like you said) at which people stop seeing a community as a group of disparate individuals and start seeing it as some sort of a collective hivemind.

You see this regularly with comments like "HN/subreddit/etc is so hypocritical. One day they're in favor of X, the next day they're against it", in which the poster seems to fail to realize that in a community of tens of thousands of people, chances are it's entirely disjoint subsets of the group taking those positions.

I don't see that kind of thing as often in smaller message boards. When you recognize everybody's name (or at least their avatar), it's a lot clearer that it's just Bob and Alice who support X and Eve and Mallory who don't.

It seems natural that such a failure to see the individuals that make up a group would lead to a decline in civility.
Top2Vec: Embed topics, documents and word vectors
He sold billions last year without the excuse of buying Twitter.
Fake news title

> Only $175,000 of that came from his salary. The rest came from shares: He was awarded 61,000 shares that would vest over 10 years, worth $211,933,520, when he became CEO.

tl;dr: his actual salary is some $20m / year. Still high but probably not news-worthy.
Cut a small slit on the edge of the pepperoni.
> at the end of the day it's a car and you can hardly tell the difference between Tesla EVs and MercedesEQS, iBMW, Toyota EVs etc..

I'll go a step further and I can hardly tell the difference between a Tesla and a used ICE car.
Yep. Pure Data and SuperCollider can also run in the browser.

But there's a difference between C/C++/Rust audio apps compiled to WASM on the one hand and writing audio code in JS on the other hand.

Then again, I think it's perfectly ok for people to experiment with audio in browser. "Native" audio desktop applications will always be superior, so there's nothing to be afraid of.
I said “i don’t buy that people are forced to choose suburbs and don’t actually want them”.

I mean, people leave SF to move to the suburbs south of the city. They need a car, but they can also walk to their Main Street.

Based on the fact the price of that housing is more, I’d argue people want to live in the burbs over an apartment in a city.
Basically quite a few places in Mexico. La Ciudad de México or Ensenada for me. I intensely love Mexico City but Ensenada is where I'm moving to. Entirely for health insurance reasons. I will be there tomorrow hooray.

There's Guanajauto, but also Querétaro, San Mig, León. The central highlands are big and agreeable.

People here love San Diego... I know San Diego really well, and I think Ensenada beats it in every way. San Diego is like a little brother to LA. It sure seems like it would be great to live there, and I suppose if you are desperate to spend quality time sitting in your car crawling in traffic it is ideal, but that's not for me.
Jesus Christ... it's Jason Bourne
StackOverflow is still pretty good.
Getting 406 Not Acceptable - openresty

Downforeveryoneorjust me says its just me -- tried a few different browsers, turned off ublock origin, etc.

edit: Worked when I turned off Wifi on my mobile..
Idk - dota is still incredibly toxic regardless of it being WC3 era when it was just a custom map or now where it’s a full fledged game with huge competitions.

So, I think communities that start toxic at least won’t ever have this issue! ;)

This reminds me of a short talk/interview by Robert Putnam about immigration and the challenges of it. https://youtu.be/grAAOjdvcrI It’s good and I think covers some of the more holistic ways to view these issues. As communities grow and people immigrate - they bring their own culture and part of growing a community means accepting them and accepting their ways to some extent. Later - all of these things that weren’t there are now part of the community identity. So, yeah, identities change over time as you adopt more people and varied outlooks.

In some sense - this means that communities on the internet probably start to look somewhat homogenous as they grow but that’s probably more of a reflection of humanity than a reflection of anything else. If you want to retain the character of your community - it often means not accepting new members or growing at all. It’s a tricky issue if you really value certain aspects of communities. Moderation and purpose might help steer the community - but it might mean limiting your access and growth and then enforcing some forms of discrimination.
... bank transfers is one of the feature requests already in our pipeline!

Due to limited time (fruits was built within a few days), we reduced the product to the most simple MVP we could come up with. We will now be adding features on a daily basis :-)
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but India isn't a tiny country with a single temperature zone. Cities like Bangalore have great weather year long. The real problem is dust and pollution.
No Bangalore on the list!? Of course I'm partial to the city being my home base. But really, having seen and lived in a diverse climatic places, Bangalore comes close to being the perfect climate. No snow but one can't be too greedy :-)
Slang?! What is it slang for, pray tell?
> Musk should just pay the break fee of $1bn, and renegotiate for $42.69 or whatever meme number he fancies. Why pay $42bn total for something when you can get it for $30bn.

I just assumed this is his plan here? He manipulates the market with his shenanigans and trash talking, lowers the price of Twitter by a massive amount, then buys it for a bargain.
As a counterpoint to shows like the ones you list (where they revel in showing terrible, yet likable, characters doing terrible things), the show "Mythic Quest" flips and shows terrible characters struggling with trying to change within themselves, and how it's a slow, discontinuous process where it's possible to both backslide and recover.
Twitter’s financials and business strategy are shit show in front of the scenes.
> and put a clause in the contract about it and they fell into a trap.

What a genius ... oh shit, there isnt a secret bot trap in the contract.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000119312...
Why are you springing to the defense of the richest person in the world? Are you hoping to get in his good graces or... something?
Related to this article: The owner of a company (non-startup, but growing and profitable) I used to work for gave me great career advice. He said to always focus on things that produce revenue. If you aren't doing things that produce revenue, try to move into those areas if possible.

His view was that revenue can soar 100%, 200%, 1,000%, 10,000% or however high. Cost savings, on the other hand, can only go down to a maximum of 100% (but obviously much lower in practice). So in his mind, a business-wide focus on growing revenue is always better than a focus on cutting costs. If you are in the second boat, it means the company is struggling and maybe it's time to get out.

Obviously, a rational CEO would see $1m cost savings the same as a $1m gain in profits, but CEO's are not rational beings (nor is any human) and understanding that they usually prefer higher revenue to lower costs is fundamental to understanding how they value different parts of the company. It's not fair, it's just truth (at least in many companies).

There's something refreshing about some hedge funds where portfolio managers are rewarded exclusively on their own performance. For example, if the fund loses money, but you continue to bring in great revenue, you can bet that any sane hedge fund will pay you a lot to stay around, regardless of how they are doing overall. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), profit in most companies isn't directly attributable in the way it is at hedge funds. But the same truth holds. If you are bringing in good profit, it's hard to get rid of you (or not pay you well) regardless of how the company is doing overall. Try to be in one of those profit centers, if you can.
>because graphics takes up a lot of space, so this comparison is not intellectually honest

I've written “by line count”. It's more code, lots of it, not binary size.

>Without the GUI, we still have an operating system that is entirely OSS. With only the GUI, we have nothing that works.

You're discussing merits, I've been arguing about an absolute value: lines of code.

But if you want to discuss merit, here's another objective data: Darwin has been open source for 20 years. No one runs it. Because all the value is at the top layers and lower closed source ones. See the trouble folks at Asahi Linux are going through to reverse engineer the M1's GPU graphic driver.
Twitter, Facebook, et al. have the power to arrest you and seize your home?
I wonder how different I would be if what I did was highly successful and I had the money to do what I want / indulge myself at my whim... I worry it wouldn't be pretty...
Around that same time they killed ADB in favor of USB.
I have expensive Bose noise cancelling headphones and they are wired and I don't want to rebuy for a new phone. BT and wireless is usually nothing but trouble and crap quality in my experience, so I never would intend to buy wireless if I can help it.

I can understand a Telco pressuring phone makers to do things to reduce their support burden (which is probably also reducing their own support burdens) because of the dumb way SD cards interact with the phone OS, but it's an annoying situation where the people who know what they are doing and have valid use cases are held hostage at the mercy of those who do not. All I hear from people is that they run out of space on their phone, especially on Android which creeps worse than windows did for sucking up space.

If you know how much SD cards cost, then it's very hard to think, hmm yeah, I'd rather spend $300 for an extra 128gb then get 500gb or 1tb for like $100 and I can remove it and add files to it 1000x faster on my computer.

If a feature has always been there and provided value, then removing it to save $0.05 in design costs seems ridiculous unless there are ulterior motives like, we need to sell more expensive phones and/or get these nubs off of our call lines (if you can even get phone support with phone manufacturers).

I know that obviously they don't give a shit about people who know what they are doing, because it's a minuscule part of their market share. It's all about the bundling and upsells. Fuck the entire headphone market if we can get another $100 by selling our buds. Fuck the entire storage market if we can get another $250 with our internal only upgrades. Fuck the consumer, they'll just buy a new phone in 2 years and lose our buds and buy new ones, we can only win here because no one can stop our oligopoly where everyone just copies each other to have "modern", "best-in-class" design choices and features. Teens don't know what good features or quality are, they'll just get their parents to buy them new stuff over and over forever and the parents don't fall for the constant upgrade trap as hard and stick with their S9's with headphone jacks that you just plug in and they work.
I should have been more specific. The gain for humanity.
Ding ding ding. Congratulations, you are tonight’s HN winner. The Twitter deal didn’t go through, and you totally called it.
I'd be curious to see the results of (crowds of?) normal people paid to say what their responses would be in the type of situations that leaders on these pay packages have to deal with, when given similar levels of context.

No doubt that's not the entire job: there's also networking, communication and thought leadership involved. But similar approaches could apply. Liability could be a trickier one.
how would a ML model find applicants with any kind of disability unless it was freely volunteered in a resume/CV?

A few off the top of my head:

(1) Signals gained from ways that a CV is formatted or written (e.g. indicating dyslexia or other neurological variances, especially those comorbid with other physiological disabilities)

(2) If a CV reports short tenure at companies with long breaks in between (e.g. chronic illnesses or flare-ups leading to burnout or medical leave)

(3) There are probably many unintuitive correlates irt interests, roles acquired, skillsets. Consider what experiences, institutions, skillsets and roles are more or less accessible to disabled folk than others.

(4) Most importantly: Disability is associated with lower education and lower economic opportunity, therefore supposed markers of success ("merit") in CVs may only reflect existing societal inequities. *

* This is one of the reasons meritocratic "blind" hiring processes are not as equitable as they might seem; they can reflect + re-entrench the current inequitable distribution of "merit".
Superficially, the AI-drawn images seem better. But I showed these images to my wife asking if she could tell the difference and only the human ones invoked any sort of emotional reaction from her. The human-drawn ones were more interesting visually and told more of a story. She laughed at a few of them. She couldn't really tell the human from AI, but she definitely enjoyed the human-drawn ones more.
What an entertaining story!
No Elon waved due diligence and bought it as is.
Well right now the highest value note in south Africa is worth about $13.

I'm sure many HN regulars have homes costing much more than a safe full of $13 notes.

I wouldn't be too confident that "We had so much money at times we couldn't even close our safe." is an amount of money that would actually make someone particularly wealthy by American standards without doing a fair bit of research on what currency that safe would have been full of and how much it had been worth at the time.
>For example, could most checklists used by pilots be automated?

Would you bet your life on the fact that no buffer overflow/memory corruption/any type of bug/hack will happen over the next two decades?
I wouldn't

"Checklist" don't mean much btw.

Here's one:
Task 1: Build a self-replicating AGI [ ]
Task 2: Build a self sustaining colony on Pluto [ ]

Is there an NPM lib for that?
And when Stark almost killed thr world through Ultron, after being traumatised by near death experience saving NYC, he continued his self righteousness and ran straight for the Sarcovia Accords as a counter balance.
Hmm. Since 1928 is the "Year of the Dictionary", https://public.oed.com/blog/1928-year-of-the-dictionary/ all of the first edition should be out of copyright on or after 2023, no? OTOH the first supplement is from 1933 so it will presumably still be in copyright for a while yet. That first supplement is important, so I'm surprised that the OP doesn't mention it. It's included in the first edition compact OED https://www.ebay.ie/itm/304361514092 which sold lots of copies, and it contains the first OED entry for many words which you couldn't imagine not finding in a dictionary.
One interesting aspect of any form of currency that is strictly finite (like most crypto implementations are) is that it will become deflationary over time. Economies, demand, etc will grow but the amount of currency will stay, more or less, the same. So the currency will inherently become worth more.

Good and bad depending on how you look at. As a holder, it's good because your money becomes worth more. But on a macroeconomic level, there's an argument to be made that inflation is good because it basically is a deterrent against 'hodlllll' and a motivator for things like lending and what not, which help the gears of the economy churn. But we're probably going to get to see the endgame of the inflationary fiat game in our lives and I guess we just get to see whether a depressionary crash or an inflationary crash is less awful.
I definite it in terms of inventing air conditioning: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew...
Don't judge her life choices, she's got to get her 1.6 kids to the Soccer practice!
https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1525049369552048129
Bad people exist to remind us of the paradox of Human nature and free will :o)
This is really interesting so I did an experiment.

I connected my iPhone to a 5 GHz-only network on channel 36, and my MacBook Pro to a 5 GHz-only network on channel 48, and I could still AirDrop between them at 300 MBit (which exceeds any real-world speed I've seen on 2.4 GHz), and both devices retained connectivity (an iperf on the MacBook dropped from 600 Mbit to 300 Mbit while the AirDrop was in progress)

After messing around with this and sending around 10 AirDrops, now the feature is completely broken no matter what I do (same network, etc) so who knows (lol)
> "Aspect is built using Aspect"

That is extremely impressive.
This system enables regenerative braking on bicycles. That means you also gain a lot...

What I would love to see though would be this, applied to a recumbent or a velomobile. Those often have atypically long chains.
As I learned from YT channels like Not Just Bikes, it must not be universally scary. Places just not organize traffic well enough.
Is it not possible that Elon is acting in a perfectly rational way based on information that has come to light during diligence? Or am I missing something more subtle between the lines? It seems at least possible that Elon or Twitter’s board or both hold inaccurate views about how valuable Twitter actually is…
Mostly... It's a low pass filter, so if the information - anti aliasing techniques in this case - is concentrated in high frequency, it'll be wiped out.
> My perception is that I'm considered too good on the "line"; I'd be a loss to the org to move up a notch.

At a previous company, they moved a lot of their top performer “line” engineers to staff level and they all felt unproductive and eventually quit.
Musk has publicly said a lot of things that were BS for attention and sympathy

Let’s not act like our air gapped view of him through screens can provide an accurate diagnosis of real medical conditions
How much anti-government rhetoric is a second order effect of the existence of compromises?

When people push for something, they rarely get what they want. Even when there is a lot of support, the end result is a compromise with the previous status quo. If you push for minimum wage to be $10 and it is currently $5, with enough support you will see an increase but it won't be up to $10.

In turn, people will ask for more than what they actually want. If someone wants a minimum wage of $10, they might ask for $15. So when there is a compromise they are more likely to get what they actually wanted to start with, and maybe even hope for a little more than the minimum of what they wanted.

This of course has limits. If you instead were to push for a minimum wage of $100, you won't get enough support to have any impact at all. But exactly where this threshold is located is something only well known in hindsight, if even then.

So people who push for completely removal of government positions are likely much more interested in a compromise that still has a great deal of government power left, but are using rhetoric that will hopefully shift the window of compromise to be more in their favor. This is why things like 'defund the police' become supported even by people who can easily predict what would happen if the police really were defunded.

Lastly, I am speaking of people who would take positions similar to Do Kwon in general, and not about Do Kwon in specific. I realize that's slightly off topic, but I think it is worth clarifying that not everyone with positions similar to Do Kwon hold such positions for the same reason that Do Kwon does and many of them would be open to reasonable discussions and compromises.
OTOH user namespaces also greatly increase the attack surface. Earlier this year they gave us CVE-2022-0185.
The Federal EV tax credit for Tesla was completely phased out in 2020.
Sometimes going the long way around is what's necessary.
I wonder if this metric (3:1 to attack a prepared defender) was originally just a way of saying, "don't expect to win just because you outnumber the foe, if they are in a prepared defensive position". Because prior to having a simple metric like this, untrained commanders might have used an even more simple metric, like "I have twice their numbers so I can take this castle".

Like a lot of things, the simple rule might have been better than what came before it, yet still get you in trouble if you believe it too literally.
How would this even happen. Why would people put their disabilities on their resume?
The Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2005/10/16

The implication is that only color printers are affected.

"The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters."