skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the repercussions are just so small that it makes sense to act like this.

As an employee, your opinion of the CEO bears little. We've read on HN the few stories of only the most-qualified people being able to cause a stir in high-profile companies when they don't want to work for someone. That's not most of us.

On the flipside for the CEO, the board is happy with how they kept employees happy until the layoffs and then cut costs. Shareholders are happy that costs were cut. Other execs are happy that the CEO took the heat. In that CEO's circle, they did a good job and will be hired again to do the same.
Tesla's EV lead: How far ahead is Tesla relative to global rivals like VW Group?
West Virginia v. EPA [pdf]
Everyone likes to say that, and then goes out and buys things from the vendor selling to them at the lowest price.

Societal benefits fall squarely on the government’s shoulders, and their shoulders alone. Admonishing and expecting businesses to not optimize within their boundary conditions is a waste of time.
Supreme Court says EPA overstepped in regulating greenhouse-gas emissions
You think gold has the value it has because a miniscule amount of it is used in circuits?
"Red meat" and "processed meat" are fundamentally 2 different things, and it is disingenuous to equate them in any scientific study.
Google Releases AGI, or Android GPU Inspector
I've worked (as in actively worked) in a couple restructuring efforts, and it went fine, but it wasn't on tech, it was on education. It went massively well. The universities were financially healthier afterwards, and all the remaining employees had safer (union!) jobs.

The trick for this being successful is most of the time by challenging the processes themselves, rather than the employees. Employees aren't useless, but process are. The reason you need 500 people rather than 250 or 100 or 50 to do something might be simply because you said so somewhere or sometime.

So, companies should review and change processes BEFORE reducing headcount. But alas, companies don't ever do it, because it requires introspection, egolessness and actual work, the sorta stuff that is rare in upper management.
> Love it. Throat mics and subvocalization are a place that I think would really change how we use devices. Genuinely surprised there's not more investment in this area.

I'm more and more seriously hoping someone who is of the right bent will see this on HN and go make a better one...

> Imagine being able to use an audio interface without speaking, just by subvocalizing. It'd be like magic, you could basically think something and get the answer.

Love this.
I would argue that you are adding quite a few things that do not belong in such an analysis. People need to eat regardless of this plant, people need to go to work regardless of this plant,... Adding maintenance is fine, adding the equipment that people use is fine. Flying around for fundraising would need to be split over the lifetime of all plants they create as a result. Same for R&D CO2. I don't think it will take that long to go positive but I can't be bothered to do the calculations.
Probably because back then people hadn't figured out yet that you could make a lot of money with it. There was no supply and no demand. Wellness had to come into being first. Then grow up and become an industry.
I have a hunch that consciousness is at least dependent on autonomous interaction with an environment.
Automated brew formula using GitHub Actions
A solution for updating the brew formula of a package every release
Why not just learn c++? There are probably millions of tutorials in general and probably thousands specific to UE.
The overwhelming amount information when you want to build something
I wonder if there is a balance between the:

- "The future I fear is one with a new anarcho-libertarian power structure that lacks transparency, accountability, and is the antithesis of democracy."

- "I truly trust that my government is capable to govern and have my best interests in mind"

Because I know I am stuck in between the two extremes. Crypto is just a way to hedge the possibility the 2nd one goes rogue.

But the crazy part is, yes I am aware of all the points in the article above, but that's exactly why I do crypto.

This article is soooo good I will give it to my peers every time they ask me "why crypto"
To clarify, I was mentioning Perl/Tcl as existing alternatives that were "equally bad" as Python - not necessarily better. In any case, the fact that a teaching language like python ended being used for numerical computing - a task that it was not suited for - is accidental.
As far as I can tell, money is so entirely based on trust that it might as well consist of it, trust in in some fuzzy combination of other people's continued rationality and things staying roughly the same. I accept 100 euro bills for my labour because I believe I'll continue to be able to trade them for food and shelter.
> I wonder if this will benefit startups that are more bootstrap style. Does less funding necessary for anticipated future growth imply less damage during a recession?

Probably the folks in the best position are those that just raised a ton of money but haven't committed to spending it yet. Bootstrapped startups may be subject to the same economic headwinds, but have less of a cash buffer than VC-funded startups. The funded startups that have a high burn rate may need to cut costs dramatically to make it through, but the ones that just raised may have the longest runway and biggest buffer of them all.

They may still have a challenge avoiding a downround in their next raise, if this one was done in a frothy environment.
Sure, but a not-insignificant amount of gold is still used for industrial applications. Even if gold wasn't used as money or in jewlery, I imagine it would still be quite expensive: at least half of it's current price. The same could be said of other precious metals.

But I don't think you can say the same about bitcoin. Bitcoin's fundamental utility is low, even compared to other cryptocurrencies.

Gold has useful unique properties over other metals. Bitcoin does not even have useful unique properties over other cryptocurrencies.
> It's 200 basis points

This hurts the head only slightly less. Once a basis point figure contains two trailing zeros, it's time to switch to the percentage point (pp).
The achievement is really impressive! Well done!
Do you think that your initiative will push Google Scholar to improve their algorithm?
I am a slow typist, and I found that I could get ahead of WordPerfect 6 on Windows 95. Truly good typists must have found this to be a problem. I'm not sure how otherwise the 5.1 diehards were offended, though.
What is it with Americans and their dismissal of other people's concerns as always being "politics".

It totally does break licencing laws, just because Americans think they can change the terms of an agreement and relicense your code because you didn't remove it doesn't make that legal.
Gold has thousands of years of history as a currency (or backing a currency).

It's also intrinsically valuable for jewelry and industrial purposes. It's irreplaceable in electronics, for example.

Cryptocurrency that can't be sold to someone else has absolutely no value. In fact, it has negative value because of transaction fees, something that plain cash doesn't have. I can send someone $100k with a $0 transaction fee.
Scarcity can support existing value - e.g. in creating a Gold Standard or some other means to artificially limit money supply - but it is not an intrinsic value. There are countless things that are both scarce and valueless.

I believe your last two sentences hit the nail on the head (albeit being oxymoronic). Things have value because people are willing to pay for them. That's it. If companies can be traded below book value, Tesla can be worth more than the next five automakers combined and NFTs can cost six digits there seems to be no intrinsic value.
If I have a company with good cash flow, all employees (including me) are compensated well, and I'm spending a chunk of that cash flow on R&D and growth but have only marginal profits if any am I doing something wrong? Should I cut R&D to pay dividends? How about if the company is privately held?

There's a difference between 'not profitable' and 'losing money.'
Tomb Raider was actually released on the Nokia N-Gage in 2003:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/ngage/tomb-raider
It really is to Steve Jobs’ credit that he was able to wrestle his phone (mostly) out of the iron grips of the operators.

Because that was the reason mobile games worked this way: the operators decided what ran on your phone and the things you wanted apart from that were relegated to the java sandbox, take it or leave it. These days your operator controlled a setting on your phone for how many text messages you could store (on your phone). Pay some extra or be really nice and they changed the setting so you could store 100 messages instead of 50. You can imagine they weren’t too happy to lose that kind of control.
The fact that people can't see that the conservatives are basically advocating worldwide for short term economic growth in exchange for basically our future is appalling to me.

I am afraid we will see an immense amount of instability, increased poverty, mass migrations and authoritarian regimes rising up due to the fact that we couldn't manage to convince people that those parties do not care about them.

In a previous post I wrote that conservatives everywhere use moral issues to make people enraged in order to get vote, and in exchange to that they use their power to help the rich get richer. This is exactly what I was talking about. Those Conservative judges were appointed by a President elected by people that rallied behind him hoping to see Roe overturned, and in exchange for that they also gave them a free pass to alter the US political system in a way that is favourable to the Republican party, i.e. the party of big industry and capital.

This is also another small hint that "countries" are a stupid concept - we must stop to pretend that a single country is an island, everything has consequences that irradiate and reflect on the rest of the world, and it's stupid to think everyone can be a ruler of its own tiny spot of our planet.

Countries are like homes, but they aren't cottages in the middle of nowhere, they are flats - if you set your own house on fire, everyone will suffer, everyone will lose something, if not everything.

"$countryname first!" and Nationalism in all its forms is basically just a more general form of Fascism.
Seriously? Voice requires 1-1.5Kb/s to be perfectly legible with ancient codecs.

It's when everyone insists on video that it all breaks down.
I agree, if you want to go pro and not have much of a visible mic, headworm mics are a great option.
The relation to 'social justice warriors' (and the negative connotation attached to that phrase) makes it more clear what you were referring to, and now I can better understand your initial comment.

Thank you for laying out your thinking.
This was done in 50's and 60's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-propelled_aircraft

> The use of EHD propulsion for lift was studied by American aircraft designer Major Alexander Prokofieff de Seversky in the 1950s and 1960s. He filed a patent for an "ionocraft" in 1959. He built and flew a model VTOL ionocraft capable of sideways manoeuvring by varying the voltages applied in different areas, although the heavy power supply remained external.
Not sure about this. Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows, at least around 1991-92, was awful. Excel was far smoother, faster, easier.
Both the rabid pro-crypto and rabid anti-crypto people seem to be missing that the prices move on the monetary policy of the United Stated Federal Reserve: more visibly the FOMC target guidance, the underwater part of the iceberg is the balance sheet.

Global finance is a big deal, to put it mildly.

Crypto is a flea on the ass of the foreign exchange market (which it superficially resembles), which is a bacterium on the ass of the derivatives market.

It’s. Just. Not. That big of a deal.

There’s been a lot of scams, some serious people here and there are doing real work in the space (don’t argue with me: take it up with Liskov and Waddler).

But if we put the wisdom of crowds on a forum like this to work on the dog wagging the tail with the flea on it, it would be a potentially useful discussion.

Le sigh.
That’s a pretty dismissive critique of Heinlein. He was a complex individual who went through an evolution of sorts during an interesting period of history. We’re not talking some circa 2020 Facebook political figure.

There are alot of people who made the transition from a socialist to a more right wing position. It’s important context that many of the thinkers of that day didn’t have the benefit of seeing the future… the prospect of nuclear conflict was very real and had an outsized impact on people who were aware of what was actually going on.

His isn’t necessarily a worldview I subscribe to, but isn’t worthy of being dismissive about.
But the sound quality is really really bad! Every phone/laptop built-in mic or headset boom mic sounds better.
Snake? Snake? Snaaaaaaake?!
Indeed, using existing ships as platform to vaporize salty water on the low atmosphere in the open ocean (I got it correctly?) is very clever.

Congratulations on the project.
I'm using ReadDirectoryChangesW() to read a filtered stream of events from the USN journal. I've not noticed any reliability problems. Technically, the kernel API can always drop events, but whether that is a kernel can't keep up problem or the daemon application not servicing the event stream fast enough doesn't really matter. The API does know if/when events were dropped. And the FSMonitor daemon guards against that and forces a "resync", so the "git status" client is advised to do a normal scan, so the output is correct.
It is nice after a few months in cold and wet... But even then max one or two weeks with access to AC... Long term, yeah I don't really see the attraction.
You have fewer problems with Jira. You’re still paying more for a slower application with a clumsy UI.

I also wouldn’t be so quick to condemn the PM. I’ve seen plenty of developers insist on complex workflows and custom fields because they think they can automate everything, only later to realize they’ve created a second job. The problem is basically the lack of a functioning feedback mechanism to ask “do we need this enough to pay for its care and feeding?”, and I’ve seen people from every role on either side of that, although it’s certainly more common to see business people underestimate the complexity of what they’re asking for.
For example with USD, this also requires not just transacting in USD once a year, but hedging in the national currency, as many crypto earners and traders are learning. If you get paid 1 BTC when BTC is worth $50k, you really should sell and hold 15-50% of it immediately to cover your tax obligation. If the price drops to $20k, you can sell and book a $30k loss, but you may only be able to deduct $3k of it against your $50k in income, leaving you in a bad spot come April 15.
Guy basically pointed out he lives in a food desert, which is a serious health issue for many urban communities.
Well iOS 16 is still in developer preview and it won't be launched for another 3 months almost, so it might not be in the currently released versions. But here: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/06/ios-16-support-web-push...
Yeah I'm sure SE215s are comfortable for some people. None of the canal plugs are comfortable for me past like an hour. The only canalphones I've ever had that I enjoy wearing are AirPod Pros, though - every other set of in-ear phones I've ever had has been of the "rest in the outer ear" variety like the PMX 684i's.

I've thought about getting some Ultimate Ears custom-fits, but it's a lot of money for something I probably won't like wearing.
My reasoning is that the coffee will cool in a curve having high rate of temperature change at first, and slower later in a long tail until it reaches room temp. Adding the cream will "remove" a fixed amount of "heat units". The heat of the cup can be graphed as heat/time and it will look like exponential decay.

If you remove those units at the start, you've reduced the starting temp a bit, but you haven't much changed the long tail of the cooling. You essentially just started the coffee at a slightly cooler temperature, but this doesn't affect the curve much. Or to think of it another way, the change in temperature at the start corresponds to a small amount of X axis (time) on the curve.

If you add the cream later, the temperature reduction corresponds to a larger amount of time on the curve. This means the temperature will be lower than the above.

So to my intuition, cream first should yield hotter coffee
Dido. I view this in analogy to the early scholars explaining planetary dynamics from earth centrist view. It is possible to solve the differential equations in that frame of reference, however, it is rather difficult, and the results are non-intuitive when trying to build a theory of heavenly motions in that frame. Changing reference frame to Sun-centric, it seems to be easier in modeling and explanation. (But physics tells us that it is non-unique view, we just adopt it since it is most convenient and intuitive for things we need from the theory). I take similar stance to the Quantum physics... while successful as a model, it certainly says nothing about uniqueness of that model (hence its interpretation on the philosophical plane bears little significance to the ordinary life).
Windows NT is the brainchild of Dave Cutler. Cutler was one of the tech leads on VMS. He was only hired away from Digital when they shitcanned his “Project Rainbow” follow up to VMS.
that could stay, but make them prepare the assessment.

also the whole problem is that the timelines are ridiculous.

there's no need to create a report that goes over 99.999% of the whole problem space.

do a 95% job, check for the past fuckups (ie. are we literally trying to pave over homes of disadvantaged communities? are we promising very fair compensation for this but then just scam them and leave them with some half-assed dilapidated boarding house on the outskirts of town? are we willfully ignoring some group with real data?)

it can even go to court, but make it quick. have a standing tribunal for this and they should be bound by law to decide whether the claim has enough merit to proceed based on 1-2 weeks of examination.

simply put there are not enough standardized and well structured parts of this bureaucratic pipeline. (and there should be very very few non-standard parts. and standard parts should be quick and transparent to evaluate.)
>So scarcity pays no role in value? Is the Mona Lisa not valuable?

You're mixing up things. I can draw a one-off picture, that doesn't make the drawing valuable (sadly. If you want to buy my paintings, hmu). The value needs to be attributed by a shared denominator, which for the example of Mona Lisa is cultural prestige. Crypto has zero inherent cultural prestige, it's only value lies in social attribution. Wallets on hard drives are meaningless unless we decide that they aren't. The mona lisa isn't worth what it is if we decide otherwise, but it does have inherent value. Crypto does not. For crypto to have value, someone else needs to pay Dollar/Euro/whatever at an exchange. That's the value of crypto - the exchange rate.
>you really just have to eat healthier foods and move around more in general.

Actually it's even more simple. You don't need to eat healthier or move around more. You simply need to consume approx 100-150 calories less than you burn per day (BMR + additional activities).

If you do this, you will lose weight whether you get all those calories from only burgers or from lean chicken salad.
I'm not 100% certain but HNBooks may need a link to Azn or GR to pick up on the fact a book is mentioned/recommended.

How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer
by Adrian Newey

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35657708-how-to-build-a-...
> it's actually bad to be profitable when you're growing.

I've seen this happen so many times:

- profitable, down to earth founders generating net profits

- VC approaches said outfit and tries to gather as much info

- VC realizes said outfit is difficult to emulate and break into market

- VC invests and starts demanding they run at a loss to grow quickly

This works well when interest rates are low, and VC is not under pressure to deliver returns. However, when capital suddenly becomes slightly expensive, the whole house of cards start to crumble taking down the good business with it.

Neither strong prudence or optimism helps here. Once you start running at a loss post-VC money, you no longer control the destiny of your own company you started.

Let this cyclical downturn (likely to last for 5 or more years) be a lesson that the previous generation learned. If you are not making growing net profit (Revenue - COGS), you are no making period. Not so while ago people were arguing that debt is an asset and cash is a liability. It's always amusing to me how quickly people denounce gravity are impacted by it.

The good times are over for VC backed SaaS
Samsung beats TSMC to production of 3nm chips
>at least attempt to attribute if there is a direct copy (which by their own admission happens about 0.1% of the time).

IIRC they just block that suggestion if they detect it's a copy now
> Do you think women should have equal rights as men?

What I think is irrelevant. The question why the US hasn't yet ratified the Equal Rights Amendment that would guarantee that "women have equal rights" is also irrelevant (hint: women opposed that).

The relevant question is, whether a powerful state is right to impose its values (which it, undoubtedly, holds in high esteem) on other states.
Dude definitely didn't deserve to get fired for that.

Unless they fired him for being too stupid to locate a real grocery store in New York City lol
A list of my programming project
Do want to note that the price was pretty good on the ones I bought! So 1/4 of those legitimate concerns is handled at least.
Abandon this thread ASAP. HN "economists" are in full force with all the wacky theories. If mainstream economists hardly get one thing right, you'll only be totally misled by the clueless crowd here.
It is. Ruby and python are in the same class despite python being more data oriented.

Julia is the same thing. Data oriented.
A bunch of interesting links from the old web
Are you saying they use GitHub (via the web editor?) but have never heard of Git? or don't know how Git works? or just don't know the Git CLI? or something else?
I would argue ducks are more mobile than your average glass of kefir.
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OMG, they're...storing the login info you gave them
Genuinely curious here: has anyone actually proposed making family helping with childcare illegal (or perhaps taxed?)

Even if it’s just an economist weirdo I’d be curious to see what the argument is there
Like the failed removal of all closed-source software called for by the free-software movement towards the likes of tech bros at Microsoft, Google, Meta and many other developer still creating it, the same tech bros are now calling for the complete removal and destruction of crypto screaming for all it to die in a fire (which I'm afraid it simply won't.)

Both the crypto skeptics and the crypto maximalists screaming about their very utopian and absolute ideas are both going to be very disappointed once crypto regulations come around the corner.