skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe these will help:

[1] Amazon layoffs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338354

[2] Walmart's strategy vs. Amazon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx_XGfGB2VE

[3] Ad industry slowdown: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338444

Hypothesis:
Ecommerce and ads boomed during the pandemic, and this fueled Walmart to aggressively compete with Amazon. The extra money during covid was invested in these riskier, more "innovative" efforts.

Now that consumer spending and the ad industry is slowing down, the growth prospects on these sectors and the corporate workforce behind them is no longer sustainable. Maybe they over hired and now need to be more conservative.
Computers don't have feelings, they process data. I don't want servants, I have computers for that. So how I talk to them shouldn't matter.

In fact, if you have a servant at all, YOU are an enormous asshole. Nobody should live in the shadow of someone far more privileged than they.
I want to know more about your process. How do you optimise the split point. How do you choose which feature to split on first
Sometimes I wonder if I could have been very rich very early by just building things while ignoring any part of said thing that seems to be a major, unsolvable problem.

The requirement for stuff to actually work most of the time seems to be somewhat imaginary.
To be fair, googling windows error codes is borderline impossible with all the shitty tech support websites.

I think it shouldn't be done for dev tools of course, because devs are the ones that need to see the errors.
Related topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-gay_movement
By reaching out to a few people I know who are far more competent than I am.
Hmm the source Zillow and other realtor company’s get their data from are local governments. They all offer tax, ownership info, last sale price etc. they all also charge differing amounts from free (if you walk into their records office) to cost per dataset to as costly as cost per data request. Then there’s the sheer number of locales you must query for this info, typically on a per county basis. So you head to a data broker who has collected all of this information but they charge for their time and efforts which is $&$$. So that’s why I mentioned Zillow’s public servers are cheaper

Contacts and connections are easy. Money is harder :)
Agreed, the current administration doesn't get the credit for lower gas prices just as it shouldn't get the blame for higher gas prices. That was the point of my comment, that many people in America are quick to blame the president for a price increase but don't say a word of thanks when it decreases. Can't have it both ways.
I thought this was funny

> • wrote 3D animation software used in “Jurassic Park” • software R&D lead on “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” movie • senior software developer on “The Hobbit” films

> But I don't consider myself an expert

Looks like a cool project though!
Title got truncated. First paragraph:
An assassination market is a prediction market where any party can place a bet (using anonymous electronic money and pseudonymous remailers) on the date of death of a given individual, and collect a payoff if they "guess" the date accurately. This would incentivise assassination of individuals because the assassin, knowing when the action would take place, could profit by making an accurate bet on the time of the subject's death. Because the payoff is for accurately picking the date rather than performing the action of the assassin, it is substantially more difficult to assign criminal liability for the assassination.

I recommend fixing the title, for example to "Assassination market".
Alternative front-end version: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
"Mildly offended HNer" briefly registered visually as "one mildly offended Hitler at a time".

I'm not sure which form I actually like better. The mental image accompanying the misparse amuses me.
> Columbia: No paid time off, no sick days: https://studentbenefits.provost.columbia.edu/content/compens...

Fun fact, your own page shows that the the minimum at Columbia is higher than the max at University of Amsterdam!

The idea that EU PhD students are paid better than US PhD students is just as absurd now, as it was when you stated it first.

> No paid time off, no sick days

There's a lot of confusion here. People look at lists like this and they assume they are comparable to their EU counterparts. In the EU the university tends to be king and sets the rules for departments. In the US departments are far more autonomous and many things are more informal. The university sets lower bounds that departments add to.

All you need to do is look at the department website: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/education/phd/policies/ CS PhD students at Columbia get two weeks vacation + 11 federal holidays. There you go!

> Find me Stanford's list of benefits showing they offer paid vacation.

Ok.. all you need to do is open the grad student handbook. https://adminguide.stanford.edu/chapter-10/subchapter-2/poli...

But again. You need to drop your narrow EU bureaucratic view of things. I have never applied to vacation as a grad student. Never, among my 50+ grad students so far as a single grad student applied for vacation. Not one of them has ever applied for vacation time. Grad students just tell me "Hey, I'll be gone these 3 weeks." And I say "Enjoy". That's it. Same with sick leave.

You cannot interpret US rules from the EU point of view. It's nonsense.

> I didn't backtrack at all. You're the one ignoring the fact that Amsterdam is the same cost as Chapel Hill but offers up to 15k more in salary and much better benefits and there's an even bigger delta in cheaper Dutch cities.

You have no idea about the cost of housing in UCN vs Amsterdam. Or what cheap means.

You can rent, right now, a 2 bedroom / 2 bath with a pool for $1100-1200 in Chapel Hill that's an easy walking distance to the university. That's without searching and at literally the worst time of the year to rent anything in a college town. And that's walking distance. If you want to drive to stay in a "smaller town" you can pay $800 for a 2 bedroom.

The US is far more sparsely settled than Western Europe. Cheap small towns here are far far cheaper.

> So you can make up numbers all you want and pretend that conference travel is somehow better than Bonuses, PTO, Sick days and Pension plans but no one buys that.

Your own numbers completely refute your story. And even the simplest Google search shows that perks in the US are actually far better than perks in the EU. That vacations are good, conference travel is not "business travel" in the US, that you get paid time off, etc.

But you don't want to look even at the evidence you find. You want to believe what you believe. I'm out!
Walls close in on Zuckerberg as executives depart Facebook
Alternative front-end version: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ
Just curious how do you harden Windows?
New CosmicStrand rootkit targets Gigabyte and Asus motherboards
I miss the bluescreens that didn't have emoticons
Haha, as if Microsoft cares whether bugs happen!

Any that do and affect Microsoft profits can be fixed later. Most never end up obviously affecting Microsoft profits, however badly they might harm somebody else. Some of those might get fixed eventually, if a reason ever turns up. More commonly, whatever they are in gets retired or anyway superseded first.

It is a waste of profits to spend time fixing what might not end up needing to be.
The point, I guess, is that the vote counting function is sublinear, ie. f(x+y) <= f(x) + f(y), ie. allocating many credits to one place gives you less total voting power than allocating the same number of credits over many places. But why the square root function in particular?
For YouTube, solution is easy and almost harmless because it supports brand account. Brand account can be shared between multiple Google accounts so just use normal Google account only for YouTube, without losing any history and playlist data. I have much pain about Google Home.
SpaceX and Viasat fight over whether Starlink can meet FCC speed obligations
In the grand scheme probably not. The whole idea of spam is a lot of misses and few hits.

I'm sure it's great fun to design and build and occasionally get to watch.
Battle over solar power in the Golden State
“Gah” reads to me like disappointment. “Gah … that’s the third time this week.”
https://archive.ph/2022.08.03-190900/https://www.telegraph.c...
Zubrin does a good job of outlining why Mars is better in his book "The Case for Mars.". He's thinking underground structures on Mars with solar panels and some pressurized agriculture up top.

Mars had much less harsh living conditions than the moon and having water and CO2 around makes living off the land, at least partially, a lot easier than on the moon. The delta-v to get to the moon vs. Mars isn't much different. Getting out of Earth's gravity well is the hard part.
> I found a twenty in the snow on the street in cambridge.

The most money I've found was in Cambridge (USA), in Harvard Square.

There was an envelope/paper on the ground of a traffic island, and in it was a bunch of cash. I couldn't see anyone around who might've just dropped it, so, on a hunch, I walked into the nearest bank. I waited in line, got to the teller, and said, this is a long shot, but did they happen to know who dropped this money. As I was saying that, someone off to the side spoke up and said it was them. They'd been making the deposit for the nearby small store where they worked. They offered me a big discount in the store.

Other than that, I track found pennies in GnuCash, to have an accurate accounting of my luck and/or sidewalk germ exposure.
Not federally :/
Albert, you seem to work a lot with or for CloudFlare in regards to security.

Would you trust CloudFlare handling your important email forwards going forward? I recently switched to them for my forwards a few weeks ago, I would feel better if your answer is a yes .... :)
AFAIK in at least some countries it's enough to mention the license somewhere. It's not necessary to include a full license file.
Silent Hill inspired, I guess
Can you point me at the anti-PoH takes? I'd like to strongly agree with something today.
Microsoft products always treat you as stupid. That's a hallmark of their UI design.
The more interesting take to me is that to live a meaningful life, you probably want to do a lot of things that are not labeled "productive", and take paths that are not labelled as "healthy".

For most of us the core of our life doesn't fit into neat categories, and trying to throw away stuff that aren't "productive" wouldn't help.
An entire squished cockroach. I want to say it was a Ray Bradbury but can't recall the title.
Super excited for this! Right now I’m working on a project to build open source DNA synthesis chips (if deployed right, drops DNA synthesis cost by 100-500x market price), and efabless with their tools created with Google’s support have simply enabled the project to even be possible. I am grateful to Google for doing this.
article: https://news.yale.edu/2022/08/03/yale-developed-technology-r...
These are interesting variations on the concept.

However, as Jonah Goldberg is fond of saying, "Complexity is a subsidy."

When it comes to an official voting process, let simplicity drive us to hard-copy ballots filled out in person as much as possible.
Anything not related to Gmail (like Pay) is able to migrate to normal Google account (though it could be annoying). Multiple account is supported well on both web and Android. Google Home is real pain because it relies on every information Google have, including Gmail on my domain.
The tonality of all the new copy in Windows 10 is just bad. It's like a bunch of nontechnicals got together and tried to cuteify the OS.

I had totally forgotten about how obnoxious Cortana was (I always turned that shit off first thing), or the condescending text that accompanies large updates requiring you to re-certify that no, you don't want to use Microsoft Edge, thank you

Don't even want to imagine what Windows 11 is like, none of my PCs can run it (thank god)
“Oopsies, I can’t find what you’re looking for” with a 404 in the response header versus

“404 not found” with a 404 in the response header seems pretty reasonable to me.

If they deviate from standards, sure.
Important note: this is a high voltage process for things like power+battery management chips. It is not a general logic process. The press release really should mention this.

The transistors on this process are very slow and power-hungry, even for such an old process -- the lowest rated supply voltage for this process is 3.3 volts whereas 1.8 volts is typical for 180nm. That's ~3.35x the active power consumption and slower switching speeds due to higher threshhold. It's meant for people who had 350nm designs (mid-1990s) and want to migrate them with the minimum possible effort (nearly all fabs have shut down their 350nm lines).

It is totally awesome that Google were able to convince GF to release this PDK! But they should be more up-front about the fact that this is a High Voltage process; most people won't notice the "MCU" at the end of the process name or know what it stands for. Their announcement about a 90nm process with Skywater last week is a big deal; this not so much, unless it's just the first of a series of process releases from GloFo.
Im all for getting off oil, but getting off it onto rare earth minerals is not green.

EVs have a life span of less then 10yrs, they often blow up catastropically, they rely one rare earth minerals to be built and run, they are very hard and expensive to fix, and they are charged via fossil fuels the majority of the time; they are not saving the planet of anything. They are marketing! Green is worth big money.
The online ad market is in decline and it's dragging down tech giants with it
Ask HN: How does Amazon SNAP/EBT eligibility work?
I was working with a friend that’s on US food stamps and he asked me to look up Indomie Mi Goreng (some sort of ramen dish I think), and the only product he could order with his state-issued card was >$10 per serving… for ramen.

I also looked up EBT eligible goat cheese a while ago for the same reason and found that the only thing that qualified was a $90 basket of assorted cheeses.

What sort of sorcery is this?
Wait until you hear about spotify’s recommendation engine...

Lousy AI and the push for all content to be commercialised equals bad user experience. Same thing with Google and duckduckgo results.
Private, organization-owned repository FAQ
To be fair, I am all in favor of bringing boot-to-editor or boot-to-shell to this level of processor. Some level of autoexec or init.sh would be helpful for deployment. Invites comparisons to MMBasic for pico.

I have not unpacked the .tgz. Does it include a build of an image the pico can load directly?
Learn REST API Development
Free temporary API to learn REST API Development.
Every single time I open your software, I'm asked to download an update
I have this experience with a few apps I use sort of infrequently. Most of the time the upgrade feels pointless. Anyone else? Why does this feel so common nowadays?
I love Common Lisp but I feel that for a project like this to actually go somewhere it needs to have goals beyond the "we'd like to rewrite the software A in language L" trope.

There are many inspirations that we can take from CL development experience that might make for interesting directions to take 3D software systems. For example a live sharable image based environment would be sweet to allow artists to easily collaborate in real time.

I'll be keep an eye on this, I might have some time for CL projects in the future and would love to help out if possible.
I found an internal memo from the supreme court of Maryland in a book I ordered off of Amazon.
It's interesting that the angular explanatory variables are also those that are easily measured in a 2d still image. Whereas the angular velocity requires differential information and is not be immediately represented in each individual image.
Yes, when you start to feel getting nothing done, tried those so called productivity tricks and doesn't work, start self blaming, it may be a sign for depression.

It is hard to fix this alone, considering the society is constantly telling us that if you don't get stuff done, it is because you are lazy and did not do XYZ. Just find a counsellor or your doctor and see if they have any clue.
Would the G force required to get there be tolerable?
> if you see registrars charging less than $10-15/yr/tld varies by TLD then they are making their money from their customers by up-selling other services.

Isn’t the base fee like $1-2? Did it really go up to $10?
Good. The sooner adtech and big tech die, the better off the rest of us will be.
It does appear that https://www.youtube.com/c/OERProject/videos are CC-BY-3.0, though none of the other material seems to be. Naive searching doesn't turn up any of the videos or material extracted from them on Wikimedia Commons or archive.org but maybe that'd be a useful project.

Added: the Gates Foundation did (and may still for all I know) provide funding to some OER projects 10+ years ago, also to Creative Commons on the idea that organization was infrastructure for OER or something like that. I'm not really suprised if they've focused on getting schools to adopt whatever they are funding, really open or not, since then; it sounds like they've had some success. If there's a trove of under-exploited openly licensed educational videos linked above based on that engagement, and/or based on YouTube adding the ability to opt into CC-BY-3.0 licensing sometime before then, I'm mildly satisifed.
Honestly, as an engineer "Gah" is generally what I do say. When I experience difficulty with software others create, when I discover frustrations with software I create, and when I discover that a customer experiencing an issue that made it out the door that clearly shouldn't have.

It's a very caveman-esque "gah, thinky box no work" type expression, or surprise "gah! wtf just happened!?"

Not trying to invalidate what you feel - just trying to share a different perspective. Perhaps a nudge to give the devs the benefit of the doubt that they don't want you to feel bad things when using what they've poured a lot of energy into.
If you have ever changed anything about yourself, I would start there.

I have had to relearn self change multiple times, because it feels just as hard every time.

I changed from a night person to a morning person by first declaring truthfully to myself "many things will be easier if I was a morning person." (work, sleep, schedules, etc...) When you state something truthful to yourself, and you believe it, then you can't let it go.

Then I go for a single moment of success, the first win. With food, I did it by accident by missing a meal because I was engrossed. Then I realized I was more hungry and enjoyed my dinner more than most I could recall in recent history, because I hadn't snacked, and I skipped lunch. I wanted this feeling again. But the next day, I was hungry again, and it sucked. I was in pain and just wanted to eat.

Eventually I read somewhere that hunger pain is temporary and you just need to be patient through it. I drank coffee, tea, water, hot cocoa, anything to get through hunger pain. And the first time that it worked was eye opening. I found that I (me, not a pill, coach, friend, wife) I successfully fought off hunger pain with reason, practice, environment, tools (drinks) and I made it through the day without snacking or eating a meal until dinner.

I have many stories of changing something about myself, the are all similar in the emotional turmoil you feel trying to take control.
I mean the trick isn't to compute the square root, it's to understand what effect doing so has on the overall voting system, right?
The same is true about policing and ticketing/fines. I know this is a bit of a tangent, but people who are already on hard times are the ones getting policed and fined the hardest and they're the ones that fines and penalties have the biggest impact on.
Ha ha, thanks.

I know 3D graphics, but I realize there are folks out there who know a lot more than I do in their respective fields. And I hope to tap into that knowledge.

It's going to take a team to do this project.
Part of my code makes Copilot crash
Tesla's can only be bought new directly from Tesla. They are the manufacturer and "dealer". The sales people work on salary, no commission. Here's the list of states where you can't buy a Tesla directly but there are workarounds for those people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes
Budsies does this https://www.budsies.com/ but they turn the drawing into a stuffed animal
"Falsifying caller ID" sounds bad but:

1) we get calls if one of our kids misses class. The number is of their school but they use an outside service.

2) we get calls from business on one of their lines but they want the number to show as the main number. Businesses have a few to a few thousand outgoing lines but they may have many too many thousand extensions.

3) there are people who work from home and call out to customers.

There are legit reasons to falsify caller ID. The issue seems to be more "this call is from a number belonging to a Verizon Wireless customer but it's originating from John's Bait and Telco".
> You have elvish bankers, orc gangsters, militarized ape cops, abject poverty, and glittering wealth.

So, basically, Glen Cook's Garrett, PI novels as a TTRPG?
Perhaps - but I think they are underestimating the organisational reasons to separate services from each other. If you are really going to say "we can't separate any two things that have any shared persistent data" then you may just end up with a monolith and all the problems that come from that (gridlock because every team needs to agree before it can be updated / released etc).
Here is a basket of internet points just for you:

\•••••/

\•••/

\•/

-
TikTok to overtake Facebook in influencer marketing spend this year
My lab went from 4000 kg to 130 kg of waste a year
Same story here. I moved to Fastmail a few years ago and have no regrets. I’ll never use another Google service.
The phone company doesn't give you the originator information. This is what they need to be forced to do. Then users could block calls and texts from international numbers to politicians to voips to anything from the state of Wisconsin, adblock-style.
Gitlab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts [rumor]
It is possible to make useless tests.
> have simply enabled the project to even be possible

Are you sure about that? The mandatory "Caravel" pad ring occupies the entire top layer of the chip as well as a ring around the edges. It hermetically entombs the design area that you control.

There is no exposed surface under your control for any kind of chemically-relevant device like a microwell.
I disagree with the analogy you draw (no pun intended). Good creative design is the edge case for a model like this and is naturally much less tractable than getting to this level of design (I’m not a fan).
Bartender JaNee: Where Is She Now? (2019)
Can you explain why this one and not the one from AliExpress I linked?

Can you also answer what US carriers it would work for SIM card wise?
And here is the response generated by GPT-3:

This is a fictional but realistic interview with Leonardo Da Vinci based on his notebooks, and the biography by Walter Isaacson. His responses are either based on his writings, or research by Isaacson.

DKB: Did you struggle with perfectionism?

Leonardo: I sought perfection in everything I did, whether it was my art, my science, or my personal relationships. I was never satisfied with anything that I created, and always strived to improve upon it. This desire for perfection sometimes led to frustration, as I would often spend hours – even days – perfecting a single work, only to scrap it and start again if it didn’t meet my standards. But I believe that it was this striving for perfection that made me the renowned artist and scientist that I am today.