skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhm… I’ve seen the problems with people climbing the corporate ladder too fast.

I used to work with this person in his early 30ies and they were in charge of the infrastructure. This person started as a developer and then was tasked with managing infrastructure, while not having never actually worked as a sysadmin and/or having done operations work.

Well… after a while it became clear that the limitations of the infrastructure were a reflection of the limitations of this person’s knowledge and understanding of infrastructure.

Experience does matter.
The backpack is a different case - the contents of the backpack are clearly germaine to school property.

But that isn't true for a mobile device that contains none-school contents. Eg, does a student bringing their phone to school mean that a school can search their financial records through their mobile banking app? Digital diary? Electronic health records?
In my last two jobs, one in the Bay Area and one in Vancouver, my usual schedule has been arrive at 9, take a 45-60min lunch, leave at 5 and I've never had anyone tell me I'm not working enough or producing enough output.
Is the US any different? I'm pretty sure it's almost impossible to get a criminal conviction for bad debt these days. Maybe in a really extreme case like a deliberate fraud scheme that used defaulting as a key part of the process, but not a normal person just normally not repaying a loan.
Maybe do some Ruby programming and then reconsider what you think is more readable.

the break, food out break out of the if block? Or somewhere else? It’s confusing
Interesting! A small wrapper switching the engine might be the most reasonable "real-world" benchmark there is.
I don't know any math, but I did quickly check who this author is.

He's some guy with no credentials, graduated as an accountant. Clearly has a knack for math and is not terrible at it (mathoverflow), but otherwise has no social credit supporting his credibility (twitter, LinkedIn).

Doesn't mean he's necessarily wrong, maybe he got it. It's not impossible that he's some kind of contemporary Ramanujan, but yeah.. unlikely.
Have you considered that this:

>Being hostile to unions seems like a normal thing for some other parts of the world, but seeing a Swedish employer talk like this about union membership here immediately leaves a bad taste in my mouth about the company. It's a red flag.

is the reason for this:

>I was actually surprised to read that the Swedish CEO "took a dab at unions". Sure, relationships with unions can be complicated, but I've never heard an employer talk negatively about them here (maybe I'm just sheltered?).
One thing I’ve noticed compared to childhood appliances is plastic mechanisms (gears, actuators, brackets, etc). These tend to become brittle or soft with age or exposure to chemicals and lead to early failure. Of course metal also suffered from fatigue and there are quite strong and durable thermoplastics but today I see cheap plastic used liberally.
Yes, for any attachment/mime-section ("inline" is just a flag of "Content-Disposition" header in corresponding mime section).

No, across many emails, at least not without writing some macros.

Sort-of, labeling deleted attachment. You can attach a label to whole email, or edit raw, to edit/replace an attachment with placeholder/label text. A bit fiddly, but doable with some vim-fu.
everybody solemnly chants the holy words "you're on mute"
I interpreted that as the shadow and CEO spoke with each other sometimes, and the CEO asked for the shadow's thoughts (it would be odd if they didn't talk with each other?).

And a bit from the shadow updating the online docs, but maybe that's not for the CEO.
"Agile" means different things to different people.

I would argue it's agile if you release early&often to continuously incorporate feedback, even if you don't play Planning Poker in Scrum Sprint Planning every two weeks.
Your entire point hinges on a false assumption; “training” a human artist (or programmer) is the same as training an AI model.

It is not.

The AI model can only regurgitate stolen mash-ups of other people’s work.

Everything it produces is trivially derivative of the work it has consumed.

Where it succeeds, it succeeds because it successfully correlated stolen human-written descriptions to stolen human-produced images.

Where it fails, it does so because it cannot understand what it’s regurgitating, and it regurgitates the wrong stolen images for the given prompt.

AI models are incapable of producing anything but purely derivative stolen works, and the (often unwillingly) contributors to their training dataset should be entitled to copyright protections that extend to the derivative works.

That’s true whether we’re discussing dall-e or GitHub copilot.
Tech company Esri will pay $2.3M to settle pay discrimination claims
Lesson, I guess, is to refuse any Covid tests before you get to a Japanese hospital.
Really interesting. Mine has been withing 5 or ten points for 10 years across many zipcodes. The only exception was when I let a bill go to collections and it dropped ~30 pts and slowly recover over a year. Could it have to do with your % credit utilization when you leave a run a balance. If you up your CC limit to 20x your balance, your issue may go away.
That's not clear at all. It may simply turn out that RK3399 (as a tablet and notebook SoC) will be impossible to make power efficient enough, and with much much smaller userbase than original Pinephone, noone will work on fixing it.
It seems to be because HN is forcing HTTPS, it works when using HTTP.

Try this: http://reactos.aaron.cc/
Maybe it wasn't meant for HN, but actually for someone's blog that only gets a few hundred hits a day if it's a very successful blog. Going out on a limb here.
This might not work the same for a fresh port on an alternative system. For example: I have no idea how many open connections reactos could handle on the kernel-side with a standard config.
This will probably sound counter intuitive, but my Pixel on Google Fi has the least bloatware and fewest ads I've known on a phone. The alternatives all seem like a downgrade in hardware or UX. I put up with lower quality coverage, but for the most part it doesn't matter because it uses wifi 99% of the time.
> E.g. a Nissan Leaf battery replacement will set you back around 7000 dollars. A lot of money for sure. But it will last quite long and when there's really nothing else wrong with the vehicle, it's a perfectly rational decision to make. Lots of original Nissan Leafs from 12 years ago are still driving around and quite a few will survive into their second and third decade.

This is better than Tesla which charges $12-20k + labor + parts to change the battery pack. But $7k is still a big chunk of change. That will set a price cliff on the car. Basically if it is worth $13k, but you're going to need a battery change in the next year, the true price of the car will be worth $6k on the market. Cars that are less than $7k become effectively worthless as the new buyer will be guaranteed to have to replace the battery pack on them.

This happens with home sales. Like if a house needs a new roof, the buyers will ask the home owners to discount the price of the new roof off the house.

https://www.way.com/blog/tesla-battery-replacement-cost/
W-54 isn't here anymore. So instead US have tuned down W-76 into 5-8kt. I.e. getting new capabilities without testing (there are recent tuned down, though not that low, versions of B61 too). And that is open information. One can expect that classified would be at least a step ahead, i.e. something like 1kt. Coupled with high precision delivery and earth-penetration designs (that US has been using across the range - from conventional to B61) that makes for extremely effective deterrence as it allows to take out a dictator like Putin deep in his underground bunker if he crosses the line (Putin becoming the first and primary target himself is the cornerstone of the current deterrence architecture), and other strategic keypoints without initiating full scale war.
I'm not going to blame anyone because I make this all the time. Sometimes the poof that something is true or false are very similar. In this case the difference is if some value is 1/2 or 3/4. Anyway, my coworkers find the error before we publish it.
I suggest that the regulatory bodies are acting (likely intentionally) more of a hindrance than a help. It’s highly likely there’s been regulatory capture by the fossil fuels industry given their political clout and significant lobbying experience. It’s not an accident that the recent “climate bill” just has a bunch of concessions for the oil industry [1]:

> it requires the U.S. Department of the Interior to lease 2 million acres in federal lands onshore and 60 million acres offshore each year for oil and gas development (or whatever acreage the industry requests, whichever is smaller). These quotas must be met to allow federal leasing for onshore and offshore renewables development, respectively.

> In an online statement, a senior scientist at 350.org called the bill a “sham” and said that it “contained so many giveaways to the fossil fuel industry” that it “turns all of the gains in addressing the climate crisis into a moot point.”

Nuclear power plants with today’s technology are already safe. Small modular designs are nice but it’s not an either or. We should be building reactors with the best technology available at the time, not waiting for a hypothetical future. In fact, building with today’s technology helps because a) provides clarity that allows for greater private investment b) Wright’s law tells us it’ll have compound benefits where nuclear technology gets cheaper and safer.

Look at China. They’ve already build 47 power plants with another 11 approved [2]. They know what kind of problem oil is and they’re making significant effort to fix it while the rest of the world is sitting on their hands. It plans to build another 150 reactors, 30 of which are outside of China [3]. They’re spending 440B (almost 0.5T) in building out nuclear fission [4].

Fission has a realistic path to displacing all fossil fuels. We should have been doing this for the past 60 years - it would have been even cheaper in the past. Even with all the accidents, nuclear technology has fewer deaths per KWh produced than almost any other technology [5] (on par with solar and wind).

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2022/08/04/the-c...

[2] https://cnpp.iaea.org/countryprofiles/China/China.htm

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...

[5] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
There's a big subthread on this post about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32459755.

Hermetic builds (Bazel, Nix, etc.) are in some sense orthogonal to packaging and delivery via e.g. a Docker container.

It's true that it takes great care to get bit-for-bit identical output from a C/C++ toolchain, and it's also true that very subtle things can send the compiler and linker into a tailspin of "now I inline this and now I don't have room to inline that and now other optimization passes do something different" and whoa, my program just got a lot faster or slower, yikes. I forget the title now, but there was a great Strange Loop talk about how if you do good statistics on repeated builds or even just stuff more or less into `argv` that the difference between `-O2` and `-O3` doesn't hold up (on either `gcc` or `clang`).

But whether the final executable is delivered to the target system via Docker or `scp` doesn't change any of that. If you want identical builds the Bazel and Nix people have a high-investment/high-return sales pitch they'd like you to hear :).

And it's also true (as another commenter pointed out) that it's at least a little bit reductionist of me to say "Docker gives you static linking". Docker does a zillion things, and for the people using the other stuff, more power to them if it's working well.

I would contend that most of them (especially since QEMU emulating x86_64 on your Intel Mac or vice versa isn't really a great story anymore) are not the real selling point though: you already had `virtualenv` and `nvm` and `rustup` and just countless ways to isolate/reproduce everything except the contents of your friendly neighborhood `/usr/lib/...`. If the native compiled code underpinning all of this stuff had all it's symbols linked in, and your kernel is the same or newer, you could use a tarball (and I've worked places where we did just that)!

`git` was probably the tool that really sold everyone on: I want a goddamned cryptographic hash of everything in the thing, otherwise I Don't Trust Like That. We don't accept mystery meat from our source code anymore, why we feel any differently about what actually runs is Stockholm's syndrome IMHO.
Ha, I remember the first project I encountered that "went Agile." The weekly team meeting (which everyone complained about) was replace with daily standups (30 minutes), a two-hour retrospective (useless) every 2 weeks, and a 2-hour sprint planning every 2 weeks. Power to the developers indeed.
TCom: Server-side components without JavaScript
Welcome to Pine Point (2011)
Some other fun phrases to look for on ageing HN comments:

'If I was president I would'

'You're not wrong, but'

'My point is that'

'The thing is'

'Google should'

'Basically what I'm saying is'

'The only caveat is'

'Buyer beware'

'Without sounding like'

'The truth is'

'In all honesty'

'As a matter of fact'
> Tool branding is everything and people who use tools absolutely care about where they are made and who owns the company making them. Reputation is everything with some things.

Good chart of tool company owners, https://www.protoolreviews.com/power-tool-manufacturers-who-...

> It may surprise you to know that only a handful of power tool companies own your favorite tools. That’s right, most tool brands fall under a parent company that also controls additional power tool manufacturers and brands.

At this point, reputation and branding needs to be separated out to the level of tool lines or even model numbers, e.g. Ridgid tools, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32453919

> After signing the deal in 2003, TTi took over the production of Ridgid power tools. These tools are licensed for sale only at The Home Depot, and all of these tools are produced by TTi, not Emerson. However, TTi does not own Ridgid or the rights to the brand name. Rather, TTi has a licensing agreement with Emerson that allows them to produce and distribute the tools under the Ridgid name.

While most Ridgid power tools are made in China by TTI, the well-regarded Ridgid shop vacs are made in Mexico by Emerson.

Ridgid toolboxes are made in Israel by Keter, which also makes enclosures for Milwaukee Packout and Home Depot's Husky brand.
I never mentioned anything about Klarna. I merely commented on capitalism and debt
So you couldn’t find any precedent I take it. That article proves exactly my point:

> emojis can raise potentially complex and serious legal issues, including novel and complicated questions about intellectual property

> copyright might protect individual emojis

So the question is far more open ended and complicated than your snide “So I guess all copyright is pointless” remark would make it seem. The complexity of the law is exactly what I was getting at. How much change is required to make it no longer Apple IP since the underlying emoji determinations are not even made by Apple, just adopted by them?
you have sentimental attachment to a...uh...amplifier?
Build a hoverboard powered go-kart for your kids
Does the market require a new a business process automation software.?
Does the market need a new product for Business process automation. Has the artificial intelligence applied satisfactorily in the existing products?
So, your answer to the original question

> Why not simply make sure that life is comfortable on the tail end of the of the curve and call it a day?

Is that "that's not enough"?

Where are you going with this?
‘Byzantine’ is good now?
> I think you are assuming that 22% is the fraction of the energy recovered

That's the 0.22 in the equation, and it's taken from the article's chart.

> I assume they need to model how often the car brakes to arrive at that

It's not hard to measure it in an actual car.

> it's just that electric generators/motors are quite efficient at turning rotation into electricity and vice versa.

It's overall 64% efficient. The 87-91% figure given in the article is based on bad math and/or a total misunderstanding of basic physics.
* An app which downloads all the invoices received as email attachment in the last quarter (in order to send them to the accountant).

* An app which identifies the 200 hashtags most frequently seen in Instagram's top posts containing a given hashtag.

For both of these projects, a factor leading me not to start marketing them was the complexity and risks in relying on Google and Facebook APIs as data sources, respectively.
> For instance, take Beethoven's Symphony No 5 in C minor, you know the one with the famous opening that repeatedly taps out 'V' for victory in Morse code

Always worth pointing out that Beethoven's 5th predates Morse Code by a good 40 years or so, though. Morse was in his early teens when Beethoven wrote it.
if they're embedding ads in the news app itself it's worse than Android, because Google does not put ads in that app. I honestly don't think any of the Google apps on android phones show ads.
This can happen - if the company is setup to allow that. There was some GE product that was brought back in-house next to the developers and the assemblers talking to them shaved 35 steps off manufacturing.
MidJourney is a lot better at making very convincing and usable output in one shot.
> The other people's work to serve as your training set is exactly what art students do

“Training” an art student and training an AI model are vastly different, and your equating the two is, frankly, nonsensical and absurd.

An art student isn’t a trivial weighted model capable only of mapping stolen text prompts to stolen image representations of them.

> It happens that the developers working on this problem have gotten it so that it can do its learning and creation many times faster than an art student in a gallery

It hasn’t learned anything.

It correlates stolen textual descriptions with stolen images, and then regurgitates mash-ups of the same.

This type of AI model cannot produce anything other than purely derivative work stolen from others.
There are a lot of services like this and many CRMs have them built in.

What's interesting about this one?
Ah, I phrased that clumsily. Linux/Linus are fanatical about not breaking userspace (God bless them). Your stuff never runs on a different system because some asshat clobbered your `/usr/lib/...`.
If you have people wanting to hide from contributing then there is a bigger problem in the team I would say.

But otherwise, why do you think it’s so bad?
The author is using the word a bit differently, but the fact that "sprint" has been normalized as a unit of work for software development, and developers are expected to be in a "sprint" more or less at all times, has always been a source of the deepest absurdity to me.

A "sprint" is, almost by definition, a pace that's sustainable only for short periods. The fact that developers are expected to perform sprint after sprint endlessly, to view "sprint" as the default baseline pace, seems a ludicrous abuse of language.
It's weird how oil companies are purposely restricting supply. They have production capacity ready to go and not in current use and raw materials, but money is nicer to pad their bottom line.
I mean I said it as a joke, but I can't say I'm surprised it's a valid registered domain.
Ok, but what is the histogram on that? The point wasn't "someone young can't possibly do X" but a combination of "it seems strange that we have an industry built almost entirely of young people" and "somehow this industry believes old people can't do things". Maybe there is a good reason for this, but it is certainly strange: it is like we actively don't want experience that I would have thought should count for a lot (in architecture and planning) while demanding sometimes impossible amounts of experience in things that I'd think wouldn't matter at all (using the new, shiny framework or programming language that those truly experienced people are probably avoiding anyway unless it really really offered something they hadn't seen in their decades of development).
I've done 80-hour work weeks in blocks ranging from 6 weeks to 6 months. I did literally nothing but wake-work-sleep-wake-work-sleep, with time for food and similar necessities.

I didn't have many blocks like that, but those were some of the most productive (and personally fulfilling) times of my life. They made my career. Those allowed me to level up each time in a very significant way.

I also had long breaks after each of those -- they set me up to cruise for a while.

I did that before kids. I couldn't do that after kids. After kids, though, I have a depth of knowledge that makes me applicable for other types of productivity and work.
As detaro says, it's automatic. But in a few cases the mods make additional changes.
Why make a good product, when you can make a good advert or public relations campaign instead and gain repeat customers in a shorter timescale? (As your product will need replacing sooner.) If all the corporations collude in this way, everyone is a winner.

But of course the customer is at fault for this environmental misuse of resources.... right? We should shoulder the expense of cleaning up the mess that corporations and governments create.

^ That is the corporate/governmental plan - spin the problem as an environmental issue that the consumer pays for! (Again.) And extract even more money from the customer in the process as they get rid of servicable products in favour of echo-friendly ones. Make laws to force them to do this too! It's a win win for the corporations!
Also, Chrome was using WebKit long before they forked it. IIRC, for several years they used the exact same engine used by Safari, and both Apple and Google were contributing to it.
The constitution was signed by 20-somethings

e.g.
James Monroe (18), John Marshall (20), Aaron Burr (20), Alexander Hamilton (21), and James Madison (25)
Oh yes you are 100% right, I just had a brain fart. Thanks for correcting
The Riemann hypothesis is that the zeta function has all its (nontrivial) zeros with real part 1/2. To disprove this you need only to present a single zero with real part != 1/2. So what's that number you found then? No need to write a paper, just show me the number.

I'm not even going to bother opening the link.
Browsing HN on mobile.
New CSS framework appears. I click the link, aaaaand it looks janky on mobile.

Every. Single. Time.