skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey guys

I have a very ambitious project,

It involves going after the +100B beauty booking market.

Other apps can’t find a viable solution to target independent beauticians who represent 80% of the market.

As a result, only 20% market share is occupied.

We have raised our first round and we are now 6, product not yet launched.

The product is a social network to book beauty treatments. Every time a user books & shares a beauty service with one of his friends, he gets commission… & the beautician gets a new client!

We have +100 influencers on the project who are so interested in the product that they will share their beauty routines on the product on social media daily to convert a maximum of people - and therefore earn commissions.

We’re looking for iOS/Android/frontend/backend developers to join us,

We’re going to replicate partnerships with influencers in each country we’re targeting, so the project has the potential to reach millions of users.

Any interest?
I would say the problem is in the overload of the meanings of "culture" and "community", and the almost moral implications of these words in their colloquial sense.

Technically, on a purely scientific level, contributors to a given library do have a "culture". There are rules and attitudes that they follow, more or less consciously, that are different from those that are followed by the contributors to a different library. Each of these groups also technically form a "community", as they are groups of individuals that share a common purpose. A hypothetical research paper that compared the inner workings of different open source contributor groups would be very legitimised in using the words "culture" and "community" to describe them, and researching these topics can be of great interest.

However, the problem arises when these terms are reified towards laypeople, sometimes with somewhat of a self-serving, marketing, or self-congratulatory purpose from the user of the words: «Everyone knows Culture is a good thing! As is Community! And this Community has this Culture! Let's talk about the Culture of this Community! Are you a part of this Community? What can we do for this Community? How can we work on its Culture?» (I felt mentally exhausted just by writing this caricature)
Middens count as dumps I'd argue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden

Also that's a fascinating link you shared, thanks.
I talked to the owner of a local waste management company about plasma gasification. He was aware of the technology and said it cost too much for him to use. He'd have to be taking in trash from five New England states to have enough volume to keep the machine fed and make it cost effective. Sounded like an opportunity to me, but it seemed too risky to him. I'm not sure why he thought the technology could not scale down to the size of his operation, though I have read that it is something you want to keep going continuously, otherwise it costs a lot (in electricity or fossil fuel) to build up enough heat to start the process. Maybe it requires a minimum thermal mass to be self sustaining?
CREATE TABLE foo (doc JSON);

done. If that's really what you want.
I wouldn't necessarily say a major breakthrough as such but I do think some architectural change is needed. There are concepts in images that we don't rely on purely visual understanding for - like words, we have a language model that we use to rely on when we see text in images. I think we need the same thing in our models to reach the next level of capabilities by combining models across different domains. I don't know if this manifests as pre-training with a language model and then expanding and updating the tensors as part of image training, or some more complicated merger of the models.

To learn logical concepts just from images seems entirely impractical, like we can't rely on having enough images such that models can understand words coherently as language. You could draw a picture of a sign that says "children crossing" not because you can understand and remember exactly what an image of such a sign would look like, but because you have an understand of English and the character set that would let you reproduce it. If you tried to learn to create the same sign in Arabic you'd either need to see a huge number of signs to learn from or (more likely) build a language model for Arabic.

The kind of abstract understandings that we know we can train in language models just aren't learned by image transformers at this scale (or likely any practical scale). A language model could easily understand: "A red cube is stacked on top of a blue plate, a green pyramid is balanced on the red cube" and infer things like the position of the pyramid relative to the blue plate, image models quickly fall over with such examples.

An interesting nascent (and hacky) example of the benefits of combining models is people are using language models like GPT-3 to create better prompts for image models.
0-based indexing is clearly the best option because it results in more elegant code and it matches what computers actually do.

In fact, it's so fundamentally more elegant that I've come to the conclusion that the real issue is that it's actually the mathematicians and language itself that got indexing wrong. Instead of "first" being associated with 1, it should be associated with 0. We should give athletes 0th place, and talk about the 0th man on the moon etc.

That's where the cognitive dissonance for the 1-based-indexing people is coming from. They can't deal with the fact that their "normal" way of indexing is wrong.

It's a bit like how pi should really be tau (2*pi), or the electron should really be positive. We got it wrong, but we're stuck with it because it's too much of a hassle to change it. Fortunately computing got it right! But now there's a mismatch with everyday life where people are used to the wrong thing.
There is a reason RR and Mercedes don't sell hood ornaments any more in certain markets as an example. They first crush your legs and then shread everything above. I imagine some of the 50s and 60s designs will be worse with sharp corners and pointy spikes.
Monero hard fork now features a larger ring size (from 11 to 16)
The monero hard fork now features a larger ring size (from 11 to 16), an improved 'Bulletproofs' algorithm for faster transactions, a revamped multisig mechanism, and performance upgrades that reduce wallet sync times by 30-40%.
I'm not sure encouraging more children will help long term though. Eventually we need to figure out how to make society work without population growth.
Why Quantum Computing Is Even More Dangerous Than Artificial Intelligence
That assumes a linear growth. Within such a short timeframe, most progressions appear linear.
"Better for knees"
I am not sure that is correct? Running I understand, but on a bike, your knees are in less of a stress than even standing still.

"Not going to get robbed"
In Europe this is not an issue to be honest.
We are a family and a team. We need money, we need someone taking care of the kids. Who cares who does what. It doesn't work if we miss one part. No part is superior
> Ask a kid to show you their zeroth finger.

They will get confused because every day counting got it wrong. In a perfect world we would count fingers from 0.
I see nothing wrong with this. The fact that it is in "old" python just means that it has done its job for a long time, presumably without needing to be rewritten. I would love it if someone came into my workplace in 15 years and found a script I wrote today still being used.
> I certainly would not choose to have children in these circumstances.

Reminds me of the opening scene of Idiocracy:
https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA
Building a GameCube Mini Because Nintendo Never Did
Downsize the 3000x2000 to the dimensions it will be displayed at and you will be able to go below 100KB.
The “industrial revolution” term was spread from Engels’s book about England (“The Condition of the Working Class in England“). So basically, the definition of “Industrial Revolution” is bound to the phenomenon that started in England.

“industrialization” is another thing, and was a more progressive thing that was already prominent earlier than that. That book I cited is widely studied and reviewed…but you’ll have guessed, you’d need to step a bit away from caring about only the (First) Industrial Revolution. And it also mattered mostly to french/duch speaking regions, so again fewer english results is the norm.

Think of it like the ‘Space Race’, it’s a term that is bound to a specific stream of events that was started by the US. Another country starting to “race” to reach “space” won’t be about that specific stream of event.
> Nvidia has like 85% of the market share for discrete cards. Releasing a game that doesn't work with Nvidia cards in the PC game space would mean flushing your entire release and all your publishers money. Nobody on earth is withholding support for Nvidia as a bargaining chip in the PC gaming space.

Nvidia has that market share because Nvidia has a very big team doing nothing but working either directly with game developers or on pre-release versions of games (provided by the publishers) to make sure that the games work perfect on their cards from day one. No one needs to release a game that doesn't work on Nvidia cards, just not providing that access would be incredible damaging for Nvidia and Nvidia knows that.
> It made me realize I’m old and software is a game for young people looking to make big money in a job where expectations are extremely low.

You can play this game at any age. When you're older, you just don't have any delusions about what it is exactly that you're participating in.
Why does she have to?
Robustel industrial IoT gateways run Debian-based OS, offer 5G, 4G LTE, LoRaWAN
Nobody complains too loudly if you fire a torpedo at a blue whale, but there would be dire consequences if you hit the wrong sub. I wouldn't call sonar contacts statistical evidence though, even if it is partially correct.

The counter example doesn't fit. In you example the sub is hostile because it is Russian. Here the people are convicted to death by circumstantial evidence. Very, very bad circumstantial evidence. It is just "worth" it because there are little consequences for the murderers.
> I wouldn't actually do that again, my views have evolved a bit

On the matter concerning work hours or to tell the candidates about it?
This tbh. If the compiler the Microsoft team maintains is open source (which most of the ones people have heard of are), having involvement in that open source community would probably also be a plus - it helps show the practical part of practical compiler development.

Anyways, many public-facing compilers (C++, C#, VB, F#, the .NET runtime as a whole, TypeScript) are in the devdiv org - if you look up Julia Liuson in the org chart and explore down from there, you can probably get a good idea of who you most want to grab coffee with (or whatever the remote work equivalent of that is now).

Outside of devdiv, there's also some esoteric c++ compilers, PowerShell, and SQL compilers housed in the windows and azure orgs, plus iirc there are some people who work on v8 fulltime around the edge team now, too.

Point is that you've got much more direct access to those teams and opportunities than most people already, being only an internal transfer away - hopefully you can make use of that.
As with all of these things it’s about confidence.

If there is another wobble, and significant redemptions, any hint that they aren’t going to be fulfilled will cause a run. At which point the whole house of cards will fall, if as seems likely they don’t have the $67.5B in the bank.
Coffee with Kernighan
I'm not a compiler engineer but I'd focus on figuring out what problems compilers are being developed to help solve and go from there, applying to companies that do those things.

Google has a lot of compiler stuff. XLA for machine learning: ML graph compilation is a huge area right now because ML is so costly and optimizing ever-growing ML models is something compilers help a lot with. Closure for javascript. A bunch of their own languages: {a few versions of SQL that optimize for different workloads}, {go for servers}, {dart which is both AOT + JIT compiled for rapid app development but performant serving}, {carbon because rust is hard to adopt at a company like google}, ...and this is just off the top of my head. Teams continue to develop and improve these compilers & devtools around them every year, so there are definitely jobs. It feels like big companies like Google / MSFT are most likely to be doing interesting things with compilers because they don't have as much direct linkage to product and thus it's hard to get budget to pay people to do these things unless you're a money-printing behemoth. I'm assuming you don't want to take a big pay cut just to work on compilers :)

In terms of landing the job, I don't think knowing specific tools/libraries/frameworks are that important. I actually flirted with joining one of the teams mentioned above years ago despite not having compiler background, so that's the other thing. They care a lot more about you being a solid engineer and teammate than anything else. PhD will help you get an interview and if the _perfect_ role opens up for you, you'd have an edge. But more often I see folks with PhDs work on things unrelated to their academic research. And actually I think it can be more fun if you're open to doing something a little different, if still in the domain of compilers/programming languages. Your experience will definitely become useful if you are close-ish to the subject, but you'll learn more if it's not _too_ close.
Indeed. End exclusion is advantageous because we don't need to add or subtract 1 when constructing or interpreting ranges. Forgetting to add or subtract 1 is basically why off-by-one errors exist (and doing add rather than subtract or vice versa is probably why off-by-two errors exist).

`a..(a+n)` is an n-length range, not an (n + 1)-length range (oh look, an "add 1" operation!).

And an empty range is denoted by `a..a`, not `a..(a-1)` (oh look, a "subtract 1" operation!).
That's false, and so is your metaphor.
> If you are interested in learning about psychedelic medicine, one very helpful resource I’ve come across for beginners is “The Beginner’s Guide to Psychedelic Medicine” [1] by Tucker Max.

Please please please remember this point. If you are going to start a psychedelic journey, do some prep work first!
I know what they're saying and I've often found it annoying as well.

If such a car is following you and you get to the left or middle lane to overtake a slower car then the car behind you first accelerates to your right as if they were going to pass you, then brakes because of course there's another car there, the one you are overtaking.

The other case where I find them annoying, the worst case for me, is when I'm quietly driving my speed, overtaking a (slow compared to me) car that is following another one. But while I'm overtaking the "auto following" car, the car in front of it gets back to the right lane and the other car suddenly takes off much faster than me. So here I was, driving 110 and overtaking a car driving 90, while suddenly accelerates to 130... until it gets stuck again a kilometer further, and I have to overtake it again, and everything repeats.

Of course, I could do the same acceleration/braking dance and stay behind them all the time, but I care about not spending fuel for useless speed changes.
Do you have a status page? (I'm biased as the founder, but) our customers at https://onlineornot.com report getting fewer support tickets during incidents as their users know to check status.example.com before asking support what happened.
GPT-3(4), DALL-E, Imagen, ...

I wonder what's next?
A lot of modern cars have an automatic brake that keeps your car from going downhill in those situations. Some are smoother, some are weirder, but it works.
I believe there is some workaround for AMD as well, but I believe it will be a pain to set up on my machine. I have Radeon Pro 580, on Windows I even use the Adrenaline custom drivers…

Getting VR to work was tiresome, so now I don't want to even start before I see someone else succeeded.
> Unfortunately, if a company's culture is bad, initiative won't help

That's the chicken and egg problem. If you perceive that the company's culture is bad, you won't have initiative. If you (anyone) don't have initiative, then company's culture is kept the same.
I don't know if this is a joke, but no.
Thank you for this comment.

And much good luck with your situation.
Maybe he's talking about the big drop in testosterone in males? Even things like hand grip strength have decreased.
> What is the best use of my time outside of work?

At your kind of age (a little older) both my children went travelling, one around Europe, the other South America, without any prompting. They both came back with a self confidence and respect for other people you couldn't believe. They did it when they felt it was what they wanted (but scared inside) and went alone - they joined up with others they met on the road. If you get to a stage where you feel ready it is worth considering. It is not risk free and as a parent it is petrifying! But as others have said here, it is worth working on who you are as well as what you can do.
Doesn't OIN work in pretty much the same fashion?
Blasphemous
> Inviting more women, elderly people and foreigners into the workforce is another goal.

Hate to say it, but inviting women into the workforce will likely lower the rate even more.
Really? I can be the judge of that.
How does ipv4 vs ipv6 affect speed?
The transmission will simply be gone due to electric motors won't it?

And even with gas engines, I'm in Europe and I've never owned an automatic. I've driven a few and kinda hated them... with the exception of Toyota's CVT. I would drive that.

Too bad hybrids have 18/24 months delivery time around here. Not a good time to change your car.
Reversy Naming
No, that's an exponential growth
Many high end cars are not even offered with manual transmission in Europe anymore.
Korea and Japan are very much against mass immigration. Koreans in particular are notoriously xenophobic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/world/asia/south-korea-di...

There's also an even weirder anti-feminist backlash happening as well.
FWIW I've worked in global top50 bank on a non-critical team (nothing we did affected real bank balances or transactions) and nothing of the sort you're describing was happening there. The rules were followed, even if they were extremely painful for developers. In fact, they were main of the reasons people left the bank - they just wanted to go someplace where their hands aren't tied as much. So, I guess there are good banks and bad banks.
"4-fold every decade" is exponential, not linear.
An LCD monitor that buffers frames? That would be really bad. The typically HDMI receiver chip does the lazy thing. Which is simply to receive pixels on one end, and transmit them out the other at the same rate that it receives them at. No buffering.

https://www.analog.com/en/products/adv7613.html
Writing an Optimization Library in Rust (2021)
"It's an offset from the beginning. The first element is 0 slots from the beginning." is what I was taught.
(Of course, it's more complicated than that, with pointer math etc etc, but that works as a general gist)

In the past, I've written roughly half a million lines of Lua. Arrays don't always start at 0. I've regularly shaken my fist at Lua and cursed it's wicked ways, but it's really damn useful in a lot of contexts.
As other people have mentioned, its about not being able to afford to buy a house to raise kids in.

I do want to also mention though, a unique Korean system called "Jeonse", which is a large deposit that is 50-80% of the property value. After putting in the deposit, you can live there on yearly basis without paying rent. This system has been and is being used as property ladder for young families (as they don't have to "lose" money on rent) but as "Jeonse" is pegged to property value, they've been rapidly rising as well AND frauds around Jeonse has been on rise, in which case you can lose the whole deposit or be tied up in court battle for years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeonse
Asymmetric Visions
I think you forgot to * 12 for the months.

250,000 customers is approximately $300m a year.

250,000 * 100 dollars a month (approx - maybe less now) * 12
This is easy in Thunderbird, right?
I have filters that put around 35 specific senders (bank, ISP, VPS-provider, ...) each in their own folder. Thunderbird makes these folders bold when a mail arrives, indicating the number of unread messages.
Whenever an important mail arrives, I immediately notice it.
It says this:

Eleven months later, and new CIA research shows the pipeline of proposed storage has grown enormously, to over 26 GW of announced projects.

The individually enumerated projects in that article appear to be only a subset of those.

It's true about the Victorian battery you linked at a ratio of 1.5, so that has the 26GW representing somewhere in the range of 39GWh to 104GWh (ratios close to 2 appear to be the most common, though - presumably representing a current sweet spot of battery versus inverter pricing).

I believe the point still stands, though, which is that the suggested quantity of storage is an incremental advance on what's currently planned rather than some kind of moon shot.
I like it, although you left out the part where your other business arm researches potential troll lawsuits before they happen and goes after companies who don't pay you protection money. /s
I get spam on Whatsapp, and FB Messenger. Not as much as email but I'm assuming because email is where the spammers are concentrating.

Which system gets it right and could email be fixed?
I know I shouldn't ask HN for legal advice, but does anyone know how these laws affects websites not made by americans and not hosted in the US? Could I still be fined for this? Would it be my job or their job to blacklist my websites from California internet if I was in violation?

I say this because my only experience was when in the wake of GDPR a lot of smaller US outlets decided on blacklisting Europe from accessing them.
Broken legal system. Weaponising court cases like this should not be allowed
Rally transmissions at least are very much manual. Along with most other race transmissions. They use dog-ring gearboxes, which are just really beefy synchronizing rings that let you just slam it into gear without decoupling from the engine. The paddles are electric, but they tell some pneumatic system to push a lever forwards or backwards.

F1 might use some decoupling? But I would expect them to work like most other race transmissions, by not decoupling.

There are computers that control the rev-matching, but that's technically on the engine side of things. There are sensors on the gearbox that let the controller know when to add throttle, but it's still very much not the responsibility of the transmission. There are also downshift protection to make sure you don't over-rev the engine, but this is also on the engine side of things, but it does block the signal from the paddle shifters.
> And buyers that do want heated seats, do need to waste money on them.

Why is it 'pay for them' in the current model but 'waste money on them' in the new model?
Gairoscope: Injecting Data from Air-Gapped Computers to Nearby Gyroscopes
Speculation but: apartments might have less supply than there is demand from those people. And to "us" 52 workweek and perfect GPA might sound like being upper of the uppest but in Korea, as GP frames it, it sounds median.
> This is also a "hey why not, its free money" kind of incentive

Does it matter who does the slashing, as long as the incentive is enough to motivate doing it?
What if it will be displayed at 3000x2000? I mean that's the whole conversation here, we're talking about images that are the focus point of the page.
Not so different from an El Camino[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_El_Camino