skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, guess I just don't know enough about SpaceX then. If you read my comment and interpreted it as "hatred" then that is odd. I don't think it's possible to hate someone you don't know. I mean, every time he has popped up in the last 5 years or so he's been saying or doing something dumb or annoying so quite a lot of people have gradually gotten tired of that. But it’s not hatred at all.

He's not treated like the next Hitler by any stretch of the imagination. He's more like a village drunk who just keeps showing up doing stupid things like peeing on your doorstep or passing out in your garden. You don't hate that person, you're just like "[sigh] ok I guess we have to deal with him again..."
> Provide free hosting for countless FOSS projects?

and provide the resulting source code to anybody regardless of the source and target license w/o consent via Copilot.

Also, it was free for FOSS even way before Microsoft, so that part doesn't even count.
When did you use 1Password for the last time? Not a big fan by myself, but the points you are mentioning are fully available
I have long been generally supportive of the people's right to return, but I am far more sceptical of Mauritius' claim to the islands. They were administered from Mauritius when Mauritius was a British colony, but otherwise, they do not have a strong geographical or historical connection there. I guess, ultimately, it is up to the Chagosian people what political arrangements they want, and I hope the negotiators make determining that a priority.
These blurry images look like they are composed of a couple of gradients.

Wouldn't it be possible to generate a tiny SVG or some CSS that reproduces these gradients?

In that case, basically no decoding step is needed and integration is as easy as setting a CSS style on a div or including an SVG. If the image dimensions are set from the start, the browser can even continue layouting the page before actually drawing the gradients. Letting the browser decode the gradients should also be much faster.

Is there a library that does that?
It’s not that it would need to be as valuable forever but rather the opposite: that it be forever not looted.
This is quite a curiously Pavlovian response. It assumes so much from that "please return home". The whole comment stands as a window into a life lived under abusive working conditions where the Individual knows only the control of the Company.

Nothing in that 'please return home' is anything to do with forcing anyone to have a home office, to go there and work, to do anything really. The company doesn't control you.
Good points. I guess it makes even more sense when considering that the crew also needs to transport themselves to the car from the station
Perhaps that's the point. It's not worth $44bn.

Twitter rinsed Musk on the way out, which I deeply respect considering his behaviour.

That will only be some salve for the employees losing their jobs, but hopefully their packages get some of that.
> As a european though, it is absolutely crazy to see you can do this on a day by day basis. Here you would have at least 1 month, more likely 3 month, prior notice to just being kicked out and having your accounts closed.

That's not true, there are minimum periods for which you must continue to pay the employee after notice their contract will be terminated, but I'd be surprised to learn of any country where it's illegal to prevent the employee having access to the building, confidential documents, etc.

Cf. 'gardening leave'.
Only the really small units for mom-and-pop stores do it, the supermarket-sized ones have the compressors and condensers outside the building.
I know because a brother-in-law's company sells them.
> Linux is still in the stone age when it comes to tagging. Common Linux filesystems (including ext4 & ZFS) support extended attributes, but I'm not aware of any Linux distro or file manager that includes tagging features based on them (or embedded metadata, for that matter).

KDE has decent support of tags in extended attributes. Tags are shown and can be edited in Dolphin (file manager), gets indexed by baloo. This is far from stone age as author claims!
Or.. drawers (optionally with clear fronts). Each drawer is effectively a mini chest fridge.
Something that meany seem to be missing in the comments is that this is a fridge (for cooling stuff), not a freezer (for deep.freezing stuff). He turned the freezer into a fridge, which seems to make sense, as gravity keeps the cold air better in a horizontal fridge.

THey are not as practical, as you have to stack stuff onto each other and it is easier to find space for a vertical fridge in a kitchen, but from a pure energy consumtion perspective this makes sense.

If the mentioned energy consumtion is correct, it is really quite low. A good new fidge that size without freezer uses about 90 kWh per year, which is about twice as much as his fridge.
Huh? You can literally do those things in 1Password. Every item has a notes section where you can type plain text. Custom fields are supported. List view is there.

https://support.1password.com/custom-fields/

https://support.1password.com/1password-com-items/
They certainly are! I use both everyday. Emacs and Org-mode are so ingrained into my brain and fingers that I just totally forgot that I am using a Lisp system everyday while posting my previous comment.
Thanks for the really interesting writeup!

> Personally I wonder why Amtrak doesn't offer a "Presidential" fare, where 6 or so people can book a private car and get truly top tier service.

Could a 3rd-party company offer this? I.e., they own and operate the Presidential-like cars, and are a contractual middle-man between Amtrak and the riders?
> I wonder what it is about this space that's triggering so many new products.

Note-taking is a low-hanging fruit, and it's basically impossible to create the perfect solution for everyone. So there will always be a constant supply of new apps, catering to a new generation of users and trying out new paradigms, or reinventing old forgotten paradigms. The same happened 20 years ago, the same will still be happening in 20 Years. It's an endless circle.

Though, one notable difference is, that today it's easier than ever, to create high quality apps&services and share them. So we also see many more poor and half-assed solutions in absolute numbers, than 20 years ago.
It's a bit "one weird trick", but you're right that absolutely the best way to get consumer problems addressed in the UK is to use the word "complaint". It starts the clock as complaints typically have to be addressed within certain time limits.

If you don't use the word complaint then companies can argue that they thought you were merely providing feedback or engaging in something other than a complaint.

As soon as you use the word complaint, they can't argue that and it puts you on track to escalate to the ombudsman and the companies know it, and they know you know it.
LOLs per Second
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/wp-content/uploads/sit...

Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-7-performance-i...
You’re missing the point of their comment. If the medium is the problematic thing being focused on in their comment then who the communicating parties are is not significant.

Checkout Postman and McLuhan.
Sure, but I imagine the pre-Musk layoffs would have been similar to what we're seeing in Twitter's peer companies (~10-15%, generous severance payouts, etc.) as opposed to what's happening now. To throw your hands in the air and claim that layoffs were an inevitability is a weird way to shield a dude that is just being cruel because he thinks he's God.
> Smart people live below their means.

> The majority of people who earn more spend more.

You don't need a Prolog engine to compute the conclusion...
Twitter sued by former staff as mass sacking begins
PayPal is excellent for buyers, horrible for sellers. Just don't keep any money in it and don't let them convert currency for you.
I hope not, but even then a thin plastic frame isn't the worst. One could 3d print it for example. The worst I can think of is using a thermoset glue (or a thermally stable epoxy) on metal only parts. Then no one could fix it without replacing the chassis.

However, the trend these days seems to be glass backs and this necessitates rubber/silicone like glues to make the glass less likely to break when metal deforms on impact. I don't think there are any glues that are rubber like flexible and they resist heat. So at least until there are glass backs we're fine :-)
I work at a FAANG and use Common Lisp. Hsssh, don’t tell anyone :).
> Sentiment analysis trained on the standard datasets is one place where performance is barely better than old-school linear classifiers

Well yeah. But why would you do that?

Do what eveyrone does: Train on large scale a language corpus (or use a pre-trained model) then finetune for sentiment analysis.

> I strongly advice against using something fine-tuned solely on sentiment datasets

Did you mean trained on sentiment datasets? I agree with that.

Otherwise, well [1] is a decent overview of the field. I think Document Vectors using Cosine Similarity[2] at 17 is the highest rated that isn't a NN trained on large corpus and fine-tune on sentiment task. Even that uses document vectors that are trained on a large language corpus.

[1] https://paperswithcode.com/sota/sentiment-analysis-on-imdb

[2] https://paperswithcode.com/paper/the-document-vectors-using-...
My wife did this with ours but took it a step further: the has a whiteboard in the kitchen with an inventory of exactly what we have in the chest freezer. It works well, except for once in a while when she takes something out but forgets to update the inventory. I offered to build her a barcode system but so far she hasn’t taken me up on it :p
As a former SRE, I'd just like to say
I'm surprised by these "generous" packages. Where I work in Europe, they must give me 3 months notice, my full salary is paid for 6 months, after which it's 75% up to 2 years, and if I still don't find anything new by then I get 50% indefinitely.

I've worked in both the US and various EU countries, while the higher salary is certainly enticing, it's also a trap; When shit hits the fan, you better have been saving. In Europe, the money I make is money I get to really use, because the rest is taken care of for me.
Or you might just discover that cut-throat companies often build low quality products.
It wouldnt change anything for me tbf

There are laws that take care of it in my country
You're right. I don't know why there's people repeating that "they have commercial intent" when it's actually not true. That's unfair, ZLib is a really good web
Even so, this does not mean your SSN is distributed beyond the issuer. Banks do have privacy regulations.
So, does that mean any domain can be seized by a court order ?
The cooling in this freezer is all around the walls, and the condensed water stays on the walls and then falls down on the bottom. There was originally no drain hole, and even adding the drain hole didn't solve the problem.

It was designed as a freezer, not a fridge, after all.
Someone can correct me, but gradients and large box shadows are some of the most intensive things your browser can render. There was noticeable slowdown when you do too much of that.
I can imagine a permanently closed fridge with inspection cameras inside and an app to select which box to take out. Then something like this [1] will deliver the box to a tiny opening acting as an airlock, or take a box and park it inside. And of course $499 upfront plus $99 per month for the app, advertising, and front door delivery to refill empty boxes, and no self serviceable parts, and mandatory subscription to a $19 monthly cleaning service, and... I think I could keep going on like this for a while. Lots of ideas for a front camera /s

[1] https://www.pouted.com/fully-automated-car-parking-systems/
>As despicable as Facebook is, I wish someone there would just come out and say “have you looked at yourself in the mirror?”

That's orthogonal. Human nature is what it is, we have to work with what we have, and at best change that slowly within a culture/society.

Facebook on the other hand, and how it operates, is almost infinitely malleable, and can be changed with just programmers working on the change.

And it's not some neutral playground that's "only bring us closer" but an active agent, which has policies to create echo bubbles, stir up engagement, and use distraction and partisanship for maximum profit, and whole teams dedicated to it.

So, no it's not like a knife that can be used to cut a cake or kill a person, and it's "just up to us how we use it".

It's more like an automatic riffle with a laser guide careful designed for maximum hurt, and promoted as such to customers (in this case, advertisers), with product teams devoted to stirring up conflict to improve the riffle selling business...
Watts are handy if your electricity is priced around 11.4 cents per kWh. If that's the case, 1 Watt continuously = 1 USD per year. (scale up or down to suit your tariff)

(1 watt = 8.76 kWh/yr)
Haha, can you tell I'm trying to quit coffee this week? An entire article and half the comments in and I never noticed we're talking about a refrigerator and not a freezer. My bad!
I was talking about private space company. I mean who thinks like I'm going to start a private space company that will launch freaking rockets in space. I don't think any private company did that before SpaceX
20-25% lower memory usage: class instead of factory function
Exactly. The idea that there is a zero-sum trade-off between pirated books and for-profit books is nonsense. I look through hundreds of books every year - often just skimming the introduction, or most relevant chapter - and if I like them enough, I'll take them out from the library or buy them. I buy more books because of libgen and z-lib, not less.
Twitter is weird like that sometimes (often?). My account was created ~2009, I read a lot, but don't post very often.

A while ago between 15 and 20 shady accounts started following me. Twitter immediately froze my account before I cold even block these obvious bots.

I opened a support ticket and received my answer in a suspiciously short amount of time, and my account was reactivated.
What was the average salary of a Twitter employee?

It's great to see the fat getting cut and hopefully more companies follow suit
I left NZ to go to Australia. Hated those 5 years living in Sydney. Sydney is one of the worst places I’ve been. If the choice is anywhere in NZ and Sydney I would pick NZ hands down.

Singapore on the other hand. Best 10 years ever.

Edit: the rest of Australia is nice. Especially people in Brisbane. My comments and negativity is to Sydney which is a horrrible place to live and work.
>by using algorithms to automate the most trivial parts of copying someone's work

That's basically what copilot is...?
Ask HN: How to regain focus when you feel overwhelmed?
I was extremely productive. Let's say a 10x developer ; )
I had a full time job, did my crypto-sideproject, I was laser focused.
It took off and was extremely successful. Quit my job.

NOW a year later. I'm just overwhelmed. Overwhelmed with the bureaucracy and a lot of pending issues:

- Tax declaration. Is pending. Accountant extremely slow. Have to think about it every day. Sometimes need to give feedback on some points. Extremly expensive.

- Bank's want my Tax declaration and the source of wealth. Don't accept the money. Have nearly every week a meeting or a request for some documents. They are very slow.

- Money is in crypto and at risk, till the bank's will accept it.

Currently, I really can't get things done. Waking up and thinking how that shit will end. Didn't do anything for my project for months. The regulatory things, just progress so slow and are distracting me.

Any Idea how to deal with it? How to get back on track?

I tried sport, meditation, tried yoga nidra. Still waking up - and all the pending stuff comes into my mind. Never had such high pressure and so high stakes in the game.
I understand that the Python code is mostly driving faster low-level code, but I wonder how much time is effectively wasted by not using a lower-level language.

From my experience with game engines, it often turns out to be a bad idea (for performance and maintainability) to mix C/C++ and Lua or C#.
In terms of practical application, I saw (e.g. leap[1]) and enjoyed using fennel[2] for writing neovim plugins.

[1]: https://github.com/ggandor/leap.nvim
[2]: https://fennel-lang.org/
> Assuming all fridges are cubes, doubling the volume of the fridge will increase the surface area by a factor of 2^{2/3} = 59%.

You don’t have to assume any shape for this, as long as the shape remains the same, and that it is not fractal. You could have a spherical fridge and it would still be true.
> Biggest example is the idea that it's dominated by a culture of white tech bros, when in fact it's dominated by highly educated and hard-working Indian and Chinese immigrants.

Those are two related but also completely different things. Just because immigrants work at these companies doesn't mean they have a large impact on the overall culture, especially not the outward facing culture, and they certainly aren't dominating it. If anything those groups are underrepresented in culturally influential positions.
So your business account as locked? If so, did anything happen to your personal account? Could there have been any prior activity on your personal account, aside from being dormat, that could cause this?

What's the recourse?
Unlike automotive (mobile) air conditioning, the kind of refrigerators you'll find in a kitchen rarely leak as they're designed with no fittings or perishable/permeable hoses to leak. To do any sort of service you open up the sealed system which creates the possibility for deliberate or accidental leaks.

But…

At least in the US kitchen refrigerators have moved to hydrocarbon refrigerants (R600a a.k.a. isobutane) which have a much lower global warming potential of around 3.3x that of CO2. Prior to that it was R134a, and I'm pretty sure R410a was mostly limited to HVAC applications. More to the point a modern refrigerator has on the order of a couple ounces (so maybe 50 grams) of refrigerant not an entire kilo.

Don't fuck around with the sealed system unless you've the proper training. It's not rocket science but there are any number of non-obvious ways for things to go wrong. R600a is (in)flammable, R134a decomposes into hydrogen fluoride when exposed to flame, and R410a is a blend of things so you can't really top it off.

Edit: Copper fittings if you're lucky. We're starting to see some bits made out of aluminum now so (assuming you want to do the job correctly) you'll either have to get real good at brazing aluminum to copper or you'll have to invest the $$$ in the crimp tools.
We don’t have European comforts because we pay for our own national defense. We also pay for Europe’s defense.

We should work out a deal where we continue to provide their security, and they provide our healthcare. Even Stevens.
Big numbers are just big numbers, per capita and outcomes is where it's at.

Having said that, the US healthcare system is very efficient at extracting profit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o063wC_SNxo
Comixology as part of their Amazon acquisition just got rid of their old DRM-free offerings: https://twitter.com/comixology/status/1492222215139459072
Under his eye
If you make 250k you can afford fantastic insurance and you'll still have a lot more left over.

It's significantly better to be a high earner in the US than almost anywhere else in Europe (in terms of capital)
The figure quoted likely takes into account typical usage, not never-open storage.
"if they're skilled and useful – as every person should always strive to be – they'll be fine"

And if they're not?
Just to be clear, you’re not implying that, just because the US spends more on healthcare than other countries, that means it’s any good right?

Coz like… it’s not hard to spend trillions of dollars when you charge $5000 for a tablet you can buy in Australia for like… $20.
Bring down cloud costs without Remote Docker Instances from Your Local Machine?
Does this speed up workflow? I have read many articles from DO and multiple subreddits. I need to bring down cloud costs for my side projects. Is it clearly a better way or am I being a lonely and old school with my CPU?

Also, do you delete the droplets to save costs?
Datadog Acquires Cloudcraft
I've done some work in the past on NN representations and you actually can represent Conv and MatMul in more primitive ways. I ended up writing an IR called loop_tool that exposes this stuff:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/loop_tool/blob/main/pyth...

The idea is basically this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28883086
No, what I’m saying is that democracy requires constant reinforcement - people have to stay committed to the ideas around sharing power, respecting other citizens they disagree with, and some basic shared reality.

That doesn’t mean we can’t have social media but it means that we need to have some basic constraints, and that companies need regulation, especially for what they promote.

Also, to be clear I’m not saying that this is unique to social media - for example, the current wave of anti-democratic sentiment in the U.S. has been promoted on cable TV as well - but that we can’t continue to ignore social media at a time when it’s shaping so much popular opinion.
Optimize your Ruby on Rails CI pipeline
Almost every project is using continuous integration nowadays. The problem is that the pipelines are oftentimes slow. The topic is complex and there is no simple solution. I did my best to give you useful solutions.
Agreed, losing InfoSec Twitter will really sting
Are you trying to say that people only post process phone camera images, because that is definitely not the case.
We have seen significantly higher accuracy than that, more than competitive with the transformer approach we’ve been running in parallel. For arbitrary texts we’ve seen accuracies of at least 92%.

> If SIGINT in this context means signal intelligence (on text data) then I assure you that they are being used.

Maybe, I don’t know what projects you’ve been involved with. For the terabit-level pre-sorting of SIGINT data they’re absolutely definitely not used. If at all on the selected information of interest. My information concerns intel actors in Europe.
What exactly is Twitter's core value?

Some say it's the world's town square. Fine, but how do you support (pay for) that? Town squares are generally funded and maintained by public organisations and tax money. Twitter is a private company and I don't think there's much enthousiasm for giving Twitter public funding in order to run it.
SpaceX and Tesla would have crashed and burned had it not been for government, of all levels, subsidizing them. Something that, now that he has benefited from it, Musk is against others having.
Every state offers State ID's, you don't need a drivers license. And since you need an ID for countless different things other than voting, it's not absurd to ask for one. Also, as mentioned, EVERY state that requires ID to vote is required by law to provide free voting ID options. Every single one.

Also, as I have already said, there are a number of states that require ID to vote and have for Years and there is not suppressed voter turnout in any demographic in any of those states.
It's gopher://hngopher.com:70/ for anyone reading this that wants to check it out.
I can see more and more outlets and twitter-informed folks are mentioning that this is happening (according to their sources inside twitter).

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1588327845348093952

https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/1588336115031117824

https://twitter.com/LarryMadowo/status/1588385922282049536

I hope the people impacted at least get a proper severance package after going through the hard time in the past couple of months.
Sounds like that test suite could be a good starting point for a scheduling benchmark comparing Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS and Windows.