skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just ran some arbitrary numbers. Someone earning $190k in mid Ohio would have take home of around $140k, between state/federal. That's before any other retirement savings or anything else. A 'fantastic' insurance plan from blue cross anthem will be around $2400/month for a family of 3. With a 'modest' deductible of $4k. $2400*12=I around $29k. This person is having to spend ~ 21% of 'take home' just on medical insurance. Not any medical expense, just insurance.

Assuming working independently, some of that is deductible, and one might argue how much left over is "a lot" or not. There's still food, shelter, utilities, transportation, education, etc. they need to account for, as well as saving for the future.

Actually, looking at it, if the person is 'independent', they'd pay another ~$10k or so on FICA, or have some LLC structure set up. Or they might be lucky enough to have an employer who pays for some/most of this 'fantastic' insurance... until they don't.

Perhaps in terms of raw dollars, there's some advantage, but there's a pervasive threat of "what if" scenarios that is hard to shake for a lot of folks.
And they are being handled abysmally badly so far. We don't need more Elons. Growth at such human cost is best avoided.
> Workers in other industries were paying a heavy price for the pandemic. But tech continued to prosper.

Is that really true? It seems to me most (though certainly not all) industries have been fairing pretty well up until now if we discount the first 2 months of the pandemic.
And so the grand experiment begins. I feel bad for the folks losing their job because that always sucks, and I hope there's a decent severance package.

Now we'll see what happens to Twitter... I hardly use it, so if it implodes it won't bother me too much. But I am curious to see if all the "how do you need X people to do Y?" commenters are correct in this case. The app is simple but doing simple things at scale is hard. I wonder if we'll see more downtime and issues now.

I think this is also a great experiment for everyone who either thinks Elon is a genius and the greatest thing to bless this Earth, or those who say he's overrated and Tesla and SpaceX were successes independent of him. I think Twitter has been around long enough that we've all formed impressions of it. Let's see what this single change of replacing ownership actually results in.

Anyone want to make predictions about the state of Twitter in a few years?
When It Comes to Data, Sometimes Less Is More
There's a company that operates a route between Chicago and New Orleans with a restored Pullman, attached behind a standard Amtrak car. See:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/travel/all-aboard-for-a-t...
https://railsnw.com/tours/Pullman/Rail-only-information3.htm

The economics of it are likely difficult, but there's at least precedent.
Einsum is an expressive way of doing element wise products and then possibly reducing them. An einsum is essentially a description of the dimensions of the input tensors and the dimensions of the resulting output after multiplication. If the output has reduced dimensions, then a summation is applied over them. The package einops provides reductions such as summation, averaging, and so on.

For example; the einsum " b k n p, k -> b k n p" broadcasts the second tensor b to b[None, :, None, None] and does element wise multiplication. It can be changed to a vector product by writing "b k n p, k -> b n p", which for all intents and purposes is identical to a.transpose(0, 2, 3, 1) @ b .

I can easily recommend the einops package and using einsum, simplifies things significantly.
But while you might be optimizing for convenience, this is optimizing for energy conservation. Seems like a great opportunity to be creative with an organization system.

I would bet that most people that are doing this conversion (and there are many, this idea has been around for years [0]) are already doing weird stuff for off-grid living, so turning a freezer into a fridge isn't a big deal - the inconveniences are just different.

The article does not mention that a thermostat coupled to a mechanical switch [1] is typically used to regulate the temperature.

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=freezer+fridge+conversion

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002EAL58
Similarly, when you see a variable named `hoge` you can safely guess that the author is Japanese.
Far as I know, in AzDO you can't even limit a PAT to a single project/repository. Not good for limiting access cause even a read only can see private stuff in other projects. You might create a specific account and assign to only that project but what a pain.
Well, provide 60 days notice for one:

https://nypost.com/2022/11/04/twitter-sued-over-elon-musks-p...
Or you continue to get paid due to an accounting error, and also bizarrely your badge still works, and your repo access still remains.
Alternatively, 5 years ago the reaction was "oh, the tesla/spacex guy? those are cool companies, guess he must be pretty cool", but since then he's made himself more of a celebrity which comes with much more visibility on those actions. As a result people are now judging based on actions they've heard about rather than the top line of a bio summary
I still have 3. They have everything I want in a watch: vibrating alarm, long battery life, calendar functionality. I also use an app that stores my 2FA tokens/passcodes, so that if i ever lose or am away from my phone, i still have access to critical accounts.
how few shits can be given before everyone starts shitting themselfs?
So what? They might be in the books or twiddle their thumbs but union or not they’re is no right to location or remote system access post termination.
> Yep, the team is gone. The team that was researching and pushing for algorithmic transparency and algorithmic choice. The team that was studying algorithmic amplification. The team that was inventing and building ethical AI tooling and methodologies. All that is gone.

If you want to justify your position, I would suggest highlighting the positive changes you _did_ make, rather than the positive changes you _intended_ to make. If you didn't make any notable positive changes over the time you worked there, that might explain why you no longer do work there.

'Ethical AI' in my opinion is essentially the AI version of 'positive discrimination', i.e. they will keep biasing the inputs and outputs until the algorithm yields the desired result. In this case the desired result in not equality, but "corrected equality". Don't get me wrong, biased and misleading training sets are a problem, but the AI itself is not unethical.

Also I would like to know whether algorithm transparency included blue check-marks (that were obviously biased), or government take-down requests, or the promotion of completely random people for no apparent reason? There was never any intention for algorithm transparency, this is Twitter's 'secret sauce' after all.
'Ethics, Transparency and Accountability' is a decently important part of any data warehousing company.

If you are going to be hosting petabytes of data and in the business of showing advertisment, a lot of recommendation algorithms work in the background. A lot of times they aren't perfect and end up showing information which could be very high correlated but culturally sensitive, offensive or avoidable. People working in fairness and accountability run a lot of experiments to make sure biases don't get amplified in service offerings.
I agree, as long as our interests match we good.

I always told my managers to text or email me so I do not have to get out of bed. I will send you my laptop and we good.

I am ... unique in this. I know that most people do not like this situation and would feel betrayed. You cannot have loyalty to corporations, they are there for their interest. You have to follow yours all the time as well.
A friend of mine did some design work for them and got one of their top of the line models.

He tried to gift it to multiple people (including me) and they all returned it to him after a week or so.
As an aside can someone tell me where can I buy old pebble phones. I boutht my first pebble watch in 2015. It worked for a long time but I lost it and would love to get one now, just to keep it in a safe
https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/gdp-annual-growth-...

The definition of a recession is negative GDP; so who is it? You will notice those who are in recession are of a certain economic bloc, depending where you are in the world you will see them axis vs allies. Sure we should go further and look at real gdp but the point stands.

Now in terms of the USA tech companies:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth

The USA briefly dipped into recession but pulled out.

The US tech companies doing layoffs isn't economic. It's war.
At that point, why not just create a 6x3px thumbnail in a format of your choice and let interpolation take care of the gradients.
Some people like me, don't need much except basic shell/terminal from Linux and WSL suits very well here.
It has to do with the arrangement of the compressor. The compressor generates a lot of heat, and is located at the bottom of the appliance. With a bottom freezer, that means the compressor is much closer to the freezer and it's much harder to keep that heat out of the freezer.
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Some people blame victims aa a defense mechanism. It's so they can justify in their head that it can never happen to them because they are smart, and hardworking and deserving and whatever else.
It usually takes such tragedy happening to them personally for them to gain empathy. Even then, some of them don't. They only end up having empathy for their own tragedies, other people's tragedy is deserved
They don't need a reason, they already act that way for everyone, no matter what each specific employee does.
Perhaps this is just me but how would anyone who keeps their job be capable of productive work?
Always fun to see real relationship language buried in messages that clearly treat your relationship as entirely transactional. I always wonder if there's anyone left naive enough to justify corporate double speak.
Exactly. We don't know whether or not that's true; what we do know is that no conservative ideas are suppressed.
> It's a forty-four billion dollar drunk ebay purchase.

ROFL!!! Well said! Very succinctly put.
Companies don't change their attitude because of an employee that thinks differently.
What a beautiful quote

>Tech is the most forward-looking of all industries, Axios' Felix Salmon notes.

>You don't hire for where you're at today — you hire for where you aspire to be tomorrow.
> If you want to justify your position, I would suggest highlighting the positive changes you _did_ make, rather than the positive changes you _intended_ to make.

Imagine where the world would be if bell labs didn't invest all that money into positive changes that people _intended_ to make.
I love the form factor of this and the ambient data.

TFL do have some quite good APIs so you could use those rather than scraping the HTML.

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/api-documentatio...

I think you need to register but they seem happy to have amateurs and enthusiasts using them and they work quite well.
From the linked article:

> "Behind a veneer of empathy and concern, Singal has supplied anti-trans narratives that the right has found appealing."

As an occasional listener to Singal's very good podcast (which covers mostly internet controversy), I have to say -- Singal comes across as thoughtful and empathetic, precisely because he actually seems to be thoughtful and empathetic.

So, briefly, a generally left-leaning, big city journalist writes several thoughtful, empathetic takes on trans children and gender dysmorphia that don't play into the established lefty narrative, and, of course, it gets treated as heretical. The problem is and was not that Singal is a bigot, or that he's just plain wrong. The greatest problem many have with Singal is that he is not following a prescribed narrative.

These issues are now a matter of public concern whether we like it or not. When politicians in my state are banning gender affirming medical procedures for trans children, we need more light not less, because (and this shouldn't be hard to believe) the real problem actually is the (half true) established narratives. Good journalism is good because it can help us understand more than two sides of an issue.

And when someone like Singal, who is obviously operating in good faith, is treated like a pariah when they dare to say something difficult and unpopular among their in-group, it makes me dislike the partisans for this issue more and trust them less.

> Singal defends conversion therapy and uses poor science to defend his claims. I'm not sympathetic.

This really does drastically overstate even the linked article's, not particularly thoughtful, case.
Sounds like a 'reason' for a RasPi project!

Pi, camera, small screen, and some image recognition ?

To para-phrase a famous BBC journalist embedded on a U.K. aircraft carrier during the Falklands war and restricted on what he was allowed to say:

"... I counted them all out, and I counted them all back." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Hanrahan#Falklands_War
This happens in the US as well, given an employer that behaves with dignity and is not a narcissistic addict trolled into buying a $44B company.
Condolences appreciated.

> doesn't help the discussion

That's exactly my point. The discussion started to derail into "Who has more money?" like that's the ultimate metric. This just makes me sad but is pretty representative for the stereotypical US mindset. My point is there is a lot more to life than money.
When I originally opened my PayPal account many years ago, the terms and conditions were displayed in a textarea and thus completely editable. So I deleted them before I clicked the confirm button, and ran off a screenshot of the page.

I always wondered what would have happened if I'd had any kind of dispute with them; would this have over-ridden the various "we're updating your terms and conditions" emails I received from them over the subsequent years? Or would continuing to use my account have amounted to acquiescence? (I assume the latter)

In practice I closed my account a couple of years ago when I moved to Sweden as it's not possible to transfer the account between countries. I hadn't used it much because (Transfer)Wise makes international bank transfers so much cheaper than they used to be and for everything else I use a debit card (or, within Sweden, Swish).

I don't think I'd go long on Paypal shares...
one way or the other, PDT will receive an email in its personal mail Saturday to Sunday this weekend /s
I wouldn't broadcast I have this limited reading comprehension if the CIA was waterboarding me.

Conspiracy theories coming due to being motivated by the content is literally discussed on the text and you decide to skip all that and just do the thing he is saying is a problem. With no hint of irony whatsoever...

Here is the specific tweets you might need to re-read

> Now back to where we were… when we left off, I was talking about how people are subconsciously influenced by the specific content thatʻs being moderated (and not the behavior of the user) when they judge the moderation decision.
When people look at moderation decisions by a platform, they are not just subconsciously influenced by the nature of the content that was moderated, they are heavily - overwhelmingly - influenced by the nature of the content!
Would you think the moderation decision you have a problem with would be fair if the parties involved were politically reversed?
Indeed, and Apple's pw manager is, as is typical, just a baseline implementation. I really need a full featured one so I can fix misfires (e.g. sign up on web, but the associated app doesn't set its domain properly), look for duplicates, get the info out for sites that can't auto entry (grr, js validation character-by-character) etc.

The calendar is another good example: adequate for many people, but trivially supplanted by a third party app (I use busycal) that apple treats as first class.
Again this is incorrect. The only thing we have is artificial food security where we have issues with transport despite manufacturing enough to end global hunger. There isn’t enough housing to accommodate everyone. If you mean there are enough buildings, that is a cruel joke to the homeless.

Lol the best part though is thinking we are post scarcity. I thought this place had more brains than reddit or other idiotic forums.
I would argue that there are performance *benefits* for a developer in running python code, due to how programs are run in python(Jupyter notebooks) you basically can change program on the fly, and not recompile and restart it, as you would do with compiled languages. And yeah, CPU does very very little in modern DL workloads and it is commonplace for CPU python code to be jitted and vectorized, so performance difference isn't as large as you would think.
The median price of a programming book in India is what I could buy lunch and dinner with for a month while in college. For one book.
If that's even remotely true, he could have continued the court case. Presumably he would have won. Facts matter in a court case, and I think Elon's legal team told him that the facts weren't on his side.
What are the chances that someone motivated to do something like that has put in dead man's switch code somewhere?
Europe has plenty of world leaders and very large cooperations.

Just a few examples: Automotive manufacturers, Siemens, ASML, Several arms manufacturer, Airbus just to name a few.

In addition, at least where I am, there are a million small companies (a few hundred employees) who deliver to customers around the world and, I assume, at market prices.

It's a balance and probably one of the reasons we lost out on the digital race so far.
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I think you've encountered a very hard problem. In the US, childcare is not something you just "point and click" on, but something you try to choose the best for and spend months/years on a waiting list.

The crux of your problem: people without kids are unlikely to even fully comprehend what you're offering and people with kids are likely to feel like you're commoditizing child-care. So your marketing materials and pitch needs to both convey the benefits to people without kids and make it feel like there's a personal touch for the people with kids (def including something like "the BEST childcare").

You also probably want to do a bit of research and find out when company events are. If you could notify them far enough in advance so that they can "provide childcare services during their event," that would be huge, especially if it won't impact the event's budget severely. But my 2 cents would be to focus on providing care during events, which are often after-hours. Any company can see the value of that immediately as they want their employees to attend and not worry about their home-life, especially for events where the SO is invited.

That would get you "in the door" to discuss more permanent contracts.
Actually real history has always been about class and exploitation.
JFC you said it yourself Mauritius was a slave colony! The British weren't there for the weather. Nothing Marxist about understanding the human condition- people suck.
When Richard Anderson was the CEO, Amtrak was on track to achieve profitability by 2020. Then the pandemic happened, and then the bipartisan infrastructure bill basically removed all the language from the law that authorizes Amtrak about minimizing the cost to the taxpayer, so that never came to fruition.
I mean tons of companies "paused" ads when Facebook did something or another, but it was 100% just that ad budgets being cut going into a weak economy anyway.

So we'll see if this is real or just convenient PR spin.
Well since you asked, I am about as far away from libertarian as you can be without making a point out of it.

That doesn't mean I must be in favor of every repressive innovation-stifling law that was ever cooked up.

You bring up the arts in another comment; ever considered why like half the people regarded as genuinely world-changing or geniuses (da Vinci, Galileo, Columbus, Machiavelli, Michelangelo) were born in the same two hundred years in the same region? Because the Italian renaissance was all about intense, free information-sharing! People freely visited each others work places and ruthlessly stole form each other, and it was accepted. Boom, you get a period of unparalleled human productivity.

And now you want to tell me that a set of weird laws who only ever benefited Disney and Elsevier are the only thing preventing humanity from ceasing to create awesome shit? Nah man, the masses will always continue creating, exactly as proven by the fact that they did in the last decades while getting continuously butt-fucked by the very laws you pretend are made to protect them...
It was the first time I have seen some numbers.

I elected to destroy those bad probes and not to go to the new universe. I'm done with this game.
What alternative would you recommend that's better for employees, but still makes sense for Twitter?
That probably works in the US but in some jurisdictions (e.g. parts of Europe) -- where I presume Twitter has [or had!] employees -- there are requirements for an actual consultation process before substantial layoffs.
Has stripe lost billions of dollars for 8 out of the last 10 years?
If I remember the law correctly, you can also announce without notice and pay a severance that covers 60 days.
Ask HN: How to you track if newly released features have expected engagement?
When launching new features, how do you track them and how do you measure their "success"?

Do you use a tracking plan, like Segment Protocols?
How do you determine when the feature is done (doesn't need more iteration)?

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of a startup that is focused on feature analytics. It's still early days for us, so here to learn about the existing pains in this space.
> elationship as entirely transactional

by definition, it is. It's a job
Of course it was known. The system itself is shitty to immigrants. But "well you signed up, deal with it" is an empathy-free way of responding to this sort of situation. An Indian or Chinese citizen can come to the US for undergrad, get a PhD in CS at a top US university, be unable to get o1 for a variety of reasons, end up with h1b, and be on a decades-long waiting list for a green card. This person can get married and raise a family while still waiting for that green card.

Being weeks away from deportation is unimaginably terrifying.
People may have no desire to build the next aws. That is fine too. He’s not claiming to have a world changing job.
I found the combinators in the "Simply typed lambda calculus" section a nice touch...
I’ve worked at companies that had entire teams that did a lot of fancy-sounding nothing.

Based on these details, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a team like that.
I think OP has a point, which does not contradict yours.

https://xkcd.com/795/
I don't understand why Amtrak - the only operator on its own tracks - is unable to make it work, meanwhile in EU you have literally thousands of private operators operating their own trains as well as combined multi-owner trains riding on tracks belonging to dozens of owners... and it works fairly well, there certainly are no 6+ hours delays, at most an hour or so for the whole multi-state 1000km trip.
You have to admit that Tesla didn't sell a single EV, nor did SpaceX launch a production vehicle or secure high value contracts until Musk took over.
In this case, though, we aren't talking about the business cycle, are we?