skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I also feel that a lot of people may be misunderstanding the motivation here. I think Musk is saying what he’s saying for a very specific simple reason. To weed out people who are just cruising along and being paid not doing much. I doubt he’ll continue pushing this narrative that much when he gets the desired result, getting back to a more reasonable typical startup execution mode.

And I never was a fanboy, I just worked myself at Meta for almost 4 years and this is literally what I would do if (god forbid lol) I’d be given a chance to take over as a CEO. Let go of 50-70% of slackers or just people doing random shit and shut down some ridiculous orgs. Make sure everybody understands the culture changed. And then proceed in a more normal fashion.

If you haven’t been at Meta/Goog, it’s really hard to believe how bad is it there. There’re even memes like “rest and vest”. In a normal starup, people like that would be goners very quickly. In these large bloated money-corrupted orgs with no critical oversight on many layers you can survive literally for years doing literally close to nothing if you built a good enough initial rep.

Not saying all the engineers/folks he fired are like that, of course. But I’m pretty sure a lot are. And having worked in the company for many years is actually a negative signal here from that perspective. Because old-timers may have a lot of internal cred not necessarily based on their most recent accomplishments.

Edit: typos
You are pretty much validating that Amazon is a 2-year company, as reflected in their vesting schedule.
Well, we also have a significant fraction of the population who think that the federal government does too much as it is. Even during the moonshot, there was a lot of pushback on the federal spending on the project.
Former Amazonian here. The learning is unmatched. I've been in different FAANGs but the way that Amazon pushes one to learn and challenge the status quo is unthinkable. I never saw "no, you can't do that, that system/business/area is sacred". Everything is up for grabs all the time. While there are pathological side effects to this (AWS promotion-per-launch, constantly battle for scope), the amount of knowledge one can gain in different areas from world-class people is pretty incredible. One of my systems at Amazon had more traffic in one day than my system at another FAANG had in 5 years. Working on a system that needs to support 5, 6, 7 MILLION TPs to perform complex operations was a great lesson for me.
There is a new(ish) safety device for table saws called a sawstop, which can capacitively detect flesh hitting the blade, and eject it before it causes injury.

Works great, and there's a campaign to make them mandatory safety equipment on new table saws.
Ah, so! thankyou. It's all fascinating :-)
It's a real shame that they've been forced to end production while these more dangerous technologies have proliferated.
All self-balancing vehicles have the same failure mode -- that you can exceed their ability to catch you by leaning too far forwards.

The Segway benefits from having a big pole it can jab the rider with to make them learn back. But it's entirely possible to nosedive one if you try hard enough.
The interesting thing about ML workloads is that they require heavy upfront GPU power, but the compute requirements to run the model are much smaller after training.
I'd be extremely tempted to not agree to the pledge, and instead email HR, letting them know I'll be on the market in three months, and that I'll happily renegotiate my employment contract and comp at that time.
Yeah, I get why a younger version of me would click Yes working at spaceX and maybe even Tesla, but Twitter???
FTA: As a workaround, the following function should do:

bool rounds_to_nearest() noexcept {
static volatile float fmin = 1e-38;
return (fmin + 1.0f == 1.0f - fmin);
}

We declare the small value to be volatile: this asks the C/C++ compiler to load the variable each time it needs to access it. It prevents the compiler from optimizing away the function at compile time. The compiler is forced to recompute the function each time.

I don’t think that, technically, is true. Yes, the compiler must load the variable, but I don’t see how it is required to do the addition, the subtraction, or the comparison.

I think the compiler could, in theory, detect that fmin never gets changed from its initial value (not too hard, given that it is local to that small function), do some constant folding, and compile the function as (in pseudocode):

load fmin
load fmin
return true
Mario is just the messenger here and host of that chat, not the speaker.
Might be the prettiest but also one of the least reliable ... according to Consumer Reports.

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/evs-least-reliable-vehicle-t...
The agriculture tech industry seems like a really fun and rewarding place to be. I can't wait to see what happens in the future. Would love a job like that.
My dad and I built a standing desk with the idea that people needed a packable (as in back pack packable) option. Building a physical product, machining, and marketing takes a ton of time. We had some interest on our Kickstarter[1], but continued to find that people who needed more of a permanent option. We never really pushed it after that.

During the pandemic, we tried one last effort. There was less interest then when we started in 2017.

Everything had shifted. It seems obvious now, but work from home setups went through a true evolution. If you used a computer during that time, you developed your WFH setup, and no longer needed something packable. We let it rest.

I might need to pick this packable, standing desk idea back up. The great relocation has made it more common (anecdotal) to travel somewhere for a month and work, yet decent standing desks don't come standard in an Airbnb.

Your comment inspired this - thank you.

[1] - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/raiseddesk/raised-desk-...
So many words to write "it will never be open source"
I interviewed with a few companies in that space last year and they were pretty much standard interviews. Some coding tests, take home projects, the usual stuff. If it looks interesting to you, definitely give it a shot.
I'm actually well versed in virtue ethics, deontology and consequentialism and I don't read LessWrong. But if you have a reference where someone proved consequentualism was incoherent or invalid, please provide it, that would be quite earth shattering.
> only in English.

In Norway, doctors will distinguish between (subjective) "symptomer" and (more objective) "tegn" (and "tegn" can be directly translated to "sign") whereas laymen will use "symptomer" for everything

E.g., https://sml.snl.no/tegn_-_medisin
The point is that on the current system motors which are powered by the electric cable are on the ferry, so it uses propellers to move. The proposed alternative is to use steel cables (which are already present) without any electric ones to pull the ferry, such system should be more efficient power-wise and easier to service.
Really?

I’ve seen people reinvent the wheel all over the place because their tools weren’t quite working for them. This instinct is the reason most good software has APIs - so you don’t have to ditch the tool entirely to customise it to your workflow. And most medium to large companies have all sorts of wacky customisations on top of existing software.

Eg perforce at Google. Well, everything at Google. And a friend at a big broadcaster has a bunch of company specific plugins for Reaper for their audio editing pipeline. And everyone insists on customising Jira.
Laziest way possible? Nope. The laziest way is to pay someone else to do it. :D
I know how to fall (intellectually). How do I translate that into the real world? I took a nasty fall on my MTB this summer, broke my shoulder. Everything was instinctual and a blur.
Can we somehow retrain our innate responses?
This is pretty normal for houses in Europe which often have masonry walls, but I can understand how it could be strange for North Americans.

I'm in the process of building a house - it has windows and is nearly fully insulated, but there is nothing done inside yet (the floor is sand). In September we had a cold patch of 10C maximum for a few days, and on the last day I went to see how warm it was inside the house. The masonry on the south wall was 17C, and on the north 15C - and that was with some windows open upstairs. Masonry takes an awfully long time to respond to temperature changes.
Rent-seeking over a terminal emulator is pathological at best.
Have you looked at jobs in the security space doing reverse engineering? Leverage your low level experience tearing stuff apart.
There's also self-diagnosis though. Which in some cases, and for some types of conditions, can be as or more accurate than a professional one (where the professional might only see a facade)...
FTX didn't have a bitlicense because it deals with so many of the exact problems FTX had...
I need AI in my terminal like Xerox needed intelligent character compression that randomly alters digits in copies.
snow is mostly air, though.
Most of us?
On iPhone, yes.
Not all OCD is extreme though, even when diagnosed.
How, pray tell, is someone utterly unfamiliar with a code base supposed to be able to deal with unforeseen issues in production for that service?

(Worse, the incentives for improvements to production quality, and thus on-call quality, are utterly mis-aligned.)

Ironically, I say this as someone presently on-call for a bunch of stuff for which I am utterly unfamiliar with the code base of, and have no time to become familiar with. It's going predictably badly.
So helpful ty.
Just what I thought, thanks for the confirmation. HN loves to take a number and just run with it, without verifying anything.
I find it hard to believe that USA progress isn't measured by advancements made from socialistic contributions. For example 40 hours work week.
To be honest, it's the best feature of Onenote is that you can arrange everything on the page (at least on desktop - win/mac) any way you want. Yes, note is kinda a note in a note, when the latter is a page.
Not to mention, he literally tweeted a week ago that "We don't invest client assets (even in Treasuries)." FTX is not bank. It's not supposed to be susceptible to a bank run.

This entire line of tweets makes no sense. SBF is a lying fraud that deserves prison.
"I have never had a problem therefore there is no problem"

If you actually read the complaint you will see several product safety issues (such as sudden stops) that cannot be solved by wearing a helmet or learning to ride.
What does filing for bankruptcy in Delaware have to do with anything?
This is why the mainstream gets angry with "progressives". What if we lifted everyone out of poverty and didn't make it based on race or class?

I still point to Sanders and his messaging. It was big picture. It constantly reminded people of what we all should expect out of a decent economy, reminded people of the injustice inherent in our taxes and corporate culture, and proposed programs that helped all citizens have more dignity and security.

If I were to be charitable, I would say they don't have enough money for all homeless so they thought they'd spice it up with sympathetic restrictions. More cynically, a trans special interest group may have lobbied for it or else would have blocked a UBI pilot if it didn't help trans people specifically.

Either way, a major political failure right off the bat for the progressive movement.
My children's grandfather is very good at sports and balancing and has been riding onewheels for as long as they've been around. My kids learned from him quite a while ago. Couple of years ago they each got a Pint from grandmother as a gift.

They always wear helmets but we had a hard time getting them to wear wrist guards, that is, until one of my kids pushed it to the limit downhill in a park, rode over the pebble, wiped out and broke his wrist. His app said he hit 17mph. Since then, there hasn't been a ride without helmet and wrist-guards and they ride around quite a bit, to a store, around the city, to the park, just for the hell of it.

Breaking his wrist sucked for him but was a great teaching moment for the rest of his life, to wear right equipment for the job.

They always comment on people tooling around without helmets on those wheels or scooters. We as parents have a small success right here.
There is nothing magical about 40 hours. It just happens to be the number of hours that most companies (in the west) happens to choose for historical reasons:

https://www.okta.com/au/identity-101/40-hour-work-week/
The PDF/A format was developed specifically for long term document archival.
It is another piece of art.
Branch and load delays on the MC88K. I was working at Encore then, doing things like writing exception handlers and optimizing bcopy/memcpy. I actually enjoyed the puzzle-like aspect of it, but I totally got why others weren't into it.
Gemini Earn Halts Withdrawals
I use WSL2 as my daily development driver and it is a very pleasant experience. My road here was from macOS to Pop!_OS to WSL2 with Arch.

The only missing piece for me was a tiling window manager, so I developed my own for Windows based on a mixture of bspwm, yabai and leftwm.
Rust’s embedded story still has some ways to go. There are a lot of targets out there. I’m hopeful medium-term, though.
Did this user post any of his nuclear questions to Twitter or anywhere else before the collapse of FTX?
> Words and rationality are far inferior clumsy tools of communication (and - with respect to the nerds in question - tools of manipulation) to the vastly more multi-dimensional, multi-generational, tried-and-true, human instincts.

You mean the kind of instincts that justified slavery, that oppresses women, that justifies spousal abuse and racial or ethnic hatred? Yeah sorry, "instincts" have orders of magnitude more failure modes than reason and language.
Right on. I really enjoy Stoic philosophy, Nietzsche, and Buddhism. I actually consider this my "serious" reading, not like fun reading of sci-fy, etc.

I like to read things that allow me to reevaluate my behaviors and beliefs.
Yep. If you have traditional debt and you miss your numbers, the banks will often have rights to get significant equity and force a change in leadership. If you have VC equity and you miss your numbers, you'll have been encouraged to be at a burn rate that forces you to raise a down round sooner rather than later, and at that point your existing VCs will get significant additional equity and perhaps even force a change in leadership due the terms of those agreements - and they might even be the sharks offering you that down round.

There's no free lunch, but taking investment can let you achieve great things and build incredible communities. Just make sure you talk with founder/banker/lawyer friends who have seen the dark side of things, and use their experiences as armor.
1) electric trucks are more efficient than ICE trucks, so cut your overall energy costs by 2/3 to 3/4.

2) beauty with electric drivetrains is that virtually ANY sort of power generation. If we're talking a bunch of recharge sites in the midwest, you'll power them with windmills/solar that are right next door. In the south and southwest, solar farms right next door. Or some hydroelectric. Or some geothermal. You don't need to rely on the grid for everything.

3) tractor trailers can use a swappable battery system easily. You already see it in action when you see UPS trucks pulling multiple trailers. You have a trailer that's a battery (or a generator if you can figure out carbon neutral generation or hydrogen in god knows when), but you DON'T need to fast-charge everything. So a tractor trailer pulls in, unhitches spent battery trailer, and hitches up and plugs in a pre-charged one. The trailer battery can also be shaped to function like an aerodynamic rear foil to increase the overall efficiency, and maybe even function as a stabilizing rear drive motor. Better battery tech comes in? You don't need to worry about replacing the batteries in the tractor, you just phase in and out the trailer batteries.

4) aviation will be on synthfuels for long-haul trips for the foreseeable future, even I will admit that. But short hop commuter flights will absolutely be electrified, the "fuel cost" savings will guarantee that, especially once carbon taxes finally are enacted.
... and probably twitter software!
Isn't this similar to what ultimately shut Segway down? People were falling nose first on those too.
And sometimes it's heavier! Especially late in the season when the snow is wetter/denser!
Wait that’s so dumb, why should the tenants be responsible at all for this levi? This should work like property taxes, built into the rent in a vague sense but ultimately paid by the landlord.

What in the regulatory capture did landlords do to get such a sweetheart deal?
>I sure hope social psychologists don't use torture

Oh, you'd be surprised. Psychiatry and psychology have some very dark corners, in the past and now. Some of them are well documented and studied too.
Under the "Improvement of services" section, it says:

"We do not and will not use your Content or Customer Data to improve or train our models unless you give us express permission to do so."

Maybe they changed this in the past 7 hours?
They have the highest salary now
I think there are industries with

- good conditions and bad pay (government)

- bad conditions and good pay (finance, law, medicine)

Over the past 10 years big tech has provided good conditions for very good pay. In my opinion that is going to change for the next 2 yrs.

I refuse to hire engineers in Bay Area because, though they are very good, they are entitled and generally too expensive. The good times will come again but for now I'm hoping the tech folks start coming down to earth again. Don't expect a 400k TC and not expect to grind.
Short answer, find something to automate and get permission to work on it. Even better if you are already a consultant at the company. Typically at a large project where there are gaps and developers are miles away. Will the client pay for your time, while you work out the code to get the functionality you want to run? The answer has 100% been yes, they WANT code and business logic implemented.
I think its more akin to asking a religious leader who turns out to be a con artist what his true beliefs are. SBF's beliefs were integral to his success and the only reason some like me had every heard of him. Madoff actually did raise a lot of money by appealing to Judaism (hence the large investment by Brandeis) and I'm sure Jewish publications covered that angle of it right after it happened.

A lot of people (including myself) had listened to him talk (on Sam Harris, on Odd Lots, on Conversations with Tyler) because of his interesting beliefs. I had no idea who CZ was until this week because I am not interested in the minutiae of crypto. But SBF leveraged his image for this.

Ultimately it seemed the amount of actual money of other people he lost was a few billion? Which is extremely awful but less interesting than the media landscape which lead to it, imo, especially if you are not a finance reporter.
They put “sex trafficking” into the mix themselves despite conceding it isn’t even happening, to their knowledge, in the area.
Is this possible: the "crypto hype" and the "ai hype" and this nvidia quarterly earnings all intersecting at the need for high-end chips running on a bunch of servers.

In a supposed down economy c. early next year, offering processor power and hard disk space from home machines as a source of passive income could be the next OnlyFans.
Suddenly working double hours aka 2 jobs (or more) for the price of one when close to retirement? That sounds pretty awful. Maybe if retirement is 1 December... still why not just quit in that case?
I have tried, and failed, and tried, and failed, to maintain interest in full time office-based positions. I just can't. I've never held a FTE position longer than 3 years. I'm nearing 40, by the way.

I use my skills, such as they are, in contract positions. I've been working continuously since 15 or so and aside from a brief spell of 4 months, never been out of work. When I became experienced/qualified enough to use my programming/engineering skills, after another failed FTE position I went contracting and never looked back.

Once again, recently, I have failed to engage with my latest run at an FTE role. I can't be doing with the monumentally slow pace of my employer, the power structures, the bureaucracy, the 45-minute daily standups (yes, I know), the broken business processes. So I'm back to contracting.

Some people aren't cut out for office life. Contracting is office life, sure, but you dictate the terms, you (generally) dictate the pay, you stay when you find a good team and walk when you want to. The problems are harder, you're generally solving issues the client can't solve themselves and bureaucratic blockers magically disappear when the client remembers you're costing them three figures a day.

LinkedIn jobs (HEAVILY filtered) tends to be my go-to when I go shopping for a new client, but there's plenty of contract-specific talent networks and bodyshop consultancies who you can find work from.
Didn’t you basically train yourself on how to run out on an EUC while learning? I know I did.

Also the EUC feels so ridiculous that wearing protective gear seems normal.
And if there's SOME snow down before you tarp, it can freeze to things.
LOL, I posted it 5 days ago, but it only got 2 points :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554994
Fair enough. I'm highly biased and my recent book is the most popular Pandas book currently, so it is evidence that folks prefer opinionated documentation.

However, I always though the 10 minutes to Pandas page was decent for getting started. I picked up Polars recently and thought it was more difficult than Pandas because there wasn't any quick intro docs. What projects have great introductory docs for you?

Also, I am curious to learn more about the specifics of interop libraries you are referring to.

Learning a new tool is generally a challenge. I think another challenge with a lot of data tools is that non-programmers tend to be the major audience. I make my living teaching "non-programmers" how to use these tools.

That said, I always teach "go to the docstrings and stay in your environment (to not break flow) if you can." The pydata docstrings are better than most, including Python (the language).
> If I understand correctly, Samaritans have the same ethnic roots as Jews. The differences were more religious and ideological than racial. So with that in mind, saying the term "good Samaritan" is specifically racist doesn't really hold water. Xenophobic, maybe.

According to the Australian Human Rights Commission (an independent government agency) [0]:

> Racism takes many forms and can happen in many places. It includes prejudice,
discrimination or hatred directed at someone because of their colour, ethnicity or national origin

So, even if a difference is "ethnic" rather than "racial", it can still be "racism" (at least by that definition of "racism"), since "racism" can be based on "ethnicity" or "national origin" rather than "race".

Contemporary science does not support any distinction between "race" and "ethnicity": the distinction is just a cultural construct specific to certain societies. So culturally-specific, in fact, that it even differs between different countries in the English-speaking world: US government publications officially acknowledge a distinction between "race" (e.g. African-American) and "ethnicity" (e.g. Hispanic) – even while admitting the distinction is grounded in the particularities of US culture and history rather than anything scientific or universal. By contrast, Australian government publications studiously avoid making any official distinction between them, and in practice treat the two concepts as interchangeable.

[0] https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/ahrc_sr_2021_... PDF page 8