skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who Makes the Most Reliable New Cars?
These companies literally do not want to hire competent people, because they know they won't stick around. Their business model is to hire the absolute bottom of the barrel engineers, pay them the tech equivalent of minimum wage, and sell "consulting services" to overseas firms that don't know any better.
JUST A NOTE BEFORE MY POST: Had a couple of beers, its almost 6am my time and unable to sleep, so see this post more as a random stream of thoughts on the topic than anything "meaningful", INAL so I prob got all this wrong... Anyways on with the post.

> As long as any other evidence does not contradict that

That will be the problem. Its not just tweets he would have to worry about, esp as its been shown that during his "what happened" string of tweets his tweet count wasn't changing, so basically posting at the same time as deleting a tweet.

What was in those deleted tweets? Getting those deleted tweets from twitter (if they haven't already been archived) won't be a issue. Plus I'm sure people will have copies of any off twitter conversations he has had.

If he does try a "incompetency defense" all those will come out in court and which will look like such a defense would be in bad faith which won't play well with a jury.

Intent isn't always required, for an extreme example (just one that jumped to mind) involuntary manslaughter doesn't require intent. INAL so can't state if criminal fraud explictly requires intent (iirc and INAL so don't hold this as gospel I think criminal fruad requires intent but civil fraud doesn't - "just" negligence) but again INAL "destruction of evidence" could infer intent (however unless he has already been served with notice not to delete things related to this mere deletion of tweets may not been proof of destruction of evidence.

I do enjoy following a good trial. I can forsee any case against him being a federal case and we don't get cameras inside the court on federal cases, otherwise it would have been interesting to watch.
@tomrod, thank you for the callout. By the way we are integrating mlflow into Flyte in a way that you do not need to start the web server to view the logs. They are available
Locally and statically in Flyte Ui. Ofcourse you cal also use mlflow server
That sounds like a good way to get cancer.
It’s funny as a gay man to see all of these pictures because they really do read to me as gay with my modern lens. That isn’t because of some sort of special gaydar it’s just so uncommon to see straight men showing any type of vulnerability or affection with each other. I have a friend who’s been playing soccer with the same team for 10 years and he came to me saying he realize that he didn’t know anything about their personal lives.

I agree about pretty much every part of this article though. I feel bad for straight guys, how do y’all get by in life with such a lack of intimacy (physical and emotional) with your close friends?
The 2020+ GT model has an audio alarm, others do not (or perhaps only newer revisions of them do).
SQLite Release 3.40.0 with WASM support
Battery packs degrade so fast with constant use. They would replace it every year if not every month.
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All the "speech is harmful" is exactly the thought policing we are talking about: when you hear something that you don't like you candecide to ignore it instead of trying to make everyone in the world stop thinking "bad thoughts". It's your job having the emotional maturity to not screech at any percieved misgiving not mine to not think or say things that may or may not be hurtful.
Flow Club – Work solo, not alone
I see this a lot when departments require code be commented -- instead of why you get what, which should be obvious just by reading the code.
Amazon is looking to trim headcount through a voluntary buyout program
Thoughts somewhat inspired by Seth Godin’s lynchpin

“_The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you._”
It's pretty simple: third party, commercial software isn't an OS feature. It's not part of the desktop environment. Things like the clipboard and its behavior are.

And the macOS desktop environment is missing a ton of shit that you can take for granted across a dozen Linux desktop environments. They add up to a sense that the desktop itself on macOS is neglected and barren in its very fundamentals.
You're probably right about the effort - but I expect that such "boilerplate" code contains (or leads to) much more than 20% of the bugs.

This 90% of code is not genuine word-for-word boilerplate (copy/pasted from a known good source). This code is typically constructed fresh each time; or worse, copied from somewhere similar and quickly tweaked for names/types! (I do it, and I see it done all the time.)

I expect that the remaining 10% non-boilerplate code, taking 80% of the effort, is much more carefully considered, and less likely to contain those clumsy/forgetful off-by-one or buffer-overflow bugs.
Checkout Flyte.org and it’s sibling project https://www.union.ai/unionml
I am skeptical of these 15 million people that will be floored by the sheer intellectual heft of learning that “different words have different meanings” for the first time on a blog.

I learned a new word today — pleonasm — and this is a neat opportunity to use it in a sentence: There are people for whom their entire livelihood relies on producing pleonasms!
I want an interview to show me why this person is better than a machine. So if a machine can do leet code problems easily, by simply describing it with comments, it is the person’s ability to describe in those comments I want to evaluate.
Except it's not alive, or a child, the law explicitly says so.

But anyway, you understand that you're demanding specifically that women alone should be subject to a medical procedure to protect the life of a fetus, but once a child is born then they aren't required to undergo any other medical procedures to save the life of a child that is actually alive. Because that's what the law is currently: no matter the cost, physically, emotionally, or financially, all women shall be required to go through pregnancy.

And that is the _only_ case, and women are the only subjects of such mandates.

There's no law requiring that the father have all blood and compatibility tests in the even blood or organ donations are needed. The law is very clear: it does not matter if performing a medical procedure on one person will save another, you cannot force anyone, in any circumstance, to undergo that procedure.

The only people, and the only case, where this is exception is made is conservatives who are primarily concerned about controlling others.

It's like those shitheads who then go "put the child up for adoption" but then shit on and underfund the foster system (the pro-birth crowd are super determined to ensure such services are underfunded, because they don't actually give two shits about children), and have not adopted a single child (because again, this has nothing to do with caring about children, and everything to do with punishing women who for whatever reason get pregnant).

So yeah, I have no problem thinking of forced-birth people as being self serving assholes who don't give two shits about anyone other than themselves.
(sorry, I feel I'm taking over this post, lol, but f it)

my coping strategies have been: 1) carve out some time to do distractionless work. check calendar, put up away message, close email, turn on background music (cafe jazz, Bob Ross, or intelligent d&b) w/headphones, write down a small task to complete on sticky note next to monitor, set timer (maybe multiple). 2) have a routine. weekday: work 9-5, gym, cook, miscellaneous, sleep. sat: projects. sun: hike. 3) lists. shopping list, jira tickets, work journal, personal road map, calendar everything.

you have 3/4 of your life ahead of you. directionless is fine. try lots of things, keep what sticks, throw away the rest. do what feels right for you. if you don't know what to do, welcome to the club :) just be healthy, have fun, pay your bills, be a good friend, and the rest will come. it gets easier.
Are there fMRI scans of people sleeping? Can we use this one people in a coma? What about non-human mammals? I feel like this is a hoax.
They'll continue receiving their existing hardcore TC until they either quit or are shown the door. Their replacements will receive normal comp (by US standards, not SV) and will eventually be relocated to Texas or somewhere else less expensive.
It depends on the thing you want to create. The browser UI controls are limited at best, keep your expectations low.

Writing Vanilla JS is error-prone unless you are very disciplined, writing "Vanilla" CSS is OK for the most part, Vanilla HTML is fine. It's best to use some tooling, but there are dozens to choose from.
I don't know of any juridiction where it is illegal to record someone else.

What is usually illegal is broadcasting or making that record available to someone else.
It’s fine to be cautious, but you can basically infer this from his own tweets, where he directly admits to active amphetamine use and sleeping pills to sleep. Other evidence comes from former employee descriptions and even screenshots of the Parkinson’s medicine on his desk from some of his streams or interviews at his desk. It’s not hearsay, as far as I can tell.

FTX even had a company psychiatrist/therapist who admitted to prescribing ADHD medications to employees, but tried to play it off as saying the occurrence of ADHD at FTX was supposedly in line with other similar size groups of people. I have never heard of a company, especially of one so small, having a dedicated psychiatrist/therapist.
The definition of leverage is the ratio of a company's debt to its equity. Being pressured to grow too fast by your investors because their model is for every invetment to either go light speed or bust is just a different thing. That is the source of the confusion.
Someone on another Amazon related thread mentioned that 50% leave after 2 years and 80% leave after 4.

If you do the math on their TC to see how it actually works out from month to month, it makes sense. Unless you get more RSU's, you take a huge hit in pay, unless you weren't cashing in on them to make ends meet.
I ranted here about a YouTube app problem that only occurs on Google TV (Android-based), and within like two weeks it was fixed. Coincidence?
Nobody wants firefox to stay around more than google. Its one of their few escape cards in an antitrust trial for browser monopoly.

Google wants Firefox to stay around, but in a form that's much closer to Chrome. Of all the browsers that still have significant userbase remaining, Firefox is an "anomaly" in that it's one the user has more control over, and Google is slowly trying to change that.
Did a PhD a few years back looking at the Applicaton of Machine Learning to Neurosignal Decoding (well, I started one anyway. Dropped out after a year for reasons the rest of this comment will explain).

Turns out researchers in this field are terrible at actually turning brainwaves into actionable data, but brilliant at using statistical trickery + general misunderstanding about AI to bullshit their way into getting grants.

Yes, there are a few actual exciting trials - like the work Shenoy did with the penetrative array and the robot arm, but the field as a whole is overwhelmingly bullshit.

This research in particular is worse than bullshit - it's borderline fraud. There is no "reconstruction" taking place. They're using ML to map the response from a test stimulus to some interpolated response from 50 training samples, arbitrarily assigning new sample images to these points in space and then passing it off as mind reading.

Same dumbfuck trick as the guy last year who pretended to be able to read what word people were thinking of using EEG, but with more layers of AI magic and crisp-looking images.

I mean, seriously, look at those images. They've somehow managed to recreate them with more clarity than the human subject's actual memory/imagination possibly could.

If there are any VCs or engineers here, please don't waste your time or money on this shit. If you do, I'll be sure to leave a rude comment on your HN article. :P
Practice at home (outside on grass is nice) starting from on your knees work up to on your feet. The real test is to have a partner push you over. Spend time strengthening the neck to avoid concussions.
Tech Layoffs Are Hurting Workers Far Beyond Silicon Valley
> The layoffs...reflect the fast growth of the online outsourcing industry...in which tech companies allocate menial but important tasks to workers in countries with high unemployment levels, low wages and often lax labor protection rules.
the software on my pint is glitchy for sure. I have multiple steep hills to get out of my street, the pint will often times slowly lose its balance point meaning the nose gets closer and closer to the ground. When going downhill it is a disaster. Ill ride it around casually on the grass, but wouldnt use it for serious commuting.

It often times wont run with a battery overheating error when the app clearly shows the battery temp as fine.
Glad to find this mentioned, Accenture is absolutely an offender.
I was hoping it was WSL1.
Amazing work and such a detailed video. Kudos to the author.
Here's a really good video on this exact topic: https://youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw
Agreed, it kind of seems like a stub that he meant to turn into an entire blog post one day. I do feel like I see many people in my life clinging to questionable habits. I personally have a nicotine addiction and it is easy for me to trick myself into labeling it as a need.
Never had to do it since I use autoprefixer and safari is my main browser
Yes, but I have a lot of problems with it. He sends them to bed without their supper, the wild things having done nothing wrong, and just sails away forever saying see ya. I don't know if I want my kids learning that lesson.
That is absolutely, stunningly bad UI.
I think the coming recession will help that along ;) There's going to be less fraud and we'll find out who's been "swimming naked" when the tide goes out as Mr. Buffett likes to say. Like FTX..
Ask HN: Can Mycroft allocate only 10% of production to their backers?
The Mycroft project has begun to deliver their Mark II product, four years after their Kickstarter. They appear to be selling 90% of their production to new customers, allocating a mere 10% to their Kickstarter/Indigogo backers. If you were backer 2000, they must build 20k units before you see yours. At their current planned production rate of around 100/week, it will be another four years before they ship to all of their backers.

How can they get away with this? Is there any legal recourse here? Would you buy one knowing that this is how they treat their early backers?
Forgot to add

I want to make a simple app where users can create and fill out a form. ATC test plans, to be exact.
Saw one of these fail on mission street at speed and dude was launched into the intersection.

He was ok bc he had a full armor suit on, coming from a motorcycle background you gotta respect the speed.

Looks like a ton of fun thou and suppppper cyberpunk :)
Another reason I find that mentality harmful is because it treats ADHD as a separable “thing”, as if I could imagine what kind of person I’d be without it.

It’s fundamental to my cognition! It just is.

I find it a waste of time to try to assign “good” or “bad” labels to different parts of my lived experience.

That is why I dislike it being called a “superpower”. Not because it is “bad”, but because it is just is who I am.
I wonder if the spam calling companies keep appearing and disappearing so quickly that it's hard for the government to find them. That's not the case for airlines.
are you saying that if it weren't for EA, the greedy people who it attracts would behave better because they wouldn't have a way to wash their sins?
Always be kind to yourself. You can be stern too. But always kind. ADHD can be a lot for some NT people and your wife has unreasonable expectations about what you are and aren’t capable of in a given day. Your partner seems like they try to understand you from a NT lens and that is bound to create a big disconnect. I know I have my relationship flaws but a little open understanding and empathy can bring two people so much closer in their shared view.
> Now this is how a bank can offer a savings account but also underwrite mortgage, business and auto loans using the savers capital. Thru numerous failures the traditional financial system has been regulated to a point where banks usually don't blow up too badly (they totally still do though.)

Specifically through laws that say entities that hold customers money in certain ways can't arbitrarily then use that money to speculate on risky investments. Namely because they can cause huge losses (especially via bubbles that burst) leaving the customers SOL.
The brilliance of Édouard Lucas: see "Lucas primality test" (for general N, when you can factor N-1) and "Lucas–Lehmer primality test" (for Mersenne numbers N). Both work for M_67. There's a nice account somewhere of how Lucas carried out the latter test with a 127x127 chessboard to prove that M_127 is prime. For M_67, Lucas had done the calculations and declared it composite, and there was confirmation from another author. And Cole seems to have trusted this too. (I mention this because Shallit and Williams point out that on some occasions Lucas seems to have wavered in his confidence, for some reason….)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_primality_test and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%E2%80%93Lehmer_primality...
5 years is not enough to be experiencing this. The pain is very real and consumes a tremendous amount of effort. I've started writing tools just to create inventories of which packages with which versions I'm using where in order to try to automate the upgrading of virtual environments as much as possible. It's a horrible experience.

The biggest boulder I currently see rolling towards me is the MongoDB driver since I need to upgrade the databases and the drivers can't cope with the latest version.
Separate problem!

Answer is good code review and design practices. Real CRs early on in the process, not just before signing off on feature complete.

I've seen horribly unusable code that was "good examples" of both OOP and FP. The OOP peeps have so much DI going on that tracing what actually happens is impossible, not to even get started on debugging.

The FP purists have so many layers of indirection before stuff actually happens (partial function application all over the place and then shove everything through a custom built pipe operator and abuse the hell out of /map/ to do the simplest of things).

Meanwhile some crusty old C programmer writes a for loop and gets the job done in 10, obvious, easy to read, lines.
I bought a vintage Yamaha TX81z[1] a while back (you can still find them for ok prices on ebay) to play with some classic FM synthesis and sounds (note the tiny LCD front panel interface is painful to use, but you can use an external patch editor/librarian); I believe it came with a cassette of the original presets (and possibly other data like a demo song or something.)

I haven't actually tried to use it (I expect you can just download the sysex data from somewhere and send it over MIDI) but the Yamaha approach seems similar to cassette storage interfaces of old microcomputers from the 1980s (or earlier.)

Note a plugin like Dexed will give you 1980s-style FM (though DX7 6-operator/sine rather than TX81z 4-operator/various waveforms) for free, but the TX81z is a nice hardware synth that is also 8-voice multitimbral (!)

[1] https://www.synthmania.com/tx81z.htm
He said fuck you money, not Jeff Bezos money.
Finding a pristine chunk of space rock within hours of hitting Earth
It might be false, but it is in fact widely accepted. Where are you getting your information from?

See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33629425
IANAL, but isn’t that group called “the court system”? This person is stuck in google’s kangaroo court, but they should just switch venues as soon as the apps are removed and sue google for damages. They can demonstrate google materially impacts their business and is acting in bad faith. Going through google’s legal department is probably going to quickly get the result they want.
I guess that helps explain how the ferry was only using 100 liters of fuel per day. Pretty high hanging fruit for electrification in that respect.
This could be clarified by a quick phone call to a Google developer support engineer.

If Google is "too big" to run a competent support department then it should be broken up.
It won't work with Twitter since there's no real goal or definition of success. Putting in long hours and working harder can only help to accomplish something faster, but nobody's defined what they want to get done except for some features around verification and subscriptions.

It's not even clear that the developers were falling short in any real way. The service has been working fine for years, invisibly rolling out features.
In my team we treat slack exactly like an open office. So each day/week we choose a volunteer to handle slack for us, and if needed they can pull on the other team mates but in general we try to preserve a deep work flow for all the other members than the one on slack/support duty.

There are also no expectations that the one on support duty does their normal work during this time. Instead we choose to do devrel work , like outreach, polish documentation and such. We are a platform engineering team so this approach might not be possible for others but it has probably been the best thing mentally since the start of working remotely.
They were a good CA bank in the old days but were bought out and lobotomized by an unethical MN bank.
I am curious tho. How do people expect that these companies pay for the underlying infrastructure? If you dont want to pay a monthly fee, you dont want them to monetise with ads, how do you imagine they cover running costs? I dont like facebook or intrusive ads, but i wouldnt mind paying for a service that lets me connect with friends, make calls, store photos, and join groups, but doesnt sell me ads.
A programming language with no redundancy in it means the compiler cannot detect any errors - because every sequence of characters forms a valid program.

The skill is in selecting the optimal amount and form of redundancy.

For example, the typical ; statement terminator is redundant. People often ask, since it is redundant, why not remove it? People have tried that, and found out that the redundancy makes for far better error detection.
Luckily, if https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA_SoftVision_Team is any indication, they're mostly babysitting test suites and reviewing submissions to the add-on store and stuff. (That and developing Firefox for Android, but Firefox for Android has sucked and included tracking SDKs for years now.)
Nothing like some good news to start the day. Just for some fiction that I'm writing, how many people do you bet are living/working on the Moon by 2050?
> Web app
> Do I really need Node?

Do you need a back-end? If so, doesn't need to be written in JS.

React / Angular are for SPAs- single page web apps- load once and you've got the entire client.

No reason it needs to be this way. Just serve the page from the back-end.

Also perfectly fine for it to be an SPA. You can use React, which has some nice features for managing the page lifecycle.

Preact is a much lighter weight React.

Svelte and htmx are both nice alternatives.
Because you can just take it out: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android