skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a guy that works at a very well-known tech company and has been a software engineer for over 15 years for them and is only being paid $120K.

He says "They treat me well", and I'm like, no they fucking don't. They don't value your work anywhere close to what it should be. I told him that he could easily triple his TC by going almost literally anywhere else.

I used to work for said company. I left because the salary was way below market and literally doubled my salary from $100K to $200K at my new digs. I made it no secret to my old manager that money was the #1 reason why I was leaving (#2 being that the team I was working on was basically falling apart due to internal politics), and he acknowledged that salaries are significantly below market and that HR is promising updates to salary bands to bring them up to market within the next couple months. Spoiler alert: It's been 1 1/2 years since I left, and the couple people I talk to from there say nothing has changed.
TFA's implementation is using a loop over the window size to compare each character to all the other characters, to see if they're unique. So, the article's O(N * W²) is correct, but I agree, the window size is fixed and small; it's fair to boil it down to just O(N).

(I never even considered doing a for loop like that to determine if the window is unique; I just histogram the window, and then check if all the values in the histogram are 1. If yes, unique. If I had been cleverer, I wouldn't rebuild the histogram as the window shifts, but there was no need for that. This is essentially the next solution TFA presents.)
> Also, you'll realise that Australia/New Zealand have the highest HDI indicators of any nation globally with mean winter temperatures above 10 degree Celsius. Why? .... culture

If you want to look into temperature vs productivity you should note these populations overwhelmingly have ancestry from colder weather climates
The various entities in the economy who need to react to changes in the money supply - businesses, banks, consumers, governments, etc.
Looks like you'll pay the same price if you shut down an existing nuclear plant for wind/solar, unless you can bag some subsidies.
Came expecting a long convoluted argument, Craig Wright-style, but this is like one of those short papers that have the proof in the abstract.
Quadrillion now, but costs will drive down and once is turned to gold, it stays gold. In the far future where all gold was mined this will be the only process left to get more. Or explode stars and capture gold from them.
You’re being sarcastic, but as lifespans continue to increase and with no known cures for mental degenerative diseases like dementia; this is more common than you realize.
Did you consider mailing Dan about this issue before making it an 'Ask HN' post?
HN people has three orders of magnitude more technical background and education than politicians, yet when it's about fusion, fision, renewables and climate warming, we only manage to output a miserable 0.01 % consensus and the rest dissipates in waste argument.

It comes to reason, the politicians are going to produce only 0.00001% of consensus.

Conclusion: things are looking rather bad. We are not going to achieve Civilization Survival, much less Singularity Ignition.

My suggestion: highly educated Homo Sapiens may not be the right course. There is a proven way of saving the planet which, by virtue of its remarkably sustainable intellect, we should be investing more on: koalas.
I was momentarily excited for this possibility but not in a million years is Apple going to relax their "no interpretter code" restraints.

Worth mentioning that the big MV3 change in WebExtensions is also banning interpetted code. Dynamic behavior is illegal in 2023, static code only, by corporate mandate.
> As far as I know the biggest diffeence between Erlang’s GC and other GC algorithms is that the former only has to work on a small local heap.

This is also the biggest potential upside of "pluggable", optional GC in a language like Rust. In most programs, the size of a group of references that might form an ownership-relevant cycle is naturally quite small; for the most part memory can be managed with simple RAII, and even refcounting (where multiple "owners" might be extending the lifecycle of a single object) really is quite rare.

Leaving open the possibility of GC allows for expressing more programs, without reducing performance.
Another post from one of my favorite bloggers.

So far as synthetic hydrocarbons go for the last two years I've been thinking about making a sunshade from plastic films using material from an asteroid which got me interested in C1 chemistry. There is a lot of interest in C1 chemistry now to make jet fuel out of renewable hydrogen and CO₂ from the atmosphere but it seems "when things change they stay the same" because it still centers around the same Fischer-Trospch chemistry that the Nazis tried to use to make motor fuel at Auschwitz which has a terrible time being competitive if oil is available at all.

Casey describes it as a technology which might be "perfected" in the next ten years but it has the look of a mature technology which just isn't attractive unless you've got no other choice. People aren't interested in using it for ground transportation because you've got batteries, you can use single entity fuels such as 1-butanol or dimethyl ether, hydrogen, methane, etc. It is only aviation where people are so adverse to trying anything new such as designing a new airplane (take a domestic flight and you have a choice between the 1967 737 and the 1982 A320) that people will even think of synthesizing hydrocarbons.
Sideways add makes a bit of sense for the name of this operation. But I can't figure out why Cray named it "population count." It just seems odd to refer to the set bits as part of a population that you're counting.
As a builder, I really don't get the point of this piece arguing that stick framing is "worse". The author makes very weak arguments for the "worse" category to make a connection to tech engineering/ software development.

> Balloon frame has a few disadvantages. One major one is that the exterior wall studs all the way to the roof, which provides an unbroken path for fire to travel.

Fire blocking is a very simple and well-known practice that avoids this pitfall completely. the failure to mention fire blocking makes me question the authors overall construction competence.

It feels as if they are arguing that stick framing is worse than timber frame construction because it's "more difficult to engineer many more smaller connection points". which may have been the case in the early days of stick framing, but like in software development, builders have developed codes, standards, conventions etc. that make modern framing very much a straightforward process. As well as all the fasteners and metal hardware has been exhaustively engineered.

> And beyond that, as a structural system, it lacks any sort of aesthetic elegance or simplicity. It’s made up of lots of flimsy-looking members.

Yea, thats the point! Structural elements do not need to have any aesthetic appeal as they are hidden by finishes and cladding. Its a feature, not a bug. As long as it is structurally sound, that is all that matters.

> It’s undesirable from an architectural perspective as well. Balloon framing has largely been used for simple residential structures (or worse, mobile homes) that have historically had little architectural involvement. The size and strength of dimensional lumber makes it difficult to use it to create large or architecturally impressive spaces... The architecturally influential residential buildings are more often built from more flexible materials such as concrete or steel.

I disagree with this as I've seen some incredibly beautiful "architectural" homes that used wood framing but that's subjective and not my primary objection. Where i have more of an issue that now the author is comparing wood stud framing to concrete and steel which is an apples to oranges comparison. It's an inconsistency it what the main subject is being compared to that makes the overall thesis of this fall very flat for me.

The "worse is better" paradigm may make sense for many software applications, but the connection here to residential construction and framing practices is such a strecth.
No one broke any cryptography in this situation.
I'm not sure but this has some interesting info such as-

>Some whole galaxies have average metallicities only 1/10 of the Sun's. Some new stars in our galaxy have more metals in them than the original solar nebula that birthed the Sun and the planets did. So the amount of "metals" like oxygen and carbon can vary by a few orders of magnitude from star to star, depending upon it's age and history.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/9tujxn/are_the_...
You don't need to pay a fee to develop an app, only to publish it
Thanks! Nice write up

I think it would help if I knew of a concrete task I could use this for.
There are plenty of people on this site whose free time is constricted by their employers because of things like non-compete agreements and anti-moonlighting clauses.
They actually wrote a whole article on dry-wall and theorizing on what the next iteration of it could look like https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/comparing-process...
> I sincerely hope you spent time on a 100% ghee diet

I thought I did.
This is the purpose of HN imo lol
RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale – Google AI Blog
https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TE_1704_web.p...

and

https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TE-1911_web.p...

actually layout some of the challenges. they are not as you state and there ARE tradeoffs between MCF and ICF. Most experts agree MCF is closer to realization, but that's a very well educated guess not a surity.

https://scientific-publications.ukaea.uk/wp-content/uploads/...

lays out some of the differences and tradeoffs

Even more interesting is to look at approaches which might combine the two:
https://medium.com/fusion-energy-league/the-fundamental-para...
Yeah but are you beating fission, something like:

https://www.moltexflex.com/flex-reactor/

A small fission reactor can do almost everything a fusion reactor can. Fusion fuel is higher density, but fission density is already not an issue.

Fusion still needs to heat water, that's where much of the cost comes from.
It's perfectly possible, just not with the common media-mogul owned and propagated video encoding formats. There are applications where you need a compressed video stream that does not have keyframes, so that you are not blind until the next one if one happens to get scrogged in transit. (Think things like UAV pilots blowing up things halfway around the world.)

These algorithms had methods have existed for 20 years - nearly that long ago, I held in my hand a single DVD with thirty full-length movies on it - all compressed losslessly using such an codec on a laptop. I actually accepted a job with the company (they even sent tickets for the flight out to Seattle for my first day on Monday) before calling me on Friday afternoon to tell me that the company had been acquired by a government-related entity and my role (being public-facing) was not needed. (Pissing me off because I'd turned down another good offer to take theirs!) It's the only time I've ever even heard of getting laid off before you start. The company vanished from the face of the earth that week...
It is not a nuclear-fusion lab. It is a nuclear-weapons lab. What it means is they got a better system to model weapons.

What it means to DoE higher-ups is that if they paint it as a breakthrough in energy production, they can unlock funding increases. So they do.
"I dislike the GPL, and the stigmatization of proprietary software for any reason, and the notion that it's inherently evil and unethical."

Wow that is a wildly extreme characterization of GPL and people who support it. GPL uses laws to restrict how one's work product is distributed and used, just like proprietary software does. WTF?
what you did there, I see.
From TFA:

>Currently, third-party web browsers, including ones like Chrome from Alphabet Inc.’s Google, are required to use WebKit, Apple’s Safari browsing engine. Under the plan to meet the new law, Apple is considering removing that mandate.
When Hollywood Met China
It is a little small on the page[1], but see the "IP-addresses, ports and hostnames" section.

In particular:

> Note that the hostname is the same for both DoH and DoT despite that the subdomain is “doh”.
>
> DoT only uses port 853, while DoH uses port 443.
>
> Without ad blocking:
> doh.mullvad.net has address 194.242.2.2
> doh.mullvad.net has IPv6 address 2a07:e340::2
>
> With ad blocking:
> adblock.doh.mullvad.net has address 194.242.2.3
> adblock.doh.mullvad.net has IPv6 address 2a07:e340::3

So, you can use hardcoded IP addresses (presumably they're static), to avoid that chicken-and-egg problem.

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/
What specifically do you mean by "selected specific cases"?
Sure, the word “soul” comes from the proto Germanic “saiwiz” (for sea or ocean).

But not because “you are like a drop in the ocean,” but because “you are like an ocean in a drop.”

The idea of soul can be objectionable when it is based on an immortal being or on a vitalist life-force (like “anima” of the Latin). But it seems fine when it is based on the psyche (like the “Psuche” of the Greek).

I embrace taboo words like soul because they 1. are common 2. are useful for referring to things that seem pretty important (like avoiding soulless companies or products or buildings) and 3. are challenging to my normal (scientific) understanding of the world.

Still, I’d be more comfortable if the poem referred to the “carbon of our souls” rather than “carbon in our souls.” Hmm…
Wait, you're ok only being allowed to buy Ford gas just so long as Ford gas is actually pretty decent?
> FTX's purchases of IOU's (i.e., crypto)

Crypto is mostly not IOUs since it doesn’t tie to an obligation by anyone to do anything. (Explicitly redeemable tokens are IOUs, though.)
I also read, though who knows whether the source was at all accurate, that after the Steam cut, Kitfox takes a goodly chunk (north of 50% IIRC) out until their own expenses for development are paid, and then their cut ratchets down to 20% or so.
Basically it's because decentralization has downsides, and I think the optimal amount of decentralization is less than what e.g. Mastodon/ActivityPub provide. See also my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33976289
Wood has advantages. For one, insulation is easier. A lot of the current best practices for insulating a brick building are basically to build a different kind of building, insulate it, and then add a cosmetic brick facade. But in a Mediterranean climate insulation is less of a concern and some thermal mass to even out the evening vs daytime temperature is enough. Sturdy is a matter of what you're trying to achieve - for example wood is superior in earthquake zones. But the real deciding factor is the cost of materials and labor - in much of Europe wood is more expensive and craftspeople are more familiar with other techniques. The converse is true for much of the USA. Wood is also just as long lived - hundreds of years if well maintained and kept dry (at least in regions where termites aren't endemic). The biggest problem with short lived American residential construction isn't the wood but instead the use of engineered materials and fixtures with finite lifespans. For example laminate flooring and older plastic water piping which is expected to last only a few decades before needing to be gutted and rebuilt.
Ha, awesome. I should have googled for books/movies first.

Thanks for the info!
Trying to crowdsource Treasury-style monetary enforcement, are we?
Iron is always spoken of as the dividing line, but I'd like to know whether iron is exactly on the line, on one side (which?), or it depends. IOW, does fusion of iron atoms release energy (hydrogen side of the line), absorb energy (uranium side of the line), neither, or either (depending on conditions)?
Show HN: A small set of GNOME file thumbnailing scripts for 3D printing formats
In case like me, you do 3D printing in Linux and can never tell which file is which--these are very short scripts that GNOME can use to render some of the formats I use into icon previews.

(The trickiest thing was to get OpenSCAD to work inside the sandbox, and I just cheated and used Xvfb to wrap it and force software rendering.)
The generation during the day will not be burdened by that infrastructure. The night time generation will simply be day time cost + infrastructure.

Theoretically, you can bet that your traditional power plant only runs at night. But now your capacity factor is less than half the available hours for the same capital investment and it looks even bleaker.
I've been playing on Linux. Both on desktop and my Steam deck. Runs fine under Proton.
Paying out 90 days severance for the majority of your workforce is a big stack of cash that has to come from somewhere

It's not like Twitter has any cash reserves after it was just saddled with a few billion dollars of debt, and I doubt there are many banks rushing to give Twitter even short term loans
Uniformity and convention over configuration and customization is why people feel why iOS is more stable and secure than the Android ecosystem as a whole.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.
I see. Are you implying whoever has access to Hal's wallet could have produced this signature after his death?
Keys are just keys and are not tied to a person’s identity. When can they ever be trusted to come from a single person?
I am so happy for them. I remember reading about how they struggled living with their parents in their 30s. I could imagine how much self doubt they must have had executing the long term plan of doing a user friendly steam release... will it actually work? And it has! Bravo.
Agreed, but in this case the OP says that the bank acknowledges receiving the money, and simply won't release it to his account.

That means KYC or source-of-income laws are applying (I don't know what country OP is in so I can't say which).
$850 for a domain is quite outrageous. Directing that outrage to the right places is a challenge in discipline. Working on frameworks to help people dissect something logically when they discover something outrageous would probably be the most helpful.
madoff operated from 01960 to 02008

kyc is from 02002
I do think that cigarettes in particular are a bit different than previously prohibited drugs, both due to their rapidly declining popularity and their lower effort/reward ratio. I can see someone turning to the black market for marijuana or alcohol due to their much more intense and desirable effects as well as their social/cultural significance, but I struggle to see young people doing the same for cigarettes, especially when vapes are still available.
> What I'm worried about is if the next time we open WhatsApp we see a splash message that says "Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are moving to the Meta Store! Please restart your phone and follow these easy steps to continue using these apps."

Why do people continue to tout this as some sort of gotcha? Android has multiple app stores yet this doesn't occur.

However, what I do like is that if I want to download some other client for Instagram from F-Droid for example, I can, unlike in the Apple App Store. Currently I use one that blocks apps, enhances image quality on upload and download, etc. Not really possible on iOS.
If I am not mistaken, there is also no current technology to actually harvest that energy, right?

So the lasers need at least 10x the energy they themselves put into the target. Conversion is still unclear. Are we even at 1% to a demo reactor, let alone a commercially viable one?
I built a shed in my back yard a couple years ago. I got yelled at by the people on a certain carpentry forum for straying from the balloonframe orthodoxy. Nonetheless, my shed is solid as a brick and widely admired for its looks AND engineering.

(PIX : https://imgur.com/a/4Yr21PR )

Much of what is called proper modern shed engineering (IE the building code) is actually just how to meet the minimum legal requirements for the least amount of cash. So keep that in mind.

My next shed is going to be a bag of air sprayed with foam.
Which is exactly the point why we didn't find out about this until someone leaked it.
It should be coming to Linux and Mac once they figure out the packaging.
Do you rate SBF as a source more or less credible than Shkreli?
I don't exactly know how this bill works, but I wouldn't consider banning the public sale of something to be the same as forcing someone to do something.

Presumably even if it's illegal to sell tobacco in a store it could still be legal for someone to possess and use tobacco in a private setting.
What is Apple doing about these non stop memory safety bugs? Google has put out a post about how they now write the majority of Android code in memory safe languages including 1.3 million lines of production Rust. While Apple hasn't said anything as far as I'm aware.

https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-language...
Sadly you got downvoted but your comment seems to make two contradictory statements.

Your second sentence seems to imply 100% inheritance tax. IE kids get nothing.

But then your last sentence implies "well, the kids can have something, but it should be limited."

And on that point, I agree with you. I honestly think that wealth inheritance above a certain threshold should be 100% taxed - just gone. What that point is, I'm not sure. Maybe 10 million. Maybe 100 million. But should billionaires be friggin' born!?! I think not.

However, there are a few practical issues with this:

- get the rich and powerful, who at least influence law if they are not outright making it, to agree with this?!? Ha!

- even if you manage to do it in your country. Then the rich will simply hold their assets in another country that doesn't do this. So the scope has to be world wide. Good luck with that!

- what do you do if well before death, parents simply happen to slip, trip and make the poor business decision of selling a billion dollar asset for pennies... and the buyer simply happens to be their kid? Prevent intrafamily purchases? Then you simply have cliques who sell to each others kids.

Look, for one reason or another society has decided that there is to be no limit at the top. We've just got to live with that. But we don't have to be happy about it.
Oh, I didn't realize they had a publisher involved too. Yeah, this is a nice payday but it's just a start before it's life-changing for these two hackers. Let's see another 300k in sales!
If you consider W the window size, and N the input size, this is still O(N * W²), as TFA states. (TFA's implementation is generic over W, yours is constant and essentially -funroll'd in place. But it's the same, for big-O; as you mention in your reply later, you could even make a macro, generic over W.)
Smoking has significant health impacts at a societal level, in NZ, especially in the poorest. Even at the basic level, dying prematurely will cause suffering to your family.

And you'll still be allowed to grow your own tobacco, if you're dedicated.
I think it's more likely the "great taste" is down to it being an addictive substance. If smoking animal dung got you high, people would probably rationalise about it tasting great as well.