skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think hard about it, personally I think everything has a shelf life. You might be more engaged for 5 years or so then back at square one within a less profitable industry.

I went straight to embedded after grad school. I enjoy it well enough, more than I think I'd enjoy pure software/web stuff. But at the end of the day it's a job not a passion. If I won the lottery I think I'd be perfectly happy never touching it again. I wonder if I should have gone the software route and taken a job I might even actively dislike for 1.5-2x the the money and remote work which would put more time and money into the rest of my life.

If you still want to go down that path look into embedded Linux for IOT type applications. My product has both microcontroller firmware and a Linux SBC. Hiring for the Linux side is difficult, currently we farm it out to a good but not great team overseas. If you have solid Linux skills, a good handle on build systems, and the ability to bring up modern software best practices in testing and deployment from scratch (most embedded shops are way behind the curve here) you'll be seen as a rockstar. Can probably command a higher salary than the average firmware dev since you're "software" but still a hit compared to FAANG/Unicorn web programming.
I’d love to see a podcast + RSS feed client app
It's still object-oriented, though. The graphs themselves are objects, which helps with ergonomics.

There are also functions that operate on graphs, because the alternative would be to stuff perhaps thousands of methods into the graph class -- which would be extremely annoying to maintain as well as abysmally slow.
My point isn't that unions could necessarily protect layoffs, and thus I am agnostic about how they should respond to layoff criteria. My point is that unions could protect benefits that might go away in the event of a market downturn, when tech labor power is similarly weakened.
Isn’t this required for all televised comedy in Germany?

;)
I mean, doesn't that necessarily follow from an implicit understanding that corporations are ruthless profit maximizers though? I fail to see the supposed ideological inconsistency...
Curious as to where you got your numbers from.

Also, the article indicates that "the companies plan to acquire up to $1 billion in build-to-rent properties, starting in Atlanta."

So, in the grand scheme of themes (greater US) probably a drop in the bucket. But maybe it's a big deal when we only look at Atlanta.
Didn't want to comment on the quality of the education I'm sure it's top quality most private schools are.

My comment was more that seeing how this system works is the real education. Get a locked in population to purchase housing which is owned by the founder gets around rules. This would be similiar to a judge owning a prison and sending everyone there for profit.
Can't you install budgie on any Linux? I don't think there is a way to install the "zorinified gnome" on anything else.
> There's a reason that ancient software running on ancient hardware is way more responsive & snappy than what we have today. Laziness.

Laziness in terms of using entirely inappropriate algorithms, sure.

Laziness in not microbenchmarking minutia? It shouldn't be. There's a limit on how much that can hurt you. I would say much less than a factor of ten, but let's go with 10x just for argument's sake. If you have a CPU that's 500x faster, and use easy code that's 10x slower, you're doing just fine. This is not the problem with modern unresponsiveness.
Jai Programming Language Q&A, December 2022 [video]
I don't buy it. It's like saying, "Of course the executive is bad, we wouldn't want to add legislature and judicial to the mix because it would make it even worse."
You don't take sunlight inside with you when you enter some place.

You take neutron radiation (well, its consequences), but that is pretty much non-existent when compared to nuclear waste.
This year, we see significant progress in the field of generative models. Stable Diffusion creates hyperrealistic art. ChatGPT answers questions to the meaning of life. Galactica learns humanity’s scientific knowledge but also reveals the limitations of large language models.

This article is my take on the 20 most impactful AI papers of 2022.
This wouldn't magically create rich tenants in your city.

If you can really do it then why don't you simply increase rent right now?
My main complaint is that feeds then to just be the first sentence or two. So you still end up opening a browser and getting bombarded with popups and cookie banners and what not.

Very tempted to try & combine this with something like FF reader mode and build a scraping & filtering layer inbetween that sends the full text to the reader.
> Are there other benefits besides layoff protection?

Yes. I want:

- union-paid lawyers to back me up if I refuse to follow illegal or unethical demands from management

- H1B Visa protections and networks to help laid off H1B visa workers to find work

- non-visa workers to legally back and support their visa peers to prevent abusing visa workers knowing they can't leave

- sane on-call standards I can point to when negotiating my employment

- extra pay if my manager wants to make me work evenings, weekends, or holidays

- union-paid contract lawyers to protect my open source and personal side projects from my employer's greed

- union-paid advisors on equity offerings, including tax effects

- sane layoff requirements and legal teeth to sue if layoff contracts aren't met
See "normalization of deviance", a concept promoted by Diane Vaughan and based in large part on ideas of Charles Perrow (books: Normal Accidents and The Next Catastrophe).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance>

This played a large role in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion:

<https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/us/challenger-columbia-an...>

(And, of course, many other disasters.)

I've tried to ballpark SWA's losses from this event. Total flight cancellations were reported several days ago as 5,400 by NPR. SWA is a single-airframe fleet, based on the 737 (though several models). I'm estimating 150 seats per aircraft (147 in the 737-800, others vary), so that's 810,000 seats lost.

Loading factors (airlines typically have some unfilled seats, though they aim to fill as many as possible) also matter. SWA were reporting 79% as of April 2021. The sector's picked up since then, I'll bump that to a round 80%.

<https://simpleflying.com/southwest-79-load-factor-april/>

(Load Factor had fallen as low as 8% in April 2020: <https://simpleflying.com/southwest-announces-8-april-load-fa...>)

There's revenue per seat. Based on 2019 financials and estimates on total flights/day, I'm coming up with about $100/seat revenue per flight, or $15,350/flight.

So 5,400 flights * 150 seats * $100 = $81 million lost revenue.

There's also avoided cost, principally fuel, which runs 20--30% of expenses. I'm presuming employees are salaried and paid (though this may not be the case).

Someone with more expertise at this than I has estimated higher losses:

Robert Mann, an aviation consultant and former airline executive, said the Transportation Department could force Southwest to pay refunds for all flights that were canceled for reasons within the airline’s control, such as lack of crews. He estimated that could total 6,000 cancellations affecting 1 million customers and adding up to $300 million.

<https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/southwest-airlines-fligh...>

And that $300 million allocated across a year would support up to $820,000/day in mitigation efforts to still come out net positive, which is an interesting point to raise in risk-management discussions. Put another way, that would pay for about 1,500 staff at $200k/year compensation in addressing the issue, probably not an unreasonable rate in Texas divided amongst engineers and support staff.

________________________________

Notes:

1. 2019 financials: <https://www.southwestairlinesinvestorrelations.com/~/media/F...> Total revenue: $22.5 billion, or $61.4 million/day. Based on 2,400 flights being 60% of daily, 4,000 daily flights, at 150 seats/flight, 600k daily net seats. $102/offered-seat revenue, net of load factor.
I think it's pretty easy for an average US citizen or green card holder engineer who gets pipped at Amazon to get hired elsewhere.

The people who really get screwed are the OPTs/H1-Bs who have a very short grace period to get a new job or leave the country.
I don't think so? 5% is more than half hour of your awake time, every day. Or few hours of "nasty time" every week.

If this was a general rule, it would be easily noticeable, and I haven't seen this in people I interact with.
The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
It would definitely be great to see examples of co-op software companies! Though one wonders if the voluntarist nature of the FOSS movement is not dissimilar to such structures.
I really hope so. They've been making inroads throughout the world. If there's one thing I've learned it's never underestimate the CCP.
This is like doing the same thing but expecting a different result. You think unions follow some optimal logic but I’ve seen no examples that do. The only real expectation you can have is that it would end up roughly like existing unions.

I have had personal experience with men in leather jackets giving you the “better vote x or you might have an accident” unions. So I’m a bit biased.
Well, it worked in Superman III...
Intellectual property is important and making everything open source would allow our competitors to easily copy it or at least get an idea how to improve their products. It is hard to seriously compare the features, the security design, and the UX of Bitwarden to 1Password — it is not close. Just a few examples: being able to edit your data while offline, ability have large notes with Markdown formatting (aka "Moby Dick Workout"), support for large datasets (more than 100,000 items).

1Password has been in business for 17 years, longer that any other password manager. It is very difficult to have a long term business model built completely on open source.
The Chinese land-based platforms now have more range than the US carrier based platforms. See the first article I linked from U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. If a carrier is close enough to do anything useful, it's close enough to be hit.
Depends on how you rent. I went through and calculated my total housing expenses for the last 15 years- they’re about $120,000; in my area that’s a (minimal) down payment. It’s less than a year of salary.

I’ve had all appliances replaced, a new roof (and a new ceiling when this leaked), the parking lot resurfaced twice, and a new water heater, endless bits and bobs (sink disposal, all new light switches, door knobs, fully new shower enclosure and faucets). Maintenance shovels snow, cleans up leaves, and de-ices. I have never mowed a lawn, shoveled snow nor done any physical labor at all- I’m still in good shape, there’s a gym and pool on premises.

My apartment is small, that’s why it’s inexpensive. But I won’t have kids and don’t need >1 bedroom. Already married for the whole time as well. Depends on how one wants to live their life.
Surely it’s more time based too, the ebb and flow of people sucking at different times has to be a factor. Not even 5% suck 100% of the time. There’s no way that 95% of people don’t suck 100% of the time either.

Are we saying that 5 in 100 people will suck. If so think that’s an underestimate.
Common typo: s/DCMA/DMCA/
People clearly prefer to elect a confident liar over a boring competent politician. There is a strong cultural maybe species bias towards confidence nonsense especially when it fits our existing world view.
I think they use Unicode strike-through characters.
New blood test can detect toxic protein years before Alzheimer's symptoms emerge
Working conditions are pretty nice until the floor drops from the bottom of the market and we have an entire generation in tech who has never known bad times suddenly become relive the history of the dot com bubble.
accuweather sells geolocation data

third party weather sites/apps seem to be pretty scammy in general
If memory budget matters, you have a memory budget. So you should be measuring and you can actually tell where you need improvements.

But in practice what we see overwhelmingly is that people want to do this stuff but they aren't measuring, because measuring is boring whereas making the code more complicated to show off how much you think you know about optimisation is easy. Knock it off.
I feel like making your own circuits that could do this would be a more feasible approach. Or at least a circuit that uses small purpose build ICs that are easy to verify.
Bever hear that before, I'll look it up to confirm, and if true I will not give them my money in the future.

Edit: the single case I found was against DigitalRev back in 2013. Either that was a one off mistake, or Google betrayed me. Do your own research.
> In general universities should be pretty inefficient I think. They are places where young people go to learn and try things out. Including student employees. If a university has no waste, that indicates that it hasn’t given enough possibly-unqualified undergrads enough resources to accidentally misuse.

The problem is all the extra money (yes, pretty much all of it) has gone to building up the administrations, not into resources that actually help students. And the students certainly haven't turned out smarter as a result.

Universities have turned into a jobs program for people looking to work in education administration.
Makes me wonder if the distribution is independent of other personality and socioeconomic factors.

Much earlier in life I helped recruit for a cult (much has changed since then). 3% - 5% seems on the high side for people who "just suck" -- perhaps by an order of magnitude. But perhaps the "just sucks" is context dependent. I found early on the FORD bulletpoints makes it pretty simple to start smalltalk (Family, Occupation, Recreation, Dreams/Desires).
RDBM is based on Set Theory.
Majority of porn sites do not have porn word in them though. I wish there was a categorization of these.
Right. We need to wait until the NY site updates and shows the final version of the bill as "signed by governor". Probably Tuesday.
Many laws, company policies, etc exist to prevent those 5% from causing damage to the rest of the population. So 95% of people have to live with restrictions and bureaucracy that merely exists for those small group.
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Beautiful, thank you.
Cerutti being real doesn't mean it's H. Sapiens tho does it? It could be an older hominin, an other descendant of H.Erectus (after all as far as we know H. Neandertalensis did not evolve in africa, and H. Erectus reached the sea of china and the pacific ocean)

Although Fuyan also shows H.Sapiens may (its datation is also disputed) also have reached out of africa much earlier than otherwise supported.
Wasn't this the plot of a Black Mirror episode?
cloudflare anti-scraping intensifies...
1 billion? With a B? That's not going to make any difference to anything. Maybe if it was all within a single city.
Isn't the first part just rephrasing what I said?
> While this is easy to write down it isn't easy to tabulate.

Ranked pairs etc. have no problem tabulating it. If the change to allow equal ranking breaks some obscure metric, that's a sign the metric isn't very important. After all people can just rank everyone if they worry about it.

I've read a lot about this, and I argue with the usual suspects range people every time the topic shows up.

I don't understand how you don't understand the argument. You can come into situations where you'll regret you didn't min-max your choice (rank everyone 0 or 100). You can't come into situations where you say, "gee, I'm glad I ranked that candidate somewhere in between". Consequently, everyone will do that, whether it's good for the collective or not. Sure, I want what's best for society, but I'm not volunteering to have my vote diluted for the common good - especially since I know that the people I disagree with most, certainly won't do it.
Homes should be afforded by and owned by families. Corporations have no business owning family homes. The fact this is even a thing shows how broken the system actually is.
Amazon cut inventory sending limits for merchants which means many skus are out of stock. Why did they do this? A combination of fewer employees, fewer warehouses and less space, etc.

Overall trend is going in the wrong direction. They should be helping merchants and providing more space and opening more warehouses.
I think this misses the point the other user probably tried to make.

Yes, it can be good to bias towards taking action particularly when passive consumption is the prevailing habit. That need not take the form of creating more fodder for consumption, which can appear redundant. Absent all the niceties of modern life that deliver the means of this consumption, people in general were not full-bore creatives (I believe this is consistent even if you account for leisure time).
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science (2018)
Elden Ring, of course. Jusy too good to not buy, especially now that its $40.
+1 for Inoreader. Been using it for a long while now
does it though? Pretty sure adult results are being filtered off by Google tool named "SafeSearch". It removes anything adult from SERP and it is on by default.
Just an aside, I had to look up what "2S+LGBQT" was. When are we going to start adding an 'F,' to make sure we don't exclude furries? It sounds far-fetched but I've seen people include a 'K,' for 'kink'. Don't forget allies, nonbinary, intersex, asexual, pansexual, demisexual, and 50 other things I can't remember. I just think of the alphabet soup crowd now.

It seems like the LGB's are slowly being crowded out by other groups that distract from and derail their issues.

(I'm sure I'll get flagged for this shortly.)
Maybe there's a market for a list of such people.

Maybe Google or Facebook already has such a list for internal use. All that data mining ought to yield one.
For my kids setup I actually went with a Pi Zero 3 (It's a RPi but
without the USB or Ethernet ports. It's hot-glued to the back of a
monitor. She's 7 and all I need is for it to run a python program that
she practices typing on. They are in much better supply than the full
4GB RPi-v4 boards. You need to break out the USB with a powered hub
and any connection must be by WiFi/Bluetooth, so it's harder to set up
(although I did it by using an "overlay" to make the USB be a
temporary TCP port to get set up).
Simply meant syncing the new data to a remote backup, so whatever happens on your immutable session doesn't impact your files.
This is definitely annoying. I understand why larger publishers do it, but it drives me crazy when more independent writers/publishers do it.

It's enough of a problem that some RSS reader services have a feature that does exactly what you describe re: fetching the full article contents. Unread on iOS does this, as does Feedbin I believe, although you'll only find it on paid services/plans because of the ongoing costs associated with powering it.
I've always assumed that's part of the joke. The office drones' lives are so mundane that even their crime is not original.

Part of what makes office work such drudgery is the repetition ("corporate accounts payable speaking Nina speaking JUST a moment" over and over), and recycling a crime is a form of repetition.
> Don't you hate it when you can't find the scripts you need, when you need it? Well now there's a better way!

It's a good start, and there are definitely some ideas worth stealing there, but I don't think it really solves the core problem. Not when you have scripts that cross problem domains, or the name isn't very intention revealing, or you've just got hundreds of them.

The real key to solving this, is searchable documentation. Yeah, I know. No-one wants to write docs. But it doesn't have to be hard, and it doesn't have to be much. It just has to be enough that when next have a problem that involves say "image manipulation" you can ask your system for things that handle "images" and have it list them.

That's why I wrote TooLoo:

https://tooloo.dev

TooLoo's not for everyone, but if you've been building up your own library of useful utilities then I'd _strongly_ recommend you consider the value you'll gain from the combination of a little bit of documentation + Full Text Search. Full Text search is, I think, really important. I don't want to not find something because I searched for "image" instead of "images" or vice versa. You need a search engine that'll deal with stemming.

In documenting my tools for TooLoo I found many useful things that I'd written and completely forgotten about, and others that I'd duplicated because I'd forgotten I already had something like that. Now I always start by asking TooLoo if I have something relevant, or how to use that relevant thing I haven't touched in 3 years.

Anyway. If this type of stuff sounds interesting to you check out TooLoo. If TooLoo's not right for you, make something cool for yourself that uses Full Text Search to find the stuff you need. Most databases have it built in these days: SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
Wonder how this would compare to Ubuntu embedded version?
Yeah. Been there, done that, trying to keep it well under 5%.

But that's different. There are people who are nasty more like 50% of the time, or maybe even 95%. It's good to recognize that yes, that's me some of the time, but "quantity has a quality all its own", as Stalin (allegedly?) said. Too much of that attitude and/or behavior puts you in a different category.

And even for people in that category, it's also important to realize that they have their 5% - or even 50% - where they aren't like that. That doesn't make you want to hang around them - even 50% jerk is too much for me to want to spend time with them - but still recognize that the other part is there, and appreciate it when you see it.
Illegal migration puts Slovakia into Schengen isolation
hi again,

this video about vitamin D physiology popped on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDBZM1n_uDE

apparently it's an important control molecule for the immune system
> And so here we are. Almost 50 years later. Prop 13 is here to stay and is the only restraint that communities have against out of control state spending

Nope, prop 13 (and the resulting income taxes) is somewhere between feudalism and class warfare, transferring money from the young who work to old people who pay nothing and spend their days at city hall making sure nothing ever gets better.
Whether it's from the kitchen staff or waiter is kind of irrelevant; throwing a "huge fit" is ridiculous regardless. Kitchen staff make mistakes all the time because it's hard work with a lot of pressure. You deal with it by saying "sorry to be a bother, but I'm afraid there's a mistake" and that should solve it. No fits needed. (Of course, we have just one side of the story and it could be that the staff was rude or dismissive after she politely pointed this out, so we'll never be able to judge this specific incident; but people exploding over minor things is something I've experienced as well when I worked in retail).
> Everyone from Tier 1 banks down to startups seem to be recruiting here

In my experience, everyone seems to be recruiting but with salaries that no longer correspond to the cost of living (and especially housing) nor will allow you to save anything meaningful to eventually get on the property ladder.

Actually good roles that allow you build a future (in London at least) are far and far between.
That isn't exactly a well reasoned response. It doesn't add anything. It's just deflective personal attack.