skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keywords were "after adjustment period". Your body will Panic if you quit smoking, alcohol, or many hard drugs. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea to do so.

Your body will also panic if you start working out vigorously, confront hard but necessary situations, or many other aspects of human life.

If a prescription help someone make a productive transition, that's great. My point is simply that I'm cautious of potentially lifelong crutches to avoid making difficult changes, and there's value in cultivating the ability to maintain your personal homeostasis if you can
Yesterday Jan 3, Amazon borrowed another $8B at 0.75% plus SOFR (which is basically Fed Funds rate at ~4.3%) through a short term credit facility.

Also, Amazon has ~$69B in long term lease liabilities. That’s about ~3x the combined long term lease liabilities of Walmart and Costco (~$20B combined). Walmart and Costco are the world’s #1 and #3 retailer, Amazon being #2.

From the beginning when Jassy took the job, the problem has always been the cost of the excess warehouse capacity. Once they realized the true demand from this holiday season, they can now rightsize capacity for 2024 and beyond. Until then, they need to tighten the belt. Just like if you realized you swallowed a bigger mortgage than you can handle.

“The last issue relates to our fixed cost leverage. Despite still seeing strong customer demand and expansion of our FBA business, we currently have excess capacity in our fulfillment and transportation network. Capacity decisions are made years in advance, and we made conscious decisions in 2020 and early 2021 to not let space be a constraint on our business.”

- Brian Olsavsky CFO Apr 28, 2022 earnings call
I've never been asked to sign an updated contract for a job.
Because the yearning for the nicotine is a result of things being out of whack due to the previous use of nicotine. That’s what an addiction is.

With food, the desire to eat is part of the proper functioning, not due to damage due to previous food usage.
My point is, there are two ways of thinking about marriage:

- It's a ceremony, a procedure, a word. It has emotional/social value, but it can be modified or reversed without too much trouble if the married couple desires it.

- It's a permanent engagement into a deep responsibility, a vow that's designed to be hard to undo. A deliberate choice to trade away being able to have romantic relationships with whoever, and in exchange gain the lasting stability needed to raise a family.

When society strongly couples sex with marriage, especially with monogamous, non-incestuous marriage of the second kind, it aligns the passion of sex—a very powerful force—with perpetuating civilization, via families and children. When society permits selling sex for money, it takes that same powerful force of sexual desire, and puts it instead in the service of commercial exploitation and instant gratification, thereby weakening civilization.
...holy crap. You just blew my mind.

I have HUNDREDS of little AHK hotkeys. I use some of them dozens of times a day. I've been wanting some way to directly target Excel like this for literal years.

Thank you!!!
Can't you put the teleportation plane slightly ahead of the rendering plane so that by the time either eye would clip over the render plane the player has already been teleported?
Japan also has a stagnant or declining labor pool size.
Honar killing
??? was "monetize skills" to which they could take a cut of it.

The problem was that it was rather difficult to do for a while and the "here's a great ecosystem of games and tools" never materialized for echo devices.

Part of that is that people really don't know how to to do voice interfaces well.

Another part is that it has to run on AWS which has all the AWS sizing and billing problems that need to be solved by programmers (we're programmers - not SREs - and its really easy to rack up a too large bill on AWS).

As such, in order to try to monetize a skill (which wasn't possible at first) you needed to commit to spending some AWS money to try to get it. Discovery of Alexa skills was poor at best. Free skills normally end up costing money (and not just time) for the programmer.

And so, a possible revenue stream for Alexa has never realized.
How much do you expect to pay for such a blade?
It's really annoying but I think the hype is deserved this time. If you think the discourse on AI is saturated now I'd just wait. Wouldn't be surprised if it's 10x current levels in a next couple years.
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Small teams and large teams can be effective. It is not proportional either.

Small teams afford agility and avoid feature creep. Fewer overhead to alter or change the projection of a project away from its intended targets.

Large teams suffer from feature creep because you introduce non-development talent pursuing concepts under the umbrella term of product design. You only need two to three product design people no more. But the second you get convinced into more product design folk they'll be shelling out feature requests that then put teams in feature creep which really blocks engineering goals and architectural planning for major systems. Usually better if doubles as an engineer and product designer because from my experience product designers who don't understand how their systems work are air bags.
It seems a first step is to not tell your current employer where you're going next. If they push, just quit on the spot and cut-off communication. Maybe go a month or two without work; by then the old employer is less likely to care, you're old news by then. Be as boring and unmemorable as possible once you've decided to leave, aim so that nobody will even remember your name in 3 weeks (except for trusted friends and coworkers).

None of this is fool proof and requires savings, and I'm sorry if it seems like I'm victim blaming. As you point out, our legal system wont even reach discovery for $30,000, it's not a system of justice, it's a system of power, so do consider utilizing the power you have to keep quiet. "I'm quitting, I don't have another job lined up, but I might look around; oh yes, of course I'll follow the contract, but I'll seek my own counsel to advise me on how best to do so; goodbye". It's hard to imagine this could end up any worse than what you already experienced.
Agreed! I think all new/aspiring DS should be told that even if we give a technically great argument, the PM/decision-maker might not adopt it. This surprised me & my colleagues when we first learned it.

I've heard of different DS organizational models, whether embedded in a cross-functional team like this DS, or on a DS-only team. The main downside I've heard for a DS-only team is that stakeholders just come to you for requests, and you don't build up domain expertise.

For embedded DS, how could we get them to have more decision-making power? The only solution I can think of for a product team is to have the PM have DS skills, which eliminates the need to have a separate DS on the team in the first place!
(a) Last time America was a Manufacturing Superpower, it was because all the competition had bombed itself to rubble, twice in the same century. I don't see internal volition recreating the external conditions forged during 1914-1945.

(b) When the Plaza Accords were decided, they only needed G5 buy in to execute. To do something similar today (because the G5 is proportionally much smaller) would take buy in from nearly the entire G20. (and in the specific case of Germany: it is already reunited, so someone would have to come up with a new carrot)

(c) China needs a Belt and Road, because it needs an alternative export path to ocean shipping lanes which the US Navy can choke at will. The US has a Navy (as well as sundry client oil states to supply its Navy's logistical tail); it might be interested in a Belt and Road but definitely does not need one in the same way.
what if i told you, you still need to charge ur fire truck
I’m sympathetic to anyone who feels they “need” to take these, and wants to encourage others to do the same. I’m sure they work wonders for obesity, and that’s great. But we cannot get something for nothing, so I have to wonder: at what cost?

A poster below me said that, at a population level, diet and exercise do not work. That’s mostly true. Most people don’t permanently change their diet and other lifestyle long term. I think that ignoring that they do work in the short term, and could work in the long term if adherence were better, overlooks something important.

Moving past that, we are an obese population. Or, at least, very overweight. Supposing diet and exercise do not work, what are we to do? I’d propose we look toward rectifying the causes. There are innumerable environmental factors today that make us fat: pollution, drug side effects, food advertising, alcohol, social pressure, widespread sedentary jobs and lifestyle, etc., etc., etc. If we focused on solving the problems that are making us obese, we wouldn’t need these drugs (or at least, not nearly to the extent we do). We used to live in a world like that. We know what it looks like. We know the consequences. We know our bodies and society can tolerate that world, and that it would solve our issues. Why not aim for a return?

Instead we will opt for another technical solution to our technical problem of obesity, causing all manner of unknown risks later on, and falling back to another technical solution to that technical problem. We will continue to layer on technique after technique to patch holes in the solutions we left in our last layer of solutions. The holes will grow larger and larger as we stack on more layers with more holes, and solutions will grow smaller and smaller as technology grows ever more specialized. The cycle is not sustainable.
The company I mirrored my companies after also had quite a smallish team at 250 when it was valued at over $3 billion: Valve.
For certain cert errors in Chrome, there is no button/link to ignore and continue. You actually have to type "thisisunsafe" into the tab. There is no feedback when you are typing this. It will just navigate to the page you were trying to reach as soon as you finish typing.
Ask HN: How to see threads only on Twitter?
I've found that the most valuable content on Twitter tends to be long threads. However, Twitter doesn't provide an option to only see threads from those I'm following. I remember there used to be an iOS app that provided that function, but I cannot find it anymore either.

Can anyone share a setup that works?
That's neat. Thanks for sharing!
Wouldn't a lot of the extra cost for the 33% more trucks get canceled out by each one getting driven that much less, so requiring less maintenance and lasting longer? Other than the part of depreciation that happens because of age rather than mileage/usage, what costs would remain?
Yes, but the stock price is based on using that money efficiently, and building an engine which can (at least if desired) generate profits. And when 50% of corporate employee comp is RSUs... a stock price collapse is a huge pay cut for the rest of your workforce.

Is it good to give 100% of your corporate employees a 25% pay cut, to avoid 5-10% layoffs? I think that's a less clear-cut value call.
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What web3 stuff exists without crypto?
You could look into the OODA loop methodology.
Paid noncompete (gardening leave) is pretty common on Wall Street. It has gotten much more prevalent in the last 5-10 years, with companies ratcheting up the length and enforcing it on lower and lower level employees. Think - IC software engineers working on some random UI with no idea of current positions or trading strategies, making like $300k total being put on a 12 month leave.

The problem even with paid noncompetes is that you are only getting your salary, not bonus and in the roles it is enforced, salary kind of caps out and bonus ends up being 25%.. 50%.. 75%+ of your income.

Some firms have started to enforce garden leaves long enough that you are guaranteed to miss at least one, if not two bonus cycles.

Additionally, your health care coverage is revoked at most of these companies during your gardening leave so you have to decide whether to go without, take COBRA, or hope you are on your spouses plan already.

Finally, the terms of the contract are generally asymmetric. Your employer has the right to waive the garden leave, but you do not. So you don't know if you are getting a few months paid time off until the day you resign. For legal reasons most companies won't make an offer deal with you and give you a deal like "if you can get out of your garden leave at old job and start here earlier, we'll let you take a month off paid by us before you start" as it is solicitation.

That said - 3 month garden leave over the summer is awesome.
if i used my laptop to do my primary viewing of netflix, i might bother. however, my primary netflix consumption is on an AppleTV. it would cost me more in time to research why it doesn't work and probably more time to get it resolved than i have time to view content anyways.

it's not that i'm giving them a pass though.
> People love DeepL translations for the same reason, that they sound convincing, even though they are often completely wrong.

Could you show examples?

I'm using DeepL to translate things form and to languages that I know very well, usually to double check or get additional inspiration for wording. I've never experienced anything that was completely wrong. The translations are most of the time almost perfect.

But maybe it's a question of language pairs.
The author of the article doesn't know what they're talking about. The issue in question is concerned with energy density, not break power of the motors. Electric motors are capable of delivering far greater torque than a similarly sized (weight/volume) diesel engine. Electric batteries on the other hand have far less energy desnity compared to an equivalent volume/mass of diesel fuel.
This comment is spot on! I have also noticed that Too many people have been ignoring the fact that You've got documented cases like elder statesmen Tony Hsieh. Would love to hear more of your thoughts.
It is not about staying in the house. Some people (me included) do not want to keep "socializing" to continue forming connections and friendships. We would prefer if that phase would end sooner rather than later, and we can settle down with a partner and a stable group of friends (for life).
Yeah, I've noticed a lot of "AI artists" suddenly pop up out of nowhere.

As far as I can see, they're just typing a prompt into Stable Diffusion or DALL-E and picking a nice image.

It's lazy, talentless, and demeans the actual artists whose work was stolen to train these models.
Management there sucks because they don't work like managers they work like people shoved into those positions to be ignored by their own team.
I really enjoy seeing lots of different takes on component style/animations, but I agree that it's pretty sad how brutal the base set of components is to work with in the browser. It's sad that web components didn't really materialize, because it should really be possible to at least build components with framework A that are compatible with framework B. I believe Svelte can effectively compile to web components because it doesn't have a runtime like React does.

I have no axe to grind with different frontend frameworks beyond that they are deliberately awful at being compatible with one another. I can't even try new frameworks that often because I know the component ecosystem won't catch up for years and I'll lose interest by the time it does (or it'll die first). It's been this way since I started and it'll be this way once my career ends. Going around in circles.

The really messed up part is that HTML renderers are still amongst the best UI toolkits we have due to ubiquity and being cross platform. An engima.
Torrentfreak's writers are not very good at writing.
> Every one I've ever seen. At a minimum they'll want an email address or to chat with you on some service like discord that requires a sign up. The process leaves breadcrumbs everywhere.

It’s kind of trivial to get a throwaway email address, no? What tracker uses discord? All the big ones use IRC.

> When it works according to plan you won't hear about it, but it doesn't always. For example:

Your example is a very public lawsuit by the MPAA against a public tracker? Anyone with PACER access would see this.

> This is also dead wrong, lawsuits still continue to this day against uploaders

Give an example?

> but the vast majority of them never go to court since they're forced into paying settlements, the terms of which are rarely disclosed to the public.

Nonsense, they just ask you to sign a paper saying you won’t do it again. For example this guy, one of the most prolific BTN uploaders https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-release-group-ntg-shut-down-...

They just politely asked him to stop, that’s all. They won’t demand money from you unless you’re making a profit.
My divorce was by far the worst heartbreak I've ever experienced. Other relationships that ended didn't create near as much emotional pain. This got me thinking that heartbreak might be related to social anxiety.

Social anxiety is caused by a failure to experience strong social rejection by individual peers, e.g. heartbreak, and is exacerbated by experiencing moderate social rejection by groups of peers.

Normal children form bonds with specific individuals that are significantly stronger than bonds to other friends - best friends and boy/girlfriends. These relationships inevitability end causing emotional trauma beyond what's possible from less intense relationships. These heartbreak incidents desensitize the individual to social rejection from normal people and groups.

Some children don't form partner-bonds and so never experience that strength of social rejection. Often that's combined with difficultly forming friendships and joining peer groups, which causes unusually strong social rejection from normal people. This results in associating the worst emotional pain with interactions with normal people.

People who've experienced heartbreak know (are conditioned) that normal social settings aren't able to cause the worst hurt and so aren't anxious in them. People who haven't experienced heartbreak think (are conditioned) that the worst pain is possible from normal social settings and so can become anxoius in them.
The capital markets rewarded growth companies that were hiring in a zero interest rate environment and will reward them for firing as cost of capital increases, slowing growth. That which the market giveth, the market will taketh away.
I don't see it in this way. People are genuinely excited about ChatGPT and are finding ways to build apps around it. I don't see what's bad about this. For influencers, ChatGPT/AI is a great topic because the field is moving fast, there's lots of new development to cover and people are interested.

Crypto grifting was selling the dream to get rich. There was nothing in it to begin with. I think 'grifting' means dishonesty - selling snake oil. I don't think applies to AI, even if it's just a temporary hype cycle. I should mention that Bitcoin is obviously a real thing; "crypto" is the thousands of useless coins which claim to be the next Bitcoin.
Again, that dirty laundry eventually being aired is a good thing for our industry. There need to be costs to being a scumbag, even if the cost is just to your reputation.
I'm a good programmer and would gladly take 280k. 350 to 400k is just sweaty money at that point.
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Will they do it with hospitals?
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Is cooling the 3990X really that noisy?
That's something we don't know for certain yet.
You can get promoted by just showing up sometimes.
And you need a giant generator to charge any large vehicle in a reasonable amount of time, not just a generator that can keep the electricity on in the building.
I don't think _everything_ comes down to genetics, but a lot of stuff does, including the attributes you mentioned here.
I had several of these (or more properly went through several) and got proficient enough to do loops, fly it inverted in the other direction, and occasionally "land" as you were supposed to do when it ran out of gas.

It was a lot of fun, but because you were in the center of a SPHERE the axis of control was not as intuitive as one might like. In particular, going "up" changed the orbital "plane" (no pun intended) and as a result was going to intersect with the ground unless corrected. You could do a little bit of hackery by squatting down and standing up to change the spheres center but trying turning rapidly in a circle while in a squat, it doesn't work well!

One of the adjustments that was "picky" was setting the vertical stabilizer for consistent yaw. You wanted the plane to pull toward the outside of the circle, it would do that from centripetal force once it got up to speed but before then a bit of help, well helped. Too much though and if you tried to fly inverted it started flying toward you and that wasn't helpful at all.

The best thing about the engines were that 12 yr old me could completely disassemble them and rebuild them in about an hour. That was something you had to do, Cox would "refurb" an engine (which I had them do once when I found a wrecked plane that clearly had been out in the desert for > a month) but once I got good enough at it I could do the refurb and save the $15 + postage that Cox wanted.

Fun times.
Not quite. Provenance is the story of how an object came from the ground to wherever it is now. The question of authentication is larger than provenance. If there's good documentation showing the object originally came from an archeological excavation, that's a point towards authenticity. If the alleged provenance starts with an unnamed antiquities dealer by way of an anonymous Swiss collector, that doesn't help one way or another with the authenticity question.
"Half right" means wrong.

To be honest I've seen only wrong answers form ChatGPT until now.

It can't "think logically" so almost everything is flawed when you look a little bit deeper.

But a lot of people are even much dumber than this bot. So I quite fear the consequences of its existence.
This is where you insist on getting paid up front, underpromise, and raise your rates until the interest dies to a manageable level.
In the Prairies you could put a lot of people on farmland and it wouldn't subtract very much productive capacity and would accommodate a lot of people. A square mile is roughly 800mt of grain give or take most years on prime farmland.. the economic value of that vs the sheer number of people you can house on that space with reasonable density, the tradeoff is a non-issue. (That's why developable land on the edge of Winnipeg trades at $25k/ac and the same land 10 miles away is worth 5-6k/ac.)
Yeah, the "Common" in Common Lisp comes from committee. Lisp itself was a "basically designed overnight" language that became an incredibly popular hodge podge of a million snowflake variants and then eventually two competing attempts to standardize and clean up the hodge podge happened: Scheme (to my understanding a BFDL-like situation of a strong figure building anew, with few backwards compatibility cares) and Common Lisp (a standards committee and then some, with a bunch of backwards compatibility shenanigans to sort out).

(ETA: I am a fan of Common Lisp, for what that is worth, if this sounds too critical. It's a very nice language. Some of what has made it nice was a massive committee and standards effort, very similar to the way JS has continued to evolve under TC-39 stewardship.)

Also yeah, my impression of Java was that it was very design-by-committee.