skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm embarrassed to say it took more than a year to change my behavior

That's nothing to be embarrassed about - I've taken decades to learn "easy" lessons". You should be proud you made the change and you can focus on the incredible results you have achieved!
Life is a marathon, not a sprint. Let’s see how many of those are around when we actually go through a full business cycle. No company started since 2003 has really been through a real downturn. 2007/2008 was limited in its blast radius and the fed just threw money everywhere…
Fancy cars also have a function of status. I don't need to prove my status, so I drive an inexpensive car.

That said, my friends in the trades are regretting their choices as they age and their physical ailments add up. I think it's a solid option for the first 15-25 years as long as you have an exit plan as your body ages.

(Note: I want to speak that this is perceived status and this has side effects. That I don't prove my status through a car or that there is a perceived need of those in the skilled trades to do so does not make a value judgement.)
Besides the other mentioned

The rest is history
https://shows.acast.com/the-rest-is-history-podcast

Empire
https://www.playpodcast.net/podcast/empire/
I'm a big fan of the historical information that Yark shows.

Arrimus 3D recently replacing a large chunk of their 3D modeling tutorials with religious content was a pretty big lightbulb moment for me that so much of the content I rely on - not just for the initial learning of a new skill, but as a continual reference when I forget something - is so fragile.

I immediately bought a NAS and began backing up everything that I gleam even the tiniest bit of learning from using a similar project, TubeArchivist[0]. Projects like this are really important for maintaining all of the great knowledge on the web.

[0] https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist
> This is just corporate gaslighting at this point ..[sip].. They cant say "we are making record profits" and in the same breath say "we need to fire people to survive" that's not how that works. Pick one.

This might be a bit harsh in relation to Amazon.

I saw a comment on another site mentioning total workforce. A quick look at Amazon's Wikipedia page reveals that they employ 1,544,000 as of September 2022. Is 18,000 really that much?

It's like getting rid of 1 person in an office of 100.

There's also the issue of market forces. On March/2022 their stock price was around $164. It was $143 on August/2022 and it's been plummeting since then. Currently at $83.

I also followed a source link on Wikipedia that led me to this Sept/2020 article: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/amazon-to-hire-100-000-in-u... : Amazon to Hire 100,000 in U.S. and Canada. This was during Covid's initial height. I think some people criticized them for this too.

I'm of the position that, in this case, Amazon really has very little choice. These 18,000 might really be excessive. They don't come across as a company that tries to get by with a skeleton crew. They constantly overload to ensure smooth operations.

They are also one of the few "Tech" firms where you can talk to real people at a moment's notice - which is part of this overloading for smooth operations philosophy.
I only know a bit more than nothing, but I'd wager anything industrial is considered more interesting. Single-family residential wiring, especially for new construction where there's nothing in the way, is so simple that even I, using just what I've learned being a homeowner, could meet code with it.
It's LoraWAN at ~900 mhz.
I use Norwegian trains whenever I try to go to a different city.
Musk impregnated an OpenAI board member last year [0]. What kind of separation is that?

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/7/23198199/elon-musk-childre...
Biggest advantage of solar in geostationary is that you get power 24/7, so you don't need a lot of storage. You're not in shadow at all except for a little bit around the equinoxes. Total uptime is 99.5%.
You can't do that in a union shop. You have to increase everyone's pay and there isn't money for that.
Those are all crypto products. This conversation began with a poster stating that web3 and crypto are separate things, implying that web3 is something that could exist without crypto. If the only web3 applications are ways to buy/sell/exchange/mint/store/etc crypto assets, then it is not in fact true that it’s an ecosystem that’s separate from crypto stuff.
Pipe fitters tend to have really strong hands because the pipes are heavy and awkward.

Working with awkward heavy things tends to wear out your joints
The biggest barrier to bikes is deadly cars.
"Fair is what a person can command from competing for jobs, and jobs competing for workers. Anything else ends up unsustainable, which usually ends up hurting the least able workers."

Unsustainable, huh? I'm from the Netherlands where we've had minimum wage since 1969. The job market hasn't exactly broken down in those 53 years. Actually, we have the lowest unemployment in recorded history. Also, minimum wage just got upped by more than 10%.

You know why? Because otherwise people working full-time can't even afford the basics. Even if you have zero empathy in you, how exactly does it benefit society to have productive members of society suffer, become homeless, resort to crime, go hungry and freeze?
this project has DOD involvement, it may be the case that someone is shy about it, because government project, or oops, i didnt realize anyone would care.

https://advancedwireless.org/new-2-7m-pawr-project-funded-by...
They have less reputation to risk. Big tech and so on can't put out AI prototypes as easily without ending up on the front page of NYT when it comes out with some egregious learned biases around race, sexism, Nazis, and so on.
Proof of received and delivered packets.
> If you look at something like numpy functions, so many of them share the exact same parameter definitions. What if you could write def log(standard-exp-params) instead of having to write them out every single time?

They're not actually written out every time, the issue is mostly documentary (and it would be nice if Python or Sphinx ever had a good solution). And numpy actually has a bunch of generators for that e.g. https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/45bc13e6d922690eea43b9d8... handles filling in the common bits of documentation for the ufuncs.
> You can write # 2001-08-12 # to mean the date 2001-08-12, instead of writing something annoying like Date(2001, 8, 12)

I like this article but oh man dates just trigger me. Such a missed opportunity to use an unambiguous date example like 2001-08-13
If you have constants repeated throughout the codebase, you can pull them into a constants file, and then you can go to that file, navigate to the definition of interest, and use your IDE of choice to find usages.

You'll also be able to give these constants semantically significant names, and comment next to them providing derivations or citations. And of course, if it's a mistaken or outdated value, you can change it one place and apply it everywhere.

Consider that, if you were debugging a problem with this constant, and the problem was caused by someone having made a typo in one of it's usages (eg having typed 1000500 instead of 10000500, a mistake that's more difficult to make of you have better ways to format numbers [did you have to look back and forth to find the mistake? I did]) - your regex would fail to find it, even if there were no ambiguity about the format it was written in.
Mini nuclear reactors could soon power data centers
I'm pretty sure people made the same argument about electric scooters when they first came out. People will buy these just for fun the same way they buy all the other silly modes of transport. Honestly I think these look way more fun than say rollerblades for example. I don't think everyone is going to use them but they will for sure have a market. No sense in being cranky about a cool product just because it doesn't suit your taste or wallet.
Honestly they move to be acquired. AI is destined to be the future of tech, but it's going to be the data that decides who wins. Once an algorithm is out in the wild, anyone with money can copy, train, and deploy it IF they have the data.

OpenAI has done some amazing RnD, but it is the big tech firms have all the data. Acquisition by a company like Microsoft is probably the most likely thing that will happen.

Sidenote: If a basic multiplayer vector graphics editor like Figma is worth 20 Billion, OpenAI can get a much higher price IMO!
I have done far worse than wade through poop water on my knees when I worked as a teenager on a paintball site / as a rifleman in the army! But to each their own :)
The nurses start families and won't work night shifts anymore.
>probably due to management being unwilling to cannabalize their own jobs and knowledge

Disagree.

The reason Google does not innovate anymore wether AI or elsewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0UXIFoCbXog
>How can people be so nihilists about this?

The intent of copyright was never to be a never-ending "golden goose"! It was to give a very limited sole ability to monetize something in exchange for moving the arts and sciences forward.

Generational wealth was never a consideration. Nor was how helpful other people were to the enterprise.

It is amazing that the perception (and reality thanks to unlimited money from mega-corps) has changed to be something that someone "owns" and is "owed". It isn't and never was. It was only ever meant to be an encourangment for the good of society not for the individual.
Normal record keeping activities
It's relative
> First, we don't know that. It's not uncommon for Chinese manufacturers to make extra parts and sell them themselves.

You're saying these parts could be designer imposters, like a Gucci purse. Chinese manufactures might copy the part. They wouldn't copy the logos because there is no reason to copy the logos.

> It's also not impossible that Iran or Russia obtained these from taking apart other devices, theft, or other means.

I need you to prepare yourself to be wrong, because this is just as unlikely. Russia doesn't think they're bad, so they're not going to try to make America look bad by associating with them. From Russia's point of view, that would be trying to make America look good, which they would never do.

> Even if these chips generated revenue for TI, TI almost certainly didn't sell them to Iranian or Russian companies or representatives. They'll have been sold to an intermediary in a legal fashion, as far as TI was aware (or at the very least, with plausible deniability) at the time.

If you sold ovens to an intermediary in 1941, and they sold them to a contractor who installed your ovens at Auschwitz, you'd really feel good about the money you made? Trust me, you wouldn't. It would make you sick, as it should if you are a member of our species.
Yeah but could your body handle 30+ years as a plumber? It’s hard physically work, shit hours and uncompensated commutes. You are literally covered in poop some days and working in the wet/cold others. It’s only a good gig once you own your own firm
Scooters are hard to balance with. I love my e-scooter. My partner has a bad sense of balance and she's fallen off her e-scooter and hurt herself (nothing bad, just bruises and cuts) before. She prefers to ride the bike. According to the video anyway, this looks like it's a lot easier to balance with. Scooters are also heavy. Most men have enough upper body strength to lift scooters, but a lot of others don't. My partner has a hard time lifting up the e-scooter above certain heights.
Gosh, that's very flattering! Very touched by your interest.
Amazon opens its Sidewalk bandwidth-sharing network to third-party devices
Since we were talking the other day about Dumb / Smart TVs and how they might spy on you without ever joining your WiFi. I'm 100% sure Sidewalk will be used for this purpose (if it's not already).
This is the kind of dataset it would be super cool to train a generative AI model on. I can picture (naively) being able to generate cells with specific conditions that are rarely or never seen, and being able to dial up and down different features to look at how they affect diagnostics or whatever else you might do with these images. I hope that's on their radar
> Elon Musk replied to a question on how he's open to the idea of acquiring Substack [2].

Every CEO is “open to” any acquisition, just as any VC is “open to” funding any company. At least until someone asks for terms.

The only interpretation of “open to” in the business world is “not a hard, irreversible ‘no’.”
All I know of Scandinavian history I learned from ‘The 13th Warrior’.
Athenian Taxes
It is hip on Twitter to say he just bought it all (with daddy’s money is even better to note) and knows nothing. As in: without getting free money he cannot succeed, only break. Link to an image of collapsing Tesla price.

It’s boring; chatgpt is great or skynet and either Musk is god or Musk is worthless is most of my Twitter timeline.
Question for people that read deep into these things. What is the best CPU for the linker stage of compiling? I would assume these high performing single core "gaming" CPUs would do well, but I must admit I care a lot about power efficiency as well. I have a 3900x and love that CPU for nearly everything but waiting on optimized builds.
Pretty funny thing to say on HN, which consists of people in the industry of automating things.
We’ve had the same problems. We use Twilio for SMS based OTP login, lost lots of money to toll fraud, and spent lots of time putting up various mitigation strategies to reduce it. Now we only lose a bit of money to toll fraud, but if was lots of engineering effort and $$ down the drain.

My main suggestion would be to avoid any sort of flow, like SMS OTP login, that allows triggering SMS messages without being logged in. Just do a more traditional login, SMS OTP isn’t worth the headaches.

Haven’t tried Twilio Verify, didn’t exist when we were solving these problems ourselves. But like most fraud prevention, it’s probably far from perfect, better to just avoid fraud-prone workflows if you can.
Functional purity is the wrong abstraction to ask for, and doesn't protect you as such (consider a Haskell library that, very purely, asks to write to ~/.bashrc).

Sandboxing modules is what you want, and that can be done with impure languages too. Sure, pure functional programming might make it easier, but as others pointed out, Safe Haskell and friends are very very far from mainstream.

Meanwhile, Firefox compiles some C/C++ dependencies into wasm, and runs them in sandboxes.
Further, the customer has the right to dispute credit card charges thanks to the agreement between customer and card provider and between card provider and merchant.

Twilio will get in trouble with Visa/Mastercard if customers say Twilio is dropping them for disputes the card provider finds in the customers' favor.
Well of course not as many gen Z people want to be in the trades. You have 25% wanting to be influencers. You have to take that 25% from somewhere.

https://www.projectcasting.com/blog/news/gen-z-influencer/
Really? I remember us having problems buying magnesium ribbon back then. A friend got some from our chemistry teacher with a bogus reason. Unfortunately, the thermite mixture wasn't done right--pebbles rather than powder--and it didn't get going.
Heya - sign up for an account and put in your personal access token, it will work then! Hitting GitHub rate limits atm!
It’s basically double discretionary spending
> Has 8 hotswap bays, tons of room

refs?
That much-repeated factoid is the result of sloppy, clickbait reporting of a lousy survey.

People were asked "If you had a sudden $500 expense, how would you pay for it?" with options like ["cash", "checking account", "credit card", "pay-day loan", "borrow from family"] and unsurprisingly many people said "credit card". This then got repeated and reported as "Americans can't pay $500 without going into debt".
I still feel like you are using "HR" here to refer to a broader set of administrative roles that are not actually Human Resources.
Maybe on prepaid plans? Been a while since I've heard of SMS costing anything on subscription plan, outside of roaming charges. Mobile Internet effectively cannibalized that income stream for the phone companies.
Not a big deal, could just say income as reported on your W2, then.

Not to mention employers already enforce non competes and don’t pay anything.
People also like when they can go to a coffee shop and the barista shows up, even when it's raining, and that the bags of coffee are delivered on time, and that their Amazon packages are delivered and that their local grocery is staffed by workers who may live far away and can commute to work and sell them tomatoes grown in South America delivered right to their local neighborhood, which were carried on trucks to the local port in Brazil before loaded onto ship, sailing to a nearby port, loaded onto a train, and then shipped by a truck to the grocery. They take it for granted that when their plumbing goes out, someone can quickly drive to their location and provide the necessary work to restore service. They take it all for granted that they are living in a modern industrial economy that is made possible by cars and trucks (and yes, also trains, ships, and planes).

It's a classic case of not taking into account enormous externalities.
You pay $200/hr for the work you see onsite. What you don't see is overhead, drive time to site and back to HQ and because plumbers aren't guaranteed to work 40 hours a week.

If there is no work, the plumbers don't get paid.
I'm not sure how your body parts wear out.

Football players ruin their bodies through accumulated injuries, not wearing their bodies out.

Do athletes wear their bodies out? I've never heard of that. How does doing plumbing/electricioning wear your body out?
I think it was mostly a strategy of combining IoT hype with Blockchain hype, details be damned. Helium isn't nearly as crazy as IOTA, which was blathering on about a starlink style network powered by trinary circuitry (no, I'm not kidding).
How to Grow Old
They only are a source of profit because they are made artificially scarce through restrictive zoning.
Bangladesh puts energy hopes in first nuclear power plant, despite delay
Yay, it's like vim only shittier!
Did you read the article? It's an investment round...
Watch the video and do an image search on "helium crypto solar power". You will see many devices that look like that. Crypto is a plausible explanation.
The court doesn't have to agree, only the card provider does.

The customer has the right to dispute credit card charges thanks to the agreements between customer and card provider and between card provider and merchant.

Twilio will get in trouble with Visa/Mastercard if customers say Twilio is dropping them for disputes the card provider finds in the customers' favor.

This is why you always pay for sketchy merchants with a card, it's one of the few consumer powers you have.
Have you done the training missions? I found those really helped.
(Sorry for the tangent.)

Are the spaces tight enough around you where the scooter is inconvenient? I didn't expect e-scooters to become as popular as they did where I live but they've taken the area by storm, and it seems especially strong among the crowd that still commutes.
Well, you did prove my point. I said nuclear the wrong way, and you had a meltdown. Again, I didn't make any arguments against you. You put those words in my mouth yourself. Three times I told you point-blank that you misunderstood me, and not once did you ask for clarification. You didn't calm down until I told you that I agreed with you.

You thought you heard something you didn't like, you panicked really hard, and you refused to receive any new information I tried to give you.
The sign-up form doesn't seem to allow passwords with non-alphanumeric characters in them. Ironically, when it sees one, it complains that "password must have at least one number and at least one letter" (even though it already does) - I suspect that's just a catch-all message for invalid passwords?

In any case, the restriction makes it incompatible with pretty much all password generators, including the built-in ones in modern browsers. To improve matters, I would suggest dropping all restrictions on what cannot be included altogether.
play.golang wouldn't let me use figure (‒, U+2012), endash (–, U+2013) or emdash (—, U+2014) in a variable name directly.

But then the spec[1] says that only code points characterised as "Letter", an underscore, or characterised as "Number, decimal digit" are valid.

[1] https://go.dev/ref/spec#Identifiers
Not really. It’s just a long lived refresh token. You can revoke the app it’s associated to but OP seems unaware.
Sitting in a chair all day is not good for your health long term.
I am under the impression that business/communications bachelors degrees were a signal that the degree holder took the easy way out in school.

It was considered the fallback degree when I went to college 20 years ago, since anyone could graduate with it with minimal effort.
Actually it turned out to be the opposite, vanilla data scraped from the internet is feeding these models
I think contributions can definitely be good if they are going into the project’s intended direction. Issues containing, especially containing "why don’t you just", on the other hand turn me off from open source development.
As a RN developer for over half a decade - I just came to the same conclusion after doing a 1 hour SwiftUI course. Won't be touching RN ever again.
Year-day-month would be a truly cursed assumption for a format
Wouldn’t their best course of action be to locate the towers, hack into them, and continue to allow them to operate?
I love all the sugar of Kotlin, but there is one thing I miss, and it is the indexing of arrays of Python when pulling out part of an array.
Comptime.

After having discovered Zig, I've been missing that feature in every other language.
The company sending you a high bill doesn't automatically mean the guy who fixed your house gets paid well though, does it?
It's less about engineering ability. For sure, OpenAI has phenomenal technical talent, but large tech co's do too, and in fact, many of them have internal developments that match (maybe exceed) GPT3 / ChatGPT.

It's more about organizational bureaucracy, innovator's dilemma, organizational priority, risk tolerance given the scrutiny they're under, etc.
> Many people tried to do this with Segways but it never really took off

In my experience, this is the only actual use of Segways. I never see Segways used for anything else but city tours. I think maybe some mall security guards sometimes use them too.
Small note - Utrecht is not in Holland.
Usually its about the network effects....

OpenAI can claim the most usage and therefore the ability to see the newest language model tricks.
This sounds exactly like myself. I was multilingual very early as well, and took French, Spanish, German, and Latin concurrently in school. I also enjoy creating human languages (conlanging). My main bit of advice is that he join the Language Creation Society (conlang.org).

The only conlanger I know of who makes a decent living creating languages is David J Peterson. He created the GoT languages, the grounder language in The 100, the various languages of Defiance, and the Dark Elf language in Thor the dark world among others. As this is the most financially successful conlanger whom I know, I am not too certain how much call there really is for language construction. Still, joing the Language Creation Society will at least put him in the running the next time there's a contest to create a language for HBO.

EDIT: I keep building languages as a hobby, and learning human languages when time allows, but ultimately as I grew older it became necessary to pour my efforts into my other love: technology. Life is expensive.
You do not have any secret knowledge dangerous to share on this issue, I guarantee that, so drop the pretense and just say what you think clearly.