skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find myself very much preferring the help of "wordiness" in this case.

When one is driving at 100km/h, “wordiness” is not really that useful.

I much rather prefer signage in Europe. Colours are consistent with the meanings (red is always “forbidden” or “not allowed”, whereas blue and white means the opposite). Same goes with geometry. There is little to no need for any more descriptive signage.

In the US, I find myself having to read three line signs almost constantly, some of them comically complex. There is even a joke in Futurama about that: https://youtu.be/-sHKlVRnfag
Makes me wonder if an AI could be used to determine which articles are written by an AI and which are made by humans. I propose such an AI be called "Bladerunner."
Any learnings beyond the dollar value?
I really should have started using Long Bets years ago.

Ten years ago a “Tanya” told me she would never use an ebook to read literature. I’m pretty sure if I went to her house today I’d find 2. In fact I may be the only person I know who doesn’t own one (not wanting one and being fundamentally against them are two different things).

That’s the most memorable but I’ve had these sorts of “over my dead body” conversations on a hundred topics over the years.
The problem with that is currently, the available memory scales with the class of GPU.... and very large language models need 160-320GB of VRAM. So, there sadly isn't anything out there that you can load up a model this large on except a rack of 8x+ A40s/A100s.

I know there are memory channel bandwidth limits and whatnot but I really wish there was a card out there with a 3090 sized die but with 96GB of VRAM solely to make it easier to experiment with larger models. If it takes 8 days to train vs. 1, thats fine. having only two of them to get 192GB and still fit on a desk and draw normal power would be great.
Tesla (Nikola, not the car company) made induction motors over 100 years ago. They have nothing to do with IGBT's, which have been around for over 20 years themselves.

Basically it was increased battery life/power to weight ratio and the development of easy charging. The impetus was really more of a technology application than an underlying technology itself.
I'm sympathetic to your frustration, but this seems like an argument you could make about all kinds of things. If you work at a company with unlimited snacks, some people will munch all day and get most of their calories for free, while parents and people on diets have to eat elsewhere and will only have snacks once in a while. If you work at a company with unlimited breaks, some people will take 10 breaks a day while others will be pressured by their manager to take only 1 or 2. It can't be the solution to say companies have to strictly regiment every employee interaction so they can make sure it's fair.
People are actually very oblivious to how they contribute to the issues in orgs. They are paid to do what they're doing, and rocking the boat will damage their position. Therefore the safest bet is to stay within the fence, and to defend that fence.

Anyone that comes in and says "you're wrong" is removed. That upsets the hierarchy.
> At least on Windows Desktops I'd say most of security incidents today are initiated by the end-user in front of that Desktop

To install programs on my work PC i need admin account. Except for (rolling drums) Teams.
Which we're not gonna get cause NIMBY
Obviously layoffs are bad for people's health (both mental and physical), but they're an integral and important part of our capitalistic society. Companies need to respond to market and financial pressures and layoffs and hiring (the latter is almost always not being reported) are the tools for this.

I personally believe that Big Tech put on lots of flab during the pandemic. Now they need to get rid of it to weather the downturn.
>https://www.r-c-y.net/posts/machining/

Great info, thanks for posting!
A wood stove is an excellent piece of infrastructure to protect a house that can freeze solid if the electricity goes out.

When we lose power, we can't even flush the toilets because we have an electric well pump. (We should get a generator, perhaps). But I can always go outside and find some wood and keep the house from freezing and bursting. (I guess it also requires me to be here, to be transparent)
That's how it worked out for me at the last palce I worked with this policy. Unlimited meant no days off.
$19/mo: https://www.eightsleep.com/sleepos/ (YC-S15)
> I do not want my refrigerator or computer on a GFCI

Why not? Here in Belgium they are required everywhere and that works just fine.
Tell that to The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/11/23550470/microsoft-employ...
There's a ton of compute power available in the form of unused phones.
Vision of D’s Future (2019)
Wow. Four weeks off is the legal base minimum in Germany. Most companies provide at least 5 weeks of PTO. If competition for talent or unions are strong it is normal to have 6 weeks of PTO.

On top come public holidays so that you regularly are able to stretch 6 weeks PTO to about 7 to 8 weeks of holiday per year (if for example xmas falls not so shitty as last year's).

I am always amazed how different it is in other countries.
>It has been the standard for quite a few years, and I cannot imagine only having 100A service in a proper house

100A service is fairly normal here for smaller homes. As heating here is primarily done by natural gas furnaces rather then electrical heating. Which make sense; gas is way cheaper to heat with here then electricity. And it saves a dollar for the developer.

I don't know about larger homes though; I'd imagine that they'd have 200A circuits but it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't unless the builder specifically requested it.
> The first ... will give you a great messaging experience

Already sounds suspicious.

> you’ll need to sign up for a new app to get it.

Sign up? Sounds like somebody is running a centralized server that's tracking me then.

> The second ... sometimes fails to deliver messages without telling you

It tells me when the message cannot be sent. I don't like it that some central authority knows what's the status of my correspondent.

> send tiny, blurry photos and videos;

It won't, since I won't send any of that stuff. In messaging, a word is worth a thousand images.

> only works on your phone (not your computer);

good, that means no centrally-managed identity.

> confuses all your friends

I have yet to meet a person who gets confused by receiving a text message.

> and might lose all your messages if you switch phones;

As opposed to _not_ losing them? Now _that_ would be terrible. Although I'm sure the government in my country keeps a copy anyway.

> limits the length of your messages;

Yeah, that's kind of annoying.

> makes some of your friends feel inferior to others

Because they, umm, got an SMS? I don't understand.

> and offers no privacy whatsoever.

Well, that's true, but also not much of an illusion of privacy either.

...

Anyway, I'll keep my text messaging, thank you very much.
YMMV but most people I know who live in a rural area have electric. Having a gas stove means maintaining a propane tank. If you really want a gas furnace that might be worth it, and higher end rural homes certainly do, but just about every older/non-wealthy rural house I know of relies more on wood stoves, cadet heaters, and electric ranges.
The blog post removed the disclaimer "NB: Fictional story, inspired and translated from this source", see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34317850
If I wanted to dox myself I could list job postings. Companies do not care about unenforced laws.

It’s not my job to argue with HR about what constitutes legal hiring practices.
True, but having "sophisticated" build processes are a problem in their own right. I understand that there may be special cases, but generally, if you have troubles making a build process work with Make, then using a "better" tool is just paving over the underlying problem.

Just today I was trying to help a friend build some tool with Bazel. While I'm sure there's a reason for Bazels existence, but it's just way to complex. The build failed and debugging the Bazel config was just a major hassle compared to had we just looked at the Java commands in a Makefile.

Similar with Pythons setuptools, even though that is significantly easier with the new pyproject.toml. It's really powerful, but what all I wanted is basically to copy a bunch of files and add a bit of metadata.
> Tether has short term liabilities (tokens) and short term assets (T-bills, money market funds, bank deposits, etc.)

they claim.... We don't actually know what assets they really decided to hold.
> But the concept of a national speed limit and then not marking the speed limit when it's in effect seems brain dead.

Yeah. Have you driven in France? On regular roads, there's no "national speed limit". Depending on the department, it can be 80 or 90 km/h.

> How are you supposed to know what it is if say you just rented a car from the airport?

Nul ne doit ignorer la loi (no one may be ignorant of the law).

> How do you know at a glance if a road is one way?

If there are only two lanes, you look at the line on the left border of the road. If the line is continuous, both lanes go the same way. If it's dashed or there's no line (and your side doesn't have one either) you're on a two-way road.

If there are multiple lanes, there will be a double continuous line separating the ways. The double line can sometimes appear on two-lane roads, it always means the road is two-way.

Yellow markings exist, they usually mean road-work / temporary signaling.

Best rule of thumb: if you're not clearly on a highway, it's very likely a two-way road. Clearly means there's no other separate set of lanes close by. We don't have as much space as in the US where the lanes going the other way are so far away you can barely see them.
Maybe. Lately I’ve been thinking ‘whatever happened to stumbleupon?’ and particularly how SU was a lot like TikTok but for web pages.

I am working on a demo of content-based filtering for RSS feeds, look up my profile and contact me about it!
I'm sure there's a lot of anecdotes from male programmers about how difficult it is to get in and stay in the field, it's difficult.

But if there is something to address, address the pain points specifically and directly.

Don't try to guess a "correct" ratio and work backwards with affirmative action (denying one race to boost up another).

For all you know the current ratio is the realistic ratio and where we should be.
Sorry, I mis-read your original post. I read it as "upgrading to 30-amp circuits" rather than what it actually says, "upgrading to 30 circuits." My mistake. (In retrospect I should have realized that 30-amp circuits were unrealistic.)
I guess this still applies even with an "unlimited" policy though.
They have to reimburse time already accrued, so no, this switch is actually a lot more expensive for them in the short term.
Yup, but still it doesn't cover many millions of US citizens. e.g Sikh, Middle Eastern, African Africans etc (not that there can ever be a list that covers such a diverse country).
AFCI trips on the smallest thing. Turning on my blender or microwave tripped it. I ended up downgrading to just GFCI in frustration.
I love this idea! The automate the easy bits (or the steps that are the biggest pain/time suck) until the whole thing is completed.

A tool like Jupyter Notebooks would be great for this - comments & code can be placed into a single document. I'm working on a project called unSkript (https://unskript.com) that is built on this idea.
SaaS Startup’s Expenses, Equity Allocation, & Marketing Results After 6 Years
I've had way, way, way, too many 'chirp' at 4am situations in my life. The alarms have _literally_ trained me like Pavlov's dogs that it is _always_ a false alarm, to the point where my sleep deprived brain stumbles through the door blindly into the hallway without even checking if there's heat or smoke.

Some of the other solutions here like cry wolf only if battery low _and_ power's out, or a dedicated LED to indicate a problem, or the one I keep thinking of; gently _saying_ there's a problem with a small sound clip of "bat" instead of an angry Chirp that must wake someone up would really help. The alternative that I've heard many others take is to just disable them entirely if you're in a rental. I'll admit that I've been very tempted to do just that for individual alarms which are overly sensitive to bathroom steam.
> your phone number is yours

Unless you move out of their service area. Or a number of other caveats. Then they're not required to allow you to port your number, and telecoms rarely do anything user-friendly-but-internally-costly that they're not legally required to do.
The 2 is the first value. And no spoilers.
It depends, you just need the right culture and management which respects and trusts the employees.

I love it, and my manager has never rejected a PTO request, it’s just a formality. I took more than the UK standard 25 days in my first year and we haven’t talked about PTO once.

In fact, sometimes people say stuff like “oh I’m gonna go to $place for two weeks and I’ll just work in the daytime and vacation in the evenings and weekend” and management will actively encourage just taking the time off and enjoying it, coming back refreshed instead.
There’s not as many offline perpetual license options today, but that model used to be common.
> I don't personally see the utility in having a 100mbit connection on my phone.

Many of us want higher speeds for IoT projects.
This highlights an implementation detail.

Some companies do unlimited vacation like this. It's a perk.

Other companies use this to be restrictive on the vacation people take. It keeps more people working more days.

This speaks a lot to company culture.
For FreeCAD, I recommend trying RealThunder's dev branch, which fixes its main topology issues. (They're working on merging but it's a big review). https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/releases

But setting that aside, rather than a philanthropic billionaire, I've long thought big companies like Ford / Boeing / Mitsubishi ought to pool together into some kind of consortium and buy out Dassault to open-source the code. It would probably pay back multiple times over for them -- not through saving on licensing fees, but through all the little efficiency improvements throughout their supply chains. Small machine shops would be able to offer more competitive quotes to customers; more shops would pop up; lead times would improve; file formats would standardize and version mismatches would disappear; new and custom features could get added faster Blender-like; independent developers could write plugins to automate or accelerate mechanical design; new ME hires could gain experience with the tools at home. It would be a huge boon to the industry as a whole. Shame that it hasn't happened yet.
Microservices are merely just another hype in the IT world.

Everyone ran with it and now we're stuck with thousands of fragile and unmaintainable systems which will ruin companies in the coming decades.
Just because an app can serve a request does not mean it should. Nginx can handle requests at scale and also do asset caching.

Also, your questions at this point are extremely vague. You need to spend time determining exactly what you want to learn. Because unless you have a clear goal, you'll never progress. I'd start by researching how Nginx is used with whatever app you're using, and then start asking yourself questions like "why do this via Nginx instead of doing it with just the app?", then go find the answers to "why not use $app as the server." and get Nginx out of the mix, because the two are not directly related. Because where Nginx could be used, so could Apache + Passenger or some other stack.
Yes. Most people cannot code or manage. They puffed up their resume, copy and pasted someone else's work, and presented well. Therefore they got the job. That's how the game works. It's not about what you know.
Wow. Microsoft must not be a publicly traded company then. When I was managing teams my tracking of where time went, which you know, ended up being reported in financials was pretty important as fraud in publicly traded financial numbers is kinda a big deal. Not sure I would commit that level of fraud for 'good will' on my team, no matter how much I liked them or was trying to boost morale.
Them's boomer talk /s

There has been a semantic shift with the word boomer - for older people it means the baby boomer, but for much younger people (like Gen Z) it just means anyone 30 or above.
Yes, I recall reading the same thing many years ago too. IIRC the results were specific to the United States and it was posited that this might be due to differences in US employees views towards work. We tend to overwork ourselves whereas some of our EU or non-US counterparts don't do that as much.
Something tells me that you love to critique things to hear yourself speak before actually answering a question.

P.S. it's spelled "paycheck" not "pay check". ;)
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/z98ubk/defect_proc...
Zero paid leave mandated at the federal level. Not even sick days.
We use `m_` at work and I've come to really appreciate it. It makes reading code very easy - any variable you see prefixed with `m_` is a class member field. Anything else is either a function argument, a locally scoped variable, or has some other prefix (`k`, for example, referring to static constants).

Since we read code far more than we write it, sprinkling little "usage hints" like this across symbol names removes a lot more cognitive overhead than I would have thought.
Nice work team Cloudthread! A tagging assistant can be one of the first features for organizations to understand their costs better by product lines, teams, cost centers, etc. Looking forward to using it! :)
My post was more bleak sarcasm than analysis, but I think it's about 50-50. Perverse incentives are part of the issue, but there are networks that diligently and patiently work to maximize their number and perversity, eg applying the lessons of selectorate theory in a maximally adversarial rather than diagnostic way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectorate_theory
yeah, this isn't just generosity, this is a legal requirement that the 'all you can eat' policy is trying to avoid
9 years after the created this language they’re only now beginning to do this?
Great conclusion point: "Metabase supports public transportation."
This is silly, most people have never even heard of Signal or Telegram, and only 25-50% of my contacts have WhatsApp. I could either immediately message anyone over fast and reliable SMS, but I should instead ask them to install some app first?

Moreover, despite all of the hate, iMessage actually works great. If the other person happens to have an iPhone (as most of my contacts do), they automatically get all these modern features, and if they don't, it seamlessly fails over to SMS and just works without anybody needing to think about it.
Really buried the lede in the last paragraph imo:

> According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mean annual wage for an electrician in the U.S. is about $63,000 compared with an average of $58,000 for all occupations.

They go on to point out it's higher in the Bay, and there's a wide range with many making more, but that's the mean so that means many are also
making less. As explained earlier in the piece those high-paying union jobs are not the ones where this new residential retrofit demand is being generated. $5,000 above the average wage is a joke for a regulated, skilled trade. This will have to change.
Some OS's have a single task for the whole computer, rather than one per application.

The only real downside is that if your app accidentally dereferences NULL, rather than just your application crashing, the whole computer crashes.

... Sorry, somehow reminded me of the early days of the Macintosh's OS before it was "true multitasking" (as the Amiga kids would love to tell us).
Coordinating time off with your manager has always been a thing. That's how you ensure there's adequate coverage instead of everyone being out at the same time.
I feel like this can be easily misused
Binary search works on git commits and on shelves with differently sized T-shirts equally well.
Both are good for different things.

Fast.AI is great, but it takes the top down, vs the bottom up, approach. It takes you from a production-level black box that you don't understand, down to the details. The benefit there is you get good high-level intuition of how it behaves at the "let me use this technology for a job" level.

Separately, the fast.ai library is also highly recommendable -- it comes with some state-of-the-art image recognition models, and its training wrappers are really helpful particularly for image-recognition dataset training.

Karpathy's "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero" video series starts at the level of individual neurons, and works you up to the final product. For some reason both this style, and Karpathy's conciseness appeal to me slightly more. I'm also super detail-oriented, though -- and any level of "hand waving" (even if further explanation comes later) always bothers me. He's also got some pretty high-profile industry experience which carries some weight with me.

But I'll say that both are really high-quality. -- ultimately, my recommendation would be to follow whichever one speaks most to you personally after the first 1hr or so.

EDIT: Per Jeremy's response below, if you want the bottom-up approach but like the fast.ai teaching style, you should check out "part 2" of the fast.ai set of tutorials, which is exactly that.
I graduated from Software Engineering in 2001. Doing a 3 year postgrad degree was one of the best options work-wise at that dark time. We are not that deep, for now, at this time.
George Hotz's next-gen Comma 3 hands-free driver assist
In the rest of the world the answer is simply Whatsapp. China it's WeChat.
No need to discuss. You can also see if their contact is in the app.
Coming off of Paxil is the worst. I've come off of it, I've read it can even be similar to come off of than heroine. I was sick for weeks with lingering aftereffects that I'm still not completely recovered from (I've read it can take over a year)
Ah yes, when the Good Science Center acquired the Pretty Good Science Center.
Big Tech is safe. House republicans can't do much.
They barely control the house.
Republicans don't control the senate or the presidency.

Don't worry, our jobs should be safe.
Though a lot humanities and journalists will probably hype this for clickbait.
> the social media giant has withdrawn signed, full-time offers from potential employees

ooof. promissory estoppel law is kinda niche and nuanced, but i can see that being a discussion topic, esp. in light of their statement last october about how they were not rescinding recent job offers.
I am pretty certain that most of high level use cases for Rust could be replaced with Swift, with increased developer velocity, if Swift was actually cross platform. And that's coming from a Rust fan. It will be interesting to see how effective this rewrite is.
> The impoverished

I am a bit mad at myself for not even thinking about that. I know people who still use flip phones and this basically segments them out even further.

I think we just need to look at AIM, MSN, whatever yahoo's was called. I think there is a good reason that those were very quickly replaced by just SMS. Even though I would argue that in many ways those were superior to SMS and had features that we really did not get until iMessage (for better or for worse) but we already went through this once and SMS won out.
Maybe on an iPad but on a phone?
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I don't see that in the link you provided? I think I heard of this crash, but I don't remember specifics, and it looks like Tesla didn't comment.

On a page of statistics they put together, they said "we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact", and that seems sufficient for a level 2 system.