skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
isnt his point that the price of groceries has recently only grown a small amount? compared to previous months or quarters which have grown quite a bit
Enzyme 'atlas' helps researchers decipher cellular pathways
Is Bitcoin a Ponzi? How exactly?
This is basically how I feel about working with K8S and dredging through a repo full of templated YAML spaghetti. What am I looking at now? Helm, Keda, Flux, Argo, OperatorHub, GitHub Actions? oh actually this bit is in Terraform in another folder, whoops.

You can’t actually deploy something unless you can mentally untangle it all, it just sits in front of your infra as a sort of DevOps Coming of Age ritual, where you look whistfully over your shoulder at the old Heroku or Vercel account you grew up with. Simpler times.
I hear you. But the flip side is there is often a tendency to massively over complicate things in a way that bakes in valueless complexity and bloat, which is very much the norm in large government systems. I’m practice this attitude is far more common and destructive long term.
Paying exorbitant contracts to companies with weak talent and processes is not "stringent."
The point is that if it is reasonable or maybe even worthwhile to wear when off, then it can support all-day wear (not all day use) given power constraints, which makes it a lifestyle product not a gadget, like a watch. Put it on when you leave in the morning, take it off and put it on the charger at night.

I think it will flip up. They will do what you said but they can only do that for a few hours a day before the battery dies, and worse, if the battery dies, you can’t see anything anymore. So they need a mechanism that lets you keep wearing it when it’s dead. If you have to take it off when the battery is dead, it will end up in the closet next to your other headsets.

I’m guessing they will have a design that is fashionable and comfortable to wear when flipped up and off.
> will the Fed stop raising rates soon enough?

This is not a meaningful phrase.
Star Citizen raised half a billion dollars for a game that is never going to be released and all they did was promise a game in space with spaceships, sooo ...

Yeah, I think we could crowdfund a billion dollars for this, but we'd need some really competent people making sure it gets used optimally.
This is very common actually, eg. laws around banking regulation or import/export. The laws require you to have "designated individuals" who have to be residents.

For example here's a law related to handling human tissues in the UK:
https://www.hta.gov.uk/guidance-professionals/licences-roles...

Here's another one to do with child safety:
https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/research-resources/templates/n...
This may happen in every field, but front-end suffered this enormously for the last ~20 years! (JavaScript fatigue, anyone?)

I think there is a spectrum with two opposite poles: The ones that think that a complex problem requires a complex solution and those who try to solve complex problems with elegant solutions.

The first group transfers all the complexity directly to the solution, the latter tries to eradicate complexity by dumbing down the problem first.

I found that engineers tend to be in the first group. Designers (especially UX's) tend to form the second group. The fact that there is a "Complexity Reduction"[0] trend in UX may be both a cause or an effect of this (I'm not really sure).

Another UI example.

This is a popular software made by the first group: https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/assets/img-bru/mainscr.p...

This is the same problem solved by the second group: https://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/choose-b...

This may be also explicative: https://xkcd.com/538/

[0]: https://medium.com/slate-teams/complexion-reduction-a-new-tr...
yeah but the solution isn't ivory towers owning our communications or having to choose a bunch of apps either. i'd prefer some kind of an industry standard that is cross-platform and works with built-in messaging clients

something like rcs, but without the drama

i know for sure that i can sms nearly anyone. can't say that about signal (which i have tried, and it is nice)
After the outage from yesterday, maybe FAA should do the same :)
"The provision would not apply to search engines." Why?
Yep, it's possible to argue completely incorrect things.
6 GHz boost, not base.
New refrigerants will make a big difference here. The main theoretical restriction is the pressure delta required to go from a low enough pressure to transfer heat into the system at a low ambient temperature, then to a high enough pressure to transfer heat out of the system at a high ambient temperature. That’s what causes the loss in COP at low temperatures—the increased work the compressor has to do.

It’s definitely theoretically possible. There are refrigerants that can do this now with a relatively low delta, but generally they are flammable, toxic, or have high global warming potential.

There are other ways around this like booster systems, but it becomes a $$$ issue at that point.
First, as a former CTO thank you for caring about your work and the long term/downstream effects of design considerations. It's impossible to build anything actually useful without exactly the approach you're taking.

It also takes courage to ask this kind of a question and it's clear that you are a rare engineering leader who cares deeply about your coworkers and your output. You probably don't hear thank you enough, so I'll say it again: Thank you for caring.

To your question:

My answer is, always go back to the holistic goal of the system and make sure that the team is aligned - otherwise you fall victim to micromanagement. At the end of the day your job is to expertly balance long and short term goals of the business against long and short term goals of the team. If there are fundamental misalignment between these then nothing you can do will solve the problem it will just come up in different ways and you'll play whack-a-mole forever.

What strikes me about your situation is that your coworker seems to have developed a "knock the task out as quickly as possible" routine, and is really good at delivering quality features quickly. Of course, the industry has done literally everything it can do force engineers into this myopic approach (I won't rant as to why but suffice to say I think it's based on greed) and doesn't make your life any easier.

I don't know what your situation is, but I think finding a way to slow down so that nobody feels rushed and have been actively provided dedicated time for higher abstraction design and architecture. People joke about "Architects" - but this example is precisely why those jobs are critical in many cases. It's your job as the engineering leader to do that architecture work.

Best of luck and keep up the great work!
I'm a Computer Programmer -- at my heart and core.

I am hopelessly and horrendously naive -- about any and all aspects of a business or corporation that involve anything to do with sales, advertising, marketing, etc., etc.

But I am looking to school myself -- in this heretofore unknown murky area...

So I'm looking through non-Programmer job ads one day -- in earnest hopes to learn more about the mystical black corporate art of sales...

I see that some ads that advertise that "Salespeople" -- are wanted/desired by the business and/or corporation in question...

And I see some ads that state that "Account Executives" -- are preferred...

Now, can anyone on HN, any smart person -- tell me (again, a hopelessly naive idiot! <g>) -- what the exact difference between these two classifications of business/corporate title/job is, exactly?

Anyone, anyone?

?

(...Bueller, Bueller? <g>)
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It's an irrational love-hate relationship which is essential to the history of the modern Bulgarian state and creates the internal political divisions between "rusophiles" and "rusophobes". As a young nation (in modern terms) that has never been through the Enlightenment, we don't have our own political and intellectual traditions, and much of politics is perceived as orbiting around a superpower, be it Russia, continental Europe, or the USA.
This is extremely dependent on the efficiency of your system and how well it is designed. A 15 SEER heat pump can't compare to a 21 SEER (all else equal).

There are heat pumps that do well below freezing, they're just top of the line and so more expensive.
It's an alternative to using IndexedDB which is a browser provided API.

On use cases, you can give your web app offline support by locally caching data in an SQL database and have it be fully queryable.

Say you are building an app like Notion, they already have "offline mode" for the mobile and desktop apps, this would enable you to build that for the web app.

This is very much one of the final jigsaw pieces needed to make PWAs (progressive web apps) competitive for the majority of use cases. We just need Apple to catch up and fill in a few other blanks too.

A design pattern that is beginning to emerge is "offline/local first". You design your app to fundamentally work offline, using things such as this, and the server component only works to synchronise clients. It's a bit like the design move to "mobile first" that happed 10 years ago, but going to another level.
Sure, you can cherry-pick individual items to tell pretty much any story you like.

If the 60% increase in butter prices over the last year is hitting your budget, you probably would benefit from eating less butter. (And I say this as someone who eats a good amount of butter...)
He quite clearly does not mean that. Please address his perspective in good faith.
It depends on the details. There is no formula that is always better.

But the reasoning behind landing page first is that it focuses on engaging users/customers because some (most?) people will avoid the risk of rejection that comes from engaging potential users. Instead of building something based on people's actual problems, they build based on imagined problems.

Which points to a third approach: build something that solves one of your problems (or a problem for someone you know).

Good luck.
Or we could just...pay for stuff. My dear mother isn't going to spin up a GPU so she can talk to her ai assistant. I don't want to be told that I can't do stuff on my phone because I need to purchase a second stack of GPUs for my home because my kids talked to Elmo too much or whatever. We can make data centers that will gladly take money in exchange for their services, and I'm happy to provide money for them to supply those services.
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> are more likely to feel pain and to therefore age quicker

Does feeling pain cause quicker aging?
For amazing flavor, yes. But the biggest upside to pizza at home is that it is almost literally impossible to make a bad pizza. You can definitely do same-day dough, or even just buy dough balls from the grocery. Its hard to shortcut letting yeast work their magic.
The thing about history is that it's never about a single event...

While Russia may have had some influence in the events at the end of the 19th century, they are also responsible for Bulgaria's abrupt transition from monarchy to a soviet country in the 1940s. Bulgaria was a soviet country until 1990… which is a very long time of persistent atrocities and brainwashing.

The “Russian occupation” of the hearts and minds of boomers who are still alive today is difficult to shake.
You can guarantee that much critical infrastructure in the 3rd world runs on WhatsApp
He's clearly not that smart. Smart people listen when their lawyer tells them to STFU.
Untrue. All modern heat pump systems use DC motors ("inverter technology") and will run continuously at variable speed until target temperatures are exceeded by a (programmable) margin. They do not turn on and off and on and off.
Oh, at first it seemed equivalent to Jest's inline snapshots [1], but it's going way deeper, nice.

[1] https://jestjs.io/docs/snapshot-testing#inline-snapshots
To be fair, crypto was the easiest option when I ordered some stuff from Russia, so score one to it.
Thanks for this little comment thread folks!

This makes me cheerful because it suggests a way that studying systems which appear intelligent might be able to teach us more about how human intelligence works.
Humans as a percentage of all matter are even rarer than the element they are comprised of. For example, the biomass of ants on planet Earth is much, much greater than that of humans.
Intel breaks the 6GHz barrier with $699 Core i9-13900KS processor
> Democratized? It’s more centralized than ever.

What 'centralized' in a world that now has 'creator economy' as a thing.

> Also, giving more projects $5m is not a victory if the cost of a proper production is $20m.

Is there any objective definition of that 'proper'. Rhetorical question, obviously, for there isnt.

> it seems like you’re under the impression that a good film can be made with $100k.

It doesn't seem like it. It is like that. Many movies like Paranormal Activity, Parasite were made with low budgets.

> Give that, it doesn’t surprise me that you’re one of the ones who are looking at what’s being served as tv shows and actually enjoying it.

Yeah, people are actually enjoying TV. That shouldnt be a big surprise.

> If you ask me, “the golden age of TV” is a meme based on a handful of shows

How is that any different from the golden ages of cinema in which unending series of rehashed crap were produced to profit off of audiences that had no alternative but to pay for them.

...

Its much better for things to be distributed, democratized and in the hands of more people than small cliques of profiteering feudal lords monopolizing them and deciding what happens. Especially regarding content.
You mean like Boeing?
We have C.UTF-8 ("Computer English") which is not quite there (date/time and paper size do not match) but at least is common and omnipresent.
I agree. If you have to ask for consent, it probably means you've already made a bad engineering/business decision.

Engineers should ask before adding a feature, "Is this going to require user consent?"

They could have added AI to the Roomba to remove people from the video before it ever even hits the network — or drop that video completely. Or switch to a technology other than visible light, etc.
> To be honest I'm surprised Google is not cracking down hard on this, because it absolutely tarnishes the Android brand. They really feel like a "warez" version of AOSP plus cracked Google Play.

Nobody's using these boxes for anything besides pirated IPTV. The market for Android boxes has existed for a decade.

There is not going to be much crossover between people buying hardware like this (to view pirated cable), and the people Google markets Chromecast/Chromeboxes too, because all those do is show paid/ad-funded 'legit' content.
> There are things like “shrink-flation” not captured

I hear this everywhere, but as far as I can tell its a complete myth. The "basket of goods" that CPI is based on does keep track of changes in quality and quantity of the goods.

> If the selected item is no longer available, or if there have been changes in the quality or quantity (for example, a container of orange juice containing 59 ounces instead of 64 ounces) of the good or service since the last time prices were collected, the data collector selects a new item similar to the old item. This is referred to as a substitution.

> When substitution occurs, the commodity analyst reviews the new item and price. The new price may be quality adjusted for use in index computation. Conceptually, the CPI seeks to be a constant-quality measure, though accurately quantifying quality change may not always be possible. Detailed information about quality adjustment procedures is in the calculation section.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/data.htm
> You'd think crypto exchanges would be more cautious

Only if you haven't learned anything from the history of crypto exchanges going at least as far back as MTGOX.
How are creators making money in the metaverse?
Yeah someone posted something like that on HN maybe a year ago.

It's not especially useful though because most companies (who are actually going to pay for this service) aren't going to want to send their training data to random people, and ML training needs high performance links between the cards. Plus you'd have to deal with the fact that you're running on 100 different GPU models.
All of them are liars by definition. We know they are all insolvent.

Crypto doesn’t create any value, like with an investment in a regular business. So that must mean any profit is just money from the latest “unfortunates” that were foolish or desperate enough to buy in.
> Like mining bitcoin except you are doing something actually useful and getting paid actual money for it

But then how would crypto-scammers run ponzi after ponzi after ponzi if they did that?
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I rarely encrypt my files because it's usually much easier to recover data from crashes, stuffed disks etc. when data isn't encrypted. Simlpy, encrypted gobbledygook cannot be easily sorted out from random data, coherent data—even when broken into small chunks—is more recognizable than broken encrypted bits.

The most annoying aspect of many encryption programs is that they are not specified for recovery in cases when the encrypted data stream become broken. For example, you've a hard disk failure where a certain percentage of the sectors on the disk are irrecoverable then the question of how well the encryption program can recover the remaining data becomes important.

In my experience, recovering the remaining data from the remanents of the encrypted data is essentially nigh on impossible. My rule is to not encrypt unless I've guaranteed multiple backups.

I've often wondered why more attention isn't paid to this problem.
Do you really think that TV series from 1992 was higher quality than the series that are produced now?
The quantity of "he's guilty" comments and tweets are a result of how famously and enormously FTX flamed out and how comically guilty he looks. It's not some unnamed entity (CZ? Binance? The US government?) organising some PR campaign against him.

Re your tweet - are you one of those people who believe a covid vaccine caused that player to collapse? You realise athletes have seemingly randomly or spontaneously collapsed many times before Covid 19 was even discovered - often when they weren't even hit, as Hamlin was.
I clicked this link expecting to finally see a writeup on the amazing people who created Compressorhead and got... some instruments with automation attached to them. Which is great. But a headline like, "there's an All Robot Band!!!", that would be... Compressorhead. This is "engineer has added midi automation to live instruments" which is not novel by itself at all. There's 100 year old player pianos that have guitars and snare drums in them (which frankly sound better than this, hitting the hihat from below?! like this one I saw this summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6sc9ULNA64) .
realistically considering equipment available today most people thinking about heat pumps in cold climates would be better served by geothermal systems than air source
> Though, to your point, much of the increase occurred in 2021 - it just never came down.

Yeah, the data is inflation going down (and not to negative values) year over year, not prices going down. Just means prices are inflating slower, not going negative.

And shrinkflation has been around for decades. It was a thing even when inflation was at 'normal' 2% levels.

Edgar Dworsky is the guy that all the media companies bring on as the expert on shrinkflation (just look up his name, pretty much all news sites have articles about him), has had his blog up pointing out all the instances of shrinkflation since as far back as 2006[1].

[1]: https://www.mouseprint.org/
This is my experience - they are very often people who are so highly specialised in one thing that they lose the ability to talk to other people. Their egos are inflated (as no-one else understands them) they go around causing havoc.

I tended towards this but was - I guess - lucky to have had a manager who identified this and helped me grow.

My approach: the young ones need to fail. Hard. Then they'll learn.

The older ones who failed and reacted badly (it was everyone else's fault). I take them out of their comfort zone, tell them about my experiences and talk about the feeling of self-doubt when moving to different domains. Work with them to turn them into truly excellent team members (which they - in my experience - can be as they're usually driven, hard working and egotistical).
Or you need two feet of pipe to hook up the sink in a straight line but you come back the next day to see your “smart” pipe fitter has made a 10 foot pretzel
What heat pump model did you install?
The invisible hand of the market works if everyone has perfect information and fair terms.
I don't understand what's going on. On one hand there is 'recession' 'layoffs' , on the other hand there are 'labor shortages'. Strange times.
I like this visual explanation of the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exc...
While it's not made clear in this case, it's somewhat common for financial companies to do this as a fraud-prevention measure.
> much of the increase occurred in 2021 - it just never came down.

That's not actually in disagreement with the notion that inflation has come down a lot.

(for prices to come down you'd need deflation)
There is a whole group of people who their job depends on the system existing like it does. One dude I worked with re-did a procurement system with a few spreadsheets. He got tired of waiting for 30 people to 'do it'. As soon as his boss found it the whole project he was on was scrapped and he was demoted shortly thereafter. His 'sin'? He had accidently found a way to put 30 people out of a job. These systems exist like this because our gov wants them that way. Not because they are the best.

Yesterday should have been 'run this on these 2 old boxes and make sure they still work' regression test. Sounds like either that step is not there, totally skipped, or does not match reality. Building a real five 9s type system means taking each piece and pondering 'what are the different ways this can fail'. Then mitigating each of those. It is mind numbing tedious work than takes a long time to do. Also most of this is probably run by contract houses. Which means the people who use it do not really 'own it'. Which is by design, for CYA. Which costs more and takes more time because it is all paperwork.
This is just a matter of pump size. People in colder climates size their pumps larger in expectation of these cold temperatures.
> You advise to be human and kind but automatically categorize "difficult people" as being on the spectrum?

Perhaps like me they reject the people referred to are "difficult people" but believe the behaviors listed refer to people on the spectrum or otherwise neurodivergent.
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What produces this sort of environment? Is it basically a way for everyone to shed responsibility?

I guess even that wouldnt answer it, since this isnt really a problem in private industry.
Post on reddits /r/whatisthisthing

They can find almost anything.
... and in order to do that they must sometimes close unprofitable ones.
Bitcoiners were also generally skeptical of this. BTC and crypto often gets lumped together but many of those who prefer Bitcoin have been skeptical about stuff like this from the beginning.

Lightning Network also has some interesting capabilities & seems like it might actually evolve into something with real utility. Block is investing pretty significantly into that.

The minority of Bitcoin enthusiasts in the crypto space might turn out to be at least somewhat right. Assuming western governments don’t ban proof of work, at least.
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