skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to sample the price/quality in France, not on goods exported elsewhere - that’s the key point of this observation. French products are often expensive abroad, but dirt-cheap locally.

The top-quartile 5-10 EUR bottle of wine at the hypermarche is way better than anything in the <$20 price range made in the US. A $15 lump of cheese would be a few EUR in France at quality-parity.
Maybe. What I don't get is any sense of what value VR adds for a business.

Imagine a 200 person call center dealing with health insurance claims, questions, etc. They likely have a PC, headset/phone (possibly digital) and a bunch of licenses to software that might cost an average of $1500 per person to have them be functional. It operates in a cost center part of the company, budgets are tight, investments in IT have to have an ROI to make sense. What value is there in a $1500 VR headset per person? How is this going to save that department money?
"We’ll never again need to hire someone to write a pretty good press release, a pretty good medical report or a pretty good investor deck. "

See also: glass houses, throwing stones.
> I just simply filter those out mentally

Incredibly naive to think you can "just" do anything of the sort. Do you also think advertising doesn't affect you, by any chance?
This is a great example of a mesofact. It is one of those things where experience actually works against a better understanding of the world.
You’re absolutely right! I wasn’t aware of Blink!
I got the impression that the 2022 late stage funding implosion was also the death of ARR as a be-all growth metric. It got Goodhart's Law'd to death after all the companies that went public at huge valuations based on ARR turned out to not be as "recurring" as investors would have liked.
I don't actually think self-control is the answer because I think we should consider the effects on brains in sugar/fat to be like effects of other drugs on the brain, especially because we know shit like childhood trauma and poverty predisposes people to obesity.
When I opened HN today I really did not expect to find a comment mentioning the Bayerischer Landesverein für Heimatpflege e.V.
I am so sick of everything having a cute name. Projects can have a cute name; components should not. Imagine if cars did this.

You'd get into your car, and it can have a cute name because it's one name to remember and your car can just be a "Jetta", but the "steering wheel" should be called that. Otherwise you can't go anywhere because you're not sure if you should chauffage the afiafi before you cosmo the thanos.

chauffage: french for "warm"
afi afi: samoan for "motor"
cosmo: from the Jetson's Cosmo Spacely, maker of sprockets
thanos: no logic whatsoever, I just like the movie (and a bit of whimsy is cute, right?) --good luck trying to figure out what it refers to, I'll probably be gone from the company by the time anyone notices

People complain that naming things is hard, but I argue that it's hard if you don't have a good understanding of what the thing is.
I don't think academics, journalists, and NGOs formulate a "clique". I think the matter is just those that are informed and those that aren't. The simple fact of the matter is most people simply aren't aware of the environmental and ethical impacts of the production of our everyday electronics.

I really doubt more people are aware/making noise about rare earth minerals as they have been about the impacts of the sort of mining used to get gold, silver, etc
> You must enable DRM to play some audio or video on this page.

Please don't do this in Web sites.
well that's super shady. they likely moved to New York because US laws are a lot more lax than Canadian ones. definitely a good reason to not use Tailscale.
It's a nonsense of a blogpost. Everyone is in a rush because there's ageism in tech and getting up to speed fast is important.

"If you want, put in four years at a college (or more at a graduate school). This will give you access to some jobs that require credentials, and it will give you a deeper understanding of the field, but if you don't enjoy school, you can (with some dedication) get similar experience on your own or on the job. In any case, book learning alone won't be enough"

It's not if you want. Great importance is given to university degrees even at Google. I've lost count of people claiming education doesn't matter who have it as a prerequisite on their companies job pages.
And then you find an obscure service doesn’t come back up on the 10,000th or 100,000th reboot because of <any number of reasons>. And now you have multiple states, because you have to handle failover. It’s turtles all the way down.
In the United States, if you are an hourly employee, yes federal labor laws dictate that you can file a complaint against your employer for violating labor laws. Part of this process involves forcing the employer to pay you wages owed, while the entire process usually involves a pretty stiff fine against the employer to discourage the practice altogether.

So in practice it is easier for employees to seek recompensation for wage theft than it is for employers since they don't have to front the cost of legal representation.
I hit a point where doing my current job just wasn't an option anymore. I was so unhappy, they could have been paying me 1 million a year and it wouldn't have mattered. I got there from a combination of feeling like I wasn't doing anything right, and even if I was none of it mattered anyways.

I've never felt that way about a job before, like despair. But it made it less of a decision and more of an eventuality.
I think having “business hours” for websites is an interesting experiment that could help foster a sense of community as people must visit around the same time as everyone else. Also saves on server costs.

Imagine for instance if Hackernews was only open from 12pm to 11pm on weekdays and until 1 AM on weeekends.
Subjective.

My comment was in reply to someone who said they expected HN to be tech apologists. People down voted me because they took it as a standalone comment complaining about HN.

Quite annyoing
Austin call waiting times are ten minutes now. SFPD only responds to murder calls. Citizen seems useful to me.
This is pretty common these days. Whether you like the change or not, I doubt is anything nefarious.
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I’m shocked by some of the replies to this comment. Are people seriously advocating for regulations against… stuff that tastes good?

No, thank you. Please don’t tell me what tasty things I’m allowed to create or consume.

Regulation of this type is just group punishment, but advocates believe it to be some kind of altruism.

“People are getting fat!” Okay, but I’m not, and honestly I eat tons of junk. Why punish everyone who likes tasty food? If you hate obesity so much, then outlaw obesity. That’s a stupid idea too, but at least it more closely aligns the regulation with the result you want.
Diamond mining is absolutely idiotic. We can grow them in a lab without any problems. And so much of them that we can put them on angle grinders and sell them at ordinary hardware stores.

So why would anyone want a "real" diamond these days? Engagement/wedding ring is just not the same if it's made without spilling some poor African's blood or something?
Starbucks started with one store. There are lots and lots of singular coffee shops. Their owners aren't wealthy.
One reason could be because HN is more familiar with Coinbase's mistakes (not getting into the NFT scene earlier and letting OpenSea/MetaMask beat them to the punch, being a crypto company in the first place which ideological quibbles aside is seen as extravagantly unsustainable and thus doomed to fail).

Lattice is in a more mainstream ("useful") industry and its CEO doesn't have a record of courting controversy, so it gets more sympathy. It doesn't come with the downsides of being a ubiquitous brand or association with a controversial sector. Plus it's a smaller company so it's more of an underdog. Also the startup funding offer is neat and intriguing.
You get used to scarcity under socialist rule. It becomes the norm.

Are you used to it yet?
In Atlanta 911 hold times are fairly common and police response usually takes hours.
The point is that B players have a very hard time ever recruiting A players and actually almost always hire people that are worse than themselves (i.e. c players). This is very true and should be something founders watch out for very carefully as they scale.
Wait until you learn about their approach to getting new customers living abroad (non resident Indians)
They’ll ask you to physically mail in all the documents, on your dime, instead of scanning and emailing like a normal person.
So I need to spend 100$ to open an account. Unlike American banks who will offer you money to open accounts.
There's a new company that uses a hefty battery to juice up the output of an induction stove, allowing you to have a powerful stove on a normal circuit. It can't output high power for as long as a real circuit but that seems fine for a lot of home cooking. Most high-temp cooking I do is in relatively short bursts (e.g. sear a steak for a couple minutes, stir fry, boil water and then turn the stove down to maintain).

Which is to say: a lot of these problems are product engineering and marketing problems, not fundamental technological problems. (should we ban gas stoves? probably not. Should developers at least consider putting induction and/or hookups in new construction? maybe).
Not OP but I guess 4:3 or 3:2. Some people prefer those to widescreens, having more vertical space is better

MS Surface Books are 3:2 for example (2256 x 1504 on 13,5" / 2496 x 1664 on 15"), or some Thinkpad X1 models are 4:3 (probably just the Fold?). The Framework laptop is also 3:2 (2256 x 1504 on 13,5")
GDPR does not apply in the US.

Edit: are you asking about the “every lead on earth” bit and how they do that in EU? It’s simply marketing fluff, ie a lie.
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You are correct. The argument of "people are forced to eat fast food because it's too expensive to eat healthy" is not intellectually honest at all.

I believe many people hold on to that sentiment because it's easier to blame a boogieman than to educate themselves on affordable, healthy diets and execute on learning to shop and cook for yourself.

I am, however, interested in bringing better educational resources and time-saving instruments to consumers. Many people grow up in an environment where they don't know how to properly shop in a grocery store. For example, you give someone a $50 gift card to the supermarket and they walk out with a cart full of crap, because it's all they knew growing up.

Then once you teach someone how to shop, they may not have experience cooking for themselves. For those of us who grew up cooking with our parents and continued to do so for ourselves, it's hard to imagine how overwhelming the learning process can be. If you grew up in a lower income environment with busy parent(s), chances are you never helped out in the kitchen with your mom or dad. They probably brought home a kid's meal from McDonalds on their way back from their second job.
For me at least: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bc/c5/8c/bcc58ccca47e6e8faa9a...
Won't a centralized platform always have a wider audience than a decentralized one? I think that's one of the hurdles that you have to get over by offering other advantages
Many recruiters orgs are very small and there are individual headhunters out there.
Virtual Eurorack Studio
This is a very useful and fun recreation of a Eurorack modular synthesizer, with an enormous library of modules to choose from. The interface is slick, the sound is great, and the free version does everything you need short of being a plug-in for your DAW.
You did a great job of misinterpreting what I said, but what I said is true and not even remotely psychotic. If anything, your reaction is a little crazy! I would like to note that you had no counterargument.

You surely don't have a right to food. You go out and get it yourself! I, on the other hand, have a moral responsibility to share my extra food with those who lack. I base my morality on my belief in God and what he expects of me. I am curious what you base your morality off of.

> But we aren't all on this planet together so we can deny others food

Speaking of psychotic, How did "I have a responsibility for the poor and needy" get converted in your head to "I am on this planet so I can deny food to others"?
idk it feels like a boss sitting on a chair backwards. it is such a superficial signal.
3090 on ethereum (even after undervolting/underclocking gpu and bumping vram frequency) was hitting 100+C on VRAM. You went from 95MH/s to 120MH/s by doing this. Throttling happened at 110C so you wouldn't notice it on hashrate unless you had really poor cooling. It was causing premature failure on vram even in the first months of use at these temperatures. If you put some extra heat syncs on the card and got vmem down to ~90C you had no issues. Almost all miners were doing this. If you didn't cut back the gpu voltage/clock it would increase vram temps to 100+ even at stock vmem frequency.

GPU core temps dropped by 25-30C when underclocking/undervolting and power would also go down by 60-80W.
For that matter you can use the same trick (with // and friends) in JavaScript, then JSONize the output for compatibility.
There is no shortage of paradigms that rip out backprop and deliver worse results.
Add to this the amount of aversion to risk and to getting your hands dirty by pumping out code. It is so weird to see SWEs wanting to get into BFUDs before writing a line of disposable code (at least at big cos). Though I am sensing the perf process incentivizes this (impact and artifacts at all costs).
What's the purpose of throwing GraphQL in front of a single API? I always thought of it as an API Gateway of sorts which fits better in a microservice type architecture and aggregates requests across multiple microservices. At least that's how I have seen it used. What is the need for GraphQL in the WordPress scenario?
They all hired mediocre talent at inflated salaries over the last 2 years. We all were forced to hire. I've had VCs tell me i need to double engineer head count. I had CFOs tell me that they will take away my open headcount if i can't fill positions by fiscal end.
> And I think consumers do care quite a bit.

In theory, if you ask explicitly, of course they do. In practice, they choose the cheapest ticket and maybe avoid airlines that have had a high profile incident recently. They don't have the time or means to actually evaluate an airline's safety culture.

Meanwhile, executive decisions are driven by quarterly earnings reports, and you can cut a lot of corners for quite a number of quarters before your luck runs out and 200 people die.

My statement is, if anything, not emphatic enough.
For comparison, the WordPress REST API was about 4k commits over ~4 years or so (prior to us merging it into WordPress itself): https://github.com/WP-API/WP-API

(That said, commit count is a pretty useless metric.)
without "the government" we wouldn't know what is actually in the food and couldn't make an informed decision
Why do you define United as a cadillac plan? I've only had awful experiences with them thus far.
Please don't break the rules like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Recruiters and sales people use a plethora of tools that boil down to databases containing personal data from a variety of sources all linked together. It's very likely the recruiter was on your LinkedIn page and had a browser plugin that showed your phone number.
Are you also horrified at humans eating a wild Turkey?
Public health regulations are not completely effective for everyone, but they can still be more effective than null on average. Raising prices, reducing availability or visibility, and other measures do usually work.

Prohibition is often cited as a failure, but in terms of public health, it absolutely was not. On the whole, people did drink less and there were public health and social benefits. The organized crime was a separate issue, and so was self-control, as the will of the people to drink played a part in its downfall as well.

Our steps toward cigarette prohibition, on the other hand, seem unlikely to be walked back. There will still be illegal cigarettes and people who smoke them, but there will be less smoking, and that's a public health win.
Isn't 0.5kg per vehicle a lot for rare earth minerals?? Sure it looks tiny compared to the amount of copper, nickel, manganese, etc used, but the whole point is that they're rare...

0.5kg of neodymium is around $200 and it's probably the cheapest of the rare earths

0.5kg of europium is around $3,750

Obviously lots of variation there, but maybe ratio of how much it costs vs the total cost of all the other minerals is a better metric to use here than pure weight
My guess is either that they're going to be acquired soon and are making these moves to ease the acquisition, or they are moving to get access to a whole subset of customers that can't use them for regulatory reasons?

But I could be totally wrong.
> Isn't what we need to just maybe not eat so much?

It's easy to say "we JUST need to eat less". Everyone already knows this. I know this, but somehow it's very hard for me to actually eat less, I feel a lot of pain and can't concentrate when I try to eat less, which leads to eating more again. I've tried many times to just eat less, but it somehow doesn't work. I think that your idea is just not that easy.
The entire food industry is aligned against individual self control. It's incredibly unlikely we can all be lone heroes standing against all that industrialized science.

So how can we control the food industry?
> exploit labor to make profits

If you believe in the LTV, which many don't. Many instead believe in the subjective (market) theory of value.
I quit one job in my career. I'd been pretty happy with my duties and very much so with my manager and coworkers. Then there was a reorg where I was reassigned to a group known throughout the company as a disaster under a new manager who knew nothing about the business but still hired a new level of (outside) management. The final straw was required frequent travel because he didn't like remote meetings (this was a few years pre-Covid) - so it was traveling across country to sit in a conference room for 2 hours, then home.
I wonder how to find a list of all cities where these events are running, not just upcoming ones. There's a distinct lack of live events and tech culture here in the Bay Area. I'm not fucked-up/well-connected enough to organize one of these, but would gladly help with one.
Because he's responsible for the fact they need to do this?

This email is basically:

Oh dear we're in a tight spot, no idea how we got here, it's a mystery! I guess someone (definitely not me!) ran the business in a way that demonstrated an appalling understanding of our market, our customers, and the macro climate, and a fundamental carelessness with investor money and employee livelihoods. Don't worry though, that person was definitely not me, so I'm the right person to lead us out of this.

p.s. look shiny severance packages!!!

p.p.s. Once again, that person was not me, so there shouldn't be any consequences for me, other than a bunch of easily impressed tech workers giving me praise for the severance package.
Torricelli’s Trumpet and the Painter’s Paradox (2017)
Play piano, write music and learn more musical instruments. As a side effect, I would actually get 8 hours of sleep per night as I wouldn't have to fit my unprofitable interests in after 8 hours of work.

I would probably continue to develop, but only to scratch my own itches. Most likely musical tools that don't currently exist.
Show HN: Collaborative live-coding MIDI sequencers in JavaScript
Are you suggesting that Sweden would have a higher birth rate if it cut all of its social welfare programs? And are you further suggesting that those children would have a high quality of life?

Instead of just poking holes, what's your solution? What do you think the developed world needs to have more children? I can't see how making it easier through government spending would hurt.
A common theme seems to be founders who want to keep all the cool stuff about being a small business while they scale to the ARR of a corporate. It can't happen. 1000 people don't all care about some new feature shipped by someone over in the payments team so don't subject them to it.

Most of us have been there in the painfull all-hands meeting falling asleep because the more people you have, the less they will care about the business. In a a team of 5, I have a lot of skin in the game and also a lot of influence. In a company with 100K employees, most of us are just a cog and some cogs don't even move anything!
Link for the curious to an article about the New York Chinatown street signs (not much discussion in the thread): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30739996
It's not strange. x6xx = 6 cores, x8xx = 8 cores; it's a lower tier.
That is a very flattering way to formulate it.
Thanks for this link. A solid quick read for anyone who has gone through stressful startup (or similar) work experiences.

I changed roles a bit ago and had to spend some time thinking through the battle scars situation that Rands calls out. It's definitely a bias to be aware of when moving on from a volatile, scar-inducing period to something new. I've repeatedly caught myself thinking don't want to do that again but sometimes doing that again is a phase of growth that still needs to occur for a new company or product. Not everything can be skipped because you're wiser this time around and I've had to work to navigate insight from having been there before vs. holding back the team due to baggage.

The new volatiles callout is great too as these teammates frequently need to experience the situations and see the cookie crumble before they can internalize and truly believe the tips others tell them.
> They just don't care?

Exactly, they don't care, as the GDPR is a EU regulation and doesn't apply in the US.
> get access to a whole subset of customers that can't use them for regulatory reasons

US government for example.
Thanks! I'm very interested in a new garbage collector that works with C++. I have a long list of requirements we need that is currently satisfied by the Boehm garbage collector and were satisfied by the Memory Pool System before we moved away from it. I've been looking at the Memory Management Toolkit (MMTk). Where would you put Oil in that small club of memory managers?
> So why then are my Pasture Raised Organic eggs increasing at the same rate as budget eggs.

Why would a seller sell them for any less than they can get? Farms tend to be incredibly low margin businesses, so selling below market is just utterly silly.

Prices are set at the margin, they are not set by cost of production other than to act as a floor where companies outright go out of business.
I’m not convinced the elegance here doesn’t derive from imprecision. I have some opinions about which sorts of life forms can suffer, but I don’t really have a justification for them, and there are people out there who honestly seem to believe that (for example) bugs don’t suffer, or lobsters don’t suffer. This seems like a fairly ridiculous proposition to me, but hey, it just depends on how we’ve anthropomorphized lobster thoughts, I guess.
Forcing your sleep rhythm on people who have a different one than you for no reason other than a moral crusade isn't a nice thing to do.

Also, you cannot make people feel a sense of community with you by annoying them. Annoying someone will make them dislike you.