skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rockets blow up because that's what rockets do. You can absolutely build reasonably safe test reactors to verify ideas. That is what they did constantly in the 60s, with multiple new reactors every year.

The whole Molten Salt reactor experiment was something like 70 million $ for an amazing project.

And dispute that somehow the world didn't blow up and there are no mutant ninja turtles anywhere.

What helped SpaceX out was the COTS and CRS program, and something like that could absolutely be world changing in nuclear, but nobody at the DoE has that kind of vision sadly. In fact the mastermind behind COTS has been advocating for something like that for many years now.
I am just making the point that banning tiktok is not the solution to the problem that the US now has because a foreign entity runs the most popular app when it wasn't the case before.
Will he outlive Schwab, though?
They do feel a bit old. Especially considering that is not the "TL;DR" of the paper. The paper makes no statement on whether or not it is a good idea to use ipv6, only that the US Government is transitioning and some guidelines on how to do that.
Firefox now supports extension's Manifest V3, with support for ad blockers
> All the payment platforms provide ways to persist cardholder information, in a way that allows it to be reused but never read.

This is usually called tokenization, if you want to search for it.
Pretty cool. Semi-related but reminds me of this research from MIT on seeing around corners:

https://youtu.be/JWDocXPy-iQ
Probably they couldn't tell the organization team
You may not realize it, but there’s a strong selection bias at work here. If you ask Japanese women living in foreign countries most of them will say they prefer it there. But if you ask Japanese women in Japan (i.e. the vast majority), most would never consider moving
The part about Google still hiring talented people is not true. You should look around at offers. Google is hiring fewer good people because other companies are paying more. Google is losing their best people to startups that pay more. For ML roles, salaries are much higher than they ever have been.
Isn't Uber a contract job?
What nonsense. We literally have great evidence that n+1 is n, this is well document and claiming otherwise is nonsense.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have made an absolute shitload of money. They are among the most profitable companies in the history of humanity. Definitely not "profit-never."
It’s a matter of who you know AND what you know. They aren’t separate, they feed on each other. You need to be good at both.
You're exactly right.

The research has shown that these layoffs are performative, meant to boost profits and/or share price right before bonus season and any "savings", which largely aren't real because of layoff costs, lost value from those employees and the acquisition costs of new employees in the next hiring wave, just go to dividends and/or share buybacks anyway.

If CEOs really were taking "full responsibility", Zuckerberg (as one example) would be facing some pretty hard questions about spending tens of billions on the metaverse (which no one wants and has no path to recoup that "investment"), which is many multiples of any supposed savings from Meta's layoffs.
It's difficult but "worry only about that which you can control" is a reasonable rule for sensitive people to follow. I can only control my actions. Nothing else. I can't even control my feelings.
It doesn't matter, the outcome would be the same either way.
But nobody’s buying Sonos gear to get a dumb speaker. If they’re dropping Sonos money on those products, they’re buying into an ecosystem with capabilities that are a function of tightly coupled software and hardware. A whole lot like Apple, now that I think about it.

If that’s not an interesting value proposition to a hypothetical consumer, then it makes no sense for him or her to buy Sonos. But to say that something that doesn’t affect people who haven’t bought into the ecosystem means that Sonos is the real bad guy here seems like a whataboutist argument.
> Of course pay cuts always ignore shareholders as they are really getting the benefit of paying less for same number of people.

Perhaps this could be mitigated by equity-based compensation equal to the amount reduced in salary. It won't make up for the lost cash, especially if the company is in a place where it needs to take such measures, but it would give more meaning to the "in it together" message.
First I'm hearing of ReFS, is this a proprietary MS thing?
LCOE is a terrible measure when considering nation state scale reliable electricity.
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_in_a_Bottle_(The_Polic...
I tried switching to ltsc, all was fine for a few months, then I hit an issue with a game (actually I think it was several games). After a long time googling I discovered it wasn't fixable in ltsc. I can't recall exactly what it was, but it was enough for me to switch back to pro (I have a msdn license at work so I have access to whatever windows iso and licenses I want).
I love Pomodoro for something that is more of a subjective grind.

I just did a 3 hour session with no Pomodoros because it was something I really looked forward to working on.

Learning or working on anything though that is not quite as exciting then I find Pomodoro to be a near super power.

I am sure this is highly subjective based on the person as I am easily distracted and often times not super motivated.
HN Title: Signal app's president-"layoffs in tech are to keep salaries in check"

That's not what the linked tweet says. Not literally and not implicitly. The tweet literally says "It's not about $" - which presumably means that salary costs aren't the main reason for the layoffs, which still doesn't support what the title claims. The point of the post is that it's about power dynamics and reining in "perks/freedom", not salaries.
Update- I'm registering the company myself via Clerky. YC docs are there.

I would still love a lawyer recommendation to finish sale of assets from one company to the new one. Any recommendations are helpful.
They also showed the film without HFR (24fps completely), maybe you watched that
Slightly off topic but IPV6 is a massive security hole for regular consumers. NATs sucked when you trying to connect to your favorite MMO but that is because they created a default drop rule for all special inbound ports.

I was shocked to see that as soon as your ISP switched to IPV6, your host is now directly addressed. As a by product of skipping NAT you are now relying on every machine having proper firewall settings. [UPDATE: or the router drops incoming IPV6 connections w/ it's firewall]

Just think about how many windows machines out there have Remote desktop enabled but were only safe because they were not publicly accessible or the hospital machines that are still running windows XP. God help us.
If you wish to auto-generate migrations, there are declarative schema change tools available for most relational databases. I'm the creator of Skeema [1] which provides them for MySQL, but there are options for other DBs too [2][3][4].

Prisma's migration system actually partially copied Skeema's design, while giving credit in a rather odd fashion which really rubbed me the wrong way. From Prisma Migrate's architecture doc: "The workflow of working with temporary databases and introspecting it to determine differences between schemas seems to be pretty common, this is for example what skeema does." [5]

While I doubt I was the first person to ever use that technique, I absolutely didn't copy it from anywhere, and I'm not aware of any other older schema change systems that work this way. It was certainly never "pretty common" prior to Skeema or even outside of Skeema. Pretty disappointing when a VC-backed company uses a bootstrapped open source project as free R&D and doesn't even give credit in a respectful manner!

[1] https://github.com/skeema/skeema

[2] https://github.com/djrobstep/migra

[3] https://github.com/k0kubun/sqldef

[4] https://david.rothlis.net/declarative-schema-migration-for-s...

[5] https://github.com/prisma/prisma-engines/blob/6be410e/migrat...
Oh, yes - in my tests it worked better most of the time but there were some cases where the results were worse. Regarding the “pyramids” - I think it might work better with actual questions.
> scratch their lootbox itch *for free*
I appreciate you coming into the trenches and participating in this discussion.
My thinking was that it would be a single point of ipv4 traffic, rather than having to maintain all the components for dual stack. But thinking about it more, 6to4 probably increases the complexity of firewalls.
Of course. But in a recession there can be multiple rounds of layoffs.
That won't work because landlords will immediately capture all UBI.

We can't have UBI without stirring housing considerably.

So I propose progressive real estate tax. The more property you own (directly or through subsidiaries) the higher percentage of its value you pay every year as a tax.

As a result of this, large property owners should start dropping properties on the market like hot potatoes making housing affordable and the tax can be used to finance UBI to help poor people pay for mortgages which will make becoming propery owner even easier.

Detaching it from income can ease the decision who should get it. Anyone with a pulse is fine

The rest of your ideas are fine, like separate bucket and no commitments.
I don’t agree with many of the conclusions drawn by the author. Just because Francis Bacon saw success by making his life about nothing but his art, doesn’t mean it’s to be done. I’d argue that for most of us, it’s the things you do when you’re away from your canvas/instrument/keyboard that inform your art.

I do agree that there are many distractions in this modern age that take away one’s artistic mojo so to speak but that’s hardly a novel observation.
Agree. They needed someone laser-focused on capital-P Product.

I wonder if the ex-Apple folks had failed to appreciate that having been an essential part of Jobs’ role.
There was originally going to be an EGA version, some of the original art was released a while back. Supposedly an EGA alpha version was released as well.

https://tcrf.net/Development:Wolfenstein_3D_(DOS)
For me during meditation, many thoughts arise. Often they are things I am troubled or anxious about. If I am doing something else, I have a ready-made distraction from those thoughts. But if I'm just sitting, I actually have to be present for them. It's much harder to build a habit where the short-term payoff is negative.

You might try making it part of a broader routine. Lately (and unusually for me) I've been struggling with sleep. So I've explicitly adopted a bedtime routine that gets me to wind down. As part of that, I light a big candle when I start the routine. Then the last thing I do before blowing out the candle getting into bed is to sit down by the candle and use it as a medication focus. This way I feel like I'm getting the sitting for "free" in that I don't have to expend any willpower to make it happen; there are other positive associations that serve as the reward.
I have pretty severe anxiety at this time and these breathing practices have really helped me get out of a bad situation without medication:

1) Box breathing

2) Yoganidra (even if I’m not trying to fall asleep)
They have to examine the studies in detail. What if those diets just depended on self-discipline? Well, those won't work. Weight loss is really, really, really hard if you're morbidly obese and not doing it without plenty of support.
Many in tech are only their instead of starting direct competition to the major tech players because of the high compensation. Sure I could create my own startup and make more, but with lower pay and way lower headache i’ll take the salary.

If I was being offered what European companies offer swe, i’d be out the door. I might even go take a job that’s enjoyable since the pay isn’t there.

I actually hope this is a broad movement for big tech companies to pay less. I’d love to see an exodus of power from them.
You're taking it out on a guy who graduated in 2013, managed to found a company in Europe! and have it survive long enough to make it to SF, and created ~100 jobs in the process?!?!

This behavior should be celebrated, and so should the people who supported his growth as CEO of his company.

The alternative is to install a class of professional CEO punching bags at the helm of every early-stage company. Not doing that is exactly what defined Silicon Valley post dot-com.
There's no reason to have any narrative other than the Fed raising rates.

If you've watched with absolute astonishment how despite the COVID crisis the stock market kept on climbing because of the Fed printing press, then you'll learn the lesson never to fight the Fed.

Now the directions are reversed. If the Fed could pump the stock market despite the worst economic doom and gloom, when the Fed raises rates this high into a powder keg, I expect to be surprised even more.

I wasn't surprised yet. We're not even at the same peak level of interest rates of the 2008 recession, and we're still in high inflation.

I think companies are starting to dread the depth of the incoming recession.
An interesting comparison is between AlphaZero and MuZero[0], the latter having not been given the rules and has improved upon AlphaZero in Go.

> "MuZero really is discovering for itself how to build a model and understand it just from first principles." — David Silver, DeepMind

So yes to both: statistical and a world model.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuZero
I like. I had to do something similar a while back as part of an ETL pipeline.
> Yet his column in yesterday's paper caught my eye. It's titled "Is the Fed braking too hard?" I have been pondering this question myself, and my instincts tell me the answer may be yes. Paul makes the case well.

This is the entire text of the article. Saved you a click.

Opinion: Paul Krugman has never been right AFAIK.
One idea is that it could be full of quartz, something required for the Giza Power Plant hypothesis.
He wasn't blaming that on the quality or nature of the specific people you added though, was he? The GP to me seemed to imply that.
Wow that video was short, informative, and very cool in a retro sort of way. Thanks.
The "myth" is that everyone has a 20% project. We could find lots of people and stories in the press who really believe that.
> Dijkstra doesn't handle negative weights

I took this straight from the Q&A I referenced in my link:

Q. Does Dijkstra's algorithm work with negative weights?
A. Yes and no. There are two shortest paths algorithms known as Dijkstra's algorithm, depending on whether a vertex can be enqueued on the priority queue more than once. When the weights are nonnegative, the two versions coincide (as no vertex will be enqueued more than once). The version implemented in DijkstraSP.java (which allows a vertex to be enqueued more than once) is correct in the presence of negative edge weights (but no negative cycles) but its running time is exponential in the worst case.
technically no, because they are referring to AlphaGo, not DM.

DM's results in protein structure prediction are world-class breakthrough work (well, it was last year; now it's routine, having been duplicated by many others). At least in my mind (I'm an ex-biophysicist with a long-term interest in seeing ML applied to biology problems like structure prediction) that is a truly long-term result that demonstrated that, at least for some short period of time, DM was way ahead of everybody else in the field. They also published the details and made large-scale predictions.
To be fair, you don't need to gamble to have skins. There is the steam market.
I could use your opinion on a question I have.

Now that AI are more and more human like, how do you handle inherited bias in the trained models? Further more, how you eventually remove the human decision factor from Ai models?

Search results are machine like so it forces us to process and interlace it with our own thoughts, asking another human triggers our evolutionary mistrust reflex.

But are we ready to blindly trust and let AI tell us what's true and what are good questions to ask?

There was another thread on Sam Altman, the consensus is that the guys willing to do whatever it takes to "win".. I didn't quite understand why Elon is concerned about AI, but I'm now starting to get it.. it's because behind every AI there's someone like SA disregarding every safeguard you should have in order to win
> Your figures on transmission lines are badly dated. UK is building a transmission line to a solar farm in Africa.

Perhaps I have not made it clear enough that I am dealing in reality rather than things that do not exist? This cable and project are not real yet. They have yet to build the very factory that will manufacture this cable.

Also, I am talking about land-based power. The US infrastructure. Europe is screwed in so many forms that they have to resort to such things.

This cable is horrifically dangerous in so many ways. Talk about boiling the ocean! 10 GW will do that. I wonder how that accident will compare to an oil spill?

From a strategic perspective, bringing in 8% of your nation's power needs from a place like Morocco via an underwater cable does not sound like a great geopolitical strategy. Unless we want to imagine something like a large or regional war can never happen...

Then again, the UK might have few choices. I don't think they can do solar at this scale in-country. I would think they can do a massive amount of offshore wind. This is puzzling to me. I don't understand a strategy that creates such a dependency. Look at what happened to Germany and others with Russia. I don't get it.

An underwater cable pushing that kind of voltage and power for such a long distance is likely an ecological disaster waiting to happen. I'm sure they have safeguards...just like offshore oil rigs.
LOL. someone over invested office real estate...
Food firms raising prices unnecessarily, Tesco says
Maybe, maybe not. Many senior people (especially those who spent close to a decade at these companies and more) don't chase pay bumps.

Some of the best people would leave. That is a much more realistic statement to my mind.
No arguments there. They're still trying; just not hard enough.
And a film about an intentionally bad play: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462/
I think that's it, thank you!
Such a fun way to show all your alliances. AMD, Netscape, your domain provider, your hosting company, a Linux penguin...
"Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything"
>sending some people in and then saying "this belongs to me because I'm here" is a valid enough claim

Yes that is how much of colonization in the early modern period worked. I don't make up the rules. That's simply what happened.

>If you make that claim you're supporting the CCP and you're supporting Russia.

Oh since when is the CCP controlled by the Qing imperial family? Do you seriously type that out without putting it through some basic logical reasoning? If that's your conclusion then we are done here because you clearly do not have the ability to read or comprehend basic historical facts but instead choose what is the geopol equivalent of sh*t flinging, because you had decided to that historical revisionism with name calling is somehow an adequate replacement of your entire personality.

I should've known better before clicking into this comment section as HN always have the most downright unhinged awful takes on non-tech geopol topics because it's clear some of you have never opened a single history book. Goodbye.
Imagine a step in a process that saves you cost/time (negative edge weight) if you do it at one point, but adds cost/time (positive edge weight) if you do it at a different point
In California, for instance: "A corporation may appear and participate in a small claims action only through a regular employee, or a duly appointed or elected officer or director, who is employed, appointed, or elected for purposes other than solely representing the corporation in small claims court." (CCP § 116.540)

If somebody's suing Mom and Pop's Corner Bakeshop, LLC, the corporation will probably be represented by Mom or Pop. If somebody's suing Coca Cola, the corporation will probably be represented by an in-house member of Coca Cola's legal division.

So a corporation can use a lawyer to handle its appearance in small claims court, but the lawyer has to be a regular employee. It's forbidden to hire a lawyer or firm specifically to litigate a case.
Yes even $500 would be quite helpful for people down on their luck. It's not enough for rent, but just about everything else. You could get an old car, or clothes, shower, any number of vital goods to help you get back on your feet.
You can use Numba which is for generic accelerated work, or really any ML library will have math primatives you can use just fine for non ML purposes. That said there are overhead considerations and restrictions compared to normal Python programming for any of these solutions so make sure you really need the GPU.
As much as I am saddened to learn binary3 is invalid, I am overjoyed to learn that sigbovik has its own (non-self-cite!) literature graph.
Prevent mail to Gmail users from being sent to spam
Except, if you rebase, your tags get "lost" (not really, but they still point to the same old commit unless explicitly changed). Log is your friend, and making sure that the commits make sense (they do a single well-defined thing) helps a lot, because you always know which commit does what. But yes, that means using `git commit --fixup <commit id> && git -i --autosquash <commit id>^1` frequently to fix existing (older) commits instead of making new trivial ones.
> A team of a few hundred tech workers could build a business that brings the company in the order of a billion dollars in annual recurring revenue,

Like who? "Software" in and of itself doesn't accomplish anything. Nobody today is selling CDs in boxes that run entirely offline with no dependencies.

What is Airbnb without a giant network of IRL brokers that actually make inventory available? What is Uber without thousands of real people running ID checks, lobbying politicians, and negotiating down AWS and Google Maps API bills ?

Figma, everybody's favourite unicorn, only made $190m in revenue. It's only in bizarro world Silicon Valley that that results in a $20bn acquisition.