skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a meme at this point that Google is probably developing 5 new chat apps to replace the 10 they recently killed. But then everyone gets up in arms when Google trims it's workforce by 6%, one which as grown by 100+% since 2016. If everyone wasn't looking for anything to signal 'recession!', no one would bat an eye at these big tech companies doing small staffing course corrections.
> You are extremely unlikely to ever come across a fentanyl user,

... unless you walk around downtown in many major cities, where you will come across dozens in the space of a city block. People who work in downtown Vancouver often carry naloxone kits, not because they're ever going to use, but because they don't want to watch somebody die on the street. You don't even need to know how to use the naloxone -- if somebody is in distress and you say "hey I've got a naloxone kit" you're already a hero because everybody else knows how to use it.
Not really disagreeing, but I’d like to plug Wikivoyage which has also (for me), been very helpful
I wonder if the time isn't ripe for a kind of "meta" service.

Essentially, one group provides the content, branding, some kind of licensing data structure describing date ranges and countries, and so on. An abstracted look and feel. Another service spits out the app and has the streaming infrastructure.

The apps produced would have the benefit of reaching many, many platforms and so deduplicate a lot of the work getting something to work on a Roku, or a Firestick or a Chromecast. This could open up the door to a lot of smaller groups and allow them to focus on obtaining, curating, and producing content, their specialty.

Netflix could be that platform. Of course, they would have to be their own clients first, learning how to abstract the Netflix app, going over their databases and adding columns to various tables, marking all of their content as ContentID = 1 or something. Once they got through that exercise, they could reach out to the smaller providers who are struggling.
.app programs which require Xcode to build weren't in the binary caches altogether, last I checked. Stuff with proprietary software in its build toolchain doesn't get built on Hydra.

I just use brew for .apps (and only for .apps) when I'm on macOS.
The human nose is an extremely sensitive chemical detector, and should not be dismissed. It's effective down to a fraction of parts per trillion for certain chemicals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odor_detection_threshold#Odor_...
The hiring of teachers is approved by community elected school boards.

FL laws take that power from communities and puts it in State level hands. Your point is upside-down and tries to paint heavy handed big-government rules as better in fact.

Also who said anything about DC? The point was about letting teachers, parents, and yes, minors; make choices for kids. This is whitewashing extremist beliefs over communities that very well may disagree, exactly what you imply this protects lol.
> If HN people are downvoting a normal concern about lockdowns I would be disappointed

Be prepared to be very disappointed then. Literally every platform out there quashed even a tiny trace of critisism.
I had no electricity for 13-14 hrs, it was a clusterfsck
Richer people vote Republican while poorer vote Democrat [1]. Being "educated" doesn't mean what you think it means

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-elections/exit-polls

EDIT: Since I can't reply the the threads below me, "education" can't just be had in the classroom. In fact as an experienced developer almost all of my education was outside the classroom. I suspect this is the case for most fields.

EDIT 2: Higher skilled "educated" people like surgeons, urologists, anesthesiologists, oncologists and orthodontists vote Republican[3]

[3] http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/
It is not literally a non-profit. As far as legally recognized organizations it is a limited partnership with a now minority ownership held by a non-profit.
This is good news, but the epidemic clearly has other major causes we're still not addressing. A pharmaceutical to combat an epidemic created by another blockbuster pharmaceutical seems very... dystopian.
> But do you really think, that the socialist states improved anything?

For some it did. In many places socialism was replacing some form of tyrany, foreign tyrany or feudalism, so it was hard to make things worse.

Before the revolutions some of my ancesteors were literally property. They were serfs, with all the fun bits like regular whippings, and living in a wooden hut. They went to nirmal-ish 2nd world life.

The other side of my family had someone who was repressed, i.e. dissapeared.

Today suffragettes are universally praised and
noone remmbers that they invented the letter bomb.

I don't advocate violence, but if you want a social movement to suceed, it has to have some teeth and power, either through court, money or civil disobedience.
Isn't cooking also cutting, melting, and evaporating chemicals? These definitions are overly broad. Isn't this how California ended up with Prop 65?
How does the law decide words are harmful...
>legal/purchasing dept for music rights

I would imagine this is where the majority of their staff are. Spotify’s catalog is huge, and record labels are constantly renegotiating extremely granular contracts with the streaming services (i.e. at the individual song level). For example, I’ve seen particular songs on albums disappear for a few weeks (the rest of the album can still be played), then mysteriously return (or not), all because of some cryptic licensing shift from the record label. There is no easy way to automate this; a human interaction must occur between the label and streaming service every time a weird licensing shift causes a particular song/album/artist to be removed. Given the size of Spotify’s catalog, there are probably thousands of such licensing changes each day.
More likely they bork a large chunk of Google's ad revenue by making information search and retrieval usable again under a UBI rationing to fast but not cheap tiered freemium model. That's before you consider information generation, process management greasing and problem solving potential use cases.
Do you track the designated support person's work? If so, what does that look like?
We do the same with a 3-person team. The on-call person spends one week of the two-week sprint focused on support, and usually picks up a few smaller tasks/backlog items to fill in the time if it's a slow support week.

That works out to leaving one team member a full sprint for a deeper heads-down task.

To alleviate some of the extra load on the on-call rotation, we dedicated a decent portion of our sprints to automation for a few quarters, which allowed us to reduce some of the recurring manual tasks and ease the load on the on-call role. Now the on-call person will usually see an average 15hrs of support on the regular (of a 40hr week), down from damn near 35hrs.

That is to say there was about 20hrs of automatable tasks that had been shouldered by one team member for years. When that person left the tasks were placed onto the on-call rotation as a duties as a way to ensure every team member became familiar with these tasks instead of being siloed into a single person (there was a scramble to learn those tasks as this person was offboarded, and a rough couple of months as we skilled up on these).
I don't understand why they don't have wax coated paper straws?
This is amazing and i love it.

As much as I've been enjoying hugo, I've been craving something that's much closer to this.
It's a plausible hypothesis. I'd like to see data.
> I've used PMSA003I and BME688 sensors to check for particulate and VOC's.

Keep in mind that the VOC sensors you're talking about aren't designed to pick up all types of VOCs. They're designed to detect specific types of VOCs (eg. ethanol or acetone) associated with human occupation and/or urban pollution[1], because that's the use case that they're designed for. If you use them to measure something entirely different (eg. plastic fumes), it shouldn't be surprising at all that they don't pick up anything.

[1] https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/media/boschsensortec/downloa...
Hiking in the northeast US, you're generally speaking on trails. I'd certainly encourage people to acquaint themselves with magnetic deviation and so forth. But, especially as a backup mechanism, the main value of a compass is to avoid having absolutely no idea what direction you're going.
I have tried several times to dig into nix and make it stick. Each time I get a little further along, but I always get to the same stuck point: things that I am trying to combine are unclear to me how they should fit together, and/or there are just massive amounts of code for what should be a simple thing.

Nix flakes has indeed made it all quite a bit easier. But, sadly, in the interim, there are lots of things in an in-between state.
Maybe it would be wise to try to understand why they are hysterical before you take away their voice.
Right?!

It was a bit of a lightbulb moment. I wanted a way to just write HTML templates. What really sealed the deal was the ability to punch content from stdin anywhere within a heredoc's scope using `$(cat -)`: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite#templating-system
Yeah that's true. That's where the "largely" part of my comment does some work.

I just take occasional snapshots before I do things that I'm concerned may be catastrophic. But it definitely won't catch everything. It helps that I run Arch, and I update packages once a day, which only leaves me with under 40 (small) packages usually. So a quick cursory glance at which ones are updating usually tells me what to be cautious of. Display driver update, kernel update, etc.

If I'm not sure what went wrong, but I at least have a working snapshot, then I can get done what I need to get done, and then go back to troubleshooting. Rather than just having a broken system regardless.
You can pretty easily check out a PR using the regular Git CLI. GitHub adds refs for pull requests that you can fetch.

git fetch origin pull/ID/head:BRANCH_NAME

From: https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-...

Sure, the whole workflow isn't a "standard Git workflow" but they could easily provide a command that works with the standard Git CLI.
But they specifically weren't that jacked up "clustered multi-thread" that Bulldozer had.
Conservatism requires an underclass, so, both I guess?
>No culture is static,

indeed, the dodo would agree
I went through a roller coaster of emotions reading this thread and clicking through all the way to the github repo, where it slowly dawned on me that this was not just layers of satire.
$ echo a#b
a#b
https://theconversation.com/shillings-gods-and-runes-clues-i...

might be a good place to start.
This is a series of assertions, which I assume are backed by your own intuition, but they are neither arguments nor observations.
It is, Im not saying they are 100% evil like some companies we discuss on HN. But this was a tax dodge. [1]

[1] https://fortune.com/2022/09/16/patagonia-founder-legal-tax-l...
It will be known. It just might take a generation or two before it is widely accepted. And believe me, history will not look fondly to those who did all this. Our Covid mitigations were at best modern incantations of witchcraft or rain dances.
Do these "partnerships" ever specify more binding conditions (exclusivity in some market, a minimum commitment of business over some period of time etc). Obviously the public announcements are a great opportunity to co-promote respective entities, but how much do these actually constrain business options?
God I love those old Tandy laptops. First computer I ever touched. Noticed it has two floppy drive readers? There's one to boot the OS from, and the other is for your data :) (no hard drive !)
Cry bullying and sulking about how people are mean when you're consistently condescending and insulting is not a good look. If you NEED 1MW, you don't try to provide it with a single 1MW array of solar. You supply it with 3MW of solar and 2MW of wind over a wide region.

Your 1st percentile weather event brings your peak power down to 1.5MW and the average over the week down to 500kW.

Your 500kW shortfall is filled with whatever combination of storage and dispatch you have, and is rare enough that planning to fill it with fossil fuel gas for the next century is a lower cost and lower total emissions strategy than spending an extra 15 years waiting for Uranium mines to open even if you pretend all the other dispatch options are impossible.
Thank you, I'm interested in this!

If anyone has a good written text account critical of the Patagonia thing, I'm interested in that too; video isn't my preferred consumption format.
I applied for an "entry-level" EM role with Spotify in 2021 and the base was 260-275, plus a generous bonus target and stock. TC would have been pushing $400k, for a fully remote USCAN-based role. I say that strictly as a calibration point - it's unlikely engineers are pushing half a million (maybe at the Staff+ level) but there's also not likely any engineers before $150k TC. I'd expect even mid-levels to be in the $200-225 ballpark but could be wrong.

I think $150k median is probably on the lower side of correct, but not enough to meaningfully impact any of the numbers anyone is discussing here. It's close enough.
But doesn’t mean they won’t learn the next thing if it’s gone.
I worked on Amazon Payments systems for quite some time back in the day. We took pride in being the best payment processors. Had direct connections with card networks, banks and what not. We even launched a PayPal competitor[1]. They launched a Square like device for physical retailers[2]. They invested some serious money in building and maintaining all of that.

However going by this news seems like Amazon has more or less given up on their payments ambitions. Could be also due to recent layoffs. This is a big news. Maybe Amazon wants to focus on being good at few things instead of running hundreds of experiments.

Edit: References.

[1] https://pay.amazon.com

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2015/10/30/amazon-kills...
The World’s Farms Are Hooked on Phosphorus
Out of curiosity, how do you get paid, if you don't mind sharing? As the owner of a company, I can barely figure out how to legally pay people just in the USA, and every new state is a new headache. I can't even imagine trying to pay people across the world. And I'm already using 3rd party (Gusto) to manage it. But they don't do all the details like setting up your corporate entity in each place.

Does your paycheck come from a 3rd party service?
I wonder how this will play out long term.

Product review sites won't be worth it since there will be less reason for users to click through to your site. Google can put their affiliate code in the answer. Probably not a huge loss as most of these are seo spam sites anyway.

SAAS and service websites might be able to get better rankings then?
"Bringing war" is a misunderstanding of the point. It's to have the means to defend yourself if you become a victim. Not to initiate it.
On top of the... 'opportunity cost' of not licensing out content that otherwise would have went to Netflix, ABC, whoever.

If previously Disney made Daredevil and 'sold' it to Netflix for $1m (hypothetically), but now you're holding that back to stream yourself, you've got to account for that missing $1m somehow.
All components of ABS are classified probably carcinogenic. Likely safe after being formed, but during process I think there is probably some risks...
Because they didn't want to openly say "Microsoft gives us GPUs and allows us to use them for free, hence practically buys us. In return we almost exclusively license what we produce to them, for free."

Because it looks bad. Microsoft wants to be seen in a different light, and OpenAI wants to be perceived as an open, academic, capped-profit for a noble reason collective.

It's all smoke and mirrors.
I really don't undertand this binary thinking regarding drugs. It seems like there's at least a third option in there somewhere between "ban it all and everything related and lock people up for decades if they touch the stuff" and "put it in a Pez dispenser and give every elementary school student a 12 tab slider with lunch every day."

We don't do that with alcohol or weed, I don't see why that's the first (and often only) option that comes to people's minds when suggesting some form of legalization.
Population crash, that's why. You can choose not to have kids but enterprises cannot choose to not have employees. People can be taught new skills.
> I will not contribute my money to a government that does not allow me my rights, and will also not disarm myself

Out of curiosity, do you ever travel out of your country?

If yes, how do you deal with the gun issue? If no, how do you feel about being locked within your national borders?
Banning books at the state level should result in revocation of any federal funding allocated for state schools.
+1 for wikivoyage
OK have time now. I do know the reasons they give. But again we need to think carefully about this and not just blindly say it's OK because they have some clever sounding justification.

Observation 1: climatologists don't seem to care about raw data quality at all. Real scientists understand that high quality measurements are important and work hard to improve them. It's expensive and slow but it's gotta be done. Physics, cosmology are good examples of that. They need the data, they raise the money and make it happen.

Climatologists rely on volunteers and random weather stations run for other reasons to collect their data. It would be easy to collect their own data to a high standard because we're only talking about thermometers here, but they never do. Instead they gather data which they know is corrupted by large biases, and then try to "fix" it. But you can't turn corrupted and biased data into clean data by adjusting it. That is always scientific fraud and for good reasons: it's too easy to fool yourself into fixing the data to reflect your theory, instead of the theory being derived from the data.

Observation 2: The adjustments create almost all the reported warming in the USA! Think about that for a second. Over half of claimed global warming in the USA is created via one single administrative adjustment (TOBS), simply because climatologists couldn't be bothered asking a subset of the weather stations to stick with a consistent time of day.

Observation 3: It turns out some people actually do care about data quality - climate change skeptics. After they noticed how crap the weather station network was they ran to Congress and complained especially about urban heat bias and other problems. Because it's obvious to everyone that this situation is absurd, Congress tried to salvage it by funding a brand spanking new weather station network, the US CRN:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/national-tempera...

Climatologists don't use it perhaps because it shows no warming whatsoever in the USA for the entire time it has existed, nearly 17 years now. That should be impossible, right?

This is why it's so important to think carefully before just linking to their explanations:

1. They use garbage quality data that by their own telling is riven by biases as large as the ones they're trying to measure.

2. They didn't make any effort to improve this situation.

3. Other people did it for them and global warming can no longer be seen in the new higher quality data.

Any rational person would do a double take at this state of affairs.
Cool. I have a second interview for a software developer position at a quantum computing place this week. Hopefully I'll be following you into the field!
I agree that infinity doesn't exist in the universe, but this isn't a problem for mathematics. Mathematics isn't about what exists in the universe, it's about what exists in the realm of concepts. Some concepts are more interesting than others, sure. Cantor's work made it clear that infinite sets are pretty interesting.
Not necessarily, those meetings should be much shorter if you only plan for one week.
I think the book Blitzscaling is by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn. Reed Hastings wrote No Rules Rules https://www.norulesrules.com/
Using LLMs to classify and route cases in Salesforce
is not this for window locations? It seems it's not for monitor config backup and restore.
When deciding whether to buy a resin printer, I found posts from teenagers, students etc who'd set up resin printers in bedrooms etc. "Oh, the fumes are no problem, I buy low-odour resin."

Great, we'll see what happens when they spill some on the carpet.

I'm sticking with FDM, and I take some measures to increase ventilation when I'm using that.
shockingly it doesn't
LLM Application development primer. approach, frameworks, providers
The bear case for Netflix is once again the “DropBox problem”. Streaming services is becoming a feature not a product.

When Disney creates a movie. It can monetize the movie across its entire “flywheel” - movie theatres, video on demand, licensing to third parties, toys, theme parks etc.

It’s streaming content has already made a billion in the box office before it ever hits streaming. Streaming is additive.

Netflix paid millions of dollars just for the rights to the “Knives Out” sequel for instance only to make a pittance in limited release and then go to streaming.

The same is true for the other players.

That’s not even to mention Apple, Amazon and Google who are playing a completely different game.
Some printers also come with full enclosures and HEPA filters, which do well at removing the smell -- and no doubt some of the larger fragments -- but do not actually remove the VOCs.

A good, recirculating activated carbon filter can do that. But then you need to swap it once per week (whether or not you've been printing), and you need the right type of carbon.
> But pinning Nixpkgs alone does get you much of the way there (and for many use cases— those where the only referent on it is 'nixpkgs' or 'nixos'— does make NIX_PATH redundant anyway).

What is missing compared to using flakes? The only `NIX_PATH` components I normally use is `nixpkgs` which hooks into the whole channel system (which is bad), but by settings my `pkgs` variable to a specific commit/tarball, I can ignore `NIX_PATH` entirely, right?
I built a transcription and dictation app for Mac [0] using whisper. There is a feature to transcribe a podcast through search and through RSS link. You can try it if you have a mac, then feed it to ChatGPT to get the key insights.

[0] https://apple.co/3j2k8E7
When are we gonna have stricter outcomes for the people who use such tactics to peddle things like bag bans, onerous management of residential water consumption, vehicle inspection requirements and other things that waste resources and political capital treating something that is at best a tiny fraction of whatever the problem supposedly is? These people at best do nothing and at worse sully the good name of people who want to enact smarter but less emotionally appealing policy to treat those problems. They've been caught repeatedly using the same sleazy tactics you say are worthy of stricter treatment.
If you compete with startups with tens of employees - shouldn't you use tens of employees to counter their strategies too?

Do you need endless hanger ons in HR, PR, all kinds of non-producing departments?

Crappy CEOs, which is not the same as a crappy founder, have grown companies without any sense and purpose. Daniel is a great founder and rode great luck. But, he should have been replaced with a Eric Schmidt operator figure a while ago.

I think the founder clings to company forever is coming to an end, in most cases going public should mean a new CEO.
I don't even understand how there IS a non-profit aspect to OpenAI at this point?

Honestly DeepMind seems to be doing far more important work. Health etc.