skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't, though. And I see no point in any such gamesmanship. I'm a white man with Turkish and Scottish heritages, born in middle US, and am not Latino or Hispanic by birth, only by association in later life. While I participate in the culture, I am not of the culture, and would never claim to be. I have my own culture, which I also participate in and claim.

This, in fact, is one of the major difficulties with DEI. My identity has no bearing on the truth or falsity of my words, my observations, or my statements. It is simply the truth that "LatinX" does not work in the Spanish language, it's effectively unpronounceable, and it is directly targeting a language feature from the perspective of English speakers as applied to a another language, which means that in so many ways it is insulting, offensive, and colonialistic. It should not require one to identify as Hispanic or Latino to say this (or to be aware of it). It feels intentionally racist, because anyone who purports to be representing the ideal of helping this community should surely be aware of such basic things about Hispanic culture and the Spanish language.
It confuses customer funds with ftx.us assets so no, it is just more self serving lies.
> I have a similar hiring process to the author, but I spell out in my job posting that I, the founder, am reading every application personally.

I mean, the real question is if the job candidate will actually believe it.

From personal experience, I put my website's URL into my CVs. When you bother to visit the website, I have a little shibboleth there that says to mention a certain thing in the job interview and I'll give you $50. I've only ever had one person ever mention that in ~20 years of the shibboleth being there, and I gave them the $50. I used to put the shibboleth in the CV, but it felt a bit crass after a while.

Also, great note there at the end of the application. I would believe you in this case.
There's 2 new commenting accounts conveniently created 3hrs ago with Indian names. Dunno if it is a coincidence because of the constructed questions & answers....
UK menopause law change rejected as it ‘could discriminate against men’
SBF's main mistake wasn't trusting Sullivan & Cromwell. That is the lie that SBF is trying to tell. While that may have been a "mistake" to declare bankruptcy, it was because it reduced FTX's ability to try to hide the fraud it had been perpetuating.

FTX was already incredibly insolvent at that point because FTX gave Alameda an unlimited line of credit and then used that credit to take loans from Alameda to line their own pockets with what was effectively FTX's customer deposits.
Not any more, other than no sales tax on the panels.
TIL a new way to write sheep counts (spoken system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan_tethera )
Who "we"? Larry & Sergey hired this dude to manage the company for them. Their criteria was: someone who is easy to control, but not dumb as rock.
You don't need to know all of these things if you are measuring input (calories in) and your output (weight on the scale every week). It hardly matters then how efficient your gut is. These are all relative values. Of course 2000 calories will look different for different people. What matters is if you have an understanding of how much calories you are putting into your system, you can now make changes and measure a response, like cutting down some calories and seeing how that affects your weight over a few weeks or months. You don't need to know all of these rates to do that.
(0) Drink more water, religiously. (1) Ensure you do not have proxy lights (eg. direct and strong sun ingress, LEDs) in your peripheral vision when working on the computer, reading or watching TV. (2) Try to work from a location where there is a distant view, and regularly look away from the computer for a non-trivial amount of time (like 30-60 seconds), focusing at a distance. (3) Close your eyes and relax occasionally, eg. when thinking or brainstorming. (4) Avoid strong, direct, artificial light. (5) Eat your veg!

NB. 25 years+ heavy screen use, no specific monitor setup, no specific desk setup, still no significant eye strain or vision degradation.
I'd like to see a return of Spaces as they were in OS X 10.6, where they could be arranged in a 2D grid. That felt really nice and no desktop environment to date has reproduced it exactly, though a few Linux DEs get close.
The overnight rate is currently 4.3%, which is also a component of his other debt obligations. Overall, the lenders knew this was a risky deal
>basis of mountains of backbreaking and incredibly impactful work.

This is the kind of BS MBAs say to each other.
Lots of companies sell things they no longer plan to support long term simply because they have inventory.

(ETA: Not that that's a good thing, mind you. There's a placard a few blocks from my home about the birth of Truth in Advertising as a reminder it was a hard-fought thing, easily lost. Some would say it is lost in modern advertising.)
dynamodb-shell
How in the world would everybody get their money back except via another scam token like FTT?
For me there are two worlds:

- The world of Competition: Domination by action until one reaches a point of coldness that one loses oneself creating a "dark night of the soul" bringing change

- The world of Love: All efforts are aligned to create well being by avoiding harm of oneself and others.

If you are in the world of Competition, you will see the world in terms of black and white, gain and loss. Even my statement will be seen as a fool's position. One has to make a living in the world, even at the expense of others.

If you are in the world of Love, you will see the service you provide to others is an asset and you don't have to think about "Making it in the world", harming others at you own benefit because the world provides for you exactly what you need and you some how escape all of the consequences of others you have chosen the path of competition.

Which ever side you choose, will be the world you create for yourself and others. Right now the world of competition dominates, but it won't always be that way. Eventually we will all come-around, to love :D

Natural laws are neither cruel or kind. The are absolutely just. The cruelty of [competition] is a passing phase of evolution. - James Allen "The Competitive Laws & The Law Of Love"
As someone that has been reading multiple children’s books per day for the last 5 years to my children, let me tell you that some books are like what you describe with a nice intertwined story that makes sense together and then some other books feel like randomly thrown together scenes like this that are just “and then this happened… and then this happened…”. I tend to notice a lot of the latter come from either 1. Celebrities that decide they want to be children’s book authors, or 2. Somebody that wants to make cool pictures and adds the story as an afterthought. With how nice these pictures are for OP’s book, it would probably be tricked into thinking this book was written by person #2.
Honest question: how rampant is this kind of bullshit politicking in tech companies, and how does this differ with industry, size, company age, etc.? My friends who have worked at big names like F and T have described the cultures there as following: "it's as if everyone who studied too much in high school and college missed all the parties and bullshit, so they're making up for it 'on campus' here". And the stories from folks at G are not really better, though allegedly they tend to exercise politics more in the quiet-sabotage style. I feel like I'm describing races from Star Trek, company cultures are weird.
Meaning number (2)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baloney

I happen to be from Italy, btw. And hate bologna.

(The sausage, or whatever it is, not the city)
No, it means they want to work but definitionally when you are sending out ad many applications as you can you stop caring about the individual qualities of a company - that comes later, when it becomes relevant.
If Alex makes $100M selling middle eastern despots tech to track and dismember journalists, Bob makes $100M with his new tech to inject adverts into our dreams, Charlie makes $100M by selling the taxpayer fighter jets that don't work and charging to fix them, Doris makes $100M by offering high-interest payday loans to desperate financially illiterate people, Eric makes $100M getting people addicted to his prescription opioids, Freya makes $100M by buying up property then paying politicians to block new construction, Grace makes $100M by getting a bailout from the government and spending it on exec bonuses, Harry makes $100M by running a for-profit prison that makes sure every inmate re-offends, Iris makes $100M by getting some chump venture capitalists to pay her that, and James makes $100M by persuading rich fools to pay that much for ape NFTs, why shouldn't we celebrate the fact James and Iris's actions are relatively less destructive than the others?
I can't see this being accepted even though I think standardisation is the way to go, because there's a signficant amount of diversity for 'virtual environments' in Python with:

* virtualenv (external library)

* venv (fork of virtualenv included in standard library from
3.3 onwards)

* conda

* poetry

* pipenv
No insult intended. Your previous comment made it seem like it's too difficult or not enough to warrant the effort. Use the tools that make you happy, no diss intended.
These were already very skeezy guys if you interacted with them on Discord.
And they look like jealous fools. Who got conned, exactly?
If an HN reader wanted to play around with similar digging, what would be the essential tools to be aware of and where best could he start?

Assuming prior knowledge of assembly/C but without much experience decompiling or testing speed.
Sure, if you have solar, by all means get a home battery and enroll it in the same grid backup program. Makes plenty of sense.

In my case, I live on a very shaded property; no solar for me. I also live next to an electrical substation, so extended outages from storms is highly unlikely; I'm first on the fixed list every time. In my case, the home battery doesn't make sense, but the EV might still.

EVs as grid storage is an option that may be compelling in some areas and for some people. I think that's worth exploring.
Correct, compared to Linux it's a redheaded step child. I love FreeBSD and the resources behind Linux are enormous. I wish things turned out differently in the 90s. Total tangent: If I had Musk level funding to allocate for a pet project it would be Haiku. A purely single user desktop focused OS which happens to featured grafted on FreeBSD hardware support. I'd love to throw a meager billion at it and shake things up ;) I do all my real work on servers as it is and FreeBSD is viable for hardware, just look at the PS4, so no shade at pulling drivers where you're able to.
Awesome. Do you plan on offering a paid hosted version? Would be great, especially if you would host it in Germany (or EU). Grüße von Hamburg!
Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file (2021)
Thank you for this comprehensive comment. I appreciate it.

I did the drawings of several drones and robot arms, and accurately computed the needed torque. I target specific precisions for several applications.

I’m a mathematician so the math is straightforward to me though as you said, it’s super easy to overlook something without the appropriate experience, especially since it’s cross disciplinary (ME, EE, SE… etc. All at once yeah!)

I found these for instance on eBay:

* https://www.ebay.com/itm/393967889048

* https://www.ebay.com/itm/275442630163

I can get from them more than 120Nm with the appropriate planetary gearbox without sacrificing too much speed and even more with gas springs compensating the static loads… theoretically… but I’m a bit skeptic about the announced 12Nm and the 51200microsteps/rev resolution for instance.

I think it’s better (in my case) to have access to maximum IO on the encoder side.

I’ll double check the electrical installation with a pro for sure, I already did a mistake in the past that almost destroyed the house boiler in the middle of the winter… lesson learned.
All of that doesn't matter. Calories in just serves as a reference point for you to see how much you are actually eating. Then you can make changes to calories in, and see results on the scale. Sure everyone is at different efficiencies, that doesn't matter though. You are basically putting in less gas in the tank; that's going to make a hybrid and a gas hog both go for less miles than what a full tank would do.
I do think they are being very intentional in how they release and frame things, and one of the things dripping it out can do also is produce some level of fatigue on reporting it. It definitely seems like they knew some things before it came out - some people have looked at changes to their site and there are new or updated marketing changes that in retrospect seem very correlated to what we're learning now. Not definitive proof, but very concerning.

I also think you are correct to a point, they are really bad at security so it is also possible that some of these things are just coming out also.
It's more about having the "fuck you" money. Once you reach this level, you typically have about $3-5M in various assets, so you don't have to work in order to keep paying your bills. You may want to work to buy that next supercar or yacht, but you don't have to.

So, if you are out of luck, you postpone that $5M waterfront summer home purchase, go sit on some board for symbolic money, sniff around, and eventually join some hot startup when you and your buddies found another investor cow to milk.

Not having to commit your time to a shitty offer in order to pay your bills right now makes a killing.
Except that Alameda was also run by SBF, as laid out in the article.
Maybe 5% of the business/operations people I've worked with would even want to do this. The rest prefer a smart human to walk them through building a report - most of the time this is because they don't actually know what they need, and they actually need an expert to sit down and figure it out with them.
> It's an iDevice backup sync.

That's exclusively iTunes (or soon the Apple Devices Windows 11 app), if I remember correctly.

> It can be used to sync files[...]

Right, there's also iCloud Drive.
https://archive.ph/oAuZH
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On the launch day it's free for the first 100 subscribers. So HURRY UP!!
They're literally flagging one "sanctioned" way to provide signal as an example in a resume advice post--how is that a waste of time? This lets people infer what other types of "optional" content might provide signal: publications, blog posts, etc. Transparency in the application process is fantastic and it's wild to me that people are upset about a company posting some ways that applicants can make themselves stand out. This is order of magnitudes better than VC, finance, etc.
Most people agree that if you want to build a successful business, first you have to build a few failed ones.

Same thing applies to code: bad code is a required step before good code. Accepting this fact is very liberating. Quality of my code is not the measure of me as an engineer. It's how I distribute quality that's important.

I have a very similar experience to author's.

There's plenty of bad code I wrote that never got used in the end. And while it's sad it did not get used, at least I didn't waste time perfecting it.

There's plenty of bad code I wrote that is being used for years and most engineers don't even know that it's bad. Their eyes will bleed if they look at it. But they have no reason to: it just works.

There's plenty of bad code I wrote that caused pain. So I just made it better when it did. I anticipated the pain and I was ready for it.

Unfortunately most of our practices and tooling are structured around pain avoidance and reduction. But no amount of unit tests will deliver the same value to you as, let's say, Sentry.
Thanks so much! Happy to share our stack:
- GPT3 davinci-003 writes the story
- we did a lot of manual experimenting w prompts and used that to fine-tune GPT3 which now generates the image prompts for us
- Stable Diffusion + Dreambooth generate the images (we train a model on your hero which gets deleted once your story is finished)

Right now the workflow is mostly automated, but we still manually approve stories before they get sent out to ensure quality. Unfortunately bc of manual time it takes + GPU costs + super high demand we will probably start offering a paid tier. Hope that helps!
Sure, and now you have to reckon that 9/11 was not done from the top by radical "jihadists". In other words, fanatical muslims could not have been the real planners, only the brainwashed operators.

What banal, even-headed plan was 9/11 then? And who was really behind it? The act of 9/11 was dramatic, but hardly tactical, unless the tactic was to have the U.S. respond a certain way. Like the author the book in this thread, 9/11 operators probably acted against their own interests. In other words, Muslims could not have been behind the actual thinking, for any intelligent leader would know the U.S. would retaliate hard.
It's not contrarian to take a rational view of the situation. Well, actually, never mind.
So "assuming electronic ordering" your suggestion is for them to provide a device. That makes sense.
SBF was a founder and officer of Alameda.
I had the same reaction, but I think OP is talking in terms of world stage. That's closer to true than not.
After writing this I figured I'd check our Yammer just to see what's happen today...

The top post is someone who's upset because they believe an employee has intentionally moved all the books about feminism and race in the office library to the top shelf where they are out of sight. They also suspect the same person has likely moved a Piers Morgan book down to eye level.

After some angry words they finish their post by explaining they were only able to make this observation because they are an individual of above-average height, and apologise for this fact before ending their post with kisses.
Hilarious. I immediately heard the Metal Gear exclamation sound in my head when I began reading this.
Thanks a lot!

- It may not differ in the sense of integrations and general functionality. However, the most significant difference is that we aim not only for developers but also general users who may not have programming knowledge.

- At the moment, it's only possible if we merge the integration into the source code, but we're thinking about possible ways to have external integrations and also private integrations.

- We would like to build a business around it without limiting the open-source version in terms of integrations and core functionality. It's still in the plan, but I can say that only the enterprise feature set will require payment.

- We focused on mostly business use cases, but we also have home users, and we're happy to support them.
All the practicing Catholics I know are doing this weekly :) Find an adoration chapel near by (almost everywhere in the world) for some quiet time to reflect would be my recommendation.
You're doing that thing where you pretend one person needing something somewhere invalidates improving anything for anyone anywhere else. Dense rural environments served by transit exist, and the cause of a lot of travel is getting past all the car infrastructure.

Driving is the singularly most destructive and dangerous thing that humans have invented and CO2 is just the worst of its many downsides, the resources and space that go into them and the infrastructure is probably about third on the list after the millions it kills, lithium is just one aspect of that.
From gleaning at the repo's license, they use AGPL. So that seems tailored towards building a business around it. I find that quite exciting, because I have been thinking about which license to use for a project of mine as well, so that a) it is open-source, and b) I can build a business on top of it. AGPL seems to fit the bill perfectly, as long as you are careful about the license of contributions.
Same. I get value back from FR24 in the form of a Business subscription which gives me a TON of data and access I wouldn't be able to afford. I fed ADS-B Exchange for nothing because it seemed like a nice thing to do to benefit the wider tracking community. To have the founder cash out and sell OUR data without even talking to the community first? That really rubbed me the wrong way. I stopped feeding about an hour ago.
> Ok - How many microseconds does it take to round trip SELECT 1 to localhost on a typical cloud VM?

As a data point, when PG is on the same box as the querying app, you can run the connection over a unix domain socket instead of going over localhost.

In theory (!), that's supposed to have reduced latency + higher bandwidth too. It's been a bunch of years since I last saw benchmarks about it though, so things might have changed a bit in the meantime (no idea).
When I say “I stay in a lot of hotels”, I’m not exaggerating. My wife and I digital nomad 6.5 months out of the year staying in mostly mid range Homewood Suites and Embassy Suites and I also travel for work 6-10x a year where I also usually stay in Embassy Suites.

The other half of the year, we are staying in our own “Condotel”. They are individually owned condos that are rented out and managed like a hotel when we aren’t there.

When we first came to our condo in January, everyday they would knock on my door at the worse time.

The last thing I want in either context - whether I’m on a business trip, “nomadding “, at “home”, or vacationing is “high touch”.

I want to check in digitally, use my digital key and check out digitally. I put “Do not disturb” on my door the entire time.
just curious, who's your competition? there must be other people doing this no?
School of Engineering fourth quarter 2022 awards
Anyone who's been asked more than a couple of times for data that requires a non-trivial bit of ad-hoc SQL will know the sinking "oh shit" feeling that comes when you subsequently realise you borked the query logic in some subtle way and have accordingly emailed out a completely bogus answer/report.

From the article it doesn't seem that GPT is significantly better or worse than a human in this regard, although an experienced analyst would over time decrease their number of such errors.

The best fix imo is to slather a battery of views over your data to minimise the risk of getting the joins wrong, and it'd be interesting to see how that approach could improve the bot's quality.
they are not making 18K per month, it's just revenue (MRR), so you are right as employee you will earn much more (at least at that stage in US)
> When does AI switch to "chair"?

You could ask my gf the same question
> nobody is really replacing somebody with a program that confidently get half it's answers wrong

I gotta tell you, I use copilot to help with my coding, and it still sends a shiver down my spine when it writes the entire database migration based off of the filename, or writes 4 pages of automated tests that work right on the first try.
Should we ever unlock the magic of the human brain and be able to describe it mathematically, will it still be considered general intelligence or will it just be a <insert the name we give the model> trained on a large set of data?
Didn't work for me.

Works for me: https://archive.ph/0HSq0
Observation: Almost any code, when micro-optimized, can gain about 10x performance.

So, if we had the time and energy, we could probably make all of computing at least 10x faster.

But we don't have the time or energy to dedicate that much effort to every line of code... But perhaps AI does?
Who is "the company"? From your comment it seems that you consider that the board is not part of it.