skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the minimum wage is lower now than it was in 1950, but the cost of a one bedroom apartment is several times higher.
And so this is what you get. The business gets labor for almost free and the customers who are willing to tip support the powerless worker, who probably has tens of thousands of dollars of college debt.

And most of that tip money goes directly to the landlord. Meanwhile, the cost of education and health care continues to skyrocket. Makes you wonder whether unregulated capitalism is as amazing a system as it's made out to be. It's amazing for those at the top, I suppose.

Anyways, don't take it out on the worker. This country is a hellscape for most young people right now.
Thanks for trying it and replying back here.

It looks like I was using a pre-release version of QueryStorm while I was writing the blog post. I just released that version so if you restart Excel you should get an "Update available" button in the QueryStorm ribbon in Excel.

Could you update and post back if that fixed the problem?

Another way of "fixing" it would be to replace the following line:

(excel.Selection as Range).WriteTable(files, "myNewTable");

with this line:

Write(files, "myNewTable");

The Write method is available globally (it's not a method that belongs to a class). This is a trick specific to C# scripts (would be illegal in regular C#).

The documentation does lack detail in some areas, which I basically cover by answering questions via email. I do need to invest time every so often to update and extend it.
True, so true.

We work as translators. We translate intentions into actual descriptions.
The official Afghanistan flag did also change.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Afghanistan
Principles for Jobs-to-be-Done style customer interviews
This chain is about "people who play the ats game" specifically, not claypot.
Yes, it's commutative. But it is associative.

Make a number with 3 bits of mantissa, and go add a thousand repetitions of 1. You can get hundreds of different results depending on the order you add them up.
These are uncannily on-point.
Amazing how the model incorporates mostly unwritten, but often accurate subtext into these outputs.
Very clever application of GPT, thanks for sharing. For the more complex queries, I suspect Chain of Thought can help. Just ask the model to describe each step before writing the final query. Also, you can add self-consistency to step 5, which you are kind of already doing. Let it generate something like 20 corrected queries and then select the one that generates the most common result between all of them.
Tracking actually makes this super simple to account for.

Apps like Macrofactor do it for you. You just track what you eat and your weight.
"most poplar programming language"

In your opineion.
Lol, countless times that I ended up with the right solution in my head while taking a shower or the day after, because after chillin my mind found that the previous code was wrong.
I agree, because this semantic difference between br x30 and ret doesn't exist in many other RISCs which also mostly run C-like languages. Power just has blr, and MIPS jr $ra, for example. This feels more like a well-intentioned footgun in the ISA.
Open Rails – Free train simulator project
As a manager, that's half true. We have business needs, but I am hiring for the ability to think past "what is being asked of me" and into "What do we really need, and how can we deliver it?"

That isn't rewarded in all jobs, mind you, but it is something to look for when you have a choice.
This is true to an extent, but the problem with Mastodon is that you have to be really careful about who you federate with. Hosting your own Mastodon is like hosting your own email in that unless you set up your anti-spam capabilities perfectly, you will get permanently blackholed by the wider community.

Except it's not just spam. Most of the wider fediverse will block your instance if you federate with instances that host nazis, child porn, etc. Which means the first thing you need to do when setting up your instance is gather a list of all those types and block them. Sure, you can say you're committed to "free speech" or whatever, but if all the large servers slam the door in your face your users will have nobody to talk to.

Also, with the way Mastodon works, if your instance federates with another, your instance hosts a cached copy of all of their stuff that appears on your users' timelines. Which means you might run afoul of your host's TOS or even local laws. If you're in Germany and some American nazi's post saying "kill the Jews" gets federated onto your instance, you might be looking at serious legal trouble. Or even if you're not in one of those countries, you might get booted off AWS or Azure for hosting content against their TOS.

So sure, it's as easy enough as any other webapp to launch into your infra, but maintaining a functioning Mastodon instance that doesn't get blocked by the wider fediverse or brings down the wrath of your hosting company or law enforcement on you is hard.
Problem space for driving feels constrained: “can I drive over it?” Is the main reasoning outside of navigation.

Whether it’s a human, a box, a clump of dirt. Doesn’t really matter?

Where types matter are road signs and lines etc, which are hopefully more consistent.

More controversially: Are humans just a dumb hammer that just have processed and adjusted to a huge amount of data? LLMs suggest that a form of reasoning starts to emerge.
You absolutely don’t have to or should never feel like that’s the only true option for fulfilment. That’s not the only higher calling there is. It’s just a popular one.
My team recently built NextJS-based site with sets of annotations on the research paper our project is based on (Google Zanzibar):

https://authzed.com/zanzibar

https://github.com/authzed/zanzibar-annotated

Could be easily forked and used for other purposes. Happy to facilitate if we get any requests in the GitHub issues.
> Also, what is your proposed solution here? To stop having social workers?

Training for a job that pays below what you need to live comfortably is a choice. You may feel passionate enough about that job that you are willing to accept the consequences of a low salary. If you are not, then you should not train to do that job.

I do sympathize, as it's essentially impossible for a 16- or 17-year-old to fully understand the lifetime ramifications of the profession they're about to choose.

But if people stopped making dangerous financial compromises to take jobs they are passionate about, then those jobs will either have to get funded more such that the salaries go up, or yes, they'll cease to exist.

I think social work is a job that's extremely valuable to society, so I would hope that, in the face of a shortage (due to people not wanting to take the job because of low pay), legislatures and whatnot would vote to fund it more. But that's up to communities to decide.

> Saving $200 a month is basically nothing, especially in NYC.

The woman who saves $200/mo (the article actually says $200-$300/mo, so it's a bit better, even) lives in Bensenville, Illinois.
So... how does that work? What sort of work do you do that you have the time to write raw ASM and still be productive? I'm asking in earnest, because I'm curious what sort of workflows still allow for writing ASM directly outside of very specific cases (such as initializing embedded MCUs, for example)
The Most Popular Programming Languages (1980-2023)
Change, but not materially, maybe 5% or something that doesn't really move the needle like the claim of 500 calories.
Hi, I'm Sonny from [Codédex](www.codedex.io)! This is created using Tableau and data gathered from Google.
And have no one question why a produce box is near a nuclear engine/tank/ship/mcguffin.
> There were an estimated six million merchants on Amazon’s marketplace in 2021, and around 2,000 opened new accounts each day. On average, Amazon collects 34% of each sale they make, according to research published the same year by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Estimates from 2020 showed that around 54% of Amazon sellers in the U.S. market were based in the country, while 40% were in China.
Gergely Orosz – Layoff analysis across tech
Just so you know, Overcast is not a team. It's one guy.

marco.org
I have a slightly different take - our current ML models try to approximate the real world assuming that the function is continuous. However in reality, the function is not continuous and approximation breaks in unpredictable ways. I think that “unpredictable” part is the bigger issue than just “breaks”. (Most) Humans use “common sense” to handle cases when model doesn’t match reality. But AI doesn’t have “common sense” and it is dumb because of it.
ft.com epitomizes what is wrong with web, with a big ass modal about cookies that only goes away if you accept their cookies. I would be happy to see such sites go bankrupt because they piss of so many potential readers who won't see their ads.
Look at any communist country in history, dude. They've all been flaming hellholes at best, even compared to their peer nations at the time. And yeah, I get it, "no true Scotsman". The problem is that Real Communism™ requires perfect dictatorial control and we don't have a perfect dictator to run it.

edit: this sibling comment explains things a lot more eloquently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34523261
> If I upload a podcast to Apple, it's physically inaccessible unless you have a Mac or an iOS device.

I'm curious if this sort of arrangement will remain in place in Europe once the DMA interoperability requirements come into effect.
And then they took this strategy into the XBox One generation: everyone gets a Kinect! For $100 more than the competition! And it's always listening, and you have to have it connected for the system to boot!

Piling onto that with "we're getting rid of game sharing or the resell market" and "our new console is going to be your entertainment hub, i.e. it's going to be jammed full of shit most gamers don't want!" and the launch was just... ugh.
Would love to know how you get on with it. If you'd care to share, please to let me know.
If everyone was as risk-averse, laws would be either much more lenient or the internet would flourish in other countries.

I don't get why newspapers don't use Mastodon as a standard for their comment sections. Social networks are all about credibility. By moderating their users and requiring a fee, newspapers could become the service for credible accounts and reclaim the social network space from Facebook.
Yeah, they are both bullet points on my resume, actually. But there are several jobs where I can't quite say this.

Like I worked on several games that didn't do well in the market (for various non-technical reasons), so I know I can't brag about saving money or time or usage for the company, but I learned a lot of skills by being on those projects, so I benefitted personally in ways that could help the prospective company out.

In fact I might have gotten more skills from those projects than that speech application, for example, despite that one being used a ton.

So I don't really have anything better I can say there than "did this this and this on the project, lead X number of people, etc", which are basically the 'responsible for...' bullets that everyone advises against including on a resume.

Also in case you're curious, I set up the process by using Octopus Deploy and several custom Powershell scripts after an audit of their existing processes and all the various information for all the servers, firewall settings, windows services, database snapshots and schema migrations, etc (there was a lot, each major system had like 40+ steps to it by the time they were done) etc.

Before the engineering director of the department would lock himself in his office and execute .BAT scripts one by one from a terminal and copy files and other things manually, while everyone else chilled in the main office, waiting (usually around 4-5 people). If anything ever went wrong, and usually it did, it would take several engineers to investigate and help revert things if necessary.

It was a mess. They knew it was a bad process, and had previously had another developer start investigating how to make things better using Octopus Deploy, and he gave up and quit the company and KT'd to me that it was impossible, no one was cooperating with him, he couldn't get the information needed, and well... I didn't have his experience and think he just didn't want to do it.

I had everything working for several processes (and we set up more and more over time after we had things working) in about the same time as he spent accomplishing very little (I started with his setup), and I didn't know anything about Octopus Deploy and barely anything about DevOps beforehand.
Yeah, if I really wanted to know if someone had clicked through to my website, maybe I'd put something like "Ask me about the time $THING" But, really, an interview doesn't seem like the time to play cutesy games.
It is, hence the gravity of the situation.
Another plug for Teknik. Only used them once, but it was the easiest closed-loop DC servo I've ever used: entire project was done in less than a day.

Contrast with Advanced Motion Controls where it took days of coding before I could even talk to the controller. Not to knock a-m-c: their product is very fast and precise, just far less software help to get going. Manuals are complete but extremely dense reading.
Calculation was invented well before writing.
You're correct they do polarized training, but the overall times have gone done significantly. This is due to polarized training, i.e. yes when they train long and easy athletes go long and easy, however if there is high intensity training you do relatively short sessions but full on. Importantly the middle ground sessions, where people trained for hours with medium intensity have completely disappeared. Read any interview with an older professional cyclist who experienced the transition, they all mention that they are training significantly less time now.
I need a thiripist
In the context of Rust, using a block can only strictly reduce the lifetime of a local, so if that would lead to a problem it would just not compile. :P
Interesting that this "transformation" is pretty close to what Sun and other dot com infrastructure sellers were promising in 1998. They phrased it as "take your small town business and give it a world wide footprint" but it is the same. They missed the "we'll take 1/3 of your price too" part :-).

That, in itself, is just curious. But the interesting lesson here is that the real thing has not been "web presence" or world wide visibility, it was Amazon has built a pretty impressive logistics setup for moving stuff from vendors to users. It rivals what Sears & Roebuck did in the 60's and 70's. THAT seems to be the missing piece which one might call "logistics as a service."

It makes me wonder why Aliexpress doesn't have more warehouses in the US. Clearly there are a number of Amazon vendors who buy from factories advertising on AE and then drop ship to Amazon, and sell at a markup that covers Amazon's take and gives them a profit. So basically Amazon is taking a big piece of the "value chain" from factory to customer. If you can run a distributed logistics operation at 20% or even 15% of the market value of the goods your distributing, you can under cut Amazon.

Given that Walmart already has relationships with freight forwarders from China and a bunch of brick and mortar stores that could double as warehouses, I wonder if they have considered this as a "side hustle."

Considering that this hinges on the cost of operations for the logistics service the interest in logistic based robotics is quite understandable.
They're not requests, they're mandated by US law. Also it's not limited to rich and famous. Anyone can do it. Only the rich and famous seem to have passionate enough haters that they actively try to subvert the privacy protections.
Interesting....although arguably you could see how SA might be considered a special case due to its history.
Which one is the contraindication? Word converted to html or
hand written?

I personally wouldn’t care. I can see good reasons for both.
> Which roles have you seen docs & tutorials typically fall under?

Technical writers write docs for existing users, and in larger (200-300 employee) orgs also training/education writers create tutorials and develop curricula for new and onboarding users, and content marketing writers write tutorials to demonstrate features.

These roles free up devrel to focus on community outreach/engagement, marketing content, and direct leadgen.

> DevRel often make significant contributions in areas that fall outside of marketing too (especially product)

Hopefully, so does everyone in an org capable of doing so, including the roles I mentioned above.

I don't mean to sound down on devrel, but to claim the role's focus and primary mission isn't developer-targeted marketing is rather disingenuous. It's a marketing role, usually reporting to a marketing manager, producing marketing content, with the goal of generating leads that sales can turn into revenue. That the work looks more like running or attending hackathons or giving technical talks at developer-focused events doesn't change the goals or measured outcomes.
That fails often because the precision is set to 0. That means, as per BigDecimal javadoc, that results not representable exactly give an exception. That can happen in divisions. You don't want that with money since it always ends up rounded to 2 in the end. The goal is to accumulate as less as possible rounding errors along the way.
I think elementary isn't trying to be Mac OS, it has its own UX - even though it's clearly inspired by Macs.

It has its own HIG, which you can see here: https://docs.elementary.io/hig

Personally, I never loved menubars, so I don't mind that difference.
But will it really become available again? Or, more likely, like RSS, will this snuff it out.

It's amazing how someone with a bit of capital and time can control almost anything that offends them.
As we’ve just seen the easiest way to achieve profitability is layoffs. Probably not what you had in mind.
Your last question hints at another question we also need to explore: do or will humans apply the same level of scrutiny to automatic outputs than they do to human ones? I find we tend to treat them as more authoritative. Are we more likely to unthinkingly accept mistakes by a machine?

As a brief aside, I wonder if we'll see increasing rates of accidents as the rate of AI drivers rises. I think it's hard to think about those effects in a vacuum - they have fewer injury accidents _now_, but will they if they go from making up a trivial percent of traffic to 10%? 25%?
NIH and EcoHealth Alliance Did Not Effectively Monitor Awards and Subawards [pdf]
Things first get old, then they become antique
Meta-Meta question:
Why is "actually worrisome" part of "more capable"?

If worrisome is because of job prospects for an existing career, my advice is to embrace new tech, not fear it. Just keeping up with things even if you don't use it right away is usually enough to stay relevant. Things don't really evolve that quickly, and so as long as you don't resist change completely things usually work out.

Heck even if you hate change, and don't want to change at all, there will be plenty of old legacy companies with the old fashioned manual reports needing a person in a chair to type out the SQL to make them. Just like there are still (good paying) jobs for those COBOL experts today.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Nirvana, of course.

As it happens, Jurassic Park was published in 1990.
> Velocity estimates made by differencing position measurements tend to be noisy, and filtering esp FIR filters introduces phase delay

Yes. Which is why you see encoders for sale with a zillion points per rev. Not because the position is that precise, but so that you get enough events per second to calculate velocity. Actual tachometers, which are little DC generators, are sometimes used in servo systems, but not often. The last time I saw one, it was on a mainframe tape drive.

You do want velocity and force feedback if you're doing anything beyond pick and place in a totally controlled environment. Simple preprogrammed blind movement is most of industrial robotics, though. There are fancier systems, but most of them don't sell, because the engineering cost exceeds the value add. Sometimes you see a little force feedback to get something inserted properly, but more often you see some mechanical spring setup to get the same result.

I used to be into legged locomotion, but there's no profitable market. Many of the technical problems have been solved, though. The sensors and actuators are good enough. Electric motors finally are strong enough. (It's sad that Schaft went under. Google bought them and dumped them.)
The readme seems out of date - the privacy issue for CSAM is essentially not an issue anymore - Apple has no plans to do on-device scanning.
Source? Those are strong claims. I'm cynical enough to find them plausible, but they're strong enough that I'm not willing to take them for granted.
It's not a matter of hardware capabilities or human resources. Sane paddings and proportions and pixel-perfect controls are no different on a modern XDR retina display than they were on a monochrome CRT. You do have more color and pixels to work with, but the underlying principles are all the same.

My own standards are high enough that I'd never even show such a screenshot to a friend, let alone put it into the readme to my project for all of the internet to see.
"Burn Notice" had an Irish character in it who dropped the accent after a couple of episodes, but her back story was that she was and explosives expert and a "former IRA operative, but not a terrorist".

Uh-huh.

That did not play particularly well in the UK, to put it mildly. Not sure if it was meant to be public relations for terrorist bombers...
Spotify Layoffs
Really sorry about these comments. This is not something we intended. We did share about our post with few family and friends but we didn't realise it would translate this way. We are building our project very passionately and want true feedback from the HN community and don't support any of this and will be highly cautious from now on.
I don't really disagree, but it's not as obvious as it seems in hindsight. 3.5% (which OP says became 4%) isn't a low interest rate when inflation and other low risk options (e.g., CDs) are <1%.

Also, your article says:

"Adjusted for inflation, the historical average annual return is only around 8.5%.

There is an additional problem posed by the question of whether that inflation-adjusted average is accurate since the adjustment is made using the inflation figures from the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the index which some analysts believe vastly understates the true inflation rate."

So maybe the stock index average to use is more like 2x the loan interest.
His parents were signatories on a beach front house bought with 10m of FTX funds. That’s all you need to know about his parents.
All of this information is public and known to the government. ADBS Exchange didn't provide anything that wasn't already available.
Your argument ignores the fact that people need to work at every point in their adult life unless they're privileged enough to have someone subsidize their existence. There is a large group of people in society who only have low paying work available to them with their current set of skills. Without being able to save, they don't have the means to acquire new skills. So they're quite literally trapped in low paying jobs.

Also, I think you're too hung up on "social work = good feels." Do fast food workers get good feels from their work?
A human trains on way less data then an AI.

Chat GPT has processed over 500GB of text files from books, about 44 billion words.

If you read a book a week you might hit 70 million words by age 18