skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like when people list outcomes and metrics. It gives me a starting point for something to ask questions about. Projects make for a lot better interview discussion topic than “skills: HTML, JavaScript, CSS […]”
Most households don’t always take long trips to the same places especially when you’re talking long trips in terms of small EV batteries.

I am all for improving cities, but just as a baseline not everyone lives in cities. Any long term plan needs to consider everyone not just people who live in dense enough areas public transportation is a clear win. Sure, ban cars in the center of cities, just don’t expect that to change how large most people want their car’s battery to be.

This article and discussion is doing the thing where you exaggerate a small problem to promote something that’s almost but not quite entirely unrelated to it. If you want people to use small batteries in EV’s electrify roads so people can travel on them without using a battery. If you want to reduce the need for cars do that, but don’t pretend lithium mining somehow requires changing cities. Because arguing from a false premise weakens your argument when people see through it.
Supermarkets pay more than that and while aren't exactly cushy, they aren't as bad as the reported warehouse conditions of an amazon factory.
This reminds me of a project someone did where they wore glasses that flipped everything upside down, and then separately left to right. Generally it took them about a week before their brain just interpreted everything correctly again, and it was like looking without the glasses. When they flipped it diagonally though it was three weeks and still hadn't "fixed" it, and they had other stuff to do so they had to abandon it.
> FAANG jobs pay extremely well and then there's the stock on top.

When excluding RSUs, FAANG jobs are not extreme in any way. RSUs are not a cherry on top but an important component of remuneration. Often for mid-level and above (roughly TL/staff engineer and Manager-II), the value of RSUs is more than 50% of total compensation.
Yeah, but isn't it the chief product officers job to figure out how to isolate their company from this?
I'm sorry it's irritating you.
Open source data labeling for anomaly detection at scale
Blog post and walkthrough on how Totalenergies Digital Factory uses Label Studio to detect anomalies at scale.
Webb Telescope Spectrograph Suffers Software Glitch
I've defended crypto in the past but its increasingly clear that this is all basically academic BS, but with a financial component. Theoretically, its nice to have a "digital gold" alternative to store your wealth away from authoritarian governments. But most of crypto thrives in countries with strong democratic traditions and no history of extended and widespread government overreach.

All the other aspects of crypto - DeFi, NFTs, GameFi - are nice for making money but no one asked for them, and no one realy needs them.

They're fun to use and fun to gamble and play around with, but its all...useless. Especially for the existing users. DeFi, in its current form, isn't "banking the unbanked" - its just a place for the world's 1% to screw around on.

I understand the promise, but I also think the product is far, far from what the world needs or even wants.
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our...

> Gender diversity is correlated with both profitability and value creation. In our 2017 data set, we found a positive correlation between gender diversity on executive teams and both our measures of financial performance: top-quartile companies on executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21 percent likelihood of outperforming their fourth-quartile industry peers on EBIT margin, and they also had a 27 percent likelihood of outperforming fourth-quartile peers on longer-term value creation, as measured using an economic-profit (EP) margin (Exhibit 2).

> Top-team ethnic and cultural diversity is correlated with profitability. In our 2017 data set, we looked at racial and cultural diversity in six countries where the definition of ethnic diversity was consistent and our data were reliable.1 As in 2014, we found that companies with the most ethnically diverse executive teams—not only with respect to absolute representation but also of variety or mix of ethnicities2 —are 33 percent more likely to outperform their peers on profitability. That’s comparable to the 35 percent outperformance reported in 2014, with both figures being statistically significant (Exhibit 4).
haha, thanks. Lack of focus is the biggest constraint, true.

Also, I think it's better to validate with in-house talent, even though I see a lot of MVP built through us.
It's illegal to do a lot of things. That doesn't mean they don't happen or aren't common.
The Democrat party drummed up the "both sides" argument as cover for them turning their backs on the grassroots activism that got Barack Obama elected in 2008. In the same way, the modern focus on racial issues in the US is directly correlated with quelling the anti-classist Occupy movement.

The lesser of two evils is still evil.
I thought that Arrows (https://www.haskell.org/arrows/) can handle conditionals, and the splitting and joining of concurrent streams of computation?

Is there something novel about this approach that is distinct from Arrows?
If you like horror: The Great God Pan by Machen.
If you like Scifi: Dune or Children of Time/...
Ripping off, literally, is theft. In the legal contexts you're talking about, it's used as a hyperbolic metaphor. Those are distinct meanings. Arguing about it is pointless.
Why would I know that the freezing point of water is 32°F? Pretty much nothing in this country is measured in Fahrenheit.

I've definitely seen the comparison made, on random US articles which almost invariably show °C as well as °F, but I'm not sure that if someone asked me if I would recall the answer.
Only the priviledged. The rest use Kwangmyong = like Facebook's Free Basics but operated by KCC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)
AI art replacing real art would effectively be human culture imploding in on itself.
They want loyal employees but get upset when they unionize. A union is implicitly a loyal body of employees.

These companies (management monopoly, rather) want to dispose of people without a second thought because it is easier and more within their abilities.

Unions break the management monopoly and add the capability to stop acting like a psychopath.

It's really a government issue. All companies need the same circumstances so their competition isn't reaping extra profits by treating people worse than dogs.

Workers deserve more protections than consumers.
Java was literally designed for washing machines, and look how it evolved.
They're highly specific, and are harder to administer. They're usually stored in glass phials which need to be kept in a refrigerator. Stomach acid needs to be neutralized if they're taken orally. If administered by injection, the strain used can only be used once as the body develops antibodies to it. Most of the scientific literature on them is in either Georgian or (if you're lucky) Russian.

They're not without their problems, but there are also problems with antibiotics (bacterial resistance, penicillin allergy). So why not use them whenever use of antibiotics is problematic? They're cheap, and reproduce at a phenomenal rate. They were used successfully in the Soviet Union, and are still being used in Georgia.
I think the idea here is that when you're on contract, you are much more aware that your employment is time-limited and transactional.

So you live your life, financially and otherwise, with this in mind.

I have no doubt that this sounds (and would be) more stressful for some people, when compared to full-time employment, particularly in the US where your job is typically tied to health care and other benefits.

But most folks I know who have been laid off from long-term employment were shocked by (and ill-prepared for) the event.
Why? Why do you have to respect this hustle?
My previous company got rid of DEI stuff a couple years back, when the previous CEO left. Only one or two people even noticed, and one had the nerve to complain on an all hands.

The CEO said 'listen, we don't have the time or money for stuff like that right now. We're not profitable. Let's turn this ship around and we'll revisit.'

This gave me the sense that it's just seen as a frivolous expense to most companies, and pretty big respect to the CEO for admitting as much.
The argument has been made recently by this guy and others that Google grew its ranks second only to Facebook during the pandemic, that it’s performance per employee today hasn’t justified the growth, and that it should stop putting money to inefficient uses given that suddenly there is an opportunity cost to capital with the ending of ZIRP worldwide.

Seems reasonable to me. We learned how inefficient conglomerates are back in the 60s/70s.
I agree. they go onto a useless rant about how pen testing is useless, red team research only enables hackers, etc. That's not true at all. That work is what pushes the improvements in both detection and better programming practices.

Educating users is not dumb, its one of the most important parts of security a company should address. I really don't know where they are coming from here, this section was nonsense to me.

I also have a point that will get me downloaded and piss off a lot of people, Security is very important, but not THAT important. If the business doesn't operate, then there's no need for security. So what's the solution? The author comes off as one of those that treat security like a wheelbarrow full of bricks that everyone has to push around. This wont get buy in and people will find ways around it. Instead, security should be like tennis shoes. restrictive but they also allow you to run faster.
I’ve been sitting on what I think might be the last straw to break the proverbial camel’s back but I didn’t think readers had any more bandwidth to hear more about this breach. I have my reasons to believe there’s a good chance LP knows of a means by which the master keys if some users may have been once compromised long before this incident.
People really do be forgetting how unbelievably fast doing things in-process is. It’s why people suffer the complexity of threads instead multiple processes with ipc - like the network.
If you're even aware that Fahrenheit exists, this might be a thing you know. For example, my country mostly uses Fahrenheit but I know that freezing in Celsius is zero, because I attended school as a child.
This is pretty much the idea behind sqlc, with some extra steps of course. You write your SQL queries in file, and it generates type safe bolierplate for you.

https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc
There are plenty of situations where that is impossible, and the best you can do is minimizing harm.
It seems like it's at the same level of the rule that the pilot and co-pilot can't order the same meal at the airport before a flight in case they both get food poisoning simultaneously. Doesn't guarantee that they don't both get sick, but it's a relatively minor imposition and reduces the odds by quite a bit.
Interesting.

Probably won't work for harder queries, but would be a good tool to make simpler queries, or parts of harder ones.
In the 90s, my relatives first came to the US. In those days, there were newspaper dispensing machines on the sidewalk, which worked like this:

1. It was a box on the sidewalk with a locked swing-out door facing forward.

2. You put coins into the machine and the door unlocks.

3. Inside are all the newspapers. You put your hand in and take only one.

4. You close the door and it locks.

The first thing my relatives asked after seeing this was "why do you only take one?"

If you model society as a Nash equilibrium, the impulse to veer towards social betrayal is present in all people and societies. It's an obvious instinct and the fact that people are so open about indulging it only indicates that we're returning to the historic mean for humans, that the trust required to have a society based on mutual cooperation is vanishing. The only galling thing here is that the people to whom the most social benefits flow -- software engineers, product managers, executives -- are so brazen about betraying it, or cheering the betrayal of others.

I don't know where you emigrated to, but unless it's Saudi Arabia or Singapore, I would doubt your observation. Americans and Euros have a tendency to view everyone else as Rousseau's "noble savage", i.e. a romanticized alien.
In the US there are already laws against this. The company doesn't need DEI positions to enforce this.
Does this show a random flag each time? You could use a spaced-repitition algorithm to pick which flag to show based on correct/incorrect previous answers.
The truth is that you're much better off with an interior solution (taking a tradeoff between future expandability, budget, etc.) than a corner solution like extreme compactness
Totally agree. This all sounds like a impressive sounding bullshit.
Google's average total compensation per employee is much higher than that, around $300k IIRC. You also need to back out cost of revenue to get a more accurate picture of return.
Discovering Content on the Fediverse
Why does that surprise you?

AFAICT, peoples' moral leanings seem pretty consistent over history. (I could be wrong; I'm haven't studied that much history.)
Yup. Because the way I read it you are saying one thing has value because it's rarer than the other. Maybe I read it wrong?
Stock Drive Products and Berg are the classic US small gear, bearing, and accessories suppliers. I've used those two. KHK (Kohara Gear Industry Co., Ltd, Japan) is now active in the US.

The classic Boston Gear Gearology course is no longer online at Boston Gear, but there's a copy here.[1] This gives a quick overview of the minimum you need to know about specifying gears.

[1] https://www.me.psu.edu/sommer/me360/gearology.pdf
Well that sucks. I had just gotten into using ADS-B over Flightradar24.
I’ve always felt like there’s a startup in there that can reliably change all your passwords for you. Probably something like one time $299, which sounds expensive, until you realize the pain of doing this.
So it's just the front-end, relying on you to manually write all the HTML. I'd love some software to make generating these (or similar) annotated documents easily. Any ideas?
Then let him get what he deserves, as fits the crime. I'm not even talking about forgiveness. Justice isn't stopping bad people from doing good, it's stopping them from doing bad. Again I'm all in favor of him getting justice. Pay his victims. Go to jail or whatever it is that's the punishment for this. But this cancel culture isn't justice.

And of course he's not supposed to seek forgiveness from us, that's my point. He needs to be judged by a judge. Not me, neither adult swim. Definitely not this mob justice.

One of the major points of religions is to prevent mob justice. To be judged fairly in an intelligent process, with a fitting punishment.

How is firing him from his job a fitting punishment? There's no law for that because there shouldn't be. The justice system has as a principle the concept of minimizing the consequences of uninvolved parties.

There wouldn't be so much hunger for vengeance if people believed others will get what they deserve.
The blog-post argues against Wall Street analysts' behavior, but misapplies "Friedman Doctrine" as a label for it. Friedman didn't specify a time-frame because it's the life-time of the corporation. He mentions "long run interest" and alludes to future shareholders:

> And, whether he wants to or not, can he get away with spending his stockholders, customers’ or employes’ money? Will not the stockholders fire him? (Either the present ones or those who take over when his actions in the name of social responsibility have reduced the corporation's profits and the price of its stock.)

FWIW, I think the actual essay could appeal to folks who are skeptical of big-company CEOs because it (a) suggests that governments should stop incentivizing them to influence society and (b) implies that governments should tax directly to fund these social aims rather than asking CEOs to spend company money on them.
Everyone is moving to airframes.io

Also this from SoylentADSB:

> CEO of JETNET ( Greg Fell, now fired from JETNET by Silversmith) called and asked for a meeting. We thought was sales call. Turns out he offered to buy ADSBx from Dan for $8M, they wined dined and toured him around. Flew him to Boston, Dan cut us out when we ALL OBJECTED to a sale.
We think they gave him $20M ish and a $200 a year job at JETNET. They'll fire him in a year, that's what PE does.
He built their $400/day volume NFT marketplace
I use preservative-free (aka "artificial tears") eyedrops every few hours. They're generally used for lubrication/dry eyes and recommended if you're applying more than 4 times a day. Though not directly related to eye strain, dry eyes can contribute to it.

Additionally, I use a Chrome extension that notifies me every 20min that it's time to take a break. I like that it has minimal features (time adjustment, enable/disable) and is only active when it detects you're actively using the computer. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eye-blinker/fbgche...
Awesome and inspiring work!! Did you create legal entities/companies around each product that you built, or did you have one legal entity that you still are in control of and just sold off the IP from (or a mixture of both)?
A wearable cardiac ultrasound imager
I got this impression as well. I worked on a team two years back building out a very complex Excel plugin using Excel.js. The SDK has quite a few quirks and we ran into some problems along the way, but the team at Microsoft responsible for it was happy to help and interested in hearing feedback and features we wanted. A positive experience :)
Actually a DXA scan is now considered to be more accurate than a float test or caliper test.
Sometimes I wonder sales people trying to sell vs applicants chasing interview, whose job is more soul-crushing.
> A 60kwh car battery might cost $10k, and allow 2000 charge cycles

After those 2000 cycles is the battery completely dead, or does it still work but at a reduced capacity?

If it does still work at a reduced capacity, does continued use reduce the capacity to 0 after a while, or does is plateau at some fixed reduced capacity and stop further degrading?
I don't know if we should read too much into this, it seems like the kind of thing you'd expect in any subspecialty. "Widget polishers are being hit hard by layoffs; we talked to some widget polishers, and they all told us that this is a big problem because it's important for the widgets to be polished."
Relatedly I wish Mac's "mission control" and "app expose" was better, becomes difficult to find frequently used windows.. seems to place windows in random places. It'd be nice if it made it easier to see browser tabs.

I liked the the UI/UX of David Gelernter's "Scopeware" layer, that seemed like it would be a nice alternative to either of those.
Have you ever considered that you pay the same amount and management keeps the change while not employing anyone else? I don't notice my bill being cheaper.
Profit in most industries is a few percent, esp. retail/food which are often c. 1%.

The markets are highly competitive, and consumers will compare two stores: A, B and choose the cheaper.
This is my situation as well. If you travel a lot, having something light Flightaware giving you more detailed information about what is really happening with your flight or airport is wonderful and starting a feed was a fun way to get more features.
Kids happily get sucked into Minecraft video narrative "series" with totally insane plots that make no sense and are basically gibberish even line-to-line, and into dirt-cheap Asian and Eastern European CG cartoon imports on Netflix that are barely better. I'm 100% sure a mostly-AI creative process could produce something higher quality than those... um, genres, I guess, today.

(seriously, there's some so-cheap-I'm-not-sure-why-they-bothered kids' cartoons on Netflix, if you look for them—you're on the right track if it looks like it was rendered with mid-grade 2005 desktop 3D rendering tech using stock models and stock scenes with way-too-little decoration or clutter, despite in-fact dating no earlier than 2015. A lot of them have whole scenes that are basically just the characters talking in circles. The plots are always extremely straightforward and about 1/5 as much plot as they should need to fill the time, even by very generous reckoning. Lots of interpersonal conflict that amounts to nothing, existing just so they can have two characters have some conflict in a scene to absolutely no thematic-, message-, characterization-, or plot-related end. Most turn out to have been originally produced in India or Romania or something, if you start digging. It's crazy. But young kids will watch these.)
I would like it to stay afloat till the summer, then vacation, then finding a real job.

Edit : it’s not fair, we do work. Like a real job, but it feels … ethereal
Copyrighted content is not eligible for non-authorized reproduction.

Are people here so used to pirating that they no longer know what the laws are???
And really, that's not PII then. If it can be combined with other public data to further identify people, then it might be PII, but by itself it's really not much. I might be fuzzy on my PII trainings as they're a bit dated, but names and internal IDs are generally not considered personally identifying IIRC.
>I advertised and solicited from as many diverse venues as I could find and still found hardly any qualified applicants.

So if you were e.g. recruiting for SWE roles at an HBCU presumably there are hundreds of CS students there. Are you saying none were qualified? If so isn't that a problem with education/preparation?
Show HN: Open-source support bot for Discord
Many companies have a public Discord where people ask questions. Sometimes those questions are dumb and can be easily answered by reading the support documents.

So we built a bot that does 3 things:

1. Uses FAISS to index public support documents provided as URLs

2. Monitors a Discord channel for questions, prefixed with !help

3. Responds to questions with its best guess of the right answer and cites its source document(s), using Data Augmented Generation from LangChain

It won’t be right all of the time, but if people find it helpful we’ll make it better. Take a look at the repo and give us some suggestions of how to improve it, or put up a PR!

Repo: https://github.com/getbuff/Buff

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Demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JPKW9tX0K9Y
Based on what happened to my wife, if the password was encrypted, breaking it was trivial
Worth noting, yes. But it's also not unreasonable to prefer candidates that avoid such environments.
Transistors repurposed as microchip ‘clock’ address supply chain weakness
I'm pretty much convinced that the inflection point is "Director" at a FAANG or "VP" at a smaller company. Once you get to that point, it's pretty much impossible to fail downward. Worker bees rise up in level when they succeed (or the economy is good) and fall down in level when they fail (or the economy is bad). But, I've never heard of a Director or VP or anyone from the "executive class" getting a downgrade when moving jobs, regardless of performance and regardless of the economic environment. Once you pass that singularity, it's up, up, and away.
Ow. My head hurts.

And this is why optimizing compilers are some of the most complex programs there are. (or so I have been taught)
It certainly hasn't hit the US as much as it has hit elsewhere.
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