skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know it did anything apart from Chat and Video. Perhaps that's why I don't have any problem with it.

What am I missing?
> especially if you are someone who travels

If someone can spend $200/m on a warm coffee in a thermos then they surely can spend $25 on a drip coffee maker, a set of filters and whatever exotic ground coffee from Starbucks or just any other place, including Walmart.

And then just throw it in the bin when they need to move on.
I’m a low-senior engineer recently laid off. I got lots of emails like that and politely declined. I have a bit over four months of severance pay. For the moment, I’m enjoying other fulfilling activities as well as spending some time upgrading my tech skills through independent study.

I’ve considered some startups, but it seems like it’s often difficult to enforce boundaries on work… I benefit a lot from being able to go offline completely on evenings and weekends. That was always possible in my last job except during the occasional oncall and maybe one or two major launches per year. Also, the pay offered is usually half of what I made in my last job, or less. If the current market situation persists for another six months I’ll probably relax my standards. Or if I get contacted by a startup that’s especially impressive or interesting, or someone I trust tells me it’s a great place to work.

Pay isn’t the most important factor, but I don’t want to get locked in at low comp and have to change again in six months. Also, I have a hard time getting objective information about the work culture at startups. With Google or whatever I can always find contacts who work there and ask them how they feel about their job; with startups every person I talk to is trying to convince me to join and is incentivized to downplay the problems.
No it is definitely also appealing to see someone win without sweating it _too much_. There is some elegance to being very good at something while admitting that other things may be more important.

Watching someone as obsessed like Jordan is one kind of fun. Someone who has outside interests, is a family guy, or is otherwise unusual (while still winning) is a different kind of fun.
Wait-- the residual stream makes the attention mechanism learn the difference from the identity! Are you sure you're not thinking about auto-encoders?

Edit: ok, Discord it is.
Personally I find it amusing watching tech workers who were resting and vesting from the 2016 to 2022 period find out how broken the hiring system is. Here's a tip, it always was. I struggled to find a job for years and the only advice people in tech were willing to give is that I should have gone to Standford (Washington State University for life) or I should just try harder. Eventually I got a job in a call center and worked myself up the ladder into an amazing IT career. I hope you all suffer like I had to suffer.
My experimentation with apple products started and ended with ipods. Their insistence to use itunes for putting music on the device eventually turned me away. I've used about a half dozen hardware music players. The ipod UX was easily the worst because of this, even compared to the Diamond Rio PMP300, which was powered with an AA battery. I don't doubt the apple has good UX for some things. But if you think they're much better at everything, you might have blinders on.
The core advantage for the average user of Apple's smartphone chips being so powerful is that they'll get updates for a super long time and remain high-quality phones for a long time.
If you’re going to do this for an iPhone then best to hurry up. They’re raising the prices at the end of the month. I think from $49 to $89.
I generally agree, but it also does feel like just an extension of dogfooding. If you work for a company that has a product that solves a certain business need, it generally makes sense that you wouldn't hire a different company to solve that need.

Obviously in this case the reasonable response is that Teams and WebEx are worse products and MS and Cisco haven't shown much inclination to fixing that, but that's more the fault of the company's bad products more than anything about the internals.
The goofy thing is that I remember when iOS used to be _better_ at notifications. Android didn't used to give you so much control over app notifications and iOS required apps to use them much more sparingly.

I still have issues with Android's notifications though. Some apps insist on using a single "General" category that includes both notifications I require as well as marketing and advertisements.
Interesting, I honestly had expected that was already the case over there, with how expensive rapid charging is compared to residential rates on this side of the pond.

I guess our cheap prices for both oil and energy (in the us) might make us an anomaly.
Moto G Power has a 3-day battery and costs $130 new and unlocked. I didn't even bother looking at the rest of the specs. It's works exactly fine.
You can't say it's all that matters either.
The magazine still has ads in it, doesn't it? I'd rather they know my ip address rather than my mailing address.
I traded a galaxy S3 + 3 year agreement in for a free S22; can you do that with an iPhone? Seems like we are comparing a free phone to a many hundreds of dollars phone.
We’ll see if they were the best, but they certainly weren’t the most advanced. (Not necessarily a bad thing!) For example, Mezzo[1] tracks memory allocations in its type system in a manner very similar to Rust, but has absolutely no problem with circular or doubly linked lists. It also has a grand total of two people backing it and seems mostly dead.

[1] https://protz.github.io/mezzo/
They won’t do the replacement even if you insist on doing it?
Do not link unofficial mirrors

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/cheeseburger/
"Search ads" through clever server-side auto-prompt-modification.
That’s right, they’re solving the same problem, although metric/semantic layers have traditionally lived within BI tools. Looker’s LookML is a great example of a metric layer.

There you define the relationships between tables, which dimensions to expose to your users, and how measures are to be aggregated along which dimensions and at what roll ups. Filters, formatting, and other semantic information rounds out what’s possible, making it easier to build complex reporting without having to pre-build large joined tables in the warehouse.

In theory a semantic layer decoupled from BI can be useful too, as downstream systems can all query a metric. Maybe an operational workflow needs access to revenue numbers or a spreadsheet wants a feed of some fresh aggregates.

The real question is will BI tools adopt a semantic layer they don’t own, giving up control over a key part of their input into their visualizations? Time will tell.
I don't think so.

Assuming this is an blog from Sy Hersh and it's not made up by Sy Hersh and it's not made up by the person Sy Hersh interviewed (all of which might be possible and can't be easily claimed to be unlikely (or likely)):

The US still doesn't need to send a message now and it's still not profitable for them for the article to go public now.

More likely is that both Sy Hersh and the informant didn't want to risk it before. E.g. due to fear of personal consequences or due to fear of causing political consequences in ways they don't want to cause.

Wrt. the the normal citizens in the EU the US doesn't need to send a message, nor would it be received. Wrt. politicians messages already have been send clear enough.
It would be a shame if any real-world decisions where made based on the validity of an opinion piece without any, and I mean ANY, substantial evidence.
Samsung has consistently manufactured their Galaxy S series in two different versions -- a Qualcomm one, and an Exynos one (Samsung's in-house CPU division), with different geographic markets getting different options. America has always gotten the Qualcomm version (which has consistently been faster), but other markets have seen shifts over time.

The S23 Ultra went Qualcomm-only for the first time. In the year running up, they've been slowly expanding Qualcomm to more markets instead of Exynos.

It seems like they're gradually phasing out Exynos, at least from the higher-end phones -- since they've always struggled to produce an SoC competitive with even Qualcomm, which is already behind the curve compared to Apple.
> As a software dev I am expected to get it right, not almost right.

That is not 100% true. I'm sure all of us have put code in production that we knew had issues and it was a conscious decision given the tradeoffs and timelines.

This being separate from the bugs we unknowingly release into the wild.
Investopedia? I don't have any advice here, but The Personal MBA[1] is a reading list, and their pick "How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers"[2] doesn't sound like the worst. But I haven't read it, so don't mistake this for a personal endorsement.

[1]: https://personalmba.com/best-business-books/
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118735846/
I don't think anyone is telling you what to do, but that doesn't preclude other people doing what they want. Some people would rather go through the experience of dying in a different way.
I'm confused by this comment, and I fear you may be projecting your issues onto me. I never mentioned Asians, in fact I never even mentioned race.

> If however you want to make GPA weighted by household income instead of identity I say knock yourself out

It was more along these lines that I was thinking, yes.
I’m a new owner of an electric car. Speaking to my friends that own them, they made it clear that it’s always cheaper to charge at home (save for the first three years of my Porsche ownership where VW’s Electrify America picks up the tab). Fast chargers are convenient but resellers of municipal electricity are not going to be the most cost efficient option. The benefit you’re receiving for the premium charged is being absolved of the eight hours you’d have to spend (at 40A) at home.
Pretty much any phone would only take 5% over 6-8 hours if being inactive and just waiting for an alarm to go off.
I don't think "lossy text" is a useful term because it conflates with th*s k*nd *f l*ss* t*xt as well. Lossy compression is designed to be as reversible as it can be to a given threshold. That's not how ChatGPT was either designed or works in practice. There are definitely a lot of mathematical similarities between the two, I won't deny that.

Would "partial knowledge compression" be a better term? Partial knowledge of both English and French is a requirement to reliably translate from English to French. Partial knowledge of both baseball box scores and entertaining paragraph outlines in English is a requirement to reliably translate from a box score into an entertaining outline, right?
What most techies don't get about Excel is that people wouldn't build their businesses around it if it weren't a really powerful abstraction. Sure, a dev could set up a CRUD app, but then you need a dev, which is far outside the budget of most SMBs. Rather than Excel being the root of all evil, we should view it as the empowerment tool that it really is!
It's not a big deal if you don't care about the environment. It's about time we forget this wasteful mindset
Can you please elaborate?
Sadly your linked document is in Italian, which poses a language barrier for most of the community here.
Framework Offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck
> Municipal broadband, power, roads, schools, post, housing, and healthcare? It's long overdue, and with an appropriate amount of funding has been shown to be effective at controlling costs and delivering moderately good quality in most cases.

Where? The US has among the highest percentage of kids going to government owned and operated schools. We have plenty of government housing as well (projects). Nearly all of our roads and transit systems are publicly owned and operated too.

Almost uniformly, those government operated systems aren’t very good—in America. And it doesn’t have to do with “funding.” If you compare with Europe, we spend more money per student, per transit rider, and per public housing resident, etc.
> go make one

It's not like it's easy. It crossed my mind a few years ago, actually. But why should I when the email client I actually happen to use decided to actually rebuild its interface? I'm not the one who is unhappy, I'm happy either way actually, I could answer "go fork Thunderbird if you are not happy".

There was an interesting talk at FOSDEM by OpenProject on how to handle UI revamps [1], there are ways to do it without breaking current users. I recommend it, I'm quite picky on presentations but this one was really good and I enjoyed it.

I agree that UI stability is important. UI stability is not the only important thing. Responsiveness indeed too. I hate slow UIs. Consistency with what users are used to (from the rest of the world) is very important too.

What's more, I read in the blog post that they are rebuilding the UI from scratch, but what I don't read is that they decided to change everything.

They can do it right. I can't say they will, but… again, let's see? I'm sure they'd be glad to receive feedback, questions and concerns.

Am I the only one enthusiastic about some potential Thunderbird UI revamp here?

I don't like many UI/UX choices on the current web, but I also like what KDE has been doing, and maybe Gnome too, there are places where UIs get better! Why not Thunderbird?

[1] https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/practical_ux_at_openp...
Fasting as a healthy person is very different from someone nearing the end of their life. Many people suffering from sickness lose most of their appetite already and have little energy to bring themselves to eat.
I was laid off in June. This coincided with my mom being diagnosed with cancer, and because I had a fair amount of saving, I took some time to support family and work on some personal projects.

I started looking again at the start of this year, and it's been rough, at least compared to my last job search where I had multiple offers in under two weeks. I've submitted ~50 applications so far, most with a non-generic cover letter. Most haven't responded, several declined to interview, and just one scheduled an interview.

Using my referral network hasn't been that effective. Most of my former colleagues are working at large companies that either aren't hiring or are in midst of layoffs themself. I was able to get 4 references at hiring companies through my network, but of those, 3 haven't responded and 1 declined to interview.

I have had a decent amount of interviews through 3rd-party recruiting agencies. I've gotten to final interview stages with a few companies, but no offers. Most of these places were very early seed-stage companies. I'm actively interviewing with a handful now.

When companies decline to even interview, it's discouraging and stressful for sure. It's easy for imposter syndrome to creep in. But overall, I'm still relatively optimistic that I will find something soon-ish.

I can see how hiring companies must be inundated now, but it also seems a bit strange that nearly every company I connect with through a recruiter wants to interview, but my success rate submitting applications myself is basically 0%.
way too many macOS icons are set on a rounded white rectangle which definitely reduces your ability to quickly identify an app. miss the old days of unique app icon silhouettes because it definitely helps with quickly identifying the app.
You know developing insulin doesn't require violating patents, right? And the price of insulin in the US is entirely an artifact of monopoly behavior by a small number of pharmaceutical companies?

The ability to mass produce insulin at negligible cost has been around for decades, they guy who discovered it made it patent free even.

Only in the US do companies get away with this kind of price gouging, and only because of monopolistic (or I get oligopolistic?) behavior and BS legal threats against anyone that might impact their profiteering off the work of others (paying off competitors not to compete, and BS patents on minor changes, with applications carefully scattered to maximize length of coverage).

The only reason it's taking someone the size of CA to actually do something, is because the Pharma companies buy out, pay off, or lawyer into oblivion anyone else. All strategies that normally work because the victims of the (to me) clearly illegal monopoly based actions aren't incurring costs if they stop, whereas the gouging and monopoly tactics cost CA huge amounts annually. The only thing Pharma could do to make it worth CA not doing this would be to stop price gouging, which is of course the only reason CA is doing this.

That price gouging is illegal if it's some dude hoarding toilet paper, but not when it's insulin being sold by multi-billion dollar corporations remains absurd. That people come to defend the "IP rights" of these organizations and their BS patents is a really American phenomenon.
I am getting all sorts of confused by some of the responses here. Does woodworking mean building pretty furniture? Whereas carpentry means building big sturdy structures?
Just a word of advice for readers who are working at a startup: you will never be wrong by getting as close to the money as possible.

If you are at a startup and working on support tools or platform infrastructure or whatever, maybe you're indispensable. But you'd still be better off if you were doing support tools or platform infrastructure that involves revenue.

(The obvious corollary is that if you work at a startup that doesn't make money, you should find a way to make money, or move to a startup that does make money. I feel like a lot of engineers don't know this.)
I talked to 3 plumbers recently when I bought a partially built house. First guy was a "commercial" plumber working on new builds only. Second guy was a "home renovation" plumber. Both these 2 plumbers won't go near a clogged toilet. Third guy specialized on clogged pipes and home emergency repair.
Dang finally showing some bias. Anything like this would normally be insta deleted.
Most of those games don’t require faster speeds though
> Hence, they would not be beholden to shareholder pressures.

Private companies have shareholders & related interests/pressure as well.
I wouldn't necessarily call myself "enthusiastic" about CBDCs, but I can certainly give some reasons why I find this proposal to be "fairly reasonable".

Firstly, they start off by saying that they don't think it's currently necessary and that they are just looking to the future. They then talk about the current state of affairs with more transactions being made digitally and more private entities offering some sort of online wallet. Most of these entities are not British in origin and they state that if the situation were to arise where a majority of the countries "cash" transactions were controlled by a foreign entity then this could constitute a security risk. Now, I am a very long way from being a flag waving nationalist but even I can see the sense in that.

Secondly, their proposal look fairly reasonable to me. I may be misreading it horribly but as far as I can tell the BoE is proposing to be an anonymous transaction layer. The diagram specifically states that they will not have any personal information associated with the wallet. It looks like the BoE would just hold an anonymous wallet with a GUID and a value. The PIPs have your user details and GUID. When you make a payment from your wallet to some other wallet the PIP just sends a request to the BoE to transfer a sum from one GUID to another and the BoE never receives any information on the payer and payee.

Because of this, it will be pretty difficult for the government to prevent any particular person making a payment, or to control how someone makes a payment. There are a huge number of private entities that will have the necessary status to get clearance to access the API, I am sure. Can you imagine the UK government trying to bully hundreds, maybe thousands of companies - some not based in the UK - into preventing payments to one person; and they would have to cover all entities because otherwise the person being targeted could just change wallet providers.

It could still potentially turn bad, but it looks to my (admittedly not highly experienced eye) that the BoE is trying to design a system that is reasonably resilient to the type of tampering and control that many people fear.
They are also scoped differently, but the lazy loading is the key thing here
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> I don't get why upper management thinks they have anything to do with how I communicate with my colleagues.

The organization has to pay for whatever commercial offerings their teams are using, and any non-commercial offerings are likely to either expose the organization's information or at least put it out of reach of controls like legal holds. Use of some free/trial services for business purposes might also introduce legal/contractual liability that the organization is responsible for.
Or using intolerant as a synonym for "stuff i dont like" and/or obliging othets to be intolerant of x
Will they just be using Microsoft's offices?
I think I've heard this exact response from other developers who turned to wood working. It's a common plus side.
> reorg

I came across an interesting legal concept a couple of jobs ago - "quit for cause". Among other things, changes in management structure can meet the requirements "for cause'.

If you've got the pull in negotiation, it might be worth looking into adding something a quit-b/c-reorg cushion.

(I don't expect it to help with many things here, but there's worth in setting things up so you don't need a situation to stay a certain way, because you're safe to exit)
wow, ok didn't know that. Thanks a lot for letting me know.
We’re looking for an experienced network engineer who can architect, scale, and maintain Paperspace’s global network. We’re looking for people to help build the backbone for a high performance cloud.
> Some managers (like yourself) have clearly adapted, while others have realized how much they relied on (benign!) shouldersurfing to figure out if work was being done.

So you are saying that those "other managers" will have to actually become competent in projects they are managing instead of measuring the time butts spent in the seats and trying to sneak on employees who are reading reddit at work? Good!
Word of mouth is no layoffs in engineering this time.
For people with the means to afford it, iOS devices are superior in most ways: from performance to utility to lifetime. They lack features a rounding-error fraction of users care about, like side-loading for example.
I think that’s still the outstanding question. Tools like Mode and Hex have already started supporting dbt’s metrics layer, but will big players like Looker and Tableau also move to support it? That’s harder to say
Damned fine book.
Credit Suisse confirms 50% bonus cut, Zero for Exec, amid terrible results
well, during early stages of startups the investors lose money, while employees get wages. I agree that compensation in the finance space doesn't make sense, but that's a different problem.
2017 called and wants your comment back. Samsung is best Android manufacturer in class regarding OS upgrades and security updates, Bixby can be switched off and actually performs well in tests. Visible bloatware has been reduced significantly and most of the visible apps you can uninstall or deactivate.
Well they all have defensible space around their homes. It is a requirement for the only fire insurance they can get. Even the defensible space does not clear enough to get uninterrupted Starlink service.
> The US isn't perfect, but if you want to work you're generally able to move up the economic ladder easier from what I've seen.

According to recent Nobel prizes in economic (Duflo and Banerjee), moving up the economic ladder has degraded so much in the US that it's currently lagging slightly behind Europe.

Their study dates back to ~2018, though.
Shareware for the first episodes and later GPLed the engines.