skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, though a fair number of curriculum from outside sources includes sessions with teachers in small groups where students can interact with each and the teacher to receive explanations, ask questions, and receive guidance.
I get an "Address Invalid" error when I try to sign up for the waitlist.
The decision to leave libraries in the standard criteria made the numbers at the end meaningless for the most part - most libraries are barely open as it is, and should be accessible enough by bus regardless. Still a very cool visualisation for Seattle; I think this city has great potential for denser urban development, while still retaining its charm.
Without expert filtering of the suggestions, yes, disaster. Experts will benefit the most from this because they can filter incorrect suggestions and reinterpret. Novices will be more susceptible.

There is certainly ongoing research on this, expert systems have been an area of research for a while. Here is recent research relevant to this post: Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants? (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.03622.pdf)

More relevant discussion, from Andrew Ng's The Batch newsletter: Check the Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders section: (https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-180/)
Lockdowns or not, nobody could've avoided getting covid in the long term. It's just too contagious. The only way out is letting it run through the population and mutate. Flattening the curve might alleviate strain on the medical system but it also prolongs the time to benign mutations.
> looked to be permanent

I don't believe that any CEO/CFO with half a brain actually thought this. Sure, things wouldn't return to pre-pandemic levels necessarily, but the COVID-induced state was not going to permanently change human behavior.

> ROI on devs was good compared to low inflation and low interest rates. Then both of those things changed

this is more the reason; the "mea culpa, how could we have known" excuses is just to cover a regression to the mean they knew was eventually going to happen.
try nreal air
(off topic)
Davey Winder is a blast from the past, I used to hang out with him 30 years ago. Nice to see he's still surfing the tech wave.
My Reddit account got hacked a few years ago because I created a Reddit account using a throwaway password, since I didn't care much about Reddit when I started. The hacker started using it to promote crypto.

I was able to get the old account disabled, but couldn't get it back because I couldn't prove I'd ever owned it. So I created a new account, and it wasn't a big deal, but I was annoyed that I lost my preferred username. Fortunately I'm not a moderator for any subreddits.

Don't get the privacy concerns. I'm totally fine if people know what I post on Reddit. It's public. I wouldn't want any friends to get confused by private messages sent as me, though.

People who don't care about losing their account probably aren't doing anything they care about with it, and that's okay, but it's not everyone.
Seeing the UK’s implementation of 15 minute cities, where cars are locked down to zones, movement is tracked by ubiquitous camera surveillance, and residents have to apply for a special pass to leave their zone. Talk of 15 minute cities in the US makes me nervous.

When we talk about 15 minute cities here, do we mean zoning changes to build things differently? Or are we talking about authoritarian enforcement?

Edit: Okay maybe what I read was overblown. Seems this is being trialed in Oxford as "traffic filters" but the ubiquitous camera surveillance is certainly part of it. There is also talk of this expanding to other cities in the UK. Though not specifically talked about as apart of the 15 minute city plan, this seems to go along nicely with that concept.

Edit: A source: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2023/01/25/15-minute-city-plan...
Anti-competitive practices is when the government prevents other companies to join the market. That is not the case here. Do you really expect Apple to make life easier for their competitors? You're free to use Samsung, Galaxy Buds, Whatsapp and Spotify if you don't like Apple's products.
I have sympathy for the argument, but a lot of people can't afford to spend the extra money a smaller store charges.
Because spraying roundup on non-roundup ready crops has 1 outcome, it kills them. There is no reasonable reason to do it other than to avoid the patent.

If roundup ready crops end up in your fields accidentally and then you don’t spray roundup you don’t run afoul of litigation.
Strictly speaking, software as a low-cost marginal business originally referred to shrink-wrapped application software. If your website is basically a buy button with a download link, you fall into that category. But now your distribution needs have scaled, so either you hire more people to deal with shipping out CDs, or make sure your website scale. And if your software is the distribution (as is the case for websites, SaaS, cloud apps) you might need more engineers.
Most likely, it's just not for you.

What I mean is that I think I've read that Sivers has been using BSD for a couple of decades and has a Postgres archive of all his email going back to the 90's...or something like that.

But I could be wrong and am not in the mood to research it.

My point is that his use case has different goals than most people's...e.g. stability and avoiding figuring out how to use different systems for the sake of using new-to-him systems.

It's like EMACS.

Not for everyone.

Some people use it sometimes.

Some people use it more.

Some people have been living in it since before GUI's.

But, I would always start with a Thinkpad.
You do see smaller, usually not great, markets located especially in more rural areas. Sometimes they're affiliated with one of the bigger chains like Hannaford's.
DuckDB is such a breath of fresh air!

We at MotherDuck at working very closely with the DuckDB folks to build a DuckDB-based cloud service. I'm talking to various folks in the industry about the details in 1:1. Feel free to reach out to tino at motherduck.com.

(co-founder and head of Produck at MotherDuck)
I'm glad i was not the only one thinking the same! lol :-D
Wireguard / tailscale or similar vpn should be fine?

I've toyed with tailscale and ZeroTierOne - both should work fine with Bonjour/zeroconf if you need it - and handle routing (using lan when devices are on same net, routing over the internet when not).

There's also Nebula from slack (but I've not tried it).

Would love to see tailscale work with kernel wireguard clients (for better performance) - AFAIK today you'll have to pick one: easy setup with smart routing (ZeroTierOne / nebula / tailscale) - or - best in class performance with kernel space wireguard.
In before the compulsory "Why does eBay need 12,500 employees?!"
Reminds me of this classic article from Petzold wondering the same about intellisense

“Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?”

http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind...
Sure, but getting a SV job living in a LCOL is easier than ever with the prevalence of remote work. The numbers I have seen are for series B startups, not FAANG companies.

Also, I've worked at a bank before as a software developer and made basically the same range.
> Seattle is complex in this regard as the elevation changes between neighborhoods are an additional dimension.

And then there is the socio-economic history of elevations in Seattle. tl;dr Historically poor people (and minorities) lived at the bottom of hills, rich people at the top. To this day, you can literally see houses get nicer as you go up hills.

There are also neighborhoods with a hill in the middle where one side of the hill was historically poor, and the other side well to do. My dad used to tell me that when he was a kid, him and all his friends knew not to go to up the hill where they didn't belong.
"ANY BANK IN THE WORLD"... is quite a TALL CLAIM!!! I have my doubts!!!
And if you aren't promoted out of your competent zone, you will need to job hop out of your competent zone in order to obtain an actually competitive salary.
SEC commissioner publicly rebukes her agency, Gensler on crypto regulation
I mean "The hell you devil doing in my home!" would satisfy both.
I'd recommend doing some research before committing to this.

> GuliKit Hall Effect Joysticks upgrade

I've seen reports of these having issues with the range. Users are reporting the JS maxes out at about 30% of travel. Other users claim it's "worth it" not to worry about drift.

> JSAUX transparent backplate with new cooling solution + new back buttons

I've seen concerns that the backplate solution may expose other components to higher thermal stress at the expense of improving SOC cooling.
But even non-compliance is a form of compliance! You figure out ways to get around the system, or go un-noticed, or risk the legal action.. all in ways that are easier for a big company to stomach than for a small company to risk.
The article is about Seattle, which is currently a US city, so imho it’s reasonable to have a US-centric view of the problem.
I remember when Apple bloated up by thousands, started a score of new products. Then consolidated and combined until they had one uber-product proposal that could do everything. Then they cancelled it and laid everybody off.

Maybe they learned their lesson.
As someone who lives in the UK, this is news to me. Can you substantiate this please?
That's a pretty serious allegation. You think if the SEC comes by to look at their books, they're going to refuse and use guns to stop them? The leader is certainly full of libertarian foolishness in his comments. It's another step entirely to say they are prepared to resist the police. If that happens that's going to be the end of them, but I don't think that would happen.
Oh you might be right! I think what I wrote is incorrect in this case.

For gravity, it's clear the orientation of a small surface doesn't influence its gravitational force. In fact the source can be replaced by a point of equivalent mass.

For radiation, it seems the angle of a surface matters? For example, lambertian surfaces (everyday diffuse surfaces) do depend on their angle for total incoming radiation? Does only reflection exhibit lambertian behavior? There's something funny at work here.

In the lambertian case, there's a cosine term making your terms go to zero and sum converge.

When observing a small oblique (lambertian) surface, you get less radiation by a factor of cos(angle). I believe this is true for black body radiators as well (think a small glowing plate emitting red light). I'm not completely sure it would be true for x-ray and high energy radiation, and intuitively I suspect it indeed isn't. It seems like for high energy emissions, or generally isolated emissions (discounting opaqueness), only the total power is relevant like in gravity. I think self-absorption might be the culprit here.

If we say self-absorption (material absorption) in the high energy case is roughly negligible, then it becomes more strongly non-lambertian and the received power is simply a 1/r^2 integral (which would also explain why radiation gets stronger as it approaches the surface).

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Here's a simple proof of the solid angle formula I've found I believe is correct for lambertian surfaces: chop your object into infinitesimal pieces (limit goes to 0). For each piece, it tends to behave like a point, so we expect the radiation scaling with distance to be 1/r^2. But solid angle also scales as 1/r^2 for small enough pieces. (it's probably missing many technicalities to make the proof work, but I think it works). Note that for oblique surfaces their solid angle is a function of cos(angle), which follows Lambert's cosine law exactly as well.
Reminds me of the arguments against 4GLs, Low/No Code, IDEs, Code Coloring, Intellisense, automatic refactoring, and auto-completion.

I used to think you had to be able to work in C to be a "real programmer" and have learned that a lot of good applications have been created by programmers not using C and some that have never used C. Before C it was assembly, and machine code before that.

AI is a tool that all programmers need to learn how to use correctly.
It all comes down to Apple being a very focused company. They know their customers, what they want and they have a much better business model. Steve Jobs once explained it by saying they say no to a lots of things even to those who seem on paper great ideas. All that to stay focus.

On the other hand, Google is all over the places, they are very distracted and confident that they will always be the indisputable kind in ads and search so they didn’t invest much in generating other long term major revenue streams.

Their incentives for promotions is all wrong and has led to tons of products being launched just for the sake of some manager aspirations and empowered, bored engineers who wanted to work on yet another green field project.

They missed the boat on the cloud, and unless they turn the ship very quickly they are gonna leave a big chunk of search and ads to Microsoft.

I’d argue they should also review their hiring strategy that have intoxicated the whole industry and clearly hasn’t led to better results.
Exercise: make the turtle move around the screen
It's as misleading in that way as the big silly maps they show around election time -- since we care about the number of people, not the number of acres.

There are 19 million people in the shaded areas. If we bump up the criteria to 1 mile urban / 20 miles rural, it's still over 17 million people, so clearly a lot of the people at discussion are in urban areas. Even so, it looks like another half million people are over 20 miles from a store who don't have access to a vehicle. Not great!
Yep, the Inflation Reduction Act is what I meant. It came into effect this year.
And now they can. It is good that people are being laid off. They can now go do the valuable thing. Perhaps Google's true target should have been 50% layoffs so that they can release people to go work on their valuable stuff instead of working at Google.
Agree with jrochkind1 that it doesn't matter whether it's worth it or not. I suppose chairs and desks for all US Government employees pay for their cost 1000x over, but I would hope people would still not let their costs balloon to more than, say, 2x what they "should" cost by some common-sense metric.
For people who feel the need to get involved with the cryptocurrency space, bitcoin maximalism can be a good way of avoiding scams. It's tried and true, slow and faithful. But it can leave you in the past, where coins like Litecoin have the tech advantage. It's all subjective.
Software is dysfunctional because everything is dysfunctional. Any human endeavor done at scale is going to be a complete clusterfuck of a trainwreck. It's just more obvious with software because we're closer to it.

Civilization is a goddamn miracle.
Even without patents, there's a whole system of plant breeder's rights. The idea is that even without patents, breeding plants for a particular set of characteristics is a ton of work and the rights system is a patent-like way to commercialize.

If you have a different idea for solving this particular financial problem, I expect quite a lot of people would love to hear about it.
Fun fact - The author of this post used to work at JetBrains on IDEs.
I find there is a substantial difference between the intended performance of statistical tools intended to compensate for such things, and the actual performance of such tools. See also the attempt to filter out "confounding" variables in more normal statistical analyses; I personally believe that the effectiveness of such tools are extremely overstated and overestimated. There is a certain intrinsic circularity to any such tool.
> Meanwhile Apple rolled out a completely custom CPU and transitioned all its hardware to it.

Amazon literally did the same with Graviton (to be fair they acquired a company doing this and used their work as the basis, but still). Google literally developed TPUs in the same timeframe, while also trying a few other things (Stadia, rip, comes to mind).
Emojis as class and variable names
How does this compare to Quickwit or other Tantivy-powered engines?
1700 people who bought it there. 240 reviews, some with pictures of people inserting drives to Steam console. I would rather buy from Aliexpress for $215 than from Framework for $299.
The poster you replied to was clearly talking about end-to-end secure encryption being complicated. This means guarding against supply chain attacks, secure sharing of keys, verification and signatures, etc.
I'm not an expert on this but a quick check online and I found tax brackets for California:

$35,000-$80,000 [25%]
$80,000-$170,000 [28%]

I'm just going to let you know that in Europe (Austria) personal income of 32,076 to 62,080 is taxed at 42% rate above 60k is taxed with 50%. And this does not include social and health insurance that is mandatory...

To give you TLDR of the European experience, you look at the gross salary, multiply by 0.45 and this is the real money you would see landing in your account, .. enjoy .. :)
haha okay okay, but we actually don't send you anything annoying.

Authentication is just based on magic links sent to your email.
The data sheets for an electronic part will usually have some example applications included, I wonder what the legal framework around those is.
If you use the old/classic Reddit experience and you can't find the option to enable 2FA in your profile, use this URL directly instead: https://www.reddit.com/2fa/enable/
Not everybody should learn TLA+. It's a pretty niche tool and it's not helpful for a lot of kinds of software!
Yes, because a heat pump is taking the heat from the outside environment and moving it into your house. You’re only paying the “transportation cost” and not the actual cost to generate heat. The heat was generated by the sun.
> using enforcement actions to tell people what the law is in an emerging industry is not an efficient or fair way of regulating.

Is it really an emerging industry? Banking and investing has been around for a long time, with regulations existing to combat all the problems that are currently happening within the Cryptocoin space. It's worrying that the head of the SEC wouldn't realize this, and say it publicly.
I don't think they thought it was permanent as much as no one really knew when it would stop. They had to make a choice whether to hire enough to sustain the current growth rates or scale back growth in which case competitors might be able to capture that market share. No one had a crystal ball regarding when exactly the growth would stop and what the post-growth period would look like, so from that perspective using all available evidence, the play was to capture market share and worry about the future when it happens.

It's a reasonable strategy, the risk being their cost structure gets unbalanced and they might have to lay off people. Contrary to what people here seem to think, laying off people isn't the end of the world, and many of these companies are very comfortable doing it once their growth calculus changes. It was a calculated risk and if we are being honest, it paid off very well for most of the companies which are currently doing layoffs. In many cases the alternative would be to forfeit growth just to potentially save jobs down the line - but what would that look like for companies like Amazon? I don't know if people remember but when the pandemic hit Amazon was scrambling to meet the demands of customers and prime shipping times shot up from 1 day delivery to sometimes more than a week. Those situations would give competitors like WalMart an opening to capitalize on taking market share.

At the end of the day, no one had a crystal ball, and while companies probably shouldn't have assumed whatever growth rates of the quarter were permanent, to ignore the growth and not hire in that environment carried it's own risks. And besides, are the current growth rates permanent with all the macro-economic factors at play? Of course not, most likely the economy will pick up at some point, but companies don't know when exactly that will be, so the prudent thing is to prioritize their workforce on high priority revenue generating products and balance their cost structure around the current economic realities.
There is not. This is standard operating procedure. Getting a case thrown saves so much money that it is entirely worth having your legal team try to make it happen before the real work starts.
Yes, tax would be paid on the net capital gain for the year. If negative, it can be carried forward to the next year, without limitations.

I don’t know if offsetting non-capital income with capital losses should be allowed. My intuition says no, but who knows.
Charles Petzold, now there is name that I didn't hear in a long time. Nostalgia kicks in.
I would point to the Oracle vs. Google Supreme Court decision.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/05/tech/google-oracle-supreme-co...

> Writing for the Court, Breyer said that while it is difficult to apply traditional copyright concepts in the context of software programming, Google copied “only what was needed to allow users to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program.”

> A world where Oracle was allowed to enforce a copyright claim, Breyer added, “would risk harm to the public” because it would establish Oracle as a new gatekeeper for software code others wanted to use.

The fair use tests that were used in the SCOTUS case, I believe, would fall on the side of "developers using GPT or Copilot to generate code do not generate substantial parts of the code and are below the amount of work needed to show sufficient creativity in writing it."

The example is https://horstmann.com/unblog/2010-11-15/NodePolicyImpl.html

If that is not a copyright violation and considered to be fair use, then the code generated by GPT or Copilot likely also falls in the the same bucket.

I don't necessarily agree with that, but that's my reading of the tea leaves.
I hope it was sarcastic. At this point, are there any exchanges that aren't doing untoward things with their customer's assets? We basically have exchanges that failed doing this and other exchanges with ambiguous descriptions of what they have done that haven't failed yet.
One approach that works: offer your time to those in need for free. Your natural talent (and time management) will present itself without financial strings attached. Those people you help turn into potential clients and word-of-mouth advertising for your abilities. It's networking 101, but in my experience the most fruitful path to freelance consulting, advising startups, part time or moonlighting work that balances against a full time gig, etc.
If someone is insane, is their next move sane?

Are they a good investment?
Incredible analysis! As a Seattleite I can say the conclusions here are very close to accurate, with the key additional note being that distance is not the only thing that defines walkability.

Seattle has some of the most confounding civil engineering I’ve ever seen, and I’ve lived in five cities and visited dozens more. Here are some things that make a pedestrian life near impossible in my neighborhood:

- two high-traffic, multi-lane streets where people routinely run red lights and drive erratically, one dividing us from my child’s elementary school

- Many areas with no sidewalks and no area on the side of the road that’s safe to walk

- 5-way intersections with extremely confusing walk signals.