skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not misunderstanding anything, I just disagree with you.

On one hand you say pay is based on value brought to the company, on the other hand you say it's based on scarcity.

If it's value then how come the same engineer, bringing the same value, would receive different pay based on the country they live in?

Clearly that's not it.

So maybe it's scarcity? That drives up pay, but it's not enough by itself.

Markets forces are a factor, but they're not the only factor, or even the most important factor, in compensation.

No, the CEO is not 100x more valuable than the engineer. The decisions taken don't matter if you can't build well. Building well doesn't matter if you don't build the right thing. They're dependent on each other. Neither has impact by themselves.

Also disagreed on 'scarcity' of CEO skills. There's a scarcity of CEOs because there's only 1 per company, but the "skills" are pretty common imo. Any C level exec or director level person has the skills to do the job.
That's meta bias, not bias per se.
It some ways it's like in the brain there's a '(intelligent) random noise generator' that just throws out ideas and associations, and an 'identifier' that highlights ideas that are useful. Just keep this running all day and you're bound to get some useful ideas just through trial and error.
>. I would love to get rid of the bloatware (I don't root my daily driver phones) and it would be cool if it would last more than 6 hours on a charge. In all fairness, the camera is quite nice

you can kill of bloatware with adb or in case you want nice interface adbappcontrol. no root required
You can swipe over the address bar to switch tabs like you can switch apps by swiping across the bottom of the screen. Maybe this helps?
I spend 30 minutes on the 1:1 meetings with my boss every week. And 2-3 hours total per week of technical meetings with my colleagues, requested on as needed basis when either I or them need help or clarification.
Ask HN: Tips for using OpenAI’s lower end models
I’ve struggled to get good results from openai’s lower cost models like Curie, Babbage, and Ada.

Does anyone have tips or tricks to squeeze the most performance out of these? Or specific tasks that they are able to excel at?
https://archive.is/pIAep
Not all suffering is made equal, and some amount of suffering is necessary to be a well rounded, well adjusted, contributing member of society.
I'm on board with #1. #3 is tough because you'd have to offer lower salaries to make up for the expense of essentially pre-paying a severance package.

#2, however, is way off base. The AMA played a significant role in our current health system's mess. It recently backed off of some of its previous bad decisions (i.e. in 2019 it lobbied to remove the caps on medicare-funded residency slots that it had originally gotten put in place), but it still spends a ton lobbying on "scope of practice" laws that keep doctors overburdened and limited in supply.

Becoming a doctor in the US requires far more years of education than many other countries, drastically driving up salary requirements (how else do they pay for all of that schooling?), limiting supply and providing only comparable care.

The AMA managed to avoid what the bars failed- we didn't experience a glut of doctors like we did lawyers. Unfortunately, we're experiencing the flip side to that coin- doctor shortages may be good for doctors, but it is profoundly bad for everyone else.
> After 250 years of humanity (well, some of humanity…) confidently atop the great pyramid of being, we in the west are becoming more aware that we might, perhaps, have company.

What a load of crap. Just because cephalopods exhibit behavioral traits that can be classified as intelligence if one defines "intelligence" in a suitable way, doesn't mean that cephalopod intelligence is in any way comparable to human intelligence.

Let me know when a giant squid writes a poem, or a honeybee colony develops a theory of thought. Until then, I'm going to flat out dismiss such statements as pseudoscience with some faux-spirituality sprinkled on top of it.

> "More-than-human doesn’t even begin to cover it,” Bridle writes in Ways of Being. “Not only are we the products of multiple entangled ancestors, spanning vast ranges of the evolutionary field; we are not even individuals at all.” [Emphasis added]

Case in point. Grand claims made without any justification matching their scope, and indeed without elaborating on what exactly those claims even mean. Concluding that individuality in a human sense doesn't exist because of biological endosymbionts is textbook "not even wrong" bollocks.
Feel like I've seen about a million photos on instagram of snow monkeys chilling in hot springs. I've never been, but I think it's a pretty world-famous tourist attraction (can't comment on whether it's actually worth a visit, though):

https://en.jigokudani-yaenkoen.co.jp/

I've also run into wild monkeys hiking around Kamikochi in Nagano, and cycling around Lake Tagokura Fukushima. They're small, but not particularly shy, and like any wild animal bigger than a cat I find them somewhat scary.
Isn't the problem that kids (like all of us) are lazy and would rather use tools than their brain, rather than people trying to keep school "just like it was"?
Apple's HomePods have been a resounding failure though? I don't know where you're getting your data, but it's wrong. They literally discontinued the original model because sales were SO bad.
While it's possible they'll lose their job, air travel has a really solid track record of blameless postmortems for issues like this.
If you want an explanation based in fact rather than blind faith in market theory, you have to look at the capitalist labor relations side of it too, which you aren't.
I've been a rock climber for 4 years, and likewise, I've been preoccupied with keeping it down and never let it get out of control. I never used to stand on the scale everyday, but now I do.

Before I started climbing I burnt off 25 pounds that I accumulated up after I broke my leg and spent 2 years largely sedentary. I did it using high intensity interval training: sprinting stairs, over a period of 10 weeks.

I took this approach not based on any study, or advice but because in the past, when doing HIIT with a healthy body weight, it was hard to maintain a diet good enough to keep up.
> necessary for whom?

Do you know that it wasn't until 1800 or so, and only in the US, where the ever-present spectre of famine was eliminated? Economies simply were unable to produce enough food. It wasn't that the rich were eating it all. There just wasn't enough food.

Which means it's all hands on deck to work. Other problems were it was very expensive to produce cloth, so for people to get clothing, lots and lots and LOTS of people were needed in the textile industry.
I love how everyone is missing the point that the assistants lose money. You can subsidize the loss, but it's still not profitable. People do not buy the iPhone because of Siri, especially given it is the worst of the big 3 assistants.
Being irreplaceable is very different from high productivity.

Being more productive than your peers barely gets you anything in most jobs.
Maybe a bit pedantic but websites that prevent reader mode from accessing the full article should not be linked to on HN.
> They might also have slightly better electronics (some of these cheap verniers need a new battery every 3 months or so) or other differences.

This is because the cheap ones never power off, only turn off the lcd. They can’t power down without losing the position/calibration because they need to be aware when they move to a different section.
I think declaration vs use Sue distinction is much more helpful to reason about in this context, and named tuples are a classic example of “if you didn’t declare these tuples to be compatible at definition time, it’s probably a bug to let you pass them around as if they were”
I eat 11+ g (often 26+) of fiber every day and suffer IBD anyway.
> closer-to-native experiences for websites on iOS.

What is native? If a website is explicitly testing for Firefox compatibility, they're probably also testing for Safari compatibility due to its increased market share.
Companies don't retire so this whole comparison doesn't make sense.
Show HN: The fastest way to test business ideas and collect early users
Last year, I launched a Side Project (as an Indie Hacker) but didn't make any sales at all. I spent dollars without having even one customer. I made $0 (profit).

From that pain, I learn something: It's always better to validate an idea before jumping into coding (I spent at least 3 months building a project that would ruin my entire year).

Hence, I decided to keep building SaaS, but with a new approach: before working on the upcoming SaaS ideas, I wanted to have an easy-and-fast way of having a landing page that helps to collect early signups…

Last week, I launched EarlyAccess.to help founders accelerate the process of validating Business ideas and collecting early users/customers.
This is great to see - fills the biggest hole in Docker Compose.

I built something similar, it was a bit fragile though. What I ended up using instead was a lot simpler with only a little downside: Caddy for a reverse proxy will buffer requests when the downstream is down, unlike Nginx (which we used before). So during a deploy nobody gets any errors, just a brief 2s delay while the new service boots up. Seamless enough for me.
Ever try calling that number?
Interesting, Google News app isn't even available here. I suppose you're from the US where they can do more shady stuff.
That wouldn't be that effective if people tried Chrome and thought it sucked.
AI Is Not the Problem
This is true. Especially extending it to opinions and emotions.

But understanding the purpose and why of a decision/plan is only a small piece of full transparency. And is always achievable. This is the minimal amount I consider functional. Less than this is dysfunctional.

The reset is extremely rare for teams (I’ve only had this on a team once and it was magical), but happens regularly individually 1-1.
5 billion dollars.
Start coding?
Thanks for the suggestion! I will check it out. Voxels are definitely interesting :)

At first glance, this does look like it will be a great resource. Even just having high-quality examples of how to configure Cargo and etc. boilerplate will save me a lot of hours.

Doesn't look like they target WASM at all, though. I wonder what the main concerns were/are?
Actors are much more than just talents, by which I mean being able to carry emotions, being charismatic and delivering lines in the way a director wants it.

There is an undeniable human aspect to it that AI won't ever be able to replace. Sure, it'll probably be an important part of the industry, but saying all future media is going to be 24/7 AI generated content like that Seinfeld twitch stream is a pretty bleak view of the future.

We watch movies because we try to connect with people and share our feelings with humans. I can't relate to an AI.
Society should pool resources with family and community and stop blaming ego-driven people for their problems.
If we unwound technology back to 1900 level or so, child labor would come back, laws or no laws.
Even better... Once you have ~20 hypotheses, you'll get one right!
Netflix job at faang is to keep the acronym family friendly. Now that Facebook is Meta it has much less work to do.

In all seriousness Netflix has approximately 10k employees. Meta is the smallest of the rest at 90k employees. The scale is radically different.

And this is not to say high employee counts are a good thing. To the contrary these behemoths struggle to operate.
Peter McKinnon (lifestyle, landscape, action shots) and Sean Tucker (portraits, street photography, nature sometimes)
It's not a choice between "never able to fire someone" and "fire anyone anytime".
From the perspective of users or developers, what's bad about this? I mean, we generally take it as axiomatic that it must be bad, but the dream of anybody being able to come along and make a Web browser is long dead.
Are you distinguishing between intelligence and consciousness?
Being in a union doesn't mean that you can't negotiate your salary.
This is the longterm strength of the GPL over MIT/BSD.
Might be a 2xAA case. They’re the most popular, anyway (because 1.5v electronics are relatively new so it was either 3.3v running off the two batteries or boosted to 5v and you can’t really boost 1.5v to 5v cheaply, effectively, or for long).
Wow some of these comments seem harsh. The author isn't claiming to have invented these techniques and it's cool to see them being applied in the "real world" to save money.
No. We know mixed economies work best. We just don't agree on the right mix.
I'm ok with that. The next set of bots will reveal themselves and then whack-a-mole on them too.
An interesting bit of trivia: the first bot (that I'm aware of) to use deobfuscation of the game client was called Aryan. It was quite revolutionary for the cheating community because using the true game state worked so much better than the screen state. I don't know the specifics, but apparently the developers were threatened with legal action from Jagex. As part of their agreement with Jagex, the develoeprs released a new version of the client that sent a -1 up to the server for some field on the user that was always supposed to be positive. Jagex used this to mass-ban everyone who was using the bot.
> Miners, mechanics, longshoreman, factory workers, truck drivers, printers, brick layers, glass makers, textile workers, typists, computing specialists, librarians.

Those jobs were all created by automation.
I kind of thought the project was dead with how long it went without a release. I ended up switching to qBittorrent about 8 months ago as I needed v2 torrent support. So far I have been very satisfied with the switch.
Thank you for mentioning this. I moderate the content of this site once per week so there might be some message that temporarily pass through or I missed. I have removed some of the harmful messages.
Those tools are closed source so they probably have many undiscovered bugs.
We won the pandemic but blood sacrifice to the market is also good
the nuance you are missing is that individual contributors are responsible for their own work and judged based on that. they are not responsible for the work of others. managers are of course responsible for the work of those they supervise
https://archive.is/6KFAe
> 2. Get a machine that doesn't use Intel or AMD processors

The only other commercially available x86 processors I'm aware of are Zhaoxin, and I would be very surprised if those didn't have something ME-like baked in.
> Earnings fail, valuations go down and layoffs happen

And yet the investors and senior executives still get 7- to 8- figure compensation, pull down yet more money from stock buybacks, and generally benefit. The overall amount of money changing hands doesn't go down, but less of it goes to the line employees while more falls into the pockets of the ones with already overflowing pockets.
I've been told this at least three times now on HN over the years (pretty soon I'm going to start keeping a list of URLs so people know I'm not exaggerating.) Every single time it turns out that it isn't actually true.

It was added to desktop Safari. iOS Safari supports VP9 only in WebRTC. It may have changed, but I can't find any evidence that it has.

If you see it working somewhere, it is almost definitely using the polyfill[1].

[1]: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/
Then you must know something Zuck, Pichai, Tim Apple, Musk and many others don’t know…
If the goal is to improve safety firing people is almost always the wrong response. That juvenile preoccupation with punishment only serves to create a culture where mistakes are hidden rather than understood.
Thanks for the feedback. Indeed, I'm not of the impression that I will be able to perfectly compete with native, but hoping WebGPU is still a marked improvement over WebGL2. I am heavily prioritizing accessibility as I'm trying to build a game that users use for only a couple of minutes each day. So, a really really low barrier to entry is important as I do not see my player base being willing to open Steam for a couple of minutes of gameplay, but I do think they'll open a tab. I'm OK losing polish in exchange.
> This is one reason why a lot of Unix graphics applications feel so responsive on modern Linux boxes - they are doing the same amount of time they did 20 or 30 years ago while the computer is 10x as fast.

Yep. Hardware wise, we're in the wonderful position where Lisp and Smalltalk systems, once regarded as too slow to be useful on commodity hardware, are open and ready for action before you can even blink.
Buy a kettlebell and use it at home. 30 min workout is cheap, effective, and efficient.
if we can't retire in the future, they can't retire now. it's only fair; send them back to work till they fall over.
Not at Japanese companies, which is nearly all game developers. The high end of the market at Japanese companies for staff level engineers with 8+ years of experience is 12-14M. 4-5M for entry level is not unusual
There’s only one species.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_macaque

Pretty much all the big island nations in Asia have monkeys.

Our house just a few kilometers from the center of Taipei has monkeys in the backyard.
I cannot add it into my hosted product as a small company (I am not Amazon) either. Imagine I have a tiny niche product that needs this; the trouble is that it could as well not be open source as I am not allowed to use include it anyway. I understand not wanting aws type of users, but why not just name them instead? Just include a clause; ‘the following companies cannot use this software unless they contribute to it by resolving at least x issues per week; Amazon, google, meta, etc’.

Edit; come to think of it; make it a ‘contribute GPL3 or MIT license’ (not sure if something like it exists); you can use it for anything, however, if you offer it as a hosted product to your clients (aws etc), you must contribute x.y% of your staff FTE to it. GitHub/Gitlab can do the KYC per employee for which the company has to pay.
Indeed the name is a bit misleading if you go by the 3ds' streetpass, it's not what Nintendo did. I just had a few good memories with streetpass, so seeing the name again (even in a different context) brought me some joy :)
It sounds like they’re chasing hype, like every idiotic modern US movement to “reform” education.
Human intelligence is such a complicated topic and a problem is that people constantly mischaracterize it. Intelligence isn't one thing-- there are multiple types of intelligence that are not always discretely separated into different categories that you can compare like playing cards. A nomad would be considered stupid compared to you in classroom, but having to survive in nature you'd probably be the fool.

How do you compare the physical intelligence of an Olympic athlete with years of specialized science-driven training, to the physical intelligence of a man who trained to fight in war since childhood and who has battle experience? Just because one person can jump into a pool better, does not make them superior. Just because one person has more capability to defend their family does not make them superior.

When people try to make these judgements, they don't like being honest about how hard it is to compare the cognitive faculty of two different human beings. Often these discussions just end up with a lot of cultural relativism, a lot of people declaring what they're familiar with is more valuable. Ideally people would learn more about 'unknown unknowns'-- the things they didn't know that they don't know. In practice people get uncomfortable being told there are things they don't get that other cultures understand well.
I find that leading a remote team means most adhoc syncing done between members go away so standups are required. Also, the higher up you go, the more of these meetings you need to be in if you want to stay aligned with everyone.

For me, I spend around 6+ hours on team sync up and 5 hours on 1:1s with DRs. But that's because I am very involved in most parts of the org.

You can replace meetings with documentation but you need to be disciplined to read all those and digest them. Or just think about the sync meetings as a time to build rapport with them.

You're not an IC anyway, you're measured by your team's work so alignment is necessary if you want them working on the right thing all the time.
I feel like what I want is a LLM that can tell me not only a summary answer, but what search terms are most likely to return documentation for the answer. Provide clickable citations documenting the answer using those terms (it can iterate on the answer and terms if they aren't internally consistent). Then give summaries of the information at each citation and/or parameters to input if the response requires further operations/searches. It could provide some commentary of the quality of those citation/sources as well.

That makes the response more current, allows a further directed search based on the new parameters, and provides a traceable path to sources and citations. If it finds that there's not a Python library with that name then iterate.

Basically, an LLM should have a very good idea what good search terms are for the topic, and where to find the information, whereas I might not know the acronyms, jargon, or related fields.

Yes, this is getting pretty close to writing an 8th grade class report. That's about where these seem to be.
You can't hear what they said in the cockpit without keying the mic, but I have some pretty good ideas.
If you get < 47M steps out of all possible 5 state machines, they you have proven the conjecture. A 5 state requires at most 47M states. I don't know if that's an upper bound or a precise estimate, but if they all halt, it's true.
Is there a link to a complete list of images of the paintings? This site only has a few dozen.
I don’t think the vanlife demographic in Japan are prioritizing saving money. If anything, housing would be cheaper. I pay very little on housing and considering getting a van as a luxury addition to my apartment.

The tolls are quite high, too. Between Kyoto and Tokyo, which is a 6 hour drive, the tolls are about $100.

In Asia, vanlife and glamming is becoming an aesthetic almost. It’s especially popular among affluent people and influencers. People in Japan buy expensive gear such as SnowPeak, including clothing to match, just to sit in a park. With all lifestyle things in Japan, people have to dress a certain way.
Clearly being laid off is painful. I'm sensing some of that pain in your reply. I have a lot of sympathy for those who have been laid off.

However your solution, as seen from outside that pain, is "worse than the disease".

Firstly it's worth pointing out that most (but not all) layoffs right now are a result of over-hiring during the pandemic. Now, granted, those jobs didn't last forever, but they did last a while and kept a lot of people working during a time when a lot of people couldn't work. It would likely have been very profitable to not make those hires in the first place.

Secondly, you are proposing penalties out of proportion to the mistake. Or put another way you are strongly disincentiving hiring in the first place.

The more penalties there are for failure, the lower the chance that people will try at all. Your suggestion that over-hiring leads to criminal fraud, or personal destitution, has out outcome - no one will ever hire anyone.

In a private company the decision makers are typically the owners. They're taking risks everyday, spending "their money" and working hard to keep everyone employed. It's a weighty responsibility. But life happens and things don't always work out as planned. Management-via-hindsight is easy.