skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bunk.

Every offer I've ever received from a series A or seed stage startup has had compensation and equity potentials that -- even when imagining a successful exit via IPO or acquire -- totalled (when amortized over a 5 year period) to 2/3rds or 1/2 of what I was getting at Google. There is literally no financial reason to go to an early stage startup as an employee vs going to a FAANG. The founders and VCs don't give enough equity for it to even be close to a "lottery ticket."

As for forming my own startup means a) having an idea that VCs want to fund b) having connections to said VCs c) foregoing income while in the prototyping phase.

I have a family to feed.

I ended up leaving my Google job simply out of job satisfaction. Finances, nope. Makes no sense.
Twenty Year Anniversary of “All Your Base”
Smells like d-wave nonsense.

‹finishes reading›

Yeah, it's the same nonsense.

Reminder: quantum computing is not expected to be able to improve the solutions of NP-complete problems by more than a quadratic factor, unless some commonly accepted conjectures can be proven false. If that happens, you'll be hearing about it from more than just a analog computer company's marketing materials.
Sales and marketing. Docusign has a good sales org that stands out from its competitors.
I'd like to try - it's quite a cool idea. But the interface seems broken.

Is that the HN hug of death, or my corporate netowrk playing up?
What makes you think that it will recover at all? :)
Why? IMO we should use facial recognition, digital ID, a cashless society and everything at our disposal to stamp out crime.

It's the working class who pay the price at the moment. We get burgled, mugged and killed, meanwhile the wealthy lawyers and politicians can pontificate over constitutionality from their gated communities and private vehicles.

It's insane that the EU is trying to ban automatic facial recognition with the terrible AI act - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A... - nevermind the sheer amount of bureaucracy it introduces for startups (a government register of "possibly harmful" AI - wtf?).
That's a bit of an oversimplification to be fair. They offer multiple products (esignature, contract lifecycle management). Does not change that it's still a lot of employees.
Ask HN: Disk-backed NumPy for data analysis?
I have a large similarity matrix. It is 300K by 300K entries, and is ~ 100GB in size. To clarify, this is the result of multiplying a 300K by 512 matrix with its transpose.

I want to make queries on this matrix like (what are the rows most similar to row #2), but I don't have a machine with 100GB of RAM.

What would be the best strategy for running queries on this matrix? My current plan is to use duckdb, but I am wondering if there are more elegant alternatives.
And it needs more contrast
I have suspicious is is bash, or python. I think bash is good because you can express concepts very concisely giving fewer literal characters to mess up on. Python because the data set is so massive while still maintaining a lot of power-per-character.

Conversely, I have seen it underperform for verbose languages like Java, I think primarily due to windowing issues and that less meaningful code can be represented in one prediction window.
A lot of people who come to the conclusion that news is 'fake' have a gateway moment. Mine is from 25 years ago and something rather silly. In this particular case a typo. What we see out of the email dumps on twitter should scare many this is the case. They were having twitter 'take care of it'. To pretend they are not doing this to our media and other web sources would be a bit of a stretch to say the least. Our media is manipulated. Seeing good sources amongst the sea of bad ones is a tough ask.
I suggest not using the term 'propaganda' in this context becuase in all but very specific cases, that would be the wrong term.

MSNBC doens't generally run 'propaganda' for Pfizer, so much as they will avoid stories that make them look bad as they are big advertisers.

During a pandemic or war, the news system will close ranks and the stories come out differently but there are civil reasons for that.

And FYI I'm not denying propaganda exists, but it's of a very different nature that most of the bias in the press.

If all we had to deal with was state supported propaganda it would be frankly refreshing.
240VAC, maybe if you have 4-6 hours for your car to charge.

You need a minimum 3 phase 480v electrical source to charge even a small battery in under an hour. We are talking 150-200Kw, or the equivalent energy to run around 170 American sized households to fast charge a single car. You think that’s happening in Europe, pretty much ever?
Now you advocate punishing specific people that are not convicted of a crime because, well, some group want to rationalize targeted cruelty?

I'm glad the court system and laws exist to prevent people like you from doing exactly such barbaric lawless retribution and ugliness on fellow human beings.

Personally I much more fear people like you that openly advocate for such cruelty than people that steal others money. Both are evil, both fell the law should be ignored when it suits their needs, but your style has historically resulted in vastly larger harm to humanity. I expect you don't see this.
It seems spot on to me.

"they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public to adopt a particular point of view through their reporting."

This is the core of the survey. I didn't see them or your parent mention lying. Although I have seen such blatant miscommunication of the facts that the resulting news is counter-factual.
"The root of your issue with trans people is that you think they are gross"
What? I have no issues with trans people at all as long as they just live their lives like everyone else and stop attempting to enforce trans education in schools, unfairly compete in women's sports and not perform lewd acts in front of kids. Other than that I wish them nothing but happiness. Trans people should be able to do whatever they want in normal polite society. The backlash that the trans community has started over parents just saying please don't be sexual around my kids is crazy. Or please don't tell my kids in school that maybe they may be the wrong gender. Or schools please don't lie to parents if our kids express gender confusion. How are these outrageous requests? It very much seems that a portion of the trans community wants special treatment above and beyond the general population.
Are there any journalism democratization efforts we should be aware of?

An organization who has incentives aligned with providing journalism for the people?
HuMoR: 3D Human Motion Model for Robust Pose Estimation (2021)
People need better media literacy, but that's still a type of "victim blaming" and there's a reason why in law we tend to go after producers more than consumers of a thing, due to effects of scale.

What the (not all, and not all the time..) media does when they bait people into moral hazard could easily be categorized as a crime (harming the informational commons) in some cases. How do we know? Imagine if the news had to publish things the same way that you testify in a courtroom. Do you think they would be more or less truthful and due diligent than they currently are?

Non-commercial speech to the public needs to be taken as seriously as it is when it's commercial (companies etc) speech to the public, and the unqualified unwarrantyable claims scrutinized just as much.

Individual journalists can be great people but the net result of systemic malincentives is a problem that's being gamed. There's a reason why rich and powerful people buy up newspapers (and politicians for that matter) and it doesn't have to do solely with telling the truth.
I am not "blaming" anyone for taking advantage of it, or complaining, but we can fix it.
I am grateful for brew! I have a macbook that I use sometime and it let me install software easily on it...
You can't do graphs without numbers, so the history makes sense. Finite graphs are relations over finite sets. You can't do much with finite sets before inventing numbers.
This was clearly him giving an opinion, not trying to pass off a lie as fact.
Why choose this over pySpread?

https://pyspread.gitlab.io
Isn't Signal open source? How could it be a honeypot? The community should be able to verify e2e encryption fairly easily.
Even stories reported with utmost objectivity fall prey to the fact that somebody has to choose which stories get reported in the first place.
Study Suggests Fructose Could Drive Alzheimer's Disease
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disin...
If you were a docusign top manager, would you rather be a humble manager in a corner office with a few reports, or a transformative SVP boldly leading an army of 7000 people into the era of AI technologies?
DARPA and NASA are currently developing designs to do exactly that under Kilopower, Megapower, and similar programs. Enabling long duration unmanned deep space missions is explicitly one of NASA's goals with this.
Yeah, but if you say "imagine you are black in Alabama" people would just tell you to stick to the subject.
lunchmoney, recommended in another comment, ticks a lot of boxes for me and supports uploading downloaded transactions.
> Are you sure there isn't any strong systemic effect incentivizing them not to change?

There's a strong incentive not to make any decisions, because decisions could be wrong, and being wrong could get you blamed. You'll never get fired for being wrong, but you might get moved to a different post that is somewhere else where nothing ever happens (and you can't do damage, I suppose).

German bureaucracies are trying to cover each and every single case so that state employees don't have to think and will reliably return the same result given the same inputs. Unfortunately, you rarely ever have the exact same inputs, so you'll need to add more code to fix edge cases, and at some point one person can't keep all your rules in their head, so you need two people, now they need to communicate and it goes on and on.

The other part is very much a cultural thing, state administrations are well-known for being cushy jobs where you won't have to do much and attract the kind of person that wants that job. Every now and then someone will see the state of bureaucracy in Germany, think "I'll help!" and get themselves hired, and then burn out within half a year of trying to change the culture around them.

I'm only half joking: the best thing to happen to most small-ish bureaucracies in Germany would be to have a team building exercise with an accident that leaves everyone unable to work for 2 years so that there's enough time to build up a new team, install a new culture and clean up the processes. When the old ones are ready to come back, you can slowly introduce them into healthy teams, so that they'll take on the new culture.
My air purifier's meter goes into the red whenever I use the shower down the hall from it - it did the same thing as my previous home as well. I've always just assumed it's a side-effect of the raised humidity.
They do both. Source: am Belarusian, both things happened to my friends (specifically with respect to Telegram account access).
Completely agree, I'm a brew user myself but find the site of MacPorts rather clean and modern. It's responsive and doesn't feel abandoned at all (particularly https://ports.macports.org which support Dark mode). Plus, using brew, I never go to the website so I don't think this is really important.
Thanks for this. Nice to see it at the top of the conversation. Two words: Operation Mockingbird. The big news outlets get daily intelligence briefs. This isn't even controversial. But the real problem within that setting is self-censorship. You don't get the job unless you've proven than you know what not to say. Many credible books on that topic to read.
It’s generally accepted sacrifice to the volcano gods. It’s pretty hard to fuck up the company with a 10% cut, and the investors like it.
I've seen a bunch of companies do this. The problem is always that it isn't Excel. This means usually things like XLWings, Excel-DNA, etc. are actually more useful.
Related:

Help choose the syntax for CSS Nesting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34006622 - Dec 2022 (159 comments)

Updated CSS Nesting Syntax to Avoid Common Copy-and-Paste Errors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33537539 - Nov 2022 (1 comment)

CSS Nesting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33424361 - Nov 2022 (2 comments)

Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32248419 - July 2022 (240 comments)

CSS Nesting Module - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28375596 - Sept 2021 (71 comments)

CSS Nesting Module - W3C Editor’s Draft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27684332 - June 2021 (1 comment)

You Probably Shouldn't Be Nesting Your CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6583109 - Oct 2013 (1 comment)

WebKit to get CSS variables, mixins, nesting? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2111510 - Jan 2011 (6 comments)
Messi can be compared to billions of ppl are the world who play or dabble in football. This dude can be compared to what - a couple thousand?
They've been quite clear about what they store and it's not IPs.
Yeah I don't see it. If you're just counting developers there has been less than 10% of the total us developer workforce laid off to date since 2022. This just seems like wishful thinking on the part of business owners. Sorry folks we still cost a premium.
It's not so much that as 'everything he says is a confession'...He's pointing out fake news, because he's one of the biggest sources. He can't be wrong if he's to blame.
A solid chunk of the US population lives in a food desert. They're lucky to even have a Walmart within driving distance. You've clearly never had to walk a few miles on highway to reach the nearest grocery store. I can tell you from experience it's not particularly fun.

Not sure why you're minimizing this reality. 1 in 6 Americans don't know where their next meal is coming from. https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/42711/12716_ap...
Pet Opossum?
Only takes me one minute and thirty six seconds to convince anyone I meet of this point:

"This is Extremely Dangerous to our Democracy" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
It doesn't though. The relative humidity at 70°F is only 30-35% with the humidifier running full blast. Because it's often 7-15% without the humidifier. Because the air coming through the window is bone dry.

The problem in the winter here is keeping enough humidity in the air. It would be nice if I ever had to worry about condensation. ;)
Is using flashrom(1) in-situ not an option?

(1) https://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom
If the headset can do any of that, it would be horribly dated on release. I’m hoping it’s a lot more or something very different from that.
I’d prefer to be hacked, given a choice.
Imagine how bad it is for sedans and subcompacts. Hell, the Crosstrek is just an Impreza lifted a few extra inches. I drive a Crosstrek as well, and if it's bad for us, it must be next to impossible in lower cars.
Ask HN: Jobs with Meaning?
I, like many of you, work on a project that doesn't really advance humankind. I work on a software product in a niche, within a niche, within a niche, to help a subset of large corporations process data a little bit more effectively during meetings.

My compensation is beyond what I ever imagined making 10 years ago. I work remotely, my job is not demanding, I have time during my day to do other things. Stress is also low.

I just feel like it's kind of a waste of my existence though. I can contribute to things, I can help society, etc - but I kind of feel like I have these golden handcuffs. Why leave when my situation is so good, despite doing basically nothing useful?

Recently listened to this podcast called "13 minutes to the moon". A really interesting dive in to the lives and efforts of the engineers that made the Apollo missions possible. They really did something with their engineering skills. Programmers were a huge part in the mission success.

I however, don't really feel like the mission I'm helping currently is meaningful. And it seems like most programming jobs are the same.

Not really sure what I'm asking. I guess a simple TLDR would be -

Are there any coding jobs with actual meaning out there? Is it possible to take those on without sacrificing my income to <200k?

I had a large interest in aerospace contracting. It just seems like the paycut will be >50%, and I will not be able to work remotely anymore.

/endrant
By this logic, the ability to install arbitrary software is a major risk.

I strongly disagree with this stance, and it's a very authoritarian one at that. The common people can't be trusted with freedom so we should give up that freedom and trust in <insert authority here>. I find this stance morally repugnant and entirely at odds with where the future of technology should be going.

Tl;Dr: Hard disagree. Some of us prefer to use our computers as general computing devices, as opposed to just being desk-driven iPhones.
Is the stock market really needing to recover? I don't pay much attention to it but whenever I look stocks and indexes they seem to have gone down a little but not to pre-pandemic levels. What am I missing?
What would you choose for a server with a database that might grow?
The free EC2 instance my project is on hit the memory limit. At this point would you

-stay on AWS and get more storage?

-switch to a different provider?

-set up your own server?

Currently there's a 3.5gb sqlite database but in the future it might be way more, which is why I'm asking now to not get stuck with something too expensive. But, I also want to be lazy :) so if someone has a magic bullet that would work for a larger database and be cheap that would be great. Also just curious how this sort of choice has gone for people in general.

For the 3rd option of getting a server myself I was thinking about going to microcenter and asking if they have anything set up for this
The new Bing and Edge: Learning from our first week
Hope the employees form trade unions and workers' councils to help stop this bullshit.

Look at DigitalOcean - literally doing "layoffs" whilst shifting hiring to Pakistan: https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/15/digitalocean_layoffs/
I read a book called "The Fourth Turning"(published 1996) quite awhile ago. It ended up predicting many of these recent events and generally tries to bring awareness of the eternal recurrence of "turnings" in one's life.

> If the Crisis catalyst comes on schedule, around the year 2005, then the climax will be due around 2020, the resolution around 2026.

> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announce the spread of a new communicable virus. The disease reaches densely populated areas, killing some. Congress enacts mandatory quarantine measures. The president orders the National Guard to throw prophylactic cordons around unsafe neighborhoods. Mayors resist. Urban gangs battle suburban militias. Calls mount for the president to declare martial law.

Civic virtue tends to get lost in the daily news cycles during the climax of a crisis, but it is frequently regained. Moral and cultural standards are increasing and thus the news will have to adapt to it as it always has. People are slowly returning to classic virtues.
Of course the solution must be some swiveling IoT Rube Goldberg light. We simply don't have the technology to dim the lights or adjust the hue.
Found it! This is where I saw it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008075
iMessage to voice note: Apple patent to play messages in your voice
Inspirational!
> dump a bunch of lower performers

I don't think this part is how companies are actually doing
>Carolina Squat

I had to look this up. Why would anyone do that? Not only does it look idiotic, but it probably messes with the crash safety technology of the car (in addition to the headlight problem).
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34805486. There's nothing wrong with it! I just need to prune the first subthread because its topheaviness (700+ comments) is breaking our pagination and slowing down our server (yes, I know) (performance improvements are coming)
> ... but I'm floored by the size of these companies...

> But still... even with all that... for the services DocSign provides... how can they possibly need over 7000 people?

I don't know. It's a ~15 billion market cap. business. Is it surprising that it has thousands of employees?

The undertone of these comments, even if unintended, is these business are bloated, wasteful, and there's judgement on the skills of the engineers (e.g. Twitter's case, look how well it still runs with no engineers!) working there.

It's the same boring take of Instagram and WhatsApp before they were bought and had to deal with legal, and abuse, and international regulations, and and and were ran with a team of less than 10.
No, we just reacting to you conflating victims, whores, pimps, recruiters and for some reason primadonnas into one big group. Under article specifically about Epstein victims and not about Epstein co-defendants.

Also, the "woman around 20" is very new limitation since your original comment included teenagers. Plus, Epstein victims did included underaged girls.
https://archive.ph/6xbCY
Thanks for getting it. Steps to run my F# or Elixir notebooks are:

* Install F# or Elixir

* Install the Polyglot Notebook extension in VS Code (for F#) or install Livebook (for Elixir)

* Run notebook

The idea of what Emacs provides is irrelevant to my problems of how to efficiently write blog posts either in or support by notebooks. I gave up the path of Emacs long ago for the exact reasons of this chain. Yes, you can do anything or a collection of things, given enough time. For VS Code and these notebook technologies that I use, I do not spend time fussing about with the notebook technology.
This comment is well intended, I'm sure. I always respect anyone trying to 'stick to the facts.' Unfortunately, it's just not history. Easy to google history. You are simply not familiar with how this all works.
There's no way to distinguish between the fake news Fox broadcasts and the non-fake news. It's not like Fox puts a disclaimer up on the screen saying which stories are for entertainment purposes only.
Good job! i really like the idea and also the implementatino is really good for something totaly new!
But as much as i would love to see this as the new MS excel i can't immagine this replacing it.
I wish you good luck and i hope more ppl will start using this instead of MS excel
> most of those list "multiple locations" which probably means they will hire more than one of each role

I would have assumed they are just open to more locations, not multiple headcount
How is this different from other solutions such as this one: https://equals.app?
That's basically what they did, which they mention in the last paragraph of the article. They released a wrapper library [0] for Pillow so that it can be called from C++:

> Since we noticed that the most correct behavior is given by the Pillow resize and we are interested in deploying our applications in C++, it could be useful to use it in C++. The Pillow image processing algorithms are almost all written in C, but they cannot be directly used because they are designed to be part of the Python wrapper.
We, therefore, released a porting of the resize method in a new standalone library that works on cv::Mat so it would be compatible with all OpenCV algorithms.
You can find the library here: pillow-resize.

[0] https://github.com/zurutech/pillow-resize
I wouldn't say misinformation is caused by 'uninformed people,' it's just that people tend to click on garbage. It's a slide into tabloid-ness as media focuses on their marketing ROI.
Reminds me of a Richard Pryor joke: “Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?”

There’s been many times when news articles have been easily discredited by simply looking at the original source(video, image, research papers).