skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A significant part of what you were paying out is liability insurance etc and not necessarily better care.
I agree that the SW trilogy was a mess, but that does not excuse Black actors being blasted with n-bombs and other slurs on Twitter and other social media, nor does it excuse the amount of sexist comments against Daisy Ridley.

For BP, it was the same. The whine from the far-right about "who wants to see <N-word>s in movies", "we're being ethnically replaced", "this is our future" etc. was unacceptable.
> If you make just enough money at work to pay for childcare, what the heck are you doing?

$540/40hrs = $13.5/hr. Any number of jobs pay this little.
> If I owned a popular electron app, I would definitely be thinking about starting to write a Rust version or migrating to Tauri because if you're not then somebody will be. Once that Rust version hits feature parity with your core functionality people will end up jumping ship for the faster, shinier version, just like people jumped ship from Atom to VSCode.

Sublime Text was always faster than all of these (and still is) but that’s not why people are picking text editors.

Tauri is great for certain use cases but it’s not even close to a replacement for Electron at this point (having used both).

Optimizing for speed above all else is the kind of thing that appeals to a subset of programmers, but most people just don’t care about at all as long as it’s fast enough. Products like VSCode are more than fast enough for all but a few people who like to count milliseconds.
I prefer to use Brave to watch Youtube; it skips most of the ads automatically.
"we" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your sentence but we're about 2 centuries away from complete population collapse of the species.

There are less babies born on this day than any day in history, and that will be true for the rest of our entire species' existence, barring major technological "Brave New World" style test tube baby advances (which are indeed extremely likely given this fact.)
ok I will admit I did not think of roommates... that is my bad.

that is a valid use case that you would not setup a family account.
Hi Mark, you sound a bit frustrated about it, but it is what it is. Let's touch base and circle back to our discussion when you're ready to take our goals to the next level.
Rewriting Requests with GPT-3
I definitely don’t think culture is all that influenced by genetics in any great sense (I mean if everyone is lactose intolerant there won’t be a great milk-based food tradition but that’s sort of incidental). But if you were to drop 50 million foreign babies of visibly different ethnicities into families in any country, they’d of course end up with very different upbringings as visible minorities.
The crazy thing is that this is a function of CMS applications.

And some of those are infuriating. I had about 3 or 4 people so far spam me, and after 5 or 6 unanswered emails the message is "I noticed you're not answering me. I'm really sorry if I did something that offends you".

Someone even showed me a closed beta of a service like this that uses OpenAI. I'm expecting hilarious results.
I'm willing to bet that it contributes to the total in a way which isn't negligible.
> It will be ~7% layoffs every quarter at every public company until the stock is attractive to investors again.

This was one of the biggest things I felt wasn't being talked about in all of the layoff comment threads here on HN (or Reddit or Twitter or traditional media news sites or wherever)

It wasn't a 1 and done "cut the bottom 5-10% off and move on"

I mean, I/we don't really know for sure if that's how it plays out but...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/fed-s-mes...

https://tickertape.tdameritrade.com/market-news/ppi-data-com...

Not only does it seem that we aren't out of anything recessionary yet, it's as if we are only just at the very beginning/it hasn't started yet.

Thoughts?
It is more like remotion than manim, though the two are not the same.
I think people do work to break even or even worse. You only need childcare for 4 or 5 years until the kid is old enough to go to public kindergarten. If you are 25 and take a break from the workforce for 5 years you are going to obliterate your career. meanwhile if you had been working at say 25 in NYC at 100k/year and kept working w/ the support of childcare then by 30 you could be making 150 or 200k/year. If you had stopped working 5 years you would be lucky to find that same 100k/year job again. By 30 you still have about 35 years of your career left. I wouldn't want to stunt that growth early on.
Seems like this has been going on for over a month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34411009
I wonder of scale of distribution would be a reasonable way to scope liability. For example, if you create a post and 50 of your friends see it, immunity for the platform. If you create a post and the platform distributes it to 1 million people, they now have publisher liability.
Can it factor 21 without resorting to tricks like precompilation?
you've described a mess correctly, but misused the term/jargon.

What you've described is poor quality implementation. There are many (infinite?) implementations that could satisfy the product manager, but each has it's nuances of correctness in non-tested cases (if you have tests), in runtime effects, race conditions (across processes), thread safety, ease of refactor, readability etc.

All these are markers of software quality, but failing to do them is not "techdebt". Tech debt is a very specific thing as described in the video above
The rewritting of what has actually percieved and what has happened, after it happened as a inability to act, is for many a enigma. Otherwise you wouldnt regularly get this stammered stories in front of some judge after traffic accidents. The idea, that cause and effect, could be rewritten by your visual system to keep its story straight, even after a failure, is quite the enigma in my eyes.
That's take home pay. With taxes it's much higher.
Just another data point. I use gmail as my primary personal mail and I'm not seeing any uptick in spam making it to my inbox. The normal rate is very low, 1 every 2-3 months. I have a much higher incidence of random people using my email to sign up for things, and wrong address (i.e. the sender just typed my email by accident).
The 7 day week predates the bible mate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week
It's all because the ancient saw 7 wandering stars (aka planets) and assigned 7 days them.

My proposal, let's dump Saturday. Saturns mythology is trash and it doesn't deserve a day.
> We're not yet at the point where a CS student on consumer hardware could afford to do this kind of research.

Okay. But I was saying someone with millions of dollars to spend could do it. And then another poster was arguing that millions of dollars was not enough to be viable because you need lots of repeated runs.

Nobody was saying a student could train one of these models from scratch. The cool potential is for a student to run one, maybe fine tune it.
I doubt this is the main explanation, because liquid egg product prices don't necessarily track whole egg prices. I don't know where to look up the current prices for "breaker eggs", but the supply chains are remarkably bifurcated, and even if e.g. the same bird flu outbreak affected both, the effects might evolve differently across time and location.
Somewhat related from "The Prince" by Machiavelli:

in seizing a state, the usurper ought to examine closely into all those injuries which it is necessary for him to inflict, and to do them all at one stroke so as not to have to repeat them daily

Also:

men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/57037
Currently being discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34897534
They probably rotate accounts, but still, those "I need a financial advisor / SamSpam worked for me, telegram->" comment clusters feel like they've been the dominant form of spam for years but shouldn't have taken years to target with a model.

It's even worse on eBay, where there is a spammer who has used the same set of fake pictures and listings for at least 5 years now. I call them the "Comic Sans Scammer" for reasons you can probably guess and they still drop junk into my feeds like clockwork every weekend. Ugh.

I'm sure I don't see all the fronts of these battles, but with the size of the companies in question it feels like I should be seeing more back-and-forth in the fronts that are visible to me.
How is mandating cyberstalking access going to solve anything?
The point was that there was just the one legal case, and even that isn't decided. Before creating a law to fight an evil, shouldn't there be some examples of the evil in operation?
I don’t mean to say I want the illegal daycare outlawed. I’m sure the lady was fine. I just think it’s absurd that we expect daycare to be cheap when you are entrusting the most valuable thing in your entire life to strangers. People think this should be free?
Third? The article says this is the second, no?
Disagree. I had reasonable hopes Mackey had struck a business preserving deal. Recently discussed the homogenous thin sponge they still market at "ciabatta" with folks who go more often. They said the all bread is now outsourced and terrible.

My reasonable hopes stemmed from what HEB has done with sub-brand Central Market. While CM isn't quite as awesome as its high point, more CM goodness has rolled into regular HEB than bean-counting into CM.
layoffs aren't about punishing employees.
Ask HN: You, a programmer, teleported to 1960's. how would you be a millionaire?
With your current tech skills, in an old world of computing, could you really apply your micro-architecture noSQL skills to make big bucks?
That's true, but this is a site for the top 10% of programmers
I know you're being rhetorical, but often, just trying to avoid a gap in your resume. It sucks but there can be a greater long-term cost to trying to reenter the workforce after taking years off to raise kids.
Also a layman. Doesn't singlarity mean a place/time where our math/models break down? It's not a hack, but a place/time our understanding fails. It's not meant to mean something physical.
I don't disagree with everyone's reactions of "they're probably making a bad game if their original with the least microtransactions is the most popular"—but there's also one key point I don't see being elevated enough: archival.

It's relatively silly that when they pull these games, there's very little way to get them back—see flappy bird, for instance. With classic game consoles, you still have the install/play media like discs and cartridges. With digital downloads, you don't—and if you do, you still need some sort of code or receipt signing to play, even if you have the binary.

That's not great—we're going to have games lost to time. Sure, maybe not Angry Birds for its cultural influence, but others? Definitely.
> While he planned to finish the trail in a single day, he also carried camping gear, including stove fuel, a sleeping bag and hammock, a machete, and another large knife.

He certainly put too many eggs in the phone basket, relying on it entirely for navigation and illumination. But the other things he packed on a contingency of having to bivouac is not something the average unprepared hiker does. He did save some on his weight budget to pack those things on the assumption that the hike was going to be “easy-to-moderate”. I think the judge is viewing this too much through the perfect lens of hindsight and she likely would have made some of the same (or worse) errors given the same prior information.
Sure

Start with processor pipelining, branch prediction, speculative execution, etc

Then move to multiple CPUs/CPU cores

A practically-linear program (ie hardly any unpredictable branching) can be run ~5x faster on a 5-stage-pipelined CPU than an unpipelined CPU

Liekwise, parallelizable tasks can benefit from multiple CPUs/cores, whereas non-parallelizable tasks will not (much)

And then you have performance-per-watt vs raw hertz count: today, most people seem to care more about performance-per-watt than raw "performance"

Ie, ceteris peribis, a 30w 4 core CPU at 1Ghz is going to be more favorably viewed than a 100w 6 core CPU at 1.8Ghz - you can throw 12 "low power", "slower" cores at the problem for ~10% less power draw than the "high power", "faster" cores

Then you can also look at the relative efficiency of different CPU platforms and/or microcode changes in a single platform: that was the major selling point of Apple's anti-Intel ads 15-20 years ago - the PowerPC was "faster" than the Pentium because it was "more efficient" at several families of tasks (even though the raw clock speed of the PPC was typically lower than the comparable Pentium offerings)

This comes up with the Apple M-series CPUs vs the Intel chips they replaced - they may not be "faster" (in raw ghz), but they're more performant
This is really cool! I've been following this since you first posted on Medium about it. Unfortunately when we were making decisions about which charting library to use, you weren't very feature complete, so we went with a different package (fl_chart).
I’d like to be able to search long videos (or podcasts) for a keyword (or even better, semantic search), and be directed to all time stamps in that video that match.

Things like this sort of exist, but nothing that’s really usable.
It's hard to discern just what side of the issue you're on.

In any case, if your beef is with decisions of the courts, the linked article is not about that but the investigations of the staff of a Republican attorney general.

That staff, not the courts:

stated "virtually all claims of error and malfeasance were unfounded"

"systematically refuted accusations of widespread fraud and made clear that none of the complaining parties — from state lawmakers to self-styled “election integrity” groups — had presented any evidence to support their claims."

"did not uncover any criminality or fraud having been committed in [early ballot handling and verification] during the 2020 general election."

stated "virtually all allegations [of improper signature verification, misuse of drop boxes and incomplete access to records] had been deemed unfounded"

"did not find that the county had mishandled ballots"

stated “No improper Election Procedures were discovered during the Signature Verification review.”

emphasized that, “no evidence of election fraud, manipulation of the election process, or any instances of organized/coordinated fraud was provided by any of the complaining parties.”

"reported that three high-profile Republican officials — who had publicly made fantastical claims of fraud — did not reiterate those assertions under questioning by agents, when they were subject to a state law prohibiting false reporting to law enforcement."
The secret to a happy workforce is laying off employees in the lowest decile of morale. Repeat as necessary.
Dear developers, nobody gives a shit about your personal preferences
One approach is to do the "per project" thing and wildly pad the charge to allow for uncertainty. This can protect you from losing money on a project that goes poorly, and can yield a big windfall on projects that go very well. But it can result in quotes that scare prospects away, and still can't guarantee that you don't lose money in the worst case.

Another option is to do the "per project" thing, do really extensive requirements analysis up-front, and then be absolutely rabid about enforcing the change control policy. Since one of the biggest reasons for uncertainty is changing requirements, make absolutely sure that your contract reflects a "if you change anything from the initial requirements then we re-negotiate the budget" mindset. The details of you how express that can be pretty varied, of course.

You can also combine those two options.

Is any of this a good idea? It's arguable. People have been working this way for a very long time, but both approaches, or the combination can easily lead to adversarial relationships between vendor and customer, and can result in a lot of acrimony and antagonism.

Arguably a better approach is to adopt the idea of "Agile Contracts"[1][2][3][4]. One problem with this is simply that it's a newer approach and something that a lot of people aren't as familiar / comfortable with. Selling customers on this approach may take some extra work. But it might just be worth it.

There's a lot more that could be said about this, but it's not easy to condense into a quick HN post. FWIW, a few books that might be worth reading as well include:

1. Software by Numbers[5]

2. The Economics of Iterative Software Development[6]

3. Software as Capital[7]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_contracts

[2]: https://agilecontracts.org/

[3]: https://www.contractworks.com/blog/three-types-of-agile-cont...

[4]: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/agile-contracts/

[5]: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Numbers-Low-Risk-High-Return...

[6]: https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Iterative-Software-Developm...

[7]: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Capital-Economic-Perspective...
This is a pretty good distillation of the math. Child care has often been done on the backs of underpaid lower-class workers. Unlike most businesses, childcare doesn't scale well at all, and it's very hard to make the math work to pay the staff a living wage without it being prohibitively expensive.

Even in the example given, the $22.50/hour rate is just the break-even rate with child-care workers at the minimum wage. If you push them up to a living wage of 75k/yr, the listed cost doubles. Add again people wanting child care costs to not just be break-even but to make working feel worth it, and it probably doubles again.

It's just a very hard business with difficult scaling. It gets better after age 2, when you can increase your student/staff ratios, for what that's worth.
Those are the ones I just mentioned I'm getting too! [1]

They do go to the Junk folder, but I've never seen such a massive volume of messages.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898400
who would work to just break even on childcare

I've seen the argument made that even if childcare is cash flow negative it can be profitable if prevents an interruption in career progression and thereby allows for higher future earnings.
You can fund a dependent care flexible spending account with pre-tax dollars up to $5000 per household currently. That will cover ~2 months of care where I live, but I guess it's better than nothing at all...
> The user again proves possession of the authenticator and the device generates a response by signing the challenge with its private key.

This sounds very similar to how hardware wallets work.

I know some wallets support FIDO2, but I wonder if FIDO2 devices like yubikeys could also be used as hardware wallets.

There are probably UX reasons why this isn't a good idea, but I wonder if the math would work.
I agree - but have seen many families have to make this choice, as having too big a gap in your CV (to look after their kids) will impact there employability down the line.

It is also hard to stay current and to retain confidence in your ability when you are out of the working world.

Don't get me wrong - stay at home parents have amazing skills and learn loads, but few employers see that as a benefit when you are looking to return to work. In the UK there is a movement called 'Pregnant then Screwed' which is trying to address this.
Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes interactive computer services when they make targeted recommendations of information provided by another information content provider

Should it? This feels a lot like a "have your cake and eat it too" situation. Either you're a neutral party or you are not. Being a trillion-dollar company doesn't exempt you from that. Letting a computer make the decisions instead of a person doesn't exempt you either.

Youtube would be in no danger if all it was doing was keyword-matching with recommended videos. Instead it created profit by designing its algorithm to maximize engagement by any means necessary, especially via outrage and bandwagoning. What the fuck did they expect to happen when they created a money engine that runs on human emotional intensity?
On the other hand, in the current environment, I can also see a lot of people figuring that they're not going to improve their prospects elsewhere in the near future so, since they're apparently at least somewhat valued given they're still there, they might as well just keep their head down for a year or two.
I keep having similar thoughts, but the software industry has shown a remarkable capacity to squander available hardware resources.
> don't over hire during COVID under the expectation that the escalated demand will remain permanently forever

I don’t think that follows. You want to overhire to make extra profits. Then just downsize when it’s over. Which is almost exactly what all tech companies are doing now.
When I was a child my daycare was the house of a person who lived in the neighborhood. I wonder how much this sort of thing is regulated away now.
> About the area, keep in mind that not every part of a chip is composed of dense logic

No, but improving density still makes it smaller (for an otherwise-"identical" offering) :)
so based on empirical observations I am sure there are a number of people who are making barely enough to support the child care cost quoted in the post I quoted. maybe I misinterpreted the post I responded to
Zuckerberg and his team of cronies are and have always been pure slime. This isn't surprising news. I'm thrilled that his endeavor with Meta has been miserable. Long past due to dethrone him.
Not super positive, but I think there is/was a concern over "moderation"

If they are a "platform" that only responds to "complaints", there's more lax rules / risks in court battles.

If they proactively moderate too much, they would expose more legal risks.. "why are you removing links to (my product) but not (similar product)?"

When it's proactive vs clearly illegal stuff, they can point to the fact they are following the law, which requires them to take action proactively even as a "platform".

Of course, you could argue lots of ways why they should do it, but what is Google's incentive? People are not flocking away from Gmail or YouTube. Of course, more and more people complaining could lead to people doing so.
Debian Security Bug Tracker: Vim
Does the should-not-exist camp say how they would eliminate rationality?

Sufficiently powerful governments can sometimes eliminate physical objects in territory they control when the means to produce them are difficult to acquire, such as fighter jets.

Simpler objects are harder to eliminate, such as rifles.

And as objects merge with information, they're almost impossible to eliminate, as with 3D-printed rifles.

Pure information is more difficult still, but powerful governments can and do censor history, criticism and ridicule they don't like, when it is distributed over a network they control, like telecom wires or government schools.

But ML is more slippery than all of these because ML isn't just information, it's math. Math can be independently derived.

Once enough people understand geometry, it's impossible to eliminate the knowledge that the sum of the angles of every triangle equals 180 degrees.

If the government of one region purges the people and burns the books, the knowledge still exists in another region. If a world government burns all the books everywhere, people will derive it again, independently.
This. Ran K8s at a startup and knew it well. Really helped us along in terms of shipping velocity as a company.
I agree in general, but think that unit testing has a place even in small scale settings. Clearly chasing 100% coverage is dumb, but if you have tricky business logic you should clearly unit test it and automate running the tests. The cost/benefit ratio seems super obvious to me on this.