skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The people I know who find government (both state and federal) employment attractive do so because it offers a better work-life balance and, for state employees, the possibility of a pension.

Student loan forgiveness is another one.
Great way to put it!
then how is this person losing so many disputes?

what are they claiming when they charge back a live event that they admit attending?
There are other search engines, such as Marginalia. The bigger question is what happens if websites start disappearing, this is a bigger problem than you might think because even websites like Wikipedia, reference news websites, which are visitor- and therefore ad-driven.
Maglev trains? Not in the US lol, lobbyists will be sure of that
Author of Ludicrous JIT here (one of the earliest Ruby JITs).

It is easy to get a 10-20x speedup, if you limit yourself to compiling a subset of Ruby. When I first wrote Ludicrous JIT, I saw huge gains, but as I implemented more of the language, performance improvements over MRI (and later YARV) became more modest. Off the top of my head:

Implicit promotion from Fixnum to Bignum adds run-time type checking and overflow checking for integer math. This significantly cuts into performance on math-heavy benchmarks.

Ruby does not store Fixnums and Floats in their native representation. This means they must be converted from Ruby's internal representation when doing math.

Anything that uses eval prevents local variables from being optimized away, stored in registers, etc. The call to eval may lie outside the method being compiled. For example, a method may pass a block to another method. The other method may convert that block to a Proc, which it can use as a binding when calling eval (I don't know if Rails still uses this idiom, but this was one of the reasons why performance gains when running Rails on JRuby were more modest than otherwise might be expected).

Any program that uses set_trace_func can get a binding for any method invoked while the trace func is active. A Ruby implementation that supports set_trace_func is severely limited in what optimizations it can make. IIRC JRuby disables set_trace_func by default.

Exceptions in Ruby are implemented using setjmp/longjmp (or at least they used to be -- I haven't done low-level ruby programming in a long time). Other languages can use zero-cost exceptions without breaking backward compatibility.
In this case, the way it works is:

1. You exercise your options, for a paper gain of millions of dollars

2. However, you can't actually sell the shares (there are likely contractual restrictions on selling them, and even if not, there's not a liquid market)

3. So you have to pay millions of dollars of taxes even though your cash flow is zero.

And before you say "but they're ISOs", there's no such thing as ISO's under AMT so it doesn't help at all.
Even still, the fixation on the passcode thing is insecurity.
Paul Graham (Y Combinator co-founder) has a lot of essays on Lisp or mentions of Lisp:

* Lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html
* Beating the averages: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Other notable programmers have mentioned this. I can think of Yegge's article (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab...) where he mentions this:

> ...It's dirty laundry that needs airing. The problem: Paul Graham. I mean, the guy's a genius, and I love reading his essays, and his startups are doing great things, etc. etc. You can't fault him. But he's created something of a problem.
> Before Paul Graham, Lisp was dying. It really was, and let's not get all sentimental or anything; it's just common sense. A language is always either gaining or losing ground, and Lisp was losing ground all through the 1990s. Then PG came along with his "I'm not talking to you if you're over 26 years old" essays, each a giant slap in our collective face, and everyone sat up and paid attention to him in a hurry. And a TON of people started looking very seriously at Lisp.

In addition, HN itself is written in a dialect of Lisp called Arc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

This is why you can't trust HN as the general opinion among people or even programmers. They are a very specific subset of programmers who are more likely to be interested in things like Lisp.
Beagleboard is the pioneer in SBC trend, it predates RPi, arguably RPi took the ideas from OLPC(one laptop per child) and Beagleboard and made what it is today. Even today, Beaglebone is quite popular for real products.

The kit looks cool to me, as a beagleboard and beaglebone user, I wonder when TI will embrace 'standard' wireless spec(e.g. LORA, 802.11AH etc) instead of keeping using its own sub 1Ghz proprietary wireless solution?

Beagleboard also has its Jetson like AI board, https://beagleboard.org/ai-64, but Jetson just dominated that market.
I would assume it’s been a while actually. Consider that modern cars want to know both what the wheels are doing as well as what you’re trying to get them to do. The oldest driver assist features try to adjust for over-correction and low friction surfaces.
Making Emacs change the color of digits to match my synesthetic colors
So you're saying that, in the event of owning your own data and being asked for it, you would get a lawyer because you acknowledge that there could be unforeseen conseqeuences and aspects of the request that you might not understand. But you would simultaneously prefer to let a megacorp own your data so you don't have to think about any of that?

So you're happy to give away your data, but also insistent that you should pay someone to review the request for your data. Apologies if I'm misunderstanding your comments (very possible), but I think I at least understand why some folks are confused.
> some large percentage of “internet questions” are perfectly satisfied by absolute bullshit.

And of human communication. Look at most of what main stream online and offline media are blasting and people consuming.

Do people watching reality shows really care about truth? Or authoritative answers? And that’s probably most people for most things.
Because the system is crazy, but it only affects early employees of successful startups so there's no political will to fix it.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that[1].

Still, I wonder if that's a major draw: federal employment numbers have been roughly stagnant for decades, and have declined on a per capita basis.

[1]: https://studentaid.gov/pslf/
We can get the society we ask for, though. IMO this is one reason why we should favor policy that doesn't have overly aggressive law enforcement or prosecution.
You can look up the GS payscale here [0], and a high level description of each level here [1]. I've crunched the numbers many times, and the private sector pays better. There's some situations and professions where it's close, but they generally require unusual circumstances. Perhaps the most interesting part is looking at how to leverage benefits. CSPR has several situations in which you can collect a full inflation adjusted annuity at fifty years old[2], which changes the math for a comparable twenty or thirty year career in the private sector.

Raising the federal pay rate by 5.2% won't make federal employment competitive with private. Maybe it will change the balance for local and state government employment.

[0] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

[1] https://gogovernment.org/all-about-government-jobs/pay-and-t...

[2] https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/csrs-information/eligi...
All of the money has been consolidated into a privileged few. They've bought and paid for the judges and have all the money to hire the lawyers. They own all the media so 99.9% of reporting is only what they want you to hear.

The people who have all of the money don't give a shit. They have enough money to drown out the plebs rattling our cages.

As long as they crack the right heads, suppress any movement looking to challenge power, and enforce the laws they deem important the police can act with impunity.
And how exactly they collected that data? What app I should delete for them to stop spying on me?..
Yeah that one was like two or three days bc their Consul melted down. They had detailed postmortem posted
Yes, it's common. They'll say that it's because they don't want unapproved investors on their cap table, which I guess is reasonable, but obviously the main reason is "because they can".
And there are many many low income students attending community colleges who would benefit tremendously from a program like this.
This is a very interesting situation. Generally at startups, is there no room to negotiate to get RSUs instead of options?

What is the reason they give options instead of options? They want to reduce the amount of stock people own that no longer work at the company over time?
No one every got promoted for not adding a new feature.
Weird huh, I wonder what "blue wall of silence" means?
Do you mean for the plugin creator or as a user?

I tried to build a saas app which generates logos and I had to upgrade.

Using chatgpt prompt on the free tier, I sometimes dont get responses due to volume of requests(I believe free tier gets culled in these cases?). Or sometimes its just extremely slow.

In this case, once you setup with your api key, its free to use inside neovim.
I'm fairly confident that we deal with both here. They are totally separate entities and they don't even talk to each other. We get 2x the papers (R1 and T4), and we file separately with each. It's possible to get a refund cheque from one and still owe the the other.

But forget the CRA, ask me about how mine and many other peoples drivers licenses were suspended for weeks because the SAAQ totally fucked a software migration.
Because in this case they're going to be taxed on money they can't, and possibly won't ever, be able to access. It's like being required to pay tax on lottery winnings before you get a chance to enter the lottery.
Oh, transistors are not one shape across nodes. Not anymore, and not for a long time. The planar version taught in beginning EE classes has evolved into various complicated 3D shapes.
> knowledge workers cost 1m/yr on average

This is wildly off, even for programmers. (Most knowledge workers are not programmers.) You're also conflating cash expenses with the equity-heavy compensation that makes tech employees expensive.

> Stripe charges 2.9% + 30c per transaction.

This is the baseline product. The resulting analysis is like analyzing Microsoft solely on the basis of Windows volumes and margins. (A great business, but not nearly as good as the real Microsoft!)

I would be surprised if the rest of their product suite (Invoicing, Billing, Radar, Identity, Tax, Capital, etc.) isn't generating a meaningful portion of their revenue (and a larger portion of their profit).

> multiple has dropped

Without high-level visibility into the relative revenue/profit contributions of their various products and their individual growth rates, it's hard to even guess at which numbers are driving investment multiples. Is this business more like Twilio, still trying to break from from the tyranny of COGS, or is it starting to look more like a pure SaaS a la Salesforce?
I did say both of these things. Because there are upshots and downsides to each. Both are true.

You can't escape the shittiness of this problem by running your own server. It's a bad situation either way.

The root of the problem as i read it is overly zealous law enforcement and a judge that is not acting as a proper check on their power. It's a political problem. It can't be escaped with purely technical solutions like who stores the data.
My previous boss (we were in the civil construction industry) has been saying for years that we are on the cusp of an industry-shattering breakthrough with generative engineering.

We should be able to, by now, input terrain maps, account for local water ways & rainfall, and Autodesk's Brobdingnagian suite of tools should be able to spit out a whole new suburban package, engineered to local country/city engineering standards.

The main thing that's holding is back is the complexity of engineering standards, and its implementation in the software. But all that'll take is time & money.
That would be the tragedy of the commons.
Google’s metric of on-page time (or whatever they call it) is an incredibly misleading metric though.
I'm guessing this would affect older/first employees the most. These likely have more political weight around the company.

In a pragmatic world, they'd just let them expire.
Ultimately what we care about when it comes to resolution is “pixels per degree of viewing angle while at the optimal viewing distance”.

The screen has some fixed pixel density, using called PPI or DPI. As you sit closer or further away, the screen will cover greater or fewer degrees of your field of vision (I recommend looking up diagrams to get a better understanding of this concept). You can thus combine a screen’s physical pixel density with your distance from the screen to get a single number called “PPD”, pixels per degree, that represents how many pixels fit into one degree of your field of view. As a reference point to contextualize this number: the “Retina display” popularized by Apple is based on the claim that at 300DPI, the eye can no longer pick out individual pixels on phone screens usually held at 10-12 inches away. This corresponds to a PPD of 57. Higher PPD is better but it tapers off: going from 50 to 100 PPD is “visible individual pixels vs high end Retina”, while the difference between 1,000 PPD and 10,000 PPD is nothing (we are well beyond human eye capabilities and both would look the same).

THX (from the cinema industry) gives us some numbers on optimal FOV - how much of your field of vision the screen should take up, measured in degrees. The maximum is 70 degrees (fills your field of view out to the edges of your peripheral vision), the optimal is 40 degrees, and the minimum is 26 degrees.

I’m on an iPhone 14 Pro and according to my tape measure I am holding it 20cm away from my eyes (FOV of 39 degrees), which gets me a PPD of 66. If I sit down at my computer which is a 13in 2020 MacBook Pro M1, my tape measure says 60cm from eye to screen, giving me a 27 degree FOV and a PPD of 95.

My tape measure says it’s 250cm from my eye to my TV, so let’s look at some 4K and 8K options. Samsung makes 4K and 8K screens in 65in, 75in, and 85in screen diagonals.

65in 4K: 120 PPD, 32 degree FOV

75in 4K: 105 PPD, 37 degree FOV

85in 4K: 93 PPD, 41 degree FOV

65in 8K: 239 PPD, 32 degree FOV

75in 8K: 209 PPD, 37 degree FOV

85in 8K: 186 PPD, 41 degree FOV

So is it worth it? Only if you want to sit so close that the screen fills your entire field of view.

https://qasimk.io/screen-ppd/
Fella after my own heart. On all my video calls in 2020, I had a Zoom H1 with a fuzzy pop shield feeding into a simple USB interface on a rickety tripod. Even with this simple setup without bells+whistles, I got so many compliments on how great my voice sounded.
I don't see how ChatGPT and social apps relate? To me, social implies social interaction with other humans, not with a machine learning model.
https://www.delphiautoparts.com/usa/en-US/resource-center/ma... has some interesting discussion.
The Barnes & Noble Nook did this, except that they were using a conventional backlit color active-matrix LCD rather than a memory-in-pixel LCD like this.

There is clearly a crossover point at which this combination would use lower power, because the e-ink display uses zero power when not updating, and the memory-in-pixel LCD uses power even to retain the display. So as the update rate goes low enough, at some point the e-ink display will use less power. My vaguely remembered estimate of this crossover point is that the e-ink display starts using less power than the memory-in-pixel LCD when the update rate is less than about one update per hour.
That's literally what the Bolt CEO did. He ran a company that offered his employees the loans.
Personal experience, once received a notification from CRA to the effect: "6 months ago we refunded you incorrectly, you owe us, oh by the way we're also charging you a penalty for our mistake.". The amount was not inconsequential but not a problem to remedy. The insult was "we made a mistake and we are punishing you for it".
https://millionshort.com/ can filter out the most common sites, take a look what the internet looks like then!
It will damage your tires more than the concrete.
Point taken, but I don't see enough of an upshot to giving away your data from the very start — retaining zero control so you don't have to deal with requests that may or may not ever happen.
I think I drew that conclusion from the following: I rendered a full-screen quad using two triangles, and make each fragment display a hash of its threadgroup id. Most threadgroups were arranged in nice, aligned 4x8 rectangles, but near the boundary, they became morphed and distorted so they could stay within the same triangle. That said, it occurs to me now that this could be an opportunistic thing; I am going to try to repeat that experiment, but with many triangles which are all smaller than a single threadgroup.
2 is the odd prime for the same reason.
> But municipal government absolutely owe it to their residents and community to support the people they have, not just the people they wish they had.

Within reason, supporting the people you wish you had, instead of the people you have, is called leadership. It is how we progress as a species.
This is a critical piece of technology that will ultimately save mankind from itself!
5 Stars!
Unexpected performance of Orion’s heat shield ahead of crew mission
Woah that is incredibly full featured and I've never heard of it. Down the rabbit hole I go...
Available QSPI SRAMs seem to consume a lot more power than the Apollo4 or Apollo3 itself, and because they're also slower, they increase the processor's duty cycle, which makes it use more power itself (except when the user is waiting on it, I guess, or you're running a background compute task).
Be careful playing the Tesla kart game, don't wear your tires down by steering the wheel too much
Ohh, full on nostalgia. I remember stumbling upon it for the first time, it was a priceless treasure. It seems that someone converted it into NG format [1], because wiki only mentions raw text and diffs. NG was very useful since its reader stayed TSR so you could refer to it without leaving an editor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Guides
It's an issue being talked out a lot in Ithaca, which is about a 20 minute drive from my farm

https://www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/cornell-s-tax-exempt-stat...

In particular that article asserts

“according to the rental real estate listing service Dwellsy, Ithaca has the highest rent of any small city in the U.S. The study shows the average price for a one-bedroom was $1908 per month in 2022, up 4.5% over 2021. Only eight cities had higher average rents…New York, Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Washington DC, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego.”

and that article claims the tax burden in Ithaca is particularly pernicious because so much land is owned by not-for-profit organizations such as Cornell.
The government only needs so many employees, and automation has gradually replaced some jobs (I imagine in USPS, IRS, etc.), so I'm not sure I can draw any conclusions from that. I'd be curious on the stats too, yeah.
There's also the possibility that the same event that leaves me wanting the data leaves me without my on-prem recording, I would think.
Uncle Bob and Casey Muratori Discuss Clean Code
They brought a bunch of police dogs into my Canadian high school for a 'random' search.

I saw the principal come into the class I was in and point out a specific kid that she wanted searched.

The distrust of authority that I learned from that experience is without a doubt the greatest lesson I ever got in high school.
Seems like a great product. I just wish it had a front-light like all other modern e-ink devices.
I can see that, and I think that's a great way to use LLMs right now. But I worry that people will start taking their word at face value and not verify. Not to mention the areas that are difficult to verify.
Not a single example in the readme?
It’s a losing message from republicans. Look at their recent election results. Their voters don’t care.
> Stripe has done the right thing here.

Having worked for a company that (indefinitely) delayed its IPO, I can say that they may be doing the right thing today. But also there were plenty of observers who pointed out contemporaneously that there was no need for them to keep putting off the IPO. Sarbanes didn't put a $200B valuation floor on IPO registrants.

I've never taken a company public, so I don't know their rationale for holding out. I do know that had they gone public as early as 2017, they still would have been roughly big enough to be listed in the S&P 500 (so not "small" by any definition that didn't explicitly reference Microsoft or Apple).

Either way, their delay in filing likely deprived their early employees of some of the financial fruits of their joint labor.
I have no idea why people/companies don't pick asp.net core more often. The amount of headroom you have before bottlenecks is immense. It has world class tooling to boot too.
check why chatgpt history not showing: https://wealthquint.com/fix-chatgpt-chat-history-not-showing...
Huh? All of the modern web frameworks let you delegate a component to a team and use it. What does react do here thats special?

Honestly, if anything I find react's modularity story much weaker than the competition. In react there's no page-wide state and the story around styling components with CSS is a huge mess.

In comparison, Svelte components feel much more modular & self contained because the styles are embedded with the component in a standard way.
> Even if regulators allow gambling, betting companies would have to decide if they're willing to place odds on WWE matches even if it's legalized.

Well, the betting companies have the most to lose (monetarily), but in Australia you've been able to bet on the Oscars and reality TV show outcomes for a while now (see https://www.tab.com.au/sports/betting/Entertainment)... so I guess they'll probably wear the risk and just ban any suspicious bets.

Somewhat related, a friend of a friend of a friend was a cameraman for The Bachelor a few years ago and through the chain I heard the winner ahead of time. I was doubtful but the result was as I was told. But in general they seem to keep a pretty tight lid on it all - the TV networks would be pretty cranky if their multi-month programs were spoiled early.
when the gain shows up is irrelevant - IRS requires taxes to be paid on income in the quarter it is realized. Everyone needs to pay the estimated tax and then file the return for the final adjustment.
Flamingos form friendship groups based on their personalities
People reading this might be interested in my notes from 9 years ago on this topic at https://dercuano.github.io/notes/keyboard-powered-computers....
> They don't much care about quality of life (or lack thereof) for regular employees.

But many talents do stay in the Bay Area and many startups grew to become giants too. So, I'm not sure it's a one-sided decision by the wealthy. And I'm not sure about now but before 2010, very few people outside of the Bay Area knew how to build distributed systems. Case in point, IBM tried to build an auction system to compete with eBay's, and they couldn't figure out why eBay could support such a large throughput with subsecond latency. And in the first few years since http://highscalability.com launched, most of the shares came from the companies in the Bay Area.
The prompt is probably simple, but the bigger challenge is that even a minified html of a typical web page would be more than the 4k gpt token limit
You should look into the book The Body Electric. The ability of electricity to heal (the doctor in the book even reports some instances of finger regrowth in humans) is remarkable.
Battery-free Game Boy (2020)