skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google plays in a field where maintenance costs are a rounding error. You can basically freeze a product and keep it running forever for pennies, and these products get embedded in our daily lives, which is why killing it looks so bad

That would be nice if it was true, but that is not how it plays out at most tech companies.

I have specifically targeted this in my career, thinking about engineering productivity and even spent a number of years working at a company that provided software for manufacturing and explicitly learning about lessons learned in that field.

What usually happens is maintenance costs are not taken into account when building a product and a team is not disbanded after building something. They continue to run the larger teams/orgs until one day some VP looks at the expenses and decides to simply kill the entire product.

So in a world of having hiring freezes, having someone come in to help reduce total costs, from AWS to headcount is a way to free up people and get "new hires" without additional cost.

Some companies and individuals seem to get this instinctively, but many are happy to not make waves and try to improve the system. For some in management, adding value without headcount doesn't mean anything for them individually so they wont.

Increasing the total value over total costs of teams and orgs is my jam. I can take over products that have high maintenance burden, but are valuable, dramatically reduce the maintenance burden, then turn around with my free headcount and go and do it again and again growing the total value produced. This is the 10X-100X game.
They announced a very similar set of features for Google Workspace 2 days ago: https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/gene...
I remember reading a blog entry from a recruiter that did exactly the second point: he gave a task to be done in 3 hours, a couple of candidates not only did the task but worked for more than 10 hours doing extra fancy that had nothing to do with the main task and telling the recruiter they overworked. They were hired, the recruiter loved the extra mile.

What if a candidate is way better but cannot spend 10 hours in an interview? Is it actually a good trait to spend three times the time allocated in bells and whistles?
I think it comes down to profit. Eliminate all the base models, keep moving bigger and more "luxury". You may sell fewer cars but the profit margins are fatter. Jack up an economy hatchback, bloat it few inches and slap in some heated seats and a big screen. Offer AWD, now it's a "crossover" you can charge $5000+ more for worse fuel economy.

Honda for example, drops the Fit hatchback for the HR-V crossover in the US. The HR-V has similar useable interior space, is built on the same platform as the Fit, but is lifted up and costs more.

The last year of the US Fit in 2020 started at $17,145 with destination. The current HR-V starts at $25,095!
I graduated into the 2000 dotcom crash too. I decided to spend the next 2-5 years learning a language (German, not Haskell). Then I ended up on the job market again in the middle of the 2008 crash right out of parental leave. In 2020, in the early pandemic uncertainty, I was on the job market again.

I'm not sure it's a good habit to have: job searching during economic downturns. But it does mean you end up working for companies that actually create things that customers value enough to spend money on. I kind of like that.
So lovely; how we will recognise the fake; show us hands. Even good hands are not good.
The best evidence for a collision is that Russia said there wasn't a collision
Banks don't file reports with the GAO, which is the internal auditor of the U.S. federal government that audits government financials.

FinCEN reports aren't related to bank failures, they're related to money laundering and other financial crimes. FinCEN means "Financial Crimes Enforcement Network." Banks file these reports because a number of financial crimes require the use of bank services.

And most agency personnel would outcompete you in an adversarial at-will employment world. They work for the government, for less pay, because they want to, not because they need to.
Bring Clippy back!
Another Danish company, Phase One (camera maker) uses Linux for their digital backs and did end up playing nice when I asked for their source, for one anecdotal evidence point. They were unaware of GPL and its requirements initially though…
Taking this opporuntity to link to Charles Proteus Steinmetz[1]. Among the many, many things Steinmetz did, he invented the Metal Halide Lamp which was later refined for mass production decades later. This took the innovation of others less well-known to history[2]. So great example, bringing up the light bulb!

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

[2] https://americanhistory.si.edu/lighting/20thcent/invent20.ht...
Exciting to see work on an nn that would be capable of continuous learning by design. The possibilities seem endless - models that can be passed around and built up in a variety of contexts, not to mention the ability to train incrementally rather than spending a few hundred thousand renting A100s. You could leverage the vast unused compute on personal workstations around the world.
I guess you need a set of habits. The habit to practice daily, the habit to improve, the habit to find and accept feedback...

But the main point of the article is "do it, and do it because you love it". That's the key. Forget about mastery and go with the flow. Experts can may make fun of you but if you do it because you love /doing it/ you don't care about comparisons.
To photoprism users: do you know how well it handles identifying photos of kids over the span of years?

Google photos absolutely blows me away with its ~1% false positive rate (that is, given a photo, correctly identifying with kid(s) are in it) identifying each of my kids, nieces, and nephews. I don’t really know what its false negative rate (a false negative would be an uploaded photo of John but that doesn’t get tagged as having John in it) is, though.

I can search for each of my kids and see photos of them going back to their birth.
I want to highlight another point of this post:

"I just finished listening to a podcast about Lena Dunham. I didn't know anything about her, have never seen any of her work and maybe never will."

This is something I do regularly, I listen to interviews/conversations of people that have nothing to do with what I do, and let me tell you: I learn a ton... I really, really recommend it...
The biggest things I can think of that might fit that window of time are the adding of "bits" (a more streamlined way of donating to streamers) and Twitch Prime subs (where Amazon Prime customers get one free sub per month to assign to a streamer of their choice). Arguably the latter might be more attributable to Amazon rather than Twitch itself.
The second example only proves my point further: It's a demo from the demoscene. Impressive, but pointless outside enthusiast circles. I'm not going to comment on it.

Regarding the first example: Cool! Really interesting and I wish the contractor / employee all the best. Not many people who can do something like this. That said, are we really forcing compsci students to learn ASM for an entire semester, on the off-chance that they'll end up in a leading security role managing major software products? I feel a different curriculum would be more effective (maybe one that teaches how to avoid these bugs in the first place?).

The only real life application of handwritten ASM that I'm aware of, are the initialization routines for most programming language runtimes (GoLang and C++ come to mind) and microcode optimized shaders in game engines.
In the more plausible forms of inflationary cosmology, one would expect there to be close 1 to "topological defect" near the visible universe which could be a monopole, cosmic string, or domain wall. That topological defect could be the cause of inflation in our area or the reason why it quit or both.

One would expect there to be some small anisotropy because of that.
A video of them pressing ctrl+c then ctrl+v
>I honestly pegged things like Twitch Plays Pokemon back in 2014 would be the future of Twitch, and Twitch did allow some developer tools for interactivity between players and games, but very very few devs make use of it outside of an intentional gimmick because there's a massive chicken-and-egg problem there that Twitch hasn't facilitated.

I've believed the same thing since 2014 which is why I started Muxy in 2015. We build tools that let viewers and broadcasters interact with gameplay in real-time. It's been hard to make bigger strides as management at Twitch seems to turn over faster than we can build working relationships. We're finally seeing some real traction with publishers and studios over the last 18 months. You might know us from the Bits days when we launched the cheer cup in summer 2016.
Nvidia Improving Wlroots for Better Dual-GPU Gaming Performance
real innovation would have been to spin it off as a separate streaming website that allows paywalled subscription and creating an OF competitor
Jim, I should have created this. I've failed a lot. Also, your domain name makes a lot of sense for me. :P
Here is one thing I've learned about PCIe- the .1 uF series capacitors must be .1 uF, .01 uF will not work. The reason is that the link detection depends on the RC charging rate of these capacitors. Can you guess why I know this?
Afraid of competition, no. Wanting to beat the competition to the punch? Yes.

Those UX issues won't matter much for most people.
Why the assumptions?
Not everything is a docker run.
I can think of several well documented setups that can take upward of 2 hours, especially if you dont have high-speed internet or not so powerfull computer at home.
Well, if I "realistically need both" it is not a false dichotomy. Then it is just impractical. I also don't present a DI-chotomy, I present two sides of potentially a lot of sides. I also don't present the sides as being mutually exclusive, why it is neither a di-CHOTOMY.

Anyways, I don't think I understand why I practically need both? Currently we seem to take the practical approach of choosing none.
> Crimea annexation was a response to it (new puppet government declared that Russia will be kicked out of Sevastopol base)

This is likely the root of it. Russia had what they perceived to be a rational and pressing military need to control Ukraine. Any talk of higher causes is nothing but propaganda. The legitimacy [or lack thereof] of the Ukrainian government was never relevant, one way or the other. Whether or not the present Ukrainian government is a legitimately elected democratic government representing the Ukrainian people, or a puppet government controlled by America makes literally no difference. Russia invaded Ukraine to serve Russian interests, not to liberate Ukraine from a NATO puppet government.
95% of the buttons I don't need to be haptic.

But please, let's have climate and volume as 2 physical dials. I promise, I'll be forever grateful, and I won't ever ask for anything more ever again. Just two dials.
"Society depends on this mismatch existing. It must exist somewhere."

I see no reason why bank deposits can be fully backed, and ppl who choose to can buy into bonds funds separately. For example, only ~6% of gov bonds are held by banks: https://www.statista.com/statistics/201881/holders-of-the-us...
Thanks. I wonder if something similar is responsible for the gaps in atomic orbitals.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Lagrangi...
>hopefully none of your candidates need anywhere near 1/2 hour to code stuff that simple

IDK, is it that simple for everyone in tech to finish it in way less than 30 min? I think I would definitely need more than 30 min for the nested brackets validation problem and I've been in SW dev for 10 years and I'm about average in my area compared to everyone I know (non-faang/non-big-tech).

The thing is, I haven't touched algorithmic riddles like that since I graduated university over 10 years ago, and none of my daily assignments at my coding jobs since, were ever anything close to that, and nor do interviews in my area (Europe) ever require those kinds of problems to be solved, so I would definitely need some time to warm up, grab a piece of paper, and think of a solution for that one.

New-grad version of me who did a lot of algorithmics assignments, lab work and interview prep back in the days could definitely be faster, but this version of me who's head is filled with solving the issues assigned at work, not so much, and would need longer.

When I apply to jobs in my area, most companies here just check if you have domain knowledge related to the problems you'd have to solve if you got the job. Coding riddles like that seems more of a US, big-tech, VC-unicorn kind of thing that's missing in the companies I applied at. I wouldn't mind such riddles as an interview, but I definitely would fail them if they were strictly timeboxed.

I guess I'm not employee material for his company.
"Now we need a Docker registry cooperative owned by everyone."

You can build a pyramid with a non-profit, but that does not mean it owned by everyone.

Pyramids are problematic, as governance are a nightmare.
ButI thought ChatGPT has guardrails that prevent it from outputting hate speech, praising certain politicians and so on.
Notes on a Torture Party
> but hopefully none of your candidates need anywhere near 1/2 hour to code stuff that simple

I have no idea how to calculate Fibonacci numbers.

I'm a decent coder, have a bachelor of Software Engineering but never "loved" math.

I'm sure I could learn in a three minute Google.. but I certainly couldn't do it on a whiteboard with no Google access.
Nothing should be running on “Life Support”
It's essentially the telephone of many, with the reliability of... A telephone built to the standards of your typical web application.

You can't trust it for things like audio, file sharing or alerts which is pretty problematic
Worst part is that this person wrote he already failed the test and now is looking for some shortcut.
> and Minecraft is probably the only serious Java game

...and even Minecraft was ultimately re-written in C++ to bring it to mobile and consoles
Absolutely love Citymapper for finding pleasant bike routes! Really hope this doesn't end up handicapping the product or spreading focus thin.

Have recommended it to so many people. Biking wouldn't be the same without it.
Yes, asking the advice of somebody whose job is threatened by the product you're asking about is unlikely to get you an unbiased opinion.
> If you're making Android apps, use Java.

It's Kotlin these days (your point still stands).

I've been trying to (lazily) make games for years. It's hard.
Still a huge improvement over pre-AI state of things.
Not sure what's going on here, the premise of the post ticks me off. How to politely decline a take-home test is to decline it.

Unsure how anyone who can't do take home tests is qualified to do the underlying work.

Make room for those of us who THRIVE on take home tests and struggle at whiteboard interviews, I'll be happy to take that job.
>> No true original ideas and there was just remixing natural phenomena? Really? So writing was just remixing all the writing that people saw volcanoes and rainstorms do?

> Writing was a remix of pictorial representation, which was a remix of the way things like ox heads, flowing water, and birds look.

That's the kind of absurd reasoning when you take some proposition and try to defend it to the death even though its wrong.
I think Transit works great for status updates for buses or trains you're already familiar with. If I'm travelling an unfamiliar route, it's always Citymapper. Plus the fact that Citymapper suggests which part of the train to board for proximity to the nearest exit? Amazing.
I think that part of what limits what creators can do on twitch comes down to what the advertisers are willing to put up with, it's likely more that advertisers are leaning on twitch who are then leaning on creators, vs just twitch leaning on creators.

As for kick, they seem to be actively ignoring/rejecting these limitations (potentially because they at least partly externally funded by stake (online gambling platform) and kick was a response to most gambling being banned on twitch). I'm not sure how long they can maintain this if they want to stay profitable/attract people to their platform.
> A Typographical Mystery

I suspect many people here just haven't used typewriters extensively. You can adjust how the paper is put in before you start typing. You can move it up a little, over a little, etc.

You can type the whole thing without subscripts, then put the paper in a second time, adjust it a bit and get all your subscripts.

All you need is a repeatable spacing template. And that is easy to do with transparent paper. With three different pieces of parchment paper, you can get three different repeatable levels (regular, subscript, superscript) fairly easily - you just run the paper thru 3 times. Align it, then pull the parchment paper out.

You can do the same thing vertically so you get nice repeatable grids.

It's a lot of work, but not a "mystery".
Idea: if you know all of a user's votes, you can estimate that they at least glanced over the items up to the lowest-placed one they voted on on the same page. This is a bit more information than "users tend to read higher-placed items following a known distribution" like the formula from your readme. I guess you'd have to be HN to implement this.
Probably just you, it just looks like a Polo to me.
i saw evil defined as "suffering passed on to others" and it's been very evident and actionable
Add the previous two numbers to generate the next one:

1 1 2 3 5 8 13 ...

That's it. Now you know.
That doesn't work either. If I send you a take-home test and I set the duration of it to be 3 days: what if you (think) you are done in 4 hours? Will you just send it? Or will you spend more time on it because, well, maybe other people are spending the actual 24*3 hours on that take-home test? Maybe they add documenation that can be viewed directly in the command line? Maybe they add a better (bigger) set of test cases? Maybe they even go further the specs of the problem and hand over an actual reusable piece of library (which you didn't because based on your judgment, the task could have been done in 4 hours easily, without the need to write a library out of it, and so that's what you did rightly).

Take-home tasks are the wrong solution to this difficult problem of our that is hiring.
Ask HN: Those who've started a side business with ChatGPT, how's it going?
Ever since ChatGPT was launched people have been showing how you can create websites, businesses, podcasts, etc using ChatGPT and monetize from it. I'm curious about anyone here who's actually tried to do something like this. How was it for you? Did anything surprise you?
Isn't youtube also incredibly mismanaged in the way that they treat their content creators?

For example, making up new rules about swearing too close to the intro of videos being grounds for demonetization, and retroactively applying it to everyone's back catalog from before the rule existed?
California Court Affirms Right to Treat Drivers as Contractors
Is ANY platform in a position to treat creators well?

I hear nothing but complaints from everywhere. I wonder if it is possible to treat creators well…?

Are creators even worth much on average considering the volume of people willing to just grind out content continuously without much regard to … themselves?

It seems to be an endless search for more subscribers, more views, more patrons of some type, more questionable sponsors.

The the youtube, twitch, etc video creators ecosystem seems perpetually messed up, and creators seem to keep at it, sometimes seem to be flogging themselves.
I'm not sure of the actual prevalence of police using fingerprints to track down theft. It is however accepted as a piece of evidence in various criminal courts, so one would expect it to hold up in a non-criminal court as well.

The difference is I didn't choose my fingerprints nor did the police. It's also really, really hard to get rid of them OR to have someone else with the same fingerprints as mine.
Thanks. Which external library did you use?
The problem is other developers. There are some jerks out here who don't think software licensing is important, and who would have guessed? It's the same people not contributing anything back to the industry.

HALF my team at my last full-time job didn't think software licensing was important. They thought services like GitHub Copilot were no big deal.

My guess is they violate license requirements on a daily basis.

Teach your juniors.
How deep is the rot in America’s banking industry?
I think the simpler answer is that GP's assertion is just incorrect, and that humans regularly create genuinely original content.
Thanks - I was curious because the 'feel' of it was very similar that what ChatGPT generates for argumentative writing.
A line of text floating in your view is doable.
Seeing 3D renderings in a dark environment with 30 minutes of battery is doable.

The original vision of augmenting human vision without a bunch of caveats and limitations is not doable today.

Spectacles by Snap is a cool accomplishment, but mostly the form factor is useful for recording video form a human's perspective and not augmenting one's vision.
Just looked up your profile. There's some super interesting stuff you worked on. We'll get in touch!
Guaranteed ads, amazon affiliate links in bio, integrate amazon luna more, and change revenue splits.
So far the strategy seems to be: "get a lot of hype, get some people invest in the hype, the topic of the hype doesn't matter as long as it includes $THING_OF_THE_DAY".
Impedance is basically the resistance of the change in current direction. In DC systems, you almost never deal with this. You deal with this constantly in AC systems and LC circuits.

https://pediaa.com/difference-between-impedance-and-resistan...
Google's announcement was in reaction to this one, I believe. That's why it felt so rushed (e.g. they hadn't even set up the waitlist yet)
If it's about real sanctions, they should say so. They don't even have to be that specific.

Because right now it looks like a Polish/EE guy using geopolitical events as an excuse to bully his national enemies on the internet. It's a politically-correct "f__k off and never come back". Totally unprofessional.
are you being intentionally dense

Yes the internal auditor of the government released reports of failed government policies, how did you read anything else
Volume is physical. On the steering wheel. Climate is always on the same spot and always visible, so has never been an issue.
Amusing to see this in the thread as, inspired by CGP Grey, my theme for the year is "be intentional" so this post particularly stood out to me.
Compute in-memory with non-volatile elements for neural networks
Their services and advertising is highly and completely integrated into their hardware. In other words, the software exists solely to serve the hardware side. They became the most valued company in the world by selling hardware, I don't think it is fair to say their strategy is "limited".

The parts that they are pushing the most are still hardware. Cars, ARM chips, phones, Macs. The OS and App store for example are extensions of the hardware and are not competitive with similar products from other companies. For example, Mac OS is competitive because they have hardware level optimization with the M series chips such as acceleration for x86 simulations. The software or the OS itself is nothing noteworthy if you compare it to Windows or Linux.
All money has value for one reason: because people think it's valuable. It doesn't matter if it's cigarettes in prison, giant stone discs in Micronesia, or bits on a server owned by your bank.