skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a more comprehensive list, here's a list of all the titles that were laid off in california (the only state with google warn filings that publicizes titles in their warn records): https://www.warntracker.com/?company=Google
If you want a more comprehensive list, here's a list of all the employees anonymized by title that were laid off in California (the only state with google warn filings that publicizes titles in their warn records): https://www.warntracker.com/?company=Google
This framing is a bit hyperbolic. Saying Glaser was even the most influential art director of that era feels tenuous. But does anyone seriously think that a tourism ad campaign saved New York, or that a poster is what made Bob Dylan famous?
Obviously good design is important. But also it's just a small part of a much wider world. When I see these kind of hero worship pieces I think of the coworkers that I have had to work with who have a massively inflated sense of proportion and genuinely buy this line of thinking. A bit of humility might be in order here.
> The only reason I and many people stay on Windows is because of games.

100% for me. I loathe having to boot my Windows PC, figure out why the Keyboard isn't working, getting a different one, installing a driver update, restarting to update Windows because it's been so long since I last played, ...

What I want is either a small device that's aimed at gaming, I guess that would be a game console or a device that's small and portable that streams to whatever TV I want to play at (we have 2). I guess that would be Nvidia GameStream, is that still a thing? Oh and Linux, would I love to have the PC run Linux.
Kinda the same way I feel about some of the survival modes for Skyrim or Fallout.

Adds a lot of realism -- "realisim" in a game where you kill dragons -- and changes how you play. Kinda cool, but also long, low, and slow. Lots of just walking... kinda boring.
How did the list leave out MX Linux Frugal Install?
The internet has become an integral part of our daily lives, with billions of users accessing it every day to search for information, connect with others, and conduct business. However, there is also a hidden side of the internet that most people are not aware of:..
> We seem to prefer the idea that we can so we must, and if we don't someone else will in an overarching fundamentally competitive contest.

Yes. This line of argument terrifies me not only because it's fatalist, but because the logical result of it is that it results in the worst possible outcomes.

It smells a lot like "we need to destroy society because if we don't do it, someone else will." Before anyone jumps on me about this, I'm not saying LLMs will destroy society, but this argument is almost always put in response to people who are arguing that they will destroy society.
I don't think that is what this person is talking about. Yes having an extra lower voltage battery is totally normal and every EV either has a led acid or an additional smaller LiIon battery.

Having multiple chemistries in one battery pack is of course possible, but I don't any car who is actually doing that.
>> inappropriately tweeted details about her arrest

This is typically considered a threat by most well adjusted people, and most definitely an extreme level of harassment.
By now, it's well-known that HST was based on spy satellite designs via the mirror-making technology, as you say.

See under "size and mass" at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN

According to that page, NASA moved the primary mirror diameter from 3.0m to 2.4m to match the already-developed mirror-making technology.
Are there any incentives for companies to not collect data about their paying users? Who is even doing this?
I've worked with people who say "Certainly, let's start by..." to absolutely everything regardless of whether they know how to solve it or merely wish to leave you with the impression they do, and much prefer working with people who have a scale of "Certainly, let's start by" to "you should probably ask someone else".

Even better if they have an "Are you sure this is a good idea?" mode, possibly even with suggested alternatives
Because I can read code.

In fact I read every piece of code I write, right after I write it, and probably more times after. It's a good practice, because as an human, my first take at a piece of code is often subtly wrong, or correct but missing important edge cases.

Speaking of, I didn't deliberately insert that typo in the above paragraph, but I did notice it when I read this post before submitting it, and would normally have corrected it.
Scientists accidentally create the lightest paint by mimicking Mother Nature
Usually, you will spend less than a mile on an urban street. There are roads that get you from neighborhood to neighborhood just fine. The difference between traveling a mile at 20 MPH and 25 MPH is 36 seconds.

I used to live in towns like this that enforced these limits with rabid Sherif deputies and it is VERY nice. The noise levels are much lower and being around cars doing 20MPH is so much nicer than ones doing 35 in a 25. Especially with separated paths.

Reducing speed limits from 25 MPH to 20 MPH reduces fatal collisions by about 25%. It's a kind of a no brainer. Additionally, reducing speed limits to 20 MPH means that cars are not able to legally pass Class A electric bicycles traveling on the same roads that are limited to 20 MPH.
There was also the Adobe Loves Apple campaign

https://www.fastcompany.com/1646594/adobe-launches-hearts-an...
The UX of it looks really good. I wonder if this works for something a bit more video heavy than IDEs and text editors. Has anyone tried this with video editing, modeling, or game engines?

How would this fair sharing an IDE and the Unity editor at the same time? Anyone have any experience with that?
> Somteimes, a region has all its spot instances near the on-demand price.

That happens? I’ve pretty consistently had all spot prices at 30-40% of on-demand.
With an external mouse, keyboard and monitor it’s great. I use vscode to write javascript and Python. You can do it with the built-in screen with external keyboard and mouse too, it just isn’t as comfortable due to the small screen. Trying to code using the touch screen keyboard will drive you insane.
I might be able to test this, I have a 4790k that I haven't touched in years...
https://github.com/jeffsf/pyDE1 this is a pretty complete python implementation covering the BLE APIs including scales. It's way more approachable than the TCL Android app.

Some more info on the protocol here:
https://3.basecamp.com/3671212/buckets/7351439/documents/499...

I don't think there are any better "formal" docs.
it seems to me that gebril scheme fits janet's use cases

https://cons.io/
Unfortunately a lot of people are HAPPY he did those things
The idea of a moratorium in a world where Russia and China exist strikes be as absurdly naive. Personally, I'm not sure why I should care about humanity any more than the hypothetical AGI would. I'm just happy I was born in time to witness the glorious moment of its birth.
I thought gradient descent only worked on differentiable functions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_descent
Just picked one of these up during the sale as well! Primarily because I can see that the steam deck is picking up steam...no pun intended and I thought it would be an awsome opportunity for my game.

I'm an indie developer and I've always had plans to port my game from mobile to steam but seeing the steam deck gain so much traction really got me excited!

My game is very much a pickup and play type of game and I'm seeing small indie games like that excel on the steam deck. Vampire Survivors and Brotato to name a few.

I received my steam deck yesterday and played for a few hours last night. I can't tell you all how excited am to get my game ported over and verified for this thing. It really is an incredible piece of gaming tech and it's got me super excited as an indie game developer!

For anyone interested my game is called Command Center Earth. I'm set to launch a huge update next week (2.0.0)!

https://www.commandcenterearth.com
I have seen non-American "integration" of foreigners, in Europe, Middle East, Asia, etc. In these places there are much more distinct mono-cultures relating to race than there are in the US. What is the dominant culture in NYC? Yuppie white Midwestern transplants? Orthodox Jews? Blue collar Italian and Irish descendents? American blacks? Mexican immigrants? All of these groups have very different standards for demeanor and behavior. In this way, these groups of "New Yorkers" collectively permit "assimilation" because there isn't really anything in particular to assimilate into. As long as you follow the law and spend a lot of money, people typically won't be that unkind to you or treat you in a way you'd recognize as a "foreigner", because they already treat everyone as a bit of a "foreigner".

I suspect we're disagreeing over what it means to "assimilate" or "be accepted as" one of an ethnic group. Imagine a stirring speech where a speaker says "I have dreamed of a respite from the trials our people have undergone". When the audience hears "our people", they are going to think of a certain group that they imagine themselves belonging to. In America, a miniscule fraction of the population thinks of "everyone who is legally an American" when they hear the phrase "our people".

However, some other place like Paris, the massive city-state of the white Franks, has a carefully guarded culture that they gatekeep as a majority ethnic group. You can live in France, and you can speak French, but you can't "become French" because many of the people who call themselves "French" think specifically of white Frankish/Gaulish/Roman descendents. That's just not happening in major American cities.
Have you tried Anthropic LLC's "Claude"? Between it and ChatGPT I'm hard pressed to say which is better, though I'm tempted to give the edge to Claude.
Great points, thanks for these! Would you see AI summaries and say, AI search for a conversation last month, as a killer feature? Live transcription?

See the moonshot ideas we have in the "business" plan: https://flowy.live/pricing
It is interesting to see these tools used for reformatting unstructured text, as the T in ETL for written words.

One missing thing here, that I expect is a difficult gap to fill is, how to improve the post for better top of funnel. Hard because we don't know what makes a good post vs bad, but this is general, not specific to HN posts
Given that you helped on it, what do you think made it stand out? From just reading through it, to me personally it doesn’t sound super in-depth or convincing, but I’d like to learn what I’m missing.
FreeBSD13.

Sure, it's an issue to you. But how is this a FreeBSD fault when it's up to the hardware vendor to release the binary blob?

If the vendor provides the blob for Linux why should FreeBSD have to bend over to Linux blob?

Why are the vendors not providing the blob for FreeBSD?
Write for me a interesting poem
Multiscalearrays.jl
I absolutely understand your concern about battery life, but:

- A better screen would likely require more power, especially if the resolution was higher. OLED screens are also prone to burn-in, which can be a legitimate concern, especially with games that have a persistent hud.

- I think it's quite impressive we've managed to get the current battery life, considering how relatively small the battery is.

Overall, it's a great first generation product, which would likely not have been possible just a few years ago.
LFP cathodes and silicon or 'solid state' aka lithium metal anodes are not incompatible.
Isn't this the whole point behind the CLIP architecture?
Since nobody quoted that already, I’ve been quite happy with Drovio, a competitor that supports Linux as well. Will be happy to try this out though!
Counter Strike 2: Sub-tick updates and More
Immutable infrastructure could prevent an idiot from 1) making changes in production 2) without performing automated testing first and 3) without adding the changes into source control.

While I don't use immutable infrastructure myself, I can see it being of use in some organizations.
Yeah, so I think all of these fall under that category I mentioned (the first one may or may not for you, but it would for me because I don't work with Python much): most of the time saved is in looking up a bunch of things to assemble together, not ideating and writing out the logic. I can see this kind of codegen being useful in special situations, but it wouldn't really be useful in my day-to-day work because almost by definition I'm very familiar with the technologies I use every day
IMO this is the right decision, because the duty to protect the public should arise from the contractual duty to the municipality of performing the job they were hired to do. If we want police reform in general, then police need to be legally treated just like every other citizen, rather than being given special exceptions that exempt them from the legal system. Legally there should be very little difference between a police officer and a random citizen that stops a crime in good faith.
By 2025, the entire WordPress library, including popular plugins, will be written in Rust/C, and it's inevitable that we'll be converging towards assembly language for all software, including web applications.
Definitely. One casualty of GitHub Flavored Markdown has been READMEs that aren't actually readable (as plain text).

Better than littering your README with useless* stylistic gewgaws: turn it into a form of "smart documentation"—

There is a way to write a plain text file so that it looks the same (i.e. appears as plain text) whether it has the .txt extension when it's opened in a text editor and/or Web browser versus whether you rename it to have a browser-associated file extension like .htm or .html and then re-open it in a Web browser. Documents opened Web browsers are programmable. A logical next step, then, is to write your README so that your build instructions say something like:

1. Open this file (README.txt.htm) in your Web browser

2. Drag and drop the project source directory onto this README (or click a button to select it from a file picker)

3. There is no step 3. The project will start automatically building in the background. You will be prompted with a ZIP containing all the build artifacts when the build completes, and you don't have to worry about installing any prerequisite tools or dependencies beforehand. (Wait, I lied—step 3 is, "Go figure out what you can do with all the extra time that this is going to save you.")

Related: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24495646>

* or worse
> come up with a way to describe exactly what I want

This is the thing: you don't need to be exact. Even very vague gets a long way.
Do you help US-based investors with PFIC taxation (see Steps 4 and 5 here)? (https://www.taxesforexpats.com/guides/passive-foreign-invest...).

This is a huge pain point for US persons investing in foreign mutual funds. This made me liquidate all my ETFs/mutual funds in India and move the money to individual stocks or property.

If you can make it easy for NRIs to invest in a basket of individual stocks, a NRI-friendly smallcase (https://www.smallcase.com/) if you will, that would be amazing.
Biden’s $42.5B Broadband-Expansion Plan Is Challenged by Lawmakers
Note that if you already have a laptop dock, you may not need to buy a separate one for the Deck.

When researching before ordering my Steam Deck last week, I looked into it and found that the Lenovo Thinkpad dock that work sent me with my work laptop is said to work great with Deck. (I just received my Deck and haven't yet tried this, though.)
Wow, you're really leaning in on this one!
Or maybe you do trust it, but you want to verify. Centrally collected SBOMs are useful to match against CVE’s and other vulnerability sources to quickly identify affected codebases.
Long ago we had product builds that took hours and tests that often ran overnight, and sometimes over days.

And I miss those days as well. I think the author's point was not a wholesale dismissal of the value of extensive testing, as such.

But rather - whole point of a CI/CD pipeline is that you're supposed to get the feedback ... reasonably fast, right? That's what the "C" is supposed to stand for, pretty much (along with adjacent matters of being explicitly tied to your commit/merge process). So they aren't saying there's no value of all that testing -- but rather, if it takes hours and hours (when it was supposed to be nearly synchronous with your commit process) -- its values does attenuate.

Or if you're spending resources making it faster - rather than figuring out what's wrong with your code or models in the first place - that's another tax to pay.
I use a separate mp3 player connected over Bluetooth in the car. I still get album art and all necessary controls on the cars touchscreen.

I've used maps/navigation with Android Auto, but really, it's the audio directions that are the killer app, not a visual map. So I usually just set it up on my phone, and not my cars screen.

What else is there to do on a car's touchscreen? Or are we just in the novelty phase of this technology? I'll admit it was a deciding factor in my latest car purchase. But the novelty has worn off, and if it would have been an optional feature with an additional cost, I would certainly have buyer's remorse.
GPT-4 can't play tic-tac-toe or do simple arithmetic. Pathetic, right? Why are people freaking out? What's the big deal?

I was able to get it to play tic-tac-toe perfectly by having it carefully check everything before moving forward to the next move. It took a lot of prompt engineering. But I did it. And I'm not very experienced at prompting these things.

(Btw, I was unable to get to GPT-3.5 to play reliably... it definitely seems "less smart"...)

I was able to easily get GPT-4 to multiply large numbers perfectly by having it show its work. It's slow, but it does it.

GPT-4 can definitely solve problems. We have no idea what the limits of this technology are.

What will GPT-5 or GPT-6 be capable of? What happens if you use those models as components of a system that takes action in the world?

You are being incredibly myopic about the core capabilities of advanced GPT-like systems. Right now, today, there are countless examples of people using GPT in ways that you say aren't possible.
Just a clarification: Cohen plead guilty as part of a plea deal. So the case never went to trial with an adversarial argument of facts between Prosecution and Defense. Therefore, we don't really know how good the case was.

The fact that Cohen is a lawyer would seem to indicate that the case was solid enough that he was concerned he would lose on merit. However, a friend of mine who is managing partner in a legal firm says that "Once a trial goes to a jury, it's approximately a coin flip as to who will win, and the odds only go down from there." That's mainly because if the case is black-and-white, then there will be some settlement/plea deal prior to a trial.

However, Trump has put himself into a corner where he probably cannot accept any plea deal other than one that would drop the criminal charges but keep any misdemeanor charges. I'm not sure that the NY DA, Alvin Bragg, would be willing to do that unless the case starts falling apart. But in the case Trump will push for an aquial rather than a plea deal so that he can use it to rile up his base.
I expect that's because the cost versus effort for having two kinds of floating point isn't very good. Not because decimal floating point is notably more expensive than binary floating point.
Not necessarily. It's recommending Biblio, Alibris, and eBay affiliate links too despite the presence of Amazon, AbeBooks, and ZVAB. I think they know that their value comes from not just being an Amazon search.
Thanks for the comment. I wasn't aware of that point on the high top marginal tax rate, I can only comment that it's been in place for a long time (since I moved here) and I don't get any sense personally that it will be expired when California is constantly looking for ways to increase taxes.

Re. healthcare, from past people I've hired and let go and friends who've been unemployed, perhaps as they're all in tech with higher incomes, it seems pretty accurate. I remember one employee had to setup Cobra to continue keeping their healthcare plan, and it was actually more expensive than what the company was paying for some reason! Terrible system in general...

Re. 401(k), I understand these are privately managed accounts, but the rules around them are dictated by the government, and can be changed as many countries are doing in general. And there are penalties for withdrawing before 59.5years, which I would call the "retirement age" on these plans. I completely get the math of deferring taxes on your investments, and employer contributions, but I prefer to find other tax strategies that lock in tax savings today and also have more freedom around what we do with our money, these plans are pretty restrictive and I suspect will only get more restrictive in future as I mention in the blog.

With regards to my paranoia, I did link to a full blog on Privacy explaining that position, but specifically this attempt which fortunately failed: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-admin-backs-tracking-b...

I could be wrong, but this is one of many examples I've heard about since moving here, the general theme being they want more powers to get our data and audit us. Since moving here, our experience is the IRS is way more aggressive and invasive with tax filings and penalties than we ever experienced in the UK too. And don't even get me started on the exit tax, which for some reason kicks in after 8 years if you're on a green card, requires you to list every asset you have worldwide, and then pay capital gains on it, if you ever decide to leave the USA one day!
You made your parents cry?!? </sarc>
You're basically referring to noble metals and the like. We use them because they are useful in very small quantities. That's not the case with lithium.
I think what is missed here is the perceived function curve of deaths avoided vs spending. For most of those programs, people think things are more or less linear - the more you spend, the better things get, smoothly. Easy to find an equilibrium.

For nuclear, it is perceived to be more of a step function - you decrease spending until something bad happens, and then it is REALLY bad. So the tendency is to spend to stay as far away from that step as possible.
You can learn everything most devs need to know about Kafka in a couple hours. I can't imagine why companies would ever hire based on current knowledge rather than problem solving skills and ability to learn.
I agree with this. Locking up resources inside a big heavy EV that gets "recycled" after 8-10 years is not sustainable. And cars are still cars, regardless of the method of locomotion, they impact the livability in largely the same ways.

750 watt-hours in an e-bike is a whole lot more efficient than 24 kilowatt-hours in my leaf (which was partly the point I was making). Newer cars are even worse.
> common lisp can be statically compiled, but their binaries (at least with sbcl) can get pretty big [1], even with compression.

My SBCL binaries are ±28MB, with the complete Lisp runtime and debugger (cool, I can eval and load configuration files or connect to a remote app) and dozens of dependencies, including a web server.
> The description in the review drives home how when the British arrived, India was about a third of world GDP, Britain, not so much.

India's GDP share was much higher before the invading Mughal invasion started so they were part of the problem. See Angus Madison's historical list of the ten largest countries by GDP.
You can as long as you ask for consent.

In which case the detail OP ommited would be that they did not in fact ask for consent
I think I basically settled on the idea that if a company is willing to do that to customers, I'm not interested in being one of theirs, ever. That's probably too harsh, but life is rich and there are other options.