skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure I buy that.

There's plenty of studies in economics (especially micro-economics) that have statistical laws just like biology does. Similar for psychology. And even for war:

It's hard to run controlled experiments at the largest scales, but there have been plenty of experiments and studies at smaller scales. And some of them yielded statistical 'laws'.
Something like that could be a fantastic foundation for prototyping deck-based (e.g. Hanabi, Exploding Kittens) board games. With a little automation, you could go from the latest design file to a virtually playable deck in seconds.
Buy a refurb or break into a car in San Francisco.
Since increasing homeownership is a good thing, subsidizing homeownership is a good thing, amirite?

Reminds me of Heinlein's Friday, in which the heroine visits a future California. The government, having found that those with college degrees earn more money, promptly issues every citizen a bachelor's degree to correct this inequitable situation.
Yes, it's complicated.
Again. No.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has already shown this is a bad idea.

The summary reads (emphasis mine):

"Annual energy simulations were updated to evaluate the kWh/m2 boost achieved in single-axis tracking systems using bifacial modules. Measured bifacial energy gains of 7%-9% and rear irradiance gains of 11% were recorded, agreeing with modeled expectation within 1%-2% absolute, and matching global average expectation. Additional system energy gains of 0.5%-1.5% are predicted to be achieved by optimizing tracker behavior, adapting to cloudy conditions."

- single-axis tracking
- bifacial modules
- gains of 7%-9%

Figure 10a shows a best-case maximum annual energy production gain of 1% to 1.3% (aproximately).

Why?

Because, among other things, if you tilt panels you can't pack them in so tightly. That's basic geometry. In fact, if you do the math, it is better to reduce the geographically-dictated optimal tilt angle and fix it at a lower angle in favor of tighter packing. Put simply, rows of panels will cast a shadow on the panels behind the row.

Also, ground-bounce inside the array is seriously curtailed by shading. Bifacial is interesting for some types of installations, not necessarily for grid-scale, where they gains could be in the order of 1% or less.

Wait! How did we go from 9% gains to 1% annual energy gains? What?

Because SOLAR PANELS DO NOT PRODUCE ANY ENERGY FOR 50% OF THE DAY. And, SOLAR PANELS ARE DEEPLY AFFECTED BY CLOUDS, WEATHER AND DIRT. Which means that a 9% power generation gain measured while operating ends-up translating into 1% or less in energy collection gains in a year.

Don't agree?

Well, go argue with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory then. You must know more than they do. Here:

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/72039.pdf

You are still missing the most important point: The advantages for wind are very large and across a range of parameters. You are talking about 1% gains by adding complex and costly-to-maintain tracking systems. I am talking about achieving 95% reliability with 1/4 the storage requirements, with 1/12 the land, 33% lower maintenance cost, etc. Not even close.
It isn't really like this. There's experienced attorneys helping draft most legislation. See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_Legislative_Co...

That doesn't mean they will always get it right, but it's often screwed up more by the legislators than the attorneys.

Laws that are so vague that they don't give notice to someone of what conduct is proscribed are not valid in the US.

Additionally, in the US, laws found to be unconstitutional are void ab initio.
They are not struck down. They are declared never to have been valid in the first place.

(Though, like anything, perfect consistency is not a goal of the legal system, so you will see this screwed up at times as well)
There is an Apple Pay option. I just used it!
> you'd be far ahead of those who went and got a degree by the time you spent 4 years in the industry.

but you're not competing against someone starting a degree, you're competing against those who graduated today, and is looking for their first job.

All else equal, an employer is going to rank someone with a degree above someone without, given both have no industry/relevant experience to start with. You have to show extraordinary capability somehow. Or have some personal connection which outshine the degree in the eye of the hiring person.
It is declining. Hopefully it won't crash just settle over the next 7 years.
Another article I saw on HN awhile back where someone did this:

https://webapp.io/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/

I think its a reasonable option and the webapp.io people scaled it out pretty high. At Zapier we utilize RabbitMQ heavily and I cannot imagine scaling the amount of tasks we handle each day on postgres.

This article mostly is lesson learns and misconfigurations of RabbitMQ though. Which is probably a good reason to simplify if you don't need its power. No reason to have to learn how to configure it if postgres is good enough.
not sure if satire...
Markdown version: https://tuckerconnelly.com/management-leadership.md
Ask HN: Company Hires Globally
I'm wondering if you could provide me with the name of a company that hires globally and allows employees to work remotely from anywhere. It doesn't have to be a very famous company; in fact, a smaller company would be even better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...
> what the students are really paying for is prestige.

what the students are really paying for is a chance at PR in australia.
Page has issues loading correctly for me in iOS safari using Firefox Focus as content blocker
See that's just it - in the tech industry, sure, but I disagree with your previous comment in regards to "people working in the Bay Area generally". There are a lot of people working in a lot of industries far outside of tech that just simply don't pay anywhere near tech wages. Even many tech-adjacent industries (such as the ITAD industry I worked in when I was in the area) don't come close to touching the income that is seen on this forum.

The, "if you're wealthy enough" bit is a massive, massive IF for so many people that live there. It's not true that "the spending power of most people living here is higher" because many are still stretched thin trying to get by due to the high CoL. More than other regions? Sure, but most people in the area? Not a chance.

That disproportionately high number of tech workers relative to other regions is, as you say, what increases the CoL, but it makes it that much harder for people not in the industry, not making those wages, to maintain that CoL for themselves.
Ask HN: Will China ever have white people in government?
Probably seems like a strange question, but consider that in the West, you can see "non-majority ethnic group" people in the government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_Americans_and_Pacific_Islands_Americans_in_the_United_States_Congress

Not that many, and I'm not sure how it compares to the "ratio" of these ethnicities to "Anglosaxon" or whatever as a whole, but China has 4x to 5x the people (tho presumably a lot lower number of non-Han-Chinese).

Somehow tho, I just don't see China ever embracing this. Is there a reason? Or am I wrong and is it possible?

I know in HK at least there have been a few white people in government positions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Zimmerman_(politician) - yet only a district councilor, not in LegCo

But I don't think this has happened in Taiwan or Macao, or the Mainland (at least since 1949).
Not underappreciated at all. It's 20 years old and still among the TOP 20 most popular MMOs. Not everyone likes that kind of gameplay though. I was an EVE beta tester before it was released openly, and I finally decided that it wasn't for me. (I don't like the turn based mechanics, or "the ship is actually the person" kind of narrative)
Idk, the front page kinda rubs me the wrong way ...
I’m ashamed to say I played a mobile game for just over a year called Lords Mobile. It’s basically a F2P game where you can only be competitive if you are P2P. You have a castle and can train troops, craft armor, etc., and the more money you put in the more is at stake. The mechanics make it so you have to log-in at least once a day, otherwise an enemy guild will basically set a rally in order to “zero” you. Zero basically wipes out all the real money invested in the game. I wouldn’t call it a gambling addiction, but maybe it’s something to do with the sunken cost fallacy?

What surprised me was the sense of community around it. I met people from all over the world who play. We had discords, ran guilds, had actual leadership responsibilities, would call people in the middle of the night when they were being rallied, etc. Before I decided I was done, I was running bot accounts (to act as guild banks and whatnot), and it felt like a part time job. It was very involved for a mobile game. If I’m honest it was probably the sense of community I felt, which I hadn’t felt online in many years, that made me stick around. Still I don’t recommend anyone actually play it.
> Why would such a person be in this position?

Such a person will always be in this position, it is the type of personality that thrives in a bureaucratic institution. No amount of fiddling with the process will fix it, you need an alternative form of decision making
Hooray for even more regulation..

Surely this particular piece of well-intended regulation will go work out exactly as hoped for, and won't have any unintended consequences that stifle things in the longer run.
> The TWSBI ECO offers phenomenal value in the under $50 bracket. Most piston-filling fountain pens cost north of $100,

Does anyone know why fountain pens are just so expensive? I figure its a low volume niche but a piston filling pen really I'd think would cost a few cents to make. You can get good smartphones for $50.
It is classic microsoft behavior. They don't create apps, they create traps. The end goal is just to make people slaves of their software. The software they create is just "leverage" so they can trap more and more of you or your business.
Don't think you need to kill go server unless you've templates embedded into the binary itself.

Also, even if serve returns HTML as list of files instead of JSON, HTML can be seen as a flexible data format in itself that has few added advantages.

JSON is superfluous when the only consumer is the browser based UI and no third party is going to have that response ever.
How do you have tinnitus if you can’t hear it?
GPT4 is already better than most if not all humans in some metrics.

I think it's a hard sell to say that nothing better than human is allowed.

But the existential concern comes from supposed exponential takeoff. To me it should be easy to convince people that something 10 or 100 times faster or smarter than humans should not be allowed.

Weirdly you don't see people talking about regulating autonomy which is also part of it.

I find the argument that Eliezer Yudkowsky makes with the super slow aliens to be very compelling especially in the context of fully autonomous AI that people have stupidly designed to imitate human (animal) characteristics like survival instincts. I suspect that that regulators will ban extremely high performing AI. But unfortunately the prediction is that this can't be contained which means it's quite probable that militaries will cause the end of the world just like we have been expecting but in a new way. Since they will likely be excluded from the ban at least secretly.
If you go into Firefox Focus settings and set hype_tolerance to 11, then you will see it.
If you are only going to use it for a short while, buying it and then re-selling it should re-capture most of it's value.
yep, it's not even guaranteed to be allowed to leave russia at this point. And it'll only get worse.
Conversely, A lot of time something looks good "because" it works well.

I had one old structural engineer spend a great deal of time trying to convince me that beautiful bridges were stronger than than ugly bridges. because our ideas of beauty are so tied to what works well. I am not entirely convinced, I have seen the sins some of these so called designers do in the name of "looking good" but I do see his point.
That seems like a weird regulation to make.

As long as costumers know what they are getting in to, who are we to judge their decisions?
with a self replicating robot you can build an army of robots that can build rockets that can take self replicating robots to asteroids that can be turned into goods and habitats by the robots.
Yes, I wonder why is so difficult for people to understand this. Microsoft wants to make your life worse, even when they have good software.
No it means you are trying to get them to clarify their stance and explain their reasoning so you can understand them better.
Honestly. This is 100% correct.
They timed their marketing copy very poorly. Virtually everyone is talking about how long before chat GPT renders their jobs obsolete, and these guys are saying “AI’s impact has been too limited” and their tech is going to help it “really” take off.

Okay.
Do you know what the blood circulation medication was?
I am a devoted listener of the BBC Radio iPlayer and have driven/flown thousands of miles engrossed in really amazing and superbly produced performances.

I have also gotten stupidly, inexorably, and shamefully addicted to The Archers.
I believe you, obviously. (I dont go to concerts myself, but pretty sure have tinnitus and misophonia)

But on a lighter note this _sounds_ like a setup for a joke that involves hearing loss from earlier experiences resulting in your hearing at less and less volume as time progresses.
>>(the total US aid now surpasses Russia’s entire military budget per year).

> That's completely meaningless. Russia's military budget pays for many times more personnel and weapons systems than the equivalent number as part of the US military budget, because the purchasing power of, say, $1 million is vastly different when it's spent by the Pentagon in the US, paying US prices and employing Americans, or by the Russian MOD, paying Russian prices and employing Russians.

It also seems misleading in the sense that, for example, we have a ton of Abrams tanks that the US military didn’t want, but that Congress has over time decided to buy. So if we send them to Ukraine, how should that be accounted for financially? I guess the cost of a gently used Abrams is pretty high but we already bought it and the value to us is pretty low.
Avoiding discomfort is pretty much the default operating mode of the brain. There is little to no “rational examination of the realities behind pushing that button” — because that examination hurts.

And I am not sure the behaviors are so much collective + self-harming as they are individual + collective-harming. Like you said: I don’t have to pay for the long-term repercussions personally.

I feel like this comment is drifting into gross pedantry, but I am really not trying to argue semantics. Just wanted to underscore that we might not be meeting people where they are (which is probably important if we want to change their disposition)
> The world of AI changes, forever

Very hype.
Pretty pictures.

> A new programming language that gives Python superpowers

This is the part that I find intriguing.
What's the current method recommended by hearing scientists / audiologists?
Mexico will be North America China shortly, with all the decoupling/deglobalization going on.
Do you regret your time/monetary investment?

Sounds like a fun experience to me, like most things like this: it's not a problem until it a problem (aka it affects your life negatively). At least compared to most people vegging out on their couch binge watching Netflix.
If anyone can turbocharge the tooling of an ecosystem it’s Lattner. If he can do for AI what he did for Apple with Swift, that would be a huge win for everyone.
Microsoft to change PrintScreen button to open the Snipping Tool in Windows 11
With the current unskilled labor shortage driving wage increases which pushes inflation up, this seems to be arriving just in the time.
Those other diseases have definitive tests. Most mental disease diagnosis are based on opinion, which is more prone to mistakes, abuse, and finality. Going through the courts provides some level of safeguard at least.
A Deposit’s Life and Flows into MMF Don’t Necessarily Reduce Deposits
The only people predicting a housing crash are broke millenials and zoomers desperate for one, because they think it's the only way they'll ever be able to afford a home, despite even a 20% drawdown in median home prices still being well above pre-pandemic levels: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

The fact that so many people desperately WANT a housing crash is a pretty good sign that there won't be one, since that's indicative of massive pent-up demand.

Also the secularly low interest rates so many home buyers locked in before and during the pandemic.
I don't like having a bunch of styles fighting each other. It is similar to the !important stuff. In fact I sometimes thought it was better before !important was verboten. It was overused, though.

Only the shadow DOM provides some relief from this annoying part of web development.
(chuckle)
Is the corollary to "damn with faint praise" to "praise with faint criticism"?

I use it to write in my Moleskine Cahier journal, and it stashes perfectly nestled in the inner folio cover.
I don't recall ever putting a pencil in my pants pocket, but if I did, its tip retracts. But whatever works for you, different strokes...
The content seems really worthwhile - the web design makes it unreadable. Sure it looks pretty and shiny, but it's brutal on the eyes when you're trying to read it. Which rather defeats the entire purpose.
Wow. This is a totally legitimate, reasonable comment and you got flagged for it.

I've actually never seen that on HN before -- every flagged comment I've ever looked at turned out to be full of abusive language and attacks.

It makes me sad that multiple HN'ers flagged this. :(
Can we make bicycles sustainable again?
Re: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06541 - how are we supposed to take the phrase "agile text classification" seriously?

They could have just said "efficient". But no - they had to go for "agile".
It's sad because all the fluff on the page could have easily been made by GPT. Let's hope they deliver technical details in their keynote
Lots of immediate business from companies needing humans to spin up their models though... but as LLMs get more advanced it's anyone's guess what will happen here.
When I was living in China working for Microsoft, our company provided insurance had a cap on claims paid ($100k), so while everything was cheap enough via the private system, I wondered if I was screwed if I ever got cancer or something really bad.
In the game, the problem is that some gamers quit and the shares are frozen forever, so you need some trick to make it possible to vote with less shares and keep the organization working.

Anyway, IRL many organizations have somewhat similar method. For example the HOA of my building ask for a 50% of the votes at the anual meeting, but if there is no 50% after an hour, whatever votes that are there are enough. In this case, the problem is that most people don't do to the anual meeting because it's boring. Anyway, if they make a very scammy decition, I can go to a jure and they can go to jail IRL.
I think it's that unlike other industries, simply giving up and letting DRM control farming is kind of scary.

The people who care if you're allowed to flash the firmware on your bluetooth earbuds are few and far between, but the people who dislike the idea of some remote party being able to use math and law to turn off food production... That's pretty much everybody.

So they're all money grubbing capitalists. But as money grubbing capitalists go, these are among the bigger threats.
Is that really all that bad? Whole Foods are everywhere and sure some small population might be inconvenienced but companies have to reduce cost and I’m sure UPS wasn’t a small cost.
I dont think those jobs are the target tbh. They already left, and if or when they are re-onshored they will go to minimum wage people in low COL states. The target is the mid tier white collar job like developer and marketer and analyst. Offshoring always had a perception that while it was cheaper, you were not getting A grade players but B grade ones. A lot of employers are going to experiment to see if B types plus AI tools can become as effective as A grade people for a fraction of the price.
I have mild tinnitus. It's super high in frequency, very close to my threshold of hearing around 13k or so (I'm 44). I mostly only notice it when putting on headphones (without anything playing). Also sometimes if I'm in a really silent room but that's not a daily occurence.

It started about 2-3 years ago, weeks after my first COVID shots. I don't know if these event are related or not but there's mounting anecdotal evidence that more research is needed.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/covid-va...

Some weeks ago I started taking some mushrooms (lions mane, etc) and niacin or nicotinic acid (a form of vitamin B3). Not niacinamide which is also another form of B3. I'd say on average my tinnitus has been reduced by 30-40%.
Can you match it to half or a quarter of the frequency?
My daughter got a robotic arm kit at arpund that age and loved it.

Great blend of mechanics and software.

Side point, if they like this check if there are robo Lego leauges in you area. Great extracurricular activity for kids.
No, industrial scale RDBMSes like PostgreSQL, that you can license for free. Obviously?
> unknown book, ages past

Reminds me of Douglas Adams’s description of where the Aliens posted their plans to bulldoze Earth:

“But the plans were on display…”.

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Also $20 per user. A lot of teams don't use a lot of bandwidth but have a lot of developers.
its common sense and you just proved it.

poor people have shitty health. retail workers are poor. i.e. retail workers have shitty health. without any additional correlation you have that by definition.
It's weird what works. Eventually I asked it for just the body element in its response which categorically fixed the problem. I wish we could presence-penalty single tokens so it wasn't all so abstract.

My results if you're curious: http://camarkup.com
I think Fox Searchlight would be a better comparison. Are they going to produce mass appeal blockbusters that rake in tons of revenue? Probably not. Are they going to totally dominate the awards scene? Absolutely. That's what Valve needs for its IP.
It can go away.

Even though I’ve had it precisely since a particular flight, doctors don’t want to ascribe causation. Otitic bachtrytrauma has come up.
I don't think a pre-launch marketing page has ever survived the gauntlet of the HN front page without plenty of critics. Anything more specific you don't like?

I personally liked how the video showed real user complaints about the AI/data programming stacks via screenshots of Twitter/Reddit. A lot of startups fail to connect what they are doing to real life pain-points by real people. Otherwise the video communicates the gist better than the website copy, which is more generic.

A lot of people tend to dump grand marketing-speak on landing pages when it should look more like their pitch decks, basically:

- here's the problem

- here's how we hope to solve it

- here's the basic plan/timeline to accomplish it

These guys a hyping up some launch event so maybe they are waiting for that but I usually don't hold much hope for marketing pages.
And finish school :P