skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this actually true though?

The data seems to suggest that for most companies the trend was constant, and they just reached a point where it was no longer economical, which was exacerbated by hiring freezes halting attrition.

https://stratechery.com/2023/tech-layoffs-big-techs-hiring-r...
That was a distracting side comment on my part. My real objection is that it's silly to characterize the artist as a victim. They had the opportunity to leverage other people's work, both technical and musical, to get eyeballs they likely never would have otherwise gotten.

To me, saying it's "disappointing that they had to" feels wrong almost to the point of being offensive.
It's all in the name: The United States. States is the key word.

No one is suggesting horses or written email.

It's a simple understanding of history, and a practical and honest observation of how dysfunctional things continue to be. Yet we keep pushing that the answer is more of the same? That's naive. That's not sustainable.
> top talent moving to non Silicon Valley companies is a good thing

Actual top talent can move anywhere it wants, and always could. This is managerial top talent. Nobody needs more of that right now.
Until I can fold and unfold without worrying about wearing it out or creasing noticably, I'd rather not buy one at any price.

They just seem destined to fail, and far sooner than non-folding models.
According to the FCC doc [1], the measurements may be conducted "between two defined
points on a network, such as between a user’s interface device and the ISP’s network core or between the user
interface device and the nearest internet exchange point where the ISP exchanges traffic with other networks". They require these measurements to be an average. I think this makes sense - it at least guarantees your speeds within the service provider's network.

[1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-22-86A1.pdf
Did anyone say the rainbow apple logo was a problem? Don't quite a few Christians like rainbows (and rainbow symbols) due to something related to Noah and the flood? I guess that's also political, at least sort of, but I think it's unlikely that someone would have an issue with the beach ball cursor or an Apple Computer logo.
This partnership is only about improving the integration between the image sensor AITRIOS sold by SSS and the Raspberry Pi.
it seems that Cohere might be suggesting that the phrase is as devoid of meaning as its unrelated questions, considering that the phrase was originally just a vocal exercise for a character in a film.
No, it's a pretty nice area. But it's not in DC.
It depends on the light. Some lights don't change unless they sense a car or pedestrian going the other way. Some run on a timer so they change automatically. On others, the light will change but the walk light will not come on if you didn't push the button (these ones drive me insane). Then there's the ones that only activate a chirp for the blind people. Then, finally, there are the fabled buttons of lore that do absolutely nothing. Oh, and some are just broken.

I still haven't come across the placebo buttons though so I'm willing to doubt their existence.
It’s great for tab completion and can be very smart about types, and newer ones like jest don’t have excessive chaining style. Less bad than it used to be
> theatrical world takes an intermediate approach, where they use the terms "stage left / stage right”

Same for skiers’ left and right.
The different number of syllables are like a checksum.

Plus, that's not how brains work. Using a word for different things that change depending on context is like reusing a variable, with a compiler that randomizes global and local scope. In aviation they watch out for "Regression to prior learning", in the kitchen I watch out for putting something in the microwave instead of the fridge because the action is similar.

If you ask me which way is left, I'll have to stop and think not only about what left and right even mean, probably looking at my hand to see what makes the L shape, but I'll have to wonder who's left you're referring to, in addition to performing a mental rotation, an extremely error prone operation that I basically avoid at all costs, if my heading is not the same as the ships.

Any small about of simplification or added reliability there is a good thing.

Especially in historical context. Assuming the port and starboard were not mostly symmetric and had features specific to docking and steering, you're actually referring to something specific, not an abstract direction.

These conventions are designed for the 95%, not the 5% or 75% or whatever who can instantly tell which way is left relative to any given orientation without any effort.
1,000,000 Revenue
- 1,000,000 Salary expense
-----------
0 Profit

We are talking about an extremely lucky company if it's the first year. How many startups are able to get revenue equal to salary expenses in the first year? While they might exists, it's not very common. For all others and if it's not the first year you already have losses carried forward which will offset those 800,000 (since you didn't amortize them in the previous years, right?), so in your example if it's the first year you get any revenue you would have (years since founding) * $1,000,000 in losses. What do I miss here?
I can make sure my transit uplinks are not oversubscribed. I cannot control their routes.

I will clarify then. I have almost no control over whatever happens offnet beyond my immediate uplinks.
There's https://github.com/nat/openplayground and https://github.com/ztjhz/BetterChatGPT among others.
Show HN: ChatGPT struggles to calculate what day Eid al-Fitr is
For Muslims, the day of Eid is either determined by lunar calculation or visual observation. Often this splits the community due to theological differences. This year Eid is predicted to be on either Friday or Saturday (21-22/04).

Asking ChatGPT for clarification however gives a wildly different answer of 21-22/05.

This might be due to some error in calculating the difference from the Islamic to Gregorian calendar.

Full CHATGPT response below:

Determining the exact day of Eid al-Fitr on the Moon is challenging, primarily because Islamic holidays are based on the lunar calendar and the sighting of the new moon. Since you would be on the Moon, the traditional way of sighting the new moon wouldn't be applicable.

If you were on the Moon, the most practical solution would be to coordinate with Earth-based Islamic calendars to determine when Eid al-Fitr should be observed. In 2023, Eid al-Fitr is expected to be around May 21st or 22nd, depending on the sighting of the new moon on Earth. You could choose to observe the holiday on the same day as the location on Earth you most identify with or follow.

In the future, if there is a lunar settlement, there might be a standardized approach for tracking time and religious observances in coordination with Earth. However, no such system currently exists.
Preview.app! It’s seriously awesome. It’s the one thing I miss when using a flavour of Linux.

You can fill and sign, but also redact (actually removes vectors under the redaction blob), combine multiple PDFs and rearrange pages. Does everything I would ever want to do with a PDF and it’s hidden inside what most people think is just the image viewer.
New diabetes post-acute Covid, an inconvenient truth
The full IRS clarification on this will helpfully be available in a few months (a few months after the deadline), but it doesn't look like things like maintenance work will qualify, only new software projects. I'm expecting that a lot of savvy companies are going to decide that a lot of software development (using the common term) is not software development in the legal sense.
Okay so what if I actually want cookies? I notice Firefox’s feature will reject cookies. But I am so sick of having to log in to websites every 15 minutes because the site forgot who I am or otherwise running into silly bugs because nobody tested the site with cookies turned off. I honest to god just want to go back to the internet before GDPR and want to tell Firefox to just allow all cookies rather than reject. I care about privacy but I don't think cookie consent is the solution.

I think the solution lies in somewhere in the realm of legally limiting the ability to profit off of the sale of collected data or even collect data without my consent. I don’t care if snazzy.app wants to collect product analytics and marketing data when I’m on their site. I consent to that by navigating to snazzy.app. I do care if snazzy.app embeds cambridge-analytica.js, though. And cookie consent banners simply don't address this nuance. What we need is control over where the data goes and if it crosses property/origin boundaries.
Hereditary peers are gradually being phased out over a series of reforms over the last 200 years. Only about 10% of current peers are hereditary.
When I was a kid in Minnesota we needed to learn port/starboard and the colors red/green.

A trick that helped me remember is that "LEFT", "PORT", and "RED" are all the shorter words and "RIGHT", "STARBOARD", and "GREEN" are the longer words in the respective pairs.

FWIW.
GPT-4:

what is the tenth word in the following sentence: "Life is great!"

There are only three words in the given sentence: "Life is great!" There is no tenth word in this sentence.
> This is also why noble titles can be extinguished — if nobody directly inherits a lump of political power, then there should no longer be a seat at the table for "the person who currently holds that lump of political power."

Isn’t this “lump of power” just monetary wealth, property, social connections etc? Why does it have to be passed onto a relative instead of any other individual the current power holder chooses?
Take a look at vitest.dev, it's pretty fast and great (especially for typescript)
Segment Everything Everywhere All at Once
What about Jason Segal’s puppet Dracula in Forgetting Sarah Marshall?
I think both are undemocratic, and doubly so since it's in the vestigial organ of our former slave-driven agrarian economy.

There's no good reason to have the senate, let alone the filibuster and effective super majority required for legislation.
Why are you only considering the first year? My company has been around almost 20yrs and is impacted. There's no years since founding in any part of the calculation.
I can see the Yelp reviews now: `That White House escape room was really too hard, though +1 for the “Guard”’s guns that gave me the impression they were firing real bullets! Don’t try if you are out of shape — a lot of running is required!

Now I m stuck in the “prison” part of the game and haven’t been able to figure out how to get out and advance to the next level.

Only two stars because it’s really too hard for normal people.’
One thing discs get right is the lack of poor color compression. The frequency and number of times a dark scene on $STREAMING_SERVICE contains a visibly countable number of color shades is, shall we say, too high for comfort on the matter.

All I can figure is that the teams that produce physical discs seem to master them carefully, while the teams that manage compression for streaming seem to not review the results so painstakingly/critically with an eye for this visual factor.

Not that I use the Netflix disc service anymore anyway, but I feel for those who do. At any rate, this change could result in a small boon for local public libraries, maybe.
"The fetishization of the nuclear family, of course, as well as the building and zoning codes that facilitate that fetishization."

Hard to take an author who states something like this as a serious commentator.
But why is it Windows only? Even as a Windows user, my professional day is spent on a Mac even if my Windows machine is running at the same time. What arcane library does it rely on that it can't just cross-compile for all three operating systems?
The reason is that when a patient comes to a doctor they will say they have a pain in their left side, without further qualification. So it makes sense to center the entire terminology around that situation. Otherwise doctors would constantly be having to do error-prone conversions.
Residential customers have no idea what you are even talking about. To an approximation of nearly zero. They don't know what 2.4ghz or 5ghz is or even what the different speeds mean.

Have you ever worked in this space? I do this every day and I try to educate anyone that needs a little help, but at the end of the day they just want their TV to not buffer all the time for the most part. Most of our outages are caused by the end customer.

We aren't playing them for fools and despite you thinking we are, we are providing a desperately needed service in an area that is unprofitable for most companies to serve.
That's because adding a screenshot is surprisingly hard if you've never discovered that you can create an issue, paste an image into it, and then copy the URL that gives you into your readme without ever actually submitting the issue.
>They require these measurements to be an average. I think this makes sense - it at least guarantees your speeds within the service provider's network.

It is useful that the remote end is the ISP exchange with the other ISPs.

It is way less useful to talk about averages. The averages could be great and it won't mean much when all of a sudden it can be slow, or not work at all.

The important information (and missing there) is what the guaranteed speed is, and what the guaranteed response times are for incidents.

e.g.: Outside the US, many countries have mandated minimums for guaranteed bandwidth, set as a percent of the advertised speeds. Similarly, they enforce certain maximum response times for incidents. There's of course different minimums for residential vs business, and ISPs will offer better tiers with better guaranteed bandwidth.

The FCC has the power to fix the insanity that is US broadband, but appears to be not motivated to.
> Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone: PM 3 — Hiring Zone: $82,692 – $96,473 — Broadband Salary Range: $82,692 – $137,819

Ouch. Toronto is one of the most expensive cities in North America. If they really want "expert" level skills across a number of infosec areas, they are going to have a lot of trouble finding a candidate that meets their requirements.
This is why I keep coming back to HN. I would never have come across this otherwise.
The first 3 points seem pretty weak, but damn, it got suspicious from point 4 onwards.

Regarding point 1, yeah the Chinese stalled, but doctors in Wuhan were already texting each other about the weird infection, in November/December. I think it's possible a government lab took a sample of the virus and started to develop the vaccine even before an actual government acknowledgement, however irresponsible that is.

Point 2 feels like an accusation with no evidence, just based on prior behavior of someone in some other place, but also China.

Point 3 could just be coincidence.
The point being that residential customers' Internet access should not depend on an ISPs good will.

The FCC should help establish a framework and enforce some minimums.

This should not cause much overhead if at all, to an ISP that isn't being abusive in the first place.
They look like Visio to me. Would be nice if they were from something else though.
Software has a long life, like buildings and whatnot, so that is likely why it is singled out versus the office manager.

If you buy a building, you can’t depreciate the whole thing instantly, you do it over the life of the building.
Yo I'm glad you like it!! I made it over a few days by giving instructions to GPT-4. About 80% of the time it would get my desired functionality exactly right. When I named it society.htm it looked and worked a lot differently, but I think the name still applies. I've started writing a readme for it but got distracted with other projects. Here is the github for it https://github.com/mnenoff/society-htm
Not just the account. The telemetry should have a complete off switch too.
Nominative determinism[0] is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names.

Quite fitting that Gary Bowser has made himself an enemy of Nintendo.

So Long, Gary Bowser

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
> Democracy is about the people being able to participate in government. That's it.

But why is that a good thing? We don't have to have everyone participate. You don't seem to believe in democracy yourself here.

> were manipulated by blatantly false Russian and Republican propaganda.

I think we should be extremely cautious about views that suggest cross sections of the population are not capable agents. Either you're right, 47% of people are manipulated idiots, and the other half are enlightened, or they hold grievances and values you just don't understand.
If the numbers go up, somebody looks good. Maybe even gets a promotion.
Yes, because getting cancer from smoking is the same as having cookies in your browser. What a completely asinine argument, even if it seems to be very popular these days.

"Oh you are against x regulation? Yet you aren't against mandatory seatbelts or warnings in cigarette packages, or child labor laws! Curious!"

Like you realize that it is a pretty self defeating argument, since you are inadvertently saying that any regulation is a slippery slope to another one. Which thankfully isn't the case, and people can actually form an opinion on individual laws (and even disagree with them!) even if they are in favor of other regulations.
I can see the Wire ref and can understand the device choice on Apple. But the operational part of email? that you'd need to show me a reference for
Explanation on how it works: https://blog.oimo.io/2023/04/10/life-universe-en/
Our MVP Is Live
We applied to Y Combinator a couple of weeks back, and we launched our MVP today. I would greatly appreciate any feedback from the HN community. Cheers!
Republicans. As always they are the enemy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/us/politics/tax-bill-vote...

"the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in decades"
Kirkland, WA resident here. There is signage on the boat that uniquely identifies the #1 end and the #2 end of the boat. Can be helpful in finding your way back to your vehicle if you drove onto the ferry instead of being a walk-on passenger.
How much does it cost to query these models all the time? It's offering a lot for free.
on my phone, at least, it just endlessly says "loading". I could feel the seconds of my life slipping away.
Perhaps they figured they could rake in much more cash by giving the license away for free and charging someone else for showing ads.
Well, every single thing I tried other than gpt-4 failed for me.
Cabin (https://www.cabinprivatetravel.com/) used to offer an SF-LA sleeper bus circa 2017, but looks like they're just doing private charters nowadays. I guess they couldn't make it work even with $115 one-way tickets. The sleeper train here is admittedly aiming at a slightly different audience but it's not clear to me it'll be any more successful...
Bill Gates probably does not want to have his brain removed either.

Either way, we still celebrate the Wright brothers even if their invention was not immediately useful or scalable.
Yawn.
“ Fishtank is a streamer house monitored 24/7 & broadcasted live to the world. All bedrooms have cameras, common spaces are monitored via video and audio surveillance. When the lights go out, the IR comes on.”
No it doesn’t. It shows you which websites are big enough to be a target and/or to have entire regulatory compliance teams that are spooked by the threat of a revenue fine to invest enough resources into implementing a horribly bad UX just to dot their “i”s.
I would have thought rendering is on the GPU, so CPU would be for non-rendering stuff. Maybe the IDE is using it?
Yep, exactly. If you were getting equity in the company then it would be a security. Pre-sale of the product isn't. There's no common enterprise.
This is already in place. We file reports quarterly and have to provide specific levels of service to apply for any grants.
There's a few other languages that do this (as the primary version. Most languages mix)[0]. In fact there's 3 main classes:

- relative: in relation to the viewer (e.g. The mouse is to my right)

- absolute: using some coordinate system, such as cardinal (e.g. Plant is on the North side of the room)

- intrinsic: relative, but with respect to another object and not the viewer (e.g. the TV is on top of the TV stand which is opposite of the door)

It is worth mentioning that this is overly simplified and that there is a lot more nuance to all this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_spatial_cognition
I wonder if it could be possible to enable Amtrak - or passengers - to sue to enforce the law that says it has priority over freight?

"By Federal law, with only very few exceptions Amtrak passenger trains must be given preference over freight trains in using any rail line. Unfortunately, only the Department of Justice can enforce this law, and it has brought only one enforcement action against a freight company in Amtrak’s history, and that was nearly 40 years ago! As a result, freight railroads suffer no significant consequences for prioritizing their freight over our country’s rail passengers."[1] (emphasis mine)

[1] https://media.amtrak.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CY2017-R...
But that's what Google does when it's "working."
More about Cristina Hartmann, the author, at her website: https://cristinahartmann.com/about/
I thought it would be difficult when I bought a car in Australia to manage shifting with my left hand, but it turned out to be surprisingly easy. I had been under the impression for some reason that the clutch would be controlled with the right foot. Thank God the pedals are in the same places.
I know its probably not what you're looking for, but Bitwig has a similar workflow to Ableton, and has first class Linux support.

A few years ago I was in a similar situation, but decided in the end to not allow myself to be tethered to an operating system, and did away with all the software I couldn't use elsewhere.
Universities already have their indirect cost rate negotiated (most are like 80-120%). Default for newcomers is around 30%, until you can build up the history and wherewithal to navigate the negotiations for establishing your own rate.
To get the tax cut law through congress without requiring support from democrats, they had to raise revenue somehow, so they cancelled this provision, with the idea they would add it back later.
I was taught the mnemonic “There’s no red port left in the bottle”. Port wine is red.
You are very clearly the reason Google went down. BAD DEVELOPER! NO BEER PONG!

(This is a joke offered in the spirit of humor and is in no way a criticism.)
That you are apparently easily offended and paranoid that you have been attacked are two more symptoms. I am not responsible for your emotions. For the sake of those you care about, get evaluated and seek treatment. It is easy, cheap, non-invasive, drug free, and enjoyable, and I assure you that you'll never regret that you did. Your next emotion is going to be denial, which I'm afraid is also a symptom. If you won't seek treatment, then please consider that your pride is not a virtue. Its exact opposite, humility, is the virtue.
The US makes very good use of its extensive rail system but they use it for astonishing amounts of cargo, not for moving around small numbers of people very quickly. Outside of perhaps the Boston/DC corridor, passenger rail service is about enjoying the scenery. For any other use, cars, buses, and airplanes are better in most ways.
Yup. I had it happen on Safari but not Chrome. But it's back to normal now.
The man is actor Jim Carey, it’s a frame from a scene in the Ace Ventura Pet Detective movies. A rhino is giving birth to him.