skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll caveat that this is mostly tailor toward SaaS companies, but it's all I really know:

I think my proxy for work-life balance is days of PTO. I'm typically going to take ~20 a year. That's what I need to recharge and avoid burnout. In a interview with a manager I would ask:

"So, in the job description it says you have Flexible PTO, what does that actually look like here?"

Usually they'll give me some sort of range or average.

A way to cut down on the chances of working for shitty leadership is to ensure you work with high performers. (not foolproof, but helpful) High performers don't like working for shitty leadership. I borrow my proxy for high performance here from the excellent book, Accelerate (Forsgren, Humble, and Kim), and look for the engineering org to implement CI/CD as well as IAC (Infrastructure As Code). I'll ask about these during question time of the technical interview, as well as other things I care about (testing philosophy, etc). I'm sure there are really great organizations that don't do CI/CD or IAC, but I would have to know _for sure_ that they were great, to work for them.

These are obviously super high level proxies for organizational health from the perspective of an engineer. But reading up on organizational health more broadly can help you identify some red flags these proxies don't cover. Check out The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. It's a fantastic book on organizational health.

Lastly, networking can be very challenging but also very helpful here. It's not something that comes easy to me, but it has helped tremendously in figuring out which companies in my community I do and do not want to work for. This could be less relevant now that almost everyone is cool with remote work. But even my most recent job post-covid, was something I found because of my network. Go to meetups. Go to conferences. Get coffee with people who do similar things. It can really pay off.
I think a meta-circular interpreter for Prolog would fit this description nicely. Prolog excels at writing interpreters in general, and in particular admits exceptionally short meta-circular meta-interpreters, i.e., interpreters written in Prolog that can interpret pure Prolog code, including their own source code.

An example of such a meta-circular Prolog interpreter is:

mi([]).
mi([G0|Gs0]) :-
clause(G0, Rs, Gs0),
mi(Rs).

It can interpret pure Prolog code, a Turing-complete subset of first-order predicate logic. For example, given the following clauses:

clause(natnum(0), Rs, Rs).
clause(natnum(s(X)), [natnum(X)|Rs], Rs).

It yields:

?- mi([natnum(X)]).
X = 0
; X = s(0)
; X = s(s(0))
; X = s(s(s(0)))
; X = s(s(s(s(0))))
; ... .

The meta-interpreter's own code can also be represented in this way:

clause(mi([]), Rs, Rs).
clause(mi([G0|Gs0]), [clause(G0,Rs,Gs0),mi(Rs)|Ls], Ls).

clause(clause(Head, Rs0, Rs), Ls, Ls) :- clause(Head, Rs0, Rs).

And now it can interpret its own source code, interpreting any given program, arbitrarily deeply nested. For example:

?- mi([mi([mi([natnum(X)])])]).
X = 0
; X = s(0)
; X = s(s(0))
; X = s(s(s(0)))
; ... .

Tested with Scryer Prolog.
There are more factors than "nobody got fired for buying IBM" regarding AWS/Azure/GCE:

- the Big Three have data centers all over the world. No other provider can match that. (Obviously: if 99% of your customers come from the EU, Hetzner, OVH and friends will be cheaper)

- there is a ton of prior experience in managing and provisioning infrastructure on the Big Three. You got Terraform providers covering every oh so tiny resource they have, and for literally every problem you got dozens upon dozens of stackoverflow/serverfault posts.

- the Big Three have allll sorts of managed services. No matter if you need cheap blob hosting, virtual servers, bare metal servers without paying setup fees, AI training servers, VPNs, global load balancing/caching, data storage/archival, databases, "serverless" hosting, email, SMS, IoT communication, Active Directory and other identity/authentication/authorization solutions, business data analytics, whatever - it's all a one-stop-shop. No dozens of vendors, bills, payment schedules, GDPR processing agreements, budget issues - one vendor, one bureaucracy, everything you need.

It's really bad that the EU never woke up to the rise of the Big Three and say, for example, financed the development of OpenStack to the tune that it could be used by domestic providers, because now the Big Three have all but eliminated the smaller competition.
I think the source for these two YouTube videos is highly suspect. Isn't this the same guy who got called out by Claire Lehmann for promoting white genocide theory?

Source aside, I think this is another example of confusing common elements in any cultural shift with the totalitarian violence-oriented method employed by the Maoists. "Stakeholder capitalism," for example, is a fancy term for "Corporations bow to their stakeholders." But who are the stakeholders? They're mostly customers. So if the customers are rewarding companies for (at least paying lip-service to) being open-minded about diverse ways of being, then who we blame for capitalism-backed-democracy being "subverted" is... The people?

Can the people subvert their own democratic system?
Poll: How does your startup manage its technical debt?
There are lots of books about how to manage software complexity, how to work with legacy code, and how to refactor code as you go along.

But it seems like individual companies have quite different approaches?

What does your current company do, and what is the result?
We prioritize refactoring and continuously improve our codebase to minimize tech debt.
We allocate specific time periods (e.g., "tech debt sprints") to address tech debt.
We continuously incur tech debt, but it hasn't caused significant issues yet.
Our tech debt is overwhelming, leading to struggles with shipping and/or bug management.
We have a dedicated team responsible for managing and reducing tech debt.
We employ a mix of strategies, depending on the project and its requirements.
Other (please comment).
That's always been the gameplan for free trade. Open markets where your country has a competitive advantage, subsidies and tariffs and closed markets when it doesn't.
Probably. It is possible to think and write in another's mode. But it's difficult to do consistently, and it certainly isn't satisfying to the person doing so.
Can you explain how this will compromise your ability to lock down your phone? Not only do you still have complete control over which apps you install, those that are installed are still subject to the same sandbox.

If you want only Apple "approved" apps, well you can still do that and you lose nothing. You can't really complain about side load only apps that aren't Apple approved then, because that is exactly what you want. But keep in mind this is orthogonal to the "locked down" level of your phone.
I would say the limit epsilon derivative is exactly the sort of thing grandparent post is talking about. It's quite intuitive and doesn't require hardly any mathematical foundation at all, other than basic geometry and algebra. You can understand topics that build on that simple concept without understanding the more formal derivative definitions.
Thanks. Interesting process. I guess for new chips especially of other architectures it might require a lot of rewriting of the underlying code.
Officers of China's national police charged in transnational repression scheme
Citing almost a century old incident that might have happened but ducking when asking about the recent killings by West in Bosnia, Serbia, Syria, Yemen Iraq and Afghanistan and talking about what X might have done is "precisely the propaganda I spoke of, when I brought up West genocide of millions& of Muslims.

A friendly advise: Clean your own backyard first before preaching others, till then carry on living in a bubble created by Fox, CNN, BBC etc. Cheers.
This is a great idea. It would be really useful if you could just put in income and expenses with dates attached, and have the app compute things in windows of various sizes, as well as traditional calendar-based periods.
"America has access to both oceans, which means maritime access to the entire world without being able to be blockaded along the way easily. This is asymmetrical, it doesn't necessarily confer advantage the other way around. It has an absolutely massive population, and unimaginable amounts of diverse resources."

If those matter so much, Mexico should be much stronger than it is. Unblockable access to two oceans, big population, reasonable amount of resources.

What is lacking is rule of law...
This came about as a result of many years of profit from non-consensual intimate media and many lawsuits from victims.

Yes they seem to be doing everything above board now but victims and their allies have a right to voice their worries and hopefully have them assuaged.
Wouldn't it be easier to place specific links at that point? If you know what you want to link to...
Nope, good teachers understand when the question they wrote thinking to test certain concepts falls flat, because of some unforeseen oversight or quirk. Something being clear and intuitive to a math professor is not the same as something being clear and intuitive to the students.

The best professors strike and ignore questions that "failed", ie didn't accurately test what they thought they would.
>Teams, it's falling apart every new release

I've never used Teams, but it is weird to me that non-tech people seem to really like it while tech people hate it. Is it simply that the tech people are comparing it to slack but the non-tech people are comparing it to email/skype/etc.?
Looks cool! How does it come up with different architectures when changing from one type of database (e.g.) to another?
Even doing that won't help.

Like, a reasonably complex program is going to have a call graph with tens or even hundreds of thousands of nodes. Graphviz won't save you. Collapsing sccs won't save you. It won't actually be useful to navigate.
It seems like the Benford's Law distribution should be adjustable by the specifics of its input data.
Not just Claudius, they were involved in a few imperial transitions.

But it's debatable if that's a military-industrial complex functioning in conditions of economic hazard. Like, advisors and royal courts plotting against the ruler is fairly common and historically never involved stock buyback schemes.
I was excluded from these specific sessions in more than one government office (who were clients), I assume because my natural wit, presence, and basic personal integrity would have made it impossible for the struggle leader to fully break down the audience.

They exploit the agreeableness of the people in the sessions, and whenever I hear about them, I am reminded of the "blue eyes / brown eyes" experiment I studied at an alternative high school, where we were all oddly innoculated to this nonsense because it was effectively tested on us.
I always figured it was the other way around. When you're small it's pretty easy to get by with a stupidly simple solution but as you grow you end up needing to spend much more to build something scalable and at that point, using the cloud makes sense. The biggest success that cloud providers have had is convincing users that they need to spend $100k and that a much simpler $5k solution that's built using off the shelf components just won't cut it.
Better data is still critical, even if bigger data isn't. The linked article emphasizes this.
Homebuyers are in bidding war to lose to Investors likely purchase with cash
> Firmware is software. [...] but I'm having trouble imagining how some TV could possibly be damaged by software.

It's not very hard to imagine. For instance, most embedded chips have several "general purpose" I/O (GPIO) pins, which can be configured as an input or as an output; their usage depends on how the chip was wired into the circuit, and very often, they're shared with "alternate functions" like a serial bus. Configure them incorrectly (as an output when they should be an input, for instance), and you can easily create a short circuit, burning that pin or even the whole chip.
No it doesn't.

For one thing they're already at human performance.

For another, i don't think you realize how expensive inference can get. Microsoft with no scant amount of available compute is struggling to run gpt-4 such that they're rationing it between subsidiaries while they try to jack up compute.

So saying, it would be economically sound if it cost x10 or x100 what it costs now is a joke.
It makes integration with YNAB very painful, as well.
> Both gold and crypto are poor vehicles for original commenter's need.

Why is gold a poor vehicle?

> My comment about defi was just because you characterized the stock market as "gambling"

If humans could predict the future, we wouldn't have gambling. That's what makes the stock market a gamble. Can you offset that with derivatives, like options? Sure! That said, you're showing your naivety around DeFi with your response. Lending/borrowing isn't a gamble beyond the underling risks involved.
I wonder what the income distribution on buyers looks like for these different companies, and what proportion of their buyers would be unable to use the tax credit regardless? E.g. if proportion p of your buyers can't use the tax credit and relying on foreign battery production reduces the sticker price at least (1-p) * $7500, you would be net saving your purchasers money if you keep the foreign battery sources?
> Oh, and cut them off from international banking.

How do you propose?
> You're really not trying hard to think of any possible answers, are you?

I asked a question because I don't know. I assumed you did. I'm trying to learn something.
Yep, most of my purchases today are using ApplePay and it's like magic that the button appears and I can just press it, choose my shipping address and card, and be done with the purchase.
Why would you ever want to use the UI for, other than troubleshooting?! No matter the cloud provider in question, everything should be done through Terraform or another provisioning platform.

Seriously, doing stuff manually on any hosting provider has become a crimson red flag for me. Even at home for my private stuff, I have ansible scripts for every piece of infrastructure. No more manually set up raspberrys or what ever.
I think that Search Engine Optimization as we know it is also going to change forever as well.

Don't be surprised if we start seeing ads like "If you don't appear in Bing/GPT, you don't exist;" we are now in the era of AI-based Search Engine Optimization, or whatever term you want to put it on.

The end result is that the BigAI must know about you and talk about you. You must position yourself in the mind of ChatGPT or similar.

EDIT: How about "Prompt Search Term Optimization" (PSTO)?
Will Larson was one of the favorite people I met at Uber, and when he left, it was much darker.
Just cover the canals as cheaply as possible. And then put solar panels where it makes sense to put them.

Sometimes that might be over the covered canals, but often not.
> Hieroglyphic systems are "non-phonetic"

Wasn't there at least one that just encoded letters almost identical to the alphabet we use?
What does the Leaf have that the Bolt doesn't?

CarPlay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35573345

It's why we bought a Hyundai instead of waiting for an EV Chevy Blazer.
> An alt-store stands to capture more value on iOS than Android, and spying on iOS users is probably a whole lot more lucrative than spying on Android users.

How so?

I think American Apple users just don’t realise how insignificant Apple market share is outside the US.

Android was open from the start. Giant like Amazon tried to kickstart alt stores. What did happen? Nothing.

I think people should stop drinking Apple fear mongering. It’s just aggressive lobbying to protect their cash cow.
And as an an Admin, GMail is awful. Microsoft knows what admins need and give them to tools to do it. There is so much that can't be configured with GMail, and they don't even provide a proper cmd tool like Microsoft does with their powershell modules. The only option is "GAM", a third party not supported by Google project [0].

Another example, the default routing rules page in the admin console defaults to only showing 10 rules. Every time you add a rule, the pagination is reset, so you get lost where you are and can't even see the rule you literally just added.

And as an identity platform, Google is nothing compared to Okta or AAD. Whilst it's wonderful that Google login is everywhere now, I can't for example, request the user do 2FA for particular apps.

Even the admin console only requires 2FA once a month, it's ridiculous.

And don't get me started on "groups" still being attached to distribution lists out of the 60s [1]. Or the inability to have shared mailboxes.

No one should ever choose Google Workspace over Office 365.

[0] https://support.google.com/a/answer/10014088?hl=en

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35070618
The UK faced the same challenge but has mostly ensured that now synthetic phonics is the standard method of instruction. The success of this programme has really been down to a single key politician in the Department for Education, Nick Gibb. He's never had a cabinet role so didn't get deeply caught up in reshuffles, and for most of the past 13 years he's been the Schools Minister.
The TES ran a profile of him and his phonics drive recently, a good followup to the Sold a Story series:
http://archive.today/ee9LA
it's over, billions of parameters must be released
Empathy Is a Hard Science
how it is better from buying short term treasury ETF?
Is a wonderful program teaching math. I cannot recommend it enough. I recommend it to all my friends. It starts from basics - in kindergarten they do problems like "there are 4 birds on a branch. 2 fly away. How many are left on the branch?". And then it builds and keeps building.
My son is taking it. My son was solving linear equations when he was 11 years old. I think this is the best education he is getting - and the one that will stay with him the most.
Thank you for the amazing work. Do you know if you can relax python requirements to 3.10? Right now I can only use it up to 0.5.7
> I regret that your school didn't bully you enough to realize you shouldn't be an ideologically grotesque nerd.

You can bully me here. Let's see what you got.
Wrote this up as a blog post: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/17/redpajama-data/
You think "why go through the trouble of inflicting all this suffering" but to this mindset inflicting suffering is not a trouble, it's a pleasure
Oh, I have had good experiences with German providers Manitu and Corpex. Very good service, although the latter almost exclusively deals in managed hosting.
All good points, and it's even worse for Google: the websites providing ad inventory are another important customer. And their needs (more traffic) are in conflict with end users doing a search (get answer quickly).
Elsevier: NeuroImage – all editors have resigned over the high publication fee [pdf]
I like my kids' elementary school teachers, they seem fine, and maybe it's mostly about teaching kids to behave in another social setting at that age - but I do have it in the back of my mind that zero of the best and brightest from my graduating high school class (judged by who was in the honors / AP classes) went into teaching elementary school.
If the expense of the solar panels is not Bourne by the beneficiary of the increased water supply then there was no incentive other than the solar power.
No idea!

I wonder how hard it would be to fine-tune something built on RedPajama on further code examples to improve performance there.
Good concept. visualization is poor. Force Atlas is really not that great for structural analysis, and nodes need to be weighted by degree among other more code-specific factors. Consider bringing the code graph into NetworkX or some similar library and using graphML to leverage existing visualization solutions rather than reinventing the wheel.
if you use water to cool down the panels then you should not expect to lower the evaporation. I would say that this would increase evaporation as solar panels reflect less light than water. but this is just speculatio from my side.
From one (me) who bought a Hyundai in the past week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35604611

Whether, and how, it applies to other makes I do not know.
Good luck finding anything that doesn't try to incorporate AI.

At least with Kagi you can toggle off the AI stuff. In my settings, either I already toggled it off and forgot or it's off by default.
Dolphins seem to find this quite entertaining to do. There are many charter boats in Florida that garuntee dolphin bow riding sightings, and they don't feed the dolphins or anything like that I'm aware of. They just drive around and the dolphins are eager to show up.
Title is misleading lol. Plenty of scale room left.
Multiethnic structure of Mongolia’s first nomadic empire
> But then so are savings accounts at banks (vs Checking accounts)

Yeah this is the part that I'm confused about because I think that savings accounts are federally restricted to 6 withdrawls a month? I could be completely wrong on that.

But yeah the target audience for this IMO - people who have maybe a few thousand saved up that they keep for emergency funds or semi-hot money for larger purchases. which matches the target iphone audience I think pretty well.

I bet they restricted accounts to less then 250k because they don't want to bother splitting it across banks when the target audience would be expected to only have several thousand.
Yes - I now have an amazon policy where each item is one transaction. Then I have to go through the whole year 10 at a time. Yet another mind blowingly bad customer experience. I am getting closer and closer to ditching my Prime account...
You can, in fact, copyright closed source software.
As Housing Development Slows, Seattle Eyes Transportation Impact Fee Projects
I've heard a lot of people in the USA are "unbanked". I'm willing to bet a fair share of those people have an iPhone (if not necessarily a top-of-the-line one). Does this make it any easier to get an account? Or do you still have to jump through hoops. (not US citizen so I have limited knowledge of getting banking there).
It means they will have to take a lease instead of paying by cash or financing with credit. It's a loophole that Kia and Hyundai is trying to steer customers to. Their last quarter was stupendously bad.
You didn’t just do that, Heroku
Locked-up troublemakers still make trouble though, don't they? Their very existence signals to those not locked up yet that there is something wrong. That you can be punished for having ideas and behaving in ways they don't want.

They are many things at that point. A source of inspiration, a lesson in how to maybe not be locked up yourself. A target for rebels to rescue (that would be embarrassing).

Getting more extreme doesn't fix it... if you simply execute them, then they're martyrs. It can't be fixed later (like with prisoners, potentially). You don't get to un-martyr them.

The question is how you erase them from existence itself. And the totalitarians have started to figure out the solution to that problem in the 21st century, I fear.
IME, not if you're using Terraform with proper modularization and can stick to the commonly available feature set. Have one layer of modules that describe what you want (e.g. a virtual server, database, monitoring) and behind that a separate layer that implements it (e.g. creates an EC2 instance, an RDS database or a CloudWatch alert).
I don't think this argument really holds up.

GPT3 on release was more expensive ($0.06/1000 tokens vs $0.03 input and $0.06 output for GPT4).

Reasonable to assume that in 1-2 years it will also come down in cost.