skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer and engineering manager, I’ve never felt more pressure to increase productivity for myself and my team.

That pressure isn’t being exerted on us by senior management. Today’s fundraising environment is brutal. LLMs and Copilot mean future devs have the tools to out-code and out-produce us. If we don’t adapt, we’ll fall behind.

I expect the future of software engineers requires embracing new tools to increase both code quality and quantity. And if I can adapt and help others, our productivity will either be the advantage we need in a more competitive environment or the table stakes to avoid the next 6 rounds of layoffs. Either way, our productivity is on the rise.
So the 'fix' to the insane prices is to offer co-habitation with 'safety features'? How about just going the full distance and share beds while we are at it.

I bet it is super weird to have the CEO come in and demand all sorts of changes because he did the thing that his product team probably should have done themselves.
> How about gender segregated education, do you want to bring it back?

Yes, that would be ideal for a variety of reasons.
Maple IR Specification
Doing God’s work, fella. This is also a pet peeve of mine.
I mean it's their time, if they want to do something useless but harmless, why not? Unless this is their first step in a grand scheme to halt the evolution of language, I don't see a problem here.
And even if there was an Académie, what authority would they have?

Eg the French have one, but that doesn't mean they have any moral authority.
The justifications given in that essay leave a really bad taste in my mouth:

> I believe using "comprised of" is poor writing, because

> It's completely unnecessary. There are many other ways to say what the writer means by "comprised of". It adds nothing to the language.

That's true for many, many other words. In fact, most instances of definite and indefinite articles "add nothing to the language", since the actual information is in the noun. Just leave them out, right? "I go house."

> It's illogical for a word to mean two opposite things.

"To comprise" and "to be comprised of" contain the same word, but not in the same sense.

> The etymology of the word does not support "comprised of".

That's irrelevant to the current meaning of the word. This is called an "etymological fallacy"[1].

> It's new. Many current Wikipedia readers were taught to write at a time when not one respectable dictionary endorsed "comprised of" in any way. It was barely ever used before 1970.

Good luck reading Wikipedia, or any newspaper article, if you are uncomfortable with language coined during the past half-century. What exactly is that "Internet" thing people keep talking about? Note that "The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Collins English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionaries regard the form comprised of as standard English usage."[2]

The author could have just written "I don't like 'comprised of', and I'm going to impose my preference on everyone else, even though the term has been part of standard contemporary English for a long time."

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprised_of
People in the developing world will not make any sacrifice to their standard of living, which is already low. To the contrary, they will insist on increasing their standard of living. For the developed world to bankroll the green infrastructure of the developing world--at a scale that allows the developing world to continue improving its standard of living, and while continuing their own green energy investment--will require people in the developing world to give away far more than "a little."
I've been using a few mini PCs for things where I needed a headless system, but wanted x86_64 and a little more performance and reliability than a Pi, I settled on N3350 devices like the N4 by TrigKey or the Beelink T4.

Everything I need is supported by Ubuntu server. Excellent little machines.
It reminds me of the game "Game Dev Tycoon", where they released a version on torrent sites where after about a year of ingame time your company would go bankrupt because of loss of profits due to piracy. The retail version of the game didn't even include piracy as a mechanic, it was just added as a joke in the torrent version.

Still, Twitter and Reddit discussions about the game were filled with "don't buy that game. It's impossible to play for more than an hour without going bankrupt". Of course none of those users admitted that they pirated the game, and word-of-mouth reviews of the game became "don't buy it, it's terribly balanced / unfair"
It depends on 'primo' the 'primo location' is, I guess.

It is very much on the high end.
Yes, in fact. I have people in my extended family who are fair skinned (i.e. white) and have visited my home. The Nest was almost immediately able to accurately identity them even in sub-optimal lighting conditions. Even though it struggles to identity me except in the most optimal lighting conditions. Despite the fact that it "sees" me a lot more.

It was one of the first things I noticed when I got the doorbell. The difference was stark and obvious.
Whoah! That's awesome! Thank you for making my weekend better :D

I'll try setting that up over the weekend. Just wondering - would you recommend using your suggested setup for a "production" app?

Considering the hardware I own is powerful enough to host postgres + a half dozen services to run the app including a bunch of real time processing. If my calculations are correct I should have enough resources to handle a few thousand or more concurrent users, and at an old gig we were able to service millions of DAU with even less power. As long as I can meet <500ms client request times I think it should be fine, considering there's gonna be extra network hops.
Heavily disagree and I run remote teams.
Time to use more "comprised of" in wikipedia.
No one say it out loud, and no one is probably thinks that they believe it. In this sense you are right. But the article describes how people act, and they act like they believe in it.

It is strikingly similar to a white person claiming that they are not a racist and protecting their privileges. People believe a lot of things about themselves, but not all of these things are true.

Litmus test for one's beliefs is their behavior, the choices they make, especially costly ones. Their words from other hand should be taken with a grain of salt. Words are cheap.
I'm not saying she's wrong, but:

In patent claims, "comprising" and "consisting of" are different:

6,151,604 claim 1 is:

1. A data storage and retrieval system for a computer memory, comprising:

means for configuring said memory according to a logical table, said logical table including: ...

6,151,605 claim 1 is:

1. A method for allowing a software application to access a configuration file, said configuration file comprising data used by said software application, comprising the steps of:

providing a configuration processing library, said configuration processing library comprising ...

===================

You almost never use "consisting of" in writing claims.

https://patentfile.org/patent-writing-tip-comprises-vs-consi...
I love PyTorch API design
I have to say that adding CUDA acceleration to a studying project https://github.com/kummahiih/pyqbit was a pleasure thanks to PyTorch obvious design principle. Result is here https://github.com/kummahiih/pytorchqbit
Twin goal posts of censorship and authoritarianism. As long as individuals focus on the tribal identity and blame the 'other', the charade continues uninterrupted.

Try to ignore the votes as much as possible.
> If you want to be realistic, the more realistic option is for rich nations to fund green infrastructure projects in poorer countries.

It's not realistic at all for developed countries to bankroll green infrastructure in the developed world at a scale that allows those developing countries to continue 6-8% GDP growth annually.
Odds are really good that they'll be pressured to work on roofs and the employer will say "Well, they volunteered. I don't how old they are. Am I supposed to card all my employees?"
Good initiative. HTMX + python hits a sweet spot for various interesting things.
And apparently you completely missed that my entire comment is about poor localization.

My comment stands. Clearly the measurements being presented are meant to reach an American/Canadian/English/UK market. But it's an extremely awkward mix.

I apologize for summarizing "in the west" as purely North American. That's obviously not true and my fault for lack of specific country knowledge. Of course France is a core center of Western culture. Sorry French friends, I am a dumb American trying to do better.
English Letters Occur in Most Positions
Your peeve is comprised of people using a word to mean two opposite meanings, as if to make up for flammable and inflammable meaning the same?
That case you made about meat consumption is actually very relatable as found in a few reports went viral in China, including this one by ![guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/16/eating-u...). Twenty years ago most rural living Chinese can't afford beef at all. Twenty years later they are able, and there are like 1 billion rural people become urban in 40 years I guess (plz check source), and developed countries are already mad about stuff they predicted to happen.
Trust fund solution is one helpful tool for this, yet uprising tension in India/US allies and China/Russia/Middle East/Pakistan make the plan definitely dead. It will soon to be another case of WWII U.N. that is controlled by U.S. and vetoed by U.S.S.R. for a billion times a year and not producing anything remotely close to a deal, or a compromise.
Also, solar array is tremendously expensive due to regional difference, just like battery, either rare metal or lithium.
Jeff Bridges. Though Jeff Daniels would be pretty funny.
Funny to see this on the front page of HN. I literally just went down this rabbit hole an hour ago from twitter. I found this article to be among the most interesting related commentary...

https://web.archive.org/web/20150214014338/http://chronicle....
What he is arguing that you should not localize to the US because of the product. That has a point
Ask HN: What kind of math has made your programming ability level up and how?
Mind sharing that chat server so that all of us can use it, still think it will be stable? ;)
Physical office real estate is a major liability in 2023. All of this noise is about people not accepting that fact.
Red gifs is a gfycat product though, not an Imgur one.
I’m still waiting for autocorrect to stop changing “wellbeing” to “well-being”
And if you are localizing to a country, be sure to do it in the local vernacular.
Sure, but why should people who can’t use the language properly () be an uncontested force in that evolution?

() If we can’t say that “comprised of” is objectively wrong, then what _can_ we say about English? Should we accept “bought” as a legitimate past tense of “bring”? Sometimes people are just making a habitual mistake. It happens to me, too.
>Hyperia is made of Zicral, an alloy used in the aerospace industry for its outstanding mechanical performance and exceptional resistance to extreme conditions.

Had to look this up, only to find out that it's just 7075 aluminum.

This got me thinking, though, what would be interesting is an outdoor rated all-sky camera that can be permanently mounted and powered with PoE, is easy to clean off, doesn't get fogged up, and has an extremely high light sensitivity including near infrared bands. Then you could watch for aircraft, meteors and satellite flares with some precision (assuming you have a GPS location for the camera.)
> Legally speaking priests are employees and the church is the employer. I think our government system should treat them as such.

Priests within a religion are something like government officials and something like members in a fraternal or sororal organization (such as the Masons or Elks). In another sense they're like "independent sales representatives" in a multi-level marketing scheme. In another sense they'd be like enlisted or officers in a military. In another sense they'd be like executives in a corporation (who have contractual fiduciary, and yes, moral obligations that regular employees don't have).

The duties and expectations are different from those of regular employees. In fact, I'm sure most religious institutions have many regular employees (such as janitors, some teachers for religious schools, etcetera), who are probably held to lesser standards.

> Whether it’s right or wrong from the perspective of the church or followers of the religion should be separate from our rules about privacy.

Yes. Unfortunately we don't have many such rules when it comes to data we've shared with third parties.
> The state of the art in facial recognition technology has been superhumanly accurate (e.g. telling apart identical twins better than humans can, finding pictures with significant weight or age differences) on all subgroups for several years now, and the racial disparities in accuracy are minuscule relative to the level of noise.

That may be true of state of the art models that have been demonstrated under some conditions; it continues not to be true, frequently, of models actually adopted in major products, even new ones, in the actual deployment conditions (e.g., the recently adopted CBP One app that US asylum seekers are required to use for appointment scheduling and other purposes, and which requires facial recognition, and disproportionately fails for dark skinned users, who are not uncommon in the population required to use the app.)
I'd say I'm less productive than at the beginning of my career because I'm no longer naive about nature of working life. Loving your job, work ethic, recognition, career progression, etc.. it's all a big joke. It seems ludicrous to give 110% for 40 hours a week because of some ridiculous, intangible ROI based in emotion or obligation to Business Daddy, because he _did me a favour_ in hiring me. If I apply myself at work at all beyond the minimum required, it's because it benefits me and only me directly. In fact my progression to this cynicism is thanks to the realisation that this is how the corporate world actually works. It's self-interest all the way down. Those not on the employee's side will try hard to muddy the waters, but it's plain to see: you are selling your labour and they're buying it, as cheap as they can, and only if they have to. Why would I hand over more in that transaction than I need to? The other party won't.
And imagine if every time there was a comment about not liking ice cream some people had to comment that they don’t like a comment that don’t like ice cream.
it's exceedingly common to use a monochromatic sensor with different filters and then combine them in post. you might use visual filters - e.g., take 3 exposures using red/green/blue filters, but it's also common to use filters for specific wavelengths e.g. hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur, and then assign RGB to each filter arbitrarily

there's lots of other red flags with this product but I wouldn't care about this one
Well, there is as many opinions as there is people, so consensus is a bit hard to reach...
Maybe in a corporate environment. But not when it comes to personal devices.

Most tablets sold are iPads. They don't have Chrome pre-installed. In North America, most phones are iPhones that don't have Chrome pre-installed. Most personal laptops are either Windows machines or Macs which don't have Chrome installed. Its pretty disingenuous to pretend as if Chrome market share comes from devices with Chrome preinstalled. People go out of their way to install Chrome.
It works for early stage startups too. Just not the frat house kind that is all he knows and has foisted on the world.
I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough
If you're going to publish a page in English publish all of the page in English. A page that's 98 percent in English is just a page in English with a bunch of mistakes.
thats just a re-marketing strategy for private rooms only. That itself didn't sell as well so the've remarketed it to make it sound more appealing.

Some of the changes [he tweeted them] have been great. But i think the price and nuance makes hotels a better and cheaper option. For short stays at least
> the longest regular conversations I’ve had in the last week have been with an AI-powered rubber duck

I think, and am basing this off of nothing objective, but it feels like the vast majority of content today is written by people who spend, frankly, too much time online. I think the fact I’m writing a comment about this says that I, too, spend too much time online.

The bubble that the tech world and this website in particular differs so much so from reality that I don’t know what to make of the articles that front page here.

All the twitter doomsaying, trump will never be president, all entirely wrong. I don’t know what to make of it - maybe I should log off for a while
I'd say the most important factors for astrophotography are in order:

1. Location and weather

2. Optics

3. Sensor, tracking and post processing

They can't control the first, but it seems they put everything in (3) instead of (2). The telescope is a 15cm refractor. I don't know any amateur astronomer using a refractor, let alone one with this budget. Refractors introduce further optical aberrations compared to first surface mirrors, usually collect less light and have shorter focal lengths for the same telescope size. Is there something I'm missing?
False. Sounds like you have no idea how to run remote teams.
The leading image in the OP tells us everything we need to know about what the publication wants us to take away from this article.
A best explanation by EFF here(https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/government-hasnt-justi...) is that it is not only for TikTok. A transparant system of regulating and even auditing what telemetry services can acquire is fundamentally and universally beneficial for whatever country the service is based in.

But it is not surprising that those laws are never passed so far. Google in their software realm is too strong to be combated as compared to their hardware realm with right to repair. The big names in hardware are replacable as they all buy stock solution (like fingerprint sensor), and those sensor manufacturers don't care about right to repair. But Instagram or Snapchat or WhatsApp or Tiktok or whatever are not that replacable and thus more addictive and better for the company. Google or Meta is definitely not giving up on these places, and considering their influence, the future ain't bright.
There are processors with support for bounds checking and hardware memory tagging.

ARM being one of them.
Zicral sounds fancy, but it’s a standard, if high performing aluminium alloy used for all sorts of things. Given the price point I would hope to see a titanium alloy or carbon fibre to really juice the specs.
OpenAi also released Whisper in September. They do open stuff once in a while.
I cannot say for all, but I personally was in doubt which parties you are talking about. This comment I think uncovers your idea, it is far right and far left isn't it? But at first I thought you talked about parties from the article discussed: scientists sacrificing science for a noble goal of fighting social biases and scientists saying that science is more important, and the fight against biases should slow down to preserve science.
The psychology of editors and moderators is fascinating. I see them as being cast from the same mold as bureaucrats. All of them, left to their own devices, will invent work and create obstacles.

It takes constant vigilance to avoid such people taking over a site and driving everyone away.

I also wonder what the correlation is between such people and being on the spectrum: The need for rules, the comfort and predictability of order and consistency and that ability to exercise control or power over something (this last one being applicable to pretty much everyone).

No hate intended here. It’s just musing out loud.
Bitcoin is not like gold in one important aspect that chiefly matters for a long-term store of value: it's much more volatile.
You can be remote and also meet in person. You make zero sense.
That whole page is comprised of the most pedantic arguments for what amounts to policing an evolving language
Yes, I would use gross value added to define productivity. But it may not have a strong correlation with business success as it doesn't directly correlate with profitability, net worth, revenue growth, market share, or other success metrics.

High GVA businesses in competitive markets might experience low margins, limited growth potential, and significant annual losses. Companies in commodity sectors like oil or precious metals may have large cash flows but low margins and profits. Additionally, GVA can be influenced by expenditures, such as R&D costs, which might not yield returns. Highly leveraged and indebted businesses can also have inflated GVA due to higher cash flows. Moreover, a profitable company with high GVA can face external challenges, such as legal or regulatory issues, affecting its success in the medium or short term.

Nevertheless, strong employee morale and engagement will contribute to increased productivity or GVA in all cases I can think of. The problem with WFH in the pandemic is that the pandemic was a confounding factor that influenced WFH rates, but also mismanagement and morale itself.
I guess the use of the long s here was intentional, in which case, funny.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/mar/18/secondary-...

> Girls are far more likely to thrive, get GCSEs and stay in education if they go to a single-sex school, according to new research, which reveals pupils who are struggling academically when they start secondary school reap the biggest rewards of girls-only schooling.

> The analysis of the GCSE scores of more than 700,000 girls taught in the state sector concludes that those at girls' schools consistently made more progress than those in co-ed secondaries.

> The fact that pupils with the lowest test scores when they started secondary made the biggest leap in girls' school will reopen the debate about whether more children should have access to a single-sex education in order to drive up results.
Actually, they didn't :)

Think of it as mathematical compression. The ability for math to create very large amounts of data from a simple starting point.

In their case they used a "random" number sequence, based on a specific seed. [1]

Storing the seed is trivial, but the sequence is infinitely long, so getting lots of data from that point is easy.

This approach doesn't let you compress a specific thing, but it does let you decompress something wonderful in a consistent way.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.weeke...
It definitely wouldn't pass Debian's machine learning policy:

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy/
https://deepdive.opensource.org/podcast/why-debian-wont-dist...
Moral, no. But they might influence e.g. textbooks and legal drafting. That ordinateur is not ordinary and l'informatique isn't always very Informative. Unless I am mistaken both English words coming in from the French?
Ask HN: Why and when did you decide to start learning more math?
Assuming that you are from a non-math field or had long foregone mathematics, what made you to start learning more of it? What did you start with? Books, lectures?
OpenAI is the one pushing all the other companies to be irresponsible and rush their products to market. I don’t get it.
How A Dishwasher Engineer Challenged Elon Musk’s Grip on Commercial Space
The bridge is literally on top of a bunch of faults. Tunnels are even more of a death trap. No thanks.
Put a VOC sensor in the car and have a tireless robo voice educate the naughty occupants for the rest of the trip.

Muggers won't be an issue since it's complicated to get people's stuff out of the car through a broken window.
Getting connection refused would be the best way to do this.