skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so ridiculous that I assume it is intentional sabotage. Isn't the whole idea behind unionization that we can get beyond tipping?

https://archive.ph/v1tpo

>In addition to an overall raise, representatives from the store are asking Apple for higher pay over a larger slate of holidays, including the day after Thanksgiving. The union is also seeking to expand vacation pay and available time off based on years of service. And it wants to extend paid bereavement leave from 10 days per occurrence to a maximum of 45 days a year and for the policy to include pets and close friends.

45 days a year for pet bereavement? If it includes goldfish, I'm in!
Yeah my experience post Covid is people more so just want to stick to themselves or their own existing cliques
I am not going to be serious here, because, honestly, this is kind of ridiculous.

Two years ago I distinctly remember server side rendering piped thru websocket was future.

I also like how demo is visibly ugly, jQuery-style ugly. It's nostalgic in a way. And I swear to gods this approach will break back button. And resending form after network error. And expired cookie will of course result in your input being lost.
Impressive. How about using a male voice? I think it would fit the character of HN since the vast majority here seem to be men. (Optimally it would be someone who sounds roughly like a tech person, if that makes sense, though I guess there isn't so much choice in voices.)
I wonder how this will interact with the "it's out of warranty, but we will do this once, just for you" sort of situation?
Makes sense, but wasn't there a bit of a Catch 22? How did you meet your long term partner and develop intimacy, without first improving those skills in general?
While I’m 100% sure this will never happen, I’m still a bit floored this was even brought to the table by the union. What a patently absurd idea.
Unions should be fighting for more income from employers - not from customers!
"Okay, I was able to find FUCK THAT as an agreed tip amount"
> But there's nothing wrong with needing an air conditioned enclosed vehicle to get around.

There's nothing wrong with wanting that, but calling it a need it overstating things.
Ask HN: Advice on flipping SWE interviews upside-down?
We're about to start interviewing for an SWE role. Rather than asking each candidate to do leetcode questions or take-home assignments, we're going to be asking them to present some existing code they've written and pair with a team member to modify it in some meaningful way. The team member and the candidate work together as equals to add in a new feature, switch to different data structures / algorithms, fix a bug, document, etc..

Has anyone had experience with doing something like this in the past? Everything I’ve personally experienced has been leetcode or take-homes. My hope is that ...

1. the candidate feels more comfortable during the interview since it’s their code.

2. the candidate and the team get a better feel for how each other works / how they work together.

3. it helps the candidate interview us as much as we're interviewing them.

4. it’s more respectful of the candidate’s time (no take-home or grinding leetcode required).

EDIT: I should mention that we have backup problems in place if they don't feel comfortable sharing. The context will be the same, both the candidate and the team member will be working as equals to address the problem.
Thank you so much for posting this sane response. As the spouse of someone who can't walk due to a disability (and also can't move themselves in a wheelchair), reading these discussions where people assume everyone is young, able-bodied, and lives in great weather gets really tiresome. It often feels like they're intentionally not arguing in good faith because some of the points are so obviously incorrect.
H̶T̶M̶X̶ e̶m̶b̶r̶a̶c̶e̶s̶ t̶h̶e̶ i̶d̶e̶a̶ o̶f̶ p̶r̶o̶g̶r̶e̶s̶s̶i̶v̶e̶ e̶n̶h̶a̶n̶c̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ [̶1̶]. Y̶o̶u̶ s̶t̶a̶r̶t̶ w̶i̶t̶h̶ a̶ f̶u̶n̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶, j̶a̶v̶a̶s̶c̶r̶i̶p̶t̶-̶f̶r̶e̶e̶, w̶e̶b̶ a̶p̶p̶l̶i̶c̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶. H̶T̶M̶X̶ l̶a̶y̶e̶r̶s̶ o̶n̶ t̶o̶p̶ o̶f̶ t̶h̶i̶s̶ t̶o̶ ̶m̶a̶k̶e̶ t̶h̶e̶ e̶x̶p̶e̶r̶i̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶, b̶u̶t̶ i̶t̶'s̶ e̶f̶f̶e̶c̶t̶i̶v̶e̶l̶y̶ o̶p̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Progressiv...

Whoa... I was very slow apparently
More like "I found this answer on the web. There is 51% chance of rain at your location at 6pm"
Next, we're going to start seeing tip requests every time someone checks in code to the repo. "Hey, look, I did my job. Tip please"
Any recommendation for learning how to build a diffusion model?
Just reach out to at least 1 person every single day, whether online or in-person, as a habit. It is an annoying process but pays dividends once you find someone who you like and who wants to be with you.

However, she actually messaged me first on a dating app and I eventually brought her to the US on a fiancé visa.
does the bill protect education at all?

Of course it does. The vilification of the bill entirely based on the worse case assumptions is really unfortunate.

---

No person under fourteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work with or without compensation in any work activity.

No person under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work with or without compensation in any work activity during regular school hours, except the following work activities:

1. Those persons legally out of school, if such status is verified by the submission of written proof to the director.

2. Those persons working in a supervised school-work program.

3. Those persons between the ages of fourteen and sixteen enrolled in school on a part-time basis and who are required to work as a part of their school training.

---

Knowing that there are educational protections, does that make you feel better about the bill?
I am shocked a labor union is okay with tipping as a mechanism of compensation. Its antithetical to their own goals usually, let alone Apple is not going to take kind to this.

Tipping is out of control as it is, at least in the US. Where does it stop I have to wonder.

Lets just keep the fight about fair wages, benefits and working conditions first and foremost. This feels like its waiting for public backlash
That is of course the way to redistribute idle personal property to socially positive ends that does not involve imposing misery upon entire neighborhoods.

It's some comment on the perversity of legislative processes that such taxes are not the norm everywhere. Admittedly, enforcement efforts will surely be challenged.
this is a pretty silly fluff piece.
In my experience, usually Prime content is on Crave in Canada. But a whole lot of Canada just has a pirate Kodi box anyway.
It's not supposed to be a moneymaker or Chromium.

It's supposed to stay alive and be a viable alternative.

My preferences are generally: FF, Chrome, Safari, Edge in that order. Brave and Opera are just too Canonical.

Curiously, at work from internal analytics, it's surprising how many workers use the default browser.

Overall, the distribution looks power law: Chrome as a monoculture.
Looks around room at 120ish-year-old desk, hundreds of books with an average age of probably 30 years with some as old as 160 years, 50-year-old record player and receiver, 60-year-old lamp, 20+ year old guitars that will likely last decades more with minimal maintenance, wood floors that should last literally a lifetime, and decade-old shoes that I expect to still be wearing in 20 years

I mean... kinda? The ones that don't involve microelectronics and aren't mostly fabric, yeah, lots of them may as well last forever, from the perspective of a human lifetime.
For rust code, I have found https://github.com/japaric/cargo-call-stack to be the best available option, as it does take advantage of how Rust types are implemented in LLVM-IR to handle function pointers / dynamic dispatch a little better. An even better solution would try to use MIR type information as well to further narrow down targets of dynamic calls in a Rust-specific way, but no such tool exists that I know of.
Don't have kids to fix your social problems; fix it first. You owe it to them.
The core problem with hamburger menus
More precisely from what someone said above, meat packing plants are now allowed, but as a meat packer is not allowed. So they could have something like an office job at a plant (manager's assistant..? I don't really know how they're organized).
Was wondering if seat belt laws would be evident in the data, just eyeballing it looks like 1989-92 decreases in motor vehicle fatalities [1] could line up with the rise of state bans starting in 1984 [2].

But seeing a pretty linear decline from 1921 to 2021 and looks like big annual drops in fatalities are more connected to economic conditions than safety features (i.e. only double digit % drops I'm seeing are 1932, 1938, 1942, 1943, 1974, 1982, and 2008).

So the drop in the late 1980s into the early '90s may've had more to do with the early '90s recession.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_laws_in_the_United_S...
I used to be a near pathological classic car fan. It's a unique kind of terror driving a 1500 lb '73 beetle or 2500 pound 1995 ford escort alongside 7000 pound modern SUVs.

That being said, I'm sure these cars will see some adoption in dense/regulated historic neighborhoods. Manhattan has had tolling debates for the last decade - on current trajectory I'd expect lower manhattan to be restricted access by the end of the decade.
It definitely makes some things easier, like being able to filter out wholly uninterested parties, and you can quickly get to important logistical conversations like being direct about what you're looking for.

But it also gives the people on the other side of the app access to literally everyone who's interested in them.

So while it may seem easier than having to walk up to strangers in a bar, you also now have to be picked out of way more people than the other folks in the bar with you.
I'd rather tip the Foxconn workers
I think Big Oil is less Big Oil than it really is Big Energy.

Big Energy has the massive capital to deploy for green energy solutions that are viable and will provide a renewable path forward off of more polluting or non-renewable sources. Big Energy's product of choice is mainly petroleum derived currently. Due to sourcing and limitations though, this is a mostly finite resource that they would love to replace for more profit.

Profit will drive them to new sources. When you see Big Energy actually moving to these new sources at the mega-industrial scale and not PoCs, prototypes, but deploying tens of billions of dollars, is when the true revolution will happen.

If they are funding Stanford and other parts of Academia, then that is a good thing.
Alternative SBCs I've been looking at are the Orange PI 5, Khadas VIM1S, NanoPi R6S

https://hackerboards.com/
Obviously a PR grab by the union itself, but it seems like they are a little deaf about how a large portion of the population views unions.
is anyone else weirded out that it simulates breath? like this is a robot, not a real woman, but it pauses to take a breath to mimic human sound.

on the one hand i like it. she sounds like a real podcast host and person with a nice, professional voice.

on the other hand it's weird. like why does it need to do that other than to pretend to be a person.
Tech people can’t be women?
I read this and thought it was satire. Tipping? For electronics purchases? Why don't I tip the employees at Best Buy for selling me a washing machine?
> I.e. the vast majority of problematic people are all citizens that have full coverage under the excellent social system.

The same is true in the USA; illegal immigrants have enough problems without being homeless, and almost always their point for being in the USA is to work. The "excellent social system" however, is not true for the USA.
Yes running Twitter and Boring as well, but practically the waste majority of his time is Tesla and SpaceX.

I believe Musk fought buying Twitter would be both good politically and he could lead the company more successfully. Hence he wanted to get out of it when it was clear that it was a huge as shares dropped.

> Musk 2022: Elon Musk says he’ll vote Republican, bashes Democrats [1]

I'm not disagreeing that Musk go more political, but calling it 'all-in' is LITERALLY wrong.

All-in would be doing politics as his primary occupation.
The next line was great too:

"They might as well ask for employees to be allowed to vape while working."
The reason has far more to do with metabolic efficiency of conversion of biomass into food than with bioaccumulation --- you'll see roughly a 10-fold drop in food production at each trophic level. There are exceptions amongst hunter and trapper cultures, though even there herbivores are generally more abundant than carnivores, and are less treacherous to hunt. You will find ominvores occasionally included in diets: bear, racoon, and members of the rodent family on occasion.

Fish (amongst other sea life) are an exception specifically because humans aren't concerned with that efficiency, and carnivorous fish tend to grow larger which poses efficiency benefits when line- or net-fishing.

Another class is birds, notably fish-eating species, which may be 2nd- or 3rd-order carnivores (carnivores of carnivores, or carnivores of carnivore-eating carnivores).
It's sort of like client side PHP. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
I bet there are large regional differences, too. I know that tea-drinking in the southern US, for instance, is much more common than in the northern.

Curiosity got the better of me and I had to look this up. The US is the 35th most tea-drinking nation! And overall, there are slightly more male tea-drinkers than female. At least according to this site:

https://teahow.com/is-tea-popular-in-america-what-tea-they-d...

Also, looking at the age breakdown of US tea drinker perhaps explains the difference in our experiences. 18.5% of people in my age group (50+) drink tea. 46.2% of those in the 25-49 year age group drink tea.
Practice "aggressive friendship". People love being invited to things so when you find someone you like, start asking them out. Play tennis. See a movie. Get coffee. Happy hour after work. Walk through the park. Get lunch at work. Be respectful, be ok with a no, but believe that you are worth spending time with. And count on the fact that most folks are lonely too, and will jump at the opportunity to hang, an opportunity you are now providing.

The other thing I'll say is that I feel very lucky to have made friends with people who were already part of a big friend group. It's hard to build your own community from scratch, it is much easier to join an existing one. Birthday parties, shows, cook outs, are group events and making friends with friends of your friends builds out your web.

It's hard work, I was pretty lonely for the first two years after I moved out to the bay knowing no one, but building relationships is one of the most rewarding uses of time I know.
Last paragraph touches on that:

The length of inputs is theoretically bounded by
the memory limitations of the computer used. More
practically, using a CPU datastore is many times
slower than a GPU datastore because of slower
search and the need to transfer retrieved embed-
dings to the GPU... (continues)
> “Because Glossip has not made the requisite showing of likely success” in further appeals or “irreparable harm” from any denial of his claims, “he is not entitled to stay of execution,” the justices wrote.

In what multiverse is an innocent man being executed not "irreparable harm"? Are the judges claiming they can raise the defendant from the dead after needlessly killing him?
Thanks for the nice words!

The technical work is split in three pieces:
1) LLM prompt and chaining for script generation
2) workarounds for some TTs bugs (not that many, elevenlabs is amazing)
3) Stitching all moving pieces together

Nothing advanced for tech, but requires a lot of experimentation as neither LLMs nor TTS are deterministic which create headaches for prod.
If the LLM understands the language it can aid in creation of the libraries and ecosystem because it can also translate code. I just tested it by having ChatGPT translate one of my Ruby scripts to Python for example.

I don't like Crystal all that much, but it's similar enough to Ruby that if ChatGPT can handle Ruby->Python, it can handle Ruby->Crystal with relatively little work.

But it doesn't need to handle it flawlessly, because every new library you translate and fix up gives you a new codebase you can use to finetune it.
Read your comment again and ask yourself why the tech sphere is often perceived as sexist
Glad it worked for you, but "I need to get married ASAP to cure my loneliness" may backfire if the marriage ever ends given that you are not, in fact, locked in. Also, the odds of it ending may increase given that you may be willing to forgive a lot of personality quirks in your rush to marry, but those could prove to be unacceptable once you're married for a while.
> You can find differences just as well you can find similarities.

So please tell us what are the differences? I don't see many. It's the same dynastic party that was 120 years ago.
The screenshot in the article is from the "Promotions" tab. Who ever even clicks there? It's meant to be ads only, no?

I don't get the annoyance here.
He equates it to vaping. I'd take an employee blowing clouds of raspberry smoke in my face over 22% tip on a Macbook any day.
Well at least the shitty MPAs will run on other people's servers, rather than shitty SPAs running on my phone and iPad

FWIW I turned off JavaScript on my iPad a couple years ago ... what a relief!

I have nothing against JS, but the sites just became unusably slow
The conditions that created OpenAI (oodles of money from some of the wealthiest people on the planet) are not reproducible for the vast majority of businesses.

If you have oodles of money from the wealthiest people on the planet to spend on the worlds best researchers, you too can ignore this rule.
I always saw Vice as an edgy left wing liberal magazine, whereas the Proud Boys are "far right."
Best places to meet people are shared activities. I meet a lot of like minded (and sometimes single) people at
1. The dog park
2. church
3. Gym
4. At my friend's dinner theater shows

Part of the problem is getting comfortable opening up groups of people. Toast masters helps with that.
Yeah isn't it literally your basic minimum job requirement to be showing people the capabilities of an iphone?
You want me to buy your product, YOU show me why I should want it.
Just for kicks, are you?

And why does it matter? I'm part of a multi-racial group of parents. What does it matter if I'm the asian one or the white one or the black one?
If you ask someone to bring their own code, you are assuming they have some code to share that they are also confident enough in to bring. I can see lots of people agonizing over this. Even if you've got a relatively broad base of shareable code you've written, what's right for the context of the interview? It would be stressful for a lot of people, probably more than just doing a coding exercise.

I'd suggest giving people another option as well.
Probably helps with engagement, as it's more natural.
Sometimes the real problem is with customs not because of the language
It’s not necessary but perhaps date someone from a culture where they almost never divorce - I married an Indian and brought her here on a visa. The divorce rate there is one of the lowest in the world, about 1%.
if you think about how these models were trained it makes sense. When a human reads an audiobook, they would breathe. So the model has learned how to make the breathing sound.
> - As you point out, homeless people die in the winter. It's also cold in many places in the US, and hot in others - so people die all the time there too.

I don't think this point is true. You'll find plenty of homeless people in Seattle from Great Falls Montana, for example. Bus tickets are easy enough to purchase, you don't even have to be shipped. People will migrate where they can survive at least, they aren't stuck in Spokane, Great Falls, or Bismarck. It is always possible to get to LA, some will even get to Honolulu.
Like a lot of people, I waited tables for a few years in my youth and also did pizza delivery and was paid well under minimum wage if I excluded my tips. Tips largely shift salary burden from the employer to more directly from the customer, who like an old lord, may decide whether and how much he wants to pay the peasants serving him.

I always tip very well because I empathize with and appreciate the services provided by people at this layer of the economy. However, I hate it. I found it demeaning that my salary as a waiter was dependent on fluffing up the customer and found it gross at best how compelled the girls were to flirt because of how much it inflated their tips. As a customer it adds a psychic burden--decisions suck. Now I have to do math and decide my level of generosity. Do I really need to tip Starbucks for the brewed coffee I just ordered? And so on.

I don't like this additional friction with every human interaction I have that involves commerce.
Neat youtube video about the engineering behind it as well :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42uynS55hVU
Organizing against a company like Apple is pretty much exclusively about how you can leverage media attention to get concessions. Apple has no problem locking you out and replacing, except for the negative media & consequential consumer impact.

So it seems like it would make sense to ask for things that the customer would actually like/be okay with, like basic higher pay, some sort of seniority structure maybe, etc.
I agree. These points are arguments against the philosophy of HTMX which asserts that you can get everything you need without client-side logic.

To be fair, I'm also not a fan of bloated libraries like React and Angular. I think we had it right 15-20 years ago: use the server for everything you can, and use the smallest amount of JS necessary to service your client-side needs.
My phone(LG G8 Thinq) will occasionally turn Bluetooth and location off somehow.

This caused some of trouble before I figured it out, since I had taken those off the shortcuts tray, because there's never any times I want them turned off.

I want the opposite of a hardware killswitch!
Do you really think the NSA gives a shit about copyright? They're looking for nuclear secrets and the next 9-11.
We have a selection of voices, we just thought that Anna fit this role very well. You can also clone your own voice if you'd like. https://app.wondercraft.ai/
Ask HN: How do you get your first customers?
Is there a service or someone I can hire who can give me quality leads to pitch my small SaaS product to? For Saas that's easily demoable/usable and flashy, just publicly posting can go viral, but not for the boring but useful category. I've tried the friends and family approach and friends usually don't really need the product. I've tried going local and approaching physically but its too time consuming.
Well, I guess if you want to prioritize shoes over a relationship, good on you?
There are a ton of confounding variables.

All the other safety features. As you say, maybe differences in miles driven because of recessions/fuel price spikes. DUI/DWI becoming less socially acceptable, at least in many segments of society. The overall evolution of attitudes towards risk.

I wouldn't expect the laws themselves to have a huge effect. They mostly trailed public opinion, enforcement was limited, and penalties small if someone really didn't want to wear a seat belt.
> Journalists shouldn't have to be cyberopsec experts.

I disagree. Especially if they are covering geopolitical or highly monetised industrial topics.

They are basically spies working for the public. Spycraft shouldn't be optional for them.

Sure, a journalist covering celeb fluff doesn't need it, but one covering China, Russia, big pharma etc are automatically a target. This article is an excellent example.