skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent two years during the pandemic working at a hand-made beeswax candle factory. I spent most of my day either running the wax filtering machine or dipping taper candles.

When I received an email saying that my job was going to be work-from-home for the forseeable future, I knew that I had to quit. At the time I had really been relying on office friendships and work for too much of my socialization and self-image, so moving to a remote environment took too much away from me.

I found the light factory work really enjoyable. It was so rewarding to make simple, high quality products wit my hands. It was also nice to have a job where I was interacting with a wider cross-section of people, as I tend to not really enjoy tech culture very much. I had forgotten what it was like to work in an environment where there is comradery among the staff and a healthy distrust of management. I feel like in tech people are always grovelling to their bosses and the C-suite, which rubs me the wrong way. A bunch of temporarily-embarrassed billionaires I guess.

I'm back in tech now, but with the perspective that I am working to achieve some mid-term monetary goals. After I pay down my mortgage considerably so I can cut down my monthly expenses, I will highly consider going back to a crafting job of some sort. Life is too short to spend it on the computer.
A related point would be Meta is exposed to revenue risk as customers pull back from advertising in a recessionary environment. This appears clearly in Meta’s financials.

An unrelated point would be that layoffs usually target the lowest-performing segment of the workforce and offer legal protection to the company against unlawful termination. Of course not all laid off workers are poor performers but there is obviously a correlation here.
He's just talking _. Clearly nobody here on both sides are having religious fervor around ai. One side is saying we don't understand LLMs completely and the other side is saying we absolutely do understand it's all statistical parroting.

But to keep it with the religious theme... which side sounds more similar to religion? The side that claims it's absolutely impossible for LLMs to be anything more then a statistical operation or the side that claims they don't know? One side seems to be making a claim based on faith while another side is saying we don't know enough to make a claim... So which side sounds more religious?
When every car has a camera for liability reasons and every house is assumed as well. Anything outside is assumed fair game to record IMO. I never expect privacy in public, only countries with fairly draconian laws of privacy have minor expectation and even than only if the person feels like making the video public. (Japan for instance has privacy laws on public placement of unconsenting public photos)
Actually, I don't think I'm immune; I'm definitely affected by ads. But I definitely get used to seeing them and don't think about them actively. Sometimes I miss that they're even on a page.
In MA we tried to raise the bottle / can deposit via a ballot measure.

It went over like a loud fart in a crowded church.

(I voted for it because so many homeless and poor people collect bottles and cans for income.)
If you read the article, the laser is for intercepting missiles mid flight even if they are maneuverable.
Hah, nope. Not my cup of tea :)
I'd probably rather die if I had to work any physical job the rest of my life. Realms of the mind and thinking are so much more comfortable to me. Even hanging up picture frames gives me anxiety.
"“That’s how it goes” implies it can’t be stopped. It can. Through laws."

Well yeah, that's how it goes until the law changes.
You might enjoy the interview I did with a 20 year software engineer veteran who did stint(albeit short) as an Amazon warehouse worker to get through burnout

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33072083
it's probably a good idea to put "RFC 1178" in the title.
> tl;dr: I think pop is a Ubuntu flavor, so ~6 months and/or it's already available today if you're not afraid to compile your own kernel

Pop isn't currently following the Ubuntu release cadence, they've got some internal development that their focusing on instead currently.
Chatbots are deceptive. So much glue code and depending on what you want it to do and how you handle edge cases lots of gotchas. But once you have written one they get easier the next time (no surprise).
I don't get why a lot of this discussion assumes children can't communicate with peers without social media. Calling and texting are still a thing. So is coordinating during school to plan meetups after school. Besides, I think very few people are saying children should have a total ban on all forms of social media and communication. We need to find methods to restrict/reduce social media and then ease those restrictions as the children mature, with a focus to minimize the negative aspects of social media usage and still allow communication with peers.

For example, when our children were small, we didn't allow phones or social media, but allowed them to text/call friends with our phones. As they got older, we introduced Google Voice via family desktop computers so they had their own number for texts/calls, but given that it was on a desktop computer, it had limited usage. After that, we introduced a family smartphone that was shared among our younger children so they could text and have some limited social media, mainly group chat apps based on their clubs/sports. Once they became teenagers, we allow them their own phone, but still had restrictions on apps installed, types of websites available and time spent. Gradually over time, we introduce new apps, discuss app usage and review how things are going with the goal of increased independence over time.

For managing restrictions, we've used a lot of things, but never found a perfect solution. Bark works pretty well for signalling us of potential problems while giving our children a level of privacy. I use a Firewalla router to manage home internet access restrictions and Google Family Link to manage mobile devices. Both are mainly used to restrict time-based access (no middle of the night access) and for temporary restrictions to allow us to focus on things like homework and family events.

I can see why a lot of parents put no restrictions up or just ban too much. It takes a lot of work to create a nuanced set of restrictions that gradually give more independence as the child matures. Unfortunately, we've seen friends of our children who have had a lot of issues due to totally unrestricted internet access. We need to find and foster more middle grounds for easing children into social media and related technologies. Neither full unrestricted access nor total bans are helpful.
Further Yes and: Cutting costs, versus investing, means the PHBs have decided the ride is over.

In other words, the combo of layoffs and corporate buybacks is about profit taking (while they can).

Every business, market, etc, has a lifecycle.

Social media, and Meta in particular, has definitely entered the Computer Associates phase of its lifecycle. So now it's time to cut to the bone, extract as much blood as possible.

Such is life. It was a fun grift while it lasted.

Hopefully, adjacent malignancies such as digital advertising and freemium will plateau as well. That'll be a relief. They can join informercials, shopping networks, and supplements in the backwaters of human culture.
https://archive.is/Njom6
If you need a paycheck to live then you’re working class. People making 300k/yr have an easier time converting to the capitalist class but they aren’t there by default.
Especially after Peter experiences trench foot and back problems. Funny enough you can still get back problems from sitting on your posterior all day.
That would be one way! But I also want the names to be relatively short and contain no spaces or non-alphanumeric characters, because I type them in a lot.

I still have 20 or so left on my "future names" list. I'm now into names of knife types in the African continent.
Gore filed lawsuits that ultimately proved ill-founded (contrary to Democratic orthodoxy, Bush really did have a solid argument). But filing lawsuits is the process. The gravest breach Trump committed was an attempt to have Congress throw out the results of the election and install him for a second term; that's an action with no possible procedural defense, unprecedented in the history of the republic.
I get it. Before I was injured in a car crash I didn't have the grabber stick, and it was such a frustrating, gross experience to pick up trash people left on my parkway- had to touch it with my hand and then carry it in my house to clean it.

I got the grabber stick in physical therapy though, and found a bucket in the alley and it clicked. That made cleaning stuff far more realistic.
Cool! Porting to the web is an interesting idea. I can’t help but imagine going back to the 70s and trying to show someone that yes, everyone has this full colour, mouse-supporting, GUI app platform accessible on any device and interlinked between billions of similar interactive documents from around the world… but it was really important that we set up a TTY. The smug (or horrified) look on their face would be priceless.
I think it's a good idea and someone will see success here, unfortunately it's far too slow to be useful right now (HN effect?)
Software engineer for 12 years then got depressed about the job. Got into firefighting because I want to go to heaven and figured that with the 1 day on 2 days off schedule I can continue software on the side anyway.

Turns out just because you are a good software engineer, it doesnt mean you will be a good firefighter, and I need to dedicate a huge amount of time learning the job because software is a creativity focued job and Fire/EMS is a memory based one, and i have a bad memory.

The sleep is terrible, im an introvert and have a hard time getting along with others at the firehouse, but will say without a doubt it was absolute best decision ive ever made in my life. You will never see the facial expressions behind a computer you see in this job.

Im doing creative data analytics for fire depts to see how to save more lives, and thinking about making the swap to law enforcement just because i think my past as a software engineer can save more lives there. One example of my analytics is posting cops in areas where statistically it isnt likely for fire/EMS to show up in time, if the cop gets on sceane sooner, they can begin patient care sooner, and unltimaly increase rosc rare. You gotta be the change you want to see in the world you know?
I believe it has a max demonstrated wave height of 5'.
> I need to be in better shape

When I still worked in kitchens I used to cycle long distances (40+ km) in relatively short average times (approximately one hour) almost every day, and a busy shift in the kitchen still wiped me out. Sometimes I was even sore the next day (it depends on what needed to be done). I guess I'm trying to say I'm wondering what sort of herculean fitness would not have difficulty with the work.
That pricing is for our whole product, which includes more than just Helphub.

For HH only we have a free tier with 2k messages / mo and a $50 tier for 10k messages a month.

https://www.commandbar.com/pricing-helphub
it's frowned upon at the very least
Aren't there some pretty significant electric utilities in the US that are municipally or state owned? The ones that come to my mind are in LA, Seattle, and Nebraska, if I'm not mistaken.

At least in Canada, even when a "private" company is involved, there can be significant government ownership. Hydro One in Ontario is publicly-traded, yet the Ontario Government holds nearly a majority of the shares, for example.
Pytest-inline: a pytest plugin for writing inline tests
It seems that "Piracy is a service problem" is still not in people minds.

Steam already proved that.

Spotify already proved that.

The netflix of 7 years ago proved that.

Best sellers such as witcher3 that had no DRM what so ever also proved that.

It's not about long tails or any other argument, it's much simpler than that. People are willing to pay for a decent service, people are unwillingly to have extra work.

A Pirate website is never going to be more accessible than an official one always because of funding to do proper UX, so, even if all kinds of DRM were forbidden, actual legal services would always have the upper hand, and the better their service the less of a need for piracy.

When steam started getting traction, PC piracy plummeted. When spotify became available, same thing happenned for music. When each film studio didn't have its own streaming service, the piracy was falling. Witcher 3 was a best seller on PC (and this is an AAA game, not a 5$ indie) when you could just copy paste your friends installer instead of buying.

Everything is so goddam simple, provide good service, good value, and only people that don't actually have the budget to buy your stuff will pirate.

Piracy is like union strikes, yes they are annoying and bring profits down, and it's bullshit that I have to wait 5 hours for a train because of a strike. But it is a necessary mechanism of power balance.

> If people can trivially access content 'for free' they generally will do that.

"trivially" is not so simple.
what about app store access in every device? from tv boxes, phone to PC.
what about shared settings, data etc between them?
there is no success pirate story on that, only techies that have such hobie have something compared to an actual nice setup. It's the "why dropbox" comment. Pirates can't get enough money or legal ground to build something comparable to what a legal company can build. This means it's ok if it is forbidden to block bullshit practices like DRM and remote deletion, if you actually care for the customers, no pirate app/website can compete with you.
Yea if I get more into the hardware hacking side of things, it'd be great if I could add a wire harness to be able to connect external power to the headunit/disconnect it from the car battery. I never had to fully disconnect battery terminals or anything but I had some scares with slow reboot times. I also want to look into LoRa or similar wireless tech to be able to send terminal commands to the car from my desk
Fair criticism, but there's not a lot of other foundational work in this space either; they need to capture and compute the "ground truth" in order to train and evaluate their models. That requires a lot more data than is used by the NeRF reconstruction.
I think you mean the Constantly Online Meta-Programming Universal Task EnactoR model
Yes, that's what I am referring to.
This note contains four papers for "historical perspective"... which would usually mean "no longer directly relevant", although I'm not sure that's really what the author means.

You might be looking for the author's "Understanding Large Language Models" post [1] instead.

Misspelling "Attention is All Your Need" twice in one paragraph makes for a rough start to the linked post.

[1] https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-large-...
If you're smart enough for a physics degree, a sales/finance job, and your own start up, then you are likely smart enough to make it as a coffee engineer too.
I've wanted a product like this since I first encountered chatGPT.

How do you handle curation? Meaning... if the model picks up some out of date info or misinterprets it, and a human admin notices that and wants to mark something as out of date or wrong, can they? I see this as similar to the way I can correct ChatGPT over the course of a chat session, and it will remember the corrections.
oh, so for example it's 100 grams white rice flour, 100 grams potato flour, and 100 grams tapioca starch, not 100 grams of a mix of the three? i guess that makes it add up to 2 kg
I understand that this is contrary to your question, but I might suggest a different approach to your inquiry.

Instead of asking people for their dev tool ideas, ask them what problems they have with Kubernetes that aren't yet solved well for them. With that information you can iterate on dev tool ideas that could potentially solve those problems. In my experience people understand their problems better than the potential solutions to those problems, and right now you're asking people for their solutions.
Or perhaps, Meta is so poorly managed that they had employees paid $200k/year to do little-to-no work [0], and they are only just realizing that this is unsustainable, again due to incredible ineptitude.

[0] https://news.yahoo.com/former-meta-recruiter-paid-200-144500...
At least in the case of the Roman empire, it was founded on looting. One of the main purposes of Julius Caesar's military adventures at the beginning of the empire was to capture people from neighboring nations and sell them into human trafficking. The US is arguably the same: human trafficking profits created the foundational wealth that everything else was built on (along with looting the lands held by the continent's original inhabitants).
My question is what's their selling point, I used the past few years few terminals that have pretty good features:

- Alacritty minimal and blazingly fast

- Wezterm with batteries included

- Warp even batteries included
Us "developing apps" aren't the ones designing modals - there are teams doing that instead and we implement what they suggest. It turns out that when they ask users of the software I build, at least, that this isn't a common complaint.

The problem that designers are often trying to solve is that there is not enough information that there is a good way to put it on its own page - it's too small for its own page but too large for the table that we'd rather just add another column to.

We have an export button so you can get all the details in excel or LibreOffice or your tool of choice, though. And in a better world, we'd be writing proper desktop apps instead of web applications so that we aren't making stupid compromises like this, but here we are.
Very thin slices.
For the last 3 months my total (connection charge, per kWh, taxes) was:

- April: $70 for 635 kWh. USD$0.110/kWh

- March: $71 for 570 kWh. USD$0.124/kWh

- February: $79 for 650 kWh. USD$0.121/kWh
This is correct; it ended up being Noir darkening the topbar but not the SVG.
Can we talk about junk mail, while we're at it? I back-of-the-enveloped the numbers once, and we'd need a $5-10/month tax (or service fee or however they want to frame it) to pay the postal service what it gets from bulk mailing, per household—and probably on the lower end of that, because there'd be some savings from not processing all that bulk mail anymore. Easily worth it IMO. Throwing away literally 95%, by weight, of the mail I receive is tedious and wasteful. I think the "tax" it imposes on time and attention is well in excess of $5/month, even for low earners, and losing one piece of actually-important mail in the mess can far outstrip the annual cost of such hypothetical payments.
I don't think that qualifying XP as merely 2000 with a facelift is not entirely fair. XP benefited from having drivers produced for 2000 by the time it came out, but it also had additional compatibility shims to allow almost every Windows application in existence to work (in 32bits). 2000 was a great OS, that I liked, but it wasn't ready for consumers (not dissimilar to the Vista/7 situation). I believe that waiting until XP for the NT kernel big push was the right one, even if it gave us Me which was likely the worst release of the OS.
Probably not then. But I just post whatever I want and I'm already in the top 10 percent. And I'm not an avid user either. I just ask a bunch of questions.

I've had a few flamed and closed but that's just 1 or 2 out of I'd say around 13 or 14 questions. It's a low percentage for me.

And I absolutely assure you much of my questions are stupid af.
I semi-regularly refer colleagues to this article I read some years back "The Interruptible Programmer" - it argues that it's hard to stay in the zone, so instead accept that you're going to be interrupted and embrace it.

https://www.stevestreeting.com/2010/09/04/work-2-0/
> ut there’s no reason a URL can’t resolve to a landing page and already open modal state populated with the content the other person shared to you.

I can think of 2 very good reasons right away:

1. It increases the complexity of the webpage

2. It makes it impossible to simply download or integrate the resource elsewhere
Shrug. The Kremlin loudly arresting the Kinzhal developers for treason after the Kinzhals get shot down suggests a clear narrative to me about who is telling the truth.

The best case you can make for Russia is that the Kinzhal developers actually did commit treason but in a way that was unrelated to the Kinzhal missiles not being effective which is… laughable
They declassify the boring ones.

Not making a judgment on the JFK assassination, but I'm sure that one would be interesting and still has not been fully declassified.

one very odd thing is that they brought Allen Dulles in to investigate after he had been fired by JFK, and ended up running a decent portion of the investigation out of his home.
Their neighbors whose median per-capita income is 5 figures seem more relevant of an analogy

The serf analogy makes sense for low-income Americans who essentially have to pay more to the capital class: payday loans, cannot afford bulk discounts due to low cash reserves, rent vs buy, crippling debt, etc

FB white collar workers are literally the capital class, eg, paid in RSUs and LI profiles advertising as angel investors

The only reason I am writing this is it's super disheartening to start the day with seeing engineers not understanding how historically lucky they are, and much more importantly, how rotten the situation is for their neighbors. "Tell me you and your family have never struggled without.."

As a historical note, most Americans are taught enough empathy to not joke about slavery. But guess what: serfdom was happening around the same time, has a lot of violent similarities, and also has descendants who are not thrilled by it. But don't let this distract from my primary point about misunderstanding that technologists are the gentry here, not the serfs, in this terrible analogy.
Incorrect assumption. This "kanban" refers to the signalling process you can use to maintain even levels of buffer inventory in processes that are too variable to do prodution levelling.

A board is just one implementation of this signalling process, but by no way implied by it.
I don’t think they do. From what I can see, Azure OpenAI is just a forwarder to the OpenAI instance.

The big benefits are AAD auth and the ability to put a proxy (APIM, etc.) on the OpenAI endpoint to do quality control, metering, logging, moderation, etc. all within Azure.
I agree, though the cost of an exoatmospheric kill vehicle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoatmospheric_Kill_Vehicle is probably high.

And one way to avoid this is the other part of the hypersonic renaissance, which is the ability to dip down into the atmosphere.
A magazine that was funded by a non-profit that was partially influenced by CIA officials wrote a bad review. There is not a lot of evidence that either a fortune was spent, or the goal of the CIA was over suppression of the book.
- Artificial restriction of class sizes in medical schools.

- Egregious costs just to become any sort of practitioner (medical school, residency, etc.).

- Insurance companies are basically always grifting you as a policy, unless you call them out on it (reasonable things will be denied and not covered, because most people won’t fight).

- Hospitals are basically always grifting you, unless you call them out on it (bills are basically fraudulent).

- Pharmaceutical companies are basically always grifting everyone (you, the FDA, the prescribers, the insurance companies, etc.).

- Doctors are basically grifting themselves (going into medicine, and staying, almost always for the wrong reasons).

This is just to name a few.
I don't think a typical metal detector can distinguish between metal in my arm and metal taped to my arm.