skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unnecessary complexity? Rube Goldberg? Folks would plug their car in to the charger when they get home just like EV owners do now.

The CCS-2 connector is a bidirectional power connector.
also dan kaminsky's and to a lesser degree dan knapp's. i was put on the spot as a sixteen year old Georgia Tech freshman acquiring his college of computing account, and between a love of good weed and childish stupidity, i chose "dank@". twenty-five years later, i'm not about to change it. no insults are meant to any of the aforementioned hax0rs.
They are victims and perpetrators at the same time though.
Why not make an electric Superferry? Presumably addresses the environmental issues, more forgiving on battery weight and volume than a plane and won't ever need to make an emergency landing.
I'd love to hear some unexpected insights you got from asking users.
Go with classes.
I gotta say thank you! You just introduced me to Obsidian! So far, love the app and the Kanban plugin. The plugin is basic, but gets the job done for my needs. My only gripe is Obsidian isn't open source and will probably deteriorate over the years. But I love how it's all markdown, so I should hopefully be able to transfer my data to something else when that happens.
IMO a CEO shouldn’t be getting a bonus at all if the company is doing mass layoffs.
Basically I get the impression that the author has a pet peeve of modal dialogs being abused as detail screens, that is, whoever did the UX was doing a bad job. I haven't seen a modal dialog used to show details in a long time, so I guess I'm sorry the author had to experience it.
Taking one data point and extrapolating a quality onto the other isn't a "pattern".
I built an app to help you with hard conversations
I used to manage a team of 6o software developers and engineers, and the team had fairly low EQ overall (I spent a lot of time with my HR counterpart). I found research on how to structure a hard conversation but it was tough to practice. To make it easier, I built a web app that uses AI to help people approach hard conversations with their co-workers, their manager, friends, family, etc. I truly believe in the research (NVC) and it's ability to reduce conflict in the world. I also think this is a unique moment in history where AI can be used to help humanity if we choose to use it that way. I'd love your feedback. It's early days but I'm excited for what's to come.
The new CEO is a guy who pushed hard for Spotify Podcasts investment to them as a CFO.

I don't know if that is a good credential honestly, given how much money Spotify poured into podcasting with not that much return.

This is about the old CEO though, the article is from 2022
I've got a burning question on my mind and I'd really appreciate some insights.

From what I can tell, the recent wave of startup layoffs seems largely driven by companies bracing for a potential economic downturn and using their own customer data to anticipate seriously bleak scenarios. But if that's the case, are we basically still in the early innings of this crisis? Logically, the domino effect would mean that step two involves companies closing up shop and going belly up, right?
Boo! That attitude hurts people, and is against the law for good reasons.

And even if you have no empathy so you don't give a shit about anything unless it affects you directly (in which case UI design isn't for you), then consider that unless you die young or have supernaturally perfect health, you're going to need accessibility features yourself some day, so your lazy anti-accessibility attitude is going to come back and bite you in the ass.

And you're dead wrong that accessibility necessarily worsens the experience for people without disabilities. It's useful for everyone.

Please leave the user interface design to other better educated more compassionate people, and stick to the back-end yourself.
Pick the nearest airport? Or a nearby airport? Airport in the location's capital city? There's always an airport[0].

The purpose is to have a Schelling point that bypasses any tedious weeks-long arguments. Otherwise your Frankfurt datacenter gets named "ceurope" because the London datacenter got "europe" first, or you named the Ohio datacenter "east" and there's a fight about whether to call the new Virginia datacenter "easter".

[0] If you're building a submerged datacenter in the middle of the Atlantic then ... well, do your best.
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Source? If the FB case is highly publicised, you certainly have a link to it, or?
I think you have to differentiate. At least in germany, most rail is not fenced off and when we do, we do not use fences but instead sound barriers. I think faster rail is usually behind sound barriers in populated ares, and slower commuter rail is often not fenced off. We do not have many at-grade crossings in more populated areas though, they are really only present on the country-side so I think the rail-infrastructure is not that "present". Nobody really walks or drives over rails usually and it's usually naturally separated, so you can't enter tracks by accident and therefore accidents are quite rare.
And a program can generally read its source code and make fancy adhoc interpretation, sure. That’s nowhere close to specified facilities that you are guarantied to be able to use with a fair amount of trust in the resulting outcome with the regular toolbox.
It won't happen for a lot of industries. I get a rock solid 0.7ms roundtrip latency using an RME RayDat. I can't play guitar decently with anything more than 4ms of latency.

Hybrid? Maybe. But even so, I think it'll still make more sense to just own the hardware and not rely on WANs with variable latency.

For the average schmoe or office worker? Probably makes sense to have it on the cloud, especially as how well Xbox cloud gaming works for most people.
I found the section in the book that explains it:

>X Times less than. Brand Y may cost twice as much as Brand X, but that doesn’t mean Brand X is twice as cheap as Brand Y. Farburg may be two times as far away as Nearville, but that doesn’t mean Nearville is two times closer than Farburg. Big Dog may be twice the size of Little Dog, but that doesn’t mean Little Dog is two times smaller than Big Dog.

>One time is 100% of the cost, distance, size, or any other measure. If you take away “one time” something, you’ve taken away all there is. If you walk toward me and cover all the distance, you can’t get any closer—you can’t be twice as close as you were before. If the price is discounted one time or 100%, the item is free. Two times cheaper, if it means anything, might imply that the store will pay you the full price of Brand Y if you will take Brand X home with you. That mangles the meaning of cost, and it surely isn’t what the writer means.

Personally, I can see what the author is going for but I disagree that it implies the store will pay you.
I guess the way I've interpreted that is:

Company profits go up - economic growth

Wages go up - inflation
I was totally surprised how many people I had met in those first classes, who had no programming experience whatsoever and were surprised by the amount of math in the curriculum - they were for sure chasing a trend.

I think my class was the last to graduate from arts/sciences, the CS dept was moved into the engineering college.
"rb" because you don't want Windows to open the file in translated mode and munging its contents. Null-termination so that the same code can deal with both binary and text files. And I prefer all mallocs to follow the pattern malloc(sizeof(tp)*n) because it's less hassle than thinking about what types' sizes may vary. This rabbit hole is endless and we haven't even started covering my use of fseek/ftell/rewind!
Oh please, you do have plenty of other choices.

It's ok to not want to support older versions or downstream packages (even if imo there is value in doing so) but don't be a drama queen and claim you can't.
Which is interesting when you start to consider, that the likelihood of a 10€ bill falling out of your digital pocket is probably way higher:
Bank going bust? Surprise banking fees? Overdraft?
If using someone else’s public key, I always check the key itself (it doesn’t take long, and it is easy to spot “problems” like these).

This is a nice little hack, but I don’t see it flourishing in the wild.
This equates to ~$90/mo gym membership with a one-time registration cost around $100, for scale.

This is the going rate for most climbing/bouldering gyms with full freeweight sets, treadmills, spin bikes, showers, saunas, etc.

I personally value cross-training and weightlifting because those are the ways to see real long-term benefits to your health. Bone density, testosterone, flexibility, good posture, will all pay dividends down the line. You can get cardio any number of ways, including commuting and running groceries by bike.
From the second comment:
*I would be fascinated to see several hundred years down the road how natural languages and computer languages have comingled and evolved into something new. I'd be inclined to believe that bringing natural language to computers won't just be a one-way street.

Order update:
Your wish is arriving hundreds of years early.
The pieces of compensation can all be negotiated. The board could make an offer that trades an element with a sensible incentive for staying (or even just more cash) for an element that is an incentive for leaving.
Maybe the worm could tear through?
In JavaScript, primitive types are passed by value, objects are passed by reference. But you won't have data races since JavaScript code is executed in a single thread.
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But that would require me to not be a lazy ass, which we all know is impossible.

Also writing code, in 2023? With your hands? Pshh, that's so 2010s.
> The co-founder is stepping down from his role as CEO, but will remain on the board

I mean.

anyways is this a new round of layoff for them. I know they’ve done a few I’m the past
This is true about nature-based schemes in general. It makes no sense that somebody has to change their land use forever to offset carbon emissions from something you did once, like taking a flight.
Yes they have.

You're strawmanning. Progress != Perfection and South American countries have agency as well
I named my pet after my neighbor.
I’ve thought of taking this a step further and making an entire posix OS on top of an AWS account with a sort of web based terminal.

If you think about it an AWS account is the equivalent of a virtual machine running an OS. It has users/groups (IAM), storage, processes (lambda), a scheduler (EventBridge), containers (EC2). It would be a fun exercise to build an abstraction layer on top that emulated a posix OS.
20m people use Xbox cloud gaming. NVIDIA GeForce Now has 25m users.

I'd say those are some stats worthy of appreciation.
> Given what some of these mangers make at these banks, coughing up that salary isn’t unreasonable.

From the bank's perspective, it is unreasonable.

Legacy banks still don't understand/accept that IT is the foundation of their business. Maybe a century ago it was possible to run a bank on paper records, typewriters and abacuses (abacii?) but those days are long gone. Yet, the banks still consider IT as a nuisance and overhead to be outsourced to the lowest bidder (and many consultancies have third-world sweatshops full of incompetent monkeys to fill this niche). It is also a positive feedback loop because outsourcing IT to idiots means the user experience is terrible and the people within the bank now have a good reason that reinforces that mindset.

Your typical software engineer/IT person in the bank has about the same clout and political power as the janitor, absolutely not enough to commend the high salaries given out to managers and various paper-pushers. Keep in mind it's still a very nepotistic environment (relative to most tech companies) and in a lot of cases those managers don't get those high salaries upfront but grew them over time by playing office politics correctly and doing the right favors to the right people.
I think there was no chance to survive at the scale they expanded to.
Not an owner, but I've used one.
Also - yes, the bike is expensive, but a comparable exercise bike is similar cost.
Yes there are cheaper exercise bikes, they are not as well built generally.
They actually lose money on the bikes but make it back on the subscription.

For city people living in HCOL areas, Peloton is a steal compared to gym membership/class rates if you like spinning.
Similar for some of the other workout-from-home services that expanded rapidly during COVID.

The problem is, the TAM for that is not 330M Americans / 1B people worldwide.
It's more like ~20M Americans / 50M worldwide, best case.

I think its one of those NYC/SF bubble creature mind traps that actually - gyms don't cost $350/mo everywhere.
My parents pay $99/year to use a gym and they share a membership, lol.
So for a small subset of people $40/mo from home is a steal. For a lot of people it looks like a luxury.

The COVID bump was always going to be temporary, but the genre in general makes some sense for WFH white collar people who don't want to get a HCOL area gym membership.
Are there enough people like you to sustain their valuation?
Yeah I saw them when they still had long hair and wasn't into anything they did after the Black album but their previous album had a couple songs that were interesting and the "72 Seasons" is a really good album I was shocked to hear after a couple listens. Especially the second half of it, there's some real gems. It's not going to be heavy like the things you're into but they thrash on it quite a bit and some of the riffs bring you back to "Kill 'Em All".

Feels like a bit of a revival for them and I'm happy they made it.
CEO lays people off, forfeits their bonus [because they failed their responsibility to the employees] and then perhaps also resigns [because they failed their responsibility to the shareholders]
I would argue metadata does not belong in a device name. Location, OS, etc., should all be tracked in the device management system.

The impulse to encode lots of metadata in a device name is reasonable, but less is more. Location, user, application, even OS can all change. What then does it mean for the device name?

And how often do you need to distinguish between a laptop and a desktop, really?

Name things uniquely, and as little beyond that as possible. If the system generates its own unique default (Windows) or manages its human-readable hostname on its own (Mac), use that. Let your device management tools tell you where it is, what model device it is, what OS it runs, etc., not to mention countless other things you’ll never fit in a name.

I used to make exceptions for infrastructure, but with automated network management tools, I don’t even bother with that anymore. All that matters is that a device is represented in a database by a primary key, and I don’t even care what that is.

The best naming convention is not to bother with conventions at all. Let the machines do that work.
Chip wars with China risk ‘enormous damage’ to US tech, says Nvidia chief
https://archive.is/9rTBp
The web 1.0 webpage for Crenshaw's comp.compilers article is https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

I find it more readable. YMMV.
Consider another view of the scenario:

A small group of dictators and their affiliates holds power in a small country with abundant natural resources, which a foreign entity harvests at relatively low costs - only having to pay and protect the dictatorship, while the vast majority of the population lives in squalor and poverty, only having access to low-wage menial labor.

Democratization of the economy would entail vast economic losses for the foreign power, due to a steep rise in the cost of the raw materials (see Arab oil crisis), or the conversion of the country to an industrial power that doesn't export raw materials or agricultural produce, but instead manufactured goods, causing it to become a global power (see China).

In this scenario, the role of the CIA is to sabotage all economic and political development in the country - much as the British throne and its affiliated Crown Corporations attempted to do in the American colonies for the 100 years preceding the American Revolution. When people say, "the USA acts as an economic imperialist in Latin and South America", this is the kind of thing they're talking about.
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FTA: "Mr. President—out last summer in David Unger’s lucid new translation"

I assumed that was a translation into English.
While I agree with your conclusion, for what it's worth I'm not sure journalism "decided" anything. The economic system it is embedded in did.

I say that because it's not like the pattern is unique to journalism.
Steve Mould, the YouTuber, has a fun takedown of the phrase "6 times colder than", and how in every reasonable interpretation it is completely meaningless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C91gKuxutTU
“deep state” is insanely vague. Does it mean the part of the government that has lots of secrets it fights tooth and nail to make sure is never revealed and even potentially engages in illegal acts? Or does it mean bureaucracy?

From what I’ve heard most people complaining about the “deep state” they always seem to express their complaint about the bounds of normal bureaucracy and less about secret/covert/illegal activities.
Whilst I appreciate the humour, the "365" wouldn't need changing because your WAN is not what MS is selling. That's not how SLAs for SaaS work.

I'll see myself out!
They really aren't too much effort to get right, not anymore. Dialog element exists and by default handles most considerations when it comes to accessibility.

Also, you're going to have to create modals eventually, alerts are needed in most applications so you might as well create a thorough component.

Avoiding modals because of those who browse with JS disabled doesn't make much sense. Especially when they can temporarily enable on your site, as disabling JS for security reasons would mean they trust your site if they're still using it enough to reach a modal. You can still create fallbacks, but they'll be ugly considering most modals are for nested form changes or alerts.
So consume was added as a more surgical version of acquire. I see why that's useful. Why didn't they also add a surgical version of release? Wouldn't that also be useful in the same situations where consume is useful?
I'm guessing you mean convert to midi from audio?
This really depends on where you live.
I think its a HCOL coastal city bubble product - if you live in an area where a nice clean gym is like $300/mo, then these home workout service for $40/mo is a steal.

If you can get a good gym membership in your area for ~$50/mo then I can see how the product is not cheap at all.
> Modal windows can't be opened in a new tab

> Nor should they

How about you stop making decisions for me. I very often want to open settings and other various dialogues in a new tab or as a saved bookmark. This is especially useful in customer support (which is a concept a lot of startups are unfamiliar with, to be fair). You are unaware of every use case, so choose standard browser behavior when possible.
It says heat energy
If Consume is discouraged, what should you use instead for the read side of RCU style algorithms?

Acquire is too heavy, and Relaxed is too relaxed, even if it often works on non-Alpha CPUs in practice, it assumes the compiler doesn't get too clever with speculative prefetch and reuse optimisations.

Do we really still need to use Linux's compiler-specific `rcu_dereference` in performant code just because Consume isn't implemented?
For this particular role, it was "Patent Technology Specialist" or "Technology Specialist".

For example: https://foleyhoag.com/careers/technology-specialists/ (note, this is the firm where I did that work)
Show HN: Procoto – Self-Service RFP Management
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So now we’re launching our self-service model. Pricing is on the site, self-guided signup, and there’s a 2-week trial to test it out.

Would love to hear what you think of the new-and-improved version. Your feedback meant a lot the first time around.
Scientists Working to Generate Electricity from Thin Air Make Breakthrough
Ah... so the one that myriad people have been chasing for at least 2 decades, now. I've lost count of the number of companies I've consulted to who were chasing that chimera. Good luck to them, I say, while gleefully taking money off them.
Ferries in littoral waters and whales don't mix. There is a ferry that goes from NS to Maine and it's been known to bash a whale or two.
SoundCloud will lay off 8% of its staff
Yeah that's true, that's an example of true waste for sure.
It's not that they specifically want less people to do work, rather, high employment is a symptom of an overheating economy in which hiring is (for now) cheap and it's difficult to replace people and meet high demand, because most people who would be looking for a job already have one.
Total derail - but Peloton now has Rowing classes that you can use with your Concept 2 as well.

You get access to the entire library of content even if you just use the bike. It's not a huge value add for a people but it is something.
I've always thought that might be an interesting feature to have in an esoteric programming language - for floats you must use the 'less than' comparison, but for integers use the 'fewer than' comparison.
I used to work for a state gov entity, one of the counties I worked with named their servers after Looney Toon characters. I always thought that was cool and fun. Where I worked named the servers after the departments. /sigh. Such boring.
Choices such as? How else would we get the user to run an updated release with the fixes they require?
Franck here, Airthium's cofounder (YC S17). Happy to answer all questions about our ultra high temperature industrial heat pump!
We bought one back in 2020 and I’d say it’s the single best purchase I have made in the last 10+ years. My wife and I use it or the app to work out almost every day and I’ll log 700+ hours this year which will be about 10% more than last year. 75% of which will be off bike in the other classes which you can pay a lower membership for.

Despite some really bad decisions by the management team on letting expenses get out of control, it’s an absolutely incredible product.
Monitoring Glaciers in Peru, Nepal, and India with Raspberry Pi Cameras
He owns a car company. He needs people to need cars. Commuting in many places requires a car.

Cui bono?