skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may want to consider good old approach of trying to grow exponentially in a sustainable way. It seems that you have no pressure from VCs, you do have a user base and a runway.

You can try setting the thing up, so the costs are essentially static and do not depend on the number of users. This seem possible, since it doesn’t look like you store images or do anything heavy. You also do not need moderation, it seems.
You could have made learning binary a game. Learning binary isn't difficult and should only take a few days to a week of lecture to grasp a sufficient understanding.
> Silicon Valley has been hiding a dirty secret for years: Many companies, if not the majority of them, are badly mismanaged.

to be fair, this is likely the case for most large companies even outside SV.

You just have to talk to anyone in any industry to hear crazy stories.
me to chatgpt:

> Here is some text. Please rewrite it as follows: 1. DO NOT change the content more than the bare minimum needed to comply with the instructions. 2. Rewrite to add at least one question mark, and one semicolon. Add a "however", "but", "although" and "because", and rewrite the sentences so it flows naturally and without changing the meaning. Here is the paragraph you should rewrite:

>

> They believe their classifier is effective, because it homes in on a range of stylistic differences between human and AI writing. Scientists are more likely to have a richer vocabulary and write longer paragraphs containing more diverse words than machines. They also use punctuation like question marks, brackets, semicolons more frequently than ChatGPT, except for speech marks used for quotations.

ChatGPT output (GPT4):

> Although they have confidence in their classifier's effectiveness due to its ability to identify a variety of stylistic differences between human and AI writing, a question emerges; why is this believed to be the case? It's because scientists are generally more likely to utilize a richer vocabulary and construct longer paragraphs filled with a diverse set of words, but can this solely account for the difference?

>

> They also employ punctuation, such as question marks, brackets, and semicolons, with a higher frequency compared to ChatGPT; however, an exception is the use of speech marks for quotations.

Of course their detector might well handle that too, but GPT4 is perfectly capable of writing text with very varying level of styles and vocabulary, and if their detection relies on that, odds are people will prompt their way around that quite easily before even looking at more advanced approaches like e.g. finetuning on scientific papers within the right field etc.
https://www.tarsnap.com/ or if you really want to DIY move AWS S3 to Glacier Deep Archive at $0.00099 per GB/month
If you don't mind me asking - is it generally easier for you to read black-on-white or white-on-black? Or does it change e.g. based on the environment (bright room during day vs. darker room during night)?
My assumption is that it's there's not really a business case to invest in Siri:

* Bringing Siri up to speed with expectations AND keep it maintained and updated is probably orders of magnitude more expensive than whatever budget they have now

* Siri shipped for free with no apparent revenue streams - Apple haven't found a good way to monetize the service, (ads, partnerships, subscriptions, etc.)

* Siri is most likely a nice to have and probably not a deal-breaker for consumers when deciding what phone to buy

Cost either have to go down, or it has to become a deal-breaker or they need to monetize it somehow.

My guess...
> This makes me laugh because it's clear that there's a lot of distraction going on there.

No, no. I think you mean there's a lot of creativity and community going on in the background. What you're hearing is serendipitous collaboration popping off like fireworks.

Just kidding, open plan offices offices suck.
There is no mention of this being a Lisp anywhere in the name or README files.

You are mistaken in assuming that, since it has parens, then it must conform to being a Lisp.
Really, the primary difference is that the US has covert god credentials, as where China has overt god credentials. “Functional constitutionally granted protections from government overreach” don’t apply against agencies with qualified immunity. That applies to most every three-letter agency here in the US.
If anyone wants to get more of a feel for this, listen to the Huawei episode of the Acquired podcast. They get a bit more into the weeds on the practical differences between companies in the US/Europe and in China, and what it means for how they're run, how they compete, etc.
I totally get where you are coming from, and 100% agree, but you don't understand me at all. I'm not talking about data.

I'm talking about the world as a complex system of physics, chemistry, biology, society, politics, economics, digitalics (lol we need a new word for the digital world), its history, present, future. I think about how the technology is progressing on an exponential curve.

We NEED to be thinking about things at this level. Just look where the world is headed!

A quote from wiki: "accelerating change is the observed exponential nature of the rate of technological change in recent history, suggest faster and more profound change in the future and may or may not be accompanied by equally profound social and cultural change."
> The value on crypto is absolutely in that it gives common people a means to "fight back" against the power of the state and it's never-ending quest to control their private lives.

The cost of that bit of freedom being that it funnels all of their meager savings to the top of the pyramid, making a few very wealthy people even more so.
Not always. You have to include the fad component. Our company isn't cost constrained, nor were we hiring a ton of new talent. Yet we updated our office layout and furnishings 2x in the last 8 years to look "better."

Never underestimate the desire to keep up with the Joneses.
If you don't like Google's implementation, you should use another one. It doesn't make much sense to say "I can't do X with my thing, therefore I can't do it with anything".

The fact remains that, if you want a Passkey you can write down, you can do that.
i think it would be very naive to think otherwise. People are extremely influenced regarding beauty standards.

Just look at beauty standard differences between india, south korea, and the US..

(or between different periods in the same country)
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Which is fine for filtering particulates, but does nothing to resolve the issues of CO2 buildup, natural gas appliance fumes, formaldehyde from composite wood products or other off-gassing, etc. For proper indoor air quality you need both filtration and fresh air intake.
Implying I want to be half a mil in debt for a apartment instead of just... going to the office
LOL.

"Hey, so I see you're living with other human beings. I'm afraid remote work isn't open to you."

"Oh, ok that seems fair. As a result of the fact that I can't afford a home all to myself, I will absolutely commute for 2 hours a day to come to an office filled with other parents and caregivers."

Nobody's saying it because it's nuts dude.
This is not a Lisp, and never claimed to be one.

This kind of gatekeeping from ANSI Common Lisp purists is tiring. Who cares about convention when one just wants to build their own language, use S-exprs and car/cdr for the sake of it.
It would be up to each AHJ (authority having jurisdiction) to adopt ASHRAE 62 into their building codes and most have not.

As far as I can tell, neither Massachusetts nor my city have incorporated ASHRAE 62 into their codes. (ASHRAE 90.1-2013 is required in MA for commercial buildings, but those relate to energy efficiency, not air quality.)
To me, if you watch videos of what amateurs can do with the maneuverability of a $300 racing FPV drone it is most likely those are military drones of some sort.

Even a $300 racing drone looks pretty alien if you have never seen one. A $3 million dollar one would absolutely look like it is from another planet.
So does this just get to the top because it's mostly focusing on yc jobs?
How often do you plan to do backups? Continuously or periodically?
Different people have different homes, and different offices have different norms. My home is less distracting than the office, and the environment itself is much less stressful than the office. It seems weird for Google to force the decision instead of trusting employees to make the right choice for them.
+1 for the SEN5X. Incredible little sensor. I picked up a devkit a year ago when it first came out, intending to build an OSS AQM around it, but alas, time and young kids got in the way. I'm really hoping it gains traction in the community.
The majority of Puerto Ricans and the majority of Americans both support Puerto Rican statehood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Puerto_Rican_status_refer...

The only thing stopping Puerto Rican statehood is the lack of majority rule in the US, and the fact that Republicans are heavily against Puerto Rican statehood. It's a partisan issue: "The majority of Democrats showed support for statehood for both D.C. (61.8%) and Puerto Rico (69.7%)" while among Republicans, only 26.7% supported D.C. statehood and 34.8% supported Puerto Rican statehood.
Perfectly fair. And I guess the real question is how rapidly the air in a building is recirculated?
Why not get a RAID array and store them in your basement?
No, I blame the executives at a poorly run bank.

SVB execs knew the risks of having too many long term low interest securities. The Fed repeatedly warned SVB about it's problems. SVB ignored internal recommendations until it was too late.

If this was a systemic "fiat dollar" problem then many more banks would be failing.
Dont know why all of you think I am from UK
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Well, I don't really want to live here specifically, and planned to move, but cost-of-living, the general housing situation and mortgage rates don't leave many options at the moment!

Wear on the car is real and annoying, but it's still no more expensive than the train would be (and much faster). Funnily enough, working from home here and there isn't always cheaper by train: they ding you 40% of the weekly ticket price and nearly 60% of the monthly if you want a carnet of tickets (which expire within about 6 weeks). Season tickets also don't include some routes.
You can disable slack notifications. It’s great, as long as you remember to periodically check it.
I also switched from Monica because of this. I love the features, but no iOS syncing was too painful of a gap.
Wouldn't that be an inefficiency of your organization?

i.e. not following defined standards and verifying interoperability?

Standards are made for a reason, I expect professionals to be informed of them and put effort into adhering to them.
Seeking the endgame for Debian's /usr merge
This is where I heard of Orca last night. Love his breakdowns.

The idea (and model) is very exciting. I figured efficiency was going to be the next area of breakthrough, since monolith LLMs seem to be VRAM-limited these days.

I hope this is a sign of things to come and ML becomes more democratized!
> Optimal routing of delivery vehicles for UPS/Fedex etc is also non-compressible to the drivers, so the planners often intentionally generate suboptimal solutions.

Really? That's the first time I've heard that (and I've worked on vehicle routing).

Normally, the driver would get the next address they have to visit and would use satnav to work out how to get there. They don't need to "comprehend" the overall route.
ChatGPT Can Generate Mutating Malware That Evades Modern Security Techniques
If it's hurting more than it's helping, then we should probably get rid of it. But you'd need to bring some data proving as much. The attention grabbing headlines that linger in your memory are a biased sub-sample.

For bitcoin specifically, a notable crypto skeptic Igor Makarov determined[1]:

> illegal transactions, scams and gambling together make up less than 3% of volume

To me, 3% is an acceptable level. It's a lower percentage than the black market in many countries even.

The reasons people contribute to crypto projects are as diverse as the reasons people contribute to open source in general. Some people want to get rich overnight, others contribute as part of their day job so they can go home at 5pm, and others are genuinely altruistic, though you may not believe it. It's reductive to paint everyone with the same broad brush.

[1]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3942181
Before "everything digital" it was logistically barely possible to spy on 100%. At times of GDR a mayor of the Stasi had resources to maybe wire-tap 50 people. Letters can only be opened for X amount of people. Now they have the possibilities to do 100%. That's a big difference.
Probably a bit early to rely on this exclusively; for example Firefox support is not there yet (only works if you have ubikey). Apparently they are planning something there. Bitwarden recenly announced that they are implementing support; and there are probably a few others that are going to do stuff in this space.

I do see the appeal for passkeys but I think short term it's probably going to be a support nightmare. The messaging around this is also quite confusing for example. Way too technical to explain to normal users what this even is or how it works and what they need to do.

Also, as others have pointed out, while this is more secure than relying on passwords (given users can't be relied upon to follow most of the sane recommendations for these), it doesn't remove the need for multi factor authentication. A lot of passkey implementations basically rely on some variation of biometrics. Those aren't exactly hacker proof. And of course phones get stolen and lost all the time. Which creates the need for some recovery mechanism as well as a way to revoke passkeys.
Tarsnap would be very expensive for his use case
> I don't understand how intelligent people can continue to believe this stuff is the future of finance.

I think you're overestimating average intelligence, and/or how well intelligence translates to common sense. Some of the craziest people I've ever met were absolutely brilliant. Still crazy.
Mimetic Theory, developed by Rene Girard, is a good entry point for modern people to get some insight into why this practice was (and still is in some places) so common.
The thing is it's not always obvious. You don't always spell out how many hours each day you spend training others and so management just thinks you're doing nothing.
Show HN: Quantum Wallet, a quantum-powered hardware wallet
It warms the oil. My BMW tells me when it’s OK to start driving.

Note this does not warm the transmission fluid. So it’s still good to take it easy the first few minutes of driving.
In my testing, access to your passkey requires your _unlocked_ device (as opposed to a yubikey, which has no on-device authentication)
Unless it's found in the middle of nowhere, and maybe not even then, how does one determine if a piece of trash is there by the deliberate act of littering?

As well, lots of trash has several people's DNA with no one individual having the majority such as product packaging, and that's the most likely to be littered.
I live about 1:30 hour from my office. Before covid I went in 2x per week. Since covid I've been to the office about 6 times in 3 years. Never going back to a regular commute. Never. Open floor plan is terrible for thought-work (programming). Having my own home office and regaining several hours per week is priceless. I would gladly take a 50% pay cut if they required me to return to commute.
And the construction is just as shoddy. The gaps where air can bypass the filter are important. Most of the air will bypass the filters because the air will go through the path of least resistance.
> But as a manager, I see that it's just so far less effective

With respect, this is a skill issue. I also manage people and satisfaction among those I manage is high (there is no change) and everyone else is just as happy with our output as they've always been. Of course there is plenty of complaining by other extroverted managers that they'd like to "see their colleagues more", but should that come at the cost of 2h per day for every single person? Absolutely no. If this is not clearly communicated they will abuse (IMO) their managerial powers by mandating folks do something to serve them. This is entirely the wrong attitude to take.
We were talking about Snowden going to Gitmo, how would that happen?
I also miss receiving a monthly batch of new knowledge. Websites trickle in new articles usually. There’s something about receiving that batch and having time to absorb it before the next batch arrives.
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I paid $89 for 15 months of Microsoft Office 365. It gives you 1TB per user for up to 5 users.

I use onedrive app on Iphone to backup images.

Next step is to sync my NAS but I have not gotten around to that yet.
To test the hypothesis that China is worse than the US, it doesn't suffice to point out that 'US bad'.
Do I really need to go through and trace the entire history of psychology and every false start and course correction in order to prove that they do it too?
Do you see the difference in the burden of proof.
You are starting from the position of 'Psychology' is all false, now proof everything by citing everything over again.

But, to do so, I would need to cite something in Psychology, and you can just deny it again. What evidence can be cited if all evidence is dismissed.

You will probably say something along the lines of 'what can be verified or repeated'. Ok, just go look. Why do I need to re-cite an entire discipline, just go read it.
heh, indeed... I'm a contractor and I got shuffled around into a team that's not really picking the steam it was expected to. Talked to the previous EM -- whose teams are under significant load -- and yeah, what a pity: budgets are locked so shrugs.
Politicians generally decide where weapons are deployed. The potential for them to exist isn't up to the physicists they are merely reporting accurately the state of the natural world.

I can't find the quote but Eisenhower reportly met with a physicist after the bombing of Japan who was upset with his role in it and said something to the effect of "get this whiny guy out of here, I'm the one who gave the order".
Interesting article - good to know, too!

I've been tracking air quality in Gary, IN for a few years now. It started with a PurpleAir ($), then a AQMesh pod ($$$$$) for a few months, now I'm rocking a Sensit RAMP ($$$). Just haven't spent too much time updating the dashboard I built to showcase the data: https://millerbeach.community. I had one sensor up and running at a time, so couldn't compare all 3 (PM only) against each other.

Indoors, I've been using a Canairi Air Quality Sensor, but that's just a simple CO2 monitor, along with my Dyson hot/cool air purifier.

I'm looking for a rough idea of what my family are breathing, I don't mind if numbers aren't 100% accurate (hopefully as small -/+ %, though).
Love the jobs asking for 6 years experience. I can just hear the HR team saying "See, we go one higher".
My fellow US citizens can't even seem to wrap their minds around something as simple as ranked-choice voting, where instead of selecting the candidate you like best, you instead order the candidates based on how much you like them.

It's an incredibly simple, intuitive change that has the potential to increase overall happiness with the results and disincentivize extremism.

Yet it has been an uphill battle to get ranked-choice voting adopted, and some states and municipalities have even had to revert back to first-past-the-post voting after an outcry from voters.

If voters can't wrap their heads around that, I hardly think they would be able to follow along with the mathematical principles outlined in the Quanta article.
Google to crack down on office attendance
Slightly related, not sure why Atlanta is left out of many statistics like this. Atlanta's metro population is bigger than most of those cities.
I know that different people not only have quite different preferences but also different working styles, but I generally agree with this.

IME the slight extra friction of initiating a call acts as a filter which means that I am less likely to ask colleagues either something which only saves me a few seconds, or to just start a nebulous discussion. Text chat is the right medium for both of these, even when in the office, as it's asynchronous and no one else has to hear it. When I call someone I tend to have at least a clear question or request for something that will make a significant different to what I can get done today.

The other argument against the benefits of face-to-face communication is that, unless everyone in your org works in the same city (or even, on the same floor - since most people don't walk around huge offices to ask colleagues quick questions), you should be practising with the online communications and finding good ways of working with them anyway. Otherwise fully distributed teams degrade into geographic silos, and teams with only a few remote people tend to just leave them out.
Boolean logic is close to bitwise operations and it is the knowledge without which nobody should dare to call themselves a software engineer.
There are no government mandates in effect here in Portland either. Any masking/testing rules in place for the conference are due to the event’s policies.
Would you like to talk about some of the absurd contrarian opinions that we see from the field of software engineering or venture capital? How about Linus Pauling and Vitamin C?

The further one moves away from their field, the more we should disregard someone's opinions regardless of how smart or accomplished they are in their field.
Yep! Honey bees are the weird exception, most aren't great builders
I can see is mostly US?
It's not calling methods on a type that is the issue. It's passing parameters to a method or function when that method or function has a generic type for that parameter.

In Rust this is something like

fn foo<A>(a: A): A

(which can only have one implementation, the identity, if you don't break the abstraction barrier provided by generic types.)
It would be unsettling for a software engineer to have little knowledge of the fundamentals.

But software engineers aren't the only people using python. I work with data scientists - with degrees in data engineering from computer science departments in very good universities - and I am certain that they believe a computer to be a magical box. I know for sure they're terrified of binary. Honestly, I'm looking forward to the day that they actually use functions and classes properly.

I wish I was exaggerating, I really do. It'd make my life easier. And it is no surprise - I've seen the supplementary material attached to papers that come out of those departments. I won't go into too much detail, but I don't know how any codebase could more closely resemble a house of cards and still function.

They still have successful careers in what they're good at. After all, one of the main reasons that python is so successful is that it can be used by people who don't know much - or care much - about programming. It can obviously be used by far more capable hands to do many more things, but for applied tasks it takes the pain out of learning something that they consider tangential.
My original comment was going to read: "I really like tarsnap, and the pricing seems much worse than rsync. $0.25 / GB-month. For 500GB that would mean $125/mo, right?"

Looks like I am totally wrong!

https://www.tarsnap.com/deduplication-examples.html

The de-duplication says you can store terabytes for $10/mo. I'm glad you forced me to respond to your comment!
That should be a discussion with your manager and HR department. Most places assist with relocation expenses. And nobody paid you to move away from the office in the first place.