skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My numbers come from a far better source, with 1,475 data points

Not at all, levels.fyi is hilariously off, with many junk data points.

Let's settle this once and for all and go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (which captures real compensation from tax returns, payroll, etc.) and see:

Tampa: $110k [0]

San Francisco: $181k [1]

>This is much more realistic to what software eng here can expect to make.

Not at all according to these facts.

>And that COL index is laughable, when it's housing is 3.5x SF to Tampa.

That COL index is sourced from COLI and is recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. [2]

>As median rents, 3.3k to 1.9k show, your actual net cost of housing is nothing like 3.5x.

Median rent means nothing when you can rent an entire 2500sqft house in Tampa for less than what it costs to rent a 1000sqft hell hole in SF. COLI factors that in which is exactly why the 3x factor stands.

>Buying a $1.5m SF home vs. $500k Tampa is as much an investment as it is just a housing cost...

Immaterial.

So back to the numbers:

$110k * 1.79 = $196k. You again come out ahead in Tampa, over $15k ahead.

QED.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_45300.htm#15-0000

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41860.htm#15-0000

[2] https://www.coli.org/about/
Better get used to it. Soon, this will be the norm for a lot more places than it is now
I find that mock-heavy tests I've interacted with are low ROI: they don't find or predict bugs, require significant work to write, and often have to be updated when the code under test has changed even when the actual feature/case being tested has not changed.

While mocks can be useful, IMO "never use mocks" isn't a terrible rule of thumb.
I used to do that drive about once a week. It can be lovely from Chicago to just around Benton Harbor (hug the bottom of the lake), and then plan to stop in K'zoo to break up the drive.
> The Feds and the bankers hate it because it's a direct threat to their business model. There's no room for a middle man to fugazi in btc.

Crypto has spawned their own classes of middle-men.

At best, you have a changing of the guard - new boss, same as the old boss. At worst, you have traditional finance buying a stake in crypto and ending up in the exact dominant same spot they were before. And of course, all of these people have to do business on the terms of their host countries.

Crypto does not herald a new set of rules, it merely aims to be a new mechanism by which value is transferred, which by most objective measures it's very bad at doing.
My wife documented all our adventures for the last decade. Sadly we sold the Airstream last week.

https://www.watsonswander.com/
Boats are just holes in the water you throw money into.

Campers, I actually agree with you and that's as someone on his second purchase. But, my agreement comes in the form that I believe everyone should baby step their way in. Tent camp at an improved campground (meaning, at least a toilet onsite. Plumbing very optional and probably not happening). If your crew enjoy it, then it makes sense to step up but I'd still go small. Small towable/travel trailer. By that point, you'll know what you want/need.
It's funny how people put funny names on the concept of a spreadsheet nowadays
One of the most valuable things that has come out of the cryptocurrency industry, is a better understanding of just how much worse our fiat currency regulatory environment could be. It's, by all means, not all that we might wish for. It's way better than crypto.
Even without a tether, I'm mystified it didn't have an attachment that was designed to return to the surface and act as a beacon if anything went drastically wrong. Since all it would need would be a few sensors, a battery, and an antenna one imagines it would be somewhat easier to design than the main vessel.
Keys are mapped to specific locations on the typeball. When you rearrange the letters on the typeball you remap the mapping between keys and the actual letters that get printed. So you get a different effective keyboard layout.
They could have brought a better one but logitech ain’t bad, but not sure about going wireless instead of cable
And no one would ever question the precious Californian wine industry
Does this mean that GPT-4/65b level performance is closer to running on a say a m1/m2 with only 24+ gigabytes of ram?
If you have doubts, depending upon how you feel, you could consider speaking with your employer about working part time. Part time means more free time while still earning an income. Also consider how you might negotiate it: half-days five days a week are one thing and three full days (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) with the rest off is another.
The are a lot of people who have spent considerably more on thier chosen USB-HID for flying a virtual spaceship (myself included).
That’s a good point. Perhaps the image and video sites will eventually blend into hosting both — and short form video as well naturally. YouTube and Instagram both have short form video features and my youtube feed already has images amongst other things like polls.
Bit of a tangent maybe, but according to some expert I heard on the radio this morning, it's a submersible and not a submarine precisely because the vehicle is so totally dependant on the support ship. That includes everything from communication to getting in and out.
I read "No Time on Our Side" by Roger Chapman a few months ago on the recommendation of HN commentor /u/z991 [1]. It recounts the 1973 rescue of a damaged submersible on the ocean floor from the perspective of the crew trapped inside [2]. Mainly their struggle with limited oxygen and rising CO2 levels. A fairly brief but gripping read which I also recommend.

Of note, I recall even though the sub in question had a working acoustic phone and beacon, the rescue vessels really struggled to pinpoint its precise location and maintain communications. The ocean is a big place!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34360329
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Roger_Mallinson_an...
This is likely less the case when the pressure differential is ~480 bar.

Failure is going to occur on the order of fractions of a second at those huge pressures. (Fortunately?)

Here's a pressure vessel failing at only 1 bar:

https://youtu.be/Zz95_VvTxZM
Tough audience at HN as always!
In case of 966 you at least get to keep your sanity
About needing logins on your DMZ machine, that's not necessary if they use SSH keys to access the git user, which has no shell.

You might find it easier to manage those permissions with gitolite if you want to restrict the users to just git access, and to just some repos.
Maybe the truly ideological (an-cap types), sure, but many of the “most ideological” are just religiously greedy and want the best of all worlds — basic logic be damned.

Regulated exchanges and coins in cold storage you can’t do much with is the worst of both worlds for those people.
and Twitter bot spam is a solved problem
Similarly for retrieval augmented LLM agents, they break down very quickly once the question is not directly found in the documents
We email you your completed resume.
The report said one thing.

He changed it to something else, intentionally.

After "being corrected" he did not go back and fix all the assumptions made from that intentional change he made.

A typo is a mistake.

Intentionally changing what someone wrote/said is a lie. Especially for a journalist.

He's a liar. And those defending him are defending a liar.
I have a hard time imagining a role that places one closer to the center of the human universe. Enabled & creative & empowered.

The major downside is the Aladdin problem. Vast cosmic power. Itty bitty living space (& mortal lifespan to spend). These capabilities we have could be better spent, do end up entangled in so many frustrating stifling enterprises. But they're still amazing abilities. I'd wish such great adventures for anyone.
Utterly garbage article. The author can't even begin to define "traditional masculinity" but apparently desires to help "deprogram" victims as if it's some kind of death cult. Author hasn't the foggiest idea what masculinity entails in the first place, and who can blame her, since she is, after all, a woman? Author is pushing an agenda of psychobabble, rather than an authentic dialogue about the differences between men and women, and why those are advantages to the human race that should be celebrated by both sexes.
I’ve got the dead buggers sat in a box for later depotting and examination, as I’m also confused as to how a relatively small shift in frequency would kill them - can’t be voltage as I monitor that and it’s more stable than the public grid, and it was only after I started using frequency shifting that they all started flickering and ultimately died. I’d have assumed they’d just be using a boring bridge rectifier or something, and that they’d be expected to work at 60hz too - so yeah, agreed it’s bizarre. I can only think resonance might be at play, as in the evenings it sits at a pretty consistent 52.8 hz.
that list of concerns read like selling points to me

i suppose its just a religious difference
Turning up the volume a whole lot can help a mediocre guitar player sound somewhat competent.

This does not apply to drums.

(source: crappy drummer me)
Yes starlink would probably perform admirably out there. It's in range of base stations for the downlink, and sparse population density to not stretch the bandwidth out too much between subscribers.

A lot of people out there wouldn't be heavy internet users either.
Meanwhile, https://edxmarkets.com/about/ just launched
His point stands though. The general public can't know exactly when Bitcoin will collapse, because if they could, it already would have collapsed.
I like to use these in combination with set -e and report the error that happened to whatever is capturing stdout for logging.

You can report the error code with $? at the start of your trap, IIRC.
JLink (JEP 282) does the first part and was released with Java9 (6 years ago), the native compilation stuff is a product of GraalVM. Binaries are reasonably small but it depends of course on what your app is doing. There is a whole ecosystem of web frameworks that's being built on that (quarkus.io, micronaut) and IIRC you can build a simple REST API that ships as a <20MB container.
You had a P4 mouse in 1982?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Mouse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Logitech_products
That's possible. Then at least some form of ventilation usable after surfacing should have been included if you're locking people in.
> Mass market has a lot of R&D to leverage so it makes sense. Nothing to say this is the cause of the fault and probably going to be more reliable than something hand rolled.

Consumer grade products aren't built to last, they are built to be cheap so they can sell them to actual consumers

We all know how the military ends up using these consumer grade products; lobbying, aka deep state corruption "if that happens in a foreign country"

Hololens didn't find commercial success, yet ended up with the military, soldiers weren't happy when it was time to use the actual consumer grade product ;)

> 'The devices would have gotten us killed.'

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/13/23402195/microsoft-us-ar...
As well as chemical treatments.
Teach-O-Matic: AI generated how-to videos with Replicate and LangChain
It seems like the CEO here did pay the ultimate price of responsibility and accountability.
Looks like Java is working pretty well for them then.
Zealot or not, it sucks to miss out on having a few dozen millions. My cofounder also sold very early and he refrains from talking about it
The founder/CEO has said that he hasn't been on a single trip where everything went to plan...
Is this similar to hikimori, minus some of the extreme social withdrawal?

Is this the human equivalent of “the beautiful ones”, where the cut-throat resource hoarding and society’s enforcement of non-violence has lead to a somewhat different way of “checking out”?

As soon as one kid or dependent is involved there’s great pressure to participate in the rat race.
For those that have the Word, they will be judged preferentially.

For those who do not have the Word, they will be judged on the precepts of their own hearts.
Local climate change happens constantly. There is no scientific evidence that global warming is enhancing variations about the mean increase, which is 0.13C per decade for the global troposphere[0]. Local climate change, especially extreme year on year changes like in California, is not noticeably affected by global warming, and thereby not by the human contribution to the global CO2 increase.

[0] https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/06/uah-global-temperature-...
Let’s not forget the Windows Live Messenger.
I guess it was more like Discord alternative of that time.
I upgraded from trailer to the motorhome and everything turned out to be more trickier on the motorhome.

But there are benefits as well - it’s way more comfortable for passengers, and it’s easier to setup on arrival.
Capacity behind dams doesn’t create new water, and in fact cases evaporation thus reducing average available water in the long term. It’s a pointless expense unless there’s regular surplus water to refill them.

The issue isn’t that farming is using 92% of all water, the issue is farming is extracting water from aquifers faster than it can replenish. This reduces not only the amount stored but also the amount that ends up in streams and rivers.
Right? Imagine being dead in the water because the batteries ran out
They're pretty big. I've got a fairly basic JavaFX app that's compiled with Graal, and it weighs in at 98MB, or 32MB when zipped.
VCs are all about finding someone with a genuine passion and pushing enormous expectations of profit onto them.
That's what they put on the ticket, so that's what I'm using, but you're probably right.
How does that work? Shouldn't the device be certified for such an application?
No, not really.

Your own safety is concern #1 when driving. For a very simple reason: if you're not safe yourself, you cannot make it safer for others.

Others will have different ideas on what is safe. They may feel comfortable breaking traffic rules or pushing you(r vehicle) past your/its safety limits. Some have new cars and new tires and can go much faster than others in slippery conditions.

Spoiler: none of that is ever an excuse. Not with traffic police, not with accident investigators, not with emergency services. I don't know what condition your vehicle is in. I don't know how worn out your brakes are, how much grip your tires have. I don't know what happens in your car above that certain speed. I don't need to know; I need to be able to rely on you to operate your vehicle sufficiently safely. That is: such that it doesn't make the roads less safe for me.
Ask HN: What's the best AI to translate fiction?
Hey, for those up-to-date with the myriad of LLM tools being launched everyday, what is the best option to translate a fiction short story from Portuguese to English?

The genre is dystopian science fiction, but not hard scifi, nor using many weird words and names.

I did it with ChatGPT, but I wonder if there are better, specialized tools out there. I also tried DeepL, but they accept credit cards from Brazil in their pro version (which I need because the text is 25,000 characters long).

Thanks
I often see charts produced using matplotlib or plotly - often you can tell based on the colour schemes used. For example, the bar chart at the bottom of this paper looks like it was made with plotly. I think the reason for such variance in the style of charts is largely due to the flexibility frameworks such as matplotlib provide: you can control basically every aspect of a chart and use any number of predefined or custom stylesheets to change the look and feel.
Who has a real 300 mile range? That Bolt was going to get lucky making over 180.
Ask HN: Life. It's One Non-Sequitur After Catfish
Mostly ignore this. Just checking to see who's a bot by posting this then waiting to see who replies with comments about Apple VR Goggles or how great Windows 11 is.
I have the wired version of the controller in the article and actually like it quite a bit, but it definitely isn't as rugged as an official Xbox controller would be. The main features I like on it are a way to switch between DirectInput and XInput modes and the ability to swap the left thumbstick and dpad.

Definitely wouldn't trust it for a submarine though.
Who said anything about programmers?
If I think I will never use it again, never return to it, and no one else will ever use it, it’s a script: a thing that helped me automate just this one thing, or do it more efficiently/quickly.

If I will ever return to it, or if someone else will use it, it’s a program.

I wrote a lot of scripts when I was younger. I regret that.

Because of the time I have to spend now, figuring out WTF I meant and why I did it that way.

Now I write more (but not all) programs. Costs me more up front, saves me so much tomorrow, next week, etc.

(One of the simplest differences is good comments, written on the assumption I won’t in fact remember the motivation for whatever this is/was. That and error checking and sound defensiveness.)
That’s the reality of being employed, really.

No matter the accomplishment, I doubt they would have been able to create copilot outside Microsoft and thus without Microsoft’s resources (computing infrastructure, engineering talent and software ecosystem).

And the “join a startup” is a dumb piece of advice as you’d be still making some one else profit.

Create your own company, and face the likelihood of bankruptcy.
It's all well and good until you're unlucky enough to find yourself at the wrong end of it all.
You mean like product marketing documents or government tax manuals?

[more seriously... "fiction" is a big bucket. I suspect that none are great, but some might be better at westerns or romances than others. Narrowing it down might yield better results.]
It only has the same look if it's not given any style keywords. I've been impressed with the output diversity once it's told what to do. It can handle a wide range of art styles.
Take the 2023 State of CSS Survey
It's not semantics at all. They're both currently focused on solving very different problems under the broad category of "driving automation". While MBs approach has obvious coverage limitations, the advantage to that approach is that the solution is a more clearly scoped problem with a more obvious answer: expand the coverage. Tesla's approach doesn't have nearly as clear of a path to advancement. They need technology that doesn't yet exist to get there. Some have posed some serious concerns about whether Tesla's feature-first maturity-second approach is an engineering dead end and will ever be able to mature to the point of being able to operate unsupervised. They may be close, but the Pareto principle is a bitch.

Time will tell, but I suspect we'll see Tesla adopt some of the same strategies that other automakers are taking before this race is over.
Definitely agree with the first and second points above. I absolutely will if I can see it with enough time to safely slow the RV, and the terrain doesn't look like I might blow a tire or damage the RV doing it. I'm usually less concerned about time when traveling in the RV. I try to do what I can to build up good karma with other drivers, but it's not always a good idea to pull off.
Safety margins exist for a reason in Engineering. Lots of times you can just work dangerously and nothing is going to happen; the people pushing for using machines operating at the edge of the breaking point are seen as "aggressive", "daring" and "true leaders".

But from time to time, things DO break and that's why these safety measures exist to begin with. They exist for dealing with the unknown, with the things that can't be directly measured like random imperfections or variations in the operating conditions.

I hope that the company, and its owners/executives, that got away for so long with operating unsafe machinery are exemplarily punished.
This reminds me, in the best possible way, of the "electronic I Ching" from the Dirk Gently books.
Is it possible to write llama.cpp in Futhark? Like do effective math manipulations on 4-bit vectors within GPU?
Excellent point. I think the other side of the coin could be a factor as well.

Extremely conservative individuals tend to be quite religious. As the “opiate of the masses” I would imagine a strong faith in a higher power that will reward the good and punish the wicked, combined with the strong sense of community and belonging that comes with religion would form a prophylaxis against anxiety.
Indeed. In the US, we are aggressively criminalizing poverty and unemployment. People are literally unable to afford a place to legally sleep, but you will be arrested if you sleep anywhere. Not sleeping is physically impossible. It should not be acceptable to arrest someone for sleeping when they have no where else to go.

Even our "liberal" city is robbing the homeless camps every week, and harassing them to go somewhere else, but they are not allowed to go anywhere else anyway, and by taking any possessions they might have, INCLUDING OBAMA PHONES which are their only connection to counselors and public advocates which can get the food and a temporary bed occasionally, we are actively making their lives worse for the mild comfort of people who don't even live here. It's insanity.

I think "slavery" is an apt description, seeing as they have no choices in their life, and any attempt to start improving their life is kneecapped to please people who seem to hate those with nothing.
Gross profits need to pay back capital expenses for equipment or land, R&D, etc which is why moderate drop in gross profits represents a much larger drop on long term profits.
There isn't one universal solution . For me vit D and focusing on getting good night sleep (or taking a nap in case of fail) had greatest impact, but for others it may be useless. A lot of solid (but conflicting) advice here so you just got to keep trying stuff until something works

Keto diet was great too, my energy levels felt like flat line but it was pain to maintain
Figma was started in 2012, while definitely successful, it wasn't exactly built quickly. C++ on WASM is performant, but probably not super easy to bootstrap a new project on.
I looked up a depth to pressure calculator, at even 1300m, the pressure is 1892.67 psi.

"psi" is pounds per square inch, and a human has ballpark 3000 square inches of surface area.

So to get a (very) rough approximation, picture what would happen if you squeezed a human with 3000*1892 pounds of force. Or try not to picture it, because I imagine it being pretty gross.
We see folks compare to BLS data a lot, but it’s not an apples to apples comparison. BLS data doesn’t report total compensation, and especially for tech roles, that can leave out a significant chunk of compensation through (liquid) stock grants.
> Because trap doesn't pass the signal information to the handler it's not hard not to do cleanup on SIGINT

Did you mean "it's hard" instead of "it's not hard"?
Lobsters can't wear apple VR goggles. Their window on the world
is too small, but anyway, eleven of them don't make a cricket team.
> I have plenty friends who do art or art-adjacent things (such as design) as a full-time job

The comment you're replying mentioned "fuck you money" for their offspring. That means said offspring will not need to work to make a living.
I don't mean that it had a crack in it, but that it developed one as a precursor to total failure. My experience of physical materials is that they almost never just atomize, rather there's a weakpoint from which the failure cascades. I'm envisioning a process that might only last a few seconds, or be measurable in milliseconds.