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Ask HN: As a SWE, should you be calm or high energy?
This is something I’ve been grappling for a while as a software engineer. I used to be very high energy, but after joining a software engineering team at a large company, I felt a lot of peer pressure to be queit and not expressive. To be expressive seemed like an instant ticket to being respected less. So I became queit and yes people started respecting me, 180 degrees turn. I noticed the same thing at all 3 jobs I worked in, all in FAANG and similar companies.

On one hand, I like that I am calmer now, but on the other hand, I feel like I have lost a sense of energy.

What is the ideal balance here? Anyone have a similar experience?
Stop calling them hallucinations. If we're going to anthropomorphize AIs, let's just call it bullshitting and lies. If we're not going to anthropomorphize AIs, then we need a different term
I H-A-T-E going to WalMart. I have to go every once in a while, because that's the only place that I can find one particular item that I use frequently, and that's only if I forget to buy it online where it costs a bit more.

I do my normal shopping at a grocery store where everything is probably 10-15% more expensive. Why? 5 reasons.

1. Paper bags. I hate plastic ones.

2. I'm not forced through the self checkout. Walmart has almost no cashiers any more, and the two that they do have (for all 30 registers) are hidden, except for the fact that there's a huge line of people there, all with overflowing carts.

3. I'm tired of having to wait 20 minutes just to stand in a checkout line. It happened so often at Walmart (even with self-checkouts) that I was fed up with it. The longest I have ever had to wait at the grocery store is 5 minutes, and often there's no wait at all.

4. Carry-out. It's nice for some young kid to have an after-school job helping me load water into my car. It's nice not having to find the carousel to return the shopping cart to. It's nice having a quick conversation with someone. It's standard at my 24-hour grocery store. It's an act of congress and a long wait at WalMart.

5. Walmart treats you as if you're trying to steal everything everywhere. They put cameras up everywhere that ding at you as you pass by. They take pictures of you as you use the self-checkout. They check your receipt when you try to leave. I'm sick of being treated as if I'm a criminal when I haven't done anything wrong. So I refuse to go there.

I can choose to spend $100 at Walmart, or $115 at a grocery store without having to put up with 1-5. I will choose that any day of the week.
What do you consider as "privacy"?
sam altman is a snake. has an opportunity to testify in front of congress and capitalizes on the event by trying to pull the ladder up behind him. gross sam.
What do you mean when you say scam? Are you claiming this is fraudulent in some way?
Per the placard over the Tron pinball machine at the Pacific Pinball Museum, the licensed arcade games made more money than the original Tron movie!

These cabinets are so rare, I have to wonder how it wound up on the curb. I'd imagine there's no way it's a happy story, unfortunately. Someone apparently felt that was worthless.
Why’s that? Nothing wrong with being a “nerd” (other than it’s a term no one uses anymore). I’m a nerd! The problem is with being a billionaire, corruption and centralization of power.
How long until we can tell it to take a LEGO instruction booklet and assemble the model?
This is a bad idea and cannot possibly work as well as the commenters here are imagining it.

But it is easy to say "this would be big if true" and difficult to prove "these cannot make anything close to enough electricity to be useful". So, we have a comments section filled with blind hype and hope, and little actual knowledge.
Ask HN: How to start a startup that helps combat global warming?
I'd really like to build a start up that helps combat climate change.
The YC advice is to address a problem you are experiencing yourself. I find recycling frustrating and often think about setting up a service that helps with the collection of hard to recycle items like laptops, soft plastic and bubble wrap. My aim would be reduce friction when trying to recycle these items, e.g. someone comes to your home and picks them up. Does anyone else find recycling frustrating and want to do more? Any other challenges in this space that could be addressed?
> advocated

I'm pretty sure they're still advocating against contraception of any kind, which certainly doesn't help prevent the spread of AIDS and other STDs. The most positive thing they seem to have to say is "it's better than HIV" and even that was a controversial stance within the church.
> overall walk more

Walking more is better for your health. Or are you saying you walk too much already?
Perfect for that 1995 MTV vibe
Agree, my IQ is too low to catch up with amount of changes to omnibar look, addition of cool color schemes or preinstalled extensions to advertise a TV show
What does federated mean in this case
> Wouldn’t it be better to have some underground cistern and as water flows down it passes through a turbine?

Congrats, you've invented the hydroelectric dam.
If we're going to use the "just use GPT" response, you could ask ChatGPT for a systemd unit.

Also, this completely ignores the fact that GPT4 will often make up functions or make incorrect assumptions about how a language feature works (and I've seen it make several mistakes wrt shell quoting and the like), making it unusable for writing production code when you don't know the domain yourself. If you now have to debug the script, the use case of LLMs is gone.
Great discovery tool!
What are some good open source simulators suitable for robotics development?

(preferably a physics simulator library, not an entire framework)
So 25mm/hour (1") is a fairly heavy sustained rain. Terminal velocity of rain drops is on the order of 10 m/s. Volume of a rain drop is on the order of .5ml.

Total rainfall volume per m^2 is .025 m^3/hour. This is approximately 500,000 randrops/hour or about 14 drops/second. Each drop has 1/2 * m * V^2 = 25 mJ of energy.

So putting it all together, this is generating 25 mJ/drop * 14 drops/second = .35 W/m^2, and that's only when its raining. (Edit: and this is assuming 100% conversion efficiency, which....no. Don't know anything about this technology, but probably cut that number in half again).

Sounds a lot like Solar Freakin Roadways.

Edit: Just a sidenote; back in college the best course I took was billed as a "Renewable Energy" but was really just a weekly set of unit conversion problems like this that proved how absolutely stupid most energy proposals are.

We did focus a fair amount on real technologies like Wind and Solar (and analyzing the shortcomings like storage, which haven gotten better since ~2009). The professor took a lot of joy in shooting down ideas like this though.
> You can stream 4K movies on Netflix. I'm betting you can't do that as well with a torrent...

Depends on the torrent. Any popular "Linux ISO" can easily saturate my 1400mbps download speed so I download the UHD bluray remux whenever it's available. Videos encoded at 100mbps look at a lot better on a high dpi display compared to Netflix's 10mbps "4K" and also doesn't limit you to clients that support DRM.

The UX isn't great, but if you select the "Download in sequential order" option you can start watching a torrent in 5 seconds while it downloads in the background
The OpenAI Is Everywhere, Open Your Eye and Give It Your Scan So It Can See You
BeagleBox
Heck! For many of us, that cistern would help cover for our many drought periods, electricity notwithstanding...
> how does this not seem crazy?

Yeah, it kind of is. But it's the best solution that works in the most cases, and fails in the least bad ways possible, given the constraints available. It's a hack, and technical debt. Sometimes that happens.

Fixing it properly by implementing `fchmodat2()` is (finally) going back and paying down that technical debt.

If it didn't seem crazy to someone, then probably no-one would have bothered addressing it.
Did anyone clone the repo and can post it somewhere?
People are spending less time on social media so web marketing spend is down. Businesses are focusing on event based marketing. Web marketing is a very large part of the demand for front end. That's not collusion, it's basic economics.
Exactly. Just because a guy who's gigantic paycheck depends on hollowing out small towns says small towns should change, doesn't mean that they need to change the way wants them to. After reading (most of) the article it's a little mind blowing. Walmart took the map of a town, made it car-free, and people flocked to it. Towns can take that same model, apply it to down town, and people will love it.

I also love your point that what we're talking about here trades economic efficiency for resilience and local governance. Always pushing for growth is eventually going to hit a wall when either there's no more room to grow and no more good land to grow food on.
Yes, systemd is far from trivial. The model of its operation is rather convoluted.

But most people just don't care. long running applications are wrapped in a control group, can be reliably killed, stopped, etc.

There some questions around binary logs, yes, but nothing truly unbearable.
How much can you trust a man that has spoken out against gay marriage and rights as much as Brendan Eich has?
Raindrops fall at 10m/s or less. The absolutely rainiest place on earth revives 12 meters of rain per year. A 1x1x12 meter block of water weighs 12,000kg going 10m/s it has KE = 1/2 M * V^2 = 6 * 10 ^ 5j. 200 watts per meter is 200j/second…

So your hypothetical 200 watts per square meter at 100% efficiency assuming spherical cow types of ideal conditions could possibly provide that power for 50 minutes per year under ideal circumstances or average 0.02w/m2 over a year. And average roughly 0.002w/m2 in extremely rainy though not world record setting locations.

Now, you ignore the kinetic energy in rainfall and try and harvest the potential energy when it lands at a high altitude, allowing a large collection area and large differences in altitude. But we call those things dams.
That would be -1NF normalization
I live somewhere where it rains almost constantly for 9 months out of the year. Solar panels are really only effective for the other 3 months. It would be fantastic if this was a real thing.
Wishful thinking, the electric flying taxi is always 10 years away in the future. Same story as the fusion power.
I recently installed it because of this news to give it a try and reality != benchmarks, also deals much worse with large amount of tabs open
>victims of domestic violence looking for resources without their abuser finding out or

I don't really understand the threat model that would make Tor helpful here.
If you can I would recommend making sure you can do some backend work to. I started in front-dev and expanded into backend. Backend devs are often seen as more valuable as that manages the biz logic. You can argue if that's right or wrong but it is what it is. As I look for people I appreciate folks who can do one area very well and want them able to do multiple areas, especially in a startup.
Oh, good grief. I even googled that right before I wrote it, and my fingers still refused to go along with the right answer.
The reply about how to end crime was sarcastically mocking the original comment, similarly to the way "A Modest Proposal" mocked other helpful suggestions of its time.
If we assume they are two normal distributed characteristics that aren't related, then it is a natural consequence once you select for those who are at the top of either distribution.

Someone in the top 10% of competency or charisma will have average distribution of the other. If you consider the full population, you'll find no relationship, but because you are only look at the top 10% of each, those in the top 10% of one will be average in the other and vice versa. While some (~10% of each top 10% group) will be represented in the other group, you'll still find that they are more likely to be at the bottom of the group in the second group.

The end result is that if you only plot the data for the top 10% of each group, there will be an inverse correlation.

This can hold true even if there is a positive relationship between the two characteristics depending upon the strength of the relationship and how selective you are in selecting the top of each group.

This leads to some interesting results, such as when fruits are grown for look and shelf life risk losing taste and flavor despite these factors being unrelated.
Yeah, the cost of buying equipment and licenses supported by a team with a phone number is immaterial for most enterprise-level organizations.
We shall see, indeed. I believe that this round of inflation is going to stick around for a while for to geopolitical reasons: decreasing globalization, China no longer exporting deflation to the rest of the world. As someone who has only ever seen sovereign bond yields go down over time, it'll be interesting.
This might be politically incorrect, but: only procreative sex (i.e. in some sort of marriage) is literally what makes us alive, and other types - not necessarily. This sexual behaviour statistically does not create STD spread, because of negative feedback, while other behaviours create positive feedback of amount of people infected. In current state of standards in medical procedures other transmission vectors are negligible.

Of course only speaking of the first world countries.

There are lots of problems in third world countries, where numerous behaviours are not related to sex promote transmission of HIV
It reminds me of that one now-infamous tweet about how an NFT of a diamond is more valuable than an actual diamond since a diamond can be destroyed.
I get what you are saying, but you aren't explaining what your solution is.

It sounds like you are advocating returning to a model where the peasants toil away in obscurity to that the aristocracy can enjoy art, travel, etc. However, I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt by assuming that's not actually what you are advocating.
I'll believe when/if I see it.

As they say in there, "Brazil is the country of the future and it will always be, never the country of the present". This taxi looks like a Brazilian future: always coming, never present.

Embraer is skilled, but the manufacturing industry in Brazil is in decline. Besides, most of the money in the country is flowing into smaller towns in the countryside, following agricultural boom. Not too much need for helicopter taxis in there.

Disclaimer: I am a "viralata", a Brazilian that ran away from the country.
I saw that very often but I run a very lean Devuan (a Debian fork without systemd) and it boots ultra-fast too.

Machines and especially SSDs have gone a long way since ten years ago and people think Linux boots fast "thanks to systemd"... But I'd encourage these people to install Devuan just to give it a try. It may boot a tiny bit slower than Debian (for an identical system) but it's still very quick.

Put it in another way: the savings systemd did brought regarding booting times in 2015 aren't looking anywhere near as impressive today. I don't even know: on my 7700X I think from boot (since the moment I enter the disk decryption password) to (text mode) login prompt it take about a second under Debian (systemd)? Maybe it takes 1.5 seconds running Devuan (non-systemd)?

I mean: 20 seconds instead of 45 seconds may have seen like a bit saving in 2015 but 1 second vs 1.5 second, I don't give a rat's arse.

And people who really need super fast boot times in containers shall use Alpine without systemd anyway.
If you put your session to resume where it left off, all cookies are stored as session cookies and last forever.
Hiring managers and interviewers are definitely looking for charisma in the sense that they want people who are competent and that _they wouldn't mind working with_. Call it charisma, or culture fit, or whatever, but when interviewing you definitely want to come across as friendly and easy to work with.
Right but the issue is that people want to go there, if nobody went there it would not be a problem. There is th emoney aspect of course, but supermarket (of any type really) is convenience vs having to go to a bunch of smaller stores.
On iOS at least, ad prevalence has increased over time because targeted ads have been effectively abolished: more ads, with less relevance, are required to gain the same amount of revenue.
Walmart won't run an unprofitable store, as you mentioned. From my time working there[0] their strategy was mostly to put stores as far out as possible from a warehouse hub and work backward. To be honest, Walmart isn't known for closing alot of stores, they tend be very good at figuring this stuff out, at least.

Which is to say, I know they don't take a loss on stores, even news ones. They may have loss leaders, but they make a small (and I mean small) profit on most things sold in the store. Its all about volume.

Their labor practices are quite abhorrent. Not to mention they employ enough people to make a small city (2 Million+ last I checked). I don't know if they been good on balance or not, I do know they are the epitome of Corporate Exploitative Practices[1]

They also have an entire division that exists just to extract tax favor-ability for building in places. They've gotten really good at pitting towns against each other for their business.

That said, all of this is true for Target too. All of it. It just doesn't have the same poor brand reputation and it being the smaller of the two it gets less media attention for its poor practices.

[0]: I really resent them after working there though. I haven't stepped foot in an WalMart since that time period. It worked for that time in my life and I had one of the "better" jobs for sure, but it was rough to see what they did to associates and being part of that machine.

[1]: Its well studied that they have an enormous amount of their workforce on government subsidies / benefits. To the point that they have handouts to help people get on assistance that work there, rather than pay them a living wage. Its nuts when you really think about it.
everyone was really nice to me in paris.
You won't need to carry your work phone anymore, you can just access it in a browser on your personal phone or on your work laptop without any data being shared between them.

Also you cannot lose your work phone as you would with a physical one. Which might be interesting for your employer if you handle sensitive data.

The longer term plan is to also provide an app that you could install and therefore achieve the same mobility. This would be the only work app you would have to install on your personal mobile phone in order to access your work phone. This is still in brainstorming phase.
I get that, but it’s almost if someone’s trying to prove the point you just made.
Take greenhouse gas emissions for example: if we had acted more aggressively in the past, we might have mitigated a lot of the climate change we're seeing today. But it would have impacted the stock market, and every senator/congressperson would have lost money personally by backing those initiatives. So, today, now we have record temperatures as the norm, ie, we're not shocked when every third Tuesday we see a record temperature and extreme weather event
And can it be used to run iOS apps inside a browser inside an Android phone?
SQL isn't any specific product for a PM to greenlight work on or not, it's a programming language (the L in SQL =) that an structured (the S in SQL =) data application can support as either "the" or "one of the" programming interfaces to query (the Q in SQL =) that data.

So it's really a question of why SQL, the language, doesn't come with a table comparison command so that you can write statements akin to "SELECT * FROM (COMPARE table1 table2) AS diff WHERE ..."
Even the Mexican side lives in a state of sin as it comes to tacos. If you must, go to Tacos Chinampa.

An apology for coming off so critical but the pretense that food is just as good in the US rarely pans out without breaking out the $$$. Mind you, there are good places, and good food but its the exception and here we are only talking generalities. Just like having good table service.

Unfortunately it is a cultural thing; the food culture that produced, accepts and consumes "I Can't Believe Its Not Butter" cannot have non-"I Can't Believe Its Not Tacos" tacos.
> Great to see serif fonts making a comeback too.

For what it's worth Slack has a hidden command to let you set the font to whatever you want: `/slackfont $fontname`
I wonder who uses these, and how it measures up to something like the Tesla K80 (the old work horse of GPUs.)
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it :)
IMO, SUSE does this right. SLES 15 (and OpenSUSE leap) is supported until 2031 and it was first released in 2018.

You do need to apply updates, but that's the point of support. You can take any version of linux as is and run it for 20 years with no updates, no changes, and no support.
In my experience, SUSE also rolls from major release to major release with very little problem, so upgrading to SLES 16 is probably an in-place upgrade.

EDIT: also, RHEL never did this right in my opinion. They lock the kernel for a decade, SLES updates the kernel.
This is the latest in my most frequently learned lesson:

Nobody thinks they are doing anything wrong. They think they are shoring up a weakness in a fundamentally good argument or cause.
Brazilian guy here: Embraer is in deep trouble ever since before the pandemic, when their merge deal with Boeing went south after the Max debacle. I would really like to believe otherwise, but I can only see this as vaporware intended to pump the stock price of Embraer. Flying taxi drones as an economic viable alternative, on a 3rd world country nonetheless, is a hard nut to crack. If even their helicopter taxi venture proof of concept was not being profitable, using a proven technology. How in hell will they make this drone experiment be profitable then?
Interesting that you raise the connection to schizotypal thinking. I recently learned there is a quite explicit connection between excessively instrumental, abstraction-obsessed thinking and schizophrenia. I recommend looking into the work of Iain McGilchrist if you want to learn more. A brief sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkfMnaLpU7s
I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more attention, this model is now at the top of the Open LLM leaderboard on HuggingFace.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hello HN! It's been about 9 months since we've done one of these and it seems like time for another. Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts.

I'll be here for the next 2-3 hours and then after a break of about 1 hour for another 2-3 hours. As usual, there are many possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!
There's also the safety issue, since 1700 lbs of lithium is dangerous if mishandled.

If the glass pack batteries make it to market, with their 2x capacity boost and lack of dangerous chemicals, it might make more sense, but purportedly they also work better with quick charge and can handle more charge cycles, so it may be a moot point anyway.
its not. this is solar roadways level shenanigans
> fyi oil is not made from fossils or decaying matter. No evidence of that at all.

What is oil made from?