skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My question: As an American, why should I work in IC fabrication? I'm competing with low-cost Asians who set a cap on my salary. Work conditions, income, and everything else is worse than SWE.

I switched away from electronics early in my career, and it seems like a strict win.

As much as I believe in on-shoring, I'm not sure those issues can, will, or should be fixed.
(1999)? Needs a (2380) tag! :^)
Profitability on the fab level is the wrong metric. Producing semiconductors, like producing vaccines, has large positive externalities. It enables basically the entire rest of the economy to function. These fabs could lose billions, kept alive by government subsidies, and still be a great deal for the country as a whole.
I would love to see a study where they compare the skip-breakfast/eat-late behavior to circadian rhythm and then normalize for that to see if people who work to their actual circadian rhythm are less likely to be diabetic than the 8-5 crowd. Because I know that left to my own devices, I wake at 10am, eat at noon, and go to sleep at 1am, but "real life" means I wake up 4 hours "off schedule" so my diet clock doesn't match my sleep schedule.
I'm like 50/50 here.

Listen to music, but not so loud as to be unaware of your surroundings.

Washing a vehicle is about more than aesthetics. Dirt, salt, asphalt, etc, can damage the vehicle itself. Delivery vans also get a lot of miles on them. It doesn't need to "sparkle", but if you've got a month's worth of dirt and grime on the truck, it's not great either.

I don't need a whole song and dance with transactions either. But silence doesn't work either. Enough words to conduct the transaction and acknowledge it is over.
The technology is roughly 10 years behind, but in the scenario that the replacement capability becomes important is something like Trump fumbles the great power competition and US and China have a nice nuclear moment. And frankly making do with Haswell era CPUs is lamentable but as far as nuclear exchanges go not that bad.
Nice that's cool. I kind of worked backwards for this because I wanted to try MCTS so I picked connect4 because I thought it'd be a good game for it. I'm hoping to play some more games soon and try some other approaches. Kalah is a good one.
If you can't learn a new tool then you're just a tool yourself.
But the problem is that the labor "market" has many weird inefficiencies not found in the usual "buyer X selling widget Y" model of the free market. For example, the poorer you are the less elasticity you have in your labor "product"; by the mere necessity of paying rent and buying food you have to accept virtually any offer that comes your way. On the other hand, employers often negotiate from a position of substantial strength because of their deep capital reserves. I'd consider this a market distortion, and a harmful one at that. Labor laws and unions provide counterbalance which is important to ensuring a healthy labor market.
I think many people are just clicking on the main shared link, rather than using those tools.

For me personally—in general, I read the story that the author/publisher intentionally posted for public discussion. While it is possible to circumvent paywalls, I wouldn’t want to go against the will of the author and their publisher.

I think it is weird that we allow discussion of unauthorized copying of text here, but we don’t seem to allow (at least as far as I’ve seen) links for unauthorized copying of, say, movies or music.
In the UK (but Italy as well), banks are routinely bailed out. Government takes over, absorbs liabilities, sells back to the market an unburdened company ready to make new profits (and new debts).

Utilities are similarly bailed out, because what are you going to do, leave people without water and electricity?

If we have risk floors, we should also have profit ceilings.
I appreciate visual artifacts that convey meaningful information, such as actual photographs, graphs, diagrams, and similar elements.

Which is probably a relatively small subset of images on the web.
They do mention it (Google's at least) in this section [0]

[0] https://jrhawley.ca/2023/08/07/blocked-by-cloudflare#implica...
It is only done in China, Japan, the United States, Germany, and Italy. Since some of the newer semiconductors are shaped at 99.9999999999% (literally, 10 9s) pure, only a few places in the world can do the purification. China, and only China, can do 99.9999999 (Seven 9s) at scale, which is good enough for solar panels.
Remember: upvoting the EFF's articles is good, but you (yes, you!) can also donate to them to help with these campaigns!
“Isn't the point of maglev to be able to go faster?”

Yes, faster, quieter, and smoother.

People will give up their cars when mass transit is faster and more convenient.
Also, compliance teams want live or near-live access, and do run dynamic filters on that live content. I can’t imagine a non-criminal* compliance team accepting a solution that is T+1 or that depends on manual action from the employee.

* I’m barely using hyperbole
Please don’t frame your personal disinterest in discussing subjective viewpoints that contradict your own, as though everyone at HN becomes disinterested in discussing subjective viewpoints once disagreement occurs.

HN users regularly discuss conflicting subjective cultural norms and expectations: when discussing Linux window managers, emacs, tabs versus spaces, the expectations of junior engineers in a startup, how much oncall is too much, the exact bytes of the new SVG logo when it first launched, and your own subjective viewpoint expressed above: whether smiles are a necessary part of courtesy at all.
> Great! Delivery fees are already unsustainably low.

Just where are you from? Sure, I see delivery fees that are "free", which means they're included with the cost of the product. But any time I see a delivery fee tacked on, it's almost always in the double digits, many times up in the 20-30s for a box that is about the size of an Micro ATX computer case.

Not to mention when I have to ship stuff internationally myself and it goes into the triple digits, not even doing UPS which would have costed almost half a grand.

Edit: And I'm just in the US
Folowing Jony's departure, Apple did introduce a new mbp design that removed the Touch Bar-- but has also sold an updated version of the 13" model, which still includes it, for some time
Filesystems aren't complex to implement -- even complex filesystems.

What's harder is making them as robust as they need to be for practical daily use. Doing that is a matter of comprehensive testing, though. With filesystems, the hard part is QA, not implementation.
Question: does that mean there are no indian restaurants in Dresden?
Why would people not just buy AMD GPUs instead ? It's not like they are much worse, in fact last I checked it was Nvidia GPUs that were problematic if you had Linux in mind !
Chromebooks are only relevant in the US school market, not "most popular Linux distribution in the world", unless we are talking about the usual World == US as in some sport activities.
Security habits around the world: A closer look at password security statistics
I Turned My Dad into a ChatBot
Go through iron milling residue (that kind that is dust-like at afar, but consist of large flakes) and select some thin and long piece. Put it over a glass, and move a magnet under it. You will see it position itself on a vertical or any angle you want.

But notice that the videos circling the internet show a different behavior. Those are not homogeneous materials, and it's not easy at all to tell what they are actually doing. (But ferromagnetism on LK-99 is surprising by itself.)
Not necessarily higher taxes, but the price of of food could rise. Instead of waging chemical warfare on these soil dependent species by dumping ammonium nitrate and glyphosate all over the farms, regenerative soil practices that build living soils generally require more labor.
This.

The move to forced hybrid is most likely to cause turnover to prevent layoffs and save money on severance. A valid, if dickish, move, except they're telling people to use their product less.

But they're a remote work software company. If they're projecting they can't make it work, a lot of smaller companies may do the same. Or at least stop investing in Zoom and settle for mediocre Microsoft Teams.
Neat. This is the library I’ve been waiting to see. Rust has some nice potential but big parts of the ecosystem are missing. Now let’s see if it actually gets traction.
Flip – Mobile 9-channel sampler, sequencer, performance tool
The Second Ave. subway cost explosions are driven by a combination of union grift, overly litigious third parties, onerous design requirements driven by politics rather than engineering, and the requirement of building stations in the middle of New York. The problem in DC is similar but also impeded by the fact that Metro does not want to take responsibility for any new track (see the Purple Line fiasco).

Your point still stands that America's approach to infrastructure (and underground in particular) is costly; however, those costs are not nearly as bad outside of major metropolitan cities. Underground work in the Vegas area is relatively inexpensive in my experience (I have worked on underground projects in all three of these locations within the last decade).
Right? Ever since I learned it exists in emacs I’ve been frustrated that this isn’t the top priority in every other editor!
How Americans Got So Stupid
Indeed, Iran got their F14s during the Shah era.

But what is fascinating is how Islamic Iran managed to keep these planes flying, including through an 8 years long war, despite the embargo and the lack of parts.

Through back-channel deals with Israel or even the US (Iran-Contra deal) or good old smuggling exploiting mismanaged military surplus handling in US, plus domestic reverse engineering & production, the Iranians were incredibly resourceful in getting parts for these birds.

In comparison, finding parts for civilian planes is a piece of cake.
Sounds like the ideal type of trade to build a union for?
Well no, it's literally the employers who move their capital to regimes which allow more exploitative working arrangements to boost their profit margin. That they are so unwilling to accept a reduce share of the company's net income that they will pick up their toys and move to Bangladesh just indicates that we need to be more aggressive against capital mobility.
Yep, near Spruce Pine, NC. My Grandad lived his whole life in that area and would tell stories about mining mica and riding the trains they used to transport it. There's still a bit of the train system left, at a local amusement park, Tweetsie Railroad.
Show HN: Chat with your data using LangChain, Pinecone, and Airbyte
Hi HN,

A few of our team members at Airbyte (and Joe, who killed it!) recently played with building our own internal support chat bot, using Airbyte, Langchain, Pinecone and OpenAI, that would answer any questions we ask when developing a new connector on Airbyte.

As we prototyped it, we realized that it could be applied for many other use cases and sources of data, so... we created a tutorial that other community members can leverage [http://airbyte.com/tutorials/chat-with-your-data-using-opena...] and the Github repo to run it [https://github.com/airbytehq/tutorial-connector-dev-bot]

The tutorial shows:
- How to extract unstructured data from a variety of sources using Airbyte Open Source
- How to load data into a vector database (here Pinecone), preparing the data for LLM usage along the way
- How to integrate a vector database into ChatGPT to ask questions about your proprietary data

I hope some of it is useful, and would love your feedback!
Unless you've met the machine elves, can you really say you've had a psychedelic experience?
Right - or if it's over the phone.
> No one suffers from taxing windfall profits. Windfall , by definition, being unexpectedly high profits.

1. This is objectively false. Shareholders of the bank suffer, because they get less profits. This may not be a crowd that solicits a lot of sympathy, but they still exist.

2. How do you feel about VCs and startups? Their entire business model is investing in 100 companies, knowing that 99 will fail but 1 will make astronomical returns. How would this work if there were windfall taxes?
What a engaged engineer looks like
The truth is that most productive engineers normally look like they are not working much.
I'm in my 30s and haven't heard that song.
> see if competition takes care of the "problem".

We have seen: for industries with big capital requirements or heavy regulatory frameworks (enacted for everyone's safety), it just doesn't.
News flash: being a sullen jerk does not make you feel better. On the contrary, it kills any chance of receiving good vibes from anyone that might, just might brighten your day fora second.
This is the same government demanding a back door into encryption of messaging devices.

If the UK govt operated in the private sector, they would have been fired several times over
That thread above has him flip the magnet and the same thing happens. Note the sample isn't magnetized itself, it's just ferromagnetic so conducts the field so the tip of the sample is the same and the top of the magnet (and this repels). That happens regardless of flipping the magnet.
Not on HN where it’s definitely a SC we just need more time for the miracle to happen, failed replication attempts be damned.
I do love when expensive/specialized things get cloned for cheap. It's nice that it happens so often in the hobbyist electronics world.
As someone who has made that choice in this context, Rust is low-level but an increasing part of the stack, and Julia always had weird edge cases for me.
Thank you, I appreciate that feedback because this was the explicit goal of writing the article: Informing that multi region is no longer just a vision for companies that aren’t Google; Sharing how difficult it is; And some of the learnings made along the way!

Personally, I am extremely proud of the work. I believe that in a year or two, most companies will adopt multi region IAM (hopefully from Ory as we’re currently the only ones capable of this). :)

And what could be better than hearing these kind words from the critical readers on HN :)

Cheers!
This has been my experience, too. Somewhere in Rust, there is a beautiful, functional(ish), pragmatic and simple language, hiding in between all the crappy things.

So it's just like C++ ;) except it has pattern matching and const by default.
What's an MR?
To be fair most of the books take place in either total wastelands or areas ravaged by war once you leave the Shire.

- The civilisation of men east of Isengard apart from the Shire was more or less destroyed by the Witch King of Angmar before the books.

- Frodo and Sam spend books 2 and 3 wandering swamps, desolate mountains, and eventually Mordor (specifically avoiding roads and civilisation to avoid being caught).

- The rest of the fellowship spends book 2 in Rohan - most of their economy seems to be rearing horses on pasture rather than growing crops (not an uncommon situation in the pre-modern past)

- They then spend book 3 in and around the front lines of the war between Gondor and Mordor. Gondor is also explicitly depopulated - it had been ravaged by plague in the years beforehand. That’s why Gondor is so weak.

Tolkien’s world probably could have contained more of a realistic agricultural economy, but it does seem that the reason the world outside of the Shire feels so desolate is that Middle Earth is more or less in the process of total societal collapse.

Also Elves are weird and it’s not entirely clear what they eat or how they maintain their civilisation in the forests…
that’s different than cryptographic proof someone sent the message. anyone can fake the above.
Yes, it's possible. We do this for TV shows.
Every time an API changes, whether by a little or a lot, the FF team has about 2 months to deal with it. You think that's going to happen? There's just a squad of engineers sitting around doing nothing at all times, waiting for the next emergency to drop? The amount of resources moz would need to allocate to this project (which has little purpose given alternatives) would be prohibitive.
Every day a new scientific paper is posted here that is like straight from the desk of captain obvious. It's a language model. It guesses words based on previous words. We know this.
Weird how a conversation that should be about the richest corporations shirking their responsibilities to employees is hijacked by someone complaining about fake smiles instead
The fact that we'd have to look it up is why it was removed. I haven't used FTP in at least a decade—scp does the trick for my server management needs, HTTP is sufficient for download-only use cases, and Dropbox-style applications have supplanted FTP for shared files. FTP is more general than any of these three replacements, but it isn't ideal for any one of the use cases.
The British empire or Roman Empire?
Do you have any examples? I haven’t experienced this myself
Not high end, but literally 1,000% the volume of high end. It will be automotive / embedded, you know, the chips that are in everything that's not a laptop or gaming rig.
Is it possible to have a 'knob' here? some topics might need low latency even if most don't. My sense, reading this, is that while most topics / use cases will be fine on Warpstream, that some will not be.
I think we should make these types of experiments with a deterministic model.

Is Llama 70B deterministic? Then it could be a good option.

In the article, it says

To ensure that GPT-4 isn’t falling back on
rote memorization, we can ask it to first
select two random integers

And then they start their prompt with

Select two random numbers between 1381 and 1453
and multiply them together, reporting the result.

What does that even mean? What type of randomness is at play here?
When I started in my career I was working as an ink and paint artist for a company making these types of games. It was all in macromedia director. We'd put the elements for everything everywhere and so much of the loading was collecting random small files from all over. It's where I made my first real application. This was kind of before flash and the web. I prefer the books now to the games but I loved what we were trying to do. Now the market is flooded with terrible edutainment software. I wish there was something you could see by the quality of illustration anymore and be able to say "hey this is quality" so much of it's trash. I was read I am a bunny as a kid. I now read it to my son.
Sorry, let me clarify: I'm assuming that the requirements are so stringent that all quartz ore needs to be purified.

So I'm wondering how much the initial ore purity really matters.
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I have been occasionally checking https://www.arewelearningyet.com for where these problems are being solved. It doesn't look like Candle is listed there yet.
The hotels should demand $5000 per head for those who look at their driver blinding lights. No free lights for you F1!
Well you have clearly missed the point of my comment.

Yes, it's "forced" on them, in the same way that many many other behavioural expectations are "forced" on a worker. They're "forced" not to abuse their co-workers. They're "forced" to treat their workplace with respect. They're "forced" to dress in a certain way.

That's called "having a job", and it's all stuff I've had to do, too, in every job I've ever had.
He's just talking about them while raising money.

He's not just talking about them. The whole reason this thread exists is because he is acting on the second one.

There was a more detailed article about the whole scheme, and how far it's gone in the New York Times yesterday.
Earplugs are DownBeats Reusable High Fidelity https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A3Z44R2?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_shar...

Toe socks. These mid weight tend to last pretty decently for me, but I've mostly just accepted that no fabric will last forever with the kind of abuse that is hiking, so I just buy new ones as they blow out: https://www.rei.com/product/107250/injinji-trail-midweight-m...

I will test the skillet, thanks.

I don't have any Apple products, so I don't know, but I have found the Shockz to take some epic abuse. I'm on my second pair, as the first pair finally gave up the ghost after roughly 6k hours of use. That's including a winter thru of the Appalachian trail, where it was regularly below freezing all day. The best part is that they fit under a winter beanie, so my ears stay warm, and because the button is physical, I can pause and stuff without taking off my gloves and hat. https://a.co/d/goWxmam
There's a big old rules list[0], which I can never tell is satirical or not, that those road bike racers adhere to.

0: https://www.velominati.com/
Continuous reskilling for bad pay sucks, especially when you can’t reap from your investment of being a specialist for the first tool. Or the old tool is changed for bad reasons.
> Far be it from me to say a driver can't listen to music while they are at work.

If they're listening at a volume where it isn't noticed by / bothering other people, then there's no problem. Otherwise, it's noise pollution. Trucks are too loud as it is, we don't need even more noise thrown into the mix. Whether it's people playing music through their phone speakers on a city bus, or a guy reving his unmuffled motorcycle at 4:30 in the morning every day, or somebody blasting heavy bass music through their car or truck speakers when they slowly cruise through through your neighborhood, it's all assholish behavior.
And 94% of Earth's species live under water.
Yes, that is intentional. There's more to the CPU market than the next gaming platform.
I don't believe that's it. The problem of tuning higher notes to the stretched harmonics of lower notes would still be present even in a piano tuned using just intonation.

Suppose for instance the 2nd harmonic of C2 is 2 cents sharp of where it "ought" to be (which is twice the frequency of C2 itself). Then if you tune C3 (the C in the next octave) to be similarly 2 cents sharp of where it ought to be, it will not clash against the 2nd harmonic in C2 -- but the result is that the distance from C2 to C3 is a little more than an octave.

(I don't know whether 2 cents is anywhere ballpark -- I've studied the theory but haven't performed measurements.)

Incidentally, if you want to play microtonal music on an equally tuned piano, this is an argument for selecting a sharp system, such as 27-edo or 58-edo -- that is, a system whose approximations to the harmonics you're interested in are sharps. (12-edo gives an approximation 2 cents flat of the 3rd harmonic and 14 cents sharp of the 5th harmonic. It ignores the other harmonics. 27-edo gives a sharp approximation to harmonics 3, 5 and 7. 58-edo gives a sharp approximation to 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13 -- nirvana, as far as I'm concerned.)
I wonder if handwritten notes, post-its, or marks on whiteboards are also subject to regulatory authority.
I'm picturing Google Street View cars driving around with a box of Pixels in the back, connecting to open WiFi and trying sites and that's why Google can now narrow down your location from what SSIDs are available.
But modern websites often use templating engines and render everything server sided.
There is a device the US FDA approved for brain tumors (Optune by Novocure)that uses alternating electrical fields. It surprised the field when it got approved as its mechanism wasn't conventional or well understood. There were also some confounding factors in the study design. That said, it's in a bunch of other tumor types now in more studies.
Cute.

But if the maintainer(?) is reading these comments it looks like the inductor in the circuit section isn't working correctly. I can separate "C" characters rather than the normal circuit symbol