skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seconding this. Anecdotally, the more multicultural a space is, the more it trends towards "ask".
As a (suffering) guesser myself, when I have to ask something I always phrase it like 'would you be interested in doing this?' so that they can say 'no' without stress.

Instead of asking 'Would you do this for me? etc.' which I know would cause a mild-natured guesser stress.
https://imdb.com/title/tt0079727/

The Plumber (1979)

A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.
Yes, just like they had valid technical reasons to kill 32-bit iOS apps. The point is that they don’t go above and beyond like Microsoft (although of course even MS has deprecated e.g. 16-bit apps).
> I mean in principle it can be done through careful meal planning (and perhaps some supplements) but most people just don't have time for that.

That's not true.

25% of your plate should be proteins (lentils, beans, tofu, tempeh, seitan, peas ...), 25% whole grains (brown rice, quinoa, whole wheat bread, whole grain pasta), 30% vegetables (variety of colors to get different nutrients), 10-15% fruit (apple, banana, berries), 5-10% fats (avocados, nuts, seeds, or a drizzle of olive oil).

That's it. Variety is the key. The only supplement you need is B12, which you can get from either pills or fortified milk, yogurt, cereals, and other sources.
Not always all of the performance. Rust encourages array access with superfluous bounds checks, unnecessary UTF8 validation, and uses tagged sum types over the more memory efficient raw union types.
This bit sounds plumber-y from the article.

> Simon Orrell: My first exposure to “The Plumber Problem” was sitting in a theatre with my dad in 1973 watching “Emperor of the North” and my dad leans over to whisper, “They didn’t make culvert pipe like that back in the ’30s. It was plate, not corrugated.”
It's crazy that a series d exit would net a founder 7 million and yet my bootstrapped business returned a 4 million profit for me last tax year.

I think people need to learn more about how to scale a bootstrapped business. Even when I was getting started, I read a ton on VC funded businesses but not a lot on non VC funded businesses.

I think there is tremendous amount of money to be made in bootstrapping as well. I think a lot of indie hackers / bootstrappers also think too small.

You can definitely make 100s of millions of dollars without VC money. That part of reality has not been properly dispersed.
Hiring Data Teams
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37053817
You can make the exact same argument for Russia and Turkey being European. This kind of vocabulary works through consensus about attached meaning. Usage determines validity. You can tell by there being no agreed upon geographic line on a map going through countries.
Fair. Perhaps I should be more specific: if your RSUs are <= 10% of total comp, as you say the employer might not top you up, and so conservative rounding down may be more reasonable. If your RSUs are closer to 50% of comp, rounding to zero will unreasonably hurt your comp comparisons, both by sheer magnitude of the grant, and because employer will definitely be conscious of regrants.

Not all CA tech companies give huge RSU grants, but the biggest ones tend to.
IMO it all comes down to the, 'Premature optimization is the root of all evil.' That saying was, at its best, not great. But it seems at some point down the road the 'premature' part of that sentence was lost to history and it became something much worse. It goes some way towards explaining why we now need machines that would be considered supercomputers, just a couple of decades prior, to run a text editor.

Unreal Engine is a beautiful example of this. The source code of that engine is absolutely full of 'premature optimizations.' For instance repeatedly converting a Quaternion to a Rotator (Euler angles) is basically never going to get red-lined on a profiler, let alone be a bottleneck. Yet there's a caching class used in the engine for this exact purpose. It's all of these little 'premature optimizations' that end up creating a system that runs vastly better than most any other engine out there, feature for feature.
It's also pure conjecture to say that they break the laws to suppress people for power.

Have you ever seen how the bottom-level of people in a huge bureaucratic organization behave? They're not evil, they're just being human. Unless you're prepared to say that at least 65% to 95% of humans are evil[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
It is model-dependent. I've seen that (NVLink benefits) when comparing against PCIe-3 connection, with small batch size, no gradient accumulation.

Once you have larger batch size and gradient accumulation, DDP won't be improved by NVLink I believe (the all-reduce traffic on gradients will be small comparing to your computation overhead).
I'll stop using C when there is a faster alternative. When nanoseconds count, there is no competition.
I think that helps a ton, but they also focus obssessively on gameplay. Story, graphics, cinematics, etc. take a backseat. Multiplayer rarely exists at all.
At Current Pace, U.S. Will Eliminate Fossil Fuels in 170 Years
Barely event matters, if your great aunt sends her DNA to some online heritage service, the game is basically over. Unfortunately, like it or not, your DNA isn't yours.
I'm not sure about static analyzers, but here are the clang warnings I use for my personal C++20 projects. You will get an enormous number of warnings from typical C++ code. I fix all of them, but doubt it would make sense to do so in a commercial environment.

-Weverything - this enables every clang warning

-Wno-c++98-compat - warns about using newer C++ features

-Wno-c++98-compat-pedantic - warns about using newer C++ features

-Wno-padded - warns about alignment padding. I optimize struct layout, so this warning only reports on cases I couldn't resolve.

-Wno-poison-system-directories - I'm not cross-compiling anything.

-Wno-pre-c++20-compat-pedantic - warns about using newer C++ features
"Give money for stock"

Wouldn't that distort the competitive landscape for the other participants, though?

If I were running a business where one of the main customers was the government, shouldn't I be lobbying for the government to take a stake in me, and me only?
I think the issue driving this for Musk is that there are increasingly popular blocklists of all "Blue Check" purchasers as well as "Gold Check" advertisers. Since blocking is reflected in the engagement metrics having the people who paid for an audience being blocked by that audience is probably untenable.

And in increasingly typical fashion his solution is what you expect he must have thought of first.
It felt over-complicated to me, too. Your explanation is significantly more concise and is a lot clearer to me
I mean, far right Vs just right seems like splitting hairs to me. I find it much more worrying it's a hidden religious organization with (maybe justified) political purposes that controls it...
Yes, but then complier vendors started abusing UB to increase performance and while silently decreasing safety/correctness. If the compiler creates a security bug by optimizing away a bounds check the programmer explicitly put there, that's a problem.

https://thephd.dev/c-undefined-behavior-and-the-sledgehammer...
I think so too. Thankfully most of them enable face/touch ID login so logging in is pretty seamless.
> It feels like almost everyone in every position has this vague fog of do-nothing about them. This is in every part of society. Almost every post. I just find it baffling. The amount of getting things done is very low.

Working hard is no longer rewarded in current world anymore. Period.

If you observe carefully, most ambitious people at work are the busiest of people, and everyone knows that, to get something done, work should be delegated or connected to them. Hardwork has the habit of raising expectations and when you want to stop to breath, people will be bummed.

From my own experience of 10+ years of work in tech at least, the loud mouthed sloths who can play at office politics and rubs shoulders with management are highest paid and promoted and given raised more frequently than head-down-gets-things-done people. In fact, 100% of the time, the people I saw who got most done were least paid and were always piled on with most work. These folks are unfortunately honest and don't realize their value, so they are constantly exploited.

After seeing this for over a decade, I don't see any value in doing anything more than mere minimum. Only reward you get taking your work seriously is more stress, less recognition and more negative feedback(because you do 10x and now you are expected to perform at that pace or all hell breaks lose).

I think, most people who are not serious have also experienced this, so no wonder this is becoming prevalent.
It is hard for me to see this change, unless rewards are correct. I mean, "back-in-days", my dad and grandpa used to talk about how they worked hard to go up the ladder quick, now, you work hard to signal that you are to be exploited more.
They may have been better at one point, but at least in my social circle pretty much everybody has given up on AirBnB due to numerous bad experiences and constantly complains about content now being spread across a dozen streaming services.
> and he can't shut up about "trauma"

The worst thing that's every happened to someone is still the worst thing that's ever happened to them. Though it might not be something like mental/physical abuse, it's still their bottom even if it pales in comparison to someone else's. Also, lots of families have secrets and can portray a healthy image when in reality we generally see people at their "best" in social settings.
I think the key here is self-awareness without diminishment, which can be difficult.

Also, at least with my algorithms, there is just so much bombardment from social media about things like trauma, mental illness, and neurodivergence where one can get lost in what they're being presented and be convinced that just because they read the dictionary for fun when they were younger that they're neurodivergent instead of possibly just being a curious child. If one is in a vulnerable state or just worn down from seeing all this, it almost incites a FOMO response of "hey, I was traumatized too!"

I do think that normalizing and acting to remove the stigma from discussing these things is a net positive overall but it can be damaging for sure
> the food just being engineered to be addictive and overly flavourful at any cost.

Not only. Highly palatable foods are also designed to bypass and confuse our satiety response so that we consume vastly more of it than we would if we were eating "regular" food.
What you've quoted is just saying they have found that the policies and procedures the FBI has on the books that it's agents are supposed to be following meet the requirements that have bee imposed on them. The problem is that FBI employees aren't adhering to those policies and procedures, and so far there has been little to no consequences is my understanding.
I tend to agree with respect to machine sessions where tokens are handed around and persisted and the cost of reauthing bothers no one. Sessions should be as short as is reasonable for performance.

For human applications you should generally not expire general access but expire leases to critical actions. Generally there are more and less sensitive realms of actions and read that a user can do, with a non linear continuum of risk and user pain. Logging in and browsing your content - fine. Mutating, deleting, viewing sensitive like credentials, creating new credentials, changing credentials, etc - reauth either every time or with some short window like 5 minutes.
Tell HN: YouTube requires watch history on for home screen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37158674
Tell HN: YouTube is not showing home recommendations when watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37157835

YouTube Will Display a Blank Home Feed If Your Watch History Is Turned Off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151135

YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066718

YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’ is turned off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37058189

YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054233

YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37053817

Ash HN: YouTube home page blank when history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963702
No, surely all of that profit is a direct result of the skills of the CEO. /s
Happens for me right here on HN.

Comment thread about digital audio/audio software: the comments are just clearly full of people who don't really know much about what they are writing about.

Anything else: wow, HN commenters are so knowledgeable and good at explaining stuff!
Through necessity.
It was great in the beginning! But yes, it's gone down hill, I avoid now.
How is covid surging? There are 58 cases in the 7 day rolling average for sf. There are 3/4 of a million people in SF. More people are fucking in robotaxis than getting covid
Those figures came up in various reports/studies. The one I studied in most detail was from Fraunhofer on the German energy transition.

One good book regarding napkin math was the following (in German unfortunately): https://www.amazon.de/Erneuerbare-Energien-zum-Verstehen-Mit...
Yeah, I'm a lifelong southerner (18 years in MS, 6 in AL, now 29 in Houston). We're pretty up front about what's going on across the board. If you come to a southerner's house, there's usually already hospitality happening -- but if you want something, ask! Just realize we'll say "no" if it's not something we're going to do.

This is jarring to people who cannot receive a no, or who cannot articulate one.
Where did I say anything about private or public?
This is advice preached to people visiting NYC all the time.

The person on the corner asking “excuse me sir may I please ask you a question” almost certainly has ulterior motives. Locals in a busy neighborhood ignore a guy like that a few times a day.

But the person on the corner who says “hey which way is the 7 train?” with no preamble is gonna get good answers, despite being less traditionally polite.

Where there is constant stimulation, the cultural norms get a lot more direct
Deep linking into apps on mobile has become such a pain of late.

I think the content that was linked is the slide deck in this blog post from the same author: https://www.kentik.com/blog/dual-subsea-cable-cuts-disrupt-a...
One thing that would be helpful to add to this post:

1) the chances of your company making it to series B

2) the chances of you as a founder actually making any money.

Much of the startup "legend" of massive exits, everyone making lots of money, is exactly that: legend.

VCs batch startups together because >90% will fail. Of those that do make it out of the incubator in any meaningful way, you can expect another 80% mortality over the next two years.

Say you get aquihired, you're not going to get much of a share payout, if at all.

Even if you get blockbuster hired (ie bought for 250million) you're probably going to get golden handcuffs rather than "fuck you" money upfront.

Same for an IPO, your shares will be converted, but you can't exercise them until after n years.
For now there is nothing impressive with it. The perfs they show off don't include data sharing, which is very primitive.

Which means there is nothing subinterpreters do that can't be done with multiprocessing.

They show progress, and it's good. But I would wait until we can see gunicorn spawning WSGI interpreters workers and get similar performances to the setup with regular workers to get enthusiastic.
Yeah, I am talking about ~10% performance differences for a specific model (I believe it is when benchmarking vanilla seq2seq model (from AIAYN paper) with small batch size and no gradient accumulation).

NVLink is about ~$100, so for these cases, I guess you shouldn't expect it to be "more than buying another card" type of improvements.
There's no money in unbiased news. If news organizations want subscribers they need to present a clear voice that is distinct from what other organizations offer, otherwise people will just click the first link on google or facebook and never pay. Unbiased can also mean undiferentiated, so NYT has leaned into technoskepticism, the journal into Karl Rove conservatism(and now just plain old republican or bust), and on and on. A news organization that hasn't made itself into a destination for its readers is forced to rely on cheap farmed out content that's usually either listicles or just straight ripped from a wire service.
Alternatively, decisions were made prior to knowing everything there is to know about radiation.

Alternatively, there are trade-offs that would make mandatory radiation not a good idea. For example, infection risk, or auto-immune disease risk.
> userbase is familiar

I think that every user who can use terminal, knows combinations like Ctrl + S (Save) or Ctrl + C (Copy). So they are familiar to them as well and should cause no problems.

For me, for example, those combinations from vi, nano or emacs are simply weird and non-standard. And I assume that they are "non-standard" for everyone who was born after 1980 and have never seen a PDP or something from that era.

Therefore it doen't make sense to support those key combinations only because 40 years ago they were used in PDP and other archaic systems.
I would assume the 3rd groove is from the horse.
I tend to agree that these are "intelligent" tools, and we've been calling various categories of tech intelligent since long before LLMs entered the public consciousness. But when LLMs entered the public consciousness, it was perceived as (and implicitly sold as) a new kind of intelligence. Something fundamentally different than what has come before. And to be fair, there's some truth to that, and the experience of interacting with these tools validates that view. They feel intelligent, and it's easy to anthropomorphize. Blake Lemoine and Kevin Roose come to mind.

As a result, I think the broad perception is that this new kind of intelligence is AGI-adjacent, even if it's clearly not yet AGI. But this is a distinction that is likely lost on just about everyone who doesn't work in or deeply understand technology.

I think these companies are pretty happy to leave that misconception as-is. They'd rather the public think these things are AGI-like. The reason I'm splitting hairs here is because this all plays into whatever happens next in terms of public policy/regulations, and I think the current level of understanding outside of our bubble is rather poor.

And to bring this full circle, that's why I'm defending the use of scare quotes in this piece. I think they highlight something that we haven't figured out how to talk about accurately yet.
Isn't that the point of unsafe blocks in rust? So you can write optimized code when you need to and the rust borrow checker won't let you?
I know most managers wouldn’t agree but I think having fuck you money is good for the employer as well as the employee.
Embrace the Nerd: Dungeons and Dragons and Military Intelligence
TLDR: dilution is a thing and investor incentives are not always aligned with founder, when it comes to early exit opportunities.

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But...

I don't think there are really a lot of opportunities to exit at $38m in the early stages of a startup, even if your valuation says it is possible on paper. There just isn't much of a market for companies at that stage of growth.

Imo, the more likely scenario is for a startup to either 1. fail to raise and run out of money, or 2. Become self-sustaining, but never successful enough to achieve a meaningful exit for the founders or investors, basically a "zombie" company that may never exit.

In the second case, it is the investors that get screwed, as the founder has made a nice lifestyle business out of their investment. I think most investors realize this is one of the outcomes though, so "screwed" is probably too harsh of a term to use to describe it.
This shows that the idea that there is no safe level of radiation on principle is wrong.
Missed that, thanks.

I thought maybe attenuation in the atmosphere would be a problematic amount of heat, but it turns out the Earth gets roughly 200,000 TW of solar irradiance so 100 GW would have a negligible (immediate) effect even if fully absorbed.
agreed its disappointing I wanted to read not subscribe
…And you're an authority on this topic are you?
AllSides itself leans right, other similar services say:

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I'm not sure school teaches you discipline rather than filter out the people who don't have discipline by making them unable to graduate unless they ingest all the useless crap taught there (together with the useful stuff).

If you can't teach an employee to be more disciplined when you can put their job on the line, I don't know why you'd think that even the crappiest school knows some secret to teaching discipline that you don't.

Of course that means if you're hiring and need somebody with "discipline", maybe hiring a CS grad makes sense. But if my hypothesis is correct, a high school student probably wouldn't benefit from going to university to learn "discipline". Not that I think putting up with crap is something I'd want to actively learn.
IMO, the problem is price. The price difference for a small car is almost not worth the tradeoff, utility-wise. We need small city cars that cost < $10k.
baby steps... and then you have the movie gattaca.
Yeah, that documentary haunts me still.
Isn't hard work sort of orthogonal to impact?