skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, it IS actually impossible to do more than one of those things really effectively at the same time.

Even with socialization, any serious commitment to pursue a goal can routinely be detrimental to relationships or social appointments.

If you are doing a PhD, then that is your side hustle. Or figure out a way to make make it into one. But you have no bandwidth left for normal side hustles.

Prioritizing workouts in this situation is just vanity and poor judgement. With so many other things going on, the minimum needed for adequate health is what you should target.

You have to be extremely targeted with your socialization. It should include some video, text or voice meetings for efficiency sometimes.

If you are able to keep the job and complete the PhD at the same time, that is a major feat. Not that others haven't done it. But both things can easily demand most of your energy. So one of them probably needs to be somewhat lightweight for it to work out. I don't know a ton about it but maybe you can stretch the PhD out a bit to make it more feasible.

If you can somehow manage financially to drop the full time job and you are serious about the PhD, then you should quit that job. Unless it's literally just standing or sitting around with hours every day that you can focus on the PhD while supposedly working. Maybe replace with a part-time job.
it's very religion like...

The say they are doing scrum, but they aren't really doing scrum

He says he's a christian but it's clear to me that he wasn't one all along.
As we consider them even larger. There are many smaller than Leaf, like E-corsa, and even more non-electric cars
The Honda fit 2016 is my first car, and only car. I can't imagine getting another car. It's just too good!
Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?
Hi, I'm currently learning HTML, CSS and JS but I'd like to get more in depth. I love learning stuff from books, even if it's a bit old-fashioned, because I can always take a brief look at what I need rather than having to search for basic information online, among several crappy SEO websites.

Can you suggest some books? I'd prefer advanced ones, as I'm not a newbie.

PS: I know you learn things only by doing, the book would be a support. You can suggest also books related to networking, that's the next step :)
Random anecdote:

I work in the automotive industry, where we often use fancy unusual screen hardware a couple of years before it turns up in home consumer electronics or phones. For example special multi-axis curved stuff, dynamic angular privacy filters, or haptic feedback using electrostatic modulation of resistance instead of vibration motors (that allows you to make the screen feel rough and scaly or glidy, give UI elements a feel-able shape, etc.).

One time, we were told to use earplugs at work for a few days, because of a pre-release firmware bug that could in theory, if other safety mechanisms also failed, cause the haptics to potentially emit an ear-piercing low-frequency tone ...

Temporary EDID bugs, otoh, I've seen so many times. :)
While the no-logs policies of many of these providers is mentioned in their EULAs, there's never a mention of paid access to NetFlow data, which can be used to link public flows to the IP addresses of users.

Is this a thing? I recall hearing about it around two years ago.

Something along the lines of "ISPs Give 'Netflow Data' To Third Parties, Who Sell It Without User Awareness Or Consent" [0] or "How Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet" [1]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/pbdvp3/isps_give_n...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-...
LG's firmwares are pretty bad in my experience. I have two LG monitors and they both have weird quirks.

On the first one (a 34" ultrawide), all of its inputs lose connection for a moment whenever it wakes from standby (including the USB ports, making them useless for external drives). This also has the effect of causing my computer to occasionally lock up on resume from hibernation unless I tap the power button on the monitor before I wake the system. Additionally, at refresh rates above 60Hz the gamma gets progressively lower making the image darker the higher you go, even though the gamma setting in its menu is exactly the same, and black frame insertion and game mode are both off. Others online have reported the same thing.

The other monitor I got second-hand and it mostly works. It has a horrid HDR implemenation however that just washes out everything. I also tried to use brightness and input control via DDC/CI, which is a fairly well known standard, but this causes it to shut off abruptly and I have to unplug the power cord it to get it back.
Through most of the COVID pandemic they had a 20 or 30GB free plan. Now it's back down to 10.
Doesn't change the facts. I hope they come for kiwifarms. I hope it's snuffed out quietly one day and never returns and all its miserable denizens will be forced to know a fraction of the discomfort they inflicted on others.
I Left Developer Relations [video]
The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill university newspaper) frontpage [pdf]
> Windscribe for general browsing.

Do you work for / are affiliated with Windscribe?
> more-or-less complete internal version of every external service

Imagine what an integrator who works with public cloud would have to do?

Now imagine that integration with three different public cloud is only a small fraction of what our software offers...
So you are telling me we have no data yet decided to go ahead with a bill?

Why not just blacklist ban any discrimination not related to job performance?
Dude the horse is dead and the meat has been fully tenderized, so you can stop
beating it.
Doesn't nvidia limit gpu pass through to vms?
Or, you know, just invest the $1Mi in a conservative investment fund and get a similar return for way less worries and work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJpNX_MyvYs
> Bare words are fine until you have a variable with the same name as your bare word, so you need additional syntax to determine if you're referencing a variable, or it is just text.

This doesn't have variables. Or functions.
You can spend yourself into the ground at any scale. :-)
Three months ago, I already predicted similar numbers for what they pay Microsoft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36288058#36291960 based on public information from Similarweb.

This new prediction shatters nothing.
BLOB on Postgres are awesome, but there's also a full-featured file API called Large Objects for when the use-case requires seeking/streaming.

Wrote a small Go library to interface with it: https://github.com/mohamedattahri/pgfs

Large Objects: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/largeobjects.html
And we are seeing the backlash to that, hence real sets struggling to be built up in time before movie-goers are permanently soured on blockbusters.
China has declared part of Russia as its territory on new official maps
The Twitter Superfans Trying to Ditch the X Brand
Microsoft owns or has partnerships with many game studios, and they'll always keep that advantage. You can easily ditch Windows if you ditch video games, which is what I did.
There are non-illegal side channels, like "tough on crime" judges getting political donations from deep-pocketed interested parties.
https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/

https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/titan/

I'd expect a bunch of announcements at re:invent in November as well. They often hold off on big stuff for re:invent.
Microsoft would never say it, of course, but truly the best “alternative solution” is Jetbrains Rider. It’s head and shoulders above VS for Mac in every way. I learn more C# features through its recommendations than even reading Microsoft’s development docs.
Exactly this. I tend to ignore ads that show up, because they're generally not useful for me. I've also noticed this most in Google News. If I search for one topic one time on Google (usually just to find some random bit of info), Google thinks I'm very interested in that topic and starts showing me news articles related to it. Or if I search for a song in Youtube Music, I get articles about that song or band. It's ridiculous. I've started using DDG for search now, and may move to Spotify. I need to find a good news aggregator, too.
Well part of acquisition costs are giving out 3.5 for free hoping to convert people to paid ChatGPT. It's possible they're even subsidizing the paid ChatGPT for additional data (they believe it helps them improve their product and build a moat) and to convert people to Enterprise. For all we know, all their current revenue is considered acquisition costs for Enterprise use, where they might think the real money and profits are.

I understand they probably don't have any solid idea on LTV yet. The point is that looking at quarterly numbers doesn't tell us if any VC backed company is lighting cash on fire or making smart investments.
Worked for a consulting company that was heavily into Agile. You were given an Agile book just for making the final interview. I honestly can't say it was 'agile's' fault but every decision we made in the project I worked on was completely overwrought and fraught with bike shedding, which could only be resolved by the underlying power dynamics where some people were in power and some weren't. The client eventually pulled the plug on our project which we failed to deliver. Not that we failed a specific delivery date; afaik we didn't have a set deadline for the project. I think back on it sometimes as an example of how not to be.
Photogrammetry on commercial flights (2021)
Maybe it's a worthwhile tradeoff to use fossil fuels in one place and make up for it by sequestering carbon elsewhere.

There are also other things that create massive carbon emissions. Cement is the most prominent I know of by adding 8% of global carbon emissions (https://psci.princeton.edu/tips/2020/11/3/cement-and-concret...)
> An uninitiated might be forgiven for not realizing that caste-based discrimination is rampant in India

Don’t mind all the people from India, outside of India, that will swear up and down that such thing doesn’t exist

I feel like there is a group of people taking advantage of western sensitivities against “being insensitive”, and reappropriating it when convenient to deflect

I’m glad Seattle passed a law against caste discrimination, just this year, since there are so many people from India in the tech industry there it was eventually able to be noticed, but that ends right at Seattle’s city limits and more awareness and uniform regulation is needed

We get a skewed perspective of India’s identity politics because of a lack of representation from different groups in India
Don't look up!

Go read a book instead.
> Now I will just wait for someone to tell me that this wasn't real Scrum either, because we were supposed to have Product Owner talk to the client instead of Scrum Master

Well, if there was a distinct Product Owner and they delegated this to the Scrum Master, it may have been by-the-Guide Scrum, but just extraordinarily poor judgement.

But it sounds like you had a dev team that wasn’t using Scrum, got a Scrum Master and no P.O., and gave the Scrum Master some or all of the P.O. duties. Even as weakly prescriptive as the current Scrum Guide is, that's still not real Scrum.

(Moreover, most places that purport to do Scrum also purport to do Agile, and having a bottleneck between the team and client is even more explicitly not Agile than it is not Scrum.)

Which is not to say your scenario isn’t a valid illustration of problems with Scrum (or Agile) in terms of the (largely cargo-cult) common behavior going under the name.

Its just that in terms of clarity of discussion of what practices should be adopted, its worth noting that the problems being identified are with practices which the Scrum Guide (at the organizational level) and Agile Manifesto (and the broad practice level) are pretty explicitly directed against. Not just in terms of the communication bottleneck but also things like:

> tickets taking exactly one sprint to complete

This seems to be confusing increments or Sprint Backlog items (for which the dev team is responaible for making from Product Backlog items) with Product Backlog items that the P.O. is responsible for (and also Product Backlog items with client tickets, though the Scrum Guide doesn't explicitly discuss client tickets at all — in fact, it mentions customers only once — and so doesn’t explicitly distinguish them from Product Backlog items. The P.O. is free to, and responsible for, structure Product Backlog items optimally based on achieving customer goals, which is almost never realistically going to be 1:1 with tickets.)

EDIT: I want to make extra clear that I am neither disagreeing with the criticism of “Scrum as the thing that I am likely to have imposed on me if my workplace says they are doing Scrum” nor arguing that the Scrum Guide (or Agile Manifesto and principals) are anything like perfect edicts that can only be failed but never fail.

I am just saying it is important to recognize the difference between “this failure is caused by a set of practices a workplace adopted under the label ‘Scrum’” and “this failure is caused by adopting the practices described in the Scrum Guide”, eepecially if you are interested in what good practices might be.
>previously addressed*.

I am the king of typos and misspelling.
I wonder if they have fixed the emergency call issues, or will it appear on the list:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/y039zn/i_compi...
AWS is always the first provider I block, then DigitalOcean, then Linode
Worth noting that not all heritable traits are reflected in DNA, thanks to epigenetics.
There is no way that the Linux people are going to intimidate NVidia. This is just not going to happen, sorry. There won't be a public stink. All that will happen is that Linux will lose market share and that people will stop seeing Linux as a viable alternative because they are documented as picking fights with industry giants they can't possibly hope to win.
Am I being a moron or are the weights only applicable to trucks? The lowest rung is 7.5tons.

But of course it's absurd how big cars have become. If you're a 50kg woman why do you need a 2.7ton SUV to go from stop light to stop light? Get a grip people
You have to realize that we are now far enough away from the debut of the iPad (2010) that it is possible that high school students and college freshman do not remember a computing world without it.

Many of these students grew up using a tablet first and foremost, so it is the device they are most accustomed to.
What do you mean Internet was shit in early 2000'? I lost myself there many nights.

To the OP: Love for a woman sorted me out fairly quickly in my mid 20'.
What's new is social media.

It is an extremely potent tool for propaganda as it shows a monolithical opinion on every critical topic. They achieve this through basic censorship, shadowbans and the enabling of dogpiling. This gives people the illusion that everyone agrees that "china is bad", for example.

A couple of years of this treatment and most will adjust to this opinion, one way or another.

Remember how for the past 15 years everyone was saying how China is going to overtake the US economically? Well now that it's happening, everyone is in panic mode and talking war. If you're in the US and have balls of steel, ask people what they think the average Chinese salary is, then tell them the actual number and see the reaction (that's one youtube video no one dares to make). Also notice how extremely out of whack their perception of China is. Any American can try it on themselves by writing down the number, then looking it up. But with the main problem being denial, this probably won't achieve anything.

Am I paranoid for feeling unsafe for writing these words?
I agree it's odd. They've been showing it off at most of the sessions at the current NEXT conference, and we've requested but not yet gotten access to it.
TLDR: it's being worked on, but not ready yet.
it must be so frustrating to be on the edge team at microsoft, doing good work and actually making a decent browser, and then having that squandered by the marketing people.
One of my German colleagues always responds to the 'no sense of humor' trope with 'we have a sense of humor...you just don't get the joke' in his most over-the-top accent. Always cracks me up.
I agree with you that this idea makes no sense. But I think your argument doesn't make sense. McDonalds can't deny someone a franchise license on the basis of them being black. They are compelled to not consider race when offering franchise licenses regardless of whether or not they'd like to. (I say that because, as far as I know, having non-race-blind preferences on who to do business with is not a crime, only acting on it is.) I see no reason a similar law couldn't theoretically also force them to not consider whether owners modify their ice cream machines.
This type of concentration of power in a privately held for-profit corporate entity is bad. There isn't any reason to trust a random Google employee - dozens of whom have been fired by Google for accessing personal data. Removing the temptation from an unaccountable giant corporation is the best approach, IMO. Abuse of power doesn't affect everyone; but we still have laws against many forms of it.
Original article, but I don't know how to pass its paywall: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-passes-1-bill...
Instagram was one step further, iPhone-only.
Maybe, but this is an example of a theoretical / ideological argument.

If we needed more money, it seems like there are easier ways to get it than trying to get a better bargain for information about us? We could be more careful about spending. I could shop around more. There are games with credit card rewards that I don't really play. I could invest better.
> Managers face a much more difficult labor market than most engineers too.

Indeed. I've been thinking about shifting back into management after a couple years as an individual contributor (playing an instrument is fun, but so is conducting a well functioning orchestra). In this space, aligning with stereotypes has become very important in the past decade or so.
A lot of viewer time — and thus money — is coming from serial shows these days.

There are a tonne of mid and high-budget shows that are set in grounded settings which can utilize sets like this.
New and Revised Statistics for the U.S. Space Economy, 2012–2021
Those services work very well in many countries. In the United States we have one party that likes to show government doesn't work by crippling, defunding, and generally making government programs worse when they get power so that you pay private companies for those save services. Often times companies they have a connection with.
> It's a bullshit, paper-thin "policy" that exists only for KF to cover their own asses.

That's only your opinion. What OP says about KF is still correct.
What do you mean by, "M$ will likely try to buy them"?

My understanding is that Microsoft owns a 49% stake of OpenAI and gets 75% of their profits until Microsoft recoups their investment.

Are you saying you feel that OpenAI will not find a path to profitability and will sell their remaining stake to Microsoft?
This is like 450M tokens/month, assuming GPT-4 32K, averaging I/O to $0.09/1k tokens.
Did Subaru and Hyundai get rid of their AWD cars? I thought the impresario, legacy, and elantras had AWD models recently. The Taurus did too, but that was a few years ago (not sure if they even make it now).

Edit: sorry, I missed the small and EV part.
I just posted this on a probably-dead thread about caste discrimination, but the short of it is the folks who wish to discriminate by caste have a variety of ways to determine what your caste is. From the Vice article below:

Indians will not ask outright what caste you are, as it’s seen as overly discriminatory, but they use more subtle methods to identify your place in the caste structure.

“Sometimes they ask, ‘Are you vegetarian?’ If you say yes, they ask are you vegetarian by birth or by choice, before getting into which village you come from, because sometimes the village gives up your caste,” Sam said.

Another method described to VICE News is the pat on the back to see if the person is wearing a Juneau, a sacred white thread typically worn by the upper castes in India.

Higher-caste Indians will also search social media accounts to ascertain a job candidate’s religious views or diet.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3azjp5/silicon-valley-has-a-...
Apparently there are $5-15 EDID "emulator" devices that are just an HDMI passthrough adapter with a fake EDID ROM that always reports common modes as 4K60/2K60/VGA. Apparent purpose is to get PS5 to work with quirky 4K TVs. A similar device called HDMI "dummy plug" allows GPU acceleration on quirky PCs without having a display, but the latter has no passthrough port at the back.

If that's all the author needs, that might be the path of least resistance.
Managed to get code llama 34 integrated into vscode and must say it’s surprisingly usable for scaffolding and also explaining pieces of code
> I can see that you don't want AI companies to exist so you want this regulation, but how is different than search engine scraping the internet?

This is unnecessary hyperbole.

Preventing the laundering of copyright material through AI algorithms does not prevent AI companies from existing. Take Adobe -- they have license to the training images they use and they have helpful products based on AI processing of those images. It won't be "free" money from dubious sources. But AI does not depend on the laundering of copyright material.

The difference is whether or not you are scraping and then generating similar products (eg the images themselves) or whether you are scraping for some other purpose.
Do Italians not use electric kettles?
I had a problem with the monitor where the EDID gets constantly erased if the HDMI cable is unplugged in certain conditions. Usually there's a service menu hidden somewhere you can enable so that the EDID EEPROM becomes writable. That doesn't seem to work in my case, so I ended up opening the monitor and hard wired the write enable pin. This happens so often (it's an old monitor I got for free) I drilled a hole and put a switch on the pin lol.
> I've already commented elsewhere about this, but I find it odd that as soon as EVs gain popularity, suddenly people care about the weight of cars

Because it's the "best" option. EVs don't use gas; so, a gas tax won't apply. The other option, other than weight, that usually gets mentioned is mileage. In order to measure mileage, though, some sort of tamper-proof counter needs to be installed and periodically read, something most people find wold be too intrusive. The weight is easy to record when the car is registered.
I get what you are saying but does every operating system have the goal of allowing unpredictable multiple user applications running? A cooperative system can easily be correct for something well managed like an IOT device with only certain tasks or something somewhat general purpose but still more restricted like a video game console.
I think it would have been best if they simply shut down their official instance, instead of gating it only to Google/Facebook users.

There's still plenty of other instances out there, and it would give a far less ambiguous message if they just pointed people to community-maintained instances.

Moving to a "we only serve Google/MS users" while claiming a focus on privacy definitely doesn't send out the right message
> Aren’t VPNs much less useful unless they’re proven no-log VPN?

That's basically saying that every VPN is "much less useful" as there is no 100% way of proving that it's no-log.
The best brand is Dexcom (G6 or G7). The Abbott one is cheaper but has disadvantages. Either one will be way better than nothing if you have diabetes. Without insurance dexcom will cost you like $260 a month via one of these mail order distributors: https://rapidrxusa.com/products/dexcom-g6-sensors-3-pack

Do your part as a consumer and shop around a bit to drive prices down... good luck!