skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Interesting, are bonuses and/or employee stock options not the norm for most companies?

Not in a meaningful amount to non-executives.

> Everywhere I worked these were there in one way or another, exactly to motivate people to do more than their allotted stuff.

I don't think anyone believes "more tickets" = "more revenue". Most employees work doesn't materially impact the bottom line and definitely doesn't have a linear relationship to revenue (other than maybe sales who are paid on commission).
I was wondering that, too. I couldn't find the actual model of the monitor anywhere on the page. But LG has several monitors in its UltraGear line that do 3440x1440 at 144Hz: https://www.lg.com/us/gaming-monitors Presumably he's got one of them?

In that case it's not so much the EDID that's wrong but something else in his setup that won't work with those capabilities, and either Windows and Apple just don't default to maxing out the refresh rate, or they do but are able to detect that it's the wrong cable. Or it's a graphics driver issue?
Can confirm that if you get say one of the widely available 2 or 3 month Apple TV trials you can cancel it immediately and it doesn't end early. I'm going on 2 years without ever having to pay for it as someone always has codes to keep it going.

UK here though so YMMV.
TL;DR: Some venture capitalists are charlatans. Specifically, while the accumulation of great wealth in the hands of a small number of individuals allows those individuals to embark on great projects, many of the great projects that venture capitalists embark on are actually just swindles.
Efficient Vector Similarity Search in Recommender Workflows
Show HN: I ranked all Chrome extensions
I ranked all Chrome extensions using a score that takes into account the number of users, average rating and number of reviews.
Hi, I am one of the co-authors of the blog from ThirdAI. Our software has no dependency on TensorFlow or any other deep learning framework. You can see the libraries we import for training and try it out for yourself in our public github repo: https://github.com/ThirdAILabs/Public-Benchmarks/blob/main/c...
I wasn't installing anything, I was trying to make the built in functionality work.
The earlier thread:

Scrum is a cancer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37289151 - Aug 2023 (254 comments)

We downweight most follow-ups because they don't contain significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...), which means they don't lead to substantively different discussion.

In the present case, every comment in this thread was so generic that there was literally nothing specific to the current post. Since the original thread is still recent enough, I've moved the comments thither.
I wonder how that sits with the diversity and inclusion directives that are everywhere now. Maybe they turn a blind eye when it suits them, or use other teams to offset the difference.
Selam G. was paraphrasing an anecdotal #metoo comment by an anonymous source that was backed up by zero evidence. If that's good enough evidence for EFF to call for someone's head, then they're worse than hypocrites. And the law schools that gave degrees to their lawyers should consider rescinding them, since they clearly don't seem to know a thing about law.
My own opinion is that the role of government should be mostly limited to common defense, ensuring essential infrastructure and enforcing/resolving legal disputes. Essential infrastructure should include banking and internet access at this point as it's nearly impossible to function in society without them.

Infrastructure providers should not be able to refuse customers engaging in lawful activity. Your phone company can't shut you off because you say, "I wish $POLITICIAN were dead." You don't have to like or agree with everything everyone says, but it's a very dangerous slippery slope.

Personal liberty should be maximalized so as not to infringe on the rights of others. You do not have the right to live a life without risk of being offended.
You're surely getting downvoted and lumped as one of the "but that wasn't real scrum" types, but this strikes me as unfair. I am highly critical of scrum, and have had many of the "that's not scrum" variety dismiss criticism, but yours is actually thoughtful and (indirectly) makes a good point: some people really do deviate from "real scrum" substantially. I hate scrum with a passion, but if we just do the inverse argument of blanket dismissing any criticism under "oh you're one of those" then we're being as intellectually dishonest as the "that's not real scrum" crowd (and for the record I don't include you in that crowd).

I appreciate you being willing to articulate an unpopular opinion :-)
Enjoying daily driving VS Code for C# a lot, it's really smooth and with LSP, the symbol editing and navigation speed is really high, and it is about 2x ligher on memory and battery than Rider (Rider is good, just not something I use predominantly).
In countries without proper health care, the lives of everyone lower than upper-middle class are unbelievably precarious. In the US at least, although there was a lot less healthcare 100 years ago, there were no procedures that cost you 10 years salary.

Just giving birth in the US costs about $20K. It takes a day, and can be done at home by professionals that don't even need to be trained as nurses at 99% of the safety level. It can be done by a woman alone, with no help, at 80% of the safety level. If you can wring $20K out of something that generally happens by itself without a hitch, your system is fucked up.

Life is precarious here, although often luxurious. Exchange that luxury for security, and you'll see a lot more people confident enough in the future to have a baby responsibly. It's not a question of having a suburban yard, it's a question of having something that won't be pulled out from under you quickly. The suburban yard is just a buffer, just like close family that live nearby is. But capitalism atomizes the family, and encourages them to move to find work on a dime. Capitalism is a direct competitor to the family: family is where capitalism isn't. The larger families are, the less capitalism exists.

SK is a US vassal state, so I can't imagine that their health care system is much more humane.
Everyone in our team of 5 does..

With JetBrains Rider ist a great experience
Your IPA transcriptions are a bit off (from what the usual convention for English is anyway). I think you mean /kɑ.ɹəˈleɪ.ʃən/ and /kɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/ for the first and last, but I'm not sure what you mean by "coh-relation" vs. "co-relation". These seem the same to me, /koʊ.ɹɪˈleɪʃən/.
This is not photogrammetry as the word is usually understood these days.

Photogrammetry usually means constructing a 3D model out of a number of 2D photos from lots of different angles, although there are broader definitions as well [1].

This is just skewing a photo you took out the window to overlay it on a map.

From the title, I was expecting this to be something about constant super-hi-res photography attached to commercial flights that would actually let you build 3D models of the landscape...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry
Very well said. It omits another point, though, which is that SV's cultural failure to reject con artists and abusive methods is what has led directly to the very dim view the general public increasingly has toward the industry. And that dim view is well-earned.

We as an industry really need to right this ship.
I noticed this problem with Dell displays on macOS. The first script I used, and would still use if DisplayPort over USB-C got it wrong[0]. The particular thing that I was correcting wasn't resolution/refresh but rather the color mode to use RGB rather than YPbPr which can be blurry on lower-than-retina displays.

[0] https://gist.github.com/adaugherity/7435890
"bad engineers" were like 75% of project. Fortunately good one were mature enough to understand why those processes happened and didn't complain about it.

also, given company structure it was very hard to terminate anybody. so we were stuck with who we got. and we got for this project "the best and the brightest"
More discussion over on this thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37326419
It's always interesting when folks tell me that some form of discrimination based on categorical prejudice isn't that bad, or that they haven't seen it themselves.

Personally I think the amount of discrimination should be zero, and that any level of categorical discrimination any person experiences is unacceptable. And that's not even getting into the systemic effects from past discrimination on family wealth.
> Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today.

Some of us are rejecting the boomer bounce the check for the funeral ethos in favor of passing something on. Much as the overwhelming majority of our ancestors did, we have a very real hope that it will be our descendants who live in our houses and benefit from what we built during our lives.

The related concept of the Buxton Index (BI) is worth pondering. In short, it’s your planning horizon. So a frontend dev might have a BI of 1-2 sprints, a US president might have one of 4-8 years, and so on. Needless to say all of the wealthiest families have an intergenerational time scale BI, and so do the upper middle class ones that have persisted.

After all the simple fact is some tasks can’t be completed in a single lifetime.
Totally understand! I'm sure you'd get swarmed with requests.

Are you interested in non-LLMs as well? Stable diffusion for example?
> Caste problems continue in the US

The thread is filled with white progressives who know nothing about caste. There are what 2 cases of caste discrimination in US companies. In one of the cases (the famous Cisco) case was proven there was no discrimination.

The professor who wrote this blog is literally a Jatt. A land owning caste & one of the most powerful castes in India. Any Indian reading this blog will know this is BS. I would understand if the author was at least Dalit or ST.
Ray does not require Tensorflow, tho the cited workflow might use tf.

Here’s a random example of pytorch on ray: https://www.ray.io/ray-sgd
This discussion made me curious, how is the cause of their poverty and lack of opportunity relevant? There are hundreds of millions of underprivileged people in India, why should those from a lower caste be given precedence over others, even if there is a history of oppression behind their poverty?
Bay Area and California in general. San Francisco was first with the 5% restaurant healthcare fee, which I think was a citywide tax that explicitly allowed businesses to list the fee separately. Maybe this inspired other restaurants in adjacent cities to start adding similar things despite not having any law like that, usually (but not always) mentioning the fee in fine print. It got even more widespread lately with the classic "covid fee" which later got changed to "inflation fee." The other less rigid thing is asking for a 22-30% tip on the credit card machine, often for things you don't traditionally tip for; at those places I use cash.

Highest I've seen is 8% while also asking for a tip, but at least the fee is clearly listed at the top of the menu: https://asliceofny.com/sunnyvale/menu/
self inflicted wound that became a blog post. Stop playing Victim card.

Modi PM of India is an OBC, so is the CM of UP.
Semantics may not be the most helpful during a discussion of this but neither is application of modes/solutions learnt from other forms of bigotry. The best way to kill the caste system is to forget about it which is in the process of happening. It’s not further entrenching yourself in that identity that may be necessary in more superficial forms of bigotry.
PyTorch too?[1]

[1] https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/train/api/doc/ray.train.torch....
No one wants to talk about the giant elephant in the room: reservation system vs. competence. Go to any govt office: the chief of some division is incompetent, some low-level clerk does the heavy lifting. Of course, this low-level clerk happens to be from non-reserved category, as both recruitment and promotions in the government are driven by reservations.

Why people (both reserved and non-reserved) send their kids to private schools, techno-schools, residential-schools, IIT-schools even in small towns, small villages these days? The whole education system from primary to all the way to universities is failing: incompetent teachers abound. There was a time Indian politicians used to send their kids to colleges in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Culcutta. Now, these politicians send their kids abroad right after 12th grade, as they are not impacted. The malaise in the Indian education system is so deep: getting a job in the govt is a way to 'correct historical wrongs'; if so, why these teachers (beneficiaries of this correction) don't send their kids to these govt schools? Ask, why these people look for the best doctors for their care?

Maybe, it is time to destroy IITs as well by forcing the reservation system on the faculty recruitment (equality of outcomes). That way, we can achieve the common denominator from primary to IITs. People with means (importantly politicians and intellectuals who defend reservations) can send their kids abroad for undergrad B.A/B.S, whereas 99% people are stuck with systematic malaise in the whole education system.
Glucagon should probably be a safety net, not something you use regularly. Taking too much insulin and compensating with glucagon leads to long term weight gain among other things.

Dual pumps are being worked on, but it's not yet clear that the improved glucose control justifies potential long term consequences.
Yea its definitely a tradeoff. My intuition here is that, much like the resistance you get to catastrophic forgetting when using LoRAs, adapter-based approaches will be useful in scenarios where your "experts" largely need to maintain the base capabilities of the model. So maybe the experts in this case are just style experts, rather than knowledge (this is pure conjecture, we will see as we eval all these approaches).
If you have a promo plan, you want to make sure you set it to your default plan, otherwise the NFC pass may use the card you have on file instead. For those that use one EA account with multiple household cars, there's no easy way to jump between those plans without using the app.
Ok, but can you please make your substantive points more thoughtfully? You broke several of the HN guidelines with this post.

"Please don't fulminate."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Love it!! Good luck with the mvps!

And thank you so much for the input - we are meeting the folks at ollama!!
Elon Mode [Forum]
1. To pirate some content which isn't relevant for 99.9999% of the population yet still protected by Disney law
In the official Microsoft announcement, they say this

> optimizing Visual Studio, accessible through the C# Dev Kit for VS Code, which is accessible on any OS and Microsoft Dev Box also on any operating system.

Can anyone explain to me how Visual Studio is accessible via C# Devi Kit for VS Code and how Microsoft Dev Box is meant to work here? I thought Dev Box was just a developer focused cloud workstation, which would run windows, which wouldn't really help here
Distributed transactions have been around for a while.
The added benefit is you don't get a chance to brick your TV with a bad write.
RMS even describes the GPL's weaponizing of copyright against itself as a "judo throw" in his writings. The intent there is very explicit.
Recent Juniper Flaws Chained in Attacks Following PoC Exploit Publication
True. I guess I'm the one that's bad at statistics :/
Agreed. NVIDIA is wasting kernel developers' time and humanity would be better off if they just open sourced their driver.
One quarter of Congress is over age 70, the highest portion ever. Chart: https://twitter.com/thisisinsider/status/1569785511388262400
That's what Space Jews want you to believe. There is no moon, it is just projection by space lasers.
Yes I think so, but GP did point to actual specifications as justification. I hate the "you weren't doing real scrum" replies, but I don't think GP was doing that.
Also keep in mind all the evidence in support of a natural origin is also circumstantial. So much so Worobey's paper included a photo Eddie Holmes took on his iPhone in 2014 of animals at a market as evidence. So we are working with ufology levels of evidence here.

The fact that we lack so much data to support zoonosis when compared to the two previous coronavirus outbreak really stands out.

We are missing:

- an intermediate host being identified. Something that was identified within months for SARS and MERS.
- Lack of non human mtDNA reads
- Missing point mutations as the virus adapts towards humans.
- Explanation on how the virus binds better toward human ACE2 than any other animal species.
- Separate spillover events

And the list goes on, it's honestly shocking
University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu
In the UK, the advertised price of a service must be the price that a typical user ends up actually paying.

And it can't be hidden in the terms - all the actual amount paid by a regular user must be the headline price of the advert. Taxes, fees, etc must all be included.

It works pretty well.
Figma definitely had a killer advantage with Evan Wallace around. He might be known now for esbuild but he is a WebGL demon of epic proportion.
https://nitter.net/MacDill_AFB/status/1696623235943530855
The taxes and fees change all the time. As an ISP you have no control over what the government fees are going to be. How can you list a price up front when you are at the mercy of the people making up these rules?
Just a reminder: the ISPs objected only to labeling pass-through fees, which aren't fees at all, but rather taxes levied by local governments and mandated on the ISPs (franchise fees are the most common example). Contrary to popular opinion, most of these franchise contracts don't include exclusivity; either way, it's money that goes to your municipality's general fund, not to Comcast.

NCTA asked instead to be allowed to label the maximum possible total bill customers would face, but FCC has, apparently, rejected that.
so you have to classify one as "backward" in order to help the person ? what kind if democracy is that ?
The Māori people (which is not as easy to distinguish today compared to when the treaty was signed) are free to start a war that they will lose.
From what I read on the internet, ice cream machines in American McDonalds restaurants are broken a lot. Why doesn't McDonalds switch out the vendor for another one that produces working machines for purely economic reasons? Did the ice cream machine vendor bribe someone high up in the McDonalds chain of command?
I once had twice weekly refinement sessions 1 hour each. twice weekly grooming sessions one hour each. daily standups 30 minutes, weekly planning 2 hours, weekly retro 2 hours. This was industry standard according to the consultants brought in with mckinsey to train the whole company. 10.5 hours before any other technical meetings,
> U.S. government as being a net cost to the U.S. economy rather than a net benefit.

How about you allow anyone who manages to get a job with decent salary? Let's say $250000 year?! Residential permit obviously includes family. Very fair, very transparent and easy to implement.

This "dynamic scoring" is unfair, untransparent, and will just lead to mistreatment of foreign workers by large companies!
There is no problem with someone being nice. It's only a problem when they want you to be nice exactly like them.
Definitely. This was kicked off in the last month or two when there just seemed to be a bit more happening in OSS LLMs, but we are prioritizing diversifying this for the next cohort!
That's what I was expecting as well. Still a cool project nonetheless.
Minor nit: the mesh is in a non-inertial (rotating) frame.
Dropbox drops unlimited storage, blames crypto miners and resellers
Just GCP things
Cynical Reaction: So what? I've heard plenty of stories, over decades, about how every congressman (who isn't permanently retiring from politics) is far too busy fundraising and talking to lobbyists and trying to get media coverage and {other not-in-our-interest political crap} to pay attention to what they are voting on. If we are lucky, the bill was mostly written by junior congressional staff, who still retain a few small fragments of "for the voters" idealism. If we're unlucky, the bill was written by whichever lobbyist wrote the fattest check. Either way, it hardly matters to us if Senator Slime-Trail needs an aide to rescue him when he can't find the urinal in the Lady's Room.
Well, I also want to be able to swim home from work if someone blows up all the bridges in Stockholm :) (Working on the north side of lake Mälaren, living on the south side).
> Since 2017, 90% of US tax filers do not itemize, and so they cannot deduct home mortgage interest.

Wow, as someone who's been itemizing his whole life, that's astonishing if true. Learned something new today!
Excellent hiring opportunity.
Odometer reading might be tricky in places like Europe where you have lots of countries next to each other, and cross borders often.

If someone has a car registered in Luxembourg and drives mainly around France, Germany, Belgium, it would be difficult to define where the tax should go
That's weird. I thought this would be optimized based on database statistics and not depend on the query syntax. At least for those simple queries.

Can anyone elaborate why this is the case?
In this case, ISPs are charging prices they don't want, but rather are mandated to by local governments.
> (And when it comes to "only commercial storefront space in a large area", I expect that to be very rare.)

This is actually very common in rural parts of the us fwiw. There places where the only grocery store is Walmart, and the only other place to shop is dollar general.
[insert Mitt Romney quote here]

The legal system considers groups of humans to be as equally protected as and have the same rights as individual humans.
Gas stations that are closed but let you use the pumps have no such mandate.

CC readers are all that is necessary, and many if not all charging stations have card readers.
Man-made as in a natural sample collected in the wild that was manipulated to bind to human ACE2.
Founder of Anyscale is the Berkeley student who helped start Ray and is usually happy to give free advice. Anyscale is to Ray as Databricks is to Spark.
I was expecting this since the day it went on the market. Total dead end.

The 20-odd years I've been in the .Net ecosystem has been a complete schizophrenic rollercoaster. Glad I'm not dealing with it now.

On a positive note I paid my mortgage off rewriting Silverlight apps in other things, getting rid of workflow foundation and replacing abandoned things like AppFabric and various ORM implementations.
I see ChatGPT has entered the "I am 14 and have deep thoughts" stage. AKA Musk mode.
Agreed. As a kid I vividly remember waking up in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm thinking that it had finally happened, the Soviets must have launched and the world was ending. I can’t really feel that scared about killer robots when an entire generation lived under the constant fear of nuclear extinction.
Aha... for some reason I thought they did most of that in the GTA, makes sense though.