skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a depth first and a breadth first traversal aspect to it. Which is why a skilled CEO, presents themselves as a backstop, but simultaneously starts the hunt for a new SVP or an interim SVP.

But even appointing someone new for that role will require the CEO to understand that role very well. They truly can't appoint someone competent in that role without being competent themselves.
Linux port by @jart: https://github.com/jart/pledge
By your..."reasoning" voting with your wallet is extortion

"Other people are using their own free will and self determination to undermine a CORPORATION!"
The State of VC in 2023
It's quite possible that the Biden administration may have it out for him because he is a vocal critic and isn't letting them suppress speech on Twitter they way they used to.

However, if you read (or listen in my case) to his recently released biography (it presents both his flaws and greatness), you will see plenty of examples of intentionally flouting regulations. This is due to a combination of ignorance/impulsiveness (e.g. the $420/share fiasco), a maniacal sense of urgency, reality distortion (e.g. Full self driving that is not full self driving), and product perfectionism (e.g not including a safety warning on the back of the passenger side mirror because he didn't like how it looked). It's also ingrained in his way of working to question all requirements until it is proved that they are needed- this would also predispose one towards flouting regulation until enforcement.

All of these traits have helped to make him highly successful, but they all come bundled with a dark side that makes for an inevitable clash with regulators.
Ask HN: How do you see Nigeria?
Would love to understand how the friends here see the Nigerian ecosystem, from the economic point of view, political, stability, entrepreneur and education.
Nobody was technically trespassing. Large groups people from the union stood outside the restaurant and tried to convince people not enter, but since none of them physically blocked anybody that wanted to enter from entering, there was nothing illegal about it.
I Was Skeptical of EMDR Therapy. I Tried It Anyway
It's been probably a decade or more since I read it, but I remember it having a similar effect on me at the time. I don't remember what specifically in there had that effect anymore though, so I'm probably due for a reread.

If I remember correctly, it was about Tolstoy's struggle to find meaning in his life, even after having a wife, several kids, and finding lots of success with his writing and a large house. He experiments with and discusses quite a few philosophies in a fairly frank manner before circling back around to Christianity, and does his best to make a case for it based on logic and comparing with his past experiences.

But even for people who aren't religious (I'm not really that religious myself) and don't want to be, I think they'll still relate to his struggle to find meaning and find some useful and thought provoking ideas in there.

I do agree that more (most?) people should read it. I even gifted a copy of it to a good friend at the time.

Other books where I had a similar experience from reading them include Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell, and The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.

In particular Siddhartha had a lot of similarities to A Confession, in subject matter and structure, although it's told as a third person narrative and not as a personal account.

What were some of the takeaways you got from reading it?
Tell me you don't understand the difficulty of maintaining a really useful and complex free tool without...you know.

All the writer has done here is screamed their ignorance (which, to be fair, is not at all simple) of the complexities of using free/open source and also maintaining something huge and complex WITHOUT being huge jerks about it.

I do wish there was a simpler way to essentially do two tiers of "service" -- but for now, "you either 'pay' in terms of digging in and learning or you 'pay' with real money" seems pretty reasonable.
Nice! It is best at pronouncing in English, but we've had a bunch of fun trying to get other languages too. Sometimes you can make things happen phonetically.

Even for english words that it doesn't get right the first time haha
That shows a bit of a pig-in-the-python situation where you can see the 2 biggest groups today are just 2 large group from 30 years ago moving through life.

Over the next 2 decades, almost all of that 32.1% supply in the 65+ group will become available.
Designing Data Intensive Applications, changed my career
But the vast majority of people use their hands. It's not the writing, the assertion it's that it's the movement associated with/occurring at the same time as thinking that reenforces learning. That writing of words using hands (interaction with the environment) can help with learning abstract (non-physical) concepts is an extension of that.
Show HN: DataMotto – Proactive AI Data Analyst
Hi HN!

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During my PhD in Data Science and years of experience as a data scientist and consultant, I've closely collaborated with individuals who lacked data expertise and relied on others when they need insights for their custom questions. This process was often time-consuming and frustrating. DataMotto was born out of a desire to bridge these gaps and alleviate their frustrations in awaiting data insights.

The user journey with DataMotto involves answering data questions one at a time.
Here's how it works (1-min video):
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Recognizing users' pain points in the last few months, our goal is to continuously improve our AI to better address these three fundamental challenges over time:

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While we're happy with DataMotto's current progress, we understand it's only the beginning. Like many early-stage startups, we're aware of gaps in our platform and many areas we need to enhance. Our goal is to transform DataMotto into a comprehensive tool that empowers teams to gain a deeper understanding of their data and move away from gut-based decision-making.

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> I don't know if I think it has more shady stuff than whatsapp or other mainstream platforms

The preferred channel for Russian warmongers, AIUI.
> the DOJ's bizarre suite alleging the company engaged in employment discrimination against non-US citizens

This wasn't bizarre and was appropriate. The company updated their recruitment policies to comply.
Cheap labor and general low regard of your employees also mean that there is less incentive to improve your manufacturing with automation or simply by looking at what the factory workers struggle with and improving that part of the chain.

It is not as simple as you picture it.
Bringing the light of southern cuisine and culture to the good people of Silicon Valley.
I uninstalled TikTok because it turned into a time-wasting attention sink.

I'm fine with YouTube proper, but YouTube Shorts is essentially TikTok in a trenchcoat.

There really, really, really needs to be a way to banish YouTube Shorts in your settings, because for me the alternative is uninstalling YouTube.
I'd recommend soul searching if this is the case. You might be a prima donna.
Give them more freedom and remove process? Sounds dangerous. I agree with point 3 though.
I'd be OK if they closed entirely, but barring that I demand they pay the costs of externalities they create. One method of doing so would be hiring private security. They should also have to carry a bond to pay out for any DUIs, violence, vandalism, domestic violence or sexual assault that they are a co-conspirator of.
I tried a few back of the envelope calculations, with a 21700 cell with the same characteristics as a Boeing 737. Looks like you don't need that much power to stay aloft when you're small. If you're buoyant, even less. I guess small insects take great advantage of this.

If potential energy can be stored as height, why do you need batteries at all, or why would better batteries help? Can you get a low enough descent rate to glide all night and climb all day?

How much power is realistically required for night-time station-keeping?

I would have thought that large birds would be around the right size, shape, weight and flexibility for dealing with flight problems. Why would bigger be better in a highly scale-independent propulsion system ? Is it just the back of the envelope size needed for enough solar gain? Why is 110 ft needed? As others say, 110 ft sounds much too big to live through turbulence...
Assessing the value of unimproved land is much easier than assessing built structures.
https://odysee.com/

Seems to work well and has a few content creators I follow duplicating their youtube uploads to the platform.
> It's just these criticisms are not generally welcomed or amplified for figures in the prime of their accolades. Which is an interesting subject itself, I think.

Yes, this is a fair assessment. The criticisms are given voice and spread once the person falls in disgrace. They are sometimes declared "unpersons", which I find deeply irritating. I suppose this happens to artists or scientists nearer in time; nobody cares to censor/cancel a Greek philosopher if he abused boys, it's just a footnote in their biography.
And now it is something that they advertise with!
hi there, IAM USA union member here.

perhaps i can shed some light. our union helps us negotiate for health insurance, dental, life insurance and a 401k contribution from our employer. in the first year we had it, we negotiated other things too. we de-gendered our shop floor bathrooms, made the company replace burned out overhead lights and exit sign "stickers" with real, light up exit signs. we made sure the break room was well lit (formerly all the lights were burned out) and there was a way to get our money back from the vending machines which were basicaly one armed bandits. we changed the way our facilities maintenance teams work to make sure they put down warning signs if theyve mopped and made sure the bathrooms got serviced once a day. we made a 2 year plan to provide functional safety guards on all the older equipment (met and done in 8 months by our awesome machine shop!) and finally fix the parking lot lights so employees felt safe going home on second shift.

these changes were also affected to non-union employees, mostly as a hold-the-line tactic to keep them from ever unionizing, but in the long run the company had to spend significant amounts of money on things that were traditionally deemed "non-essential" like toilet paper or exit signs.
I am not envisioning any society in particular. Instead, I would ask you a question. It's a little contrived, so bear with me.

Imagine a situation that you could plausibly find yourself in where you would feel the need to contact the police. It need not be a 911 call, though those are fine too. Imagine how that would go down... the time of day you contact them. Where you would be when it happened. How you would describe the situation to them.

In this scenario, what is it that they do to help?

Whatever you think happens in that situation, everything I've read over the decades I've been reading about this lead me to believe that there is nothing they would ever do to help anyone reliably/consistently.

If your bike was stolen, well fuck you. Why do you even bother to report that. They will neither recover it, nor ever punish the person who stole it.

If your home was burglarized, the same. With your car, they'll take the report at least so you can claim insurance, but they will be surly and do so only begrudgingly because if they fail to take those reports to any great degree, there will be a political shitstorm that eventually catches up with them.

Are you in fear of your life? They might show up and shoot you. Your dog's in even more danger.

Did you see one on the street and ask for directions because you were lost? In Baltimore, that can cause them to point guns at you, scream obscenities, and run you off (and this is considered by some to be a particularly fortunate outcome).

The least risky encounter for most of us, is when we're being ticketed, when they're just doing revenue collection.

From what I can tell, the outcomes I describe aren't atypical. They've always got more important things to investigate (big drug busts), so the crimes that you and I care about are ignored, and they don't seem to act as a deterrent in any meaningful way. You just have several social filters on your brain that allow you to maintain the illusion otherwise.
The difference between this being done legitimately and illegitimately is not one I can put into words[0], but I would note that there are ways this can be legitimate in any society — the police, in a democracy (sometimes described as fancy mob rule), where the protection money is normally called "taxes" — and that quite a lot of countries are stopping people from doing business with Russia right now as part of a protest against what they're doing in Ukraine.

Unions have whatever powers they've been allowed to have by the country they operate in, just as do corporations and police forces.

[0] Where you put the line between balancing the powers of unions vs. corporations is one of the major political dividing lines for the last 175 years, I'm not going to do it justice.
This is my question too. If I am going to risk my Google Account getting banned, there is no way I want to try something like this. If it is actually explicitly allowed, then sure I will use it.
Ask HN: Is middle management the most vulnerable/disposable in a corporation?
Is there such a thing as what I described in the title or is it just my imagination/biased thinking?

I am only talking about tech orgs in a company and not other sectors like marketing, HR or sales. Feels like hiring individual contributors is still going on but there is a lot of managers/directors looking for jobs. Are there any stats that give a percentage breakdown of the layoffs?

If so, which level in the management is safer relatively speaking, if there is such a thing?
Just spitballing here... report it, and file a class action against the DA if they don't prosecute?
A shortage means not enough to achieve the desired outcome. In the example of New York, the very wealthy and heavily policed city, even a very cursory google search will show you the NYPD's own clearance statistics reporting, and the many articles written about the same, that show while police spending has increased, violent crime clearance rates have decreased.

Police do not function to keep us safe (nor are they legally obligated to protect us), their sole purpose is protecting capital.

Perhaps if we asked police to do less, paid them less, and eliminated their impunity to function as an occupying gang, they would be less violent and people would hate them less, and they'd be able to hire more easily.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/crime-without-punishmen...
Nice explainer! I wonder, so do these FFT matrices have to satisfy some (dimensional) condition to ensure that an analogue of "3D gimbal lock" does not occur?
My favourite is when you did click don't recommend channel it sometimes still comes back after a year or two like a bad relationship on Facebook. I try and maintain a few browsers with different recommendations streams and it's always wild when I have a new PC and I get some really toxic recommendations.
The difference being there aren't 'buying' and 'selling' real estate agents in the UK, just ones representing the sellers. A buyer just approaches a bunch of agents asking what is on their books (or looks on RightMove).

And 6%? Try ~1.5%
> That was sand, not concrete

"...many large concrete chunks, stainless-steel sheets, metal and other objects were 'hurled thousands of feet away,' along with a plume of concrete particles that resulted in the miles-away scattering. A 3½-acre fire also started on Boca Chica State Park, south of the launch pad, the agency said."

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-04-26/spacex-sta...
I've been to Brazil close to a dozen times, both for business and for adventure travel (kitesurfing and paragliding). I love the country and the people and have a lot of friends there. I find most Americans overestimate how 'dangerous' Brazil seems to be, based on hearsay. In Brazil I rarely meet other Americans, but do meet lots of adventurous Europeans and others who also love this huge, beautiful, diverse—and of course also troubled—country.
As many have pointed out, technological advancement is pointless without social advancement. We have learnt how to treat diseases 10 times over at this point, and yet people still live with them. That is a failure at engineering our social system. Social change is the decisive factor. Technological change without social change is just giving the rich new ways to subjugate or ignore the poor.
The End of China's Global Economic Domination
I built a new house on a newly built road in a semi-urban area. The parcel of land that I bought on the road came with an agreement to pay back the 30 year bond the city took out for the construction of the road and related infrastructure. This amounted to about ~$4MM (in addition to village & city property taxes), so it's a hefty fee even thought its divided among 50 other households.

After I moved here, the people in the village decided to drastically hike income taxes to pay for improvements of other village roads. People saw 50 nice new houses being built and decided those people are responsible for paying for everything the village needs.

This is what will happen all over the USA. People want their infrastructure, but they will find ways to make anyone else pay for it.
Is it possible to point out that you disagree with something without being rude or aggressive in speech?
This is again not a case of "some noob trying his best" but a "someone who should've know better". This is like when some new hire asks you something, and you try to slowly explain, and when Bob does it, and you go "Bob, you've ben working on this project for 6 years now, how the fuck do you not know what this thing here does?!"
A typical house isn't built to withstand minor semiannual flooding either ;)

The really bad forecasts for Florida include areas where a house itself is likely to stay dry, but the water pipes may have problems, or the road network may be interrupted by floods, or the ground is likely to subside or change, or, or.

FWIW I know someone who lives near a river that often floods. One of the houses on their farm is dry, but the ground under one wall has subsided by >10cm in the past 20 years compared to the opposite wall. The walls have visible cracks. The bricks look as if the bricklayers were drunk all day and I can't imagine that any insurer will touch that house.
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> he is a vocal critic and isn't letting them suppress speech on Twitter they way they used to.

This never happened.
Oh, I think it is very intentional, and the whole point is to not say it out loud.

If you don't have time to code for "love", you won't have time to jump at unreasonable requests and pull tons of crunch time overtime either.

Given the choice, companies would love to hire someone with no responsibilities outside of work, this is just a legal way of filtering out parents, people with dependents etc
IANAL, but doesn't that require good faith? Shakedowns carried out by off-duty cops don't seem to be acting in good faith.
Role competency and the ability to assess role competency are two different skills.
Actually 137 if test was accurate, I still don't do well with leet code whiteboarding though, shrugs.
All roles at SpaceX are ITAR restricted, including janitors etc. SpaceX could set up physical separation to allow them to hire non-ITAR employees, but they are not required to.

ITAR restricted roles are restricted to "US persons". SpaceX confused that terminology with "US citizens", but "US persons" is a broader term than "US citizens".
I agree and it's been replaced by Austin and NYC. The valley refused to fix its problems, so the money is leaving.

There's a limit to vandalism and "tech bros fuck off" that people will take, particularly when a huge chunk of "tech bros" are immigrants. You don't see the same animosity in NYC or Austin, so that's where the talent has gone.
I overly simplify it because I need to consult a lawyer any time I deal with it. I do not want to accidentally "export" anything. You need specialized lawyers to deal with this and be compliant, it's not cheap, and I personally default to not chancing it with prison.
"When a measure becomes a target..."

Also, I wouldn't take Google's (nor anyone's) claimed research about hiring at face value.
Thanks for taking the time to write that out, it was very engaging to read.
How about ALL OF GOOGLE? Surely, someone there could have reviewed his code.
> Clearance requires US citizenship.

How do you think information is shared amongst NATO? Do they get American citizenship for a day?

Not every Clearance do not require US citizenship.
According to this article from CoinTelegraph, Telegram denies making any agreement like this. Sees like it’s MTS trying to boost its advertising services (and charge clients more) with false promises:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/russia-mts-announces-ads-serv...
In theory it should be possible to manufacture IC's at home, similar to 3D printing. And a (very!) few people have even done so.

A whole lot of progress in IC manufacturing is making things smaller. No reason one couldn't include the fabrication machinery itself in that quest.

Another approach is to fabricate IC's in a blank state, and have end users 'burn' its function. FPGAs are a thing, iirc even some fuse-programmed ones exist. Some gate arrays consist(ed? not sure if made anymore) of bulk, prefabricated logic, with a layer of customer-specified routing on top. Something like that could lend itself well to 'diy-at-home'.

All these would sidestep much of the "trust 3rd party" problem.

So yeah it's possible. Technology (or more precisely: equipment on the market) just isn't quite there yet.
I really appreciate this comment because it gets to the root of my unease with unions in the US. It's good for society, the individual, and the employer when people have room to grow/work harder/contribute more and be rewarded for it. When I hear pro-union talk around me, it does come packaged with "working any harder than the minimum is evil" vibe that I find disruptive on whatever level it is accepted.

IE - if you accept "work the least possible" as an individual, you yourself will do poorly. If the organization is forced to accept it, it will decline against other domestic competitors. If the country is forced to accept it, it will decline against international competitors.