skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical ratio of people to managers in a company is about 1:4, so that tracks.

And before this becomes controversial, I don’t mean every manager has 4 reports, but because organization is a tree, for every 4 ICs, there’s one manager.

For example, you could have 3PMs, 3 designers and 10 engineers, but the org could have 4 managers: 1 PM manager, 1 Design manager, 1 eng manager with 7 reportees and a sr manager with 3 engineers & the 3 managers reporting to him/her.
immense amounts of wasted energy
Definitely opens the possibility of a Bitcoin-on-Bitcoin implementation.
You could probably clone in a weekend anyway, amirite?
Ask HN: What is your prediction for the quarter the lay offs end?
My last raise was before the pandemic.
What’s the fan out at LinkedIn? Is 20% proportional to the direct contributors or higher or lower?
awk can do much more than sed. And, with patience, you could even write a Z-machine interpreter on it as some guy did with postscript. You might have to convert the binary input to hex first with xxd/od in order to parse the opcodes in a nice way, but everything else would be simulated from awk.
Thank you, you write well - being able to transform objects in many contexts is super useful, it unlocks so much creativity.
If there is one piece of scientific literacy that I wish the entire world had, it was the concept that toxicity is a function of dose.

Yes, fluoride is toxic. The EPA limit for fluoride is 4ppm, and that is probably too high (something like 2ppm would work better). There are parts of the country where the natural incidence of fluoride in groundwater is in excess of 4ppm, and therefore defluoridation needs to be done.

Fluoridation of drinking water is done to a standard of 0.5-0.75 ppm (US Public Health Service specifically recommends 0.7). Most of the country lives in places where the natural ground water concentration of fluoride is below this level, and thus fluoridation is necessary to reach the recommended level.
The end game here is to simply turn all personal computing devices into locked down ecosystems that the user has no real control over, basically what iOS already is (and Android isn't too far off from).

All code being executed on the device, from the bootloader all the way to the browser or youtube app, must be approved by the manufacturer, with an opaque black box security chip inside the device verifying that this is true and providing a signed message as proof that has to be sent to Youtube servers before videos are served. This completely eliminates the issue of both adblockers and third-party frontends.
Going with Q3 24 personally.
Burnfeed – Squash the news feed in Safari
This website from 2004 is more usable than many of the websites from 2023, it is clearly working well enough (or I guess those other websites aren’t doing their jobs right.)
I like how “we” prefer intrinsic motivation (near the end) but UBI is a bad idea (earlyish-middle, I think) because people need work to be happy (it’s for their own good, you see) and they won’t do any work if we don’t threaten them with poverty—the huge amounts of unpaid work ordinary people already perform, despite needing to also work for pay, is evidently invisible to our economic genius and Randian-Nietchien super-man, Mr Horowitz.

Clearly has a different sort of people in mind with these two ideas. Friggin’ elitist masquerading as some savior of humanity. Gross.
Speaking as someone who has been a "middle manager":

I've seen a trend where a company is trying to do WAY too much outside of their core competencies or too many things at the same time.

A strong temptation is to to just say "well, we will just hire a bunch of managers to oversee each project we are working on b/c having 17 direct reports who are front line employees is too many people."

Then, times get tough and you think: "Well we can't fire X b/c they are the front line employee actually doing the work for Project Make Money so we'll just fire their manager. The manager manager will just have to deal with having 19 direct reports again"
The object that’s being optimized are the parameters of a 3D Gaussian, just imagine a blob changing shape. That’s optimized instead of optimizing a neural network
Which is why vicious, "take the company out back and Ol' Yeller it" level approaches should be the norm for the NLRB. Make examples of a few high-profile companies, and eventually negotiating with a union will appear more appealing than risking the consequences of union busting.
>a large chunk of a new airplane price is the cost of certification

That seems rather odd. Is this because unlike cars, the cost of certification is spread out among much fewer models, or for some other reason?
You're preaching to the choir here. The most depressing thing is that people leave, like a forest fire, behind echoes of their impacts but we never really get to give them their flowers. The turnover is so rote and frequent that when the best guy in the team leaves, it's not only just a 'I'm so proud to have ... Thank you guys...' email or slack message, but everyone else is like 'Just Another Monday in Corpo Hell.'
A global, international marketplace with about 100,000 sales totalling $3.5 million day. If you can swing serving that from a couple hundred petabytes in your living room then go ahead.
This reminds me of the hay days of Bolt. For ever new hire, their managers and directors and VPs and what not would post something effusive and congratulatory. It's kinda comical and tiring.
The country does have a cumulative 60% tax on imported cars, which they are likely comparing to [1]. A $60k luxury car is about $90k sold locally, which is indeed comparable.

[1] https://blog.kobemotor.com/all-posts/kobe-featured-posts/how...
By George! this sure sounds like a good idea!
Patrick Moore will stop by again to offer to drink it to prove how safe it is.
> I asked two or three questions in SO back in 2014.

Please link them! They should still be there, and we should be able to analyze them. The strength of Stack Exchange is that it is factual, like on Wikipedia, users are discouraged to be emotional and encouraged to to prove their theories.

> who cares if someone wants an answer to some test or project?

A visitor from Google, who doesn't want to search through dozens of "too localized" problems, that don't apply in his case. There are other places to ask such questions, and the strength of SO/SE lies in its ruleset.
A lot of the time IPO investors, both public and institutional, value company cash on hand at more than $1 per dollar during an IPO. An extra 500 million in the bank might make the company IPO for a billion dollars more.

Peloton is an example of a company that did a huge unnecessary fundraise before IPO. I'm sure it makes a bunch of numbers and ratios look better on paper. Psychologically, I think it also helps companies lock in evaluation closer to their IPO Target for when people look back at the history of the company.

It's pretty similar too the idea of inflating employee head count. You can say "we made $10 million with only 10 employees last year. Wait until you see how much money you're going to make now that we have a hundred employees"
If there was a way to ensure no commercial breaks && you could turn off the announcers/commentary leaving just nat sounds, NASCAR races will put me right out.
Every time I see more than 10 direct reports, I think of this quote:

"Yasser Arafat had 17 lieutenants (aka direct reports). Why? So he could pit them all against each other: if they were fighting each other and jockeying for position then they were too busy to go after him."
Quite a bit of spin in that headline.
I think everyone has noticed this. There's a popular subreddit called r/LinkedInLunatics which follows some of the insane things people post there.
> but boy does this lack of self-awareness just shout “distance yourself and run, don’t walk!”

This feels a bit of an extreme reaction to me, I don't try and read into gotchas in writing and use them to "run away". Instead it makes me:

1. View the writing with skepticism

2. Try to understand what Andreessen thinks makes him not one of those ivory tower figures, because I certainly think of him as one.

2 seems the more insightful one to me, but certainly 1 qualifies how I view his writing.
EPA withdraws cyber audit requirement for water systems
SBF is going to testify. His PR agent was asked "Will SBF testify" and replied "Does a bear shit in the woods". His lawyer is asking the court to allow him to take more Adderall so he will be approriately drugged up in the afternoon.

https://ia801508.us.archive.org/25/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.5...
Salt and vinegar can do the same. Chemically-intensive pollution and contamination of the food supply, air, soil, and water is a choice. But it's not a Hobson's choice. Go organic.
This one was released today as well. Works out of the box:
https://github.com/JonathonLuiten/Dynamic3DGaussians
Agreed, I despise actually using Qobuz.
Audible release date Mar2024
Would you drink it?
You may call it a weed, I call it my garden.
Pocket is still an emulator and not exactly cycle accurate.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GBA_Tests
AFAICT, iTunes doesn't sell music in ALAC, just AAC. Do you have a source for purchases being downloadable as DRM-free ALAC?
>Is it same / similar to C-x C-+ / C-x C--?

Yes.

C-<wheel-up> at that spot runs the command mouse-wheel-text-scale
(found in global-map), which is an interactive native-
compiled Lisp
function in ‘mwheel.el’.

It is bound to C-<wheel-down>, C-<wheel-up>, C-<mouse-5> and
C-<mouse-4>.

(mouse-wheel-text-scale EVENT)

Adjust font size of the default face according to EVENT.
See also ‘text-scale-adjust’.

>the need me to zoom in / out

I just prefer it, if I have little text, for it to be big. Why waste it on whitespace?
Worst is when it turns red on your approach and there was never any cross traffic. I notice this happens frequently at a certain normally-busy road I often cross in the middle of the night and I think it works this way by design to give priority to the maybe-traffic on the main road.
There's a bit of a difference in that C has ways to closely integrate assembly as needed. Most languages don't.
Invidious can also provide RSS feeds, so you can keep using your RSS-based workflow with it.
Statistical Inference Berger and Casella.
There are better options, but the exercises and notataion are fun.
https://youtu.be/QWM_PgnoAtA?si=gI2oKECKHAgE9CKp
This is kind of funny, because in my home country, brasil, I hear most companies are in a frenzy to deploy fiber, because of widespread copper cable theft in some regions.

And meanwhile here in the US, Comcast will stubbornly be attached to their coax tables until the end of times.
This isn't always the case!

There was a code review Q/A model posted on /r/locallamas which was very amusingly StackOverflow sometimes.
Fair enough, that seems bad.
Even at industrial scale not much is used on any farm. The standard dosage is measured in ml per hectare. It is heavily diluted with water and then misted on.
our platform facilitates micro transactions with minimal fees because we take away the bank burden as much as possible. We focus on the creators, as long as they create great content people will reward them. platforms turn to crap when people find the need to sell other things. why should i sit through amazing youtube content only to be sold nordvpn? surely the community can do better with micros transactions.
Except Bandcamp wasn't at risk of shutting down before Epic. If it's being run unsustainably now, that's on Epic.
It's not productive to say that 99% of the people contributing content are making garbage. Even if that were true, the 1% of good creators are equally affected by a lack of ad revenue as the bad ones.

The parent comment is basically pointing out that you're depriving the creators you watch of ad revenue. If you sponsor the creators you watch directly, that's great! But most people don't, and even for the people on HN I suspect that they watch a lot more different channels than just the ones they sponsor.
We should not normalize the presumption of criminal intent, nor restrict even those that have been convicted in the past from utilizing technology just because it could be used for evil.

The purpose of my comment? Reductio ad absurdum.

I’m quite surprised at the negative response to be honest. The original comment put no limits on their claims that “utilizing technology” should be regulated.

Do people not read comments as a linear progression of call and response?
Epic is private, Tim Sweeney owns >50%, and their only real rival in the game engine space had recently torpedoed themselves which caused a large amount of gamedevs and even some publishers to swear off Unity.

There was no investor pressure.
Fascinating. First I've heard of this. I can see the obvious advantages, though I'm sure there are disadvantages I'm missing.
Yes, many popular languages are even worse. Thankfully most of those languages (C++ excepted) aren't used for systems programming like C is and hopefully we can agree that the safety story with C++ is mixed at best. Those that have some history as real systems languages (e.g. Java) tend to have pretty decent execution semantics. But just to provide a real counterargument, Ada/SPARK meets the bars I set above. Rust is also a significant improvement over C in practical terms, even if there isn't an official standard you can point to in the same way.
I thought Detroit has been in decline for decades. If anything, you’d think they’d want to attract people back with _less_ taxes.
This is true anywhere on any blockchain. There is no reason to do computation by chain validators, only to verify that it was done correctly.

(Downvotes? I’m being serious.)
Why? Neither oil nor agriculture are large sectors as other parts of the californian economy, both contribute like 7% combined to the state GDP (1,2). Oil can be bought from elsewhere, it doesn't need to be extracted from the middle of residential neighborhoods in LA county like its the 1890s still.

1,
https://ajed.assembly.ca.gov/content/california-economy-2

2,
https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2021/07/20/c...
Clover is a nitrogen fixer and very useful mixed in with grass for that reason.
A factory is parallel

Or do you mean an individual can't do things in parallel?

Like.... Pushing all of those grocery carts in a long line is moving them in parallel

Or do you mean processing? Like thinking?
With that said, if they do tank, it can seriously be replaced by someone in a weekend, maybe 2 :)

That's even more true for Twitter, and look what's happened... nothing.
I agree. For me personally that is a signal to cut ties with a business or organization. It's a red flag when orgs use crappy web portals that demand illogical or ill conceived compliance. I find those "turn key" solutions or platforms like Facebook to be full of dystopian and incompetent practices that are best to distance ones self from. Some may not find that an option but I can only hope that more people push back aggressively on malevolent patterns.
Most pre-compiled binaries are for the lowest common denominator cpu.

Which means most pre compiled software targets CPU’s from 10+ years ago.

ClearLinux compiles for current chips, which gains the benefit of new instruction sets.
Actually there is something that might help everywhere in California: That would be to rebuild a state-run or state-funded mental health system at all levels and at a size that could actually make a difference. Ideally at the state level but perhaps San Francisco can help get that started.
Can you name those alternatives? I don't think SO/SE is being beaten by anything, it has no competition within the set of questions it allows. When it comes to other questions - of course other websites are better for answering the questions that are offtopic on SO/SE.
Unfortunately your knowledge of industrial manufacturing processes might not be as strong as you think it is. The immediate evidence to consider is that people cast their own Warhammer desktop war-gaming miniatures at home: The feature accuracy of these is much higher than the milling accuracy of cheap ARmalite knock-offs.
So Detroit will be offering refunds given the dismal state of real-estate there
While this isn’t in my wheel house, if you think it would be valuable I am happy to connect you with a friend who runs a battery as a service startup - they have connections to vendors etc.

He was previously a founder of a solar company and knows the ins and outs of batteries.

If interested, shoot me your info and I can make the introduction.
AWS Certified Data Engineer: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-data-engineer...
As a non-resident who has enjoyed going to tech conferences in SF in the past, taking along my family so they could explore the city while I was at the conference, this article did nothing to change my opinion of SF. There is no way in hell I would go to SF for a conference or take my family there.
yeah but when i talk to artists, they tell me they love the process of creating music. they don't have the money or interest for procurement, warehousing or customer support. They just want feedback on their new beat...
I'm a big proponent of Land Value Tax. In theory it is one of the healthiest forms of taxation since supply is fixed. It encourages efficient use of land and discourages owners from squatting on undeveloped land just to reap value from its location.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
This is a good thing. Instead of requiring every node to execute every instruction, parties can trustless prove computation happened off chain.
Isn't the compiler open sourced? Can't someone simply work around this?
yeah fair point, we need to do better with the site... thanks for the feedback..
Not really sure how "goodness itself" can exist when only one thing exists in the universe?
Less taxes are good, but if the taxes are there to help remove negative externalities from the market it will be a net win. I wouldn't mind paying a bit more property taxes if it meant property values weren't sky high and it discouraged land hoarding.

Land tax is good in that it still rewards developers for creating value, but not speculators or people who buy land and don't actually provide value.
The fact unoriginal repetitive quips like this, which makes them nothing more then sludge, can spam forums is exactly why POW is needed.

If you want to be more than a child try reading what's considered the first formal POW paper https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-35568-9_...

POW has been used socially by humans forever. It's an important part of trust. It needs to be digitized. Grow up and make the current system better if you don't like it.
A land value tax, in theory, discourages the mere holding of unproductive land. Encouraging the land to go into the hands of people who will actually use it could, in theory, have some regenerative value to a declining city.
This was deeply depressing to read, and indicates that the trend of disengagement between VCs (and SV tech culture, more generally) and our larger society is continuing apace.

Rather than doing anything else, a man worth approximately $1.8B[1] is posting screeds wherein he churlishly tells the rest of us to read Internet-poisoned reactionaries. No sane culture would be optimistic about any system or scheme that produces such results; we do much better to run screaming in the exact opposite direction.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/profile/marc-andreessen/
A quality iron/hydrogen sulfide water filter sets you back about $2k, and will last ~10 years or ~500k gallons. If you do not have this in your water, you can safely skip. High iron can lead to iron reducing bacteria scumming up fixtures and, more importantly, rapidly dissolving a hot water heater tank. If you smell sulfur in your hot water when you shower on a well, that bacteria is eating up your tank's anode rod quicker than normally would (I also suggest a powered anode rod, good for 20+ years to keep a tank tip top vs having to replace consumable anode rods, but that is another topic). A three cartridge system will cost you a few hundred dollars for setup, replacing the cartridges roughly every year after ~100k gallons of water has passed through them (~$100-200/year, depending on cartridge filter selection). You can mix and match cartridges for your specific water contaminant filtering needs (sediment, iron, heavy metals, VOCs, pesticides, etc). I would agree with optimizing for use case, but RO systems can be costly and high maintenance depending on the demand put on them. They are ideal for low demand, low flow applications like a kitchen faucet or refrigerator water supply for water and ice. Design accordingly.
I used to hate English spelling, but I live it now English's spelling is part of the world's cultural heritage. Centuries of history are captured within it.
I’ve heard economists champion the idea, but I’ve heard little talk about what the tradeoffs are. What are the downsides?
'The demos of OS/2 were excellent. Crashing the system had the intended effect – to FUD OS/2 2.0. People paid attention to this demo and were often surprised to our favor. Steve positioned it as -- OS/2 is not "bad" but that from a performance and "robustness" standpoint, it is NOT better than Windows'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10662666
This improves the efficiency of Bitcoin.
I didn't downvote you, and I agree that it's annoying when people downvote without commenting.

I think the point I was making is that Trump (like Hamas) makes promises that he doesn't keep, and people really should have seen it coming, based on his previous behaviour.

He said he was going to drain the swamp and help little business owners who have been hurt by the "elites". But we have seen that Trump himself is the biggest swamp dweller, and he is one of the worst "elites" himself. After he was elected, he helped out his fellow elites by reducing their taxes.
Kansas showed how poorly that economic theorem pans out

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment
Manager is the one who can't code, love meetings (part of their job), love Office (so they won't get boring for doing reporting all day).
I disagree there are many UI patterns that make an exquisite touch interface and a horrible KB&M interface (and vice versa).

There are certainly parts of windows desktop apps with absurdly small click targets (have you tried to resize a window recently?) That doesn't mean desktop users are in favor of those.

Desktop users generally favor much more information dense interfaces that you can't achieve in a touch interface because the touch targets would be too small.

Can you design an interface that's great for both? Sure, but it's really difficult.
Depends on your definition of crusade and success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista - without that Spain would still be Islamic, so would Portugal.
This is not a problem Detroit has
Micro-Max (https://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/max-src2.html) is a chess engine written in C (2000 characters!) and has an ELO of about 1900 and plays only legal moves.
Rototill is much worse for the environment. You have all the CO2 released from the effort. Plus bare ground that will erode away in wind or rain. Then you have all the organic matter in the soil you destory.

Or a little round up and plant grass seed over the top. Much less CO2, and the soil and organic matter stay in place.
i dont understand why would anyone be against planting trees

My point is that it does not matter what humans do or do not do. Even if humans ceased to exist there would be plenty of trees planted. If anything the lack of humans would mean less logging but I am one of the odd-ball weirdos against using wood in homes.

I should add that I love it when people do plant trees but more often than not it plays out as "Oh cool they are plan.... stop!" as I see them planting saplings facing the wrong direction I find myself yelling at Youtube old man yelling at clouds. That's yet another reason I am fine with the hard work that Squirrels and Chipmunks put in by mistake. The seeds work out fine.