skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All four of Dr. (as he is now) Henderson's major points: handwringing over family structure, unifying social edifice of religion, role of luck in success, and white privilege, are not first world problems: they are specifically US problems. Eg: maybe the lower classes need religion in the US, but that is not a universal truth.

I suspect I may be part of Dr. Henderson's "elite", but since I follow[0] these idealistic viewpoints as well as promoting them, and in order to avoid the Lie Direct and stick with the Retort Courteous[1]: having read the fine article my opinion is otherwise.

[0] to the point of having voted with my feet to live in a better society than the States had, and (to judge from the news) has.

[1] see As You Like It V:iv
How are they blaming her?
Big +1 to "there are no off-hand requests"; this was a failure that I realized I was making as a leader a month ago. I was (ostensibly) trying to give my team ownership, blasting them with the multiple things that needed doing, but in practice I was pushing the stress of "what should they be working on in any given moment" to them.

It's a sneaky trap, because you think "I'm making them so empowered!" but you're actually stressing them out and reducing their focus.
I prefer to call them cuddlefish.
Every leveling guideline I’ve seen for any tech company both first hand and second hand has a criteria of “dealing with ambiguity”. As a senior, you should be use to getting vague asks and operate on the “flip side” where you take responsibility for disambiguating.
Doesn't ferrofluid have a limited stability?
Ray Dalio may be a slimeball, but he's not wrong about macroeconomics. Someone wants you to not like him and not listen to his advice.
That's only for GPU-hungry. If you have >100k GPU then the cost of power is going to be much more relevant.
If you have a static frontend bundle, isn't that just SSG (static site generation)? And if you can generate the site at build time, what's the fundamental difference between any of the non-web component SSG solutions and a web component SSG solution? Sure, you can pretend like there will be "no build step". But only if you're fine with "no proper cache headers" (and a long tail of other things). So in practice - hopefully there _will_ be a build step anyhow.
As a non-manager, I try to get into a mode where I'm frequently saying:

> I'm doing this unless somebody recommends otherwise

...in order to preempt being asked to do it. Even if it ends up being the same task that I'd have been asked to do.

Transparent Autonomy > Forgiveness > Permission

If it was my idea, and I'm also the one doing it, so much communication hassle goes away.

With a bit of patience you can shift the conversation from specific asks to more general conversations about priority alignment, which I think results in fewer detail related communication mishaps and lowers the risk of malicious compliance or other sorts of wasteful non-alignment.

The focus on "imprecise" in this article seems like a slippery slope towards micromanagement . Train your manager to trust you. Then train them to leave you alone. You're the expert here.

This frees up time for them to manage up on your behalf and to figure out how to get you a raise or open doors for your career growth, which is better for everybody.
> That’s one of the issues I have with open floor plan offices: people buzzing around in my peripheral vision can be incredibly distracting and detrimental to productivity depending on the day and my mental state, and there’s almost nothing that can be done to mitigate that.

Don't worry, the office-lords have solved that! You can book a focus room for no more than 60 minutes when you need to focus. PROBLEM SOLVED!!!! /s

People who complained about cubicles were probably mourning the loss of an enclosed office (which I imagine is far superior). As we are learning, it can always get worse, and what was once bad is now good by comparison to what we're getting now.
Thanks -- what about disadvantages? Surely it's not all advantages.
> Where are you getting this information from?

A different thread of conversation in this post is arguing over what good faith means.

The above poster is clearly not showing good faith because they're assuming negative behaviors. That's where they got the information from.
I was reading "The Origin of Knowledge and Imagination" and the author was reflecting on the same thing. The mind is not a computer, you do not think like a computer. In fact, there is no separate concept called "the mind". The whole body is part of our perception and action ecosystem. It makes sense as software, while imperfect, is too orderly and simplistic.
There's a new book out about Dalio and his "principles"
I really wish cool retro term supported multiple tabs in MacOS.

I actually daily drive it, if you set things up just right it is absurdly readable, more so than a regular terminal IMHO.
Memory bandwidth/latency, especially when you're at smaller batch sizes.
If you implement a feature like this, please, make it optional and obvious when it’s enabled. It’s maddening when tools try to be too smart and don’t get it perfect (I have been guilty of this too)
Send like in the mail on a USB stick?
Yep. The P5 arch (original Pentium) superscalar design, combined with its much faster FPU and separation of data and code caches meant it could run circles around a 486-based CPU, even if it was running up to twice the speed of a 486 contender.
> Bringing staff back to checkouts increases employment. That can only be a good thing.

Imagine how much more employment there would be if we got rid of agricultural machinery and went back to people growing crops with manual labor.
As a PAL person I wonder if there are any shaders that give Hanover bars
Author here.

It is very implausible :)

After watching an inspiring video on terminal optimization [1], I started doing some napkin math on how fast my ex-employers' programs "should" run and how many resources they "should" take up.

With my very small sample size (N=5), those numbers definitely hold. My big untested assumption is that most startups have even worse codebases than what I've experienced in my short tenure haha. I'd be curious what an "average" startup could achieve in 6 weeks.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxM8QmyZXtg
A phone (or a video) call has no more overhead and is no more of a bother than walking over to someone's cube for a chat. I understand that it feels like more to a lot of people but I don't think it is, objectively, more of a bother for either party. If you need the back and forth interactivity to clarify your question then do it.

Your trick with a shared doc is also a great idea and has two additional benefits. 1. The act of writing is an extra step to help you clarify your question. 2. The question and answer are now documented for the future. Both big wins versus a quick chat that then needs to be written down.
Notes don't pass the command line it seems.
Am I not supposed to expect a quality lecture from a university professor?
I have had such a bad experience with certain lecturers, I'm certain what they were saying wasn't incorrect but the way they were speaking made it impossible to follow. It wasn't just me who thought so.
I admit I've had learning difficulties my whole life but I believe it is actually impossible to learn all the material from the classes with all the details from books. You can pick a field or two which interest you the most and delve deep into the details.
An extremely fundamental topic at my uni is called "introduction to circuit analysis". It was taught by a professor who was so bad at teaching it there was no point in coming to his lectures. You would learn more from watching youtube videos. Everyone was aware of the state of that class. Even our lab professors would mock his teaching style. Now if every class was like this we would be lost.
I'll give a recent example of another lecturer who I also consider bad, but fortunately he is teaching an easy subject. First class a kid asks 'what's the difference between a router and a switch'. The professor answers 'a switch works on layer 2 and a router works on layer 3'. In my opinion this is a non answer. Yeah he said the truth but it didn't mean anything. If that student didn't know the difference between a switch and a router then surely he doesn't know about the ISO OSI model. Before you think he probably didn't have time to answer more specifically to make sure he understands. This guy notoriously keeps digressing from the subject. As that classes subject is one I am familiar with I knew the way he taught it was impossible to make sense of because he never answered in a concrete way, everything felt so drawn out and lacking a focal point, it's hard to describe. It took him four hours to go over the ISO OSI model and honestly while I wasn't paying attention to every single word he said. With all the digressions and constant comments about stuff you just couldn't follow his train of thought.
On the contrary electromagnetism class was absolutely amazing. It's still a difficult subject, at least for me because I've always been pretty bad at physics but the lad who taught it was brilliant. He made sure we all understood, he started with very basic concepts that everyone knew, just to be certain everyone is on the same page. His presentations were concise, easy to follow with links to read up/watch stuff that you didn't fully get or wanted to learn more about. They had plenty of visualizations with gifs of stuff. It's a pleasure going to his classes.
So I think that I should expect the lectures to give me an understanding of a subject. If I had to read a book for every class there wouldn't be enough time in a day for me to catch up.
When I first started with Rails on a project I took over in 2012 I really disliked it.

Today it’s something I repeatedly try to tell everybody about. It’s just so productive.
You criticize society, yet you live in society. Makes you a bit of a hypocrite, no?
https://lnsy.dev/blog/custom-html-components.html

Here is my blog post about custom HTML Elements. It covers state changes, etc.

P.S., I am looking for a Front End project, preferably writing vanilla JS. My email is on the page.
Alexa just cost Amazon another $46.7M
People who prefer the office can band together and get one with WFH. People who enjoy their homes or even still an office, just their personal one, don't have that choice with RTO.
Its always astounded me when there's so many problems with what I would describe as driving in 2 dimensions and now the maker of that wants to step it up to real 3D...
I found this article from bloomberg on the event!

> Europe’s grid, which is usually connected from Lisbon to Istanbul, split into two as the northwest and southeast regions struggled to keep the same frequency. The problem originated in Croatia and led to the equivalent of 200,000 households losing power across Europe. Supply to industrial sites was cut in France and Italy.

> Transmission grids need to stay at a frequency of 50 hertz to operate smoothly and any deviations can damage equipment that’s connected. Had the frequency swings not been reduced within minutes, it could have caused damage across the entire European high voltage network, potentially causing blackouts for millions.

> A fault at a substation that caused overloading on other parts of Croatia’s grid has been identified as the cause of the issue, network operators concluded Tuesday.

> “The problem isn’t posed by growing green electricity directly but by shrinking conventional capacity,” said Eglantine Kuenle, chief electricity systems modeler at the EWI Institute of Energy Economics at Cologne University. “The upshot is a gap in secure power generation and grid balancing that must be fixed.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20230621192146/https://www.bloom...

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Personal thoughts. I knew we had an interconnected grid, but I had no idea it span from Portugal to Türkiye, nor that the rest of Scandinavia wasn't connected. For a system as critical, and as complex, it seems like a feat of engineering on all sides involved.
That satisfies my confirmation bias. I'm under the assumption that pre-existing high-caliber developers aren't improved by ChatGPT/Copilot. At least not yet.
I don't know how they measure it, but other measurements have shown different results:

https://medium.com/@elviovicosa/phoenix-vs-rails-benchmark-2...
Submarine power lines exist; Baltic and North Sea are full of them.
> British elites don't want to be elite so much as they cannot easily get used to the norms

Like working and coping with (comparatively) low income?

Most people have to work and cope. If you don't have to work and cope, that makes you fundamentally unlike most people, because even if you do work and cope, it'll be on your terms. Even if some of the work and some of the cope is genuinely fun and engaging, I guarantee that nobody wants to have to do it and therefore that elites want to be elite even if it is gauche to say so out loud.
>Honest question here, is pair programming still a thing?

It's still by far the most effective tool for certain tasks. Inherit an extremely complex codebase with 50 levels of abstraction? You could spend a week tinkering with it, or you could step through the code with the guy who wrote it for 30 minutes. But it's not something you'd want to do every day, or even frequently.
The only time I have ever been “ordered” to do something was for an American middle manager (not in my line) in an American company. “Haha get fucked” wasn’t the answer he was expecting, but my non American manager told him the same thing when he went to demand I’d get fired.
Would it be wrong and not art if one wouldn't need a $100 million budget to fully execute their vision?

And art is a term that's quite ambiguous and often means different things to different people. I think you would agree that a lot of people consume movies simply as entertainment. From that perspective, it matters less where the data about pixels came from. This is coming from a person who loves movies, artsy, not artsy, and everything in between.
After several attempts to communicate with the FBI regarding their disappointing report with numerous loose ends and a shrug without a motive to discuss, well, I let them review and have an opportunity to contradict me on the record.

The FBI did not reply one way or another. You can interpret this as you will. However, I am interpreting this as a tacit approval.

Therefore I'm bringing it into the Public Sector for discussion and critique.

He traveled the world, had everything here except respect and was treated like dirt when he really did slip and fall and get hurt, realized the US culture priorities are messed up, and there's no better statement of "nobody should have this many guns" like having too many guns.

Look at the stack of full magazines next to the column in the room. It got stopped early. There was a genuine escape plan. The minivan in the garage?

So many divine interventions like keeping the fuel tanks from going off and forcing people toward him. Not thinking to knock out the strobe lights in the room. The motive is really clear to me and ugly because it shows a decline over time and...let's be honest...the Death of the American Dream.
There are a lot of bad software patents. Many follow the formula "abstract mathematical concept, but now it's on a computer". For a long time, that's all that was required.
It is remarkable how much GPU compute is limited by memory speed.
Ferrofluid has been used in certain high end speakers for quite a while, it can break down or dry out eventually but generally lasts well over a decade in that application.

The glass treatment is just to prevent the ferrofluid from sticking.
Which are what exactly? The state has been setting record surpluses.

Housing is very expensive, but that's due to a failure to build.

Higher property taxes doesn't reduce the cost of ownership or make housing more affordable.

This is like saying we should rise the tax rate on food because people are starving in the street
"it depends" https://kipp.ly/transformer-inference-arithmetic/
I don't even need video. Worked closely with a guy for a couple years, only when I left the company and added him on linkedin did I learn he was black. There really wasn't a need for me to know much about him to get our work done.
Interesting!
Another example where ChatGPT hallucinates stuff. I first checked Wikipedia and saw this correct history:

> The name is derived from the Hindi word "bhang", a locally grown variety of cannabis which is smoked or drunk to induce intoxicating effects, the joke being that one would have to be on drugs to believe the bhangmeter detectors would work properly.

ChatGPT on the other hand claimed something completely different and unrelated to the origin.

> The term “bhangmeter” is the more technically correct and widely used name, stemming from a whimsical contraction of “bang” (referring to the explosion) and “V. F. H. Metzger”, who contributed to its development.
So go to a company that doesn’t have RTO requirements. The market should sift employees and employers to an equilibrium where people work in the environment that suits them.

We already have this. People that can’t stand sitting at a screen all day and need to be outdoors to feel good find jobs that suit that. People who need to interact and not do paperwork find jobs that suit this. And vice versa. RTO and WFH will just be the next phase of that.

I look forward to the market showing us, objectively, which is most effective on the whole when enough companies with radically different policies compete with each other.

I have a strong suspicion which will prevail but I want to see objective real world results.
Or someone just wants to tell the world he's a fucking slimeball. It doesn't need a larger conspiracy, sometimes just selling a compelling story can be enough.
A better analogy for DNA in computer science would be LLMs. Each organism's DNA represents an experiment being performed in service of training a model. If that experiment manages to procreate, its successful mutations graduate into another round of experiments.

This has gone on for several billion years, resulting in a largely stable model within which experiment are continuing to be run.

As with LLMs, DNA doesn't know anything about the data it is being trained on ("Nature"). And that model continues to change even as the experiments are run.

So DNA is a "blockchain" record of previous and current hypotheses on which traits enable an organism to live to viability. Some of these hypotheses are "dead code," as the environment no longer contains the pressure which made them critical. Some of them are essential to viability. Some of them are experiments whose value has not yet been determined.

Assuming your question is whether IaC could learn from patterns in DNA, I think that's a very interesting idea. Certainly we desire that every loadbalancer, database, and iam policy be capable of self-defense, and be the hardiest, most fit version of itself possible.

Where the analogy struggles is that people writing IaC are more in the business of designing "natures" than they are designing individual organisms which would survive a chaotic and hostile "nature" being enforced on them. And people who write IaC might be unhappy to hear that getting to a "viable" database would require launching several thousand databases in an environment and, after some period of changes, seeing which one is performing best so they can clone that "best" database configuration when new databases are needed.
I absolutely cannot get into synths, it's such an an interesting way to make music, but can get so expensive.
Where do you find yourself spending all your free time? What activity do you resort to by default, the moment you have free time at hand? What's something that could keep you awake at nights? What did you love doing when you didn't have money responsibilities?

Spend time with yourself. Ask yourself questions like these again and again. List the activities and related areas of interest you used to enjoy. That's your search space.
> A friend of mine raced lemons for years

I'm sure this is a typo and you meant Le Mans but please leave it as it is. :D
I'm surprised nobody at nvidia brought this up
Ah, I see. I have the luxury of choosing MCUs with a working GNU toolchain.
› Even "social networks" like TikTok aren't really social,

Social there is for 'social graph'
> Customer waiting time is free for the store

Disagree. Customers will get angry long before they actually give up and walk out, especially if there is no easy alternative.

Guess what happens the moment there is an easy alternative.
I recently made a chrome plugin[1] which runs your own prompt on selected text. I have been using it mostly to ask about things.

My most used prompt is titled "What's this" with the prompt

Explain the input word or sentence in simple words. Be terse.

I often use this on HN itself when I come across something I have no clue about. It gives me back enough info to understand the discussion.

[1]: https://github.com/SMUsamaShah/LookupChatGPT/
Interestingly, for me it is the exact opposite, I tried Django/Python and it's more difficult for me to grok. Somehow I just find Rails easier and more straightforward.
>> I don't think I had any ideas one what was going on until it was mentioned in physics several years later.

This is where kids with an engineer parent have an advantage. Such a parent can offer examples of how some of the math is used in the real world. Once relevance is established it's OK to point out that this stuff is often buried in software but someone had to put that math into code form so we can all benefit from it. "You may never use it, but you use tools that use it under the hood" can be motivating when they're wondering if it's all just weird busy work.
C++ also has had that category for decades. Longer than browsers. Rust is challenging that hold right now but it's far from winning.

You're right the dom will remain in the picture for a long time. Doesn't change the fact that it's horribly designed.
> “From Hello World to IPO”

Which specific documentary is it? Google seems to return a few different options.
I'm generally predisposed against looking at government for quick fixes. But I can't not think similar to you on housing. The government has already been dumping trillions of dollars into the housing bubble over the past several decades mainly just bidding up existing stock, putting us here. (the greatest trick Nixonite/Reaganite looters ever pulled was convincing us money "loaned" into the financial industry is distinct from "government spending")

Rather than the disastrous approach of goal-blind subsidized mortgages, that government money needs to be directed to projects that accomplish deliberate policy goals. What VT would seem to need here is low-frills, semi-shared style housing for younger people that haven't really chosen a path in life but will be attracted by the low rent. The market just can't build something like that in VT - if nobody comes, it will be worth nothing. Whereas building the same thing outside Los Angeles will practically guarantee popularity (despite the permit pain), or even just a few hundred miles south as part of the Northeast Megalopolis will be a much surer thing (although more sprawling beige boxes on overwrought postage stamp lawns is still a surer bet, and predictability is the main need of leveraged money)

Also, I feel like there's an analog to your comment about wages in general. General wages were held down so long by MBA cogification, over-management, classism, govt inflation treadmill, etc that now labor in general is too expensive for the free market. Nobody knows how much say working in a chocolate factory should actually pay. And if you're interested in chocolate, you'll probably be more successful starting a website drop shipping someone else's chocolate with your own branding...
Militarized police is also a threat to national security so it kind of fits.
You know offices are not in a good place when people wistfully wish for the office situation of the workers in office space and the matrix.
Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence