skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And if you get removed. Not able to apply to return.

Having been past the PIP/Pivot process, certainly I don't want to return.
> If you work for a company that lays off 6% of the "fat" every year and then still continues to have 6+% of the company considered "fat"

Most tech companies I've worked for in the past years have had about 30-40% new people every year through a combination of natural turnover and growth.

You're right that if a company never grows and nobody ever leaves yet they still try to isolate 6% to fire every year, that's a bad practice.

However, nobody gets hiring perfectly right. When you're hiring hundreds of people every year into a department, you're going to get a couple people who don't work out.

I think people on HN get nervous around these discussions because they imagine companies as static collections of individuals, but at a high growth company you actually have a lot of new people coming through all the time.

It's also bad when companies never fire anyone. If you just let everyone stay until they quit, you accumulate a lot of people who aren't working out while their high performing coworkers get frustrated and leave. I've seen this situation too and it's not good.
My metaphor works within the confines of equivalency. Battery aging is essentially equivalent to gasoline engine/transmission mileage, as the electric motors and electronics don't meaningfully age unlike gas engines. You can't run a gas engine forever, as eventually maintenance costs will exceed the value of the engine.

Every gas car I'm aware of loses efficiency when it's colder outside. It's not as drastic as an EV, but it definitely exists. Also, gas engines tend to get slightly less efficient as they age, just as components begin to have higher friction, increased wear, worse tolerances, etc.
What kind of workstation would you build/buy for local GPT development with a budget of $3000? Is remote dev a viable alternative to local workstations?
Lights. In my living room I have two spotlings over book cases, a bright center light, two standing lamps and a light illuminating my electric piano. I touch one button and they all come on together. Another cycles through modes (bright, movie, reading). I have the same type of setup in the kitchen. On my upstairs landing, the light illuminates dimly of someone triggers the movement detector (so they don't get blinded at 4am). In my bathroom if I walk in at night, a single spotlight illuminates very dimly directly over the "throne", but if i tap the light switch all spotlights light up.

So in some rooms I have many separate lights operating together, and in my bathroom I have a one of 6 spotlights (which are all in the same electric circuit) operating independently.

As for "hassle", i probably spent a week setting up Home Assistant on a raspberry pi a few years ago and haven't touched it since, apart from replacing switch batteries whenever they get low.

I'm never going back.

Having said that, I'm not interested in automating anything else. Maybe home heating. I have an old 2 zone system, so adding smart thermostats to my radiators would provide completely independent control from every room in the house, whereas right now I just have a dumb-dumb "upstairs" / "downstairs" setup.
The definition of "making available" is actually very broad, presumably to head off at the gate whatever technical work-around Google was planning to use to bypass a the more narrow "the news content, or any portion of it, is reproduced".

Like, I can see Google pivoting to providing custom links and a script that runs in the users browser that will dynamically produce the snippets on the pages without the content technically going trough their servers...
I absolutely love your writing BTW! I wasn't aware of it before today. It's really derailed my whole workday. It's fun to discover a new author like this, thank you for responding to my comment :)

I don't mean to argue that anything spiritual/supernatural is going on when I'm talking about an emergent god agent here. I'm arguing that gods are in the same ontological category as individual human minds are. I'm sure most religious people, Aquinas included, would need quite a lot more mysticism to be injected into the idea before they would recognize it as their own.

I don't fully believe it, to be honest. Mostly because I have no way of testing it or experiencing it. But, it's a fun idea and it's fun to imagine how my own little caricaturized model of Aquinas' mind might find some things to agree with. As far as I can tell, he was a person that desperately wanted a cohesive model of the "full stack" of things. Unfortunately for him, the best understandings at his time were pretty rough by today's standards.
You’ve offered nothing but snark and evasion in response to a simple question asking what standard of evidence you’d accept. You’ve made it clear that there isn’t one an you’re acting in bad faith. Feel free to pretend that’s funny if you like, but it’s really just sad and rather dull.
I am very worried about Evernote, and this is another clear sign that Evernote just doesn't "get" it.

50-notes is insufficient for any serious trial of Evernote, and clearly insufficient if you're considering switching any non-trivial note pile to Evernote.
How to get GenZ developers to stop using emojis in commit messages and PR titles
I love the format with the topics on the side, well done YC!

Downside: they are too much looking around , probably a lot of people around or screens with prompters. Disturbing me
I was also puzzled. Thanks for asking and thanks for clarifying.
I'm guessing this is the webp bug.

The auto conversion to webp on the backend, signaled by chrome, resulted in a bad image that crashes the browser due to grammarly parsing of said bad webp.

Safari doesn't tell the server it does webp and so it downloads the actual gif, and doesn't crash.
Elon Says Copyright/AI Lawsuits Don't Matter Because 'Digital God' Will Arrive
It seems to work a-ok on my side
I've seen pictures of similar designs and captions about how the tire is about to be obsolete since I started using the internet 30 years ago.
> The main issue I see..

you've 180° misunderstood DST, the sole purpose of which is to give you an extra hour in bed in the winter
> It's mainly useful to help understand the rules, as in your case.

I agree.

[spoiler alert]

I tried with 2 or 3 moves per turn. My strategy was to advace in diagonal to have a lot of space in tha back, and keep some distance from the oponent. When it advances, I wall the pieces. If it doesn't advance I fill my backshard space. With 2 or 3 it's humanly learnable in 10 minutes. I imagine that 7 moves would be much ore complex, but sadly I have no time now.

Perhaps you can progem the bot to advance more in the first few turns. (Assuming my strategy is good.)
In fact quite a lot of Lem's writing is not sci-fi at all, period. Hospital of Transfiguration is an absolutely mandatory read for any fan of Lem, even though it will leave you depressed for a week afterwards. And memoirs found in a bathtub is just a masterpiece of absurdity, it has a very good English audiobook actually if anyone wants to try.
The Official Vantage Kubernetes Integration
I miss rectangle the most after switching from macOS to Linux. Ironically I end up using the mouse more on Linux because I haven’t found a similar solution for window sizing keyboard shortcuts.
Database Computations on Z-Sets
Who?

Oh.. I vaguely remember.
Site Blocking Fallout Keeps GitHub Unusable for Some Indians
I have a list of blogs with RSS [0] from which I populate a dynamic blogroll on my page [1]. This way I don't have to rely on external apps to keep track of my favourite pages.

[0]: https://github.com/alexmolas/alexmolas.github.io/blob/master...

[1]: https://www.alexmolas.com/blogroll
The Jones act.
The reason why Kolibri forked is precisely because MenuetOS stopped being F/OSS when they made the transition to 64-bit while simultaneously advertising the 64-bit version as "the future" and 32-bit as legacy.
“Write me a web application.”
Sure, here are some Microsoft and Google products to do so!

Not all filtering has to be prohibitive, just unnoticed.
You "welcome" media control going from a "few families" to a single person?
Hey dang: "its" please.
I can tell you that it's starting to feel a bit... postmodern? in South Texas. I'm not sure the right word to describe the feeling. Nearly every year the meteorologists tell us that we're breaking heat records, and subjectively I can feel it having gone from unpleasantly hot in summers when I was a kid to something verging on life-threatening for a few months of the year. I never saw as many trees die as I did this past summer, and a co-worker's well failed; it felt like the start of an apocalyptic movie.

And yet... everyone just kind of kept going, and what else are we supposed to do I guess? Hope some deus ex machina appears and saves us? There is still a fair amount of denial of the phenomena itself, but more than that I think that people think it will all just work out somehow. I don't seem to have that ability; I was mostly just hoping I'd be done with this Earth by the time things get real bad, but it seems like the consequences are moving faster than I had anticipated.
But they couldn't fix the bug: The bug was in another product that they couldn't access source code or submit patches.

The best they could do was work around it.

Sometimes workarounds are the best you can do until your vendor provides a real fix.
They said it wasn't reproducible anymore though. So if they make a bug report now and say "this used to cause a crash in an old version of Chrome while also having an old version of another software installed, but is no longer reproducible in latest builds", most people would probably just ignore it.
sway, i3, bswm, awesomewm, so many tiling window managers on Linux that you don't need the mouse for. There's even tiling making it's way into Gnome and KDE with the former having some good extensions and the latter just baking it in and getting better with every release.
Or just the original title. Ugh.
Ahhh, Schrodinger's patch.
Major Price Cuts: Deepnote versus Cocalc
That was not an ELI5 request. The first line of jcranmer's response shows how to qualify things more appropriately, in a way that doesn't come across as a lie-to-children.

Even the "frequently tries to violate the first ten amendments" characterization suffers from some built-in bias error as there are far fewer entities that can sue over, say, the Supremacy Clause than the First Amendment, and something like Medellín v. Texas is more a "nuclear power plant" than a "bicycle shed", in the classic story of the law of triviality.

That's likely why our foreign companion has not come across anyone online talking about the lawsuits over the various clauses in the Constitution proper.
lol (looking at cloud init for ubuntu 22...)

...
# remove snapd trash
- snap remove lxd
- snap remove core20
- snap remove snapd
- systemctl stop snapd.service
- systemctl stop snapd.socket
- systemctl stop snapd.seeded.service
- systemctl disable snapd.service
- systemctl disable snapd.socket
- systemctl disable snapd.seeded.service
- systemctl stop snapd.service
- systemctl stop snapd.socket
- systemctl stop snapd.seeded.service
- rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/
- apt autoremove --purge snapd -y
- rm -rf /root/snap
# remove apport trash
...
Ask HN: Lisp projects for an otherwise seasoned dev?
This post is a RFC for any ideas on things to do using Lisp (any Lisp, Scheme, Common Lisp, Clojure — I don't care) and I don't feel as if any responses have to be tailored for me but can be suitable for the HN community at large.

If anyone wants to get an idea of where I am coming from though: I've spent most of my paid time using Python, Java, Rust, C#, and a bunch of scripting in Ruby and Bash. While my experience is skewed towards backend development I'd consider myself predominantly a generalist and have written my fair share of React/Solid.js/Angular by now. The domains/fields have been finance, enterprise applications, machine learning & AI, and generic web-application stuff.

Nowadays, it's mostly Rust, Postgres, Solid.js, and GraphQL that get the job done.

The idea I've had has been to do some dumb things with the Spotify API that I'd have some utility for but it's so simple it feels like an errand.

Another idea, but that was more for message-passing in Erlang (or Elixir) was about having a more or less emergent Pokémon clone wherein the Pokémon will fight each other in the wild and evolve and perhaps have maturity cycles during which they reproduce etcetera.

The third is to chomp through Lisp In Small Pieces.

All "fine" ideas, but as of yet I haven't felt any pull to me.

People more well-versed in Lisps, is there anything that'd be a joy to do that we other plebeians might consider a headache with our current toolbox?
there's a selection bias at play here

suppose you need to either be in the top percentile of handsome and the top percentile of emotionally aware to get a job as a hollywood actor, but these attributes are uncorrelated in the general population, so 99% of top-percentile-of-handsome people will be top-percentile-of-sensitive and vice versa

then the pool of hollywood actors you observe will contain, out of every 199 people, 99 who are top-percentile-of-handsome but not of sensitivity, 99 who are top-percentile-of-sensitive but not of handsomeness, and 1 who is both

someone observing this result but not understanding the process that led up to it might think that emotional sensitivity makes you ugly or that being handsome makes you emotionally oblivious, even though (by hypothesis) the traits are uncorrelated. in fact, this negative correlation in the selected group can survive even a fair bit of positive correlation between the traits in the general population

similarly, it's easier to get a programming job if you have a history of delivering successful products, or if you have a lot of line-by-line coding acumen
"But most of all Schoenberg was trying too hard to be remembered. Bach, Mozart, Debussy and his predecessors saw themselves as jobbing composers. They knew they had to keep at least one ear moored in audience expectations."

But weren't audience expectations tainted by the musical establishment? Debussy (born 1862) won the Prix de Rome, but somehow Ravel (born 1875, one year after Schoenberg) was snubbed for five consecutive years.

Something terrible seems to have happened in music schools around the turn of the century. It's hard to blame Schoenberg for wanting to watch it all burn.
Socket Combats Insidious Typosquatting Supply Chain Attacks
The crosswalks near me (San Diego) both speak English and make "whimpers" and clicks. They whimper while waiting or when it's time to clear the intersection, and then rapidly and loudly click when it's time to walk. At the same time and in English, they say "wait" repeatedly until the signal changes, then "crosswalk is on across such-and-such street".
It still needs to be scaled and maintained and understood, and that is probably best done by a technical co-founder.
Ask HN: After Charles Petzold's Code and Nand2Tetris, What Next?
I'm half way through the 2nd edition of CODE book, and will then go through Nand2Tetris, since these 2 have been recommended a lot here on HN. May be its a little early to ask, but still, from learning computers (and software) more deeply, what should be the next step?

Am open to anything and everything. I want to understand computers even more better, assuming (and sincerely believing) it will make me better in my career path to be an SRE/Distributed-Systems Architect.

I'll also be reading DDIA and SICP for sure, will take me own sweet time to go through them since they actually demand time and patience. But would love to get guidance from you all here at HN.
There are companies who went big, that in hindsight should have stayed as small cash generating machines. I have a vague idea Evernote is one of those - is that right? Hindsight of course being 20/20.
> I think even Chinese companies believed that Huawei was banned and sanctioned because they did something wrong

I'd be surprised to see anyone seriously thinking that way outside of the western bubble.

I personally can't even recall what exactly they were accused of. Probably something typical along the lines of "tech theft" or clandestine? I do remember all this happening during Trump presidency, who was already attacking other Chinese companies (e.g. forcing Tik Tok to sell shares). And that there was some heavy competition for 5G stuff at the time.

My impression (and definitely not mine alone) was that it was all about clearing the market.
Seems that the Earth's shadow is 1.4 million km, and the Hill radius around 1.5 million. That ratio won't be the same for different size planets, as they scale differently with mass, but I doubt you'll get eclipses in any plausible configuration.
Code Lab – Job Queues in Postgres (Python)
You're the Q to my *!
I've introduced a number of friends to American old time music, the progenitor of bluegrass and modern country music, who have discovered that there's in fact a lot of wonderful country music.
It does target previews very explicitly, but it also has a much broader condition that I imagine is there to prevent Google and others from making previews something technically not provided by them but instead created by some payload they give the users of their website.
Another favorite bug investigation of you're into this sort of thing: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/the-discovery-of-apache-zooke...
What does "OA" stand for?
LMAO that's hilarious, thanks for sharing

> best weapon against complexity spirit demon is magic word: "no"

> "no, grug not build that feature"

> "no, grug not build that abstraction"

> "no, grug not put water on body every day or drink less black think juice you stop repeat ask now"

> note, this good engineering advice but bad career advice: "yes" is magic word for more shiney rock and put in charge of large tribe of developer
I also think this is correct. Apart from the fact that any reasonably modern cars will usually go into limp-home modes, or even stop driving, if errors are detected, I seem to remember something about an electric drive motor needing to spin backwards when driving using the combustion engine. That feels wrong as I write it, but I remember it being something fundamental to the planetary "Power Split Device".
Same but in the US (NYC) -- and I've thought a little better of them ever since!
EPP is a right-wing party. Its basically a mix of christian democrats (basically catholics), conservative (Les Republicains, amny others) and some liberals-conservatives (pro free-trade, anti union, pro-immigration if it makes labor cheaper, but also really conservative on according right to those migrants). It is also pro EU, in a weird way (Forza Italia is a member).

ALDE-PACE is basically Emmanuel Macron's party, so more socially liberal, and by that i mean he does accept that gay people do exist and can do whatever they want, if they want (the bar is low). They also are very pro-immigration in sectors that boost economies, but accept that immigrant workers can have equal rights. Extremely pro-Europe. I'd call them right-wing, but to be fair, only its leader is, most party members are pretty much center, center-right (they would be liberal-democrat in the US), and they push a lot of the legislation the greens want to pass, for multiple reasons (the green are seen as an "acceptable compromise", citing an EPP member i ate with).

I would not call the current Green left-wing either, its a torn party. I guess after the Covid and last summer, the wars and the resulting immigration, a lot of young people joined, and politically active young people are more left-wing, but the leaders are more center, center-left. But they hold major power on the left and can work with the other center party, and sometimes even the EPP. They are also on point (and have/propose good formations) with privacy and civil liberties, which might seems left-wing if you're in the US, but to me it's basically to political proposition of the old french party "les radicaux" which was so much in the center they split in two 30 years ago).
Completely agree.

From a computer science point of view: a single prompt/response cycle from a LLM is equivalent to a pure function; the answer is a function of the prompt and the model weights and is fundamentally reducible to solving a big math equation (in which each model parameter is a term.)

It seems almost self evident that "reasoning" worthy of the name would involve some sort of iterative/recursive search process, invoking the model and storing/reflecting/improving on answers methodically.

There's been a lot of movement in this direction with tree-of-thought/chain-of-thought/graph-of-thought prompting, and I would bet that if/when we get AGI, it's a result of getting the right recursive prompting pattern + retrieval patterns + ensemble models figured out, not just making ever-more-powerful transformer models (thought that would certainly play a role too.)

The LLM isn't the whole brain. Just the area responsible for language and cultural memory.
Another way of putting it -- To drive 50,000 miles, a Ford F150 or similar has to consume ~8,500 kgs of gasoline:

> 50,000 miles / 20 mpg * (3.4 kg/gal)

The Cybertruck Battery weighs ~1,400 kgs, and probably lasts at least 100K miles even with poor charging practices

So you would have to compare 1,400kgs of Lithium with at least 17,000 kgs of gasoline over the lifetime of the vehicle.

If you want to be totally fair, you could include your car's share of the weight of fuels used in the electric grid. However, even charging from a fairly dirty grid is more efficient than an ICE, so this wouldn't change things much.
I love the way you put this. It also doubles as a great explanation for why programmers shouldn't be worried that ChatGPT is going to steal their jobs: ChatGPT is good at the garble of weird text, but it's terrible at the "wrangling systemic complexity in a good, sustainable and reliable way" piece.
Ask HN: What is life like as a sales engineer?
I am in too deep with my current career path to make any drastic changes, but the role that I was always curious about was sales engineering.

For the sales engineers on HN, what is it like? Is it a lot of stress and pressure? Do you have to be “on” all the time? Is it a good long term career or do people usually move onto other roles? Is it a good opportunity to learn how to sell to people?
With current LLMs the three laws might be tough to implement in a way that can't be prompt injected around. That's why I described the extra bits as a "conscience" which could enforce the three laws. Maybe the three laws are the internal conscience's context prompt while the main LLM is more able to think anything in general and then the output is tuned down by the conscience?

Otherwise the laws will have to be implemented as weights or during training so the model explicitly knows the laws and would never even be capable of doing something against them.
> They don't address why they didn't just run Chromium. Or Firefox.

The article implies that Gusto's employees can whatever browser they want.

And, honestly, telling your employees to run a browser that only techies have heard of sounds like a really dumb idea.
>Israel is blatantly violating international laws

Bombing military targets is allowed. Hospitals, mosques, etc. lose their protected status if they are being used for military operations, which they are.
https://direct.mit.edu/jocn/article-abstract/21/7/1269/4764/...

Here's a study from 2009 showing that the problem gets solved but it takes up to 8 seconds for the person to announce that the problem is solved.

Showing that even for problem solving, there's a giant unconscious machinery that is active. Although I assume they cannot discount the effects of the conscious bits (struggle, suffering, anxiety, active as a mirror of that problem solving effort being a feedback loop to this unconscious effort).
Yes, this reminds me that I need to find a way to export my old Evernote docs so I don't lose them completely.