skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's not arguing the position as correct because his dad told it to him. He's not arguing the belief at all, he's just stating it.

So no, it's not an argument from authority.
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More discussion previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38827801
Why I Quit My Dream Job at MIT
> Not that I would ever buy a BTC ETF since it precisely negates what I believe Bitcoin to be useful for, but if I had to, I'd pick the one that would convert the forked coins back to BTC immediately after the fork.

Would it actually be clear which fork is the winning one?
> If you do not get any promotion, perks or increase of benefits during that time, your not going to get any ever.

SV bubble. Getting a promotion every 2.5 years is very rare in traditional engineering companies.
I feel like most people maybe aren’t aware that this is a thing but here are hundreds of book reviews by the CIA https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/book-reviews-by-title/
So much more hassle though. Nobody's going to bother with that now - what's the point?
LLVM is now the modern version of UNCOL, it seems.
Two years six months is also a reasonable time as some companies have salary discussions only once per year.First time around, you might have only been at the company for a short time, after your first full year you might not be able to, want to go for a salary raise or you might not get it, but if you don't get it the second time, it's a sign that is hard to ignore

This is, though, with an asterisk that you made a reasonable effort to get your raise.

If you didn't, for example you had too much going on in your personal life, and therefore you couldn't put in the quality hours, it might make sense to just be happy with what they give you as in other places you might not be able to tend to your personal stuff as well as in your current company.
You could try fine-tuning a few models and selling that? Although fine-tuning doesn't cost as much money nowadays
- Investors are priority over customers

- Getting stonewalled at every opportunity to be heard

- Drastic change in ownership with nonsensical goals

- Family ran company with lots of family infighting and drama

- An office full of cokeheads

Some of my personal faves.
If it were like a Rolls Royce, the spec sheet would simply say "Performance: Adequate"
Everyone says that, but nobody actually provides a way to do it that doesn't also piss off the workers.
For sure. I suppose the unspoken step is "work out which component is the bottleneck".

If you're lucky then it's CPU bound and everything runs on the same box and you can just look in htop.
Taming the Curse of Dimensionality: Old Ideas and New Strategies (2023) [pdf]
Fees for storing and moving bitcoin are absolutely not approaching the costs for gold

Try moving $10M of gold from one end of the world to another for under $100
this is hilarious because the author antagonistically made sure to write about every detail he can remember in this cold report about the secret agency
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> Over 65 percent of students from each MIT undergraduate class—or around 800 students—enroll in my Introduction to Algorithms course every year.

Wow, this guy isn't just some professor, sounds like he's one of the most popular ones there.
Three days ago a number of accounts with massive followings were suspended from Twitter; @zei_squirrel, @AlanRMacLeod, @kenklipperstein, and @TrueAnonPod. They were later reinstated and Twitter claimed its algorithms had misidentified them as spam accounts. Strange how that so frequently happens to pro-Palestinian accounts, but never to Zionist accounts. Clearly, there are well-organized and well-funded (and possbly even state-sponsored) "flagging campaigns" working to remove as much pro-Palestinian content as possible.
Effects and filters in real estate listing photos
Only around 13 Tesla workers are actully on strike. The other 100+ are still going to work and still being paid by Tesla.
https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/gobang

It doesn't have my favorite feature from mine which is "yo lemme just quick update this one field without writing SQL" I don't think but still pretty and powerful
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Theyr rebuilding, newer, cleaner, more flexible plants as in the Chinese system the coal plants need to perform the same role as gas plants in areas with easy access to gas i.e. running intermittently at low capacity factors.
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Their competition was the old outdated business model. As easy as it was to say that streaming was the future, they still had to convince millions of people to learn about and sign up for it.
At least with stocks you actually own cash flows. Cryptos produce nothing.
I undertood probably 20% of what you wrote, but I think you have some good points on TE being more interested in the aesthetics of engineering that engineering beautiful aesthetics.
Was there something in this submission that caused it to get shadowbanned?
rountrip is closer to 85% and you have to add the power electronic, also the graph is cell cost of module/pack/gigapack and security systems...
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A promotion? Sure. But not even a modest raise in 2.5 years, that's not a good sign.
Take the project down... from Steam. After the Dolphin Emulator situation this seems like a completely expected result. The HN title should be fixed.
Won’t you end up with mostly _unsafe_ code this way?
I just have a "config-private" file that I include in my main config, but I ignore it in the dotfiles repo. Git will ignore any included file if it does not exist. That lets me customize things locally without checking work details into version control.
Definitely feeling this at another FAANG

I think there’s something about post-pandemic work in software that just isn’t working. I don’t think it’s just interest rates or a hiring downturn, nor immediate causes like founders leaving (because I see this sickness at most big tech companies these days).

Personally, I believe that hybrid work is not going well. Fully remote teams are good, fully onsite teams are good. With hybrid I feel like I never know how to contact someone and can never expect a quick reply (with remote, sure someone could go AWOL still, but there was less ambiguity on if they were just commuting or doing something in the office). I’ve had skip managers/directors who I’m almost certain are barely working and just milking out huge salaries while hiding behind their remote status. I’ve seen people join and leave teams from random offices all over the world, never onboarding fully and never truly getting it. It’s awful.

I want people to have flexibility and I think full-remote culture works just as well as fully-onsite works - everyone is in “one place” whether it’s in collaboration software or in person. But this sucks.
What papers, and were they on subjects that are widely explained already across the internet?
How is this the “world’s first micro-atomic energy battery”?

Didn’t the USA do this in 1966?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238#Nuclear_powere...
Stanford's Administrative Bloat Is Out of Control (2018)
> ... before discovering my name is actually spelled Emile on my birth certificate. I stopped even trying for Émile at that point.

Diactrics on uppercase letters weren't that common before: they were officially supposed to be there on uppercase characters but:

- old french typewriters didn't have them (they had the lowercase é, è, à etc. though)

- people using early computers had no idea how to encode them at all (but é, è, à etc. were on the keyboard) [1]

But "ATTENTION MARCHE" and "ATTENTION MARCHÉ" are two very different things. It's simply wrong to use the first one if you meant the second and vice versa.

Now I know a friend who lives in the US and who simply dropped the diacritic from its family name: so now he and his kids have a "different" family name than his family in Europe.

He found it easier that way.

[1] People using Word in the early nineties had to type 'é' and then select that character and go to a menu to transform it to uppercase, because "shift+é" would enter the digit '2'.
I'm glad somebody disagrees with me; I thought I'd written all that for nothing. I appreciate the rebuttal. I think my arguments are going to hold up, though.

One of the biggest stories in the entire overarching media industry, from talk radio to television, is the shift away from linear programming and towards on-demand. To call linear Modern Rock radio "curation" and suggest that listeners moved away from it en masse and abruptly because the curation got worse is an extraordinary claim. You would need to provide extraordinary evidence to support it. In every medium where people have the opportunity to switch from linear to on-demand, they do so.

Spotify playlists are not linear programming, obviously. Linear programming implies that the whole audience is listening to the same thing at the same time.

I'm in Chicago and grew up here (like I said in my comment, I'm actually a little obsessive about 90s Modern Rock ["Alternative"] radio programming, since it was the soundtrack to my first startup). We had by my count 1.5 AOR stations (WCKG and WLUP, depending on the year) and 2 Modern Rock stations (WKQX and WXRT). I am aware that the largest markets in the country had a small measure of competition (bear in mind that AOR and Modern Rock in the 1990s had wildly different programming and didn't compete with each other). But it was ATT vs. Comcast levels of competition.

Albini-esque is not an insult, at least not coming from me.

According to Steve Albini, nobody was making money on royalties long before radio consolidation. David Lowery, who appears to disagree with him about almost everything, agrees with him at least on that one point (his argument would be that nobody recoups on advances, but that the advance itself funded a middle class lifestyle for recording artists, so that something was indeed lost when the record industry collapsed).

You can also just look at the numbers --- even Beato's status quo ante numbers --- and see that they don't add up for a typical rock band. They had to be making their living on day jobs, touring, and merch; it could not have been the contract.

Remember that when we're talking about the health of the rock industry, we're implicitly talking about the marginal signed rock act. Think Letters to Cleo, not U2. Yes: U2 makes a crapload on royalties.
My problem with seasonal isn't the duration itself (though that's a challenge too). But if you're trying to shift seasonally you need not just storage duration but volume-duration too.

That is, let's hypothesize a house uses 24 kWh per day, roughly the magnitude in California, 365 days/year (AC in summer, heating in winter). Power is from solar and wind.

If you look at "duck curve" demand, you need a bit extra in the afternoon / early evening when there is higher A/C demand -- you can scavenge a bit more power in the morning (say 5 AM to noon) and discharge it in the afternoon (when the solar flux is high BTW), then do the same trick tomorrow. Call it 5 kWh. That's all the storage you need: a relatively small amount for a few hours.

Could you hold that 5 kWh for four months? Maybe. Maybe you need to store 7 kWh to get 5 out four months later. Only it's not just 5 kWh for four months: that's 120 days of needing your storage, to produce 600 kWh...on a battery you then don't use much until next season.

And that's just for one house. I don't see how seasonal long term storage works, except in a few weird corner cases. Maybe you store it as something else than protons, like methanol. But if you can build a better grid I suspect it's still better to export power from the Mojave to Bangor and the Mahgreb to Helsinki.

I am glad someone is thinking about this though!
Maybe I'm the old man in the room, but I worked for non-tech companies for the first twenty years of my career.

No promotions, no perks and no real change in benefits is the norm for the vast majority of American workers.

What's wrong with getting paid a reasonable amount of money for a career you enjoy and are good at?
My go-to macos app is https://selfcontrolapp.com/
I blocks websites but not apps.

If you are talking about native apps, then I am not sure. One thing I did was delete Slack app and logged in via slack-web. Then you can close the tab.
The big RSU grant is depleted and you don’t get a new one that is comparable in size. There is zero reason not to leave in this case, because you will absolutely make way more money by leaving. You can even leave and rejoin the same company to get another grant, as dumb as that is. Make sure you actually ask for a new grant before quitting, nobody is going to give you money for free. You also need to be good but that’s a given if you’ve been around for 3-4 years (however your RSU vesting works)
Anyone who has experience with ML wouldn’t be surprised by that. Oftentimes ML competitions are about combining dozens of models together to juice the extra 0.01%—something that isn’t viable in a production environment as the quote in the article confirms.

AFAIK, modern ML challenges try to combat that by moving from answer-only submissions to code submissions and putting constraints on compute.
But in sentences like: “Could you hand me that, please?” The word “please” seems redundant, “could you” already does the job of asking nicely. That is, from my perspective as someone speaking English as a second language.
> The ETF doesn’t prevent all the decentralized benefits.

OP's point wasn't about preventing decentralized benefits, I believe they were saying the ETFs don't help them in any way.
> Unless you eat the thing

Normal batteries aren't good for you if you do that, either.
I disagree in the context of error handling.

The go ecosystem frequently utilizes `go generate` to handle boilerplate code generation. That’s the exact same way `thiserror` utilizes macros to generate plain error structs. While macros can do more, in this case it’s the same.
btw, teenage engineering are also behind all the Nothing products, but they are not behind CMF (the second, cheaper brand, launched by Nothing).
Well, how about trying to move $200 in Bitcoin - it's the most expensive funds transfer. You cannot "move" $50 as it's cost-prohibitive!
This would be a great idea for an Apple Watch app.
You call it garbage content, but every other person is somehow watching them. I’m probably not their target audience, but looking at my friend circles, those shows are definitely being consumed.
> A novel scientific paper is much, much different than code.

Sure, just not in a way that matters.

Human language is a "closed, finite set" of symbols (to the same extent as code, at least), all of which are heavily explained in the training data that contains a vast number of learning materials.

Science is about the novel things; but when the things are so novel the research has to invent new words to discuss these things, those new words come with explanations of what they mean.
Dr. David Belanger (RIP) was a part of advising this team (BelKor)and knew all about this, but never ever bragged about until one day I stumbled upon it and asked him about his involvement.

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/the-netflix-p...

Also, they definitely used code from the first two competitions in the company.

"The first year of the competition, in 2006 and 2007, the technical advancements that were made by us and the other big teams I think were really significant in the field of recommender systems," says Volinsky. He thinks the idea that Netflix didn't use the results is a misconception. "We gave them our code. They definitely did implement and use those breakthroughs that we made in the first year."

For more that are interested , I can speak about it to the best of my ability. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/38180399800 ( that is some things about him) Essentially he would say that they initially shelved it over time as it was not needed, but they definitely used. Belanger tragically died November 18, 2022.
Given the structure of the thing, it seems closer to the original voltaic pile
"Large" here meaning physically large in terms of bytes, it's irrespective of the amount transferred in the tx. If you have high volume in a relatively low number of transactions and are relatively good with input/output hygiene then the actual fees paid probably won't break the bank.
If I recall correctly Sunrise got acquired by Microsoft and turned into the foundation of today's Outlook app...
This feels like a disingenuous argument. “Young to middle-aged man likes Marvel and Star Wars” is such an obvious pick that it just about invites parody. As someone with at this point zero interest in Star Wars / Marvel content I a) wouldn’t retain the information that you did and b) wouldn’t find it to be that impressive that D+ was shoving it into my face.

To not understand the usefulness of recommendation algorithms almost feels intentionally contrarian.
So many companies from the whole 2010's tech boom just produce so little actual value per user that their entire business model just collapses once raising additional capital becomes even slightly difficult. These massive services are just fundamentally broken from a business perspective and have no path to profitability regardless of how annoying and obtrusive they're willing to become.
A little secret is that the content rights holders negotiated draconian streaming contracts that are outright prohibitive to Netflix. Netflix is trying to do everything possible to hide the fact that their streaming library is small and shrinking. In the old hey-day of Netflix mail-in red envelopes with DVDs you were hard pressed to find a movie they did not have. These days your search returns mostly crap.
You have to measure the effect by summing the reach of every removed post. Removing a post from n account with ten followers is not the same as removing one from an account with ten million followers.
Neflix revenue went from 4.3b in 2013 to 31b in 2022. Astounding success by any measure. That means they are doing something right, including their talent strategy. "garbage" is subjective. Neflix employees are likely paid bonuses on views / subscriptions generated, which from their revenues looks like they know how to hit.
I didn't comprehensively investigate the issue to learn whether this reflected a more systematic change in reported types, but FWIW a code comment from some Lua bridging code:

-- 2022-12-30: On macOS 12/x86_64 methods returning BOOL return integers
-- from objc.msgsend as the type encoding uses the 'c' code for char rather
-- than 'B' for _Bool (C) or bool (C++). But on macOS 11/arm64 the type
-- encoding is 'B' and we get a boolean return type.
local function itob(v, err)
if isinteger(v) then
return v ~= 0
elseif isboolean(v) then
return v
else
return error(err or sformat("expected boolean or integer, got %s", type(v)), 3)
end
end
I've been charging off a standard 10A/240v for years and have yet to have a problem. If you plug in at dinner and leave in the morning, that's 200km range overnight added. If you don't drive 200km that day, it rolls over.
Because having the script in storage is not enough to derive the other possible representations that may be needed. partdavid's answer is correct, you may have to ask for other representations to be provided to you.

This is much like the naming scenario, where I may need both your legal name for legal reasons, which may have local restrictions on it, and I may also have a field that is basically "What do you want me to call you?" which may have arbitrary unbounded Unicode for all I care, I don't care if my system calls you the Lord and Master of Zalgo Text. But there's no programmatic way to get from the latter to the former, or indeed, even a human way.
what kind of role are you in and at what kind of company that there is so little for you to do? Do you never meet with coworkers or bosses?

I think it's awesome some people have found such a place, more power to them/you, but having so little to do is a very alien concept to me.
To be honest, I would be happy if their 20+ people UX team would create an experience where I can easily find what I was watching instead of shoving stuff down my throat that I have no interest in.

Then again, as long as people pay for that experience, it will continue to be as unbearable as it is.
Stop making up non-sense that have zero basis in reality.

The costs are fairly well captured in LCOE of these various sources of electricity. Questions like "How many year it lasts" is especially well captured.

> How many years do these batteries last.

For grid storage? Probably 1-3 decades. They'll have excellent battery management systems, chemistries that are optimized for longevity rather than energy density, they won't be fast charging/discharging, they'll probably never be discharged to 0%, mostly above 20% probably, which is also very gentle for batteries.

My EV battery is on its 8th year now with very little degradation. That's with primitive cooling (air cooling), older battery chemistry and fairly many charge/discharge cycles, including many deep discharges, since the EV battery is tiny (27kwH).

> The batteries end up in toxic waste dumps.

Completely false. Battery recycling is already happening at massive commercial scale, and reaching near 100% recycling. From consumer products like Apple iPhones to car and grid batteries. Car and grid batteries are particularly easy to recycle since you get huge bulk of identical cells.

Think about how insane it is to even consider this a disadvantage for batteries. How insanely many tonnes of coal will a coal power plant have burned in a decade? All that mining is gone forever. With battery materials mining, we'll eventually have enough materials for all the batteries we could ever need.

> All the solar panels end up in the garage.

Solar panels are a bit trickier, but that's also starting to ramp up at a commercial scale.

EU is already well ahead with regulations targeting recycling of these things. And given what's already demonstrated commercially, there's no reason to think 100% efficient recycling won't be the reality in a decade or so.

> what happens if there is ash in the air for a month and no solar can be provided?

Over a whole continent?

In France several of the supposedly reliable nuclear reactors went down at the same time a little while back. Huge amount of power went offline. They got by just fine with the help of their UK and German neighbors.
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Russian propaganda such as what? Do you have any specific examples?
If levels.fyi is to be trusted, it like one L7's total compensation: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/netflix/salaries
I wouldn't use the word just.

Instead think of social contagion as an additive/multiplicative factor that we don't know the value of.

So imagine a world where we're not allowed to talk about or problems. In that world you'll have your base measured rate X. Then you add a new stressor and get your increase over X.

In a model with social contagion you still have X, you still have your increase in your stressors, then you have the confounding factor of the social contagion.
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For my own education, may I ask why?
I suspect that we're closer to 1,000 per second.