skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn’t deleting posts of high-profile users be easily noticed and lead to Streisand effect? The article says it didn’t manage to verify the cited claims.
Wow, that would be really interesting. Thank you for pointing out the Wikipedia article. I will definitely take a closer look at it.
Well you’re right in that I haven’t been looking for jobs recently, but I find it extremely hard to believe that large grants and salaries are no longer a thing in the software industry at large. A few friends-of-friends I know very recently got nice grants and salaries, with large Mega Corps, but that’s always where the money was?
now compare tiktoks net benefit to society with that of trains
https://www.poison.org/battery/stats

There are some number of deaths a year from this.
These things are awful from both a size-to-power and weight-to-power ratio.

In other words, any application where size or weight is an issue (nearly all consumer portable electronics such as laptops, phones, tablets, power tools, and especially cars), these won't be good enough.

The last time I heard of a radioactive battery (btw, this concept is not new), I'm pretty sure someone did the math and found that you'd need one the size of a typical car battery just to get enough wattage to power a phone. To power a car, it'd have to be the size of a semi trailer.

That said, their life is certainly huge. If size and weight isn't an issue, they can be an incredible boon, but I imagine at the scales I'm thinking of (like needing a few kilowatts to power a 5-person outpost somewhere), the cost ends up being the major factor.
Labor cost for sourcing and replacing the filters, o-rings, etc. should be factored in. And of course, sourcing the bottles from Whole Foods in comparison.

I like your evaluation here, not criticizing it. But I'm curious about adding the costs for time/material/travel to your costs.

For me, I'm not going to run a RO system because I can beat the cost against Whole Foods. I'm doing it because I believe in the RO system (even though the article casts a bit of a knock against the plastic membrane, which is unfortunate).
It sounds like any other of these diets that tell you when and how to eat but not how much. I’m pretty sure I could gain weight when doing everything you describe, if I eat really terribly during the days I eat “plenty of carbs”.

The key to CICO is that you’re actually measuring not just the calories you eat, but the weight you gain/lose, and are continually calibrating. If my diet jacks up my leptin levels such that I don’t lose weight, that will show up on the scale, and I have to adjust my calories down to compensate. With this system I am guaranteed to lose weight so long as I don’t cheat. This is trivially true: the calibration could technically push you all the way to zero calories per day (which will never happen in practice, obviously.)

Case in point, I lost 50 lbs with this approach, eating McDonald’s nearly every single day. I kept it off for roughly 8 years. (I since became a dad and have let myself go tremendously, gaining ~30lbs back, but I will cross that bridge soon.)
The MT7976C they're including is a 3x3 WiFi 6 chip, and you can buy them as a standalone module for ~ $25. I think the idea is that it's providing the access point radio.

That's the part I'd suggest swapping out every few years. That might mean people are stuck with older bluetooth or a low performance WiFi radio or whatever on the SoC, but that won't impact performance much. (In the worst case, they could just disable the SoC radios to prevent RF interference with the "real" radio.)
I think you're leaving out a bit of context there, just before that sentence it says:

> Surely culture has something to do with it. Decades of advertising have told the world that to eat meat is to be powerful and virile, an ideal of maleness in a world where men dominate. (Studies show that meat eaters tend to hold more authoritarian political viewpoints.)

and also includes a link to another article about this. [1]

Obviously we have evolved to eat meat and that's part of the reason we enjoy it, the same reason as sugar etc, but culture clearly plays some part. Different countries eat different amounts of different types of meat. America eats more beef than most, India eats almost none. Most of the world doesn't eat very much horse meat, even though there's no reason we couldn't eat more.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/aug/14/beef-american-m...
…okay well besides all that, what have the Romans done for us?
Mailing costs money, too; it's slow, and there's no proof that I've made the transfer. Plus, if that person wants to consolidate their funds, they will have to pay the crazy costs still, i.e. they will put it into their pricing model! How about comparing apples to apples?!
As a result, we’ve identified opportunities to reduce or discontinue investments in certain areas while increasing our investment and focus on content and product initiatives that deliver the most impact. As a result of these decisions, we will be eliminating several hundred roles across the Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios organization.

Sounds like such non-sensical corporate drivel.
I would say this argument is only thinking one level deep.

If you charge your EV with a coal plant, is that better or worse than a gas car? (It's better.) Are EVs actually being charged with only coal power? (No.) Do we have the technology to replace polluting power plants? (Yes.) Are renewables cheaper than fossil fuels? (Yes.) Do gas cars have the ability to get more efficient as power generation changes? (No.) Do EVs? (Yes.)

Does manufacturing overseas contribute to global warming? (Of course.) If you factor this in, how do US carbon emissions look? (They're going down, both total and per-capita.)
Aren't batteries going bad the main reason people replace devices right now? Sealed in so that it's difficult to replace them or get them replaced?

I feel like that's why we wouldn't see this. It's like a cure for a disease that people are making a ton of money treating instead of curing.
Yes, they might create more non-monetary value elsewhere, but that trades off against what non-monetary value the money they make creates now.
You truly believe that such rules are written in stone? There's always exceptions if a need arise. Budgets of whole countries can be changed mid year but salary of some employee can't? :)
Buying and holding crypto isn't that complex for tax purposes (although it could still be easier). The craziness comes in when people get into DeFi but ETFs don't let you do that anyway.
It’s about 12 weeks in Germany:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4dc8
It really depends. If the interface that you're wrapping can have a nice, abstract API (like "parse this JPEG header into a struct" or something), then the hope is that you can figure out how to express that API in safe Rust, even though underneath it might be a big pile of C. The trouble is when there is no clean API boundary that can fit within safe Rust's rules, like when the underlying C code is "object soup" where everything has pointers to everything else, and it's all up to the programmer to know when it's safe to free things. In that case trying to wrap all that in Rust either gives you unsafe code everywhere, or maybe worse, "safe" APIs that are lying to you and are actually unsound.
It's pre-2023 thinking and early-career thinking. Without job title growth, eventually everyone plateaus. There's only so much any company is willing to pay a non-manager individual contributor worker bee. Early in your career you can go from say $45K to $60K to $100K like it's nothing, but the more you job hop, it'll start looking more like $110K -> $120K -> $125K -> $128K and so on, asymptotically approaching your locale's top pay for your role.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38827801
Put them on short extension cords. What could go wrong?
I really appreciate Project Farm's reviews, and regularly watch them, but I often wish he had more of an engineering background. Some of the tests he comes up with fall in the worthless to downright misleading category. Not a lot of them, but enough that I wish there were someone more rigorous making these videos.
The Kahe (oil powered) plant at electric beach is still operational. The coal fired power plant that shut down is a little further south of there, closer to Barbers point.
You Don't Need a License to Walk
Sometimes I wonder if their mindset is, "Hey, even if only .05% engage w/ the marketing email, that's still > 0%!".

Maybe their mindset should really be, "Hey, we're annoying 99.95% of our users who did not consent to these emails, and > 50% will be turned off to our product and will associate our brand to that of a needy, attention-grabbing parasite".

If I wanted these emails, I would have opted in.

Instead, not only do they automatically opt you in, but they'll re-opt you in after you've unsubscribed. I've had it happen a year or two later; suddenly, I'm back on their spam list.

It's become so bad now that I can't even let a shopping cart sit anymore without getting a nagmail saying "HEY YOU NEED TO FINISH CHECKING OUT NOW1!!!".

That email is the reminder to empty my cart and never do business with them again.

Seriously, STFU and leave me alone. If your sales and marketing team insist on these tactics, you need to fire them and hire people who get it.
Given 1.6 sq meter 500W solar panels, that's an area of 320 square kilometers. That can be constructed at $1/w at $100 billion.

Also it's not necessary (or technically, it's actually impossible) to have 100% duly cycle laser for propulsion.

It's definitely a megaproject, but it's not a "scam"
Which is a distinction which basically doesn't matter for air purifiers like this one - it's only really relevant to stuff like whole-room positive or negative pressure systems which ensure all of the air goes through the filter. With a standalone air purifier, the main limiting factor is how quickly the room air gets exchanged through the filter. It's pretty much irrelevant whether the filter removes 99.95% of particles or merely 99.5% since that's outweighed by all the pollution in air that hasn't been through the filter at all yet. The claims about why true HEPA filters are better are nonsense.
> The most applicable scenario I can think of is someone who is very knowledgeable and has a lot of time but very little money

Yup. That was me as a high school student. Or rather, I wanted to be very knowledge, and did have a lot of time and very little money. OpenWRT was perfect to get started with tinkering with networking.
I've never worked for a VC firm and wouldn't unless I had no other options. I don't like the business model, I don't like the pressure to grow ad-infinitum, I don't like the prospect of investors who don't understand the business they are in dictating the product.

I strictly work for privately owned companies. They're not always perfect but the sensible-to-utter-nonsense ratio from leadership is FAR, FAR better.
URL changed: https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/sro/nysearca/2024/34-99306.p...
Statistics of Deadly Quarrels by Lewis Fry Richardson (1960)
That's certainly part of it. In my state ratio change by 3x from infant to 5 yet tuition only changes about 30% despite similar employee pay across ages.

It's quite consistent, and the explanation is largely regulatory and compliance overhead (especially required liability insurance).
I don't think it's even possible. The term "battery" may not be the apprpriate one to use here, it's more of a "constant electrons generator", than a battery per se. Betavoltaic batteries just keep "creating" electrons, at a constant rate, for a long time. You can't simply "create" 1000 times more electrons on a single moment and release it suddenly. These things are a lot safer than lithium ion batteries when you look it from this angle.
And the one time I actually followed my gut and got a new job, I let my boss convince me to stay on (I really loved the company) and then he sold it shortly after to some jackasses that ruined it. And then when I did leave, I left without a good plan and ended up in a family owned company whose infighting left everyone wondering if they'd have a job the next day. Pure hell.
Ok and from my anecdotal experience the opposite is true, so I guess we're at a crossroads here. Either way doesn't have bearing on how HN views crypto
Sorry to be critical/cynical, but isn't this just a resurfacing of the widely-discredited nuclear diamond battery? [1]

This looks identical. 100µW, diamond etc.

How they plan to go from 100µW to 1W is dubious at best. They'll stack 10k of these? Ok. Maybe.

Then how they go from that to powering drones? Come on. ~100W minimum for a small consumer drone with a camera. So stack 1 million?

[1] EEVBlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M5MF6KE-jY
Didn't mean it that way. These evolutionary theories are often called "just so stories" because of Kipling's book. And in my mind, if the reasoning is similar to a kid's book, that's a problem.

"The reason humans have opposable thumbs is because...we can grip tools better that way."

"The reason we have hair on our heads is...because we like to style it and attract mates."

"The reason humans have bellybuttons is...because bellybutton lint is a source of entertainment."

They are just speculations. It certainly is possible to look at the fossil record and see how traits evolved in ways that fit other patterns. But when people look at their own bodies, they are highly susceptible to circular or fantastical reasoning.
Everyone on HN knows someone's brother's nephew's wife's cousin's former roommate who makes $600K at MegaCorp FAANG but those kinds of opportunities aren't (and have never been) common. Especially now during our first tech bear market in what, 13 years?
ChatGPT is a type of intelligence just like a dog or a bird is a type of intelligence.
Other downside: way more coffee breaks and private discussions.
IVS doesn’t (or at least when I worked there, didn’t) use AWS network.

Streaming traffic goes (or went) through Twitch’s network - it’s cheaper traffic compared to CloudFront’s.
I have a (open source) side project that is a web radios player [0] and I also discover new music thanks to it.

There's a lot of great radios out there.

One feature I made for myself is to allow to save the current playing artist & song in a list to check it later (you need to create an account though).

If you like FIP you may also like Alternative Radio (French as well) [1]

[0] https://www.radio-addict.com/

[1] https://www.alternativeradio.fr/
I think it's more trustworthy that the author is honest in their intentions, not less. As they say in the repo, "It's not production ready at all".
> Jeff Bezos was always focused on keeping the “Day 1” culture at Amazon, and everyone I talk to there is clear that it’s now “Day 2”.

I left Amazon around the same time, and was saying the same thing. All of the callouts in this article hit the mark.
Humbling is an interesting way to put it haha!

I wish you luck. As nice as it is to know that there are greener pastures, the idea of interviewing amidst the great tech layoffs of today scares the shit out of me.
I replaced YNAB with TillerHQ. It dumps transactions into a Google Sheet/Excel and came with some standard templates. It's less opinionated than YNAB but way more flexibility.

E.g., I have formula-driven sheets that:

1) Aggregate taxable transactions across accounts that I can send to my CPA to prepare my quarterly tax payments

2) Aggregate account balances and period-over-period changes for my living trust that I send to my lawyer every year to include in the trust's documents

3) Flow into calculations for FiRE

4) Flow into aggregated/filtered views that I can share with specific family members, like showing what's in 529s I have for some relatives

and it's entirely in a spreadsheet in my account -- if they go out of business, all I have to replace is transactions import. The rest of the tool is forever mine.
Oh this is pretty useful! Thanks!
I agree, something about working hybrid just feels like “why are we doing this?”

It’s like an awkward inbetween

I also don’t get why companies seem unphased about paying for a giant office that is empty the majority of the week
Indeed, that mantra is a key part of Rich Dad, Poor Dad as well.
Just put a frozen brain in space and use nukes to send it there.
He had founded and then left Def Jam in the late 1980's --- he was an up-and-comer in rock in the early 1990s, but by 1993 he was already Tom Petty's go-to producer, and by the time of the Telecom Act in 1996 he had produced AC/DC, NIN, Johnny Cash, and Joan Jett. He was a monster by the time of radio consolidation, is all I'm saying. :)
Back in the day if you had a faster modem and typed faster than the other person’s modem could receive, you could kick them offline.

The more things change, the more they stay the same?
It's interesting for me to have this pointed out. I've read posts from English speakers trying to learn Japanese complain about Japanese culture being very indirect and subtle, but the same complaint can be applied to our own culture.

As a teenager, I stayed in Spain for a month living with a host couple, and I remember the wife telling me that I said "por favor" too much (like asking "could you please pass the salt?" at dinner) asked for things too much, and generally acted overly polite. For example, it's apparently more common in Spain to order food at restaurants like "Give me a coffee (please)" and not "I would like a coffee, please". All this was in Spanish; I'm just translating what we said into English.
Is Cinema Becoming Less and Less Innovative with Time?
It does include a "[Content warning: Polemic]" right up top! Also honestly it's not that spicy.

> If there was an iota of intent to have someone at Wirecutter see this, being this aggressive only serves to have them dig their heels in.

That's their problem, though!
Nice! Do you expect constant expenses for those 10 years?
I am surprised that reporting on Twitter works. I've gotten positive action on 150+ very vile posts in the past month. Not posts which go against my views, but posts which clearly violate all TOS and social mores. Call me a Karen, but I report hate speech no matter whom it is directed at. Twitter and Reddit are the only sites which take action.

You can post "Hitler was right, too bad he failed at killing all of the Jews" on Threads, Instagram and Facebook with no punishment. You can post it on Twitter, and it will stay there until somebody reports it, but then that account will be locked until they delete the content. Instagram and Threads will say "We received your report" then never give an update. Facebook will do the same, then eventually either say they reviewed the content and it did not violate community standards, or that the are too busy to review the content.
So maybe it is just overly flowery language in general? How would you like to word that?

- Tomorrow.

- I'll give examples tomorrow.

- I have good examples to give you tomorrow.

...Do you find the "extra" language is equally required in speech and text? I also wonder if there is a certain conservation of syllables across languages, maybe related to how fast our brains can process speech? And in some languages the syllables are needed for comprehension, and in other language there are "filler" words?
This is the one time they are forcing the issue when the tech isn’t even close but instead throwing 100billion to make it happen. Maybe use half that to do research for better fuel, materials, miniaturization and the other 50 to launch with higher chance of success
> The cause was easy enough to identify: Data parsed by Kuhls and her colleagues showed that drivers were speeding more, on highways and on surface streets, and plowing through intersections with an alarming frequency.

I’ve been seeing this a lot more recently. It seems like inconsideracy on the road is at a high. Could be due to lack of enforcement but just about every time I get on a highway, there’s someone speeding and swerving in and out of lanes.
Besides Last.fm, 4chan’s /mu/ board ca. 2010 was one of my go-tos to discover new music. I found many gems there that I wouldn’t have known otherwise.

Other great source of information are festival line-ups, especially if they book lesser-known bands.
I don't think many people are still calling therapists "quacks" and extreme things like that. Though I'm sure there's some Boomer men keeping that tradition alive.

Some of these issues are solved! People seek help, or are referred to help, and they get help. The article is showing in part that more people are seeking help, not that they're not getting help.

Though with minimal mental health funding, any kind of sustained help is out of reach for most people.

And speaking of men, it doesn't surprise me that the data is showing a larger increase among women. Men really seem to fetishize "handling things themself" and that kind of nonsense.
there are plenty of good tv shows but every good show there are 300 that are utterlyshit
> way more coffee breaks

That’s upside.
In following the Ukraine war, I've come to understand that in certain usage, 'thermal' always implies 'nuclear thermal', almost like a euphemism rather than a useful descriptor that includes other forms of thermal.

So I think it's a terrible term in general and it's much more useful to describe the fuel, that's all I was asking for.
My droplet is still up. It's just a VPS, but I've been paying about $5 per month for a website and a few small scale personal projects since 2016 and I've had very little issues.
I always love it with someone proclaims that my benefit / enjoyment of something is invalid because Science declared it so. This isn’t even how academics talk about things like this.
Nope; seems like the best compliment anyone has for Spotify (as a consumer rather than a SWE) is that it's "fine". It doesn't necessarily have everything, its recommendation engine is mediocre, definitely not the same value it used to be, etc., etc., "but what're you gonna do?"

I for one am happy to use Jellyfin and just stream from my NAS, but that doesn't give the serendipity that something like Rdio did.
I guess you missed this one? https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-statement-spot-bi...
But the services have to go back to a subcontracted government database to make sure that the fake identity belongs to an upstanding citizen, and that check should fail.

(Unless the KYC providers are selling snake oil, which wouldn't surprise me, but that would make it even harder to feel sorry for them.)
That so many people are so focused on things "having" to be in a constant state of exponential growth makes me feel uneasy. It's like so many people can't see the forest for the trees - we can't have infinite exponential growth forever.

Like, little software shops which take on a stable number of projects / contracts / clients a year, focused on sustainability instead of pure profit, lose and gain people at a roughly 1:1 ratio, rarely downscale or upscale offices, have a relatively flat heierarchy, everyone is compensated realistically, reasonably and equitably, and the work is done at a rate that is a nice balance between interesting/challenging whilst relaxed enough to not cause burnout, with a sensible work/life balance. That's what I look for, and they're fucking havens.

Edit: my idealistic take on "I wish I could do software like a tradesperson" has prompted so many insightful comments looking at all sides of the equation! I will clarify a bit, first paragraph I'm lamenting specifically exponential growth a la shareholder nonsense. Paragraph 2 is "I am so tired, just pay me in line with interest rates to solve funky little code puzzles enough that I can keep the comfy roof over my head and have enough free time to go on my long runs and grow my vegetables" :-)