skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Try and get a job at somewhere growing rapidly"

Personally I try and get a job at a company whose mission and ethics I believe in so I don't feel like a hapless techno-weenie cog in some generic startup wheel whose driving purpose is to give the founders a nice exit.

Sadly for my skillset, the people hiring are generally evil or their net effect on the world is negative. Looking into goat farming.
GPT that makes it easy to delete your personal data from the internet
Which is odd given their app is highly trivial.
Launching from altitude gives you very little, so does spinlaunching.

It is because it’s about speed, not altitude. Witch Spinlaunch, they plan to laumch around 5000kmph, and you need a speed of around 25000kmph to reach orbit.

In other words, they would need to use their setup to launch a rocket of a size of 1/2-3/4 of size of a falcon1 to get into orbit, and even then, unless they land the second stage, they will come out far more expensive than what SpaceX is doing.

The tech may work on moon, but even on Moon a different solution - similar to maglev - may be better, bacause there would be no issues with crazy centrifugal forces.

Anything launching from earth will require some sort of a rocket fuel (or some new laws of physics), because even if you managed to launch at the speed of 25000km/h from the ground, the payload would slow down before it left the atmosphere.
Irony/sarcasm aside, people buying crypto ETFs from their existing brokerage and retirement accounts would push the price up and in turn make the decentralized network more secure.
Many of the largest software projects in history have been implemented by remote workers. Like the Linux kernel.

But if you require to read people's reactions and body language and try to figure out if they are telling the truth, or brag about your socioeconomic status or appearance, or if you need to assert dominance over others, or do social engineering like mirroring other's movements, then face to face is perhaps useful.

To me, when someone says "there is no replacement for face to face communication", what that usually means is "we distrust people here".

I dislike offices, they are cesspools of misery, dominance and fake smiles. Long live remote work.
> the product teams that are left after pruning should try to keep the most experienced employees, lay off the junior ones, and [...]. Experienced employees have been through this before, make better judgement calls under stress, and communicate better.

I think that's probably true, if you are a company of people who are good at what they do, and if what they do is what is now needed.

But most tech companies seem to be either bad at what they do, or only good at things that are no longer the needed operating mode (e.g., the very common mode of Potemkin Village startup appearance of "growth", in what's essentially an investment scam).

In those situations, it might make sense to wring remaining value of the company, while cutting the highest salaries. If all you need is warm bodies, such as for appearances/obligations, or because you're going to do bad work in any case, then juniors tend cost less.
Official SEC Statement : https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-statement-spot-bi...

And just yesterday the naysayers were saying this was never going to happen.
Are smartphones bad for us? Five world experts answer
Their 2015 paper on how they were doing recommenders also mentions that they used bits and pieces of the prize work: https://gwern.net/doc/reinforcement-learning/exploration/201...
Monetary inflation (i.e. in it's purest form increasing the monetary base by "printing" more) is not necessarily the same as what you probably mean by 'inflation rate'. You're probably talking about price inflation, using CPI. Those are linked but not the same.

Bitcoin "prints" around 1.74% currently and it's going to drop below 1% in April. The USD, although one of the more stable fiat currencies, is worlds apart from that. Looking at official Fed data you can see the base has been inflated by massive amounts just in the past 3 years alone! An increase of way over 60%!

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE
> I've never worked for a VC firm

I don't think it actually matters (?) All practitioners, in VC funded company or not, benefit from frothy demand for programmers, even if a lot of that demand is driven by "dumb" money. I mean, compare to the years after .com crash, or the current lean years. I don't know, I think we should prefer the fat years?
I am using half a dozen Mikrotik hAP AC flushed with OpenWRT.

Best of both worlds.
Thanks.

I will stay with the Halo then.
That’s not a downside. That’s part of building and being a team. We’re human, not machines. If you hire the right people, they’ll know when to have a laugh and when to work their ass off.
You try propranolol yet? Worked like a slow miracle for me. It completely neutered the negative physical symptoms after some time using it combined with carefully controlled exposure to triggers.
With a pre-pass on the bytecode (e.g. during verification), one can compute a side data-structure that makes it possible to interpret Wasm without tracking the control stack dynamically. It works surprisingly well.
Always Be Leaving.
Pg_gather: A SQL-only script to scan PostgreSQL for potential problems
What are some typical examples of operational/logistics issues that less than great management might otherwise ignore?
This is the shit company that bought vBulletin and ran it into the ground.
I slack myself .. for exactly that reason.
while I don't think these are going to work unless they can get a 5 watt battery the same size as a phone battery, if they actually have a 50 year lifespan like the company claims that would be WAY more than the lifespan of the device. If it actually existed you'd actually have the opposite problem. "My battery is fine but this device just isn't keeping up, can I transfer my battery to my new device?"
Yeah good point, and 13 years is more or less the length of my career so it’s all I’ve known (feel like I will regret saying that I haven’t been programming for 192 years on HN but oh well)

At the same time, it’s 13 years of data backing up the claim, though they probably said the same thing before the dotcom bubble exploded, didn’t they, weee
"The Labour Files" is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiODoWurA64
The full quote:

"... the product teams that are left after pruning should try to keep the most experienced employees, lay off the junior ones, and return managers to individual contributor positions where possible. Experienced employees have been through this before, make better judgement calls under stress, and communicate better."

So writes the experienced employee. Adding to the parent comment, experienced employees also may have vested interests and cognitive inertia based on the current situation, the way things have been done until now. If you want new growth, new perspective, new ideas, new energy, new blood can help. They don't know that 'back when Eddie was here, we did it this way ...' and they don't care.

The OP also writes,

managers start to hoard ... and play politics to preserve their products.

That applies to the experienced employees too.
From the announcement:

> It’s been two months since we announced GPTs, and users have already created over 3 million custom versions of ChatGPT.

That's a really low barrier, especially considering that only paying subscribers have had access
Maybe they're afraid to be honest about which they prefer?
In your mind, someone makes a battery that works, then sells it, then what happens?
The soda is a classic: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
Free wifi of all things is probably on the lower end of my list when it comes to helping people.
Your glib, sarcastic, bombastic, inappropriate remark aside, the point is that NOBODY is being censored. Claims of censorship are an age old tactic by groups of all sides to get attention.
i've been a remote employee for about 10 years now with a variety of companies. at my current employer, i was hired as a remote employee in the post-COVID, pre-RTO limbo time.

from what i understand, pre-COVID this company had a robust corporate culture, even at their satellite offices, and they mentioned i could participate in that, if i chose to do so (i live within 50km of a satellite office). unfortunately, the financial winds also shifted during this limbo time and the company cut a lot of what they did to develop this corporate cultureto accommodate the generous remote/WFH stipends that they gave to their employees as they transitioned from traditional employment arrangements.

however, the (former) CEO of my company mandated RTO two days per week. all remote employees were re-categorized as traditional if they lived within 50km of an office, regardless of employment agreements. hr did a great job sorting through this mess and remote-hire employees were re-re-categorized so there was no mandate.

unfortunately, there's been no re-investment in the corporate culture-building in the satellite offices (hq has gotten quite a few benefits for RTO restored), so those employees are left with no stipend, and no "corporate culture" incentivisation which was a hallmark by which many of them were hired. attrition has skyrocketed and now it's a bigger problem for the company to manage: employee shortages, physical plant underuse, and general mistrust in leadership.

ultimately this all feels like the post-911 airline industry. they instituted baggage fees to compensate for all of their lost revenue and once air travel began booming again, they kept the fees.

as i talk with other people (colloquialism, i know) i dont sense that everyone thinks that RTO is bad, per se, but it seems like many companies are looking to mandate an RTO without investing in restoring the previous environmental and cultural agreements that employees came to understand as a "fringe benefit" within their employment agreement.
Finally a component library with trees and resizable panes!
in my experience from the outside it's difficult to separate their rec algorithm quality vs. the quality of their inventory. you're making the assumption they have a ton of great stuff that they're just not showing you, but they may not.
> Apparently there is an internal-only form for Meta employees to speed up the process for friends/family

You can also sleep with those employees to speed it up [1].

[1]: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/kittylixo-onlyfans-instagram-em...
Database credentials in the dashboard..? How?
Maybe--I of course don't have their numbers--but remember that Netflix kept offering discs up until last year, just under a separate subscription. So they were still investing some money.

I think Netflix got cocky. When Netflix separated the plans, streaming rights were cheap and Netflix's streaming catalog was growing quickly. They didn't foresee the market becoming so competitive.

Continuing to offer discs would have allowed Netflix to hedge their bets and avoid relying on rights-holders. The original content push did that too, but at a much higher cost. If keeping DVDs meant Netflix could produce a few less original shows per year, that seems worth the trade.
Housing for Ukrainians? Are these people serious? They think this is a good thing to brag about right now? With all the homelessness and housing troubles in the United States we’re building housing to give it to people who don’t even live here? How is that going to help housing? It’s a net 0
I will own up to trolling slightly to draw attention to the fact that exhanging bitcoin as a digital currency is not something which would occur to most people who own it. The only thing most people will do with their bitcoin is exchange it for fiat.
Call me cynical, but I think every state should keep at least 1 coal power plant running forever to maintain skills and supplies. Coal is one of the most abundant natural resources in the USA. In national emergencies we can fall back on it, but not if we paint ourselves into a corner.
Stuff like this is going to be wild when digital transaction fees for tiny amounts are basically free and transactions can be truly anonymous.
Well, the game was available for free, but yes the "payment cycle" is referring to his Patreon which was created in November primarily to finance work on the N64 Portal port.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JamesLambert

Former home of source code: https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64
For comparison 320km2 is about 2.5 San Franciscos
> Rings of Power, Wheel of Time, Reacher - it doesn't help they are all mediocre

Mediocre is a huge compliment for those shows though. Especially for the Rings of Power...
The 1,000th F-35 Has Been Built
The cheap IKEA air purifier has another huge benefit: you can control it with a smart socket. So hook it up to a tasmota smart plug and you will have a smart purifier.
There's nothing wrong with occasionally pulling in engineers to help salespeople with writing proposals or participating in sales calls. Smaller companies can't afford to have sales engineers as dedicated specialist positions.
Right? I have a half-dozen old devices around my house that could play a DVD, but I've never owned anything that can play bluRay, much less 4K disks (I've never even seen one of those IRL). And DVDs are no longer worth bothering with mostly because of the aspect ratio hassle if nothing else.
> The feature started Booming

What is “Booming”? Is the capitalisation intended?
The only reason we have 10,000 UI libraries in the last 20 years is because we decided to keep default browser UI ugly and bare-bones for some reason.
Hybrid doesn't make sense. It's just "working in an office with some days at home" which was something I remember doing in the mid 1990s. Basically as soon as the Internet and laptops existed, it was done.

It seems more like a frog boiling exercise on the way to full in-office (which imho will never return).
Private discussions happen way more often remote in my experience
I remember meeting someone at a networking event who believed they could win the competition and get > 90% accuracy.

I tried to explain that you can't read minds; you can't account for the fact that I'm going to watch a movie that I saw in a random internet post that I didn't know that I liked...

Which was my real beef with the contest: Computers can't read minds. They can't analyze the content of the movie and have the emotional experience that a person can.
great and cheap product, I remember using this when I realized I was paying so much for H&R. I don't remember the exact amount but I remember being shocked at seeing how cheap it was (low 2 digits if I recall). pretty easy to use as well. highly recommend for anyone who has just a couple of w2s and maybe a trading account or two.
> For example, what on earth are the minute/second subdivisions on most of them?

The "watchy" faces are minutes/seconds and divisions thereof. For example, by default, "Chronograph" is seconds and ¼ seconds, and "Chronograph Pro" is seconds and ½ seconds.

On the GMT face, you can assign UTC to one of the dials, or get a UTC widget that works with any face that supports widgets.
This makes so much computing sense.
Logical fallacies apply to structured, proof-like logical arguments. Many can still be useful heuristics.
Paper money and gold through the hawala networks.
Both have ETFs.
Ahh.. and there I was, refreshing press releases, and url-hacking to get the latest (2024-4 and then 2024-5) haha
I agree, but largely because Netflix stopped renting them.
This is such a particularly poorly informed statement that it makes me think it was intentional FUD
>Like, little software shops

I tried those and TBH they never worked for me. Small shops in my experience have not very good processes, rush to gain new projects and customers at all cost by sales/management always overpromising and burning out engineers in the process who strugle with the unrealistic deadlines, promotions are gained trough favoritism since there's no fixed clear and well documented promotion/career path but you're at the mercy of how your bnoss and his boss/CEO feel about you each day.

So no thanks from me, I'm going back to big old crusty established comapanies with established products and customers, established processes. YMMV of course, there' no one sized fits all for everyone and big companies have their own issues but I feel I can more easily manage and deal with those. Pick your poison.
Eh, I don't get this constant growth mentality that pervades tech companies. It seems more related to investors wanting to see an ever growing return on their investments than it being healthy for the company and its products.

Can't a company reach an equilibrium where the right people are doing the right things, and everyone is happy with their role and compensation? Sure, people may leave and be replaced, and even a moderate amount of growth could be healthy, but why focus so much on constantly expanding teams, more products, more revenue, more, more, more...? It seems to boil down to basic human greed, at the end of the day.

I much prefer working for companies that don't have this growth obsession. IME they place more value and care into their product and customers, rather than chasing the next big thing, which often ruins the good thing they had.

So hyper growth is actually a signal for me to leave, not stay. With all these layoffs going on, how can we say that the growth/layoff cycle is a sign of a healthy company? It might not hurt their bottom line, but I sure wouldn't want to work in an environment where I'm worried I might be laid off at any moment.
> lay yourself off

"Straight shooter with upper management written all over him."
But it's actually happening.
I tried a couple of them but they are not great. For example, I tried the AllTrails GPT and asked it to suggest a 5km walk near my suburb. This should have been an easy answer since there is a nice 5km that I can find on the AllTrails map which is right next to my suburb. But it suggested a walk that would take me 45 minutes to drive to.

Interestingly, I asked the exact same question to the regular ChatGPT and it correctly recommended the nearby walk.
for years I was faced with a similar problem, but my constraits were different so I was able to definitively solve it a different way.

Sony made a bedside alarm clock-radio back in the 80's—actually two models, a mono- and a stereophonic—that had a rare feature that I loved: you set the alarm with two dedicated and detented knobs, one to set the hour, and one to set the 5-minute mark for the alarm, and the alarm could be the radio. I would have the alarm go off every morning to either a classical or npr (back when it was listenable :) station. I loved that I could set the alarm just by reaching out in the dark and turning the knobs, as I could tell by feel what they were set to. I felt sure this idea was going to take over alarm clocks worldwide! Instead, even Sony dropped it a couple years later.

for at least 15 years I kept this alarm clock with me as I moved cities a couple times. Unfortunately, the nixie tubes for the time display went bad so it became hard then impossible to read the numbers. I struggled with that for awhile, then I realized, I didn't care to read what time it displayed, I just needed the alarm to work. So, I would unplug it (and the 9V battery backup) and plug it all back in at midnight; A broken clock being right twice a day, that's the time it would assume. Got to use my favorite stereo radio for a number of additional years. It even lasted into my subsequent and on-going "I will never buy anything from Sony, ever again" boycott :)

edit: found a picture of it https://images.bonanzastatic.com/afu/images/8ddb/9523/9356_8...

guess it wasn't nixie, some type of gas flourescent though. also, 24 hr clock so I guess it was right once a day.
Professor Forcing
For home use it should work fine, after all it's functionally basically what most of the systems, especially the cheaper ones, are. Especially if you add a pre-filter of some sort.

The main downsides are comparatively ugly and noisy.
Good, I'm not the only one reading those comments and thinking, "oh, you sweet summer children who didn't graduate into the Dotcom Bust or Great Recession..."
From experience, without company or team growth there is very little scope for you to grow in your career: everyone keep their jobs at best and someone has to leave for another employee to be promoted.

If you're OK with that, sure. But if you're aiming for promotions and personal growth, move.
This provides exactly the same service as every $150+ overpriced tax filing product you've ever paid (ie been scammed) for. Highly recommend. Hopefully the new IRS software will make even this obsolete.
What you are saying here is speculation. Most router's shortcoming is software. I've used cheap netgear routers with openwrt and they work incredibly well.
It was a mixed bag. Interest rates were higher, but I also had a lot more negotiating leverage than I normally would have had. The house I bought had been sitting for a few monthd, which allowed me to get it for what I found to be a fair price.

And interest rate wise, I figure I plan to pay it off early, so I'm less concerned a out the rate.
So privately held companies? """Shareholders"""" are the worst...
As an anecdote, my neighbor is a crazy asshole who started blasting music and having parties at random hours; it can be problematic for sleep and productivity. Police in California are inept at stopping this. Will the company pay to send lawyers or do I have to waste my own time and money to pick up and move my whole life for something worse to be waiting at the next rental?
It happens at lower levels too, when the company is too broke to give bonuses
Irony of the millenium! Wasn't Bitcoin supposed to "free" us from the banks, "speculative" finanacial institutions and centralised control? Guess human greed trumps everything!
I started reading that book this month, and I too want to write a database.

Did you finish the entire book then write it, or did you do it chapter by chapter?
Right now the air quality sensor is in the basement, and the purifiers I'm comparing it to are upstairs. It's not a fair comparison, it just "seems" to be reporting using a different scale.

My plan is to put the sensor near one of my STARKVINDs and see how the numbers compare. This will tell me if they're measuring the same thing and reporting it at the same scale. Once I understand what the sensor is telling me a bit better, I'll put it in a more useful place. Your suggestion of putting it closer to where you sit is a very good one.
Using a unique block construction system that 99% of builders have never used is not really in the spirit of standardization.

As for materials, for a theoretical 2 story 20Wx50Lx20H home (2000 ft^2), you have 1,000 ft^2 of roof (assuming flat) and floor, as well as 20,000 ft^2 of wall.

Cheap fiberglass insulation is $1.32 per ft^2 10 in thick (1/10/24)
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Owens-Corning-R-30-Faced-Fibergl...

Assuming we use this for everything that is $29K

I'm going to pull some ratios roughly out of this article.

https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/how-much-insula...

This is in the high energy efficiency area of construction but I'm using this to illustrate the inefficiency of a standard floor/wall/roof thickness, take it with these caveats.

So if you were building to this insulation cost would be:

1,0001.32 + 20,0001.32(2/3) + 1,0001.32*(1/6) = $19K

You could view that as $10K of wasted material or, if you chose not to fill the blocks with full thickness material, calculate how much of their volume is being wasted to achieve a standardized thickness. Lots of ways to look at it but, to put it simply, I think however you look at it, it's not optimal to be unable to adjust your floor/wall/roof thickness.
> But it's actually happening.

The only censorship I am seeing anywhere is when somebody challenges the notion that censorship is happening, because that challenges the wound-seeking nature of the post.
I don't collaborate better in person.