skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, the best talent has the privilege to pick jobs based on what they really want - because they have the most options.

If they didn't want to be at Pixar, they'd already be gone.

If they like it there, they aren't too worried about getting fired, because they know it won't be hard to find a different (probably better) job.
Looks like decent specs for a homelab (although not for "creators" :-P)

SoC – MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) dual-core Cortex-A53 processor @ 1.3 GHz

*Networking*

- 2.5GbE RJ45 port

- Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port

- Dual-band WiFI 6 via MediaTek MT7976C (2×2 2.4 GHz + 3×3/2×2 + zero-wait DFS 5Ghz)

- 3x MMCX antenna connectors

From TFA

"The router’s specifications have been selected with the goal of keeping the price under $100, and that’s why we have interfaces such as USB 2.0 instead of USB 3.0 since there aren’t any spare ones in the Filogic 820 SoC"
My god, that fits right in. Yes. Would love to find more pointers towards similar music. I didn't know this song (albeit sounds vaguely familiar), and it's instantly going on the playlist.

Edit: Half that album is going on the playlist. I definitely remember hearing erase/rewind, but never knew where it was from.

To reciprocate, here's little known, imo one of the most underrated records by KT Tunstall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWKj96zhCpw — the more you listen and hear detail, the more it grows on you.

Here's a little known Sting record of a famous song, that's my favorite rendition of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqG7b5yNbGk

Both of these are on a softer side, but I like heavier-sounding stuff in the same vibe too. (Like Paranoid by Garbage) Most of those tracks in my library are Russian however. :(
Not sure who I am either, but in no way did I say "this is ok".

I'm saying there's nothing to be gained to prolonging the talk with two drones from HR. Maybe I'm missing something. What's your best case scenario for how the call goes? What is the biggest potential upside?
Are they wrong :) ?
Much of engineering is "bean counting" but not beans. I think that engineers will do some CYA around safety, but they also appreciate the money arguments because they are inherently numeric in their evaluations.
I was honestly expecting Wolfram himself to have claimed the invention of LLMs or transformers, probably by saying it’s really a scaled up implementation of some other function in Mathematica.
Why do you say there is a lack of moderation? https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/maintaini...
This is a good thing to have, but Brittany seems to be Atlanta-based - or at least used to be in 2020. Cloudflare does have an ATL-based sales opening right now: https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/jobs/4094720?gh_jid=...
Because it's online and the entire call can be recorded?
Ah, I see. I’m wondering why they mentioned Alaska Airlines when it’s more a Boeing 767 Max issue, hence my confusion.
> It doesn't have to be painful!

Agreed; but it is work. And for a great many people, that is an issue.
Sin, eck, dock, ee. There is also a 'c' between the first e and the d.
And what she's did is establish that they have nothing of worth to say and make them as uncomfortable as possible throughout the whole thing.

Those both seem very worthwhile.
> Not being able to say goodbye to my coworkers I had known for years was emotionally traumatic.

Since something similar happened to me (decades ago), I basically don’t socialize with coworkers anymore, i.e. there is no emotional investment.
Meh, in my view, this is sort of a "two wrongs don't make a right" situation. I don't want to leave without notice. Not for the company, but for me. Those final weeks are nice, useful. I can tie up some loose ends that have been bugging me, say goodbye to people, all that good stuff. And I keep getting paid during that time, for honestly very easy (low stakes and low stress) work. It's win win for me.

Of course I know the company might escort me out when I give notice instead of letting me serve out the time, and of course that would hurt my feelings, but when I regained my composure I would see that it reflects poorly on them, not on me, if they do that lame nonsense.

So I think it's really sad for companies (and also employees) that for whatever reasons they don't feel they can give notice in this same way.

But I certainly don't want to give up something that I value for myself, out of spite. That makes no sense to me.
Have you considered bifacial panels to get sunlight reflecting off the pavement? Depending on albedo it's perhaps (up to) 20% more power, but the panels weigh the same.

For direct DC-DC charging you'll need to convince the car that it's connected to a Supercharger (or CCS1 via the adapter), causing the vehicle to throw the internal switch and directly connect the charge port to the battery. This is followed by continuous communication so the car won't throw a fault and disconnect.

https://github.com/uhi22/pyPLC

https://www.heliox-energy.com/blog/dc-charging-a-complete-gu...

https://openecu.com/case_study/interface-evse-with-combined-...
Where’s the strict liability and three strikes for judges? The mens rea is plain: the judge at best negligently approved the warrant without verifying the details, at worst he corruptly approved it without regard for the gross area covered. Either way is patently unacceptable behavior from a judge that betrays a deep character flaw for which the judge should face life behind bars where they can serve their fellow prisoners with their legal knowledge. Any less is a gross miscarriage of justice and a disservice to the innumerable other non violent offenders who were imprisoned for less severe harm to society.
Florida, where I'm based, is also a two party consent state.

The specifics of case law get quite thorny. Sometimes, consent is implied. Other times, a simple and vague message like, "for quality assurance, this call may be monitored" is enough. If you live in a two party consent state and hear that message, this is why. Consider yourself informed, and know that everything you say is being recorded for future playback.
Is corruption actually worse in the US than in countries with single-payer? I doubt it. Let's stop making excuses for ourselves and get it done.

Maggie Thatcher, who I don't pretend to love, once said (IIRC what I read, paraphrasing), 'Ask military leaders if something can be done, and they'll give you a hundred reasons that it can't. Tell them it will be done and ask how, and you'll get a hundred solutions.'

Adjourn the 'can-we-will-we-it's-so-hard' meeting, and convene the 'how' meeting.
> Since Obama became president, all legislation basically needs 2/3rds of the senate to pass if it's remotely controversial and every tax change is controversial.

This is an odd way to mention (abuse of) the filibuster
The Wolfram Prompt Repository (2023)
Thanks for the info, I honestly didn't know and didn't have time to search today.
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PE firms are using non traditional collateral for getting financing for their acquisitions, since on hand cash is at its lowest in many years.

Traditionally, PE firms would obtain cheap financing from a bank or another finance provider to carry out a leveraged buyout - the PE firm pays a small percent of the acquisition cost using cash, the banks cover the rest, while interest payments to the bank are covered by cash flows of the acquisition target.

But with the higher cost of financing that is available for traditional collateral like the acquisition firm, the PE firms have had to resort to providing collateral using other sources, such as the cash flows of the PE management company itself, or the equity returns of the acquisition target. This could be the fees that are paid to the PE firms themselves to manage the money - it would have been very taboo to expose the management company to risk like that, but now PE firms don't care. Interest rates are skyhigh, around 20%, which is actually high for corporate, and usually the rate for consumer loans.

So yeah, PE is changing quite significantly, and the old model of doing business won't work.
I don't understand. Since the entire universe might be huge compared to the observable universe, is this structure really that unlikely?
Yeah, I found the whole thing a rambling mess. Article was filled with try hard quotes about war and nothing of substance. Why are infosec people so cringe?
Industrial espionage does not necessarily improves engineering culture.

When I visited NITsEVT, a big-big-big organization dedicated to adapting of the stolen IBM 360/370 software to Russian language and Russian computer variants - I was amazed at how low the software culture was there. It looked like the only way to implement something was to look at how some American (but not necessarily bright) person has implemented some similar thing.

The whole “adaptation” project led to overall degradation of software culture as compared to 60s, when a lot of Russian system software was an original one. Or so a lot of people were saying.
BBEdit is a phenomenal editor, and when I'm not using Vim, I'm using BBEdit. BBEdit has everything VSCode has, plus the benefit of supporting a small company that doesn't spy on you or want to own the developer experience. They just make an amazing native editor that's blazing fast at all times.

If you can afford it, buy a copy. BBedit is not just a great tool, it's a piece of history. It's like buying a classic car that's continued to be updated with all the modern niceties to make it both fun to drive and frustration free. I really can't recommend it enough.
today, i consider email to be a failure, Imagine saying that in 1995. I rarely get them or have a need to send them which amplifies the spam ratio.

It annoys me to get and send pdfs in text messages, but that seems to be how the world works now.
Ask HN: I've never met someone who uses Mathematica, I imagine its users are even rarer outside the academic circles. I've met many who use Matlab, R, Python, Excel, etc.

If you're using it, what are you using it for exactly? In what way is it irreplaceable by other tools out there, if at all?
Word to the wise: you have to have a HomePod or Apple TV to do anything other than control devices when you are home, with no automations. I couldn't even install smart light bulbs without a hub. Also, you can't share with your spouse/family (so they can control lights) without a hub.
I'm mostly joking, but the ideal system is probably having a set of (somewhat?) conflicting metrics and picking one at random on a regular basis as the most significant measure for an organization. You can't stop people from trying to win the game, that's human nature; instead, just keep changing up the rules.
Even stranger: Prince was a devout Jehovah's Witness who regularly attended his local Kingdom Hall meetings, where he was known simply as "Brother Nelson".

I had been a fan since "1999" came out and I was surprised to learn this factoid upon his death. But it explains quite a lot about his career, not least the preacherman intro to "Let's Go Crazy".
> In my books she did well,

You don't have the details and she had 0 sales.

You're basing yourself on a TikTok video, with someone who knew it was being recorded and acted accordingly.

Eg. Cloudflare 's products are very technical and perhaps she has too little general IT knowledge to be able to close a deal ( she mentioned to have 3 chances and closed 0 )
> We spent a lot of time writing those notes, so it would be great for someone to read them. Be that someone.

OK, I'll :)
Well, a layoff has a different impact than being fired.

They talk about the performance of her and her peers.

In any case, it’s not even a conversation. It’s a notice
Dingbat? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbats_(board_game)
So make cost optimization cool. I always enjoyed getting rid of production hardware and running as lean as possible within operational constraints. Incentivize cost reduction with benefits proportional to the savings.

You know what’s cooler than an expensive thing? A high quality thing with higher margins. A very well known and highly profitable company has taken that model pretty far (like trillions in valuation far).
Why not? It is precisely what these HR people are doing to every person they call.
https://archive.is/u3s7b
https://archive.md/SrYNM
It's really good that some are ready to do what is right instead of just bending over.
> ... trying to find chargers with the right plug, ones that aren't broken, ones that were available, downloading various apps, etc. Then when I did find a charger I sat in the parking lot waiting for it to juice up.

These considerations are why I think we'll eventually move to battery swapping, when the market is mature enough to have standards for batteries. When there are as many battery swapping stations as there are gas stations now, the problem will be greatly diminished.
I'm not sure that California's law applies as this does not appear to be a recording of a telephone call. It seems to be a recording of some sort of Team's type meeting, which I am unsure the law applies to.

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-632-7/
infosec person here (vendor, so sort of), it's pretty obvious the article is written by someone who doesn't understand the subject they're trying to pitch a solution for
Yes it was an extremely lazy post so apologies on my part, but I'm a little lost for words when I see comments like the parent one.
Both other animals and native tribes today spend significant amounts of their day doing nothing. Therefore it’s only logical this is the normal mode of operation of the human brain, with the opposite situation being unhealthy.
High repair costs? I didn't think that there was much to go wrong on an EV.
I prefer giving a notice but then doing absolutely no work besides chitchatting with the people I liked and planning my goodbye party, while still collecting a paycheck.
Kind of? "C2C payment apps" on DuckDuckGo gets me [1], which lists eBay, Etsy, Craigslist, and Amazon. It mentions Paypal, Venmo, etc., but only in passing. Then [2] does call them out in a more direct way- it mentions C2C payments and Venmo in the same sentence, but then calls them peer-to-peer by the next paragraph. And the first result of a google search [3] is an unrelated app. And finally [4] does use C2C to describe Venmo, though it calls Apple Pay and Paypal C2B.

Overall, I do think peer-to-peer is the vastly more common phrase for this, and these articles seemed much less directed at a layperson. But who's right? It's a language thing, so the answer I think is usually 'everybody!'. I'm just weirded out and getting overinvested.

[1] https://www.clarity-ventures.com/ecommerce/what-is-consumer-...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/real-time-payments-help-b2b-...

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.edvin.ukujy...

[4] https://theconversation.com/c2c-the-next-frontier-in-mobile-...
If you don't know that millions of people spending money can't be fools, you're probably one of them

And frankly given the monopolistic nature of the business, there are a lot of enterprises that pay for microsoft's services because they don't have the power to make the decision not to
I'd say the whole market gives a premium to companies with R&D spend, that's part of the reason why they have higher valuation metrics (alongside growth, margins and other quant factors). That is, when they are not stupidly burning it or giving it away as stock compensation.
I have to wonder why CF bothered to say it was performance related in the first place, even if it was. The decision to let her go was made long before that call, and no explanation is going to make it go any smoother. All they needed to say was that they were parting ways, get her email address, and offer the hollow sentiments standard for being the messenger of bad news.

It is always good to understand why you’re being let go, and humane companies will sometimes allow managers to communicate certain details so as to help but not get sued. These were not those people and you could tell by the corporate buzzspeak alone.

Thinking about this from the employer side, they set themselves up for an adversarial conversation that had no possible means of redemption.

I hope she finds work soon. While I don’t think posting a clandestinely recorded video to social media is the best idea, I now think more highly of her than I do of her former employer.
re: vim I sometimes accidentally press q and see “recording @a” in the corner, which means I need to press q again to stop recording whatever garbled nonsense series of commands just got recorded. I think that would be called a macro but I could be mistaken.
This is the Edge TPU, which is completely different from their datacenter TPUs, despite the similar name (branding).
in general they can balloon the r&d and can have a huge tax write off !!
Even aside from the shadiness of it, it's just becoming a progressively terrible predatory user experience that's crippled for non-account holders, like Instagram.
> legally they can't give them any more specifics

Either a misconception or just misspeaking, but legally they can tell the employee everything. The employer doesn't want to tell the employee, simply to CYA.
Pretty sure I spend more time fucking with my smart home setup than me or anyone in my family will "save". It's a gimmick at best.
A charged experience so to speak
Japan says earthquake shook nuclear plant past safety limits
From wikipedia [0]

"John Lorimer Campbell is an English YouTuber and retired nurse educator known for his videos about the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, the videos received praise, but they later veered into misinformation.[2] He has been criticised for suggesting COVID-19 deaths have been over-counted, repeating false claims about the use of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, and providing misleading commentary about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines (emphasis mine).
As of June 2023, his YouTube channel had 2.8 million subscribers and over 653 million views"

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber)
I love Emacs and its macros. I’m also a big fan of multi-cursor editors. BBEdit instead has amazing grep-style find and replace. It’s different from the others, in a way I found I really like.

Also, instead of extending it with elisp or maybe JavaScript, I add stuff to BBEdit with shell scripts or other CLI commands that read stdin and write to stdout. If you’re used to composing pipelines in a shell, BBEdit’s text filters and the like feel like second nature.

I’m a recent convert. When version 14 came out with LSP support, it became viable to me. It feels every bit as good at handling Python, Rust, and TypeScript (the 3 languages I’ve written most recently) as Emacs, which is high praise from me.
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That page shows absolute, not relative numbers. I.e., it doesn't reveal how much lower those numbers are post-Musk.
OpenAI have been sitting on GPT4 for months, and on the basemodel even longer. I would not be surprised if they did some or all of the distillation of the model with GPT4.

Mixtral is 56B combined, if we subtract a little for MoE inefficiencies we could say that Mixtral is about 40B combined. This is a 2x increase over 20B. We have seen new models beat others twice the size.

That and a massive amount of excellent data for alignment should produce some great results.

I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that 20B is real.
Not useless, but pointless.
Gives vibes of adult coloring (books).
Thank you.
Private equity firms need money and lenders are charging them very high interest rates with more strings attached.

(There's more than that, but I'm not an expert either.)
Probably not, plus as a former UN brat (DISCLOSURE!), this stuff tends to get my goat a little.

Since the org is huge, multipurpose and multifaceted (and often less than the sum of its parts), I'd say it's best to stay as specific as possible both when using some UN thing to buttress an argument or to critique the thing - so, what is the thing, by what org, person, representative, etc.

In this case, the specific thing is

an interview with a UN relief director who explained the retrospective examination of past casualty reporting that had happened

Which doesn't seem to be linked? From there the whole thing swerves into a discussion of 'The UN' which turns to vague generalities that are mostly (I think often unintentionally) recycled talking points. 'Israel seeks to discredit the UN' is a recycled talking point itself, of course. But I think 'HRC has bad members' is too - the UN is full of bad members. The Security Council has an aggressor state on it with veto power and everything! UN has a lot of orgs and items dedicated to the conflict? Sure, but Israel and the UN were almost born together and the conflict is one of the closest things the UN has to a foundational, OG issue - state formation, genocide, wars of aggression, right to defense, refugees, it's all there. Special Rapporteurs are kind of unserious (and why is there no Special Raconteur)? A real thing but doesn't seem clearly related to whatever interview the poster read.

Anyway, sorry for the grumptone, I just think substantive UN critique is such a fecund orchard of low hanging fruit there's not much point in settling for the frozen trope concentrate stuff.
It's already there in Firefox for Android! If you take a look at MDN, it states it's available since 121 that released on 2023-12-19.

In fact, I am using it right now, and the example works without issues.
Not as ugly as I thought it would be!

With some refinement and contouring to the body of the vehicle, this could make for a fully-untethered city taxi.
> Not sure how this would work with inter-state conversations.

My guess would be either that the state where the call “originated” would control, or the state in play with the most restrictive call recording laws.
I really appreciate how easy Nix makes this. It’s relatively straightforward to overlay a package in your configuration to add a patch - meaning I get to apply my own patches and also get updates from upstream - at least until my patch doesn’t apply cleanly.
The word you're looking for is "decentralized". Which also happens to be how the World Wide Web was designed. The benefit of a decentralized web is that it is hardened against attacks - specifically, hardened against attacks by the Soviets against America's defense communications network during the Cold War. Bitcoin was created in a similar vibe - to protect financial transactions from intrusion by the government.
For tech (and finance) there are a great many people who make an extreme comp demand and the company just shrugs and says "ok, we'll pay it." Before you put your fate in the hands of some union boss, you should consider trying it for yourself.
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6 seconds. This one is $90.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/375175111524?hash=item575a2de364:g:...
Tried a few queries to the API, they all caused a timeout or returned an empty array.
Finally, a way to support my favorite racists/neo-nazis! /s
Honestly I don't think I ever had a specific word for that. It's not something I ever had cause to discuss.
There is nothing wrong with buying and liquidating a company. Piling up debt is just one of many ways to do it.

I don't have much sympathy for banks speculating on companies and ending up loaning more than the collateral is worth.

Hopefully this won't be the next bailout
Respectfully I disagree that this being a good example - when I quit I give two weeks (which sometimes I'm asked to just stop working today and take two week pay) or when they dismiss you like this video, they give you several week pay too.