skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. you're not telling me (a person who used to model knots in proteins using molecular dynamics, and works with FEA and other mechanical engineering tools) anything really novel.

Humans discovered hundreds of knots just playing around, and developed excellent knots in the past 400 years; new knots, never before tied, were invented some ~100 years ago. One imagines that a bit of searching with a computer might find a few cases that were overlooked.

For example, take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_loop
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_bend
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter%27s_bend
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashley_Book_of_Knots
The whole word smacks of Bellhead thinking. With ethernet you put a frame on the wire and hope.
Well maybe they just have like a lot of linked lists that they need reversed? With that many people working in parallel you could really increase the throughput of the reversing process. Of course this is assuming that you previously hired people to identify and remove any cyclical nodes in those link lists.
Looks good. I joined the waitlist.

How does it compare to Obsidian? I didn't see it in any of the comparison graphs.
> but they very sneakily are calling AWS out too

That, and any of the smaller “clouds” with egress/delete fees that need to be considered when leaving. Seems massively disingenuous given that until this announcement they also had such fees (“look, those people try rip you just like we were doing until five minutes ago!”) but that is pretty standard for marketing materials.

This makes them a better option as the first cloud provider to try, other things being equal, because leaving (back to on-prem or to another provider) is easier. I assume they are trying to remove a little of the huge the distance between them and the two leading players by reducing concerns that might add on-boarding friction.
According to one benchmark intelliJ can reach an average latency of 3ms on an i5 3427U from 2012 [0].
In a 2022 Github issue someone profiled VS Code which resulted in 12ms latency on an i7-12700KF released in 2021 [1].

If those results are even remotely representative of real-world scenarios then VS Code can't come close to intelliJ performance.

[0] https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#windows

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/161622#issuecomme...
Covering up a crime should carry the same sentence as the crime.

Putting an innicent person in jail should carry the maximum sentence the innocent person could have received.

The problem is then they cover up even more.
They changed the icons for mute mic, and mute sound buttons.
So that probably took at least a dedicated team and few months of work...
Storage isn't just a bad fit for that because it's expensive, though. What do you do when it runs down, because it's unusually cold or you have an extended period of low generation, or both? Now it's 20 degrees below freezing and you have no heat.
I guess I don't know what your point is.

I thought when you called it a "tricky one" you were expressing that it might be a bad thing if it were difficult to convict someone based primarily on audit logs.

But if you don't want people to be wrongly convicted, then surely that's a good thing, right? As we know, there's no guarantee a particular audit log is correct.
The Verge is a "corporate messaging" website.

Interview with X CEO (Comments disabled)

Their transportation editor Andrew J. Hawkins:

```

Waymo’s driverless cars are finally ready for the highway

VW’s software division and Bosch are testing robot parking and EV charging

Hyundai says hydrogen will play a ‘prominent role’ in going carbon neutral

Kia’s ‘Platform Beyond Vehicles’ is a family of modular electric minivans for businesses

Lamborghini will measure your heart rate as you burn rubber around the track

Meet the new Tesla Autopilot, same as the old Tesla Autopilot.

Tesla is recalling another 1.6 million vehicles in China.

Tesla’s Autopilot fix ‘doesn’t go far enough.

```

I wonder which companies buy advertising on The Verge? It's crazy their anti-tesla bias.
Wanda Austin to join Apple's board of directors
This begs the question though: how do you evaluate communication skills better than this to encompass what you miss on technical discussions? It's easy to look like a team player in an interview setting where disagreements are low-stakes and theoretical. People do prepare for these behavioral interviews, there are whole sections in the same old reference book used for leetcode interviews. I honestly doubt people can tell between a well-prepared candidate from one that's a genuine team player before actually working with them.

I also want to reiterate the point that I don't know of any company that solely uses leetcode-style interviews, so they do tend to evaluate some kind of communication skills in another one.
I don't think it should be the responsibility of your device to make itself as close to useless as possible to deter theft. Besides, most thieves rarely do their due diligence on checking what phone maker or model it is, they just swipe it out of your pocket and sell it to the nearest pawnshop. Groups sophisticated enough to smuggle parts already do so with Apple's anti-repair measures. Besides, wouldn't such legislation force Apple to sell official new parts, removing the need to harvest them from existing phones?
It's not an inaccurate statement... I think that Intel's AI engine (NPU) is only available in one very-recently-released mobile processor, correct? AMD has had their dedicated AI on-chip thing for a year or more on multiple lines of CPU's.
100%

Real question is whether they'll start making their own 'AmazonBasics' branded AI-generated dogshit, just like they do to undercut/displace successful 3rd party products.
I agree unless there are specific content from specific people that are only posted there and there's no alternative.
What’s your “smart” thermostat?
Atlassian had layoffs just last year.
The bigger companies used their cash during the pandemic to go on a hiring spree, both bloating their headcount and their overall salaries.

The smaller/lower tier companies did not have the cash to compete with this, and now do not have as much to fix.

Also the layoffs in smaller companies just aren't big news.
What If You Pull Your CPU Out While the PC Is On? [video]
Yes but the Google Bot LLMs will filter out drivel with their superior language understanding and network analysis of spam clues. I mean it could, if only Google wanted to clean up its act. Well, in the meantime I hopped on phind.com and use Google about 25%, when I just wan to go to a specific site or article. Slowly weaning off. Phind is fantastic, even its search results on the right side bar are clean.
He forgot

"Software engineer turned author, self insertion, the novel, the series, coming soon to Netflix."

(I love me some Dennis E. Taylor, and I'd love for a Netflix series, but all his stuff comes off as super Marty Sue, and since I am the target audience thatmeans I can relate to his main characters, which I then sort of feel bad about because reading his novels basically becomes a form of self indulgence.)
Vanguard Not Allowing Bitcoin ETFs
You don't need one, but it lets you build a custom filter list and subscribe to it from any device with ublock origin.

You can also just copy paste the filters manually.
At least that's the mythology he wants you to believe. But if you truly believe that I'm going to say you need to take a hard look at how humans really operate and stop taking stuff said as truth.
Because even when people say some true things, there is ALWAYS some hidden information that changes the overall look.
It's foolish to believe whatever crap comes out of the mouth of those billionaires regarding how they made it.
Interesting choice of tech stack – we're RDPing into a Win 8+ Windows session that, in turn, seems to be either using RDP or VNC to connect to virtual sessions.
I imagine that, if we were creating something like this today, we'd just emulate in the browser with a streaming disk!
In the academic system, positions are globally accessible and therefore hyper-competitive. Moreover, headcount grows slowly as it depends on funding and attrition through retirement/death. As such, demand outstrips supply. Strip everything extraneous away and that's the heart of it.

If enough post-docs leave, it will reduce the demand for tenure-track positions. Eventually fewer PhDs will become post-docs, further decreasing demand.
Now we can only expense a small fraction of that because we have to capitalize the expense.

This is how other businesses have always had to treat the work product of their IP generated from R&D...

Software businesses were exploiting a loophole, which was fine when they were limiting themselves to their own turf. When they started encroaching into and destroying other industries, it no longer made sense to keep this loophole in place. So basically, the software industry has only itself to blame for this.
It is not that much about facts on the ground, rather than about diplomatic consequences thereof.

Currently, there are sanctions and other punishing measures enacted against Russia because it occupies someone else's territory. Once you say, well, they conquered it, its theirs, there isn't really a reason why not to normalize the relations. It's theirs, end of story.

Now this used to be the international norm prior to the Briand and Kellogg pact: might was right and conquered territories were ruled by the right of the conqueror. We would just revert to that previous standard, which was fairly ancient.

I would, nevertheless, consider such reversion unwise. It rewards aggression against neighbours and thus increases the likelihood of wars. Combined with current weapons, which are far more destructive than 100 years ago, it is a game with fire where the entire globe is at stake. In a world where might makes right, runaway nuclear proliferation is well possible.
There's micro-scale reasons for why particular firms aren't affected by this, but that gets into the weeds of particular companies' roadmaps and balance sheets.

The macro-scale of 2010-2020 was 'growth, growth, growth', the macro-scale of 2020-2022 was 'hire, hire, hire', and the macro-scale of 2023 and 2024 is 'freezes, layoffs, cuts'.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38948444
How exactly do you negotiate? After you get a bill, you call their billing number and just ask for a lower number?
"High Paying Job" simply means more than minimum wage. There are a lot of Americans for which $40K to $50K income would be considered good. $60K to $70K would be considered great.
Welcome to my local bakery! We have to collect your credit card number before you enter. No one can access your credit card number though. I write it on a piece of paper and put it in a safe. Here, look at this list of people that have seen me put credit card numbers into a safe!

I’m sure you understand, we need to collect your credit card number because that’s how we make money at this bakery. No I will not explicitly explain how. Don’t you feel like I’ve improved your experience?
We aren’t asking you, we’re telling you. (Paraphrased)

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. - The Who
Oh man I used to use FB Purity for that, but getting rid of friend suggestions and suggested/sponsored posts would be amazing, especially if it also worked on mobile.
Block every element on their site :D

(but set the body background color to black. I don’t want an all white screen to shine anyone in their face at night.)
Well... you can crowd-source an escape route by forking this repo, adding Facebook-specific filters and "@"ing everyone who had their issue on the original repo closed as "out of scope" because of that rule, to let them know about your new alternative. It's work, though. And because I don't use Facebook, I'm not going to do it.
only if you are content with the way the US economy works, which requires wearing some pretty large blinders
Little impact on the revenue side while cost can be cut significantly.
Many companies have proved it to be useful and their stock prices soar. Why don't we try it
People are hailing Linux, but there's one big elephant in the room -- app sandboxing. While Microsoft surely tracks the Windows user, any software may be tracking the Linux user.

I've been on Linux for more than a decade, and even with advancements like Flatpak, Linux is very far from the protections Android, iOS, Mac and Windows have.
Indeed, and if you divide that pension cashflow by, say, 4%, you arrive at equivalent wealth figures that can be very significant. Say somebody retires from the military as a low-ranking officer. You don't think of them as particularly wealthy, but once you value their cashflow, you realize they're loaded.
Pixel phones actually take better photos than iPhones. See for example a recent test https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VRoTOE3FqT0

OTOH I browse JavaScript heavy websites on my phone and I believe due to single-threaded performance, Chrome on Android is noticeably worse than Safari on iPhone.

My point is, Pixels are better than iPhones for some use cases and vice versa.
> i just shit on the floor and heard it land but can't find it
> uh ??
> dropped shit****
But what about the price of tea in China? The language servers you refer to provide a decoupled service to other programs. It has literally nothing to do with the fact that I have to (apparently—why would I even use SVN in this day and age) make a dummy repository somewhere hither or tither just so that I can version control my local-only dotfiles!
Citation 1 does not support the claim that the USA "sucks at road safety" -- only a handful of the countries listed actually have a statistic for deaths per km traveled, which is the metric that matters (since the USA is much less dense than many of the countries it's being compared to, its citizens drive farther).

The US is right in the middle -- doing better than the Czech Republic and South Korea -- on the metric that matters on the page you linked, but really, more data is needed because the metric you want to look at is mostly missing from the table.
While not great, things are a little better in this area than they were a few years ago.

1) Even if it goes to collections, a medical debt won't appear on your credit report for a full year.

2) Medical debts less than $500 won't ever appear on your credit report.

3) If you pay the debt off later, the entire thing gets expunged from your credit report (i.e, rather than showing you had a debt that went to collections, and then was paid off, it's like the whole thing never happened).

These things only apply to medical debts, though, not normal consumer debts.

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Yes!

I think that the real difference between an activity being a hobby and it being a job is that a hobby activity is always optional. If I don't feel like working on a hobby project today (or ever again), I don't have to. On the job, I don't have that option. That makes a world of difference.
Fortran Is Alive and Well
> This sounds like you're describing a system that is a failure but that the solution is not to fix the system but to give up and do something else. Can we not fix academia?

The problem with academia is basic mathematics. In a system where there are a fixed number of tenured professorships, where each tenured professor has the job for life, each professor should produce only a single tenure-track PhD student in their entire career.

OK, so to deal with attrition and other unforeseen circumstances, perhaps 10 tenured professors should produce 11 tenure-track PhD students. But definitely not the situation we have now, where each professor produces dozens of PhD students in the course of their career who go on to attempt to get tenure.

The people trying to get tenure don't want to admit the system is broken, because that would be to admit they just weren't good enough to get tenure.

The people who have tenure have every incentive to keep it going, because it means they have an army of highly-skilled and highly-motivated postdocs willing to work long hours for peanuts for a decade or two.
You call it censorship, I call it freedom of association. These are private organizations deciding what they allow on their own platforms.

But more importantly the “kind of humor” your originally highlighted is absolutely alive, as evidenced by your own point that people use words to get around whatever censorship there is of the most extreme versions of that humor.
“Only the well off living in stable countries should have children” is an awfully dystopian viewpoint, don’t you think?
Oh yeah I didn't mean to imply the people there never produce anything that gets widely used in their whole careers, I'm specifically asking if it ever happens while they are at MS Research.
A major reason housing is expensive is that governments forbid people from building housing, which is not exactly capitalism.
Egress fees are way too high.
And it doesn't keep anyone in cloud, if you want to move out, you do it.
In fact, I think the fear of egress costs keeps more people OUT of cloud than it keeps people in.
This is a smart move that won't cost them anything and may increase their business.
Perforce is the standard in IC design and verification.
Physical activity, including walking, and cognitive function in older women
Even if the panels were free, you couldn't cover the labor to install them for that.
It ignores it, but not in favor of the bottom 90%, it looks like the numbers for % of pension entitlements have dropped significantly for the bottom 90% and went up only for the top decile.

50-90%
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBSN40178

1-50%
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBSB50205

90-99%
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBSN09151
I like your job level chart. I wish every company was as transparent about expectations for each tier.
It changes the risk rewards curve and mare it more likely for thieves to abandon the device.

If you want a device without node locking and part pairing then go buy one - most android phones are still like that.
> to even delete it would cost thousands in API calls

raises eyebrow

It's a well-known trick (proposed by AWS Support as well) to set S3 lifecycle rules to empty buckets with too many objects to cycle through via List calls. Doesn't cost anything.
Everyone trying to add some sort of cheese snobbery but the actual answer is that it legally literally isn't cheese. That's the only reason it is labeled "processed cheese product". It's the same kind of nonsense around "Frozen dairy dessert" instead of something being ice cream.

Guess what, I KNOW this tub of mostly cookie dough isn't made out of just cream and sugar and cold. I prefer it that way in fact!

Be assured, Americans buy A LOT of cheese and Wisconsin will have strong words to say if you act like Americans don't "know" cheese

Give it another decade or so and people will have the same false snobbery around whether their canned alcoholic beverage of choice is a "real seltzer" or a "spiked soda" or....

It's made out of real cheese though.
Google lays off Bay Area workers, closes Mtn View child care center
It implies you are not living in a communist society, and therefore allowed a measure of control over your own life. It means you have the right to own property, while making it less likely that you'll be sent to a reeducation camp, or die of starvation.

Meanwhile, if you want the Bezoses, Zuckerbergs, and Musks of this world to stop being so rich, there is actually a simple, straightforward way to achieve this: STOP GIVING THEM MONEY. Don't order crap of Amazon. Don't look at ads on social media. Don't buy that luxury electric car. It's not them taking all the money, it's us giving it to them.
Microsoft relies on independent hardware vendors selling Windows PCs, so they can't just go and build their own CPU like Apple can. They partnered with Qualcomm, but Qualcomm underdelivered.
As well it should be again.
That's an exceptional simplification of modern network approaches.

if the world was bellhead, ATM would have won.
Interesting counterpoint: https://reason.com/volokh/2024/01/11/professor-quits-because...
God forbid he show that same emotional contrition in public forum like a disgraced Japanese executive – Toyota's CEO, for example, after the "unintended acceleration" deaths. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziGfQyCXiU4
The same as all my other projects -- in a named directory with plain text notes, drawings, and anything else to support the project, all checked in and versioned with git.

Granted, these are "personal" (still revenue generating) projects and the bus factor is 1, but it works for me.
I've seen these answers:

- excess hiring during the pandemic;
- interest rates raised;
- salaries too high;
- cut in remote work (to ease return to office later);
- some weird thing coming;
- AI;

(I could replace all those semi-colons with question marks.)

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Your Startup Should Not Focus on SEO
Not just that, the comments on these layoff posts seem to put engineering staff on some "un-fireable" pedestal but think of PMs, Sales and Marketing, Admin people as eternally expendable.
The US close to average in terms of solar with most countries are on a similar curve +/- a few years. However, I used the US because our electricity demand is fairly static. The US is only up 13% since 2000 unlike Africa’s electricity demand which doubled, or China’s 600% increase over that period.
Ask HN: Is there any technology that helped you as a poor person?
A couple of people I know are struggling with their rent payments. They might get evicted from their place in the next few months.
Even though the annual government deficit is almost 7% of GDP, essentially injecting stimulus into the economy, wall st analysts are convinced high interest rates will cause a recession. CEOs have responded by slashing forecasts and employees to appease wall st.
It's an "and me too" business fad despite profits being already at record levels. The entire point is to suppress tech worker wages if not by explicitly-agreed conspiracy then by independently-stochastic layoffs.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

Edit: One way out for both stability and fair compensation is worker-owned co-ops. Unionizing within publicly-traded or private-equity-owned corporations is still building a sandcastle in the tidal zone.
Equities went up 5x over that time period. Of course it exacerbated the difference in equity holdings. Had equities gone down 50% over that time period, we'd have seen the opposite.
This doesn't remotely solve the same problem Flatpak does, you are comparing apples and oranges.
SVB bankruptcy is part of it. A lot of free money dried up.

But also, it's an "everyone else is doing it" thing. Saturate the market with unemployed devs and you can reasonably tell your employees "Sorry, no budget for raises".
Everyone else is doin' it. Simple as that.
There's also,

<user 1> <3
<user 2> 3> wait how do you do that
<user 2> ε> nvm figured it out
It would be nice but not absolutely necessary. Something that allows gathering all alerts in one place is all I need. Gathering data in one place would be cool but not absolutely essential
Longer-term notes are very attractive now too. I buy 1 year T-Bills because I don't want be too illiquid beyond a year.
Well, it's a bad thing for 90% of American households no matter how you look at it. Additionally, based on the comment from dwallin, it's likely a bad thing for 99.9% of American households. This is an odd state of being for a democracy, you'd think that we'd support laws that benefit the majority, since the idea of democracy is that the majority sets policy.