skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, effect of rising interest rates takes time to propagate. When mortgage rates skyrocket, mortgage originators can still go on for a few months even though they're not making any sales, as nobody's buying real estate. After a few months it becomes clear that sellers are not willing to decrease their prices and Fed is not going to cut rates any time soon, the game's over and they have to cut staff or even go out of business.

Startups can continue to operate for a few months burning through their reserves even though nobody's investing in them until they... can't.

When the price of bonds that banks have on their assets plunges due to increase in interest rates (they are "marked to market"). Depending on their regulatory requirements it can take a quarter or two. As a result the ratio of the assets of the banks in relation to their liabilities decreases. That's what caused SV bank to collapse (they had less money than they had liabilities and had to fold due to the bank run). In the case of citibank they had to put $1.7 bln into the government deposit insurance fund, which is likely related to the same phenomenon.

Interestingly enough, they also reported that a big part of their one-time expenses ($3.8 bln total) included reorganization expenses, e.g. all the severance they had to pay to the people they laid off in 2023 and other costs related to cutting those people.

Even more interesting, they expect the expense related to cutting 20,000 people to be between $700,000 and $1 billion.

All things considered, Citibank doesn't strike me as a particularly well run organization, and low-level employees are paying the price. As per usual.
Is it less legitimate than the millions of other fake word six-letter chinese brands selling disposable junk on Amazon?
The tech layoffs continue – DHH
Looks like an esg play, in practice energy density matters a lot more, if you can’t beat regular rocket fuel, it’s pretty pointless
At least with Amazon, I don’t trust that I’m not getting fakes even if I know what I’m looking for.
cute trick I always forget
The same problem has been found on several plans. Far too many and too high a percent to not be a systemic issue. A phone call or shift change might explain one or two errors, not the same error in many planes across multiple airlines.

They don’t build 100 of those things a day. They don’t even average one a day. Whatever the issue, it went on over quite a period of time.

Given the other issues with the 737 Max line, it is reasonable to believe there would be a good chance of improvement if regulators were more heavily involved.
> I would certainly hope that it's the MISRA variant.

I think this is it: https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf, and it appears you're right:

> The MISRA Guidelines were written specifically for use in systems that contain a safety aspect to them. The guidelines address potentially unsafe C language features, and provide programming rules to avoid those pitfalls. The Vehicle Systems Safety Critical Coding Standards for C, which are based on the MISRA C subset, provide a more comprehensive set of language restrictions that are applied uniformly across Vehicle Systems safety critical applications. The AV Coding Standards build on the relevant portions of the previous two documents with an additional set of rules specific to the appropriate use C++ language features (e.g. inheritance, templates, namespaces, etc.) in safety-critical environments.
Yeah we must. Nothing I but from Amazon is what I expect and top that off with it arrives late despite me paying for prime. I ordered a blender last week that doesn’t even blend, which I only realized after I had loaded it up with stuff to make a smoothie.

When things show up and actually are what I expect based off of the image and they work right it is a rare surprise.
Assistant has lived just a little too long. Google's hands are starting to enclose around its neck.
Browsing the public library one day in the aughts, I came across Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan. Having been raised on the Disney version of Tarzan, I thought, "Ho! I should read this here original of the classic children's story!" So I checked it out, and I was shocked and surprised to encounter the most racist novel I have ever read. There is a reason almost no one reads the original Tarzan. It is not subtle about being Jim Crow, pro-colonialism pulp porn. I'm pretty sure Disney would prefer everybody forget that Burroughs existed, and that their animated and live action mega hits sprung out of the focus group imagining of a childhood bear necessities Jungle dream. So yeah, Burroughs is a rough reference to lead with.
The George Carlin AI Standup Is Worse Than You Can Imagine
Building a Python Engineer Using GPT4
That's some hateful, xenophobic shit my dude.
Due diligence is part of being a lackey to rich guys. Barry Diller has people to worry about his people doing stupid shit. If you don’t have control of people acting on your behalf, you earn the asshole badge.

Generating the energy to fire a neuron giving the dude sympathy is energy wasted.
Amazons search is so bad that I typically use google/ddg to search their site for products
That's sort of the same with the SEC and (parts of) financial industry?

One can even argue the tax office is sort of like it.
AI gone wrong or marketing stunt?

Probably the former.

But the thing doesn't look half bad one the pictures. Looks like something you might get from IKEA under one of their "slightly better quality" lines (which at least in the EU are pretty good choice if you don't want to spend too much on furniture but also feel that the main line lines from IKEA are a bit to cheap in quality).
No, I'm saying that military aid to Ukraine and Israel are orthogonal to international criminal concerns about the way both conflicts are being prosecuted.

Everything you wrote following the word "should" was abusive. Please don't write things like that; I've done nothing to merit incivility from you.
Agreed, those are not going to rattle loose. Even if the cotter pins were all missing, 4 nuts would have had to back off fully and 4 bolts would have had to wiggle out, not to mention they would likely be under pressure from the guide pin during flight. Again, the final report will tell all but it really seems to me that they were just not there.
Programming in just ONE language should be lauded
> unless you make sure that gumby is speaking for the FSF, then that comment does not provide evidence that the FSF believe that.

And indeed I do not speak for the FSF and never have.
boo hoo, how will SWE survive on a paltry $150k per year for adjusting drop down menu fonts. The salaries in tech were ridiculous and an insult to other professionals that actually improved the world. Now that 0% interest rates are gone and most tech is mature and cranking up margins by pushing more ads, you don't need as many SWEs. Michelin-chef meals, onsite daycare, 400K salaries, and nap rooms were not a sustainable long term thing
Counting it up, I've ordered 58 times from Amazon in 2023 and every single item was exactly what I asked for, and arrived within a few days. I wonder why we're having such wildly different experiences...
Another fix is to not create product listings for internet points. This product doesnt even show in search results on amazon (or at least didnt when i checked). Op didnt “find” it. They made it. Probably to maintain hype.
> Game engines are, first and foremost, designed to provide a 2D or 3D graphics environment and input handling, they don't typically have the richness of UI components that you would expect for building a desktop app.

Games are full desktop applications, ad often have full-featured GUIs overlaid on top of a 3D-rendered playfield.

Certain game genres, especially strategy games and RPGs, regularly implement full UI toolkits, with floating windows, list and table widgets, combo-boxes, toolbars and menu bars, etc. Some games have a superset of standard desktop widgets in order to account for standard UI functionality along with very game-specific needs.

Look at Paradox's grand strategy games for some examples of this. Some people refer to them as "spreadsheet games" because of the complexity of game data and statistics exposed through application-like UI controls.
Show HN: No-code app platform for your OpenAI Assistant
I would assume the person that made it doesn't speak english, and trusts whatever the LLM gave them
Many people struggle to motivate themselves to do their part on huge collective action problems like climate change. That's why national and international political action is needed, and in turn needs smaller groups of individuals to put in effort supporting campaigns for such action. That said lots of people do care in their daily lives and also put that care into practical individual action - and have a fun and meaningful time doing so. In my experience not owning a SUV or any car at all doesn't feel like "not having fun". It feels sensible and what I have good reason to do and it feels purposeful, a part of doing what I can to cause less harm in this world, from the lucky situation life has dealt me. I understand that some people really need a car for work, especially in car centric regions. But almost everyone has a range of other things where they can do their part and act to improve things.
I can ask Alexa e.g. "what's the weather at 9am", that doesn't work with Google Assistant?
Same here. I used it back in 2011/2012 if I remember right. It was fairly minimal back then. Now a days, the app has so many buttons and the UI/UX is so complex that it overwhelms the user.
> The problem we face is being a culture of many specialists, with few generalists. Generalists are capable of managing a wide range of information and have the ability to transfer skills and knowledge between domains.

Sadly different fields of science can each take a lifetime to master, and even closely related fields use different jargon[1] internally, meaning that a person can be an expert in something, read a journal article about that topic but written by an expert in another field, and not fully understand what is being said w/o significant mental work translating concepts from how one field talks about them vs the language and terms the reader is used to from their own field of study.

[1] Defined as specialized language to make communication within the field easier
Yea I had no idea this existed! Totally going to play with this now. Surprised this is free tbh

Hell, i'd pay for something like this on Desktop (tho i'm on Linux (NixOS)).
Not frequently, but "computer says no" is more realistic scenario to happen, isn't it?
If anyone is up to the challenge, Apple provides an excellent sample project available for download with low level access and operations on the LiDAR points here and shading all for an iPhone app:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/addit...
Outsourcing has always and continues to be a thing.

Last year when Google laid of their big tranche they moved a ton of those projects to india.

Just look at the recent HN articles about Bending Spoons laying off entire companies in mergers.
I m sorry, that's not even brown
Computer says sorry nowadays
Bill Ackman Slams Harvard Endowment, Forms Think Tank to Probe Higher Education
As others have noted, this is fairly common, and I would argue the correct way to do it. The US government sucks at compliance regulation. I'm sure some countries are better at it, but Americans don't follow rules very well, so trying to police them is a losing affair.

What US regulators ARE good at is investigating and prosecuting. The current issue is that they are not doing what they are good at. In the NCAA if a staffer (say Connor Stallions) commits a major rule violation, the head of the program (Jim Harbaugh) serves a punishment for "failure to supervise". We need the Boeing CEO to spend sometime in a concrete cell for "failure to supervise". Maybe threaten to break them up a bit with the Antitrust division. The next CEO will do a better job of self-regulating.
That's why it's important to have a have both solar and wind, because in this case wind generates more power in the winter.
The shape of managing the work approaches the work in terms of fractal complexity
> One of the cornerstones of RT's propaganda is cynicism paired with moral relativism; the idea that everyone is the same, that all governments and peoples of the world are the same dirty pigs as Russians

Wow. Western Liberalism & IR Realism are now Russian conspiracies. I don't know what to say except this is essentially NSDAP rhetoric.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22649809
The province with the most solar (1511mw to #2-Ontario's 944mw[0]), and most wind power (4431mw to #2-Ontario's 3822mw [1]) in the country?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_sta...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms_in_Canada
What I'm saying is that the freshwater reservoir is a totally free grid scale battery for a desal plant. No need to save it, just make fresh water while the sun shines and drink it whenever.
The IRS generally treats an 83(b) filed by either spouse as jointly filed by the union if they file a joint tax return. Whether they are in a community property state or not is irrelevant from the perspective of federal taxes because the marital joint return already deals with this situation: essentially, the union is treated as a single taxpayer.

(And yes, for those of you who are wondering: a federal tax statement/election signed by one spouse that files a joint return can bind both spouses for federal tax purposes...)

As written, neither 83(b) nor its regulations (specifically 1.83-2, which outlines the requirement for the election) require spousal consent to an 83(b) election, because they are not the person earning the income. The regulations specifically state that the statement is filed by the "person who performed the services." They then pay taxes pursuant to the 83(b) election with the joint tax return, meaning that both spouses have paid their federal tax liability with respect to any future sale.

If this were not the case, the spouses of hundreds of thousands of CA tech workers would owe tens of billions of dollars in back taxes. It would be front page news. But it's not, because it's not actually how federal taxation works...

Note that things get a bit more complicated if the spouses get divorced by the time of the sale of the stock subject to the 83(b) election. Because both spouses (are deemed to have) paid taxes on the 83(b) stock due to the 83(b) election, absent a prenup or postnup generally the 83(b) stock is treated as marital property and the proceeds are similarly marital property to be divided in a divorce. In a community property state, the split is 50/50 (I assume the same is true in non-CP states but as I've never dealt with this outside of CA I can't say). However, note that it's still irrelevant as to whether the other spouse signed the 83(b) election, so long as the election was made while they spouses still filed a joint return.

TLDR: for federal tax purposes, not having a spouse sign your 83(b) election is a non-issue, whether or not you live in a community property state.
Why must these rationalist / atheist / EA people come across as the most smug teen debate club nerds?
Definitely not my idea, but is encouraged by built-in tools like python's argparse [0] or node's util.parseArgs [1] which definitely guide you toward's this "short"/"long" style.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html

[1]: https://nodejs.org/api/util.html#utilparseargsconfig
No, the problem is that this stuff is absolute junk sold by sellers who face zero accountability even if they put rat poison in your skin care cream, who can keep returning to the platform by making up new nonsense brand names like "FOPEAS" that don't even have a website, as fake and low effort as it might have been if they at least tried to pretend.

This issue is highly specific to Amazon and has been documented in great detail.
oh god, how will SF SWEs survive with more expensive potatoe chips and soda. Maybe stop drinking poison and processed foods and you'll be fine. A whole rotisserie chicken is only $8.99 at whole foods
The Internet Is Broken (2023)
No down-votes from me, but as an annecdote I can offer this.

We have feral cats in our neighborhood. One of them moved into our house and had a litter in the study. (We kept one, and found homes for the other 3). One of her daughters from an earlier litter moved in and fed the same.

All have been sterilised now obviously, but we stoll get regular visits from a local Tom, likely a brother to the first one. The all get along fine, and he's used to us but basically comes in for food or shelter and doesn't socialise with us like the others do.

I don't think we "own" them. They all come and go as they please. But I'd say 3 of them definitely live here, and tolerate us.

Interestingly none of them seem interested in birds. The occasional mole, otherwise the occasional lizard - mostly for sport.

I'm not negating your ethics at all, but it seems some cats like being part of the family, and others are aloof. They all have distinct personalities.
Is that true though? Are most people working at Google working on Ad tech, or on the services that the ad tech helps pay for?

Now, to be clear, I don't consider GMail "ad tech", even though it is ad supported. I don't see anything wrong with someone like Google want to drive traffic through services that are monetized through advertising. Nor Facebook for that matter.

I will complain about lock in, dark patterns, and other nefarious things. But you can have good ad supported services without necessarily having all of the bad things. Those just bump your margin and revenue.

So, if you feel that the "good" programmers are working on ad tech and analysis, while the "less good" are working on, say, GMail proper, I'd be curious in how that conclusion was drawn.

How many people here work on ad tech directly? (vs, some dual use technology that can be used for ad tech.)

I know a lot of people, tangentially, indirectly, "6 degrees of separation" kind of thing, and I don't know any of them being directly involved in ad tech. None of the "lead geeks" I'm familiar with are in the field.

The closest it got was a friend of mine who worked on Farmville in its heyday, and that's more a dark pattern addiction game than ad tech.
that's even more insane
Yes, you are right. There are plenty of those too in that group sadly. But my point still stands - most of the smart, up to do date, experienced devs who have "seen it all" were probably writing god awful VB6 and PHP code when they were teenagers.

The "new kids on the block" were the ones I saw that decided that statically typed languages suck and dynamic is the way forward, only to discover how static types help and now they are bolting on static types to their dynamic stack.

I'll also say that I am not trying to generalize the newer generation as bad programmers; I have worked with plenty of very smart younger devs. It's just much more harder to come across them now in a sea of mediocre bootcamp devs.
Both of my best local friends are Boomers [technically; I am literally half the elder's age]. One of them literally says to me, fairly recently "there is no scientific evidence of global climate change being caused by humans." [1] He allows no further discussion/exploration [guilt much?].

My other older friend at least will read technical information on specific subjects; but his wife poopoos and moral inquisition on "fairness" (a bad word in Her house).

[1] youtube.com/watch?v=mK5TbGvvluk - a 4:49s clip by ClimateTown (Rollie Williams) citing every oil, insurance, and national agency which refutes this (spoiler alert: it's ALL OF THEM accepting global warming).
Ancient Amazon Civilization Developed Unique Form of 'Garden Urbanism'
Not gonna happen.
If other companies say "we are firing people", other companies would do the same (unless you are apple). We've seen it before with hiring. Hire not because we need, but because everyone is hiring.
Why long Covid can cause exhaustion, or post-exertional malaise, after exercise
i’m confused; is he saying that Cogent black-holed sourcehut’s IP addresses and that somehow affected HN’s IP addresses? they’re in completely separate IP allocations and ASNs...
> Also, IME, this claim [...] it's always false.

Of course it is false. Even if the regulation ultimately can't be enforced due to lack of the right people, the players can still be subject to the regulation. The two are not logically associated.

Nobody is making that claim, though. What is the significance of this fun anecdote you pulled randomly from a hat?
That's original naming sense from GPT. We now have I'm Sorry Furniture.
The first issue is that protobufs arent a standard. That inherently limits anything built on top of them to not be a standard either, and that limits their applicability

Also depending on the environment you run in, can code size bloat vs alternatives can matter
it is hilarious how the opening sentences written by this person refer to "Edgar Rice Borroughs", while pasted quotes and images refer to "Edgar Rice Burroughs".

The latter spelling is the correct one.
If you stick to things that you

(a) don't care about the quality of, because they are either frivolously cheap or you are able to to the necessary 'QA' repairs and inspection yourself (for me these are things like circuit boards and household consumables);

(b) something you already know you want that specific thing of and the shipping speed and return policy make them the best online option;

(c) are only buying because you found it somewhere else and you didn't know you wanted it until you were told about it (deal sites like slickdeals are where I encounter this);

then amazon is fine.
Amazon finally beats IKEA in product naming game.

The biggest question here is isn't Amazon using their own AI to filter and rate basic things like titles and flag them and etc....
https://www.amazon.com/complete-information-provided-provide... is still up. What even is this?
Hackernews. The pseudo politics portal of the new age.
Came here for computers..
I believe what they changed is the ability for "everyone" to discover you to a 10 minute toggle. It defaults to always being discoverable to your contacts.

I assume that it still broadcasts your hashes even in the contacts-only mode, so you'd need to turn receiving off to stop that. Or go a step further and disable Bluetooth entirely* when you don't need it.

* If you disable Bluetooth in the Control Center pulldown it won't actually disable Bluetooth or beacons. It just won't connect to devices. You need to go into Settings to actually disable Bluetooth.
We need a "Failblog" for AI.
“The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
But a human can only mess up so many times per second. Even if it wasn't AI, if it was just a pill that allowed them to type unhumanly fast, once they have the power to scale up their incompetence (or predation) they're a new kind of danger.
Layoffs could also mean trimming the dead weight at the company that is sitting around and collecting paychecks, which in my experience is super common in california tech. Hit L4/L5, attend that weekly standups, and rest and vest till 50, then FAT FIRE and move to New Zealand
Within limits, all it takes to get the OK from Tim Cook is $99/yr to the Apple Developer Program. Which isn't $0, but the LGPL doesn't say someone else can't charge money to press the button. You don't get arbitrary code execution for those $99, but you get enough access to playback video. You'd have to create your own app and get it blessed by Apple in order to distribute it to other people, but doesn't that satisfy the letter of the law here? As a 3rd party developer with my own developer account, I can get the source and the object code and run my own binary that links against it on the same platform, iOS.
This is an important distinction that I agree with.

Glancing at your username I think I maybe know you through some mutual sf friends. The Page called they want a lot of their fernet back