skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rented a Model 3 from Hertz last year and drove about 120 miles in it. Due to the super cold weather (like 12 degrees), plus the fact that I drove in the mountains in New England, and I used the heat (it was freezing and I had my child with me), I had the charge the car 1/2 way there, which made me stop in the middle of nowhere for 30 minutes while I waited at a super charger. Honestly this experience stunk.

I think the Tesla is nice if you don't need to go anywhere too far. For trips stick to gasoline.
Large layoffs are rarely, if ever, performance anchored at the IC level. They're anchored in the performance at product/unit level. So the major decider for layoffs is whether you're working on something that is deemed as business positive or not.
Yeah, I didn't understand the purpose of this device when it came out and still don't. It's an interesting system but seems like worst of both worlds because the coral TPU and M7 aren’t low power enough for battery applications, and it's unclear whether the full 4 TOPS of the Coral is achievable given the MCU’s memory bus bandwidth. So to me it looks like a computationally underpowered system that you have to keep plugged into the wall.

Going with the Cortex A Coral Dev Board or another SBC with the PCIe or USB standalone Coral TPU seems like a better bet. You'd get a better camera (eg via USB), more processing power and memory, and more full featured software (both Linux and TFLite instead of baremetal or embedded OS and TFLite Micro). Price point would be higher for this option, but you'd certainly make that up in saved time very quickly not having to deal with baremetal programming or an embedded OS.
Airframe life is rated in hours of flight, not in years. So your 50 year old Cessna might still have plenty of hours left in it; I bet planes like that aren't in the air as much as commercial airliners.

Also note that the GP pointed out that it depends on what the plane is made out of, so older construction from 50 years ago can have more longevity in a way that more recently-built planes will not.
I wish :( For now I am taking free resources wherever I can find it and for the rest it comes from youtube, but more of a temporary measure. I’m in contact with a few artist and am trying to get properly licensed tracks for most, if not all, scales asap
They really have thought of everything! I wonder what it would be like to work on a codebase for 20+ years. Richard Hipp must be dreaming in C by now. I have listened to several interviews with him recently and he seems so unencumbered in his approach to software design. I admire his passion for solving hard problems and lack of trepidation for critique.
I'm sure that's true, but I just don't see the point. No one ever died saying, "man, if only I'd lived life more efficiently".
>Anything to make the President look bad.

Why would the Democrats in Congress do that?
it literally is. it's the first blockchain based cryptocurrency
That’s funny. I thought Luca was the best, Encanto was mediocre, and Turning Red one of the worst kid’s movies I’ve ever seen.
on the other hand, top talent is also likely to feel disrespected by having layoffs sprung on their team with no warning. It was a trigger for 3 of my job changes during my career, each time a "regretted attrition."
Funny Emails to Curl Developer
And? The vast majority of users aren’t colorblind either, yet it’s always a good idea to include colorblind accessibility options.
Sure, when your site looks like it's from 1995. Client apps today have hundreds of custom features running simultaneously.
With that logic everyone and everything is part of an organized crime
So what would you advise?
Paper is very confusing if the past year had trained your brain to skip the V in LLVM.
I want something as nice as TextMate but maintained. Wonder if BBEdit would qualify.
> increase worker productivity by 10x-1000x.

Huh?
lol, you aren't getting a promotion to C level by hanging out in engineering.

Best case you'll be some IC that is paid as much as a team lead.
You don't get to make up your own definition of "ethical".
In this case scale is the better part of innovation. The people dominating future PV, wind, and battery industries are going to be the ones implementing the “learning curve” that brings prices down through continuous manufacturing improvement. The folks who innovate the most will be the ones deploying the new terawatts of generation, building factories that operate on intermittent and geographically-dependent energy sources, and learning to operate a massive continent-wide renewable grid. There’s this funny idea that you can keep your technical advantage doing research while another country is actually doing the things, but I don’t think that’s ever been the way the world works.
> EDIT: People need to stop debating whether they are powerless, and the 999 ways they are powerless, the hopelessness of powerlessness - and start posting solutions.

Well since you're the one claiming the problem is us, which is a pretty bold accusation -- what's your solution?

If you're making accusations that we're not doing enough, what are you doing then?

Very curious to hear.
Everything in Linux is a file, right?
I really like that assessment. Frankly I hadn’t thought that far so thanks for the extrapolation!
Usually companies now ask the question "would this candidate be eligible for rehire in the future". If someone is fired for performance or other cause, the answer is more likely to be "no".

This works around potential libel issues associated with giving specific reasons.
They better improve their account security to prevent account take-overs, else pissed off users.

Don't mess around when dealing with people's money.
dir doesn't belong on the list, it is not a useful command. It's nice if you don't remember which os you are using, I make that mistake sometimes, but if you do remember then there is no reason to use it, ever.
Humans will be the soul, AI will be the mecha suit doing the heavy lifting.
> Without actually consulting with a patient and agreeing upon pricing well ahead of a scheduled surgery, you have absolutely no business requesting any payment directly from them.

Well, if you want to turn this into a rant on how incredibly backward the way things are done is, I'll agree with you that it's a terrible method. But it is the way things work. Don't believe me? Ask your insurance company. Your deductible is not payable to the insurance company; they require the billing entity to collect it themselves (and thus spread the risk onto us - they don't pay our negotiated fee, they pay the negotiated fee minus your deductible and it's up to us to get it from you).

> And you can most certainly retain your legal independence and work for multiple vendors as a subcontractor, like in any other industry.

Again, look at how health insurance in the US, as a whole, works. And, for that matter, hospitals (for- vs not-for-profit is a mostly meaningless distinction in this).
This seems like a tutorial that's an ad for a vector database product. I have no idea why this is better than CloudDB or any others based on the article.
Are you saying that you personally also broker sales of millions of dollars worth of stolen good like eBay?

I know I don't.
what a long way of saying “back in my days”
Isn't that Sublime Text?
So your imaginary grace period for covid effects extends until when, end of 2022 it seems like?

Maybe people didn't want to take their kids to watch a movie about panda periods?

It's crazy no one in this thread has suggested a possible drop in quality in the creativity at Disney.
For those interested in learning more about the Cosmological Principle

PSB Spacetime- Where Is The Center of The Universe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOLHtIWLkHg

Giant Arc 3.3 Billion Light Years Long That Shouldn't Really Exist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj1ULGmPe6s

The Case Against the Cosmological Principle (and/or FLRW) - Jenny Wagner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nASUsWQyemc

SciShow- What If the Universe Isn't Uniform?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGVW4BaA0qA
I was invited a few years back. Looked at the interview questions, decided not to do it (specs were basically a full app with MySQL or something, really specific stack).

Then I was given the following email: "Congrats on scoring 100% in Turing's basic JavaScript programming test on XXXX, 2019! You completed Step 1 towards being matched with top Silicon Valley companies that want to work full-time with remote engineers."

If I scored 100% on a test I never took, the whole thing just feels like a scam to me.
fuck Cloudflare
Betteridge’s Law says “no.” Also any sort of real analysis can lay the blame squarely at capitalism itself, demanding ever increasing profit with ever decreasing margins ad infinitum.
because I don't have Venmo or Cashapp but I have twitter
"...the social media site he purchased in October 2022 for $44 million"

You meant $44 billion, Forbes.
Same.

‘the Satanic Temple was a non-theistic religion that views Satan as “a literary figure who represents a metaphorical construct of rejecting tyranny and championing the human mind and spirit”.

“After School Satan Club does not attempt to convert children to any religious ideology. Instead, the Satanic Temple supports children to think for themselves. All After School Satan Clubs … emphasize a scientific, rationalist, non-superstitious world view,”
‘

The satanic temple was created specifically to counteract the damaging effects of organized religion. I see nothing objectionable in what they do. I’d have joined it as a kid (once i figured out what they were about). I’d have no problem sending my kid to a club that supports thinking for yourself and a scientific and rationalist approach to life.

Keep in mind that the satanic temple does not believe in the literal existence of satan.
Frigate uses the TPU with an application processor, not this MCU + TPU version, right?
The roots of ancient Rome's gladiator fights
Another article with more context: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/202...
Interesting article: "An ambitious program of cost-cutting, outsourcing, and digitalization had already begun (before the merger)". It seems like Boeing may wanted MD executives "expertise" at cost-cutting based management.
My Dearest TI-85 Calculator Games,
(I shall name a few by names)

In lines of code and pixels fair,
Within your realm, I find solace rare.
A love that's forged in binary strings,
A tapestry of malleable digital things.

Oh, how you captivate my heart,
With your C-programming art.
Your 8001 pixels dance upon my screen,
Creating worlds, both vivid & serene.

Through endless loops and if-else's rhyme,
We tinker in space, one byte at a time.
Together, we unravel mysteries profound,
In a realm where love, math & logic are bound.

Oh, Tetris, with your falling blocks of delight,
You bring joy that illuminates the night.
With each line cleared, my heartbeat soars,
Our Soviet connection strengthens forevermore.

And Snake, dear Snake, slithering through the maze,
A dance of patterns, a captivating craze.
As I guide you, pixel by pixel, with care,
Our bond grows deeper, beyond compare.

And let us not forget the classic Pong,
A symphony of paddles, back and forth, strong.
In this simple game, our tinkering takes flight,
A testament to the power of endless night.

Oh, TI-85 Calculator Games, you're my muse,
With you, my heart forever chooses.
In lines of C, our love shall persist,
Forever entwined in digital bliss.

To the best code goes the trophy,
Yours truly, BarefootJoey & my AI homie
Yep, I remember staying over at a friends's apartment that had just installed hue lightbulbs everywhere, and then put tape over their normal light switches. As he's putting the sheets on the pull-out couch, he says "if you get up in the middle of the night, you'll need this app to turn on the light..."
> yet somehow the company is still such a mess

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-overtakes-apple...

Some mess.
In some cases they’re paid appropriately compared to it being low elsewhere. But it’s doubtful that’s a drop in the bucket of where the money goes.
Is "treatment" really the right word? Sounds like they're just exploiting them to sell invasive, irreversible surgeries that cause even more longer-term mental health damage.
Yeah once you get to this price point it's starting to make more sense to just buy a Jetson nano and throw Linux on it.
QEMU can emulate it.
Your entire argument has been dismissing concerns about the video and then offering nothing of substance other than 'ridicule is bad'. In effect all of your comments here have offered the least amount of substance other than attempting to divert discussion away from how bad the video actually is, which is saying 'come to the office now or you're fired' with a nice bow on top.
Elon Musk has had ambitions to do this since X.com and the Paypal merger. He wants to make an app like WeChat that does everything for everyone.
True on all counts but it probably won't be long until it sells well. The Chinese government is throwing a lot of money behind it and even if the US doesn't certify it for political reasons, there is a huge global market starving for fresh air frames.
There are cases where they are allowed to enter without notice.

If, for example, the unit below yours has water coming through the ceiling I don't know of anywhere that requires them to give you 24-48 hours notice.
I blame AI because this was all 100% foreseeable. I also blame the people using AI to make trash, but hustlers gonna hustle and shitposters gonna shitpost. Until it's actually illegal to shit on the cultural commons of civilization, people are going to keep doing it.
I'm working on a paper entitled "All You Need Considered Harmful" to address this over-usage of the phrase.
I was just today reminiscing about how smart and capable everyone seemed at the startup I interned at in 2013, and comparing them to the quality of engineers I’ve worked with in the startup scene more recently. The difference is stark. I can’t pin down one reason but I agree with you. Too many bootcamps. Too much resume-driven development. Too many engineering managers whose only programming language is JQL.
The problem is that a light switch multiplexes/conflates power and control. The signal that the bulb is supposed to turn off is that it doesn't have power anymore. Smart light bulbs need power even if the signal from the switch is that they're supposed to be off.
cloudflare comes off as absolutely cowardly in this: they don’t even have the person’s manager on the call, they claim it’s a personal performance issue but when pressed it’s actually the whole department getting canned. It’s a bad look
After 6 months the employee is then free to do the bare minimum.
It's just dense.

I use a handful of macros to abstract out repetitive patterns (EACH is a for-loop that iterates over all the elements of a lil list/dict), very short names for the most frequently-used utility functions (lin: lil-is-number? lil: lil-is-list? lmn: lil-make-number, lml: lil-make-list, etc), and typically aim for one idea/process per line, rather than one statement.

I find most C code dreadfully verbose, repetitive, and sparse. This style makes much better use of screen real estate and allows me to look at even fairly complex routines all at once, without having to scroll or jump around. Many APL-family languages use similar conventions in their implementations, though often relying much more heavily upon macros and abbreviations than I do.
This kind of behaviour from HR should be illegal. Be honest and upfront, we're all humans here.
If they were 100% in it for the merch they wouldn't be making the next Star Wars movie with Daisy Ridley as the lead.
They lost John Lasseter to Disney.

He was an awful lot of what made them work.
It's kinda hard to believe anyone would look at our hyper-polarized political climate and still want to build let alone operate The Platform...
Yeah but their point is still relevant given the direction the thread has gone
I think it’ll happen soon. If it doesn’t happen soon with the increasing numbers of unions and labor strikes, it’ll happen when boomers die off and the voting demographic shifts left dramatically.
Walgreens and such would not be pulling up stakes in places if it wasn't for rampant shoplifting. Other stores would not be pulling back on self-checkout either.

Since police are mainly following up on serious crime, people ease up on reporting lesser crimes like break-ins, window smashing, porch thievery, etc. And then politicians point to statistics --which given dampened reporting, means they "look" okay, but on the street it's not okay.

Never in my life have I see so much open selling of "not for individual sale, only for sale at $retail_store" on the sidewalks.
Interestingly, you can control wiz lights with OpenRGB. It doesn't really surprise me lol. https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenRGB/comments/jptv2a/philips_wiz...

There's also a home assistant thing for them.
Intel's 2nd generation UMA GPUs, which were branded "Intel Extreme Graphics", were likewise far from extreme.
> increase worker productivity by 10x-1000x.

Tell me you're not an engineer without telling me you're not an engineer
I 100% agree with the spirit of the article!

As an X-Gen, I remember as a kid the first computer I ever saw was a ZX-80!

You could do 'stuff' with those early computers, and Basic was great and all, but the early days of the Web really opened up exploration for me.

As a solo developer it suddenly provided opportunities to work commercially without having to have a computer science background and be a very serious C++ developer.

These days I see my kids exploring programming through Minecraft Java Edition. They also create and make 3D printed toys and objects in software I could never have dreamed of. They also create and edit their own YouTube movies, again things I never dreamed of being able to do.

So whilst early tech opened up possibilities to explore creativity, the options were limited in many ways.

Now the entire world of creative exploration no longer has gatekeepers.

The explosion of the App Store genuinely opened up opportunities through tools like xCode and globally distribution that individuals never had before.

Similarly, you can be a movie maker, photographer, App Developer, 3D artist, and producer of 3D Printed Widgets, and you don't need to ask anyone's permission.

It's not a perfect world, but it's still good for creators.
Just that maybe it doesn't all seem as exotic as it once did in the 80s and 90s!

Edit: One thing missing today is the easy ability to play with commercial software without a license. Back in the day you just needed the file and a serial number.

Many schools provide licenses to Adobe software and more, so that's good.

And I suppose lots of software has a free Cloud version, or a limited trial. So its not all bad these days.

But I can recall preparing for interviews by finding a copy of some software and then playing with it on my own computer. That's riskier these days as you may end up turning your computer into a Crypto Mining device LOL
All the Names People Used in AI Art Generators
I was in a horrible position a few years ago. My manager and I were BOTH remote from the main HQ.

A VP joined, moved to the HQ and then systematically dismantled her. It was easy to do because he was on-site and she wasn't. I got caught in the cross fire.

It caused incredibly weird hidden and secretive politics to have this guy in the HQ with F2F access to all the "key people."

Politically it was "unwinnable."

If you want to "win" politics, have to go in. I personally didn't want to win, turned out badly for me. I just wanted to do work. Before I knew it, entire division a toxic political nightmare.

Remote work can hide extreme political disfunction from upper management. I dont know what they could have looked at to see the problem in that group. Remote work can hide a lot of toxic behavior.
I work at a place that does smart locks (for businesses though) and my first question to them during the interview was what happens when the internet is out. Thankfully they thought of that and it can even be taken offline permanently after the first time setup.

What I heard from other people in the industry is that when Facebook had that huge multi-day outage, it was partly because their smart locks couldn't open externally without an internet connection, and it was relying on Facebook's DNS which was the source of the huge outage.
The question was “how can I dev with local containers”. I agree with you. What I described is that halfway point between “I need to debugger” and “Throw it all in a container and ship it to dev”. There are legit reasons to develop out of a container like this. Keeping the layers audited is one…
>Counterbalancing anecdote: I've purchased every 12.9" iPad Pro model with my own money, and will keep doing so.

>There's no better mobile daily driver computer value for dollar available today.

I experimented with using an iPad as a daily driver (web browser plus mosh/ssh sessions) some years ago, and iOS constantly unloading apps (even when briefly switching away from them), and not restoring state exactly, drove me nuts. Has iOS improved on this?
> So how do I install the old version next to the new version in ubuntu 34.04?

You would install Nix and run something similar to "nix run nixpkgs-23.11#openssh <address>"
Sure, but the problem with that solution is that it de facto centralises the Internet as everything then has to pass through a handful of large corporations. I do not claim to have a better solution though, but would be happy to hear other ways forward as DDoS appears to be a threat that is here to stay.
I quit my job not long after becoming a single parent when my daughter was 10 months old.

That was back in the mid 1980s. The years I spent with my daughter were amazing. I learned how to be a "mom", and it was a very enlightening experience. It changed me. She became the most important thing in my life.

I was living in Los Angeles and realized I did not want to raise my daughter there so I started researching places I would want to raise her. I left LA just a couple years later.

Fair to say I've lived a lower middle class life financially, but also fair to say a much better quality of life than most living in LA, and that includes Beverley Hills and Malibu.

These are trade offs we all have to consider, but I do not regret getting out of the "Big City". I'd have probably spent 3 of the past 30 years sitting in gridlock traffic. It's worth doing the math on that.
They want to make sure their money only traverses non-woke wires.
I’ve seen the opposite: since AEs typically have very low base salaries, companies can afford to keep them around longer.
There’s tons of folk routinely driving EVs from the Bay Area to Tahoe / Yosemite.

It’s like any inconvenience though. I used to bicycle commute everywhere that was within about a 20 mile radius. Rain, shine, or snow. This was so routine that it never bothered me. But if you’re a person who hasn’t ridden a bike in ten years and I asked you to adopt my routine, I can’t imagine you’d be terribly happy.
Lightning and in the future, lightning stablecoins.
It's peer-to-peer in the same sense that Venmo is. From the user's perspective, you just plug in your friend's @handle and hit send, even if it's still centralized on the backend
The Schlage lock I bought in 2015 works like that, it just uses z-wave iirc. I originally paired it with a wink hub until they went to crap, then moved it over to a hubitat elevation hub. Yeeah... should've gone with a raspberry pi and a z-wave dongle... well whatever lol.

The lock still works fantastically well. I admit the new ones with homekit support are way slicker because you can set it up so it unlocks if you hold a paired apple watch up to it. That's slick dude. Hella slick!
If you can't collude on salaries, you can collude on layoffs which will drive salaries down if at large enough scale.
Why pay taxes when your don't have to?
Well, this is interesting. But mostly because cloudflare is doing layoffs, but it sounds like they are trying to fire people instead. Not sure why