skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wholeheartedly disagree that rental companies are a bad place for EVs.

When I'm traveling and I know that I'm going to have to do a week of heavy driving, I prefer an EV to save on gas. I've rented a Tesla Model 3 from Hertz a couple of times for this purpose: when I did the calculations, the cheaper per-mile cost of using superchargers more than made up for the difference in rental price vs. an economy rental (the addition of free destination chargers when i found them was a bonus). The general driving experience was obviously better than an economy rental, as well.

I know it's not the case everywhere, but along my routes, I was able to find convenient superchargers in parking lots of stores that I wanted to visit (bubble tea, Target, etc), and the car was usually finished charging before i was finished in the store. The couple of times that i stopped at superchargers that didn't have a useful establishment nearby, i was able to appease the kids with the built-in video games.

When it was time to return the car, there was no run-around trying to find a gas station to fill up near the rental center: you can return the car with a quarter charge, and it's no problem, Hertz doesn't charge any additional charging fee.

It would have been nice if i didn't have to use key cards, and if i could use the app to, say, precondition the car. It also would have been nice if the videos saved by "sentry mode" were easier to batch clear. But these are quibbles; the rentals were absolutely worth it for me.
Yep, either the promotions come with massive jumps in responsibility and fuck all jump in TC, or you find yourself basically promoted into a dead end position anyway where further career growth isn’t possible (there’s literally nowhere to go). This is very common for engineers.

Moving job is usually the more effective way to get more money, and at the end of the day, it’s the money that matters.
And why is this still for sale given Google's recent layoffs? I.e. how did this survive?
Everyone waited for end of Christmas/New Year before laying off their own people.
yeah I really struggle with all that. constantly learning though.
The United States Just Grew by 1M Square Kilometers in Size
"If you can specialize [...] then the system breaks down. Spammers pay less than users."

That's not at all what happened in practice. You see, in the Bitcoin industry, those who specialize, those who design and manufacture ASICs, realized that selling them on the open market is equally profitable as mining with them. As a result, even the small miners, the common guys, have access to the same hardware as the large scale miners. That's why today anybody can get, say, an Antminer S19. So spammers do NOT "pay less than users". We all pay the same amount of money for the same compute power. In fact, the cost curve of mining somewhat advantages small miners. The guy with a single Antminer S19 in his garage may not need to have dedicated cooling because cracking open a window may be sufficient. Whereas the large-scale miners definitely have to incur significant cooling costs. However they can cancel out these scale issues by, notably, choosing to set up their mining farm where electricity is cheap.
I knew someone once, in the middle eighties, who got hired, got laid off with 6 weeks severance pay a week into his tenure there, got hired a second time a week later and got fired a second time, again with severance pay. This last time it seemed to have stuck. In the first two cases the companies folded.
> [03:20] Just because I haven't closed anything has nothing to do with my performance.

M'am, you're on the sales team. It has everything to do with your performance.
The main issue is how hard it is to stick other qualifiers to titles.

You can't have a "makes decent estimations engineer", or "wasn't quit by the team lead engineer", or "gets paid twice as much data scientist". Some company go with "ninja" or "rockstar", or stick level numbers straight in the title but meh...so we settle for "senior" for most of these demarcations.
What uses are there for limiting system level FDs? To me it sounds like it can only cause problems
Related:

Principality of Hutt River - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691016 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)

Principality of Hutt River - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7986300 - July 2014 (1 comment)

Principality of Hutt River - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5858756 - June 2013 (10 comments)
Only a very few people are in a position to found startups. For most of us we have to learn how to negotiate the workplace.
No, you definitely don't. I'm pretty sure no-one has performed one single update on my old server since we installed it in 1996:

http://resworld.eolith.net/staff.html

I don't remember if it is Linux or *BSD now, but I don't even know how you would update a kernel or libraries that old lol
> A quick review of people on LinkedIn with Open to Work badges seems to paint a different picture than any claim of people being let go are of lower quality.

Come on, LinkedIn (CVs) tell nothing. Having been somewhere is often made up as great experience even if did not yield much experience, or one wasn't as involved as claimed, and even been somewhere is a lie.
It is usually the opposite if I check known colleagues: null performers and phonies have outstanding profiles, the good or super programmer somtimes an awkward or does-not-care profile.

(But yeah, also admitting: Companies usually fire by the wrong metrics and even direct managers, which are bad managers, do not know the real differences of their underlings..)

> notion of newer generation not being dedicated and smarter

Full agree, I don't think it is much new generation vs old, there are the same kind of great peoples.

But computer science really changed and grew. E.g. I strongly remember when I joined university 20 years or so ago how all tutors claimed how big our year is, and that before us everybody knew each other (profs/tutors/students), but now impossible. But still, 80-90% of the students that survived the first semesters just belonged there and would be great coders or computer scientists, with the right skills and ambitions. If you look nowadays, it is different and maybe more similar to other professions, and more 50/50 between those guys, and the other half which is ambitionless and/or just lack the skills, mindset, whatever, and would have better become something else. If you aks those some even freely admit they hate their job, but only drawn by the money.
This is gonna sound crazy but gasoline is not that much of a fire hazard. I’m speaking comparatively.

I used a gasoline stove for a while and it is bonkers how hard that thing is to light. You can spill the gas or do all sorts of things—the only thing I could do to get a fire out of it was to follow the instructions, exactly, and keep the stove perfectly level. I later learned that gasoline only burns if you keep the gasoline / air mixture within a narrow range. I know that gasoline is implicated in a lot of fires, but it’s also just so damn common and people are careless with it.

Powerful batteries scare me more, to be honest. Not a lot more, just a little. Not trying to fearmonger here. It’s just that I love those sparks and that fire, and have spent time playing with batteries and playing with gasoline or other flammable substances. If you short a battery, it will basically dump as much energy as it can, as fast as it can. It’s easier to accidentally short a battery.

Properly stored & maintained batteries are fine. I just get a little nervous holding a wrench, sometimes.
>Which is why any sane country would extend fair use to all of these things no questions asked, short of 1:1 replication.

if that was all they wanted to scrape, I wouldn't mind that. Reddit et al. would have an issue, but they don't exactly compensate commenters to begin with either.

But given that visual works are being copied and that they are being sued by NYT (who hired writers for over a century to produce what is now being scraped for free), it's clear that that wouldn't be enough.

>so does the guy who takes 20 public domain stories, publishes it as a collection on google books and sells it to me for 1 dollar.

curation is a lucrative business in the Information Era, so if there's no licensing issue I don't see the issue. I've spent days, weeks researching various problems and I'd happily pay a dollar for someone to collect a dozen good sources into one place to save me that time.

If all of OpenAI's content was public domain, there would be no lawsuit.
You did not, in fact, say "another".
Those could be a handy tool for law enforcement the image classification model could be trained to spot criminals?
I'm pretty sure there are mugshots from say a sex offender database, then the police just need to take those binoculars to a park… it would be like shooting fish and a barrel!
"Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands."

Engineering is all about fitting within your constraints. Make budget one of those limits and life will uh find a way.
I've been using one since about three or four years now with no problems at all - except for one site I was signing up to (I completely forget which) that didn't accept the email. But this was a number of years ago and I have never had a problem since. Also, no one has ever told me they never got my email due to spam filters (as of yet).
Tech layoffs 2024 live updates: Google, Amazon on fresh rounds of job layoffs
Linux kernel 6.7 brings new bcachefs file system
It was definitely a passion project for me. It was an AP CompSci Fundamentals class using code.org. Most just built games in code.org's JS app editor (since that was what we'd been using all year) but I had some programming experience and wanted to make something I was proud of.
Absolute steal for $100.

I hope some EU distributor for have it near this price.
Maybe you’re missing the point. This is like having a conversation with a nihilist. Yes objectively there is no meaning in the universe. It’s all made up. Now what? We have to move on from that. We live in fictions and narratives that are useful for our success. Just calling everything unethical isn’t useful beyond a dorm room mental exercise.
Not true at all. You can be fired anytime for any reason. You just are required to pay notice/severance. Unless you are unionized or part of a protected class.
Thats not Hue’s fault though, your friend should be better at planning and implementing their Hue implementation. Hue bulbs default to “normal on” when power is restored, and also work with sensors, dimmers, and switches.
Who’d sign their certificate?
As I pointed out in that thread, I wasn't able to track down the license of all required DLLs for the binary distribution.
H2O is a pretty robust storage solution for H2.

The bigger issue is scaling down cracking stations so you can use stranded electricity from solar and wind to generate the H2.
Oof. Somehow, I thought Cloudflare was a decent place to work at — well, I don't think that anymore. Even if it's 100% performance based or totally not so (layoffs), empathy is non-negotiable. You don't know what situation you're putting people in by laying them off. Sure, you can argue that “overpaid tech workers should have tons of savings so they should be fine” but it's not always the case. Not to mention the emotional side of things...
And here we go. If the storage problem is an issue, how are all these h2 cars getting refueled? And how is the h2 getting to them? And how is it stored before shipping?

It's not a problem. At all.
Completely different thing. The gist of the Boeing theory is that it was ruined by a finance-driven culture that resulted in cost-cutting away quality and safety.

"Enshittification" is not based on cost-cutting or optimizing for profits. It's when a product that's already "perfect" and widely used, has lots of money/effort invested in it to chase further growth, and the changes end up making the product worse for its existing userbase.
It might be a bet that interest rates drop this year, and you can sell the bonds for more in 12 months. You're not too concerned with what happens after that.
So interesting to learn about Prince, whose music was such a huge part of the world growing up in the 1990s
A lot of Lisp constructs like map and apply and macros have dedicated syntax in Mathematica, so they feel more like a fluent language. And the standard library is very large and impressively self-consistent. The default format is notebooks which helps make your work presentable.
The site is not running fine. Have you tried using twitter on mobile web? Go to twitter.com right now with your phone and try to play a couple videos. That's to say nothing of how bad the comment quality has become with paid accounts.

And the advertisers didn't just leave because of Musk's public comments. Musk didn't just fire engineers. He also fired the teams responsible for managing the accounts of major brands and keeping them happy (every business that sells ads employs account managers for good reason).

Twitter is absolutely doomed because Elon Musk nuked its entire business with no plan for how to make money. The company is now wildly unprofitable due to the collapse of ad revenue combined with its obligation to service the debt Elon saddled Twitter with through the acquisition. As soon as Musk gets bored of Twitter he'll sell it off to some C-tier media conglomerate for pennies on the dollar, which will conclude probably the single biggest individual financial blunder (measured by dollar-value-destruction) in the history of capitalism.
Every mention of Stephen Wolfram deserves a link to Cosma Shalizi's epic take-down of a review ("A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity"):
http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
My kids were at a Kiddie Academy for a while that was coincidentally down the street from a Google daycare. It was a pretty good experience at the time. Each room had at least one long time teacher (years). They eased them into the next room. But then management changed, they pushed those teachers out, we reported a couple ratio violations to the state, and we left. We tried to get the owners more involved (Kiddie Academy is a franchise), then we met the owners and thought maybe less involvement would be better...they got a decent director in the end but the damage was already done from our perspective.

Then my kids went to a Montessori style preschool. Small, run by the owner of 20+ years and a couple of long time staff members. That was great for us. The owner has since retired though and the school changed hands. Nothing lasts forever, I guess...
This is more a statement against managment than remote work
Sure. Yes. Wealth insulates. Firing the CEO before a lay-off is stupid; it means every hire is a job risk. If we want that, Europe has it better figured; socialise the risk of unemployment.
Gasoline is not much of a fire hazard. (Compared to other things like a 32 ampere spark right next to a lithium battery, at least.)
I've tried some advanced lighting at home, when I refurbished apartments in 2011-2018, before smart home became commodity, and quickly understood that I don't need any kind of these "advancements", because it adds little value but it fails a lot more often and needs an order of magnitude more maintenance.

Regarding lights, I understood any spot lights are nearly impossible to plan ahead correctly, and are used rarely. what is really needed is multiway switch for the ceiling light, and 2 levels (1 dim bulb for dim light, more bulbs for bright). The rest -- local spotlights, dimmers, adjustable hue -- add very little value, but need maintenance and are hard to repair (try finding a rotating knob for a dimmer). Use table-top lamp or one with a clamp to save space, with yellowish light for local lighting, same for bed light. That's it.

Using smartphone may have seemed ok when they were new in 2010. Now I see they're pain to use, apps live their own life, you have many distractions, and it often takes equal amount of time to walk to the switch to check/turn off, as to browse to it in the phone. Same if you have kids -- you get distracted out of the phone, but phone won't save you time, it's much harder to use smartphone with kids nearby.
yeah pretty tight with resources and requests keep flooding in. apologies for any inconvenience.
It's a side effect of the laptop efforts... Getting a price and margin that makes sense. Using the same tech in desktop form makes sense for a lot of people. A $600 or so desktop that can game albeit at lower settings is pretty impressive these days.
Identify the jailbirds!
So the idea is that MS would violate all their largest existing contracts, potentially committing criminal fraud along the way, in order to gain some marginal advantage in securing a few additional contracts later on? Does that sound like a sustainable business strategy?
Taiwan Party, Reviled by China, Battles to Prove Its Staying Power
It is every company in the United States. They are not supposed to say anything to avoid getting sued. Watch similar videos. You will hear HR not giving any information because any word is a risk of getting sued.
I don't have that one handy right this minute, but I just remembered that I did a different weather exploration with Mathematica about a year ago.

I had a hunch that Ironman triathlon was advertising their races as having cooler weather than they actually do. Turns out I was right -- here's my [slowtwitch post](https://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Tria...), and the [associated code](https://gist.github.com/latkin/470a2f06056ee0a8e3f4da837af10...).
Characterizing it as him having negotiated poorly conjures a vision of That One Scene in The Social Network ("You're gonna blame me because you were the business head of the company and you made a bad business deal with your own company?"), or perhaps Nelson Muntze ("Stop hitting yourself.")
You can trust open source, because it is transparent. You can verify, so you can trust. Perhaps it's time to start rolling back the layers of secrecy. Sunshine is and always will be the best disinfectant.
CodeRunner is a miracle (you need the beta for Sonoma).
Whistleblowing is an extreme edge case. What about simply a lazy non-performer? Can they still be fired? Is there just additional friction?
Hallucination is a terrible model for LLM factual errors, perhaps as terrible as I could think of. Most pharmacological true hallucinogens are all about the brain not being able to properly receive input (anticholingergics, e.g. diphenhydramine, BZ, cyclizine, etc) and misinterpreting it with additional neuronal functional degradation due to synaptic interference by neurotransmitters (or lack thereof). This isn't really the problem that LLMs have, which in my opinion is much more akin to classical confabulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
I did not know about this. But suddenly Eminems Without me text makes sense all these years after :)

Now let's go, just give me the signal

I'll be there with a whole list full of new insults

I've been dope, suspenseful with a pencil

Ever since Prince turned himself into a symbol
The Polestar 2's 0-60 time is 3.7 seconds. That is faster than a Ferrari F430.
I think what this article is saying is that there are so many companies that are run badly and whose costs have run out of control, that outside investors (PE companies in this case) see that they can run them much more efficiently (ie: much lower costs) and so it is worth their while to borrow the money to finance the purchase of these companies, even at high interest rates

Not sure why I was downvoted so much for this comment. The parent poster asked to have the article explained. I did my best to explain the article. I didn’t say I thought that PE firms doing this was a good or bad idea.

If you have a better explanation of the article then please comment yourself. I am here to learn from you too
https://archive.md/gmX1P
Ehh, there’s a lot that goes into it. Just because a physics engine is differentiable doesn’t mean that its gradients going to be useful. For example, if you look at Brax/Mujoco in JAX, the gradients generated by Mujoco are absolute garbage if you’re trying to train a robotics controller, but the more video-game like engines give pretty good results (see https://github.com/jiawei-ren/diffmimic).
It’s a fair hypothesis but is it true? Are companies actually replacing engineers with ChatGPT? I haven’t heard anything about this.
Mathematica is basically the M-Expression version of lisp that never developed. The real power isn't just in the symbolic capabilities but the mathematical library.
Thank you for helping give a voice to the trees that were silently falling in the woods because no one was around to listen to the sound.
>We access copyrighted material all the time though, as accessing copyrighted material is not always protected in the ways you describe.

sure, because there's an incentive to attract humans to view such content. It's advertising. Google images isn't built out of goodwill, but is now a target to optimize for to maximize human traffic to get human eyeballs to view ads (or paywalls) for humans consume more products. Having a bot come in ruins that, and the literal billions thrown at adtech to try to verify organic traffic shows that these bots are not desirable metrics for those who pay for ad space.

That perspective from a business lens shows the difference between a human viewing copyright material and a bot. Humans are monetization targets, bots are not. Humans can advertise for you to other humans, bots can't (well... not yet. But do we really want to be talking about ChatGPT ads this early in the LLM era?)
> The lsof command is used to list the information about running processes in the system and can also be used to list the file descriptor under a specific PID.

> For that, use the “-d” flag to specify a range of file descriptors, with the “-p” option specifying the PID. To combine this selection, use the “-a” flag.

> $ lsof -a -d 0-2147483647 -p 11472

That works. A nicer way to do it:

htop > F3 (search by name to find the process) > Enter (to select) > L (open the list of file descriptors) > F4 (filter by resource name)

It lists all open files and other resources of the process.
look. this is going to sound unpopular but is there a study that compares effects of alcohol in general as compared to non alcohol consuming nations?

like around 1.2-1.5 billion people who call themselves muslims abstain from alcohol so there should be significantly less effects of the diseases associated with alcohol consumption in those places.

like i can say this with certainty, in my city, there is NEVER DUI accidents. We just have never heard of them. Same for alcohol induced Cirrhosis. We just don't have that. Neither do we have alcohol overdose or an alcohol epidemic that requires assistance of alcoholic anonymous and other groups. Those problems simply do not exist so that is something objective i can share without a need for a study
I don't think the US is ready for a compressed gas powered car. Natural gas vehicles are basically gone except for some fleets, and there was already extensive distribution of natural gas. The fuel tanks on compressed gas cars expire, and chances are it won't be economical to replace them; it certainly wasn't economical to replace natural gas tanks when I was looking circa 2016. When cars are lasting longer and longer, having a 15 or 20 year ceiling on the life of a vehicle that's not connected to the amount of use is a problem. EV batteries might wear out over time, but that's more connected to number of charge cycles than how much time has passed.

Maybe it took too long, but we've got a single standard for high powered charging going forward, and I think J1772 is universal for PHEVs and slow charging of EVs. Eventually, people running charging networks will figure out how to keep their machines working and add card readers. My favorite broken charger is the wireless ones --- someone has run off with the cable, but hey the advertising display still works.