skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that plenty of US companies have also announced layoffs, but Bosch is not a US company and these layoffs are mostly in Germany, so what does one have to do with the other?

The BLS publishes the most current data industry-by-industry. Transportation Equipment Manufacturing, which Motor Vehicle parts companies like a Bosch are a sub-sector of, is here: https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag336.htm

It would be appear the unemployment rate of last month in that industry is 1.2%.

The data series app is a bit confusing, but if you enter the ID CEU3133600003 into https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet, you can get wage growth. The last four years seems to have gone from $33.40 per hour in January of 2020 to $39.56 in December 2023. That is up 18.4%. CPI is up 18.9% in that same period, so I guess that is basically a wash.
Fingers crossed it's another attempt along the "We're building the Metaverse and it's gonna be awesome and a great success because everyone is into VR now and it's not an overhyped fad like all the others before until some other crap replaces it". Facebook spent $36 billion on Metaverse, let's hope it spends double on AI and changes it's name to Aimmerse before that other crap makes it obsolete.
I hate pages like this.

It literaly doesn't tell you how they do it.

But i lost interest at the price tag of 9600
You don’t need a math heavy background to do most ML/AI tasks. In fact I would say you don’t need much of a prior background. Just a desire to learn, tinker and experiment, just like most of software engineering
Sure seems like pessimism is becoming prevalent in the US tech industry. I'm reminded of Tony Soprano explaining his depression to his psychiatrist: "It's good to be in something from the ground floor. I came too late for that and I know. But lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over". I think that attitude is going around and it's quite sad. VR and AI show incredible promise to me and I think we have plenty of innovations ahead of us
He regrets “killing” other’s dreams about working on his file system.

He’s a psychopath. The whole write up does not discuss anything that was asked and he just wants recognition and fame for inventing something (queryable file system) that was already released long before that, namely BeFS, by the real file system god, Dominic Giampaolo who also wrote APFS
Verification questions are based on credit history - addresses, vehicles, family members, etc - not browsing history so this is a non-issue.
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> I'm often surprised when posters identify themselves as "European" which encompasses such a broad range of cultures, biotypes, and ecosystems that it makes any comparison of the US way vs the European way virtually impossible.

Many people in Europe do indeed identify as European. This has become more and more prevalent as people increasingly move around in Europe. I'd also argue that you are ignoring the cultural differences in the US (e.g. New Jersey vs Utah) something which I find Europeans are often guilty of.

> That said, when looking at the reasons for fire safety in the U.S., there are many factors to consider which may or may not apply in parts of Europe

> -- Frequency of wildfires. They are not uncommon in my southwest corner, so fire safety is taken very seriously

We are talking about multi (>4) story, multi family apartment buildings, how are wildfires relevant?

> -- Proximity of emergency services. It can't be assumed that the local fire department is a few minutes drive away

Again we are not talking about requirements for some cottage in the woods, these are city buildings. The whole argument is for buildings where you have space constraints.

> -- Building materials. Materials that are fire-proof are rarely earthquake proof.

Again I don't see the relevance, we are talking about a national building code, but only a tiny fraction of US cities are earthquake zones. The article also asserts that most Asian countries (which presumably includes Japan) have only one stairwell requirements.

> Any of these may or may not apply in any particular case but "embafflement" seems pretty extreme.

I actually agree if one needs to grasp for straws like these for reasons for the 2 stairwell rule, it is pretty baffling. The article actually nicely described the history and why it's outdated.
There is no point to make sure C/C++ 100% compatible and also you can not as of now.
This is quite the amazing resource, I have bookmarked it.

Unfortunately, there is a formatting problem about 5% into that renders the rest of the page somewhat garbled. And it is a closed wiki, so I can't just create an account and fix it.
Meanwhile both SQL (and more recently Python) have tokens that are keywords in certain contexts and regular identifiers in others.
And you'd charge the nuclear extra too because, despite what the people here who seem to hate renewables more than they like nuclear believe, the energy delivered by nuclear is not magic and needs to be matched to demand too.

Which is why we've built pumped hydro and implemented Time of Use pricing for many decades to help nuclear energy integrate well with the grid.
Also US more or less export controlled CNC to China, boosting German, Japanese and even Taiwanese machine tool industry massively since China bought many from them.
> I think the devs who struggle are mostly the ones who are trying to get hired by larger established software companies such as, but not limited to, FAANG.

I had plenty of trouble, and I mostly interviewed at exactly those kind of small companies. I landed at least the first interview for a third of what I sent out (better than most, from what I've seen here on HN), and after going through the entire process what I've heard back several times is that they think I'd be a great fit, but that they've got more good candidates than what they know what to do with and someone else was just a slightly better fit.
Recent and related:

FAQ on Leaving Google - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39034277 - Jan 2024 (291 comments)
There are services that do this by using GDPR rights. I think they scan email for "Welcome" emails, then automate the account deletion as far as possible.

We get about 5 emails a year at work through these services, as we don't have a "delete account" button.
Is there a way to like emit energy in a narrow beam from a bunch of different angles around a central target such that they only overlap in the center/target and the frequencies resonate in that location in such a way to reach a higher frequency past which there is a destructive effect but below which is safe and non-destructive?

/knows nothing about physics
> "this is amazing" and also "this can never last". A

I think a lot of people seem to want to tie these things to greater tech industry trends but I don't think it applies (people that claim x, y z was a ZIRP etc).

I feel like that ignores the fact that most companies were never this generous! I never even got bananas at my last company!
Does this guy just have too much time on his hands?

Yes centifeet is almost as good as centimeters, but we don't USE centifeet! We use inches. and we don't use milliinches, we use 1/4s, 1/8ths and 1/16ths.

The problem is that the IMPERIAL units don't use powers of ten. They don't use any consistent base. There's a mix of 1/12ths, 1/5280ths, 1/32nds, etc. It's a total cluster fuck.

The whole article seems to just be some kind of troll bait...
I've been at Google since 2015 and it is nothing like that. I've never met another Googler that actually has a 20% project (though there are many internal tools that are widely used that are stated as being unsupported as they are only 20% projects).
The war on drugs has also helped the US balance powers in foreign countries. The illegal drug trade funnels money into foreign government corruption and crime syndicates, which destabilizes their governments and economies. There have even been recent examples of the US intervening in foreign elections with the result that drug lords end up seizing control of the government.

In addition to keeping potential rival countries from getting back on their feet, this creates humanitarian crises that are a root cause of a lot of the legal and illegal immigration into the US. That creates a cycle where they can take away even more rights domestically.
I don't follow... If the content isn't good enough to pay for, why would you want to support its creator?
I don't think so, though the team culture might differ orgs to orgs. Engineers still have a relatively strong voice compared to other companies though.
Even the supposedly indie anti-social social media outright violated their own manifesto. Is it any surprise that we're skeptical of the big promises of a bright future that corporations make all the time?

I'm curious to know if anyone has evidence of a post similar to this but for a company with a (so far) happy ending.
You saved $35 a month but spent 3x as much time maintaining and tweaking your self hosting. I guess we know how much your time is worth!
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If you are thinking of SOTA as just recall that's a bit different than if you are thinking about other performance considerations in real-world data sets.

For example, IVF generally requires that you process the entire dataset in order to build the index, so it doesn't become searchable for some time.

HNSW and DiskANN can be built incrementally so you can start searching them immediately.

Here's a short blog that talks about some hard problems in vector search and how to solve them.

As many have mentioned, DiskANN often outperforms HNSW. HNSW seems to be the standard that most vectorDBs are going with.

https://thenewstack.io/5-hard-problems-in-vector-search-and-...
Ah yes, halcyon days before the interest rate crisis.
No one likes working on lame projects, I feel like canceling projects is a symptom of the engineering driven product culture of a place. Maintenance and flat growth is not something I personally like to work on.

These products aren’t canceled because they are doing great
Not at all. The MBAs have taken over at this point and expectations are far too aggressive for anything like 20% time to exist. The rule of thumb is that they give so much work that even if we only complete 80% of it, that should be considered "meeting expectations".

I've heard people refer to 20% projects now as "120% projects".
You know in advance you should polish your resume and start looking for better alternatives maybe.
Toastmasters Members' Speeches Page
I started building an open source private blogging system[1] when my first kid was born, and it eventually evolved into the skeleton of a social network--but fully decentralized using RSS and self- (or paid-) hosting. I concluded the only way for a network to actually avoid selling out was for there to be nothing to sell. If I give away the software, and don't control the network then there is no need for users to trust me. It continues to be an interesting journey as a side-project (not raising money means I'm still working a day-job).

[1]: https://havenweb.org
No, dark and light mode does work. I haven't used wake lock api so can't check.
Of course it is not realistic. To reduce housing crisis mean to decrease demand, to decrease prices of already built houses. No one will vote for that. Housing situation will be only worse.
> Like, if their practices were so inferior, then any domestic firm that didn’t get taken over by them should’ve had a leg up and could’ve dominated the domestic market.

There aren't infinite firms. Plus in the article, the previous paragraph goes into how the tooling industry was being bought up by conglomerates so the finite firms became even easier to count.

A company fitting your argument is Telsa. The existing firms weren't willing to canabalize their existing product lines so they didn't invest into EVs and now a domestic firm is eating at their market share. However, "Who killed the electric car?" is from 2006, there has been a lot of pent up demand for EVs that no domestic firm was selling to.

However, something also fitting your argument is Moneyball [1][2]. It's not until the 2002 season that teams start to use statistics to determine who to staff their roasters? The League is from 1876; it took 126 years of baseball before a team figured out how to use math!

> Don’t you think the more likely source of “pressure” was the international suppliers who had lower costs?

Well, the article agrees in that it says "By now, tools from Japan and other countries were as good as or better than US tools, not to mention cheaper and more reliable.".

However, R&D was also being cut prior to this so if you don't do any R&D and your products become uncompetitive it's probably because R&D was cut.

> Was the policy to outsource everything, or liberalize markets and let firms and consumers more freely choose where to buy things from?

Well, don't forget there are winners and losers when trading.

In this case the losers are the American Tooling Industry; the winners were everybody that bought from them lol.

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I do think this growth every quarter is a big problem though. The early observers of business cycle all noticed that it has its ups and downs. Pretending that there won't be a down and fudging the numbers so that you don't have any downs is going to cause future problems. Delivering not-finished lathes counts to me as fudging the numbers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball_(film)
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabermetrics
Most cancer papers in the literature: "We found a new way to kill cells. Maybe it will kill cancer cells better than normal cells!"
Russia hacked ex-MI6 chief's emails, they reveal more Dad's Army than deep state
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The pinnacle of human achievement in our time is harnessing fossil fuels to replace biomass and whale oil as primary energy sources, enabling massive fertilizer synthesis (cheaper and more plentiful food), cheap concrete and steel production, and plastics. I'm pretty sure those plastics, and maybe even a PowerGlove, will still be around in landfills to be dug up in centuries to come.

I hate that I have to put the disclaimer here that there are obviously costs to the planet and us for this achievement, but it is undoubtedly what characterizes the age we live in (late-19th century forward) in a way that is arguably (if not self-evidently) heretofore unseen in all of human history.
The point was that Europe has all of these but no double staircases.

Don’t want to comment on missing emergency services in densely built areas but hope it isn’t the case it’s so bad you need an extra flight of stairs.
MBAs are fine, honestly. I have a manager who came up in the industry he works in. He worked at the 'coal-face', understands the issues and has real perspective. He got an MBA later in his career and uses what he learned from that to more effectively communicate up the chain and has some new ideas that he filters through his industry experience to make his team more effective.

Children who get an MBA before getting a job and think they have some magic sauce that solves problems for an industry without respecting the work that's been done and knowing why those problems exist to begin with (maybe they're trade-offs? For a real reason?) are a problem, as are the clueless twats who listen to their breathless assertions as though they carry any weight.
What's the Most Underrated Whiskey?
All the time:

"Text $WIFE_NAME I'm on my way home"

"Directions to $DESTINATION"

"[Set a] Timer [for] 15 minutes"

"Call $CONTACT" or "Call $PLACE"

etc.

These are usually done while I'm driving or on the move, or otherwise don't feel like scrunching up my thumbs to type or to look at a screen
The cost of porcelain is similarly constrained by labor, energy cost, and space.

I learned a lot from a domestic slip-casting company as a kid. It taught me big heavy things are not economical to ship, and thus remain locally competitive in a global market even when competitors are 100% subsidized. Amazon shifted this calculus a bit, but is still constrained by energy/fuel costs.

The power of plastic is automated cycle times under 45 seconds, minimum infrastructure needs, and shipping weight. In a way, Tesla Giga Press technology leverages similar strategies for Aluminum parts.
Spectrum upgraded my connection recently to 100/10 (Louisville, KY area). I had an SB6183 and the download speed was around 65 Mb/s. They sent me a new modem and the speed went to right at 100 Mb/s.

If a SB6183 couldn't do 100 Mb/s, I think there's no way a SB6141 could do 300 Mb/s, so yeah, I'd get Spectrum to send you a new one. They mailed mine at no cost and I self-installed it (without going through their stupid phone app; I had to call them instead).
> Side loading exists on Android, but good luck foregoing the Play Store for some third party store or even marketing yourself. It exists, sure, but it does not eliminate Googles similar (but weaker) value proposition.

Google recently lost an antitrust case over this. They allow the alternatives on paper and then suppress them from becoming viable.

In general to make this argument you would need to explain why the platform company would be the only store the users trust. Why Google but not Microsoft or Disney or Samsung or Amazon or Epic or Mozilla and so on?

> It is really hard to make a naive user (like a child) completely screw their iPhone.

This could be straightforwardly solved by allowing the device to be put into a mode where no new stores can be added without a passcode or a factory reset. Then the parent or IT department or what have you chooses a set of stores that they trust and the naive user can't add any, but the owner of the device can.
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Well, was only 5-10 years late for a database-like file system..
I think it would be less about the range and more about camping and remote locations for myself. So if you need to power a little mini-fridge or keep your car alive while you go out on a long term hike it could do that.

Trying to use it exclusively to charge your car for long distance driving would be pretty painful. Only about 8-9mph.
Mrs. Harris, Elon, Sundar and others told me they stole resources and artifacts from Jordan and other countries, utilizing that space technology and left bloodshed you will never hear or see about due to biomimicry and very restricted technology. They even lost elite USA military secretive units which I hope is not true.
Thank you for the warning about Dr. Hossenfelder and for the information about the technology,

but we have not effected any blind endorsement. Just informed of a consistent parallel piece, esp. after the coincidence, which may be useful in itself - or just interesting.
That's already what happens, that's why it's so expensive. You usually have an all included costs on one side and whatever minimum the private company could get away with legally on the other side.
Thanks! Max's cofounder chiming in here.

1) There's an interesting subtlety in the phrase "the correct question-answer pairs". While we don't often find factually incorrect pairs because of how we're running the pipeline, the bigger question is whether or not the pairs we generated are "the" correct ones -- if they are relevant and helpful. This takes some manual tweaking at the moment.

Inconsistent outputs over different runs are definitely an issue, but most teams we've worked with barely even have the CI/CD practice to be able to measure that rigorously. As we mature we'll aim to tackle flakiness of tests (and models) over time, but a bigger challenge has been getting regular tests like these set up in the first place.

2) In this scenario, we go to the documents powering a RAG application to both generate and grade answers. For example, the knowledge base might know that (1) product A is being recalled, and (2) customer #4 is asking for a warranty claim on product A. Using those two bits of information, we might generate a scenario that tests whether or not customer #4 gets the claim fulfilled. In other words, specific user information is simulated/used during the test set creation.
You might ask why I posted this to HN. You know how many programmers cross the Canadian border everyday from Windsor to work at Detroit area companies?

This particular tussle is a spat with a union over wages. So the hospital has hired Canadians at what is a higher wage for them but less than the hospital has to pay unionized workers.

But what is to stop the current or a future administration from using this law to block programmers from crossing the border?
I’ve been bitten by the restart limit many times. Our application server (backend) was crash looping, newest build fixed the crash, but systemd refused to restart the service due to the limit. A subtle but very annoying default behavior.
Its always amazing to me to think that we used to just dress up in metal armor (if we were lucky) and then just charge into each other and hack someone to pieces in the mud. All because some dude born to another dude with a crown told us to. With zero anti biotics. Some dirt poor guy just trying to grow carrots to feed his family gets forced conscripted and sent off to die for something he has nothing to do with.

Incredible that today besides having antibiotics we are essentially still doing the same thing.
Even a quarter is a huge area. Using the "safety buffer" radius of 425m, that is 560k m2 or 140 acres. A quarter of that is 35 acres, for 30 kW.

For regular wind turbines, it's 30-70 acres per MW generated. That is 20x-40x more power for the same land area. And almost all the land under a wind turbine is freely usable.
> Nearly every Google technology you know (maps, earth, gmail) started out as somebody's 20% project, I think.

"Google Maps began as a C++ desktop program developed by brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application."

"In 2004 Google bought Keyhole Inc., which was partially funded by the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel. Keyhole had developed an online mapping service that Google rebranded in 2005 as Google Earth."

"Gmail was a project started by Google developer Paul Buchheit, who had already explored the idea of web-based email in the 1990s, before the launch of Hotmail, while working on a personal email software project as a college student. Buchheit began his work on Gmail in August 2001."
It seems like most jobs will be cut in Germany, so employee representatives must be involved and there will be negotiations.
From one internet stranger to another, I wish you a speedy recovery friend!
I used percentages so the text bar and Send button should fill up the full width on any device. I saw the same thing happen before updating the Kindle version. I wonder if they haven't rolled out the upgrade for Oasis yet.
Didn't we already learn that K-9 mostly take cues from their handler rather than actually working?

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/20/563889510/preventing-police-b...

https://www.animallaw.info/article/cueing-and-probable-cause...
They'd notice a couple thousand of these if they were to vanish or never arrive. Anything less is fairly meaningless for major economies.

China for example needs epic scale numbers of GPUs to power its economy going forward. The equivalent of many millions of H100s for a $20 trillion economy looking to advance rapidly.

Given the restricted production globally (Nvidia production bottleneck, with only a few places on earth that can produce something like this), until China can produce their own very high-end GPUs their economy is going to be held back by the lack of capacity. Tens of thousands of high-end GPUs slipping through isn't going to cut it, that simply doesn't matter very much.

You can prevent China from getting a million H100s. You can't prevent them from getting ten thousand of them from many different sources over time.