skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anything is painful it's the complete bag of shit the Apple Music app is. Spotify doesn't have the best UI, but it's a lot less infuriating to navigate.

You can't expect Apple to integrate every music service on the HomePod and I don't see how that's related with the App Store.
If you want Spotify there are lots of other speakers with Spotify connect and no Apple Music - should they be regulated too or is it just about punishing Apple?
No, Wall St. joined the party 15 years late and allowed retail investors to get a 10,000x return before buying it on behalf of their clients.
> What about "forgetting" to attend a 10 minute meeting?

The instances of people not attending standups I've seen were just symptoms of a larger problem, and such people did not last long in the company.
As others have said, rewrite the CV. It's not clear to me who you are and what kind of role would best suit you. Put a summary at the top making clear what you are best at and what kind of role you are looking for. Summarize your skills and achievments. Consider using simple graphics. eg List of tech skills rated with slide bar from expert to familiar understanding.
The counter point to that, is that in order to get AGI you will need long term memory.

In which case we will design a long term memory at first to gather the benefits that came come AGI.
Thus completely missing the point of this product’s entire existence and value proposition. This is not helpful and bordering on snarky. ‘Take note’ that people are well aware of the existence of other messaging services. They don’t want them. They want iMessage. The kid saying that they’re using “Tox on a Google Pixel running GrapheneOS” is sitting by themselves during recess whether you like it or not.
According to Youtuber Techmoan there is only one company making actual cassette playback mechanisms anymore and the mechanisms are not great. Any device claiming to be able to play standard audio cassettes sold in recent years is built on one of these barely acceptable mechanisms.

Does anyone have a counterfactual to that?

edit: typo
> For one thing an 18 wheeler has 10 brakes, not 18. So that's an obvious thing to fix.

That sounds like it would make a huge difference, yes.

> The weight of the truck acts as an acceleration force when going downhill. The tire friction of a car and truck is the same - but then the truck has extra force trying to accelerate the vehicle when it's downhill.

So does the weight of the car. I don't understand this logic. Every pound that's giving you acceleration is also giving you extra tire friction.

A car and a truck should theoretically lose the same number of meters per second squared of stopping force when going down a hill. If the truck started with weaker brakes then it loses a bigger percentage of stopping force, exacerbating the already-existing problem, but if you find a truck and a car with equal stopping distance on flat ground then they should have equal stopping distance on a slope, shouldn't they?
Not at all. They're currently doing some playtesting with computational biology labs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230514180550/https://dynamicla...
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I'm not sure what the parent was referring to, I'm just clarifying how regression to the mean works, ie just because something was higher than average one year, doesn't mean you can expect it to be lower than average the next year (you can always expect it to be average).
In Taiwan there is a variation of 飯糰/rice balls shaped like a triangle but no seaweed wrapping, usually with 肉鬆 (pork floss) in the middle, which have been around forever as a breakfast item. The Japanese type wrapped in seaweed with better ingredients started popping up in 7-elevens about 15 or 20 years ago, and are known as 日式飯糰 ("Japanese food rice balls"). I think they cost about NT$40-50, or around US$1.50. It's not enough for a meal, but as a snack they're great.
Which cities are doing this which don't have good mass transit options as one of the "or something" ways to get into town?
A NAS typically doesn’t use or support connecting to a PC over USB, that would be DAS(direct attached storage), but even then they don’t support connecting to multiple PCs simultaneously.
As I said above, an interview isn’t about trying to determine if you were solely responsible for the outcome at your previous job. Obviously any intelligent person knows that it’s a complex situation, and that it may not translate directly to the new company.

The point is to convey that you’re capable of providing some value to the company, should you be hired. It’s like being on a championship football team: sure, you weren’t solely responsible for winning. But being apart of winning team is certainly a lot more impressive than just listing your dribbling and passing skills.

I think you are taking this entirely too literally and missing the forest for the trees. The simple point being made is that communicating your value is easier when you go beyond the basic Skills and Experience CV that every average candidate slavishly sticks to. It doesn’t need to be an exact calculation, it just needs to convey that you’ve achieved something.
Depends on load. Somewhere around $20-40? Assuming idle around 80-120w, and another 100w for the e-waste drives in their pictured listing.
I assume you're talking about the front-page job ads described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/jobguide.html?

I've been meaning to look at the data to see what needs to be tightened or cleaned up there. Currently the rule is that active YC companies can have an ad at most once per two weeks (as you saw), with the caveat that priority is always given to the company that has waited the longest since their last ad or have never posted one before.

We don't monitor the accuracy of the ad content nor how the companies respond to applicants—not that those things aren't important, but we don't have the resources to check them.
It does ruin the aesthetic of it though
Could another party replay this case, and they would have to settle again?
The only negative of studying in the US is that it is becoming close to impossible to stay long term after your degree to work due to the outdated work visa process.

But your other option is to move to Germany, which you can still do after getting a US degree. So you seem to belong to one of the rare categories that I think should study in the US - globally
mobile and not super tied to staying in the US after getting their degree.

The only other category is if someone are genuinely brilliant i.e. companies would fight to keep you even if that involves dealing with a crazy visa process.
Google would not be able to create any of the products now that made it what it is today. It's the classic IBM playbook.
Yeah I've seen this a lot and while I understand the whole "hire slow, fire fast" mentality, there's a point where you've got to bite the bullet and take a chance.
Actual words were easier for the telegraph operator to send and receive so they were charged less than a scramble of letters or nonsense. Words were charged individually, but could be up to 10 letters long. It makes sense to avoid the shortest words to get some error correction, "— ." = "T E" could be misheard as "—." = "N".

The international regulations limited the cheaper rate messages to only certain languages, of which one was Latin, so the codebooks used that to avoid confusion with modern languages.

(See my other comment and read the introduction in the linked book.)
Perhaps the supply outgrew the demand? Why not start your own tech startup and hire the newly large supply of engineers? This is my opinion, as I'm looking for a cofounder (one or more).
Is google waiting to get purchased by Microsoft or something? I don’t understand what they’re turning into at this point.
Yes, it's how they will collect the datasets they need to train the robot to do tasks autonomously. So it is important and valuable.
Car prices have been falling regularly for the past ~2 years: https://site.manheim.com/en/services/consulting/used-vehicle...
Section 174 is not being discussed by many startups and their experiences are not being shared. I am curious about the cost of becoming a no-brainer in economics again for engineers in both the US and abroad.
I think the original poster is Aliaksei Zholner [https://www.youtube.com/@nothingssmore] who makes a lot of impressive things out of paper (like engines)
> In Realtalk, most of that code falls away – provided that you represent your objects as individual physical pages. Once you have physical pages, you automatically get the operations of the physical world: placing and picking up objects, moving and grouping objects in space, pointing objects at each other, and so on.

This was the key part that helped me click into what was special about what Dynamicland was doing. Instead of implementing lists, it just relies on the physical world to "implement" lists for you.
Pathetic. The last remaining gasp of any chance at anything innovative ever coming from Google again, over a decade of work, being tossed out to juice some quarterly numbers.
What is a "staff retention project"? Companies don't generally spin up 400-employee divisions just so they can keep hold of employees.

This was clearly intended to eventually replace Android and ChromeOS. The layoffs are likely because someone high up freaked out about how many people were working on a very very long term strategic project.

I would guess dropping native Chrome is because it's a ton of work and they don't need it, at least not for a long time. They can use Flutter for embedded devices, and if they support Android they can just run Chrome for Android.
As if a cybertruck is somehow more dangerous than other trucks? It’s neither the heaviest, nor does it have the highest hood (the #1 pedestrian death rate predictor). Trucks are awful but CT is not the biggest offender lol.
There is a conflation of factors that have lead to this.

1. Stricter safety and emissions regulations that make new cars more expensive to make.

2. Supply chain issues making new cars more expensive.

3. New cars are expensive so people are holding onto their used cars longer, shrinking that market.

4. Cars are much more computerized than before, so it's hard to fix up old cars and make them work again.

5. Teens used to be able to take auto-shop and learn enough to fix up an old shitbox to use for their first few working years.

6. It's hard to find an old shitbox anymore, even one that is easy to fix, because people are holding onto them until they die.

I'm not sure what the solution is here. The safety and emissions regs are there for a reason, but those are what lead to all the other problems.

We just need to design our society for fewer cars, but that change will take a while.
If I had to pair-program, I'd probably call in sick. And if this was a repeated demand, I'd eventually just quit.

To me, this is one of the worst ways to work. I very much prefer to communicate in writing, and at prearranged times. To me, the idea that there's another person working with me on the same problem at the same time is as absurd as having another person cooking in the same kitchen with me, or painting on the same canvas as me. Whatever result I can produce on my own, it will be ten times worse if I had to do it with someone else working on the same problem with me.
The weird thing about Fuchsia is that it's been public for at least eight years. In that time Google has gone through several messaging apps - like, launched them, got bored with them, launched a successor, and killed the original, multiple times over. All for an OS they only shipped on one weird voice-assistant-with-a-screen appliance.
The used car market has come down quite a bit since last year, especially since early last year.
> If a federal employee is accidentally overpaid, the government can only recoup 16.67% of the amount of the overpayment per paycheck pay period.

Very curious to hear the story of that rule
> on premise have no idea how much the salary costs of someone

I haven’t yet meet anyone at a company that heavily uses cloud and still doesn’t have the same number of salaried infra people as on-prem.
The team is all agreed on the importance of such a write up at some point — but it’s not clear we’ve experienced all the fun stuff as of yet.
Was hoping for secret treasure, but that was still very interesting. Thank you for the post.
I love onigiri, but find it difficult to make them into triangles, I got frustrates one day, threw all the ingredients into a bowl and stirred, and I have enjoyed Onigiribowl(patent pending/s) ever since.
This has nothing to do with Boeing, and simply puts the coincidence that they were both Boeings in the title to get clicks. Shameful.
Celery is one of the main vegetables in mirepoix (an essential part of French and French-influenced cooking), soffritto (an essential part of Italian cooking used for most sauces), and is also used in many soups, stocks, and stews. I think you like it a lot more than you realize; you're just only thinking of eating it whole, raw.
IMHO yes.

Objectively, those people are normalizing performance-enhancing drugs and the usual vicious cycle that goes with it.

Less objectively, they also tend to be the typically soul-less nerds who have made the technology industry so malicious.
I don't see anywhere in the GP a suggestion that anything in their criticism is directed at Ars Technica...
Global warming is small, you mostly notice a difference in how many days the snow stays. So in northern hemisphere the snow might be gone a couple of weeks earlier now than a century ago, but it will of course still snow just as much as before during the winter.

But that also means that for places where the snow barely stayed before now you will often not see snow at all.
I'm on macOS, there's no updated binaries available from ungoogled-chromium: https://ungoogled-software.github.io
Again, worth pointing out that none of this fructose stuff is really operable, because there isn't a mainstream "low-fructose" sugar that anyone uses as a sweetener†. As you acknowledged across the thread: HFCS is (if not chemically identical) bioavailably the same thing as cane sugar.

† Other sugars get used for functional reasons other than sweetening, of course.
Huh! Did not expect to see Irwin Shaw on HN in a million years. Bread Upon the Waters is arguably his best work. Please give it a read if you have plenty of time to kill. Very long & engrossing. Basically, its a novel-length version of rayiner's rants, but way more entertaining. You realize why family-first is good, individualism bad, what happens if you substitute material success for family stability, etc. etc. - old fashioned moralizing in a convincing package. Cast your Bread Upon the Waters, for you will find it after many days. Not.
The article says that they ended up changing the language in their marketing/contracts, presumably to make it more lawsuit-proof. The plaintiff lawyers also settled, which suggests their case isn't a slam dunk. Given the two factors suing again is probably a very risky proposition.
Assuming he's not immortal, I wouldn't be surprised if after Tom Cruise dies, his estate (Scientology?) will keep making Tom Cruise movies.
I just hope someday they find that engineer! They've been looking for him for years.

Maybe they should be required to re-word it once a month or once every 6 months. After awhile I start to be put off by the company's name just because of the perpetual noticing.
I don't mind the opinion "it's better than homebrew"

The thing is, everything is tradeoffs. In some ways I'm sure Nix is better than homebrew.

If you want to compel me to try it, tell me why you think it's better than homebrew so I can understand if it solves problems that I also have.

That's what bothers me, I know not everyone uses my stack and I do love hearing about what others are doing differently but please please please tell me why you think it's better.

Simply saying "Vim is better than standard editors" is pointless, saying "Vim keyboard shortcuts have an extremely steep learning curve, but, once the new way of thinking becomes second nature to you, you will find that you can do things far faster than before. This is especially useful for me personally as the 'context switching' from mouse->keyboard->mouse->keyboard->mouse was an extremely limiting factor for how quickly I can work and Vim (in particular Vim keybindings -- I use them in VSCode today) allows me to keep my fingers on the keyboard for more time before I do something which /requires/ the mouse, this makes me more productive. That said, the only way to learn that was to force myself to use Vim and no other editors which resulted in what was probably a 2-3 week period where I was completely useless, but, ultimately 15 years later I'm sure I've made that time back tenfold."
Some notes on voice cloning since everyone seems to be wrong about both how it works and its potential impact on the industry:

- Voice cloning has many good open-source implementations so it's possible for any new company to spin up easily. (the "moat" is having a higher-quality model)

- Most implementations of voice cloning only require 10 seconds of clean audio, so they can be obtained quickly.

- Implementations like the open-source projects and ElevenLabs do not train a model; instead it creates an encoding which represents a person's voice, and is what is stored/loaded. The encoding is used with a "base model" (trained on an often-secret dataset due to legal liability) for the generations. It also makes it difficult to narrow down which voice is used if a malicious voice is used in the wild.

- As with all AI models, it's infeasible to remove a voice from the base model without retraining it.

- The audio output of SaaS voice clone models are 44.1kHz, which is CD quality. Voice acting tends to require much higher quality audio for mastering. Open source models are much lower quality.

On the ethics of voice cloning:

- Modern voice acting tends to be collaborative process between the actor and the audio director/producers to get the best performance.

- Current AI-generated voices cannot display contextual and important nuance, such as pauses and tone inflections. These often aren't things that can be added post-production.

- Voice actors tend to be contractors, with the clients being the company and "owning" the performance. Voice actors alone don't have legal leverage to get voices taken down, although companies like Rockstar do.

- Of course, getting the audio to say embarrassing things could land the voice actor in hot water with the company, especially those less tech-savvy.

And, as of last week, some observations from the SAG-AFTRA deal:

- Replica Studios notably doesn't have a individual-oriented product, instead requiring a significant cost and is more intended for teams.

- Replica Studios apparently doesn't encode the voice and does a full finetune of the model on a new voice.
Oh wow, you weren't kidding: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

First post for founding engineer #3 was back in June 2022.
Easy Post is the one I’ve seen constantly and consistently over several years. I assume it’s a growth hack where they just constantly have their name in front of HN eyeballs
Consider IT-adjacent work where your skills will support your tasks. It's a radically different experience from closing Jira tickets all day.

Working as a software developer killed my love for programming, but after moving to something else, it became fun again. Applying my tech skills to supporting immigrants is fun, because it directly supports my goals. It's a lot more fun than supporting abstract business goals.

I also think that small scale software dev is more fun because there's a lot less scaffolding around it. This is why it's so fun to throw things together for a small number of users.
You're welcome!

What now? Well, economics isn't really that complex.

Rule 1. Don't print money - it distorts the natural flow of information and incentives through the market, leading to misallocations.

Rule 2. Get rid of fractional reserve banking. It's an unnatural privilege that other companies would be forbidden from engaging in (it's considered fraud if you don't have a banking license). This forces all interest bearing investment to take place through funds that expose their actual risks and liquidity constraints to investors.

When it's possible to save money risk free because banks can't loan it out and there's no monetary inflation, the moral hazard evaporates and you can allow funds to collapse if they make persistently bad investments. There is no longer any need for bank bailouts.

Recessions can still happen in such a world, because mass hysteria and utopian thinking is a part of human nature. There's no law you can pass to stop people getting over-excited about dotComs or AI startups. You just have to let people work out the true value of these things themselves.
Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses
To make the person who wronged you feel extra guilty and disgraced in the eyes of the community.
yeah with those ridiculous loans a car becomes dramatically more expensive while appearing to be affordable. It's very triggering to me when I ask a salesman about the price of a car and they reply with "what do you want your monthly payment to be?". Interest rates and those long term auto loans are just gas on the debt fire.
I also have a fleet of R720s and can confirm BloodyIron's numbers. Average draw is around 150 watts.
That's definitely possible, the beeper mini case will be used in courts against Apple, that's for sure.
https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started/Tutorial.html
I’d argue theyre just running a marketing campaign, post an advert about software engineer, at a company offering software engineering products, id like to see how many felt for it and introduced the product at their companies, how better you can target your primary target?
> Given California’s average residential electricity rate is 15.34 cents per kWh

In the bay area it's 2.5x - 3x the rate.

I stopped using my rack server for that reason. I was dumb and didn't consider the electricity costs when buying mine at the time years ago. It sits around collecting dust now.

The author's alternative idea is really good considering 8w idle and 80w peak and I doubt it hits peak for what the author wants to do.
It's not actually V8, but mentioned in the post: the fast path HTML parser is great for client-side rendering with <template> elements.

<template>s content is often created with .innerHTML and because the contents are inert they're always on the fast path as parsing doesn't have to create any DOM associations.
This further undermines the "are they supposed to let Android users use iMessage for free?" defense, given that these users already bought a Mac. And now those paying customers eat hardware bans for using their own hardware in a way Apple doesn't like.
Huh, hiding part of a word is brilliant. I never thought to do that even though I made tons of cloze cards.
I've been playing with Thunderbolt networking over the past week with mixed results. I can get 16Gbps between a couple of Macs. Between a Mac and a PC running Windows 10 I get similar speeds in one direction, but less than 1Gbps in the other direction.

In terms of scaling this to multiple hosts as the author does, I've read that it is possible to daisy chain, or even use a hub, but it doesn't strike me as the most reliable way to build a network. For an ad hoc connection, though (like null modem cables of yore), it's a great option.