skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can vouch for that advice and equally double check.

My story - I worked for a Canadian company Blackberry in the UK and they wanted me to go to the Seattle office for few weeks. I said I couldn't afford to be covering expenses and my manager said would sort that out, came along with a bit of paper saying was expense advance - sign that. Well, turns out he lied, was pay advance as I found out when I got paid say 12 hours TZ difference from my bank etc when my rent, council tax and everything bounced. So I'm on the other side of the World and chaos is starting to rain on my home back home. Now was a Canadian also there for a few weeks and not only had he got a proper expense advance, was 3x what I got (yes I was underpaid and that's another story) and was shocked how my boss messed up.

Long story short, they never fixed the mess and caused me to have a breakdown, never did get my expenses back, lost my home and ended up with a massive council tax bill that took me years paying off and life went very downhill from there afterwards from one surreal predicament to another.

So do remind your companies that you are not a bank, you are already working in areas for the company and never ever pay for expense stuff from your own money unless you can charge interest and penalty clauses for late paying.
Nice catch, I’ll look into this one!
Yes, and this is in painful contrast to their natural world, which broadly now takes care of their food, shelter and peaceful living needs. At least compared to previous eras.

This asks a harder new question I believe stocism is not helpful in addressing.
I gave up reading, does it ever get to the point of telling us what to do to make batteries work in the cold? Or does it just endlessly attempt to say that petrol cars have similar winter issues?
Americans would rather have AI overlords than strong government regulations. /s(?)
And utterly terrible at many others (source: am European too)
which appliance?
It shouldn't be confused because the word 'takeoff' is only ever given together with a clearance due to terrible mistakes in the past.

Even a pilot wouldn't say the word takeoff, it would be 'ready for departure'.
As they say, Americans will use anything just to avoid the metric system.
Also, it's not so much the weight as it is the balance. E.g., putting a battery pack on a Quest makes a huge difference in comfort.
No they wouldn’t. They COULD indicate systemic problems but it is just as likely they indicate cultural problems. It’s incorrect to just assume it’s “the system” and not helpful to anyone.
The takeaway being we should eat more king crab? That's the kind of activism I can get behind!
While I can’t really objectively comment on the development of the quality of search result over time, one is for sure: the amount of data Google has to process and the amount attempts to influence beforementioned search results have grown a couple of orders of magnitude since Google’s creation.
There exists in very many areas of the US a common property size for single family homes that is large enough to make "rake by hand" a significant time investment, but that is simultaneously small enough that a riding mower and sweeper is "too much" and/or "too awkward" to use. These tend to fall out into the 5,000 to 15,000 square feet (464.5 m^2 to 1,393.5 m^s for those using metric) range (with some slop on both ends of that size range). It is for this size yard where the 'leaf blower' found a "useful market" by turning an all day effort using a rake into an hour or so's effort using a blower.

In my area, all the leaf blowers that do arrive are all carried by lawn work contractors. However, personally, I'm not bothered by them so their arrival during summer (grass clippings cleanup - always seemed a bit overkill but it is what the 'lawn work contractors' do) or fall (leaves) has never caused me an issue. Note: I'm not detracting from or dismissing the fact that others may be significantly bothered, just stating the fact that I'm personally not bothered by them.
Au contraire, most jobs I see are remote-only or "sparse-hybrid" where the company has no fixed office anymore and teams come together once a month in hired conference rooms.

It seems a lot of office space leases ended and companies did the math.
Considering they haven't mentioned it much at all since the initial demo, I think they are intentionally going low-key with the launch.

This is way outside the price range for people who could splurge $1000+ on an iPhone, but not much more. Plus you know what you're getting with an iPhone, this thing doesn't even have any apps yet.

There's also significant anxiety about inflation, mortgage rates ans rent now that there wasn't previously.
We can't do an A/B with history, but I'm basing it on things like:

> By the mid-1960s, according to the PBS documentary, NASA was buying 60 percent of the integrated circuits produced in the United States. Fairchild was a major supplier, shipping about 100,000 devices for the Apollo space program in 1964 alone.
Roman culture was well-known and venerated among the Anglo-Saxons and Hercules was venerated among Romans as much as the Greek Herakles.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/72f794/in_th...
How about banning the f*ers?

Bring back the common rake, which works well, provides decent low-level exercise and won't cause lung ailments in the population for decades to come?
About forty billion+ transistors?
It’s like saying, “Which is better, ISOBMFF or MPEG-4”? It’s comparing a format with an application of the format.
Personally I like Java a lot. I like Python for rapid prototyping and particularly code where numpy and scikit-learn can do the hard work. PyPi helps w/ branchy semantic web workloads but for things like that (say something like https://github.com/srdc/ontmalizer that really works which I've had on the agenda for the last year) I'd pick Java.

I’ve worked for numerous companies including startups that used Java or JVM languages like Scala.
How are people training this LLMs? Dont they need lot of money?
Any one knowledgeable in this area that can share whehter all of these LLMs similar to the one in the link developed with Millions of VC money? Or are they cheaper ways to do it with at home computing power? Thanks
If you're looking at startups and the typical SV / YC crowd, maybe not. Looking more broadly, 100% yes, Java is being used for new projects. At my $DAYJOB employer new projects get launched using Java all the time. Not interested in saying who that is, but we're a Fortune 100 public company (not a "tech company" though).
Thanks for your comments. I have to admit that it is shallow - going in more detail would risk identification of the people involved and paint a target on my back.

I do realize that he may have simply changed his opinion - yet it is the most controversial one and he stood by it ideologically as expressed numerous times through a variety of mediums.

It's a bit tinfoil hat, but I am disappointed and there's no harm in informing others about these observations and this experience. Mind you - and that's about all I'll add - that the repository stagnated in development for some time, increasing my senses about something being off considerably (browser extension ownership for example get bought frequently by criminals to convert a user base into a cash cow, or worse)

Disclaimer at the end of the article: If I am totally misinterpreting my observations and the Discord hostility without even an attempt at producing counter-arguments or productive and professional openness and communication, at least it serves as a cautionary tale of what could be.
In any case, no disrespect or attempt to taint anyone's (opensource) software development ventures and/or their personality is intended.
The name of the project or its developers will not be shared, if you can find it, be discrete or this article will be removed. Thank you.

Thanks for your time. Have a great weekend.
Christianity’s impact on the Roman Empire, quite famously and for starters.
My source for the story is indirect, via Steve Parker, who’s worked with Turner.

https://www.youtube.com/live/LUFp6sjKbkE?si=8vcxo-Vp8oeRUnob

Scrub to 3:52:19 for the Turner Whitted story.

BTW, mostly unrelated, but scrub that video to 5:47:10 for an amazing talk by Ivan Sutherland (“father of computer graphics”) that is not about graphics (he politely refuses to talk about graphics anymore :P), but about the active research he’s been doing (at 85 years old) into Single Quantum Flux circuits (an alternative to CMOS).

Also- Jim Clark at 4:48:40

Jim’s idea you mention is still correct & compatible with Turner’s idea. Jim’s point is that we only need to render finite pixels. You might need an x-factor more triangles than pixels because of sampling and depth complexity and secondary lighting, so 100M polys is probably in the ball park, as long as we can quickly pick the right 100M polys in real time…

In a way, Turner was talking about a lower bound, while Jim is talking about an upper bound, albeit slightly different things but they are similar, both relate to how much compute is needed for real time rendering.
As usual, This article has very little exploration of causation. Profits are not a cause. A drive for profits are not new. What changed?

1) Why do consumers tolerate higher prices, when previously they did not?

2) Why aren't new competitors undercutting all these profitable firms?

3) Some propose industry consolidation and monopoly as a cause. Do so many industries truly have conditions that favorable monopoly?

4) Lastly, if new competitors cant compete on price with high margin monopolies, are consumers really better served by more and smaller firms?

I don't have all the answers, but it would be interesting to see an intelligent expiration of them for once.
No, the takeaway is that we are abusing the ocean causing ecosystem collapse.
Something with this story doesn't track for me: according to Together.ai's docs Mixtral is not available for fine-tuning. And it also looks like they won't run your fine-tuned models serverless. See https://docs.together.ai/docs/fine-tuning-models and https://docs.together.ai/docs/faq#what-does-pricing-look-lik...
In my experience in working in Canada the records check is done after an offer is extended since it is not free, requires the consent of the person being checked, and takes several days at best, so it would be very obvious why the offer was retracted.

I haven't said anything incorrect. I said that employers can only factor convictions, not that they can't get access to other records.
"Apple Vision Pro Weighs Almost as Much as Quest Pro"
curious, is there a vendor that isn't "cloud-first" today? I've never seen an appliance that doesn't call home
I would recommend "The Things We Make" for an outlook into engineering mindsets through history. A good reminder that a lot of useful engineering comes before the theory can fully explain it :)

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/75598048
SF is the second most dense big city in the USA. There is no way that:

> it's barely got a midwestern suburb's level of density.

Is true.
Decades of work by lot of smart people has gone into the JVM, so there is still benefits to be had in using it.
I know, it's ok, I knew it was part flamebait / part joke. The sad part is, without a trailer or anything other than one's self and belongings, only able to go <200mi on a charge and having to wait an hour to charge is not a future I want to be in. Imagine if you attached a trailer, even at 6,000lb GVW, you aren't going very far.
For anyone coming back to math I can't recommend enough the book "Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics". It's interesting how much of algebra came originally from geometry and the path to developing these fields makes it so much more intriguing / understandable vs just learning math to learn math.
In companies of this size it takes decades to expire from the mortal blow. All the while investors crowd around and give reassurances of a full recovery. Always optimize for the long-term.
A 27-year-old Queens man is in custody for two subway stabbings on Wednesday -- at Columbus Circle and in the Bronx.

The suspect was spotted in the Bedford Park station in the Bronx at 7:20 a.m. Thursday, and after a brief chase, was taken into custody. He was in possession of two knives at the time of the arrest.

He has multiple prior arrests, including five in the last 12 months for charges ranging from assault to sex crimes.

Not evil ?
Trouble is always with scaling and equipment. Unless one uses the existing infrastructure, low chance of success.
Grafana Episode 3: Open (Source) for Business – Grafana Documentary [video]
In 2014, Grafana Labs (formerly known as Raintank) was founded with one mission in mind: To build a sustainable business around the popular open source Grafana project and use the revenue from our commercial offerings to re-invest in the technology.
That's right, I knew this at some point but haven't been doing much C lately. Thank you for the refresh!
I agree. In my country, many e-commerce platforms require to add of a phone number. Therefore, if you add an address, you must input the code sent to your phone. Another point to note is that, for additional security, some e-commerce platforms even put your account on hold for a few days if you change the aforementioned phone number.
> I don't really see how Delta vs Hive comparison makes sense. A Delta table can be registered in the Hive metastore or can be unregistered.

You are right about Delta tables in the Hive metastore but if you are writing from the perspective of "there are companies that don't know what Hive is" then I feel the next step up is "there are companies that just stuff files in S3 and query them with Athena(which handles all the Hive stuff for you when you make tables). Explaining what Delta gives them over that I feel is something worth explaining.
Link to the actual report:

https://groundworkcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/...
This was when I was in college/just out of college too. Most of the guys I knew who became dealers were students and concert promoters and most of the customers were hippy and rave kids. This group was into Bitcoin early on because of silk road. But a lot of this stuff predates Bitcoin and was sold on the clearnet as plant food and bath salts. That's where the term bath salts came from. It wasn't necessarily one cathinone, it was just like this isn't for human consumption, it's just bath salts. The stuff would be shipped here either hidden in other objects or just mislabeled as common chemicals. I only know of one guy who got a package confiscated, but he was using a fake ID to rent mailboxes so wasn't a big deal. Oh yeah, fake IDs were big back then too. I'm in my mid/late 30s now and I wonder what kind of devious shit the kids are getting up to these days. Anyway, the paranoia from being involved in all of this was part of what lead me to leave the country to clear my head. The funny thing with that is I almost got involved in the same shit in Australia because I met this meth dealer who had heard about methylone but didn't have a source. I was talking to someone back home about setting up some deals that we'd route through the US but I figured that was a bad idea and I didn't want to go to prison in another country. Anyway, things chilled out and I'm just a dude working a blue collar job and I eat THC gummies every now and then. Speaking of THC gummies, wow, marijuana has been legal in the US since 2018. I was in that industry for a couple years but my business was too small to survive. Thanks for reading rambling thoughts as I drink my morning coffee.
A takeaway needs to be actionable. That's kinda the whole point. If there are too many king crabs, we can action on that by making their removal economically favorable.

I'd be curious to hear what the people downvoting my comments think the author was implying in their comment, which so far as I can tell is saying the exact same as mine just less bluntly.
I can't understate just how great "Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential" by Charles Tart (2001) is. It's a cross between engineering and the spirituality (although I argue, it's more on the philosophy and psychoanalysis of engineering than spiritual).

I wrote a (short) review on the book directly after reading it here[1]. I've since reread the book, and while some of my opinions on it are the same, some I understand the nuance much more in context of the rest of the book, I need to update it.

1. https://macleodsawyer.com/books/waking-up/
Gary Sinise. Kevin Bacon had already had the measles, so he took his place. :-)
Yes, like they prefer self driving cars over trains !
He is likely referring to a "vulnerable sector check". This is a special type of background check for people that interact with children, the disabled or seniors etc. This type of background check includes stuff like expunged convictions, or charges where prosecutions were not pursued.

It can be a useful tool, but it obviously needs to account for instances such as this.
It's more than just this - I wouldn't write a "conspiratorial article" out of nothing, but alas I can not provide depth without risking identification of the people involved and painting a target on my back.

I am watching the advisories for the dependencies closely. Please check my other comment as well.

Thank you, have a great weekend.
This archived version doesn't have the embedded media. Anyone have a gift link?

Edit: I made one: https://wapo.st/3UoQARJ.
As a foreigner, the only I have ever heard or seen of the RCMP is how courteous they are, with their red jackets, on fictional TV shows and movies, and how agressive they seem on the news.
I agree that it is a common pattern. I just find it off.

Also awkward to use as a horizontal bar to show progress has to be somewhat wide, usually way wider than a spinner.

The lying thing is an issue, but I don't see much difference between a bar lying and a bar that ... by design is not a progress bar / not telling the truth?
An animal in the wild will try to eat everything and learn through trial and error what is good to eat and what isn’t. Selection might even lead to behavioral changes that naturally predispose one to one substance over another. I don’t see why humans would be any different.
I'm not sure the article really makes the point, but in my experience the war has complicated remote work.

I'm tangentially aware of at least one US company that was outsourcing work to Russian and Ukrainian coders. Apart from the obvious "team" dynamics collapsing, it's not even possible (legal) to pay Russians at this point if you are a US company.

I'm also aware that the narrative inside Russia as to the cause of the war is very different to the narrative I hear. Naturally I believe the narrative I hear as do they.

In this global work-space, who you hire and where they live can become material quickly.
The Eur77-94 figure is a simulated average whole grid cost of electricity for a hypothetical grid built around renewables and storage only when including some of this type of storage, not the cost of this type of storage. They estimate LCOS for this storage at Eur309-366/MWh according to the article in Joule which is linked. I couldn't immediately see their estimates for cost of wind/solar and other types of storage which feed into the whole grid cost.
>Capitalism only works when there is considerable competition, and the ability to independently set prices.

"You can have it in any color you like, as long as it's black." —Ford on Model T?
Corrupt registry hive, corrupt or missing OS file, or bad drivers are mostly the cause of Windows BSOD. Actually bad hardware is more rare. My experience during my IT consulting days.
First you'd have to know that option exists, but developers aren't allowed to disclose alternative options in the app.
I like the idea of a faster handwriting script. I've actually found the old Graffiti script pretty good (fast and clear) for writing notes. I remember I used to see it on whiteboards when MBAs were writing -- probably showing off. Unfortunately if I write on my ipad (my main use of it) the OS does a pretty good job of OCRing it so I can search my notes. The same thing isn't possible with anything abnormal like Graffiti.

Classic shorthand has never worked for me as it records the sound rather than the semantics. This is reasonable as a way to time delay dictation (when you read the shorthand you hear the sound in your head, so you type as if you were hearing the person speaking in realtime). But when I read I don't hear any sounds, so this would be like listening to the person speak, which defeats all the advantages of reading.
I'm going to evaluate one to replace most of the equipment in my home office. I currently have 3 monitors and still could benefit from another 2-3. This would also provide audio quality on par with a decent hifi which would be a nice bonus.

Add up the cost of 5-6 large monitors, and the space they take up in the room, and this device has appeal.
Use Python Pandas to Invest in Sealed Super Mario Bros. 3
As people (cops) become more expensive, the push to automation (cameras/drones) is going to increase. The sacrifice is privacy, since these things don't sleep and can be scaled, but at least it removes some human bias out of the loop.
there are plenty of signs that it is slowing down

including current versions quality degradation, unprofitable business models (it's still too damn expensive to be covered by your average 19$/m subscription) etc.
To give a more realistic answer to this question, when I was writing an article about npm dependencies[1], I incidentally came upon a case where the developer of node-ipc released a malicious version of the package that affected computers in Russian and Belarusian IPs specifically in response to the Ukraine war[2].

[1]: https://www.preethamrn.com/posts/who-actually-uses-is-odd

[2]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-...
Disappointing… I find the iPad Pro feels quite heavy when I attach it to my face
The smaller lobsters are tastier (little known secret). I typically go for 1lb or 1 1/4 lb when everyone gets google-eyed at the 1 1/2 lb or bigger ones.

But most lobster gets processed, and is not consumed whole. In that case I am all in favor of supporting the lobster fishery like this
Businessman faces 20 years prison over accusation of illicit Russia chip exports
Phind (YC S22) is hiring machine learning and front end engineers
VR headsets like the Quest have caused serious neck injuries with vigorous use.

Not buying it until it is very light.
When advocates lie about climate impact, charlatans see an opportunity to lie as well.
> any theory of _why_ Russia would care about an inconsequential CSS-related lib

Most likely he didn't want to deal with the maintenance burden of CSS-in-JS or React.

I must be Russian because I don't want to deal with that either. Those darn Russians...
This reminds me of the ‘Wholphin’ DVDs of mid 2000’s, and other essay format releases that fell into obscurity following the rise of the cookie cutter YouTuber (guy with a mic, sponsored baseball cap/trinkets, and some pinkish hue lights in the background).

My favourite exceptions (IMO) might be Asianometry, EckhartsLadder, InternetHistorian and YMS.
Google Domains was born in 2015, exited beta in 2022, and was killed in 2023.
But much worse for reading. If the system can translate it into text though (conceptually no different from the dictation button) then I agree it could be a big win.
Walmart... helping?
You could also probably just ask your TAM for this info.
That's called apartments. Most dwellers don't own theirs. Its a completely different living arrangement.

As soon as you have a common area or a shared wall, roof or other construction artifact you need an HOA of some sort.