skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon showers us with money when we so much as call customer support and sneeze loudly into the phone. 10/10

Comcast made me want to vomit for 10 minutes after I spent 45 minutes in a chat (a chat!) to figure out why my bill doubled for no reason. Their answer? Go fuck yourself. However, they once were competent when I phoned with a technical problem. So that helps. 7/10

The food stand down the road always smell delicious. They are quick, professional, and make extremely delicious burritos. One time they put the wrong ingredient, and it unfortunately something I cannot eat. I had already driven home 20 minutes when I discovered, which made me sad. 9/10

The local supermarket chain terrifies me. A nationally publicized shooting happened at one of their locations nearby, and the thought haunts me the entire time I'm in the store. Also they hire scabs anytime the employees start hankerin' for a union. 1/10

LinkedIn: The biggest professional dick-measuring website on Earth. They are ruining society somehow. I wish someone could explain how though. Maybe we'll get a documentary a la "The Social Network" in 10 years. 4/10
Heh. A lot of what search people have known for a while, is suddenly being re-learned by the population at large, in the context of RAG, etc :)
I would rather be homeless than spend majority of my days like this
And if that turns out to be the case, then it doesn't need to be enforced, as people will select accordingly. And then, the people who do want to run things that Apple won't permit in the app store (browsers/emulators/JITs/scripting/etc), or that aren't economically viable with a 30% cut, will have the option of doing so.

The existence of an option does not force you to choose that option.
In my city (a suburb of LA), the trash contractor says they don’t have separate bins because they “separate recycling at the facility”. What a joke! As if they’ve got someone going through your trash like a raccoon, picking out the bottles.

I get that the plastics industry has an interest in making recycling appear seamless and efficient, but what a crock.
> While I'm not a military expert, I think it would be reasonable to rule out the possibility of a similar massacre any time soon

I'm not sure its reasonable. No one in Israel is thinking that way at least, and for good reason imo.
The motivation to kill is there, so you have to assume there's a lack of ability. OK maybe for a couple of years Hamas will have to regroup, but how much time does it take to get a couple thousands more guns and grenades and bombs when Iran is giving them for free?
It doesn't have to be another attack of this magnitude, even killing "only" 100 Israelis would be a huge blow.

You prevent this type of shit from happening again by being dead serious about countering terror, about deploying sufficient defense and not assuming too much about what the enemy can do because you might not have an accurate picture. Israel has been doing none of that in Gaza in the last decade or more.
Your source disagrees with you about BPA.

> BPA was never used as a drug.

BPA wasn't developed as a drug, it was developed for it's resin properties.
I would say it’s because the Haskell community is too arrogant and pretentious.

I love the language and worked with it professionally for over a year, but I can’t stand everything around the developer experience and community.

Rust is a breath of fresh air.
How is art supposed to be "effective" exactly? Like how would you measure the efficacy of a painting?
There were definitely persecutions and ethnic cleansing campaigns following 1948 in the neighboring Arab countries, especially in Iraq, Syria, and following 1967 in Lebanon, which drove a lot of Arab speaking Jews to Israel. Israel’s immigration policy was also very aggressive in inviting Jews from Arabic countries into Israel. Some even believe Israel went as far as stealing people from Ethiopia. So a lot of Jewish communities that once existed outside of Israel have now been absorbed into Israel.

That said, I think it is a mistake—and honestly a bit racist—to claim that Jewish people can’t live and prosper in smaller communities among certain ethno-religous majorities today.
I get the importance of hitting targets and all, but it seems like horseshit to me that the employee earns no commission between 0-20% of the target, and at 99% of target is at only 80% commission.

Maybe someone with more of a sales mindset than I’ve got would thrive on this, but it feels to me a bit like a “heads I win, tails you lose” outcome for the company. Doesn’t really seem like you’d lose the motivating factors either by opting for a policy that errs toward the super generous in significant upside scenarios.
Expensive, but the Omnichord very much comes across as an expensive toy for adults to me in terms of which market it targets. It looks like a heap of fun though and I am happy that my analysis of the name (OM-108) back in December when Midi was unconfirmed was incorrect [1]. Now there is the option to run it through your synthesisers and effects.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38567925
An honestly fantastic framing of the issues, and reflective of how I've experienced the same conflict play out (from all three perspectives). Great advice.
Israel dismantled all of its Gazan settlements in 2005 and there had never been a blockade at that point, which is exactly what I just referenced in the post you were responding to. Then Hamas took over Gaza, and Israel and Egypt jointly started blockading it. You can't place the blame for Hamas's rule on the blockade — the blockade (and the settlements) didn't exist when they took power.
Ok, then you arrest them when they do that. Most people won't risk getting arrested, even if some would.
So you want to play a game of Russian roulette? If you and your kind are the only potential victims I'd say go for it. Otherwise thanks but no.
In other news, water is wet. Of course Apple rejects the entire premise of the DMA. Whether you agree with them or disagree with them, you shouldn't expect Apple to be happy about being forced, or to do anything more than the letter of the law requires. If they were cheerful about it, they'd have already done it, globally, before being forced to.
I didn't read any hostility into the poster's reply :)
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A plan that is x% up to $y in sales with an accelerator structure is a pretty simple plan. The x% up to $y sales thing is just a side effect of having a structure where you pay people based on attainment against a quota. If someone is supposed to make, say, $200k at plan, and is a sales rep on a 50/50 plan, then their base commission rate, the percentage they get paid for every dollar of sales, is $100,000 divided by their quota. By definition.

The only simpler plan I've ever heard of is just a straight percentage of gross margin, but then the commission management scams move away from the comp plan and into expenses that eat into gross margin...
And you seem to be insisting that it can't
> The case for the shared library having better caching implies multiple processes that are distinct executables

But this is the most common case for desktops/multipurpose systems.

On my desktop there are tens or hundreds distinct processes sharing most of their code.
Apple's reluctant, punitive compliance with regulators will burn its goodwill
I heard Cory Doctorrow speak on the Pivot podcast about that!

Labels were investors in Spotify…..

So to boost profits for IPO they had incentives to reduce payouts to artists…

Or something like that. It all sounded very corrupt!
The thesis of that essay, is that

1. Nvidia GPUs are dominant at training

2. Inference is easier than training, so other cards will become competitive in inference performance.

3. As AI applications start to proliferate, inference costs will start to dominate training costs.

4. Hence Nvidia's dominance will not last.

I think the most problematic assumption is 3. Every AI company we see thus far is locked in an arms race to improve model performance. Getting overtaken by another company's model is very harmful for business performance (See Midjourney's reddit activity after DALLE-3), while a SOTA release instantly results in large revenue leaps.

We also haven't reached the stage where most large companies can fine-tune their own models, given the sheer complexity of engineering involved. But this will be solved with a better ecosystem, and will then trigger a boom in training demand that does scale with the number of users.

Will this hold in the future? Not indefinitely, but I don't see this ending in say 5 years. We are far from AGI, so scaling laws + market competition mean training runs will grow just as fast as inference costs.

Also, 4 is very questionable. Nvidia's cards are not inherently disadvantaged in inference, they may not be specialized ASICs, but are good enough for the job with an extremely mature ecosystem. The only reason why other cards can be competitive against Nvidia's cards in inference, is because of Nvidia's 70% margins.

Therefore, all Nvidia needs, to defend against attackers, is to lower their margins. They'll still be extremely profitable, their competitors not so much. This is already showing in the A100 H100 bifurcation. H100s are used for training, while the now old A100s used for inference. Inference card providers will need to compete against a permanently large stock of retired Nvidia training cards.

Apple is still utterly dominant in the phone business after nearly 2 decades. They capture the majority of the profits despite

1. Not manufacturing their own hardware

2. The majority of the market share by units sold is say Chinese/Korean

If inference is easy, while training is hard. It could just lead to Nvidia capturing all the prestigious and easy profits from training, while the inference market is a brutal low margin business with 10 competitors. This will lead to the Apple situation.
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> Just to add to what you said: in the old days the linker would include only the .o files in the .a library that were referenced.

It was not exactly like that. Yes, the .o file granularity was there but the unused code from that .o file would also get linked in.

The original UNIX linker had a very simple and unsophisticated design (compared to its contemporaries) and would not attempt to optimise the final product being linked. Consider a scenario where the binary being linked references A from an «abcde.o» file, and the «abcde.o» file has A, B, C, D and E defined in it, so the original «ld» would link the entire «abcde.o» into the final product. Advanced optimisations came along much later on.
Speak for yourself. It makes me love the community.

Rust’s memory safety definitely makes it a user feature.
This seems far less comprehensive, open and trustworthy than Wiktionary.
My Morning Jacket's "Touch Me I'm Going To Scream pt 2": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3PciCWIGLE
I own a Fossil Hybrid Smartwatch. It's a near device, scratches both my itches for a good looking watch and a vibrating motor.

That is until I got the Casio G-Shock GD350. I can't hear the alarm of most watches when I sleep, so I needed a watch that vibrates. I also swim so I need something that's decently waterproof. A G-Shock is practically indestructible.
In fact I’m using it perfectly in line with how the term is used for taxes

A progressive tax means you pay more the more the measure you use for taxation goes up

A regressive tax means you pay more the more the measure you use for taxation goes down

Regressive does not definitionally mean “bad for the small guy” even though that is a deterministic consequence of a regressive tax

However the term progressive in this context is “value free” and simply an indication of the direction of relative increase in percentage given the increase or decrease in the taxable measure

In this case the progression is a cliff so not very incremental
Oficial anouncement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 (543 points by dang on April 30, 2021 | 93 comments )
It's also similar in Russian and Ukrainian: "beefshteks"
Replying to myself. I wanted to include other companies that are somewhat similar to eBay as far as what OP implied. I only looked at companies between 6k - 22k employees.

Ubisoft : 20,665 : video games
Yandex : 18,004 : search
Equifax : 14,000 : credit bureau
Autodesk : 13,700 : software
EA : 13,400 : video games (electronic arts)
Netflix : 12,800 : video streaming
Shopify : 11,600 : eCommerce
eBay : 11,600 : Dec 2022
Unity : 7,703 : video games
GoDaddy : 6,910 : domains, websites

It's hard to make sense of these numbers without lots more info but it's interesting - as a first pass - to match number of employees with expectations.
Sales plans are often a mess of percentages and edge case goals, mostly meant to attract folks by showing a large hypothetical "on target earnings". Then if you do really well you might hit accelerators which can be exponentially more.

The reality is these quotas are typically created to be either crushingly hard to achieve or the best a financial model predicts your territory can do. Either way, the deck is typically stacked against you, even if the math seems favorable.
Software Development Is a Trade
Every salesperson I've met can use Google and is acutely aware of how the next deal affects their compensation.
Maybe you can phrase your hyperbole a bit better when it comes to smoking around children.

I do not think it is an insurmountable task for a legal adult take their recreational drugs at home. Maybe legal adults can take responsibility of their future, rather than risking it on breaking rules that are pretty explicit, so much so that in any other workplace or public area that prohibits smoking incurs fines at the least, and jail time for repeat offenders.
And a lower cost, which consumers have chosen. Quality is debatable.
Thank you, I'll never read sentences that start with Dang the same again.

The Time Being and the Bear with me will be in great company.
The comment I responded to said that members of Congress consistently outperform professional traders. This doesn’t show that.
Speaking personally an American, any smart person building useful stuff is welcome in my country. That alone _is_ extraordinary ability, in my opinion (can’t speak to the intent behind the law).
I guess Cantonese should have a large contribution to this!
Also on Graphene, everything is working just fine.
Worth noting that the CCP takes a different approach to compliance enforcement.

We cannot assume that over the next century that US companies will dominate globally.

We have to find a way to get US companies to enrich our Capitalist Democracy and stop gatekeeping otherwise we are going to lose our position.

I’m Australian and am fully aware how much Western Democracies need the US not to fuck up!
Somebody dignified them with the pompous title of "orthodox" file managers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_man...
Why do sales positions tend to have performance-based compensation when many other roles in the same company are flat salary?

Is it simply because the metrics are so obvious (i.e., attribute sales to the salesperson's individual performance), that it's easy compared to other roles?

Is it because sales work is so close to revenue numbers, that more thought has been given to compensation, or it's thought of differently (like CEO comp)?

Is it a belief that the personalities of salespeople in particular are motivated to perform better by the incentive alignment?

Is it because performance-based can be a sweeter deal for high performers, which some historical salespeople managed to secure, and they're not giving it up? (Should SWEs be maneuvering to get "points" on the particular products they worked on, rather than it just being something they can mention when they beg for a promotion?)

Something else?
And 200 wh/kg LFP and 160 wh/kg sodium ion is coming into mass production.

To the main parent, the runway for further EV drivetrain cost reductions is at least a decade more. The LFP and sodium ion production roadmaps have almost 200 wh/kg sodium ion and 230 wh/kg LFP on it, so that is reasonably a five year likelihood.

10-20 year is solid state, sulfur techs, and other chemistries poised to double or triple density of the cells.

The first curve shows the really low commercial vehicle demand on batteries. This will not be the case, commercial vehicles from busses to worksite vehicles to town delivery vans are going to goddamn explode in demand, once all the business owners realize the TCO of EV drivetrains is so low.

I've been pretty disappointed in electric companies, perhaps they are pricing in grid adaptation, but wind and solar should be relentlessly driving down the cost of electricity and something is up with that.

The dual headed dragon of economies of scale/density in batteries combined with the price drop in electricity for wind/solar is something that ICEs simply cannot win against.

Which is why I chuckle at every mainstream media article about EV sales fluctuations or anti-EV stories, or the inevitable "I can't charge because Apartment/Parking Garage/City". People, this is an economic tsunami coming, and it has already started. All those infrastructure problems will be solved.

The "I rent" is the most mystifying thing, indicative of local governments not getting ahead of this. What should be cheaper to wire up, a suburban development sprawled over 10 square miles, or 100 cars in a one block radius? Governments need to be incentivizing apartment charging pronto.
Despite the paper's claims to the contrary, they most likely have the causality absolutely backward. The two accounts they analyse, AK (@_akhaliq) and Aran Komatsuzaki (@arankomatsuzaki), have much better taste than anyone or anything else I've come across that are as prolific as they are. There's a reason lots of us ML/AI researchers follow them closely, which is that over an extended period of time we've noticed that they keep surfacing interesting and important work.

They do a much better job of it than some random reviewer, so you would not expect some other papers with the same review scores, venues, and embeddings to have the same citation counts. But this is the premise that this paper entirely relies on as the basis of the analysis, and as a result the paper fails to make a strong case.

The idea that thousands of researchers would decide to follow two particular Twitter accounts for no good reason, and would like and retweet posts from those accounts just because they're "influencers", makes no sense at all. Accounts become influencers for a reason. In this case, the accounts are not from people who are otherwise famous for some external reason -- literally the only thing they're known for is posting papers. If they weren't good at finding papers that researchers found interesting, they wouldn't get followed.

BTW, some years ago, Miles Brundage's Twitter account was the main one that researchers followed for this purpose. Nowadays he's the head of policy at OpenAI and no longer does this. But back when he did, the '@brundagebot' bot was created that tried to replicate his curation choices using an algorithm.
"But Apple’s scaremongering is likely overstating the problem, since Android as mentioned has exposed users to this risk for quite a while now -- and Mac and Windows devices have always done the same. Somehow, despite that, society remains intact and people are mostly ok with using those platforms with reasonable success."

Again, it is about trust, isn't it? For those in cyber security: set up an app store with rigorous vetting, monitoring, and auditing, and see whether it will fly on the B2C, B2B, or B2G markets, or all of them.
Your gut is right. That is horseshit.
I’ve built many comp plans and hired several sales teams. I’d never offer that structure to any sales person I wanted to retain.
These kinds of gamed comp plans are for people that don’t really know how to build the right teams.
Ditto for JustSecurity: https://www.justsecurity.org/91457/top-experts-views-of-intl... / https://archive.is/l4Du7
Also:

- IEEE 754: floating-point arithmetic
I don't think the situation is particularly inscrutable. Israel receives a greater degree of US support and benefits from it to a greater degree. Other ME states are aligned with the US out of convenience, the sale of western weapons plays a part in that.
Most SEO tools or “experts” are snake oil.
> So, really we should hate OP and probably ensure that his current visa gets voided through all legal means, hand him the NOIR he deserves, and then someone who actually deserves it can live in the US.

Yes.

After all, when companies or rich people _legally_ avoid paying taxes, everyone says “no they still need to pay, it’s not fair”.

Yet when it’s about someone “trying to improve their life” (in other words, poor), all of a sudden we should let it slide? Okay
> And if we can take Israeli politicians at their word, this seems to have been the strategy for the past 20 years at least.

Do you also take Palestinian leaders at their word? Because if so their strategy is to drive out Jews by whatever means necessary. None of them are talking about equal rights and representations, that's just not how their society works and they definitely don't want that together with Jews.
YEah it's been frustrating. Those two stroke horror shows in leafblowing/lawnmowing/etc need to be cycled out, but e-tools are still priced as luxury.

I'm hoping in about 5 years, especially with sodium ion in production, that changes.

The really cool thing about battery production is that it's not like an ICE engine where you have to design an ICE for this size application and an ICE for that size application: the batteries can be used in a leaf blower, a moped, a car, a truck, or a massive grid.

The battery supply can be routed wherever needed. That should result in a vastly cheaper overall industry than the ICE drivetrain industry. Sure you need different electric motors, but those aren't THAT different, and the industrial world has already been building all the necessary sizes and variations for a century now.
The example given here is still incredibly simple compared to the quota/commission structures at major companies. Negotiate an enterprise deal with a multinational, and now you need to allocate quotas to a sales team split across several countries, work out how to handle subcontractors and partners, bonus incentives for what corporate is trying to push today, account for change requests and maintenance and support and ongoing consumption and upgrades, etc etc.
Could have to do with how Apple announced its compliance plans yesterday and that's what everybody is talking about.
Elon's comments on the latest earnings call, if you read between the lines, strongly imply that Dojo v1, while functioning, has been a disappointment. He seems to hold out hope for future versions but he is markedly less optimistic than for other programs he talked about, and considering his typical unjustifiably optimistic attitude toward future releases of AI-related products that seems to bode poorly for the project. I would not be surprised if it was cancelled or rebooted in the next year or two.

I don't recall if they made comments about public availability for Dojo before, but given the difficulty of competing in this market and the huge benefits scale brings in hardware, it would seem foolish to limit the system to internal customers only.
"On the flip side, I'm nearly two years into a part-time Computer Science degree, and the engineering content is about 5-10 years behind what the industry is doing. I haven't seen version control mentioned in a lecture once."

I smell a troll. Besides, it is not the goal of higher education to teach you the latest shiny thing that changes in a couple of years anyways, but to give you something more valuable.
Any idea what tech stack they use?
Spotify gives 70% to rightsholders, yes?