skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is always something that has bothered me. Profile image bias is 100% a thing. But if you don't have an image on LinkedIn or put a generic image (of your dog or something) then it hurts you in job searches.

People will deny that it hurts you, but I guarantee it does. I've been in many meetings where people make comments about weird photos like that which portray you negatively.

So I have accepted it as a necessary evil. If you have to have a profile image and its going to represent you, then make it as professional as possible. Don't go for goofy or silly, just be professional and boring and its the best look.
reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
Buying the Mona Lisa for $200m is not at all the same thing as netting a $200m profit.

Better analogy: you buy a big museum collection that contains some lost Rembrandt paintings, widely regarded as his worst, but still considered valuable because it's Rembrandt. You think you might have a hard time selling them, so you look up their original purchase price and find that it was $1 million, so you burn them instead and claim a $1 million writeoff, for a guaranteed $250k decrease in taxes for essentially 0 additional cost, resulting in $250k of extra profit.
>Not every expense a business incurs is tax deductible.

True, there are multiple reasons why some expenses aren't deductible, but AFAIK no such exception exists for "intentionally destroying it".

>and that’s likely based on Hollywood’s unique accounting practices, which has a tendency to inflate the claimed expense amount.

See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39339493

There's no way that you can save taxes by doing this.
“ Nondeductible losses. A casualty loss isn’t deductible, even to the extent the loss doesn’t exceed your personal casualty gains, if the damage or destruction is caused by the following.
Accidentally breaking articles such as glassware or china under normal conditions.
A family pet (explained below).

A fire if you willfully set it, or pay someone else to set it.

A car accident if your willful negligence or willful act caused it. The same is true if the willful act or willful negligence of someone acting for you caused the accident.
Progressive deterioration (explained below). However, see Special Procedure for Damage From Corrosive Drywall, later.”

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p547#en_US_2023_publink1000...
The traditional answer is stability. I think that's still true despite the sense of looming layoffs. Everyone always knew the layoffs would come one day anyway...
Good to hear, I think it'll make many users happy. For me, I've migrated back to Authelia. I moved to authentik because at the time Authelia had no user management. After all of authentik's sharp edges, I've found lldap[0], and was able to implement a pilot in a few hours. I haven't looked back, since everything was converted.

[0]: https://github.com/lldap/lldap
People don't work like that. They want their costs to be high because that's what it takes to live a nicer life.

A tangential proof of my initial statement can be observed in US immigrant IQ levels, as compared to the general population.
They didn't trust David Prowse, so the lines were altered in the shooting script. JEJ then recorded the actual lines.
>> For example, he had plenty of 35mm trailers to sell...

>> ... he claimed to have a script of, as I recall, the not-yet-released sequel to Star Wars. I think he wanted $25 or so for a copy of it.

>> ... someone he had lead along with a whole string of lies like claiming he knew George Lucas and how he could pass along the kid's story ideas to him — things like that. The kid finally figured out he was being had and snapped.

I took the above to indicate that he wasn't only telling tall tails, but that he was repeatedly profiting from them.
I think it does. The loudest American city, Boston, has just 12% of the population exposed to noise levels >65 dB, while Europe's top ten is in the range from 29% to 59%.

You can of course disagree that this is the right metric to measure.
Azure Linux support has been added recently [1], and so is available for self-hosted Karpenter (you can specify "imageFamily: AzureLinux" in AKSNodeClass), will be rolled out for the managed experience (Node Auto Provisioning) soon.

[1] https://github.com/Azure/karpenter-provider-azure/pull/72

(source: On the team that is developing the provider)
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Honestly this seems to me to be much more likely a reason than industrial society environmental factors. My father was in his early 80s before he could no longer “fake away” the mental decline he was experiencing due to Alzheimer’s. At 86 and moving into stage 7 of the disease.

I have to think people reaching that advanced an age was relatively rare in pre industrial times, coupled with the fact that today Alzheimer’s affects only about 10% at age 65. You would need a large population reaching that age and beyond to the later stages where the disease becomes problematic before it would become noticeable in a society.
Anecdotally I've noticed that while the job market isn't good for software engineers, its seems to be much much worse for all the supportive roles like eng managers/product managers/designers/dev rel/ etc.

In my circle these seem to be the people who have been really struggling to find work, whereas the devs do seem to be finding work (just at a slower pace and with worse benefits than before.)

Is this just my bubble or have other people been seeing this too?
Only six of thirty companies didn't reply... Maybe that's a European thing, but in the USA I find the vast majority of companies never reply.
Please, explain
The correct answer is to talk through how you'd evaluate making the decision based on the requirements and measured usage patterns, talk about what you've used in the past and why, if you haven't really been in a position to decide this or think about it, don't lie or randomly pick a number but just get out whatever you do know about it. So kind of like just talking through your second paragraph and maybe creating a hypothetical situation and answering based off of it.
If we're to do that are we going to force every company to release a product they've developed, or otherwise the code/blueprints for it?

Aside from the reputation hit I mentioned, the unreleased film might have some neat ideas they want to recycle into another, better project.

There's a case to be made that we should eliminate tax breaks for all "R&D" work, but this article doesn't persuade me. It reads like it was written by someone who'se unhappy that they're work won't see the light of day, which I get. I've developed several products that at the last minute the exec team decided wasn't worth the capex to tool up...it's just a part of the game.
From a cursory search of where I live this just seems to list parks. There are three parks listed where I live that are far and away louder than my road because they're surrounded on all sides by busy major roads.
Christian or apparently anything else; the specific religion doesn't seem all that relevant actually (which says some things about religion I think).

I suppose I am currently mildly homeless which does tend to make the thought a bit harder. Also, as a man, I am not able to make children no matter how much money I'm given; there are other things necessary that I do not have. Anyway, the idea really just does seem infeasible for a few reasons - money is just one of them.
I feel like there are metric lurking in here somewhere. Something to do with the following concepts:

(1) the number of documented atomic changes to the codebase, be these merges or pull-requests or changesets or patches — the thing with a title and description that was code reviewed;

(2) the number of tasks in your task management system that might be bugs or feature requests — these are large and must be implemented in pieces, with testing and reviewing of assumptions along the way; and

(3) the time period on which you are required to be held accountable for actually finishing stuff.

I do maybe 30 commits for a big task and will spend six weeks on it. There might be small bugs along the way that get closed out with a 1:1 mapping between task and commit. The majority of the work is a giant slowly but surely moving set of iterations towards a top level goal. The cadence is to review on a quarterly basis.

Not so in the past though. I’ve had to do one commit per task. Multiple tasks in a big bushy tree of verbiage that overlaps too much with the actual commits (the meaningful bits!) and all done on two week cycles. It felt exhausting and piecemeal, as if software engineers were a fungible resource there to further marketing goals instead of innovate the next big things. Nowadays I demand to work for a true technology company, not a marketing company that sells tech.
A Complete Guide to Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)
I think it's important to note the wider limitations of the homebrew community. I bought an rM2 relatively early on, enough to have lifetime free subscription access that I've never used, as I've always used homebrew arrangements instead.

There is a definite sense that the community is tired and diminishing. I think most packages are only compatible with the at this point quite old v2 software version, including the entirety of the toltec system. Some of the most important hacks, ddvk's packages, are both stagnant and closed source, with hints that being closed source comes from direct threats from Remarkable, not hypothetical concern over legalities. Toltec's maintainers, and others, respond with suggestions that they're going to be updating at some point, and that users are just being impatient, but it seems more likely that much of the homebrew infrastructure at this point will not be moving forward. The homebrew community was once small but dedicated, now I think it would be more accurate to just call it small.

And I somewhat understand that. As much as it has its defenders, Remarkable has been at worst hostile, and at best unwittingly unhelpful. It often provides exactly what it thinks is legally required. V3 changed the format and system enough to break all homebrew software. Whether intentionally, or in response to a well meaning but enormously damaging user suggestion, Remarkable changed its kernel configuration in a very non-standard, non-recommended way with the only significant impact being to make compilation of modules impossible without entirely replacing the kernel (they did, after years, finally change this back). Kernel sources are available, but good luck compiling then. Does the keyboard case even work unless you're using V3, and this break everything homebrew, including that terminal? Remarkable seems like a textbook case of a company respecting the letter but not the spirit of free software. And that isn't even considering the dark patterns they have more generally: the intentionally non-standard USB C port so that third party keyboards that would otherwise work without any problems don't work, the wonky Ethernet-adapter behaviour rather than a virtual mass storage device, the tendency of the USB web interface to repeatedly turn off... there are justifications given for many of these, but as a whole they paint a problematic picture.

And so those of us who use our modified Remarkables increasingly, at this point, are just using devices frozen in time, with everything working for us.
They also sweetened their wine with lead acetate…
I hope they come up with a nice, clean, standard for a vector tile format.

I haven't spent a lot of time looking into it. But the last time I looked at commonly-used vector tile formats, the one I found was clunky to generate/parse.

(And/or, maybe I just missed the right one. Please correct me if there is something out there that is clean and simple -- and has common library support.)
I would have had to ask if it was load balanced. If it is, i would have said half the time for the requesting service minus 10 percent. Gives the query time to retry with some margin. This would be my opinion, not something I've read up on.
Increasingly, the troublemakers are gaining overwhelming support from the electorate. We used to rely on the fact that the belligerent, crazy, culture wars / book burning folks were a tiny minority, kept powerless by the democratic system. As their numbers grow, the democratic system starts to work for them. Many places (at least in the USA) have crossed the rubicon demographic wise, and the inmates are now running the asylum.
So an average of 1.4kw/hr?

1000000W/mo / 30 day/mo / 24 hr/day = 1388
In what sense is ownership of physical things natural human right?
Was before 2022 indeed.
I read—but can't personally confirm—that the 1997 document is required reading for all officer candidates, so the key people involved in these incidents were likely aware of the principles prescribed in the document at some point.

But reality is always different in important ways from prescribed ideals. Real-life behaviour by bad actors gets in the way, which is a limitation of the 1997 document: it appears that it assumes all team members are acting earnestly without personal agendas and in good faith.

In practice, I believe that the involvement of external checks and controls are key to ensure good-faith behaviour, even if people within the system prefer to deal with it in-house. Interventions by independent government investigators and press coverage are important ways to add external pressure, when there is a lack of internal accountability.
I can't take this language or company serious after reading stuff like:

"Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades"

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-05-03-mojo-launch.html
Same for german (I think).

We also have nix/nichts which means nothing. And "nichtsen" would somewhat make sense in german, at least I think most people would understand it.
> The solution to their "attribution" problem was found by directors a long time ago when they didn't want their names on a film: it's directed by "Alan Smithee."

That’s not exactly how that works. A director can’t just decide to take their name off a film because they don’t like it. They have to petition the DGA for permission to do so, which is only granted in the event that the director can show that the producers took creative control away from the director and substantially changed the product from the director’s creative vision as a result. In practice, this rarely happens, as the DGA is extremely reluctant to allow directors to take their names off of movies simply because they weren’t happy with how it turned out.

Also, “Alan Smithee” isn’t actually used as a pseudonym anymore, but that’s beside the point.
Thank you so much for your comment! I'm looking at your repo and it looks really cool!
Our backend is an ensemble of a few different things, but I explored using `poppler`, `PyPDF2` and other libraries+services as well!
I'm really glad to see how accessible writing a service to extract text, meaningfully process it, and generate nice sounding audio is! I hope that Oration provides a nice enough UI/UX for users to enjoy - but it's been fantastic see a lot of open source work in this area.
PDF is certainly not an ideal format to use so ubiquitously but I don't see that changing all that soon - particularly in academic settings.
I'd love to chat more about this if you don't mind shooting me an email! support [at] trurecord.com
i made a first discovery which was the super infinity stoned buddha
I vehemently disagree. The major source of noise in my area is people. Not saying my experience extends to every city, but even blaming traffic is a naive generalization.
>> It embeds in your system, even if you stick to a standard like OIDC, and is difficult to switch from, especially at scale.

This is precisely why a real, Open Source solution should be a top priority feature for anyone evaluating software like this. We have seen closed source solutions, time and time again, "realign" their business by dropping features, or even entire, free plans. In some cases, closed source software has been removed from the market all together when the company gets bought out. Changes in pricing plans leads to a worse fit for customers... etc. At least when Hashicorp and Elastic abandoned Open Source, the community had the option to say "yeah, good luck, thanks for the good times, but no thanks on your new direction" and fork the product to continue maintaining it. When a closed source products owners decide to "shift gears" on the product line up, customers are left between a rock and a hard place. Maybe if there were no Open Source options, but fortunately, there are several in the auth space.
Again, eliminating a perverse tax incentive doesn't "force" anyone to do anything. Why is it self-evident that we should subsidize failure at the level of a corporation to prevent balance sheets going negative, especially when we are so against doing the same for an individual to prevent them from becoming homeless?
This reminds me of how one time in an interview, I realized I had an off-by-one error. Instead of actually trying to understand the source of the error, I just sped-run tweaking different values +/- 1 until I got the expected result.

In the moment I felt quite clever, but the interviewer apparently did not appreciate that technique.
> I'd like to see these studies again in 20 or so years when most people surveyed got married out of commitment instead of life necessity.

We are already there, what kind of world are you imagining? The need for women to marry was removed 50-60 years ago in the west, there hasn't been a necessity to marry in a really long time, you might have some really old couples left from the time before that but it wouldn't affect statistics much.
I agree that "design" in the title is misleading. The main novelty of this cube is that it balances itself etc, and that was thought of and designed 12 years ago at ETH.

Nonetheless, incredible work by the OP - "I built a cube that balances itself" is already extremely impressive
Happens all the time on Steam (yes you can still redownload the game if you bought it)

https://steam-tracker.com/
Engine Failure: Array is gone – can we recover?
Due to a severe engine failure, our JavaScript engine has lost Arrays. They are gone. With the help of historical usage of Arrays, we will try to recover from this. Is it possible? Or will future generations need to live without Arrays?
Japanese gardens feature extremely strongly. Is this due to where they tend to be built, something about their design, or some selection effect (ie bias in the data), or something else?
Should you conduct the interview without camera and with a voicechanger?
I'm sure this is happening already. People aren't going to want to bring projects to Warner Bros Discovery given all the crap they're pulling. WBD will be the option of last resort when someone else won't take your project - or the place you need to go when WBD owns the IP behind certain characters like Batman.
The linked document looks like it's for personal taxes, not corporate taxes. Business taxes is different from personal taxes in many ways, including how deductions are handled. For instance if you buy office 365 personally that can't be deducted, but if you bought it as a business it can.
Is there anything you can't substitute into "Even a startup cannot do X most of the time IMO, at least not if they have a strong desire to succeed, because they are constrained by the possibility of running out of money in the near-future." ?
Back Door for Digital Currency
I’ve read most of these post & they all make a good point. What about crypto currency’s you can send but once it’s gone it’s gone. Is it possible, just hypothetically speaking to create a program for your account or debit,crypto,gold anything of value with a number to freeze or stain it for insurance before sending it so if it’s fraud or a scam or not liget EXAMPLE couple bank robbers get away with the money there scott free but” an ink bomb explodes now the money’s no good? Get what I’m saying unless the deal is done’ is it “possible” I know it’s sounds illegal but there’s a lot of smart MFs” smarter than us & the law the cops they don’t care they want the consumer to pay for there fuck ups. It’s happened to me more than once any advice?
If the point is to list SF stories where a mathematical idea (broadly construed) or a mathematician plays a central role, the following immediately come to mind (for me): Asimov's Foundation, Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life," and HG Wells's "The Star." (Latter two are not exactly book-length, but I really liked them...)
Any data to support this hypothesis?
Thank you for pointing this out!
This was our service being a bit 'over-eager' at skipping citations. I'll be working on an update over the next couple of days to address this - that is, to ensure that key definitions are not skipped
The Big Sleep has the reputation for making no sense/convoluted plot. I enjoy it.
2017 through to around 2020/21 was insane worldwide .. All the big co's soaked up the talent, then that sucked the air out of the market worldwide. We were getting people outside of the US headhunted from the US, which had constant ripple effects. Now it seems the rebalancing is definitely taking hold and times are a lot tougher for devs world wide.

Trying to hire in 2020-21 was impossible. You would get people between interviews get massive offers (days/week apart). 50/50 whether even after accepting the offer they'd actually turn up... If you saw someone that had a decent shot at coding you needed to hire right then and there. Reddit/HN was absolutely filled with devs making hay while the sun was shining job hopping and say things like 'if you're not getting a 30% payrise...'

Now the credit crunch has just switched the tap off. I'm about to contract out a small bit of work via one of the freelancer sites and I'm going to be very interested to see what it's like getting freelancers now....
In that case the environmental contaminant in question is much easier to figure out though. (Something in the air presumably and produced by cars.)
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An individual can sometimes strike out on their own and succeed, and that's all to the good. But it simply does not scale across every sector of the economy, let alone being a viable strategy for most hand-to-mouth laborers (IIRC, something like 40% of US workers have less than $1000 in savings).

Every shareholder and investor wants a competitive moat: for corporate firms to have enough market power (including lobbying power and regulatory capture) to keep labor costs low (with an intentionally managed reserve pool of the unemployed, via NAIRU, to "discipline labor").

The fact that some individuals can beat the odds, does not change the systems dynamic: "the table is tilted, the game is rigged".
DataHoarder is a very active reddit community devoted to this “hobby”
Reddit censors comment that gives historical context of China
> It's the tax write off for destruction that's fucked up

How so? They aren’t selling it. So its value is $0.

If the artist burns the painting, its value is $0. Is it bad because the artist could have sold it and chose not to?

And it’s not fraud, because if the studio ever chooses to sell, they will pay taxes on 100% since they already deducted all expenses.

I’m not really sure what you’re arguing. What’s the alternative? The IRS forcing you sell at a liquidated value so you only deduct 90% instead of 100%?

This seems like a really odd argument.
> They majorly fucked up the design.

> There is nothing holding it to the case, only the few solder points to a thin PCB. They did not care.

Which is more plausible: that a company infamous for its shitty warranty/return policies accidentally/incompetently designed the USB connector to have weak physical support, or purposefully designed it to be weak so that people would be forced to keep buying replacements?
I think this specifically is a write off, same as if you made 500,000 widgets and nobody bought them.