skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots to disagree about here, but I'd prefer to treat the moral of this story as, not all the same people will thrive in a small company after it's hit a growth inflection point. This is okay! Without some of those folks who are willing to go broad and wear a lot of hats, companies can't get to where they need to be to start growing in the first place.

The responsibility of leadership and managers in this situation involves creating venues where early, impactful employees can be adequately rewarded without becoming impediments to their personal growth or the growth trajectory of the company. Imagine how much less burnout the author would have felt if the stock situation didn't keep him locked into the company far beyond when he didn't feel welcome.

I've worked at enough places where early contributors white-knuckled their way through changing values until the first possible liquidity event, or just left a big financial upside on the table because they couldn't make the numbers and their sanity work at the same time. These "growing pains" result in burnout, poor quality and communication from individuals we've previously trusted as veterans, and a tumultuous culture with conflict between the old guard and new layers of management.

I believe we can minimize the friction on both sides by significantly increasing the exercise period for stock options, prioritizing hiring growth in duplicative roles for individuals showing early signs of culture clash and disengagement, and empathetic coaching that names the problem (terminal burnout) and includes resources for teams or companies that better fit that person's disposition.
Raspberry Pi, Teensy, Micro:BIT, ESP32, Arduino. Some steppers, some servos and some sensors. $200 will get you more gear than you'll be able to use in the first six months or so, it is incredible how cheap this stuff has become.
Interestingly enough, none of the places I worked remotely for ever factored in CoL.

A senior dev got paid the same, be it in South Korea, Brazil, Romania or New York City.
Doesn’t necessarily work, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39333869.
How is the latency with these devices? I produce music as a hobby and have many connections to deal with and as low latency as possible is ideal. I am looking for something I can switch between 3 different devices basically. Work laptop, MacBook Pro, and custom Linux PC. The 2 latter ones I produce on. Would this device work for that?
You either quit young, or live long enough to see yourself become M2.
People have tried this. It’s extremely extremely hard to do in practice even when you’re only trying to measure whether a unit is vacant and don’t need to know where else they’ve been or what else they own.
It is shocking to me how many people miss the fact that the big prediction machines trained on lots of data, are fundamentally historical and based on that data?
It's a huge stretch to blame this book for the opioid crisis.
Raspberry Pi will work with the Arduino environment as well.
The Mana World Classic – Open-Source MMORPG
Replying to follow (idk if there is a way to follow a thread). I have an Apple Display and would need 1.4 DP
DuckduckGo, Accelbyte and Oxide.Computer are the ones I know of.
The thing is, almost all of the "secrets" of successful people are trivial, it is just that few people are doing them consistently. Anybody could practice basketball as hard as Kobe Bryant did, but almost nobody is actually willing to put in the consistent work over years and years.
This exists, you can specify containers and then use 100cqw container query length percentage units https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_contain...
Interesting. Is this true consistently across institutions, and across disciplines? E.g., at TU Delft, VU, etc?

In the US at least, the 4-year graduation rate at e.g., MIT and Harvard are well above 90%, quite a bit higher than the national average.
Would it be the same kind of phenomenon as heart failures when doing harder runs (marathons and longer) past 40 yo ?

While the runners are well trained and otherwise healthy, the activity puts enough stress on the whole body that weaknesses are surfaced and something somewhere will fail at some point.
Easiest way to practically use SIMD table scan database is try out DuckDB: https://duckdb.org/
> Cloud wasn't predatory in this.

I'd argue it's still quite predatory. Basically, they reel in users with other services/products and then charge extortionate prices for egress specifically with massive margins just because they can.

In certain use cases it becomes all or nothing, either you host everything on the cloud or nothing at all which is certainly abusive and highly anti-competitive.
> I think it’s very unsettling to imagine that it’s random.

Sometimes that's just how the world is tho.
I'm partial to the 500 mile email: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
"hexagonal architecture" (aka ports and adapters) offers some nice practical ideas on how to achieve this.

I find it works well with rust. Rust traits are well suited for a ports and adapters setup. And in the rust ecosystem, "frameworks" are most often designed to get out of the way. To be pulled into a project as library, rather than to enforce itself all throughout the codebase (like Rails, Django, Laravel etc tend to do)
Yes, it’s possible that this man is only telling us these things because he wants them to be true.

It is also possible most people vehemently opposing the view here are doing the same thing.
Good point, blood pressure is probably the key indicator. But I also suspect that maintaining a lower body weight is probably better for the cardiovascular system.

I watched a video from Brian Johnson, a guy that is spending millions to try and live longer, and get all kinds of tests. The way he measures progress is by comparing how well his organs function vs someone that is younger. I think blood work is big part of that.
This. I did the same while living in Eastern Europe + working remote for a US startup.

The amount of money I poured into the local economy is probably an order of magnitude higher (maybe even 2) than if I had worked for a local company.
The Vision Pro's scary side effect
Perhaps that older people are generally considered less physically attractive?
Just stop relying on Google – for ANYTHING
I hate to admit it, but I've recently started using Yandex for searches. When searching for very specific topics (combined with my ADD), I've found that a Google search can be almost more distracting from my goal than browsing on TikTok.

Yesterday, I updated my Bard account to Gemini Advanced (fool me once, fool me twice). Bard was decent as a complement to comparing or going back and forth in conversations with ChatGPT. Somehow, they made it worse. While using Gemini, I also reverted back to old habits and was using Google search again. I feel like it gets worse and worse every day, not so much exponentially but like the square-cube law (The square-cube law, in the context of ship sizes, often referred to in naval architecture and marine engineering, is a principle based on the fact that as a ship's dimensions are increased, its volume and weight grow disproportionately compared to its surface area.)

Or, as Google gets twice as greedy, they get 4x as bad.
This story comes to mind: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
https://archive.is/F5xPs
I understand where you're coming from, but please consider that not everyone is enjoying social situations the same way and to the same extent. For some people, being thrown into a surprise party as its main attraction is quite uncomfortable and outweighs the benefits of "cake and a break from work". It's more like "cake and a very exhausting kind of emotional work" for them.

They might not be much fun at such parties, yes; but telling them that they should enjoy them instead or that they are miserable people seems like a very unkind and unhelpful response to me.
That's a ridiculous quantity of poultry to consume for an individual.
You've haven't figured out the hard part then: Passenger traffic.

OpenTTD towns perpetually grow as long as you service them. Which means that every passenger station will have infinite lines (as towns grow, more-and-more passengers will need to be serviced across all your stops).

This means that OpenTTD is designed to automatically make passenger traffic "harder", there's always more passengers to carry. The limit is purely the design of your railway. You might have to put the game on fast-forward for 30-ingame-simulated-years before the towns grow to that size, but it always happens.

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Industry in the game also grows bigger, but related to service station %. Early trains cannot service any industry quickly enough to consistently make industrial growth, but later trains with higher speeds will leads to more station% bonuses, making the late game also fill up with coal, lumber, steel, and other materials.

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There's no challenge on the money side. Just place 2 airports on the biggest towns across the map and you'll never run out of money. (Distance x speed traveled leads to profits, and airplanes are fastest and travel the furthest without any rail-costs, making this an appropriate strategy even early in the game)

The "real" challenge is: how many passengers can your rail-junction support? Can you max out an airport?

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My issue with OpenTTD is that the game sometimes wants to pretend its 1x1km blocks, but other times that doesn't make sense at all. Ex: Bus stations are 1x1, and there's no way my bus stops around town are 1km wide.

I think the main thing OpenTTD needs is a "rebalance". Maybe the grid needs to be 10x10 meters (10,000x more detailed) than currently.

I think this 1km x 1km limitation was because computers in the 90s were not good enough for a more detailed simulation. But we have the weird ship-behavior (because ships don't collide with each other), and other such issues partially due to this weird size incoherence in the game.
Wind turbines have continued to get taller and larger since that was written, so I think the verdict is clear.
Love the recommendation for diceware style passwords.

You can easily remember 4 to 6 random words. You really will be surprised how quickly it is to memorize and type after a day or two. Mixing them up with what separator (if any) that you use, and if you number/special character substitute that adds dozens of possible permutations on a single password. And just using 4-letter words (over 100,000 in the English language) leads to a 100 quintillion possible passwords without any separator or character substitutions.

The next requirement should be no arbitrary changes to passwords. End users should be able to pick a strong 16 character password (based on uniqueness and the other password strength tools they recommend in the article) and only change it if they forgot it or a breach of their account is suspected.
Imagine I had a different perspective than you, tough to believe - I know. Now of course you are right, or you wouldn't think like you do. So wouldn't you want me to think, like you? Thus instead of turning to absurd hyperbole, speculation, ad hominem, straw men, and all other sorts of really great ways to debate a topic, why not simply try to calm down and coherently express yourself? I am genuinely curious, but your style of debate and discussion is a pretty big turn off.

So here, it seems to me that your biggest and most compelling issue with Russia is the mistreatment of ethnic indigenous groups? But the article you linked to uses a lot of words to say very little. And what it does say is so absurdly one sided that it just completely omits any sort of detail whatsoever. For instance:

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Pressure on Sulyandziga began after he organised public hearings on pressure on an Evenki Indigenous community that developed a jade mine on their ancestral lands.. In 2012, the mine was taken over by the Rostec state-run corporation focusing on defence and hi-tech... That year, criminal charges were brought against community leaders, leading to confiscation of jade and land, activists say... Sulyandziga claimed he was accused by state officials of “separatism”, “espionage” and embezzlement... In 2016, Sulyandziga left for New York to deliver a speech at a UN session about Russia’s Indigenous rights situation. He says he never returned because a high-ranking security official told him that intelligence services planned to kill him and present his death as “suicide”.

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What was the conclusion of the charges? Why were they initially made and/or dismissed? What happened between 2012-2016? How did a random indigenous tribesman in Russia find himself able to present a speech in front of the UN? I feel like this article is trying to appeal to my emotions, and not my logic. I want details, I want logic, I want evidence. I want something that doesn't assume I already agree with the premise of what's being said, and thus will just happily accept anything they say.

What really made you take up the issue of indigenous peoples in Russia as such a key cause? Was there some significant event that happened? Is it something personal? I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from, and perhaps with such I might be able to see the world through your eyes. Make sense?
Reactive garbage.
SLAM and localization in general are early bottlenecks in mobile robotics solution, unless the core business of the product is localization itself (e.g. waymo, cruise, etc.) it's not uncommon for that to take a back seat during product development later on. In my experience lidar based solutions are more common out there due to their "simplicity" and safety for industrial applications (i.e. PL-rated)

You certainly can work with visual slam in the industry, but the job pool for that is not very big, I would say.
Exactly. Remote work is (or at least will be) a net win. But it doesn’t address the fundamental problem behind high housing costs: too few homes in areas people are willing to live.
Just react in a proportional manner to the likelihood. Knock on the door, say hello, ask if everything is ok and can you have a look around.

Assume but confirm.
Wait so if someone calls in and says “hey this guy across the street keeps rolling in barrels and barrels of explosives and what looks like rifles and ammunition,” you’re thinking they should be sending a patrol officer over to knock on the door?

It’s obviously trivial to produce whatever kind of report is necessary to justify a SWAT response.
The electric car is here to stay. We might slow adoption by banning Chinese imports but it will just delay the inevitable
Thank you; I appreciate this. I understand that too many people flippantly dismiss or don't have the ability to properly appreciate the hard work of doing science.
Clinical trials that are designed to fail
Maybe it would be fine if it was random 4 words like in the XKCD, but otherwise it would cause people to plaster sticky notes everywhere and hardcode it in their computers, no?
> Interviews with bystanders revealed people had concerns about the public exposure of women's chests, causing injury, or mistaking when a woman was experiencing a cardiac arrest.
An international study finds people are less likely to give a woman CPR due to fears of hurting her or being accused of inappropriate touching.
The study found, however, that rates of bystander CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, had increased significantly for women — from 42.7 per cent in 2002-03 to 71.3 per cent in 2020-21.
The gender disparity between women and men in the CPR data was found to be not as pronounced, as little as 2 per cent.
The flipside of this is that there will be an asymmetric advantage available to firms that are capable of finding excellent candidates that fall into the ML blind spots.
AWS Practical Challenges with AES-GCM and the need for a new cipher [pdf]
I wish it were possible. But that would require all sources of information to have the same basic structure. It would be impossible to build for the same reason RSS failed.
Is this a sales shtick for security services of some sort that you do to your clients in meetings?
Yeah, unless you're like, in leadership or building out something new for the bank I haven't heard a lot of great things about working in the sector.
All of my Bank passwords are variations of Swear Words!
Mobile robotics, slam/localization and robotics backend.
Another factor when it's a CDN is what they will/won't allow to be cached (and thus moving the point of mass-egress from your origin to their network).

Cloudflare has limits on the size of objects that can be cached, making it relatively impractical to use for a download-focused site with resources more than a few hundred MB.
I read about the Spark framework on another thread. Looks very similar. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39331126
We are planning to expand this in the future! Thanks for the feedback
How about “apple get your act together with those m2s”? :)

Disclaimer: meant to be humorous.
I estimate at least 20 years before we see practical applications. Biology is complicated, developing effecting therapies often even more so. But we have to start somewhere.
thank you for the enlightment. now it all makes sense in my mind.
https://jhpn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41043-023-0...

> By diet group, there were 116,894 omnivores (whose diet does not exclude animal products), 329 lacto- and/or ovo-vegetarians (whose diet excludes meat, but includes dairy and/or eggs), 310 pesco-vegetarians (whose diet excludes meat except for fish and seafood) and 140 vegans (whose diet excludes all animal products). After an average follow-up of 18 years, 39,763 participants were deceased. The risk of all-cause mortality did not statistically significantly differ among the four diet groups.
> swat your own house
> your house now has swat immunity
> swat every house in the country
> no house can be swatted again anymore
> swat officers lose their job
Here are some study tips I did that helped me study on my own time and pass all 4 sections of the CPA exam on my first attempt, self-teach computer science, and self-teach Greek.

- Regular practice. Every single weekday. No excuses.

- Use Anki flash cards for things you have to memorize.

- Use hands on experience to solidify concepts. E.g. speaking for a language learner and writing programs using the learned concepts for a software engineer.

- If you have class, read the material beforehand so you can fully listen in class and ask insightful questions. I often ask questions and the teacher responds with, “it’s like you know where I’m going with the material because that’s what we’re going to talk about next.” Preparation makes class time so much more valuable. My most rewarding classes are often the ones where I jot down fewer than 10 words in my notebook because I’m so engaged in dialogue.

- Teach others. If you are enrolled in class, teach your fellow students a concept you have to learn. If you’re not enrolled in a class, teach a significant other, a family member, a friend, or write a blog post. Learning how to teach makes you understand the concept much better. Particularly if the person you are teaching starts asking questions and forces you to clarify.

- When taking a test with a passage before the question (common on the CPA exam & reading comprehension tests), read the question first. Deduce what type of question it is. Now read the passage knowing how to tackle the question.

- To further that point, take practice exams/quizzes if you can. When I was self-learning compsci, I was really grateful that textbooks had questions at the end of chapters. I used to hate those in high school, but they’re extraordinarily valuable.

Of all of these, I think making a routine to consistently study is the most valuable. It makes the task of studying less daunting and allows you to be more efficient with your time since you can spend times learning concepts at a deeper level. Next would be teaching the concept to others. It forces you to confront whether or not you actually understand the material. Often times you don’t know it as well as you thought you did.

I was a terrible student in high school. I went to a very competitive school and let the workload encumber me and was daunted by the talent around me. I discovered and applied most these concepts in university. It made undergraduate a breeze and my masters degree and self-teaching after university significantly easier. Thought I would share because a lot of these concepts go against how I was taught to learn and what my peers were employing for their learning. It might not work for everyone, but I know it worked for me.
A great, thought-provoking comment. This makes me quite aware that I don't yet have a great theoretical/conceptual foundation for how Bayesian reasoning for one particular experiment links up with experiments that are generalizations of it. In case this sounds too vague, what I mean is this: if a generalized theory has considerable evidence, what bearing does it have one more targeted and narrow experiments? This might be clear or even obvious, but I'm not recollecting written examples of how to run the numbers.
Orcas.

If we are being observed by Aliens, I hope they focus on animals, specifically Elephants, Dolphins, Orca and Penguins.
RLHF a LLM in <50 lines of Python
Lying to cops to try to get someone murdered isn't online disinformation
There’s plenty of people who work out badly and eventually their injuries stop them from working out. You don’t hear much about them though.
I for one messed up my shoulders when I was a teenager and not knowing what I was doing in the gym and all that took years of stretches and re-learning how to engage the muscles and proper form. I have a childhood friend who worked out so badly as he was obsessed with muscular mass he worked himself out into a massive hunched hulk, I think he was also taking steroids at some point. He evetually had to stop due to health reasons and massive headaches from a badly worked out neck. These are just 2 examples but there are lot more people who misuse weights. You only hear about the success stories unfortunately…

I prefer calistenics as it is a bit harder to mess up. One can build a beautifully harmonious and resilient body just with these. As far as strength goes I need just enough to leverage my body smartly but that is my personal choice.
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> Stripe, GitHub, and Shopify are the shining examples of Rails scaling in all kinds of ways without problem.

As a former Shopify dev, I can tell you that "without problem" is highly inaccurate. We had lots of Rails scaling problems.
So that you can override styles.
This reminds me of my teenage years. I used to use passwords that do not rely on personal facts (i.e birthday) or social relationzs (i.e my city..etc) but tried to be smart and relied on creating passwords that is related to what I feel because I thought that it is harder for people to know that. So I had a password "Ihate_My_Math_Teacher" for anything that is related to study for a while.
I never said it was ok. I said if he stopped then they would stop.
Right, and this approach is more or less what experienced chess players do. We don’t evaluate every possible move; we look at the board and use our intuition and experience to immediately discard most candidates and choose a few options to prioritize focus on.

In many positions there’s surprisingly little actual computation going on.