skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are reasons for higher salaries. You just disagree that they justify those salaries.
Since it's a 2009 article and there is taxpayers in the text, I think he was upset because the great recession bayouts and even with all world crumbling at the moment, large bonuses to C-Level.

Now it's 2024 and I expect lower profits in the middle term to companies that pays anyone more than they give in return.
Actually, these seabed moorings can create rich, local eco-systems. I know local fishermen here in Maui are drawn to areas around the off-shore buoys...

"The FADs are located 2.4 to 25 miles offshore and in depths of 80 to 1,510 fathoms." -- https://www.lahainanews.com/sports/local-sports/2016/05/19/s...
AutoML and [Partially] automated feature engineering have hyperparameters too. Some algorithms have no hyperparameters. And, OT did a complete grid search instead of a PSO or gradient descent, for which there are also adversarial cases.

Featuretools supports Dask EntitySets for larger-than-RAM feature matrices, or pandas on multiple cores: https://featuretools.alteryx.com/en/stable/guides/using_dask...

"Hyperparameter optimization with Dask":
https://examples.dask.org/machine-learning/hyperparam-opt.ht... :

> HyperbandSearchCV is Dask-ML’s meta-estimator to find the best hyperparameters. It can be used as an alternative to RandomizedSearchCV to find similar hyper-parameters in less time by not wasting time on hyper-parameters that are not promising. Specifically, it is almost guaranteed that it will find high performing models with minimal training.

Note that e.g. TabPFN is faster or converges more quickly than xgboost and other gradient boosting with hyperparameter methods: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269376#37274671

"Stochastic gradient descent written in SQL" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35063522 :

> What are some adversarial cases for gradient descent, and/or what sort of e.g. DVC.org or W3C PROV provenance information should be tracked for a production ML workflow?
It was/is a thing in some countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_constituency#Irelan...

But the Irish Senate has a relatively unusual composition and voting system anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seanad_%C3%89ireann#Compositio...
The 3? (4?) video recordings I watched from FOSDEM 2024 all had bad audio :( sounded overdriven to me
I completed interviews with my intended manager and HR about work conditions and salary, we had agreement on the particulars including dates, then the organization (multinational corporation purchased a Europan unit I applied to) mandated aptitude test, composed of some sort of mental abilities test and a personality test. "All employee must take the same test and reach a threshold". All from some external party sold their aptitude test services, used by the company for about 2 years as I understood (being a recently researched and perfected technique as I recall). I had a chance to see a practice test before completing the real one. The mental abilities test had generic IQ test like 'complete the sequence' but about half was 'calculate the sales figures of the hypothetical organization based on given situation' kind of tasks, in overall way too much for the allocated time, impossible to complete (testing the endurance against stress, ability to balance accuracy and pace I take, but I only reached about 1/4 being unpracticed in the topic). What?! Engineering position is tested by fast financial calculation? Then came the personality test, similarly with quicker than comfortable pace selecting most relevant answer of the three choices. But all were important depending on the circumstances (which was unspecified) and actually could, and in most cases should coexist (like what is more important to you, choose one: honesty, completing allocated tasks, client satisfaction).

I contacted HR saying that this is not a test that could measure me reliablty considering I have no practice in very fast financial calculations (can do slowly, but they emphasized the importance of pace with accuracy) and that I am forced to give random answers in the personality part, depending on what is my mood at the moment (basicaly mad about these idiotic tests). They told I must complete it and this is 'the base of allocating responsibilities and determining advancements in the company'.

I chose to withdraw my application instead (despite being without job for some months and the position looked promising). I do not want to work somewhere where they make this kind of across the board uniform and abstract tests the base of my evaluation (even if they just claim they do, since it is very difficult to imagine they could reliably do so).
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Residents' lives still in limbo a year after East Palestine toxic derailment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39337237
I just use a slacker version of Pomodoro.

First: in the morning, I decide what things I would like to try do today, and make some checkboxes in my notebook - some of these are boxes representing a half hour of work on a larger project, some of these are boxes representing shopping lists, I know which is which. Unlike the Pomodoro method I am not deciding exactly what I am going to do today, so it's okay if I have several more half-hour boxes than I know I can complete in a day.

Second: I do things. I don't pull out the timer, I just do things, and take breaks between them. The time I spent originally using the timer developed a pretty decent sense for a half hour of work, so I'll often find myself saying "how long have I been working on this project" and checking Time Sink's window at around a half an hour. Maybe I'll get up and take a serious break, maybe I'll blow it off. At some point I'll probably be climbing on my bike to go between my home and the various cafes/parks I work in so I've got a decent amount of "get off my ass and focus on something further than 4' away" built into my life.

I'll check off time blocks in the notebook as I get a chance. I also keep running time track charts in my working files, I'm an artist and it's nice to pull up a finished piece months later and say "this took me 5h spread out over a week" when thinking about future prices, or to look at the time spent on a half-finished piece and think about how much more time I have on the clock before (agreed-upon price)/(hours worked) drops too low, and maybe stop obsessing over an area that's acceptable but not great to go make sure every other part of the piece is going to be acceptable before I run out of time.

Third: repeat every work day for the rest of your life.

This works for me as a freelance artist. Sometimes I get sick and don't do this. Sometimes I get depressed and don't do this. Sometimes if I've stopped doing this for a while I'll take out the physical timer and start doing a more serious Pomodoro Routine to kind of reset myself. But really as a general rule I don't need the whole formal procedure.
Society should have celebrations. It's good for social cohesion that people do things together and have shared interests and activities. One of the consequences of celebrations is hangovers. We should make it easy for people to have celebrations, and that includes them having some hangovers, or just being tired from being up later the night before.

I don't drink or care about football, I just think new year's day and black Friday are good holidays.
AFAICT, the most expensive yacht is the History Supreme, which is only 100ft but is built from, among other things, 10 tons of gold and platinum. $4.8B.

Then there's the 155m Streets of Monaco concept (https://archive.curbed.com/2013/7/15/10219720/inside-streets...) which I would not touch with a 40ft motor lifeboat. $1.1B.

Elon Musk famously found a way to spend $44B on Twitter, which pretty impressive.
Who's going to build the cluster? Who's going to operate it? Who's going to decide how time/access gets allocated? Are results of compute going to be in the public domain?

Given the glacial speed of government products, will the cluster be using obsolete tech by the time its finally up and running?
None.

Just schedule the work you need to do and have some standards for yourself and keep working on it.

If you feel tired after a while you can train yourself to push through it if you really want to. Anyone who's ever run, lifted weights, done martial arts, etc, will tell you your real limit is well beyond your feelings.

If you're still tired, take a break, get a tea or a coffee and just go back to work.

The secret to get work done is to just sit down and do the work. Get used to being bored.
This "safety" legislation is mainly about requiring 2-man crews on trains. The unions are of course very much in favor, but it would do nothing to prevent derailments like what happened at E. Palestine.
Property is almost always taxed. In Texas, property taxes on homes are 2.5 - 3% of value, most people pay between 8K - 30K every year. And this keeps going up! Over a 30 year mortgage, I'm sure most people pay more on property taxes than on their home. Approximately 50% of property taxes go to school districts, the rest for other municipal services.

Some states also tax car as property.

What is not taxed is Intellectual Property. Because it is almost completely owned by the super rich. And, of course, these billionaires need all the help they can get. How about we change this? We can think of wiping out property taxes for homeowners (making homes affordable) and fund education from patent taxes. After all, the super rich are deriving these patents from the education system, its only fair they pay their fair share.
Ask HN: Do most startups simply ignore international taxes?
I sell a subscription-based Chrome extension as a side project and now have about 10 customers. Like many hobby-level businesses, I'm using Stripe for payment processing.

I got a customer from the UAE, so Stripe Tax showed I needed to register for their VAT. When I completed that process, the UAE immediately hit me with a 10,000AED ($2,722) penalty for not registering sooner. Now, if I'd known this would happen I would have just blocked all payments from that country and refunded the customer.

At my scale (hobbyist, $50 MRR) I can't afford international tax lawyers or these massive penalties. A little Googling shows I'll need to register and keep on top of VAT for dozens of countries once I have more customers, which isn't something I can expect to manage solo or afford to pay an expert to do.

I'm thinking of blocking all non-US payments with Stripe Radar, even though I want global customers and prefer to avoid the extra cost for Radar. But other startups seem to manage without this hassle. What am I missing? Are people just not registering for VAT?
I mean, that doesn’t seem _particularly_ tough.
> Tell me you have never rented out without telling me you have never rented out something.

Ah. You're a landlord. That explains a lot.

All the bemoaning and bitching I've ever heard from you lot has one answer: If it's so fucking bad, then sell your excess properties to people who actually want to live in them and leave the business. No one forced you to buy more housing/commercial space than you needed. You did that, because you wanted to profit from it while doing no work. In that lens, I hope it sucks for you. I hope you have problems every day from your tenants, from your buildings. I hope they hold you feet to the fire over every last problem they have with every ounce of legal leeway given them. I hope you're miserable.

And I hope all of this because nobody made you get into that business and you're free to leave it at any time.
Both. The entire concept of "professionalism" is based around the idea that certain people should be dishonest about themselves in public, for the sake of others' comfort.
A fuckton.

Roughly 100 million tons annually of lunar regolith launched into L1 by railgun.

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Okay so if I put ten blankets on you, is it fair to say that I didn't cause you to overheat? After all the blankets were cooler than your body, it was the heat you emitted that caused them to warm up.

Said a little different: solar warming due to the CO2 we put in the air is equally potential as if the sun will potentially produce solar radiation tomorrow.
I’d say there are many examples of higher salaries being zero sum or negative sum.

I’ve noticed from people I’ve visited in the US with large salaries that there’s many who buy homes with swimming pools they don’t necessarily use much. It’s kind of something you just have to have, especially if you plan to sell the home one day.

The European model might involve smaller homes, higher taxes, and thus lower salary. But the taxes will often go to public infrastructure, and since housing is denser, that infrastructure is potentially in walking/biking distance. So you get public pools with more amenities (even a big slide if you’re lucky) for less money.

I was struck by a side comment in Linus from Linus Tech Tips that he felt his family needed to spend some of the summer at home to justify the huge investment in the swimming pool in their new home. Seems kinda crazy to me.

The mega yachts that seem popular with the ultra wealthy also seem to me like such a huge waste. So many people employed building those big money sinks who could have been building infrastructure.

In the case where the gains on capital or large salaries is used as new capital for new ventures, I agree it’s not zero sum. But if that’s what we want more of, there can be ways to encourage that money is managed that way more often. Doesn’t feel like there’s enough effort on those kinds of policies.
The main problem here, in my opinion,is that we have artifically capped the number of congress critters at an absurdly low amount. We should have almost twice the number of representatives. You should basically be able to walk to your reps house assuming you live in a somewhat dense city or small town. You should know what church they go to. Where they go to the gym, etc. By limiting the supply of congress people we've given disproportionate weight to the richest in their district. If every neighborhood had a congressperson, there would be less of this, because they'd have to compete with votes for the (likely average) people who live there.

That being said, for me personally, I've had great luck calling my state congresspeople, because like what I said above, I do know where they live and their habits, because they're a known neighbor. Note, I completely disagree with her politics, but in terms of constituent services and getting things done, I can't criticize at all.
I was thinking it was a behavioral evolution thing - demonstrating status and suitability as a mate; that sort of thing. But really it just seems like a waste of money if your needs are modest. I only need a room really. The funny thing is that I went through the trouble of buying a house before I realized that.
I found the trick was to take the metro line 5 to Delta and then take Bus 71 from there, much less crowded - I could get a seat every day.
Another data point: My wife's grandparents have 10 children, 81 grandchildren (mostly adults), and around 300 and counting great-grandchildren. It's wonderful! When we go on trips around the U.S., we are almost always staying with a cousin. Our children really enjoy meeting and getting to know cousins their age. That said, I do notice that the younger generations typically are having smaller families (like 3-6 children instead of 8-12 children).

It's a lot of work to keep in touch and visit cousins, but my wife and I feel it's totally worth it. At times, we've decided where to live based on proximity to cousins, and we decided early on to regularly visit cousins who lived within a couple of hours. When we were married, we decided we'd try to go to reunions, funerals, and weddings, and we've largely done that for the last 19 years. There is a big family reunion for a few days every other year, with about half the family coming (so hundreds of people of all ages). We also have monthly dinners with typically 20-30 local cousins joining. We regularly tell family history stories, and we have a screensaver rotating through our pictures, including many from cousin visits and reunions, so cousins are regularly coming up in daily conversations.

One thing I've noticed is that the more often we go to reunions and visit other families, the more excited the children are to go to see cousins again (as opposed to another family branch, where reunions are every 5-10 years, the children just don't have the same connection with that much growing up in between reunions). Another thing I've noticed is that our children seem to feel very grounded in their experiences - they often are relating their experiences to a story from an ancestor and pulling lessons from that.

To address a comment elsewhere on this topic, yes, we are religious, the family is predominantly active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a significant portion live in the intermountain west area of the U.S.
Would work even better if patents were non-transferable and only assignable to actual people, not companies or other entities.
I can’t wait for the Apple vision kids so my 4 year old can watch hours of cocomelon someday. Lol, TIHI
With all seriousness, I’ll throw in “the unexpected breakthroughs in intuitive AI will aid this effort.” I sincerely think that LLMs will at least make R&D cheaper.

Beyond that, “we haven’t been to the moon” isn’t a fair summary of our tech imo - a HUGE portion of that is political in origin, and private companies have invented reusable rockets which is pretty damn important
Wow, scary ... then why is it not the case for MacOS?
It's due to the "boy that cried wolf" way that people use those platforms. For years, Nextdoor (and Ring Neighbors), in the areas I've lived, have been mostly fearmongering about those of the wrong shade being "suspicious" (often it's just a door-to-door person hawking electricity, or solar, or whatever - I hate those salespeople as much as anyone, but the discussions made it sound like they were all trying to break into homes)
AI safety is not about the jobs AI replaces. If you think that's the context of this discussion, you are way off track.
+1 for Horowitz's Art of Electronics. Get the original text, and the companion exercise book if possible. The original book is kind of pricey, but a worthwhile addition to any engineer's bookshelf as a lifelong reference.
You're mostly right. CUDA was a "sleeper product" that existed early-on but didn't see serious demand until later. OpenCL was Khronos Group's hedged bet against the success of CUDA; it was assumed that they would invest in it more as demand for GPGPU increased. After 10 years though, OpenCL wasn't really positioned to compete and CUDA was more fully-featured than ever. Adding insult to injury, OS manufacturers like Microsoft and Apple started to avoid standardized GPU libraries in favor of more insular native APIs. By the time demand for CUDA materialized, OpenCL had already been left for dead by most of the involved parties.
Personality tests like this are par for the course in domains like retail. They have right/wrong answers, no matter what the test administrators tell you. When given the option, always Strongly Disagree with anything that might worry your boss and Strongly Agree with anything that would make your boss happy. A single wrong answer could mean you're a risky hire; two or more may disqualify you on the spot. Don't mess with Mr. Inbetween; Agree, Disagree, and Not Sure are wrong answers.
The MD-95 didn’t even get type certification until 1999. Are you thinking of ValueJet? That was in 1997 and wasn’t a MD-95 but a DC-9, and the cause of the crash was, you know, it was ValueJet.

MDC in 1995 and 1996, when the talks were occurring, was
not in dire financial shape. The C17 had a contract finally and was printing obscene amounts of money. But there was nothing new in the pipe, so once they bombed on JSF, it was either merge then at the top or ride the trainwreck for the next 30 years.

And Boeing made out, because they picked up the desperately needed cash from C17 and the military business. Which was the right move, since there have been 2 or 3 times since then where commercial nearly bankrupted the company.

PS I agree the MD95 sucked and was a poor decision. My understanding is that a new design was considered too expensive at the time (the 80s), hence the decision to go with the derivative. It can work, but if it backfires you end up with the MD-95 or the MAX.
Tri Dao, Stanford: On FlashAttention and sparsity, quantization
Yeah, this is the fundamental issue at play here. I don't care what fees or rules Apple puts in place for developer access to its app store. I care that I'm digitally restricted from running anything other than software approved by Apple on my device. If that problem was solved and Apple had to compete with other app stores on a level playing field, that would naturally resolve any issues with their rules or fee structure.

The DMA (seemingly) didn't target root of the problem, so Apple was able to easily just sidestep the legislation by saying "okay, you can use alternative app stores now, but the app stores and all software on them still has to be reviewed and approved by us, and we're going to continue to impose conditions (including payment) on that approval". If they had been completely stripped of the ability to exclude software from my device, then they wouldn't have the leverage to impose these new rules in the first place.
“Imagine you want to add a shadcn component, a fontawesome icon, or another custom library component. Wouldn't it be nice to have it all accessible via one unified interface.”

Don’t we have that already with rollup in vite? I simply import it into my jsx and use it. Npm is that interface. I guess I just don’t understand the pain this is trying to solve. I import Shadcn components, I import fontawesome icons, or hero icons, or SVG, or whatever you want. The rollup bundles everything into my public folder ready to be content-delivered. All of this is done with vite. Sly uses vite. So again, a cli tool on top a cli tool on top a cli tool just so you don’t have to import a sheet with svg’s you probably won’t use. Reducing bundle size. Great. Abstracting it all on top of an ecosystem on top of an ecosystem? Not great. Sorry. I’ll never have a use for sly or shadxn or anything that simply abstracts the layer beneath and claim it’s innovative. Vite is doing the work.
Every single time I'm on desktop and I see a GUI that sucks, I know it's mobile's fault. Why this button so big? Mobile. Why spacing? Mobile. Why this list of 6 clickable items with one line of text each takes up my whole screen's vertical space? Mobile. Why no more status bars and tooltips? Because you can't hover on mobile. Why is the filter of this table below the table instead of above the table's headers? Because the thumbs won't reach the top on mobile. Why the headerbar buttons have no labels? Because they wouldn't fit in the horizontal space in mobile.

I'm really not a fan of mobile. If possible, I'd rather ignore it completely and just let mobile users rotate their screens.
> I will add that I consider the very idea of "absence of the state" to be badly-formed, states vary considerably in their constitution but there's always something serving that role, even if it's a few elders in a village.