skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, having everything in research being so mechanized is starting to make research itself feel less magical and just about being another part in a machine. With that and the fact that most research today is relatively meaningless or focused on optimization of commercial products, I think science has left the domain of the purely curious and has been taken over by bean counters.

No interest in such a product of any kind.
As someone who went all in on Ego about 3-4 years ago, let me tell you, the technology is nowhere close to capable enough for even small-time contractors yet.

You would need at least 3 batteries per piece of equipment in use at one time in order to not have to spend time idle while a battery recharges ($700-$1000 upfront investment in batteries per piece). The lifespan of those batteries under constant usage would be atrocious.

Even if you could solve the battery problem, the power of the equipment doesn't come close to gas. My Ego leaf blower doesn't even compare to the plug-in electric one I had prior to acquiring it, and I still have to revert for some harder jobs. An example of this: if there is a clump of wet grass on concrete, like something left behind from a mower wheel, the Ego struggles to move it while the plug-in has no problem. Or if a pile of leaves is damp, forget about it.

The mowing quality is terrible, leaving long patches everywhere (despite a sharp blade and slow progression). The form factor of the mower deck makes corners and edges much more difficult than other machines. And because the power is limited, the mulching capabilities are almost nil. It shuts down quickly if you hit a particularly tough piece of lawn to avoid overloading its motor.
If lack of punctuality being used as a signal causes these VCs to drop Steve Jobs or Travis Kalanick I think it's safe to say it doesn't speak volumes.

Otherwise you're optimizing for criteria other than "selecting whether to invest in Apple or Uber."
How can parents teach their kids not to eat sugar if they're constantly eating sugar?

You might be right about regulations of sugar, but regulations shouldn't just target companies individually. They should figure out the actual problem and try and regulate that.
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> Would you recommend going in with .NET Core/Vscode/EF Core on macOS today, if you were to start a fresh backend project?

"It depends". I also do a lot of work with Firebase and there, I prefer doing backend using TypeScript and Node on Cloud Functions. The front-end integration is really tight and Firebase is designed to work that way as a stack. That said, I'll still develop pure back-end workloads (e.g. async jobs) alongside my Firebase stack using C# and deploy into Cloud Run Jobs.

If you're building a pure backend, I'd choose .NET 8 with confidence because the overall DX feels better than Node to me. EF Core is really, really good; I prefer it to Prisma and the handful of alternatives on Node for relational DBs. I think .NET gives senior devs more "reach" (while still being approachable for junior devs) because it is multi-threaded[0], has source generators[1], interops with C++ easily, has deep optimization options for performance, and is generally a deeper platform than Node. Deployment into the serverless container runtimes is a breeze[2]. I also find myself patching CVEs and updating packages less in .NET land than in Node land (felt like it was a monthly and sometimes weekly chore in Node to be upgrading deps because of a security advisory).

Things I miss from Node are the aforementioned unit testing, JS has better hot reload than .NET (serviceable, but not as good), discriminated unions (though its possible to patch that on with libraries like OneOf[3]), and Node has more package variety (while I think .NET has better package quality).

[0] https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2024/05/need-for-speed-llms-beyond...

[1] https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2023/08/dotnet-source-generators-d...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlnEm7JyvyY

[3] https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf
It should be a general safety probe. None of us should be subjected to the designs of these websites and they should be shut down.
Kind of missing the forest for the trees, but TIL the actual application called ping was written in 1983.
Today's countries are incomparably more centralized than in the times of Rome.

When Georgia fired some missile on Russia (after weeks of harassment by Russian troops at the border), Putin knew about it within seconds. The same thing would have taken days if not weeks in Roman times.

And then, marching an army from a neighboring province again would have taken weeks, or even months if you needed to bring them from farther away. Today, your air force can arrive at any point on your (main) territory in a matter of hours, even for a country the size of Russia, and boots on the ground might take a day or two.

Also, everything about how war is fought and the impact of weapons has changed dramatically. The difference between the destructive power of the greatest (even non-nuclear) weapons that we have versus more common rifles or rockets is colossal. In Roman times, the difference between the best weapon and an improvised club was tiny by comparison.
As developers, we constantly seek robust and efficient solutions to protect our applications and ensure the privacy of our users. One such solution that has gained significant traction in recent years is the use of JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for authentication.
> Currently, 79% of SWEs are seeking their next opportunity.

You mean in the US, right? Still hard to believe.
The one I use is called "letting the leaves decompose naturally and accepting that certain areas will be mulchy".

Plus a broom to keep the sidewalk clean.
Tuesday I mowed the lawn. Yesterday morning, I got up, made coffee, grabbed my shop broom and cleaned up out front. Not a leaf blower insight.

Sure it took a couple of extra minutes but I also got some light exercise. I understand why a lawn service uses a leaf blower. I don't understand why my neighbors do.
I'm not saying we shouldn't invest in renewables, but that we need to consider their limitations, primarily intermittency and unfeasability of storing TWhs of energy for later. At the same time, we need to find a way to cheaply and fast build new nuclear power stations (like Korea and China are doing). Time is running out, yet a large group of public opposes the single biggest source of clean energy there is.
If it works I'll buy one for my neighbor as soon as they're available.
Exactly right. It's asinine to blow leaves. They don't do any damage and they create habitats for spiders and insects. I hate poeple who want clean, empty mowed lawns, aiming for an ideal that is far away from nature. Sickening.
I agree to the sentiment, but not that he should be harassed for it. It seems that too many of us are happy to hide behind the corporate veil and be less than human when it comes to treating others fairly. Google KNEW of this guys vulnerable position, had him consult on an issue, then released a (very similar) competing app (and we all know where it will be in 3 years - at least its open source this time). I get that these things happen in the corporate world every day, but that doesn't make it right.
Have you seen any interesting LLM applications besides marketing tools and PDF parsers recently?
If three people make this, then it should say something about a.) leaf blowers and how they are liked by bystanders b.) that this might be solving the wrong problem.

"you had to be the 3rd one to make it?"

With people making a personal attack out of everything, I wonder: Does this make you happy? How are those people in real life? Can't they discuss things without getting personal? (Oh and I see the irony of my comment, but I do consider this a meta-discussion)

PS: No I don't read every one out of 180 comments before I comment myself. Chapeau if you do!
Factory Reset Protection works great unless your OEM does something stupid like offer you a "non-Google" image for your device that you can flash to... then flash back to the "Google" image and the FRP block on the device gets erased.

I have seen this and managed to do it to our own device from that manufacturer :')
There are problems with battery-powered tools (at least, leaf blowers) still, especially at the commercial level. For one, they just don’t have the runtime. I briefly had an 80V blower. On its highest power – which is the only way it could come close to a gas-powered model, it was barely able to get all of the leaves out of the yard (we had a tree with leaves that had needle-like protrusions, which made them quite hard to dislodge), and lasted about 10 minutes per charge.

If you don’t have sticky leaves, or are clearing primarily hard surfaces like a deck, then absolutely, battery-powered is the way to go. But if you’re a commercial operator who is driving tools more or less non-stop all day, it’s going to be a hard sell to have to have a minimum of N*2 batteries (at $150-200 each), plus the downtime of swaps, plus having to run a generator on your truck constantly to charge the off-duty batteries.

EDIT: Sibling comment below linked to a Stihl model that appears to offer an hour of runtime at full tilt. It’s also $2400 for the unit / battery / charger, tbf, but it at least has the performance.
The poster is creating a purposefully difficult situation to indicate the lack of interest they have with returning to office. In other words, they’d only return to office in a fantasy world
They do use CVS for version control.
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/

from their github: https://github.com/openbsd/src

> Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official CVS src repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the tech@ mailing list.
Have you ever considered it's just a name and it's actually used on more than just leaves?

Or was the post sarcasm? Poe's law.
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Probably not. But according to news articles Apple did lose a bunch of experts/senior developers with the RTO debacle.
Great write up thanks for your decade of work!

R is still unbeatable for wrangling tabular data, visualising, and fitting complex models on tabular data (complex up to GAMs let’s say).
The link you give to external testers goes through the play store, IIRC.
The links between creativity, intelligence, and mental illness (2003)
Framed this way, it seems like remote work can actually be an effective filter that can identify and screen out low performers.
Financial accountants have a line item for not being a dick. It’s called “goodwill”. No shit.
However, it's not the aperture range that matters. Theoretically, if earth were not rotating, then 10 stops would still be useful for long-exposure photography. In other words, the stop differences in stabilization are more useful when you think of then in terms of shutter speed, NOT aperture.
No. Nearly all of it is the engine.
GPT-4o is free in chatGPT.
VCs primarily provide capital, and that's their essential role. They aren't there to be your friends or mentors.

Remember, if you mix friendships with financial asks, you risk losing those friends.

So, VCs are a great resource for funding, perfectly suited for what they're designed to do!
BashFu – Open X11 window with netcat, echo, pipes and file system
> The key is it being optional and up to employees to decide what's best for them.

Agree.

My issue is not about remote, hybrid or onsite, but more about some management mandating one way of working for everyone.
What like 50 token responses?

Buddy I'm cranking out 4k.

Also LOL at the GPU thing. Its insane how well Apple marketing worked.
I get the impression most llama.cpp users are interested in running models on GPU. AFAICT this optimization is CPU-only. Don't get me wrong – a huge one! – and opens the door to running llama.cpp on more and more edge devices.
I misspoke. Generally speaking, when modeling an LBO you assume entry = exit multiple to be conservative. What I meant to say is that in Tech, if you sell at the same, call it, 10x multiple on Revenue but your annual revenue grew some X% over the period, you can still get to a very compelling IRR even if the actual CF profile of the business hasn't improved at all. Obviously if you sell at a higher multiple that is doubly true.

The point is Tech companies don't strictly need profitability to be considered good LBO candidates, because everything is done at the top line level for the "sexier" very high growth companies.

The asset still "pays for itself" on exit, just not so much during the investment period. In other words, the value to equity holders is not from debt paydown with the assets' cash flows, but with the exit proceeds.
> Educate the parents instead to spend more right time with their children.

This is kind of assuming that the parents have full control over the lives of their children. Which:

a. Isn't true
b. Shouldn't be true (because some parents are bad)

As a parent you go to work for 8+ hours per day. During that time your child is in the care of "society" (school / daycare / whatever). And during that time the only thing that protects them is laws and regulations.
Wet rotting leaves on a footpath are very slippery, so its helpful to be able to blow them off the footpath before they get all mushy
There are SO MANY VCs and every VC is different. if your idea is truly great there is probably one whose investment thesis is aligned with your idea
I don’t think it is fair to pitch parents against multi-billion dollar international companies who have dedicated tens of thousands of staff to the job of getting children addicted to their sites, by any means they can get away with.
I recently had the pleasure to work with ddrescue. Unfortunately the SSD disappeared on encountering read errors and could only be brought back by power cycling (at least as far as I found out in the time allotted) :/, so it went to my 'defect hardware' pile.
I use it to dry my car which is ceramic coated, one of the best tools I have recently purchased.
The fact that the mastodon devs put the content in the HTML but refuse to show the content tells me everything I need to know about mastodon. It may even be worse than twitter. Generally I will not go out of my way to use or view such links. I just close the tabs.
But it would be silly to classify opioid use as gambling, which was the proposal. Figuring out the real issue, and banning that for kids, might well be a good idea. But to my mind the thinking from parents is still very open around what kids should be allowed to do, so it might be too soon.
The latest salvo in the RTO war is reposts of stupid TikTok and Xhitter videos of people bragging about goofing off the entire time while they WFH.

That’s a sign of either a shit manager, over hiring, or bullshit jobs (jobs that you think you need but you don’t).

It still happens in an office except instead of baking or lounging they are fucking off on the Internet or creating make work to look busy but not actually creating value.
This is the most in-depth, seemingly unbiased report that I have read on the Slovak PM and his attacker at this time.

https://goodauthority.org/news/slovakia-prime-minister-fico-...
Some of them do like to pretend to be your friend after they’ve invested, though. Don’t fall for it :)
I think “nepotism” might be more succinct?
…so you propose killing these people?
“Up” or “thoroughly”, apparently? Same prefix as in analysis, anaphora, anamorphism. Ancient Greek had a sprawling system of prefixes that one can’t really pick up by osmosis, it seems.

(Complaints about noun morphology sound a bit hypocritical from a native speaker of Russian, I know, but it is what it is.)
There was a paper a few years ago describing something that sounds very similar: https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.02...
I am curious the full PHP setup because these benchmarks seem like very uncharitable stats.
There’s some overlap as well–I recently had an extended visit in my rural hometown, working by a window overlooking the main street. Something I noticed quickly was that a huge proportion of passing vehicles that happened to be loud enough for me to glance up were actually lawn service pickup trucks with loud, modified exhausts. It also became clear that I’ve been living in the city too long to remember how obnoxious the all-day-every-day drone of lawn equipment is, it sort of blew my mind.
I’ve been thinking recently that a lot of the pathologies in tech work culture come from the fact that a lot of the most successful tech executives are “wunderkinds” - people who have an extremely rare combination of incredible talent AND incredible drive - who want to only work with people like themselves.

The upside of this is that if you are such a person, as an employee you’ll be amply rewarded. I’ve worked with a number of such people at several of the big tech firms and they are recognized and compensated like the unicorns they are (such people could easily go start their own businesses if they wanted to be entrepreneurs, so they have to be rewarded lavishly to keep them as employees).

But most people aren’t Elon Musks or Jeff Bezoses or the like. Most of the people I have worked with are talented and motivated but not nearly so far out on the right hand long tail.

And motivation waxes and wanes for most people; most people have balanced lives that include lots of time spent not working for someone else.

When I see pathologies such as RTO (which is always combines with making the offices more shitty with hoteling and such), and performance management practices reminiscent of Roman decimations, I see wunderkinds who are unable to accept that most people aren’t like them.
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In 2008 or so I worked for a consulting company where most of the workers were remote. Eventually, they opened up an office where I lived. We were encouraged (required?) to come into the office a few days a week. We free parking, table tennis and a cooler stocked with pop and beer.

My teams were always remote but I found the social aspects to be beneficial.
Everyone's work is disputed. What in particular do you want to say that you disagree with in Heidt's work, and what's your justification?
There’s a bunch of stuff there but I think they were also trying to protect Foxtel so Murdoch could avoid having to compete with Netflix etc.

Assholes all round
Caution. You might end up like the Dropbox guy... [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
The point is this is essentially what upper management is doing. They aren’t going to wave a wand and have a national housing crisis fixed and high cost of living areas be suddenly more affordable to mid level developers. Moreover certain cultural changes, like mothers staying in the workforce, mean it is going to get more difficult and more expensive to get workers back to long commutes.
Typo aside, that's one of the more clarifying similies I've ever read.

Or at least, for anyone who grew up on Jurassic Park: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQe68kF_8M&t=31s
I didn’t ask for your biography. I asked two simple questions and you failed to answer either of them.
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3. WTF are you doing working for above employer? I sympathize not everyone can do so, but the only way such bullshit will change is if enough of the workforce says "nope" and quits for greener pastures.

...this is exactly what the parent comment is talking about. People take these jobs because you need money to live and not everyone has the luxury of being able to turn down jobs with shitty conditions. Employers take advantage of this and do things like require their employees to use their personal belongings.

1. WTF is anyone doing using their personal belongings for their work? Cleanly and clearly demarcating personal and professional is CYA 101, for both employee and employer.

2. WTF is the employer doing if they don't provide all necessary tooling for the job prescribed?

Because then they don't have to spend any company money.
I'd like to know more on how, in a multi-tenant system, do you handle potential conflicts or overlaps in event matching expressions from different tenants? Is that even a thing?
Can somebody ELI5 this to me?

The image with the 2 earths.. that only works if the camera is not also on the ground, but it is? How is the rotation of the object and the camera not identical? Why would it rotate ‘upwards’?

Also, if the issue is relative motion or rotation between camera and object, wouldn’t two sensors, one on the camera and one on the subject be able to solve this, since we can see if their rotations/movement match up or not?
Yes. High time that Musk's Starlink get some competition.
A canopy of unblown leaves can cause damage to the surfaces underneath through mold or mildew. In some cases, this damage can be effectively permanent if let go long enough.
> Notably those who were once bullish on full remote, would like to see some form of hybrid setup if it makes sense.

Within my social group I don't know anyone that agrees with this that isnt working a job that already could not be remote so this never affected them.

Personally, I like the idea of Hybrid but I don't need it by any means. I do it at my current job because we have an office but if we did not have one I would not miss it.

I go in one day a week, but that was also my choice. I was not told I had to do it, if I wanted to stop going in I am still classified as a remote employee.

The fact is, I am more productive at home than in the office. I have less distractions talking to coworkers, I am comfortable in my space, I am less incentivized to want to leave because I need account for the trip home.

When I WFH I will hop on later in the day to check in on something, I am online more hours, and just the week by week output is higher.

Sure I have the distractions of home stuff, but again more hours. If I need to take a break I can go play a game for a few minutes and feel far more refreshed than I would in the office. I don't feel drained by the end of the day.

There is value in being seen by colleagues, but that is something that can be addressed virtually and there are full remote companies that find solutions to this.

Side Note: My cat deciding to come and sit on my lap while working is a pretty good motivator to get some work done.
It very much does and has for a while now: https://samteplov.com/uploads/who-tracks-the-trackers/tracke...

Using randomized or rolling addresses avoids detection to an extent, depending on how many randomized addresses one uses and how often they're rotated.

However, it's also trivial to detect randomized (or rolling) addresses due to the address being utilized for more than a single locality. Although, I'm not sure that either Apple or Google is actually doing the randomized detection even with this new patch.
Agreed.

I saw a bumble bee come out of hibernation from inside an old leaf out in the garden recently. Amazing experience. The leaves also make good top soil.

If you need to move leaves, use brooms. Or leave the leaves be, assholes! :-D
I can see AI genuinely amending or even curing the male loneliness epidemic soon
I'm in NYC and I have a local ISP called Honest Internet that gives me gigabit for $50/mo. Comcast/Xfinity, Verizon, Spectrum all wanted $90/mo for this. I also have a direct email address to get support rather than some useless "chatbot" and endless phone queue. Support local ISPs.
It still comes down to risk management.

VCs manage risk differently than bankers, but they still need some form of assurance that their investment will bear fruit. They are not as rigid as bankers but they are still in the same position of having to rely on proxy signals to predict the future.

They can catch more non-conformist value builders† but not every single one.

†For a VC, innovation is a means to building value, not an end to itself. Often the 2 are used interchangeably but only the finances matter in the end.
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