skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>wish that Warren had bought the rafting company and decided to pay them a living wage instead of doing nothing and not acknowledging the problem”

Warren Buffett is probably the most outspoken rich person to advocate for the government to increase wealth redistribution via increased taxes. He also has probably donated some of the biggest sums in the history of the world to objectively benefit poorer people.

Yet here you are, concluding that Buffett does not acknowledge excessive wealth gaps from the fact that he did not donate money to a specific worker working for a business he paid to receive a service for, or that it was somehow Buffett's responsibility to buy the whole business as a form of charity.
Thank you so, so much for this. For all the suggestions. I will start following them hopefully without being discouraged again. And thank you for the suggestion about communication!
It happens. This is the type of revelation where heads roll and a scapegoat is very useful for the CSO, general liability of the company and PR.
As a customer, I don't know neither I do care how they have teamed up internally. Not my problem.

From my perspective, the secret keys I don't have. Just AWS has and they can decrypt whatever and whenever they want maybe because they have a warrant or some three letter agency has them do it.
Yes—although E96 is cheap, I’m still very fond of E12. You get to keep less stock. I’ll even use two resistors rather than use something outside E12, most of the time. Maybe it’s habit?

Hell, I don’t even think all of E12 is necessary. I’ll stick to E6 most of the time.
"Hello, each and every Windows Update actually switches that button from disable to enable. All you have to do is remember to switch it back after every security update." --The future based off Microsofts past behavior.
I think it is the economy. Companies have been firing and scaling back hiring.

Junior positions are usually the first to go.
Bought it since I saw the "single copy" option mentions an epub.

You can't download an epub it seems. It's not attached on the receipt, and you seem to be forced to use the horrible gumroad reading site.
My dog knows nothing about physics. He's an expert at catching frisbee's though. The problem is he chases anything that looks remotely like a frisbee.
I don't have any relationship or agenda. If you really want to know, I had an account here long ago but I received some very rude, hateful and harassing comments so I stopped posting and then lost the password. Is it that much of a stretch for you to believe there's a GNOME user who isn't angry at the developers and doesn't share your opinion? I don't get my FOSS news from social media. I read the developer's blogs and announcements directly and I don't assume they're lying or trying to hide some secret evil agenda, perhaps that's why you see contrasts between my attitude and the attitudes of others?

>You seem to dismiss everything everyone else is saying.

But disagreeing with something is not a dismissal. In cases where I disagree I'm careful to state the exact reasons why and discuss, or present some facts or explanations that someone may have overlooked. That's how to keep the discussion engaging even if you disagree. I'll only dismiss someone if they're intentionally rude. And this comment is against this part of the guidelines: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken." I don't have any way to advance the discussion when you do that, it's personally attacking and putting me on the defense when I haven't done anything but state my opinion. Can't you see how that becomes a way to systematically shut down discussions and make them hostile, when someone constantly throws those accusations at strangers?

>Considering the history of attitude of Gnome developers towards users and their requests

There is no free software project anywhere that is obligated to honor any user's requests. If you have a problem with this, you should not use FOSS. But if you absolutely need someone to honor your requests, you need to pay them and get the contract in writing so they're legally required to do so.
The soil itself is also storing CO2, in a variety of different less than intuitive processes. The most obvious is when parts of the plant die and breakdown into the soil itself.
Hmm, looks better this way!
Thanks for the explanation, and the reference to the code.

It is indeed nice and easy to read the constraints. Nice work!
> Statistically you're correct,

The Central Limit Theorem (which says if we add a bunch of random numbers together they'll converge on a bell curve) only guarantees that you'll get a normal distribution. It doesn't say where the mean of the distribution will be.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if your resistor factory has a constant skew making all the resistances higher than their nominal value, a bunch of 6.8K + 6.8K resistors will not on average approximate a 13.6K resistor. It will start converging on something much higher than that.

Tolerances don't guarantee any properties of the statistical distribution of parts. As others have said, oftentimes it can even be a bimodal distribution because of product binning; one production line can be made to make different tolerances of resistors. An exactly 6.8K resistor gets sold as 1% tolerance while a 7K gets sold as 5%.
Good old Johnny, terrific dude.
> Fewer multiples between the lowest paid people and the highest paid people

This will of course cause their good devs to leave, but I guess these days companies are trying to innovate in AI rather than software dev.

Once the AI bubble bursts I doubt we'll see a reset back to pure software dev being prestigious/highly paid. Thinking about a career change honestly.
Why does the universe require so much grinding for this problem

It makes no sense if the rest of the universe relies upon simple rules
From the article:

> Recently, Mr. Lawrence said, customers have been snapping up used Teslas for a little over $20,000, after applying a $4,000 federal tax credit.

...

> Carmakers including Tesla, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the owner of Jeep, have announced plans for electric vehicles that would sell new for as little as $25,000.
when the majority of interviewers are bad it does become an apparent property of interviews
This is rather off topic but jk rowling is basically the definition of a woman who thinks increased rights for trans people hurts women.
If supermarkets and other public spaces had installed CO2 scrubbers on their ventilation output/exhaust, could we have expected to lower COVID's r-naught?

In what we did over the pandemic with masking, we drove some flu variants extinct. Is this an alternative to accomplish the same effect?

Are hospitals already doing this with existing ventilation?
Probably because only you and I have a problem with it ;)
E12 is also great for older users who do not have the keen eyesight anymore to read the 1% codes with certainty without using tools.
AI is best way to make a bag in modern history! Get on AI and make your bag today !
It's ridiculous when you think about it.

Some companies were throwing money at anyone who knew what a text editor was during Covid. And now they're happy to pretend like they only accept the very best, and use that as an excuse to low-ball/down-level. When it flips to an employee market, don't crow about retention difficulties.
AI is most certainly not a new field. NN are decades old, it's only modern LLM transformer tech that is new.

Perhaps look at a primer on NN feed forward, RNN and transformer evolution.

There's also GOFAI, genetic algorithms, pattern matching algorithms (image recognition is a subset of NN), rules based algorithms (e.g. Bayesian) and others.

As a tech lead dev, I hire ML specialists and most can't even tell me what GPT stands for in ChatGPT, but some actually have a the full background I mention above, and there's very few of these, even less of those understand the mathematics, but just how to use Langchain or AWS services.

So it's true there is a skills shortage, but it's heavily polluted by people jumping on the AI bandwagon to try and get a lucrative/high paying job, and this is probably what you are seeing.
> It's perfectly reasonable to trust the KMS team to keep your keys secure, even if you don't trust the RDS team to never try to look at your data.

If the database is live, then the data is able to be decrypted and who knows where it ends up. Encryption at rest solves only the threat scenario where the RDS team has access to the database storage layer. It doesn't do anything to mitigate any threats after it has been read from storage.
I guess the UK MoD are wrong too then, according to you... https://x.com/DefenceHQ/status/1796467954907037817/photo/1
Yes, pretty much. And I apologize for not writing clearly.
English isn't my first language. This is why I wrote a hard-to-understand context. Also, I was crying at the time, so my head wasn't in the write place, I guess.
bit buzz wordy yes. The actual speed up is now 1 artist does what used to be 1 main artist + 1 line artist + 1 colorist + postprocessing. So they can make a nice finished product alone.
I like the 5-smooth numbers and related sequences, because they include a lot of numbers that are very common in engineering
If we're going to waste electricity, I'd rather we waste it on AI than on mining Bitcoin. At least AI is providing some utility to its consumers and there's reason to believe it will provide even more in the future.
I mean... how do you describe what Coke tastes like? Most soda is kind of mysterious.
uhh, no. https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1269407862234775552?lang=en

She is against womens rights being taken away. Trans people already have all the same rights as anyone else. Please name one right a trans person does not have that anyone else does
“Around” usually means proving possession of a signing key on a connection.
Which is why AGI will likely be the end of us.
How much is his golden parachute worth if he's fired?
with our eyes wide and bright

on the orange site, we write

in curiosity, we find delight

here: a land of the bit and the byte
Tech hardware companies are the only people where I'm not annoyed at their prices.

Want a fence built for you? $3000 for 2 days work with 96 pieces of wood.

Want a basic android phone with 4 gb of memory, 128 gb of storage, a camera, speakers, touch screen, wifi, cell tower connection, GPS, battery, charger and cable? $60 on sale at Walmart for a Moto G Power Stylus edition. (My current phone and that's what I paid a few months ago)
those are probably not the people you’d actually want to hire

why not?
Have you tried -nostdlib yet?
By now it has to be clear he is a genius at playing 4D hungry hungry hippos. If there is some investor money or government subsidy to be had he will say and do anything to get it. If it's not there he loses interest
Ask HN: Python in the Browser Window?
I have been volunteering to teach middle school students about coding and robotics.

Right now I have been using MS MakeCode that has blocks, Python, and JavaScript options. Some of the students keeps asking to learn Python.

The Python option is not a full Python in MakeCode, but rather a limited set.

The students have Chromebooks. Are there any options for a sandbox for coding in Python inside a browser window that would offer almost of a full experience? Some limitations would be fine.
Cash trust fund checks.
Mods Turn Junk UPS into a Long-Endurance Beast
Note his response.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1798007748728365503
City dwellers really do look down on non-city-dwellers contemptuously, huh? As if we'd all be living in a big city if we just had the opportunity.
Leave to where?

Salary for the highest paid people is a comparative good. If I pay you 10x you current salary I don't get 10x the innovation.

Also, compression also means that the slowest paid people can get salary increases (to cover the increased mortgage costs) - it will be a mix.

(not entirely knowing your own situation, not taking a "low ball" offer can leave you worse of, if the alternative is no income.)
The author dismisses cubemaps pretty quickly, but imo it’s the simplest solution & it’s what I did when rendering dynamic gas giants on my own personal project a number of years back* . Using a cubemap doesn’t result in a 6x increase in memory usage, you’re just splitting the texture size from one large rectangular face into 6 smaller rectangular faces, but the total texture detail is the same. The nice part about a cubemap is you don’t have to worry about pole pinching at all + you can use a 3 or 4 dimensional noise function to easily create a seamless flow field for texture animation/distortion.

* https://www.junkship.net/News/2016/06/09/jupiter-jazz
I don’t think the algorithm is terribly well implemented anymore. For example, your example. But I could be wrong.
This is also before the Fed lowers rates, which while not assured in the near term, will happen eventually. Can't fight structural demographics with an imaginary number.

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch...
I find it strange that LLMs can be trained on any information available on the internet without crediting it. When Google steals your information, at least they add a link to your website (e.g. featured snippet).
airstrike visible in the distance

How do you do, fellow kids? Can I interest you in... a Gameboy?
That doesn't solve the homophone issue though.
I just started Peak Mind. It is written by a neuroscientist, and it discusses attention.
I think it's shifting towards being bimodal.

See this for discussion: https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/

The transition is awkward as you'd expect, and jobs are stratifying.
> ... making it pointless to live in a big city with HCOL

I don't think most people choose a place to live strictly based on the location of their employer. They enjoy being in a city for its food, entertainment, and accessibility.

Good cities have limited space so I expect the demand will only increase over time, until the population tanks.
Fundamentally the database is separate from the rest of the project. It's quite often a completely separate service hosted on a completely separate machine.

Do you feel the same about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST APIs, etc?
That’s kind of you to say.

I wouldn’t claim any special insight. Like a lot of people I read LotR at a very formative age and as a result I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about it.
tl;dr elon needs more...
I'd always wondered why 47 ohm resistors were so common!

Yellow and Purple striped critters inside of HeathKits.
Do you not lock your doors because you feel you shouldn't have to worry about people stealing your stuff because it's morally wrong to steal or do you do it to mitigate risk? Suggesting someone should mitigate potential risk is all we are talking about.
When I bought my house in 2009 people thought I was NUTS. In the thick of the GFC, house prices stagnant. Why would you ever buy a house now?! It has tripled in value, and buying a house was by far the best decision I ever made in my life.
This is nicely made, but as other people have pointed out, it appears to be optimizing in a kind of weird way for a real poker game.

It seems to me that the underlying problem is that cheap pre-mixed chip cases usually have terrible denominations (if printed) and/or too few of each (sometimes only 50), which just doesn't make any sense. Nobody ever needs denominations that differ by a factor of 2, and you need way more than 50 of any one type to play with more than 6 people.

For our 0.05/0.1 10$ cash games with 8-10 people, one day about 15 years ago we just went and filled a 500 chip case with nice ceramics (Old Havana Poker Club, they're still around):
150x 5
200x 25
120x 100
30x 500 (just for good measure)

Obviously we take the numbers printed on the chips to be cents. This system has worked perfectly ever since and still offers sufficient flexibility for the occasional tournament; I can only recommend solving the problem this way once and for all. (Of course you need to adjust for the kind of game you play.)
You have to be careful with used Leaf's. The ones close to $10K usually need a new (unavailable) battery. Initially, they shipped them without charge / active battery temperature management, so the old ones ate batteries.

This isn't true of newer Leafs. You can easily find a decent used one closer to $20K.
Foundering: The John McAfee Story
Except that the interviewer has the power to fail you if you put them in a bad position. It is fundamentally an asymmetrical situation where the interviewer is in a dominant position.
Anyone else gets redirected to their other language's version of the site, with the language switcher showing only that language and Ukrainian?

The Polish version even has its own domain:
https://e-katalog.pl/post/3485/122-matricy-kamer-smartfonov-...

I haven't seen a site behave this way before. Maybe it's clever from the SEO standpoint?
Episode 1: https://archive.is/SaFt8

Episode 2: https://archive.is/GPNIn

Episode 3: https://archive.is/QSMMU

Episode 4: https://archive.is/xJdql

Episode 5: https://archive.is/lhqcb

Episode 6: https://archive.is/AMFtV
The point is right there in the first line.

> Major online streaming services operating in Canada will be required to contribute 5% of their Canadian revenues to support the domestic broadcasting system

Canada has a long history of mandating a certain amount of attention and money goes toward supporting Canadian content.

This seems entirely consistent with that.

In the past they were able to leverage Federal control over the airwaves to achieve this (eg. selling off spectrum) but with the internet they need to come up with new revenue models to achieve the same levels of support for Canadian content.
How did we measure CO2 accurately pre-industry? Isn't the rise of industry kind of coincident with the ability to measure gases accurately? And if the trend as accuracy increased was up, wouldn't it suggest initial underestimates?

Or is there some reliable way we can measure in retrospect?
I agree with the other comments that are basically saying to be conservative about adding to your toolbox. Additionally, I recommend using technologies with existing heavy investment from the industry. For example, anything on the top of this list is a safe choice of language in general: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#most-popular-technolog... . This reduces risks from having to assume maintenance burden, hiring difficulties, finding support, integration with other technology, and more. Adopting some tool that is later abandoned is a frequent source of pain for small companies. Of course, there may be good reasons to stray from this guideline in some cases.
You should be able to pick the order of colors in terms of increasing value. White chips should always be the lowest value.
Evolent acquires Machinify Auth product
If you, like me, are wondering "has anyone just run it through a mass spectrometer to see what the ingredients are?" the answer is yes, they have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbDP0TF_70
Dell "PC Extras" Driver Slated for Linux 6.11 – Initially to Control Fan Modes
So, will Databricks deprioritize Delta Lake in favor or Iceberg, or will they try to derail Iceberg development now they they got the team that originally built it at Netflix?

Edit: from the Tabular CEO announcement

Databricks reached out to me and proposed a collaboration that could bring Iceberg and Delta closer together [...] I’m excited to have the opportunity to work with Databricks and the broader Delta community to build better table formats together.

So it seems they are going for the latter.
Interesting. I probably would expect a cis female to enjoy the sender of such material to be a male, but I definitely stand to be enlightened on this.
"A Sense of Urgency" (2017)
There have been attempts to find correlations between levels of self-reported mask wearing and impact:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9123350/

These findings indicate that countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage.

There are literally no correlations anywhere to be found. No impact on case numbers (the goal!) and no link between compliance and outcomes. That's because masks cannot stop an aerosolized gas from entering the body, it just goes through or around them. Aerosolized agents can also enter you via the eyeballs, which is why real gas masks also protect the eyes:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9631193/

Especially easy for SARS-2 because the cornea has the ACE2 receptors the virus uses to enter cells:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293510/

This sort of thing is why masks have no effect and at first health officials said that. They were right. But governments wanted to do something, and that was something, so public health "scientists" swiftly fell into line and overnight "the science" was suddenly saying the opposite.
Right you are. My comment was bad.
Having been around electronic components since before I could read: these aren't odd values. They're normal expected values.
Another interesting graph is the %job openings per industry

https://www.bls.gov/charts/job-openings-and-labor-turnover/o...
AGI won't happen, full stop.
Yes, but if employer isn't the deciding factor, people can live where they want and spend time in cities (of their choice) on vacation, working remotely, etc. That's the conclusion I came to.
Nope. People will scroll right past it to the content links.
Can be inferred from the size usually.
n = 1 but I'm personally seeing an uptick in recruiter outreach and relevant job postings (producty software eng roles.) I've also been hearing about fewer layoffs or prolonged job searches in my network (my network is mostly experienced devs living in tier 1 tech hub.)
Because after the initial scraping where the AI for example can tell you about each American president, users want the AI updated to know if any present is a convicted criminal (for example).

When we were all naive the AI bots came through and just took our content, now as everyone wises up, folks are laying down a cost for the next round of web scraping.

Imagine your bot could only scrape once a year.. your AI would quickly get out of date on many topical issues. This ‘latest updates gap’ is where the journalists and publishers see leverage.
> Which is why I said you changed the topic to something more defensible than the original comment.

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was a conversation. I didn't realize nobody was allowed to rebut you since you were just replying to one specific comment. /s

> If we accept the premise that "legitimate use cases" that "people will end up wanting .. later in life" justifies it being taught or allowed at school then when will we teach high schoolers to drink alcohol?

What are you even trying to say here? Drinking alcohol isn't a skill people need for anything productive. I'm almost 26 and I've never had an alcoholic drink.

> We see alcohol is used for business and social purposes,

Information technology is required for certain business processes to increase productivity. Alcohol is not. Your argument is either bad-faith or just poorly formed.

Drinking alcohol at work would more appropriately be compared to using social media at school (it's a social vice that doesn't help you practically). Not using phones in general.
GetWhy, a market research AI company that was founded in 2011 as UserTribe and extracts insights from video interviews, raised a $34.5M Series A — GetWhy, a consumer research tech company that helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI …
The code could be (but often isn't, to frustrate circumvention), but the signature keys can't, just like with all DRM.
hntrends is a good site for this, https://www.hntrends.com/

Note May 2024 was a 12-month high for job postings. But also note Jan 2024 was a 9 year low.