skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks - seems like it was the momentum thing I was missing. I got a far as nothing with mass can move at c and was out of my depth :-P

Thanks
From the 4th or 5th century, a fragment of the apocrypha, "the infant book of thomas" -now the earliest known fragment. The story is believed to be 2nd century origin due to similarities to folk tales of that timeframe.
> the demand will come

Or… the supply will go away shudders
Spent basically 19 years doing enterprise software dev for your typical slew of companies: logistics, banking, fintech, retail, etc. After a particularly unpleasant startup experience, decided that 1) recruiters are BS and 2) I wanted to work on research related problems, because they were probably the most technically and intellectually challenging. Spent 2-3 months really looking for a job, and found a hidden gem. I earn basically 80% of what I earned 6 years ago and probably something like 70% of what I could be be earning elsewhere. My salary will grow very slowly compared to elsewhere.

The work and people are amazing. I learned more in 1 year then the last 10 and just really like my work. The pace and culture is levels orders nicer than the corporate or startup world.
Presumably once it gets cheap enough it becomes profitable to sell it internationally which caps the price?

Besides, you still have to pay back for the construction and the fuel, it's never gonna be free.
Not really a story but this is what I've learned having made this move more than once:

- There's an important difference between being earning less and being paid unfairly. It's easy to work for less as long as it's enough to fund your lifestyle and save something for retirement. It's very difficult to be happy if you believe you're paid unfairly (which is subjective, of course).

- There's generally no correlation between job satisfaction and pay. I've left to work at more interesting roles and about half the time ended up earning more for the privilege.

- On average, toxic companies pay more. There seems to be a certain class of company that believes it's okay to treat employees poorly as long as they pay well enough. This includes everything from overwork to overt bullying and worse. These opportunities tend to be evergreen due to their high turnover and so are overrepresented on job listings, etc. (Your network is less likely to refer you into this sort of role.) Focusing on salary alone is a sure-fire way to end up somewhere toxic, or stay somewhere longer than is wise.
Services restored after about 2 hrs? Will be interesting to read the RCA for this.
> its not like grid operators back in the control rooms are disconnecting solar farms because the grid is oversaturated

You are correct that they are not.

But this is due to policy, not physics. It's obvious to shut-down the fossil fuel plants first, but after then, there's no physical reason why they can't keep shutting power plants down.

Anyway, agreed, adding storage is a much better solution than focusing on the management of renewables.
Does anyone know why was he taken to Brazil? I know his wife is a Brazilian, but still. Perhaps medical costs?

It’s a very sad news for many of us. Still, knowing what happens with a massive stroke, I think it’s in his best interest to go. It’s going to be horrible, and the situation with caregivers is even more difficult.
Fair enough. I’m surprised NS were that sloppy, but apologies for contributing to the misinformation.
The next day, raging hordes of enemy troops breach the walls, we are all killed, the end.

(There is always another point of view.)
The problem is that none of Google's products are unified into a fully used ecosystem.

For example with Apple they integrated everything together seamless into the OS - granted I am not sure if people are using their email app or calendar that often. But with AI they integrated it all together at least.

With Microsoft they benefit from their tight integration between Office suite, Outlook, teams (and calendar integration between outlook and teams is quite convenient) etc. They only have issues with consumer products as they are unable to achieve the same level of integrations as they achieve within the corporate - corporate Windows instances with laptops and stuff are corporate to Apple products for consumers. Microsoft does not have user facing products, but their enterprise solutions are nicely connected to each. And new services like Loop or Copilot are just naturally expanded on that.

But Google? I literally use Gmail but only for emails. Chrome for browsing but I have no integrations between Chrome and Gmail aside the account overall in my flow. They have their streaming service with Youtube Premium but it is not really that connected to overall other infra or services - unlike for example Apple, that is offering their Apple One subscription. App Stores? Google Play exists in its own universe that has no relation to other google services either. And that's without AI stuff.

There is something missing between google services.
Suggestion: close submissions after it leaves the front page :)
fair enough, i had a use case in mind where you're just interested in a rough estimate of Watthours consumed.
??? Xerox and Kodak are immortal household names that dominated their niches for decades, what level of "success" would satisfy you? what are you lamenting, that they didn't completely enshittify their products while they were on top and torch their brands to the ground for a little more revenue?
The site should be constantly in dark mode. Some monitors will use the same amount of energy regardless of which color is displayed, but other monitors use less energy for darker colors(eg OLED)
In what way was the leadership profiting off of Trump?
If you're communicating all of those things, then how is it better to bother doing the splitting?
Very fun ! I got to the first half of the leaderboard using Rust and ChatGPT.
Sounds like the plot for one of the characters from "Jutro ce promeniti sve".
If a particle is an excitation of a quantum field, what is a wave?
I've been working from home since 2017. Had a brief (scary) ulna neuropathy (nerve issue in arm) where when you're arm is constantly pressed against the edge of your desk or laptop and causes the pinky and eventually more fingers to go numb.

was diagnosed and recommended surgery... said eff that i'm too young (was early thirties at the time) and landed on switching to a standing setup. within 2 weeks of giving my arm relief, the neuropathy disappeared and hasn't come back since. i've convinced many at my company to switch to a standing setup and miraculously the health problems started to dissipate.

eventually i had a similar thought as you. what if i could get steps in WHILE working?!? i bought 2 under desk treadmills to try, both were fine and with noise cancelling mics, no one could hear the subtle whirring.

since we're a fully remote company, i have some coworkers that would complain that THEY were getting motion sickness looking at me as i walked in our meetings. returned the treadmills after that. fwiw - i ended up training for an ironman and got an indoor bike setup for winter training - no one complained about motion sickness with that. =)
what would be useful is to show comments in the order they are added to that list. and not in the order they were posted. i check this page every day, but if you add old comments, i won't see them.
Speculating:

Heat (within reason) encourages plant growth provided the other ingredients are there. Plant growth shows up through this luminescence. If a lack of rain can be projected, then the drawdown of ground water can now also be more accurately projected by understanding how much plant growth is taking place.

I imagine this can impact emergency prep or other measures e.g around irrigation to get ahead of groundwater depletion resulting in flash crop loss. But that's my take on the value.
I guess you can run it in a slightly different engine cycle called the Atkinson cycle, That's one of the tricks that hybrid vehicles used to increase their efficiency

But if you drive like a leadfoot that doesn't really work cuz then usually the hybrid systems fall back on the gasoline engine for additional torque and it goes to the normal gas cycle when it does that and you lose the efficiency
What about the 2nd generation of mule, then 3rd? If the probability of viability keeps dropping generation after generation, eventually it will delete itself?
not even childish gambino ref saved it.
This is interesting but seeing the same headlines over and over does two things for me:

* internal opening-HN-too-much alert
* headline spaced repetition learning
> At that point I'm wondering why we don't also open and scan regular mail at the post office before delivery.

We do open and scan some percentage of regular mail at the post office. It's difficult to find exact sources because the USPS only seems to easily admit to doing it for postage reasons, but it's fairly well known that they search for drugs, bombs, etc. Mail is subject to X-ray scanning and being opened under suspicion of a variety of things happening. When they can't open it themselves, they're also allowed to request permission from the recipient (you can refuse, but then they can go to a judge).
I guess we learned the f=ma format because we had it before calculus? TIL F=dp/dt form...

Thanks!
Wouldn't you say that the second and third statements slightly contradict each other?
some answers mention impact, that isn't important for me, I have a life and the job isn't part of my identity

but I did have a bad commute once to a boring office park from San Francisco to San Mateo

the people in that region said my commute length was lucky, which felt like collective cope and brainwashing because of the shared compromises they made

I unsubscribed and took at 20% paycut to have a job in the Mission, which was a 10 minute walking and subway commute, and in the middle of trendy cafes and shops all day. Most of my friends could only go to the Mission at night or on weekends, and many of those same cafes were not open then, or were packed for a different crowd's rush. I felt really lucky, and in these salary ranges there wasn't a compromise in paying for things and saving.
Fisker did this in 2012: released a lemon car (the Karma) then went bankrupt, taking some federal loans down with them. The only reason I can believe anyone preordered another car named "Fisker" is because the first time was long enough ago that maybe they didn't know.
How can you know if a HYSA makes sense if you don't know what the perks are for OP's bank beyond a safety deposit box? Premium checking accounts are niche products, but their perks can add up for the right person. OP might be getting a big discount on their mortgage interest and double the credit car points by maintaining that balance, which could greatly overshadow the (taxable) interest paid on a HYSA.
I left a decently paid managed service 3rd line linux/foss admin position in 2019 to do projects with a friend. The pandemic happened, and things changed and got weird. I did a stint as a contractor again for nearly a year, doing deskside and infrastructure support (general IT dogsbody) part time, for a small startup; after they got bought out I ended up doing part time digital service delivery (laptops and mobile device support with a bit of MS stack admin). Much lower stress levels and more predictable hours. Not looking back.
I Created A Learning Platform
After working at Amazon for over 3 years as an SDE, I left my job to start my own coding bootcamp. I thought it would be easy because I myself completed 2 bootcamps after finishing college. Also, I worked at one of the bootcamps as an instructor for over 3 years before joining Amazon. I was one of the top instructors and my students typically got jobs quite quickly.

I immediately began putting together a curriculum and building out content so that I could start recruiting for my first class. That is when I learned just how little I know about sales and recruiting. I tried to promote my class on job sites and was immediately shut down since it was for training and not a job, even though I was happy to give a job guarantee. I ran ads and had no responses. I interviewed several people but most candidates didn’t have the ability to commit full time or pay the amount that I was trying to charge.

At this point, I now see why the HTD (Hire Train Deploy) Bootcamp model is so successful and I absolutely hate it because it is beyond predatory. In the HTD model, they give you “free” training and a job guarantee. So what's the problem? Well, they make you sign a horrible contract. Often they will force you to relocate to places you may not want to go and they take a lot of your pay. If they are paying you 50k per year, they are likely billing the clients $100k+ per year. So is it really free? Additionally, if you are not a top student, you will still struggle to get placed with a client and it can be a pretty demoralizing experience.

I did not want to become one of the soul sucking bootcamps as software is my passion so I decided to pivot. I invested all of my time into building a learning platform to make my content as accessible to others as possible. I really want to make an impact because I know how much I struggled to land my first job and I also know firsthand just how predatory most coding bootcamps are.

My platform is https://fullstackpros.com/ and it covers everything you need to know to become a professional Full Stack Software Engineer. I made the TypeScript module completely free (no sign up required) and you can get access to all content for as little as $5 per month. I would love to get some feedback from the community to improve my platform.

You can also find the entirety of TypeScript Fundamentals on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0teIBDEuMdvJ00wZHMSa...
I can foresee the "not what I mean" answers to everything. Oh, sure it's a fake DB but that's not a mock. Oh, yeah, you need to test with something that always makes an error but that's not a mock.

Eventually, what they mean is that if it sucks, it's what they're talking about, and you should never do that. If it was really useful, it's not a mock.
> You can make numerous observations of a single electron over a period of time and see a wave like pattern emerge

I thought measurement along the path collapses the wave, removing the wave pattern over the full source to destination that would be displayed if there was no observation? Eg in dual slit if you observe at one of the slits, the pattern disappears. Wave-like behaviour only exists between observations.
https://archive.ph/P35WA

Archived link from the statesmen.
This statement holds up pretty well if you drop the country from it. Academia follows incentive structures just like everything else.

Say you were a software engineer who was paid by how often you shipped code with a nice title but you didn't have to give people the binaries so noone ever ran them. That is, the difference between nice documentation about code that never quite existed and scruffy documentation about code that does really useful things is you get money for the first and fired for the second.

Academia isn't quite that extreme but it does have incentives pointed in that direction.
I’m curious what gently looks like at these speeds
https://archive.ph/P35WA
Archived link from the statesmen.
The test people aren't there to do the math. The test people are there to experimentally check your math.

(Shooting their mouths off does nothing, except cost them ego points when they're wrong.)
What would hurt more: if Nvidia ceased to exist, or if ASML or TSMC ceased to exist?
From the preface to the 20th anniversary edition of Godel, Escher, Bach:

"Meaning cannot be kept out of formal systems when sufficiently complex isomorphisms arise. Meaning comes in despite one's best efforts to keep symbols meaningless! ...When a system of "meaningless" symbols has patterns in it that accurately track, or mirror, various phenomena in the world, then that tracking or mirroring imbues the symbols with some degree of meaning -- indeed, such tracking or mirroring is no less and no more than what meaning is. Depending on how complex and subtle and reliable the tracking is, different degrees of meaningfulness arise."

In other words, when one can reliably ask a language model a question and get a sensible answer, one is forced to conclude that it does in some sense "understand" what it is saying. This is also I think the essential philosophical thrust of the Turing Test, which is often misunderstood as a mere benchmark.

(I notice a common objection to examples of LLMs clearly demonstrating understanding is "it saw something similar in the training set". That may be true (though unfalsifiable) in any given instance, but the number of permutations of things LLMs correctly respond to far exceed the size of any training set. They are certainly generalizing, and interpreting their inputs on a conceptual level.)
My last two job changes I took a paycut, which speaks to the inverse relationship between my job performance and interviewing skills. I don't mind starting low as I know I'll move up quickly.

However in both cases during the first 1.5 to 2 years there were one or more 'senior-level' people quite aloof, disrespectful, and unprofessional in some of their remarks toward me. Not sure if it was my biased perception, or more likely they just treat everyone like that.

Point being, when you take a pay cut your more exposed to that sort of treatment.
Why? He was building tools. Tools can be used to defend or to attack.
> road infrastructure (eg bus lanes) so they not stuck in traffic

Bus lanes aren't going to do anything to help with the real bottleneck in city bus transport: having to stop every couple of blocks to let people on and off.
I thought CVT transmissions exceeded manual transmissions in efficiency.

Are manual transmission's only 80%?
That's because it's a state run system and it really isn't that cheap. The nuclear operators are shielded from market rates by the government. The way that works is that they get a guaranteed price per kwh in long multi year deals, regardless of what the market does. That's actually true in most countries that operate nuclear plants. Without those guarantees, it's to risky of a thing to do financially for investors.

What they charge customers in France is also controlled by the government (and not the same thing). The difference is simply made up by tax payer money. Of course being connected to the rest of the European market and also having a lot of their own renewables, this just means that bill is getting larger and larger for the French government whenever there is a surplus of wind and solar. Which is probably happening quite often now.

Here are some details on a deal the French government struck with nuclear operator EDF recently: https://www.clearygottlieb.com/news-and-insights/publication...

It's indeed a great example why commercial nuclear plants without extensive state support is not really a thing. Most places that have nuclear plants, also feature heavy government involvement and state funding. That plant that Bill Gates is involved with that recently started construction work, only still exists because of extensive state involvement.
Don’t own any shares. Might finally go buy a few shares of Nvidia now. I know it will dip the moment I buy.Might even trigger a recession.
I just started seeing these on the road - what happens to existing owners? Any sort of maintenance needed and they are screwed?
why has no one created an asic for matrix multiplication that is cheaper and can easily outperform a gpu that is general purpose. gpu demand shouldn't be as big as it is.
> If you fire a single particle between two slits just once

Can you ever be sure you only fired a single particle?
It's either a bubble or we're all getting UBI :)
> If it’s so trivial why was nobody doing it?

It was commonly done, and still is.
I recently upgraded my iPhone 13 pro to iPhone 15 pro and the battery on the new phone seems to have degraded performance.

I would love to see any improvement on this front.
Hello,
I am a backend java developer with 4 years experience. I worked for Accenture for 2 ½ years as Java Engineer where I spent most of my time working for PNC Bank where I developed and deployed REST APIs in Spring Boot. I am looking to leverage this experience into my next role. If the Java Developer role is still available I would appreciate the opportunity to get on a call with you and discuss it further.
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I was working for a fintech startup and hating it. It was boring and the upcoming work was about 6 months of incorporating a credit card system into the code.

I quit that so I could open a music school with two of my friends and bandmates, with the idea that I could go back to part-time dev work to pay the bills while the school gets going.

And that's what happened. I got a part-time front-end job at an online game, which I had already been playing for about 3 years. They had a "come join the team" posting in the news ticker of the game. I'm making about the same hourly, but only working 20 hours a week, which is the perfect amount. The rest of the team is on a different continent so I basically just pump out my code as I see fit. No morning status calls, no scrums, etc. And I'm pretty sure I can work more hours once if needed, depending on what happens with the school.
Your assumptions were mostly incorrect.

That said, thank you for your thoughts on this. I'm glad you shared them. Good on you.

That said, I don't need you (or anyone else, for that matter) to tell me how I should or shouldn't interact with others -- as that's incredibly condescending (and incredibly rude as well) and makes a number of unwarranted (as I mentioned) assumptions.

Again, thanks for your thoughts. I'll give them the attention they deserve.

Edit: Fixed prose.
35 and feeling the same.

This contract working as an linux engineer bank only allows me to work 24 months without having to take three months off.

Working 15 years none stop since the age of 17, time to rest for a bit.

I hope to work in a old persons retirement home next year. So much wisdom and knowledge that year by year goes and is forgotten, I would love to hear past time stories.
>We shouldn't underappreciate quiet-failing as a product adoption driver.

I'm certain it drives a lot of early user retention in the short term, but I feel strongly that this is ultimately a very myopic view which will prove catastrophic in the long term in much the same way that swallowing exceptions at runtime builds compounding technical debt you'll have to reckon with sooner or later

more broadly, there is just so much handwaving away all the black box parts of deep neural networks that are completely opaque and there seems to be very little interest in building the tooling to properly visualize, explore, and DEBUG latent space; until those priorities change this whole thing is a huge time bomb.

imagine if instead of coming with full memory dumps and diagnostic codes, BSODs just said "sorry, your computer had an oopsie!", and not a single engineer at Microsoft had a complete understanding of why the BSOD happened in the first place; sometimes it just does that! whoops!
Yes, mine is when I'm at a hotel I set the AC much cooler than I would at home, and I take really long showers.
It could also stand to go out of its way to try and give more prestige to people who manage to get influential papers retracted.
There is a comedian who would tell a story, years ago, about how they knew they needed to move on from their job after they earned 'employee of the month' for three months in a row, without even trying.
Under a “do not even look at it” license I’m sure. /s
6 stories (here) = Wood framed building = noise from neighbours above, below and beside
A question for any physicists on here: is Wave/Particle duality analogous to Lisp/Binary duality? In other words, 2 different languages/models but 1 underlying reality that neither perfectly represents?