skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an artist, this the transformed image is what I would draw using 1-point perspective. Basically making everything straight lines. It intuitively feels a lot more natural and fits into our mental model of how the human world is shaped (i.e. everything is a rectangle)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qOojGBEsWQw
I’m not debating the accuracy of GP’s statement, but rather the level of success one might have with that negotiation tactic. I’m waiting to hear the success stories of negotiating that 250% CoL raise.
> A person being a DEI hire doesn't say anything about their ability.

You literally just used it as a way to disqualify her as a valid candidate. You said nothing about her skills or accomplishments, merely that she had certain demographic characteristics and therefor wasn't a good candidate.

If that's not what you actually meant, I suggest thinking about what you're trying to say in the future and phrasing it differently.
I suspect that traditional urban planning in the USA also assumed that relatively few people would be trying to pack into city centers to work. Because modern office parks hadn't been invented yet, and modern curtain wall skyscrapers hadn't been invented yet, and consolidating many industries into a relatively small number of massive tech companies hadn't happened yet, and the two-income family (which doubles the potential number of commuters per dwelling unit) hadn't become such a thing yet, etc.

There's a part of me that wonders if part of what's going on here is a cadre of genxers who are so wealthy as to necessarily be out-of-touch don't realize that typical millennials' and zoomers' socioeconomic reality is not, and cannot reasonably be forced to be, similar to that of boomers and the greatest generation.
Consulting industry won't care. If you can bill hours at 40% more than you cost then any firm will happily employ you for as long as you want to work.
At least in my experience, while I am good at text/email communication: my co workers were not. I feel like being a full remote company crippled us in terms of engineering quality. We have more of a license to be left alone and that sucks when we actually do need to coordinate with our coworkers. Easier to just not coordinate and tune out the notifications.

All said, maybe it is a larger issue and working from the office is just addressing symptoms that are more apparent when going remote. Are we really missing out on those water cooler talks or is there a missing information/management role. I think of how I've had the conversations with other teams around the occasional virtual water cooler "oh, you're building a microservice to do that... so are we.... why are we building the same microservice?"
I get it. Spam sucks, and I get it for marketing purposes. However, when all you want to do is send low volume transactional messages (payment failure, etc) it really sucks.

I don't mind paying a premium. I'd happily pay 3x Twilio's messaging fee if I had no BS to go through.
Wait, what!?

If it's true that the company has been intentionally blocking users whenever they try to follow or view media on the Harris account, then... shame on the company.

But blocking users from following or viewing media by an account is inconsistent with everything people like Musk and Yacarino have said in the past about free speech, so I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt until there's an official explanation from X.com.

Also, I wouldn't read too much into Musk's immediate tweets, as sometimes they're little more than silly, juvenile, knee-jerk reactions. Musk has a history of posting things that anger others, which he later regrets. By his own admission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qguVS1PTGj8
We made it using framer, will take a look how to optimize that, thanks for the feedback!
> Companies get so much more out of people working from home

We actually saw a very bimodal split: One group of employees had virtually no measurable change (neither improvement or decline) in any metric, subjective or otherwise.

The other group's productivity plummeted by nearly all metrics (again, from subjective performance reviews to any objective measures we looked at).

The angry internet comment section solution is to fire everyone in group #2 (people who can't work from home), but that group was large enough that no amount of firing or intensive coaching was going to turn the ship around.

The problem isn't as simple as you read about on internet comment sections. In my experience, it's good to have some remote employees but the WFH dynamic collapses when you try to let everyone do it. It's not appropriate for everyone. Normalize having some remote employees while requiring others to be in the office if they can't handle WFH. It's hard.
Arguably this security theatre does everything to make people believe spent nuclear fuel is uniquely dangerous. The UK has been transporting the stuff by rail for decades; two locomotives and the flask.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_flask#United_Kingdom
That’s discouraging. I hope he’s able to find a new position that he enjoys
And here I was expecting that I could edit the text and the app would change the audio file to say what I had typed...
Which of those jobs do the people in this thread have? Are they doing anything for the society to function? Does the income level reflect that?
Anything in DOD.
>Have you asked yourself why you hang out on this website given how you feel about startups?

Maybe they just like technology.
Nowadays the police will be bringing your children home and you'll be paid a visit by child protective services. It's insane what we're doing to children - and their parents.
If I don't have a dedicated desk where I can leave stuff, I won't be coming to the office. Simple as that. Wasting time commuting is bad enough, but if I'm not even worth 2 square metres, why would I want to work for those people?
Graham Weaver's Last Lecture [video]
I also understood it fine, but maybe we both just remember the Adobe demo that vunderba mentioned. I guess it might not be so obvious if you don't know about that?

On the other hand it does say "not waveform" which I think makes it pretty clear. What would you suggest instead?
My personal anecdote. My Roku just started running like trash on everything. It is older, maybe 4+ years old. If I bought a newer one, maybe it would be better. Instead I just bought the Apple TV box and it runs well. Of course the Apple TV has, I am pretty sure, a lot more processing power since it runs the A-series of processors.
hahah dog he weighed 226.5kg. https://www.openpowerlifting.org/m/upa/2104#nathanbaptist

Ray Williams weighed 190.4kg for his https://www.openpowerlifting.org/m/usapl/2019-03-02

Also so sorry, I got the meet wrong but the year right. It was the 2019 USAPL Arnold SBD Pro American
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41033005.
Having worked with implementing SAML for a large University-funded application, I learned more than I ever wanted to know but less than I needed to know
Sorry, the second one should be more like “Deekstra”
Well said. During the span of my career, the office went from being a perfectly fine place to get work done; then degraded to a cube farm environment which was worse, but you you could work around it and get stuff done anyway; then to an open office environment which was hellish enough that it got me to quit my job and vow to never work in such an environment again.

Commute is certainly an important aspect, too, but when I worked in the place that adopted an open office layout, I lived a literal 10 minute walk away. Having such a trivial (and pleasant) commute in no way made up for having to work in those conditions.
Thank you @jaboutboul. I appreciate that Linux works so well on Azure.

A substantial problem for the Linux ecosystem on Azure is that Azure Files is not POSIX compliant. With Container Apps, ephemeral storage is POSIX compliant. However, if you mount a persistent Azure Files file system and use it directly, some applications break. One workaround is to use rsync in the background to replicate data from ephemeral to Azure Files, but we can lose data this way (and ephemeral storage is limited to 8 GiB).

It'd also be nice if "Consumption Only" container apps would have more than 4GB of memory. It's so nice to use these.
That sounds really cool, actually. I don’t read the language, but I appreciate the reference all the same. The description vaguely reminds me of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, which, along with its author, has come under some criticism, and is concerned with the reduction of violence rather than the arc of human rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...

All of this probably speaks more to my own limited study in these areas, which I’m happy to have had broadened by you. Do you have any other suggestions for readings in the area of human rights, or generally?
One of the very nice things about working in academia is that I now have a private office. It has been a huge productivity and quality of (work)life boost. I don't understand why tech companies continue with open plan offices when they know their workers dislike them and have known this for years (decades?).

Having a low stress reverse commute on 280, one of the bay area's most scenic highways, probably also helps.
Marketing website needs a lot of work. The videos of people waving and jumping into pools doesn't fit who you're selling to. It uses language such as "goes down by like 20%". A little casual tone for enterprise B2B. Its really unclear what your software actually does, and the calls to action make it seem like I'm about to get added to your Slack channel, which I really don't want until I'm ready to actually talk. Sorry for being a bit harsh but even as a tech person and heavy Slack user, this is confusing. Funnily enough, I'd love to see a demo video of how it works haha.
> It's not just AI startups. It's almost all of them.

The reality is that a very tiny percentage of new companies get institutional financing at all (and the majority of those that do aren't technical and aren't startups in the sense that they aren't intended to be high growth at a high margin). The loud press that makes it sound otherwise is just survivorship bias.
Are you being intentionally difficult? What discrimination is this comment thread referring to?
> Users often have no idea what they’re consenting to or the implications of it

UAC didn't help, isn't it ?

If Microsoft would concentrate a bit on GUIs and UXs maybe they would be able to fix it. /s
Original article: [0]

[0] https://dailyboulder.com/elon-musk-accused-of-election-inter...
The behavior and performance of asynchronous function depend on the behavior and performance of concurrent processes, making them more complex to reason about, test and be confident in their correctness and well-suitedness.
> Sometimes very bright people have trouble attracting an equivalent person.

That does not sound very bright. Valuing equivalence over other attributes makes the math work against success.
Somewhat off-topic: I saw the funding note at the bottom - it’s pretty cool that the German government is giving some funding to projects like this. I wonder how much the US is doing in that regard, like if there’s a list of projects that tax dollars goes towards.
Fortunately the article already says that hiding all semantically identical changes is "probably going too far", so they can just not try and solve the halting problem.
It's the year of Linux on someone else's Desktop.
> I truly wonder how much of the U.S. economy has slowed down because of all this wasted effort.

I wonder how frequently startups and hype KILL technologies. A technology starts to show progress, everyone gets excited about that progress, tons of money gets dumped in, everyone rushes to put that technology into production, technology flops, funding for technology dries up. Meanwhile, a lot of people got very rich, so we repeat the cycle. But there was an important step missed here if we want a technology to actually succeed. Research.

The hype train only seems to gear up for technologies that are still in their infancies. This of course makes sense, because how else do you raise money? Chicken and the egg. But the problem here is that you're not using that money to solve the problems with the tech and get it to the point where it could then be effectively used in things, but instead rush to hamfist it into everything you can. Sometimes you gotta slow down first, and prep for the sprint. Google seems to be the worst at this, routinely killing projects that 5-10 years later are then sold as high status items. A company with that much capital doesn't need to rush to market, you can strategize and take your time.

The problem is that the details always matter and they can be a huge make it or break it for a technology. You can generate all the safe miles you want, but if you run through a red light anytime there's a child holding a green balloon a bit too high, you failed. You can build fancy games, but if you promise a holodeck and deliver a hollowdeck, people are reasonably upset. Hype is a double edged sword. You need some to get people on board, but too much and you overpromise. You can build crazy and legitimately helpful tools, but if you're (or others) are promising 10x what you can, then when they get their hands on it they have every right to be upset. Even if the thing is still useful to them and betters their lives. They are rightfully upset, but they'll unrightfully dismiss what you made. So the people who benefit from the hype cycles are the grifters. The ones willing to jump from one thing to the next. Which is why I'm always very confused why we prop up people who have "expertise" in all the last hype bubbles as if it is credentializing why they are experts in the new hype bubble. How does a giant and brilliant red flag get interpreted as green? Maybe we're not so different from self-driving cars after all.
I like the gateway concept as an alternative to opening the firewall. Are there any plans to add FHIR compatibility, for integrating with other FHIR systems?
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1503504D:US
It's not the style so much as commenting on a random unimportant part of the article instead of the substance of the article. I had to reread to figure out why you were addressing the ability to move the fridge since it didn't even click as being mentioned in the article on the first read.
When we bought our home in the Bay Area in 2017, the San Jose offices Google planned on building were on all of the brochures. I was convinced that if the city is giving the incentives and Google is buying up so much property that it must be just a matter of time. I learned it’s not that simple.
Yep, `--time-style`.
Silo? The first season covers only the first half of the book. The book came out over 10 years ago and the show mainly follows the plot. Was the book peak woke? Is it just the female lead character?

Foundation is only loosely based on the books but I can’t see anything people could attribute to being “woke”, aside from having some female lead characters.

Maybe you just don’t like female lead characters in stories?
Ask HN: Mercury.com Alternatives?
Hi there,

We just received an email from Mercury that they are closing down operations from August 22, 2024 because we are resident of the country which is blacklisted.

We've been using Mercury from last 4 years and processed in millions for transactions.

What other banking platforms do you recommend?

Thanks.
Quite a lot of companies are thinning the herd for the past months and
it is set to continue for I have no idea how long.
I might stop tomorrow but I highly doubt it.

The more places get rid of workers the more the pendulum swings
giving more power to the companies over their employees and who they hire.

A lot of tech worker primadonnas who have not seen the ugly politics of
downsizing, right sizing, and outsourcing are going to have a tough time,
as companies won't be bending over to hire folks anymore.
The possibility of being unemployed not by choice, for a few weeks,
until a phone call is made and a new job awaits, but as a reality
for months.

The attitude that "I QUIT if I have to the office",
might encounter "Good, we need to reduce headcount anyway".

The tech worker primadonnas vastly overestimats
their own value to the company.

When X had mass layoffs, the general consensus for some techies
was that X would die in a months' time, with all the
essential people who had lost their jobs.
I dont have any inside information in X and they may well have
had disasters but they do appear to still exist and still function.
(Or so it seems to me, but I dont even have an account)

I dont like this.
I dont want it to happen.
but I have been around for a
couple of cycles of seeing the pendulum swing one way then the other.
> I feel I should bring up that in the EU there almost exists two worlds when it comes to GDPR: Germany - and the rest of the countries.

Well, Germany isn't the country that made Google Analytics illegal. Other countries do care.

> Nobody had any problem with AWS, or really any non-EU vendor, as long as they lived up to the GRPR agreements and could provide the usual agreements.

I was in charge of the tech for a massive man in the middle company in Germany where we integrated with lots of companies to provide data for other companies. Noone had an issue with AWS because they were all using it. It's consumers who care and consumers who will make reports and it's companies that will pay the fine.
Ah right, everyone who disagrees with you is a bot thanks for your contribution
> It's exactly the opposite, they're essential and certainly do not have a "mixed history"

Focus groups are good for refining. They're absolutely terrible for new product development. If there is an OG playbook for start-ups defeating incumbents, it's in exploiting the committee-based designed process that large companies tend towards. (Owning a product decision is hard. Outsourcing it to a marketing consultant isn't.)

Where you and I probably agree is in the importance of finding the shortest path to a sale.

> It's called user focused design

You're quoting this guy [1]. He also did marketing consulting [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Norman#Nielsen_Norman_Grou...

[2] https://www.nngroup.com
yes - He does hour long videos and talks. He's definitely an egomaniac and rambles on, but he atleast can maintain a train of thought.
I don't know if this is a startup or valley or techbro thing but in my industry there is no ageism that I can detect.

In aerospace they seem to prefer people who know where the bodies are buried, know how to bury bodies, have buried a few bodies themselves, and can instruct others on body burying.
Well firstly, you're citing a study from a company that makes antivirus software for mobile phones. They have a vested interest in trying to convince you that such software is necessary.

Secondly, the #1 and #2 "malware apps" in that report are parental control software, arguably not malware at all. Several more are ad click fraud related and have nearly zero security impact on the user on account of having no permissions other than internet access. I also didn't see any data in the report on how many of the handful of truly dangerous apps they listed were successful in getting the permissions needed to do any significant damage. Unlike with Windows, merely installing a malicious app on Android often isn't enough; that's the whole point of having a sandbox.

Thirdly, the "50.31%" figure you're quoting is, again, skewed by the fact that this data is coming from a company that specializes in mobile anti-virus software and they don't seem to be normalizing by number of devices NetGuard Endpoint Security is installed on. (Do they even have an iOS app? The report doesn't seem to include data from iOS.)
Show HN: Open-source security automation platform
Yes, what most people don't realize though is that the MVP doesn't have to be a functional product. It can be a cartoon, a drawing, a mock up, a video, whatever.

Get good feedback early & often
Igor Sikorsky, early aviation pioneer and inventor in the helicopter once said:

"In those early days, the Chief Engineer was almost always the Chief Pilot as well. This had the automatic result of eliminating poor engineering very early in aviation."

Maybe time for a return to that standard for Boeing?

What ever happened to the Boeing/Aerion joint venture for a supersonic bizjet?
The Boeing/Embraer JV for a 737 replacement?
The Boeing/Safran JV to produce their own APU engines in-house?
Will this JV also die on the vine?
We had a coffee machine on our side of the building, now only the machine on the other side is left. To be replaced with two miniscule nespresso machines. I don’t understand why anyone would try to save money on such a critical piece of equipment…
If everyone is $foo-friendly, it becomes meaningless... it's mostly marketing at that point. It's the HR side of hot-new-shiny, where consulting companies have a product to sell even if it makes no sense in practical terms.
Right now, our team to build and test instruments before importing them into the platform or committing them to the main source.

In general the admin team who would be supporting the deployment of the software.
I work in manufacturing, there is no wfh
Voting gives you the right to complain because you tried to accomplish something. Giving up without trying is generally viewed as a bad thing.

But talking about "beltway uniparty" is indicative of a level of lacking intellectual curiosity that's genuinely sad. You can do better than that.

Maybe if this was twitter or a dinner party and you're just going for cheap laughs, sure, whatever, but I dunno, I guess this place isn't much different? Maybe it could be though?
Strategy is only good for really, really good runners.

At ~160m, (similar to the 200m), at-pace speed for the pro is already all-out for the average person.
This doesn't really seem like their strategy anymore. It's not like Edge directly interprets Typescript, for example. While they embraced and extended Javascript, any extinguishing seems to be on the technical merits rather than corporate will.

In the case of security scanners that run in the kernel, we learned this weekend that a market need exists. The mainstream media blamed Crowdstrike's bugs on "Windows". Microsoft would likely like to wash its hands of future events of this class. Linux-like eBPF is a path forward for them that allows people to run the software they want (work-slowers like Crowdstrike) while isolating their reputation from this software.
By staying home, you're making yourself (even more) replaceable with bots.

Note that a 'remote worker' is increasingly used as an analogy for bot performance.

(edit: I should clarify that I don't mean it in absolutes, if you got a task at hand, wfh by all means, but I won't do zoom meetings, if you wanna talk, come to the place)
...or at least the top one that's, you know, not in a BSOD crash loop.
I feel like a lot of this could be solved with a month long holiday like they do in Europe. US workers are lucky to get a few days off in a row without interruption.

Open office is also just horrendous.
There is also the function scope vs block scope...

var x = 3 will escape the latter.
Because you are worth $250k per year? I won’t claim it makes any sense.
oooh yeah the speed is definitely something to consider for them. Hmm. Kinda wanna grab some hookgrip slow-mo edits and do JV science with them. Kinda don't because I have shareholder value to create.
In a real inflation, why would profits be down? If the company has any pricing power, they just increase the price. In fact, the definition of inflation is prices increases.
It's ok if you drink plenty of malk.
I mean, of course. There's a reason why an h100 costs around $30k, if you even have a chance to buy it.

For whom it may concern, some recent article about progress of the Linux xdna driver: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-XDNA-Ryzen-AI-Driver-Patch