skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn’t talking about any of the new FIRE movements. Just normal ol’ retirement, but early. If you make a lot of money in your career and are smart about saving, it’s not difficult to imagine that you could shift your retirement age from 65 to 55 or even 50
It absolutely is a gamble if Apple could grow again like it did when it grew from 55-60bn USD in 2018-2020 to a company earning 90-95bn USD in 2021 to 2023.

On the other hand few companies could have achieved such growth and it seems better to go with winners.
When I’m stuck on a problem, I find that re-reading some relevant documentation slowly is relaxing, and often I’m happy to get something I didn’t get the first time, and might need soon!
I work for an SMB as a manager and we were told from the top that employees near the office need to come in at least 3 days per week and that managers would be responsible for monitoring and reporting any violations to HR / higher ups. Only problem is that me and all the other managers responsible for this are fully remote and live across the country.

The higher ups don't seem to care about this detail nor do they seem to pay attention to the fact that we have had 100% attendance in the office since the policy got implemented, me and the other managers are most definitely not just fudging the numbers and giving everyone a 100% score for office attendance!
The F15EX is cost per flight hour is not the same.
F35 is quite a bit more.

While an F-35 can carry 22,000 pounds of munitions to a ceiling of 50,000 feet and a distance of 670 miles at a top speed of Mach 1.6, the F-15EX can haul 29,500 pounds of weapons as high as 60,000 feet and as far as 1,100 miles at a top speed of Mach 2.5.

An F-35 costs $35,000 per hour to operate. An F-15EX costs $27,000 per hour.
I read the financial figures last week or so. They are earning more money than ever.

I think Google knows search is over and that they know AI will bring something new to that game. So they are perhaps maintaining and not pouring too much into making the product better.
> Nippon TV in Japan did a cool TV series adaption of this story that was dubbed into English and shown on kids TV in the UK as 'Monkey', which was quite popular back in the day.

Nah, HN readers might be more familiar with its anime adaptation, "Dragon Ball".
look before you leap my friend
There are even quicker hot sauces;

1. Chop up bird's eye chilis, add fish sauce and lime juice - boom, prik nam pla. If you don't have fish sauce, bird's eye chilis and white vinegar.

2. White vinegar, sugar and salt, garlic and/or ginger, bird's eye or jalepeno, some bell pepper to cut the heat - stick it in a blender, done. Super delicious.
Single digit would be bad but it's much higher. From wikipedia: "current best processes for water electrolysis have an effective electrical efficiency of 70-80%,[36][37][38] so that producing 1 kg of hydrogen (which has a specific energy of 143 MJ/kg or about 40 kWh/kg) requires 50–55 kWh of electricity."

Granted, converting hydrogen back to electricity has another loss of about 60% IIRC but still, you get to keep almost half of your electricity when storing it via hydrogen. So as long as solar is at most half as expensive as the second best stable energy source it's a win.
My reply was to a post that talked about PS2‘s strengths.
It's not about that. They are talking about complications in general when porting a JavaScript game to Switch.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155807
Radiolab also did an episode [1] which I really enjoyed, excited to listen to the 99% one

[1] https://radiolab.org/podcast/corpse-demon

edit: I saved this comment to reply back and by the time I did others had posted the same thing
Apple bet big on proprietary ARM chips, but now Qualcomm has commoditized this space.

Apple followed Meta into VR/AR without a killer app.
That seems like a reasonable middle ground that might be useful.
Honesty and integrity be damned!
Which vendors does it have support for?
Use this as a blueprint for markets going forward

Using George Soros's work and theories in financial markets, and after studying him for 20 years, I designed two boom/bust cycles that I see operating in financial markets today.

One is the Techno-AI Boom/Bust Cycle, and the other is Biden's Imperial Cycle, or Techno-Imperial Cycle. *Imperial and Expansion may be used interchangeably.

Yes they overlap, greatly, but I had to segregate them to make them easier to understand.

Note: The content is not exhaustive.
Do you not have a farmer's market near you? Good tomatoes are available if you want them, and they are in season.
There is logic though.

RTO mandates are lobbied by landlords and shareholders who also hold stocks in commercial property.

Empty offices lose value and the push is to use workers to artificially prop the value of offices.

At very least those who come to office should be given share of capital gains.
One of these days we're going to read an article about someone killed while commuting
the first day after being ordered to RTO. Seems inevitable, anyway. I wonder what the execs involved will say?
> There is no logic in RTO

The logic of RTO has always been about two things:

1. A desperate attempt by investors higher up the food chain to salvage the commercial real-estate market.

2. A "work force reduction" technique that avoids too many negative headlines.

Anytime you see RTO the logic is always coming from one of the above, and has nothing to do with productivity. Reduced push for RTO in tech is primarily because the commercial real-estate market is increasingly looking doomed regardless of efforts to get people back into office buildings.
I'm working 60 hours a week in a warehouse and I'm fine. Can't believe sitting on your butt for 48 hours a week can be that hard
Yeah, writing a paper is a chore.

Writing a letter for your dying grandma is not really a chore. I think they are trying really hard to appeal to the common person but they misunderstand that all a common person doesn't really have a huge need of a lot of these things.

I mean, I use copilot and I like it. I even use image generation to get pictures to do collages with (before I would sometimes search for hours for the right image on magazine scans and so on).

But when I was leaving the place I lived for for years a few months ago, it didn't even cross my mind to use an LLM to write a letter for my friends. I would it, perhaps, to help me find specific words, synonyms, rhymes. That's something they're good at. But it's never a "just do this for me". Idk, I think they need to accept that this tech is just not the end-all-be-all of human writing.

Imo, an ad that simply shows someone asking the LLM for certain concepts, for word plays, for little things would play much better with the general population. I think Apple did some of that in their AI pitch.
How about a pause on immigration while we figure out how it is that despite all the advances in productivity and essentially supercomputer chips inside laptops, there is a need for 6 day workweeks?
> A desperate attempt by investors higher up the food chain to salvage the commercial real-estate market.

So how does that work - CEOs are being pressured by, not their VCs I assume, but like... hedge fund managers?
I was working remote at my company for 2 years. Suddenly our CEO decided that we should be working more in the office, out of nowhere.

Problem is, we were literally 2 engineers available to attend the office while the rest (~8 people) were remote.

Eventually i resigned and now (while i was the person with the most technical and product knowledge of the company) the rest of the engineers are following, there is a risk for the company that will leave them with literally 2 or 3 engineers, while they need at least 10.

To this day, i still can't fully understand what was on his mind that he essentially broke apart something that was working and delivering and now he may end up with no engineering team at all.
This clickbait headline suggests 6-day workweek as an alternative when job market is defined by limited supply. It feels like the goal is to scare some people to persuade them supporting pro-immigration policies. What a nonsense.

Yes, immigration can solve the demographic problems of some Western countries. However it is not sustainable and it will most likely deprive poor countries from the most talented people. This is colonialism in disguise. And the ticking bomb is global: we will see population peak everywhere already in this century, so what’s going to happen when Nigeria won’t produce more workers for America or Europe?

We need to focus on fixing demographic problems instead. Solving gender inequality, building parenting-friendly education system, building better safety net and reforming the work - not just for remote cases, but for the majority that still has to attend their workplace.
Even the time cube guy had the good grace to put his ideas on an easily accessible website
This resonates funnily with "I hacked this together last night for fun" a bit down the page.
Right, because working an extra day will make up for no one understanding what they are doing, and an increasing number of people not participating in the workforce.
> That worked then because the main source of wealth was land. Less people means more land per person.

That assumes that people actually owned the land that they were working and weren't renting it from a landlord. If you're renting it from a landlord (with whatever definition of "rent" used in a given time and place) then sure, there's more land available to rent so the rent prices are cheaper, but it's not obvious to me that that's substantially different than the current prospective scenario where the owners of capital have less human capital to go around and so need to pay more for it. It's just a different way of structuring the same scarcity problem—fewer people to work leads to less profit for the holders of capital (whether that capital is in land or abstract financial instruments).

> That's not been the case since the industrial revolution. Now the main source of wealth is capital, including human capital.

And any event that causes human capital to be more scarce causes it to cost more. Since for most of us our wealth resides almost entirely in the human capital associated with our own selves, if human capital costs go up then our individual wealth goes up.

The only exception is if you're in the small class of people who own substantial non-human capital.
I'm partial to burning my journals after some time. It's highly cathartic to see your thoughts and feelings scribed onto the page and removed from existence, as if to underscore the fleeting, temporary nature of them.
It's not really the tomatoes, it's that they are harvested green and then artificially ripened when they are ready to be sold. This allows much longer shelf life but the texture of the flesh and the flavors never fully develop.

Of course different varieties have different flavors but even a standard supermarket "beefsteak" will taste so much better picked ripe off the vine than bought at the store where it has been in a cooler for two months.
IMO Drew Houston's quote in the article really hit the nail on the head: "They keep hitting the go-back-to-2019 button, and it’s clear it’s not working."

I personally am sympathetic to the idea that most people are more engaged and more productive when they are working together, in person. While I certainly don't miss the commute or office politics, I do miss seeing colleagues in person, and I felt I would often learn things faster when it was easier to have impromptu discussions with others. I also just kinda felt like I cared more.

But the point is, while I sometimes wish I could hit the "return to 2019 button", that world simply does not exist anymore, and it never will. Like some of the comments here point out very well, I know lots of folks who have been forced into RTO, and then just spend the majority of their time in the office on Zoom calls because many colleagues are still remote - the whole thing is nuts.

Enlightened management just needs to realize that as much as they may want to "wave that magic want", it ain't gonna happen. The world has changed, and it's much better to accept the reality of remote work than pretend you can do a "Superman spin the world backwards" trick. At the same time, I think employees should realize the risks with remote work - after nearly a quarter century in this business I've finally seen a real explosion of off shoring since the pandemic, and I think it (obviously among many other factors) is having a real downward pressure on software engineering salaries in the US.
What's the point of clawing your way to the top of the heap if you can't physically look out over your peons toiling for you?
Oh really? Maybe that's wrong then. Is the name a transcription or a translation? What script were the records written in originally? Names can be retroactively applied, especially in translation. Looks like I've got some reading to do. Edit: Maybe I got confused between different folk etymologies for the name of the city of Kandahar.
RTO is not synonymous with a single-site team. The benefits you describe are impossible to realize for any company with distributed offices.
If it has support for Xilinx/AMD then its a hard buy for me.
I wouldn’t say that - the brand is a design shop. They designed furniture for ikea, a handheld console, a clothing line, a PC case, and more. This toy is also well designed; I think it matches their brand well.
Ask HN: App for tax-aware asset allocation?
An app for U.S. investors where a user entered asset positions and % gains and suggested ETFs that best diversified the portfolio would be useful. It's very hard to beat the market "from scratch" on pre-tax basis, but many investors have undiversified taxable portfolios that could be improved through proper diversification with uninvested cash.

In my case, I have some positions in a taxable account with capital gains exceeding 300%, such as XLK (tech stocks) and an S&P 500 index fund. I wish I had less in tech, but selling XLK would incur long-term capital gains taxes. For diversification, I could invest new money in ETFs that are less correlated to tech. An app would suggest which ones and with what weights.
Ok, we've changed the URL above to that one from https://twitter.com/adtac_/status/1820127470613622950, which it includes.
As I said, JavaScript was an example, picked because I work it it every day.

There are most certainly better examples, that I am less equipped to present; Rust springs to mind.

Yet whatever example is chosen, the claim remains unchanged: Python experiences the Innovator's Dilemma.
Please don't do this here—it just adds noise to the threads.

As for that platform: we're all annoyed by the annoying things about it, and it has gotten significantly more so, but it remains a source that HN would be significantly worse without.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pretty sure rich people network is pretty strong.
Interesting. I've not watched that show and didn't know it's the same story. I know the same graphic artist who worked on the design for the band Gorillaz also did idents based on this story for the Olympics in Beijing a few years back.
WhenFFS feels like a missed opportunity here.
Do they really know search is over (and what are the consequences of that!?!) or are they just doing the accountant/finance major thing of looking at profit and loss and "cost centers", then maximizing the profit?

I bet it's the latter.
I have often felt that programming would do well to have a guild-like system. Current job titles and years of experience do not really help to differentiate the quality of individuals. There's also the intangible benefits of trust and quality that come from the system. I'd love to write "craft" code, that is about producing quality code that elegantly solves real problems. Especially in comparison to the current trend of writing code as quickly as possible, with very little regard for quality from folks outside of the dev team.
In the mid-80s the company I worked for, which made process control systems, had some Russians in for a tour of the engineering facility. We were using the Motorola 68000 processors in a new system and we told to cover every board that had one on it so they couldn't see it. No problem with the 8-bit processors, though. Interesting times.
it works on macos without disabling SIP
I meant the landing page.

Thanks for the recommendations.
Now make a WebDAV and CalDAV wrapper around that!
That's all fun and games until Google bans and deletes your Google-account/initramfs-calendar because you liked the wrong comment on YouTube.
Easiest way I can figure out how to explain my claim.

Consider when you use 'partial connectivity', E.G. convolution or pooling layers for local feature extraction on say MNIST.

While useful, those partial connection layers are explicitly used because fully connected layers do not have translational invariance.

So with a fully connected network, shifting the letter 'i' a few pixels to the right wouldn't match.

We choose to discard some of those connections for local feature detection. But as the reason that the fully connected model lacks translational invariance is because it maintains that position data.

Note how that is more 'expressive', even if counterproductive for the actual use case.

Another lens is the fact that neural networks have extreme simplicity bias. In that they learn only the simplest features to solve a task at hand.

If you want to recognize an i, irrespective of the translational location, that bias is useful. But you 'throw away' (in a very loose sense) the positional data to do so.

Horses for courses, not good vs bad.
I think in some places companies got tax breaks predicated on having so many people commute and spend money in a city or etc?
I do think these tools are very good at providing good help for artists and creatives. I follow some really amazing creators on twitter that post works that are heavily gen-based.

But yes, they're being used as tools. They don't "replace" your creative output they augment it. It would be interesting if these companies actually collaborated with people that are doing cool things with these tools. But then again, they might think the AI is not placing an important enough role in the creation process. But, I mean, that's exactly what I think people would see as a plus.

For me, in this ad in particular, when it asked to come up with a training routine and such... that's good, that's helpful. Should have stayed with that.
yeah, it's perfect. It does the opposite as well; grifters who cannot actually do what they were hired for but instead just talked and smooched their way around have no chance remotely. No one is entertaining them and after not so long you get a 'higher up' asking 'so what actually are you doing here?'. Had a project manager on friday: everyone thought he sucked (as a project manager!) while in the office but the c levels thought he was good as he was running around and talking a lot, but via chat he has nothing. So he is gone since friday.
AI powered real estate search in New Jersey
I have started a new project, making AI powered real estate search. We are in beta now, and use Multimodal LLMs + RAG + other cool logic to enable searching RE images using natural language queries. Right now our search is about 20% developed, and we are rolling out new, more complex search features in the next few week. Would love to have some testers compare performance now vs. on Aug. 16th. You can have one chat as a user now, but if you want to enable "Favorites" property chat, you need to sign up.

What can you do now:

Search properties - we use multimodal LLMs to let you search RE listing images for visual features

Chat about properties - same logic, chat about a single property.

Only indexed NJ listings for now, rolling out elsewhere in Aug.

This is a Beta, so lots of work is still left, but it does basic stuff now.

https://relm.ai
https://archive.is/Af3cy
Not particularly (point taken), but I _do_ note that describing a napkin-sketch as an 'elaborate theory' is perhaps more flattering than you mean it to be ;)
Not very good stealth.

The F22 has better stealth technology than the F35.

Presently the stealth capability of F35 fight jets is highly reduced
to a design problem where the engine overheats if the F35 is carrying
significant munitions.

The F22 was never sold (that I know of) to other powers.
The next generation fighter that the air force is allegedly testing
now will have much better stealth again and it will not be sold
to foreign powers.
For me, that would be fine. It's common to have some reference or other piece of information that I want handy but doesn't change much.
> that even trying drugs these days is too risky.

And yet the rat park studies and heritability of addiction suggest it's actually a predisposition to addiction (via environmental factors like poverty or emotionally disconnected "support" system in your childhood or life) that truly indicate the risk.

Healthy kids, in a healthy family, in a healthy society, with opportunities, and a non-cynical media etc. are less/un-likely to become addicted to anything, and the "addictive" elements seem to not lay in the drug/behavior of choice.
I've always thought a lot had to do with the age of the eggs. Very fresh eggs are usually harder to peel. I usually let eggs sit at least a week or two after purchase before I use them (this is in the USA where eggs are sold refrigerated).
Sounds like flight GUIDs.
Exactly, this is a rebalancing since Apple because a huge portion of Berkshire's portfolio due to it's growth. They became over 40% of Berkshire's holdings, too much for them to be comfortable with.
At Buffett’s age, I would shift more to cash as well. ;)
You're repeating the classic Hacker News mistake of assuming these actions have a rational basis.

I very much suspect that a lot of this push for RTO is very vibes-based, as the kids say, which is why no one seems to be able to produce any concrete reasons or numbers justifying it. I think a lot of people, especially those at the top, have very set ideas of what "working" means and want to make their organizations conform to those ideas. For many people "working" simply means being in an office regardless of anything else or any consequences. It's why you see so many cracks about "they're working in their pajamas!".
This article paints a false image of EV life. We have owned a couple EVs for 6 years now and have only had to charge at charging station a few dozen times and never had to wait. I’m sure we spend dramatically less time refueling overall, since we refuel at home, overnight, once or twice a week.

Actually, we did have to wait once for charging in the middle of Oklahoma (at the time a bit of a charging desert). It was at a casino, and a fellow Tesla owner had shot the place up with an assault rifle. It took almost 2 hours for the crime scene techs to collect bullet casings and clear the chargers (no one was hurt - the shooter was on LSD and defending the rest of us from space aliens). Law enforcement offered the shooter a ride - so he didn’t even need the charge.
This seems to be the same as blog post https://www.philoinvestor.com/p/bidens-techno-imperial-cycle
I think there's also a pretty big issue where CEOs can get to an office in 15 minutes, due to probably living in a fancy neighborhood nearby. They may not quite understand how expensive it is to commute or live anywhere near an office.

I'd RTO if somehow I could guarantee being at an office 10-15 minutes.
You could just leave it on.

I agree it's not great.