skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they can't use it for whatever they normally sell customer data for

Bottom line, you don't want to mess with their bottom line.
Create filter rule > skip inbox lol
It was several years ago, and the manufacturer no longer sells on eBay under the same account. It looks like they’re still in business though: https://www.sgrowled.com/product-category/led-red-therapy-li...

These were like half the price of western branded drop shipped versions, and a tenth the price of the ones they peddle to rich people. They are nothing like the few watt toys health and beauty companies sell. These put out some serious power.
Interview for remote roles from the office.
I intermittently keep a diary, mostly of travel and of recent reading. There are no or few personal reflections in it.

About 20 years ago I kept a more personal journal for a while. About 10 years ago, I shredded it.
Buffett just sold for an enormous profit while the market was trending near all-time highs.

Selling near all time highs = being fearful while others are being greedy.
That heavily depends on the details of the collapse. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the other poster's (Ekaros) scenario, but I think they were suggesting emissions of extra CO2 and other greenhouse gases as geo-engineering rather than as a mere power supply, especially given the (CalRobert) mention of starvation.

I've seen estimates between 2°C and 30°C of local cooling.

I expect the lower range of that hence my previous statement "Europe north of about Paris will look like southern Canada already does", and that's fine for northern Europe but may still bite Spain (the Florida of Europe) as it (or at least its Med coast) is destined for being too hot more than being too cold.

Agriculture is the main thing, and I don't feel confident about predicting that, might be OK or not.

30°C of local cooling (I have no idea how that might even be possible but I've seen it as the worst case estimate) is way outside what most of the buildings are designed for.
Embracing DSLs in UI Development
Warren Buffet taking giant profits and dumping half of their AAPL stock at the top of market prices is really another reason to be bearish on this AI hype which hasn't materialised to anything profitable for 98% of AI startups and neither has it convinced Wall St that the massive operational costs were worth it. (The 2% is OpenAI, Anthropic and the other >$15B AI startups.)

This just means that we should be getting a short term market correction. The ones that have benefited off of the hype are the Big Tech incumbents that will be just fine and those who dumped their skyrocketing shares on retail, which includes the folks at Nvidia.

At this time, some stocks and most AI startup valuations are extremely inflated and must correct and go down.
...and it shows in hiring. Experienced seniors can still find jobs, juniors... can't.
A Wealthy Couple Became Local Pariahs After Poisoning Their Neighbor's Trees
Feel like I keep seeing news/articles about 6 day work weeks. Seems like a coordinated effort.
You mean the app or the landing? The landing has been designed by a professional designer, and the app is heavily shadcn-inspired (shadcn.com).
I think a lot of these tools are better placed in research where you want highly regulated interaction with the plant and the cash outlay is worth it.
> But does it make a good investment? A good investment is investing in a great business at a reasonable price. If the price is unreasonably high, then even a great business makes for a bad investment.

This depends on whether you are thinking short-term or long-term. Short-term, I don't know because at this point I'm exclusively a long-term investor (something I might should have mentioned in my original comment).

The current price (for a company as big and mature as Apple) is essentially a gauge of how bullish vs bearish big investors are feeling about the sector and the specific company. It may fluctuate up and down a little bit based on news and such, but long-term I expect it to do well.
Not this exactly, but I used to keep a calendar as a text file, where each day was a single line containing the date, week day and possibly some events.

Something like:

4h sun: 1500 dentist's appointment, 1800 dinner with friends

Where a=jan, b=feb, c=marc, ... l=dec.

The initial file was autogenerated with a 10-line Python script.

You can have variations on this, like allowing multiple rows per day, one row per event.

I also used to keep an unstructured "journal.txt" file, where notes were separated by two blank lines, and you could reference topics (like #toRead) and dates (like #4h24) with #, like social media hashtags.
"I understand this better than you do" twice in about 30 lines. Okay then.

I mean, sure, you do, but there's less off-putting ways to display your credentials...
Key Findings

(1) 79% of Tech firms are Fully Flexible

Tech has the highest concentration of Fully Flexible firms across industries. Only 3% of Tech companies require Full Time In Office for corporate employees.

(2) Employee's Choice is the most common Tech policy

56% of Tech companies have an Employee's Choice model, meaning the company has offices but employees aren't required to to go into them. That's up from 38% of Tech companies having an Employee's Choice model in June 2023.

(3) Fully Remote is decreasing in prevalence in Tech

23% of Tech companies have a Fully Remote model, meaning the company does not have any offices at all. That's down from 37% in June 2023.

(4) Structured Hybrid Tech companies expect you in office 2-3 days per week

85% of Tech companies with a Minimum Days / Week requirement expect employees in the office either 2 days or 3 days per week.

(5) Tech company office policy varies significantly by size
90% of Tech companies with 500 employees or less are Fully Flexible; just 7% are Structured Hybrid. On the other hand, 23% of Tech companies with 25k+ employees are Fully Flexible; 74% are Structured Hybrid.

(6) Fully Remote adoption varies significantly by company size as well

42% of Tech companies with 100 employees or less are Fully Remote. That percentage drops to less than 4% for companies with 1k+ employees. All Tech company sizes have shifted away from Fully Remote since June 2023.

“Flex Report 2024”

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How is this a real question? The person said they enjoyed reading "real" comments implying they do not enjoy reading bot content. At this point, how does one determine something was a bot or real? I'm at a loss on how you don't see the relevance.
When flash started to fade for games, many developers moved over to adtech where their skills were still valued. Flash continued for a few years to power ads as well as shims around other videos that would collect data and even trigger secondary ad auctions.
> and you can still jailbreak now if you want to.

I can currently only jailbreak an iPhone due to mistakes made by Apple. It's conceivable that it won't be possible at some future point - though I'm not sure how this is relevant towards your earlier point?

> But even with a jailbreak, I’m not sure there apps, as opposed to tweaks that you could put on the iPhone.

There have been very limited workarounds on iPhones to enable sideloading, e.g. AltStore. These repositories are exactly the kind of apps you're looking for. But again, not sure how this is relevant towards your earlier point?
It actually expensive to bring someone back from a bad fent addiction, with high failure rate to boot. So few million dollars to maybe bring back someone who will probably never be a net contributor to society even if treatment is successful, from a hard cold numbers perspective it isn’t worth it. Morally speaking it’s a completely different story, but prevention is very very very important these days. We really need to educate our kids that even trying drugs these days is too risky.
In part I blame the news, as they exploit peoples lack of understanding of big numbers, time, and collaborative projects[0]. Look at the way that they talk about the growing cost[1]. It may seem large, but that's $20 billion spent in 14 years (1.42/yr), distributed across 35 countries (40m/yr if equal contributions). The extra $5bn by 2039 will turn that to 0.86bn/yr. Again, distributed between 35 countries (nonhomogeneously)[2].

This happens every time with these big science projects. People think they are extremely costly. In one sense they are, but in terms of your tax dollars? They're well within a rounding error. I mean we got over a dozen individuals that could independently build and maintain 10 CERNs (each of them could build 10 CERNs) if we consider the factors of time and compounding interest. Idk, it just does not seem like that much money to me.

[0] The people writing the stories are probably equally dumb, but they have a responsibility to not be

[1] You set out to do something no one has done before, you really think you'll make an accurate estimate? Especially when we have systems that reward underestimating over accuracy. How could this ever happen when we reward the lowest bidder and there are no consequences for being wrong?

[2] US/China/India/South Korea/Japan/Russia each foot 10% of the bill. So ~$150m/yr by naive estimate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Funding
You put words to what I've been thinking for a while. When I'm still new to some new technology it is a huge time-saver. I used to need to go bother some folks somewhere on a discord / Facebook group / matrix chat to get the one piece of context that I was hung up on. Sometimes it is hours or days to get that one nugget.

I feel more interested in approaching challenging problems in fact because I know I can get over those frustrating phases much more easily and quickly.
I find programming outside-in ends with a better design and is generally faster than inside-out. Similar experience with the rest of the advice.
It's fascinating how perfectly this little episode fits into the fractal of Googleness: the corporate borg with no human quality at all. At least Gates and Ballmer would kick you in the balls.

There was also that dystopian Apple ad about technology crushing everything.
That's because it's the most accurate way to phrase it for candidates. We also state clearly in the FAQ on the front page how we make money.
Yes, the giant in the language learning area is Duolingo and there are probably too many to list smaller ones. I wrote one word quizz app for myself when I was in high school, too bad startups weren't a thing back then.
> You're making the classic mistake that thinking a company makes a good product they're a good stock. If the stock has sky high expectations and the company does "only" very good, the stock might still fall.

Disagree with the first sentence, fully agree with the last. My read/feel on expectations right now is that Apple has generally lower expectations from institutional investors than what is warranted, certainly from Berkshire. Berkshire certainly isn't bailing, but there's clear indications that Apple isn't expected to be the rocket ship they previously thought it would be.
If you "tend to prefer reading original sources" then I think you're the best possible candidate for LLM-assisted learning, because you'll naturally use them as a starting point, not the destination. I like to use LLMs to get myself the grounding I need to then start reading further around a topic from more reliable sources.

That's a great point about high school models being deliberately designed as didactic tools.

LLMs will tend to spit those out too, purely because the high school version of anything has been represented heavily enough in the training data that it's more likely than not to fall out of the huge matrix of numbers!
You need to keep the house from being burned down, I heard the ratio in Finland for residents to social workers in 4-1.
> But they had the smarts to stop the program before it turned into a money sink.

but..did they? Or did the oil prices crash taking USSR and its space program with them?
> Who is the customer?

Other ag-academic research teams.
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Thanks, that's very fair. Berkshire still has a pretty huge stake, which they wouldn't be holding if they were bearish.
My whole thing with AI is, "But what if it's wrong?" At least with GitHub Copilot, I can correct the autocompleted output. I am less convinced about other ideas, such as having computers built solely with LLMs as an OS.
Fires, despite being bad, are less of a hazard than explosives of the same total energy.
The question here is whether we are on a platform for politicians or are trying to get elected, or we are on a platform for tech people and trying to get any kind of a scientific discussion, especially with regards to the nuclear energy and its place in a global warming. For the former, personal examples are the way to go. For the latter, not so much.

Personal examples specifically don't work in a public funds allocation scenario, where one politician meets John (and his ailment) while another meets Mary (and her ailment) but the funds can be diverted either to treat the Johns or the Marys (but not both). At least QALYs have the right answer for that.
Ah that makes sense. Seems to be in large part because there are varieties that are lower heat but higher flavor, and ceteris paribus, getting away with less jalapeno for same or greater flavor saves money. I wonder if anyone's weighed the amount of actual jalapeno in a jar of tostito's queso. Probably like a quarter gram.
I mean technically it doesn't __need__ to be demonstrated first. But given how long we've been failing at successfully creating fusion, it certainly makes sense to change strategies to: instead of being efficient, let's just make the damn thing work, and then study it so that we can then make efficient ones.
I feel like you, and in another environment entirely, I found it's useful to make the working implementation in secret, and open the ticket as if it's a new idea and steer the conversation towards your implementation. People like to feel like things are their ideas, so if you can guide them suggest the idea to you, it'll definitely get accepted.

Personally I don't bother contributing unless I'm getting paid - otherwise I have no incentive to deal with the people bs.
> Voting doesn't have to be any different

From your long sibling thread I gather that for you it is more important to be able to verify the votes by yourself through the output of the voting system (the excel example) than to be able to reason through the voting system itself. Whereas for schroeding it is more important to be able to conceptually understand and scrutinize the voting process as a whole, even though it might be difficult for any single individual to check on that their own vote was counted. Correct me if the summary was not fair.

Suppose we bring the two ideas to the extreme and imagine two voting systems:

- an extermely complex, completely opaque voting system that can only be managed by experts to function correctly, but with a perfectly infallible way to individually check that their vote was correctly counted

- an extremely obvious and straightforward way of voting such as paper ballots that are securely physically transported to a central location (all of them) and counted by people surrounded by observers (all in one sitting). clearly any individual cannot check that their vote was actually counted

If there is a disagreement about the result of a vote because, let's say for the sake of the example that the losing party thinks they should have won; In the first system everybody can of course check their votes, but what if the losing party questions the checking system itself? Then it is on the experts to justify why the vote is correct (can they do it?). On the second system, because everybody can reason through it, it is on the losing party to prove that the vote was not performed correctly, by pointing at some part of the (simpler) voting procedure.

I think that the second system is more robust in the sense that when there is a disagreement, it is easier regain everyone's trust. With simple procedures, the disagreeing party can make more meaningful demands on the people who manage the voting system to check that the vote was correct. In the first system it is the opposite, and because by definitions it is only understood by experts the losing party cannot do anything but to claim that the whole system is rigged.

So, since voting systems are ultimately a tool to collectively take decisions, I'd say that there is more value in having a simple procedure than efficiency and extremely precise feedback for individual votes. The trust in voting systems is different than the one in credit card processing systems.

Of course real electronic voting and real paper voting are neither of these two extremes, but choosing the e-voting moves us closer to the first system, while paper voting to the second.
I don’t think it’s ever going to be feasible for SF to provide free housing to anyone who just shows up. It simply wont work no matter how much of the city budget they throw at it.
Dumpster diving: As Americans worry about inflation, planet, some look to trash
I've been using the JetBrains AI model assisted autocomplete in their IDEs, including for Kotlin. It works well for repetitive tasks I would have copy/paste/edited before, and faster, so I have become more productive there.

I've not yet tried asking LLMs Kotlin-based questions, so don't know how good they are. I'm still exploring how to fit LLMs and other AI models into my workflow.
Long term or short term doesn’t change that question at all.
This sort of toxic worship is so insane.
I sure wish. Less toxic stuff we spread around the better. Now if we could do something about the horrible waste of fertilizer that ruins our waters and coastal seas. I mean I'd love to go and swim in july and august, but the waters are laden with blue-algae-neurotoxins so it's bit of a no-no.
So if I got you right, you are saying that not enough money had been spent on the government housing (after insisting it will cost mere pittance to build and maintain)? These programs were not cheap already so whatever you propose should cost even more.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote something similar about doing art of any kind.
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Do you hear yourself?
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Precisely the opposite. If Apple stock drops, there will be sudden, intense pressure to monetize.
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I was thinking about this and came to the conclusion that I'd want to define some events per date, like you illustrated (`"12:30 dentist" > /cal/2024/08/04`), but others I'd like to define per event, like `2024-08-23 12:30 > /cal/massage`, which seemed messy. I didn't really resolve this question for myself.
DNA-powered signal amplification increases sensitivity of mass cytometry
It looks like it has the ability to do partial refresh
Do you think this is resulting from AI hype? Buffett is usually so macroscopic that I would be inclined to think this is an overall feeling, not one related to AI. But, if you think the tech sector is going to experience a big AI deflation, that could be something I suppose. Interesting to consider.
I have to go to the office once a week and besides communicating with my colleagues over IM, I have to connect over RDS to my machine because it sits in another room.

I go to the office and I'm still remote!
That's absolutely right. The problem can be mitigated by focusing on specific roles and locations, though. You don't need that many candidates if your client only hires SWEs in SF. Our approach is to capture a maximum number of companies per vertical before expanding.
What is the point of using linkedin if you're going to make me retype in all my work experience and education?

Date picker is bugged, Aug 2018 converts to Jul 2018

Funny that you have some R1 universities but not others

Estimated pay needs to be a range, if i need to relocate to NYC then the pay needs to be a lot higher than if its remote
Yea this guy doesn’t understand how returns work at all.

What he described makes it both long term and short term a bad investment. But he seems uneasy what “buying at peak” is.
>the constant taps on the shoulder

To me that is way more tolerable than the constant pinging in chats and putting my headset ON & OFF to jump on calls several times per day. Hearing the ringtone of Teams/Slack today still gives me PTSD.

A situation that can be figured out by a 5 minute face to face talk in person can end up as a 30+ minute back and fourth in the chat. You walk away from your computer for a second and you see 80+ missed texts in 3 Slack channels. The more people in the chat rooms, the worse it gets, as while one person is writing a long sentence explaining something, another is writing a long sentence asking about the thing that other person is just about to explain leading a lot of wasted time and effort with communication.

The worse part is those super long bank-and-fourths in the chat rooms then become "the documentation". Why did you break this? Didn't you know we changed X because of Y? It was discussed in the group Slack yesterday. Didn't you read it[the 100+ message papyrus]?

I much prefer WFH, but it can also be absolute hell, keeping up with the bombardment of chats that remote sync cooperation leads to. In my new job I'm mostly in the office and it's much less stressful.
So real estate price in bumfuck, Idado will remain elevated ? :/
Yes. We absolutely must to return to the office and work 6 day weeks in 12 hours shifts and take one week vacation in a year, evidently not in one go because can't leave the assembly line.

The shareholders must get their dividends!
If Berkshire Hathaway sells 1 million shares of AAPL for N dollars per share, and the market drops the price to .8 * N dollars per share, he just buys more shares back with those same dollars, for example.

It would be a very Buffett thing to do, because shares produce dividends per share, so increasing share count is its own strategy.
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They are not necessarily correlated - but often can be.

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