skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An exception I've seen is in the US Navy's R&D activities (NRL and NUWC, specifically).

Plenty of those civilians are lifers with a serious sense of purpose for their work.

You get the occasional dead weight, but it's far less common than you might expect.
Material can vary based on the use. Something like the TGV will use a different alloy than a slower regional line. A quick search shows bronze and hard-drawn copper are frequently used. But I wouldn't rule out stainless steel.

BTW - tell your "friend" to wear their insulated gloves. They can be energized up to 25,000 volts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25_kV_AC_railway_electrificati...
So. The world could be blown up with just 8kb of memory. No need for a killer AI with hundreds of GB's of vram.
Sounds like projection to me.

- DJ

Edit: "Then reduce the use of the brain and calculate!" This is literally the worst advice I have ever read.

- DJ
"Third Space" - I admit, I should have capitalized it, since it's a proper noun. Third Space is a term coined to mean "not work nor home" and it was constructed during a time when WFH wasn't much of a thing. I use it because the term has a meaning that I intend to convey, not necessarily because it is a person's 'third main space' anymore.

It was the place people gathered. Church, the bar, local park, etc.
These stories seem to be pretty common, where some species thought to be extinct suddenly shows up somewhere. Nature seems to usually find a way. That's a beautiful cat.
Legal, medical insurance, and the general understanding that you're an employee of the company and it comes with all the benefits of being one.
True, you can get fired at anytime for no reason at all, why would anyone with any option choose a place that says they will maybe explicitly fire you after a certain period? Might as well get hired at Netflix which has a similar perform or out culture where you are guaranteed a very high salary and a generous severance.

Just go to a regular place of employment. I've never seen any place with these kinds of deviant methods and process end up be a remotely successful company or an actual good employer.
I think it is a VOC-based estimator. Seems to work well though in most cases.
That is how all self-guided weapons systems worked before GPS was viable. Many still retain that capability as a fallback. Notably, the Tomahawks fired during Desert Storm had to transit over Iranian airspace because they needed the mountainous terrain to correct for their inertial drift before turning toward their targets over the flat Iraqi plains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
Oh man I remember this Noah guy. Doesn't he run a website with a bunch of b grade saas apps sold Groupon style? He has been selling this how to start a business course thing since like 2010 or something. I think what he fails to mention is knowing Tim Ferris and being in silicon valley is what got him where he is at today. All these business gurus don't really share anything meaningful. At least he is better than scammers like Alex Hormozi though.
Yeah, the comparison feels a little off, but you could make a direct comparison to producing ethanol from corn or sugar cane.

And historically, it is true that agriculture was the source of most wealth, including both food and energy. Consider growing hay -> feeding pack animals -> transportation. Also, using firewood to generate heat, large amounts of which were needed to for expensive processes like iron smelting. (Not to mention human labor.)

Nowadays it's the other way around, agriculture requires energy inputs for things like fertilizer.
>Appreciate recommendations on any neutral analysis about this topic

Same here. This article can't pause its criticism of the law for even one sentence to describe what the proponents of the law hope to accomplish or how.

ADDED. Some other site says that the law prohibits collecting certain kinds of personal info on children and "A business may not use dark patterns to lead or encourage children to provide personal information beyond what is reasonably expected to provide its Online Service or to take any action that it knows, or has reason to know, is materially detrimental to the child’s physical health, mental health, or well-being" -- and a few other things.

ADDED. The text of the bill used the phrase "dark patterns", but doesn't try to define it, so I'm tentatively glad the law was struck down because laws should draw sharp lines whereas "no dark patterns" is a very fuzzy and ambiguous line. (I know that is not why the Court struck down the law.)
This is the guy that deemed the Nintendo Wii avatar acceptable for his big Metaverse reveal. He also, I suppose, signed off on Meta's also-ran TikTok competitor.

Perhaps being a billionaire changes your view on perfection but I'm not sure I buy the narrative about him being a perfectionist given how decidedly mediocre a lot of what he's touched is.
Artificial intelligence is losing hype
Was not an optimistic introduction to the industry...

But there were still some good people, and good teams. But yea there were times where the importance of agile methodology in being preached by an executive agile coach before an emergency task force meeting while planes are falling out the sky.
So, find another study. The score so far is They: 1, You: 0.
> The definition of a free market is one without government regulation. There is no such GPL-vs-MIT debate here.

Actually, there is, because I was able to find several other definitions that include minimal government regulation. This is also how most of my friends and family use the term.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/freemarket.asp

https://www.britannica.com/money/free-market
Alright keyboard warrior, you can rest now.
> full-time employment having more security in practice

Not sure about other at-will states but in Utah one can apply for unemployment after losing their W2 gig. If this trial period doesn’t involve W2 paperwork then I wouldn’t think it’s comparable.
I don't think that reflects the practical reality. For both legal and social reasons, firing someone is way harder than not hiring them after a trial period. Bad hires are costly.
Frowned upon, tho ;)
Show HN: Ezra Klein Books – Every Book Recommended on the Ezra Klein Show
Hey HN! If you're a listener of the Ezra Klein Show podcast, you know he asks his guests 3 books they recommend. This side project catalogues all those books into a searchable and sortable list.

It was my first time hiring a designer from Upwork to do the design, and overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

It's built using django, htmx, alpinejs, and tailwind. Happy to hear any and all feedback! Thanks!
>> He has to be able to think in terms of conceptual hierarchies that are much deeper than a single mind ever needed to face before. Compared to that number of semantic levels, the average mathematical theory is almost flat.

> ... is he being unrealistic about programmers here, or does he not have exposure to what a mathematician would consider Mathematics?

As with any sweeping statement, Dijkstra's assertion is not universally applicable to all programmers. However, for some definition of sufficiently skilled programmer, it is correct if one considers the subset of mathematics applicable to provably correct programs. To wit:

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
Not sure about Neural DSP or reverbs in general, but real-time neural network based DSP seems very possible. The open source Neural amp modeler[1] would be a good place to start diving in.

[1] https://www.neuralampmodeler.com/the-code
by any measure you contributed a lot more value than that, though
It used to be a good extension. Now it is crapware tied to web services. I don't want any web services, I don't want seeing ads about paid features, I want a free extension working absolutely locally and not phoning home.

This piece of crap is, unfortunately, unfit.
Two things:

First, I said they were 'ethnic nationalists', which is not about a country but about an 'enthnicity', in this case Hindus. Inside their own country, they 'stand up for' Hindus ...

Second, that phrase, 'stand up for', misrepresents nationalism in the most serious way. Here's the Oxford English Dictionary's defintion of nationalism:

Advocacy of or support for the interests of one's own nation, esp. to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations. Also: advocacy of or support for national independence or self-determination.

Whereas patriotism usually refers to a general sentiment, nationalism now usually refers to a specific ideology, esp. one expressed through political activism. In earlier use, however, the two appear to have been more or less interchangeable.

Nationalism includes discrmination against others, in Modi's case against Muslims and other non-Hindus. 'We're superior' inevitably leads to rationalizing harming others; it's been responsible for much of the worst of humanity - millions dead, over and over, including in India's post-colonial history. Allied leaders in WWII, including Churchill, though it was a leading cause of that war. We can already see violence and opression against Muslims in India - we can't wait to see if this time will be different.

That's why universal human rights is so essential. It says we stand not for ourselves, not for our superiority, but for our equality. It says people in India of every religion, and people elsewhere, have the same rights and are fundamentally equal in their value.
Lots of candid, good insights in the linked "I got fired from Facebook" piece too:

https://noahkagan.com/why-i-got-fired-from-facebook-a-100-mi...

E.g.:

> Lesson learned: Go see if your weaknesses are hindering you at your job. Ie. I wasn’t great at planning or product management at this time. Fix them or move to another position. Also, constantly ask yourself how can I make the company more valuable. You do that and you will never get fired*.

* Unless you do something really stupid or the company goes out of business.
>throw a random-number generator at all the delay times

Reverb algorithms are indeed random enough, a leading audio plugin brand once came up with a randomizing reverb freeware[0] embedded with a "submit when it sounds cool" button.

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=453229
Neat. How to get without Windows?
Silicon Valley's Unspoken Rulebook: Ex-Google CEO's Slip Reveals Power Dynamics
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's recent candid remarks at Stanford University have inadvertently exposed what many are calling "Silicon Valley's Unspoken Rulebook." His comments align closely with seven rules of power that are rarely discussed openly in tech circles:

1. Break from convention: Abandon the "nice guy" mindset when pursuing power. Actively showcase confidence, even if feigned.

2. Bend the rules: Breaking rules can yield benefits. It's often easier to apologize afterwards than ask for permission beforehand.

3. Project confidence: Confidence aids career advancement and team influence. Practice non-verbal cues and avoid apologizing, as it can be seen as a sign of weakness.

4. Build a personal brand: Actively promote your achievements and create a strong personal IP across various platforms.

5. Network strategically: Dedicate 8-10 hours weekly to networking, focusing on weak ties outside your immediate circle.

6. Wield power decisively: Use power quickly to solidify your position. Prioritize loyalty in hiring and minimize potential successors.

7. Success justifies means: Those with money and power face fewer consequences for missteps, often attracting more allies despite controversial actions.

Schmidt's unintentional reveal of these principles has sparked debate about the ethics of power in tech. It raises questions about the disparity between public perceptions of innovation and the actual dynamics driving Silicon Valley's most successful players.

This incident offers a rare glimpse into the mindset of tech leadership, challenging our understanding of how power truly operates in the industry. It invites discussion on whether these unspoken rules are essential for success or if they represent a moral hazard in the tech ecosystem.
Do you mean Reason? This was the first virtual synth with patching UI that Propellerhead released a bit after ReBirth.

ReBirth was amazing though and would love if someone brings it back. They had an iPad version that worked pretty well but apparently Roland forced them to take it down.
I find it to be orders of magnitude more helpful at getting me started on the research journey when I don't know how to formulate the question of what I'm researching.

I find it useful for:

* throwing ideas at a wall and rubber-ducking my emotional state and feelings.
* creating silly, meme images in strange circumstances, sometimes.
* answering simple "what's the name of that movie / song / whatever" questions

Is it always right? Absolutely not. Is it a good starting point? Yes.

Think of it like the school and the early days of Wikipedia. "Can I use Wikipedia as a source? No. But you can use it to find primary sources and use those in your research paper!"
My job basically prefers the Contract-to-Hire pipeline. One is often hired on as a contractor, and if things work out by the time your contract is up, then you can stay. In a sense, we are doing something similar to AppSumo.
because the most popular extension would be an adblocker
Happy to speak with you about these questions — if you're interested, send me an email (in profile). You've gotten lots of decent advice in other comments but these are the kind of things that are often best talked out verbally because there's always nuance, exceptions, complications, and multiple reasonable approaches.
Some countries use the opposite scheme, where a constitutional court needs to approve laws before they can go into effect. As you can imagine, that approach has a strongly centralizing effect and would not work well in a federal system like the US’.
tell me I am already bored with it
next.....
Where at least I know I'm free (DHH)
that's exciting news! what does your toy implementation do?
For the longest period of time, I avoided Mac because literally this. Windows and Linux do it great, and for free. But eventually the M1 won me over and I spent a while searching for window management tools.
It's a slightly more explicit version of a probationary/trial period, which is very common outside the US. (You don't need them in the US, because you can be fired at any time for any reason anyway.)
AI's booms and busts are a distraction
Show HN: I made an app for the feature every list app is missing
Hi HN! I'm sharing Renli, a reusable checklist app, I know that this could be achieved in several ways in list apps, but I wanted a separate space where I could find all the lists that I'm constantly using (like going on a trip).

For now, it's only available for iOS, the Android version is completed, unfortunately, I have an issue with my Google dev account that blocks me from moving forward, if anyone works at Google support and could give me a hand I would appreciate it.

I hope some of you can give it a try and find it as useful as I do, I'm happy to read your feedback.
No, you can't remove the random walk error by integrating. The point is that after integrating, what you're left with the random walk error. To make this concrete, if you buy a commercial-grade gyroscope for $10, it will have a random walk error of several º/√h. So after summing the errors for an hour, you're left with several degrees of random error, which is bad. If you spend $100,000 on a navigation-grade gyroscope, you'll get a random walk error < 0.002º/√h, which is much better.

As far as calibrating out the skew, of course you can do that to some extent, but it's not a magic bullet. The Minuteman periodically measures skew and even applies equations for the change in skew with acceleration. The problem is that skew is not constant; it changes with time, changes with temperature, changes with position, and changes randomly, so you can't just calibrate it out. That's one reason why missiles use strategic-grade IMUs for a million dollars rather than a commercial-grade gyro for $10: you're getting drift of .0001º/hour instead of .1º/second.
> Synchronously verifying it, would probably be too slow.

Why would it be slow? There is a JSON documenbt that lists all IP ranges on the same page you linked to:

https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/go...
>Then he took a dry-erase marker and wrote on the board: GROWTH.

>Mark’s goal was 1 billion users.

>Every idea we’d bring, he’d ask, “Does this help growth or not?”

>If it wasn’t driving toward that goal, we didn’t do it.

A lot of people have described Facebook as a cancer, but I have never seen it spelled out so literally.
"The law was drafted in part by a British Baroness"

Non-citizens should have zero business writing laws that affect actual citizens.
Speak for yourself. Looking at our post histories and compare to see who is more of a keyboard warrior here, I must concede that you are truly the superior and more hard working qwerty warrior.
Interesting.

The README was pretty sparse and I wanted to read more about what was actually going on, so I poked around a bit. First of all, wikipedia article if you just want a birds eye view [0].

The website the README links to as the original isn’t secure, but you can read the paper talking about this particular way of measuring perceptual audio quality here if you don’t mind living a little dangerously[1]. I also found this paper, which I haven’t had a chance to read yet, but it gives a “zoomed out” view, looking at a bunch of different perceptual audio quality measures [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_Evaluation_of_Audio...

[1] https://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/Reports/2002/KabalR...

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1109/TASLP.2021.3069302
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_Evaluation_of_Audio...
At one point in my life I did a lot of work animating comic book art for various projects. I wish this existed back then. It would have made the work so much better.
2 sentences for me. The enigmatic humorous dirge was a dead giveaway.
lol, I'm on noprocrast mode so HN actually blocks read if I've been logged in long enough. Of course, my brain works around that by reading it on incognito mode. But it's still useful as I spend less time writing.
The app works locally, so no user account is required, I'm planning to add sync across devices in the future, for now, it's a one-time payment with all upcoming features included.
> What puts me off about the argument is along the lines of "and because of such and such, now numerically less guns exist in public, and that's -a good thing-"

I did not make that point, but I also don't understand yours.
Cultivating Spiritual Intelligence for a participatory worldview (2021)
This fits way too well with the whole "Mark being an alien" meme.
As an employee, I've requested the same to early stage startups. No amount of interviews, will give you enough information to assess its potential.
Tesla semi-truck fire prompts I80 closure in CA as hazmat response halts traffic
Good question. They definitely do have launch control centers. All available information online does seem to indicate that is the case that the silos themselves are unmanned. My understanding is that there was some security on site, but that is just based on second hand stories I've heard, and may not be true.

I do see military vehicles traveling to and from the one that I am close to semi regularly, perhaps a month or so on average.

As far as fire response, they likely have their equipment for that at the control centers as well.
It translates natural language into Isabelle/HOL specifications, and then tries to fill these up to prove things. One can then use Isabelle code generation facilities to extract Scala, OCaml, etc. I think the trick is to have a programmer to guide the whole process, especially decomposition into different modules and abstractions.
It seems to me there is a real application for wide area persistent surveillance (WAPS). This is a significant concern for civil liberties and WAPS is a largely controversial technology. To whom will this technology be licensed and what, if any, limitations will you impose on allowed payloads?
Industry use of "innovation" is using 3 year old tech instead of 10 year old tech.
> There's no danger of that of course because we long ago decided as a society that we're fine with vulnerable populations being put through an economic woodchipper to fuel our retirement funds

"We" did? Who's "we"? I certainly never agreed to this. Citation needed.
Kagan told TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington about Facebook's plans to expand beyond college students to a professional social network for companies like Microsoft and Apple... A few weeks later, Kagan was fired.

[Kagan] tried to use his role at Facebook to make a name for himself... used to host startup gatherings at Facebook's headquarters... frequently wrote blog posts on his personal site about Facebook's business... Zuckerberg asked [Kagan] to choose between himself and Facebook. Somehow, Kagan still didn't get the message, and he wasn't able to save his job.

https://archive.is/PuZwW / https://www.businessinsider.com/how-noah-kagan-got-fired-fro...
There are no use cases for Hurd.
My point is that's too narrow a view. You can't treat property opaquely, or the reasons for the state for seizing it equally. Eminent domain, civil asset forfeiture, red flag laws, even economic sanctions and KYC compliance in finance are all different trees of the state asserting power over different classes of property, for different reasons from public safety to foreign policy, or just plain old corruption.
People living outside of California interfering in California law, politics, or elelections is noteworthy.
And for those thinking of karma, to quote a famous animated convenience store owner: ''Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos.''
Your lack of nuance about “crypto” and predilection of blaming victims is toxic.

That sector has plenty of things that follow the expected social contract of all parties, which can and does support balances of $4 million and far higher.

Your unwillingness to see that is not really a productive conversation here, although you’re in like company right now on this forum, you shouldn't be.
Your original post said "It's not the job of the lawmakers to follow the constitution". To my ear, "follow" is a lot closer to "support and defend" than it is to "interpret".
How do y’all filter out survivorship bias in articles like this? I can imagine 50 other people with the exact same experiences but then having worked for companies that ended up fizzling.
They can hire you as a contractor for a couple of weeks to avoid that mess, then give you a full-time offer / contract if things go well.
The chinese auto companies are opening factories in mexico to get around tariffs. Monterrey,the center of american and now chinese auto manufacturing, is the best performing economic region of Mexico because of it.