skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mentionned elsewhere, 30h of being "in the zone" is already above average.

Above that, the teams will be present, or rather their bodies will be, but non productive.

Death march is a real thing and it results, as the name implies, in death.

As a manager, if you choose to run your team in death march mode, then it implies reaching your goal is more important than the well-being of your team and the ability to function long-term. Short term is... short term.
Apps are used for data collection and marketing via notifications. That's the real value, not saving time for the user. The user is rewarded with the ability to avoid lines and targeted discounts.
> Other wasteful comments are added by some tools. I hate the one that marks every loop wiht a //for or //try comment.

Oh god, that's horrible, what kind of tool does that?!
The psychological aspect is the part that is collogially referred to as being picky.
Really? There's a perfectly good example in the article.

RunFewerTimesSlowerAndSimplerAlgorithmAfterConsideringTradeOffs()

That's a horrible way to name a function. Function names should be short, punchy, and unambiguous. They should create a simplified abstract narrative, and all the details should be put into the docstring, so that they can be easily accessible without having to (a) be squashed into an identifier, or (b) be repeated every time you want to call the function.
McDonalds pays the "owners" of the prisoners, not the prisoners.

Prisoners who don't take this "opportunity" to be sold out to mcdonalds get punished.
See also: https://phyphox.org/wiki/index.php/Smartphones_as_ammeters - I've heard of some physics instructors using this in teaching settings.

I'm quite surprised that nobody has made an app which can do some baseline calibration and produce real-time current measurements yet; it would just be a few hundred lines of code at most.
Literally nobody argued otherwise. All I said is that X is not a free speech platform as Musk claims, which is objectively true.

He, Musk, argues you can say whatever you want on X. This is not true plainly - he is lying. This isn't up for debate so don't bother trying.
Anybody else remember that time YC funded an international smuggling operation?

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/backpack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8199286
I think parents point is you can't declassify documents that no longer exist. IIRC many of the CIA's more heinous acts only have documentation because some one misfiled them allowing them to escape intentional destruction.
No, this is not new. There are many many many companies selling compensation metrics. This is also not salary fixing. These companies typically do not offer recommendations. It's up to each individual company to decide how to structure their salary bands and how they want to stack up to the market.
Sharing compensation ranges may not be enough to qualify as wage fixing.

It seems like there would have to be an agreement or at least a collective incentive to lower wages.

While companies could use the data to ensure their offers are always below average (pushing wages down), they could also use the data to ensure their offers are above average, pushing wages up.

Think about it: prices are transparent in most markets and that doesn't seem to generally lead to anti-competitive prices. In fact, it seems to encourage companies to compete.
Noise can also come from pulse-skipping mode of regulation, if you draw too little power from the DC-DC converter, and can go away under higher load.
Solving the bowling problem with dynamic programming
https://archive.ph/kcVok
its good but it has that bug with tmux that can be very frustrating.
> Error type reuse where different failure points produce the same type of error does not violate current idioms. I cannot immediately think of any reason for why their assumption is wrong, so unless you have other ideas?

I have a program that takes user input and parses it, and then displays an error. My program is for a language other than english so having it display a pop up with the message "invalid ip:port, square brackets can only be used with ipv6 addresses" in english is bad.
Therefore I want to switch on the error message to display translated errors, but of course Go does not think that parsing errors are something that is important.

If parsing user input isn't a place to expose clear non-stringly-typed-errors, I don't know what is.

Note, it also gives bad errors in that some of them include details and the user input, and some don't, so displaying them to users will stutter or require parsing.

For example:

_, err = netip.ParseAddrPort("foo:bar")
// invalid port "bar" parsing "foo:bar"
_, err = netip.ParseAddrPort("1.2.3.4:")
// no port

So in one case it has included the original user string, to make it clear what failed, and in another case it doesn't, so I'll have to always add in the context of the input (i.e. `fmt.Errorf("error parsing %q: %w", input, err)`) anyway in order to know what failed, but it'll stutter in every case where they do include the input.

I know the answer to all my issues is the usual go thing of "a little copying is better than depending on the go stdlib" of course. At least for netip, forking it is fine, having to maintain a fork of the go net/http stack just to get halfway decent errors is a real pain.
I wonder if the other Boars Head plants also have issues. Avoid the entire brand? What brands have better hygiene?
Very good writer, but he personally wound me up with his public "Great Escape" from India during the pandemic and laid himself open to the criticism that followed, of being a fairweather friend.
You may also be interested in the Work Number product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753
We had a microwave in the office that auto started based on whatever number you pressed. If you wanted to type in 45 seconds, you would press 4 and it would instantly start running with 4 minutes on the timer. Everyone just pressed the "+30 seconds button" until it was close to the time they wanted and then stopped it manually to get it more precise.

If I remember right the solution was to press "Cook Power" then type in the number of seconds. There was nothing on the microwave to explain this, I had to look it up online.
Massive warnings about not connecting any part involved to mains electricity.
This is why PHP is mostly banned at bigCo
I've never had a gnome extension not break between releases. They're basically plasma widgets, except not even made by the gnome devs. Terrific...
It's notable that you completely skipped over the following point:

> Two-thirds of the members fired by New York Times management since the Times Tech Guild formed have been from underrepresented groups.
Show HN: Tune LLaMa3.1 on Google Cloud TPUs
Hey HN, we wanted to share our repo where we fine-tuned Llama 3.1 on Google TPUs. We’re building AI infra to fine-tune and serve LLMs on non-NVIDIA GPUs (TPUs, Trainium, AMD GPUs).

The problem: Right now, 90% of LLM workloads run on NVIDIA GPUs, but there are equally powerful and more cost-effective alternatives out there. For example, training and serving Llama 3.1 on Google TPUs is about 30% cheaper than NVIDIA GPUs.

But developer tooling for non-NVIDIA chipsets is lacking. We felt this pain ourselves. We initially tried using PyTorch XLA to train Llama 3.1 on TPUs, but it was rough: xla integration with pytorch is clunky, missing libraries (bitsandbytes didn't work), and cryptic HuggingFace errors.

We then took a different route and translated Llama 3.1 from PyTorch to JAX. Now, it’s running smoothly on TPUs! We still have challenges ahead, there is no good LoRA library in JAX, but this feels like the right path forward.

Here's a demo (https://dub.sh/felafax-demo) of our managed solution.

Would love your thoughts on our repo and vision as we keep chugging along!
I wonder if that's intended for a specific workflow, e.g. ctrl-f "Function" enter-enter-enter-enter to cycle through all the functions in the file.

That's the only reason I can think of for writing those comments.
> The lefts ideas have made enough places pretty terrible. They don't need to do it to ONE MORE place.

It's not a left or a right issue - when I want to start a foreign office, I often need to bring in talent from my other offices.

If it's a pain to get short term work visas for my employees (India, China) or if there are fears of safety and xenophobia (Israel, India), my employees don't feel like helping start those on-site offices.

If my employees don't want to visit those countries, we may as well choose one of the several other CEE states like Czechia or Romania.

Already Romania has almost caught up to Poland in GDP per Capita and social indicators despite being much poorer barely a decade ago.

> It's not worth taking your investment money if it means destroying one of that last non destroyed European countries.

Be careful what you wish for.

Hungarian voters thought the same way 10 years ago, and that lead to capital outflows to Poland and Romania.

Almost every large private sector Polish employer by revenue is owned by a foreign MNC. 40% of the Polish economy is owned by us "foreign investors".

We're fine moving that money away, and that did start towards the end of the Duda administration due to political instability, with a lot of capital outflows to Romania which rolled out the red carpet for us.
> HTTP-based ACME verification also uses unencrypted port-80 HTTP

I mean, they need to bootstrap the verification somehow no? You cannot upgrade the first time you request a challenge.
This is every recipe site these days. It’s frustrating beyond belief when you just wanted to look up the ratio of water to flour in pizza dough or eggs it was in your favorite bread recipe that you have to swim through an ocean of adds and read through how someone’s fake grandmother used to live in norther Italy and all this crap just to get to the actual content you where looking for.
There are a lot of things it can't do. Try making it sort a list in some order that isn't repeated repeatedly in the training set (e.g. not U.S. states in alphabetical or reverse alphabetical order)

You can even ask if it is able to do the task and it will tell you that it can, but it can't, any more than it can help you make a neutron bomb. The difference is it will tell you it can't make a neutron bomb.

LLMs shine at problems that involve linear relationships where you go mostly from one end to the other, like language translation. Give them something that involves complex relationships and they quickly fall apart.
I know nothing about any of this, but:

> Azimuth resolution is determined by the integration angle (the angle formed between your target and your satellite from start to end of the collection).

For any non-zero value (geostationary), wouldn't it be a quadrilateral rather than an (single) angle? Or is it, measured from Earth, the change in angle from 'straight up' to satellite? But then how would the satellite calculate/observe that?

Or is that what you're saying the resolution derived from that is, the ground distance that that same angle moves over in the time taken?
The goal isn't to eliminate piracy (which is obviously impossible) but to remove services that make piracy easy. They know that the average consumer is never going to download Torrents or even look beyond the first page on Google. So such sites are only targeted once they start to get mainstream.
> A circular coil of wire with N turns and a diameter D will generate a magnetic field of B = u0.I/D (u0 is defined to be 4.π.10^-7);

That u0 is meant to symbolize μ_0 (mu zero, with zero being subscript) the vacuum magnetic permeability [0], in case you were wondering where that magic constant came from.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_permeability
Everything wrong with the product management job market. And how to fix it
See also certain popular and state of the art models in AI, which are not available in the EU because of similar fears. Sometimes it's like the EU and its defenders think the EU is too big for businesses to walk away no matter how hostile the environment becomes. This is unrealistic.
will this be supported in ollama?
Objectbox is an alternative, if you are looking for one
I think some basic math knowledge would help more, if every company paid at the 95th percentile then it wouldn't be the 95th percentile, it would in fact be the average. But no, these distributions are not flat like that, there is a large spread and "by definition" of the 95th percentile only a few companies pay at that rate.
From this, and linked articles on New York Times, the suggestion is laxed food safety standards are endemic across the entire processed food industry.
My guess is that start up culture requires some level of sacrifice to make it, right? I think 24/7/365 is a bit much of course, but I would expect a level of extra work compared to some 9-5's...
I have an Eyemoo Epaper S1, and am very happy with it. It works great indoors with the front light set to a low brightness. The screen is noticeably more comfortable than a regular LCD or OLED. Combined with a tablet stand and either a Bluetooth speaker or wireless headphones, it's perfect for what it is. It filled the biggest gaps I had when only using a monochrome e-ink monitor. It allows me to comfortably view websites in color and watch videos at a normal refresh rate.

Unfortunately, most reviewers seem to have completely missed the point of the device. If you want high contrast and color accuracy, use an OLED. If you want to read outside in the sun, use e-ink.

https://eyemootech.com/
Out of curiosity, what were you doing in Amersfoort? I've not seen it mentioned much (my grand parents are from there)
The closest Gameboy to a transflective display was the original Gameboy Advance SP, but that was a front-lit reflective display.
I have never heard of Pave before, but this just sounds like yet another copy of Equifax's "The Work Number" [1]. Basically, HR at many companies gives your salary and employment history data to Equifax, who then sells access to the information to certain parties with supposed need to access it, including potential and current employers and creditors. This report is likely one of the most invasive consumer files out there for many people.

I cannot comment on the legality of this kind of data sharing, but as I and others have pointed out, it has existed for a while. I do agree that it is concerning. You can freeze your Equifax The Work Number report at least, just like other credit reports.

[1] https://theworknumber.com/
I think it's feasible for someone to do this, and quite possibly the software you described, because these things are so standardized. There's a given spacing for studs of a given size, etc.

I've thought about this for decks, because they are so often so poorly done, yet the design space is almost entirely constrained by code that essentially boils down to looking things up in a table.
Work at a normal company, not some preposterous place full of nutjobs. I negotiated and work 4 days a week.
Water flows in pipes, valves, etc. concepts transfer to a lot of basic electrical circuits and concepts. E.g. voltage is analogous to pressure. Current is analogous to the volume of water flowing. Bigger pipe (wire) can carry more current. Valves are like switches or resistors. It works to de-mystify concepts for kids who have no concept of what electricity is but can think about water flowing in a pipe.
You are making a very different claim here. The parent comment says:

>> The NY Times is pro-union and anti-big-tech [...]

That is the claim. These are the reasons it sues, and my notes on each:

* journalists are unionized and tech platforms disintermediate unions

Thats a broad generalization based on the authors opinion and not necessarily true. The attitude was not reflective of my interactions with journalists either. I would dispute this from personal experience. We can agree/disagree forever, I'm just giving my IRL experience.

* workers that produce articles and create the newsroom culture have a conflict of interest

It could be said that any journalist who covers any subject has a conflict of interest by covering that subject. Thats a bit weak.

* tech threatens the ad revenue of traditional news media.

Yeah. Rising costs of paper also threaten traditional news media. The NYT is profitable and not reliant on ad revenue streams for survival. They have a health revenue stream in number of other areas. In addition, for better or for worse, most journalists don't actually know/care that much about ad revenue given the tradition divides between business and editorial sides (I see that at many media orgs I have worked for - its not just the NYT)

So.. that was what I was talking about ("workers", not a "top-down directive").

In regards to your point: Thats a new and different claim so hard for me to speak to that.

I would note that the claim came from Matthew Yglesias. He since deleted the tweet. I would note that he never worked at the NYT as far as I can tell.

I don't know much of Kelsey Piper, but she "heard it from NYT reporters at the time" so not quite first-hand account either. Her tweet is not a "leak" (thats very different) and I see nothing to prove or substantiate it - just she "heard" it.

I'll keep an open mind but I'm skeptical.
They will if there are sufficient users that communicate only within the app - it's basic Embrace Extend Extinguish. Introduce new features that don't work as well on other Matrix apps, "encourage" users to convince others to switch to this app (Apple has proven that all it takes sometimes is a different colour!), and relegate the Matrix connection to a low priority non-default option over time.
The law [1] didn't make anything newly illegal or legal for the telecoms, it gave the AG the ability to short-circuit the suits by proving to the judge that they (the telecoms) were just complying with the law, without having the details aired out publicly.

[1] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr6304/text -- Title II
> Of course, if Max had been made using actual CGI he would have ended up as a creaky old relic, rather like the “Money for Nothing” video which came out the year after his debut. Instead, Jankel, Morton and Frewer came up with a genuinely iconic creation that has aged surprisingly well.

Ouch! Just last night, I couldn't sleep and wound up watching a deep dive on youtube regarding the video, one of the original animators even commented on the thread (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJj25PBIhg)… calling "Money for Nothing" creaky and old is like criticizing 8 bit pixel art for being blocky. Yeesh.
I think it is perceived as a reasonable profit vs an unreasonable profit.
Let's not forget that behind all this was actor -- including the improv and adlibs -- Matt Frewer.
A plain

mobi.whois.arpa. CNAME whois.nic.mobi

could've already solved the issue. But getting everyone to agree and adopt something like that is hard.

Although as fanf2 points out below, it seems you could also just start with the IANA whois server. Querying https://www.iana.org/whois for `mobi` will return `whois: whois.nic.mobi` as part of the answer.
I have one of the reflective LCD monitors previously discussed on HN. I think many people are underestimating how low the contrast is for RLCD as a computer/tablet display. In sunlight, it works well. After sundown though, you need to provide rather bright illumination to maintain that contrast and that's probably going to interfere with sleep. The angle of incidence
for the illumination matters as well. The farther off the perpendicular, the less light is reflected so that external side lighting like a LED bar pretty much doesn't work at all. It's not a drop-in replacement for a conventional monitor unless you only plan to work during daylight hours or in very well illuminated room or are willing to accept some workarounds after dark.
A very nice extension, but mobile Safari is a pig and somehow it fails to close the popup on roughly half of the sites I visit. :-(
I've worked both and, anecdotally, I didn't notice a real difference in efficiency. Public sector was plodding and methodical; private sector was faster but thrashed around wasting energy on the latest Top Priority project. Lots more tech debt in the private sector too. Speed isn't always efficient.
This looks like some kind of variant of Bell's Theorem. I've not seen it before, but it reminds me of the GHZ inequality [0]

[[EDIT - actually I take that back. The GHZ inequality refers to three systems whereas your link refers to three measurement choices]].

I don't think your link gives a derivation of the quantum correlations beyond "Quantum physics says that half the time they should get a match".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem#GHZ%E2%80%93M...
Startup cured deli meats sounds like a recipe for distributed delivery of salmonella.
Honestly, I think it does still matter. The basis for the RealPage lawsuit seems to be that people inside and outside the company glibly considered it price-fixing, and said it out loud to each other. The didn't really seem to make the case that it was "algorithmic price-fixing" (Disclaimer: not a lawyer). You can only argue in court about existing laws, so until algorithmic price-fixing is written in the law books (or settled case law) you're gonna have a tough time bringing that up to a judge.
One based on memory-safe platform/language (think java). Distribution: byte codes, which are get compiled for the actual platform.

Encryption by default. Full separation of applications / processes. Each application sees the permitted sub-space of the file system. No more system-wide and easily corruptible registries or files.

No drive-by installation. No application can get more than permitted.
Be more precise in your thinking. This is not about bomb threats, this is about punishing people that provide a line of communication.

It is not a new concept that defendants of freedom of speech often have to protect scoundrels too. The argument doesn't change, it always has the same pattern and principle. And yes, it is advisable to err on the side of freedom, there is enough literature here to expand on that point.

Additionally the agencies that would demand these information are prone to break the law itself. So this isn't even a discussion about doing something just or not. This is purely a discussion about how much power you want the executive to have. Or in case of Germany, the often misdirected and overworked judicative branch.
Startup Mortality Rates
I was pleasantly shocked to find a 7-11 in an airport that charged their normal price for coffee.
As far as I understand that’s illegal.
The MITx version of MIT's 6.002, "Circuits and Electronics", is excellent. Its on MIT's OpenCourseWare [1], and on EdX where a session is starting today [2]. The EdX is divided into three parts, and that is part 1. Here are parts 2 [3] and 3 [4].

Caveat: when I took it at EdX the textbook was available online for free during the course, and it is an excellent textbook that I found very useful. That was back when all the MOOC platforms weren't too worried about monetization.

Now the textbook is only free online for people enrolled in the "verified certificate track" of the course, which is $189. The book is $64.97 for the paperback or DRM-free PDF [5]. I'm not sure how well the course works without the book.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-s...

[2] https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-o...

[3] https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-o...

[4] https://www.edx.org/learn/electronics/massachusetts-institut...

[5] https://shop.elsevier.com/books/foundations-of-analog-and-di...