skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a CPA that worked in Big 4 accounting before quitting and switching into software engineering. To get my CPA, I had to obtain a master’s degree, sit for and pass all four sections of the CPA exam, and then work for roughly a year under a licensed CPA. The last requirement was easiest to fulfill at a Big 4.

What I got for all of those credentials coming out of school was a starting salary of 55,000 in California and a whole lot of stress. Busy season was 80+ hour work weeks and included working on the weekends. I tried pushing back about working on Sundays, but I was the only one on the team who didn’t work.

Once busy season was over, I was sold on the idea that the Summer would be easy, but that wasn’t the case. The partners took on more clients to generate more revenue for themselves, and I continued working 40+ hours during the Summer despite being told I wouldn’t.

Worse, we couldn’t get newer members to join out of college and started outsourcing all of our audit work to the Philippines and India. The work from the Philippines was somewhat passable, and the work from India was unusable. So I had to do all this coordinating across time zones and a never ending amount of corrections to make the work meet the quality expected by a US-based audit firm. It wasn’t fun in the slightest.

You can never have a perfect audit because there’s always more work that you can do. The system pushes you to fill every waking hour that it can get from you with work. It’s mostly meaningless busy-work that shouldn’t be ans stressful as it is. All of that for 55,000 with a graduate degree. Worse, the firm achieved record profits in 2020 yet froze salaries for those being promoted to senior (supposed to be a jump to about 100,000).

I really miss the ease of interviews from having a CPA and the protections afforded by a body overseeing the industry. It was a lot better than the system we have as software engineers. But the sheer amount of work and stress was truly not worth the pay.
I love vale. I’ve been using it for years. I branched rules from someone trying to emulate the economist style guide and kept tweaking.

I like this approach so much better than leaning on AI because it’s more my “voice”.

https://github.com/loughnane/style
Some background from Freakonomics a few months ago:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-23andme-going-under-...
I don't know if it's actually easier to read in a sentence compared to the standard of Frutiger and Frutiger-likes. That's what you'll likely see on your medicine packaging and train- and road signs. It does try to be unambiguous by differentiating glyphs, which can be helpful with some standalone words.
Why do you think Linux distros adopted systemd, if not because they thought it was a good choice for themselves and their users?
Comparing the median wealth between the whole US versus just the richest EU countries is not that great TBH when you consider the US has the same rich states vs poor states discrepancies that the EU has internally which drags medians down.

You can either compare the whole US vs EU medians which contain the wealthy states and the poor states of both, or if you only want to compare the richest European states like Belgium, Denmark, Norway, etc then you can also only use the richest US states for comparison like California, Texas, New York, Washington, etc and then you'll find those in the US being far richer than the richest EU countries.

Average Germans don't have much wealth since a lot of the population rents instead of owning their own homes so a lot of their wage growth just gets captured by the landlord class. You'll own nothing and be happy.
> and marginal costs either fall or remain constant

Not true. If your factory can make N widgets per year, and you want to make N+1 widgets, the marginal cost of the N+1th widget is vastly greater than the Nth widget.
It absolutely isn’t rare.
Capacity planning for more credible OKRs
How to Align Open Source and Enterprise Sales
The alphabet T is pronounced "teh" in French. So insofar as the French company is concerned, T-fal sounds close enough to Tefal.
And ironically more chaos/anomie, we can't even trust/agree on what we're upset about.
yeah. I would be the old win3.x/2.x code probably just hung out on the ps2/serial bus interrupt waiting for junk to show up. Then sending a messages along when it happened. That 'behavior' would have to stick around for MS to hit its backwards compatibility goals. Either sampling or event spamming with a debounce buffer.
Cool, factories get invested in, the c levels get paid $500k/year and the workers get $17.50/hr. Come to the Midwest and see it.
This is just wrong. You can buy junk in China and you can buy very quality products in China

Even if true, irrelevant, because for the rest of the wotld, my statements stand true.

Put another way, let's say I put all Made in China products I can buy in Canada, into a room. Millions of them, surely.

Now I am to pick a product at random. Will it be junk? Yes. Out of those millions and millions of products, maybe 10 or 20 wouldn't be junk.

Everyone knows this, because it's true. It doesn't matter why, for what reason, all that matters is that it's true.
'Philosopher'
> I can think of more than a few industry segments (aerospace, biotech, etc.) that likely wouldn’t exist or be nearly as lucrative as they currently are without the extensive government intervention that helped build them.

Likely, yes, but even if they are, it’s impossible to say whether that’s a net win for society. Possibly, if the government hadn’t subsidized them, but instead had had lower taxation, other industry segments would have blossomed, and gotten better benefits for society.

As an example, US government support for the Internet may have led to larger automation, making labor relatively more expensive, and because of that decreasing the size of the middle class. Opinions will differ on whether that’s a net positive.
IBM scores $45M zinger from Zynga in patent wringer
The primary reason females have to wear bras in professional environments is because men sexualize them. I find them horrifically uncomfortable.

I was using hyperbole as a rhetorical device to point out some of the absurdities of professional dress codes - I would have thought that was evident from context. Imagine a man who worked in a building that doesn't allow shorts even though it lacks A/C; he might make a comment along the lines of 'god forbid the customers know we have legs.' Or men who are in professions where they have to wear full suits in the summer.

I talked about it because my femaleness is directly relevant to why I feel uncomfortable in professional clothes since the biggest reason is bras, which men don't wear.
Of course, if it's streamlined to be 600x faster, it's just going to be done 600x more often.
I was travelling alone for business one time and the hotel I stayed at gave you access to the full gym next door. I went over just when a spin class was starting. I've never really done it before and thought I'd give it try. It was pretty good but after the class everyone just kind of hung out and introduced themselves. They ended up inviting me out for dinner (which they regularly do together after this class). I went and had a great time. They were just regular people who all just happen to go to this gym and ended up hanging out socially. This is a good thing.
These declarations sound so stupid to me. What's the point of having your brand on a product, if you're going to claim you have nothing to do with it? What is the point of the concept of a brand even?
Those places didn't become "centers of international power" by being equatable.
The biggest problem there is that that laptop is pretty darn efficient. And multiple GPUs and other servers running 100% to run that query for you are not quite as efficient. It does so much more math to get the LLM to do anything useful, the scale is really staggering compared to registering your keystrokes and updating the screen, even if that all happens in a bloated Javascript code base. You can run that laptop, which is not using more than 40 watts in spikes when just typing in a text editor for a long time compared to the full inference and processing load of that LLM. And that ignores the cost of training and getting the training data amortized over all queries.
Back in the days I've used to write libraries, generic algorithms and functions targeting ActionScript 3 (Flash) in HaXe to be able to quickly unit test them, but use them in the actual Flash projects. To unit test AS3/Flash code directly was a pain. HaXe speed up the dev workflow tremendously. Having very good memories. Now I just use modern JavaScript and TypeScript directly. But HaXe has a warm place in my heart and I am glad it still exists.
That seems to get a bit philosophical. Are you not gonna use your laptop ~8 hours a day thanks to generative AI? If you still do, that part is constant.

Are you gonna get less done in those 8 hours? Probably. Is it good for the environment to get more done in less time? Can't really answer that one generically. We humans do a lot of stuff simply because we can.

If unemployment goes up 20% from generative AI (just a made up number for narrative purposes), are those 20% not gonna sit in front of a screen all day? Are they perhaps even going to play games that max out their machines instead?

Of course another way to see all this is to argue that we need 20% less humans now, so we save any environmental costs those people induce. Seems a bit gruesome to me.
Giving me a "Not Found" error
Bro I fuckin live in it. I don't care what stats you have, people in the Midwest are struggling to afford groceries and housing. Come visit.
Legislation by the EU is why the popups are there. It really is that simple.
Up and to the right! lol
You said what I wanted to say 600x more efficiently :D
Dead link. Replace by https://web.archive.org/web/20240913230211/https://www.os2mu...
The initiative is European, not American. They will leave Europe for sure.
In America, there's no threat of rising taxes for the rich, they control things too well.
I’m debating between barista and store sales rep with att
So you can double your commute‘s environmental impact by using llama 1000x per day?

That sounds pretty bad still, no?
The problem is the slippery slope as things get (re)defined.

Terrorism used to mean people who planted bombs or caused mass murder to terrorize a population, today it means something very different. Racism used to mean something very specific, now it can be hurled at someone wanting immigration rules. Hate used to mean something, now it means strong disagreement.

Spying used to be about monitoring external threats, now it means anyone any law enforcement thinks needs monitoring for whatever reason. It’s expanded so much that just about every suspect in anything was “on the radar” but because so many are on such radar, they don’t have the processing power to deal with them.

G.W. and Obama were happy to redefine what torture was. Neither got in trouble and are happy to still work behind the scenes moving political machinery.
I'm willing to grant some leeway on a shortsqueeze.

If one is willing to grant that the stock "price" for a liquid listing, is the price for a stock at any given time, then you could argue the markets are "wrong" insofar that the price quoted in the open market, is absolutely not the correct price - regardless of the excuse of a short squeeze.
I doubt the company exists anymore or that there's anyone left in hungary who can be held responsible. Here's what i imagine took place:

step one: mossad sets up some sham manufacturing facility in Hungary or buys an existing one.

Step 2: reach out to gold apollo and make a deal to produce their pagers under license. Money no object they probably offered them very good terms. Gold apollo is so pleased by the money being offered they fail to investigate the company properly.
Step 3: mossad agents start production introducing lethal batteries into the design,
produce several thousand units then
vanish leaving apollo executives bewildered but they have the money already so they don't ask too many questions.

Step 4: sell all the pagers
at a great price to some hezbolla arms dealer, go home, buy some popcorn and turn on the tv.

In short everyone involved have probably disappeared months ago.

Also a really clever part is that they could have turned a profit on the sale meaning the operation was at least partly subsidised by hezbolla themselves.
> It is, in a way, the ultimate conservative comeback to "government is just another name for things we choose to do together" - well, so are corporations.

Counter-comeback:

But in that case, shouldn't the limitations on what the collective can do to the individual -- limitations that are not just conservative talking points, but enshrined in your constitution -- also go for corporations, as well as for government?
russian MOD people are making bank right now.
The business model of every industry I look into, from electrician and carpenter shops to investment banking and management consulting, seems to run on the backs of an army of new hires who are worked to death by a small number of well paid senior people who lead very comfortable lives.
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> US manufacturing has pretty much been constantly

Middle class manufacturing jobs have fallen off a cliff and completely destroyed huge swaths of our country. Take a tour around Bridgeport, CT sometime as a great example. The northeast is littered with towns like this. These executives and their buddies in Congress mortgaged our middle class for profits by sending all our industry to Asia.
"We" aren't stretching any anology. Your statement was ridiculous from the start. Pat yourself on the back for saving a couple hours at work, and leave it at that.
"For profit" and "healthcare" are just two things that shouldn't mix, but here we are. Everything in capitalism has a profit motive. Everything in life does not.
I can't speak to the rest of the world, but the reasons behind crime and poverty in DC are different than the reasons behind crime and poverty in NY.

DC crime is abnormally high because DC lacks the ability to elect or appoint its own prosecutors. DC has a US Attorney who is seen as disconnected from the interests of its citizens and fails to prosecute people often. Additionally, poverty is high in DC because of nimbyism, which has prevented the construction of large, skyscraper apartment buildings for the last 100 years. In the outlying suburbs, where the real wealth of DC is, nimbyism has kept housing prices extremely high with single family zoning.

In New York, the lack of housing supply is caused by a byzantine zoning board and rent control lowering the incentive to build new residential buildings. I can't speak to crime there, but they have their own prosecutors.

San Francisco is like a mix of the two. For years their incompetent prosecutors simply refused to prosecute people for ideological reasons, and nimbyism has taken a massive toll on affordability there. Probably more than any city in America
There is some research which suggests that the human brain “learns” to read an unfamiliar font reasonably fluently after about 30 minutes of use, and that recognition continues to improve with continued use. The well-known saying “we read best what we read most” suggests that a font itself contributes only partly towards readability - your personal habits and experience are also significant.
A Beginner's Guide to the OpenTelemetry Collector
Better photos on his website: http://www.johnperaltafineart.com/
A quick search gave me the following benchmark result, Haxe compiles to js faster than Dart and outputs a smaller js bundle (https://github.com/damoebius/HaxeBench?tab=readme-ov-file#re...)
Just because AI is new, it doesn't mean it's less valuable than the older things using up resources. AI is far more valuable than, say, television.

If the goal is to reduce overall usage, what to stop should be determined by value, not chronologically/LIFO.
You’re confusing your terrorist groups.
These days CRDTs get all the hype, but OT remains a solid choice in a lot of cases. :)
DrawingSpinUp: 3D Animation from Single Character Drawings
Wealth =/= income, if you bothered to read the website.
I created https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/ in 2023 as a place to gather references to unpolluted datasets. I'll add wordfreq. Please submit stuff to the Tumblr.
I've seen Etherpad used in remote meetings for secretary purposes.

But sure, it could be used together to whip up prototype code and discuss about it at the same time, even without needing the all of an IDE.
Bluetooth does work. See the hardware support matrix here: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M1-Series-Feature-Su...
Cool, this is a good example of DC uniqueness. The knock-on zoning issues in NYC from footprint size, and those in DC from total height are pretty interesting.
Building a compile-time SIMD optimized smoothing filter
Stuffing explosives into civilian appliances is the definition of indiscriminate.

If doing this isn't already banned by the Geneva Conventions, it is only because it wasn't practical to do. But then again, very little that has happened in this region during the last 80 years has been following any international law.
The point was it’s getting harder and harder to do that as things get locked down or go behind a massive paywall to either profit off of or avoid being used in generative AI. The places where previous versions got data is impossible to gather from anymore so the dataset you would collect would be completely different, which (might) cause weird skewing.
Yes, spot on.

Low cost of living leading to lower salary is one thing, but the cake is being able to exploit and overwork.

In India, almost everyone overworks. No exceptions. Even in most government positions. It is just what people are willing to go through.

No, it’s not "culture". Everyone hates it, but don't want to go hungry.

Another thing is, MNCs, both in tech and non-tech fields at least offers you a working space with AC and decoration. That's a big draw for many, if not most. As India is developing, many people are first generation white-collar job holders. They, and their parents are just happy that they don't have to do manual labor in the sun, or be subject to poor treatment by bosses in more traditional sectors. Such people will be unhappy, sad, and still accept the toil and pressure and overwork.
> The only thing is that Tauri apps seem to be quite easy for the developer to botch and end up with performance problems. One of the worst performing apps I ever used in my life was a Tauri app.

I'd say that's generally true with web-based UIs. It's possible to create web UIs that perform fantastically. But you have to know the platform and be disciplined, and it's easy to mess it up.
All this because Donald Trump claims (contrary to nearly all economists) that forcing companies to manufacture products on US soil is beneficial in some way that he (Trump) feels confident will make America great again. It is so embarrassing that these outdated ideas are entertained for even a second by HN readers.
1 Killed, Several Injured After Shooting Outside Online Retailer Moscow Office
Funnily enough, the network configuration problem is not due to systemd -- which has nothing to do with it -- but with Canonical being Canonical. Someone here has a new toy (netplan), so why not force it on users, with some excuse.

For the same reason, why Canonical forces netplan (consistency between desktop, using NetworkManager and server, using systemd-network), Redhat standardized on NetworkManager instead.
Possibly the pagers had to have a popular brand to "work as designed", and this brand was up for sale, but declares it won't admit this to the real customers.
> unfortunately the impression I get from never seeing anyone talk about OpenRC, Shepherd, Upstart, et cetera; is that either nobody uses them

People do use them. Multiple distros either default to one of those, or support it: Alpine, Devuan, MX Linux, Slackware, Void, Guix, Gentoo and others.

> or they don't add anything worth noting over SysVinit.

Not looked at this myself, but do they mostly not add something - dependencies, easier config or something?
I feel like it’s reasonable to expect a brand to be aware if some organization, even Mossad, placed explosives in 5000 of their items.

It means this company is incompetent and should not be trusted. It’s one thing to have malware injected into software (pretty bad) and another to have physical explosives put into your product.
AppleTV, HomePod, a new display. Could be anything. There could also be government or corporate contracts requiring the mass production of a slightly older chip for something.
Productive labour is mostly menial and of little pay.

Unproductive labour has barriers to entry guided by traits the upper class select for, and pays the amount equal to the theft of the labour produced by the productive laborers.

Nothing is more satisfying than seeing an unproductive laborer eat humble pride and start contributing to society through work.
The thing is that’s not really true. Fibonacci is one you’ve heard of, but there are plenty of other great medieval European mathematicians, such as Oresme, de Nemore, Wallingford, and Bradwardine.

Oddly, there does seem to be something of a long running fad among popular historians to downplay the achievements of the middle ages. None of that of course is to say that the collapse of the empire in the west wasn’t devastating, especially in the early middle ages.
At least the GNU version of wc [0] uses AVX2 for line counting, if available. Though it falls back to a simple character-by-character loop if you ask for a character count [not to be confused with a byte count!] or a word count.

[0] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/wc_...
I wonder if anyone will fork the project. Apart from anything else, the data may still be useful given that we know it is polluted. In fact, it could act as a means of judging the impact of LLMs via that very pollution.
Ads. It was ruined by advertising.
Why would you say that? Many everyday products are produced under license or franchise with the brand having minimal involvement in the entire process. Even if apollo had done qc in the factory it would be easy to trick them.
Have you tried any alternative shells? Bash and Zsh might be moving slowly but the non-POSIX shells are light years ahead of even Zsh.
But you are already on their OS, so they would always be able to do that. They make the kernel, the hardware and it's firmware, so it's a moot point and needless paranoia. Might as well use the API that gives a better user experience.
Shorter Veblen: the difference between industry and business is the “conscientious withdrawal of efficiency”* practised by the latter?

* these days we shorten this phrase to "enshittification"

Lagniappe: https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/the-bo...
Possibly. The US also produced groups like "rad trad" Catholics.
And follow up with Pepsi in a Q&A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm6e7RmPB4Y