skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Often that person's leadership wasn't the problem, but even when it was, that doesn't necessarily mean that the company will be better-off without them

How convenient (for them)! When the company is doing well, they get millions in bonuses because their irreplaceable leadership skills - which make them 2000x more valuable than the least paid worker - were instrumental to the organization's success.

When the chips are down, it wasn't their fault per se, and the company still would be allegedly worse off without them, so laying-off waves of those who don't have decision-making power is the correct remedy, until the good times roll again, and senior leadership is ready to claim responsibility.

It must be nice to claim "macro-economic headwinds" as justification for poor performance and poor planning, but still get paid bonuses for the never-mentioned "macro-economic tailwinds"
Yes, because, as I explained above, I checked Wikipedia, and that figure turns out to be correct to within at worst a factor of two. Power units such as megawatts measure the rate at which energy is produced, consumed, or otherwise converted, which is to say, the amount of energy used per unit of time. For example, per year. A watt is about 31.6 megajoules per year.

So there's nothing actually wrong with the reporter's statement, even though it would be more precise to say that the average power generated was thought to be around 500 megawatts.
Adult and childhood administrative records correlate with hostility on Twitter
It's not expensive in all developed countries though... In the US, we pay $3/W for residential installation, but in Australia it's literally 1/10th the cost at $0.3/W.

The $3/W is a choice that we made in our political system, by 1) keeping highly fractured and inconsistent local permitting processes rather than a more efficient higher-level rule making, 2) letting utilities exercise control over the process such that they can minimize installations (why isn't your electricity bill going down even though electricity generation is getting cheaper with the new technology? Same reason: regulatory capture of your Public Utilities Commission).
While GDP is growing, there has been a long-term decline in wages as % of GDP: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=2Xa

The median worker's day-to-day perceived quality of life may be more aligned with this downward trend.

I'm not an economist, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
I tried to do brick sorting (because we have great detection and classification models at https://brickit.app/)

It turned out to be much more complex than I expected.

The biggest issue was grabbing. Typical approach for this type of task is to use vacuum suction actuator, but it does not work for Lego parts, because they have stubs and prevent suction from working.

Also there are issues of part separation.

We abandoned this idea, but I still hope that we can return and achieve something working some day.
At some point, adding software support for these things is just enabling bad ideas. If there wasn't support for Australia/Lord_Howe they might be annoyed into picking a simpler time zone
This. 100%.
This guy Wu Tangs
> nuclear proponents (not engineers or workers, just people into the politics) that said that nuclear was the "only" way to combat climate change

You’re seeing the same nonsense with armchair solar + battery advocates today. The mistake is in assuming marginal advantages persist across scale, i.e. in ignoring the law of diminishing returns.

If we could have deployed nuclear immediately and infinitely when those folks were talking, they would have been right. We could t. If we could solar and batteries immediately and infinitely (without increasing prices), going all in on it would be right. We can’t. Most markets optimise heterogenously because that’s what makes sense.
Oh yes, for sure!

You can build a columnar db, graph db, document db. Absolutely, with ease! Maybe I'll write a tutorial on how to get started :D
The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg
Is there a free (ad supported?) online tool without login that reads text that you paste into it?

I often would like to listen to a blog post instead of reading it, but haven't found an easy, quick solution yet.

I tried piping text through OpenAI's tts-1-hd, model and it is the first one I ever found that is human like enough for me to like listening to it. So I could write a tool for my own usecase that pipes the text to tts-1-hd and plays the audio.
But maybe there is already something with a public web interface out there?
>Do you think it is possible to make people even stupider? At scale?

Not intrinsically, but certainly the stupid under the right circumstances can be incited to commit acts that they will normally not think of, and yes it can be done at scale, govts, dictators, rulers, all do it.
EU stands for Extended Universe here, probably. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_universe
And it leads directly into the US being richer than all but tiny petro-states and growing faster than all of its peers. Fair enough if that's not what you want but there are tradeoffs.
"some improvements" is one of the best understatements.

It certainly was more than cosmetic, more like a complete makeover after incarceration in a health and wellness camp for a year
What happens if there isn't enough money left to fund the legally-required severance? Do the taxpayers pick up the cost?
Haha, same here! I ended up diving into a kiwi fruit rabbit hole. Apparently, the kiwi fruit was originally called the Chinese gooseberry but was rebranded by New Zealand fruit breeders as part of a marketing strategy. It’s funny looking at this picture:

https://i.etsystatic.com/9032484/r/il/79babb/1458733776/il_f...
Yeah, that makes sense. If I wasn't a PC user, I'd probably be utilizing iCloud as well.
I agree but let's face it, they will never let Bernie Sanders in.
XR to 13, as I don't want the latest and didn't want to loose my jailbreak.

Infuriated by the 13.

The 3.5mm audio thunder bolt adapters disconnect more often than usual. All I need to do is tap the adapter and it disconnects.

And that Apple has now stopped selling them is even more infuriating, it's not a faulty adapter.
The hard part is not doing it, it's getting people to agree. I highly doubt people will agree to do that, because a large portion of people don't agree with "our village is now Earth".
> to actually solve the problem? Partisanship is an anti-pattern

Sure. The point is there are people incentivised to drive partisanship. Because people respond to it. It goes back to Plato’s criticism of Athenian democracy: demagoguery works.
> That would be truthfulness to the training material, I guess. If you train on Reddit posts, it’s questionable how true the output really is.

Maybe it learns to see when something is true, even if you don't feed it true statements all the time (?)
People tend to align their thoughts with what pays the mortgage.

Texas has a dominant ruling structure dominated by religious fanatics and resource extraction for now. Alot of the extremist nonsense is driven by the sense that demographics will drive power shifts, so cashing in is key. At some point, the “freedom” argument will flip — what is more in alignment with the cowboy myth than self-reliance where your rooftop or land provides?
As a former engineering manager this is obvious, in my opinion. Companies don't really like laying people off and PIPs are long and require work. If someone is underperforming, hiring a new person is easier. Alternatively, instead of retraining someone, hiring a new person is easier, and you just keep the old guys around doing whatever. Plus, once in a while they might actually offer something (they typically are very knowledgeable about past decisions)

Given how much money there is in these industries this strategy works for a long time.

The alternative is a harsher work environment that is common in other fields. Despite the popular belief on this forum, tech work has some of the most genteel management of all industries.
MacBook Pro Now Features Up to 24 Hours Battery Life–Longest Ever in a Mac
> A translated book can be better than the original.

Can you give some examples?

> But you often need mastery of the language you translate to.

Professional written translation is virtually always done into your native language, not into a language you've learned later. So that mastery should be taken for granted; it's a prerequisite.
Even the cost of battery storage is getting ridiculously cheap, too. Small off-grid installations, even in the US, can be had for $200/kWh capacity, with lifetimes > 3000 cycles. So lets say <$0.07/kWh for storing it. That's about the average cost of transmission & distribution for a kWh across the US.
As sung by Frank Hayes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMS6G83NqFQ
> It really is quite flexible.

Other than considering current legally defined timezones as "legacy" definitions and then removing them for no reason other than to follow European fashion.

So, flexible, but managed by inflexible university types.
Alleged North Korean Lazarus tried to hack me and target devs
>My gripe with "living wage" is the term (to me) is too subjective.

Yes, what is considered "livable" varies wildly from person to person.
Sorry for moving the goal post... it is just that this example in the ad illustrates path to idiocracy.
> I'm always a bit confused by profitable companies with (presumably) large reserves laying off lots of people.

According to their financial statement, Dropbox has more liabilities than assets. So yes, they have a large cash reserve, but with an even larger debt offsetting it its hard to argue they are in a good overall financial position.
Refusals (LLM Leaderboard)
I mean you can easily create your own fully meshed P2P group video chat in your browser just using a little bit of JS that would support everyone running 4k, but it will fail the moment you get more than 3-8 people as each persons video stream is eating 25mbps for every side of a peer connection (or 2x per edge in the graph.)

A huge part of group video chat is still "hacks" like downsampling non-speaking participants so the bandwidth doesn't kill the connection.

As we get fatter pipes and faster GPUs streaming will become better.

edit: I mean... I could see a future where realtime video feeds never get super high resolution and everything effectively becomes a relatively seemless AI recreation where only facial movement data is transmitted similar to how game engines work now.
I run adguard on a raspberry pi - setup similar to pi-hole. It works well but does not block YouTube ads. Is there a setting I am missing to enable this?
16 weeks + 1 week / year severance works out to 3-5 months.

Looks like enough time to prepare, take a vacation, ect.
Since intermittent solar by itself is 10% the cost of alternatives, a 3-5X increase in price for solar+storage is still a fabulous deal.
Yes, as soon as you have a regular paycheck you should start building an emergency fund. This should be taught to everyone in high school (or earlier) but we don't do it, among many other "life skills" that we do not teach because they aren't on the state standardized tests.
In tech sure, but in the market, many companies simply return dividends. Lots of mining stocks, retailers, commodity producers, etc don't experience exponential growth
It's news to people who know nothing about hardware.
Those interested in this kind of pedantry might also take care to note that it’s called “daylight saving time,” with no “s.”

It is a system of time for saving daylight.

It is not a sales event promising “savings.”

Frustrating to read an otherwise excellent and detailed article that makes this error throughout.
You can certainly work for a US company outside the US, however you will not get a US salary.
> Tim Cook steps out on and insults us all perennially with his "best iPhone yet" comment

I loved this sentence and the sentiment behind it. Nowadays whenever I get the urge to upgrade my old iPhone 13, I go and rewatch old recordings from 2021 of Tim Cook gushing about how the phone I already have is such a huge leap forward for humanity and why everything that came before it is garbage.

Applying this to CEOs and layoffs, every time you join a new job and start to drink the company kool-aid about how you're part of this wonderful family, go and reread that CEO talking about how he took personal responsibility for throwing hundreds of his "family" out on the street right before the holidays.
To summarize:

The arithmetic number wasn't made up out of thin air. The unit (and arithmetic number) were wrong in the given context (energy).

I claim that the latter is a common tell of a lack of understanding.

You claim that I don't know what I'm talking about since the number wasn't made up.
It’s probably because of the jailbreak.
I think regretting Mac upgrades is a real thing, at least for me. I got a 32G Mac mini in January to run local LLMs. While it does so beautifully, there are now smaller LLMs that run fine on my very old 8G M1 MacBook Pro, and these newer smaller models do almost all of what I want for NLP tasks, data transformation, RAG, etc. I feel like I wasted my money.
I don't disagree, but sometimes there could be something else going on.
At the very very least, they should be explaining how Dropbox is suddenly a 20% smaller company, because either that means the market has contracted by 20%, or Dropbox has shit the bed as a competitive entity in said market.

Both options should directly imply that the CEO should earn less. Either you're running a smaller, simpler company, or you sucked at your job.

Eat the loss.
More discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41994640
Your argument mixes "easy" and "cheap". Storage can be "easy" and you have plenty of choice: batteries, pumped, thermal, chemical, name it. If you have a large enough east-west country (hint), you might also invest in transport infrastructure to move energy where it is required so you don't have to store as much. This is also "easy", maybe moreso than storage because we've been doing it for so long. As to whether these easy things are cost effective when compared to other solutions is a completely different issue.
I appreciate the insight in this comment! I see your problem, and I offer an answer (I daren't call it a solution): there is no surefire way to make an interface/abstraction withstand the test of time. It just doesn't happen, even across just a few paradigm shifts, at least not without arbitrary costs to performance, observability/debuggability, ease of use, and so on. The microkernel (in the spirit of Liedtke)/exokernel philosophy tells us to focus on providing minimal, orthogonal mechanisms that just barely allow implementing the "other stuff". But unless a monolithic system is being built for one purpose, "the other stuff" isn't meaningfully different from a microkernel; it has different "hardware" but must itself impose minimally on what is to be built above it. We build layers of components with rich interactions of meaningful abstractions, building a web of dependencies and capabilities. There is no accidental complexity here in this ideal model; to switch paradigms, one must discard exactly the set of components and layers that are incompatible with the new paradigm.

Consider Linux async mechanisms. They are provided by a monolithic kernel that dictates massive swathes of what worldview a program is developed in. When select was found lacking, it took time for epoll to arrive. Then io_uring took its sweet time. When the kernel is lacking, the kernel must change, and that is painful. Now consider a hypothetical microkernel/exokernel where a program just gets bare asynchronous notifications about hardware and from other programs. Async abstractions must be built on top, in services and libraries, to make programming feasible. Say the analogous epoll library is found lacking. Someone must uproot it and perhaps lower layers and build an io_uring library instead. I will not say this is always less pain that before, although it is decidedly not the same as changing a kernel. But perhaps it is less painful in most cases. I do not think it is ever more painful. This is the essential pain brought about by stability and change.
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/building-pinterests...

Here is a pretty nice article you could check out. Uses RocksDB but should be fairly similar to setup.

Cheers
Ditto... will probably upgrade when the battery is dead !
I'd adjust to that better than adjusting to Daylight savings time.
Also, this effectively eliminating other, well studied and dangerous, health issues definitely makes the risk worth it.

This is categorically solving addiction, obesity, and diabetes (t2 only I believe). I’m very happy to live in a time period where these meds exist.
Responding to a poster's history of posts rather than the post you are responding to seems problematic.
Probably because you're expecting it and looking at a demo page. Put these voices behind a real video or advertisement and I would imagine most people wouldn't be able to tell that it's AI generated at all.
Incidentally, the first code sample can work, you just need to use the new raw syntax, or addr_of_mut on older Rusts:

fn main() {
let mut x = 1;
unsafe {
let a = &raw mut x;
let b = &raw mut x;

*a = 2;
*b = 3;
}
}

The issue is that the way that the code was before, you'd be creating a temporary &mut T to a location where a pointer already exists. This new syntax gives you a way to create a *mut T without the intermediate &mut T.

That said, this doesn't mean that the pain is invalid; unsafe Rust is tricky. But at least in this case, the fix isn't too bad.
You know if you are a BMI outlier. It's not interesting to discuss outliers as they are rare by definition.

BMI is a fine metric for describing a population's general health when it comes to weight. The actual reason the metric exists.

There are exceedingly few folks with 10% body fat and a BMI of 30. They tend to be clustered around professional athlete or bodybuilder circles. Again, not interesting to discuss these things outside of niche circles. Those that are outliers know already, due to the work they put in to be such.

No one is walking around with a BMI of 30 and happening to accidentally be at a healthy weight due to low body fat percentage/high lean muscle mass and not knowing it.
There is no M3 Ultra.
For cooling (datacenters and other) you can chill water when the sun is out. And mostly passively cool the heated water when the sun is down if water is scarce. Plumbing and insulation for cooling reservoirs probably degrades a lot slower than batteries. I'm not sure about chiller plant wear and tear vs battery degradation
- FDA approval for use for weight loss. Previously this was off-label use

- adoption of GLPs into diabetes treatment guidelines
Meanwhile in Belgium, we have to spend (literal) billions on power cable projects so we can connect offshire windfarms to our grid.
1 of 200 https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2024/
You can just delete your data dude. No one is forcing you to keep it there. They’re generally not going to do something destructive because of unpaid bills. It’s nice of them
Building successful multi-tenant RAG applications
Interesting idea!
The load times are quite long, though. Maybe add a loading spinner at least?
The sun comes up every day. If it doesn’t we’ve got bigger problems.
While humanoid robots are neat, if not uncanny, I would love to see robots with forms optimized for their work. A large octopus with legs would be ideal for this sort of parts handling job.
Interesting. I would have thought that leak-free is part of the premise, since you can very well right C or C++ with a guarantee of no use after free at least, assuming you don't care about memory leaks.
> it feels like the year is born in the spring

Then shouldn't the start of the year be when the year is "born"? Or alternatively, the end of the year when the year "dies"? January 1 is neither.
if a locksmith can open your door, others can, too. in this rare event, i think brute force is an acceptable price to pay for the extra security.
Indeed. A model is only as good as its data. Propagandists have no difficulty grooming inputs. We have already seen high profile cases of this with machine learning.
The purpose of a corporation is to make money, not jobs.
Quality Means the Flexibility to Change
>As far as I know most of those cases were dismissed on various technicalities and not decided on their merits. Although I doubt they would have altered the outcome (my personal guess), I don’t think they were actually given the chance for most of them.

Have you read any of the court documents from those 60+ lawsuits, or did someone tell you that?

I did. So can you. As I said before: educate yourself. Or don't. It's no skin off my nose. But you do put yourself at a disadvantage when you don't know the facts.

Go and read the court documents. They're quite accessible, both online and in their use of language.

I expect that you'll find (despite judges not agreeing) some cases that you think might have merit. I also expect you'll notice that the vast majority are hogwash. With no evidence at all.

But I'm a lying liar, right? Probably a communist too? Okay, fine.

Don't believe a word I say. Go and read the court documents.

You asked how you could be sure about (the lack of) voter fraud. How can you be so sure about fully documented lawsuits you haven't even read for yourself?
Interesting Deep Learning Research Pattern [video]
The opposite works for heating as well: heating up sand during the day for use at night.
FaceTime has great quality. Unfortunately, as you age you start to hate the quality.
Solar where I live is very scammy. Salespeople who sell you the world and then your panels don't deliver, and the company is impossible to contact (or gone) [0]

Then there is the issue that there is no battery mandate, which to me is insane.

In sunny, warmer states we have an oversupply of energy during the day, and then when the sun sets we have a shortage as everybody comes home, and their AC needs to work harder, and people start cooking with electricity.

So basically when you put on panels without a battery you're making it harder for everybody. You're using the grid as a battery.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2024/08/14/1244330369/solar-rooftop-pane...
Go start a company already — you’re on YC forums
Early-in-career folks are more vulnerable. Even before major family/life costs start to play a role, it can be difficult to save enough for a safety net after moving to an apartment (even w/ roommates) from college & managing student debt, etc. I remember it took me a couple of years of stability to not feel at risk.
Depending on the location, there could be sources of geothermal energy, like Iceland. There are also various prototypical approaches at storing solar energy for the winter months, like molten salt (obviously a bit too spicy outside of industrial settings), or generating hydrogen and storing it in iron ore. The latter approach was recently pioneered by ETH Zürich.

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024/08/iro...
It's an interesting article. All sorts of behavior can trigger insecurity and fear. You might be well intentioned, but it comes down to how the other person interprets your presence. People can dislike you for being successful, being too open, talking about yourself too much, talking about yourself too little, etc. One person's confidence can be seen as cockiness or arrogance, which is unlikable.

I've had relationships/friendships where interactions would totally go outside my comfort zone. I don't reject or ghost those people of course. But jeez, what do you do in those situations? Sometimes there's a huge cultural, or value, mismatch. I'm definitely not the agreeable type. Are you going off script too much or am I too rigid?

Somebody in the blog's comments already said it: relationship building takes energy. Sometimes you don't have the energy. Sometimes you have the energy, but don't know how to channel it.