skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like nobody wants their new car or couch to get dinged or damaged until it eventually happens and you learn to just accept it.
Sounds like a best of both worlds scenario. The overconfident tech bros can get to work "disrupting" unions and re-learning the same lessons.
I doubt they will: the journalists involved are quite familiar with such organisations.
You are missing the implication in the equation that smaller projects/teams are more efficient.
>Yet you keep insisting that somehow at-will employment with immediate termination is somehow good.

I'm not sure how you got that impression. My original comment:

>Getting fired is disruptive to someone's finances that some notice/severance would be justified,
Second the vote for "The Greatest Night in Pop". An amazing documentary.
It's one of the reasons I love them. A ball of insane, esoteric, baffling, confusing cruft, layered in a century long onion, with connections to the very basics of telecommunications. At any moment, both the simplest interface and the most complex, both the beautiful speckled black void of the night sky, and the horrific gaping maw of a Lovecraftian beast.
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it says shapes on mine
And how is Europe doing in tech?
In my last role as a director of engineering at a startup, I found that a project `flake.nix` file (coupled with simply asking people to use https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer/ to install Nix) led to the fastest "new-hire-to-able-to-contribute" time of anything I've seen.

Unfortunately, after a few hires (hand-picked by me), this is what happened:

1) People didn't want to learn Nix, neither did they want to ask me how to make something work with Nix, neither did they tell me they didn't want to learn Nix. In essence, I told them to set the project up with it, which they'd do (and which would be successful, at least initially), but forgot that I also had to sell them on it. In one case, a developer spent all weekend (of HIS time) uninstalling Nix and making things work using the "usual crap" (as I would call it), all because of an issue I could have fixed in probably 5 minutes if he had just reached out to me (which he did not, to my chagrin). The first time I heard them comment their true feelings on it was when I pushed back regarding this because I would have gladly helped... I've mentioned this on various Slacks to get feedback and people have basically said "you either insist on it and say it's the only supported developer-environment-defining framework, or you will lose control over it" /shrug

2) Developers really like to have control over their own machines (but I failed to assume they'd also want this control over the project dependencies, since, after all, I was the one who decided to control mine with the flake.nix in the first place!)

3) At a startup, execution is everything and time is possibly too short (especially if you have kids) to learn new things that aren't simple, even if better... that unfortunately may include Nix.

4) Nix would also be perfect for deployments... except that there is no (to my knowledge) general-purpose, broadly-accepted way to deploy via Nix, except to convert it to a Docker image and deploy that, which (almost) defeats most of the purpose of Nix.

I still believe in Nix but actually trying to use it to "perfectly control" a team's project dependencies (which I will insist it does do, pretty much, better than anything else) has been a mixed bag. And I will still insist that for every 5 minutes spent wrestling with Nix trying to get it to do what you need it to do, you are saving at least an order of magnitude more time spent debugging non-deterministic dependency issues that (as it turns out) were only "accidentally" working in the first place.
Guy makes "dodgy e-bike" from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste
One of the things I love about working with rails is the incredible ecosystem reflecting the elegance, economics, and ambition that exist in Ruby itself.

Rails brings a certain intolerance to BS - boilerplate, verbosity and in general anything that gets into the way of flow.
Concordant Discord by Robert Zaehner is a book compiling a lecture series he gave at St. Andrews in the 1960's. I found it quite deep and a good view into some of the theological implications of different variants of mysticism, though it can be a bit dry, definitely not an airport-level treatment.
Yeah, I mean, is America willing to trade LA and Long Beach (where a significant % of goods enter the country) and Silicon Valley for Taiwan?

It would also be a world war at that point, so, I don't know that their plans would be restricted to US targets.

China knows that the cost would be devastating for them and the larger world economy as well, for the reasons you said. It would be at least a decade or two until the world economy recovered.

But China seems able and willing to play the long game in ways that the US (with our shorter election cycles) fundamentally cannot and if they are thinking strategically they know that this is one of their key advantages for this sort of conflict. I am not entirely sure that they wouldn't be willing to trade, say, 10-20 years of darkness (Cultural Revolution-style?) for 100 years of Chinese world supremacy atop a new world order.
> factors into the whole office/home debates that have been raging for 4 years

Can you expand on that?
Does anything need to remain? That is where my confusion lies.
Yeah, I mean, is America willing to trade LA and Long Beach (where a significant % of goods enter the country) and Silicon Valley for Taiwan?

It would also be a world war at that point, so, I don't know that their plans would be restricted to US targets.

China knows that the cost would be devastating for them and the larger world economy as well, for the reasons you said. It would be at least a decade or two until the world economy recovered.

But China seems able and willing to play the long game in ways that the US (with our shorter election cycles) fundamentally cannot and if they are thinking strategically they know that this is one of their key advantages for this sort of conflict. I am not entirely sure that they wouldn't be willing to trade, say, 10-20 years of darkness (Cultural Revolution-style?) for 100 years of Chinese world supremacy atop a new world order if (huge if) they thought it was achievable.

But they are also not dumb, and won't fight a war they can't win.
It's funny, in high school, we attended assemblies in the Quincy Jones Auditorium. Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee attended the same high school, which we all knew, but Quincy Jones just didn't have the same name recognition. Despite his name being right in our faces so frequently.

Over the decades since I graduated, I've taken some time to learn about the incredible influence he's had on the arts. Just recently, I learned that an actor I've watched in a few shows, Rashida Jones, is his daughter.

To briefly answer your question, his occupation was producer, arranger, composer and songwriter. Such folks often don't get name recognition without extensive self-promotion. You might be familiar with his work, without learning his name because he wasn't on the headline. But his work went deeper than that -- he was a community builder; that's work which is hard to measure the value of: to anybody that doesn't post here... who is Paul Graham?
Exactly, if anything this strike is timed to do the least damage to the general public relative to the amount of impact it has on the business. The election has already been decided, we're just waiting to tally the votes. Most people have already decided if they're going to vote and if so who for.

If they had striked last week or the week before they'd have been accused of election interference. Striking this week hurts the Times because they run the risk of losing traffic from people trying to see results, but it doesn't impact the results at all. It's the best possible time to strike this year.
Show HN: Make Animated Kamala/Trump Toons with AI Lip-Sync for Election Day Fun
We made an in browser animation tool that's simple but requires users to understand keyframe and timelines. Because there was a level of education as a barrier to the application we though it'd be fun to have a wizard create something of value that then is loaded into the animation tool as a starter project.

The wizard tool we created is at the link. You give a few sentances and we used a voice clone model to produce the text to speech audio which is then filtered into our lip-sync model and applied to a template scene that we have.

When you get dropped in to the animation tool - you're given 12 free seconds of processing time. If any of you end up with animation that goes beyond that, shoot me an email and I can load your account with more credits or if you want to purchase your credits use code DEBATE and it'll take 30% off right away.
> there were no metrics for "helped someone else out but didn't get credit for it"

Employees should be evaluated, by their peers, their managers, and their subordinates. Wherever possible, the evaluations should be qualitative rather than quantitative.

Trying to automate performance evaluations and boil your employees' contributions down to numbers in a report is both idiotic and inhuman.

Everyone knows the terrible team members, and everyone knows the outstanding team members. If you need information to inform layoffs, promotions, or raises, the best way to get the information is to just ask.
>"The vast majority of people" would use words without thinking they have etymology and meaning?

That mostly seems to be true whenever you talk to people who don't specifically have some interest in linguistics.

>Maybe you're only thinking about religious people who would have encountered this one in such a context?

Yeah, presumably the original questioner (and myself because it's not something I've ever given much thought towards) didn't realize synoptic had a definition outside of religion, because knowing the definition would have answered their question.
Blood Sugar Control Is a Key Factor in Slowing Brain Aging
I would argue it's a great benefit rather than a problem, too.

NYT not publishing sensationalist bullshit? While it's just one outlet out of countless many, the world will be that much more peaceful for but a short while.
Show HN: Grow on LinkedIn 10x Faster
Discussion (38 points, 1 day ago, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42032444
I think there are two types of fear mostly, the innate survival animalistic fear and the self-perpetuating fear caused due to misunderstanding. The animalistic fear is present in all and it's not possible to get rid of. When you see a snake or a tiger in front of you, that fear is natural. The response is to jump or run and is so spontaneous, you can't really control it. It's necessary for survival. But I think we are interested in the other fear, the one that is bound to attachment. You see a tiger, you panic, turns out to be a cat, you laugh it off, go away, that fear is not an issue. But if you go about your day thinking, what if that was a tiger? What if I get jumped by tiger this time? Then, you are creating the fear. The fear has no basis, except for it was implanted to you awhile ago. And now you are attaching yourself to it. You are extending it which is the actual problem. Most of us have fears that go back to childhood. If you think back far enough(like the tiger example), question yourself why you are afraid, you know the answers.

One more example, I used to be afraid of getting heart-attacks in the past. Even gas passing would make me panic. Have I ever had a heart-attack before? No. How am I so damn sure that I have a heart-attack if I don't even know what it's supposed to feel like? Heart-attack is a bad thing and it shouldn't be happening to me. How is every acid reflux a heart-attack to me now. I have created my own bubble of fear. When though? I sure as hell didn't know what heartattack is when I was born. So it happened when I was able to comprehend what a heart-attack is right? For me, it's due to people around me passing, it's due to reading on Internet about young celebrities dying to strokes, watching movies, etc. It got implanted in me. I don't know a heartattack I just have an idea of it which is not the same thing. Not even remotely related.

Fear arises due to misunderstanding. If you trace it far back enough, fear was implanted mostly in the childhood.
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I agree. The article mentions bits going around their head, or in the front-right. I hear things on the left, and things on the right. And stuff that appears on the opposite side of where the article mentions them. I’m listening on Spotify, maybe all that stuff is stripped out?
> In the age of stock buy-backs, cyclical lay-offs, and record-high executive compensation I sympathize with these folks. It might even be morally correct thing to do.

Under capitalist and corporate morals, it's a sin for a worker to fail to give the best part of his efforts to the shareholders.
Meanwhile, error handling still can't get any sort of syntactic sugar
I miss my NeXTs so much. I really need to get another one.

Love the UX/UI design and styling. The cases. The logo. Everything.
What core elements in your knowledge graph and agent customizability strengthen this differentiation enough to warrant adoption over well-established tools like codeium and copilot?
You can do that in practically any language however that doesn’t mean it’s easy nor the norm.

JavaScript has a culture of move fast and break things. Whereas Go has a culture of moving slow and backwards compatibility.

It also helps that Go has a pretty extensive stdlibs whereas JavaScript is really more like several distinct language ecosystems wrapped around a common specification. So what works on one JavaScript runtime might not even work on another.
Been napping for the last decade? One big publicity misstep can end a company.
There are many commenters that talk past each other given the emotionally charged topics of unions, pay, negotiations, etc. I think this is one of them.

What I read from parent is that lifestyle inflation must be high in some of these demographics when the rhetoric used is about survival, despite evidence of many more people 'surviving' on far less income.

What I read from you is that you fiercely maintain negotiating power because you can and feel it's only right given your high value. Why WOULD anyone leave money on the table, after all?

Both can be true.
> It does mention those reasons

whoops you're right, I somehow skipped that part.

I guess it is kind of weird article with contradicting points of view and the author could have communicated that improving soil quality and pairing it with speed to consumption is the best combination.
First couple of hears of IH it was fire. I understand that dynamics change and once you become a marketing channel you are on a different phase. But I wish we could get back there.
This stuff sucks because if the application forgets to turn it back off, the terminal pukes random control characters into your shell every time the window is resized.
> Base models are uniquely valuable as a research product because they accurately model the distribution of the data that they were trained on, as opposed to models that have had substantial RL tuning done to collapse their generation distributions. This makes base models the best starting point to fine-tune for a large number of different tasks.

Is this idea (‘collapse of their generation distributions’) a researched topic? If so, under what name?

Sounds interesting and maybe related to the whole continual learning / how to finetune properly line of work
That's how things work don't they? You tend to focus on which demand seems the most patently absurd one.
The looser overall firing rules are, the harder it is for the union to protect members from e.g. firing for insisting on adherence to safety/security/contractual/employment policies/laws. Threat-of-firing-backed pressure on all those fronts is incredibly common outside companies with strong unions.
After decades I'm not sure how grading worked, but I don't remember that course being hard. Maybe that's because I enjoyed it so much.
>China seems able and willing to play the long game in ways that the US fundamentally cannot

I'm old enough to remember people's endlessly repeating this about Japan in the 1980s.
In Europe, in wartime. OK, good to know.
I didn't know that about Buscemi's character.

Ghost World was such a rare film for me. The story wasn't anything I was expecting when I randomly turned the TV on that day.
Insomnia, but not lack of sleep, may hasten brain shrinkage: study
It’s a fun challenge to try to enlighten them about how things can go wrong with their approach.
One of my unorthodox views is that the popular blue light obsession is exacerbated by magnesium deficiency, given how hard it is to get enough in our diets.

Yes, blue light disrupts melatonin and makes it harder to get to bed. But magnesium disrupts sleep quality and deregulates melatonin production in the first place and makes one particularly sensitive to blue light.
As of 13 May 2024, the U.N. has reported that the 35,000 who have died in the conflict includes 7,797 minors, 4,959 women and 1,924 elderly[52] with confirmed identities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel%E2%80...
Sure but the NY times is just one of many news websites and even if it went down, people aren't gonna miss it in the same way as teachers going on strike
I'm genuinely curious, are there any employees that work with a company that has good managers? I have heard so many bad stories of poisonous corporate culture its hard for me to see how there would be good managers. I haven't worked as an employee since the early 2000's.
thank you - we're a team of 2 and former full-time frontend engineers so that means a lot to us! You're spot on with the guard rails: we do a lot of post-processing, i.e., after LLM spits something out, we parse the AST, strip out hallucinated imports, add imports that are missing. And yes! We also do a bit of pre-processing (expanding the prompt, feeding relevant examples via a RAG-based approach).

It feels like everyone is building in the AI space these days, but I gotta say: it's quite fun tweaking it. The non-deterministic nature is simultaneously the worst and best thing.
I've noticed this happens a lot in this field. If you read Bart Ehrman's books, you'll get the same sense of repetitiveness, and then if you you read the blogs from folks who are from the same sphere, the effect is bad there, too—not just someone repeating the same thing in every post, like a friend who has run out of stories to tell, but they'll have written a bunch of stuff where they repeat themselves several times within a single post. It's very odd.

Having said that, I just read the article, and it's not as bad as some of the others.
What is the "deserialisation pandemic"? It doesn't have obvious web search results, and I'm struggling to imagine what about deserialisation what be common between Java and Python (except that, in both cases, I'd surely just use protobuf if I wanted binary serialisation).
Many Manufacturing managers hate people and just treat them as an expense to be exploited.
Legal details and jurisdictions may vary, but as far as I know, you can absolutely cut part of a group (or part of the entire company), not just entire groups/divisions/etc. And you can apply uniform company-wide criteria to select the subset of the group to lay off.
Savings don't protect you from the stress unless you've saved enough to retire. Savings provides a buffer of time you get to find another job, but you still have to find (and land) that job. Given how f'd-up tech hiring is and the current job market that might not be as easy as it sounds... So I can understand why people want to avoid that level of stress and the compromises they will make to do that.
How does this compare to the naive GPU performance on an RTX GPU?
> It's a problem because there's no precedent for RTO. But, things like changing an employee's work location, hours among other things is constructive dismissal.

RTO, after years of hiring remote only positions, IS changing an employee's work location. Grindr employees worked from home 5 days a week, across the US. Then the RTO would make engineers move to Chicago and go into an office 2 times a week. In what world is this RTO not changing employee's work location?
A video of Steve Jobs (and his staff) seeing what he paid $100,000 for.

https://www.logodesignlove.com/next-logo-paul-rand
https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-watch-s3

Aimed at mor LoRa use, but you can def write apps for it.
Great points. The health part can be incorporated back into the mix later as their app gets traction, as a subtle bias in the proposed choices and based on what they ate the previous days.
> Be wary of anyone trying to claim that there are significant security differences between any of the "modern" or "high-level" languages. These threads inexorably trend towards language-warring.

Hm, I think this is a reasonable take but taken too far. Presumably this out of a desire to avoid people arguing about this-language-feature vs. that-language-feature, but in practice "the language" also gets conflated with the tooling and the ecosystem for that language, and having good tooling and a good ecosystem actually does matter when it comes to security vulns in practice. Indeed, anyone can write SQL injection in any language, but having a culture of finding, reporting, and disseminating those vulnerabilities when they happen, and then having mature tooling to detect where those vulnerable packages are being used, and then having a responsive ecosystem where vulnerable packages get swiftly updated, those are all things that make for more secure languages in practice, even among languages with near-identical feature sets.
> All I could think was well how will you handle it when I leave?

You mentioned upthread:

> New plants came to town paying current market rate and snagged most of the top talent.

You should totally get a job at one of those plants and let them hang.
Not contradicting your view that the article isn't very diligent, but have you heard of oxidation?

Atoms constantly react to the environment, they can bond with other atoms, form new compounds. Oxidation time varies, in the case of potassium it is very fast, the claims in the articles would stand. For vitamins, it also depends.

I got into a rabbit hole a few years back, digging into numbers from multiple academic sources on the subject. They concur that fruits and vegetables have "lost" the majority of their nutrient density. The low end figure is (rather was) 70% loss, the high end 90%.

The reasons are multiple like the article said. I recall reading a thorough and most backed paper explaining the main cause is the soil. We are over exploiting, not allowing the time needed for soils to recoup their content, in minerals in particular. We use fertilisers but these are to enable growth, not so that what end up in your dish is rich in nutrient.

We could quite easily reverse the trend, even getting back to normal levels, but that implies a massive hit in production for several years, in a row. Some would call it greed, but can we even produce for the world's population if we did that...
Not for coding, it seems. https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
Comically, the entire world basically has no idea how to evaluate the quality of management. Not with metrics, anyway. It's all vibes and guesswork, or else it's "data-driven" but transparently bullshit.