skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> its just a non-guaranteed perk

"Perk" is another way of saying "working conditions". They are bargaining over salary, benefits, and working conditions. Therefore, it's on the table.

Whether or not the bargaining workers are responsible (or even sympathetic) with their private living arrangements is not part of the negotiations, and so it doesn't materially matter.

The workers are not "owed" WFH, but neither is the paper "owed" RTO. They have to bargain over it. One side, or likely both sides, will have to give somewhere on the basket of issues they are bargaining over. Maybe the paper loses on this, but gets something else they want like lower salary. Or maybe workers are willing to RTO if they get some kind of commute allotment (pay for their gas/metrocard/whatever).

The bargaining is holistic, over the whole contract terms. The process is not simply that they go item by item and try to convince each other to change their minds. The process is that they bargain the entire package until they are both OK with accepting it.
I've just started learning about radio comms. I'm using the ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications 101, which is great so far.

My main goal is to detect the hydrogen line, or maybe some distant/noisy object (can amateurs pick up pulsars?). I also want to understand antennae much better, and maybe make a wire fractal antenna. I have a crazy idea about making a 3D fractal antenna-making bot from Lego or something! :D

(I'm not under any illusions about whether a fractal antenna is "better" but I just like the idea of them)
The US is the Primary economy of scale as it is the primary economy in general.
> each part 3 times.

True.

So most projects just use SIMDe, xSIMD or something similar for such use cases?
>When would be better to strike

i think the point the parent is making is that a better time to strike would be when they have specific demands that management is able to meet - to get them to the negotiating table, or to get them to sign a contract.

but in the case where management is already at the negotiating table, and there's no contract to be signed, it's not clear what short-term goal a strike is meant to achieve. the only thing it does is cause hurt. Hurting management is going to make their negotiations more difficult. and hurting management in this specific way is not just hurting management, it's also alienating their journalist colleagues who should be their strongest allies in this fight.
My guess:

1. `codec`: First, compress 16k samplerate audio into 8 samples per second with convolutions. Then, vector quantize to 128 bits (probably 8 floats) to get a codec. This is not nearly enough bits to actually represent the audio, it's more to represent phenomes.

2. `vae` -> This looks like a VAE-based diffusion model, that uses the codec as its prompt.

3. `dev` -> This is a next-codec prediction model.

Put together, it probably runs like so:

1. Turn your prompt into tokens with the `codec`.

2. If you want s more seconds of audio, use `dev` to predict 8 * s more tokens.

3. Turn it back into audio with the `vae` diffusion model.
reminds me of how the Macbook Pro started eating into the Macbook Air (or vice versa) since they couldn't get the pricing right

They forgot the point of Haiku was to be cheap. Looks like this will slot in somewhere between 4o-mini and Sonnet
Your phrasing is unclear. Adding a DNS record could be an addition to the already proposed solution. "Just" makes it clear that it isn't.
> within the lifetimes of people who could remember him.

We do not know. We have no records that are contemporary to him (if it was one person or it it was someone at all).
Unlikely to pass. No waiter/server/bartender I’ve spoken to actually wants this. They all make way more than $15/hr anyway.
Sure, but you are also appealing for public sentiment. So there's a reason why teacher's unions carefully time their strikes so they don't clash with important events like SAT season.

I'm not arguing they need to pick the slowest week, but striking a balance seems pretty reasonable and pretty standard for most other unions.
It's my only frustration with the Pixel 7. Left hand works fine, right is super inconsistent
Why new websites struggle to attract visitors: overcoming AI-driven challenges
Why is it so tough to attract those first few visitors to a new website? Traditional strategies like SEO, social media, and blogging don’t seem to deliver like they used to, and AI-driven algorithms now favor big brands, making it even harder for new sites to stand out. So, if the usual routes aren’t working, how can we still get free, organic traffic?

What happened to SEO and social media?
Search engines and social platforms have shifted to algorithms that push established accounts to the top, making it challenging for new sites to break through. Posting consistently is still important, but it’s no longer enough to guarantee visibility.

What can we try instead?

Consider cross-promotions and partnerships with others in your niche. Collaborating can introduce you to an audience that’s already interested in what you have to offer. You can also get involved in community spaces where your audience hangs out, like Reddit, forums, and Q&A sites. Instead of promoting directly, contribute value, answer questions, and build genuine connections.

Streamlining your links for a better user experience

A great way to make it easy for visitors to explore your content is to use a single link hub. This approach means visitors only need one link to access everything you offer. It’s a straightforward way to make sure people can find and follow you on different platforms.

Personally, I use Selfolio (https://selfolio.com/splash/) to organize all my links in one place. But I’d love to hear from you! Do you know of other tools that help new sites bring in traffic or organize links better? Share your recommendations below!
WhatsApp et al. are doing fine and are the primary choice in Europe. But in the US, for some reason, people prefer not installing messaging apps, and instead keep the default messaging app, which means iMessage on iOS.
I envy that you only stop at lights for 1-2 seconds. Where I live, you'll find not only heavy traffic but also red lights that are several minutes long.
JPMorgan Undercharged for a Trade
This was entertaining, thanks for the link.
A sensible person would not have their finances stretched so thin that they cannot deal with an interruption in their employment. I.e. one should be setting aside at least 10% of their income.

I worked for a company once that was doing poorly, and management decided to do an across-the-board 10% pay cut. One of my coworkers was livid with rage. I asked him why didn't he just quit and get another job? He said he didn't have any savings at all, and bills to pay. He had a mcmansion with expensive new furniture, new cars for himself and his wife, and expensive clothes. He had forged the chain connecting him to his desk - not the company's fault.
If the _Telegraph_, which supported Liz Truss (you may remember her as the prime minister who lasted all of 50 days, brought down by a proposed budget whose mere existence on paper caused a financial crisis), thinks that your economic plans are a bit extreme, well…
It's best to always avoid sending your warships into a war zone. They might get damaged, after all!
>Would it be terrible if employees could fire their employers arbitrarily?

Yes.
It works in Emacs. Don’t know about Zed (if there is an issue, it is likely temporary)
What news organizations truly compare to the NYT tech game though? As far as I can tell, they are at the top.
Start detecting signal reflections from airplanes.

With multiple synchronized receivers you can build a passive radar.

Single reflections can easily be spotted by just staring at the spectrum (Doppler).
Show HN: A communally-constructed digital archive and ode to long-distance love
Just deployed my first webapp! A https://www.queeringthemap.com/ -inspired digital archive + mapping site where you can leave anonymous notes about people you love who are far away from you.

Some other features:
- when you make a note, you can send a secret link to your friend for them to reply
- when you make a pin, it gives you a secret friend code you can share with others for them to write to your "inbox"
- pins are stored locally on the browser but you can get an editor link for each pin -- if you open this link in another browser it provides that browser edit access to that pin

(it might be a little slow since i'm currently not paying for a very expensive server)
I'm pretty sure Aureal A3D was featured on my family's Compaq Presario 5150[0] back in 1998. The speakers were decently sized units mounted on the side of the 17" CRT and powered straight from the soundcard via 3.5mm plug which apparently was designed to output way more power than a standard headphone jack because it could go pretty loud.

A couple nifty demos were included. One was simply a bee buzzing in a circle, and it totally sounded like it was doing loops behind your head.

[0] https://aaron.axvigs.com/node/438
404 is fantastic. I hope they don't catch a case of corporatism from the massive media conglomerate they're partnering with.
I was really hoping for a wacky fan theory about Star Trek here.
In Search of Types [pdf]
>There were no Greek letters on the keypunches of that era, so McCarthy used (lambda (x) (+ x x)), and it has survived to this day.

I have a memory of a paper by McCarthy himself where he tells that the first implemented Lisp had a notation close to FORTRAN. S-expressions were only intended for the theory.
There might be some bugs in .2: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/70035
Either the beliefs of religion are true, or they aren't. If they're true, then they are worth upholding, if they aren't then they aren't. That's all that matters. "Moving past religion" as an end unto itself is not a worthy goal and is in fact giving into man's base instincts to hate on the outgroup.
That should be obvious to anyone who stops and thinks for one full second.

1/60th of a minute should be enough for anyone to realize that extroversion and introversion are environmentally adopted preferences, and only people who have something not quite working normally in their head would be locked into one side or the other permanently.
Incidentally, I went to their website to remind myself what the logo looked like, only to see that it has changed!
You don’t see how those changes backed up with eliminationist rhetoric might be considered threatening?

Ok then. Enjoy your life.
Is this an idea worth pursuing or not?
The social scene in big cities like New York or LA can be daunting. Drinks are expensive, places can be crowded, lines long and the service sucks. So I was thinking, what if you have a platform that enables people to turn ordinary private spaces such as their home (or really anywhere) into social settings? For instance, turn your apartment into a bar with 4 tables and guests can reserve a spot (either with a group of friends or to hang out with strangers) by paying an admission fee (will be byob to avoid liquor license issues). This concept can be applied to different social settings such as hosting a mom’s night for other moms with kid care included, hosting a mediterranean dinner party, hosting a games night etc. The platform would enable guests to see what events are happening in their immediate vicinity / or a particular location on a specific date and reserve spots at various events they want to attend. Guests can also see if their friends are attending a particular event (if the guest makes their attendance public) and over time see if any guests that they’ve met previously will be attending. Guests and hosts can leave reviews on each other's profiles as feedback for future users. Some immediate issues I’ve identified are the usual market place chicken and egg problem and potential security concerns about letting strangers into your private space (though the same was true for uber and airbnb). Are there any other potential issues? I have several ideas on how to monetize it but wanted to hear what people think about the concept.
We'll change to that from https://old.hessdalen.org/index_e.shtml above. Thanks!
It needs https.

Use https://48calc.org/db48x/index.html
Update from today that the NLRB found that a RTO mandate to thwart a union is illegal: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-04/grindr-rt...
Your manager asking you something is never a request. How you "choose" to answer directly affects how they will perceive you, and there is an implication.
Not a textbook in any way, but I've enjoyed Aldous Huxley's Perennial Philosophy

https://www.amazon.com/Perennial-Philosophy-Interpretation-G...
I'll admit it's mostly this way because I thought ExistentialQuantification sounded cool and wanted to give a try with classes - this could definitely be tidied up
Blog Writing for Developers (2023)
Could happy relationships hold the key to less stress in aging?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - what makes a ‘good job’ good for me has always had more to do with my coworkers than the work itself.

I had a very similar experience about 8 years ago, a perfect team of three - a project manager, another coder, and me - all in sync, all working hard but barely feeling like we were working at all, each phase just flowed from conception to planning to design to development to testing to release, like it was nothing. And yet it was a HUGE piece for our client. It all just went so well.

I miss being in that kind of situation. You don’t always get it in this industry, and you can always afford to demand it or to hold out for it either.
Frankly, given our demography, we can probably bootstrap the app and focus on minimizing the costs as much as we can. Then try to scale it accordingly with a focus on salaries, rather than investor payouts. It does sound possible in my head, other than grassroots marketing. Would need some people who has some experience in growing the customer base though. So yeah, treating the customer base with respect would be a priority.
Lookup Tier 1 ISPs, they usually have them.
The problems are right there. But some people choose to turn a blind eye.
>Everyone has interacted with a government office with an absolutely worthless employee who is just sitting around counting down the days to retirement

This is not because "it's hard to fire government workers" as often stated, but simply because government runs on a shoestring budget and cannot hire only good people.

Also because a shocking amount of people working in local government didn't realize Ron Swanson was a fucking satire character.
Are you using matrix.org? Maybe you could try a server closer to you?
Location: Puebla, Mexico

Remote: Yes

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Technologies:
Back-end: AWS S3, SQL, MariaDB, Python, Java, C#, C++

Front-end: JavaScript, HTML/CSS

Other: GitHub, Unreal Engine, Object-oriented programming, Jupyter, Databases

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I thought it was a little weird that they start off talking about "calcium, magnesium, and iron" and then immediately switch to talking about how vitamin C degrades over time in produce. OK sure, vitamin C can enhance iron absorption, but it doesn't do that for calcium or magnesium and, being atomic elements, they assuredly do not disappear from food in storage.

When an article conflates things like this without calling it out, I become suspicious of the rest of the claims.
What a lovely facepalm moment; anyone whos driven a car in the last decade could have told them this.
> I've never seen a rails-based company which has it problems from tech department

I've been using Rails since 1.0, owe much of my career to it, and still think it's an incredible framework that I love using.

But I have seen plenty of startups—mostly filled with junior developers—who don't have the maturity and experience to avoid some really bad ideas absolutely wall themselves into a corner. Thankfully the worst of this was in the Ruby 1.8 and Rails 2.3 era, but it still happens today.

A lot of the issue is the tendency that Ruby libraries have toward exposing internal details that end up getting relied upon (Hyrum's law in action).
What I learned from 130 hours on a Waymo
BlueClod
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> So how about the shifting alliances and goals of Squid Game ?

I couldn't comment, since I haven't seen it, but I think the mandate of fairness makes sense even in the presence of shifting goals, and probably governs the extent to which it's reasonable to switch alliances.
i love it. like airbnb but for the night life.
Is it just me or the way this is described creates visions of American Psycho.
I'd say adonisjs[1] is the closest thing in TS land to rails. There's also sailsjs[2].

Neither are as trendy as nextjs/sveltekit etc, but those are not really comparable to rails.

[1]: https://adonisjs.com

[2]: https://sailsjs.com
Back in 1978, when I worked as an electronics assembly technician, the company (Aph) decided to take us to a local electronics convention in Los Angeles. We showed up and got in line to get our steenkin' badges. I was in front, and was asked what my job title was.

As I was soldering boards together, I said "gnome". The clerk laughed, and said "no, seriously". I said "seriously, gnome". We argued a bit, and he capitulated, saying I was going to be sorry. The Aph guy behind me heard the debate, and asked for "wizard" as his job title. And so forth for all the employees. I think the owner of Aph asked for "grand wizard" or something like that.

Wandering around the convention floor, people would read our badges and laugh. It was all great fun.

After that, such job titles appeared on business cards, convention badges, etc.

I flatter myself in suspecting that it was I who started it!
I can't. My employment contract has a three-month notice period.
Many of these cable projects are less about saving money on buy vs lease, and more about wanting to have more data transmission capacity between the points on the cable.
27% code acceptance, and generated documents that are 70% accurate, are 'good' outcomes in the following sense:

> Work at large companies has a tendency to blow up, run far behind schedule, then ultimately limp past the finish line in a maimed state.

> One of my friends talks about how, when faced by his first failed project on a team, a management consultant responded to all critical self-reflection with "But you'd say that, overall, this was a success?" in a desperate bid to generate a misleading quote to put into a presentation to the board.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/tossed-salads-and-scrumbled-...
Hetzner Server Comparison: Which Server Delivers the Best Value?
This is to me the most fascinating part of the text, as we are increasingly seeing attacks on Waymo cars on social media:

People are gradually figuring out that Waymos are incredibly docile and careful, and are taking advantage of it. I once had someone sit on my Waymo for a few minutes to prevent it from moving. Waymos are programmed to be very cautious and careful drivers. They are completely unable to deal with someone sitting on the car's hood. This means that any person on the street can indefinitely stall a Waymo. This act in and of itself was a minor annoyance, but I think it's a sign of a new behavioral dynamic that will become a lot more prevalent with time.

The reason this behavior doesn't happen with human-piloted cars is that it's too risky for the person on the street doing the interference. A small fraction of human drivers are prone to violence, and if you're a person on the street looking to stir up trouble, you don't know if you're dealing with a driver who is aggressive or frightened enough to wield a 3000 pound car as a weapon against you. Only a fool or a crazy person would attack or even touch a stranger's car while they're driving it.

Or as Paul Crowley tweeted here:

https://x.com/ciphergoth/status/1853479347736490298

We rely on random violent nutcases to deter certain kinds of antisocial behaviour
Even more so we should use AI and probe the actual contents of these bills seeing as they're all-encompassing. This is like a giant PR that includes changes to 23% of your system, touching everything from every level including config files.

I'll bet money that none of the changes are grouped into any sort of easy-to-digest format with cross-referencing and other mechanisms to make it easy for people to introspect it.
/r/SelfAwareWolves-tier comment.
Those teams develop strong social bonds precisely because their manager doesn't request (force) them to be 10% more vulnerable. That's a 1-way ticket to a bunch of people not liking you.

You can achieve that vulnerability via being a likable and honest person. I think often us technical-minded people forget that relationships aren't an optimization problem and don't respond like you think they would. Just being decent and trustworthy will take you there, saying things like "you can trust me guys!" often has the opposite effect.
worth actually reading:

- farmers markets are hit or miss (anyone should know this by now)

- walmart came ahead of whole foods for produce quality (whoah)

alas we cannot go back to 1914 so we have to make due with what is out there now or grow our own

keep this in context...declining-quality produce in 2024 is still better for you than pizza
I’m a Christian and a history nerd. If you’re interested in the counter arguments to what you’ve read, for historical and academic purposes or perhaps curiosity, start with NT Wright, or more broadly “The New Perspective on Paul” which is a movement similar to “The Search for the Historical Jesus”.
What relevant metadata is there in an HTML file?
Lightweight Model Serving
Hello,

I recently completed a small project where I explored the potential improvements in model serving by switching from naive PyTorch setups to the ones utilizing ONNX Runtime, as well as ONNX Runtime with Rust's Actix web server.

Here are the findings:

https://github.com/martynas-subonis/model-serving

Additionally, I wrote a broader article on Substack for anyone interested:

https://github.com/martynas-subonis/model-serving

Hope somebody finds it interesting/useful as well.
> If I have to try to hit a deadline and my coworker is garbage, I want my boss to be able to fire them and start finding a replacement

It appears we have stopped teaching Mythical Man Month in university.
AVX-512 throttling has improved over time so it's much safer to use now.