skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capacitors store a certain amount of charge, in that regard like a small battery. The voltage on the positive side is relative to the negative side.

If you have a 5V supply with respect to ground (your reference voltage), and you connect a capacitor between it and ground, it will charge to 5V.

If you then disconnect the capacitor and connect the negative side to the 5V supply, then the positive side will still be 5V relative to the negative side of the capacitor, but the positive side will be 10V with respect to ground.

Now take a second capacitor. Let's call the positive sides of the two capacitors as p1 and p2 respectively, and the negative sides for n1 and n2 respectively.

If you then connect a second capacitor in parallel with the first, so both n1 and n2 are connected to 5V, the charge will equalize between them. If you then connect n1 to ground, then p1 will be negative relative to p2 and charge will start flowing into capacitor 1 from capacitor 2.

Using transistors as digital switches, you can do this "dance" of alternating where you connect the negative sides to and thus move the charge along.
https://www.wired.com/story/oldsmar-florida-water-utility-ha...
Herein lies the paradox: I want a tool that helps me record more information, but I don’t want this information to be easily exposed to others or used as evidence against me for things I’ve done. Yet, there are moments when I genuinely need to share this information—to prove what I have or haven’t done. The critical bottom line, however, is that the records must remain untampered. If I could alter them at will, their value and meaning would be entirely lost.
At-will coupled with layoff disclosure laws seems pretty solid. The result seems to be that severance pay is a lot more common.
For anyone going through anything like this, one letter from a lawyer will turn everything around in minutes and in Japan, legal advice is fairly affordable.
Valve, Steam and the Entire PC Gaming Industry Were Saved by a Single Intern
Ask HN: How are companies setting up WhatsApp marketing/transactional messaging?
Since WhatsApp made its APIs public, it’s quickly becoming the go-to platform for businesses to engage with customers.

I’m curious about how companies are setting up their WhatsApp workflows for:
- Marketing funnels
- Lead generation
- Sending transactional messages

Are you using WhatsApp’s API directly or relying on third-party tools? How do you handle segmentation, personalization, and analytics?

I’d love to hear about the tools, strategies, and challenges you’ve faced while implementing these solutions.
You should really qualify what you mean by murder because it’s very disingenuous. When a criminal uses deadly force against a police officer they will be shot.
Tall people also tend to have a higher BMI as well (square cube law and all that), and Denmark is in the top 5 for tallest average population. I would have to imagine that would skew the results as well.

BMI seems like a useful tool for rough estimates of weight, but for any rigourous correlations it seems almost impossible to disentangle from other variables.
You don't even need AI to regurgitate Perelman's papers, you can do that in three lines of python.

What I meant is that there's no AI you can ask to explain the details of Perelman's proof. For example, if there's a lemma or a delicate point in a proof that you don't understand, you can't ask an AI to clarify it.
Radio waves are not photons. Light beams are not photons.

Light beams (or similar sources of EM waves generated by individual electrons or nucleus) are made by photons. We can record individual photons.

Maybe, radio waves are made of photons, but nobody confirmed that yet, so I can safely say «no». If you can confirm that, Nobel prize is yours.

Are radio waves quantized? Of course, at Planck scale.

Is it possible to form a single 100kHz photon using a macro antenna? I hope for «yes», but I have no idea about «how».
back when I was writing XSL-T regularly I used to dream it, probably something about the verbosity of the language made it show up in my dreams, I would wake up pissed off I spent a night with XSL-T going through my head.
Yeah, I think brown people are less welcome, although I still want to spend a month just wandering around record shops listening to Japanese jazz-funk and slurping noodles
There is a standard method of optimization - breaking predicate into smaller ones and saving intermediates into database.

Typically program runs efficiently, but when optimization is needed - you can do it by breaking up the predicate.
TIL that WRRV also has a website which publishes articles actually relevant to their broadcast area. TIAL that they have also managed to make the ads on their website exactly as irritating as the ads on the radio.

I’m skeptical of the change he having just heard of it but I do value improvements to bus service and am interested to see how this plays out.
Observability as a Superpower
Apart from the paperwork that you need to pass on to your next employer, salaries can be structured in a way that makes the base pay rather low, but the yearly income is boosted up to a reasonable level by bonuses, overtime allowance (fixed monthly amount paid whether you work the overtime or not), etc. If the company doesn't want to let someone quit, they can make it financially painful by withholding these things, or subtracting "damages" caused by the employee leaving.

EDIT: Come to think of it I'm actually not 100% sure about the legality of this, but they sure try it!
pretty normal in banking/consulting fields. not sure they write it in the job listing though.
yeah, but at least it's not inflation <eyeroll>
>At the end of the day, it’s grounding to remember there’s mutable memory and a CPU processing the code.

And yet goto is even less popular than Lisp despite being the only way that CPUs implement control flow.

What's even more bizarre is that despite caches being the only way to get any performance out of modern CPUs we still don't have a language that treats the memory hierarchy as a first class citizen. The closest is Linux flavored c with a sea of underscores.
This is what every employee of Musk's companies should look forward to

That's what their ideal compensation and workload be if their boss would have their way
I wonder what specific chemical or compound in corn she’s allergic to? Seems like quite a long list of things, including tap water?
Taxes on businesses can be sidestepped the same way tariffs can be sidestepped.

Tariffs are taxes.
Yes. The law clearly set 2 weeks [0].

It puts the employee in the strongest position, but doesn't completely voids a contract. For instance the employer can still fight it by justifying a necessity for them to have a longer period, or convincing a court the contract had enough provisions to make it a reasonable clause.

It would be a huge PITA on both sides though, I don't see many companies wanting that much trouble just for a single employee trying to leave the boat.

[0] https://jsite.mhlw.go.jp/miyagi-roudoukyoku/library/miyagi-r...
Yeah this is super useful.

Also audio doesn’t autoplay on any websites. You have to interact with the page first for that to happen
> a company could actually sue the employee and win.

It's difficult and costs money to prove that someone is half-assing their job on purpose, and that cost a company a specific dollar amount of losses. It's why they may threaten to sue, but rarely do.

> Other Japan-labor-law fun fact: if you are a contract worker, it is literally illegal for you to quit prior to your contract expiry date. Hope you like that job you signed onto!

It's technically a contract violation, but there are many exceptions that allow you to quit within the first year, and that's assuming the company is totally above board legally (hint: if it's a black company, then they aren't.)
You'd want to benchmark this yourself, and assume that the impact will probably decrease as browsers progress, but I believe that for very large trees (tables, etc) it can have a fair impact. That said, I'm guessing paints aren't what are usually slowing your page down.

A quick way to validate that is to open up the devtools and run a performance trace. Watch for paint events vs JS code execution and such.
Photons are EM-waves. Are photons made of photons?
Oh, I still love it, just not in a rose-tinted goggles way, like I did when I was 18. I did work a few stints at a Japanese company in London and saw the slight clash of corporate cultures up close.
Thank you for your feedback. To be honest, I wasn’t aware of the classnames library, so thank you for pointing it out. When designing `tw`, I wanted to use an object-based approach, since it felt more intuitive. I appreciate you letting me know about something I wasn’t aware of.
>No one should discount the value of having the power to tell your employer to fuck off at a moment’s notice with no practical repercussions.

I think you are confusing "it is possible" with "it is common". Never heard of people in Japan get sued for quitting, even with shady English teaching centers. But definitely seen companies do them for scare tactics though.
Because you already built the nuclear plant to provide power at night and during periods of low renewable output, and once you're already paying to build and operate it, the incremental cost of also using it during the day is effectively zero and zero is less than any non-zero cost for needing more solar farms.

Also, the real numbers aren't actually that far apart because you're using the high end of the estimate range for nuclear and the low end of the range for solar.

To replace nuclear with solar for baseload you need the solar farms and batteries for at night and peaker plants for extended periods of low generation during the day and to maintain fueling infrastructure for those peaker plants. You add all of those up and it costs more than using nuclear for baseload.
Which have and with what?
Tariffs increase cost. That is the bottom line. The intent of tariffs is to make it profitable for domestic production to compete with cut rate foreign producers. However, with out removing regulations domestic production will never ramp up and we get the worst of both worlds.

Tariffs and deregulation will reinvigorate the domestic economy.
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I’m trying to learn more about cloud security roles, and I came across this video on being a Cloud Security Architect. It gives a real look at what they do day-to-day, which I didn’t really know much about. If anyone else is exploring career options in security, this might be worth a watch!
America has very low unemployment and median household incomes are among the highest in the world. You get to continue your existing health insurance 18 months after you quit if you wish, you just have to pay for it. Most people can and if you can’t then the government pays for it.

While getting terminated is disruptive, it isn’t the end of the world for the typical American. The relative ease with which most people can get another job is also nice. It is an economy that is structured under the assumption that people will move between jobs and minimizes the friction in doing so.

I have seen the “having a contract” thing abused many times in many countries in Europe. Thanks, but no thanks. I have had that contract multiple times and I don’t want that contract. That safety blanket comes with heavy chains. I’ve seen those contracts used to stifle far too many employees to condone it, employees deserve better.
That was my first thought too, hahah.
I’ve lost alot of people and have been through my share of shit.

Assuming it’s real, one thing to remember is that you make the decisions and take the actions you took based on the best information available to you at the time. You only control yourself. Your job and duty was to review code and make professional judgments. You did. You did nothing wrong.

If true, and I hope it is a troll, he chose to take professional disputes and make them personal. He chose to get stressed out by your code to the point that he attributes it to his demise. At the end of the day, his inability to behave like a rational, professional adult was his undoing - and then doubled down by cowardly making it your problem, lashing out, then disappearing to hurt you.

Hold your head high. If reflection inspires you to approach things in a different way, do it to improve yourself and align with your values. Don’t let guilt drive your being.
Trump also said he was going to get Mexico to pay for the entire price of the border wall. They didn't pay anything (they did have some troops on the border). https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/30/politics/fact-check-trump-mex...

We can just keep looking back. Those concerned about whether appointed department heads will need to pass even basic checks? How about Bret Kavanaugh, whose accusations of sexual assault/rape were intercepted by the Trump White House & suppressed? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/trump-brett-...

There's nothing about what happens with these people that makes me think it deserves even the faintest whiff of credulity.
The explicit goal of tarrifs is yo raise prices. This is not a bug, it's the whole reason for tarrifs to exist.

The argument is that if the going rate for something is high enough, it makes sense to manufacture it locally. And of course local manufacturing has major knock-on benefits.

This logic falls down though when you bring the capital cost, and life-span of a factory into account.

I'm only building a factory if I expect prices to -remain high-. And tarifs are set (unilaterally) by the president without congress (which I why Trump likes them) but they can be removed just as quickly.

Interestingly the importer in the article was looking at alternate chains of supply, but "manufacturing in the US" wasn't one of his proposed solutions.

It also assumes that countries don't respond with tit-for-tat tarifs which harm factories already in the US. That certainly happened last time he used tarifs as a weapon.

This is not rocket science. It's not even economics. Its what anyone who has ever imported anything can figure out for themselves.
I don't get why these companies would want to keep employing someone who has stated that they want to quit.
That's slavery. Except we call it nowadays: "over performance, over working, over time ... and a free coffee in our office as a reward"
They are a form of tax, but where is applied is different, which is why it gets its own term.
> The Benesse Group has constantly pursued “Benesse (well-being)” and focused on “people” to support the realization of their dreams and ideals. [0]

This is the black company in the third spot. Curious.

[0] https://www.benesse.co.jp/brand/en/about/
I wonder why Fibre Channel isn't used as a replacement for TCP in the datacenter. It is a very robust L3 protocol. It was designed to connect block storage devices to servers while making the OS think they are directly connected. OSs do NOT tolerate dropped data when reading and writing to block devices and so Fibre Channel has a extremely robust Token Bucket algorithm. The algo prevents congestion by allowing receivers to control how much data senders can send. I have worked with a lot of VMware clusters that use FC to connect servers to storage arrays and it has ALWAYS worked perfectly.
FWIW, I don’t have any experience in Japan, I have no idea what the nuances are like there. I have a lot of experience in Europe, which echoed some of the themes raised.
must be a reflection how people are thinking; since I'm infosec oriented, I interpreted it as ((LLM vulnerability) scanner)
And here I am thinking only reddit has unhinged posts...
Of course they will, it’s a business. When a competitor moves its manufacturing somewhere with lower or no tariffs, and can undercut AutoZone’s prices, they will be pressured to move manufacturing too. That’s the point of the tariffs.
Junior develops love to be coached on the job by those more senior until they get more skills and leave, so employers are already often paying and hoping an employee sees past 1 year of receiving value and investment in them before taking off.
“Black Corporations” Still Common in Japan

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01840/
Reads like a job ad for the worst startup in the world:

super high-IQ

+

small-government revolutionaries

+

80+ hours per week

+

on unglamorous cost-cutting

(salary TDB)
Unrelated to this article, are there any reasons to use TCP/IP over WebSockets? The latter is such a clean, message-based interface that I don't see a reason to use TCP/IP.
For some reason, Britain keeps getting a free pass for their atrocities against their own subjects (in any country) and against other Europeans (yet again with Brexit).
the problem with trying to replace TCP only inside DC, is because TCP will still be used outside DC.

Networking Engineering is already convoluted and troublesome as it is right now, using only tcp stack.

When you start using homa inside, but TCP from outside things will break, because a lot of DC requests are created as a response for an inbound request from outside DC (like a client trying to send RPC request).

I cannot imagine trying to troubleshoot hybrid problems at the intersection of tcp and homa, its gonna be a nightmare.

Plus I don't understand why create a a new L4 transport protocol for a specific L7 application (RPC)? This seems like a suboptimal choice, because RPC of today could be replaced with something completely different, like RDMA over Ethernet for AI workloads or transfer of large streams like training data/AI model state.

I think tuning TCP stack in the kernel, adding more configuration knobs for TCP, switching from stream(tcp) to packet (udp) protocols where it is warranted, will give more incremental benefits.

One major thing author missed is security applications, these are considered table stakes:
1. encryption in transit: handshake/negotiation
2. ability to intercept and do traffic inspection for enterprise security purposes
3. resistance to attacks like flood
4. security of sockets in containerized Linux environment
"Armed" is a proxy for criminals being criminals, and almost always reaching for, displaying, or using the weapon in some antisocial way prior to being shot dead.

Legal gun owners not committing obvious crimes are only rarely accosted by police, and shootings are exceedingly rare, and they usually make the news and result in legal action. They also usually involve the victim doing something that's not advisable, even if they're not doing anything legally wrong. Philando Castile, for instance, or Johnny Hurley.

"Unarmed" doesn't represent what the suspect was doing that got them shot. Were they resisting arrest or being noncompliant and reaching for their waist or a center console or glove compartment?

There are cases where police shoot suspects, armed or unarmed, unjustifiably. They're not as rare as anyone wishes they were. They're still fairly rare. Behaving civilly, even while recognizing that many police are like barely constrained wild animals, goes a long way toward ensuring that an accidental furtive gesture isn't interpreted as reaching for a weapon.
I agree, they are a powerful tool if used correctly. There are some benefits to the "make it locally" but it's also dependent on the specific goods. There are some tariff that have been in place for decades to simply prop up industries that should have died of years ago in favor of imports.
80 hours is mostly a lie for folks experienced enough to have families. What becomes more common is 80+ hours of “I’m responsive whenever I’m asked.”
I’ve noticed the same thing oddly- I’ll dream when I travel, especially when camping.
I have always had a great deal of empathy. In my younger years I would help people to my own detriment. It was something I had to work on, to put myself first. The idea was that in order to help someone else you had to be okay yourself. I have struggled with depression my whole life, and in those early years my natural inclination towards empathy let me to being taken advantage of more often than I truly helped someone. I learned some hard lessons. I always wondered what my empathy would have led me to had I not struggled with my own depression. It's when I read accounts such as this that I am able to understand. It gives me an invaluable insight into that very qustion, and so I always appreciate hearing the accounts of people not burdened by depression. It helps me understand, and in the end, feel less guilty and not so selfish. Thank you for sharing this because it means a lot to people like myself that want to help more than they are truly able to, and to feel less guilty about that fact.
Yep. And the issue with pizza is the amount of fat that comes with the carbs. This quite often (depending on the position of the moon) gives you some of the carbs when you eat it to your blood, and the rest will come after several hours. What you want to do is to inject a bit of insulin before eating, then after two or three hours more while measuring your glucose levels.

Of course if you eat a Neapolitan pizza with not that much of cheese everything changes again. And YMMV, I'm just talking about my experiences.
> Tariffs are taxes.

But that's the point. They generate revenue for the government, allowing the government to lower other taxes with the result that people aren't actually paying anything more on net but you've created a penalty for goods imported from adversarial countries that domestic manufacturers can avoid.
> Also heard that Windows has a hard time reaching 10G anyway.

It really shouldn't. Microsoft invented or popularized Receive Side Scaling [1], which helps get things lined up for high throughput; but applications probably need to do a bit of work too.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/n...
> what library you are using?

Not the OP but these look like they are Apple's own SwiftUI Charts framework:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/charts
You are peeing against the wind by talking logic here. I witnessed the same rabid propaganda by Americans for Iraq war and same rabid propaganda for Syrian war, for Libyan war, for Afghanistan...

They don't care. It's not their lives or their family or their land
I have the same setup and what works for me is putting the phone into Supervised mode using the Apple Configurator.

From there, you can enable single app mode to lock it into the app you're using for the webcam (I use Camo).
Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply. I learned something from reading this and that was my goal.
They are not concatenated, but summed. I think concatenation wouldn’t work, as you indicate.

I think you mean the line in the original paper where they say compared the learned attention weights with the predefined encoding, and it made no difference.
That’s what the phrase “cuts both ways” means.
The same people who were very wrong about the election seem to believe everything the same media says about Russia. Very strong correlation, very questionable propaganda
The book assumes that you should know better, that’s the problem. You may understand it correctly and do your best, but remain unsure if that “piece of information” is the same with that one or not, cause it’s open for interpretation.
Harder than you for sure since I learned nothing from your low-effort and shaming comment.
I really appreciate this comment as I always try to read the original authors but what little actual Rousseau I have read was over 20 years ago. I might be relying too much on short takes and what other people say about him. He is on the list for a proper reading eventually!