skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can make an opposite claim on immigrants: those wealthy enough to clear the bar of entry, have more incentive to cheat on their future taxes to maintain their lifestyle. Though it sounds like the real issue is probably "getting paid under the table", which happens plenty for citizens and "undesirables" alike.
It's GANs all the way down.
Land is expensive in many places. Go somewhere it is very cheap, and you'll find fields of windmills and the occasional field full of solar panels.

In fact, Texas had a 350 megawatt install taken out by a hail storm earlier this year. It made the rounds in the news and even here on HN if memory serves. That's still not even close to the big projects though. Vista Sands in Wisconsin has a 1.3 gigawatt install planned that will cover nearly ten thousand acres.

The only reason residential rooftop solar became the industry it did was the massive subsidies handed out to consumers to make it financially viable. Without that, larger field installs and off-grid setups would be the bulk of what you hear about in most of the country.
Integration is a 1st generation immigrant problem. I don't think that 2nd gen Indians (let's be honest, that's what you're referring to) have any problems integrating into Canadian culture. In fact I've noticed they integrate better than most other immigrant groups. They tend to identify with both urban and suburban culture, and aren't overly religious.
Geez, did we work at the same companies?
The issue is it probably won’t be your daughter who creates and passes the legislation that dictates how she and the rest of us get to use our computers (net neutrality, encryption, etc). In a democracy, the majority of the population needs to be computer literate enough to vote for candidates who will support these things.
Can good web developers tell if a website is made by ChatGPT?
I can usually tell when a text is written entirely by ChatGPT. My web development experiance is minimal but I was wondering if experianced web developers can visually tell if a website is made by ChatGPT or heavily influenced by it? I sometimes suspect a website may be made by ChatGPT if it is quite bad, but other than 'bad' I don't have the experiance to really identify specific traits. Is there a CSS/HTML equivalent of the word "delve"?
> If you’re not C level and somebody reports to you, you’re a middle manager though.

You’re a middle manager if you’re not in “upper management”, but managers report to you. It’s called “middle” management because it’s between upper management (C-level and VPs, probably) and first-line management / frontline management. Start with all managers, select the ones in the middle, that’s middle management.
> managers are usually paid better than the top IC

This has not been my experience most places I’ve worked - you’ve gotta get a couple rungs up the management ladder (director or such) before the pay scale gets above staff and sr staff.

(It’s how we wound up with a few people at a previous gig managing teams as staff engineers - they didn’t want to take the pay cut for the title.)
And you might hope that reviews or consumer surveys might help, but all health care companies seem to provide the same mostly mediocre, unpredictably terrible service.
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So 48% would not mind being a middle manager? That’s a lot of middle management
I stopped drinking after I hit 40 and Starbucks was my third place (my favorite Starbucks was the one near DePaul University in Lincoln Park in Chicago).

I am now in the city of Starbucks (Seattle area) and am surprised that many of the Starbucks here (1) don't open late; (2) don't have comfortable seating; (3) aren't sufficiently lit (it's mostly dim, mood lighting -- I can't read paper books in most of them). I wonder if it's because Seattle people like their local spots (that also don't open late) that Starbucks had to optimize their revenue for to-go orders instead of sit-down ones.

This is really unfortunate. Howard Schultz was all bout the "third place".
That’s how I am as well, but I’ve grown to appreciate that everyone has different ideal working environments. The main reason I prefer WFH over RTO is the open office floor plan makes it very difficult for me to focus and work. I find it quite distracting.
I don't think it makes sense to weight that one detail more than the entire rest of the article. It's better to drop the worst outlier, as the guidelines ask, and focus on the rest of the content.

There's another point too: it's easy to misinterpret what someone means by a single token like that. It may have an obvious meaning to you, but it isn't clear what the author had in mind. This isn't nearly enough information to justify an extreme conclusion like "sociopath", and when you jump to such a label, what you're doing is not so different than what you're complaining about in the OP.
Good old shmup, that's a genre that is sadly fallen into disfavour these days.

I played a bit however after 2 minutes or so some enemy ships get stuck going in a square pattern across the edge of the screen where they are impossible to hit and the game stops progressing. I refreshed once and got the same issue after a few minutes (Firefox).
I didn't flag it, I flamed it.

Seems like it stunk enough for others to flag it. Lol.
The left-wing party in the UK has only just won its largest majority in history and we don't have another election for 5 years.

That is largely because the right has split into populist right and centre-right parties though.
I am interested in this, and it was interesting to see the different viewpoints. I noted that you have competing ideas about cold calling. One GTM strategy says "cold calling is dead since COVID." Another says, "I get 90% of my meetings via cold calling." I am sure context matters, so that does not bother me. These feel more like anecdotes than strategies; storytelling is powerful and necessary so that also did not bother me. It would be interesting to see if others wanted to add their own thoughts and stories. But, why would they?

Fun site.
thats actually kind of interesting, the name is dog shit
A lot more, but I think it is pretty obvious that it is mostly because it pays a lot. Not because of more intrinsic motivation.
>the USA is a melting pot and Canada is a mosaic

Although that's what they teach us in Canadian schools, in my experience it's the opposite. Ghettos and enclaves aren't really a thing in Canada like they are in the US.

There are some remarkably insular subcultures within the US like Latinos, Hasidic Jews, the Chinese (in some places), Amish and variants, Indians in certain towns like Edison, Black people in certain cities, to a degree that exists nowhere in Canada (and no, Brampton doesn't compare).

Subcultures in general are just not a thing in Canada, it's very much a monoculture.
In my 15 years in small and mid-sized tech, I've found the most useless managers are senior managers.

Good team leads and second line managers can make or break an organization. But they are the least respected roles at a company and gets thrown under the bus first. Most companies don't invest anything in training new managers or setting clear roles and responsibilities for managers.

Senior management never faces any accountability but can make big massive changes to an org without consideration for implementation.
Nothing. I'll sideload what I need to. I didn't find it that useful.
I’m not actually loading LO into the browser—those parts run on the server side, so you still need an internet connection for complex document conversions. The offline functionality mostly covers simpler features like merging PDFs or converting images to PDF with WebAssembly libraries in the browser. For MS Office files or other advanced formats, I rely on LO’s server-side engine to handle parsing and conversion
i always wonder where all the money goes with these startups....
Ask HN: What's Holding AMD Back?
Nvidia has an effective monopoly on the GPUs used for AI/ML. AMD GPUs only seem to be useful for gaming. The common sentiment is that the difference between the two GPUs is only the software; the hardware is comparable. Specifically, many people say there are issues with the drivers crashing.

I'd like to hear from those familiar with writing and using GPU software.

1. Is it really only a software issue?

2. What are all of the issues? Crashing? Interface compatibility with CUDA?

3. What is the scale of work that would need to be done to get AMD GPU software to the level of Nvidia GPU software? Does this require a complete revolution of the culture at AMD, or is this a task that could be accomplished by a highly motivated and competent vanguard?

I ask because the common sentiment seems silly to me. How hard is it really to write some good drivers? I'd like to challenge my held beliefs.
> Grab your own server. Maybe you’ve got a spare laptop or Raspberry Pi sitting around that you could expose to the internet (for example via dynamic DNS, look at Cloudflare or ngrok). Or you rent a cheap VPS at Hetzner, DigitalOcean or grab a free AWS EC2 instance.

Nah, if you're gonna go minimal, youve gotta go all the way.

Expose that little Pi direct to the wild Internet. Do it.

Enable port forwarding to send traffic directly to it. You can even configure iptables yourself if you want.

Don't forget to configure nginx, because the default config won't save you where you're going.

Nothing but you, the Pi, your Python app, WSGI and hundreds of millions of bots on the Internet ready to destroy it to pieces.

Just like God intended.
This is so cool.

In most contemporary games, you can occasionally see the mountains are hollow (from weird camera angles, clipping issues, etc).

However, with this method, your mountains are solid >:)
Ok. Maybe Apple won’t mind running my executable and letting it send sensitive data to my server?
>Just goes to show, when a company goes public, you are no longer the customer, the shareholders are.

I read the same sentiment about when publicly listed companies go private.
What percent of workers are middle managers? 10% or less I imagine…
The meeting was the animals who evolved to not be able to consume this, lived in more harsh conditions than those that had the readily available sugar. Evolution.
I didn't know what the OP meant about "both siding" but I feel like the biggest problem is the lack of journalism, the lack of "report the facts."instead it is about supporting a particular narrative, about reporting only the facts that lend to that narrative, even going so far as to manufacturer them.
As far as local newspapers, they just lost the ad war.
Try again without the phrase “middle manager” which has a derogatory meme attached to it, as evidenced by this very comment section. If you think you’ve invented a better (scalable) system than having ICs report up through a hierarchy with defined scope and responsibilities, you have probably just reinvented “management”.
>The union boss attacked Nippon as a “serial trade cheater that for decades worked to undermine our domestic industry by dumping its products into our market.”

This said enough about the Union Boss.
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Ah, I forgot you are the only one in this thread capable of real human thought. My apologies for bothering you with my "faux-thinking."
I feel you. Most Seattle people are homebodies by their own admission. Anything open after 9 pm is usually a bar.

Also, things have gotten worse after the pandemic. Low revenue after 9 pm (unless alcohol is involved), high labor costs, and safety issues means the juice is not worth the squeeze for most retail businesses here.

When I used to live in Chicago, the economics worked out differently, so there were many businesses that opened late.
Have you used one of the larger qwen2.5's? I've found the quality to be pretty good.

In this case, I wouldn't say it's cheaper, the machine I'm talking about clocks in around $5k. But it's not going to start inserting ads on you.
Canada is getting poor fast (compared to the US). This is from the Economist recently:

https://archive.is/UdixF/ec46ebf7fe812cd5e9432f45f68bd142e6c...

BC's GDP per capita is lower than Idahos. Ontario and Quebec's are lower than West Virginia's.

https://brilliantmaps.com/us-vs-canada-gdp-per-capita/

This would be unthinkable not too long ago.
Because that's how you become an upper manager.

Beside that, some people simply like the job. They like to manage people they actually know, without being too technical. Higher than that and you may lose human contact with people who are doing the job, lower than that and you are doing the job yourself.
Neither of the coffee shops profiled in the article are open at 2am, so I would hazard to guess their proprietors agree with you.
Ah, are you talking about Chlorin e6? I’m not sure if it’s squid inspired.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-figured-out-how...
Even easier, if you're willing to spend a little up front. Just get a vacuum pump extractor, purpose built for changing oil. You shove the hose down the dipstick hole, pump it a few times, and watch as your oil is removed from the car. No need to jack up the car or crawl under. When the thing starts to make bathtub drain noises, wiggle the hose around to make sure it was seated, pull it up out, and pour a new bottle of oil in. No mess no fuss
> What kind of companies are interested in failed founders

Nobody really cares that your startup failed. Would you care if a dev with the necessary skills for the role had a failed startup at one point in their career?

I would drop "failed" from your vocabulary and change it to something like "we ran out of runway" if anyone even brings it up.
All of the replies to GP sound like desperate attempts not to self-identify as a middle manager.

GP's definition matches common usage: To people not invested in this game, if you are manager at a large company and not C-suite, you're a middle manager.
The podcast Search Engine did an episode trying to get to the bottom of why there are so many illegal weed stores in NYC. Turns out a significant percentage are run by Yemeni Americans. I’ve always wondered how that came to be but never considered that the war could have something to do with it. I wonder if that’s the case?
This is the rough version. I’m assuming the final one was never drawn.
Yes I should have said, "has outside investors," or "institutional investors." It would have fit better. PE companies seem even worse. I often see them take a known brand, cut quality, jack up the prices and bleed the company dry.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/private-equity-rol...
It was relevant when people from all over the world came to Canada instead of from one province in India
Most auto part stores actually have an oil recycling and disposal service, just take your bottles there
I would say a little of both. Some of the most important bottlenecks a new game dev will encounter is "number of colors, screen resolution, sound properties" etc.

The CPU speed is also limited but it's a different kind of challenge to try to make a game be so complicated that there's enough math to even do to challenge the available CPU allocation given how few permutations of screen space are available to try to alter.

Depending on your game, RAM limitation and program space limitation might also come into play.

But the artificial limitations are only one element to why the platform is popular, the other element is the tooling.

Much like using Unity, Unreal, Roblox, etc you have loads of primitives and coding features (and music and SFX creation suites) at your fingertips built right into the platform, and how the limitations help here is to cap how subtle and complicated a person's goals are liable to be in order to help refocus the developer's attention back onto the gameplay loop.
I think most of them will integrate eventually; their children will, most certainly. Everybody integrates, that's the Canadian way.
Here's the context https://x.com/notch/status/1874522284813107617

The Roguelike he's talking about has been his main focus for a few years now and he recently made the announcement that he's been stealth developing it in a real office with a real team. The real company in question: https://x.com/BitshiftEnt

But now he's apparently wondering if the fact that people really really want a minecraft 2 should affect his goals.
With the flexibility of modern GPUs where some of the fastest rendering is pure compute, in a fashion you can code this up yourself or check out some of the commercial offering like Teardown.
NA bars exist, there are a few in NYC one been to.
Well it's a nine-figure insurance company, but I've also built for their competition which is a mid-eight figures company. Both are non-US publicly traded entities.

The other 60k employee company is a company that does as much in net profit as the market cap of the first company.
Oooh, looks like Raycasting. :)
Reality has a liberal slant. That didn't stop MSM from trying to be 'fair' by sane washing Trump in some misguided attempts at (false) balance.
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You don’t even have to exterminate the people; the culture can be replaced by another more powerful one - this has already happened especially to Canada; it’s much more like a weird copy of the USA than it was a hundred years ago.
Do people drink the coffee late? I would never get to sleep after doing that!
Minor correction, you have imported a massive underclass to run your fast food restaurants and other such jobs for far cheaper than a Canadian would be willing to do it for.
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There used to be a great Starbucks in Kirkland that was 24hr. I am equally frustrated that there are no coffee shops open late even close to the universities in Seattle.
Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
Article is about an acronym and yet never states what the acronym SRE means.
To add-on, utility scale solar generation is the majority of generation and has consistently outpaced small scale generation in growth.

Starting at 11,233 small scale out of 26,482 in 2014, ~42.5%, versus 73,406 out of 236,090 in 2023, ~31% [1].

So, despite a ~6.5x increase in small scale generation over 10 years, ~19% compounded annual growth, utility scale generation increased by ~10.66x, ~24% compounded annual growth.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/table.php?t=epa_03_01...
> I don't understand how games that are essentially asset flips can be so successful year after year.

We had plenty of shovelware like that ever since the Atari 2600 era too. People point to that (capped off by pacman and ET) as the cause of the console market crash of '83.
Reminds me of the betel nut such as in paan, but it's not nearly as strong it seems like, more akin to caffeine or nicotine in strength. It's cancerous though (and will stain your teeth too) so don't eat too much either.
That’s just supply and demand in another way, you could also argue the number of houses is fine you just need fewer people.

In either case you’re saying “make the number of houses correct for the number of inhabitants” - of course an obvious answer is “build more houses” but that can’t always work - San Francisco can’t remain SF at the density of Singapore. It’d still exist, but it wouldn’t be what it was.
They often realize that the director title is good enough for their insecurities. Contentment sets in. Any lofty-sounding title is good enough.
This doesn't really relate to the question of middle management, but it's interesting to compare the Canadian and British versions of this article:

https://www.robert-walters.ca/insights/news/blog/Concious-un...

https://www.robertwalters.co.uk/insights/news/blog/conscious...

They both have comments ostensibly from "Lucy Bisset, Director of Robert Walters North" and "Martin Fox, Managing Director of Robert Walters Canada". But the two have eerily similar thoughts on these result:

>Lucy Bisset, Director of Robert Walters North comments: “Gen-Z are known for their entrepreneurial mindset – preferring to bring their ‘whole self’ to projects and spend time cultivating their own brand and approach, rather than spending time managing others.

>Martin Fox, Managing Director of Robert Walters Canada comments: “Gen-Z are known for their entrepreneurial mindset. They prefer to bring their ‘whole self’ to projects, focusing on building their own brand and approach rather than managing others.
I'm pretty much full time on cursor from vscode. I don't trust it for big code blocks, but a control-k + reasonable command (I could have typed up myself) is saving me quite a bit of time.
Obviously silly. There are obviously a large bulk of managers who do not manage other managers, and they could reasonably only be called simply "managers". What would be the excuse for adding "middle" to them when they are not in the middle of anything?
What liability? How do they take responsibility if there is a security flaw?
This comment section is hard to read for someone joining as middle manager on Monday.
Interesting. On lmsys, Gemini is #1 for coding tasks. How does that compare?

https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard
The current net migration rate for Japan in 2024 is 0.489 per 1000 population, a 5.23% decline from 2023. I foresee a marginal increase.
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This is more true than people realize; it seems every week in bogleheads there’s a question that’s basically “how can we use the inheritance we just got to help our grandkids get a leg up without huge tax implications?”
This is my experience at big tech too. I've had great managers. When I've managed people, they've appeared to genuinely say that I was doing a good job. I've interacted with one Director and one Vice President ever who seemed like they were worth a damn.
Covert advertising will be so easy with this tech as it matures. Ads that basically describe and have you wanting the target product without mentioning it by name. Or references to the target product in contexts that don't make sense in the moment. Can't adblock that away.
It's a terrible idea to join the EU. You cede your control on economic policies to some central bureaucrats in Europe while holding the bags to pay for all the local societal infrastructure and welfare. You won't have enough political power to direct the flow of economic activities to your local region. Germany will suck up most of the economic benefits.
This makes me anxious about net neutrality. Easy to see a future were those bots even get prioritised by your host's ISP, and human users get increasingly pushed to use conversational bots and search engines as the core interface to any web content
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But not at this scale.

Imagine if every response in this thread was AI generated. Or a Reddit/TripAdvisor/set of Google Maps reviews. Just enough criticism to make you think there's fairness.

This is possible today, but gen AI has made/is making this pedestrian to do.
Valid, but, as I have learned, if someone really wants to find me, they probably can, unless I am willing to go to extraordinary lengths to remain anonymous, and I just don't have enough time, left on Earth, to warrant that.

Also, I kind of enjoy being the type of person that chooses not to go dark.
Not for everyday work but sometimes I need that change of pacing.
Japan demographic crisis is due to a mismanaged economy where many Japanese leave the country to find work. They are also not interested in mass immigration.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2018/11/12/perceptions-of...
I don't see where it says the Pro account has no ads, but I could be wrong.
Why does modern life often feel like the seven circles of digital hell?
Not everything needs to be spelled out for people who are too lazy to Google