skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this is very much wrong. To the extent that your square is close to perfect and its sides are actually 1m, it's diagonal is just as truly sqrt(2)m long. And a circle that you draw correctly enough with a radius of 1m will have its circumference actually equal to 2pi.

There is nothing more special about sqrt(2) than about 1, nor about a perfectly 90° angle versus a perfect circle. All of our drawings and constructions are approximations, but that doesn't make them naturally be integers or rationals any more than they are irrational.

In other words, it would be just as accurate to say that the sides of the physical square are not 1, but x*pi for a pretty small x (that is, they are ever so slightly curved) as it would be to say that the circle's circumference isn't really 2*pi, it's actually some rational number, because the square is actually some very very many sided polyhedron.

Even if we look at this from a purely physical perspective, elementary particles travel in perfectly straight lines and radiate in perfect circles in our models. And the directions of movement after a collision are not quantized, they can be arbitrary angles (just as space is not quantized, and in fact not even quantizable, in QM). And if you tried to look at a physical object and count the atoms to determine its length, you'd quickly find that it doesn't even have a constant number of atoms or a constant length, so in fact the least real concept is "an object of x meters in length", regardless of whether x is natural, rational, or irrational.
I mean, this could be phase 2 of career growth. Focus on personal growth first by surrounding by experts.
1953 Charlie Douglass "Laff Box"
Third party remotes do work on most TVs, I use a Nvidia Shield Remote on my TCL over bluetooth for example.
I cannot however turn the TV on using that remote. Having a dedicated Play/Pause Button is still worth it however.
> [...] hydrogen doesn't really have any real downsides compared to batteries but has plenty of upsides.

How about inefficiency? Conversion from electricity to hydrogen and back will get you only about 35% of the original energy. When using a hydrogen combustion engine instead of a fuel cell, comparison gets a little trickier, but at least the hydrogen generation will cost you about 35%.
There actually is, but it isn't the employer's responsibility. It's called Unemployment Insurance. The one-week waiting period is waived as part of the state of emergency declaration.
Induced demand means we’ll need more devs than we have right now since every dev can produce more value (anyone using cursor for a longer while should be able to confirm that easily).

The problem is different in the meantime: nobody wants to be paying for training of those new devs. Juniors don’t have the experience to call LLM’s bullshit and seniors don’t get paid to teach them since LLMs replaced interns churning out boilerplate.
Ok, you're guessing that current welfare recipients are uniformly imprudent and lack all virtue, rather than having some sizeable minority who are simply temporarily down on their luck. Let's grant your assumption, for the sake of this argument.

The biggest parts of the federal welfare budget by far are social security and medicare/medicaid. SS is simply a QBI, a UBI which is for qualified recipient instead of universal. So that's $1.4T saved, right there.

Medicare/Medicaid together are another $1.4T, and replacing them isn't automatic--a UBI high enough to cover contemporary American medical costs would be huge. I must note, though, that these exorbitant medical costs are being collectively paid by Americans anyway; if we switched to literally any other system--from Robin Hanson's "buy life insurance and medical care from the same company" to EU-style public/private insurance--we'd save enough for UBI from that alone.

The rest of welfare is comparitively penny-ante stuff--food stamps are only $120B, section 8 housing is $70B, etc. Even if we still had to provide Guaranteed Basic Food and Guaranteed Basic Housing in addition to UBI, it could still end up cheaper than our current system.

And even if it didn't, I stand by my observation that the GDP keeps going up. If we genuinely can't afford a UBI at a GDP of 27T, what about at 30T? That increase covers the entirety of the current spending on both social security and medical aid. If not at 30T, what about at 40T or 50T?
I agree that is a better use for excess power than just dumping it into a resistor, but why go through all the extra effort? Batteries are getting better and better and better, and choosing to use excess generated power to generate hydrogen seems like one step backward. Why waste so much power on a doubly inefficient process (losses from hydrogen production and then again during use) when you could just, you know....store the actual pure energy you need for everything else?

Even barring a great battery, there are dozens of other great ways to store energy. Pumped hydro is 80%+ efficient, and all you need is a pump and a hill, vs hydrogen electrolysis, which maxes at 80% efficency, and then hydrogen combustion, which is like 40%, on top of all the exotic equipment required for manufacturing.

By all appearances, it just seems like an absolute no brainer....I really dont get it
Weird as they seem at first, SQL null handling ends up being convenient the way it is. Part of this is because left/right join give you nulls.
As a small amount of data, my asking salary has never been less than the highest paid H1B at a company plus another $30k/yr, and I've always been offered more than I've asked, despite the H1B position being more senior. That doesn't prove wages being dragged down by itself, but it's evidence of H1B workers being paid less than the legally mandated "actual wage", and ECON 101 can take care of the rest in terms of the expected effects on the market.
> But he pointed out that only the species names had been changed, not the common name. Researchers, he said, can keep using HIV in papers the same way researchers use “mouse” and not mus musculus. (Critics argue that, with viruses, it’s not so simple, and note the new names have already tripped up such august bodies as the World Health Organization.)
It seems like Toyota is going big on hybrids lately using the powertrains they developed through the Prius line. Every new Camry, Crown, and Sienna is a hybrid. The Corolla can be upgraded to a hybrid for only $1,500. Both of Toyota's trucks can be a hybrid and all of Toyota's Crossover/SUVs has a hybrid version, with the Crown Signia, Land Cruiser, Sequoia, and Venza only coming as a hybrid. Toyota even offers plug-in hybrids of its popular RAV4 SUV and Prius, offering 42 or 44 mile all-electric range respectively.

Basically every major vehicle Toyota makes comes as a hybrid. The GR86, GR Supra, and GR Corolla (Gazoo Racing) don't come as a hybrid, but they're niche performance-tuned gas vehicles. Oh, and the hydrogen Mirai and battery-electric bZ4X aren't hybrid. But Toyota is nearly all-in on Hybrids now.

And they're also pushing hybrids through other brands. Subaru is integrating Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive into upcoming Crosstrek, Forester, and Legacy models. The Mazda CX-50 hybrid doesn't just borrow Toyota's hybrid system, but even Toyota's engine.

Oh, and like Toyota, their Lexus division has hybrids for most of their models. 5 of their 6 SUV lines and 2 of their 3 sedan lines.

Plus, the Prius line itself is finally a car that gets accolades for more than just its fuel economy with Car and Driver saying, "Long the butt of jokes about tree huggers and science projects gone awry, the Prius has become swan-like in appearance and unexpectedly enjoyable to drive." They even ranked the Prius #2 in compact cars, ahead of the enthusiast-liked Mazda 3.

It can always be argued that companies could do more, but at least recently Toyota seems to be making a huge push for hybrid vehicles and even making some of their biggest vehicle lines (like the Camry) hybrid-only.
I see your point: Facebook is known for having “shadow profiles” on people who have never used Facebook in their lives.

So to them, “this is the profile we’ve decided is amy “ and “this one isn’t.” Even if it is….
Yes, knowledge is just a different form of nutrition.
Congrats on launch. I watched the demo video, the UI looks nice. Is it possible to write raw Python or SQL to query data? Do you have automatic interval refresh of data? What databases do you support?
I guess I'm pretty dumb cuz when I hear about the government asking Facebook to censor stuff and they do, sorry, when I hear about the government asking Facebook to kick someone they don't like out of the party because they're saying inconvenient things about the government and they do, it sounds like the government censorship.
SQLite has its own use cases. And MySQL was all-around better than Postgres in the past, so it still has more usage in some areas. Nowadays I'll take Postgres over MySQL by default, but it's not a huge difference.
There's a separate announcement showing some support and asking everyone in LA to WFH, which isn't mentioned in the article

Also not updating the RTO portal won't cause any penalty from what I've heard, and ppl can update the WFH status anytime, e.g. marking their whole month as natural disaster WFH in advance if they really care, which no one really does
moonwalking with Einstein is about a man who decides to get into memory competitions upon learning it's more skill based than he realized. this in turn helped me develop more confidence in my own abilities with day to day routine and not be afraid to try new things i never considered myself naturally good at
If you can avoid learning SQL or the underlying DBMS then great, I have no problem with people ignoring things that are ignore-able. Problem is you can't. You will need to learn the DBMS, and the ORM will end up just getting in the way of what you really want to do.
Because they normally have mandatory work-from-office days during which you're not allowed to WFH. So now you can get an exception for that
Telli (YC F24) is hiring product engineers in Berlin, Germany (in-person)
Yeah I got sick, had diagnosis from a doctor, and they denied my claim for a bunch of bullshit reasons. It took them 2 months to finally tell me I was denied. Just to recieve a fucking fax took 24-48 hours. They delay and delay as much as they can and will pull every trick to deny you. Then when they finally deny you, you just get a letter and your only way to appeal is by mail. They don't even have the decency to make your "representative" call you and tell you. Insurance is a scam.

FMLA is also only good for 12 weeks a year. And FMLA only says that they can't fire you or cancel your benefits for being sick or caring for a family member, it doesn't give you any other benefits.
> A total of 2.62 million passenger cars were sold in December, meaning the NEV penetration rate was 52.6%.

> Between January and November, BEV share was 58%, while PHEV share was 42% in China.

https://carnewschina.com/2025/01/08/early-data-shows-record-...
Aside from the fact it persistently confuses linear time and constant time, it is good.
Right; and houses release those toxic fumes when they're on fire. If poisoning other structures with your house fire was an actionable tort, insurance would incentivize owners (and builders) to make houses that were less likely to catch on fire and poison others, and/or find less toxic building materials and furnishings.
> ... it doesn't really feel like Factorio any more...

Something that stands out is that Space Age is more of an adventure (overcome challenges in series) where Factorio the base game was a sandbox (challenges can be handled in parallel).

In the base game, if someone doesn't like rail then they can just ignore it for an entire playthrough. Ditto nuclear/solar, most military techs, most other logistics, and so on. If someone likes yellow belts and coal power that can carry them through an entire playthrough. If you don't like Gleba/spoilage, you can't skip it because it is necessary to see any parts of the game gated behind it which is Aquilo onwards. Heaven help you if you don't like how space platforms work, because they gate everything and are quite unique compared to the rest of the game which some players must hate.
This paper you linked didn't solve anything. Please read it, and stop spreading misinformation:

>> However, patients may not tolerate such a CR diet for prolonged time. Therefore, as alternative, it has been proposed an intermittent fasting regimen, whose beneficial effects also appear promising though somehow controversial in preclinical settings. This will require further elucidation in controlled clinical trials.

Have you spoken to oncologists and cancer nutritionists? I have.
Every company I worked for had 10 sick days. I’m on my 10th job

I can’t remember ever coming close to using those. But I can’t imagine any company I have worked for being a stickler for my going over slightly. But besides Amazon and General Electric, I’ve always worked for small companies

Funny enough, the company I work for now only gives us 9 sick days. But we have “unlimited” PTO.

It’s weird that they do that they do that
Have they moved away from Web3 rubbish?
Look into immunotherapy trials at hospitals like UCSF. They might have pre-existing conditions which would make them in-eligible however. In any case, try to spend as much time with them as possible; you won't regret anything when they pass.
Rollable screens to roll out of Samsung factories from April
I’m making a joke that a lot of existing work product is already bullshit that has to be generated by humans so we may as well automate that.
That's not sane at all, because then you can't send e.g. Japanese arguments to tools that support wide chars or have UTF-8 codepage in their manifest. And then there's yet another difference between Python versions to trip you up. And why should the default not allow internationalisation? Doesn't fit with the idea of Python 3.
Awarded you a point for this top tip. Really hate my samsung tv’s software. Because of that I use an apple tv to control it anyways.
I have basically the same setup. I like it, and agree its probably one of the best setups, but to be fair its still a user hostile battle field.

Apple has their dark pattern approach to promote the Apple TV+ service. Netflix refuses to participate in the global search. Apple constantly injecting ads about their content into other content.
I can back this up. I work as an FPGA engineer, which is very much an amalgam of software, "firmware" (RTL), and hardware. If I find a software bug or want to spin up something quickly on the HPS (on chip CPU) it might take me a few days - the reward cycle is really quick. Hardware issues on the other hand might take months if not a year+ to fix depending on complexity, meaning the design cycle is long. It might involve multiple board respins because something has been incorrectly connected, whole redesigns because there was a baked in bug on the chip that we need to workaround, or there's some really ethereal signal integrity issue that can come up when working with high speed interfaces that nobody can work out why its failling 1/4000 times. It's fulfilling, but really is a slog at times for a smaller reward financially for something that cost so much more (12 hour day crunch times I've found are way more common in hardware).
In certain areas of the US maybe. I believe the average wage in the EU is actually higher than in the US. Need to look up the Source, which is hard because I'm on mobile right now.
Robotics hands down. Robots exist today with demonstrated value and are on every bit the hyper-growth curve in reality that LLM wrappers claim. Robots build everything from printed circuit boards to automobiles to other robots.

The term “agent” isn’t really even defined out of some effort to fundraise by establishing some price target anchor to NVIDIA.

The really honest and serious people in a space that could be called agents are people like Nick and Adrian at Cohere, and historically they’ve been both specific and honest about what they’re doing, they’ve often called it “tool use”, which is a real thing. If you want to work on agent type stuff I’d go talk to Cohere.

Nadella saying on camera that “AGENT” will replace all business software near term is all you need to know: Nadella is smart as hell and wildly well-informed. If he says outlandish shit like that?

He’s lying.
>>> [self driving cars are rmeote controlled] in all cases so far deployed, humans monitoring those cars from a remote location, and occasionally sending control inputs to the cars.

Wait, What now?

I have never heard this, but from the founder of CSAIL I am going to take it as a statement of fact and proof that basically every AI company is flat out lying.

I mean the difference between remote piloting a drone that has some autonomous flying features (which they do to handle lag etc) and remote driving a car is … semantics?

But yeah it’s just moving jobs from one location to another.
Yes.

In a few states, there is a state-run short-term disability insurance program that pays if you are sick. Some employers offer short-term disability insurance as part of their benefits package, which is also available to purchase privately. If you don't have this, you are on your own in the short term. If you or a family member are sick, your employer must give you job-protected unpaid leave for up to six months.

If you have a long-term disability, which is expected to last longer than a year or result in death, you are eligible for Social Security Disability payments and Medicare health insurance from the federal government. Again, some employers offer supplemental term disability insurance as part of their benefits package, and it is also available to purchase privately.
Ruby/tk: Tk interface module using tcltklib
> the word UNKNOWN itself isn't used in SQL

That leads to an even more confusing point, that some systems (at least SQLite) overloads NULL to mean UNKNOWN, for example `SELECT 1 WHERE NULL = (NULL = NULL)`.

And the dangerous thing about NULLs is not when they are explicitly used in the query as a literal (as I did for brevity), but when they appear in tables. It's perfectly reasonable to assume `SELECT COUNT( * ) FROM t;` should be the same as `SELECT COUNT( * ) from t WHERE t.x = t.x OR t.x <> t.x`, but they are not the same because the latter does not return NULL rows. This has lead to real query optimizer bugs. For more examples see this paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.14778/3551793.3551818
UBI sounds good on paper, and I was in favor of replacing the rest of our safety nets with it until 2019. The problem is, after trying it, as happened in lots of different places during the COVID lockdowns, way too many people will decide to live off of it alone while doing absolutely nothing useful.
> I think their focus should be to reduce resource usage on their side and make servers cheaper to run.

I'd like for them to expose their result cache. Lately I've hit a run of pages that have updated my result away. I have a result-blurb with the search result; I could use what comes before and after it.
I don't use multicursors much, not every year. I'm using emacs. I register a sequence of keys and apply it multiple times with control e, control e, control e etc.
I wouldn’t log into a portal. But if I could, I would at least send my manager/team a Slack message.
Electric car salesman praises party that is against electric cars
I'm not sure how I could have been more clear that I'm not suggesting we stop development on robotaxis or anything related to AI.

All I'm asking is that we take a moment to reflect on the people who won't be winners. Which is going to be a hell of a lot of people. And right now there is absolutely zero plan for what to do when these folks have one of the few remaining opportunities taken away from them.

As awful as the gig economy has been it's better than the "no economy" we're about to drive them to.
It's pretty much impossible to get work as a copywriter now
Samsung Display to Begin Mass Production of Rollable OLED for Laptops
I've never used Android, so the answers here are surprising. There's really no equivalent to iTunes/Finder that'll just back up your phone to a PC?
It’s highly annoying to me as well. I’m still paying for now, but since they started (I was using them in Beta), they’ve been slowly using towards the mainstream "implicit" behavior and away from "explicit" behavior. I now see myself quoting terms far more often, which has other disadvantages (no typo correction, diacritics becoming relevant, etc.).

It’s the same for regional searches. Used to be (until Dec 2023) I could search for an ambiguous term (e.g. a product name that’s the same in English and German) with "!de" for German regional search and get German results. Now that’s impossible as most results will be the same English pages I’d get with my normal international or US region.

Overall just not a fan of the direction they are moving in (which seems to be DDG with personalization and no ads, but no more expert search)
Great take on the potential of software career!

Could you please share any tips on how to not sign away right to have commercial side-projects?

Every employment contract I've seen recently seems to claim IP really broadly, e.g. "everything created in the course of employment belongs to you employer". The better the job otherwise, the harder this seems to fight. I have just recently quit a job just so I could work on a "side-project" but would be nice to have an income.
Well said, shows even the most accomplished humans have the same biases as the rest of us when not held accountable
A developer's struggle to make a game about the 1948 Nakba
I do not know if this will work but search for Beata Halassy

University of Zagreb researcher Beata Halassy treated her breast cancer with an unproven virus-based therapy using viruses she cultivated in her own lab.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/11/14/cancer-vir...
Maybe.

I’ve seen some pretty incompetent people just show up and play the game make it decently far. I prioritized learning first and got great offers right off the bat, but I definitely overdid it.

Different strategies for different people.
Seems like a good upgrade. Available in March for China; May for Australia.
There are, optimistically, significantly less than 10k Waymos operating today. There are a bit less than 300M registered vehicles in the US.
If the entire US automotive production were devoted solely to Waymos, it'd still take years to produce enough vehicles to drive any meaningful percentage of the daily road miles in the US.

I think that's a bit of a silly standard to set for hopefully obvious reasons.
At least some, if not the majority, is likely derived from the IP address used in the ad bidding process.

> Franaszek also says that “a significant amount of this geolocation dataset appears to be inferred by IP address to geolocation lookups, meaning the vendor or their source is deriving the user's geolocation by checking their IP address rather than by using GNSS [Global Navigation Satellite System]/GPS data. That would suggest that the data is not being sourced entirely from a location data SDK.”
This.

The only times i was really happy at work was when I was working with giants, people way smarter than me.

And then I made a turn to easy corporate jobs where progress was effortles by comparison and colleagues very eager to lay praise. This led to years of unhappiness and intellectual stagnation. (And money, but that hardly compensates, and I think a smart engineer can make money without having to work a dull corporate job).

Also, high praise in corporate environment often means no career progression past certain points. They already have their management buddies, and they need efficient engineers in the lower ranks.

Besides, robotics its where its at. Just ask where nVidia is investing. Or look at the demographics. Or anti-immigration politics in western countries. It will be robots all over the place within a few years.