skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask for an in-person interview instead of voluntarily encouraging more mass surveillance.
It doesn’t take BigTech salaries to do most of those things. We had a 3100 square foot house built in the Northern suburbs of Atlanta in the “good school system” for $335K. Going by the 28% rule, I would have only had to make around $100k.

We just sold the house last year for $670K. It would be around $5000 a month all in - principal + interest + insurance + property taxes + PMI. I did my calculations based on putting 5% down.

The median senior software engineer salary in Atlanta is $170K. Married with two incomes would easily make that affordable and accomplish other short and long term goals. Admittedly, I would probably move further out in the burbs or buy a smaller place in 2025.
How they move them is also fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguards_Transporter
Yeah, My concern is more opportunities to pass to people who may not be doing good flock hygiene too. A farm has better resources and training than a backyard flock.
> Rule by executive order is obviously only a problem when Democrats do it.

That is false equivalence. Obama's EOs would wind up going through the court system and getting overturned and ruled unconstitutional. The courts would tell him that he had committed executive overreach, and that what he wanted was the provenance of Congress, and that he needed to go do the hard work to get a law passed through that body.

Trump has already had EOs rules unconstitutional, and he's announced his intentions of ignoring the courts entirely. That violates our system of checks and balances, and is the comic-villian interpretation of what Obama was doing (he wasn't ever doing that).

What we have now is a CEO-President. And Companies don't have a representative Congress or Courts. The top-down hierarchical structure of the typical corporation would be called a dictatorship in the political sphere (particularly if the CEO owns >%50 of the voting shares). That isn't what our system of government is supposed to be. Arguably we shouldn't accept that in corporations, either, but at least we have some kind of freedom of association to quit and find another job.

Half the country has forgotten basic High School Civics 101 and "Separate but Equal" along with "Checks and Balances" and think this is entirely normal. But we aren't supposed to have one person who makes up the laws and enforces them, with no checks on their power. That would _accurately_ be described as a Dictator/King/Fascism or some other term in that general universe. The Constitution was written to prevent _exactly_ that.

And to reiterate, Obama was regularly checked by the Court system. Trump has indicated that he will ignore the Courts. That really is "crossing the Rubicon".

The only thing providing a check on Trump right now seems to be the stock market.
* my Co isn't outside the USA so your idea won't work.

* It's not about the money, I'm looking at moving for other reasons. I'd like to live reasonably without scraping by though. I heard COL in Dublin, Ireland and Netherlands was comparable to Seattle , WA. if this is true, and taxes are higher, my goose is cooked. However, on considering Cost of Living, I think I have it distorted a bit since the average wage is 55k in Dublin , and Google says it can rent out a decent 2 bedroom apartment, and live comfortably.

* Netherlands is facing a housing shortage, not sure if it's decent to move there.

* it looks like pay in FAANG does drop with country.

* I know the other ideas won't work - A work visa is required. Digital nomad possibly, or a Work Search Visa, but that seems more risky.
Let T[] denote "dynamic array of T": rope = string[] = char[][].

As I understand it, usually each line of text is in its own memory buffer.
Depending on which European country it's not necessarily forbidden. "Compliance reasons" may also mean "the company must pay overtime at the appropriate rate" and they just don't want to deal with that.
> Prop 13 was passed on the back of California choosing to redistribute school funding away from local communities where the taxes were paid.

> The result was predictable. Nobody wants to pay higher taxes that don't go to their kids or communities.

So the solution to school inequality should have been to enshrine both income inequality and real estate segregation in education funding policy?

> More to the point, school costs are also out of control. Average tax spend on k-12 education in California is ~25k per student, or 750k for a 30 student class.

It's closer to $20k (18th highest among US states)

https://www.ppic.org/publication/financing-californias-publi...

Also, FTA:

"When differences in labor costs across states are accounted for, California drops to 34th."

So California has very high labor costs, driven up by the insane housing costs, which are yet again enshrined by the provisions of Proposition 13 (and its accompanying phenomenon of NIMBYism).
Maybe where you live, I don't know. I was living in the US at the time and in early 2019 adamant.com built me a TR 2990WX machine with ECC.

Here's a current catalogue customisable much cheaper machine from them with ECC:

https://www.adamant.com/adamant-custom-intel-xeon-e3-series-...
Mostly. The inability to include pdf figures is an annoyance that forces a change in workflow compared to tex. That and needing to submit .tex files for journal publication.
The article you linked is not an example of this happening. Google open-sourced the chip design method, and uses it in production for TPU and other chips.

https://github.com/google-research/circuit_training

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/how-alphachip-transfor...
If congress has this power, how is the current executive accomplishing this?
*arctic
Nobody buys Apple products anymore because they’re too popular? Or maybe they’d be more popular if people bought fewer devices? I can’t make any sense out of what you’re saying.

What if, and I know this is a crazy thought but what if people aren’t buying Apple products mindlessly? What if they buy them because they like them? Maybe they’d didn’t buy the mini phones because they didn’t like them.
Well, it must all come from a singularity some time before the Big Bang.

Yet, when I turn the radio on, music really does seem to come out of it.

And when I turn the radio off, the music stops (for me, but not for you).

Without the radio there is no sound, but the radio needs a signal.

Does the radio make the music? Quite an interesting metaphor.
There are plenty of historical examples showing that appeasement does not work, it enables the aggressor to continue being aggressive.
We certainly know what makes bad developers:

* decision anxiety

* fear of writing original ideas, both natural language and code

* the inability to measure things

* preference towards bias

* cognitive conservatism

* inability to form assertion criteria

Real engineers proceed on the basis of evidence and in the absence of evidence make arbitrary original decisions as necessary to gather evidence.
On average, we inhale 20 lbs of air per day. This is greater by weight than the food or water we consume in a day. We should be paying a lot more attention to air quality.
I have checked this route out. I have German heritage, but it was before 1890 that they migrated, and records are spotty. The ancestry citizenship is only for immigration after 1920 or so.
I've seen the alphagrip, but is it an easy thing to get used to? Like does it kind of map similar fingers to similar buttons?
FindMy relies on the device either connecting to the Internet or pinging a nearby device that does. This would mean Macs always visible in FindMy
Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th
So, let's say I follow 4k people in the example and have a 50% drop rate. It seems a bit weird that if all (4k - 1) accounts I follow end up posting nothing in a day, that I STILL have a 50% chance that I won't see the 1 account that posts in a day. It seems to me that the algorithm should consider my feed's age (or the post freshness of my followers). Am I overthinking?
> My wife's a doctor who sees a lot of Medicare patients, and she warns all of them about Medicare Advantage.
>
> Don't do it.

could you please explain in more detail why a move to medicare advantage from regular medicare is a bad decision?

i'm asking because a family member is on regular medicare but is being pressured to move to an advantage plan. i would like some facts to help bolster his decision to stay on regular medicare (since i've also heard MA is a bad idea). thanks in advance.
ikr, it had amazing camera and ran the latest linux kernel /s
So, if I understand correctly, you are saying that many (actually most) Cauchy sequences converge to uncomputable numbers. I think I understand a bit more, though I still have an issue with defining such a Cauchy sequence, because either I can describe it exactly (in which case the number it converges to can have an infinite expansion but it's computable, like pi) or I cannot define it exactly, in which case I don't know what number it converges to. I think my gap is that I don't understand how these constructions differ from programs. By program I mean a sequence of instructions, which may have an infinite number of steps because of loops, but it still has a finite description. I agree that all such programs are countable. Do you mean programs with an infinite description?
Note that in this scenario, we’ve never even heard of radio stations or radio waves before.
My first computer as well! I remember typing game code from a magazine and saving it to the cassette tape. My big Christmas present the next year was the giant expansion box with the floppy drive.
It is a pretty unfounded claim.

Singapore holds the headquarters of a lot of SEA megacorporations, as well as regional HQs of big tech in both USA/China.

These chips are bought from these HQs and redistributed to the rest of the world (Singapore is a major shipping hub).
India imports chips through their HQs in Singapore, so does Australia, Saudi Arabia, Europe, America, etc.

Maybe you could make the case that shady companies are exporting to China, but I am fairly skeptical as there are already American officials in Singapore collaborating to investigating this issue
This reminds me of a paper: "The ALCHEmist: Automated Labeling 500x CHEaper Than LLM Data Annotators"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11004

In essence, LLMs are quite good at writing the code to properly parse large amounts of unstructured text, rather than what a lot of people seem to be doing which is just shoveling data into an LLM's API and asking for transformations back.
I'm curious what DigiKey is doing with regard to custom enclosures, but this "prove you're a human" test is ridiculous - I'm not that curious.
Yeah it basically is just an if-else or switch block.

type BlobStore interface { /* methods */ }

// later, when initializing stuff
var foo BlobStore
switch {
case isAzure:
foo = AzureBlobStore{}
default:
foo = FSBlobStore{}
}

svc1 := NewSvc1(foo)

// Constructors are just functions and are totally
// convention/arbitrary. If the fields are public you
// can instantiate the struct directly.
svc2 := Svc2{ BlobStore: foo }
Using RN doesn’t preclude need for native devs except for the most basic things like local restaurant wrapper apps. As scale increases (codebase complexity, app feature set, number of users, etc), the more you’ll need someone who understands and can work with all the native bits that leaky abstractions like RN wrap.
> But have you thought about how you’re contributing to air pollution inside of where you live by using seemingly innocuous products like scented, non-combustible candles?

What is a non-combustible candle? Searching for "flame-free candle" just gives results for fake LED ones. The rest of the article talks about "scented wax melts" are they the same?
Submarine Brahmos also does this apparently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA3M75ry_S0
How much boosting do you get?

So you get construction ...

But staffing after that, most big data-centers really focus on having as little staffing as possible. They're big, but I don't think they are big employers. I used to visit some BIG data centers that were largely unmanned.
I'm using the official android app. There has been an update or two so I'll have to confirm it's still happening
This link (which is not underlined and so easy to miss, boooo) includes videos and more: https://wyiguanw.github.io/WonderHuman/
And the OG SE was significantly cheaper, even after adjusting for inflation. But it only received 6.5 years of regular iOS updates. It was released mid-cycle with iOS 9, and iOS 15 is the last supported version. You may be counting the later security updates, but that doesn’t help with app compatibility.
Why didn't you submit a story about those devices?
See https://safecpp.org/

The committee basically turned it down.
Why is the world continuing to allow gain of function at WIV? It really highlights China’s irresponsible approach, and makes it even more likely that COVID-19 started there.
I always felt like the Sun and Cisco certs were more about creating people that would push their products on other companies.

Big Tech / Unicorn / Wannabe Unicorn prescreens are all basically standardized now anyway.
I've experienced it with "first-party" posts, not replies. A post wouldn't show in my timeline but would on the user's profile. This is the official android app, but there has been an update or two so I'll have to double check again
It isn't that bad in the comment sections of German newspapers, where people are more open to diverse opinions. If a center right newspaper like "Die Welt" or "Focus" writes an anti Russian article, you can easily have 80% of 1000 comments demanding peace negotiations and ending the whole business. And they are real comments, because the German is so idiomatic with regional dialects that it would be hard to fake even for an AI.

Also in the Financial Times the comments sections can be split 50/50.

By the way, the excessive use of the "Russian hacker" meme has been a source of amusement in the German hacker scene even before 2022.
Most of them got there for lack of interest in dietary change, so pushing a cure they have repeatedly rejected is not likely to be successful.

We see this with obesity. "Diet and exercise" has been the standard offering for decades. On a population level, it is worthless. You could say the same about Ozempic, but Ozempic is the only thing that has led to any meaningful weight loss on a population level besides famine.

American hospitals are frankly full of people who can't even use their insulin.
I wonder just how bad those essential oil diffusers are, compared with, say, smoking, laser printers, and tyre microplastics.
> Side note: Medicare advantage is the worst. If you have an elderly relative, make sure they stay on traditional Medicare.

could you please explain further? why is MA worse than regular medicare? a family member is being pressured to move from regular medicare to advantage, and i need some facts to help them see why advantage plans are worse than regular medicare. thank you.
People really do be throwing AI onto anything and everything these days
No, you got it all wrong - it's the end of the free lunch! It's the death of Uncle Sucker! The EU has twice the population of America and was once a bigger economy, so why should Americans have to fund the careless and luxurious lifestyle of Europeans?! Enough is enough!
Due to living in an HOA, our family is considering raising quail for their eggs instead of chickens. The HOA would likely still consider it a violation, but I don't see how we can get in much trouble other than having to get rid of the birds. I understand that they are nearly as productive as chickens, but don't make the noise that chickens make. The only thing stopping us is the summer heat in in a desert area. I'm not sure that 105 degree weather is humane for even birds to live outside in.
I've been interviewing a bunch of developers the past year or so, and this:

> Architectural interviews are likely safe for a few years yet. From talking to people who have run these, it’s evident that someone is using AI. They often stop with long pauses, do not quite explain things succinctly, and do not understand the questions well enough to prompt the correct answer. As AI gets better (and faster), this will likely follow the same fate as the rest but I would give it some years yet.

Completely matches my experience. I don't do leet code BS, just "let's have a talk". I ask you questions about things you tell me you know about, and things I expect of someone at the level you're selling yourself at. The longest it's taken me to detect one of these scumbags was 15 minutes, and an extra 5 minutes to make sure.

Some of them make mistakes that are beyond stupid, like identity theft of someone who was born, raised and graduated in a country whose main language they cannot speak.

The smartest ones either do not know when to stop answering your questions with perfect answers (they just do not know what they're supposed to not know), or fumble their delivery and end up looking like unauthentic puppets. You just keep grinding them until you catch em.

I'm sure it's not infallible, but that's inherent to hiring. The only problem with this is cost, you're going to need a senior+ dev running the interview, and IME most are not happy to do so. But this might just be what the price of admission for running a hiring pipeline for software devs is nowadays. Heck, now feels like a good time to start a recruitment process outsourcing biz focused on the software industry.
If less than 0.5% of users upload over 100hrs, then either this is an extreme penny pinching move, or some few in that 0.5% upload a massive overage of content.
Yeah, it's aided by better computational models, but not appreciably by having those models run on chips with smaller feature sizes.

If a time traveler from the future gave everyone at ASML and TSMC computers that ran 4 times as quickly so they could run their models faster, but no one could take a look at how they worked or were made, it wouldn't have any noticeable effect.
No mention of RAM either.
On a related note, in the last 1 to 2 years there has already begun a shift in terms of multi-national investment in APAC outside of Singapore.

Singapore used to be the obvious location for MNC offices in APAC. Especially since Hong Kong's return to China, Singapore has benefited and see an increase in head offices and employment.

However, over the last couple of decades surrounding countries have improved significantly. Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand to name a few. Layer on top the ever increasing cost of living in Singapore and the latest trend is MNCs moving their offices outside of Singapore.

The benefit is a lower cost of operation including office rent and employee wages and it will be interesting to see how the trend continues. Not sure if that will help the process of locating datacenters in those countries as well, I guess we'll see.
confident slop.
Hmm. Twitter/X appears to do this at quite a low number, as the "Following" tab is incredibly lossy (some users are permanently missing) at only 1,200 followed people.

It's insanely frustrating.

Hopefully you're adjusting the lossy-ness weighting and cut-off by whether a user is active at any particular time? Because, otherwise, applying this rule, if the cap is set too low, is a very bad UX in my experience x_x
That’s… infringement of copyright material, no?
I believe this is a strange way to refer to wickless candles, which are used with candle warmers.
>Ah, you only get your information from zionist propaganda.

I wouldn't agree with that, what I try to do is to gather the news the best I can, try to include the historical context and then try to reason about where the conflict exists. My intent with this process requires that by necessity I DO try to see the other side(s), because conflicts often arise from incompatible worldviews, so what are these worldviews?

Often with these long standing beefs, there is a chain of hostile actions met by more hostile actions by opposing sides or interests. I think the reason that the october 7 action is now forgotten was that it was sudden and ended pretty quickly for obvious reasons.

Is the destruction in Gaza disproportionate in nature, well it clearly looks that way, but on the other hand if I shoplift a candy bar and get arrested, the consequences are not comparable in magnitude to the price of the candy bar, heck its often hundreds of times more severe :)

>No point talking to you then :)

Its fine if you don't like to discuss things like this, I understand the frustration. Drilling down into these subjects seems suspiciously close to work and I know many of us just post here for fun. I do it to cultivate a "slander free" posting style and avoid things like assuming what sources of information others exclusively subscribe to.
* yeah, I know that salary is not attainable in Europe, I'm ready to say goodbye to that as long as I can live decently without scraping by.

* Your guess to my reason for leaving is accurate. I've also wanted to see Europe for awhile, and was planning to go relocate and travel there before 2024, the recent issues in the news just provides another reason.

* in Europe, I have less of a chance of getting shot by police, better healthcare, and more walkable cities that I can get to on a weekend getaway. I'm all for that.
Is there a list?
No-one wants to acknowledge it, but elitism works. Hanging out with a bunch of people who are better (on whatever metric you care to pick) is just a lot more pleasant than hanging out with the unwashed masses, as well as making you more productive etc..

Of course the flip side is that those who are excluded don't benefit, so I suspect it's all zero-sum or worse.
Elmo can sue those people, too!
Show HN: Intentional App – Block distractions with schedules
Supermicro X13SWA-TF Motherboard (16 DIMM slots with Xeon W-3500)= ~$1,000

E-ATX case = ~$300

Power Supply= ~$300

Xeon W-3500 (8 channel memory) = $1339 - $5889

Memory = $300-$500 per 64GB DDR5 RDIMM

Memory will be the major cost. The rest will be around $5,000. A lot less than "$100,000"!
In the same vein[1], there's actually a lumped parameter model of the cardiovascular system[2]. ie: there is an analogous electrical model for how our blood flows.

1. intended

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumped_parameter_model_for_the...
In the US and Canada, to get into university, there is, or at least used to be, a standard entrance exam or something close to it (the SAT in the US, OAC scores if you were from Ontario, Canada, etc..).

Additionally, Undergraduate programs in the US and Canada, at least used to, despite their varied reputation, have a pretty standard program.

Maybe things have deteriorated so far at the high school and university level that new standardized exams are needed. But we also have a plethora of verifiable certifications whose exams are held in independent test facilities.
The nuance here, based on the EO, is rank file and employees of these agencies must now rely on the sole interpretation of the law by either the president or the AG instead of themselves. These _were_ independent agencies who handled their own interpretation of the law.

If you combine this EO with the Supreme Court immunity decision, there may very well be a situation where a rank and file employee acts illegally based on the president's interpretation of the law. This would create a situation where there is a legal challenge about whether a member of the executive branch should be granted the same immunity privileges as the president since they are an extension of the president. You can imagine where things will head if we end up on the wrong side of this decision.
Lumped parameter model for the cardiovascular system
I do the exact same thing, and have the exact same result (my gf can't even tell it's on with her eyes closed). I use a Wurkkos HD15R, which according the manual uses a 660nm light (Luminus SST-20-DR-B120-V660), mainly got it for walking/camping but would recommend for any situation a light is needed.