skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am an engineering manager for a large team of developers. Part of my job is to estimate the cost and potential revenue of big projects. I have a spreadsheet of everyone's salaries (including bonus compensation, other perks).

I've done the math at my own company: average developer salary is approximately $100k. Our largest teams have 10 developers, so about $1M in labor costs. These teams work on projects that bring the company $10M every year.

We literally earn $1,000,000 for every $100,000 developer salary. Developers are some of the most productive workers in the world, but only keep 10-20% of the fruits of their own labor.

I am shocked that developers haven't figured this out. Almost all of the value they create goes into the pockets of their CEO.
TFA warned against using bottles other than soda because soda bottles are made to withstand a lot of pressure. Others may or may not.

I don't imagine ANY plastic bottle survives too many lift-offs.
No? Privately owned utilities with guaranteed return rates will charge more to guarantee those return rates. A publicly owned utility would be fine operating at 0% returns.
Putting the Ghost in the Shell: Integrating Claude Computer Use in WebVM
But how can you find out what time your mom texted you to meet? Surely, you don't mean open the text app, find the thread with your mom, and then scroll looking for it. Do you? Surely, the world couldn't function like that. We'd be staring at our screens all day doom scrolling in various apps looking for whatever info you needed. That's just not how the world works.
I came here to type all of these thoughts, and found you'd already expressed them (and more). Even the bit about making my own command line tool.

Agree!
That's extremely useful.

Should it be also stated in documentation? Yes, tooltips alone should not be acceptable. But here they are doing their job; that's why they are called tooltips, because they give you tips about an option that might otherwise feel obscure.
Well, the core idea is to train a text encoder and an image encoder jointly with in-batch negatives. In other words, a two tower model maximizing the diagonal and minimizing everything else. They have pseudo code in the paper.
Because managing all those dishes still takes a lot of time. Taking heap of dirty dishes, cutlery and whatnot, pre-clean if something nasty is already dried to them, arrange them efficiently, and then afterwards taking them all back to their places.

That's maybe 7 minutes on average combined. It takes probably longer to write some meaningful post here (with some corrections), but we are spoiled these days, pretty irrational, and consider our free time our most important aspect. Some people would prefer eating broccoli or spinach paste to managing dishwasher.

Also, if somebody expects me to fork out 20k for some assistant, there are no limits what I can and should expect out of it. Heck, you can have modern-day slaves for less in most modern societies, not even going into less developed ones.
I think you are being downvoted a bit unfairly, but you're also not fully right either.

I'm pretty sure that who you are friends with matters much more for failing upwards. Who you know is very overvalued in today's business climate unfortunately

Your post-secondary really only has influence because it somewhat influences who you wind up being connected to

DEI stuff like race and sex... Might matter sometimes. It shouldn't be controversial to say that companies in general take that into account more nowadays than in the past.

It's not a secret that if a company in 2025 has a very white male executive team, then a board of directors has some incentive to try and hire women and minorities into the executive team when they can to balance that out
It is gonna be a very bumpy ride if not all the wheel makers are in agreement.
Such a great observation. I find this broadly applies to every aspect of humanity but especially government, more so than corporations could ever manage. Corporations at least have SOME competitive pressure, much less scope, many more constraints and far less power.
Do you spend any time in care centers, trade shops, commercial orchards, commercial uniform vendors?

Here's just one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwE-LPS01lk

20 seconds of effort will find you 100 more.
Sync, in general, is a very complex topic. There are past examples, such as just trying to sync contacts across different platforms where no definitive solution emerged. One fundamental challenge is that you can’t assume all endpoints behave fairly or consistently, so error propagation becomes a core issue to address.

Returning to the contacts example, Google Contacts attempts to mitigate error propagation by introducing a review stage, where users can decide how to handle duplicates (e.g., merge contacts that contain different information).

In the broader context of sync, this highlights the need for policies to handle situations where syncing is simply not possible beyond all the smart logic we may implement.
Sorry, my wording wasn't clear and neither was my direction. I'm mainly talking to the people you replied to, since I find they're pulling a lot less weight in the whole "good faith" endeavor.
The computer-controlled pellet loading mechanism provides great smokey, BBQ flavor without the need to continually monitor temperature in person. This allows for long cooks - say, 14 hours with a brisket - without the need to continually check in or be present at the grill. It also provides wifi notifications when the grill is up to temp and when the meat is up to temp. Delicious results with substantially less work than conventional grills.
> What's going on with the US government?

More important question is 'What's going on with the US people?'

Are they "just following orders"?
Now you just recreated ipv6 minus the benefits it brings.
Sure in an ideal world we don't need to worry about resources and everything is easy. There are very good reason why they are separated now. There have been systems like 4th dimension and K that combine them for decades. They're great for systems of a certain size. They do struggle once their workload is heavy enough, and seem to struggle to scale out. Being able to update my application without updating the storage engine reduces the risk. Having standardized backup solutions for my RDBMS means is a whole level of effort I don't have to worry about. Data storage can even be optimized without my application having to be updated.
> Yes, but we seem to have plateaued there.

By headcount, but I am not sure that tells the whole story. After all, a retiree who owns farmland, but lets another farmer do the work, can still be legally considered a farmer himself. I suspect even the average farmer working in the fields is spending considerably less time there than he would have in the past.

And that's with most farmers not even using the latest and greatest technology. If we imagine a world where only the highest capacity state-of-the-art machines are put to use, a lot of the farmers would struggle to find any work to do.
James O'Keefe is a liar and a con.
If this wasn't executed by the FSB, then they're at least furiously taking notes.
U.S. people "just following orders" it seems.
>> The same is true of anything where all the value is in the bytes -- news, film, music, the written word.

Good point. I consider those "media or content" to be "played", "read", "watched" whereas software is more a thing to be used - or a set of capabilities added to a physical thing. Video games OTOH are software meant to be played so that occupies both of my mental categories. Stop it! You're making me think! ;-)
It's not looking good and the other alternative airports in the UK are at full capacity:

"Heathrow Doesn't Know When Power Will Be Back, Days of Disruption Expected" - https://www.newsweek.com/heathrow-airport-fire-counterterror...

If the entire transformer is lost, procuring replacement transformers for substations can take from several months to years. Insulation failures are relatively common in older power substations. It seems someone should have done a better job preparing disaster recovery scenarios for Heathrow.

Edit:

BBC reporting "some power" restored on a "interim basis" as the power company is now using a different substation. It would be curious if the increased effort on other substations would then cause further power failures...A bit like the postmortems of global cloud providers, where taking a node out, causes increased stress on other nodes...
Privitise the profits, socialise the losses. Makes perfect sense.

Also makes sense to pay for enough brainwashing to enable this.
Canada Prepares to Join E.U. Military Industry Buildup
Ok, I see. I implemented an object database based on the Sqlite backend some time ago for CrossLine and other applications, which includes ideas of MUMPS and also uses unicode collating algorithms implemented in Qt, but it's c++, see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Udb/blob/master/Idx.cpp.
Almost every comment is negative.
From Apple’s point of view, this is not worrying. Look at people you know who are not in IT and software. They use AI for information and solutions, not expecting an agent. And since Apple Intelligence successfully proxies that function to ChatGPT, this is covered for Apple.
You don’t have your relative asking when it’s going to be agent-level help from it.
Regular people don’t expect new this and new that from a device; they accept it as it is, and convincing them to move away from Apple would take years of them seeing how someone else uses another platform. The same time it took you to convince them that Apple is a better platform and worth buying their next phone or computer.
Not to forget that the majority of the public think of Apple and its simplicity of UX as a top-level product with a justified top-level price, that you buy when you get promoted/retire/become rich.

Apple could have five years just refreshing and adding nothing new before they feel the market share fall badly. And ten years or more to do nothing and be in a situation with no return. Neither of those will happen. It would be more worrying if there was no reshuffling of executives.
The fact that this is your ratio should have told you, if you engaged your brain, that this was one of the most efficient and above-board programs of all time.
I don't think NASA is having any problem finding room in their budget for soda bottles.
The key word in "birthday" is "birth". Not conception.

For human cultural purposes, you are 0 days old at the time and date recorded for your birth. It goes on your birth certificate. If you find a culture that celebrates conceptiondays and issues conception certificates, let me know.
My org capture template from bernt Hanson's website clocks in and out giving you a timestamp. There is a "note" capture type.

https://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
As somebody who has written both COBOL and APL, I can assure you that they are both obsolete.
I tried to search for "migration" in the docs but found nothing ? What do you do if you want to modify your schema?
I don’t know python but I figured out immediately that it should print ['C', 'B']. Does it? If not, Python is just wrong.
> Heathrow carries over 50% of air freight and is a major hub.

Not denying it, but it does depend on what you're sending.

For example, if you send something by DHL, it has a significantly greater chance of going through East Midlands Airport than it does Heathrow.

Same for UPS and others. The bulk of their recent investments have been away from Heathrow.

The non-Heathrow sites have better road connections, and more importantly for air cargo, the noise abatement rules at non-Heathrow sites are more relaxed.

The other problem with Heathrow is that BA have their finger in the pies and they have too many slots, so that limits any growth on the independent freight side.

Heathrow has effectively hit its capacity limit. That may or may not change if they ever build the third runway.
I remember thinking that the humanoid robotics revolution was imminent after seeing ASIMO walk around 2010[0], but after observing the slapstick comedy that was the DARPA Robotics Challenge around 2015[1], it seemed that we had actually made zero progress. But I haven't felt that way in years!

My feeling at this point is that the best humanoid robots have, from a hardware perspective, surpassed the "minimally viable product" threshold. By this I mean that they are physically capable of completing enough tasks that would make them worthwhile a worthwhile product. They are physically capable of walking the dog, folding the laundry, picking up the living room, bringing in the groceries, etc. It's possible that there are reliability issues to address, but given that the newest generation of bots are fully electric, it's hard to imagine that this is a more difficult problem than those they've already solved.

At this point, we're just waiting on the software to catch up. And surely this problem seems far more doable today than it did 20 years ago, given all the progress we've made in machine vision and machine learning!

We'll know that the robotics revolution is truly imminent when the big players start pouring capital into development. Tesla has already joined the fray. I expect more will follow in the next few years.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA0xLVCb-OA
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo
> London hub expects significant disruptions for days after fire breaks out at electrical substation

I can't read the whole article but it's not clear to me what an electrical substation has to do with wind?
Ou!! really checking it out.
Some of the damage is sticking.
That's why I do it for fun on weekends
Unfortunately, a hard constraint of (state-based) CRDTs is that merging causally concurrent changes must be commutative. ie it is possible that clients will not be able to agree on the order of CRDT operations, and they must be able to arrive at the same state after applying them in any order.
I'm definitely a wheel re-inventor (in the educational and entrepreneur sense), and I've come across the same learning points myself. Recently, I just started blogging about my little wheels, and I think its been one of the most satisfying aspects of working on a project!
You would, if English were logical as opposed to being a randomly-evolved cultural practice. With computer languages we have the opportunity to fix the mistakes of the past and do better.
perfect timing to lobby for a third runway and to fail.

A third runway that has no power source backup set up and running

My god! Even I have a backup power supply in my old caravan.

I must say. I am enjoying the peace and quiet.

I live about 4 miles from heathrow and depending on he wind direction, directly under the flight path. I sometimes hear plane taking off at 2.30am. The noise is like a hell.

I certainly do not want a third runway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_Hauser

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0369567/

https://archive.today/YS1wJ (Facebook announcement)
Obligatory UK translation here: If you're reading this in the UK, when he writes "Director", the nuance is different. In the UK, this means Company Director most of the time, although the US influence is changing this.
Seriously, why aren't more people talking about how good o3-mini is for code generation?

If feels all the hype is always around the latest models, Claude 3.7, GPT 4.5, but honestly, if you're a developer, o3 seems to be far better at coding (backed by the official OpenAI numbers). It feels hands down like the best model out there right now, AND it is one of the relatively cheaper ones, certainly compared to the newer releases by OpenAI or other model vendors.
Model rocketry is a gateway drug for STEM. I bought my son an Estes model rocket kit when he was about 11. Now he is studying aerospace and astronautic engineering at university.

There are some fantastic model rocketry competitions for youngsters. There is one running in the UK right now (Google 'UKROC') and equivalent ones in the USA, France and Japan. Plenty of guidance is available and it isn't dangerous if you are sensible. We entered a team into UKROC 2 years running and had an amazing time.
Even as an entry level business analyst you’re probably make more than a COBOL programmer. Don’t touch it.
When I was doing actuarial work all ages were age next birthday. So you start at age 1!
Also this one is terrifying if combined with the fitness instructor :

"*scream* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!"
> It’s only adversarial because you want to get as much pay as possible out of them for as little productivity as possible.

And the employer wants to pay the employee as little as possible for as much productivity as possible.

In a perfect world with perfect information and rational actors on a level playing field, this is great: we expect supply and demand to converge, this is econ 101.

But it's not a perfect playing field, one side is coercive, holds most/all the cards, calls all the shots, treats people with lives and experiences as "resources", and seeks profit over all other objective functions. This is class dynamics 101.
Hello !
Manifest dev here, they are on the way ! There is a DB sync at the moment that does the job but we are going to implement the migrations soon :)
> However, in pretty much any language, it's hard to avoid the user having some ability to fill out even "mandatory" fields in some invalid manner.

I 100% agree. It's just that go seems to make it easier to make invalid values than valid ones, because the programmer doesn't have to actually type the values that end up invalid.
Anyone noticed that if you enable the “browse internet” in ChatGPT, it becomes very dumb? It abandons all its intelligence and produces mostly incorrect results.
Like it’s being passive-aggressive, “Oh, you don’t like me as I am and want to augment me with search, let me show you how it is if my brain was only search!”
https://rxdb.info/ is a good one.
This is way worse due to London airports' lack of spare capacity. They should have built Thames Estuary Airport a long time ago.
I'm aware of this rule but I think it's clearly not true that quality hasn't degraded over time. Look at any pg thread from 2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233848 Anyway I get that commenting this isn't the best use of space but I still think it's true (I also suspect not being allowed to call this out is not helping the quality).
I hadn't heard of it, but... wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C-LU0cnqB8
The Barnes Foundation is one of my favorite museums in the country. There isn’t anything else quite like it.
Didn't connect, usually don't think of IP addresses in bytes.
"[...] national security is widely understood to include also non-military dimensions, such as the security from terrorism, minimization of crime, economic security, energy security, environmental security, food security, and cyber-security."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security

Large-scale issues that impact the economy are typically under the "national security" umbrella. It's a term that uses the broad definition of "security".

Whether this incident qualifies, I don't know, but "national security" is definitely not just about military stuff. Just like how "food security" isn't about physically protecting food from damage.
I must say just off the bat and a few minutes reviewing, I'm extremely impressed. I stared the repository to play with it further later.
For human cultural purposes, you are 0 days old at the time and date recorded for your birth

While that is the norm, there both are and have been cultures where you are 1 when you are born (as in you are living your first year of life).
The jails (“detention centers”) she was held in are privately run, so they’re incentivized to hold people and ignore due process.

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2025/02/27/ice-plans-massive-ne...

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/27/ice-immigrant-detention-n...

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/0...

Being dispassionate about this: The incentives (reward vs loss) is no different from “asset forfeiture”.
Someone is claiming to have stolen JKS, SSO, and JPS keys from Oracle Cloud
After many posts on my feed, I decided to give it a spin.

The good:
- Open source.

- Can run locally (Apple Silicon) at a fair speed.

- Image detection is good.

The bad:

- Not detecting tables.

- Text in a perfectly clean PDF (resume) is not detected.

I know its in preview, small and open source which is great, but its far from being usable.

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This seems like a tautology, of course there can not be a general rule for all workplaces.

By definition with sufficiently seperate interests, then anything (or nothing) goes.
Though you'll need to deduct a lot of SG&A, etc. overheads from that as well, and it often looks far worse.

Big Tech companies (ie ones close to monopolies) still extract a ton of net cash flow that ends up going to investors and top management, though you could then ask why those monopolies extract cash from their customers as well, etc.

My worry with tech unionization is that generally it slows productivity increases and change. I get why bus drivers, etc. in stable systems should organize and could do so without adversely affecting system performance, but in tech/startups, I don't think those companies would exist in unionized form for very long before being put out of business.

Now they're just saddled with too much bureaucracy and politics, and that's already led most of them to underperform, at least on an innovation basis.
You joke but make a good point, most major installations have backup diesel powered generators to provide power for a certain limited but generous time.

What happened with Heathrows generators? Did they kick in? Do they have any?

Edits: yes they did kick in as normal https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/heathrow-ed-miliband-nati...

Note that usually backup generators are only for essentials like air traffic control, landing lights, and operating emergency stuff.
> since Apple Intelligence successfully proxies that function to ChatGPT

I don't know how it's implemented, but Apple Intelligence's proxying to ChatGPT ends up being far worse than using ChatGPT directly. You could ask the same question to ChatGPT and Siri powered by Apple Intelligence proxied by ChatGPT, and the former gives the right answer while the latter gives the wrong answer.

> Regular people don’t expect new this and new that from a device

But Apple advertised iPhone 16 specifically along with Apple Intelligence. They didn't market the new generation of iPhone as iterative improvements; they marketed it as specifically for Apple Intelligence.
Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle
> At least we're not stuck with the Roman "inclusive counting" system that included one extra number in ranges* so that e.g. weeks have "8" days

French (and likely other Latin languages?) are not quite so lucky. "En 8" means in a week, "une quinzaine" (from 15) means two weeks...
Images aren't notes.
Thats not really a fair comparison. Youve compared an entire industry to one entity within an industry. Id be interested to see what the numbers would be if you shutdown all commercial UK airports for a day. Still smaller I'd imagine, but at least comparable
Lattice Crypto Primer
Was there any truth to the rumor that Apple was going to acquire McLaren Automotive?
No, it doesn't, it prints ['D', 'C'].

I agree that it should be ['C', 'B'] - the way that Python handles negative `step` values is wrong.