skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except what’s being described as “old money” is just “normal families with two married parents.” Note that the $120k figure I cited above isn’t for college educated people or something like that. Just households where the parents are married and have kids. There’s 62 million such households.

The article is taking an extremely common thing and making it seem like a rare or unusual thing.
I often struggle to understand what executives do all day. I work (and have worked in many different orgs) with executives quite a bit, see insight into their process, and often come away underwhelmed instead of more confident in leadership.

There are exceptions - I can think of a couple CTOs I know that are worth their weight in gold - but they are just that - exceptions.

I will say, the smaller the organization, the more having the right executives is important though, but it seems that only lasts while headcount is sub ~200 people or so and executives maintain an active role with all pillars of the organization relevant to their function (e.g., it isn't weird for an IC to talk to the CTO from time to time about how their job is going)
These types of arguments are so tiresome. As if the only thing anyone on the entire planet is trying to do is decrease the carbon footprint of a Hershey's bar. If we wait around for a the panacea of solutions, we'll be wiped out as a species well before that solution hits (sadly human extinction seems to be that panacea solution).

Instead, people do whatever they can where they can. I can choose to use a stainless steel straw, buy products with recyclable packaging not from single use plastics. I can choose to buy products from companies that spend time and effort to do what they can do to also have less of an environmental impact. It really doesn't bother me to put in that effort, and my effort damn sure has no affect on you. So pound sand for telling me what I can and cannot do because you disagree.

You personally cannot tell MAGA that climate change is not a hoax where they will suddenly listen. You cannot tell current POTUS that action needs to be taken when he's already undone legislation that would have been much more effecting than what type of straws people use. So you go ahead and drive yourself crazy and continue to belittle people that do whatever they can where they can, because you just come across at one of those people, and are promptly ignored
Tangentially related: I read somewhere that there is no pothole in the entire Disney World resort because Disney basically "owned" the district and has their own fire and public works department, and as a result they can fix potholes as soon as possible. (Correct me if I am wrong.) While generally I don't believe in "we should let private companies take care of infrastructure", that sometimes does seem very effective.
This is also where I am. I think trade barriers are a tool we've abandoned unnecessarily, but in order to be reasonable there need to be specific requirements for their use:

1) The barrier needs to be imposed and removed under specific, transparent criteria that are under the control of the party you are negotiating with. Specifically what I have in mind are that the barrier would apply to industries that don't meet specific environmental and human rights standards, but my reasonableness criteria extends to anything that is under the control of such an industry or its regulators.

2) The initial implementation must be telegraphed years in advance, and there must be some sort of assurance that it won't be removed on a whim. In a system like the U.S., this means it cannot be an executive decision, and must come from Congress.

3) Barriers must be phased in over time. Don't go from zero to 30% at once.

4) There needs to be a coherent theory of how one might source the thing we're taxing without paying the tax. Otherwise it doesn't accomplish very much.

The current policy violates all four of my conditions. Which doesn't matter a ton -- there is no good reason for anyone in power to listen to me -- but that's just how I'm thinking about it.
Oh yeah, SSH signing is incredible. I've also migrated to it and didn't look back.

A couple of differences:

- it's possible to specify signing keys in a file inside the repository, and configure git to verify on merge (https://github.com/wiktor-k/ssh-signing/). I'm using that for my dot config repo to make sure I'm pulling only stuff I committed on my machines.

- SSH has TPM key support via PKCS11 or external agents, this makes it possible to easily roll out hardware backed keys

- SSH signatures have context separation, that is it's not possible to take your SSH commit signature and repurpose it (unlike OpenPGP)

- due to SSH keys being small the policy file is also small and readable, compare https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/.git... with equivalent OpenPGP https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/blob/main/openpgp-p...
I think that 99.9% of CURL commands are copied from Chrome/Firefox's network inspector and are the simple "client-side JS" types.

I also think it's weird to be so willing to let people run arbitrary CURL commands from your platform, without any billing or account verification. It feels ripe for abuse.
This is different.

In the US you need probable cause to get pull over or temporary detain you.
In France, you don't need probably cause for temporary detaining you, but if they suspect you of something they can also send you to jail. You can't be sent to jail in the US just on them just suspecting something.
my thoughts exactly!

Lately I feel like a lot of people think they are finding gaps around developer experience, but it's only because they don't know the right tools that already exist...
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I think you’re confusing the ePrivacy Directive, which regulates cookies, and the GDPR, which regulates PII.
From your first link, they turn at around 3800 RPM, but the race only lasts a few seconds so they only complete a few hundred revolutions:

"This calculation assumes an average racing engine speed of roughly 3,800 revolutions per minute over a period of 3.8 seconds."
Who made the trades that took advantage of this?
Not quite, an effective bureaucracy like the city of SF is undoubtedly extremely efficient at responding to things that subvert its authority and require no effort to fix, like removing a rogue speed bump.
it does, CF bans my own honest to God clicks if I do them too fast.
Would be nice if it could use the Accessibility Tree from chrome dev tools to navigate the page instead of relying on screenshots (https://developer.chrome.com/blog/full-accessibility-tree)
Volvo came up with a way of spooling the turbo by injecting compressed air into the exhaust manifold

https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/tech/volvos-turbo-lag...
I don't want to be rude, but it feels like this is written by ramblingwordsaladGPT.

This message should be 10 to 20x shorter, to the point and clearly actionable. Instead it feels like we got the output of prompting "can you turn these few bulletpoints into a 3 season telenovella "?
My mental model is that "promotion" is something that only happens to middle managers; board relevant seats are either appointed by the board or come from the good ole' boy network (which I do recognize is almost certainly worse than promoting a bad manager from within, who at least has existing relationships and business context)

As best I can tell, it's this one https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03784...
On the topic of subscripts and superscripts, it's also worth noting that `<sub><sup>2</sup></sub>` and `<sup><sub>2</sub></sup>` are different things. And, in practice, can be further nested.
You don’t speak tech bro.
that's seems like an obvious security vulnerability. if the phone has no power then how does it authenticate the payment request?
It's not going to be effective for much longer. DeSantis dissolved the governing entity - Reedy Creek Improvement District - and turned its replacement over to his appointed cronies.

EDITed for copy, correctness, and to add the better wiki link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_Distri...
Marx was a techno-utopian sci-fi author who insisted his fiction was non-fiction and was proven wrong 100 years ago. Where is the dictatorship of the proliteriat?
When you make a decision you are intrinsically responsible for all obvious consequences of said decision.

If I choose to drive drunk, I am not magically not responsible when I mow down a mother with a child in her stroller.
Far be it from me to interrupt your both-sides deflection but I’d like to ask you to cite any report in the recent past when democrats have called for the arrest or use of violence and/or the military against protesters
Thank you. I tend to be clueless on office politics, and this is actually a really helpful reminder.
I don't think you can sell a luxury brand without a luxury story behind it. The creation of a substitute good in times of high cacao prices is the opposite of a luxury.
> LLMs don't approximate human thought, though. ...Please, I'm begging you, go read some papers and watch some videos about machine learning and how LLMs actually work.

I know how LLMs work; so let me beg you in return, listen to me for a second.

You have a theoretical-only argument: LLMs do text prediction, and therefore it is not possible for them to actually think. And since it's not possible for them to actually think, you don't need to consider any other evidence.

I'm telling you, there's a flaw in your argument: In actuality, the best way to do text prediction is to think. An LLM that could actually think would be able to do text prediction better than an LLM that can't actually think; and the better an LLM is able to approximate human thought, the better its predictions will be. The fact that they're predicting text in no way proves that there's no thinking going on.

Now, that doesn't prove that LLMs actually are thinking; but it does mean that they might be thinking. And so you should think about how you would know if they're actually thinking or not.
My point is 90% of companies have no specialized knowledge whatsoever and are staffed almost entirely by web developers.

How many companies have an in-house tuned graph database? How many companies have custom Linux kernels? How many companies have custom filesystems?
If I’m going to eat a fast-food burger other than in-n-out I may as well eat a beyond burger or something else non-meat because McD’s and BK’s meat are nothing like real meat.

If I’m going to eat a Kit Kat or some other gas station candy bar I may as well eat artificial chocolate because it pretty much already is fake chocolate.

However I can’t eat a Beyond BK (do they make those anymore? Or the White Castle beyond burgers?), probably because they cost more than the original product. And I assume this fake chocolate will have the same problem.

They’ll try to sell it as a luxury item because that price point is the only way they can stay in business but it just won’t be that good.
That's what I was thinking, the liability of slapping it on the road at midnight and never mentioning it again isn't much
> I would love to do a whole blog post about how mailing list collaboration works and how cool various aspects of it are, but that’s for another time.

This is actually the part I would be interested in, coming from a GitHub cofounder.
Share you resume with the MIT alumnus who replied here and I am sure you will land a job pretty quickly.

You can even just anonymize your resume and make it public.
As people have noted in other threads: Zoos, generally, maximize revenue (and community value, which is its own ineffable thing that matters a lot... The economics of zoos aren't just in dollars and cents, they're also in the local community thinking of them as a shelter, care space, and opportunity to see exotic animals without going to another continent and not, say, an animal-prison and a blight on the community, the kind of opinions that matter when zoos need more land to operate or want to form research or educational partnerships with neighboring institutions) by being a place the public can afford to go.

As far as I can tell, the idea of a dinosaur zoo as an exotic locale on its own island is... Pretty much a whole-cloth invention by Michael Chrichton. Based loosely on Disney, and even Disney's first two theme parks are places a public can drive to (and Disney works hard to keep prices down against the onslaught of the supply-demand curve of "very few parks that everyone wants to go to at least once in their lives"). It's an idea very detached from reality and I'm pretty sure it was a plot device to make sure our characters were trapped on the island instead of being able to just walk to the gate and drive away.
Does crochet involve the same type of chain stitch that is sometimes used to store long electrical extension cords in a tangle-free and easy-to-unravel fashion?
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I really don’t even see the point in “deextincting” animals that went extinct due to climate or geological changes. They’re not even fit for the present ecology anymore. De-extinction of species that died due to industrialization or human stress on the environment makes a lot more sense since there is, presumably, a vacant ecological niche they could be filling. Like bringing back the passenger pigeon or dodo bird, or repopulating the oceans with species that have been critically overfished. But who cares about bringing back wooly mammoths and giant sloths?
As one of those guys in the photo I really hope everyone will have a lot of fun with this :)

The photos don't show it but you can also have your PiDP-1 in white instead of blue. It will come with both sets of front panels.
GitButler and jj are very friendly with each other, as projects, and are even teaming up with Gerrit to collaborate on the change-id concept, and maybe even have it upstreamed someday: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAESOdVAspxUJKGAA58i0tvks4ZOfoGf...
Great point, true!
> I see an opportunity here using something like this to unify your entire workflows/data-from-tools/tools into a uniform system you can query to get answers without having to jump through hoops (and give up). It appears investing time in building a repertoire of tools with something of this sort helps one automate or quicken chores (at work or at home even?)

That intuition is quite right! If you look inside the environment, you will see multiple case studies. These are not things you do with the environment. These are things we've used the environment for. They are examples of what you can build. And if you look closer you will see different classes of problems. These are classes of problems for which the industry offers significant vertical solutions. Yet we show them addressed with much less energy, uniformly and much more contextualized. The idea is that if this is possible, it means it's also possible to produce tools for arbitrary combinations of problems.

If you intend to explore it further, please do let us know how it goes.
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Or rather, it's like when you have a huge backlog of bugs, you are going to de-prioritize the ones that are minor and have workarounds. For the city, they have got too much to worry about than a "optional" speed bump. Not saying it is ok, but it kind of explains the delay.
Try working out the math. I’m a little tired of your argument. You are wrong. We really do need to address the really big things.
If your fiscal and mass budgets have to include a fusion reactor, but that reactor is net-negative on energy - then why not replace the whole thing with some cheaper & lighter way of converting your input power to thrust?
You are completely missing (or perhaps reinforcing my point) - billboards? Great, we'll create a fleet of vehicles with mobile advertising on the back. Outlaw that? Great, we'll pay private citizens to put up signs in their yards - can't outlaw freedom of speech after all. It's whack-a-mole.
The thing is, it's up to the official classification officer to decide on how far is too far for classification down and this administration loves to short man everything so likely they decided it wasn't an issue, but it is, and someone should be blamed in my opinion since that is that official's job.

You can go around legally too just ask what is and isn't considered classified by derivative.
You add bounds checks where you want it to.

The warnings of GCC and Clang can help you spot a lot of possible bugs, too, FWIW.
Hey Walter, what would you improve with Git?
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couldn't agree more! these people who are not that passionate and build software for a living tend to care less, and when we care less we do more. also rarely they come up with crappy solutions, that might not be good but work. making things even harder for the passionate perfectionists.
I like considering _why_ the government is like that. I would suggest that the suspicion, disdain (evident in your comment) and outright hatred of government (particularly from sections of the political and capitalist classes, particularly in the US) are all large drivers of the extreme risk aversion and resulting inefficiency of government agencies that develops over time.

That is, there is nothing inherent about it beyond the inevitable inefficiency of all large organisations, the government was shaped to be like that by external pressures.

Viewed in that light, your favourable assessment of mafia rule is even more obviously a false alternative.
What are some of you choice bars? Recently I tried a few single origin bars and was floored by how different they tasted amongst themselves, and how dramatically different they were to your run of the mill godiva or lindt.
What is it that you think they did? They have large claims and can't answer a single technical question. They don't even seem to know the difference between lossless and lossy compression or a png and a jpeg.
Yes, it is in common use now to mean that, and dictionaries are descriptive of common use. I think we are losing something to blur the meaning, as there is already another, commonly used and even more clear, phrase: to "raise the question".

Imagine a large portion of the population interchangeably used "teal" and "cyan". It wouldn't be the end of the world, but a useful distinction would be lost, and dictionaries would start stating the two words are often used synonymously.
I disagree with everything you just said. It's like you have the complete opposite morality as me.

I think there are more valuable things you can give people than money. I like to enrich others by writing open source code and blogging about it. It's scalable. It doesn't make me poorer. It provides others with entertainment, useful tools, and most importantly knowledge.

Giving money to the desperate offers a bad return on investment for society. Money is better given to people who are having the most impact enriching society.

Voting is about as impactful as praying.

Every altruistic person has a responsibility to look after their self-interests first. Since if you're not strong and healthy, then you won't be capable of giving to others.

Finally, you don't owe anyone anything. The moment people expect you to give, it stops being a gift.
I think this is the end result of a system that has no external threats - once people get power, they use that power to cling to the power instead of using it externally to get things done.
If you mix a square wave of one duty cycle with another of a different duty cycle, they partially cancel each other out and you get a new sound.

I'm not sure, but I believe the original NES Castlevania does this in some places, like in the "you died" jingle. (It's possible I'm misremembering and it's simply two square notes separated by an octave.)
People who stayed long enough adjusted, but it didn't mean they were cold-hearted. They just realized that there was more to the story that they saw.

The real challenge was when recent hires would see it and get spooked. One person would get fired and then two people around them would panic and start looking for other jobs. Several people panicked and jumped right back into their previous jobs.

It was also tough when we'd hire someone and they'd discover their predecessor lasted for 2-3 months.

There were also problems with the hire fast part: Often teams would "hire fast" and then lose 3-4 months because they had to deal with someone who lied through the interview, had to be fired, and then another hiring cycle restarted.
As others noted, merely switching back and forth between -1 and 1 will result in heavy aliasing. Also, since you can only switch from -1 to 1 at integer sample points, you won't be able to accurately generate frequencies that don't divide the sample rate evenly. E.g. if your sample rate is 48 kHz, you won't be able to generate a 50% duty cycle 11 kHz square wave. Either the duty cycle, or the frequency will be different. Like, audibly different.

The proper way is either via the Fourier series; or look into BLIT [1] synthesis.

[1] https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~stilti/papers/blit.pdf
Interestingly, they have a whole bunch of products (both from renowned brands and store brands) in their home market in Germany on the shelves already: https://choviva.com/products
I just noticed... All our Sith Lords wear black.

Are we the baddies?
Artistic rendering, yes. It's not usually something new, afterall. Incredibly divulged from really rendering what scientists want to communicate about something somewhat visual with some basis on reality (and real images) while using size, shape, contrast and colors (sometimes with artistic license) to communicate effectively a scientific idea.
They changed the chocolate recipe in East Germany because they didn't have the ingredients.

At one point they sold "chocolate" made of fish meal.
What does this accomplish? I genuinely don't understand why this fallacy is so common, even trying to come at it from a psychology perspective.

Something being shocking is not the same as something being unforeseeable. Being shocked by shocking behavior doesn't make you some kind of idiot. Acting as if having emotions about immoral behavior is beneath you is self-aggrandizing.

I'm sorry for my tone, but I'm sick of this genre of internet comment in particular.
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> I mean this in the most charitable way, what kinds of liabilities are you afraid of in that scenario?

Why do you think I know all the kinds of companies one can register in Germany? :)

I'm not even german or in germany, just keeping myself informed. You never know when it becomes useful.

Up until today I only knew of the GmBH. Now I know of two more types.
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I just built my PiDP-11 and would love to get one of these.
Is an artist finding inspiration from another's work stealing? Creativity is very rarely building something completely new from nothing at all - it's the end result of inspiration and a merging of ideas

Which seems to be exactly what these models are doing

Satisfactory the game didn't "steal" from Factorio - they took the idea of an automated factory game from them, brought it into a 3d world instead of 2d, and pulled in some other ideas, perhaps from other games. This is a hell of a lot closer to stealing than an LLM taking 0.001% each from 100000 images to create something new.. and yet no-one would ever call it such

It's disturbing because it's automated on an insane scale, not because of a solid legal ground
exactly, also these days coding is not about creativity or fun anymore.
> what order the 3 colors are in (RGB or BGR)

Camera raw files typically come in a raw bayer mosaic so each pixel has only one colour.
There is no place for normal candidates in this industry anymore. It's an absolute psychotic shit show.
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