skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Symphony is an internal chat, just like Slack. It must provide more controls for very large corporations and store messages forever for financial regulations.

I've seen it rolled out in a large bank to every single employee overnight. The numbers given the article seems underestimated and are certainly misleading without context. It's an enterprise software onboarding 50k users at once, nothing like the usual valley startup.
You're welcome, I'm glad it's helped and helping you! I try to keep it growing and relevant with a more synced cloud folder/work or school laptop/keep work and personal separate bent these days.
We shouldn't mistake "communication" with "meetings" or "talking a lot." But, communicating more through the right channels is indeed very helpful. Maybe through more documentation, maybe on Slack, maybe through weekly/monthly updates emails that one can easily ignore, if needed, or maybe through more listening.

The reason I think communication is very important is that limited or incorrect / stale information is a very big problem for medium-large organizations (the kind of organizations that have PMs). Many times, poor or lack of sufficient communication is the foundational reason for other issues that we see regarding seemingly always changing priorities, decisions being made out of nowhere, etc.
Something I don't understand is how to go about "prompting" GPT-3...

It's basically one big auto-complete, yes? It's a function that approximates the most likely completion for the input text, right?

So if you directly "ask" it a question, like "What's a great cookie recipe?" Wouldn't the "completion" for that query be from the perspective of the person asking?

Wouldn't it be better to prompt:

"Here is the greatest cookie recipe I've ever seen:" and then letting it complete on that?
You're welcome! I'm glad it's helping you be more productive!
Maybe you just need to be hanging out with a better class of folks?

Not to be a dick, but if you find that you are attracting a certain type of person that you don't want to, then it's time for some introspection.
To reduce the number of redundant operations, why not use Horner's method? A polynomial like axxx + bxx + cx + d becomes d + x(c + x(b + a*x). The more terms you have, the more flops you save.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clapper#Testimony_to_Con...]
Are the feeds on Yahoo and Google actually up to date? I was pretty sure Google was on a long (like >1m) delay.
A good portion of people respond to overcommunication by simply tuning out all communication on that topic or from that source.
I am not going to be putting projects I work on or internal details covered by NDA on any platform. Short of someone doing their own thing and selling their own services I think most people would be in the same boat as me.

Titles convey some data- but a CV is just a glimpse at someone. I don't ever want to put even more data out there. The author suggests way to much engagement for my taste. LinkedIn is a network I use a couple of times a year, tops. It has landed me four jobs in the time it has been around. I don't think its design is "outdated" by any stretch.
Wow this could be really cool for brainstorming and seeding ideas. It was nonsense but it really makes you think too.
Actually I think that chart also confuses cash flow and wealth
I’m now convinced my coworkers having been doing this for years.
This is getting a bit off-track now, but I did use Turbo Pascal in the mid eighties (on an Amstrad CPC464) too. That sure was an impressive tool, but it seems to get more impressive as more time passes (and progress in IDEs trails, perhaps inflated, expectations).
So, threads and instances are two very different things. They both use memory, though threads use far, far less memory - just like in other languages where you would use threads for concurrency. When Ruby's GIL is waiting on I/O, it allows other threads to do their work. Per the first link, from the author of Puma:

"The reason for that is waiting on IO (talking to a DB, etc) will allow another thread to run"

The threads don't run in parallel, but they do run concurrently. While this isn't the panacea of performance, it does work well with many web apps which tend to be I/O bound (waiting for a database or remote service). So to your original of "Doing a http request or a sql query blocks everything until it finishes. The solution is to spawn many instances" - an HTTP request or SQL query will, in fact, allow other threads to execute while waiting for a response meaning you can rely on threads, rather than instances, and maintain a very low memory footprint.

If you like Ruby but want true multi-threading and parallelism, I'd highly recommend taking a look at JRuby (https://www.jruby.org). Those guys have done an incredible job with it.
Even if it was completely rote memorization it is still extremely valuable to be able to give a plain text prompt and get relevant answers back. As SWEs most of us probably have very high end google-fu so we can find potentially obscure answers to our questions but this could make that kind of skill redundant. Why try to search stackoverflow when GPT could just generate exactly the code snippet you need?
It kinda is shitty, though. Do remember that it was built as a replacement for Android on smartphones, then when that, in a 100% expected way completely failed, was was relegated to the TV and smartwatch platforms where general requirements are perhaps 5x less.

Those two platforms probably only use the best 20-30% core functionality of what was built. And they're still second tier...
Does anyone have any idea, what font the screenshot is in ?
You brought up good points where for B2B and big corp type of product development requires different best practices. Also the politics from big corps or in B2B environments are very different than B2C. As simple as reviewing if you product via Google Analytics funnel can work for B2C, that may not apply vis-a-vis to B2B products. You can still use analytics to review, but usually the corporations are already focusing on another features and there is never enough time to revisit past products nor the budget to improve existing ones. Then, what does a PM should do?
When you mean travel agent, do you also include the likes of expedia, opodo, etc?
Thiel is an enabler of fascism; I don't really understand why his opinion matters or why he isn't shunned in civilized society.

Well, I do understand, it is because the tech world has very little sense of social responsibility, especially when money is concerned, and Thiel has money to throw around.
Can you please not create accounts to do ideological flamewar with? It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ya, you won't find it in commodity construction, but just in case anyone is looking for real linoleum a currently available brand is 'Marmoleum'. It's nice stuff, I've used it on two projects but it's not every client's favorite. By the time a client is looking at sheet flooring it's usually due to cost pressure, and the client ends up going with a vinyl product.

I thought I had notes on a second brand that was more commercially oriented (maybe started with an 'R'?) but I can't remember the name at the moment.
You can be certain that nobody in Germany has forgotten the Third Reich. The German constitution is a direct response to the experience of the collapse of the Weimar Republic and has been very carefully designed to avoid the same sorts of mistakes. There are consitutionally guaranteed, inviolable rights and principles that can never ever, legally, be changed ("Ewigkeitsklausel"). Nazi Germany can't ever happen again in any sort of legal way, nor whatever happened in Venezuela.

No system is flawless and if shit really hits the fan and somebody makes a coup, who knows what may happen, but the German system is probably the most stable in the world, so I think some amount of trust in it is not misplaced.

And the European, or at least Western European, perspective is that governments are elected and certainly more representative than any large companies that are incentivised only to maximise profit above everything, so having an oligopoly of companies dictating the rules of society is seen as a problem. This is a perspective I largely agree with.

(NB: I'm not saying you should fully trust the government, I certainly don't always do that, but I do trust that the system generally works to keep the government in check.)
Nvidia open sourced part of NVAPI SDK to aid 'Windows emulation environments'
I made a viewer[0] to help me find interesting posts amongst the general-type posts split by day and post type. It had the unexpected side-effect of cancelling the slot-machine-hits of finding posts by showing that most posts are mediocre and a large volume are from past days. Now I only check a few times a day and am most often disappointed in not finding more to read. Usually the comments are better than the posts that trigger them, but I don't know how to find/filter for those.

[0] https://hackerer.news (click headings for other story types)
RDP also works more reliably over mobile connections than VNC, in my experience
>you should read two books. The first is Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid

I own and have read a copy, excellent. Note however that it's entirely oriented toward traditional design: Deco, Streamline Moderne, and Mid-Mod are terra incognita. Eichler fans, you have been warned.
> What are you trying to say with the second picture? Getting access to a GFE gets you access to what's going through it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program...

Pretty much that, and also tapping any traffic that's in their internal networks, since that's not encrypted either.

> What does that have to do with the FBI hacking into the backend of a airline company?

That's one possible attack that the FBI could be carrying out. ie. sabre doesn't encrypt its communications in their internal network, and that's being tapped similar to how the NSA tapped google's internal networks.
I've always been interested in constructed languages, but reading through this article just now made me wonder about curriculum learning for NLP models. Could better generalizable language models be achieved through curriculum learning of this sort, where simple mathematics and logic are introduced before anything else? The curriculum learning papers I've seen so far are mostly for specific tasks, like introducing simple questions for QA tasks before more complicated multi-hop reasoning.
"mildly oppressive" - are you kidding?
Import non-ESM libraries in ES Modules, with client-side vanilla JavaScript
You just linked to the ESA version of my NASA link :)
Speaking of this breadth, a few years ago I looked at Bloomberg's PORT suite of portfolio performance attribution and risk management functions to see what they offered and how programmable it was. On top of the usual extensive help docs, they had 56 white papers totaling ~1400 pages (as of June 2017) explaining the calculations.
I had forgotten about some of the reasons they specifically wanted file-based copyright. Sun were clients at the time and I spoke fairly frequently with the open source folks there. But I didn't remember all the details and was certainly not privy to all the internal discussions.
Is there a standard set of potential side effects?

Lets say some of these potential vaccines are effective at producing an immune response enough to provide protection from Covid infection, is there a level of side effects that would cause a vaccine to fail clinical trials?
> You don’t get to socialize the costs and privatize the revenue.

Why not? Corporations are still taxed on their profits.
Cheers! It sounds like we're on the same wavelength, I see this too as the recognition of a superior nanotechnology that has been optimized over hundreds of millions of years, and a natural (no pun intended) next evolutionary step of our civilization as you say.

Have you seen "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698

BTW, I joined SharedEarth and messaged some people but haven't heard back from anyone yet. Do you know much about it? It kind of seems like a demo (from a technical POV.) And there's no "contact us" page for it.
I had a carport pad repoured recently and I told the guys doing the work that the only real way they could mess up was if it sloped toward the house and the door.

The look on their faces, (and the rework on the just started forms) told me that these expeniced concrete workers never even thought of this. Luckily they got it right but this shouldn't have been something the homeowner should have to tell them but it was.
wow, such negativity for a good deed.. People get a grip.
Most iPhones now have the API available, but for some reason it has fallen to the states to provide apps that work with those APIs, and (no surprise) 90% have elected not to. I expect the feature to be quietly dropped in a future release since it's clear nobody really wants it.
It still helps with discovery of potential contact . the actual transaction/communication of interest to both parties may happen outside using other more private means
Yes, I imagine most people will become engaged in a lot of videos that are offered, even if those videos aren't what they intended to watch.

The edge case is not being directed and consumed by an algorithm for profit.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

The paper (I'm sure it's been posted somewhere in thread). Surprisingly readable (if you have a basic understanding of immunology and Google), go check it out.

The TL;DR is they administered the vaccine to many people and compared the immune response, as measured by various immunology assays, and it elicited a noticeable response for every assay very close to the same responses from actual COVID patients. There were plenty of mild to moderate side effects, but they were reduced quite a bit using paracetamol (Tylenol, basically)
You seem to be reasoning as if I've said there's a unique person today such that everyone in future year Y will be that person's descendant. In the above oversimplified example that I gave, everyone alive today would have the property that they are ancestors of everyone alive in year Y.
Nitpicking, but this is not a few decades ago, its a few years ago. Enforced the one child policy by force in autonomous province, basically removing the enforcement power of the governor and city mayors.

[edit] To be clear, i'm not saying this is right, i'm saying that right now, the power is way too concentrated in Xi Xinping's hands.
Given their security SNAFUs I'm surprised anyone would want their tech in their home for free let alone 600 bucks
There was an experiment where they introduced "B2" which was a redesigned terminal and it looked and felt much more like a web browser. People hated it. They moved it to an opt-in feature. No one (except internal BB engineers) used it for years so they eventually stopped adding features. Then after another few years they stopped supporting it. Then semi-recently (within 2 years) they shut it off completely. No one was willing to switch. Now they just rollout small changes incrementally (much better approach anyway).
I have the same feeling about Dwarf Fortress. I absolutely love reading DF stories (see [0]), but the couple times I tried to play I just couldn't get into it.

[0] https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/
Is that a one story house?

Here the basement floor is below the sewer drain and deeper eaves wouldn't do much of anything to keep the 1st floor siding clean.
I think you make an excellent point, but I think it is very relevant that basically every institution ever is intended to be long term. Every empire that lasted a thousand years steamrolled however many other aspiring empires that also wanted to last a thousand years, and every long-lived religion outlasted countless cults that had similar aspirations but died with their founding leader.

I agree that long term institutions to tackle long term problems are important, but the intent itself feels almost irrelevant, to me anyway.
Brain behind Google Pixel camera is building a universal camera app for Adobe
Fist, congratulations. You should enjoy your last good sleeps before the birth.

I got one baby manual as a gift : https://www.amazon.fr/Baby-Owners-Manual-Instructions-Troubl...

It has some funny moments but it's only the basics. I don't think there is anything wrong with it, but your country may do things a bit differently.
Open source is also a somewhat different situation that I'm familiar with but not as a PM. Obviously it varies depending upon the degree to which the project overlaps the product, but a company may be more in the position of influencing a community than dictating a product roadmap.
German coronavirus experiment enlists help of concertgoers
Zera Yacob (ethipian elightement philosopher)
Looks like Iosevka to me.
Yes, the most likely completion, but not necessarily from the same writer. This is learned from any text it has seen somewhere, which includes text in various formats, like interviews. So when you have a question, most likely the next sentence might be the answer (from another person). Or to make that more explicit, just put a prefix like "Q1? A1. Q2? A2. Q3?" And "Q3" is your question. And now let it auto-complete. Most likely the auto-completion is "A3".
It doesn't have to be a lot of work, just paying attention to what you like and dislike in your current home, friend's homes, etc. is most of the battle.

Like, if I asked you what restaurants you like to go to and what some of your favorite meals are you would probably have an answer. If I gave you the choice between two drinks, you could probably pick one over the other (or neither, or both) with some confidence.

In the same way, try to develop opinions about where and how you live.
When you say "Nazi-style concentration camps" do you think millions are soon to be killed?
This just illustrates the warped perception most have about what constitutes economic value.

What is more useful? A factory that makes shoes for your population or a vault of gold? Gold has a role, but factories are king. This is why the USA is so, so screwed in handing over manufacturing to China. Americans usually criticize China by stating that they will stop consuming and what will China do? Nuts.
AI will eat gig economy
Do a search for hybrid eink LCD display; Apple and others were looking into this 10 years ago; the Pixel Qi's 3qi displays were apparently manufactured and used in at least some products, then Apple applied for a more complex patent as well. As far as I can tell, both systems seem to use a layered display.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/165724/bye_bye_kindle_netboo...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/04/apple-exploring-hybr...
I once owned a house where the hot water heater and AC units were both in the attic (of a 2 story home.) One nice feature is that they both had pans underneath with drain lines to an AC condensate overflow line outside the house.
> There are people who say that death is natural to which I think the response always has to be that there is nothing more natural for us than to fight death.

I think this is an excellent quote, but it doesn't convince me. Death is one of the only things we humans all have in common. It is the only great equalizer.

Unless every human is able to live forever, I will remain skeptical about a death cure being a good thing for humanity. Sure, you can argue about defeating death by degrees (e.g. extending a lifespan to 150, 200 years) but again, if it isn't available for everyone, I can't see that going well.
Then " Bob's Social Media Emporium" as a whole would get dinged in the trust web. If you cant trust the verifier, you wouldnt trust any of their participants.

I guess nitpicking the details doesnt matter, but none of these problems seem insurmountable.
Pretty poor form calling out a competitor for something like this. Not the first time a DNS provider has done this, and won't be the last.
> They WANT us to be dependent on them

I think this is an important point about CloudFlare that can't be made often enough. It's been some years since I first noticed, and it seems as true today as it was then: wedging themselves into core Internet services and data flows seems to be an intentional part of CloudFlare's strategy.

There is no case given the architecture of the Internet where one company need be exposed to so many traffic flows from millions of people. The search engines got there first and we eventually stopped complaining, but this does not make it any more justifiable to copy the model.

What reason would a company have for desiring this outcome? We know Google can detect and predict flu outbreaks. Imagine what is possible when you have every click on every target web site.

There is a fair chance their data is already approaching the comprehensiveness of Google, and I'd be surprised, if not disappointed to learn they were not already working on unannounced (now or eternally) internal intelligence products based on that data. There are simply too many pockets who would be willing to pay for it.
Bravo...that would have been a terrible decision.
My idea of a new "old" home is to take the best of both. Cupolas? Great. Also ducts, a nice south-facing roof for solar, a garage with multiple 240V circuits so I can charge my EVs. Gigabit ethernet. Insulation.
We just bought out first house, it's a super basic 1930s "Traditional Minimal". Funny enough this home is actually the youngest of the twenty or so homes we looked at. We only passed on some 1880s homes because of location issues.
Corporate bigwig types (whether technical or otherwise) are generally not booking their own travel - that's what executive assistants are for. I'm a technologically literate corporate peon, and still booked >$15k in travel last year through SABRE via our online corporate booking system, and about $10k in bookings executed manually by our travel team.

The online bookings still routed through an internal travel agent for final approval and execution of the booking, but I never actually interacted with anyone. The manual bookings were the only time I ever spoke with an agent, and it was almost always to handle an itinerary that was too complex for the UI of the online booking system to accommodate.
Mailservers are a royal PITA. And may god help you if your assigned ip block is blacklisted because of some previous user. Mail delivery is just much less painful when you pay someone else with dedicated infrastructure. Kinda sucks because I remember when we all had our own on premises or co-lo mail servers.

I just think that era is dead. Spam has become so crazy- heck I use g suite (google apps) because the gmail spam filter is so powerful. I do not miss going and trying to manually tweak spam assassin rules so XYZ domain can email some user for an important project.

I am guessing this is the case with most HN users these days.
Thank you for providing the links.
Some of them to Cloudflare Streaming as per my recommendation. Their dashboard is easy enough to use for your typical digital marketer and it spits out an embed script that's as easy to integrate as the Youtube one. They also don't have much traffic, so they barely get above the 5$ minimum charge.

1 or 2 ended up with Vidyard (or a similar for-marketers solution I don't remember the name of). For the rest I don't know what they ended up with.
Indeed. While some ideas are the same everywhere, the maximum size of a house in Europe will probably be under 2000 sqft, the fixtures will be very different (e.g. door knobs or handles?), the technologies will be different (heating for example: floor pipes vs. radiators vs. air ducts) and so on.
So this "truly modern distribution" won't have accelerated graphics for my "modern" RTX graphics card? And if it's "Seriously optimised for serious workloads", then why use musl, which is considerably less optimized than glibc?