skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you on points 2 and 3 (I don't think a standup covers the same kind of thing as a 1:1 anyway, and as you point out, you're not interrupting people.

But to be fair on the first point, you were replying directly to someone who is (obviously), so it's a reasonable assumption.

However, even at that, long before I was involved in software development I still hated the redundant reporting of status and availability in repeated verbally or specially-prepared status reports. Do you really not have any system to track all of these work requests? To fit them into project plans using transparent and queryable project management tools? Do you wait to make assignments until you've had the week's 1:1 with everyone? How do requesters or other stakeholders know the status of requests--don't you track that?

Even if it's a spreadsheet with statuses and comments it still seems like this should be continuously updated, not once a week; and available to interested parties for transparency (so you don't have to have the meeting with your boss or other stakeholders where you imperfectly regurgitate what has already been said in 1:1s). Having one-on-one verbal conversations to repeat status and assignments at a snail's pace to each other, up and down the chain, is something I find very annoying.

I don't think 1:1s are a "waste of time", I just think it's a waste to do status reporting and work allocation using anything other than an agreed-upon tool. The tool might need to be reinforced by verbal meetings, depending on the employee, because different people need managed in different ways. So yeah, there are people who need to be told what to do and be reminded to use a tool, of course.

Which is why I think a 1:1 is the time do things differently depending on what each employee needs (since your group meetings are not individualized), and they should probably have the most influence in what you do in a 1:1. Some people need to talk about feelings. I like to use it as a brief social connection, to build social trust and rapport at work--for me, that's much more valuable than status updates. Others maybe need to review the work that they're doing.
>somewhat less impressed than everyone else is with the code generation

Not me... I work in finance related infrastructure, and was just randomly throwing things at it. Nothing I asked for is difficult by any means, but I would call it obscure, especially without any other context to go on.

For example, I asked "create a c# function to return month letters for all futures month expirations". It then proceeds to spit out a function that takes in month numbers as an int and returns the futures month symbol (jan/1 = F, feb/2 = G, etc). I just found it impressive that it had any idea what I was even talking about.

Then you just say "change the function to take a full date input instead of just the month" and it proceeds to change the input to a DateTime and modify itself. This is more "expected". But really, the way it understands natural language and can apply it is great.

Another one was "Create a c# function to get a trading date where the trading date starts at 5pm CST and ends at 5pm CST the next day. Saturday, Sunday, and January 1st are not valid trading days". And it just made a perfectly valid function to do exactly what I asked.

I have plenty of other examples.. and again, nothing is difficult but it's tedious and time consuming. If I was re-writing some of my systems from scratch this would have been incredibly useful to just help me do basic crap I don't want to waste my time on. The boilerplate code it can write is great.

What I would really love is for it to ingest my library and then be able to create helpful functions with even more context.. that is where this stuff is REALLY going to be useful.
They aren't really comparable though. C the language was really only comparable with part of Smalltalk, and the parts of Smalltalk it was comparable with were pretty portable. It's the rest of Smalltalk, the operating system interfacing stuff and the like, that C didn't even have. You had to rely on external libraries for that stuff, and they weren't particularly portable.

You could write perfectly portable utilities in Smalltalk as long as they didn't rely on any services that were not comparable to what C the language contained within itself.
> It's obviously ridiculous but is also a fairly simply dimensional analysis problem.

Wouldnt that much icecream would have so much mass it would form some kind of icecream blackhole? A cubic lightyear of blackhole-density icrecream seems like it would be (infinitely?) more than what Wolfram Alpha calculated.

I wouldnt even know where to start calculating that, but im pretty sure its not a simple dimensional analysis problem - so maybe the ChatGPT answer is less misleading than the wolfram one in this case..

Maybe (hopefully!) randall munroe (xkcd) will calculate it for his next book :)

Can anyone recommend a book for me to get some basic knowledge of this sort of stuff?
You’ve had some terrible managers. 1:1 should be your time…
> I can't wait for the inevitable lawsuits

But there's no ill intent. As long as it's not labeled as human. I guess it applies to everything, even sentient AIs, that it's fair as long as they don't promise services of a human.
Your use of the pedantic trope is trying to win the argument, but destroys the causal effect of why people die which is high voltage. It's like saying "No, he didn't die because he jumped off the building. He died because his body hit the ground." Pedantic, sure, but completely ignores the cause of death.

That's why you see warning signs for "HIGH VOLTAGE" but not "HIGH CURRENT".
Back in the late 1990's I had a laptop and was working in a cafe and the barista asked me if I worked in tech - I said I did - and then proceeded to excitedly go on about how Transmeta was going to dominate the x86 market. Yes, a barista (not knocking baristas but they are not known for their deep vertical knowledge in subjects outside of coffee, except maybe english lit). This was the level of enthusiasm at the time for one of the first techno disrupters. It very much reminds me of crypto a few years ago spinning off a cloud of so many a non techie person with a deep-seated, poorly-informed opinion backed up by a Robin Hood account full of DOGE.
> This sparked a housing crisis here in Boise, Idaho.

How interesting. Presumably as enlightened examples of the opposite of California governance, they wouldn't have any such thing as a housing crisis caused by popularity.

Or... it could be they've had the luxury of not having popular-place problems thus far, and like everyone else are suddenly discovering that actual governance is hard.
What are you talking about? America's financial system is the worst of the world's major economies from the perspective of people wanting to send money (to the point that the easiest way to send money between individuals is with paper checks, something that has virtually disappeared everywhere else). If anything, Bitcoin's promises of frictionless money transfer should have the most appeal to Americans since that's already a "solved problem" in the EU, Canada, Australia, etc.
IRS Audits Few Millionaires but Targeted Many Low-Income Families in FY 2022
I agree. To be more specific I think the problem with npm is that it explicitly trusts names and implicitly trusts their referents, which puts too heavy a burden on the name resolver.

Contrast this with apt, which inspects package signatures and compares them to keys I've trusted. If a package shows up with the same name as before, but different bits, and it's signed by somebody new, I have a reason to scrutinize it more heavily.
Superdeterminism hasn't been ruled out yet.
> I can see why Wolfram is bearish on what might be termed "the naive scaling hypothesis"

Forgive me for asking, but what does "bearish" mean in this context?
Meir Lehman wrote [1] extensively about software lifecycles and evolution, and came up with what he called "laws". Most of them should be familiar to HN readers. To sum up as succinctly as I can: programs in use undergo continual change; as a program is changed, it becomes more complex; the quality of the system will degrade over time unless rigorously maintained.

He also wrote that over time a software system, through dynamics of the programming process, the rate of change tends towards being statistically invariant. This is because, he said, the team involved in the system, including not just the developers, but also the users and others, have a finite ability to maintain understanding of the system, and excessive and too-rapid change outpace the ability of the people to maintain understanding.

A Sixty North blog post[2] provides some interesting graphs showing the measured effects of Lehman's laws, including one showing that after 5 years, almost 2/3rds of the code is written by people who joined the team after the original team members left.

1 Metrics and Laws of Software Evolution - The Nineties View https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/637156

2 https://sixty-north.com/blog/predictive-models-of-developmen...
Modern web apps often use the URL in ways that only matter to the client and can be edited client-side without issuing another request to the server, unless you reload manually, in which case everything is reset except the URL state. This doesn't violate REST principles. Some of that makes sense to put in the URL so users can return to past state, some is very temporary and wouldn't make sense at all to persist across a reload/back.

For example, you may track the scroll position for the purpose of loading more content when the user reaches the bottom of a feed, but you don't want to persist that across reloads. And the user may click on some content and anchor the view to it, which you do persist in the URL for the purpose of history or sharing.
I'd agree with this, if we required people to sign a document that said "You now waive your right to any state care you'd otherwise be entitled to receive, because you're about to become a heroin addict".

With the exception of (mandatory) rehab as a state provided service, of course.
Yeah, I can't even imagine what it would be like to implement a system like that without radar. Tesla's approach would make a good Most Interesting Man In the World meme. "I don't always tackle the hardest engineering problems in human history, such as self-driving cars. But when I do, I tie one hand behind my back, close one eye, and consume some alcohol or drugs first."

One episode per 3000 miles is too many, and that's about what I was seeing before I disabled the feature.
I'm rather biased, but I think HyperTalk was mostly a mistake. A well-written HyperTalk script can be clear for a novice to read and (hopefully) modify, but this comes at the cost of making it an intensely longwinded, fiddly, and ambiguous language to program with and to implement. The focus on text manipulation as the primary "data handling" paradigm is very convenient for some problems, but the lack of proper lists and associative structures is a liability for complex programs.

Nevertheless, HyperCard on the whole was still enough to be highly empowering to a very broad userbase, which cannot be understated. It is difficult to quantify the amount of productivity and enjoyment that can be given to users simply by allowing them to make minor changes to personal software themselves, even if the bulk of the work was done by some "real programmer".
Possibly the issue is your conflating knowing with doing.

The straightforward parsing of that sentence for me is: We are not capable of completely expressing our (personal) knowledge with language.
Because it's something completely different, which the article also points out:

> Wolfram|Alpha does something very different from ChatGPT, in a very different way.

Imagine an article doing the opposite, showing examples where ChatGPT beats Wolfram|Alpha. It obviously wouldn't even be a comparison worth publishing.

WA beats ChatGPT in a small subset of prompts but those are not what brings the current hype.
I don’t think you understand what a good 1:1 is. If you think a 1:1 is a secret meeting to tell you secrets, you have no clue. I’d suggest reading up on it somewhere, for example Claire at knowyourteam has some blogs and ebooks that give a high level.
"TNOEY" coined.
Firefly reference
"These results are based on internal IRS management reports released each month to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University under a court order entered after successful litigation under the Freedom of Information Act."
Probably posted by John Titor [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
Better a false positive (phantom braking) than a false negative (not braking when it should). I imagine they're all tuned with this in mine.
> "if it doesn't work rewrite it"
and I would add: .., and if the business go bankrupt, start a new one.
It's very real feeling.
If they're work has no relevance to yours, I don't think you're on the same logical team? You don't need cross team stand-ups unless you're working on a project together
Not to take away anything from the article but what does this have anything to do with IoT?
The funding of my childhood can be traced back capital investments and production in an old farming family, amongst other places.

The initial roads layout were likely put there by slaves. The capital growth needed to propel the family into generational wealth to fund our childhoods likely was fueled by slaves. We need to perpetuate slavery because muh roads were made possible by slaves and I benefitted.

Fortunately we can put the descendants of those slaves to work yet -- we'll call it 'property tax' and they still to this day work the fields, even if they're childless, to subsidize education of my farming family. If they don't pay it the sheriff just boots them out onto the street!
In rural Texas, we pronounced it “bow-dark” and called them horse apples, which the article mentions. It was very common to hang swings from them.
This is the kind of things that can easily happen.I wouldn't judge them on it.
Stable diffusion’s model still won’t do pornography, hate speech etc. right? I’ve only run it using DreamStudio.
WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY anticipated that this technology would have nefarious uses, and/or unintended conseque-

Oh right, warnings for years, no one cares.

The free market has spoken!
Public policy in the town I grew up in was that intersections only got lights after a certain number of reported accidents had happened there.

There was a particularly nasty intersection near the most popular bike shop that the bike club kept going to the city about but since nobody had died yet, they weren't going to put one in.

People know which intersections are accident prone, well before the city does something about it. There are routes I don't take because there are others that are safer or easier to follow at all hours of the day instead of just outside of rush hour, or also when I'm tired/distracted. But there are also magnets that pull certain demographics to them. Like that bike shop, or the shitshow outside of CostCo where I live now.
Thanks for all your support and feedback, if you want to see any new features requests, or have any questions related to the project I will be glad to help you <3
> Beginning January 13 at 10 a.m. EST, the “MIT GUEST” network will use a captive portal registration system (similar to a splash page). Visitors connecting to “MIT GUEST” will be required to provide an email address or mobile phone number to access the network.

This still sounds like an open WiFi to me.
>Do downvotes mean I’m wrong or that I upset someone?

Both likely. It comes off authoritative, without much backup. And if you are going to retire in your 40s' being in tech is certainly going to help and most members are in that field. I also think a lot of people in tech have a similar plan.
Squirrels eat them regularly at my house.
A 1:1 shouldn’t be focused on project-related things—you’re right to assume that would just muddy the waters. 1:1s are best used for personal growth. Asking your manager things like “what do you perceive as my weaknesses/strengths” and “what training opportunities can you help me pursue” etc. It should be a personal discussion that helps you to grow in your career and get what you want out of your employment.
How to build your OCI images using Buildpacks
People forget fees compound. 1% extra fees will make you a lot more than 1% poorer in the long run.
it was an IoT product (internet-connected LED sign)
This appears to be the opinion of the three people who signed their name to the post on this particular website, who appear to have nominated themselves to speak on behalf of the Apache tribes. There's not even an About Us page that describes their tribal influence.

I'm not dismissing the feelings of anybody other than these three people who are claiming a grievance. If the movement grows, I'll reconsider.
> have a decent amount of savings in cash

How much is a "decent amount" ?

If its not equivalent to 6–12 months salary, then its not enough.

Yes, the foolhardy will try to tell you that 6–12 months cash in the bank is deadwood. But they are wrong.

What happens if you lost your job tomorrow ? You're unlikely to walk straight into another job are you!

What happens if some other $expensive_shit hits the fan ? Trust me, you'll be grateful for a cash cushion.

Make sure you always have a decent cash cushion before you start looking at investing with those dangerous rose-tinted spectacles.
(oh and my fancy GTI with a touch screen doesn't, funny enough)
MSX ran the MSX-DOS operating system - which was developed by Tim Paterson under contract to Microsoft. It was a port of MS-DOS 1.x to the Z80. ASCII in Japan wrote the device drivers but the core OS was developed in Seattle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX-DOS
Yes, when they don’t want to have 1:1 it means they don’t want to give me their time. That’s not managing, that’s coasting.
I never had 1 on 1s with the Manager more then once or twice a year. It was mostly about salary, contracts and maybe some performance review.

Casual one on ones if you meet in the office I mostly used for chit-chat. Managers do so much heavy stuff, so keeping it light should benefit the relationship.
> X server locally seems strange

Why does it seem strange? It's the same as what you do when you run, say, a web browser locally. (The only difference is, we do not call the browser "web server.")
Then you should talk about how you you need help coming up with a plan!

If I was your manager, I’d tell you that while your problem about setting career goals is real, your framing of the problem as something I the manager should tell you what your goal is is backwards. I’m not living your life, you are. The path of least resistance for me is to let you stagnate right where you are and then tell you you’re perfectly happy if I wanted to gaslight you, but then I’d be a shitty manager.

What I should do is tease out shat motivates you and how that aligns to what we need as an org, not just my team. I may not be able to give you want you want, but I can help put you on that path.

Seriously, if you need mentorship, reach out. I’m easy to find.
This is quite unprofessional, I get it’s an opinion but the discussion is made out like Suse has personal vengeance against 37 signal.
as far as I've heard if one of them is pressed e.g against US or Russia, then the things will happen automatically

Here's interesting video from Ukraine's intercontinental nuclear missile base museum with english subtitles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ZrnffyXpU

where presenter says that "people will be dead, but missiles will still fly" iirc
Can someone help me understand why Twitter had not crumbled from the overwhelming weight of software decay after 50% of the staff was laid off? I’m not being sarcastic, it’s just honestly hard for me to understand…
A good feedreader wouldn't poll again when it receives a 304 response.
2022 Passport Index
obviously no
> In short, the NHS is more correctly seen as nationalised rather than socialised medicine, achieving the first three levels of a socialist health service identified here. It can be said to have socialist principles in the limited distributional sense and has some socialist means to achieve these.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10170226/

The study is from 1997, and the NHS has definitely changed in the 25 years since, arguably becoming more privatised since the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (among other decisions).
I agree with you, but I've also found the https://windy.com timeline along the bottom to be similarly informative, with ECMWF data to boot.
Automate the tests. Sure the QA group holds the final say, but if you have a test that breaks you don't have to ask them. Or at least you have something to base a.conversation on.

Note that requirements change, and bad tests will break on no requirements. Telling the difference is an exercise for the reader.
> especially as sr.ht isn't free (any longer)

This isn't a bad thing, it was always meant to be financially supported by its users.
The alternatives are ads or for Drew and co to run it at a loss indefinitely.
This needs to be emphasized so much more.

Short of "not driving", human drivers don't have the option of "well, this is less than optimal, I can't do well, so I won't try".

FSD absolutely does. Disengages, or is not even engaged in the first place.

I wonder Tesla's FSD safety / disengagement stats for December to February in Pittsburgh, for example.
I started clubbing and raving in SF around 1994. I definitely saw everything you noted, but much earlier versions of it all. I'm glad you had such great experiences. The whole lifestyle of everything in SF opened my mind more than I care to even admit.

In fact, the scene changed and morphed a lot over the years. While I'm sure that people will find ways to have their own kinds of fun, I don't think it'll ever get repeated in the same way again. Mostly because of the fact that we all have phone/cameras along with social influencers now... it changed everything, and that's ok too. It'll be interesting to see how to changes again in the next decade or so.

My ownership period was more in the 1999-2005 range, so you were just after that by a few years.

Thanks for sharing your story.
It is. You can see it on your little icon that the brakes turn on. Anything reasonably fast shows brakes.
Who does YC recommend early stage portfolio companies use for corporate taxes?
I need to do this for myself for the first time and am looking for recommendations
25 years ago someone put their corporate email address in some comments in the source code of this project. Now that company has outsourced their reputation to the lowest bidder, who is claiming that the address reveals secret or private information about the internal network of the corporation.
I’ve got to ask, which other Wi-Fi mapping provider requires a SSID suffix to opt out? Is it one of the big boys or is it someone like wigle.net or openwifimap.net?
Anthropic's Claude is said to improve on ChatGPT, but still has limitations
It's stock market slang:

- bullish - "bull market" - a positive outlook

- bearish - "bear market" - a negative outlook

So being "bearish" means he's skeptical about that being the case
Wouldn't "trying to port an app" mean trying to port between different C gui libraries?

(Just like "trying to port an app from one Smalltalk to another" would mean trying to port between different Smalltalk gui libraries.)
Ohm's law says:

I = V/R

It's as simple as that. A high enough voltage will find a current path ionizing the air or whatever is in it's way. A high current doesn't doesn't do that by itself.