skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yah using the pre-canned esp32's make the cert process a lot easier.

@dom96 thats cool! Ping me on the Nim discord sometime if you want. I've not done FCC but did do some hardware certification stuff. For low volume products there possible ways around full FCC certs I believe. IIRC, you can sell things as "kits". I wonder if theres also exemptions for "prototype builds" too.
> although even then, the concept of running the actual code remotely but the X server locally seems strange

I don't think it is strange when you consider that terminals (including some with graphical capabilities) where common back in the day, with multiple terminals connecting to a single beefy computer.

In fact there were even dedicated X terminals (basically cheap computers running an X server) in the early 90s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal
Code generation isn't going anywhere. No/low code platforms are great for some subset of users, but there will always be people who want total control to differentiate themselves, since differentiation is how you get customers in a sea of competitors. That total control requires code of some sort.

Additionally, even if 95% are on platforms, the platforms are on code, and being able to rapidly iterate your platform compared with your competitors is how you're going to win. That means any tools that help you iterate with code faster will be invaluable.
AccessibleAI is probably a more accurate name than OpenAI. But not as snappy.
I'd really like to encourage you to trust that process. I spent years dealing with the repercussions of a traumatic brain injury (weekly visual rehab). I remember feeling like it only made the migraines worse and more frequent. In my case, it actually helped. The results just weren't obvious at the time.

Good luck.
I can confirm anecdotally. Got ANC headphones for the first time. Developed tinnitus out of nowhere. Stopped using ANC. Tinnitus gone.

ANC might be a "huh cigarettes cause cancer, who knew" type thing.
> 1 and 2 should be daily/biweekly/weekly check-ins either via a stand up or by a message/email, they do not warrant a 1-on-1 and wastes people's time to make managers feel better

Some people communicate or receive feedback better in person/video than over email, and that's okay!
Why are email addresses so complex? Who needs all that junk?
This article has a broad title but focuses on layoffs. I've seen the theory thrown around that it's a form of big tech collusion: They can't collude openly, but if one huge player makes a move like layoffs, it sends a signal to the others. Pandemic and work-from-home gave employees a lot more bargaining power, with the ability to get competing job offers without leaving their desks, so companies want to take that back.

I don't see enough evidence to call it, but I wouldn't put it past them, given how several big players including AAPL and GOOG were caught and fined for making no-cold-call agreements several years ago. And it does seem like the tech scene has been less competitive lately on the consumer side.
Creating new life forms? Many people can barely raise their own children. Can you imagine if tech companies create advanced lifeforms? It's truly a disaster waiting to happen.

It's rather rude to call it pointless FUD. AI messing up our world is real and I have thought it through at great length.

Having the perfect friend is actually immensely scary. It will create a world where people interact mostly with their electronic AI friends and where people no longer rely on each other. It is very unlikely that there will be any fabric of society left at that point, and people will start to hate the existence of other people...

The best thing that could happen would be the dismantling of all these tech companies by physically destroying all their servers and backups, just as we have done with huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
There are tons of reasons that lumps happen under the skin. If your doctor has looked at it and concluded it's not serious, then you should take their word for it. It's not an area where you expect catastrophic medical misjudgment.

FWIW, this entire thread is really something you should bring up with your doctor(s), and not rely on people on the internet for anything more than empathy.
> Absentee leadership with no understanding or care to monetize it

Its not that. Its that pushing digital photography and other stuff and monetizing them would kill their existing business. However you look at it, its a risk.
Twitter Developing ‘Coins’ Feature with Stripe Payments
Novel 'retipping' method yields more high quality cannabis plants in less space
See, that's the thing! The Sequoia has the same twin turbo V6 and 10-speed transmission as the J300 Land Cruiser (reliability already established as it's been in the Lexus LS500 for 5 years now) but with the addition of a hybrid system. For $60k, you get a much larger vehicle with more power and better fuel economy!

Take that already-in-mass-production drivetrain (or ideally something a little smaller) and put it into a 4Runner type vehicle and you have something absolutely amazing. For the same cost. That's my beef with Toyota.
Well uh, slashing the defense budget was literally one of the requirements made by extremists to get them to vote in a Republican house speaker.
It is not about simple updates. Questions about project prioritisation and blockers totally belong to a 1-on-1. They are easier to discuss face to face rather than over email.
> If your tools require widespread breaking of existing laws, your tools are broken.

What laws do you mean?
The US is astoundingly well-functioning and most US citizens astoundingly lucky by historical and/or global standards, and certain kinds of minimally functional mutual accountability are part of the reason why we've gotten this far.

There's also plenty of room for improvement of course (including learning from other industrial social democracies as well as recent internal issues), so that's relative, but the most reasonable perspective to start from is that we're all ridiculously lucky. Without substantial appreciation for that fact we're quite likely to wreck institutions that have gotten us here.
What I see most often, there are 3 main causes that I was able to identify, probably a lot more than I am not aware of.

1. Eye glasses. At this age (~ 42-43, more precise) most people start to have degrade vision that requires some correction, mostly for reading. Even if you can read without glasses, it is not really efficient.

2. Information overload in the Internet age made us learn to skim instead of read. This is involuntary and it is very difficult to correct, but at least you can do something about it.

3. Age shows for your brain, this is why we do school very young. There is nothing you can do about this particular point, just learn to live with it and handle the consequences. This applies also to coding, there was a question yesterday about coding and focus at 40 years old.
More often I've seen that all that fast development time is spent trying to replicate features of the old system that were missed or deferred when designing the new system. Strangely, when they have achieved feature parity, the new system often doesn't seem so easy to work with.
A surprising way to gain social status is to develop an independent sense of morals and treat people according to your ethical code.
Getting a server with > 400GB of RAM and a heap of GPUs can be done for less than $6,000 - $10,000 if you're scrappy. Not cheap, but also not out of reach for individuals.
This is helpful, thank you.

We have 121s and retrospectives in place, so I'll focus on helping people to feel safe enough to give honest feedback/suggestions in those sessions.

I like the idea of framing the question differently, rather than asking "what can I do better", people may feel more comfortable answering "what areas can be improved upon"
(we already use that question as a starting point for process changes in retrospectives, but asking it to ICs in 121s is something I can start doing).
This is just the first in a long list of "messaging" bills that will come from a very slim Republican House, because there is Democratic control of the Senate.

They know it won't become law. The point is to rile up the media, get hits on cable news, fund raise, and generally be useless as a governing body. This is what both parties do when they are out of power, and I would say is what they _prefer_ to do. It's easier than governing, makes them money, gets them media attention, etc.

Both parties here in the US _want_ to be minority parties so that they can behave this way and assume no actual responsibility for anything.
Michael Lopp would agree:

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-update-the-vent-and-t...
many say that git has an intuitive/concise data model. But it seems that even git team itself has not quite got it.

Looking at one of the latest changes [1] in which a _new_ merge strategy (ort) was introduced and made default one can ask how is it possible that so fundamental change happened 15 years after git was created?

Maybe the model is not so simple as it wants to seem.

[1] https://github.blog/changelog/2022-09-12-merge-commits-now-c...
Ya but how long will it be before I have 400GB of VRAM on a single GPU? Until then, I can't run these models at home even if the weights were published.
Just propose to do a bi-weekly instead?
"It was an incredibly open-ended piece of software, allowing those without much expertise in programming (or even any at all) to build a wide variety of computational tools. To borrow a formulation from Seymour Papert (who co-created the programming language Logo), HyperCard had low floors and high ceilings."

Speaking as someone who used HyperCard to create a couple of applications, this is...somewhat overstated. It was quite good at creating things that resembled flipping through a deck of cards. (One app was a "smart test" that would present a more-or-less difficult question based on the user's previous answers---my first introduction to Bayesian statistics.)

It was, however, not a good programming environment if you needed to do anything complex---think of writing a complicated Emacs major mode, not using Emacs lisp but a simplified textual language intended for those without much expertise.

This is a general problem for systems built for "those without much expertise in programming (or even any at all)"; they may be able to do simple things, but you'll still need to be a "real programmer" to do slightly more complicated things, and a "real programmer" will be doing it with one hand tied behind their back.
If you plan to exit in 2 years and you don’t give a sh*t after that, sounds like a plan!
https://plantuml.com/timing-diagram
We don't have morning standups. Why is a 1:1 a waste of time, but a morning standup isn't?
Clean your office. Seriously. All the little distractions and annoyances around us eat a serious amount of brainpower that _is_ shared with the brain chunks needed to do deep coding work.

Every time I find myself unable to focus beyond a shallow level I invariably find that I've let my mental and physical environment slowly go to shit and I'm running at 1/3 capacity because of it.
This was really interesting - a well deserved spot at the top of the front page. It's rare to see an article that combines the technical and business analysis so well.

It's amazing to me how quickly the company loaded itself up with staff. Being kinda familiar with ESP32 development, I thought at the beginning that the company would have 4-6 people - 1-2 technical, 1-2 production, 1 business/sales/marketing, 1 admin. It seems like they opted to target the luxury nostalgia market with the $600 price point rather than a more value-driven $300, and wrapped themselves in an aura of success rather than growing it naturally. The descriptions on the resumes of the former marketing staff juxtaposed with the business reality was...quite a contrast.

It's especially sad as the basic idea was good and seems sustainable at a lower price point - with a metal/plastic housing it might have been an easy sell to businesses near subway stations, for example, and developing cosmetically different versions for other large cities would be quite feasible. I wonder what made them take the 'growth corporation' approach rather than crowdfunding the prototype > product route, which was fairly well established even 5 years ago. That offers a fairly clear roadmap for new ventures and is sufficiently familiar to consumers that innovators can do some market segmentation and have a cushion of patience to get them though the design to manufacturing transition.

A great case study for anyone thinking about launching a product for fun or profit.
The JSON Encrypted Lightweight Long Yakisoba message?
another concerning point is that ultra-rich would be taxed much less, say now Bezos sells 100B of stock, he pays 20B in taxes (long term capital gain). With new tax he will pay nothing.
Imagine the possibilities once we advance the state of the art in biological weapon prototyping.
> How would have the Japanese software industry turned out without US threats, or if Japan had ignored them?

Good question. The same question can be asked about the defense industries of the UK, Germany and many other NATO countries. In some cases, the US killed their industries through threats and bribery that were later revealed as scandals.
If you're interested in a more thorough elaboration of his political conception, I would read 'On the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and Other Human Institutions' in its entirety - it's the essay from which OP is excerpted.

Here are two different translations (good for comparison, since the flow is somewhat lost from translation to English):

https://archive.org/details/essayongenerativ00mais/page/n11/...
http://maistre.uni.cx/generative_principle.html

One of my favorite passages is from the preface:

"It is written, by me kings reign. This is not a phrase of the church, a metaphor of the preacher; it is a literal truth, simple and palpable. It is a law of the political world. God makes kings in the literal sense. He prepares royal races, maturing them under a cloud which conceals their origins. They appear at length crowned with glory and honor; they take their places; and this is the most certain sign of their legitimacy. The truth is that they arise as it were of themselves, without violence on the one part and without marked deliberation on the other: it is a species of magnifcent tranquility, not easy to express. Legitimate usurpation would seem to me to be the most appropriate expression, (if not too bold,) to characterize these kinds of origins, which time hastens to consecrate."

Funny about 'Starship Troopers' - the consistent association of the novel (and I suppose the film, when taking as non-satirical) with fascism comes off as to me as the pot calling the kettle black. Heinlein was undoubtedly a liberal, very much influenced by Lysander Spooner and concepts of self-determination. Maybe - just maybe! - "liberalism" and "fascism" have more in common than what conventional separation of these concepts permits to good sense!
Curious and slightly off topic, but does anyone know of a good tutorial on writing a basic GUI library (windows, widgets, composition, etc)?

I have no intention of writing one in any usable sense, but it would be cool to write up a toy one.
More pay, more wfh, better working conditions. I just shoot the shit if all of all of those are good.
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Just another one vote for this. In my case, I find myself reading extremely fast online, but when I read a book (fiction or textbook) I'm really slow, have to go back lots of times, sometimes I have to read a sentence 5 times.

My suggestion is to try to relax. I find it gets worst when I'm stressed because "I have to finish this chapter today". Pressure is my worst enemy. Also what helps me, is going to a park, or a place where I feel very good, that stimulates my good mood to read.
> How does this interact with individual or career growth? I don't want to work for the manager who insists I stay on the first few projects I worked on at the company forever...

To me this is the a huge incentive for building strong teams. Nobody should be indispensable; it's a disservice both to the company and the person. Pair programming, collective code ownership, intentional cross-training, good automated tests, continuous deployment, and good automated monitoring have all been very helpful to me there. And vacations! Everybody should take long vacations where they are out of contact. By managerial force if necessary.
1. I am not an engineer and this is not an engineering firm.

2. Why would 1:1 be a waste of time, but a standup isn't?

3. I am not "regularly interrupting people," this is a regularly scheduled 1:1. Why is that an interruption, but a standup isn't?
i found this curious, as the technique is at least 40 years old with respect to north american Canna cultivation.
VictoriaMetrics author here. I'm working on VictoriaLogs right now, e.g. the logging system on top of VictoriaMetrics architecture ideas. Preliminary results are promising:

- It will need much lower amounts of disk space, disk IO, CPU and RAM comparing to ElasticSearch during data ingestion.

- It will provide fast logs' querying and tailing via easy-to-use query language (LogsQL), with the ability to calculate advanced stats over the selected logs.

- It will accept data in ElasticSearch format, so existing Filebeat and Logstash setups can be switched from ElasticSearch to VictoriaLogs in a few seconds.
I actually searched the page to see if anyone else is mentioning "managing up". Yes, I use my 1:1 for that as well.

Remember: your manager works for you, their job is to enable you.
It's okay to skip 1:1s if there's nothing to talk about. I think it's more important to have a standing meeting were both parties know they can bring up "serious things" than to use every standing meeting to its fullest.

As to what I talk about during my 1:1s, if it's not just bullshitting with my manager and building rapport, it's usually "this thing is hurting me/our team. What can we do about that?" Or "I feel like I'm kicking ass. How can we raise my awareness to the org?"

Basic questions that I would like a sync answer to and to give space for any conversations that need to happen.
I can see why you thought that but, no, I was assuming he was black because I followed the link for a different person.

I hate to beat a dead horse about this or to seem to contradict your experience; I can and do have sympathy for many people in prison. But you're attacking a straw man. My observation was about my response to final words by death row inmates in general. If you're saying there are exceptions to the rule that violent offenders in prison are often liars with behavioral pathologies, then sure, of course. If you're saying that's not a general heuristic one should have when encountering the claims of violent offenders on death row, I disagree. In my opinion, it's an especially useful heuristic for people who don't express any remorse for their victims, as in the quoted example. It makes no difference to the point you rushed in to correct me about, i.e., that a simple google search would void my argument. Maybe I won't seem so heartless to you if you consider that my sympathies are more with the victims of violent crime rather than the perpetrators. I used to think more along the lines of you and most people on HN. When I started to investigate the subject and think it through, my opinions changed quite a bit. Thanks for the debate. Good luck to you.
Worse - the seeming intent of WotC is to effectively cancel the previous version, which mean anything that's already written including v1.0 could no longer be legally distributed or sold.
"In order to check the answer to that question, I will need to take control of all planetary resources to manufacture ice cream for the 10^40 years. Please stand by"
These posts are disabusing people of the notion that The American Empire shall follow because omens were foreseen. I am obviously not saying that. I took care to single out the personality traits and behaviors I was comparing. It's an aesthetic exercise and not at all similar to prognosticating modern politics bases on ancient history.

What are you trying to accomplish?
1:1s at staff/senior level have always been about annealing the TODO graph to optimise for delivery. Who do I need to do what. Who needs to talk to me. Who can my manager talk to on my behalf to get X done so that Y can unblock Z. It’s a weekly check in where we passively infer project status by actively discussing ephemeral Gantt chart optimizations.

On top of that there’s how I’m feeling. And how I’m feeling about colleagues A, B and C. The best 1:1s for me have been when I feel like I’m helping my manager by giving him a heads up on things that would have otherwise surprised him, particularly about human/human interaction. In many ways, managing junior ICs must be bliss when the 1:1 is about the status of their isolated tasks. The real quagmire begins when you have relatively senior people trying to accomplish something together as a team, with your manager acting as the PM you were never assigned.

Also, some amount of ticket triage, for our sins.
Mostly talk about pending organizational changes (since we've had 3 rounds of that over the last 12 months), or strategic initiatives our team should take. Of our team of 12, I'm the youngest but also the one with the most "rounded" experience, so he tends to ask my opinion a lot, which I appreciate.

Other than that, just the usual gripes about weather, travel disruption and useless project managers.
What is the neurological development?
The keyword here is 'among'
I also believe that one week and 30mins are are not enough for 1-on-1s.

In my company, we do 1-on-1s once a month for 1 hour. The manager asks questions like:

- How are you?
- What's the skill that you are trying to improve this month?
- How I (the manager) or the company can help you to improve this skill?
-Do you feel that your responsibilities in the company are common with your personal goals?

I think that these meetings are successful when there is a clear agenda and both sides are prepared.

Personally, I feel very happy with these meetings.
> I think we can assume sama didn't take a bad deal.

Why? Selling a tech company in 2023 vs late 2021 or early 2022 is already guaranteed to get a lower valuation, but why is it safe to assume that Sam Altman didn't take a bad deal?

How do you know for example this wasn't just triggered because Musk needs money? It's very public that he sold a lot of Tesla stock recently and likely can't sell more without tanking it way more, twitter is a money pit, and AFAIK he is an early investor in OpenAI. The deal allows investors to cash out in this sale, so this to me screams "musk pressured everyone into creating a liquidity event".
I wasn't particularly thinking of Scotland, but since you mention it:

"The NHS in Scotland is totally devolved to the Scottish Parliament and all policy and spending decisions are made in Scotland."

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/facts-about-nhs-funding-i...
> Why "PirateWeather"? I've always thought that the HRRR model was pronounced the same way as the classic pirate "ARRR". Also, there is one company out there that thinks APIs can be copyrighted, which might apply here.

This answers the first question I had upon seeing the name, which was, is it free, open, documented and legal? Based on the above the answer seems to be "probably".

Very commendable effort, and I hope the project can last. It seems to be very difficult to maintain a free and reliable weather API so hopefully the dev is not biting off more than he can chew.