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> Create a culture that allows employees to come to you when THEY need to.

This is great advice in general but regular 1v1s give you a forum to proactively ask employees how things are going, which can help you detect problems quieter employees are having that they might not be willing to raise themselves. Some people are conditioned not to complain, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're happy.
i had pretty good luck prompting it with something along the lines of "if the answer requires computation, write a python program to solve instead of trying it yourself"

a deep product integration with expert systems like wolfram alpha would be really incredible! i can't wait to see it in the future.
Obviously if you have already checked that please disregard my comment, but running SHOULT NOT be "painful in the heart", as that is a symptom of your heart not getting enough oxygen (also called Angina). Please see a doctor before resuming your exercise (especially if you've got COVID in the meantime). It might be nothing, but it might save your life.
Citation needed? All the Hyper-V and Azure drivers use RNDIS. I can't see Linux just excluding those platforms with no alternative.

Edit: found https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Disabling-RNDIS-Drivers
I have a Fuji X-E3, and recently got the 35/1.4 lens. I now feel bad for my other lenses which are collecting dust, especially the zooms.
ISO standards for programming languages have been essentially totally obsoleted for new languages. Open source is the reason: previously you'd only have proprietary implementations, so you'd need a standard to ensure they were compatible. Now the standard for rust, python, etc IS the default implementation. Bug for bug compatibility and all that.
Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now
ChatGPT Seems to Be Down
> All of the talk about how old and bad the language is, and how nobody wants to learn it is tech speak for, "We can't support it as is, we need a rewrite!" Anyone who has been near tech for a long time knows "rewrite" means "tech is going to break it for unclear reasons and uncertain gain, and in a few years will want to rewrite it again. Tech people always underestimate the cost and risk of a rewrite, and also overestimate the benefits.

No, it really isn't. I'm happy to learn a new language. The reason is correctly stated by a sibling post here (WesolyKubeczek).

That we've been able to containerise it has limited a lot of the risk, and any upstream issues we have going forward we should be able to write some middleware to sit between it and transform the data into the format we need. We can extend the container to proxy any requests from the ancient application to the new middleware. We have a strategy, the product owner is happy with that, but we've outlined that maybe the solution won't work as we think, there are always unknown unknowns...

The issue is that if a problem does arise, it will be immediate and the effects will be there for as long as it takes to get a fix up and running, which could be weeks to who knows how long. That's a real risk in my eyes, but it wasn't to our product owner.

It will affect a lot of people, it's a pretty widely used service! It's entertainment, so people won't die if it fails.

The risk was deemed low enough by the product owner that we can just leave it in a container until it's finally sunsetted in 5-10 years (or so...). We've had 2 product owners since the OG product owner made that decision, so it could just be the product owner who made the decision thought they'd be long gone by the time it became an issue.

You're making assumptions about people you've never met, you don't know me and you don't know what motivates me.

You aren't as good at "reading between the lines" as you think you are.

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From your profile: My main programming language is Perl

Oh, it all makes sense, you're hurt that I called Perl 5 old! That's funny. I've never written production Perl, I am not making a judgement on the language.
Sad to see amds ROCm efforts essentially abandoned. They were close to universal interop for cudnn and cuda on amd (and other!) Architectures.

Hopefully Intel takes a stab at it with their ARC line out now.
S&P: US needs 2.13M level 2 and 172,000 level 3 chargers by 2030
CARTs: more efficient mRNA delivery vehicles
This is effectively the same argument for why R is such a powerful language. It's the fastest route from theory to implementation for many scientists.
In my haste to give an example I missed the part about it being for only "software companies", we're not a software company, but we do have a lot of developers
Read on a Kindle (/KOreader) and put your phone far enough so it becomes annoying to go grab it :-)

The solution with these addicting things is always to create some kind of barrier…
Goldman Sachs embarks on biggest cost-cutting drive since the financial crisis
Show HN: Chat with two hot dates? Real or AI – who cares? (TV Show)
We're a mostly-remote company doing cooperative and independent project work, so these meetings are a bit more socially-oriented. We talk about whatever. Our pets, our hobbies, sometimes small work things that come up that I need to prepare for. Same goes for talking to my VP.

We hold some in-person standup, but mostly via slack on that and we sometimes do a more impromptu video call among concerned parties. It's mainly because it helps to see each other on cam.
The seeming death of software that empowers users never ceases to make me sad. We have this machine of near limitless power and endless possibilities, and yet we do everything in our power to make doing things yourself esoteric. You have to pay someone to develop simple things you should absolutely be able to do yourself.

When I was a pre-teen my computer booted up to BASIC. I taught largely by guessing commands. I created many simple graphical games drawing lines and circles.

SCREEN 12
LINE 0 0 640 480 5

Imagine being a pre-teen today and just trying to draw a line to the screen. Several hundred lines of boilerplate. We've lost more than we've gained.
We're working on a project that was inherited from previous engineers with no crossover. The first thing we did was write an end-to-end integration test suite for all the features we could find, which has grown more comprehensive over time. We still have old code we know is working alongside newer code written in a completely different style. We've been able to make major changes in tools and conventions over time while keeping progress steady. While we'd love to clean up all the code and have a single set of the latest conventions the decision is always refactor it now or maybe punt and we'll get to just delete it later, we usually go for the latter.

I think the biggest benefit has been that the tests are isolated from the implementation details so we can always be sure everything is still working without having to refactor the tests themselves.

There is still a learning curve for new people because they don't know which of the multiple conventions in the code are the presently-agreed-upon ones, and that is where we could probably use some better documentation, but I think the end-to-end tests really saved us from the idea that some knowledge is lost and we might need to start over.
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100% this. Bit for bit math is the densest representation of knowledge invented by the human mind. Its a pity so many people switch off and never "get it" as they crawl in our current educational systems. Maybe making it easily available on the web will help at least a little.
FYI because it's something of a hidden feature: you can close the Apps dock with the ⋮ vertical dots at the bottom right of the screen!
Most JVMs take advantage of a thread local "bump" allocator[1] as well to avoid having to cross JVM or kernel boundaries to allocate memory, which can result in huge speedups for memory-intensive use cases.

[1] https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/4-tlab-allocation/
The British Medical Association is in a position to veto changes to the number of medical students being educated in the UK, as its members have a monopoly on providing medical training, which is why they hold votes on such things at their conferences:

https://www.proquest.com/openview/b0c6c69bed2854a96acfd2889d...

Matters like this are normally discussed behind closed doors, and there is plenty of horse-trading, with favours being negotiated, and assurances, and understandings that are reached before major changes are "unilaterally" "announced" by the Government. There are different factions within the medical profession, and none of them want to lose out when there are changes. Priced into the government's announcement they they are going to train more doctors, therefore, are a range of promises and commitments to the medical profession to make sure that this will proceed without incident.
I was responding to the point about counting crashes after autopilot disengagement, not the criteria for what counts as a crash.
They may not be dumb, but they may have narrow vision (which I suppose is still dumb). Bad decisions in top tiers of the largest world companies are not unheard of.
I think it's more about it having "pirate" in the name that makes one question its legality.
I hope the letter that Jared Wilson wrote the farm bureau gets published somewhere at some point, it'll be a good read! I asked if he had anything I could link to, he's not a journalist, just a really well spoken farmer.
Being an exec is choice to commit an exorbitant amount of your time/energy on your job. You can always settle for an easier/lower paying job. You don't see the president complaining the job is stressful.
And usual it depends on the context. “Strong programmer” practices don’t actually bring much to the table with respect to scientific computing. Regression testing (alluded to above), for example, is actually (mostly) implicit, as future results depend on the continued stable output of past results. If the new code caused the old code to produce different outputs for the new result, it would show somewhere. At least it did when I was doing computational astrophysics in academia.
They aren't as good as davinci-003, though. There is no open source model competitive with GPT-3.5 yet.
Ascent – Logic Programming in Rust
China demographic dissolution, dying tech industry, risk exposed energy sector
Iterated Decomposition: Improving Science Q&A by Supervising Reasoning Processes
— Consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.
— Vader. Is the dark side stronger?
— No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
Any chance you can share the contact for your dentist?
Ownership You Can Count on [pdf]
> it's easy to see why—now we consider Google an ad company first—but back then it was truly bewildering

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I don’t exactly know how but I’ve always connected GC-languages with slow performance, but today, I realized how wrong I was.
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Any and all anti-trust actions are good things.

Many of the problems we are currently experiencing are due to the fact that there is no real competition between companies. It looks like there is, but when you trace the supply chain backwards you eventually converge to a single supplier. Consequently, it doesn't matter how you spend your money because it always lands in the same company.

Sure, expensive fizzy water seems like a First World Problem(tm). However, PepsiCo and Coke are huge conglomerates and any action against them is welcome.
> Do the damn math

Wolfram's point, which is valid, is that ChatGPT can't do the damn math. That's simply not what it does. To do things like do accurate math, you need a different kind of model, one that is based on having actual facts about the world, generated by a process that is semantically linked to the world.

For example, Wolfram uses the example of asking ChatGPT the distance from Chicago to Tokyo; it gives an answer that looks plausible but is wrong. Wolfram Alpha gives the correct answer because, unlike ChatGPT, Wolfram Alpha has an internal store of facts that includes things like distances between major cities, and that store of facts was generated and curated based on, ultimately, someone actually checking the actual, physical distance from Chicago to Tokyo in the actual world.

Of course Wolfram adds to all this valid criticism the implicit claim that Wolfram Alpha is the panacea for all these problems, which is typical Wolfram hyperbole. But his basic criticism is still valid.
Pulse 3.0: a network logger built with Swift
I shoot with an X-Pro3 as well, and the 35mm f/2 is one of my favorite lenses.

I sold mine when I started investing in wider prime lenses - I now mostly use a 23mm f/1.4 and a 56mm f/1.2 - but I should buy it back. It's really the perfect lens for street photography, and has a certain character that I can't really objectively describe. All I can say is that I can tell immediately when a photo is taken with it, compared to one taken with a similar focal length but using the same camera/sensor.
Hear* I meant of course.
Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All
There's also the help encouraging diversity in grass types by the marching band forming the block letter shapes of their school on the opposing team's field. While in this formation, the band members empty their pockets that had been full of grass seeds. Otherwise, the opposing team's field would just be a monoculture of grass, and that's never a good thing for diversity
Yeah, just look who Steve Blank is...
> she thinks "wow this is so much better" and just never goes back.

Worse still (for the original company), she then tells all her friends about the competitor that doesn't suck.
https://archive.ph/pGAbH
the documentation for something like angular or rxjs is about how to use the framework, the documentation doesn't explain the underlying code...
I hear you. I've gone on many of rants here and elsewhere on the egregious deficiencies of doctors and medical science. I had plenty of experience with doctors that were unable to diagnose my condition despite it being incredibly obvious so I didn't trust them to treat it from the start.

I just looked it up, Modafinil and Amitriptyline are both Schedule IV drugs for what is OTC in many places, that is pretty extreme.

Marijuana is Schedule I though and plenty of people smoke pot. While it isn't legal the odds are probably in your favor.
That BOM is crazy. It looks like (and is) a hobby project that never had any consideration given to manufacturerability.
>It's cementing my personal opinion deeper and deeper within me that that the media is directly responsible for forming the viewpoints and ideas of a huge amount of people - and they're violating this responsibility in huge ways by having inexperienced/irresponsible journalists and journalism - not to mention the corporate and governmental meddling that's pervasive to journalisms core.

I would be fine with the author of the article not being informed on the topic if they had just reached out to some farmers to ask what they think before blindly publishing this as a win.

I'm not a farmer. I have no clue.

I get numbers of people who show up at the state legislature in Nebraska in 2017, Maryland 2020, NY 2015, and I call them all up when this comes out. Some will be open to speaking on the record, some not, and some will come on video.

Nobody has all the answers, and nobody has the time to research & become an expert on everything when covering so many different topics in a day. That's fine.

Not asking the direct stakeholders who are affected by this news what they think of it when writing these articles, is a giant misstep. It takes so little time to do.

I think there is a financial penalty to not being the first out with an article, so the incentive structure is to be the first out with the new news, rather than the most correct. The corrections will never do as well as the original piece, either. There was one thing I got wrong in 2018, because I didn't have access to the court records at the time. Once they were shared with me, I posted a correction in 3 separate videos, that, altogether, got less than 5% the viewership of the original piece. It's even worse for mainstream outlets that issue the correction as an asterisk or bury it, rather than as a centerpiece of their programming.
There seems to be a false dichotomy here between either “always treat the recipient as guilty” and “just let them claim ignorance without questioning it”.
This is very true. On multiple occasions, after taking over ownership of code for which the original author wasn’t available anymore, I ended up rewriting it bit by bit, according to my progress in understanding it. In some ways, rewriting a piece of software is the best way to understand it deeply, and/or to uncover the gaps in one’s understanding.
Show HN: Generate stories (with images) based on a prompt
Hi!
I wanted to introduce a sideproject that I worked on over the holiday period.

My daughter and I love reading stories at bedtime. When ChatGPT came out, I started to experiment with it and decided to create short stories that we could read at bedtime. Surprisingly, my daughter really enjoyed these stories, they were short, engaging and fun.

So I thought what if there was a way to create a catalog of these stories that we could keep as part of our (digital) library.

The idea of StoryPanda was born. With just a prompt + age group + art style, you can generate short stories that are great for kids.

Looking for feedback on the quality of stories it generates and I am now working on adding more functionality in coming weeks.

Here is a story that was created by StoryPanda - https://storypanda.ai/s/dc59910a-cbcd-467b-8c98-f3481036cfd3

Check it out at http://storypanda.ai
The OP is a link to a paper. An FT article about it is here (no paywall):

https://archive.is/hz1lj
> This isn't a case of a bank following suit and copying another bank's offering, this is a case of a company using terms of another company and riding on their "infrastructure" (IP, licenses, etc). For a RPG company, these intangibles are infrastructure, not legalese.

Hold on, we're just talking about the license, aren't we? I thought the question was about why they were using the OGL, which is very much just the legalese/contract.
Hunter: Using Change Point Detection to Hunt for Performance Regressions
It's a bit of a weird quote because it's not at all apparent how business cases for markup features would be decided on. Chrome is full of stuff that isn't obviously beneficial to Google's core business (WebXR? WebMIDI?), yet MathML is about enhancing the parseability of information in crawlable documents which you'd expect to be a priority for a search company.
This study is from one of the original links I shared...

You accused me of gish gallopping. I've since slowed down and focused on specific events. See my other comments about the battery swapping scam for example.

Please provide some actual data proving these cars are safer than average. Tesla certainly hasn't been able to. And research, like the one I just linked which you refused to acknowledge, definitely does not back up Elon's claims
I just don't think that should wait for stand-up, even if they're daily. If you're blocked, mention it in the Slack channel or whatever we're using - someone can probably help; if not they know you need it. If a call is required, you can arrange that then with the relevant people, which may or may not be everyone.
Can you delve into the complexities? To me, if clawback were not available, it seems to create the perverse incentive to start a ponzi scheme and then put the money in a shielded "investment" in my friends' overvalued startup.
I scratch this itch with the JX 720 XBMC skin as the default dash for my OG XBOX: https://sites.google.com/site/xbmc4xboxskinmods/jx720

Not sure where to find it now, but back in The Day there was a modified copy of the XBOX360 1888 dash (November 2005 launch ver) floating around as a standalone XEX that would run on a homebrew-enabled 360.
It's been a terrible season for respiratory infections (RSV, Covid, Flu) and gastro bugs, the most vulnerable can't afford to eat, let alone turn on the heating, and social care availability has been in decline for a decade, worsening significantly in the past year, nuking front-door availability at hospitals, doctors and the transport they rely on.

All of which I mean to say: No. Shit. Sherlock.

It's all so painfully obvious to anyone paying attention. The doctors and nurses and care homes and mental health workers have all been screaming about this for a decade. Cuts upon cuts upon redirected funding upon private providers upon universal credit cutting benefits upon cuts and failures and all that before covid, all before inflation lowering everyone's incomes.

We need to hire. We need to train. We need to retain. We need to build. We need to instill the fact that care home workers, pastoral carers for our elderly are such bloody important roles because without them helping people live outside hospital, nobody else gets seen. We need to pay them, we need to pay them to pick up shit and talked to dementia sufferers more than Jeff Bezos can pay them to pack boxes.

If we can't do that… It's over. But we need to have a serious conversation about what we actually want to do with the infirm in this country. Letting them freeze to death in their own homes feels like state-mandated euthanasia without the "eu". Huh, a wild Brexit joke appeared.

We need a General Election.
Well, someone has to.
Ironic then that the Soros fund is down 66 percent over the past year.
But your payback is enormously larger.
I bought a Samsung smartphone.

The smartphone has a bunch of cameras. They can zoom to different levels. They can use AI to do stuff like auto-detect documents and turn on a very smart document scanning mode.

Then I open up Telegram or WhatsApp and I'm greeted with a barebones camera app that can't really even zoom.

How is that a good user experience?!? In what world?
Well put. I find it fascinating to watch memory-safe runtimes converge on automatic memory management (via GC or ARC) and owner/borrower models. I'm just not sure which I like better, or if I'm thinking too imperatively.
The Floppy Flops (Travelling to Tokio, Part 2)
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34319979, which has the original source this article points to.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And the experience they produce on Android is worse than the iOS one, because Android apps are second-rate mobile citizens.
> you generally have to give progress reports at least daily

This trend seems genuinely goofy to me. If you have daily reports, standups, or whatever, you're going to be spending a lot of your time prepping for those. That's time that you're not spending writing actual code (or whatever you're nominally supposed to be doing).
WhatsApp is pretty secure compared to most of the other messengers out there and it's quite popular in some countries. So that's not it.
It's marketing and/or being at the right place at the right time.