skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear this frequently, but disagree strongly, at least regarding the spoken language. As a native English speaker who learned Japanese easily to the "could get by as a tourist" level with two semesters of college classes and minimal self study, I find French much harder (and I took 4 years during high school).

Unlike many southeastern Asiatic languages, Japanese doesn't have any sounds that the average English speaker doesn't already know how to make (possible exception in the 'l' sound, but, if you can roll your 'r's, it's the same tongue position). There are no articles, only two tenses, relatively normal conjugations (though adjective conjugation is odd relative to English), no declension, and sentence structure has strong hints of Latin. The simple-polite forms of verbs are sufficient for daily use. Pitch accent and ga vs. wa are hard to pick up without immersion, but neither are necessary to be understood.

The written language is a different story. Lots of memorization. The hiragana and katakana come quickly, but there are a lot of kanji. Probably not needed for tourists (particularly in the day of image translation on phones), but still a factor. Arguably still easier than Mandarin in that regard, though.

Additionally, there are an overabundance of resources for Japanese learners. The economic potential of American occupation under MacArthur and the subsequent boom years, the enduring popularity of Zen Buddhism, and the rise of anime's popularity in the West have likely all contributed to Japanese being one of the best-supported Asiatic languages in academia and self-study courses. Its support in the USA is exceeded (in my estimation) only by Mandarin due to
the large immigrant population and ongoing trends in trade.

In short, I'm sure the number of native English speakers who can "get by" in Tokyo eclipses the total number of native English speakers with basic Lao, Thai, Khmer, Vietnamese, and probably even Mandarin skills.

Just one datum.
As far as I know they largely based this on Cocotron[1], without giving credit.

And of course it wasn't so much "giving up" (which sorta implies it was the difficulty of the task), but more "losing interest", because they discontinued Windows Phone, where they were behind Apple's iOS in terms of market share. In that context, getting iOS apps on their system is economically interesting.

On desktop, Windows is way ahead of macOS in terms of market share, so there isn't much of a point.

[1] https://cocotron.org
I'd quite like to see someone with genuinely excellent one liner delivery go through an entire set of these almost-a-joke-jokes, just to see the audience react.
> The vision of the bill was to support an internet of relatively free an unconstrained speech. No one expected these platforms to "fact-check" anything, and the moderation was not rule on who was right or wrong, but to mainly give them leeway to keep out genuinely illegal (and to a lesser extent, obscene) content.

How did you reach that conclusion?
Probably React for the frontend, Postgres for the database, PostgREST to serve up a REST API, Nginx for routing. Any services or tasks not done in the DB directly written in one of Python 3, Kotlin, or Go. Pretty much any generic search task including freetext is easy in Postgres, but if I need more I’d throw in Elasticsearch.

Building an MVP should be done with the tools you’re most comfortable with!
It's not inconceivable, but it's weird that everybody is doing it at the same time even when the company is perfectly healthy.
Yes works with anything now, they removed the manual accepting of the terms and auth requirement some months after release.
I'm building my first solo MVP using Falcon. The product will be REST API only with the exception of signup/payment pages, although a friend is helping with that in Laravel, as webdev is his thing.

For hosting I'll use Hetzner.
>they don't vote for things that they don't think they understand.

Oh you sweet summer child.
Perhaps, but scanning the conversation thread here again, I see most people wanting to punish the CEO for steering the ship for a new reality in a way that includes layoffs.
Ecosystems where binary redistribution at the language level is the norm tend to have really gnarly downstream packaging issues, so that dependency management by a general purpose/distro package manager is basically an unsupported use case (.NET) or that for large projects, there may not be an known, working fully from-source build (Java).

I would much rather have binary redistribution left up to downstreams.
It could be, but that all the big companies come to the same conclusion at the same time is unlikely to be a coincidence.
> If you have LOTO systems etc, what do you do when a sensor fails...

It pretty much boils down to: it depends upon what the business wants to prioritize; operating margin or resiliency. There is an entire subfield investigating the statistical foundations of resiliency, and the general case of N-modular redundancy is in practice implemented as triple modular redundancy in most commercial systems that want to spend in this vector.

> Like it or not, these highly trained individuals are going to make mistakes every now and then.

Absolutely, and here is where the organization's no-blame learning culture swings into action for the well-led teams.

> It's a lot harder than it looks.

We all know this, and we can all help each other get better to deliver ever increasing value to our customers by sharing what works for the context we deployed within!
WordPress + mysql
It is really a difficult ethical dilemma. Reminds me of "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." from Jurassic Park. I think we need to continue trying to experiment and see what we can do and what we can't. However, there needs to be full disclosure, transparency (before and after) plus safety precautions and controls.
What if an asteroid hits it?
Could be blind, but could also be that laying off when everyone else is laying off protects a company from being the odd one out and distributes the blame.
Elixir, either Ash or Phoenix frameworks

Postgres

React - createreactapp

Theres a few react frameworks I might sub out for now but otherwise this combo is a way to get things done right and quickly.
Ah, I already did this! :)

https://wgx.github.io/anypage/editor
It's not dying, but I don't hear kids talking about blogs they read. That's not due to increased laziness or decline in intelligence, people don't surf the web anymore. They can't, it's too vast, it's virtually impossible to find a blog that doesn't belong to some larger platform like Medium.

It seems like most bloggers today that go on longer than 5 years are either written by amateur journalists or tech centric people.
And it's very reasonable for the board to at least ask: "Why do we think we're so special?" Which may have a good answer. But also may not.
> IBM’s current headcount is 260,000, Kavanaugh said. That is about 22,000 lower than the figure disclosed for December 2021.

4000 seems like a tiny number in context of total headcount, and when you take into account that they've somehow lost more than 5 times as many in the past year.

> The cuts will focus on workers remaining after spinoffs of the Kyndryl and Watson Health units

So the already dead parts of the company? It's almost like they're doing layoffs for the sake of appearances; they aren't really changing anything.
git is inefficient when you need to handle a huge monorepo where just one checkout weights 66 GiB and the history is measured in tens of terabytes.

The other problem not addressed by git was the support of per-directory permissions.
I watched TV a lot as a kid, until I got a job when I was 16. My shifts were often during evenings and nights, so I couldn't watch TV anymore. Surprisingly, I didn't miss it. When I went to college, my roommates didn't watch TV either, and when I graduated and moved out, I never bothered getting one.

Since then, I've made "I don't watch TV" into a general excuse for not doing or knowing things, even if they aren't TV related.
Go ahead and create, no technology is stopping anyone from doing that. But I don't see why you can't create while using a technology like ChatGPT. Coming up with the proper prompts, rewriting some of its output, using its output as an input, etc. There's a lot of things you can do to combine your own novel thoughts with the text generated by a machine. That's a way to create things that has never really been possible.

Imagine being an OK writer and now you potentially have an editor. Imagine asking it to come up with a few ideas regarding something you're working on and you can use one as inspiration. There's just unlimited ways people will work with and integrate these new tools that you or I can't even possibly dream up.

As for asking if we need more bedtime stories - why not? Maybe it would be cool if me and my kid could use some experience we had together to create a story that features him and his friends in the mold of a classic story.
Interestingly it shows the tenuous nature of the plaintiffs case, even before getting into the plaintiff's large errors.

Since reasonably simplified information about SD is available and/or the plaintiff could have involved an expert to review his claims - it does raise a question if the function of the lawsuit is more about rattling chains rather than the merits of their argument. I.E. A deliberate ploy to extract a settlement.
Nicely implemented and simple.

Love the irony of a whole debate when your tool isn't taking an opinion, but instead letting people navigate (pun proudly intended) those two worlds.
To be fair, this one would get plenty of laughs at the Conservative Party conference
>That sort of highlights the problem. The legal system is supposed to be about ensuring fair and impartial justice. What the legal system is actually about is providing jobs for people in the legal system.

umm, how are you going to disbar your AI attorney? I'm so tired of this narrative you are crafting. You put the cart before the horse, and then you pat yourself on the back for slapping the horse ass!
Gee good thing everyone in court gets good representation at reasonable prices eh?

I get that lawyers think their profession is important (it is) and that by and large they’re positive for their clients (they are), but there are a lot of people who simply do not have access to any worthwhile representation. I saw Spanish-speaking kids sent to juvenile detention for very minor charges conducted in English with no interpreter and a completely useless public defender. So in my view that is the alternative for many people, not Pretty Decent Representation.

There are people who can stomach the downside risks to push this tech forward for people who cannot stomach the downside risks of the current reality.
I'm not sure I understand the point you're making. Its disheartening that artists can opt-out of having a computer algorithm make derivative versions of their creations?

I'm probably on the opposite side of the fence. I do find it disheartening that it's opt-out instead of opt-in. The training set should be limited to public domain and CC-0 until such a time it can comply with attribution; then other CC works could be incorporated.
If you want to look at it simply in terms of ethics, I'm not sure layoffs are always unethical, even if the company is profitable.

I do think it is unethical to jerk people around (e.g. new hires), but I think generous severance goes a long way towards addressing this.
Correct, the limit is $250k for anyone curious. It’s $250k per co-owner for joint accounts.[1]

[1]https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/diguidebankers/documents/joint-...
See also Monsanto testing gene spliced corn, on a plateau, above landrace corn. Mexico takes its corn seriously, and cross breeding with patented corn would either be disastrous or force the Mexican government into voiding patent treaties.

I believe the Willamette Valley in Oregon, which grows most of the grass seed for NA, as well as exports, officially told GMO researchers that they could fuck right off.
The problem isn't that CEOs don't get punished. The problem is when they virtue signal with "I'm sowwy " and claim responsibility without accepting accountability.
`imessage-exporter`: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34327344
patagonia see, patagonia do. I blame the boards.
Use 1Password. They allow users to connect multiple accounts at once (personal + work + etc), which the Bitwarden devs have expressed confusion over for the last few years. 1Password also has package deals with various services that your org probably already uses, and a SCIM setup for provisioning users and permissions.
Same but with Rails and traditional server rendering if it's feasible. I know React is becoming boring tech but imo it's just so much faster to bang out most of the boring pages server-side and then if you really need it, break out "cooler" client functionality into its own React sub-app.
Is there any chance that we're dealing with a form of confirmation bias? In an economy as large as the US's there will always be companies laying off workers. Current unemployment is low so I'm not sure if there's any major, new trend other than reporting it on HN.
When I click examples why don't I see code?
> I think the concept of JSX (write your HTML with JS) is good as it gives you a real language instead of a restricted templating DSL.

I never got this reasoning. In Vue the idea is:

* Write html templates in HTML

* Call javascript from the template to do javascript things (i.e. computed properties and methods)

This has always made the most sense to me, conceptually.

Sure Vue gives you a DSL for looping template elements (v-for) or showing template elements (v-if), but almost all the typical javascript action happens inside typical javascript calls.
There's a lot of performance in hiring and firing, even outside a supposed 'recession' CEO's are rewarded for 'cutting the fat' through firing via stock bumps because at the very least it's going to temporarily cut some costs in a very surface level analysis. Couple that with the constant recession talk that never seems to materialize and boards and shareholders are looking at companies thinking they need to trim down some for the recession that's seemingly been just around the bend for a whole year now.
> What do you do if you have dependents or complex medical needs personally

You get COBRA through your former employer. Been there done that. I had a pre-existing condition that I couldn’t get health insurance individually (pre-ACA)

> What happens if you have a personal emergency during your job search? What do you do if you have existing debt from a previous emergency, medical crisis, etc?

You talk to the people and make arrangements or you just don’t pay them until you can afford to. Your priority becomes house, food, shelter, car.

How do you think people making much less than tech workers handle it?
> I'll admit that's possible, but you have to also admit that the current legal system (at least in the US, I don't know about elsewhere) is, shall we say, over-engineered)

Huge Elon Musk rewrite the code from scratch vibes coming from you
Well, to make the analogy work you'd be running circles around flashlight guy while they throw at him. Maybe you're in the crossfire, maybe not.

But the other part that I think the original OP is sort of amazed at is that we're unable to detect these through some sort of automated system more accurately. It isn't fair to compare our space/vision capabilities to the eyesight of a person alone. Do we not have satellites or installations doing ""short range"" scanning with radio/laser/something-else-I-am-not-an-astronomer-don't-hate-me ? How come it was an amateur picking this up so close to the specific date?
The problem with artificial intelligence is that it is not real intelligence.
I get why public companies like google, meta or even confluent is doing layoffs when the stock price falls 50-75%, the employees are unhappy and the shareholders are unhappy. Layoffs is a way to tell shareholders that the leadership is doing something to curb the costs and try to increase profit. But there are also pre-ipo private companies laying people off, that part I don't quite understand, since they have no shareholder pressure.
The graph for 'website' looks similar, so I guess anyone here who is a FE dev should look elsewhere.

https://imgur.com/a/ovi3wJ0
> If a company has your livelihood, bank balance, etc by the balls

Whose fault is it that people are relying on free email service (with no human support) for critical things like livelihood, bank balance, etc.? Is the provider of a free email service liable for the damages they can cause? What do their terms and conditions say about it? Do they have a disclaimer in there for this kind of things?
Why does that have to be a question for every semi hard topic?
The US have to choose, are you a federation of states. EU style, or a country?

I had a actual country in mind, where tax are collected on a national level. ( note my use of national, not federal )

I get your question and it’s a valid one. Sorry to be grumpy.

I’m just tired of “state” being a constant push back to every single topic.
I think it was a powerful idea to quickly implement the take over of the continent, but the usefulness might start to stretch.
Speech hindered by nothing is the epitome of free speech.

And no, other speech is not a hinderance of your speech and vice versa.
What are the others? If you contest a ticket, you either have representation or you don’t. You can either afford good representation or you cannot.
Node also has madness that Python does not, like support for circular dependencies. I would definitely not point to Node as a positive example like Cargo.
We will soon see AI Physicians, Counsellors etc., Is IBM's Watson still in use?
React has new friends all the time and they're not boring enough.
Russia is (or at least was, during Grand Duchy of Moscow times) a part of Eastern Europe.

Now, its eastern\southern\northen parts\colonies - are not (except for the north and south -west of course)
How to collect testimonials and reviews for your business
https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-real-estate-invest... is pretty authoritative.

> Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the dumbest financial advice books I have ever read. It contains many factual errors and numerous extremely unlikely accounts of events that supposedly occurred.

> Kiyosaki is a salesman and a motivational speaker. He has no financial expertise and won’t disclose his supposed real estate or other investment success.

> Rich Dad, Poor Dad contains much wrong advice, much bad advice, some dangerous advice, and virtually no good advice.
I don't see in the code how it is referencing any model that was fine tuned on late night monologues? All is see in an API call to OpenAI's "text-ada-001" model.

I'm interested in the fine tuning (I wasn't aware OpenAI was allowing GPT3 weights out to be tuned?) and how that is being factored into the code.
Vertical Integration Is Key to Winning the AI Race
I'd say we're approximately 400 years away from teaching AI to do this.
Do you not understand the concept of advice? Browsing the law and coming to your own conclusion isn't "getting advice".
That's the defined procedure though, without that, you draw more attention. There is a clearly defined playbook at this point, and it WORKS, so why go making up your own words when they just wanna hear the song?
Centralized social media has inspired and organized countless violent acts. Malaysia and India with Whatsapp is probably the most shocking. I don't see the connection between Federation/Centralization/etc. and violence. Can you explain your reasoning?
You can do a cash out refinance of residential property too. Use that tax-free cash toward another house, and so on. It's called the "BRRR method."
We Asked ChatGPT to Make a Market-Beating ETF. Here’s What Happened
Maybe? Depends on the severity of the regression, how much it cost, whether there was negligence or carelessness involved etc. And arguably you'd first fire the person who set up a process that allows regressions to be pushed to prod so easily.

Underperformance is not a single mistake. It's a pattern of behaviors that compound.
idiomorph:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph

it's an updated take on the DOM morphing algorithm of morphdom, and it uses what i call "ID sets" to allow the morphing algorithm to "see" children in the DOM when making morphing decisions in the parents, which means you don't need to annotate the DOM with as many ids

here is a demo showing how it outperforms morphdom when ids are sparse/deep:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph#demo
https://archive.ph/H9b2Q
The problem with waste destruction is that it can always be made cheaper by waiting. Storing spent fuel in dry casks is cheap. The net present value of the cost of destruction declines the longer you wait. It turns out to be cheaper to just keep the waste in dry casks indefinitely.
I tried with my web app https://collanon.com and didn't get much traction on HN(maybe bad timing).

It's on its 3rd year of development/improvement and it's about making and sharing easily private discussions and confrontations(1vs1) with temporary/total anonymity in mind without relying on any big tech service or cloud providers to keep the data more private.

I'm on a path to a big upgrade soon too.
"Dead Internet Theory".

Nobody has to delete the authentic content, they just have to outcompete it by many orders of magnitude. Then not only is the inauthentic content all over all the possible routes you might find content, people stop looking for it entirely.
Show HN: Knotend – a keyboard-driven flowchart editor
Hey all, I made knotend [0] because I wanted a flowchart editor that was keyboard-driven and super fast. I was tired of dragging boxes around on a canvas. You may have seen knotend around here before when I wrote an initial blog post [1] about why I wanted a new kind of flowchart editor. Thank you to everyone who has given me feedback here on HN!

Since that blog post I’ve been working hard to get to a v1 which I’m showing now. You can use the free version without having to sign up for an account. I would love your feedback!

What makes knotend different is two main things: 1) The nodes are constrained to a grid which enables a keyboard-centric experience for selection and navigation, and 2) there’s autolayout so each time you add a node, the graph automatically lays itself out and places each node in a cell.

In the future I’ll be working on supporting more complex editing actions, linking graphs together, collaboration, and more.

Please drop your feedback below, reach out on twitter [2], or email scott@knotend.com.

[0] https://www.knotend.com

[1] https://www.scottantipa.com/why-knotend

[2] https://twitter.com/ScottyAntipa
Kubernetes Cluster Management
Example screenshot:

https://snipboard.io/mxF8O0.jpg
Do you have a link to that study would like to share that with someone.
Indeed.

- FAANG started to offer free drinks in the office? Every startup begins to do the same

- Agile coaches are hired at FAANG? Every damn startup needs their own Agile coaches as well

- "Think customer first" was coined by... and then every startup made it its core value

- Staff, Principal, VP engineer levels are introduced at FAANG... you know the drill

- Microservices...

Every tech company out there dies to be Google or Facebook or Apple. They will copy every single thing from them.
100% Agreed.

Rhetorical question: Now what's the enforcement mechanism?

(Also, what's with the downvotes?!?!)
IBM and SAP are cutting thousands of jobs
I don't think so there's been a string of tech layoff's right here in a row totaling 40,000+ just from the ones at Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google. These are companies that don't generally shed huge numbers of employees all at once.
Super generous free similar product is netlify... you get 300 build minutes per month, I've never even gone above their free tier haha
wow! I was able to duplicate that!

as usual, the errors are at least as interesting as the successes on new tech!