skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got to know and trust Ranum and Axe on the specific areas of expertise of IT projects and contemporary military affairs for years (have not heard much from them since then). You, on the other hand, are a stranger on the Internet.

I live in a democracy, so its my duty to form an opinion about large controversial purchases my government proposes to make. Of course my opinion on most of them can't be an expert opinion, but it can be at least as good as my representatives'.
Hm, weird. That's not something I've experienced.
They’re offering 5 machines for free on Pro to sweeten the deal a little bit but I agree this is communicated poorly.
Why Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Love Playing Bridge So Much
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/22358-contiki-coming-to-th...
They should've cut the dividend long ago.

They've fallen way too far behind to start cutting resources aggressively... restructuring makes sense, but burning all your best workers is going to be counterproductive in this case
This is the link from the post to their vendor with more details:
https://www.klaviyo.com/blog/august-2022-security-incident

It appears this happened on August 3, over 5 months ago!
Neat, I'll give this a shot!
I think you're being hyperbolic, or you haven't worked in many companies. Intel isn't a great place to work (despite their corporate value claiming it is), but by most accounts, Amazon is much worse unless you really like a place with cutthroat corporate politics. And "corporate greed"? Doesn't that describe every American corporation? All the big tech companies are laying off right now (except maybe Apple). And nepotism? I'm not sure where you got that one from. Intel isn't a family business.

Intel sucks in a lot of ways, but you seemed to list a bunch of inapplicable things. Intel's yearly review process is horrible, something Jack Welch would be proud of, pitting employees against each other, and their pay is terrible for a tech company.
Kind of interesting how the economics of LLMs are working out. Cloud computing power used to be considered unlimited, but now the LLMs have overwhelmed the surpluses of computing power. That they are telling the AI to be concise is funny since they don't have a way to explicitly program it to do that besides just asking nicely.

Can they make the economics of this thing work on a free search engine? I wonder how much money they are spending per day here.
Have Debian Unstable and Testing ever really been that musty?
I would personally like that, too. But Dang's bonzai tree that is HN is curated a very particular way which increasingly mostly murders any dramatic posts. I blame Elon, because the Twitter shit really fucked with this site in a way I'd not previously observed. Just another (probably incorrect) theory.

I'm sympathetic in that poor Dang is already grinding it day in and out to keep things afloat, the dumpster fire threads can get out of control pretty quickly and can get ugly and abusive. It's a fine a line.
> executive compensation is stock-based

If they're cutting executive salaries by the largest amount it sounds good on paper but doesn't really do anything because their pay is, as you said, stock based.

So, unsurprisingly, very skeezy unless they change the largest factor in their pay.
Heh, I was also introduced to Contiki via a college networking course.
You do see the irony that jobs at places like restaurants and theaters cannot be done remotely, right?
Meta is inexplicably shutting down one of the best Oculus games
Don't let previous employer know where you're working.
Having tried Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify, Amazon, Tidal, Soundcloud, and Qobuz, I can tell you that Apple Music doesn't have the best UI or features. It's a nice service, don't get me wrong. Top 3 for sure.

Also, the ratings on the Play Store aren't the best indicator of a great app. On the front page of Apple Music there's a 5 star review saying how Chromecast doesn't work. Which is why I prefer to just try all the apps myself.
I don't think there's any perfect universal answer for this. I only have a few things I've done that work.

Rails for Ruby comes with some pretty nice setups for testing the database code. There's a test DB by default with the same schema as Production, and the usual test frameworks (FactoryBot and RSpec) make it easy to set up some data in the actual DB for each spec, run model code that makes actual SQL queries, and assert against the results.

I would have hoped most other web hosting frameworks would make as much effort to making it straightforward to test your database code, but it doesn't really seem to be the case.

In Rust, there's a very handy crate called sqlx. What it does is, at compile time, it runs all of the SQL in your codebase against a copy of your database to both validate that it runs without errors and map the input and output types to typecheck the Rust code.

When it comes to stuff like validating that your queries are performant against production datasets or that there isn't any unexpected data in production that breaks your queries, well I pretty much got nothing. Maybe try a read replica to execute against?
To give them the benefit of the doubt, “civilian” can be used as a synonym for “non government” rather than the more narrow “non military”.

Though many frown on this usage.
The right way is to make it public first? That's insanity. Making a repo public just to delete it would be a huge information leak even if it was short in duration.
Layoffs show the company isn't in a good place, so the best people start looking for better opportunities early, to avoid still being around when it gets even worse.
Java? .NET?
Why is that, aren’t buy backs better for investors anyway?

One reason I imagine is them being excluded from dividend etfs which would mean an outflow
This may be good advice for an instruction manual or children's books, but I think good prose is something of an art in and of itself. Some of the most successful writers do the opposite. Look at the articles that go viral ..you see that the prose is varied and even complicated, not just simple.

The best prose is that which conveys the intended message for the intended audience in the best way possible. I think it's also a revealed vs stated preferences problem. People state they want/like simple writing but revealed preferences show otherwise.

I think the reason why so many business authors give this advice is confusing cause and effect. Writing simply does not make you successful or persuasive, but that people who are involved in business write that way naturally, but success at one does not follow from the other. Just like Bill Gates did not get rich by being good at bridge.
Actually this is a point if you are not writing in English.

My dad used to do some technical translations and he disliked English namely because you cannot invent words like in Danish or German, where you can just put words together to make a new one.
Twitter is really poor in finding new tweets you haven't seen yet.
when i ask a question it flashes "we are currently thinking of an answer for you" then abruptly cancels and goes back to the beginning state with no answer given. some error going on in the backend? cant see anything in the console
Library of 20 independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim
I wonder if you guys delete email addresses from people who ask to unsubscribe , or when I tell t you to delete my information, according to gdpr

Probably not, because it’s ” difficult “
A huge benefit of deleting tests isn't merely the reduction in maintenence but the reduction in "conceptual drag". Tests cause design decisions to get baked into code to a higher degree than if the same decisions were made in a codebase without tests.

Tests certainly can be valuable for verifying the scope of changes, but they're not the only way to do this. I could imagine supporting the process of delete-as-you-go testing if you could convince me that whatever you are doing to identify regressions works just as well as the test suite would.
So not the proclaimed 'Google search killer' as hyped up then, given its results are beyond untrustworthy. For subjectivity, it is even worse as nearly all the commenters are complaining about; since most of the time it is a great tool for fine sophistry.

An 'AI' that cannot explain itself or transparently reason why it has lead to generate an answer, is eternally as transparent as a black-box.
I don't think he wants to write simply solely because of this, but rather in order to also satisfy this. Personally, I want to write simply because it makes the end goal clearer for me to express.
FWIW when I worked at Intel their 401k match was also in Intel Stock so there is that. (I do not know if they still do that) And yes, when I was there in '84 they were doing pay cuts to keep layoffs to a minimum.
Real question: where does the 4-letter radio naming scheme comes from? This seems to be a unique US thing.
I installed APEC RO HI filter, which is really good.

https://www.freedrinkingwater.com/ro-hi-detail.htm
That's fair, I haven't experimented with everything the jetbrains suite supports.

I've had good luck with javascript's, python's and go's language servers specifically. I'd think maybe C#'s would be rough, but microsoft is behind the protocol, so maybe not? I know Intellij is way ahead on java, but I've spent most of my career trying to avoid that.

Things like rubymine or phpstorm are definitely areas I have no experience.
In NJ, an interesting point is that the owner can only get back roughly the original price of the house when they sell. So it's sort of a double-edged sword as sure, they get to buy and live in a home, but they can't reap the benefits of increased real estate values, which would otherwise be a great benefit for a low income family.
Boston Dynamics Automated Trailer Unloading [video]
Eh humans have managed to grow large amount of foods on the same soil for many years and be very productive. There's a myth that modern agriculture has made us produce more. The reality is that it's just made us need less labor. Agriculture, even intensive agriculture, isn't new. What's new is our obsession with monocultures and the empire of destruction needed to uphold that: vast amounts of pesticides, sterilized soils, etc.

Soils inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi can hold 50x more water. Over 90% of plants make mycorrhizal associations and studies comparing plants that have made these associations with those grown in sterilized soils have shown mycorrhizae improves resistance to drought, frost, soil pathogens, etc and grow larger and produce more fruit. I haven't seen the nutritional content analyzed but I'd be surprised if there isn't a big difference there as well

There's a fundamental difference between, for example, the agriculture that fueled the aztec empire and the agriculture that fueled the West's "Green Revolution", China's "Great Leap Forward", Stolypin (as well as Soviet) agrarian reforms, etc.

It's easy to forget that European peasants were basically bouncing from one massive famine to the next until the Andean people gave them the potato. Possibly the single crop most responsible for ending the state of constant famines.

I think the limited resources are caused much more so by our own arrogance than by any fundamental carrying capacity of the environments we inhabit
YouTube Shorts takes on TikTok in battle for younger users
True but with layoffs the company can choose the people to remove, with broad pay cuts they likely lose their best staff.
I meant specifically the phrase "AM radio" - a product advertised as such will usually not be capable of receiving shortwave, unless that is specifically mentioned. People who know what AM actually means tend to use words like "transceiver" anyway, not "radio".
User or mod, whats the difference? User that has direct or indirect tool at his hands to delete other ones posts - this is very much censor. Argue againt something, if you like. But trying hard to shut someones mouth, that is bit much, to say the least...
I think he’s assuming some shared context, namely writing for the purpose of educating or persuading people and aiming for engaging as many people as possible with the topic at hand. I don’t think he intends his recommendations to apply to people deliberately writing for a much narrower audience (like dense technical or academic literature) or in a particular artistic style or genre.
In all seriousness, isn't the whole point of the beta (besides marketing) to identify and prune behaviours that are undesirable from a corporate perspective? This will inevitably result in reduced functionality.
Dead in what sense? I still use them and don’t find the management UI “prohibitive.” No need to search when browsers autocomplete from bookmarks, support tagging, etc.

Most often I want to remember an idea, theme, author, resource rather than a specific web page. Regular notes work for that, can embed URLs in my notes.
I think they were slightly off the mark. The bigger deal is avoiding an extra allocation for an entity that has a variable sized part.
Yes, it's slow and more infuriating, it won't provide answers for certain questions they deem inappropriate.

Example: ask it to write a memo announcing a bad quarter and layoffs. It won't do it.

Now ask it to write a memo for a hypothetical situation (bad quarter, lay offs). Bam, you'll get your answer albeit with some nonsense about employee sentiments, mood, tactfulness, etc.

This type of nonsense makes these services annoying and pedantic .

Give me what I asked for. If I want the added extras I'll ask for it!

I don't know why it is so hard for these ai services to give me answers that are cold and matter of fact? All I want is a Majel Barret star trek TNG computer.
I guess it won't stop Chinese citizens working at Intel to return home though.
Ok keeping the dividend aside another way to look at this is instead of layoffs they insituted a pay cut for everyone with senior personnel taking more of the effect. Of course questions arise of what headwinds are they really facing or are they just taking advantage of the current rhetoric but either way I am a fan.
Ask HN: What are the signs of bad management at software companies?
I'm interested in knowing what practices can classify a management as 'bad'. Is it their inability to hand out tasks to teams? or getting things done within timeframe? or not scoping out things properly and making their employees work overtime?

What are the signs of bad management?
I think so. So far, haven't they only cherry-picked existing patches into their packages? Have they written any new patches yet?
It depends on your end goals. Drawings can be beautiful too but if your goal is to write an instruction manual then you don't want to make something that's open to interpretation.
The Intersection of AI and Supercomputing in Nuclear Fusion
+1

my thinkpad (t25) has a touchscreen, of which I am occasionally reminded of by accidentally brushing the screen with a hand. Really have no use for it and don't want to be touching a screen in the first place. It's like putting fingers on your glasses.
In a similar vein, I got to the word "saltimbocca", two paragraphs in, and was painfully and utterly bored.

And frankly, skimming the rest, I found most of the "conclusions" rather insulting. Imagine a world where fancy words can both give a simple idea, as well as provide a deeper meaning to those that look.

Indeed some of the most profound and lasting prose is that which paints a scene in your mind.

So what brings around a better image?

"The room was green".

Great? Do I care? Will that last?

Or

"The hue of the walls enveloped the space in a lush, verdant color. It was a shade that reminiscent of spring meadows and flourishing gardens, invigorating and rejuvenating to the senses. The green was not just a simple tint, but a depth of tone that conveyed life and growth. The room felt fresh and lively, as if it were breathing with the vibrancy of nature itself. The walls seemed to glow in the light, casting a serene aura that made you feel at peace. The color was bold yet calming, creating a space that was both exhilarating and relaxing at the same time."

I want to BE in this room. I can almost smell it.
Technically, search isn’t free. It’s paid for by monetizing your data and ads. You also pay by having worse search results to support Google’s other monetization strategies through vague partnerships.

In part, ChatGPT is really good right now because it isn’t constrained by maximizing profits yet. That will change
Yikes! You can't break the site guidelines like you did in this thread, regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are. I know other commenters in this thread were also breaking the site guidelines, but you went way beyond them.

You've unfortunately been doing this in other places too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34417737

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34417049

These are unquestionably bannable offenses on HN. I'm not going to ban you because you've also posted good comments and it doesn't look like we've warned you before. But if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on—that means making your substantive points thoughtfully and respectfully, and using HN for curious conversation, not battle—we'd be grateful.
I'm convinced there are two broad camps of people: those who see writing merely as a means to an end, those who view it as an artform. The people in the first camp tend to focus on some fabricated idea of concrete meaning (they tend to think the meanings of words are more rigid than they actually are), they emphasize simple words and love economy of prose. They tend to pump out business-speak articles and like using simple metaphors that are temporally bound to the present. They also indulge in what I'd call (in my own business speak) "lite-jargon" --industry terminology in vogue, etc. Most of all, they think writing is purely a vehicle for thought and should require as little work as possible to read and should immediately convey some pristine, concrete insight. They don't really understand how language works. They are thinkers first and writers second.

The other camp values writing in and of itself. They can sense the richness of words, the flexibility of meanings, the pliability of structure. They know that words are not containers of thought but are in fact co-constitutive of thought. They appreciate style and innovation at the level of the text itself. A plain idea put beautifully is more interesting to them than a beautiful idea put plainly. They can appreciate poetry, which is more economical than the bloodless prose those in the first camp worship, and yet far more interesting. When it comes to prose, they desire work that proves its linguistic creativity more than its intention or "meaning". Those in this camp are writers first and thinkers second.

Personally, I find the writing of everyone in the first camp completely agonizing and I lament every article that expounds the benefits of well-oiled plain-jane clarity above all. To me, trying to strive for some ultimate clarity in writing always stunk of massive denial of the fact that meaning is extremely fuzzy in general and that's part of what makes it all fun.
I get that this guy is like rich and famous and founded this website or something so people always post his stuff here but his writing always has this weird veneer of pseudo intellectual philosophy that I find very off putting.
Our ability to count sperm cells, for instance, isn't decreasing yearly.
Gave it a test, and wow it's very impressive. A lot you can do with the free version also, hopefully this takes off.
In addition, one thing I personally prefer is having short 'paragraphs'. Two or three sentences, though sometimes even one suffices.

I find long paragraphs a lot harder to read in most written forms, and often 'go to the next line' only to have started that line over again.

For the most part, this article was written that way, whether intentional or not.
I'm not complaining about Tauri/Electron usage normally, I'm happy using vscode and a few other app using this tech, but... Why? This app uses a few buttons and text fields. It can be done using literally any available toolkit. Or even with imgui-rust if you want matching look.
I will happily pay for ChatGPT if they can give me a consumer version around the price of Netflix a month. I wouldn't pay for whatever it is Googles doing right now though.
Kind of ironic he starts off with "I try to write using ordinary words and simple sentences" then dedicates an entire paragraph to making up an Italian word that really doesn't add anything to his point.
>If Intel cuts its dividend the stock will crater.

Wait till you see what will happen to the stock when talent leaves the company (whatever it has left, anyway) after such pay cuts...
The iPhone is 48 megapixels.
hard work may be necessary but is not sufficient
I literally quoted the Standard (C17 7.22.3.2) in my earlier comment, and it very specifically says that calloc allocates an array. This language isn't from a new standard, either - it goes all the way back to ISO C90.
They did this pay cut on top of a layoff
I'm sure that this has absolutely nothing at all to do with the interference being imposed on it to avoid what its developers consider to be politically incorrect answers.
Does it have anything close to Figma’s auto-layout capabilities?
proust would like a word
There's a cartoon about a boss' email versus an employee's. I took that to heart and started writing emails as such.
Correction, grad student versus professor email.
You never ship on Friday because, to a programmer, a weekend is an infinite amount of time.
In the UK, FM often sounds better than DAB. I know that in theory DAB offers superior quality but it's compressed so multiple stations are broadcast on the same frequency.
This. NewEgg earned a place on my "Never do business with this vendor ever again for any reason" list.
This is a great idea. I've already toyed with copy-pasting pages of documentation into ChatGPT with varying degrees of success.
Yes, we were meeting in person every Wednesday. There were two groups - about three years old in the first group and about five, six years old in the second group (at the time when we started).
Time for another Elements of Style thunderdome!

omit needless words

Or in the words of the Great Dorothy Parker

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy
Cutting pay to keep the company afloat is very different than cutting pay to give a dividend.
Basically. Spam educated STEM talent production to OECD combined, first gen makes shit (all the meme of bad PRC papers), but some wheat from chaff at that scale enables PRC to be 80% competitive, refine a bit by 2nd gen, now PRC reach peer competitiveness, refine a little more and we have PRC leading innovation index. Will take another gen or two to translate through industries (already happening in some sectors). TLDR is chabuduo at PRC scale works when right edge of bell curve is enough to compete with rest of world. Spamming innovation at scale works when it delivers enough gems. Chabuduo is not accident - it's strategy.
Yikes! Please don't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do this.

You may not owe (non-)masturbators better, but you owe this community (much) better if you're participating in it.

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Already there are hundreds 'fine-tuned' or merged models, made with base models from Stable Diffusion and easy to use inference and training tools like this[2]

I wonder whether extraction attacks easier if you have many ancestral models?

[2] https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui#stab...