skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do managers even do

I understood the role of managers after I joined a chaotic startup which hired a bunch of people but didn't think of management. It was a complete mess. Senior engineers didn't want to manage, or didn't know how to do it. And good managers are very hard to find.
Sounds like it worked, then.
Arcadia’s Arc platform also does this, except it uses actual energy and tariff data, and is used by every major solar installer in America to produce savings estimates accurate enough to write binding contracts against. Check it out: https://www.arcadia.com/arc
yes, it's a great browser
SDL doesn't really give you a GUI like having a flour doesn't give you a cake. A great place to build off of but by the time you make a GUI out of it you're back to the above list. Realistically you'd probably be better off just starting with a full cross platform GUI framework like Qt but that doesn't make things necessarily easier it just means you can focus on making your app work instead of making a GUI framework for your app so it can work.
What exactly is the problem with short downtime during updates/deployments? A lot of people don't care if their deployment requires a few seconds of downtime. And most users of $randomwebsite don't really care if they need to hit reload button every now and then.
There is one side saying "omg look at this horrible person who didn't get punished enough for being horrible".

And there is one side saying "omg this guy is a good researcher and the mob is out to get him".

And there is tptaceck saying "none of this matters and you are both obnoxious".

That's my interpretation of it - I do not endorse any particular statement.
No lie that sounds really lame.
OpenSSL is not a security product. It's a loss leader for a security company that sells support contracts. There isn't very much incentive for them to turn out a good product.
> How do you square the circle of management wanting to pay employees the minimum they can for the maximum amount of their employees labor?

Competition, where people can go to the highest bidder, or start their own business if they know they can do better than working for someone else. Lack of freedom to go elsewhere features prominently in the abuses you and the article cite.

> The company is a giant thing, with lawyers, power and resources that are impossible for an individual to push against and win anything that is contested.

People can and have prevailed against companies in all sorts of lawsuits.

> Like 80 hour work weeks. Children working in manufacturing jobs. Unsafe working conditions with fire exits blocked. Which are all things that companies were doing before unions pushed against it.

And made them illegal, ending those as major problems, and the desire of most people to go into a union now that the most exploitative practices have been eliminated, like company towns. Though it's true that the occasional idiot employer will do something like this and get sued into oblivion. I'm pretty sure there was some idiot who locked their employees in while doing inventory overnight a few years back, for example.
An upgraded version could be 4.0
It is astonishing to me for someone to find no uses for it.

We've been reading three custom made children adventure stories to our kids every night.

My wife made custom black history month trivia, quizzes and posters

I learned more about basic financial terms, music theory, caught up on concussion treatment and myriad other things

We created quick rhymes for school

And I feel there are astonishing things I haven't even touched on! Like ten million things.

I'm exceedingly polite to the chat AI because I cannot believe I'm lucky and privileged enough to use something this awesome in my lifetime.

I feel like a kid in candy store :). I cannot imagine that somebody can find NO USE for it!
I mostly agree with you and I think it highly depends on the organizational complexity.

In a smaller company (100 people) I was able to manage 10 people and still had time to write some non-critical code. That's because there was little overhead - just 2 PMs to work with, not many meetings.

Then in a large org (5,000+) it became much harder. Even though I had only 5 reports, I had to attend plenty of cross-dept meetings, had multiple stakeholders, and in order to get anything done I had to talk to 5 different people.

In order to "flatten" the organization, first this complexity must be tackled. If there's s lot of overhead to get things done, removing managers won't help, because now ICs will have to do the job that previously was done by managers
> Consumers disagree. Almost every application is running chromium now and they couldn't be happier that it just works. It's great on Linux too.

consumers don't make that choice. developers choose electron because it is the only cross-platform target where almost all the cross-platform fiddly bits are handled for you. there are lots of cross-platform approaches where the fiddly bits are not handled out of the box, and those are all little more than background noise compared to electron.

consumers neither know nor care how the app they use is implemented. they care only about which devices the app is available on.

now to be clear, electron fucking sucks as a user of applications. it is dog slow and awful on RAM, and the billions of devices running electron apps definitely contribute to global warming far more than native apps would, but developers think that the One True Language is JavaScript and that the One True Platform is the browser, and well, cults are immune to logic.
You could level the same arguments against half the hot take blog posts that end up on the HN front page. I fail to see why this particular post raises so much ire that it warrants flagging, save that it's going after a sacred cow.
IMO this is the thing that sends us over the cliff.
aka the Peter principle
Is anything in life fair?
Or it checks prices/inventory at other stores and lets you defer purchases to other stores to reduce how much you spend.
Also `box-sizing: border-box` was how IE designed CSS box sizing (to be simpler to math for the CSS writer rather than simpler math for the Renderer programmer). The fact that it is now just about "required" boilerplate in most CSS reset/normalization steps to throw in a `* { box-sizing: border-box; }` rule to opt in to "do it the IE way" is a massive, vestigial, lasting testament to IE's innovation in CSS in the early CSS standards.
Gitea really really really looks like github.
Also, I recently read The Greenest Branch: A Novel of Germany's First Female Physician - historical fiction about Hildegard, and written by someone who's researched into her quite extensively.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Greenest-Branch-Germanys-Physician-Hi...
You will forgive me for thinking "mmmmmmm-hmmmmmm" when you say that after your initial comment on how easy it is in light of running a public resolver yourself.
It might be assuming no energy price increases. Given that energy e.g. increased in many german cities from 30ct/kWh to > 60ct/kWh, it might break even much faster.

On the other hand it might however also not include maintenance costs.
Implied in the second sentence of the comment being replied to.
Could anal sex be linked to this?
UK Government looking to boost powers of Computer Misuse Act
Found that part odd as well. I think this would be the first labor movement I ever heard about that argues for less solidarity with your fellow workers.

Protip: Organising collective action will become impossible if everyone hates each other and keeps information from each other for fear of their own job security. That will help capital in the end.
Although if apple didn't have Siri, then they would likely allow other voice assistants on the platform, and you'd have 'dictation by alexa' instead.
stupid q here but what font is your terminal using from your screenshot pic
But most cross-platform native apps I've seen don't feel like "native GUI" at all. Blender doesn't. Godot doesn't. Krita doesn't. Maybe it's an OSS thing?
Man, you must have worked for some terrible companies. I have friends at everywhere I ever worked and we always tried to cooperate.
.eu domains are only available to any person or entity that reside within the European Union. As such, any European Union legislation will apply.
There is a phork: https://we.phorge.it/
Companies get what they incentivize for.
No kidding. I think most anti-woke folks have a hilariously inaccurate mental model of academia.

On more than one occasion I heard professors in our department talking about the boobs and asses of female undergraduate and graduate students, make weird remarks about homosexual faculty, and even one comment about how black people don't enjoy math anyways.

I think a lot of the super weird stuff is not so much that academia is radically free-speech or anything and more just that professors stay around until they're 80 and 80 year olds say crazy shit.

But, anyways, a lot of faculty/grad student lounges/offices would make your average anti-woke corporate worker bee blush.
Twitter is private, but Elon definitely destroyed value when he took it over.
I assume this is a joke about autistic folks disliking change?
I disagree. There is a ton of money to be made. Advertisements can be even more lucrative, we just have to rethink the whole idea of advertisement. Imagine the chat bot as a digital salesperson, but for literally everything. It can even be optimized in a manner that if a user asks for too much work that doesn't involve selling you products (eg. writing essays) it can go "I'm Sorry Dave, but you need a ChatGPT Premium Subscription(tm) for that."

As far as computational costs. These chat bots are not remotely maximally optimized. Sure it costs more to run but it is still on the order of pennies per user per day.
Knowledge.
Elon Promises a Free API for ‘Good Bot Content’
It's 692 pages, I did it in 5 days, 12 hours per day.
I don't care how they get there, as long as they get there. In this case they're realizing that NULL makes optimization difficult and are swerving into solving this 27 year old instance of the "billion-dollar mistake." NPEs shouldn't exist in work-a-day code.
You can somewhat find it https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=true... but it ignores the @
analogy
/əˈnalədʒi/

noun
a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

a correspondence or partial similarity.

a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects.
It's actually amazing to see empire builders in action. While some EMs are busy trying to keep their teams on track, others are rolling entire teams under them and growing their mandate
The incentives are very different. With SEO spam, you have a direct monetary incentive. More spam = more clicks = more money. With LLMs extracting information and answering questions without actually sending the user to the site ... what's the incentive to create low-accuracy content to be ingested, beyond "I want to mess with the data set"?

I'm sure there will be a few people going down that route, but that needs a lot of intrinsic motivation. It's a very different beast vs having a multi-billion dollar market draw in millions of interested parties, and you can concentrate on identifying the saboteurs and filtering them out, which feels easier, especially because it's hard to impossible to identify "shadow-banning".
Pathetically small considering how much they spend on making streets more dangerous (i.e. more cars traveling at faster speeds).
I have moved to scinapse.io and it is great. Scholar is dead.
If we're being honest and not using backpedaling qualifiers like "available for purchase" or "designed without an ODD", then it's hard to argue how they could be. Multiple companies are operating driverless fleets in cities around the world. Tesla is not one of them.
It is, as of today! https://oeis.org/A359146
First they came for the sacred microservices, now they are after Bid Data. What. Is. Happening.

Don't get me wrong, I love it. It's about time people got off these stupid and shockingly expensive bandwagons.
That's a pretty cool name, I like it!
I can't wait to see this "bigger than the internet."
> You're correct in that the design hasn't been updated in years, but... so?

I checked a house that was built about 4 years ago in a major metro area, and Project Sunroof just showed an empty field and "sorry, we haven't reached that address yet".

I'm fairly sure nothing about this site is being updated. That also means that any structural changes to houses (including additions, remodeling of the roof, or just complete bulldoze-and-rebuild) or the surrounding property (tree growth, trees being cut down, etc) are not reflected in the estimates.

> Though I wonder if the estimates are now out of date

By all appearances, they are. Massively. The older this data gets, the less useful it becomes. It's not really a "so what?" situation if the data isn't being kept up to date.
"Because of that, I am firing myself"

A team does terrible for awhile -- should the coach be removed? A company does terrible -- should the CEO be removed? This is what accountability means. Just this year I was hired by a Board Of Directors, of a startup with 150 people, to do an evaluation of the technology and code, and I found epic levels of tech debt and irresponsible decision making. When I gave my report to the Board Of Directors, the Board responded by firing both the CTO and the CEO. This seems normal to me.
Yet it doesn't have a clue about the existance of one of my 17 star GitHub public repos
Oh the chatbots absolutely have the potential to create tons of value. The question is if its creator can harvest it/how much will be left with the consumer vs the producer. I suspect that it will still be very difficult to get people to sign up for subscriptions and advertising will be less effective than current search advertising so the chatbot creator will have difficult harvesting the value they create.
Disney removes Simpsons 'forced labour' episode in Hong Kong
> no, i am not us based, though i have worked there. but so what?

Every country, and even different regions of a country, has linguistic differences. This is true even if all the countries being talked about have the same national language.

For example, nobody in the US tech sector is going to know what a Boffin is unless they read The Register.

Even on the west coast of the US, vocabulary is different between California and the Pacific Northwest, although things started to merge together when the Silicon Valley based tech companies began opening offices up in Seattle.
add one more layer and now you can accommodate 100k +
I suspect this type of blackmail isn't legal in many countries where Meta operates.
wink wink nudge nudge

If I'm going to waste time going to the gym, I'm going to get the maximum time to benefit ratio.
This is an obscure suggestion that is probably wrong. But you mentioned that it belongs to a family member which made me wonder -- Is it possible that your "primary" calendar is classified as a "Family" calendar and you also happen to have a YouTube TV account where they share access? YouTube TV automatically invites all members of your "household" to your Google Calendar Family calendar.

https://support.google.com/families/answer/7157782?visit_id=...
> > of things as opposed to 'building' things and telling them apart is critical.

Innovators of the past would call Brin and Page 'MBAs type' like you do, or better yet they'd call them not imaginative or risk taking enough given that MBAs didn't exist back then. It recursively goes like this the more you go back into the past.

In the end it's all about risk. You think MBAs are risk averse. People like Edison and Rockefeller would think Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are risk averse.

Guys like the Montgolfier brothers and Christopher Coloumbus would laugh at Edison and Rockefeller for being risk averse and they themselves would be subject to the same ridicule from the guy who invented fire and the wheel.

This is coherent with the idea that the rate of innovation is slowing down because of less risks being taken.

The only difference between my stance and yours is that you only analyze the last 10 years and identify a bogeyman in the MBAs, and hail founders as the great pioneers, whereas in reality it's a phenomenon which traces its roots way back into the past.

As kids say: 'fuck around. Find out'

I don't think MBAs were the first figures who refused to 'fuck around' and I don't think Silicon Valley founders are the kings of the 'fuck around' either, that title belongs to our early ancestors

The rate of risk and innovation will never be as great as the time that we invented the wheel and fire. As I said it has been slowing down ever since, mostly because people 'fuck around' less and less. Not just MBAs but everybody.
Iosevka: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
How to test the fairness of ML models? The 80% rule to measure disparate impact
https://dilbert.com/strip/2002-05-21

https://dilbert.com/strip/2002-05-22
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34690788, which has the original article that this one 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
> GLM-130B, a model comparable with GPT-3, has 130 billion parameters in FP16 precision, a total of 260G of GPU memory is required to store model weights. The DGX-A100 server has 8 A100s and provides an amount of 320G of GPU memory (640G for 80G A100 version) so it suits GLM-130B well.

https://github.com/THUDM/GLM-130B/blob/main/docs/low-resourc...
That and just having a software base that was different from everyone else. It was funny, back when MS announced the change, here I was, a big Free/Libre software guy defending Microsofts proprietary browser with a journalist from Business Insider! Never did figure out if they did anything with that.
I wonder is Twitter even using this any more? I report spam a lot and i's common to find 50+ identical tweets being pumped out at the rate of 10/minute, or tweets that include variation but link to the same piece of media or URL hundreds or even thousands of times. Given the quite fine-grained control in the filter stream API, it's very easy to get streams of spam, so I wonder what their excuse for letting it proliferate.
Nobody has IC as a title, it’s a whole class of job families that don’t require/revolve around managing other employees. Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Data Center Technician are all ICs. It’s just a more positive way of saying “not people manager”, especially when you are trying to build a culture that going into people management shouldn’t be the only career path.
Are you seriously claiming that Google, Microsoft and Apple’s strategy are set by Blackrock and Vanguard?

That seems highly unlikely to have any truth to it.
Thanks but I’m looking for specific use cases. Like I get SQLite. And I get Clickhouse. But I just don’t get why I’d use DuckDB specifically. I’m sure it’s awesome and super useful but I have a gap in my understanding.
It's tptacek arguing with cperciva. The essence of HN.
Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More
Avtrs.ai – AI avatar generator
I've recently tried QT creator and it was hard to get working at first, but once I did it didn't have any problems or visual bugs for me. Overall it seems to be working pretty great, but rather or not you have issues depends upon your install, what version you are using, what operating system your are using, etc. So who knows.

But I think that QT creator should have a faster initial load then Visual Studio Code, because the later has to open up an entire browser render-er to work. QT creator opens instantly on my system, but visual studio code lags for a second. The weird visual bugs might indicate something else wrong with your system which is messing up the program. A picture might help us to find what the bug is so we can fix it if there is a serious problem with QT creator.

As for the less enjoyable to use thing, there isn't much I can do about that. Visual studio code is probably more fun to use, and React isn't too bad either. Using React can be a joyful experience indeed. But enjoyment issues aside, I think that a good C++/QT based application should have a performance advantage over one made with HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Electron. Visual studio code can be more enjoyable but still perform slightly less well, because it doesn't have to make a difference to the end user that it does things a couple milliseconds slower.
Had some friends visit from mainland a few years back. I asked how to stay in touch, they said WeChat and we connected that way. Didn't feel comfortable keeping it on my phone long term though.

Taiwanese and Japanese friends seem to use Line quite a bit.
From the first day I started working on avtrs.ai I wanted to make it easier, cheaper, and better. It felt impossible at times but I was able to get better results than others, with less photos (only 4) and for free. So why wait, get them now :)
Honestly most kids would benefit from just having a yearly class on debt and budgeting. It's a core skill for being a successful adult and 90% of us don't do it. I know it's a different topic but I've always been amazed that it's not a core or the core skill taught in school.
This goes far beyond capitalism, and describes all forms of human complex societal organization, from the ancient slave states described by Marx, to the Leninist states in our modern times.

Nature's balance is found as each organism struggles with all its might and ability to expand, but not by any organism voluntarily refraining from maximizing its production.
If google released a sales bot and Microsoft released a chatbot with banner ads everyone would just use bing. Maybe that’s naive but I just can’t see people accepting that kind of product.

This is a competitive market with zero switching costs. You can’t just hamstring your product and expect users to stick around when another company they know and trust has a much better product.
Inexperienced Leadership in Developer Relations
Communication overhead, like edges in a graph, scales quadratically. The computing analogy is going from 1 core to 8 core CPU gives far less than 8x performance if your task is not parallelizable. The solution is compartmentalization and clear interface boundaries, which is why microservices are so popular. Instead of 5k people working on 1 project, have 100 projects each with 50 people plus a few architects who define the interfaces.
And the more content that is created by these LLMs, the more garbage the LLMs will consume while quality content creators are simultaneously disincentivized, leading to worse content from these LLMs. Terrible image, but an organism cannot survive eating its own poop forever.
And it gets harder adding muscle. Adding 2lb the first few months is doable. Eventually adding even 1lb gets harder to do and you plateau.
Inversely correlated? As in, more beans is less cancer?
The radio waves emitted by your phone are orders of magnitude lower than all the other background radiation you're basking in. This is a tech forum.
There's an AMAZING managing podcast that I never get tired of recommending called Managers Tools [1], where in one of their episodes they talk about hiring/firing: They correctly mention that, as a manager, you should be able/willing to FIRE people when you are asking to HIRE. If you say you need more headcount and thus more money for it, be ready to shrink it when you don't need it anymore. Nothing is forever.

That's what a lot of people fail to internalize: If a company is able to grow, then it must equally be able to shrink. Otherwise, you hire contractors or third parties.

[1] https://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts
Please note the topic is "Class _Warfare_ for the Software Engineer" and NOT "Fulfilling Your Expected Role as a Software Engineer"

This is the author's opinion of how Software's Labor can "fight back"

If you're not in an adversarial relationship with your employer then this advice will not be particularly useful/advantageous.