skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes they do. They applied for a trademark and were unfairly denied one. Why does Apple get a trademark on Apple?

Trademark or no, enough people were on-board with the OSI and OSD at the time it became a well known and established term that we have a claim to it.

touch .well-known/open-source
I very much doubt what you’re describing is a statistical anomaly. I think just about everyone here would agree the worst devs either become managers, or move to QA/BA.
It's negative compared to a hypothetical situation where the software exists, but isn't unnecessarily bloated.
GPT is only half of the AI language revolution
It’s the innovators dillema. Google is selling the answers to questions for millions of dollars per day. If their bot answers with ads, people will use another bot.
East coast, or more generally, east of the Mississippi, is definitely much harder than the west. Here in New Mexico, you can sleep overnight pretty much anywhere you want ... nobody will care unless you stay for more than 3-4 nights. Water can still be challenging out here, although when we've been in our van for a long time out east, we generally abandon our in-vehicle tanks and just buy those 2.5 or 5 gallon jugs from a store. I hope you're using iOverlander to help locate both of the things you've mentioned.
I mean, you can almost fit all that data on one SSD. Micron's latest are 30TB. Commodity servers are available with 24 NVMe drive bays. At 7 GB/s read, across 24 drives, you can scan 40 TB in 240 seconds.

Such a server could readily fit 384 threads with dual EPYC and would be available with enough RAM to keep more than 10% of that data in cache.

Your workload absolutely fits the definition of "fits on one machine".

I am not suggesting here that you should put it on one machine. You definitely could, though.
MediaSourceExtensions (https://caniuse.com/mediasource)is one good example of a useful API which has been supported by roughly ~every browser for years except for safari on iPhone.
They would want it to be like a plumber but it turned out 95% of people just cant hold a wrench and no amount of boot camps can change that.
There was the occupation post-WW2, which is somewhat similar, if much more understandable than typical colonization/imperialism.
I understand that acting like all the minorities are on your side is the standard democrat playbook. But that rhetoric is just tone deaf when you’re talking about a Republican governor that just won re-election in one of the most diverse states in the country (just 51% non-Hispanic white). DeSantis not only won by 20% overall, he won Hispanic voters by 15 points: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/elections/20...
Wow that's freakishly small. When I ask Chat GPT how big it's model is, it says that it's 500GB - 1TB. But to keep in mind that doesn't include additional space required for software and libraries needed to run it.
> it has around a million light receptors and even if you assumed they only have two valid states then you're left with around 10^300,000 bits of information to process...

That would only be a million bits (1 Mb). You're counting potential states, not bits.
What do you do with the data that people upload? Without some strong guarantees (in the form of a business model that somehow depended on it) I would not upload anything that wasn't already public to a service like this. (I wouldn't anyway, but I would discourage others)
C-suite people from different companies end up working together on company boards later in their career. To fire with cause and no severance and no parachute some back-stabbing VPs would make it more difficult to work with said back-stabbing VP later on a company board.
You are unlikely to find empire builders in that size of company because they are too easily exposed and ousted by competent leadership. The real problems start once there is way too much going on for any one person to track the major initiatives, which I'd say is more in the 500+ realm.
Samsung is insanely thin skinned; deletes 90% of questions from their own AMA
If the phone in your pocket is troubling, think about how many radio stations your car radio can receive- every one of those signals is blasting through your body, most of the time! And we swim in a sea of wireless router signals, as well.

The issues are wattage and whether the radiation is ionizing or not. I think, so far, every reputable study has shown that cell phones, radio towers, and wifi routers are utterly harmless to the people that use them as intended.
Yeah I can do python, have not used micropython and I have not worked with FPGA's before so that's not what I'm trying to do now. The micropython sounds more tangible to me.

So I'm going to see about somehow feeding in text into the monocle via phone/BT... like an OBS situation. Then you could use your phone's screen as a mouse/input method. I know it seems pointless just use your phone... but you know... it's cool.

I have to read the manual on this too.
Maybe. They'd work for monitoring the dashboards. I use Samsung DeX to get a full desktop environment, and if you set its desktop to black (transparent, in the glasses) you can set floating windows in your vision for any apps. I think newer versions of Android support a native desktop mode too. The hike part is the question: they resemble dark sunglasses with extra-thick frames so they do obscure the view a bit. Walking around a neighborhood's probably fine but I wouldn't do a dirt trail. The glasses are Nreal Airs if you'd like to look them up.

Have you considered putting the dashboards on a smart watch?
Discussions on the mailing list usually tries to avoid the exact syntax for as long as possible to avoid bike-shedding. But according to this mail there would be a default nullability (hopefully not-nullable as the default, but it may depend on whether it is a value class or not), and ! and ? as modifiers (and * for type variables).

So `Point p = null` won’t type check, you would have to mark it as `Point?` where Point is a value (primitive) class. There were also points that it should work with the usual type inference, e.g. `final var p = methodThatReturnsNullablePoint()` would be inferred to `Point?`.
More CEO's virtue signalling their lack of virtue by engaging in the social contagion known as downsizing.

Yay.
Visa/MC are doing the conversion, and that does makes sense to me given their central position in the transactions. There are (basically crooked) originating (I think that's the right word) banks/payment processors that convert it for you, with a 3% plus spread. Paypal is the most egregious in this category.

The rewards are funded by the banks via interest income. 3% cashback cannot be covered by interchange fees, for instance.
Yes! You're the first person I've heard say that and I'm sure you're right.

Then there will be some market for better-trained LLMs, which it will still be possible to make using curated data sets, but that will be expensive, and product differentiation will be messy. We're in for quite a ride. I can't predict the outcome. Maybe there is no stable outcome.
Those first two sentences were me using your phrasing to set the scene.

I do google Damore on HN to seek out misinformation to debunk. The other hot takes that I do is trash-talking car dependent urban planning.

Occasionally I learn new things in the latter discussions.
https://archive.ph/dlod6
You need to take a break from social media and from your computer.
That the equipment has a useable date of 25-30 years is why most people won't bother with it. Most people don't want to be getting near retirement age and replacing obsolete equipment with a 15 year break even replacement cost on their homes.
Microsoft reveals Bing's Azure OpenAI future
eBay to lay off 500 employees, 4% of workforce
When you see clickbait headlines talk about rates increasing, you know the absolute value must be very low or they're be trumpeting the actual numbers rather than rates, much like most coverage of the recent pandemic.

Unsurprisingly, I found out you're about four times more likely to die in a car crash than to be diagnosed.

Also unsurprisingly, the research in the article is at cross purposes; if you're fat the risk is apparently very much higher, if you eat a diet that makes you fat but you somehow remain thin then the risk of getting the cancer is slightly lower, therefore the advice is to eat the diet that makes you fat, carb and fiber up to the max.

Finally the end of the article is the stereotypical clickbait "don't actually do anything, just feel anxious and raise awareness".
Not necessarily influence an interview process, but connect you with jobs of your caliber, ones you may not be able to find (or which would not find you) otherwise.

I know people (the aforementioned ex-govvies) who have no need of LinkedIn, because this is how they navigate their careers. As you get more and more established in your career, the jobs for someone of your level are less and harder to find.
How can you make a comment like this when you don't have access to the research that is being generated? These are just grandiose statements/opinions that aren't rooted in facts or quantifiable data which in my opinion is also quite irresponsible.
I think the general idea is pretty clear.

`MyClass! myvar` is not supposed to accept nulls. Assigning null to `myvar` would throw exception, comparing `myvar` with null is pointless and probably should emit a warning. Or maybe even error.

`MyClass? myvar` is supposed to accept nulls. Dereferencing this value without checking for null is either warning or error.

`MyClass myvar` is supposed to be unspecified with regards to nulls. So basically current code. You can do whatever you want but you should refactor it to `MyClass!` or `MyClass?` some day.
Were you around back then when developers were clamoring for native apps? It came out in the Epic trial that 80% of all app revenue came from games with in app purchases.

Besides that, most of the biggest players like Netflix and Spotify don’t even allow in app purchases.

Where are all of the great web apps for mobile? Have you tried using any of these web apps on Firefox for Android or is Firefox also involved in the conspiracy?

No one is clamoring for cross platform web apps accept web developers who want to foster a shitty Electron like experience on mobile.

And look at all of the server side work that Uber had to do.

https://www.uber.com/blog/m-uber/

And this wasn’t done to avoid the “30% tax” since Uber doesn’t use in app purchases. You do have Apple Pay as an option. But that’s a standard credit card transaction.
Fine. But who came up with these rules? And why does Ackman have to comply?
You have to define imperialism very narrowly to claim that. Perry's (overt) threat resulted in unequal treaties being forced on Japan. Japan's current Constitution was similarly written by Americans and forced on it during the post-WWII military occupation. Any nation that permanently hosts uncontrolled foreign troops and bases on its homeland is, at the very best, a client state.
Can you expand on that a bit? Why would having it built in to the language (Kotlin-style, for example) be better than not having the concept of null in the language at all and using something like the Rust Option?

Personally, I like the Rust approach. It seems a bit more flexible and can evolve easier over time.
HPV isn't really linked with cancer in men though.
This is interesting, and I think you're on to something. I got a fitbit when I got serious about running because I had no idea what it felt like to run in zone 2. I can read about it, but that only gets you so far. While running I could actively check my heartrate and adjust. A year into the hobby and now I don't bring my fitbit on probably 50% of my runs. I know how fast I need to go.
Rust is quicker to learn, does concurrency really really well and sits in the exact same space as C++.

C might survive Rust?, but I think C++ is toast.
qwidget has layouts too. He probably tried to use qt for about 3 minutes and gave up.
This is how a resolver[1] type encoder works. It's a rotary transformer with two stator phases at 90 degrees forming a sine and cosine output. The rotor has an AC current passed through, usually a few kHz, and the phase angle of the outputs vs the input is directly related to the shaft angle. There also exists a linear version called an Inductosyn which is similar to the calipers capacitive scale.

They are absolute for a single rotation meaning if power is lost and reapplied, you still know the angle of the shaft (good for robot arms). This absolute positioning is not possible with a quadrature encoder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolver_(electrical)
> Sam Altman onstage

Do you mean his interview 3 weeks ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVcJJZz9P4U
I just left a (non-engineering) role where I was a people manager of 7. It was great at first but I genuinely felt my skills atrophying, so I left to join a much smaller and flatter team.

I know HN is can sometimes come across as 'management-phobic', and having been on that side of the fence there is a lot value that can be added by managers.

That said, I do wonder how many of these managers who have been asked to become ICs might actually be relieved. In an increasingly competitive economic environment, some could see this as a good thing.
>so one thing developers would notice right away is abysmal JavaScript performance

That's actually a good thing! If a substantial chunk of iOS users would use third-party browsers without JS JIT, then webdevs would be forced to better optimize their sites, because the perf ceiling would be lower on these browsers. This then would lead to stellar performance for those who stick with Safari which does have JIT! Kind of how using an M1 is so good today, because there's still a large number of Intel machines out there, so devs can't yet afford releasing software that's only usable on M1 from a cpu/energy point of view.
Well, you don't need to run a sound server, although no sound server means the volume widget won't work. And you don't "run Wayland", you run KWin bare (instead of on xorg) and it provides a Wayland interface - it's actually lighter (and arguably has a smaller attack surface). As for D-Bus, it helps provide all the functionality that makes Plasma, Plasma. But you don't have to use it. I have no idea why you'd want to neuter Plasma until it provides no more functionality than twm (just run twm?), but if that is your sincere wish, you need only run KWin standalone.
Washington, D.C., Has More Tech-Job Openings Than Silicon Valley
Engineering teams are necessarily about collaboration towards a shared goal.

I don't know in what aspects of trading or finance that collaboration is necessary (rather than applied game theory towards each other).

Trading and finance are interesting examples, because those are two places where a lot of money-driven students would go, before tech jobs because easy money (rather than something nerds did for the love of it).

Rather than "Greed is Good" Wall Street thinking taking over, we should say "Fine, we admit it, tech pays good money right now, but we do our best work by working as a team, and that's how we're going to do it."

Then we follow through by making the messaging consistent in offers, raises, bonuses, performance evaluations, promotions, project management, metrics, etc.
It's also a success from the employee perspective. Those people got FAANG salaries for a year when they shouldn't have been hired.
It'll allow the JVM to more aggressively optimize the code (the main benefit).

Annotations are, unfortunately, all over the board. There's a dozen different `NotNull` annotations out there. Having it in the language will make it the last solution to this problem.

You can't do deduction at compile time because you'll end up with different method signatures if someone calls a method with a null vs not. (not to mention the problem with someone calling these methods with reflection)

You can do deduction at runtime (and they likely will), but then you have to deal with the problem of unwinding an optimization when the hypothesis is proven wrong. That can be really costly when the optimization is dealing with memory layout. (Imagine an array of value types where you deduced they should be non-null, yet some unexpected path inserts a null. In that case you have to reallocate the entire array and it's elements in order to handle that).

It's more than just syntactic sugar.
Is docker swarm alive and well? I always get the feeling it is something abandoned. But I love the simplicity.
I've worked on these sort of "5%" / "just in case" projects before and mainly accepted them because they were deeply technical, difficult and I was sure I was gonna learn a lot from them, no matter if we got the go ahead to ship them or not. Sometimes I was the only one in the company who wanted to work on it, while other times it was something everyone wanted to jump on, I guess the conclusion is that different people find different things interesting. Some people like porting software to different platforms for example :)
John Carmack (ex Oculus, Id software) just had a really good interview about this:

https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-diffe...

To summarise: he thinks we've got most of the pieces now to maybe get within reach of a useful AGI (he likens it to a worker you instantiate in the cloud who can do tasks for you like a colleague) and I think he's saying some of the techniques used to make LLMs could be part of the solution

I think that, almost certainly, the tools that we’ve got from deep learning in this last decade—we’ll be able to ride those to artificial general intelligence.
> Because it's well-known that PWAs has been stunted by Apple and Google.

It is not well-known. It is well-believed.

I don't believe Apple has intentionally crippled Safari just to prop up their native platform. Google are the ones who invented the PWA buzzword and spend all their devrel effort on pushing. It's hard to believe they would also try and hamper that.
> The rest of the computer looks like shit.

Except when I change theme, it all looks nice except your shitty electron app.
Google needs Mozilla though - Firefox is the last remaining Chromium competitor Google can use as a counterargument against claims about their de facto monopoly.
Rumors of Google’s demise are greatly exaggerated
How scientists are kept fed and happy in Antartica
> House prices are not kept stupidly high by the 1% or capital class but by the 50.1% that vote against allowing any kind of building anywhere near an existing house,

The discussion is not about a specific area or your specific area. There are large parts of the US where there is no such NIMBY voting allowed, much less enacted to prohibit construction. Prices have more or less ballooned everywhere in the US.

Random home in Southern CA: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1414-N-Center-St-Orange-C...

Random home in Boulder CO: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/175-Gold-Run-Rd-Boulder-C...

Random home in Edmond OK: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7105-Robey-Dr-Edmond-OK-7...

There were 0 votes on housing in Fargo, ND over the last few years and new homes are consistently over 400k because the land is cheap. The issue is not some uniform voting block artificially inflating housing prices.
Random home in Jacksonville FL: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1414-N-Center-St-Orange-C...
If that's the way to look at it, there is no proletariat in software engineering, just different scale bourgeoisie dealing with each other, and it sort of checks out.

There is still bargaining and possible bargaining power disbalance, but software engineering supply and demand are such that rates only went up for many years.
There is no ambiguity. We don't call Neil Armstrong "the first ever man on the moon". "The first" has a clear meaning and making any qualification of that implicit is either deceptive or bad writing.
Saw something in the headlines about initially limiting how much you can hold. I can't see a use case for the average person who can already make remote payments by card and can hold as much GBP as they like in their bank account.
Some discussion of remaining infinite BB(5) machines yesterday in [1][2]

[1] https://www.sligocki.com//2023/02/02/skelet-34.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34689068 and
A few thoughts having worked at a bunch of large companies before, with varying degrees of rewarding empire-building.

- The orgs most susceptible to rampant empire-building are ones where execs seem disconnected from the product. IMO the best way to discourage rampant headcount growth is for upper-level execs to scrutinize hiring needs. Some orgs (especially pre-2022) have been apt to approve headcount growth without sufficient oversight as to what the new people are actually supposed to be doing, and whether or not they're necessary. Loose hiring policies result not only in corp bloat and high expenditures, but reward empire-builder managers more than product-oriented managers.

- To double down on that point, part of the problem is that in too many companies execs and managers don't speak product. The point of hiring is ostensibly to ship more/different/better product, but when execs themselves do not speak product hiring becomes divorced from this underlying goal. You hire so your seniors have juniors to mentor. You hire so a manager can get promoted. You hire to "expand your scope". But at the end of the day there is only one valid reason to actually hire: so the company can produce more/different/better products that it otherwise cannot do without hiring. This is especially true at companies like Google and Meta where the PM track and Engineering tracks are fully decoupled.
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The part of my mind where customers are unhappy about the way these things are artificially locked to the device vendor.
> Supporting departing Zoomies

Zoomies??? stop using this language, these are people with a life outside your company. Refer to them as such, not fck zoomies….
Thousands of developers organized themselves to develop an open source application to help the victims of earthquake in Turkey.
Sparql, an RDF Query Language
Hold up. Your prior comment didn’t use the word “steal”, so I didn’t think you were talking about theft. Your prior comment used the word “free”, so I thought you were talking about “free”.

I was talking about “free” and I was not talking about “stealing”. That’s why I used the word “free” and did not use the word “stealing”.

Regarding your hypothetical, I’d say they’d be giving you approximately free money in much the same was as in the prior hypothetical you’d be giving them approximately free labor.
Hell, there are like two dozen fully autonomous Żabka convenience stores in Poland that do this. Unlocks the door for entry, identifies the items you pick up by CV, pays for them automatically without interaction, and unlocks the door for exit. No app or phone necessary, no cashier or staff, no checkout. You just pick the thing up and leave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t_-Na63kUY, https://youtu.be/ZMVbwVpBkKc?t=115 for the tech
Thanks to that joke I just imagined how it could be a game changer for internal corporate documents (the kind that are 50+ pages and never read), especially if it’s native into Office.
> they cause all the deaths

And have all the utility, too. It's not a simple problem.
Well, lots of people find structural problems with a massive code base but have no justification to rewrite/make changes to it. A chance to revisit decisions might be exciting for someone who feels they could perhaps do a better job with it.
looks like this is happening again https://www.githubstatus.com/
I didn’t even think about using it for education! If you end up making use of it, I’d love to hear what you did and how it went.
"incorrection" or a difference of opinion?
why do you need to say "not manager"? most people are in the nature of things not managers. and if you do need, for bad, bad reasons want to differentiate them, how about NMs? oh, but that would be to obvious for the current crop.