skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. "fundamentally broken" and yet I've been using them with little to no friction for pretty close to a decade now. If that's what you think "broken" means, then, well, you've completely devalued the word. This right here is what we call sensationalism folks.

Now if you said, "Rust has some rough points at the intersection of generics, closures and async programming," I'd say that's absolutely true!
Has sundar been a good CEO otherwise?
A Checklist for SQLite
Best way through sex ed imo rather than leaving them on their own to bump into predators or other sick stuff
I was really impressed that it seems to be doing everything locally in the browser, but I see once you start trying to do more complex visualizations it POSTs the dataset to the cloud. Still neat.
Ask HN: Tools to integrate all customer feedback channels
We're a growing SaaS (hoping to double ARR this year), which means we're no longer in the same room or even the same building or same country.

I'm tasked with being the "voice of the customer." We get customer feedback through a ton of channels:

- Slack conversations
- Our community
- Surveys
- Sales conversations
- Hubspot notes
- Zoom recorded calls
- Customer success 1:1s
- Product research calls

Different people are coming with different answers to different questions and we realize this won't scale.

We've tried to create FAQs but nobody looks at them or submits questions.

Many of you must have solved for this problem. Humbly asking for any wisdom you may be willing to share ;-).

Is there a tech-enabled solution to collect all the data and prioritize/have an "answer of record"? Is it a culture/management thing? Both?

Thank you!
We did a good job keeping our kids away from porn on our home network but my 11-year-old daughter was shown porn by one of her friends during a sleep over. This was years ago before unlimited phone data and before pornhub was doing mainstream advertising. I cannot imagine how a parent can keep their children safe today.
GP doesn't have any idea what he's talking about; he's clearly just fallen for the right-wing propaganda that puts Baltimore at the center of American ills, a la Chicago. Baltimore's public transit is quite decent, between busses and light rail, and (particularly downtown) its identity as a colonial city makes it hell for driving - which, consequently, makes it that much more pleasant to walk/bike. It could become even better, now that we no longer have a certain gubernatorial impediment. The only thing he has close to correct is the safety issue, but it's not like the entire city is a warzone. Rather, it varies block-by-block, and even then, I caution againt exaggeration. Certain people feel accosted by the ever-present window washers, while I can't remember ever feeling unsafe the dozens of times I was set loose as a kid for school trips or visited for Otakon.
I saw the video the day it came out. Its an OK video, but I question the timing in wake of the upcoming elections and Modi leading the G20.
Typically I don't call out "ejection e manipulation" or "external interference", but I'm increasingly starting to suspect the intentions of the BBC (and other media)

The metrics you mention are not poor, but our data is poor. Furthermore, numerous research shows HDI and GDP are flawed (but legacy) metrics - this is exasperated by the poor quality data available in a chaotic country like India
This is basically the plot of “white noise” with Adam driver (on netflix).
Ok, thanks for this info - it is unacceptable and below the lowest level from his side. For this I despise him.

Still, all the hatred and memes appeared _before_ the war, so it is an example for other OSS developers of what they will get for their hard work.

Again, I didn't mean that people hate him only because he is Russian. I meant that weak people will use every excuse they can find to blame him. Nationality, felony, bad accent, even his quotes about the war - all of that was not so important when people decided to use his work, but all of that they use now to bark with the pack.
I worked for two separate Fortune 500 companies that had byzantine internal political struggles like that. My hypothesis is that large organizations inevitably accrue that sort of cruft.
https://archive.ph/ZB1fj
Ask HN: Do People Believe the Internet?
We are so concerned with ChatGPT making things up but have folks not read HN or reddit comments? People believe made up stuff all the time or make stuff up even without negative intentions. A lot of web content is fictionalized nonsense in general.
I think this can be good advice for some but terrible for others. I am one of those people that needs to do something they love. I finally found that last year, quit my job as a programmer and now Im happier than ever. I think it is very worthwhile to follow your passions if you have enough ability.
Looking into options ≠ approved ban.

I'm looking into options becoming millionaire.

Also last time I checked when something start in 2030, then others can't follow it earlier.
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you are lucky to find an atm, crypto or otherwise (or a physical bank branch, come to that) in the uk these days.
I suspect because many executives want it to work. A benefit of arriving at very senior leadership is reduced personal risk for high-consequence failure. Consultants are part of that upside.

One can even avoid unpleasant disagreements with peers simply by hiring an equivalently prestigious firm and positioning the consultants to fight it out.
It's hard to differentiate the various dumpster fires going on at Google right now.
And I don't think they're all the CEOs fault.
- Have a ton of projects in progress. Get bored? Switch!

- Can't start? Get drunk and do it badly. Do it badly on purpose, even. Fix it sober and laughing.

- Do something little to build momentum. Clean the bathroom, e.g.

- Maybe you aren't busy enough. The first time I got straight A's was when my semester felt impossibly busy. There was no time to procrastinate because I was always moving. Call this Parkinson's Law: "Work expands to fill a vacuum."
We remodeled to tight envelope + radiant heat but our architect failed to spec fresh air ventilation. We had to DIY it mid remodel and learned a lot in a hurry.

The one room that we didn’t get any fresh air flow to, now stinks. The others are fine.

In a nutshell: blow fresh air into bedrooms / closets. 10 CFM is enough (small cpu fan level of airflow). Exhaust with quiet bathroom fans on constantly at low CFM. In + out = flow. Rooms with no flow = stinky, musty, germ contamination, good for growing mushrooms, bad for people and pets
Having worked on a number of early stage startups and projects, in varied remote/in-person settings, and currently fully remote, the only thing I genuinely miss from an office is having a huge whiteboard to gather around.

In my experience, whatever gains come from increased communications bandwidth in-person are kind of a wash with losses to focused work being in a distracting environment.
I don't know the details of his 10-day French Polynesia vacation, but I just did some pricing and I imagine a lot of Salesforce employees could afford a fairly luxurious 10-day French Polynesian vacation. Both the Salesforce employees I know could.

Of course, I think he sees the people he laid off as people. What I don't understand is why you seemingly don't think of the CEO as a person.
Does this make Alphabet stock a buy? In general I have a rule to never invest in adtech-based companies but a 12% discount is attractive.

Edit: a quick look at the chart shows the drop was off a recent peak and current price is roughly the 3mth mean. Tempest in teacup then.
There will always be people who think they knew better. It's not the end of Google or their Bard. It's an emotional outburst precipitated by lousy HR numbers. People are fearful and need to lash out a bit. Ars is riding the slight wave of disenchantment among a few emps.
Yes, in C or C++, code will just randomly explode. That's a completely accurate description.

Once upon a time we had reports from our users that our software had deleted all of the files it could on their C:\ drive. Investigating, we found the code that caused it, something to the effect of:

string rootDirectoryToDelete;

// Set it reasonably:

rootDirectoryToDelete = tempDirectoryWeMadeEarlier;

Want to guess what happened? We had a mix of Emacs and Microsoft Visual Studio 6 developers, and somehow we ended up with a mix of carriage return / line feed in that source file. Both Emacs and the MSVS6 IDE showed those as three separate lines... but the MSVS6 compiler thought that the comment... had no terminator. So it took the assignment on the next line as just being part of the comment.

You bet your ass I worry about code blowing up in my face. I write unit tests to try to protect myself.

I can't tell you how many times whatever the "undefined behavior" was what the code depended on, and fixing it required some severe re-working.

I also can't tell you how often someone thought "const" meant "completely immutable," and then they went on to accidentally modify what the const pointer was pointing at.

Or how often I've had to fix someone else's race condition. Or how often a driver crash has clobbered me.

I came across functionally like this in our code:

int i = 2;

int b = 3;

printf("i = %d, b = %d\n", (i, b));

Want to guess what that does? (i, b) evaluates i, and then ignores it, and returns b. So it basically prints "i = 3, b = [core dump.]" The MSVS6 compiler gave a nice juicy warning on that line that everyone ignored. Yes, using the MSVS6 compiler was dumb, and ignoring the warnings was dumb, but guess what? I'm not in charge of how dumb my co-workers are, or how strict everyone's deadlines are, and bugs like this are actually kind of hard to find in a real code base with tons of problems going on.

I'll take some more predictable behavior, if someone's offering it; yes, please.
Ask HN: How many people have production access where you work?
How big is the team? Does everyone in engineering have direct access? Or do people have to ask for it?
> The BJP is media savvy, but using the Indian bureaucracy and especially the Tax department to score points is clumsy.

Clumsy? This is Amit Shah's standard playbook. Remember how many prominent Congress leaders were arrested for tax evasion.
That's a cute but silly comparison, how many feminists in the Arkansas house backed this bill? You're also assuming all porn is heterosexual... Next?
Obligatory xkcd[1]
[1] https://xkcd.com/1102/
> cannot imagine how a parent can keep their children safe today

Is there evidence such prohibition keeps kids safe? It’s the environment I grew up in. But the kids who had healthy home environments where such topics weren’t taboo seemed to have a leg up.
Yea, you buy this for the KORG aesthetic and the nice coffee table instruction book. You could probably get something equivalent at the tech spec level for $20 on aliexpress.
Which oddly enough was filmed in the town this happened in… the universe is weird.
to be fair, cURL was written when defacing websites was considered top-tier hacking
Actually I think it's exactly the opposite - the ones who actually do something are the ones who are most likely to get blamed the most for the handful of oversights that they inevitably fall victim to, but it's the people who do absolutely nothing, but do it in a flashy way, that are remembered as the heroes and saviors.
IMU-based and lighthouse-based 6DOF tracking are so far apart in fidelity that the LG R100 is unusable for anything beyond watching videos and I wouldn’t consider it a real player in the VR space.
The French have, but in all likelihood any new nuclear capacity is going to go online way too late and cost way too much. Flamanville has a delay of 11 years, Olkiluoto construction is turning 20 this year and is still in evaluations. All have colossal cost overruns too. Nuclear is pretty dead in the water right now in that it's currently not possible to actually get them built.
Has anyone ever tried to find out how one can connect to the TV servers and how the DRM works? In the EU you’d be allowed to get the keys from the provider.
...Not to mention the dispersion along the entire Ohio River watershed, which supplies drinking water for about 5M people.
Fascinating! Did you always have it, or did you learn the skill? If the latter, could you talk about it?
Because it would interfere with Google's data collection and so they don't want you to have it. Instead of having disposable browsing containers they make Chrome itself automatically log into your Google account, then offer to continuously upload all of your browsing data via Google Chrome Sync. It's an anti-privacy user story.
> Please tell that to the people who invested in their local currencies in Argentina, Lebanon, Nigeria and more.

Most people use crypto not to send money anyway so it has completely failed as a means of payment and as any legitimate viable use case.

To suggest that people in those countries should use a much worse solution akin to a ponzi or pyramid scheme so that they can lose even more money due to scams, ransomware and volatility is beyond laughable.

Crypto is a scam, I don't think we need more rugpulls, exchange meltdowns to understand this basic fact.
> Looking into options ≠ approved ban.

I'm not sure why I'm even bothering to reply to this nonsense, but what I said was clearly:

> Netherlands as a whole is trying to do it by 2025.

This site is turning into reddit fast.
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Ask HN: Frighteningly ambitious startup ideas for 2023?
I still find myself re-visiting PG's frighteningly ambitious startup ideas list from 2012. Obviously tech has changed a lot since then. What ideas would you put in an article if you were writing it in 2023?
> That might lead into "the entire company is obsessed with hiring even though the tech equivalent of the Drake equation says there is no way they can find anywhere near that many qualified people in the entire world.

Fortunately, we don’t have to characterize this equation to quantify bloat in the corporate structure. We just have to wait for layoffs in the next recession. Unfortunately, this is a lagging indicator.
Others have already said why Rust has mutability, but in the spirit of the question I would like to share https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html which I think looks a bit like Rust if it had very limited mutability. (It has a "sufficiently advanced compiler" - an implementation of the Perceus static reference counting - that still makes the resulting code extremely fast)
He survived for 8+ years as a Google CEO and 4+ years as Alphabet CEO. Tells that he has done few things OK.
What took over?
hahahahhahahahahah
Here's the weird thing though, as discussed yesterday [1], the Microsoft demo was totally broken as well. In the end, everyone is looking for a big platform shift (next MOBILE!!!) and hype getting ahead of reality. When we look back in 3 months we will wonder why we thought LLM/GPT type queries will replace search in all forms.

https://dkb.blog/p/bing-ai-cant-be-trusted
Not exactly... OpenAI apparently have the 5th most powerful supercomputer in the world. This is probably what they used for training:

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/openai-azure-s...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-builds-a-supercomput...
> Maybe, maybe not, but I don't think any of his employees could be hired for his job, either.

Sure, but that has very little to do with actual ability to do the job, and much more to do with already being a member of the executive class.
Better than say a former industry stalwart like Jack Welch. He's vanilla and sometimes vanilla is what you need to steer a steady course.
Somewhere in Akamai there's a group of network engineers laughing at these numbers I'm sure. Akamai just doesn't blog about every neat thing they do.
There are definitely fringe edge cases where C++ can do things that Rust simply cannot, currently.

I'm thinking of things like Herb Sutter's deferred_heap (https://github.com/hsutter/gcpp) that give you GC-like abstraction. It's pretty cool that this is possible to write in vanilla C++ with decent ergonomics. I tried to make something similar awhile back in Rust and hit a wall in terms of making something that would be pleasant to use.

Rust has several on-going experiments with making a nice GC, along with good support for arenas. (If you can use arenas, they're great.)
Losing 43lbs in 144 days on the ex150 diet
Oh wow. Well that probably means it happened before?
United States nuclear weapons in Europe
In 2022 Tesla produced 1.3 million vehicles and will produce 1.8 - 2 million this year, how can you quantify that as not a lot of cars?

By others rapidly catching up do you mean announcing future models instead of shipping actual EVs? No one is within an order of magnitude of making the number of EVs that Tesla does in their market segment (not counting PHEVs or micro cars in China)
And lie about holding a valid UK TV license.
Agriculture has been owned by global multinational corporations for decades. It's a free market.

You think the Dutch state owns farms? No it's banks.
Ukraine opened itself up to foreign investment and small family run farms are swallowed up. Happened everywhere and now it's happening in Ukraine.
I've worked with consultancies many times in my career. I have never seen them deliver good value for the dollars they cost. Never.

This is at multiple levels, from low-level IC, to strategic high-level IC and mid-management. At every level within an org they haven't delivered value from my perspective.

Maybe if I were a CXO I'd feel differently.
I also have a quest 2 and I recently bought the official upgraded strap and the official fit kit to go along with the custom lenses so I can see without my glasses in there and I just gotta say that the quest 2 is worlds more comfortable now. Before I would fidget around with it for tens of minutes before it would be even reasonably correctly aligned with my eyes with my complicated prescription on my lenses. But now I just put the quest 2 on my face and it's comfortable and I could see in it.

I also did previously own an index and also had custom lenses for that and I think the quest 2 that I own now is way better especially over USB but wireless is pretty good too.
Yes, its important (and very hard) to walk the fine line between pushing back and letting those above you do their jobs. At the end of the day, not every decision is yours to make. Its important that you ensure that every decision is an _informed_ decision however.
Money is only valuable as a tool long as you also have the strenght to make sure your vendor/supplier is not ripping you off.

So no. Once you stop fighting and constantly pressing your vendor/supplier they'd simply take your money and not provide you any service.

This will happen way before you croak btw. By the time you are 70 people will be ripping you off left and right.
I think we do need to do something to keep children away from it. Yes, this is mostly on the parents but there has to be some lawful consequence put on these sites. I'm not sure that Arkansas has the best method here, but at least they're proposing something.

This is not just a right-wing Christian morality stance. There's a myriad of studies showing the increasingly harmful affects of letting young brains just access porn whenever they want. It rewires their brains in some pretty negative ways. This along with social media, and the trend of just letting small children play on tablets all day long need to stop.
Smaller companies are usualky better in my experience.
I bet you'd see speedups if you rewrote in C++, too.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34783940

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34772687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34759611

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34676114

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34762965

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34770772

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34783940
It is, because Broadcom had a surplus of them and couldn't get anyone to adopt it for a streaming device. So an enterprising Broadcom FAE decided to turn it into an "educational" Linux desktop device.

The "wildly popular" part came when people realized BRCM was dumping these boards cheaper than any existing Linux SBC at the time. The educational angle is long gone.
has anyone numbers on how many queries/second in inference time chatGPT can serve?
>Letting russia and china on the internet was a massive security mistake we should rectify.

As a Russian,comments like this make me feel less and less interested in being friendly with the (generalized) West. If I'll always be seen as "one of the bad guys" for the crime of being born in a country and not wanting to shit on everything about it, then why even bother acting any other way?
A fantastic write up on a metaphorical ultra-intelligent way to lament about manager(s), and link it to kaizen. Bravo!
Modularizing React Applications with Established UI Patterns
>>> others should also be doing similar research.

>> BTW, Nick Bloom at Stanford and others have done extensive research with thousands of people on remote and hybrid work here, and here…

^ from the article

> Home working led to a 13% performance increase, of which about 9% was from working more minutes per shift (fewer breaks and sick-days) and 4% from more calls per minute (attributed to a quieter working environment). Home workers also reported improved work satisfaction and experienced less turnover, but their promotion rate conditional on performance fell.

^ from the linked paper.

…but hey, go the statistically irrelevant one to share with people if you want a cool link to prove whatever point you want to make with it.
Likely not the book you're thinking of, but related and one I found useful:

"I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This"

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Know-What-Step-Step/dp/014312851...
Supercomputer used for training, top 5 in the world apparently:

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/openai-azure-s...
> the factory workers all have seven figure options grants

I would genuinely like to see a citation for that. That's wonderful if true, but probably too expensive to be real.
I don't use it unless I have to but the Verizon app (iOS) and website.

I can submit a support request but I can't add any comments after I create an issue (when they ask for more info). Tried every method to add a comment but can't.
It’s not aliens. It’ll probably never be aliens. So stop. Please just stop
Users don't actually get a personalized domain for each account, only a subdomain.
https://archive.ph/iuXAm
Yup a classic case of correlation != Causation

And too small a data set.
It's a bit of a leap to assume that not wanting or allowing your 11-year-old to watch pornography means that such topics (presumably, sex) are completely "taboo" in the home.
?! citations please
I’m struggling to find the link because of all the new coverage, but Bard was mentioned as a Google project in 2019. It had a prefix in the name though, which I'm struggling to remember (it wasn't OpenBard, but it was SomethingBard).

If that is real (and hopefully I can find it and update this post)… that would indicate Google has been working on it for years, never thought it was ready, and then decided to snap-deploy it after ChatGPT’s success. Which, predictably, would make a massive mess internally as reported here. I find it believable.

UPDATE: OK, it was called "Apprentice Bard." However, that names comes from CNBC in 2023, but CNBC doesn't say when "Apprentice Bard" actually began development. However, "Apprentice Bard" was a replacement for Google's first internal chatbot solution Meena, which Google did deploy internally and also publicly revealed only for bragging rights (and not actual use) in January 2020 (and so the 2019 figure in my head does somewhat line up). So if you think about the Bard project as having started with Meena... sounds about right. https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/towards-conversational-age...
Uber, Spurred by Hardware Supply Disruptions, Moves to Multiple Cloud Providers
https://archive.ph/xD7cL