skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be horrible for the future of SpaceX. Shotwell would run it well but she doesn't do pushing boundaries of things like Elon. SpaceX would indeed be very successful under Shotwell but you could forget them ever landing humans on Mars under her leadership, at least not without going hand in hand with some eventual NASA plan in the 2050s or something (by which point she might have retired anyway as she's 8 years older than Elon).

Also maybe it's simply being a good corporate leader, but I've seen her stick her neck out and defend Elon many times against criticism. They obviously like each other and get along with each other. They're both needed.
Maybe it's just me, but Apple Podcasts only shows me NPR and NYT podcasts on listen now, and Browse is pretty much the same but with some republican outlets thrown in. I've never discovered a great podcast on there.
I take it back, it was Volvo, not VW

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32960768
Salvia, sorry get them mixed up.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/1810920...
I would say they're equally plausible. It's kind of gross that folks are so ready to deny that there's an over focus on metropolitan issues (I say that as someone that lives in a metro and has lived in a pretty rural area before). The immediate dismissal from folks does lend more credence to the idea that it's a societal bias.
> whether Bing is going to eat Google's lunch in search,

There are a few types of search queries that people seem to do, factual lookups ("who is the exec of abc?"), but also generally treat the search engine as the entryway to the internet ("I need a teaching plan about Ukraine"). We'll see that LLM fall flat for facts (assuming people care), but they can supplant some of the general traffic. Realistically, its a bad fact search replacement, but it could be a great tool to put next to a search bar, making a better "starting place for accessing the internet".

With the teaching plan example, the original user was probably going to make a query for a template (or 5), then copy+paste, then do 10-100 queries learning all about Ukraine history and culture, then rewrite that into the template, editing down to manageable size, then send to peers to edit and review, then format for distribution. That could be dozens of Google searches. Now, one or two AI queries, and they have a template, basic written text, and can focus on a couple queries for fact checking. Oh, and since they used bing to do the AI part, they may just stick with bing for the fact check part. Google was irrelevant in that whole flow instead of getting dozens of queries over a day before, but if that feature was moved to Office365, then they may never have used bing for search while still killing a chunk of google's traffic.

The danger to google is not equal to the opportunity to bing. If 5-10% of traffic never reaches a google search, that's a huge chunk of google's revenue, even if it doesn't translate to searches on a different engine. Think of the potential impact an AI code generator could have on StackOverflow. When I need to pick up a new language, I often query "how to append to an array in
python" in a search engine, but a LLM (or large-code-model) built into my IDE could supplant that query entirely. I
Disney World still does fingerprint scans. I think they paused it for a while due to Covid, but it's definitely in place today.
Funny enough, we did a PyCharm webinar with Charlie just a couple of hours ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeoL4qsSLbE
The movie quote is loosely based on a memo that Ford sent to the NHTSA to lobby against new safety standards. The so-called Pinto Memo has a lot of mythology around it. It wasn't specific to the Ford Pinto, but it was used in some of the Pinto lawsuits to say "this is the kind of cost-benefit analysis that Ford does when designing their fuel systems". The Pinto Memo also didn't compare the cost of safety improvements against potential lawsuits-it compared them against the NHTSA's own figure for the financial value of saving a life.
Maybe someone who admits to not knowing the Ukrainian language, shouldn't volunteer to create an entire teaching plan in that language, from a chatbot.
ChatGPT does produce useful content right now. Maybe not necessarily information, but definitely boilerplate text and code. Also, a child can interact with it, no problem.

It might not be a social interaction, but it's really not hard to imagine that it has a lot of potential.
There’s already plenty of paid podcasts, what Apple and Spotify offer is frictionless payments. And for all the people complaining about Apples 30% cut on the App Store, there’s plenty of podcasters willing to give them exactly the same cut, as an alternate option to their own payment system.
“Let's say you notice that your company has a problem that I've heard people at most companies complain about: people get promoted for heroism and putting out fires, not for preventing fires.”

My first day at work at big-laser-company. Manufacturing engineer for a laser (then) so complex, it required a PhD to solve problems to get units out the door. The product was a ring laser. What that means is that the laser beam travels around in a race track pattern inside the laser before getting out, not a back-and-forth bouncing between two mirrors. Now this laser could be tuned to any wavelength by suitable setups and machinations, and once there, would “scan” a small amount about this wavelength, enabling scientists to study tiny spectral features in atoms and molecules with great precision. I knew all this shit. I was a Berkeley-trained physicist that built precision lasers out of scrap metal for my thesis. First day of work. I walk into the final test lab. The big laser was happily scanning away. The bright yellow needle-like output beam was permitted to hit the lab wall. As the laser scanned, the beam was MOVING on the wall. Whereupon, first day of work, I exclaimed the most obscene four words in manufacturing, for all to hear, “You can’t ship that!” (“Beam pointing instability” is detrimental to almost any laser application. It turns out that during scanning, an optical element was rotating, on a shaft, inside this laser. This mechanical motion caused beam motion.”)
Well, I got an immediate reputation as a negative guy. (You can tell it’s deserved.) The solution was to retrofit 28 lasers in the field, mostly in Europe, with a component that cancelled the movement, on an expensive junket by a service guy. Who was hailed as a ”hero.”
There's plenty of jobs outside tech right now. It's the lower expectations that kill people internally. They just can't go from that fancy big tech salary to something merely above average.
I suspect it's a fee for not feeding it your IP to be chewed out and spat out in some other company.
Ask HN: Is anyone frustrated abt the disjointed state of software project mgmt?
I've worked at software companies big and small for about a decade and the one common theme I see is they all can do a better job organizing information about the software they build and maintain.

Things like architecture diagrams (high/low level diagrams, UML diagrams etc.), UI flowcharts, documentation, metrics etc. are all scattered across various tools that all do that one thing very well. E.g. metrics are in Splunk, documents are probably in Confluence/G-Docs etc.

But it's hard to know how they all tie together unless you have it "hardcoded" in your head. E.g. you must know which dashboard in Splunk surfaces the metrics you're looking for, you must also know which document/runbook in Confluence has the relevant information on how to act on those metrics. And more often than not this documented information, if it exists at all, drifts from reality.

Worse yet, the need for this "hardcoded" information is precisely what makes onboarding new hires hard; it's my least favorite part of joining a new team.

At one of my previous employers, we created a "team page" on the internal wiki that aggregated the team members' directory links, listed the services we owned, included some basic documentation and embedded metrics via iframes. But even that didn't meet our needs fully.

Wondering what the HN community feels about this problem (is it even a problem?) and if someone's using a tool that solves this for them at some level.
What are these Seed and Pre-Seed companies that have revenue at all? Isn't landing 1 customer a huge revenue boost for many early companies?
No they’ve been designing in house for years, this is just their latest.
The landing page (at just grid.is) is much better than this single-feature page. Consider resubmitting, as your product has a lot of other nice ideas going for it that might get overlooked in the focus on this one hot thing.
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While I agree that there are, in general, significant differences in positions on these things, this seems like a bad example to choose: after all, US rail workers went on strike over the safety, long hours, and being expected to work injured or sick, and President Biden signed off on laws making their strikes illegal.

Unfortunately, at least in the English-speaking world, many nominal workers' parties have largely bought into worker-hostile policies under Blair, Starmer, Clinton, Albanese, and so on.
Looking worse than 2008? What are you looking at? Doesn’t seem like that at all from what I’ve seen.
> Corollary 1. Who can, and sometimes does, un-rot the fish from the bottom? An insane employee. Someone who finds the forks, crashes, etc. a personal offense, and will repeatedly risk annoying management by fighting to stop these things. Especially someone who spends their own political capital,

You're not alone. I am this person, but I also have the advantage of being management. In one case, I led a 9 month ninja effort refactor an entire spaghetti monolith in semi-opposition to my boss' (CEO) wishes. We did it very smartly, though, which was to have a plan in place that was to a) have a plan b) focus on observability in the final product and c) used "extreme campfire rules" to implement.

First steps were hard, which was where we completely reorganized everything into logical services with defined APIs within the monolith. During the couple months, overall product velocity slowed, so we tread with care and hustled to get stuff out on time. After that point, the resulting code sanity increased velocity so we could focus on things like revamping logging to be massively more useful, better data migrations, consistent deploy process for developer machines, dev integration server, staging, and production servers, and implementation of automated service and integration testing.

The net result of 9 months of work was shipping tons of new features, virtually eliminating any down time (from hours a month to minutes per year), and a net loss of about 20% of the codebase.

It was a smashing success that I couldn't tell anyone else on the management team about. I did get the ultimate payoff a couple years later when we were acquired by a $30B company and received many kudos during the technical due diligence process for the state of our architecture and reliability.
Not sure why "toy" was added to the title. It's not part of the title of the post, nor should it be.
This is a big reason why I left Spotify. Seemed like they kept pushing me to lower cost content like covers and live performances instead.

The other is that unfortunately things are ecosystems these days. Spotify just didn't seem to work as well on Google Home and Android Auto. Probably not their fault as Google can barely keep their shit working.
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You posted two duplicate comments in this thread only to claim that it was Trump's fault?
Not an interstitial (and am not the original poster), but, somewhat related, ABC (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation)'s logo is a Lissajous curve:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corpor...

The article does mention that 'In the early years of television, the ABC had been using Lissajous curves as fillers between programmes.'
Are you going to list every call the EPA made and whether it was right or wrong? Or just cherry pick?
You are on iPhone or Android? Or some other platform?

Because on these platforms if I list best 4 podcast apps, Spotify won’t come within miles of that short list.

I am slowly decreasing my use of Spotify because of the way it’s pushing podcasts while all I want is music from it. Nothing else.
Calling Android an "acquisition" is really overblown. What Google bought was a handful of employees and a 3000 line JavaScript demo. There was no "Android" OS when Google bought them.

source: Androids: The Team that Built the Android Operating System
I‘m using Pocket Casts and never have paid anything
edit: as far as I remember
Wow, this project progressed quickly. In 5 months it convinced pandas and SciPy to convert? Impressive!
At first I thought the headline was click-bait, but it's actually accurate.

The videos really, truly show Erdogan repeatedly boasting about giving "amnesty" to private builders to ignore regulatory codes in order to "solve" Turkey's housing shortage. It appears that a majority of the thousands of buildings that crumbled into dust when the earthquake struck were constructed under such "amnesty."

In hindsight, Erdogan looks like a naive moron, and the private builders who put innocent lives at risk to maximize short-term profit look like movie villains.
Don’t forget to pilfer newspapers from around the country and cut/glue letters from different fonts to compose the message and use homemade paper as the base layer.
This is funny because we have a Hyundai Elantra 2010 and that one has an immobilizer. You can't turn it on without the encoded key.

I guess that at some point Hyundai and Kia decided to save some money?
I didn't play with this but having read the press release, this makes me wonder how bad AI is going to be for the human psyche.

Imagine how bad social media already is, AI is going to be infinitely (the actual meaning) worse for society and not just with deepfakes. We are charging deeper into darkness with no idea of how to make a metaphorical lantern.

If the march of AI continues and it will, we are going to see people become entirely lost and detached from reality. This will result in people becoming digital zombies where they are either physically or metaphorically hooked into machines and living an alternative life. In social media, there was at least glimpses of interaction with human beings with some social 'nutrition' or ability to translate to 'real life'. With AI, there is none, it becomes mental junk food that charades as veggies and the barrier of training is so high that bad actors (governments, global corporations, etc) are going to use this position to seed their own thoughts in society without being realized and squeeze free diverse thought out.

In some ways, this is a utopia: dementia, bed-ridden, paraplegic, etc. In other ways, it is hikikomori on mega-steroids.

I am a proponent of the hardware singularity, but I am fearful of what an AI singularity would mean for human beings en masse. We are charging into still uncharted territory and the problem is going to get a lot worse.
Indeed if you go back in history at any point of SpaceX's past and simply pluck out Elon, lots of things that SpaceX does now simply wouldn't have happened.
No need for reliance on batteries. Just use the solar generated to process regolith yielding plenty of hydrogen and oxygen for energy storage, breathing, rocket fuel and additional component elements.
> Deepmind acquisition was key

Name one thing Deepmind produced that had a tangible positive impact on Google's bottom line.
>White people are way over represented on arrests for alcohol-related crimes, whereas Black people are in-line with population, for example. [0,1]

Yep, especially here in Wisconsin! I rarely drink, and find the whole culture around drinking here distasteful. I don't see the relation to Kia thefts, though.

>Adding to that, black people are also the victim of a disproportionate amount of crimes

Yes, crimes we can't freely discuss because of who commits them, another reason why obfuscation of the problem is harmful.
When someone dares to try to ban the Bible, Mein Kampf or the Turner Diaries there will be hell to pay.
Most cars were electric in the late 1800s
It looks like Hyundais are starting to get updates, anyway. I'm having trouble finding information on Kia updates.
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It is, because arguably the more common case is wanting to save a snapshot under a different name and continue editing the original. "Save as", unfortunately, does the opposite.
> When we look back in 3 months we will wonder why we thought LLM/GPT type queries will replace search in all forms.

It's not just blind optimism for the future of AI. We need search to be better because it's a cesspool of SEO spam/content farms and AI generated garbage. Search engines have declined in effectiveness and utility. We've lost even basic functionality like the consistent ability say "-whatever" to filter out garbage. Google, even DDG, have really dropped the ball here.

We're left looking for a savior and suddenly AI comes in and promises to be able to tell us whatever we need to know, it hints at a near future where AI is trained to see the spam and bring actual content to the top of search results again. We're so over dealing with the mess Google has made of their once awesome search engine that for a brief moment the entire internet was excited about fucking Bing!

I have to admit, I'm disappointed that it doesn't appear that Sydney will be the hero we need, but these are still early days and I hope all the attention leads to advancement in our understanding of AI and that fear of competition gets these companies to put a little more effort into improving the search engines they have now.
ChatGPT frenzy goes all the way to China. They are reacting with "huge excitement", but also realising how far behind they are.
But it was the Republicans' fault
I haven't written anything substantial on the subject unfortunately. I do have some ideas rattling around so maybe this will motivate me to get them down.
You're a lot more likely to find stability with a big company than some small business much less a startup.
Noted. Updated the title.
They strip adjectives from the titles? Huh.
My Grandpa joked about this same thing a decade or so ago & predicted it would happen to this farmer who bought land next to him. Farmer bought land next to his & wanted a giant field of corn so he could use his very large machines for more efficient work. That farmer lost his crop & all the fences became small hills as they caught the dirt that flew around.

It can be enjoyable to watch history repeat itself so precisely as predicted in such a short time.
Honestly I'm not seeing any single reason why it may be interesting for them - no target audience, no performance or costs gains, only spending. Not even accessibility feature to help disabled people.

What kind of reasons you think may give them an idea it's worth trying?
> But like okay, if you are so great why can I only watch at 1x playback speed for video?

Maybe they updated this recently since you last tried, but you can most certainly change the playback speed for podcast videos (0.5x–3.5x). I just did it. Of course, the UX could definitely be improved in other ways, such as providing a more organized & easily filterable feed rather than a somewhat random assortment of 'Your shows' and 'Episodes for you'.
TBH his podcast just got boring before then. I had pretty much stopped listening because I got bored with Joe interrupting the guest to talk about apes or something like that. He didn't really seem to make an effort to understand his guests a lot, especially when it was something he might be politically against. It just became uninteresting. I forgot who it was that he had on, but they were talking about how in another world where team sports were gender-mixed instead of what they are now, we'd value different things in teams (like the different qualities brought by the different types of players, or their ability to work together to succeed, not just worship at individual superstar athletes as is common now) and Joe was just like "but guys are the best, I don't understand". Like, it wasn't really a hard concept to grasp, even if you don't think sports teams should be gender-mixed.
Not only that, but the high end of the old-school watch industry has never been healthier than it is now. ( https://www.intotheminds.com/blog/en/luxury-watches-for-men-... )

The conventional wisdom that smartwatches are killing traditional watches is just like the conventional wisdom that Starbucks and other corporate brands push out local coffeehouses: dead wrong. Instead, the new players validate the market and provide an anchor point for luxury goods.
That was the beauty of the game. You could randomly find amazing things.
To be honest, I don't even lock my car anyway..

If people are stealing cars in bulk in a society, what that society has is not a problem with insufficient locks.

But I get your point.. If I was in a place like that and couldn't get out, I'd have no choice but to learn to love the security system, even if it is an additional risk of making trouble for me.
Sure its not enough to prove the point, but its relavent to the point.
Like others have chimed in here, it's really not so bad to step away from the Microsoft products while using .NET. I have worked on a solution where all the devs used MacOS running a mix of VS Code and Rider to develop on, while hosting the application on Linux with a PostgreSQL data store. None of it was difficult to setup and configure. There was consistently a bit of an on-ramp for devs who had never used MacOS before (a really common trait among .NET developers), but other than that things were peachy.
- High in capsacin

Hot or spicy

- Creating some sort of pain or funny sensation when consumed

Spicy

- Containing "spices" depending on which definition you use

Spiced

- Being strongly seasoned/flavourful

Spiced, Seasoned

- Tasting good

None of these.
I graduated class of 2007 (when companies stopped hiring due to the GFC), I did not get much consolation either. Got the opposite, in fact - everyone telling me I was being a spoiled millennial and everything was my fault. I couldn't get a job for a year.

All of my peers made it through, so will the class of 2023.
Agreed. I usually end up writing the thing in at least one place besides the commit. Takes more time, but should be more future-proof as well. :)
>I guess that at some point Hyundai and Kia decided to save some money?

If this can be fixed with a software update, that's not saving money. That's making money by making you pay extra for the immobilizer.
I end up having to run basically this very setup (on OpenBSD, too) because I have a customer who has a Novell NetWare 5 setup and runs IPX only. Bad times.
I just checked the PNGs created by the Windows screenshot tool (win+shift+s). There was no obvious metadata inside. If there is something, it is not easy to find.
Yes bound oxygen isn't rare, which is why I specified molecular oxygen. An alien race that could detect our atmosphere's composition (not outlandish, we've detected exoplanet atmospheres) would see the molecular oxygen and find it very intriguing (assuming they were susceptible to intrigue). If we detected an exoplanet with a 20% molecular oxygen atmosphere, it would be revolutionary.

The bit about us reverting the atmosphere to the CO2 composition a couple billion years ago was a bit tongue in cheek, but not a very good job at humor on my part.
"Us" == folks earning nicely into the 6 figures in comfy computer jobs? I'd bet you're right.

vs.

"Us" == people living in America, where ~1/2 of households have an annual income below that figure? Hopefully a few more have managed to avoid drinking the "everyone should go to college" Kool-Aid.
Most people I know would have no idea whether 1023^2 is even or odd for what its worth.