skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's not a valid generalization because it leaves out all the cases which actually improve things—those go unnoticed and unremarked on.

I notice them all the time and I don’t remark on them most of that time because I’m trying to observe the posting guidelines and I’m loathe to open up my email client to question each one.

> One thing that also goes unremarked on is that when we see people complaining about titles, we nearly always change the title until the complaints stop.

That’s a fair point, but the existing practice of editing titles by default creates a fair bit of this problem and complaining comes with strong incentives to ignore the problem if you disagree with the solution.

I appreciate 99.999% of how you run this community, but this one sticks in my craw a lot because it’s so well designed to confirm built in assumptions and so poorly designed for refinement. But mostly because it’s so hamfisted. Like… you have so many already built in tools for signaling that something is probably low quality without editing anything! Why not just dim the “bait” words, or even only show them to people like me who keep “showdead” on?

I get a lot more from authors’ titles than I get from the externally edited version of them I often see here. So much so that I often click links I don’t even care about just because I suspect their titles are edited and I wonder what they originally said.

I doubt you’ll reach the same conclusion I have (that it’s better just to not edit titles at all), but I hope you can understand that any editorial process for submissions here that alters submitted content makes all of the content suspect to me, and that I’d rather be upset by a published title than have an artificial one instead.
“Romeo and Juliet both ran away to New York at the end. He works in corporate finance and she makes bespoke soap. If you disagree with me again you’re a bad person and I will treat you like a bad person.”

As long as you agree with the new facts, you’re fine. Problem solved!
Well, it's not quite a true SAT solver. It can solve SAT in P, for random, unstructured problems, but there is a certain probability that it can't solve a problem, even if the problem actually has a solution. The more clauses, the higher the probability that my solver can't solve it.

It can solve 100 clauses with 99% probability.
Here’s a more directly comparable example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11610
Also Sydney, also not heard anything. It felt stable enough to take some extended leave to see family overseas and as far as I know business has carried on as usual.
Okay, there are stupid headlines and REALLY stupid headlines. This is the latter.

There is a reason "equity components" of compensation are called "variable compensation" just like bonuses are. Anyone who "counts on them" is really setting themselves up for disappointment.

That people "believe" they are wealthier than they are because they are counting stock that they either don't have, or hasn't vested yet, at face value? Well that problem is quite old.

During the dot com meltdown, so many people put down payments on houses that they were going to buy with "stock options" but didn't exercise the options because once they do that, they would "stop going up." Our neighbor who was a realtor, has 8 houses "fall out of escrow" because the buyer withdrew (giving up their good faith money) before the close during 1999.

Stock based compensation == 0 until it is sold and the taxes paid, then it is worth what ever you were left with. But counting it as "income" before you sell it? Not smart.
> The chain of humans who've been responsible for developing and testing Chrome Extension functionality and security has been asleep at the wheel this whole time, for something like 15 years.

There should be liability for negligence.

If you were told about a security hole and you have not fixed it, and you have not informed your users, in months, you should pay statutory damages.

And if you lied about your app (claiming encryption where there is none) you should be liable too, even if the app is free
Tested it on Edge canary and still only a small pop-up..
Soo, was anyone else except the author actually able to trigger the ad?
Most FAANG comp is RSU, not options.
This IMO is the key distinction between "true" AI/AGI and the current generation of LLMs. ChatGPT cannot understand what you are telling it. It does not have a brain and cannot speak conversational-level English. This is why the entire area of prompt engineering needs to exist. Whether it is a stopgap or not depends on if we can actually make these models understand what they are asked rather than just pattern match.
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Creative work doesn't keep office hours.
> There are real world use cases for blockchains

The examples you gave are problems created by blockchains.
>Note that you just says "yes, we do need hundreds more dead in the hopes of putting tens of thousands of people out of a job". Not sure I'm down with that.

Well then you disagree with Boeing and the aviation regulators then.

>Just because the law didn't do enough according to you, doesn't mean you should be okay with (let alone advocate for) people dying just to teach a company a lesson.

Many more will die because the regulators aren't regulating and no one has been held responsible.

>Because government is (for good reasons) not allows to meddle with how a private company is structured internally.

So mass murder is Ok as long as it's done by a corporate executive?
If equity was 100% of total comp, and shares dropped by 35%, the most total comp could drop by is 35%. The smaller the share of equity, the smaller the percentage of total that drop would be
You're right. Agile was never for the developers, it's for the business. Developers complaining about Agile is like kids complaining about their homework - it's to be expected.

That said I've seen enough Agile projects flounder and fail to know that it's no silver bullet. Like homework, there is little indication that it actually fulfills its purpose.

Whatever snake oil comes next is only going to gain adoption if it promises even more control for the business.
Wow. Never take financial advice from a stranger.

Look at the AMZN stock performance from 1997 to 2022. How many people could have sold right after vesting, invested the money elsewhere, and beat the gains that would have been had, had they held onto AMZN? Yes 1997-2022 is a super long time, but you can look at just about any 10 year time span within that range.

Selling right after vesting would have been a poor decision for most stocks over the 10 year time span from 2012 to 2022. So no, I don't agree with the advice to "always" sell right after vesting.
If you incorporated feedback along the way, then you did not do Waterfall. Which is good, because Waterfall is insane and brainless. I've witnessed a 10-figure Waterfall mistake (I was brought in near the tail end, it was years late, over budget, and delivered the wrong thing). If they'd incorporated feedback along the way they wouldn't have fucked up so badly.
Well right now on all social networks downvotes are used to silence others and in no way is indicative of quality.

HN seems to due alright. Things people engage with "bubble up".
I'm going to be a bit less nice than your other responses and ask you to give something a bit more thought before providing a glib "citation needed".
Do you mean the `select` call? libuv and friends can offer higher throughput than `select`.
That needs to be said? How are we better off with the law not applying to individuals?
Would be nice to just watch a clip of people playing a pickup game with the ball rather than the hype vids. More hoops less hoopla.
I doubt you’d see a libertarian who is a beneficiary of government programs, is more what I meant to say.

Don’t libertarians drive on public roads? Don’t they shower and do laundry with water from public utilities? Don’t they shop at Walmart where the employees are subsidized by welfare? I’m sure plenty of libertarians own businesses whose foot traffic is brought to their door on public sidewalks and roads.

This is what is meant by the cat quote. All of the infrastructure of society is paid for by public spending. Libertarians ignore all this and complain about misappropriation and government waste. Very few libertarians talk about what it would really be like to live in an “anarcho-capitalist paradise”.

The answer is it wouldn’t exist for long. Pay a private corporation for everything the government does and it becomes the new government. Don’t be surprised when it starts pushing you around.

I think the reality is that most libertarians don’t want that. They want to benefit from the status quo but find ways to escape paying for it. That’s fine, everyone does that to some extent. It’s just annoying when they get so self-righteous about it.
Commute time is one of the killer apps of WFH.
I worked on a very internationally distributed team of ~50 people, and was one of the two US citizens working on the onshore US component of that team (about 14 people). Myself and one other H1B on the US team were the only ones laid off on the larger 50 person team, and the layoff decision was unilaterally made by a director in Singapore. This is at an American semiconductor company that took $40B from the government a few months ago to increase its US presence, for reference.
Future of Antennas and RF Lenses using 3D printable material
I just though that was a funny comment, but now I'm going to reach out for real.
Sure. I’m all in favor of algorithmic transparency and maybe even some new laws from Congress limiting the way algorithms work. I’m not sure the latter part is entirely compatible with the 1st Amendment, but I’m no constitutional lawyer.

What I don’t understand is: what does this have to do with Section 230 and with the Supreme Court. Section 230 exempts firms (correctly) from liability for user content even if they moderate content in various ways. It doesn’t exclude complex algorithms because those algorithms weren’t invented at the time the law was written. If people want to write new laws, they should contact their politicians and get them to do that, stop trying to add new requirements to a law that didn’t consider them.
The demo does not work at all: https://github.com/questdb/questdb/issues/1525
Thank you for this. This is ironically more useful to me than 99% of what I read. Without question I will make future jokes about cummingtonite.
The problem is, this “simulator” leads to very misleading conclusions because of the inability to control altitudes. It potentially fuels a false narrative that balloons drift at random and are not useful for surveillance, while Loon flew something like 40 balloons in a row to dwell over South America for sustained periods.

I’m sorry that the dismissal was short, but I did name the key problem.
I too believe the US can eliminate a huge portion of the threat. But even just a couple getting through can have devastating consequences.

Hope those buttons never get pushed.
The US is working on missile defense and there are technologies that might change things in decade or two. But there is no way that they have been deployed in secret. The scale would be too large to hide and the government likes to brag. Deploying a full system requires SpaceX Starship and the number of launches would be large. Even then, it may not be possible to have system that works against major attack.

The 747 laser was retired 9 years ago. They are working on laser firing drones but don't have any prototypes after years. Also, these are boost phase lasers which are fine with North Korea since can get close but don't work with Russia.

There is talk about kinetic kill vehicles in space but I haven't found any concrete programs. This sometimes gets mixed with the Space Development Agency satellite constellationm but that is more about communication and detection.

Kinetic warheads are not a thing. There haven't been enough satellite launches to put anything in orbit. They need to be big, both to have enough mass and for the rocket to get down. One big problem is that it takes 15-30 minutes for them to descend; shorter time requires a bigger rocket. The reaction time is one reason they are a bad idea since target can't tell if they are nukes or first strike.

EMP and jammers don't work against nuclear missiles. They are self-guided. The electronics, like a lot of military electronics, are hardened and tested.
Where is the organ that does that? My impression is everything the brain does is homomorphic to what LLMs do.
> Mass layoffs generally don’t follow strong management execution.

I realize that's a common sentiment on HN, but it's not really among executive leadership in US businesses. Sure, nobody wants to do layoffs, but then you're essentially left with 2 choices:

1. Potentially underhire despite growing business opportunity.

2. Potentially overhire to take advantage of business opportunities that may not eventually come to fruition.

What people who hire management consultants care about is that they have the decisiveness to take action when needed, and having significant layoffs is not really a ding one way or the other.
What happens when their competitors also flood the internet with shitty info? Checking their own output won't help.
Yes the end goal is for the computer to perfectly understand every nuance of a very ambiguous human language, and everyone understands that, but we aren't there yet and may never get there. Until then, prompt engineering is not "fictional" but exists to fill in a real gap in the system.
Vectorized Query Execution with SIMD (CMU Advanced Databases)
One of the issues here is that the browser is prompting the user for all the Permissions at install time. Both Android and IOS have moved away from that. Perhaps it is time browsers to move away from that as well.
Oh wow that is good.
This paragraph is just wrong:

"Another explanation is that the Internet has unnecessarily coupled the transport protocol with the rest of the RPC framework. Conflating the two naturally follows from the purpose-built examples I just gave: SMTP is bundled with MIME; SNMP is bundled with MIB; and HTTP is bundled with HTML. "

I think at this point he's suffering from what old-timers used to call recto-cranial inversion.
> Wait until you see what’s possible with executables!

The most important thing is whay you tell the user -

Windows says "We don't know where Trojan.exe came from, it could be a virus, are you sure you want to run it?"

Chrome says: "You downloaded Trojan.exe from our store, we manage it and check it for viruses. It only asks for harmless permission, install it!"

One is warning you, the other is entrapment.
No, I wasn't aware of any.
The most obvious and classic example is "getting in your head" when you catastrophize about things and just sit there ruminating on them. None of it is actually really happening to you, but you react to your own thoughts with more thoughts and this can take you really far off course.

The other is the effect that "the element of surprise" has on your adversary where they have very little information as to what is actually going on and hence have to make a lot of internal assumptions about what might be going on.

My takeaway is basically if you can get an adversary to "think about things" and make long chains of inference without doing 'reality testing', the longer the chains of inference become, the lower the probability that they are correct. This is advantageous to you.
The agile manifesto was a set of stated relative values that the authors felt lead to positive results when a development team bought in. It wasn't a description of any methodology or process. In fact I have never been able to tell how agile methodologies were related to the manifesto in any way. Software and manufacturing methodologies can be good as best practices or guidelines, but when they require documentation for following steps, and have a methodology for changing the methodology, they lose their value. If you have a well intentioned group of team players that understand the values and guidelines and buy in, then the formality is a waste of time, and if you don't have those people nothing can save you. Process gets used as a shield for accountability by those people not a tool to correct their performance. Accountability (not blaming) is simply a way to adjust the power given to well intentioned team players based on the results of their decisions and actions. It is not a punishment, even though it does hurt.
In America I would really like to see people balance work and life better, and normalizing a 4 day workweek would go a long way to help that. We have a business culture and set of laws that I think results most people sacrificing too much life to get stuff that doesn’t make them happy.

BUT I disagree strongly with this idea that anyone who works more than 30 hours per week is just unproductive. That’s just factually false. With many jobs productivity scales close to linearly long past 30 hours. Sometimes working more many hours is exponentially more productive. Some people want to work many more hours to get more money, maybe because working more doesn’t bother them, maybe because they’d rather have the money, whatever.

I think people want “how many hours should humans work” to have a unified answer, when in reality it ranges from 0 to 100 depending on the person (what they want and what they can do) and situation(e.g some peoples jobs are literally life saving, an extra few hours can be life-or-death).

For example: I believe the most productive time of my life, by far and above, was the time I worked insanely long hours, and in fact those hours were exponential since knowledge work and the fruits of knowledge work often compound.

Now watch how many people tell me my experience is wrong and I’m either lying or delusional, just because they don’t want to believe that sometimes long hours really are more productive.
Quite! These solutions exist almost everywhere for all time. Look at Little Free Libraries, Mastodon, Open Source, it's everywhere.
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Bingo.

MBB consultants' real value is giving executives the breathing room to be able to execute what's in the deck (i.e., driving consensus and navigating difficult politics)
I use a process called sample-and-vote when having LLMs return executable solutions. I imagine we will see this kind of design a lot with probabilistic computing.
If ChatGPT is able to emit output that is watermarked such that it can detect itself as Scott Aaronson and others are working on for OpenAI (source: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/10/openais-attempts-to-waterm... ) this “resonance”/feedback/eating-itself can be avoided.
Harsh, but accurate ... I can’t take Homa seriously based on the arguments made in this position paper – why should I trust the claimed benefits of a proposed solution if the position paper favoring it misidentified the problems and ignored all prior art?

Had Infiniband been developed in a way that avoided all of the patent encumbrances it would have replaced IP networking in large data centers (certainly at the Rack level, and likely at the Cluster level as well).
> It is a good sign in a nation when such things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is a bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

--GK Chesterton (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11505/pg11505-images.ht...)
The idea of moving the web to a single dominating browser engine isn’t a bad one in isolation.

A business monopoly is bad, but a technological monopoly is often just a standard.

Nobody gets upset because every OS under the sun uses OpenSSH rather than competing with their own implementation.

In contrast, Apple competing with USB with their own connectivity standard has a negative impact on basically everyone.

Spin the Chromium project off of being in direct control by Google and into an industry organization and I’d be happy to settle on one browser engine.

Heck, if my iPhone got to use Chromium it would be an improvement.

All the proprietary corporate stuff on top of Chromium isn’t part of the open source project, anyway.
Never mind that but crap data isn’t gonna stop AI from advancing. It’s a solvable problem
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Japan here. It does not seem to affect much. Companies look based on their performance.
Interestingly, we got more applicants from the US and Canada recently. I heard multiple times that people want a "stable" job over higher comp. Especially young developers. Culture shift?
Some companies actually raised salaries recently because of the cost of living (See the news about Nintendo and others). However the salaries in Japan have been stagnant for years, so this was kind of overdue.
Seattle mayor praises Amazon's back-to-office policy
Have you been waiting for this moment, for all your life?

Oh lord.
TCP is rarely used in HFT data centers except as required by exchanges.
Yeah, it really makes me angry that a power point manager or a web service developer at Amazon can't have same lifestyle as Jeff Bezos.
I admit to some envy when others I knew at other companies made bank with stock options while mine were underwater. I have my shortcomings, too.
At the end, those complexity number end up representing some time estimates anyway.

Cause you will get the velocity graph, showing how much points have been completed this sprint and how it compares to previous sprints. The graph is expected to stay somewhat level or increase as the team efficiency increases. It will decrease when members are away on holiday.

If your team capacity stays equal and last sprint your team completed 20 story points, it’s kinda expected the next sprint another ~20 story points are completed. So in that case 20 story points will represent about 2 weeks of work for the full team.

I also think for many people complexity translates into time needed to finish work. A more complex task will naturally take more time to complete than a simple task.

So from my point of view, it’s fair (if after a couple of sprints) a product owner might get an idea that 1 point is equal to -say- half a day of work.

PS: I am not a product owner and not a big fan of ”Agile”. I think daily stand-ups might be overkill in many situations (in my current remote team it’s more like a weekly stand-up) and I generally hate retrospectives. I just want to get shit done (which is luckily the practice we have in my current team). We do have a task board, but we don’t do the whole assigning points stuff. And I am mostly free to pick-up any task I feel like working on. This is much more agile to me than “Agile”.
How is the fact that the economy is not always a linearly increasing line an indicator of poor management?

Also the economy is relatively strong at the moment, so one could argue this is in fact a forward-looking reduction.
“Men” implies age of adulthood, or close, to me. Young men are dudes from, say, 16 to 27.
40 hours really has to due with overtime rates, advocated by progressive companies back in the day. 20 years ago, Progressive companies advocated for company gyms, day-care, unlimited M&Ms and ping-pong tables. Now, its work from home (for now.)

Otherwise can we question the need to differentiate full-time vs part-time? Its certainly arbitrary, and mostly related to whether one qualifies for benefits. In the case of benefits, it may be less than 40 hours.
> Starting every day with a half-hour of that shit.

Oh, you sweet summer child.

I wish it was only half an hour at the start of the day.
Imagine if folks continue to post ChatGPT conversations, particularly the bad ones, to the point that it starts “learning” from itself.

And it just reminds me of the Steve Martin line about playing a joke on young children: “Talk wrong“.
Yes indeed. This is a fun toy, but there is software out there that can be used to plan real balloon missions, such as:

https://amateur.sondehub.org/