skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is shitty, it has also happened to me.

Unfortunately, it's just business, it's just the way companies work. It's shitty that your manager didn't fight for you, but realistically it probably wasn't his decision and he was just doing his job passing on the message.

Try to just put on a brave and happy face, even go and meet up with these people (to pick up your stuff, farewell gathering, whatever). Tell them you understand why it was the right decision, that you have a lot of opportunities outside the company that you are now able to pursue, etc, etc.

Your instinct not to burn bridges is the correct one. You may find yourself needing a reference or paperwork from these people, or they might be next to get fired (a very real possibility if there is new management, with a fondness for firing people) and you could help them with leads at your future company, etc, etc... just remember it's a long game, it's a marathon not a sprint, separate the human element from people doing their job in a company environment, and focus on what happens long after this company goes broke, the new management are ejected, etc.
I hope it breaks the current system of requiring references in job search as well
Most likely result according to what? If its never seen those numbers before how would it know?
So you're the reason why the texts I receive from younger relatives are incomprehensible. You should listen to their English teacher. An adult using Grammarly to highlight their mistakes is different from a child relying on Grammarly because they haven't learned any better.

> This comment was edited in Grammarly, and it score a 67 out of 100 on readability.

I can see that. Your 80-20 sentence is poorly constructed, you used the wrong tense in "and it score a 67 out of 100". Other than highlighting the fact that Grammarly thinks you write poorly, what point are you making exactly?
"works just fine" - obviously never watched xdebug shart the bed while composer tries to version match phpunit.

A module system and less reliance on PSR the better. Why exactly does PSR still exist?
It seems to be sure face recognition system would catch up with this …
I'm sure it's already happening in the "books" threads
This reminds me of my experience developing for Windows Phone. There were something like three or four distinct frameworks with nearly identical names. It’s already hard enough to google anything, and now you have your platform vendor running interference against you.
I'm talking about the recent acceleration of changes, chatGPT, dall e, midjourney.

chatGPT and dall-e put fuel on the fire. Interest has spiked and additionally the industry and academia is matching the trend with an equivalent refocus of research efforts.

No exaggeration here to say "we don't know what will happen"
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Ansible is the regular expression of devops, you can use it almost anywhere to try and solve a problem, but now you have 2 problems.

Ansible makes you comfortable with mutable infra, but with enough time I always regret using it.
I was in a similar situation with a company I co founded. Burnt some bridges, burnt money burning those bridges, but kept myself from burning a lot more.

I think you have to let yourself write all the angry emails. Write the angry social media posts explaining the situation. Then don't send them.
Cheeky! using the Scrabble trademark in the submission title but keeping it off
the site.
While I'm sure that the shareholder love this, from the outside it looks like that last desperate acts from a company try to avoid bankruptcy.
Yes, that is exactly the problem that KDE+Wayland solves for me. The 8K 32" is way higher ppi than a normal 4K (mine are 27") so you really need per-monitor scaling factor.

I used to run everything at 200%, and then the 8K looked great, but the 4Ks were all huge and clownish, like scaled up 17" screens. It worked, but it wasn't good.
That doesn’t work because they don’t pay anything. They get to “taste” ownership of the domain for free.
> At least those who predicted Trump would act like a fascist got it right.

When? So far, the most fascists of last 3 presidents has been Obama and Biden. They hate checks and balances and want to just rule by fiat.

It pissed me off for giving Democrats anything for politicizing Covid for electoral benefits, but Trump negotiated with Pelosi to get things done. When has Biden negotiated with Conservatives? Aside from calling them all terrorists?
This is so clickbait to not mention a city or at least a country in such a post.

Shame on you
Exactly. While I get that live tiles and universal apps have their limitations, I vastly prefer a weather live tile that opens to a full screen weather app over the news widget that shows me weather in a random location among clickbait. And if you click weather, you go to an ad-infested web page.

Remember when places hired UX designer to, you know, design a great user experience? This is not that. This is one hundred percent how can we get ad clicks, with apparently no one to push back. Except unhappy consumers that are ignored.
>The obvious problem is we don’t have any great alternatives.

There's always identity based network of trust. Several other members vouch for new people to be included.
Yeah. Several years ago extremely clueless recruiters used to email people heaps. Lots of people were complaining about getting tonnes of spam from them. :(

Had to change my Location (or some similar obvious field) in my GitHub profile to "Recruiters FUCK OFF" before they took the hint. ;)

Thankfully, GitHub introduced some other way to signal if you are/aren't interested in getting a job (toggle switch?) not long after, which seemed to work.
This is interesting to see, is there not much demand for GPT-4? It feels like the pricing is 10x GPT3 and not as much of an advantage to use and the pattern of giving access to almost everyone who signed up (not sure if there was even a need for a waitlist to be there) tells me things are plateauing here?
Could there be two definitions I wonder? I might just be wrong, but I'm basing what I wrote above on a clear whiskey that I tried at a whiskey tasting, that was referred to as cask strength, with the explanation I gave above.
I agree, but I would extend it a bit:

For a junior the answer is more "I'll just use bootstrap and customize as much as needed".

While for a senior it's more in line with "I'll just use bootstrap, but you bet I will be on the designer's ass if they ask to customize stuff where it's not necessary."

There is a reason the mid-level developer wanted to write custom CSS. And the reason is that they didn't have the political capital to make bootstrap alone work in a way that is good for the company.
This system is already essentially broken. Either you worked at a large business that only gives out dates of employment and job title by policy or you are in complete control of who the hiring company talks to.

The first time you don’t get a job because of a reference you gave you learn a lesson. If it ever happens again, it’s on you.
Except I can’t (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35208271).

Also I don’t understand why “not a core moneymaker” implies “this must be crap-maximized”.
I have Win11 Pro and it really is just those three clicks.
What if they're not?

What if it really is economically better for Microsoft to "double dip" and try to monetize Windows beyond its purchase price?
That’s mostly what the person to person phone system was.
The Anti-AI\GPT-Detection will soon be a multi-billion dollar industry
Ah, makes sense...I see your other comment leading to more detail also. Thanks!
That helped a little, thanks. I can see how having an argument passed down the call tree is equivalent to colouring. Make sleep forms take the token, no token, no sleep. Maybe generic over counter embedded in the token, that's kind of ugly either way.

"Effects system" seems to mean different things in different contexts. I found a few rust specific blog posts but they didn't obviously apply to this. Probably distinct from dependent types.

The rust compiler has the counting machinery to do this, perhaps it's not surfaced to the language outside of built-in types (arc?). In fairness I can't think of many languages which are up for that sort of hooking into the compiler.

It looks to me like a callgraph walk accumulating some state on known function calls plus error on taking address-of the mutator functions would work for sufficiently static graphs, which is probably what you have for careful concurrent code.

Semantic linters running across llvm IR are probably useful things to have. Not really related to rust at that point though.
Might be a dumb question but are you the admin?
>Except I can’t

Maybe it's a Win Pro edition thing and not on HOme.

>Also I don’t understand why “not a core moneymaker” implies “this must be crap-maximized”.

What you don't understand is irelevant to the Microsoft board meetings where they show ad-revenue go up, because money is the only thing they understand, user experience be dammed.

What are those users gonna do, install Ubuntu? /s
Pretty rare these days though.
Oh, the Bing button does have an opt-out. It's a Registry Option or a Group Policy option (or create a custom shortcut with some launch argument). Because of course they have to make it as annoying as possible, and impossible for a traditional user.
I recently set up a private registry for some custom GUI apps- it really is quite a bit of work just to set up and debug some less obvious issues (e.g. pushing large images).

I'm using official registry, docker-registry-ui for auth and web-based repository browser (which essentially proxies the docker API requests to registry, while providing web access to list the images and nginx-proxy-manager in front of all this (needed as the NAS I'm running this on hosts some other stuff as well).
Back in the day, I developed Windows applications using Visual C++ and Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). MFC had its set of quirks, and development was quite painful - I often wondered why a particular method was non-virtual, which would have helped me to adapt to certain requirements. I spent more time stepping through MFC code than in my own code, trying to understand what was going on.

Eventually, I moved to other platforms and programming languages and had an epiphany that to function as a programmer of Windows software, I needed to know a lot of details about the platform. The literature was overflowing with articles about how you could utilize the platform more efficiently if only you knew some details under the hood. Moving away from Windows programming freed up a lot of mental resources.

When I started programming in Java on top of all libraries and frameworks, I noticed that I was never really encouraged to look beyond the API. On the other hand, there were usually multiple implementations of those APIs, so if I wasn't satisfied with one, I could choose another.

Of course, building GUIs in Java was (and still is) a real mess, so I didn't do that. Since then, I have programmed quite a bit in C# with the classic Forms-based platform on .NET, and this was a totally different experience from C++ and MFC. It was a delight.

Reading this article was like traveling back in time to the olden days, where you are promised better performance if only you look under the hood. My honest suggestion is: don't do that, don't lock up resources on needing to understand how things are implemented under the hood or how the compiler handles these particular constructs. If these details cannot be hidden from you, and you need to build a large knowledge base around stuff that does not directly contribute to implementing your program, then choose another platform.

I have managed to accumulate a growing understanding of how to solve problems, many times transferable between platforms and languages, but collecting all that insight into MFC minutiae was completely worthless.
I lucked out with getting one of these on sale just before they went away: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1746503-REG/lenovo_82...

The 300W power brick provides enough juice to feed both the CPU and GPU, and the laptop variant of the 3070 ti isn't too much slower than the desktop version in practical terms (I don't feel that 30% less performance). I've never tried it on battery or on the 135W USB-C power limit, but reviews report getting sufficient performance.

I don't have room for a desktop, so it's nice to not feel like I'm compromising on power with something that fits. The memory and SSDs are user accessible, too.
Oh man, as a longtime Mac user I have zero patience for this. Unfortunately my corporate laptop is a Windows one and when that giant, gaudy big blue Bing icon showed up in my toolbar yesterday I dropped everything to try and disable it.

I was disappointed but not surprised there was no setting for it. A quick search online led to some policy and registry settings but the corporate policies my company has in place wouldn’t allow those. Thankfully I found a command line option and quickly made a new shortcut which worked.

Back to work without that giant B looming over me.
I’ve seen a number of resumes where people convey the popularity of their personal projects by number of stars or number of downloads.
Did you know that out-of-the-box, Edge will transmit the content of
your text boxes on web pages to the Microsoft Editor service for the
purpose of grammatical suggestions? I have no idea how this concept
got past legal but hey, it’s on by default now.

Holy shit. :(

At what point are some of the major government legal departments actually going to step up and sort this shit out?

It is so, so, so, so, so far past overdue. Yet nothing. :(
I would say I have quite a bit of experience with psychedelics and I mostly agree with you - traditional "hallucinations" are quite rare and dose dependant. Experiences like those described in Huxley's book are by far the most important and interesting aspect of tripping - and I urge anyone curious to read that excellent book.

On the other hand, I absolutely have experienced amazing, deep, beautiful, true pop-culture style hallucinations. Usually visual, both geometric patterns but also full on creations of new worlds, entities, landscapes, and more. I've also experienced hallucinations that are multisensory and go far beyond the ability to put into words. I am a very visually focused person with a strong mind's eye, possibly that is related.
Thanks Andy, didn't know about PARA!

I intuitively feel like even the simple PARA method is already way too advanced for most people...

It requires good organizational skills and discipline.

> To me, the value proposition would be anything incremental you can provide above and beyond simple search, but also something that isn't broadly accessible through other means (web search, GPT-like solutions, etc)

How about this:

1. Imagine you can instantly save any piece of information you might need later on
2. You can ask about anything you've stored, just to recall it, or even particular details or summaries
3. Get reminded about things without cluttering the calendar

Does it resonate more somehow?

What would be your biggest objection to using it?
That is known to exist indeed, countries in which most people can simply live off social money, like Sweden, have better birth rates. But, all of those countries are below replacement level anyway...

There is no way for a rich country to be above replacement level this days. Their success varies, but it all seems like that being rich is incompatible with having kids. Even in single countries, for which statistics like that is available, birth rates are higher in poorer income groups, like it is in USA. Households making over $200K have 1.5x fewer kids than the poorest households. Both between countries, and within countries, main drivers of reproduction are poverty and low educational attainment.
In roughly 90-99% of all cases, we are in agreement. And if you only encounter a few difficult <students> a year, it can definitely be worth the effort.

On the other hand, if you're in a situation where you're encountering random people on the internet at a rate of say 10-100 (or more) per day (possibly never to return); then the way you deal with it is you look for signs that the person has been trying. If they have: you go out of your way to help them, you absolutely do. But if they haven't, sometimes all you can do is hope that one day they'll run across someone like you in real life, who can teach them kindness and respect and humility.

I'm curious now, in what kind of environment have you worked? Are you a teacher?

see also: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/help_vampire
Someone would spin up a nonprofit and buy the assets and keep it going
Yes, that's a really good point, thanks!
Yolo includes face detection, that's how it detects people. So it looks like yes this tech can be used for confounding more general image classifiers, but it was originally developed specifically for face detectors and the videos show it defeating those.

Specifically on cars, I don't think any of the currently deployed systems do face detection. Apart from anything else it takes too long, almost half a second on the fastest systems. They sense people as generalised blobs. It would be quite dangerous, to a system like that many advertising billboards would appear to be people sticking their faces right up against the camera.
But are we starting from zero? E.g. changing a pivot point of a robot I would think could be amenable to transfer learning. (Model based RL in particular should build up a representation of its environment.) I haven’t worked with robots in a long time … I may be over enthusiastic?
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GoDaddy was once notorious for this. Don’t know if they still are.
I’m not going to pay MS even more just to get a version that has a “please disable this one specific bit of crap” toggle. This has got to be the worst upsell ever.

It’s like you book a hotel room and the TV is on Fox News and you can’t turn the TV off. You ask around but everybody says that they can turn it off just fine, must be you. Turns out that they’re all in the executive suite and they also have Fox News on the TV, turned on by default when they enter the room, but for them the hotel didn’t hide the remote.
Alan Turing wouldn't think of a modern computer as a finite state machine either, he would think of it as a very good approximation to a turing machine.
These days there are still ton of libraries that are yet to run on .NET Core reboot, let alone fix their async/await story.

Welcome to Python 2 / Python 3 version of .NET evolution.
> And if you enjoy this article, head on over to the Dagster repo and give us a real GitHub star!

Kind of ironic that they’re using blog articles and social media to pander for more stars on their GitHub project.
I think we need legislation on this one. Given that life is a series of experiences. And that experiences require attention. Stealing that attention is stealing life. And we are not wired to fight this theft. So we need something else.
Yeah in my opinion it's one of the worst implementations of async runtime. Similarly with Python. It's not significantly faster, it can often times actually be slower, and the moment you write the async or await keywords in your code you've just cut yourself off from about 80% of what the language ecosystem has to offer.
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It hardly works well across all use cases and consulting projects.
Only if you don't think human driven cars are a safety issue.
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Well insulting the capacity of an LLM is much different than gloating over someone being wrong about their livelihood.
While evaluting OSS project, key indicator is community activity.
Github stars is a weak community activity indicator. Firstly, as shown in the article it can be gamed. Also, Stars is very low threshold action so does not indicate whether the person who starred the project will actually use it.

I think 2 great community activity indicators are - Github issues and of slack/discord/discourse comments.
One key thing with github issues in my opinions is that, If the github issues are mostly by the core team, it is not a great sign. You want a large mix of issues from customers or users and not from the team. This is a good indicator if the project is solving real problem or not. Stars is very low threshold action. Same goes with the slack comments, it should have both volume and freshness.
There's also the dark bit where changing your default browser in Windows doesn't apply globally.

That is, some UI widgets will still open Edge even if you change the default.

There used to be an awesome open source project called EdgeDeflector that would fix that. Microsoft got wise to it and found a way to neutralize it, which killed the project. https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector
Nope, it is called experience with large code and teams.
I think LLMs will be commoditized before these companies are able to make money out of selling APIs. This is not like cloud infrastructure, every decent datacenter can copy their services and steal their users. It's more like web hosting
Make a windows XP VM and install some of those old versions and see how fast it runs on modern hardware (even while emulating the entire PC to run it on!). Many modern devs chose ease of development over end user efficiency/performance.
The history of the universe channel on YouTube has an episode called 'what is time' that goes over symmetries like this. Lots of atomic/quantum scale interactions are time reversible like this, but not quote all, and that may be where time arrives from.

Well worth watching that episode as it does far better explaining than I do.
Are you implying PBS does not have a commitment to a "rigorous journalistic mission"? It seems quite disingenuous to lump PBS and NPR as "corporate media" in the same light as corporate media entities like Fox News, CNN, et al.
I mean, people aren't going to be able to solve 100x as many problems because of this.
This seems like the least sqlite-like possible thing. Immediately, it makes me ask if sqlite is the right tool for a job that involves Google Sheets. But I'm sure it fills a very particular need for some people.
Buy chromebooks most likely
I have encountered this once in my career, it’s pretty rare.
> Of course, there's nothing stopping us from being able to use just a Canvas/WebGL/etc [...] But so far, they seem to do badly when it comes to content addressability, accessibility and search engine optimization.

In my experience the key to solving accessibility etc, when building out a canvas-based web UI, is to work with the DOM instead of trying to replace it. Use <input> to control the placement and display of graphical elements, <button> elements to start/stop animations, etc; make good use of DOM events to track user movement/interaction across the canvas; tie clickable actions to real <a> elements instead of trying to reinvent them. Graphical text also needs to be reflected back into the DOM. Good use of ARIA also helps. Etc. And don't be afraid to tap into CSS --variables or even HTML data- attributes: not everything needs to be defined in the JS (or WASM-enabled language of choice) canvas code if the end result - a <canvas> UI or infographic - is destined to live in a web page.

Proof-of-concept of an accessible design system: https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/project/editor/DVeMVj

Proof-of-concept of an accessible set of related graphs: https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/project/editor/AMVKPx
I think they probably just prepared for the load, given their experience with the original ChatGPT release.
I admire his work. He takes the time to deep dive us in such a variety of topics. Just awesome.