skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is it misleading

It's misleading because the comparison would be redis cluster vs dragonfly. There's no speed-up if the Redis user isn't fully saturating a single core. The real question is why is it only 25x faster on a 64-vCPU machine? Why isn't it 64x? Does this mean it's 60% slower when the request volume is below the needs of a single-threaded redis?

> Dragonfly's value proposition

Dragonfly has zero value proposition other than a ticking-time-bomb of pricing fuckery when they're forced to yield a return on that $21M investment.
This has happened at my company that is now 35 people. Too many managers that have fractured communication. Getting things done was easy when there was 10 people.
Yes I would say that working in the United States at a Federally Funded Research and Design Center https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/ffrdclist/ are great companies if only you can get into them.
>since the charlie brown affair sullied my reputation among some of the legislators

I don’t know what you are referring to. Mind explaining?
Our small Maine city recently replaced an entire bridge in a couple days, https://verandaplan.org/

It worked great. They shut down the road for a couple hours, literally moved the newly built bridge from beside the road into place, and then were ready for rush hour in a couple days. I had a friend who worked the project.

America can build great things if we were willing, but the past 70 years has seen strong anti-government rhetoric (weirdly after the most successful big government projects seen probably in our history) has helped hollow out local governments and remove any chance they had to cultivate internal talent that could get more efficient at doing things.

Imagine having the pay of a local grocer, the turnover of Amazon warehousing, and the public animosity of Google and Facebook combined, with an entire TV channel watched by 60 million daily screaming that your very existence hurts the country, and plenty of grandmas taking that to heart. Government is overtly attacked every single day. Is it any wonder it often struggles?
This is not a simply a hosted airbyte instance. We use airbyte's connectors for its common standards and the active community behind them. That being said, our use of the project is both limited, customized, and deeply embedded under our app. We do not use any UI components from Airbyte.
This was fixed by Mark Reinhold
Yes but Adobe tools are both expensive and their subscription system and website are full of horrible dark patterns. There's a reason Figma users were upset and pissed to hear Adobe was buying them. Adobe used to be a loved company, but this was many many years ago at this point.
This article makes sense in 2017, which most AI was just a statistical model. But 6 years later we are living in a much different world.
If it helps you feel better, this is in a thread about them getting caught and called out. There are some horrifically bad actors in our media landscape right now who are more than happy to lie or label opinion shows as "news" if makes their stock price goes up.

It's good to see serious, well respected news outlets like NPR doing the hard work and calling others out on their BS.
> Is that preferable?

I don’t see why you are asking this. Which part of my comment made you think it is preferable?
Yes, I think so which seems fairly ridiculous that anyone could be fooled by Bard. Maybe this is a smaller version of the model for faster performance?
Studied database theory at uni (20002-2004) -> a few years of work with Ora and MS -> startup, attempt to use MySQL (in 2005), cannot use it after all those others -> switched to Postgres, rewriting all the code code in a few days -> happy Postgres user since then, no regrets (though, I can name a lot of issues with Postgres, it's still the best)
For an article titled "You've installed fzf. Now what?", I would've expected step 1 to be "how to add the shell hook for your particular shell". Especially since people here are referencing extra integrations that the bundled shell hook doesn't setup.
You're not missing anything. The thing is crap and they know it.
Is only United States supported?
The scale that government manages, even your small suburban town or whatever, is much larger than an aldi store. Chances are there's more work than money or labor which is why things take as long as they do more than anything. It's not like a private company would manage this better, when the mindset of the american capitalist is to ditch their lifeboats to appear to sail faster.
I can't find anything on Google about cobalt tape or Trident missiles — but there was a cadmium wire in the W47 warhead, the one for Polaris missiles, which has a story very similar to yours:

- "Because the test ban prohibited the testing needed for inherently safe one-point safe designs, a makeshift solution was adopted: a boron-cadmium wire was folded inside the pit during manufacture, and pulled out by a small motor during the warhead arming process. Unfortunately, this wire had a tendency to become brittle during storage, and break or get stuck during arming, which prevented complete removal and rendered the warhead a dud. It was estimated that 50-75% of warheads would fail. This required a complete rebuild of the W47 primaries.[7]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W47?useskin=vector#Reliability...
I think people, and this article, is about suggesting alternatives (competitors) to ChatGPT. `davinci` is obviously not an alternative, ChatGPT is `davinci` made for chatting. As to whether davinci produces better responses than ChatGPT ... maybe? but that's a different question
How is this the top comment
It’s probably worse since the 2007-9 era tech workers had the new iPhone coming out along with Facebook apps for high speed marketing. Nowadays the tech sector is saturated and home prices are barely coming down unlike in 2009 but mortgage rates are going up as well as apartment costs leading to a double whammy on housing costs.

But at least we have Uber and WFH.
I currently work at Google and my take is that it really depends on the team. If an IC is toxic, the effect of it isn't terrible. If a manager is, the effect spreads and if a manager of managers is toxic, that's a recipe for disaster and so on.

I personally am in a situation where nasty politics are being played out just for the sake of getting promoted. It's fine to focus on your promo, but not at the cost of your colleagues or the environment.

That being said, the broader google ecosystem and culture holds on a macro level. It really is the people that work there who define and uphold it. A couple of rogue high level folks are enough to destroy it.
I'm not a ML scientist my any means, but Perf seems as important as RAM from what I'm reading. Running prompts in internal chain of thought (eating up more TPU time) appears to give much better output.
Until the subsidies run out and the underlying model is finally put to the test, at scale with the public.
You and I and a huge fraction of humanity noticed, but not a large enough fraction to make such unprofitable?
The plot thickens. Those coolers have been constructed of brass since forever and often still are. IDK if the specific brass alloy has changed. Perhaps the new fluid was slightly corrosive to yellow metals? That's not unheard of but plenty of transmissions have bronze bushings in various places do you'd think they'd create a fluid that was safe for yellow metals.

Edit: It was the solder.

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2015/03/16/tech-101-automat...

They hint that the whale oil was relevant to the performance of friction modifiers. Friction modifiers are notoriously nasty so it doesn't surprise me that without the whale oil they had to use the "next best thing" which wasn't quite good enough at the margin.

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/218915/do-the-japane...

These ^ guys allege to have done some research and stop just short of saying "gm was making excuses for problems they brought on themselves".
I've avoided that because of the tedium of having to fact check everything.
You might want to read a bit about the design of WWII-era conventional bombs, or WWI-era artillery shells, or magazines in sailing ships, or ...

Militaries that have wanted to win (vs. blow themselves up) have been laboriously working to make sure that explosives do not explode when they shouldn't for centuries.
I'm not going to subscribe to some random regional newspaper to read one article. And some of the most egregious advertising implementations don't come with a way to pay to make it go away, like Fandom.
Is it accessible with VPN?
I have lots of coworkers for whom I don't have personal contact information. It's very common to just use work email or work phones.
Got sent a few .PSDs (Photoshop format) and there was some artifacts which looked like they weren't intended for the recipient. Of course, this is part of the .PSD format and not a privacy issue per se. Just be careful sending .PSDs in an e-mail with stuff in them you don't want the recipient to see.
I've tried this question with Bing Chat (GPT-4) and Bard:

> A total order requires a <= relation which must be reflexive, transitive, anti-symmetric, and strongly connected. Give a definition for <= on real numbers defined using Cauchy sequences.

This is the result Bing Chat gave me about a week ago (although I've just tried it a few times now, and all of the answers are considerably worse):

'A Cauchy sequence is a sequence of real numbers such that for any positive real number ε, there is a positive integer N such that for all natural numbers m and n greater than N, the absolute value of the difference between the m-th and n-th terms of the sequence is less than ε.

One way to define a <= relation on real numbers using Cauchy sequences is to say that for two real numbers x and y represented by Cauchy sequences (xn) and (yn), x <= y if and only if for any positive real number there exists a positive integer N such that for all natural numbers n greater than N, xn - yn <= ε.

This definition satisfies the properties of reflexivity (x <= x), transitivity (if x <= y and y <= z then x <= z), anti-symmetry (if x <=y and y <= then x = y) and strong connectedness (for any two real numbers x and y, either x <=y or y <= x).'

Here is Bard:

'Let (x n) and (y n) be Cauchy sequences of real numbers. We define x n ≤ y n if and only if there exists a constant C such that ∣x n − y n∣ < C for all sufficiently large n.

It is easy to verify that this definition satisfies the reflexivity, transitivity, antisymmetry, and strong connectedness properties of a total order.

Here is a more intuitive explanation of this definition. If x n ≤ y n, then the sequence (x n) is "eventually dominated" by the sequence (y n). In other words, there comes a point after which the terms of (x n) are always smaller than the corresponding terms of (y n).'

Second draft:

'Let (x n) and (y n) be two Cauchy sequences of real numbers. We say that (x n)≤(y n) if and only if for all ε>0, there exists an N such that for all n>N, we have ∣x n − y n∣<ε.'

Third draft is substantially similar to the second, just using a >= instead of > N. So so far this seems worse than GPT.
Is there more context? Or any un/official reason behind the decision?
People who have a personal need to stay unimpressed with AI's progress will always find reasons to remain unimpressed.
There's probably a good reason for it. Highway closures are always planned to have the least impacts possible. A lot of caltrans work happens on weekends or at 2am as such.
> In the image below you can see how hovering over a line of code provides us the following:

git blame with more steps?
Use VPN. It was easy to trick and get on the waitlist.
The poster insinuated that the FBI planted CSAM on a reporter's devices.
I wish we still had Perl one liners since it is installed everywhere vi and gawk is installed. I’ve never seen fzf in the wild.
Do you think the complaints about government come unfairly out of the blue while it busily provides efficient and timely service with a friendly smile to its constituents?
Yes it would introduce a heavy resource load that many servers could not handle. Anything local will always be limited in capability.
It's a reference to Modern Money Theory which states that a (federal) tax is disconnected from spending because the government prints money.

But ADA stuff is almost always handled on a local, not even state, level.
I think the geographic restrictions are especially relevant here since this is supposed to be Google's answer to ChatGPT, which launched months ago with none of these restrictions.
Previous HN post on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35167004
Interesting. I see it. This will be the counterpart of "Human-designed" or "Made by humans".
And if a metric doesn't skew you still need to ask the same question anyways because whether the metric is arbitrary or not does not depend on skew it depends on the applicability.
A concrete example here is YouTube. I also run AdGuard Home, but that does nothing for YouTube ads. Firefox + uBlock kills them.
I know a place that went from 200 to almost 900 over just a bit more than 18 months (VC money can be nice sometimes I guess). The new hires included some highly experienced, and thus less start-upy and older, people. Those were highered, across the org because you found them basically everywhere in small numbers, to help get the company ready for production and finalize development (my guess, it can also be just blind luck).

Then the whole thing got delayed, right around the time the new folks ended up, as part of a bunch of projects, exposing the sheer incompetence in some areas. Areas that are vital to get production of the ground. The delay led to a fight between the old and the new culture, and the delay allowed the old to close ranks with founders and clue less career management. As a result, the new culture lost, then the experienced new people left and / or got sidelined. As a result everything got delayed even more, and now VC money is close to run out.
With Java it's always win/win. If external software works with it, "Java has great tooling", if it doesn't, the rest of the world is slow.
It only makes sense for the federal government to mandate burning dollars.

They're the ones who can print them anyway. The end result is they just print less each year.
Wait, but you said this, didn't you?

"be hugely costly and still only result in a license that isn’t immediately transferable to other countries (eg you have to hold a license for x years before you can drive abroad and/or older than x years old)"

So I'm going to ask again, what kind of countries issue you with a licence that isn't immediately transferable to other countries? You can get an international driving permit literally the same day you pick up your regular licence, there is no time limitation on that - or if there is where you live, please educate me so I know better.
As a viewpoint from outside of the fang(whatever), I've always felt (and heard) that google was the best of the bunch in terms of employee opinion of the organization.
Not that much different. 9/10 uses of the term are still complete bullshit. The other 1/10 are still mostly bullshit as well.
As a Googler for 10 years, I'd say -- on the whole, yes, well loved. But steadily worsening over that 10 year period. And, no, most people I knew were not overworked. Not at my site, anyways. And certainly not compared to what I saw from people I knew at Apple or Amazon.

I had my beefs with the place always, and I was like a square peg round hole there -- BUT ... Not even talking about the pay -- above average -- benefits were amazing. Culture when I started was very engineering driven. Mostly a very respectful professional environment apart from one asshole TL I had to deal with, but I was able to route around him after a few months. Good mix of age ranges and not biased against middle aged or older like many other workplaces in our industry.

I didn't like the work / projects I had to do there. I didn't like the promo process. I didn't like the way projects were managed. But I liked the company ethic overall (obviously I always had issues) -- but it degraded every year I was there. But not because of overwork etc but because of bureaucratic dysfunction and ethical lapses.
> I asked a US Marine who he was loyal to, and he said his unit. Not his country or the military.

Did they say that they were specifically not loyal to country or was it simply omitted in their answer?
Try this. Maybe some other versions have a working download:

https://tb.rg-adguard.net/public.php

Or try Tiny11:

https://archive.org/details/tiny-11-NTDEV
Vim is pretty easy to remember though, LaTex is something entirely different.
This seems great! I hope this gets noticed and further developed.

Well, the installation fails...
It's not that the things you mentioned don't matter, it's that employee<>employer relationships are transactional. While I maintain a friendly relationship with all the people I work with, very few are actually friends. If they are, we'll still talk after the relationship with my employer ends.

Unless you have a contract with your employer around the severing of that relationship, neither parties are beholden to each other and any expectation of such behavior is ultimately unproductive and quite unhealthy (mostly for you, $bigTech doesn't care).
Apple was never viewed as an ideal place to work. They don't have the "amenities" that other FAANG companies have (had?), generally pay less, and their employees are forced into secrecy even amongst their coworkers. People work at Apple because they want to work at Apple, not because Apple provides a cushy work environment.
LaTeX was and is just a collection of macros on top of TeX.

Few people have every used TeX itself, compared to the massive amounts who have used LaTeX; but if you haven't used raw TeX you should try it sometime; it's surprisingly how simple and powerful it is.
> Passing a driver's test was already possible in 2015 or so

I think we can talk about 2005. Check out the DARPA Grand Challenge, it was way harder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2005)
> Yes, and for public projects this is often mandated by the 'lowest bid' laws.

Thankfully we're seeing a rise in multi-point bid comparison. Judgement criteria like "40% price, 30% Proposal Quality, 30% Prior History"
Thanks for the pointer! I hadn't read this before. I enjoyed it and yeah it's definitely relevant. I knew many folks have been thinking about this stuff, and it is great to accumulate more pointers to any related work.

I added a section called "Big picture goal and related work" to the readme in my repo and my blog post (which is a copy-paste of the readme) and cited this article by `veedrac`:

>Also, the idea of recursive prompts was explored in detail in Optimality is the tiger, and agents are its teeth[6] (thanks to mitthrowaway2 on Hackernews for the pointer).
I guess they’re working on something: https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/16/apple-testing-siri-natural-la...
This reliance on the free market falls apart instantly when there is collusion and price fixing, and the conditions we're seeing with increased prices is literally the textbook example of evidence of price fixing.

The only reason capitalism isn't 100% broken is because of regulation. Therefore we must accept that pure free market forces are not the morally superior path.
I bit the bullet and subscribe to Bloomberg, WSJ and NY Times which is a good mix of center, moderate-right and left

and this is far improved my experience. it makes me sad that people arent/cant get these articles and have this other rage-bait experience, but I’m glad I opted out of that crap
A lot of the criticism seems to be around the exact number which indeed seems to vary based on the strength of connections and other factors. Some discussion here: https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/02/27/dunbars-number-matters...

Obviously the dynamic of employees at a company (mostly) differ from a hunter-gatherer tribe or from an online gaming or other community.
Google Bard jokes about ChatGPT
TikTok CEO appeals to TikTok users before US congress testimony
Give HNers more credit:) I do think the current situation is complex. The "World" shifted a great deal of it's manufacturing capacity to Asian (China). Inflation also occurs when the supply of "stuff" is insufficient. There has been a couple of factors contributing to lack of supply IMO. China is still dealing with Covid and the Chinese gov't has taken a decidedly authoritarian turn. The authoritarian turn is reshaping the policies held by democracies regarding trade and military readiness which is affecting supply of "stuff". China is starting to be seen as less of a partner and more of a threat. That is not to say that dumping all the cash didn't exacerbate things. But the rate at which the rates are being raised are also a factor. There was a time when the current rates were actually considered high but within the norm.
Not in my fortune 500 company :) I signed nothing when I was hired.
Live by the scrape, die by the scrape.
>If supply and demand stay the same, then why do you think the price will change?

Fear. Much of this layoff activity is intended to induce fear.
Employees were getting too uppity. Talking back to management. Doing side
projects. Talking with each other about wages and working conditions. Even
forming unions. That had to be stopped.

"A touch of the lash will keep them in line."
The time it took to place the bridge has almost no indication of whether this project was on time or on budget.

This bridge project started December 2017! So 5+ years of work for a weekend of final execution. On top of this, while the bridge may be in a small city in Maine, the initiative is run by the Maine DOT, which is likely substantially larger as an organization.
What would stop google?

1. Weak management with no vision.

2. Fear to cannibalize their search product and ad revenue.

3. They are experiencing brain drain to other companies/startups.

4. Tendency to kill products.
This is awesome! Now I want to build one.
I worked at Google for three years. It was a great experience and I mainly left because I had grown accustomed to remote work and was planning on moving back to live closer to family after having a falling out with the bay area.

I do get the impression that people have had vastly differing experiences at Google, but the culture was very laid back. Deadline pressure existed, but ultimately it never felt that bad: if we weren't going to hit it, we weren't going to hit it. It happened.

>Get the promotion in 2 years or get fired

I don't think this is true. I'm pretty sure once you're L4 or so you can pretty much coast. I heard a similar thing when I was at Google, but knew of many counter examples within my circle of coworkers.
That's awesome. Definitely wish I was in that situation right now. :)