skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reciprocity is a recurring issue in open-source, and I don't take the doom-and-gloom take, or the pretty optimistic take of this author. It's happened many times in both software and hardware (ElasticSearch, Arduino), and while it does help make your company a standard... it also can severely hurt the original company. What's the point of being the standard, if you've been hurt by it instead of benefiting?

Obvious example, Arduino, which used to stand for Italian Manufacturing and fair wages. Well, that ain't going to be the cheapest thing on Amazon, so now buying a genuine Arduino is both more expensive, not the first recommendation if you search for "Arduino," and a guessing game if you are going to get a counterfeit. Almost everything recommended is ELEGOO, which in my experience is functional but I have had problems in the past with their bootloaders, which I cannot imagine how intimidating that would be for a newcomer.

This is an issue especially when the company open-sourcing their work is trying to boost a local, non-Chinese economy. Whether it be Arduino in Italy or Prusa in the Czech Republic; Chinese manufacturing is all-to-happy to take the plans, churn out clones, and not even open-source the code (let alone the hardware) changes they made. And, I actually, agree with Prusa and think we should not let them do that. I don't know how much they should be required to contribute; but right now it is theft from both the designer (Prusa) and the employees that would have been employed if their design hadn't been ripped off. How many people would be employed with good wages and conditions and were not because cheap, low quality, Chinese labor was willing to fill the void?
I used to run Teams reports on our employees to figure out how much $$$ was going into meetings.

I found that some of the least productive employees spent 60-80% of their time in meetings (high Teams usage), and I suspect it wasn't because of the meetings that they were not productive, but that they had a lot of meetings because they were not able to be productive: it made them feel good.
Ask HN: How are you testing your LLM prompts?
How do you make sure changing your prompts will work well? How do you ensure it doesn't break anything that is already working?

Changing prompts in small ways can lead to loads of unpredictable behaviors. And that's even more concerning as we build larger apps on something like LangChain, that requires the output to be very rigid.

My instinct would be to run a unit test-suite for every prompt change. Is there some already-existing framework for those? Or otherwise, how are you testing your changes?
You joke but perhaps we need to (scientifically) find the minimum number of steps for a reasonable lifespan in tabular form for a given weight, lifestyle, diet, occupation and ethnicity. The law of diminishing returns will apply after a certain amount of physical activity. So will negative consequences of too much exercise where you damage your limbs.
I guess a bit of both. Managing memory itself is not that interesting as it is just mostly a nice shotgun to shoot yourself in the foot with. I just like the idea of working in a more limited environment where I am forced to come up with perhaps more novel solutions than what my job is now which is just stiching together random libraries and creating unnecessarily complicated SQL queries.
This. Just the Andressen name falling so low is no sad to me.. here is the guy who (may be it was all just marketing) you know was part of the Netscape saga fighting the "Goliath" at the time and now seeing this. Not to get all mushy but is it possible to lead life where success and ethics are in harmony? And more importantly that this is the norm! (Ok as a loser il start with success first but still if I ever get successful in not having to work for a living could definitely use a way to keep ethics from not dying off)
couldn't agree more, why limit bounties to just bugs/security rather than apply them to OSS product development broadly. thank you for your input!
Number of times Russia attacked any NATO state is exactly 0, same as number of times NATO invaded Russia. What’s your point here?

On the other side, why so limited question? Why not comparing the number of times NATO states invaded some country, and compare with the number of times Russia invaded some country. The relation would probably be somewhere between 10:1 and 100:1.

And btw, why do you call NATO a defensive alliance when it wasn’t involved in a defensive war, only in criminal aggression, if we use international law classification.
I think that’s what they are doing. Most new sever side products they release have first class Linux support. And most new desktop applications are web based. Also Edge is supported on Linux.
I do want to get into that but where I am at embedded computing jobs are kind of rare. I do like programming in C quite a bit.
at the beginning I thought it was an app for delivering pizza with AI, and then I realized it's practically a ChatGPT proxy for avoiding banning in Italy, touché!

imho people in general must have access to this wonderful technology
Lumping PTFE with PFAS is willfully misleading people.

The two might have things in common during manufacturing, but as a final product delivered to a consumer? Utterly different.
>its basically “a relatively recent PC”.

I would challenge recent. For a power user who would engage in these features, that feels like at least baseline specs from 10+ years ago. On a larf, I queried "dell 2012 laptop" and came to this review for a Dell XPS 15[0]. Probably a more performant laptop than the average user, but this thing has a quad-core with 8GB ram.

[0] https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-xps-15-2012-r...
I did note that there are more rules and responsibilities. I would be interested to see the article in the UCMJ or any court cases which cover your examples, though.
Listen to good books while walking.
I would guess that even better than shipping ammonia or hydrogen to European steel plants would be to build new steel plants near the hydrogen producers, wherever they may be, and shipping iron ore there while shipping steel back out. Since iron ore and steel are much denser than either ammonia or hydrogen and do not need pressure vessels or chilling they can be shipped at lower speeds (save transport energy consumption) and save money too.
I would think it’s more that you think in abstract concepts, then automatically put that into words in the background, because sometimes you think of a concept but the words for it don’t come to you for a bit and also apparently some people don’t even have an internal monologue at all
(My point #6 is most certainly NOT meant as a "things would be easier if women were still stuck in the home", rather I'm pointing out a major difference between how things used to be, and how they are today. Progress would be reforming the labor/financial markets so that "full time work" for a two person household is defined as either person working ~40 hours, or both people each working ~20 hours. Women entering the workforce was a good thing, but it was also an opportunity for the economic slavedrivers to reverse decades of labor progress)
As someone noted, running `restart` in the sandbox sounds like it results in Windows preserving the sandbox.
My interpretation would be rather that the C language is a carefully drafted joke or parody.
And that was 19 years ago!
> The countless money spent caring for people with Covid who might have required less care if they were vaccinated is one. Health care costs are amortized over the population through insurance

This is a recipe for the worst, most intrusive kind of tyranny in the name of "biosecurity," but that's probably a feature and not a bug to the sort of person who is still advocating for COVID vaccine mandates at this late date.

There are vast demographics of healthy young people at infinitesimal risk from COVID and much higher risk from the shots, for whom taking them actually raised their risk of being hospitalized. But the difference between you and me is, if I found out people required more medical care because of their unwise and ill-considered health choices, the last thing on earth that would occur to me would be to punish them with job losses, higher insurance premiums, and the like.
Ok so just to be clear is there a reason these guys aren't writing articles where s/manager/leader? Yet another manager bashing article while leadership is sublime! How about "leaders, give your managers space to do their effing jobs without having to constantlu sell your Kool aid?"
Some of the more exotic battery designs are things like "rust powder held in a silo at a certain temperature" which presumably can be assembled on-site. It seems to me overly reductive to assume that stationary batteries will be "just mobile batteries but heavier".
Twitter strikes New York Times’ verified badge on Elon Musk’s orders
Teflon. Is. Not. PFAS.

Stop lumping them into the same category, they are NOT the same.

Teflon is completely safe, PFAS is completely unsafe. It doesn't get more different than that!
>>> There's an entire industry of highly compensated people built around the idea that you can pick investment winners.

Just because someone pays you because you say you can pick winners, don't make it so. Top VCs like top Heege funds do get access to the best options - but the vast vast majority of those industries don't outperform index funds (after fees).

Plus even for the good ones, it's only the handful of major winners that compensate for their parlours ability to pick winners.

Bert Bachart was asked "what's the secret to a hit song" and he replied "If I knew that why would I write anything other than hit songs"

There is a world of difference between "I have an idea and if it goes wrong I have some good war stories" equity investment and "I have an idea and if it goes wrong I have a decade of debt to pay".

Really commercial lending departments are just part of the banks real roles of printing money and managing the temporal shifting of the liquidity illusion - ie helping existing businesses manage cashflow issues - startups is a tiny fraction of funding. yet startups is where the huge growth can only come from.
You have to tailor content for each platform archetype. That’s the only thing missing in this wiki.
Your question makes a mistaken assumption about contracts. Contracts are not "legal" or "illegal", they are "binding" or "non-binding". And a contract that stipulates that you will sign something else later is generally non-binding. The people who ask you to sign such contracts are counting on you not knowing that.

There are several criteria that a contract needs to meet in order to be binding. Interestingly, being written down and signed is not one of them. Verbal contracts can be binding. The reason for writing them down and signing them is to avoid he-said-she-said type arguments if there is a dispute.

One of the criteria for a legally binding contract is that there has to be an actual "meeting of the minds", i.e. that the two parties have to actually agree on what their obligations under the contract actually are. An obligation to sign some unspecified thing in the future does not meet that criterion because you don't know what you are agreeing to.

(For this reason, a ToS "contract" which allows one party to change the terms unilaterally cannot be binding. You have to be given the opportunity to reject the changes.)

But most people don't know these things, and so they allow themselves to be manipulated by charlatans who do.

Disclaimer: IANAL. But I've signed a lot of contracts, some of which I shouldn't have.
No reason to be sorry. GG has had more success than he can handle right now. It's a good problem to have. It takes quite a stressful toll the first time one of your community projects skyrockets into the big leagues. I'm sure things will be fine if we just wait a little bit for this to blow over.
Then they'll be taxed where they end up but ultimately they'll stay because of the services and talent attracted to the services that tax revenue affords.
You can try some home projects to decide if you like it.
They are, but the engineering aspect is greatly diminished, which is why these days in music everybody is a producer and audio engineers are more likely to work events or film/tv.
I don’t get all the Philip Glass mockery here. He was a remarkably creative composer. He wrote his piece hundreds of times.
Are you talking about something else? The article is about region locking which means, by definition, that the ink available in North America won’t work.
Money isn’t the only consideration in these situations anyways. For some people it’s the principle.

More directly to your point - the author plainly acknowledges the sunk cost fallacy at play here. I’m pretty sure he can do the math.
I think self-awareness, self-control through better habits and peer support, and some changes to tool configurations can make significant differences. I think you have control over what you pay attention to--certainly what you interact with--and mindfulness can help.

I don't think it's as grim as you are portraying it. But I agree I have not seen much improvement in the last five years when I blogged about it in https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2018/06/02/superstimulus-refin...

Any improvement has to start with self-awareness and it's not clear that most people are aware of the negative impact of many of these technologies.
Events include key scan codes for one. The end of the doc contains a pros & cons section of the alternative approaches.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/specs/%2...
The Italians and the French are exactly like the Quebécois: they hate English but they just can't avoid it.

For nationalists, English is one of those pests that just grows out of control. And the more they try to destroy it the more the young people flock to it.
> More recent prototypes don't even have a heat shield anymore

Is this for a reusable Starship, or just the lunar lander mission for Artemis?
I don't know if you can identify just one main problem. Another big issue is the all the means testing and second order effects of work requirements, etc. These make it hard to get aid to the people who need it and to allow people to find or train for better jobs.

It's totally systemic. America has socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for everyone else.
> Laos is a repressive "communist" dictatorship

The same exact story can be said about Iceland, which is very far from being a communist dictatorship (and it bears mentioning that Laos government is not repressive compared to many capitalist democratic governments; I don’t know where you would get that from except preconceived biases).

Iceland sells majority of its renewable energy to foreign aluminum companies. Along with fish it is the biggest export. The government is corrupt and constantly sells rights to build factories to bidders while neglecting environmental impacts. Whole towns are often run by a single Canadian aluminum company. And the green origin certificates is then sold to EU countries (just like indulgence was sold by the Catholic church), so “green” energy consumers are buying in Germany, are actually just coal power, where the energy company bought the origin certificates from Iceland.

See, you don’t need to be communist, nor a dictatorship, to do industrial scale greenwashing
I hope you don't mean this YouTube video misunderstands Philip Glass, because I think it actually speaks to a truth that most people miss. There is a monologue that runs through Glass's music, it's full of questions and exclamations and regrets and...

These guys captured that nicely -- and made it funny.
>That strategic failure by competitors allowed x86 to grow market share at the high end, which benefited Intel more than the money lost on Itanium.

In that sense, Itanium was a resounding success for Intel (and AMD).
This article seems so obvious to me that I'm surprised it got traction on HN. Are there managers here that felt there was some new/interesting content in this article? Maybe the scarier notion is that this was upvoted by the reports of managers that are not heeding this advice?
I think the iAPX432 team went on to do the i960 (another interesting architecture that didn’t really find the success that was hoped-for) and then finally they went on to the PentiumPro where they found more success.
This feels like an opportunity for Microsoft to start finally cutting out legacy cruft. Guarantee a 100% pre-Windows 12 seamless emulation layer. Once that is established, it becomes more possible to port to ARM, RISC, or make foundational breaking API changes that have been desired for decades.
What if the user who made the bounty suddenly changes his mind and decides not to reward someone who solved it and made a commit? how would you guys go on making sure that nobody does this, just curious seems like a cool idea though.
I first discovered him when I bought Wild Palms soundtrack, a lesser known composition but still amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMy_Hvk7cGI
They are not close enough! You are destroying your messaging and activism by combining them in this way.

Tell a manufacturer "stop adding Teflon it's not safe" and they will laugh at you. Tell them "stop adding PFAS it's not safe" and they might actually listen.

> Teflon is shorthand for all of the fluorinated hydrocarbons in my mind.

That's a VERY un-smart thing to do!

Saying they are the same because of the molecule is like complaining salt is unsafe before it has chlorine in it.
Then you would complain about the cost of that system. Besides what do you want people to do? Vote republican so they can give farmers subsidies and buy two billion dollar bombers which of course you'll say "it's different"
Duel: GDB vs. linked lists, trees, and hash tables
WA’s biggest ski resort plans big-dollar upgrades but the path ahead is unclear
Who would you say he copied?
Fine-tune Stable Diffusion with less than 1MB of changes
Every time I read an article from HBR, I find myself wondering (a) how the content isn’t obvious to anyone with a working nervous system, and (b) what value its core readership can possibly bring to a company.

But this one really takes the cake. My respect for the “academic” field of business has somehow managed to fall below rock-bottom.
> This is billionaire propaganda[1] to get the middle class to fight thier class war

In my opinion, anything that tries to simplify the interests of billions of actors is a form of populist propaganda. It allows bad actors to prove that they're on the "people's side" just because they virtue signal against the "evil side" in order to advance their own interests: for example, crypto-scammers complaining about banks or Hitler complaining about rich Jewish bankers.

> The tax rate of the ultra-rich are at an all time low

Right. The problem is that the taxing the ultra-rich is difficult to do because they have the resources to avoid these taxes, and they don't actually raise that much money. So what happens is that the left always ends up raising taxes on the professional class like California. I personally wouldn't have an issue with this, if were better spent, like in the Nordic countries, but they clearly aren't in the US.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

This video just shows that most Americans are bad at math. Even if literally everyone made the exact same amount of income, the wealth distribution would look closest to the last one because older people would have more time to accumulate more wealth.
It's also possible to (for example) build 'normal' Web pages that load very fast, eg some of the main readable content is within the first few TCP packets, and the total page weight is <1% of typical. You won't get a medal, but it's fun, and sometimes the perf experts notice unprompted!
Who lived and worked in the US for a US newspaper for years. Murdering any journalist, technically yours or not, is a bad look.
> Dealing with the practitioners of medicine and the systems in which they are enmeshed is a full time job by itself. Sometimes they are gatekeeping tests or treatments and you have to deal with them... I've given up on that, myself. Last I heard was "that sounds logical but you can't afford to be diagnosed with that" so that means the medical system has nothing further to offer me.

This sounds horrible.
Biggest change for me was going from a city, where there was some walking every day—the train stop, grocery, meetups with friends—to the suburbs. Doesn't matter if it's WFH or commute, in most 'burbs the only required walk is to the garage.
This seems to run more seamlessly than a virtual machine. Plus I think this supports hardware acceleration and stuff natively.
And do what with it? If they do nothing, they're paying property taxes. If they rent the units, that's housing on the market. If construction continues faster than people move into the city, rents will go down.

> corporate and foreign wealth

These terms are dog whistles. Unless you want to argue for something Marxist, but then "private wealth" would suffice.
> rather the way of thinking about the world.

As an American who has lived in the US my whole life, it can be tough to see outside the box, so to speak. What parts of the US worldview are being exported? How does it differ with traditional attitudes?
They’re always in the beginning so you can skip them. And on YouTube you can use an ad blocker if you get hit with regular ads.
Working from home has increased my physical activity. I'm able to go to parks and walking trails near by during breaks. Weight lift during lunch break and since I no longer lose 2 hours a day to commuting I'm able play sports like golf and hockey more frequently, not relying only on weekends to do these sports is amazing. Golf more because I am available more during day light time and hockey more because I am able to get other things done which frees up my night time.
East Germany tried the same strategy during the Cold war
Recently a got fairly basic, but fully functional smart/sports watch. It counts steps, heart rate, "intensity minutes", distance, GPS, etc.

I got it because I was hoping that having a neat gadget to track this stuff would help motivate me to get in those extra exercise minutes. It turns out that it works for me. Seeing the distance/step numbers go up satisfies the little "make graph go up" gremlin in my brain.
It's beyond an equivalent to a Docker container because it includes kernel isolation. This is a security distinction that isn't well understood.
I'm perfectly aware of the whole GNU/Linux debacle, thanks.

Counter question, is firmware on some cheap-ass $10 router is a Linux distribution? Is this cheap-ass $10 router IS Linux?

> Those two things are core parts of most Linux distributions, yet they are still their own distinct thing

Well, Explorer is the core part of the most of Windows SKUs, yet when the Explorer is at fault - it's Windows fault and goes in the stats, while millions of infected Android phones suddenly doesn't because it's not Linux, it's Android (emphasis mine). Kindergarten level of logic, yet used by grown-ass men.
Because some view greatness as a by-product.
Shoutout to Alacritty for having Windows support. Would have adopted kitty at the time for the reasons mentioned in the article (much more mature) but Alacritty does the trick. Not sure how it deals with modifiers etc. in the plumbing, but the configuration is plenty straightforward to access everything from terminal applications that can use lots of bindings.
Therac-25 would tend to disagree with you.
Yes. Also, back then in the offline-ish times people shipped working software. Nowadays stuff is huge, slow, craps out all the time, and the risk of stuff breaking with a next update is comparable to the security risks of turning off updates completely.