skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SAFe doesn't require planning in 3-month program increments. The methodology is flexible and allows much shorter planning horizons when appropriate such as when the team is small and requirements are in rapid flux.

I think everyone understands that running long program increments isn't ideal from an agile development perspective. However, sometimes it is the least bad option for the enterprise as a whole. There are often a variety of program stakeholders outside the core team who can provide valuable input but aren't always available. It's a lot more practical to pull in everyone for two days of focused PI planning than to try to chase them down and schedule meetings on demand.
The reason is that they are deadly afraid of mass layoffs being leaked beforehand and causing the stock price to slide or a bunch of negative press about it, so the people who know aren't telling anyone but the VIPs in the company about it until the last possible minute.
Money is fungible and government handouts are government handouts. Moreover, many of those subsidies are in the form of bonds, low interest loans, and so on not just tax credits.
Can you calculate that for me on a napkin? Every calculation I make for training, but certainly for inference, makes me break even after well under a year and then it’s vastly less if I buy the hardware myself.
OpenAI should allow its users to create personas. Oftentimes the verbosity it has drives me nuts, so I use stuff like "code only, nothing else: python json.dumps remove whitespace" in order to just get the code.

So I would like to create a chat with a pre-configured persona so that it behaves like this all the time, unless I explicitly tell it to be verbose or to explain it.

Or stop that offering of more help which becomes somewhat bothering: "Yes, I'm glad we were able to work through the issue and find a solution that works for you. Do you have any other questions or concerns on this topic or any other networking-related topic?"

Like custom "system" prompts, but checked for safety. Or maybe even on a per-message basis with a drop-down next to the submit button and then it stays at that until changed.

Then there's also the need to be able to switch from a GPT-3.5 chat to GPT-4, just like it offers to downgrade from GPT-4 to 3.5 once the "quota" is consumed. Because oftentimes GPT-3.5 is good enough for most of the chat, and only certain questions should then offer the capabilities of GPT-4. This would also allow us to save energy.
Social network must be a protocol, not a platform. That's the only way to gurantee free speech and cencorship resistance. Nostr[1] is proving to be a good first step in this direction.

[1] https://nostr.how/
That could imply that humans are very low dimensional, such that a habit of not listening to doctors immediately carries over into their product design habits. Have you found this to be the case about humans? I personally haven't. I've experienced humans to be highly complex and multi layered, often applying different concepts and world views to different domains. In some areas they are driven by fear, in other areas by curiosity or perfectionism.
The Netherlands is also sinking so you get a double whammy.
but let's say I post something and there's 10,000 comments in the first 10 minutes of the post. your going to need something to filter it out.

the only other options is pay to post. but even then it's way more lucrative to post spam then real comments.
Simon willison is on substack? Doesn't he have his own blog?
The day HN starts running that awful "squares on squares" JS design method where everything is a button with no borders is the day I leave HN. Luckily I don't think that day is coming.
Jet Pens is a dangerous site. They'll convince you to part with your money far too easily.

Studio Ghibli pens. I mean, how can you not buy them?!

On a slightly more serious note - I agree with the Uniball Signo recommendations. They're good, reliable pens. I don't care for writing with Frixion pens, but they are the player in the erasable pen arena.

I really appreciate how they provide samples with metadata on how each pen/paper works. Even if you disagree with their "Best of" lists, they give you the data you need to make informed buying choices. Something all too absent for other online ordering.

And they have a better selection of really fine point pens than other sites.
Miners and validators in blockchains can censor individual transactions and extract MEV. Order providers in DAG can only sabotage the entire network, even if all they want is censoring a single transaction.
When you plateau so does your company
>“but I'd bet the farm that traditional social media has a finite lifespan, largely because inauthentic content is becoming so realistic and cheap to make that we're going to struggle to find who's real and who's a bot.”

A simple solution would be a physical hardware (human) authenticator, that observes you in visual + IR wavelengths + audio + LiDAR, and functions as a sort of "I am not a robot" check.
But then most users would have a ChatGPT template with: "consider the following thread link and compose a response for me that would make me dunk on everyone"
It seems in UK your role can be put redundancy but you are not technically fired. It is the position that needs to be decided and they need to compensate you accordingly to the law.
They chose you because most of the factors are time dependent, so as you had not start it was cheaper to cancel the contract.

I think the worst part is that probably they knew about this 2 or 3 months ago but held the information because they "cannot" speak openly about layoffs because of inside trading rules and etc.

For me, they should have told you that months earlier and compensate for, at least, the financial loss you had.

And never send a notice to quit before having anything triple checked.you can condition your move to their speed in sending the contract and offer, out of any contracts, to start preparing for the change.
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/gadget-master/boards...
Look at how many people at unenthused with EVs because they don't make loud noises. If they couldn't at least also go faster...
> If I wrote software like this I would be instantly fired. Can somebody please explain?

If aerospace engineers built airplanes the way you (or me) code, they'd be in prison.

I don't think software developers have any right to criticise - we are the clowns of engineering world.

The software around me fails all the time, coffe machine refuses to make coffee becauae there is no wifi, toyota has spaghetti code controlling the accelerator, average home router has over 9000 securiry holes.

Even if you look at our industry standards, the HTTP standard has flaws allowing Request Smuggling, JSON standard is not compatiable with javascript, and Javascript itself...oof...
> I don’t understand. Given that titles and such are necessarily centralized databases, what’s the value of using blockchain and NFTs for this?

My guess is some executive at DMV had a resume-padding idea for migration into the private sector, and didn’t factor in how long government projects are vs. the speed at which the hype cycle turns meant that by the time this “accomplishment” was on their resume, having been involved in any kind of NFT effort would no longer be a selling point.
People do use it that way, which is a real shame because -- like the commenter you're replying to -- "content" to me implies something inferior.
Reminds me of the stuff about chronic mycotoxin exposure from bread-type products. I wonder how much of our food is like this.
Conversely, only the e-golf and Fiat are unavailable within 50 miles of my location in Central Texas. All others have 4-10 vehicles available in my area.

The e-golf and fiat are available delivered if I was really dead-set on those.

None of that negates my point in any way.
That's not being moderate, that's being idealistic. You're saying, quite correctly, that there should be a better way, but in reality, people are dying in the streets next to a bus stop that kids use. The immediate problem (chaos) is absolutely a symptom of a larger systemic issue, but allowing that fact to impede solutions to the the very real immediate problem is not productive. You can do both. But to do so we have to do something.
I own a LAMY ST Steel Fountain Pen and I love it. I really like its steel, simple bauhaus-like design. Feels like something Dieter Rams would've designed.
What did you do to avoid implicit locking, and what sort of isolation level were you using?

Without more information about your setup, the advisory locking sounds like dead weight.
I drove a Tesla for the first time thinking I was going to like the driver assist and tech the most. The only thing my friends and I could talk about afterwards was how fucking fast the thing was.
Ah even the post from Reddit itself isn't worthy showing to me fully... Instead I have to open it.

And then the collapsed comments are right mess. Sometimes hovering auto expands them sometimes not, I click they open there and then sometimes it takes to new page...

Thankfully I don't use it anymore, but it is still kinda funny...
The flip side of this is Bezos who cared about profits but not the product, generally speaking. He was a great operator clearly, but no product vision.

Probably why we all use Amazon but none of us love doing so. If someone else figured out delivery & pricing (Walmart is trying with Jet), we'll all slowly defect. There's no lock in.

Kindle is an adequate product that has sporadic iterative improvements and occasional backslides. Hardware is finally fine after many years of not, software is less so.

Alexa is whatever.

AWS is a cash cow, but thats more of a B2B/Enterprise offering.
YES! I feel the same! I frequently see myself make the same kinds of mistakes I see ChatGPT make or I just go overly deep into thought and start thinking about the fact that, especially when communicating, I'm not prethinking my words or anything I'm just coming up with the next word on the fly. Sometimes I lose my train of thought mid conversation and end up seeing a sentence like "it makes me happy that.." and end up finishing it out of context before realizing I was talking about something else.

It's the same with speech, sometimes if I'm looking for something nice to say to someone but nothing is top of mind I'll just seed myself by starting a sentence "You are great honestly I was just thinking about how..." and then just hope my brain finishes it for me. Usually it does but sometimes it ends in me explaining why I stopped haha
Ah, that helps, I did not know that. I love the optimism regardless.
How high do used car prices have to rise before a full rebuild starts to look cost effective?
For decades now? plural? 2003 they were doin that?
These issuers are not in an adversarial trust-free environment, also, it seems unlikely that California will convince 50 other issuers to use NFTs to issue titles.
Would be nice if a little more detail were added in order to give anyone looking to do the same more heads-up to watch out for potential trouble spots. I take it the workers are polling to fetch the next job which requires a row lock which in turn requires a transaction yeah? How tight is this loop? What's the sleep time per thread/goroutine? At what point does Postgres go, sorry not doing that? Or is there an alternative to polling and if so, what? :)
>Greenwald and Taibbi (and so many other neoreactionary media folks)

I intensely dislike both of them, but are they really considered NRx?
No. Liability only arises if someone is paying you and you give them assurances that PyThing is fit for a particular purpose or behaves a particular way.
But the crashes doesn't get removed, they get transformed into error types or exceptions and you still crash when you don't handle them.
How TF did Pilot be the company to create such great inexpensive fountain pens? I mean, I'm not upset about it, I love them.
Meaning is whatever you give it.

If you truly care about nothing then sure it's all pointless. But I'm sure you have interests, desires, passions. The meaning is then how you spend your time relative to those
Even if the carbon emissions match, the drivetrain in an ICE vehicle contains 2,000+ moving parts typically, whereas the drivetrain in an EV contains around 20. The benefits of TVs range beyond direct carbon emissions from the power unit.
How would that affect the price of car fuel?
I'm not sure how you define a "Marxist society", but if this means an economic system where there's no notion of owning capital to collect economic rent from it, then MAREZ (Zapatistas) would seem to qualify.

To some extent also AANES (Rojava). Although that one is a hybrid economy where co-ops and wage labor small businesses coexist, it's roughly a 80/20 split in favor of the former, although there's no clear line there as some co-ops use wage labor as well. For the most part, this happens because the local councils actively support co-ops with loans, so organizing as one gives you an initial advantage.
thank you very much for all this info!
From an art/design history point of view, computers and iPhones really aren't that interesting, and soon converge on the obvious solution as a simple rectangle of glass.
Yes, Freddie's review of the book that this article was excerpted from was previously discussed on HN.
So they'll just "revoke" the offer the day you start.

For an international relocation that would be much, much worse than what happened here.
I'm not sure why anyone hasn't brought up the elephant in the room. OP, you're now an unemployed male of draftable age living in Russia, which is doing poorly in a war with your neighbor. Depending on how the anticipated Ukranian spring offensive fares, extremely bad things could happen to you very soon.

You already made yourself mobile. This would be a good time to take a six-month vacation anywhere outside Russia. Look for remote work after you cross the border.
Microsoft Outlook in the Bios? HP Tried That
What's with this kind of "Technical Innovation" video? Synthesized voiceover, royalty-free upbeat stock music background, myriad of grammatical and factual errors, over-hypes a fairly simple device, clearly developed/produced outside of the U.S. but is targeting an English-speaking audience.

I understand the "looking for funding" aspect of this, but if you can't get simple grammatical errors fixed, or honestly, if you can't afford to higher quality voiceover talent for your promotional video, then it just makes the product seem like a scam. Its fascinating that the producers of this device and video don't realize how bad this kind of thing could make them look.

There was lot of talk of "spherical gear" in the intro to the video, but as best as I could tell, the robot itself didn't use a spherical gear at all.
Because all popular articles are about multi million tps at bigtech scale, and everybody thinks they're big tech somehow.
Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?
Former Apple/Facebook engineer, been leading engineering and product teams at startups the last few years. Have normally found a new job within a few weeks, but this time it has been 4 months.

Submitted 150 job applications last week. Got one interview with a recruiter. Had a few interview rounds over the last few months through old coworkers, they all lasted several months with long pauses - one still going 4 months in.

How is it going for everyone else searching right now? Is it just me?
It'll be cool when we get there!!

But, considering that the most massive LLMs do not even attempt to abstract and manipulate even basic concepts (they just model likely sequences of words using insanely large data sets), that would be a definitive "No.".

Plus, the fact that we have no idea how to map even human neural activity patterns to concepts, also "No.", it'd be even harder to figure out the octopus' conceptual map.
Does this mean you are processing messages on only one machine, since it's Sqlite? Depending on what you are processing, that could take longer than the queue/dequeue.
One of my employer's had that policy too; until I quit. They made an exception and wanted me to stay to help transition. I did help where I could (because I liked them and knew they needed it, I know I didn't have to)
Although circleofavshape's observation applies equally well to my part of the US. Even very tiny towns around here have live music multiple nights per week.
Is anyone working on audio libraries that will enable streaming audio chunks for Whisper processing? Saving audio files into a local file system, running ffmpeg to chunk, and then sending them off to Whisper is very tactical..
I had to sleep in a work truck once and every hour or so it would modulate the shutters in the air vents to refresh the air in the cab or something. The click and buzz whir kept waking me up, it was quite annoying.
If you read it, or had first hand information, it would be easy to share meaningful details about what, exactly, is wrong, instead of vague pandering that seem to be generated by a language model.

Even this response reads like a response from such a model.
You can infer on your local machine.

I doubt it will take you a year to train a model.

Vicuna-13B cost $300 to train/fine-tune [0]. They trained on an A100 which costs $10k [1].

[0]: https://vicuna.lmsys.org/
[1]: https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/blob/main/scripts/train-v...
You can already do that with OpenCharacters at https://josephrocca.github.io/OpenCharacters/. You just need to set up an API key with OpenAI, and you can customize hidden prompts for different characters, whom you can name, you can edit earlier parts of conversations, and it automatically summarizes earlier parts of conversations to keep a never-ending thread within the context limit.
If you could get normal people to use it, it would grow. I am not entirely sure what is necessary, but Twitter has/had a lot of small problems (notably scams, which are unfortunately coming back again).

Twitter is a _great_ idea IMHO. It could be _the_ tool to do _any_ communication. It could displace WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, Substack, Medium, YouTube, etc. etc. A single app where you do everything, and now imagine if you had payments in the app! Musk being Musk, I assume he will support doge first.
The Beatles can be discussed more specifically because there’s so much material and footage of them, and groups of fans and scholars are numerous have a lot of shared knowledge so on-depth conversations are more likely to be possible in an off-topic/general environment like this one.

Engaging at the level of broad similarities between typical pop bands is fine, too, but knowing more about one band than that is not silly.
> I keep hearing that homeless avoid shelters because of how dangerous the people are there[1].

Well, I didn't say that. That's part of the problem but it's not the whole problem.

In the interview you quoted, the word "dangerous" is used once:

PIRTLE: Part of the reason was, you know, the paranoia and the fear of large groups of people that comes along with schizophrenia, but part of the reason was, and I think this is more generally the case with people, is that you hear a lot of terrible things about shelters, that shelters are dangerous places, that they're full of drugs and drug dealers, that people will steal your shoes, and there's bedbugs and body lice.

And yeah, unfortunately a lot of those things are true.

It's a bit of a stretch to call that evidence of your position, but I'll grant the point and move on I guess.

The interview also says:

PIRTLE: Oh yes, there's - I don't want to say that all shelters are like that. There's a lot of very good shelters in this country. But there are a lot of big warehouses that are just places where we stick people at night and we really don't have any regard for how they live there.

...and:

PIRTLE: I spent most of my time homeless out on the street. It wasn't until the very end of my homelessness that I ended up in a shelter. And I found out that a lot of what I was afraid of was true. I never found out what a body louse was until I got into the shelter. You know, I had my shoes stolen, just like people said you get your shoes stolen, although I will say that there were three people in the shelter who offered to give me a pair of shoes after that happened.

So there is a sense of community there. I don't want to give the impression that everyone in the shelter is bad. But you have a lot of people with a lot of problems, and so when you cram them all together, you just have one big problem. That's why I'm a big fan of smaller, scattered-sized shelters, where people can get more focus on what they need to get help.

Note that the "danger" here isn't "you're going to get murdered", it's theft--a predictable consequence of not having any place to store your personal belongings when you can't actively protect them.

And then there's this part which bears reiterating: But you have a lot of people with a lot of problems, and so when you cram them all together, you just have one big problem.

Do you see why maybe putting people into apartments might actually be a partial solution to this problem?

And you'll note, I'm not actually saying we put them in apartments right next to pre-existing tenants. My actual suggestion would be to build new housing, and repurpose or rebuild unused office and retail space. There's clearly a shortage of housing, and that shortage is being maintained because it serves to inflate housing prices, making a few people rich. If there's anything there should be an excess of, it's basic needs like homes.

So it starts to sound like you're responding to a straw man argument I didn't make, based on an interview that you read very selectively.
I also (used to) have a deviated septum. This almost seems like a general issue with swallowing, where stuff just backs into your sinuses due to pressure weirdness, and certain types of stuff really promote bacterial/fungus colonies.
Another good library for this is Graphile Worker.

Uses both listen notify and advisory locks so it is using all the right features. And you can enqueue a job from sql and plpgsql triggers. Nice!

Worker is in Node js.

https://github.com/graphile/worker
I'm half way there, I already have no mates and I ignore most of the email from work.
We (America) should provide Taiwan with nuclear weapons and whatever other armaments they want to BUY. Heck, let them buy some aircraft carriers if they want.

America needs to stop being the world police and start being an arms dealer. We have the weapons, democracies that want to buy them to defend their borders from tyrants are welcome to. The notion that we should send our young people to put their lives on the line for some other country is absurd. Let them fight for their own freedom with American weapons.
It depends what you mean by viable. Substack newsletters have a paid option, substack can take a cut of that and the infra costs of sending emails is tiny.

If you want to bethe next massive aquistion/IPO, then maybe not.
Been using it since alpha stage. Love the way I can ramble and it turns it into coherent paragraphs that I can edit for my recap of meetings or to prepare drafts of emails :)
I don't think that was the intention of the exercise.
Counter anecdote: my personal experience is that the site is less entertaining. I've encountered technical bugs more, such as replies not loading without refreshing multiple times. The "for you" page doesn't show me anything I want to see. The checkmark thing remains super confusing to me. The quality of the ads I've been served have noticeably decreased/gotten more skuzzy.
That question only makes sense if you beg the question and assume that the only way to fulfill "society's responsibilities of caring for our fellow humans" is "jailing and forced treatment", otherwise it's just a rhetorical bit with no substance.

The GP's question was obviously baiting but also follows logically.