skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the latter barely ever happens in 'twice the time' right from the start. Even assuming the flat 2x, that's a lot for a project that takes 6 months the 'dumb way' for any company nowadays. The pay-off for 'smart way', is unlikely to be there before 2 years from project start. You're lucky to have a company look ahead more than 2 quarters, let alone 2 years.

That's not to mention all the other problems as commenters on a different article about speed pointed out yesterday. Dumb way at least gives you something. 'Smart' way goes in and makes a hundred assumptions only to realize they forgot something a prototype would've pointed out to them. Not the dev's fault management doesn't listen to "this is a throwaway prototype".
Reading this thread had me questioning my own understanding of what a Product Manager is. Engineering has little day-to-day involvement with the product managers as they are busy working with customers, setting roadmaps, and determining requirements for products. Interactions are typically to demo what we have built, get feedback on a new feature or deviation from the product requirements, or in a weekly status update meeting.

A lot of people here are describing a position I would just call project management with a bit of technical management thrown in.
For the uninitiated, the origin of (the popularity of) clbuttic: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-
> skyrocketing prices

I just signed a contract a few days ago for 100% renewable $0.10/kWh including delivery for another year after coming off a 3-year contract for $0.08/kWh delivered. I don't know that I agree with "skyrocketing prices". Prices did increase the last couple of years with natural gas prices generally going sky high (I was seeing contracts ~$0.14-16/kWh for comparison), but prices have fallen again back to levels they were pre-Ukraine and pre-deep-freeze. Given most other things have inflated a good bit, real electricity prices in Texas are actually down compared to a few years ago.

I wouldn't consider $0.10/kWh a "skyrocketing price". Average electricity prices in EU are supposedly €0.25/kWh which is what $0.27? 10 / 27 = .37, so my sky high electricity prices are a third of the average rate in Europe, so I guess theirs are considered astronomical? What are you paying for your electricity?

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Had the majority of resistive heating sources converted to heat pumps before the deep freeze, it possibly wouldn't have happened as it would have greatly reduced the electricity demand. Also, if things like gas compressors and other gas infrastructure was properly tagged as critical infrastructure Texas wouldn't have shot itself in the foot turning off those circuits causing cascading gas power plaint failures.
Covid inspired a bike boom. Now that it’s over, what’s next?
A Moon of Saturn Has All the Ingredients Needed for Life
I practice Shoshin[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin

> Shoshin (Japanese: 初心) is a concept from Zen Buddhism meaning beginner's mind. It refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when studying, even at an advanced level, just as a beginner would

Any creative endeavor or mastery of one's craft needs a beginner's mind, otherwise we become rigid and set in our ways.
Yes I know how it works but try explaining that to someone learning flask at a boot camp.
How's the Tech Job Market?
Several months ago, I sent out a hundred applications and got three interviews. Since then, I haven't bothered applying and focused on doing freelance research/writing.

But I have friends who are far better devs than I, and they're having trouble getting a role. So what's the market like? Is hiring at the big companies still frozen? Too much quality competition for too few jobs?
Ask HN: Context Window Testing
I posted previously about this, but I recently build a model that seems to be outperforming most other architectures I've seen. Wondering how to test it's full context window without spending massive amounts of money training.
Tips for Better Documentation with OpenAPI
Dirty word in the context of security, copyright liability, etc.
The entire lava lamp effect is a shader, not just the bokeh. :)

I haven't noticed any drop in registrations, conversions, or any noticeable differences in traffic patterns after launching the redesign, so I'm not sure if this is actually happening. Though it's a valid concern and issue, and I do want to fix it. And I appreciate all the reports. I think it may be a retina resolution issue, but could be wrong.

On launch day, everyone loved the effect (it goes along with the new logo) and only a couple people said it performed badly, but they were on exotic devices.

I may have caused this a few days ago when I enabled rendering at retina resolution for tier 3 devices. What I wasn't expecting was so many tier 3 devices that aren't really what I'd consider "tier 3." I was expecting all tier 3 devices to be gaming-level GPUs.

I guess I should have read the source [^0] more closely and I could've avoid this.

[^0]: https://github.com/pmndrs/detect-gpu/
Siblings talking about the closing of the American West are correct but that's not sufficient; you have to extrapolate it out to the existential scale that Blood Meridian grapples with. He's critiquing the notion of "progress" as a whole, favoring instead a view of humanity stumbling through history and all which that entails.
Yes, except that they are impractical and unaffordable for many, and that the grid just be upgraded anyway (EVs, etc), as I wrote in all my comments.

I am just saying that heat pumps are no panacea and are not always a practical/viable option so let's not create another sacred cow here.
That is interesting. So this would mean using what I already have when using Ecto instead of the other postgres client I think cainophile uses.sounds good to me.
To be fair, I found the best alternatives are just friends, and Twitter.

In Twitter you can follow people whose content you find useful. If you're a Blender user, for example, you can follow 5 Blender tech artists and your feed will be now full of cool tips and art.

With friends, with more or less the same skillset and hobbies as you have, you can ask them whatever you wanna ask. Heck, you'll learn a lot from them without even asking!

I'd just avoid using Reddit or forums to decide if I'm gonna use or buy something.

For example, if you ask what's the best OS on the internet, people will say Linux. Best DAW? Reaper. Best game engine? Godot. Best headphones? whatever is new and costs 100$ in Amazon.

Meanwhile, friends who make money and are in the industry and have businesses just prefer Windows, FL Studio and Unity. They aren't on the Reddit saying that the software or hardware they use - they just use them and make money. :)
Because it's not bad enough to be a red flag but it does make me wary of the company's priorities. You used a complicated shader to make a scroll bar that doesn't scroll, which may as well have been a static background image, and half-visible janky blobs in the background I thought at first were eye floaters. The crushed font looks like a rendering error and the e's and s's looking identical made me stare at the word "businesses" because I swore it was misspelled. I do have to say the color scheme is gorgeous though.
And that would be easy, since all the info and knowledge is only accessible through discord. I use it too, but I believe many project make the mistake of only having interactions there. Discoverability will be low, the search insufficient. Basically not part of the web at all.
Speaking of which, I last took a programming class 20 years ago; has the pedagogy there improved any? It was quite terrible back then.
How do you imagine user conversations take place, if not from "random HN folk"?

Do you want an appointment? A lab?
When it comes down to it - it's the same thing with the EU - they can decree that Google be broken apart or stop doing business in the union. Or pay a massive fine based on global profit or exit the union.
GPU: {device: undefined, fps: 342, gpu: 'apple m1 pro', isMobile: false, tier: 3, type: "BENCHMARK"}

Despite the supposedly high FPS it's very jumpy/laggy in Firefox, though fast in Safari.
Thank you. I’ve never heard of their website and got hit with a paywall after reading three lines. Are there really people who would be ready to open their wallet at this point? The strategy is mind boggling.
My favorite is Fark's word-changing filters and their unintended side effects. The no-no words are scanned across whitespace and reversed, and any hits get translated to the approved word. "Shit" becomes "Shiat", the N word becomes "nubian", etc

Every so often someone will find their sentence that contains something like "I will have ham or egg in my sandwich" becomes "I will have ham onaibun my sandwich"
C (and I use the term loosely, not in de strict definition of standard C) is very well suited for low level programming of RISC processors. It not clear that a new language would be a big benefit. The benefit of C is to abstract from assembler and make Unix portable between architectures. C still works very well for that today.

The big question is whether we still want to write new production code in C. For one, the C standard is horrible. Just about everything is undefined behavior. The second is that you don't want to spend a lot of time checking code for array bound errors, use after free, other problems with pointers, variables or data structures that are not (properly) initialized, etc.

In addition, for large projects, all of the manual namespace management is also a bit of a bore.

One big issue with C is that more or less, the CPU architecture has to treat memory as an array of bytes. There is just too much code that assumes that this is the case. Every data pointer can be converted to a void *, all function pointers are alike, etc. With Rust, there is a chance that radically new architectures are possible, if compatibility with C is no longer required.
This is likely merely cultural misunderstanding.

I've noticed that when Americans come here to the Netherlands, they take offence at the things that natives don't. Dutch people don't take offence at those things because there's no need for pretence around caring for people, it's genuine, and a given. Without the _show_ though, it looks like rudeness to Americans.
Gas phase Brønsted acids are kind of mind boggling, if I'm understanding them correctly. They are up to 10^(30) times more acidic than standard strong acids. The goal (I'm not sure if this has been reached) is a compound that in equilibrium has free protons, just bouncing around in space. (In solution, the free protons are always bound to something, for example H3O+ in water.)
Battery vs plugged into a power outlet? Maybe Apple throttles the GPU to save battery.
but it specifically has a GUI. It touts the features of its GUI.

Like... i feel like i'm not understanding something obvious. I get the idea of an API only server. I've written many. BUT by shipping a GUI (as part of it or separately) and then touting the features of that gui for managing the CMS they're no longer talking about a "headless" thing. They're talking about a GUI that may talk to a "headless" cms but the entire point of the GUI is to get around the "headless" part.
I wonder what the quality would be if football was not the hoover of European childhood athletic talent it currently is. Plenty of sportsmen in other fields played football as children and went onto success in other sports. Maybe if basketball was the predominant sport of young boys would we still have Messi and Ronaldo?
Not tea ceremony, normal tea rooms. Doesn't have to be traditional either, just a place that serves a wide variety of high quality loose leaf tea. I am interested in recommendations, I hope I can visit again some time.
I'm moving to netim.com which is another French registrar. They run their own email and seem to have a good reputation.
> People outside the US using GPS isn’t a free rider problem, that use is at the mercy of the US government which is inherently valuable.

I think this is a really cynical take. A government opens up a service that's benefitted billions for 50 years and you think it's so the US gets them "hooked"? They use it because it gives them value, and they (we) didn't have to pay for that value at all.
We are so close to AI-powered podcast sponsorblock I can taste it.
Gandi registrar client here: never heard of this. never got any email about this.

Using gandi because it handles my-country-specific payment systems (aka no credit card to provide online, and no need of a big tech web engine, like steam wallet codes).
Arrgh, why didn't I.think of that? I just left for vacation with an open code review that should have been easy because some new junior found some issues that I couldn't resolve before packing my suitcase.

Thanks junior, the issues you found were real, even if small, and things will be better when I return and fix them.
Very good point. I'm a straight man in my mid 40s. Had two long-term relationships over the past 20 years that eventually ended. Mostly had shorter ones and one longer one in my teens/20s.

I've been seeing someone now for just shy of 2 years and I've really noticed how much differently I approach things now. Obviously not perfect, but things I simply didn't understand or know how to deal with constructively in the past seem at least familiar now. Essentially, I have a clue now.

This isn't an "end state" but rather a process of learning and developing that continues - but has gotten to a point where I feel like a much better partner than I probably was in the past. I didn't have terribly great role models to emulate in this regard and I wasn't born knowing how to participate in a romantic relationship. But I've at least had some experience in what can work, what doesn't work well, and where I need to focus to avoid mistakes I've made or others could've handled better.
Thanks for the feedback. Makes total sense. I'll make this change.

(I wasn't expecting so much traffic and feedback today lol)
Ask HN: Apple Vision and Windows Remote Desktop
1) Will Apple have good support for working on Windows machines on Apple Vision?

2) Are remote desktop utilities a ripe area to develop for Apple Vision, or is Apple going to beat 3rd party to the punch?
Given that sama is a board member of Reddit Inc, and that this is happening after GPT-4 was trained on Reddit data, I wouldn't jump to conclude they're upset at OpenAI.

SO had publicly available, no-auth-required data dumps. This makes it difficult for them to know who is using their data. However, this surely isn't the case for Reddit who offered only API endpoints for this content, and I'm guessing you couldn't use .json to get the whole site (rate limits, etc). I wouldn't be inclined to believe that Reddit would miss a new major API user.

This is purely speculation disregarding Hanlon's razor, but I'm thinking that the API pricing comes down to killing two birds with one stone.

* Sama got to train his LLM on Reddit and some best-of-the-internet content there such as r/bodyweightfitness, informed discussions on niche topics etc for free. The catch-up players face prohibitive pricing.

* Third-party apps get killed, bringing the UX to Reddit's control. I think this is more important to Reddit than ad revenue, as they could've simply built an SDK for probably less than this PR nightmare will cost us.

* Their new development platform, however, hints at the Reddit app supporting serving "redditor-made apps" which "can be seamlessly reused between communities".

The description (and the idea to have apps in your app) weirdly reminds me of WeChat apps, and given that Tencent is a major shareholder in Reddit, I would consider the possibility that apps are something they're pushing. That idea has no chance of success without the UX being completely in Reddit's hands, even then it's questionable how it would work on Reddit.

Spez couldn't actually be that detached from Reddit?
Are you sure that was the right lesson to take for a startup?

Apple had millions of users, an already profitable business (by 2001 barely), and marketing reach that was far outside its market share.

They had the best marketer and product guy in the business for a CEE and one of the best logistics experts for a COO.

A startup probably has none of those things.
As I predicted, nothing has happened or changed. Entirely useless “protest”.
Starting in 2019, somebody stretched his temporary tags with duct tape and a marker--2/1/2019 became 3/1/2019 and on and on. This was in neighborhood of Washington, DC, with fairly slack parking enforcement--there are others where the car would have been gone pretty quickly.
Reddit can fix this by simply promoting alternative subreddits to users. There are many. Competition will fix things
Most people here in the UK don't find heat pumps practical or affordable.

Again, nothing is black and white.. and commenters here seem to sugger tunnel vision syndrome.
We have federation now, which should hopefully kill the datagarden model once and for all.
Slave cases are still cited as good law across the U.S.
This is something I think about a lot as a product manager (PdM). There is only 1 PdM per a handful of engineers. In some cases, a product manager has more than one product (and team). From a numbers standpoint, I often wonder if I'd be better off going back to engineering. I wasn't the best at writing code—I was slow—but I enjoyed the challenges. The grass is always greener, I suppose.
Simula is really, really interesting to me. The whole time I was watching the Apple presentation, I was thinking about how much I'd love the spacial computing facet of the Vision Pro but with a Windows or Linux machine so I could actually do things I do regularly.

Given that I don't use a laptop very much anymore, I've refrained from buying a SimulaVR machine. But I'm really, really tempted to, and depending on how it evolves I might just yeet it and get one anyway.
> From what I recall, it's not stated that the family who takes in the boy are cannibals.

It isn't explicitly stated, but it is heavily implied. I gave my reasons to another comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326924

> That could be one interpretation, I suppose, if depression is your goal.

It's a work of fiction. Nobody died. Nobody starved. Nothing to get depressed about.
Exactly. Opinions are what link the product vision to the users. They matter, and if you don't have them it shows up in the form of a bloated, unfocused, and often biggy system. Put another way, opinions are regularizers. Products without opinions and vision can be successful, but if you're only ever reactive to user requests, you'll never truly push into new capabilities.
I was just remembering these while playing with my pool chemistry. Had the fleeting memory of negative pHs too -- always fun when a maxim you're taught in early education (pH scale is from 0 - 14) is later given a few exceptions.

https://www.thoughtco.com/is-a-negative-ph-possible-603653
House Price Battle Royale: Low Inventory vs. Affordability
> Insanely good text clarity. Higher pixel density (35.5 PPD) than any portable VR headset currently on the market (e.g., 56% higher than the Quest Pro & 220% higher than the Valve Index).

I'd order one right now if I could believe this was good enough for coding. But my only experience with VR is with an HTC Vive XR Elite headset with 1920x1920 per eye, and that turned out not to be nearly good enough to read comfortably at a reasonable font size. I'm quite willing to be convinced, but apparently the only way to do that now is to be a prospective angel investor in the company and wait for the single review unit to be passed around.
You should look beyond OpenAI for your LLM Application
That would be a good way to strengthen my pinkie, I would also do it the other way around, d to backspace (move the cursor left), f to delete(move the cursor right)
> Simula is raising institutional capital for the mass production of our headsets. We're also soliciting angel investors who might be interested in alpha testing our Review Unit headsets (helping us form a bridge to our institutional round). More details on this below.

Another one getting pumped with VC money and inevitably going to push this project for an exit.

First Bitwarden, then GGML, and now SimulaVR.

Not again.
this isn't a reduction in tiers, though ... it's merging tiers into yet another *aaS model
Also -- people would randomly be given moderation points, and you only had so many at a time. I think people's chance of getting moderation points was weighted by how 'good' of a community member you were (account age, participation in moderation, metamoderation 'agreement')

Soylentnews also exists based on the slashdot source, and uses the same/similar moderation.
It’s dead wrong, I suggest reading the original. _No one_ thinks models trained on more data would be about the same, since everything flows out of that premise…then throws Current Thing on top…it’s very unhelpful.

The “patches” he refers to are LoRA and are treated as deus ex machina. They’re not, ex. playing with Stable Diffusion we can see they’re additive but they’re not nearly as good as training the original model on the data.

(Disclaimer: Googler)
Good call, but is upvote / downvote data in there? I'd imagine OpenAI is doing something with that.
> I wonder if this is a retina display issue

I'm using an external monitor running at 5120x1440 (Samsung, not retina) only, and am experiencing the the same on Firefox.

At least not retina exclusive.
>I think we'd lose something if we weren't able to throw out potentially dumb ideas and have other smart people shoot them down and tell us why we're wrong.

The issue you'll run into here is there aren't enough professionals in field X on HN to adequately do this, so it just turns into software engineers throwing a bunch of ideas around, and probably bad ones!

>I think of it much the way I do when I read philosophy. Go on this thought journey with somebody. Try to understand their position/arguments, try to refute them, then read the refutations of others and repeat.

I think to really understand something you need to engage with an actual living human on the matter.
Isn’t that the ultimate survivorship bias?
> Each “key type” in a map type is either required or optional.

I wonder how that will work with Ecto schemas, or if it will work at all. Ecto Schemas do not specify required/optional keys, the Changesets do. But Changesets only exists in runtime. Loosing the ability to reuse the schema and have required/optional keys defined on the changesets would be a huge step back in my opinion, but pretty much all the type systems I know work that way.
I hope most are not using SSL for VPN. Still, this is worrying. I wish Fortinet would support wireguard.
> Meetings that are adjacent to lunch are fair game. They just need to start/end on time.

Well, it can work, of course. I often have meetings scheduled like that. I hate it, though, because it means that I either have to cut lunch short or skip it altogether. A meeting may start and end at a set time, but I'll still need 10-15 minutes before the meeting to prepare, and sometimes 10-15 minutes after the meeting to perform action items that can't wait (such as updating my task list, my work notes, etc.)

(Lest people think that I value lunch too much, in nearly every place I've worked, taking lunch was required by management. If it weren't, I'd always skip lunch so that I could have an 8 hour long instead workday of 9)