skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the point of the M in MTBF: it's a mean. Some drives underperform, others overperform. One sampling from Backblaze shows this MTBF to be (roughly) accurate: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2022-drive-stats-...

Another comparison (by proxy): https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
I literally own and operate a business in that headcount and it operated exceptionally well for the last decade with zero hr staff. We are considering hiring an hr person now and that isn't driven by business need, it's driven by increasing risk from bad government liability policy basically forcing us to develop policy documents we can point at if two or more employees get into a beef unrelated to work on premise or if one or more employees do something stupid that leads to their or others injury, among other government mandated risk vectors. In a sense government bullshit jobs are creating private sector bullshit jobs.
On the right, because that's where most people are accustomed to find them.

But they weirdest thing is that the buttons are colored instead of having meaningful icons.
FYI DEI rarely includes ageism.
Okay, let's try this again, I guess:

Which city is the next to have this sort of commercial property blip?
Many more people use git than just developers. Especially with GitHub in there.
POST seems fine(?)
Not to mention, founder and team are basically the main criteria, at least early on. So people claiming to be making invest decisions without that are full of crap anyway.
Carrying a passport is a legal requirement in many countries, especially common for tourists. But if I accidentally left it in my hotel? I don't think I would get arrested on the spot. Worst case they'd take me to the hotel so I could produce it.

I suspect there is more to this story - i.e. they had a reason to think he was an illegal immigrant or on drugs or something - of course that reason could be something racist or completely unfounded, but I presume they don't just arrest anyone who forgets their ID.
He's very confident in his assessment but never even took any possibility that things maybe automated away or done differently.

We're heading in that direction - just because everybody rode a horse doesn't mean a car won't find market.
With this law on the books they often operate under the same practice/advice you hear given to attorneys in court: "only ask questions you already know the answer to".

In many/most cases if they're asking questions they already know the truth behind at least some of them. They are attempting to leverage you into cooperating against co-conspirators or at least be able to hit you with a felony for misleading/false statements in the event the original investigation doesn't pan out to charges.
I really dislike this take. It's an oversimplified view of the world and a sad evaluation of what is important in the world. I'd much rather my taxes go to funding someone learning & teaching philosophy than subsidizing Lockheeds latest and greatest kill-bot. And to preempt the inevitable assumption, no I'm not a philosophy grad I work in finance. I did, however, take philosophy courses when I was a student and I believe I benefited greatly from them.
I'm curious what metric you're assessing 'better off' there - by many conventional economic measures such as real wage growth, productivity, GDP, the British economy has either flatlined or gone backwards over the last decade.

Under the previous 'bloated' administration there were 40 consecutive quarters of economic growth at one point.
I'll have to take a look at that book.

Apparently LeMay's successor Thomas Power was even more crazy.

LeMay was quoted as privately saying that Power was mentally "unstable" and a "sadist."
Ahh I see. Makes sense. For what it's worth I think the USB-C port is still fairly robust because the fragile part is protected by the port, but I get what you're saying.
In my city, you can get as much as you'd like for free. We're not a very big/dense city.
If that's true.. I can make demos all day. Sometimes multiple. Or for something complex a few weeks.

Is there a service for people like me who are much better at that than other things?

I guess that's Product Hunt or something. But it seems even with that it's fairly marketing and networking focused.
So Google should “give up” and just make $300B in annual revenue..
> potato grows around it

That's insane. And by the same process, does plastic/microplastic in compost/soil, end up in fruits/veggies?
I think you're right that line employees often lack the "big picture," but the big picture is also frequently not required.

An anecdote from one of my friends, who works in the finance department of a university: her entire job is to copy rows from one piece of software (PeopleSoft) into another piece of software. She's told which rows to copy by another person in the department (via email), who in turn is copying them from a third piece of software. All of this could be automated without any "big picture" changes, and everybody who works these jobs is aware of that fact; hence "bullshit."
The problem is that the "stakeholder" is (more often than not) Bob, the manager from the neighbouring department. So, "producing value for the stakeholders" is essentially "doing what Bob perceives as useful", so Bob can in turn appear as useful to upper management. So yes, it's a charade.
"you don't need to lie. come up with 50 pitch decks, submit all of them, which ever gets the most feedback probably also has more market fit so go with that."

All you're getting is feedback on what VCs like the most...

Don't 90% (or a high percentage) of their investments to go bust?
Flat and differentiable JSON for collaborative editing
FWIW - I've worked with both rebase workflows and merge workflows. If you rebase a long lived branch what breaks is /your/ code not the rest of the codebase in a rebase workflow vs the opposite being true with merges.
Not just a fisherman, but a teacher. Gracias!
I am a Mac user for many years now. The first thing I always set up is Magnet. A third party app that allows me to have proper window management. So yes, in my opinion it really is shocking if even Windows manages to have a better user experience in something so basic, for more than 10(?) years.
The developer is cool and responds to requests, including this one I made:

If you Command-Tab to an app that doesn't have a window (AKA Finder), it will create one for you (optionally).
I found that, by far, the most interesting thing ChatGPT has given us up to this point (and there are a lot of interesting things) are new perspectives on things that we humans do and believe, on a entirely plain, non-philosophical level.

"Well, actually" moments, everywhere, all the time.
Perplexity AI
> I consider relying on people's own answers to be a methodological error in the research.

If the conclusion of the research is "these jobs are bullshit", then I agree, but if it is about how people are doing in these jobs, it is completely valid. Graeber was mixing these in his book to have more popular appeal, which is bad.

> Line employees often do not have a big picture understanding of the work they are doing.

That's what Marx called alienation of labor. While it may increase efficiency, it takes all the pleasure out of work. But that's not really the topic of the book: There's entropy in any larger organization, and I'm sure we all have an example or two of people who are a pure waste of energy in their position.
Correct.

You MUST EXPLICITLY invoke your fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.

(Okay, there may be some edge cases where invoking the fifth is implied, but SCOTUS has merely acknowledged that these edge cases could exist, but to my knowledge has never given rules for when it applies. Better safe than sorry.)

e: see Salinas v Texas[0] for example

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/12-246#writing...
In practice, it works if it’s implemented like on the desktop version of YouTube.

Maybe there’s a reason why popular websites don’t care?

Why “worry” about (possibly) expected features “breaking”? Seems extreme. Bugs happen. Sometimes they get fixed. Sometimes they don’t.
Isn't this where the whole "LLMs lack a worldview" type stuff comes in to play?
One theory is that private equity that needs to find places to invest, will provide the cash, and banks provide the places to invest it. In other words, the taking-deposits and the providing-loans parts of banks would no longer be connected to each other. Don't know if it will actually happen that way, of course.
I had never heard of album archive, but apparently I have one. I started the export which might take 'hours or even days'. Looking forward to discover what is in there.
Imagine working for a 100M generic AI unicorn startup, with nothing but a hunch? That's my worst nightmare. Somebody elses dream

But: Big corps need to learn and experiment. Sometimes it's ridiculously expensive. But it needs to be done.

I quit a project (stayed in the company) that is currently running something like 10M euro. I quit when it was 1M. Because I felt my small role was tedious and stupid and not a big learning opportunity. But the job needs to be done. So now less capable people are doing it. And we (they organisation) will kind of maybe succeed. But the fact is: the project is mission critical for the company. So no choice but to do the job. But i can assure you most people working that project hates it. Think their job is bullshit etc. But really. It's just a really really important threadmill.

What i am trying to say: sometimes it's not the job. Sometimes it's you.
That is one of the wrongest-sounding things I have ever read, as you can tell from the track-record of VC-first incubators. (and the effectiveness of the VC industry in aggregate)
This makes me laugh. Reddit is trying to weather a user blackout because it thinks it will cash in on selling user-written content as AI training data. But Reddit itself will be filled with AI spam from now on, so the data will be worthless for the purpose they want to sell it for. Serves them right.
This shouldn't be partisan, and is barely political, depending on how you define that.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...

Although political figures and legislation are involved.
I'm not sure the Github issues are the best reflection of the popularity of those features.

Top level statements and the new HostBuilders are fantastic, they're much cleaner and easier to follow than the previous mess. Add Minimal APIs to the mix and C# is finally a viable choice for spinning up something quickly.
> The darker version is a Federal Agent says you told him something you didn't even say because it helps the case he's building. He asks you to repeat it on record and when you balk, he threatens you with a felony for "lying to a federal agent".

This is shown in a scene from "Wolf of Wall Street"[0]. In this case the main agent gets his partner to come to within earshot of Jordan Belfort and asks Jordan to repeat his bribery offer. Testimony from one FBI agent is good, testimony from two is better.

[0] - https://youtu.be/3IKbkjs8xd0?t=46
One way to do that might be to merge the query optimizer and executor together and then execute them simultaneously in a self-adjusting code framework.[0] The relevant optimizer variables would then be set initially (using whatever mechanism already exists e.g. heuristics, stats, etc.) and then while the query executes, you continually update those optimizer variables. The self-adjusting code property would cause the query to self-adjust as it ran, while still producing the same end result.

I'm sure there are details I'm missing here, but I do believe the general approach could do implemented in LingoDB (or similar) as a compiler transformation, so the actually cost-to-develop this approach would remain tractable.

[0] I suspect you'd need to model the whole thing as a streaming network so that you can update the network parts as you go, effectively re-wiring the streams while not invalidating earlier results. So SAC+logic to map from one stream architecture to another. JITs that support de-optimization have to do something similar (with a lot of careful upfront design), so that's at least plausible.
The financial situation is different if you only have to keep the servers humming and pay some technical people, and aren't driven by VC funding that demands constant revenue growth.
Silence is a big point for me. With the Deck right now if you don’t want to hear its fan you’re going to be running old titles with the SoC locked at a low TDP which is very limiting.
Looks pretty similar to the font used on the Tyne and Wear Metro[0], though I have heard the metro's signage is made up of hand-me-downs from the tube anyway.

[0]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
Welp… now I have to try it too because intuitively I can see that being true.
Do they actually provide hooks and APIs though? My understanding is that a lot of these third party app use accessibility hacks which seems like a work around and not something Apple intended.
They should remake “Escape from New York” in San Francisco.
That reminds me of a buklshit project I was involved with at a previous company. The short of it was they wanted some way to exchange articles between affiliated journalism outlets, and so they spent $6+ million to build what was effectively a clone of CouchDB from scratch. No, I am not making that up. I knew how silly that project was from the get-go, but thought nothing of it because, as far as I knew, it was an organizational pet project that didn't cost that much. Needless to say, I was flabbergasted when I was told how much had been spent on it over a period of a few years. I know at least a significant portion of that budget went to some staff engineers, and it wouldn't surprise me that some blood sucking consultants fed from the trough as well. This was clearly one of those things that may have started out as some developers identifying a problem, having fun with it, and then management decided it to throw a bunch of money its way thinking it was going to give them a big name.
Economics: arguably the most bullshit profession

Anthropology: True Science
>You're just clearly someone who can't admit when they're wrong.

I suggest avoiding statements like this. Yes they help vent your frustrations but they destroy the otherwise constructive and interesting debate the two of you were having.
Most students in the UC system are youngish. Ageism is just a relevant example because it's one that many straight, white male developers will eventually face first-hand.

I've observed peers who were historically dismissive of "special treatment" (aka antidiscrimination measures) for women and members of underrepresented racial groups develop an case of late-onset empathy once they find themselves on the other side of that "not a good culture-fit" line.
You don’t know that, all you can do is try your best TODAY to avoid issues in the future.

It seems very clear to me that if we all follow the rules of traffic we can safely go 90+ since I’m a pretty good driver, everyone else must be too. Yet the speed limit is much lower and people crash all the time anyway.

It’s evident to me that if I order a coffee, it’ll be hot, but the lid says “caution hot”.

It’s obvious that if I see that the floor is wet and the surface is slippery, I shouldn’t run if I’m trying to avoid slipping, yet we have those yellow signs everywhere.

Just because you think something is below YOU, super smart HN user, it doesn’t mean it keeps the average idiot safe in the future.
Why starlink and not National Broadband Ireland fibre connectivity?
And oddly enough, I just canceled them today.

Hello, fiber. Goodbye unilaterally-decided bullshit data caps.
If someone were to ask me to guess which academic is more likely to have a good grasp on organizational structures and efficiency, a philosopher/economist or an anthropologist, I think rather than pondering the question and their qualifications, I'd make a rude noise.

(Cowen's review, characterizing the book as "entertaining," isn't bad)
I’m an iPhone user so I don’t have much to say about Google Pay, but what is wrong with Apple Pay? I personally find it to be one of the best niceties added to the iPhone in the past few years (or at least widely adopted in the US in the past few years, not sure when Apple Pay was launched).
Open Hardware Monitor (OHM), in C#
(B) is an interesting take. Who is to say "the other" guy is not already polluting to their max. If one country lowers its emissions,it is what aboutism to then suggest it must be a zero sum game and that other countries would increase their pollution. (It doesn't really matter what China does, the world needs to lower emissions and one country not doing so is not reason to then do nothing. That same line of reasoning caused the US to lose the solar panel industry to china)

(A) arguments around this are pretty over. I think that is why so little time is spent on it now. The Anti-science & big oil crowd win so long as nothing happens. Reading a list like A, B, C certainly sounds like someone talking themselves out of getting shape (A) I can't get in shape,(B) even if I can, someone else will be in better shape, (C) by the time I need to worry about being in shape, there will be a technology that makes it easy for me anyways.
That assumes it’s actually a benefit.

The point here is the “100 pumps” raise costs and complexity for zero benefit.
The Cope is strong in this one.
Working in a large company, 50-80% of the work seems like bullshit but often plausibly necessary because the projects are large and complex and there are a lot of coordination headwinds across so many teams with large adverse effects of building the wrong thing or getting things wrong at scale. So you have a lot of meetings, a lot of planning, and a lot of middle management. It's pretty easy to go too far in the wrong direction though where you can see a 1:1 ratio or even worse of administrative/managerial overhead where a project might have only 1-2 actual engineers doing work but a heavy dose of project/program/product managers, 'leadership', or other overhead. Basically this is the ratio you have to watch, ideally you have <=10% overhead, 20-30% is maybe workable but as soon as you have 50%+ overhead it's pretty obvious something is wrong.
I haven't really looked into it in detail, but AFAICT GB Studio is honestly incredible. I program the Game Boy as a hobby; this machine has basically no RAM and a CPU that's - depending on how you measure a "cycle" - either ~1MHz or ~4MHz, with a shockingly limited and non-orthogonal instruction set (and don't even get me started on dealing with bank switching). Historically games for it have been almost exclusively coded in assembly. And yet someone's come along and built a seemingly fairly flexible WYSIWYG game engine for it? If it didn't exist I would've told you it was impossible. I still don't quite believe it's possible, despite the proof being right in front of me.
Let's do it that way then. Problem solved.
Yep.

Close Google cloud.

Close everything that’s not maps, ads/search, YouTube, chrome, gmail.

Minimize costs.

Just feed that money straight to its investors.

Its the end of the road for googles efforts at innovation.
Yeah, psychedelics often do make belief systems more consistent (or they break them completely), and consistency is not accuracy.
They did. You could get one with a green display, an amber display, or a white display.
Then you wanted to add the website icon to their iphone but it was intentionally made to complicated to remember how to do it. The onlookers make the computers are hard facial expression. You explain it was intentional. They think you are just not very good with computers.
Economics is rather dodgy as a science as well, at least compared to the physical sciences. e.g. (as has been said of philosophers) is there anything more predictable than two economists who will give the opposite recommendations on nearly any question of consequence? That is not science, that is politics. Or at least the science is still in its infancy on questions like that.
Show HN: ChatGPT You Can Teach
Hey HN! I'm Karthik & have been working on Typemagic (https://typemagic.com): a ChatGPT client that saves your prompts, and applies them when needed based on your chat.

The Problem:
Since it came out, I've been using ChatGPT for various tasks, such as coding, generating database queries, reviewing my writing, and learning new things. Initially, I found myself constantly managing useful prompts in a Notion doc. I'd either paste a prompt from Notion to provide the right context or sift through my chat history to locate that context.

Some examples of snippets I frequently used include:
- A detailed summary of my Tech stack.
- Movie and book preferences (for suggestions).
- My database schema (so that it could write queries).
- Writing guidelines to follow when reviewing my writing.

This workflow was fine for 3 prompts, but sucked for 10. So I set out to build a better way.

Typemagic automatically searches for the best prompts in your library, applying them when needed based on your chat. Once you save your a prompt, you (hopefully!) don't have to worry about applying it manually - Typemagic takes care of it. While there's definitely room for improvement, this approach has been more effective than manually searching and pasting the right prompts for me.

I'd greatly appreciate any feedback you have, especially critical feedback :).

The Journey:
This is the second iteration of the product. In the first version, you could create ChatGPT agents to chat with. But before asking what you wanted, you had to choose the right agent to chat with. Needing to make this decision every time you wanted to switch context was too much friction.

I realized my design approach was outdated. With AI, we have the opportunity to offload more decision making from users' minds onto AI. The right balance is one in which users act more as managers: approving / rejecting proposals, vs. actually, outright, deciding. As AI becomes more powerful, this balance will shift towards AI making more / most of the decisions.

With this insight, my friend Akash and I designed the current version that relies on Typemagic choosing the prompts during your chat while giving you visibility and control over the prompts applied.

Under the hood:
Currently, Typemagic uses embeddings (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings) to find the best prompt matches by comparing your current chat embedding with the embeddings for all of your prompts to find the best matches.

Using Firebase, Firestore for auth and to store data. Deployed on Vercel (huge fan!).

What's Next?
I'm working on enhancing the experience with faster performance, better recommendations, and the ability to share and discover useful prompts.

I'd greatly, greatly appreciate your feedback. Thanks for reading this far.
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If you're doing something useful for Bob, and he's doing something useful for upper management, and upper management is doing something useful for shareholders... then transitively you're probably doing something useful for shareholders. Or at least to reject that hypothesis you'd need a lot of visibility into what Bob is doing, and what the upper management is doing, and what their respective goals/priorities/strategies are.