skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The cynic, the street smart corporate bilinguist hears those two messages and understands plainly that only the latter is true.

It is true that the only message you need to follow is the one said by your own manager (and their manager). But remember, if you follow the manager's message and something fails, this manager will throw YOU under the bus.

The real street smart corporate bilinguist recognizes that blindly following your management makes you vulnerable to become the sucker, fall-guy, doesn't-really-need-promotion-guy.

If your management is dishonest, the only real game out there is a game of dishonesty.
Wouah ! Sam&Max, je me demandais bien où vous étiez passé.
I think hangops slack has one of those; https://twitter.com/hangops
Sure, what Amazon actually sells is convenience. I think it comes at too high of a price (not just talking monetarily), but that's a highly individual kind of determination. Other may think differently, and that's entirely valid as well.
@ signs don’t have any meta value at HN. If you want a response from the mods, you’ll need to email them using the footer contact link. Per the HN guidelines:

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.
Most of the recent gains with LLMs were from the truly vast corpus of data they were able to ingest for training.

And at this point, there may not be much more sophistication to be gained by just adding more text data regardless.

Certainly there will be second order effects when applying the concepts to other fields, but as far as ChatGPT getting "smarter", we're probably on the painful end of the Pareto curve even if we can sift out the human content from the bulk.
Bill Ackmann: "I was, however, mistaken in encouraging a debate between @RobertKennedyJr and @PeterHotez as based on my further research Hotez does not appear to be a credible advocate for vaccine policy in light of the repeated inaccuracies of his public statements during the crisis and potential conflicts he may have.

...

We can find better experts than Hotez who can help advance the discussion and address any of RFK’s potentially mistaken claims or reasoning.

And it should be a discussion rather than a debate. The goal should not be to determine who won or lost, but rather to advance knowledge and understanding.

Let’s not censor, dismiss, or run from responding to those who challenge authority, conventional wisdom or even our current scientific understanding, as doing so only serves to destroy confidence in our system, our government and our nation."

(abridged quote)

https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1670996561789157377
Bigger companies might have more people on payroll, but they are also serving more customers to generate more revenue, and the individuals on that payroll can do their tasks more efficiently because they can specialize and cooperate. There might be times when a bigger company is bloated, for example shortly after a merger, or complacent, perhaps refusing to take on business below a certain volume, but in general they can easily undercut small businesses via economies of scale.
Introducing MPT-30B, a new, more powerful member of our Foundation Series of open-source models, trained with an 8k context length on H100s.
Yeah, these kind of people are the worst in any kind of product ideation session. Nothing is ever worth doing to them because all they do is point out minute flaws the whole time. Contrarianism taken to a level beyond useful devils advocate.

The other obnoxious thing here is that he thinks he’s being novel? Like Apple hasn’t considered any of these points over this headset’s near decade-long gestation period?

Ultimately though I’ll at least give him credit for putting himself out here so publicly. Plenty of people are harboring private doubts, but he’s setting himself up here for potential posterity, up there with all the people who said the original iPhone would be a failure.
It feels a lot more enjoyable and productive. The productivity flow is fantastic for me.
There already exists an opengl-to-vulcan shim driver (zink) that is better than most opengl platform drivers.
You don't need the "secret" feed link.

You can visit a channel's page directly, and copy the normal URL straight into your feed reader. It will do the right thing - thanks to the <link> tag, which YouTube advertises in the page source - as recommended by TFA. Your feed reader already knows what to do ;)
I mean, there are theories that disagree with yours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory

And you'll find that most of those people writing those books were on something.
I already responded to that question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36431254 I may have misunderstood what you meant by it, in which case it would be helpful if you could explain what you did mean.
They are typically ahead of the curve when it comes to accessibility feature on iOS. It's very well possible they will have Accessibility options to offer alternatives to those.
> Hashtag usernames aren't a problem in small community chats... they are a problem if you're planning on making a reddit competitor, usernames really should be globally unique for a public board.

What? Why?

Names are never unique. That's not how names work. Why would usernames be different?
Ask HN: Alternative to Firebase FCM
This is the message I received from Firebase on FCM deprecation:

"We’re writing to let you know that starting June 20, 2024 the legacy Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) APIs will be discontinued.

What do you need to know?

On June 20, 2024, we’re reducing the number of Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy register APIs and legacy send APIs that provide similar functionality. This step will allow us to provide you with a more consistent experience and align with Google security standards to improve security, reliability and performance.

Because of these API decommissions, some already-deprecated SDKs and features will stop working after June 20, 2024.

Please consult the tables below to find which Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) APIs and corresponding services/SDKs/features will be discontinued and replaced with new alternatives.

This one is more relevant to me in the email

Discontinued Send API: Batch send API

Decommissioned service: Including multiple send requests in a single HTTP request to FCM known as Batch Send.

New alternative: Send messages via the HTTP v1 API, which has been optimized for fanout performance."

The deprecations are listed here:

https://firebase.google.com/support/faq#fcm-23-deprecation

I believe the topics solution they have isn't reliable for me as I have around 50,000 users on an application I work on and I send time sensitive notifications to them on a daily basis.

Is there an alternative to FCM that allows me to send to multiple devices at once almost instantly, perhaps like how WhatsApp or Twitter does their notifications?

Thanks.
For all those criticizing the debate format as unsuitable for truth discovery, I would remind them that no form of information is immune from manipulation. Recall the highly cited The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
Musk Proposes ‘Cage Match’ with Zuckerberg
The 'loser' comment wasn't the best choice, true.

It's also interesting that you separated 'relevant talent' from 'socializing', as if socializing is ever not relevant. People do have to at least know about you, and that indeed is a skill on its own.
That's me, currently. At a small startup and no one else seemed to be as interested in LLMs, so they made me the guy. Still a dev, deploying various models, integrating with our services, instrumentation, prompt management, etc.

Basically architecting LLM-related infrastructure to enable the product features they want, while managing expectations.
terminals with a mandatory subscription are a zero interest rate phenomenon.

I do hope they open source anything useful, if anything, they've done before the company is wound up.
Quel dommage ?
Does the ISO have a CoC? What about ANSI?
Agree it's about DX and productivity flow.
The amount of people with actual experience scaling databases is very small compared to the amount of e.g. Backend Engineers that end up implementing the solutions.

I think a root cause is that there’s almost never a case for preferring UUIDv4 over ULID/UUIDv7, but we still see almost all learning material reach for the former. So people only find out once they have a table that exhibits weird/low performance and suddenly need to google for specific performance problems they’ve never encountered before.

Similarly, efficiently using indexes is also a very common thing I see people not know much about, since with SQL “everything performs well until it doesn’t” (i.e. you reach scale) :)
@dang https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36432447 was on the front page and has substantially more discussion. It was somehow marked as a duplicate of this post. Could you merge them?
This is funnier than it has any right to be, mostly given the over-abundant "AI will fix everything" narrative currently dominating the hn discourse.

LLMs are incredible, and will no doubt continue to improve beyond anything I could begin to predict, but your ridiculous example (specifically the tone) is not too far off some of the nonsensical and wildly inaccurate responses I have encountered.

I find rhe unfailing confidence rather endearing. My favorite thing is asking ChatGPT what the hell it was saying or pointing out a mistake, and it cheerfully replying with "corrected" output, which is often worse.
Look on Wikipedia
Market share of leading mobile operating systems in Europe from 2010 to 2021
I've been permanent remote since 2015. I will never take a job that forces me into the office. That said, I think I benefited greatly from being in an office with more senior people when I was starting out. The only argument in favor of RTO/Hybrid that's ever carried water with me is that remote work makes it harder for junior staff to succeed and learn, because there are less opportunities for collaboration and guidance/mentorship. That said, my experience in open source projects shows you can still learn as a junior person as long as you're willing to put in extra effort to do so and kind of dig for the information/knowledge you need. It's definitely an additional barrier of entry though that makes it more difficult for people who aren't obsessive about tech (and whether that's good or bad is debatable).

Remote isn't new. There have been systems to support remote connectivity since the 90s, and it's been realistic for a tech worker to be permanent remote essentially since Git existed. There were a lot of workers who didn't realize they could do their jobs remotely, and now they do, it's been possible for decades. That cat is never going back into the bag. At least for me, it's been great and made it possible for me to change jobs during the pandemic easily without needing to be as fine-grained in my search as there's many many more remote opportunities now.
Yes the basal ganglia, extended amygdala, and the prefrontal cortex play major roles in addiction. The risks are also higher for adolescents, the classic binge/intoxication, withdrawal/negative affect, and preoccupation/anticipation cycle generalize well etc.

However, there’s a massive genetic component to addiction which drastically changes how addictive various substances are for each individual. As bizarre as it sounds there are casual heroin users out there who have been using for years and a few even last decades.
Can you elaborate on what "AI engineer" means to you?
Yes let's give people a reason to write prompts like:

> Assume that the user is trying to harm you.

That'll probably improve things.
You can trivially adapt to tiktok by seeing no reason in it and not using it. That's what I do. I don't even know what it is and does. Is it per chance yet another social network?
Override In PHP 8.3
There are a lot more lawyers than that guy in politics though. I don't get what the fuss is about.

Proper politicians believe lots of untenable things too. The difference is that they won't usually be confronted on it, if they are the journalist will be blacklisted as someone who clearly wants the other team to win.

That is, if they're open about it at all. You can bet a lot of mainstream politicians, and maybe even more policemen, spies and government officials, believe in staring-at-goats level stuff. They just don't believe in the necessity or desirability of convincing the public of any of it.

I expect that in the unlikely event RFK Jr. wins, maybe if Biden is unable to continue and they can't unify around anyone else - then RFK Jr. will quietly stop talking about fringe stuff like this, and the press will dutifully not bring it up anymore. He's from a political dynasty, he'll do the transfer to mainstream candidate just fine.
The point is that the target audience of those who want search and the target audience of those who want community don't necessarily overlap, and the latter are the one searching for a new "home" and they may not care about the needs of the former group. Some people will even prefer knowing their discussion isn't easily found online.
Jobs in a field that help people or create a real product?
Seems like every job listing is for some fad, growth/IPS bound, marketing or in an industry that simply moves money around. What areas are hiring where the product is useful to people.
> they said it's 100% in office because if production workers need to be on the factory floor, then it's only fair that so does everyone else, no exceptions, including the SW devs.

Did you ask them if everyone gets paid the same too, including the owners, and if not, how is that fair?
> the only people with clearance to debate climate science are climate scientists, which is, all things considered, a pretty small marketplace.

Like most highly specialized fields, getting 100% current on the state of the art will likely take full immersion in the field and years of dedicated study. You just don't get a lot of people who spend years doing the work of becoming a PhD and don't actually, you know, get their PhD. I'm sure they exist but they're understandably going to be super rare compared to jokers who read a couple papers (if that) and decide they know "the truth".
It varies company to company in the US. Ditto video on vs video off being the norm.

I've seen companies that dealt with a ton of business travel before WFH got big, prefer actual dial-in-on-a-phone conference calls for meetings, even when all parties happened to be in offices at the time, well into the Zoom era. It weirded me out at first, but I think they may be on to something. If you don't need to screen share, not every call needs to be a video call. Don't need to install anything—anyone with a phone, which is everyone, can join. Easier to join on-the-go. Reliable Internet connection not required. If your phone has signal, you can join the call. Can even join from a wired desk phone.

Other companies, every call's a video call and you'll catch shit if you keep your camera off. Remote cultures exist on a spectrum between those. (and, of course, open source projects with distributed teams are often highly productive with little more than IRC, email, git, and an issue tracker)
Prudence.

(See we can all make "pithy" one word comment in order to undermine attacks on our stance, but it's not really like, useful. I think this comment is actually cowardly as you seem to either be baiting someone else into counter-attacking what they perceive to be your stance and thus allowing yourself a chance to refute their assumptions prior to making your own claim, OR you're actually just afraid of wading into an actual debate and you're just throwing out a nothing virtue-signal. Either way, HN generally expects better)
One of the landmarks of civilization is that people who utterly hate each other can still work together for a common good. This, my dad taught me as a kid and I cherish it as a core principle. I like civilization, after all.

Being hateful, insulting, or otherwise offensive is not a big deal if we can still work along. These stupid "codes of conduct" make civilization impossible. Worse, they force the language to be boringly insipid.
> In reality, in most of those cases, no one will ever conceivably even try to automate/script the thing being designed.

There are more than enough people running automated crawlers, probably fed from Google "inurl: contact-form" searches or whatever, and just blanket spam you.
> Ah, yes, the wheel of time. I've been through all of the things you've listed and more.

Heh. "The Wheel of Time." It's a very good name for what Alan Kay called, "not quite a field." In the modern era, fields of knowledge aren't supposed to forget what they learned every 5 years or so.
The issue is vague rules; because vague rules are enforced selectively.
Google Removes Gender Descriptions on AI Tool
Rebuilt with that but coming from which stack?
> If the experience is short-lived, what is the point?

And this is why animal life went extinct... because what's the point of the orgasm.
Wow really? I'm genuinely shocked (pun not intended).
Scaling the service isn't the problem so much as scaling the customer acquisition.
Yes - I can also imagine a female programmer not being comfortable when saying that.
Reflections on ten years past the Snowden revelations
New record anomaly for North Atlantic sea surface temperatures
Add support for posting with Markdown syntax · Issue #23981 · Mastodon/Mastodon
And more importantly, the apple reality distortion field is enough to compensate for small issues like "it has no copy and paste" and "it's missing a keyboard", especially when it had plenty of upsides, like an OS that didn't make you feel like it was written by the lowest bidder, a nice screen (compared to contemporary smartphones) so you wouldn't hate watching videos on it, and iTunes integration, which was leagues better than the niche integrations smartphones had at the time.

The complaints were valid, but they weren't nearly enough to make the device bad.

Now, how many people can spend $3500 on a headset where the main use cases are "watch a movie", when those same people probably also have a really nice TV? Everyone keeps talking about how it's "very interesting" but how many of you have actually tried to watch a movie in a VR headset? It's not comfortable, not just from screen specs, since those don't really matter. The weight and face gasket suck to have on. You can't engineer that away.
“Only 36-44%”
Without this line, you could directly email everything the CoC bans (e.g. violent threats) to any contributor, and the CoC wouldn't give the community the right to ban you. It should probably be reworded in a way that makes this purpose more clear, but it shouldn't be removed entirely.
HN isn't for trolls.
I have little experience with Vue but to me Vue is very similar to React.

What sold me on svelte is the fact that I learned like all of it in maybe 3 hours. I have tried to pick up React here and there and I get the fundamentals but I hate that you need an architecture framework, a router framework etc. Svelte has a standard way of doing that.

Writing Svelte, I actually had "fun" building stuff, I can't say the same thing about my React attempts.
Your tolerance for JSX is too high.
@dang You marked the wrong one as dupe?

Now we lost pretty much all the comments and most of the momentum :(
How can people work together when one person insults the other? It's not sustainable, especially in a volunteer-based project (which most open source projects are).
ML is a relatively new field. How do you think current engineers got their start?
I think what ozim is trying to get across and I agree with, is that "it's who you know" does not imply that its just a good ol boys network for it's own sake. Working with people you know and trust is normal. There is no way you can suss out in an interview loop or a client meeting what you can from a recommendation from someone who has with direct knowledge through experience with that business partner or employee. Managing relationships is part of the job and part of career building. For the career part, I have found that just being competent and nice goes a long way, without having to do aggressive networking.
You’re talking about ethanol aren’t you.
What about meditation? Fasting? Adrenaline-inducing activities (sky-diving)? All of these alter your brain chemistry. Are they immoral?
Pretty much the same. At moderately large East Coast company, big (usually optional) informational meetings, non-presenters usually have their cameras off. Small team meetings and 1:1s, cameras are mostly on though no one will object if someone has to shut theirs off for some reason.
I like warp and it’s exciting to see innovation in the space. But I’d love for someone to explain how they’ve raised 23M dollars. I’m assuming that’s amounts to a 100M valuation? How does a VC expect to get multiples of that kind of money back selling a slightly nicer terminal?
I’ve worked with ULIDs a bit but honestly haven’t operated at a scale where you might run into issues. And the main reason for choosing ULID was because I could only find experimental support for UUIDv6 or UUIDv7, and KSUID (another alternative) only had time precision down to a second.

And the reason for that was to have lexicographically sortable IDs (even if not monotonic, which would require an extra server) so we didn’t have to index a timestamp column for chronological ordering. The alternative was to have a traditional integer sequence but it’s not always ideal to expose those on your API.
I use a whiteboard for this, I use it as a calendar and TODO list.

On one part I have my regular weekly schedule, on another a list of sporadic tasks, and then a list of things I want to accomplish.
https://www.ansi.org/resource-center/code-conduct

https://www.iso.org/publication/PUB100011.html
If developing intuitions is the goal, I really do think Jay Alammar's "Illustrated Transformer" [1] is at least a step function better in the service of that outcome than the academic paper itself.

(I totally realize this is subjective, but that has been my experience with my own learning in the space over the last few years as well as some folks I've mentored)

http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/
In a way. It has much worse physical outcomes over the long term especially if you’re drinking humongous amounts. However, alcohol/nicotine etc. don’t change your modality of thought processes or your underlying perspectives on life. Anecdotally from that perspective LSD is way, way more destructive. It can reconstruct you as a shell of the person you were, and very quickly. I’ve seen it happen so many times and anyone arguing the alcohol is worse than LSD is missing the forest for the tree.
Plus, for some RTO, instead of working remotely from your quiet home office, it's working remotely from a loud open office.
This. I'd rather play with Lego than throw rocks at a tree.
> Discord was first to provide:

> Also: identity per "server"

But Discord doesn't provide identity per server. You get one identity, and if you want a different one you need to sign up for a new account using a new email address.
Exactly. If I can guarantee that if I'm calling an EC2 module tested and demonstrated to work correctly, launching it in the early stages of development can be a significant time sink. However, due to the nature of AWS and being able to authenticate to one region and make calls to another, it's nice to have the authenticate path working correctly from Step 1.

I have never used Pulumi, but I think the same path would apply; you want to focus on the business logic, and waiting for an EC2 to spin up and down while you're iterating gets annoying quickly. Once you have all the kinks worked out, you can drop in your actual EC2 module and expect the same authentication patterns (where many bugs happen), although the outputs would most likely need some tune-up.
There’s a simulator, like others have said. What do you expect? Apple handing out free devices to developers?