skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I envision a world where a portion of senior workers -- 40%, I would guess, based on vague approximations of folks who prefer in-person or hybrid work -- work in office, with mentorship representing a huge portion of their responsibilities. Junior workers probably ought to spend at least a year or two in office to acclimate to office job life; high performers can escape once they've proven their abilities.

That being said: I wonder how much of remote work preferences are actually a result of affordability and quality of life issues in cities, especially in the USA. I would have no problem working a hybrid or even full-time in-person gig in an office... if I could afford to buy a house, walk or bike to work, and live in a quiet, clean, interesting neighborhood. Being paid a decent salary in tech that should be possible, but it's really hard to manage in the USA at the moment for most definitions of quiet/clean/interesting. And before anyone claims that cities can't be "quiet" or "clean", I've spent enough time in nice European cities that do satisfy all three criteria to know that I'm not just being overly picky. Even if I had a million dollars, I doubt I could satisfy those criteria in the USA.

Anyway, as long as we're stuck with an imperfect housing market, remote work is such a blessing. I'm sure it's helpful for some junior workers, too -- if you don't have to move to a $2k+/mo apartment in a major city straight out of college, you'll have a much easier time paying off loans and saving up money early in life. I suspect that's opened a lot of doors for folks who previously couldn't work the most prestigious tech jobs.
No joke. I saw a job advert classifying bank holidays as a perk. Job was in a western European country.
> Discord just isn't a reddit/forums/wiki competitor, that's not what the product is intended to be, and people continue to insist on forcing it to be one for some reason.

I would assume that there’s pressure for “growth“, and pushing discord as a Reddit or forum replacement. It’s probably just that.
What project?
Text generation is conversion of previously prepared idea to text. If you didn't have that idea beforehand, you would have nothing to say. Sure it's a nontrivial process, because ideas don't map to text well, but it's merely text conversion, not really thought. Also text must work around reader's ignorance and prejudice, which is completely irrelevant for idea itself.
Ads (particularly ads served by third parties) have never been legitimate, that's why most users who know what they're about use an adblocker to stop them. Videos should only be embedded once the user consents to that (which could be implemented using a first-party button that the user clicks to affirm their consent and which then loads the third party video component.
Stock market exchanges usually include a volume metric. Most people don't pay attention to it, generally because it's unneeded: you assume that there is sufficient market for retail investors.

It does matter on the "pink pages", where volume is small. You cannot assume that anybody will buy even one share at the last price, much less extrapolate out to a large order.

I've never seen Bitcoin volume measures, so I can't tell. It wouldn't surprise me if "BTC @ 30K" means "some idiot sold bitcoin from one account he controls to another" or "you might, in fact, be able to get that price for your bitcoins".
I do love this argument against GDPR (or any data protection) because it often comes down to "Screw the US consumer, I'm profitable because they have no protections, so no one should have any."

... which is kinda the US business sentiment in general, I suppose.
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Do you think researchers that really have 0 conflicts or interest with other researchers working in those companies really are up-to-date as to what the real capabilities of NN will be in the coming years ? We all know there's a huge gap between what researchers think is possible in theory and what's actually released as a working product in the industry.

My intuition is nobody saw chatGPT coming, and only if you were inside openAI a few months before the release could you have anticipated the impact.
Google Fiber has been advertising to me since 2015. I have the T-shirt to prove it:

https://twitter.com/googlefiber/status/628651613637361665

They finally trenched my neighborhood six months ago, a full six years after AT&T. But I still can't order service.
> Emacs brings nothing new to the table with respect to editing model, it's essentially notepad

Wow, and here I thought I had seen all derogatives about Emacs ;-) But claiming that it doesn't bring anything new compared to Notepad is really strange.

1. Emacs predates Notepad by one or two decades.
2. Have you actually had a look at what is actually included in Emacs? I am not talking about mail readers and other "apps" inside emacs. I mean just for editing text in a non-mode specific way. Things like rectangular cut and paste, vertically aligning stuff, infinite undo, undo restricted to the selection (region) and many many more stuff. That Notepad doesn't have.
I work on several large react apps that are very data heavy and what I would consider complex. Honestly we just use useState and prop drilling. Most state is stored at optimal position within the hierarchy, so there really aren't that many props being passed down. The only place context is used is for session information.

It's really quite simple and elegant. Svelte's model would likely be more complex tbh.
> ...you need real single women...

THIS.

I'm no chicken/egg expert...but to get the women I'm thinking you'll need both some sort of serious rewards for women signing up, and a good answer for the woman who asks "So...why is your new dating site going to suck less than all the other ones that I've said 'yuck!' to already?"
That's a good way to make carjacking easy.
It would be all totally fine if the pro-life totally not abortion clinics didn’t masquerade as abortion clinics. There is no problem with presenting people with option, but there is a problem with misrepresenting what the options are.

The screenshots in the article show pro-life clinic that is advertising itself as “abortion pill”. Google literally had to implement the “provides abortions” and “does not provide abortions” tags because the results are otherwise indistinguishable.

I totally respect people’s right to choose.I can understand the stance that life is precious. I am not against the ads for pro life clinics, because pregnancy can be scary and it can be a way to find some resources and support.

However it doesn’t feel right that pro life clinics try to trick you into it.
They recently raised $50M in a Series B: https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-drive-series-b
Charter schools are incredibly popular in my district and it's absolutely because they ruthlessly remove students who cause problems.
Anyone using Svelte with Deno? I see some stuff on github and google about it, but curious if any HN folks have any experience with this.
Military AI’s Next Frontier: Your Work Computer
My point is that saying Discord is universally better than forums ignores context and is not a useful comparison.
I don’t believe private, for-profit organizations and OSS communities are equivalent.

If OP’s org does have a CoC equivalent, it wouldn’t be the gotcha you seem to think it is
While RUM is out of date, I still think it's an excellent resource. Some of the information in the book may be out of date, but I think it's an excellent place to start when you want to jump in to Ruby's source. Basically, after reading RUM the best place to go is to start reading the source.

That said, it would be really great if Pat (or someone besides me) published an update version of RUM
My thought as well. A refundable processing fee for uncontested take downs would eliminate 90% of the problem.
I feel like you could have some sort of standard handle on the front of a robotaxi to lead it around.
The world was better when personal sex lives were not a discussion topic of casual acquaintances.

The thought of the average person having sex is repulsive to me. I don't want to know anything at all about it, especially if they're into weird stuff, but even if not.

Most people feel this way. Why is it so hard to understand?
In my opinion, this condemns the whole format. How you can trust any conclusion from a process that can so easily be undermined?
So I just cancelled my Prime membership to see how hard it is, and because cancelling subscriptions before they expire is a good idea anyway. I often get better offers just by doing this. I will very likely re-subscribe though. Here's what I did:

1) Select "Your Prime Membership" from the "Account & Lists" menu on the Amazon homepage. It's not hard to find and not in a surprising place.

2) At the top of that page is a menu titled "Manage Membership - update cancel and more". The dropdown contains a link saying "End Membership". They also warn right there "By ending your membership you will lose access to your Prime benefits." without telling me that I'm not actually going to lose any benefits until the end of the membership period. That's a very popular dark pattern. They clearly want me to wait until the last moment and then forget to cancel. On the other hand, they do send a reminder.

3) Clicking "End Membership" brings me to a page listing all my Prime benefits with a big button at the top saying "Use your benefits today". At the bottom of the page are three buttons, "Keep membership", "See More Plans" and "Continue to cancel". Continuing to cancel...

4) Now I'm on a page with a big fat headline saying "Please confirm your Prime membership cancellation" and a prominently highlighted button saying "End on 15 July 2023" next to a gray button saying "Keep Membership". Now they're finally letting me know when my membership benefits will end. Clicking this button actually cancels the membership.

So this is one unnecessary step and one annoying dark pattern (plus a few more subtle ones). It's not egregious. I would say it's slightly better than average.
https://www.designjoy.co/getstarted

Brett @ designjoy is a 1-person business doing > $1MM/year revenue. He's on twitter (@designjoy) and had a good Indiehackers interview with Courtland from a couple years back.
I think it's more subtle than that. If you're in a service industry, and you can't serve, your cash flow stops. But if you're selling a product, then the product can keep generating income as long as it's valuable.

Obviously, you can think of yourself as being in the service of building a product, but that doesn't nullify the distinction. In fact, it can strengthen it: devote your initial efforts to building the sellable part of the product, so that you can actually sell it as soon as possible.

(This is the "capital" part of capitalism. Use labor to build capital, then profit off the capital.)
M8 I took an ethics course. Thank goodness the professor taught me insightful things like "don't write software that hurts people", I never would have thought of that myself! Don't write code for x-ray machines if I don't know what I'm doing.. got it!

Incidentally I still have my assigned text from that course, right next to me in fact. "Cyberethics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace" Hmmm...
Piss off, I'll do my tinkering on a platform that isn't continually trying to prevent me from doing it, thank you very much. I'll use my expensive pocket bauble as the limited device it is designed to be. Just don't try and gaslight me into thinking it's in any sense a general purpose computer.
> I was an occasional smoker for 20+ years. Could go weeks without a cigarette.

I think you are a very rare minority then.

Quit smoking is painfull (went through it multiple times). For me it feels so much better since I finally got it.

And since then my behaviour regarding other drugs also got a lot better, because you dont have that "hunger" to take s.th. from smoking.

> It is without a doubt one of the most pointless drugs in existence.

It doesnt even make you high lol.
And yet, somehow, no one has done anything to address the inherent issues for colorblind developers. All of these colorization add-ons are woefully inadequate in that regard.
It doesn't use up too many resources, but I still don't like having more than 50% of the user database be essentially spam. If you ever want to sell your company you want to have somewhat accurate numbers of actual user registrations. Ever since I realised the extent of the issue I have become very doubtful about reported user counts from startups. In our case the only reason we've realised this is spam is because we annotate signups with GeoIP and also allow users to fill in a name and title which will then be something like "find escorts in Chennai" and the signup will be from India etc. If you only look at the email addresses all you'll see are many gmail addresses with western names, so you might be fooled into thinking that all of these are legitimate users.
Companies have anticipated this argument. I’m not sure I believe them but apparently working in the office is more environmentally friendly in a lot of cases.
Deadlock and livelock are different things. Repurposing the term livelock to mean deadlock deeply offends me, which should deadlock this thread; completely stuck with no more observable signs of activity.

However, it will probably only livelock; the thread will continue to have obserable signs of activity, although with very little hope of meaningful completion, or at best, very slow actual progress. Most, but not all, of the effort will go towards spinning.
I posit there is no such thing a s teetotaler. That same person saying all drugs are bad will happily load up on turkey and carbs then go into a comfortable deep sleep while the chemicals manipulate them.

Simply put we are continuous chemical reactions being modified by our environments of choice.
Python has no equivalent of logger.With or other k/v pairs, which is what makes it structured logging and why it's interesting at all. Go has had unstructured logging since its early days.
2021

already submitted two years ago (268 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692470
I worked on mechanical engineering and ID for some 3D video glasses in the mid-2000s. One of the supposed use cases was watching movies on a plane. As part of the project we tried to test out that hypothesis by having users watch something (I think it was Avatar) while in a limo driving down 280 (a fairly smooth highway in the Bay Area). One of the subjects had to pull over and vomit. Turns out he was a former fighter pilot.

The product found a niche as remote googles for FPV (first person video) drone pilots, but was not successful otherwise. It had a very narrow field of view and the aperture was small, so getting aligned to even see anything was challenging.

I still remain skeptical that movies on a plane will really work out, but I have more recently tried out some VR experiences which blew my mind and made me much more positive about the whole field. [0] [1] I'm also cautiously excited by the orders of magnitude improvements that Apple as made in resolution, field of view, and latency for passthrough.

[0] https://phi.ca/en/carne-y-arena/

[1] https://phi.ca/en/events/space-explorers-the-infinite/
An Amazon delivery driver thought that the automated message of the doorbell-cam (I'm honestly not sure if it was ring) said something racist, or in a rude tone and construed it as racist, reported the "interaction, and algorithms algorithm'd.
This is good, but also many people do not have comfortable and peaceful homes with nice offices, partners, dogs, etc and basically never leaving their apartment or room in their apartment is a nightmare and socially isolating in a profound way.
While you're imagining things, imagine having your life ruined by addiction and hearing the people responsible will not be HELD responsible because they're rich, from ruining people's lives.

Or imagine getting cancer from a product that was fraudulently tested by the company that makes it and then being told to "trust the science" regarding a product from the same damn company. Only a "loon" wouldn't trust these people, for sure.
Medical devices, even if there might be issue around safety of the patient, or over prescription, overall I believe it helps people in the end, rather than harm them.
Deloitte, three board members quit India's most valuable startup Byju’s
That’s a famous Star Wars quote.
Because there's not a need, or at least there wasn't originally. Discord started out as text/voice chat for gamers; small friend groups don't need Google indexing or similar. Larger communities could likely benefit from it nowadays, I agree, but the problem is that it's not search-index-friendly content imo: How do you appropriately index chat for search? I would think this is where LLMs could be useful -- digest an entire chat group and spit out insights/answers/etc.
The issue I always run into is that containers don't get maintained. I have never encountered a project where a container "just worked".

I absolutely love them when they do, but they have wasted so much of my time when they don't that I just skip them now. It takes me 5 minutes to set up a local env, and with a staging env at parity with production to test on there's never any issues.
Have you encountered any challenges related to metric aggregation? To the best of my understanding, such issues often stem from inherent inaccuracies due to sampling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Ulrq6DxwA&t=175s). I'm curious if using a smaller window for metric aggregation and routing these events to a stream aggregator could provide a possible solution.
ID verification of submitter s similar to crypto/adult sites.
As an aside, I know a number of Democrats who will vote for a Republican before they’ll vote for a Kennedy. Nothing against Kennedys, just not a fan of your principal claim to fame being your last name.
> Names are never unique. That's not how names work.

This causes all kinds of pain irl, it's not really a good example. IRL has the same issues non-unique usernames do. It's almost irrelevant in a small community because of the number of members. It becomes a problem in large communities because you can't find someone based on their name.

Discord's issue was downplaying the discriminator so much that a lot of people didn't realize they existed. That if you wanted to add someone, they weren't uniquely identified by username alone.

They probably could have solved that by making the discriminator more prominent early on in the app's lifecycle.
Kia and Hyundai have already made that trivial the past few years. At least with the tender to their provider and GPS the robot taxis should be recoverable and disableable.
Okay, don't use it, I use it and never had an issue, but I only use it on a few servers and my desktop for the past couple of decades
It absolutely hasn't been possible to watch a movie on a plane in VR since the 90s for a couple hundred dollars.

There's zero surprise that in 1990 nobody saw anyone watching a movie in VR on a plane because it was not remotely possible.

The main point may have some validity, supporting it with over the top misleading arguments just because they sound like slam dunks is dishonest.
Workers at Area 51 would definitely disagree with the premise.
I don't think you can really have a generic "this is why you're burnt out" or "that's not real burn out => look over here!".

There could be many reasons why someone is in a burnt out state - from lack of control, to being over-worked, being constantly over stimulated, emotional trauma or any number of other reasons.

It's something unique to the individual and is not always obvious.
No, their app is buggy and has been for almost a year. I've confirmed this with fellow Android users. Discord will spontaneously stop displaying the last 20ish channels across all servers and it will spontaneously start cropping image previews wrong. You have to close and reopen it whenever this happens.
Could you please explain what does it mean in PSK context? Any relevant link.
Except the forcing function in C occurs because if you make a mistake, you can have serious problems at runtime. With a strong type system, if you make a mistake, your program won't compile. It's a big difference, and it's hard to justify the C approach for reliable systems development in a modern context. No-one in this thread even seems to be trying.

If you want to use it for hobby projects because you enjoy it, knock yourself out. But advocating its use for anything important hasn't been viable for decades except for legacy reasons.
Any interest in working together on a new extension?
It's still enough value that people still choose to steal iDevices
While "pixel" was originally the 1x1 way back in the day, it's a generic term now used by industry to refer to analytics, often in tracking of user behavior and conversion events.
Why? Do you like to make software that barely works? Do you like to make and sell software which is dishonest in its capabilities? In traditional software, 10% error rate is unacceptable - it can't be released. But hey 10% error rate in AI is good! No, it isn't.
> Their app isn't buggy

The Android app often has issues that make using it infuriating.
I'm convinced it's largely older C-levels walking the halls, seeing empty cubes, and panicking because "nobody is working!"

I've yet to see any metrics that show forced RTO improves productivity, engagement, or anything else in white-collar industries.
And the project referenced is no longer available (or needed, apparently?)
I'm surprised that many recommend heavy Math, but I always thought AI engineer is sort of specialized data engineer for AI projects.

It's definitely a plus to know a bit about the Mathematics, but I doubt anything short of a Master of Science in Math with AI as specialization is going to close the gap. How many data engineers can do that?

Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to hire someone with zero AI exposure but tons of experience in sysadmin, data engineering and ops? It's going to be tough to find someone who are both an engineer and a Math wizard, I think.
I was with you until your last sentence. Taking you point at face value, people who despise codes of conduct nonetheless working under a code of conduct would just be another example of people disagreeing with each other (in this case disagreeing with people who favor the implementation of codes of conduct) and yet still being able to work together.

One could argue that the difference here is that codes of conduct are being enforced in a top-down fashion, that is, the people you disagree with are actually in the leadership of the project. But I can see how this argument could just as well be used to justify the value of codes of conduct.

FWIW, I've tried but I simply cannot decide if I'm ultimately in favor or against codes of conduct.
Resolution is only half the story. High bit rate 720p > Netflix levels of 4k video compression.

Downsampling compressed 4k video to 720p probably looks quite good as long as they don’t then compress the output.