skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Those in smaller tech companies, what's your org chart? Is it working?
I manage engineering for a company that's grown from about a dozen people to around 70, more than half of which is in product and development. Our structure has evolved organically during that time, primarily centered on technology-based teams (mobile, web, backend, etc), however we recently pivoted to an interdisciplinary product-oriented model.
In the course of evaluating this change I was surprised by the lack of available reference points - there are numerous opinion pieces on org design, but real world examples are few and far between.
Those of you in companies of 50-200, how is engineering structured? Is it effective? What would you change?
Wouldn’t that mean Intel would really have to negotiate a new deal with whoever buys AMD since otherwise they couldn’t make any new cpus?
Since there's a ton of Google employees here - reminder that Google does gift matching for this charity!
Those two options are not mutually exclusive
The Earthsea Trilogy (2003)
Do NN discover new tokens or encounter spontaneous tokens on its own?
Most humans can do neither, so it's setting the bar far too high.
That's mostly true, but not entirely true.

> There is a widespread belief among the public and even among chemists that plants do not contain cholesterol.

> This error is the result (in part) of the fact that plants generally contain only small quantities of cholesterol and that analytical methods for the detection of cholesterol in this range were not well developed until recently (1).

> Another reason has to do with the legalities of food labeling that allow small quantities of cholesterol in foods to be called zero (2).

> The fact is that cholesterol is widespread in the plant kingdom although other related sterols, such as β-sitosterol (henceforth referred to as sitosterol), generally occur in larger quantities.

> No current biochemistry text that we have examined provides an accurate account of cholesterol in plants.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ed082p1791 [2005]

On an unrelated note, just how horrible is this https://sci-hub.se website that gets you most scientific publications for free????
Most react component libraries correctly return <a> tags for <Button /> components with an href property, while still styling them as buttons. This preserves the expected link behaviors while satisfying the design obsession with buttons over traditional links.
But what passwords are you typing while on zoom and why aren't you on mute?
Oh, found it. The pigs used AI to detect a "drug trafficker": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36772253
"...with acceleration due to gravity g... A point-like unit mass slides frictionlessly over the surface under the action of gravity."

If you make up funny physics problems that don't look like the real world, then the math works out funny. What about heat, light, the motion of the larger entire system? There are a lot of forces they are just hand waving away. I think it's disingenuous to hand wave away much of the complexity of the real world and still expect your algebra problem to not be overly simplistic.
Unlimited miles and nights: Vulnerability found in rewards programs
the_donald was banned years ago, along with many other far right subs.
Where are these far right wing subs?

Right or wrong, I don't really care. The far right has been effectively purged from Reddit.
Emacs just keeps on winning*

*I use vim on a daily basis and its very sad to see Bram go.
I think that's code for some Google Analytics-like service (from googling for "top-fwz1.mail.ru/counter"), I mean mail.ru is not only email, but a Yandex/Google-like conglomerate of various web services.
Why would I want to pirate when the company making it will take me money?
I think if every hosting company that charges for ipv4 addresses offered complementary (or at least much cheaper) NAT64, then paying for an ipv4 would be only needed for ingress traffic, and ipv4 addresses could be dropped for most VMs.
> I don’t think this is a right approach.

You’re welcome not to think so! I’m just pointing out the relevant context. This isn’t an argument in a vacuum, there’s an academic discipline that has thoroughly engaged with it.

Part of that is a vast body of literature that in turns agrees and disagrees with your observations— to take a side, I’d start clicking links from “theory-ladenness”.

But the dome is rather boring. P1, this math describes a deterministic system; P2, here is a non-deterministic result; QED, P1 is false.

Since we know that P1 doesn’t describe the universe, it should be hard to have a strong opinion unless you’re invested in a philosophical position about pre-modern scientific practice.

(I’m not invested, so I don’t have an opinion other than that it isn’t trivially refutable as stated.)
Obligatory "you'll own nothing and be happy" dead horse comment.

Everyone, this is your call to get a region unlocked device. It's the best thing I ever did.
>always to the negative
Only if you let yourself focus solely on the negative. For example, I don’t have to worry about a bear or really animal attacking me in the city. I can navigate safely without my own source of light. I am not going to get dysentery or cholera from the water supply or a neighbor’s runoff. I can travel great distances and participate in many communities without maintaining my own vehicle. I don’t have to worry about everything being constantly coated in a layer of dust. I could go on for a while more…
They are similar, but I stick to :wq. I fear mixing up :x with :X. Would probably catch the mistake when being asked to type the encryption key, but anyway
Unverified fully levitating lk99 from China
Withholding like that won't achieve anything other than your own obscurity.
Duck DNS
So knowledge or memorization of culture is intelligence?

What if that personal steals your wallet without you being aware while you ask them that question because they need food. Is that intelligent?
>The resources and social stigma is vastly different between the two, and way worse for opiate users.

I think that actually makes the numbers worse. Alcoholism can be masked somewhat because it's socially acceptable to drink. That often delays people seeking treatment for it, sometimes by decades. There's no broadly socially acceptable form of using opiates recreationally.

In terms of resources, it varies significantly but there is Narcan for overdoses and Methadone.

I've known people from wealthy backgrounds, who did several stints in rehabs and did not have to worry about having a job etc... they had all the "resources" in the world and still couldn't stay clean.

This isn't to say it's hopeless, I'm just saying anecdotally that the number of people I know who have been in recovery specifically for heroin and achieved long term sobriety (>2-3 years) is less than the people I knew who are now dead.

Obviously "worse" is a meaningless term unless you specify how it's worse. Maybe they're making a point that alcohol is worse overall for society because of how prevalent it is, but if I was a parent I'd 10000000% rather catch my 16 year old drinking beer than doing opiates of any form.
Haltet euch da raus. Euer Circus geht mich nichts an. Wenn ihr mir einen Gefallen tun wollt, seid einfach ehrlich mit eurem Boss. Ich muss jetzt lernen.

So sehr ich auch dankbar dafür bin, dass ihr mich über Kevin informiert habt (wenn das denn überhaupt wahr ist), tut mir Leid, aber ihr habt euch das selber eingebrockt.
Thanks for the information. I want many copies as personal gifts to friends and family, but not on the order of 800. So if my book is commercially successful and my publisher is supportive enough it could happen. Thanks again
And that just seems like an engineering problem. Not something that is considered intractable.
What would be an example of a work that a human being could not produce?
Holger Friedrich, the Newspaper Owner who says stay away from Journalists
https://archive.is/L7zXD
I met Bram once, at an open source fair at Google’s Zürich office. At the fair everybody could show off their projects. There was one person who had built some kind of AST editor/IDE, where the unit of editing was not the file, but functions floating around in a workspace. He was showing this to Bram, but I don’t think he realized who he was talking to. When he asked “so, what do you think?”, Bram answered “Hmm yeah, I’m more of a vi-type of person.”
Of course not, but if your button pushes/replaces history then it should be an <a> tag with an href property.
And yet, still not worth boiling the planet over. Plant trees.
San Diego: https://goo.gl/maps/SofHcmcLdyNCpsEB8

LA: https://goo.gl/maps/4XzjwTJ3xS438izu5

Sacramento: https://goo.gl/maps/5QVxr3nzwa6cmd5TA

Brooklyn: https://goo.gl/maps/bwqb8ekAiWCsL1Ai6

Washington D.C.: https://goo.gl/maps/AYmNQAErn6h8yKco6

Houston: https://goo.gl/maps/6BMiFgyWv1ZM1HqV9

You just need to do it. Some is better than none and you need some to have more.
Lead is safe to handle, you just can’t eat it.
I'm an immunologist and I honestly can't stand tumor immunology. I'm glad there are people studying it of course, but it seems impossible to actually perform a reasonable experiment. Tumor immunologists are so obsessed with the tumor microenvironment and tumor resident immune cells and all of these other cell types that are totally messed up in cancer.

We don't even know how these cells work when they are operating perfectly! I wish there was more funding for immunology outside of the context of cancer, but I find it reasonable that this isn't the case.
None of this is excusable. Tell me what your project does in clear English.

"WASI is a standard for 50 functions you can call to do systems-level things from your WASM code. Here they are."

Done.

I don't care about wit/witx. I don't care the repo being in transition. I don't want to read about interposition or components or capabilities. I don't want to see your copy-pasta goals from WASM (which aren't clear for WASI). You're an API. Show me the API.
StackUp: Bring up development stacks with one command
StackUp lets you spin up a project's entire development stack with a single command.

Feature highlights:

- Define tasks that run on startup, shutdown, or on a schedule.
- Customize tasks and preconditions using javascript.
- Run tasks on a cron schedule, i.e. running php artisan schedule:run once every minute.
- Load shared configurations with remote file includes via http or S3.
- Optional checksum validation of remotely included files.
- Fast in-memory cache for skipping http requests when possible.
- Http request gateway that prevents unwanted access to remote files, domains or content types.
- Domain-specific http header configuration.
- ...and many more features!
I'm making an implication about the release of private details in a public forum. Whether the public sees it as good or bad depends on the forum. eg:Pics of their home is bad on social media, good in an expose.

I think it's because we realize that outcome should not be the only thing we value. Intent can heavily impact the benevolence of something.
Top tech re-brands slavery?
As an example, during the Iowa derecho which tore up much of the state, our neighborhood was only out of power for about three hours thanks to the buried lines. Other parts of town didn't get power back for over two weeks. Buried power lines is going to be on my list of desired features in any new property I buy.
I fail to see how these issues really matters. My issues with LLMs is that there is no score to tell the quality of an answer. The second thing is that it adds cognitive load and noise. In automations that might be fine but tools like Github Copiliot are more problematic. Once I got rid of it my dev speed clearly went up.
The existing problem is that multi-family dwellings are illegal in many high demand areas. Otherwise it would be highly profitable to build them there. If you fix that you don't need to do anything else.

Putting the state in charge of housing is the cause of the existing problem. They become captured by landlords, or favor higher property values because they increase property tax revenues.

What you need is some constitutional restraint on local zoning rules.
Actually 15229 is a decent approximation. It’s a better approximation than the one I did off the top of my head.
> How much of the "novel ways which have never been considered before" is just the novelty effect of having your very own artist?

What's the difference and why does that matter? Sure, plenty of people may have had the idea of an anthropomorphized teddy bear swimming in a pool, but if none of them ever realized it in the real world, the AI couldn't have learned from it.

> The change here is the cost, and not the capability.

I strongly disagree. Scaling the artistic process with GPUs instead of meatbags is a huge change in capability, just like the mechanized tractor was a huge capability change over the ox. The change in cost is a side effect in the change of capability.

You can now use a tool instead of outsourcing it to someone else and artists now have an automated tool that ostensibly replaces their manual labor.
On the other hand a good webapp can also be a website. Just matter of spending enough time on it.
Did you make an honest attempt to think through the question?

Note I said "initial instructions" i.e. all humans are bootstrapped off of other humans, as in:

You are the product of very long line of humans vs. environment, nature & nurture, cultural values, etc. Do you believe the way you generate your next set of "tokens" (thoughts, actions) is completely independent of your "training" as a human? Is your response to a given stimulus completely random?
We must ask ourselves what "at rest" means since there are multiple trajectories that give x(0) = 0, x'(0) = 0 and it seems that some posters believe this cannot fully constrain the particle to be either at rest or in motion at t=0.

There are multiple ways to resolve this dissonance. We could demand that the higher derivatives are also zero. We could derive some elaborate rule excluding non-zero x''(t) in the neighborhood of t=0. Or something else altogether. The issue IMO with these resolutions is that they're quite complicated and Newton almost certainly did not have any of them in mind.

It's much simpler to just content ourselves that NFL is a special case of F=ma (where F=0). I'm not sure why we should contort ourselves to preserve determinism since we know that gets thrown out the window with QM anyway.
Elon is on a knife edge. On one side is accumulating too many liabilities so that the LBO lenders would have to force liquidation to get anything back. On the other side is a raise that would have to be at a staggeringly lower valuation.

I would bet that X already has some hidden debt to Elon and that finances are maximally opaque. Maybe a regulator should ask the creditors how solid are their loans. If Elon is allowed to shannan now he will shannan again.
People are hooking up LLM's with "access to the world" all over the place. Some of that will increasingly result in output that gets fed into training set.

I'd be shocked if there aren't people running fairly large-scale research on letting LLMs using various patterns like ReAct to augment synthetic training data as we discuss this, because that'd be near the top of my list of things to do if I had the resources to turn around and train a large-scale model on those outputs, because testing ways of accelerating the training by letting the models build augmented training datasets themselves is such an obvious step.
IME, middle-clicking on a linuxy computer still works as expected most places. I use that far more often than real copy/paste.
What I mean to say is, why is it a foregone conclusion that this is the correct approach? Why shouldn't we accept that in cases like this, some people do things that all but guarantee they will become part of the natural processes that surround us constantly?

It's not like grizzlies have any great cultural animosity against humans, or that they have a good enough idea of what the situation is outside of their habitual ranges to plan some grandiose gestures to try to beat back the encroachment of humans. They're just doing what they've always done, and in contrast to humans the grizzly way seems to keep ecosystems more or less healthy.
>>Today's AI models are missing the ability to reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of "Why?" and "How?

So are majority of humans it seems.
" Is the omnipresence of elves and dwarves in modern fantasy all theft from Tolkien?"

In the form they seem to all take? Yea, it really kinda is... at best it's appropriation.

This isn't even a question for those who studied the topics is it?

Here's a link from a quick Google that goes over the topics. https://jamestkelly.com/8-ways-tolkien-changed-modern-fantas...

Tolkienesque elves and dwarves are only superficially similar to those mythological creatures which inspired them, with the subsequent prevailing forms used throughout fantasy being clearly derivative if not outright copies of his work (or as close as possible without violation of IP).

Your whole position seems to be born of the same "dumb take" behavior you're supposedly decrying, no?
Navigating maker's schedule for developers in scrum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
If you've got landlords who would rather leave units vacant rather than renting them out, the free market is also telling you something about your regulations on renting out those units.

I mean they would rather take zero money than some money. Why is that?
If (a host trying reach a remote service) has (no route to the address indicated by the A record) then it will try a AAAA record if one exists.

> Which hardware and OS are you describing?

This is how it's supposed to work on all OSes; on any recent BSD (excepting perhaps Apple?) or Linux setup, it should work this way.

> Clearly the blog post illustrated some examples where switching to v6 was not happening

In those situations it was for connecting to services that do not advertise a AAAA record.
I had to go and try this exact line of questioning with ChatGPT because I suspected this might lead to a weakness in it not admitting when it just doesn't have a clue (which would have been my answer)... mind you its a big human weakness/tendency to not admit lack of knowledge.

But the answer was surprisingly candid and yet thoughtful:

"""
I can't know for sure why you asked the question about the relationship between "Romeo and Juliet" and "Star Trek," as I don't have access to your personal thoughts or context. However, some potential reasons might include:

Academic Inquiry: You might be exploring themes in literature or media studies and are interested in drawing connections between different works across genres and time periods.
Creative Inspiration: If you're a writer, artist, or content creator...
"""

There were some others but overall I thought the initial disclaimer along with some possible theories approach was spot on and a lot better than my "no clue" knee jerk reaction.
Not to sound bitter, but should we assume that dang does not consider the creator of vim to be worthy of a black banner? I keep forgetting that this site, despite having hacker in its name, is not really about hacking. Anyways, I hope Bram Moolenaar finds peace.
> helping all of the wounded is the goal but you tend to those bleeding out before those suffering from slivers.

I think this shows your biases. As an example, at my previous company, I was the only one who had grown up on welfare, was a high school dropout, lived near a superfund site, etc.

However, I’m an older, straight, white male, and the millennials I worked with were all from much more privileged economic backgrounds.

But somehow it was okay by the company for them to make public statements such as “we need to quit hiring so many straight, white males", but bringing up class was inappropriate?
Can confirm the pain of working on a react application where 90% of the code was written by folks with shallow web knowledge. Not the fault of React.
Be careful what you wish for, this has already happened to The Social Network Formerly Known As Twitter.

I wonder if anyone who wished doom upon X in the past years is finally getting the satisfaction they wanted from watching its steady demise. Personally I don't see anything stopping someone from just making Twitter: The Sequel and starting the whole cycle all over again. There's nothing that outlaws the creation of an internet cesspool.
If you contort your thinking enough, 1920s Germans suffered miserably and unfairly and we could never comprehend their suffering, us being so fragile. How can we judge them for what they did later?
> The reason supply used to meet demand is that the government didn't just pray to the almighty free hand, it acted with policy to ensure there was housing for everyone.

The free market used to work better before it got handcuffed by zoning laws everywhere. If you prohibit the free market from working, don't then mock the free market because it's not working.

> A large portion of the supply is being held by investors like landlords which restricts the supply. Removing them from the equation would increase supply and decrease prices.

True - if you mean landlords who hold but don't allow occupancy.
I think we have different expectations and that's ok. I see the benefits of remote work too (I did it for 2 years during COVID), but I myself prefer to be in the office at least some of the time. I was stuck on a problem for months and it only took a week of huddling in person to solve.

I don't think it's wrong for employers to have an RTO policy -- as someone for whom 5 days in the office was and is the norm (and has been the norm for much of history).

We actually don't live in a post-office world. We live in a hybrid world where employers can choose full RTO, part RTO or fully remote. I'm glad for it because it means my employment options open up significantly without me having to relocate from the city I want to live in. We have more options not less, even though it means changing employers.

But to call full RTO/part RTO policies exploitation is sentiment I don't agree with. We can agree to disagree of course.
Hi. Would there be any chance of you releasing the index of how many trackers websites have publicly? I remember reading about that somewhere on your site, but you eventually took that offline.
Since we're on the topic of how people should learn to build web things: what do you think are the most important things to learn first to make web stuff? The "right" way? Just raw HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript (Typescript?)? It seems common among programmers to criticize the overuse of web frameworks. Are there a lot of people who learn only web frameworks?
Do you think you could convince someone, behind a terminal, that you weren’t an LLM?
In the 90s I would spend the equivalent of £19 for an hour of star trek (£13 for the 90 minute tape is £29 in today's money).

I stopped once I could DCC them not due to the price, but because of availability. I could get the DCC the day after the episode was broadcast in the US, rather than 6 months later.

Still got a long way to go to get back to those costs, and the delay is no longer a thing (they seemed to have sorted out the ridiculous wait with the latest SNW season)
Am I only one that feels suspicious that these researcher names are Italian?
Next up, Russian study suggests vodka decreases diabetes.
They didn't say anything about intelligence. I think you might be parsing this thread differently than intended.
> Exploit is likely the wrong word as it isn't Pinterest doing something shady. It is more of a Google flaw and I'm sure Google sees it for what it is and hence they don't de-rank a site for doing nothing wrong.

I don't think argument takes exploit off the table. It just doesn't address it. Same thing for Pinterest's shady behavior.
I expect that depends on how acrimonious the split.