skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel like you're stating this as "Look how silly KPIs are!", but your CEO is correct. The issue isn't the KPIs; it's the team members who are willing to intentionally game a system in conflict with overarching company goals.

The real issue is - KPIs are used to incentivize or PIP employees. Why are you setting the employees in a game that is in conflict with your company's overarching goals?
The irony is this is exactly what we did (albeit not the whole company) before adopting agile.
There's basically always some kind of monkey's paw shortcut to any formalized metric passed top-down.

The converse is that there are also always novel ways to differentiate yourself bottom-up from the mere shortcutters. This is basically how fads form. Something novel appears that is first a great signal for honest quality work, then it gets formalized and imitated and it becomes less predictive, so those who are in the business of creating true value must come up with new ways to demonstrate this.
> as long as the floor is low

All languages of highly developed cultures are equally complex, but English is definitely one that gives new learners a leg up. Its orthography is inconsistent, but we don't read through phonetic transcription. Chinese, OTOH, makes the start as a second language difficult, in all aspects.
I know this doesn't comfort anybody, but I have the exact same multilanguage problem in MS Office. You never know what you will get, even reopening the same document.
> KPIs should be used in combination with human intuition

And that's where everything goes from wibbly-wobbly to "I've fallen and I can't get up!"

What is "human intuition?" Do we all have it? Do we have the same "it" or is this just something we accuse other people of not having but that we can't quite define, like "common sense?"

This statement may as well be "ideally, we should use KPIs with ample hand-waving, for some unnamed value of 'ample.'"
That's how it works in Colombia, BTW.
> I don’t think full-brain simulation is possible

We clearly aren't close to implementing them, but why do you think they are outright impossible? Brain is a physical object. Why isn't it possible to simulate its behavior?

> That doesn’t mean it would be okay to “torture” the simulation

So it would mean that they are ethically significant, even if they don't have the same rights as a human being. If you agree, then would this also apply to synthetic conscious AIs?

> it would be a different ethical situation from real humans.

I agree. Their way of living would be very different: you can speed up or pause the simulation, fork it or archive it. Questions like "is it ok for an individual to clone themselves and then kill the copy?" don't even make sense for regular humans, but can apply to simulations.

That said, if for some reason my brain gets scanned one day, I would like my virtual copy to be treated humanely.
Those evil hackers always compromise open source code first, never the ads that no one is reviewing!
One of the best ones I used was one that would switch the audio output source between my headset and speakers using a hot key.
Don’t be too concerned about what others do with their own money.
Until Excel can run Python locally, I doubt it.
Aurornis didn't say that. He specifically said "because they won’t sound good for the week".

With time and experience, you'll learn that those who can quickly churn out features and bug fixes are deemed extremely valuable to the company.

Let's say we have a wicked bug that has very little chance of happening. But if it does, it'll bankrupt the company, no questions asked. Spending 3 weeks fixing it is nowhere as impressive to the company as Joe who's churned out 10 features per week while your status updates are "Hunting for the wicked bug", even if you describe it it more details.
the "regular nitro" is nitro basic

the "nitro+" is actually regular nitro
There’s conversion rights to covert into equity, that’s why it’s called a convertible note. Otherwise it’s just called a bond.
I learnt about KL Divergence recently and it was pretty cool to know that cross-entropy loss originated from KL Divergence.
But could someone give me the cases where it is preferred to use Mean-squared Error loss vs Cross-entropy loss? Is there any merits or demerits of using either?
Depending on company culture that can lead to uniformly very positive feedback on the lower levels (amazing new features, developers show excellent performance, all of them), which does not seem to fit the mess the top management can see at their level (customers complaining, sales dropping).
Dept of Ed Launches Save Repayment Plan, Prevents Unpaid Interest Accumulation
Video Analysis Beyond Bounding Boxes
The main point is that it is a lot easier to trust something you can understand than some black-box machine certified by experts. Thus, eletronic voting systems are more vulnerable to trust attacks.
Windows PowerShell targets the old .NET Framework, which is Windows-dependent. Modern PowerShell targets .NET [Core] and is cross-platform. Also, it's not true that you need to use "CallMethod;" PowerShell can invoke methods with syntax nearly identical to C#'s.
Most suppliers in this industry do b2b sales. Northvolt would be producing battery cells for use in automotive in large volumes. Volvo is one of their customers. I don't think they do retail sales in small quantities.

In general, it seems more common in China for companies to do business with each other via e.g. Alibaba. You can actually order non trivial amounts of raw materials via Alibaba. For example if you search for 1080 steel, you can actually order tons of steel from various suppliers.
Probably because Excel runs in a web browser nowadays and they want to avoid creating a separate way of running Python locally for a locally installed copy of Excel.

Maybe they will in the future, but it makes sense to start with the approach that will work in both web and local installs.
Compuserve was where I had my first email account in the early/mid 80s, dialing in on a C64 and a 300 baud modem. God, the amount of time I spent playing Megawars and cursing my slow modem.
Recovered CO2 if it's recovered from the atmosphere. Essentially all concentrated CO2 today is recovered from fossil fuel consumption, and while turning that into propane and then burning the propane (in a ship or home furnace, e.g.) would get double duty out of the carbon, it would still release it into the atmosphere. So, the real question is the combined efficiency of carbon capture from the atmosphere + catalytics propane production followed by propane combustion. It may pencil out for processes that require combustion heat, or where the portability of propane vs electricity are a huge win. Maybe as a storage medium for electricity production between renewables. All depends on numbers.
I appreciate your perspective on this. While the analogy to carpenters and IKEA is interesting, I'd like to offer a different angle.

We understand that developers have varied preferences and needs. Our aim isn't to replace your skills but to provide a tool that can take care of time-consuming and repetitive tasks. This way, you can focus on the more intricate aspects of your projects.
Yep, there is no magic bullet to "thing I rent from someone else who has nigh complete discretion on price decides to price me out." You either regulate (which is what happened here that limits the price hikes to 7% yoy) or figure something out. If you can't leave or retaliate then you're basically proving explicitly why they're able to increase prices to the point of ruining you.

At a certain price you just pony up the $200k to ICANN become your own registrar and then actually own your domains.
Imagine defending this. Every comment you make is just reinforcing my point. It's hilarious to watch you fumble around with this. If you base a law on subjective feelings towards words said you do not have free speech. I'll say it again, you are an authoritarian and anti-free speech. Just own up to it. It is going to jail on a whim because you can't EVEN DEFINE WHAT THE HARASSMENT IS. What constitutes evidence of harassment?
Sounds like a good case for nation-wide unionization of service workers.
I don't believe the graphic is representing a boundary. I think it's representing the relative expansion of space over time.

The observable universe does have an event horizon that can't be reached due to the finiteness of the speed of light, though.
Is it just me, or is there a very quiet whisper of something right at the start of the video? I can’t quite make it out, but it definitely sounds like a few spoken words before the intro music starts.

So, on further investigation, it sounds like the audio intro is saying something like "Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!“. I wonder if that suggests the whole thing is a very well-executed hoax? If it is, it reminds me very much of this: [0].

Given how hard it is to tell whether it is satire, it feels like the very definition of Poe’s Law [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT9ho2G0N_Y

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
You can sell it to your grandmother, just don't tell anyone.
Are they comparable? The primary objective of a convertible note lies in securing a favorable share conversion, rather than primarily focusing on the interest rate (which can often approach 0%, leading to the emergence of SAFEs).

If the obligation involves repaying the note in cash along with interest, instead of settling it via shares plus a supplemental amount stemming from the interest, typically something has gone awry.
Blackrock doesn't 'own' Tesla, or any company really. They hold and manage stocks for their customers. If you own an iShares ETF or mutual fund, you own the companies, not Blackrock.
No, the California Public Utilities Commission just approved them to take fares. Unfortunately San Franciscans have had very little, if anything, to say in any of this.
Using synthetic complex frequency waves to overcome optical loss in superlenses
Wait just a moment. Libreoffice had python for years, but nobody cared and instead complained about needing 100% compatible VBA for "real work". Where are those people now?
Neo4j’s Vector Search: Unlocking Deeper Insights for AI-Powered Applications
I was sick a long time ago, 13 or 14 years. I work from home only since covid, before that I worked in an open space office.
ctrl-shift-v is so nice. it should be an OS-standard keyboard shortcut for clipboards.

would also love to get a mult-value clipboard (e.g. my last 5 clips) but... that's asking a lot i guess. ;-)
What? Some people just like the extra features and think it's worth it, and some don't. It's not comparable to expensive clothes or jewelry
Off topic but why can’t we all go back to office 97?

It basically does all the same stuff and it would be lightning fast on modern machines. You don’t even need internet to use it.
One of the (maybe few) niceties of MS Office these days is that you can search through a list of most available commands through a simple Alt+Q and typing. This greatly improved my productivity for some common tasks, and it's the sort of discoverability that'd be helpful to make LibreOffice easier to use.

For my part, though, I'm typically authoring print documents in LyX, since I don't have to exchange documents routinely. If I do have to share Word-compatible documents, I'll sometimes use LO Writer or else convert from a text format to .docx using pandoc.
A lot of people who use excel heavily are not really “programmers” and don’t have strong fundamentals or an appetite to manage their own software stack. This also simplifies development on MS end by only needing to validate a single python version.
What about cooling? As engines get smaller they quite often will dump in extra fuel under load to ensure the cylinder doesn't melt.

E85 does that even better, as the cost of being less dense. But it cools so much better you can run higher boost.

What about LPG?

And if we want LPG to be something we still have to deal with legislation, like in many countries you can't park in an underground garage with LPG.
Random stuff, mostly my "projects" whatever they may be, both as a way to share what I enjoy doing with the world (the minuscule subset that is actually on the WWW), and as a way to remember the details about what I've done.

I don't know, I've had a website since 2001, and it feels to me, that part of what it is to participate on this international network of computer systems, is having a computer online and host something.
Nothing in your post rebukes the claim made by the parent.
Early Youtube was the same, no corporations, no sponsored ads to products from corporations, no algorithm forcing you to hit certain metric in order to be visible, just some guys making fun content as a hobby wanting to share it with the world. Guys like that are still out there, but much less easily discoverable.
Yep, I know. I was responding to:

> Largely NO ONE uses it.

Furthermore,

> App Store software must be fully and tightly sandboxed

I get that many things will not be able to function due to these restrictions, but for most software they are a good thing.
Traffic flows more smoothly when everyone is going at about the same speed. To achieve this without communication between vehicles, you need some "obvious" speed for everyone to try to drive at. In many contexts the speed limit fits this need pretty well.

There are situations where it doesn't. These are mostly also situations where the speed limit doesn't work terribly well as a limit either. For instance, bad weather or winding roads may mean that driving at or near the limit is unsafe. In that case, sure, it's not good for everyone to coordinate on driving at the speed limit, but it's also not good for everyone to think of the speed limit as the right upper bound for driving to be safe.

So I think that in most situations either (1) treating the speed limit as a rough target as well as a limit is mostly a good idea, or (2) the speed you try to use as a limit should be something other than the nominal speed limit.
> I just don't want to die by getting hit by a car

Most Americans couldn't care less about pedestrians. All they care about is where to park their car.
finding another straw-man?
Sibling comment gives a good example. I happen to have a Durston Gear XMid 2p: https://durstongear.com/products/x-mid-2-tent-ultralight-bac... .
Because big behemoths have legal departments and compliance officers and actually have to follow the law because many eyes are on them constantly. Deep pockets make juicy lawsuit targets. You're right that the law applies to many people at once but you only have to actually follow the law if you're big enough for someone to care about you.
>making powershell actually enjoyable to use

My solution was to stop using it and instead use dotnet-script

https://github.com/dotnet-script/dotnet-script

Scripting with the full power of modern C# has been a huge win for me. And same/similar scripts will work on Windows/Linux/Mac. As my work language is C#, I don't have to context switch to another language for scripting.
This article reads like SEO blog spam. Gross to see on HN.
That seems extremely underfunded, IMO.

A serious effort would use a substantial amount of the AI GPUs produced in a given year.
Does anyone else find it strange that the screenshots use different UIs and OSes regardless of the context? We got Ubuntu, Windows, white on black, black on white, font aliasing on and off etc. And don't tell me this is real in 2023 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:SortByColor.png

Seems like everyone who made a commit highlighted by a screenshot made their own, instead of whoever wrote the patch notes made the screenshots on one single system
"A model has no objective. It has only output."

Is creating output not an objective?
Next time walk around Luxembourg.
Blackrock even manages a large part of Jerome Powell's, the chair of the Federal Reserve, money. It appears to be a conflict of interest but maybe I don't understand the intricacies of the monetary system.

"The Fed Is Subsidizing the Money Market Funds Operated by Larry Fink’s BlackRock as BlackRock Manages a Big Part of Jerome Powell’s Wealth" [0]

[0] https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/10/the-fed-is-subsidizin...
Probably due to AI regulation, there'll be an impact to cybersecurity too. But I don't think it's gonna change so much for people at work, it's probably stricter for companies (that need to invest more resource on protecting devices)
Appreciate your input – you've brought up some valid points about the challenges of building on low/no code platforms.

Indeed, trust is a key factor. While it's true that concerns about price changes, platform stability, and data security are valid, it's also worth considering that we often rely on a multitude of applications and services to keep things running smoothly.

It's a balancing act between leveraging tools that can streamline processes and being mindful of the potential risks.
That is not a given, see sibling comment.
There's no strong benefit to consumers, and the industrial use cases never materialised because telcos have not rolled out services like URLLC, MMTC, compliant edge-compute (MEC) platforms with full 5GC integration (e.g., MEC app registration, auto routing of UE traffic to MEC services, etc.)

The telcos I deal with don't even have a business model or a way to price enterprise services delivering these new 5G features, they're just selling a pipe with newer tech and asking for more money.

There are a bunch of companies, research organisations, and universities building and making demos but hardly any of these make it to production. Here's an example of a working system: Local 5G and TETRA interconnected at Narita International Airport: https://www.ntt-east.co.jp/en/release/detail/20230519_01.htm...

I work in this space... 5G coverage is a lot worse in most places than 4G or even 3G. As for the overhyped applications like remote surgery, remote tele-operated robots, 5G-driven cars, etc., don't hold your breath.

mmWave 5G is a dud - it has some promise but again telcos are not investing money to roll out mmWave. Telcos aggressively marketed 5G to consumers at a premium price point but they offer very limited benefits in limited situations. Even routine functions like cell to cell handoffs are often smoother in 4G than with 5G, not because of the spec but because of other factors.

5G was overhyped and it failed to deliver any value except in a few situations.
We barely used it because it's a textbook case of overpromising and underdelivering.

A nuclear project on average has a probability of going over time and budget somewhere between an IT project and organizing the Olympics.

These are not great odds, especially that renewables are on the other end of the same scale.
I'm a developer. People have often come to me with Excel sheets that were really slow because it was just too much for Excel. Almost all of the times IMHO a specific solution should have been developed for it. I'm curious to see if this makes it better or actually worse.
Easier to debug a backend than clients code, single implementation, faster updates, and performance not limited by device.

At the cost of privacy. Consider msft could sell this to you but they chose to let you borrow it instead.
I just configured my Router to use AdGuard's DNS over TLS. No additional device needed that you need to maintain, yet all sorts of advertising domains are blocked.

Still, that alone is not as effective as an extension that sits in the browser, that understands and can see the contents of the HTTP requests and responses.
46 years this augustof trs-80
I agree with your instructor. That said, modern cars can stop in /much/ shorter distances than previously, largely thanks to improvements in tire technology.

Nearly every production vehicle available today can brake from 60mph in less than 140ft, more performance oriented vehicles can do so in under 120ft. The standards for “safe stopping distance” used in the US triple this distance to account for slowed reaction time because drivers are not attentive.

Realistically less than doubling these figures is correct for attentive drivers. 60mph is 88 feet per second, and 1 second is plenty of reaction time for an attentive driver, meaning 200-240ft total stopping distance, closer to double the distance the vehicle is capable of rather than triple.

So if the visibility is less than 200-240ft, you should be going slower than 60mph. 240ft isn’t very far in a car though, it’s roughly the distance traveled in 3 seconds at 60mph. There’s certainly some country roads I’d slow down on, but if you’re paying attention you’re well good on most.

For what it’s worth, the average reaction time of a gamer is 150ms, so a full second is plenty of margin of error.
Why don't you try educating rather than berating? What models do you think are actually worth studying? Give concrete examples. You can't just wave vaguely at a concept and say people are ignoring everything that has come before them.

It's not obvious to me that existing lines of inquiry are going to lead to a successful model of consciousness. In particular, my sense is that the AI revolution has provided us with more key insights than thousands of years of philosophical inquiry. But like you said, maybe I'm just ignorant of existing work. I'm happy to be proven wrong. Have you considered that not all readers might've been afforded the same educational opportunities as yourself?

People are engaging with openness and curiosity, exploring ideas. You're just telling them to shut up until they've read a bunch of existing work which might not even provide them a meaningful answer. I think trying to shut down any kind of conversation because someone hasn't spent hundreds or thousands of hours studying a field goes against the spirit of Hacker News.
Manhattan is my favorite city to walk in alone.

Manhattan can be enjoyed without ever bringing your gaze to the ground level. The diversity of architecture means that every block feels fresh. World renowned classics, the sheer scale of central park and the greatest hits of art-deco. Pair that with new spots like the Highline, Hudson yards, Little island.... and it keeps on giving.

And then you come back down to earth and Manhattan also happens to be the best city for people watching. What a delight !
It might be true but I doubt a sanctioned nation will be able to continue a largely unproductive enterprise at this scale. They have definitely been punching above their weight so far though, unfortunately it will probably fizzle out soon
The only time I had problems with the Nvidia driver on FreeBSD was when KMS was introduced because it broke my existing configuration (visible screen tearing during video playback with mplayer in a floating window managed by i3). The solution wasn't pretty, but works to this day.
I mean that the full article is paywalled for me at that link.
the c shell :)
I hope this is the start of a wholesale python replacement for VBA. Python has turned into what VBA always tried to be: A ubiquitous language for data and scripting (among other things).

Excel would be well served by replacing VBA with either JS or python because of their ecosystems and high levels of adoption. Python is the better choice because data analysts are more likely to be familiar with it.
> At no point in the history of human civilization has growth been static

Indeed countless civilizations collapsed once they depleted natural resources.