skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incompetent management is so commonplace in tech that it is practically a cliche. This example is how it's supposed to be in a healthy hierarchy.

It shows just how deeply imposters have infiltrated the industry. Somehow it has become conventional wisdom that people who are non-technical, or below average engineers, should manage the time of, and mentor engineers often much smarter, and more competent than them. That doesn't clear the bar of common sense.

There is value in having a hierarchy, some people are more competent, and better at planning, and time management, and interfacing with other people. Those people should be in charge of how other people spend their time. The confluence of those skills is rare. There are exponentially fewer people qualified to fill those roles than there are qualified to be engineers.

You shouldn't have managers unless you can find good ones. It is far better to spread management thin than to hire bad managers. You would never try to bring the quality of work, planning, and time management closer to that of a below average engineer, but that's exactly what happens when you bring in incompetent management.

It looks like Nvidia is doing it right. 40 is a high branching factor, and he can engage meaningfully with every one of them about their work.
I would vote for you!

The worst is when you're waiting for the express and for some reason it shows up on the local track.

I still don't know -- was it intentionally designed to be idiotic? Or was it meant to operate some other way and they had to shoehorn local/express in?
The Farmer's Almanac said we should expect a bitter cold and snowy winter where I live. Polar Vortexes (Vortices?) are pretty much what does it every time.
I'm commenting because I could have (and, in fact, have) said this. There's a hole in your heart that is preventing you from accurately self-evaluating. You are not seeing the whole picture because you're in the middle of it. Go see a good therapist. Consider ketamine infusions if you have the money.

I can promise you this: you'll never hate yourself into positive self-worth, the same way you'll never fill a bucket by drilling a hole in the side.
One way to gain intuition on why the LLN might work faster, slower or not at all is to write the mean equation in rescursive form (What's the next expected value estimation, given a new sample and the current expected value estimation?).
I am telling you that Metropolis for always being cited as one of the greatest films of all time is not actually that good, although very very influential.
That would not be just breaking sha256.

That would be finding a invariant point (fixed point) in sha256 what would also be a text message. There is no reason to expect that kind of thing existing in any algorithm.
Probably suspended for "impersonation" although I thought comedy was supposed to be legal.
I updated the URL on the old post now. Thanks!
Same, a bit of caching and the REVSYS blog survived being on the front page of Slashdot (back when that was a thing), Reddit and HN all at the same time. No Elon tweet for sure, but caching like Varnish, Cloudflare, Fastly etc go a LONG way.
It's not betrayal, it's just due diligence
Let me describe the situation the other person is talking about, with two examples that happened to me in the past year.

1. I scheduled a colonoscopy with a hospital. They charged me $300 for the procedure, which I paid up front. Everything went smoothly and there were no delays, complications, or followups. A week later they sent me a bill for over $1k. They had not applied my $300 payment towards the total. They had not waited for insurance to reimburse them. They simply decided they could arbitrarily charge me more, and they did. Fortunately, my wife is somewhat familiar with medical billing and we did not pay. Insurance reimbursed them, then we called them and told them to apply the $300 we had already paid, at which point we owed nothing. If we had paid the $1k+ bill, I am sure we would not have been reimbursed.

2. I went to a clinic for a minor sports injury. They charged me a $60 consultation fee which I paid up front; I then spoke to the doctor for 15 minutes and got a prescription. A week later, I got a bill demanding an additional $180, and in that bill they claimed they had already been paid by my insurance. I checked with my insurance provider and found they had not even filed the claim yet. I ignored the bill, insurance reimbursed them, and they have not contacted me since.

Your characterization is ignorant of how scummy medical billing actually is.
Heinz ketchup is grim, it's trivial to make a much better tasting tomato sauce with some canned chopped tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, and (if you like it) chillies, IMO.

Looks and tastes so much better, less congealed and processed, more vibrant and fresh.
Fractal Brownian Motion: Simulating Realistic Terrains with Fractal Noise
Which is all of them.
Let's be honest, the average age in congress would be a lot lower without AC (one way or another).
I use uBlock and Ghostery. I gave permission for uBlock to pass the Google ad sites, and for whatever reason I still never see ads. Not that I'm complaining.
I’m not sure why you think this. It’s on track to kill another 200K people this year. Before it’s emergence, this would’ve been considered quite bad for any other disease:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_totaldeaths...
I do this at home. The labels are generally much simpler than traefik.

labels:

caddy: subdomain.${DOMAIN_NAME}

caddy.reverse_proxy: "{{upstreams 8000}}"
Exactly - everyone has their headphones on, no one wants to talk!

The only way I made friends at gyms was playing a sport - racquetball in my case, took years.

But again - I barely hung out with anyone outside the gym.
> Edit: more detail, 35/250 films are from the past 25 years, from 1998 to now. Less than 1/7 of films from over 1/5 of the entire history of film?

To be fair, the industry made about a billion superhero movies and 10 fast and furious and 3 (three!!!) hobbit movies in that time.
The House recognizes the contribution of the grumpy old man goon from Orbost.
Ardour[1] is Digital Audio Workstation software with a GPLv2 licence. Surprised I've never heard of it before.
[1] https://ardour.org
Godot can't but Godot* can, where Godot* is a downstream fork of Godot maintained by $COMPANY that provides a seamless console port. There are a couple of companies trying to do this.

In the long term, if Godot gets big enough then console makers have incentive to assist in this themselves, because if an engine with major marketshare can seamlessly port its games to Xbox but has difficulty porting to Playstation then Xbox will have a competitive advantage.

In such a scenario I don't think the difference between Godot and Godot* matters that much, IMO - I could imagine an Xbox devkit shipping with a Godot* compiler, for instance, so devs don't even have to think about the issue.
There is no spec for power-only USB-C cables. Anyone making one is doing so against the spec. You can’t use a spec to solve the problem of going against the spec.
Is it? OK, what's the right takeaway to you?
Do they know this from a blood test that looks for antibodies? That is what I did for testing.

The nasal swab amplication test looks for fragments in the air intake filter, not actual infection.

By the way, I had vaccines for polio measles tetanus and others. Being in decent physical health, my doctor confirmed I was not in a risk group which would benefit from the jab which was authorized for emergency use only. The risk/reward for my profile was not worth it.
Common as in more probable than not? No. Common as in there was a good chance of it, especially for low-level positions (for some reason)? Yes, there are plenty of news articles from the beginning of the 2010s that talk about it.
My father in-law is a Blackcurrant farmer in Canada. Had no idea they were banned in the US until recently.
Ah, the article does say it's a parody account. Maybe he isn't specific enough about that in the profile. The article's author certainly seemed to know, so it's obviously not a secret, or trying to deceive anyone.
Fine-tuned low parameter LLM's are superficially good but the cracks are obvious if you test them on anything that isn't very strictly tied to the training data. IMO GPT-4 is really the first LLM that's broken out of the fake intelligence quality most LLM's seem to have, though only by a little.
Game publishers won't be happy either. Devolver Digital made a joke about it which might not be a joke: https://twitter.com/devolverdigital/status/17016852821295394...

> Definitely include what engine you’re using in game pitches.

> It’s important information!
bonkers is a good word. I've never enjoyed drag racing and top fuel cars are incredibly wasteful and yet, one has to admire and stand in awe at the engineering. Every single aspect of those cars is off the scale insane and then some.

They use spark plugs, driven by more amps than an arc welder. But the plugs melt away in just a few instants, the rest of the run the engine is dieseling from the extreme heat.

The supercharger alone takes so much power to turn that barely any car on the street could even run it.

The tires are quite something, watch slow motion videos.

https://autowise.com/a-nitro-burning-top-fuel-engine-the-mos...
Your quote doesn’t necessarily mean the Democratic Party was segregationist when Biden started his career, only that he had some overlap with at least one segregationist - Eastland may have been the rare exception to the rule by the end of his career (when he overlapped with Biden).

EDIT: checking Wikipedia it seems Biden was elected to the senate in 1972, long after the time of the segregationist democrats?
Well, from the current state of things, those people don't succeed with the institution either, which is why all the fuss.

College is rather expensive for networking, rather time consuming and grueling if the education isn't the pitch. You say college is for the networking. That's not what the institutions are putting on the label.
Heat, software bloat, libraries to maintain, timelines, lost manual jobs, increased e-waste above baseline, illegal imagery, doxxing, privacy/data leaks.
That aligns with incentives. It's the medical insurance company where the money's at, even in the US people are only so rich.
Healthcare should be as close to free as possible at point of use. If you can get away with not paying I say congratulations.
Not the op, but just wanted to say I had never heard of the car keys fallacy before. Makes things a lot clearer, thanks!
Can UE5 be used to make lightweight games? Is it possible to target wrak hardware if you don't use Nanite or Lumen?
Unless you’re in a wind tunnel or a hurricane, you can be pretty confident in the reason for the fast air.
Cursive IDE
> Your brain has been rotted

this kind of rhetoric has no place on HN, and it's sad that it has been so casually normalized among the android fanbase.

super tired of "brainless apple sheeple only buy because of blue bubble!" and similar stuff, it just is constant and offensive and android fans know it damn well, they just know nobody is going to call it out either. Doesn't belong on HN.
Do people still break their phone screens? I have never used a case even the naughts. My 3gs, 4, few Android phones, 5s were all cracked. But nothing since ~2016 has cracked at all. I haven't stopped dropping my phone or anything. They just don't break anymore.
Both of these are stored in iCloud (if you enable) and are backed up in the cloud (and E2EE). All other large repositories of data are not sourced from my Apple devices
If you automate part of your job resulting in a 2x improvement of your productivity, you have demonstrated a skill that you can sell for more money. That's how you realize the value you created.

The wealth didn't "flow" to you. You created it.
I think that works only the first time.
pragma once is battle-tested. Thousands of libraries use it, themselves used in thousands of apps.
There are 33 million businesses in the US. Are they monopolies?
I think he meant to type "policy", not "police".
Ask HN: What Will Replace Smartphones?
Smartphones were sort of obvious. We didn’t predict we’d all be using phones as primary devices per se, but it was obviously going to be some portable screen computer device.

I can’t think of what will be next. We’ve all heard about wearable computers, VR/AR. Well the technologies here and nothing seems revolutionary.

Smart watches are just smaller phones. People love to fantasize about wearable devices tracking bio information, doing away with checkups. We all know how the Theranos story went, you just can’t do it.

VR is impractical, having to use parts of your body for what used to be at your finger tips is a step backwards. The amount of obscure gestures one would need to know, they might as well learn command line.
All of my lightning to USB-C cables break at USB-C side, never Lightning side. I have so far 2 USB-C ports in various Apple laptops that stopped working and need repair. I am not enthusiastic about this change.
You write them a polite and direct letter (or email or webform or...). A couple of things to remember: 1) They literally work for you. You (collectively) elected them, and they get a salary to represent you. That's their job. 2) YMMV, of course, but by and large representatives love helping their constituents. It's the official reason they ran for office in the first place, and a lot of them take that seriously. And cynically, it also looks great come re-election time.

My letter looked like:

"Senator Schmuckatelli:

Please get ${federal_organization} off my back for a debt I already paid to them. # <- "BLUF", or Bottom Line Up Front

${federal_organization} claims that I owe them $X. However, I have receipts proving that I already paid that amount in full. (See enclosures A through J.) They have threatened to garnish my tax returns and wages (encl. K, notice of garnishment), and as a hard-working plebe, I can't afford that. I have written (encl. L through P, copies of my letters) and called them multiple times (encl. Q: call log) multiple times without receiving a reply.

As my senator and beloved Protector Of The Little People, could you please contact them and ask them to stop trying to collect this invalid debt?

Many thanks, and see you at the polls!
- Me"

Tell them at the start of the letter what you'd like them to do. That helps them sort your mail quickly into the right bucket. Then make your case clearly and concisely, including all the evidence you might have. You don't want them to have to look at a wall of text with a phone book's worth of unlabeled paperwork. In short, make it easy for them to help you.
The law isn’t lagging behind AI. It’s leading it
Perfectly said. Before attempting to solve a problem, it's important to consider the lenses/perspectives and that facts that you'll see nails everywhere with your hammers.

Peer review can be more structured, is already blinded in many cases, and could benefit from regular crowdsourced suggestions from a variety of scholars. In many cases, journals have begun many reform practices like valuing open sharing of materials and code, structured transparency checklists, and opportunities to publish null results. All wonderful advances that don't require hammers.
Fwiw it wasn't very hard to get Unreal Editor to compile on Ubuntu. No issues running example files. I haven't really sunk my teeth in too far yet though, so I guess we'll see.
As layman I skipped math but the article was still much more informative about the fundamentals than the smashing magazine one.
Listening to and reading books by economists. If you think about it, you'll see it in action all the time. After all, consider yourself. Does wealth "flow" to you? Or do you create value at your job, and exchange that value for your paycheck?
Looked into this a bit. Here are the possible scenarios (in order of decreasing likelihood).

1. User who made that post proceeded to make multiple inflammatory posts, breaking Twitter's rules on purpose. Gets suspended. People start believing in scenario 3.

2. Edited the post as the event was unfolding.

3 [bear with me]. The NFL is scripted and he somehow managed to leak specific details. Yes, it's very hard to script an Achilles heel injury, and it would be against Twitter's interests to suppress something like this even under pressure from the NFL (which is insane to even speculate). Just throwing this bone.
USB-C is great, but honestly I'm not transmitting data via the port, nor do I care about charging speed. Then it becomes weird that I still have to carry a lightning cable for my Airpods.Would be a huge plus if I can just carry one cable while traveling someday.
Project quantum saved Firefox.

Multi-core CSS engine and GPU-accelerated rendering in Firefox are in Rust. Without them Firefox was really behind in performance (if you're unimpressed now, imagine it being way worse).
Would love to see some support for this with MiSTeR setups for FPGA emulation
Something I've noticed going through founder's LinkedIn pages is that it seems that entrepreneurs seem to be significantly more attractive than the average person. I assume a partial causative factor could be that the number of positive impressions you make on people with influence correlates with success of your startup, and one's capacity to make positive interpersonal impressions correlates with physical attractiveness.
The Weather Network Down, Blames ‘Cybersecurity Incident’
Oh, it’s definitely ambiguity. Any given token’s attention is going to have its weight vary based on its context, and less-ambiguous terms are more likely to be used “near” the other terms that matter. For example, if you tell GPT not to ‘omit’ code from a code sample, it has to disambiguate the meaning of omit. Tell it not to ‘elide’ any code, and it performs a lot better.
“Prompt engineering” is far more linguistic than people seem to realize. It’s not just “say what you mean” when the model has an easier time when you “say what you mean in the most linguistically precise way possible”. Simplified, but workable: it’s a matter of finding less ambiguous/more context-specific tokens/words with a better tf/idf in the pre-training corpus without getting too esoteric.

Another example: storytelling prompts that include “I dislike open-ended conclusions and other rhetorical hooks” often results in fewer (or no) closing statements like, “as night fell, they wondered about their future.”

Edit: GPT-4 is surprisingly good at answering these things if asked to: https://chat.openai.com/share/b97ad65f-f005-49b4-a64e-eb537d...
> No one uses it to do programming

Not at all true.

> we use it to read/write to a data store.

Reading and writing a datastore is programming, but, no, that’s not the only thing SQL (including its standard, and various proprietary, procedural modules/extensions) are used for.
AI startups have inspired me to think more about what "value creation" really is. There's so many AI startups out there that add AI to make silly process X easier, when it really hides the problem of silly process X existing in the first place. From one perspective, adding AI solves the problem. From another perspective, it further entrenches the problem. Does this create net value? AI is both inspiring and demoralizing... inspiring in that it unlocks a million new doors, but demoralizing in that most of those doors appear to be empty.
What about the WINE port? The ability to run Windows apps will make Haiku more useful.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eastland
>they will use their substantial experience in dealing with people in poor economic circumstances to target the dates and times of day when benefits payments or paychecks have posted to your account. They’ll surge collection attempts at 3 AM on the 1st of the month, learn the differences between various banks as to when Social Security payments post, etc.

In an article full of eyebrow-raising statements this hits the hardest. Taking people's social security or welfare payments so that they might not eat is just so dirty
I like your thinking, but somehow fear that at some point in time in the future I'll get an ID like "S5o0QlI1" and my brain will automatically eject itself from my skull in disgust.
> There’s no guarantee that the savings will be passed on as price cuts.

Profit margins tend to be consistent across industries, meaning savings wind up as price cuts sooner or later.

(Unless the government interferes with the price setting incentives.)
My understanding is that Unity is losing A LOT of cash. They have been burning cash on thousands of devs building features they never ship or finish for like years.

Other's have pointed at this CEO's history at EA as indicative of how terrible he is (and yet he still gets crazy money, because execs only fall up).

They might just have no fucking clue what they are doing.
there are some more maps on the domain

http://www.makelinux.net/resources/
this one is shaped like a house

http://www.makelinux.net/home/
If we had a good way to pay people based on the value they add (basically solved for sales, but not for any other role), then you could construct a hiring process by betting on that value, and the most predictive interviewers would be rewarded. But until that's solved, I don't think there is a foundation for the betting. Time at the firm is the wrong metric.

> Not all science is based on experiments.

Okay, well I'm not talking about that kind of science. I'm talking about the science where the value of a theory is measured in it's ability to make testable predictions. I'm not really sure how the the other kind of scientists resolve disagreements.

I didn't claim to have solved the problem. I was outlining what I think a solution would look like, and contrasting that to the idea of peer review as the way to determine what is scientifically relevant, if we could only make it more fair.
If flow adoption in js bothers you, just replace it with "subset of ts" - it'd look almost the same (it's better when it comes to things like declaring exact vs inexact object types or having cosmetic shorthand for optional type).

The bottom line is that description is terse and natural. Ie. it can be generated directly from your code and code can be generated out of it.

Instead of describing protocol (headers, status codes, http verbs, redirects, urls, params, cookies, content types etc) - you describe function signatures - the very thing that already has first class support in your programming language. An api feels like a library.

Because it uses json as serialization the data types you need to cover are very small - there are no interfaces, classes, inheritance, functions (you can't provide or return objects that define functions) - everything is pretty much composed out of type aliases and unions on 6 basic json types.

Instead of programming in yaml to describe http protocol you work with functions having json on input and output - something that is natural to your host programming language already.

Think graphql but without its nonsense restrictions on query (unions on input are fine!) or cherry picking output (calling convention that is foreign to programming languages and requires embedding dsl/dedicated query engines).

Think more like header file for remote service constraint to list of functions and notifications using json as data type.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong if the interns here are clearly 4x as skilled as I am lol