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Ask HN: Which Prompt Evaluation tools do you use?
The tooling should provide at least an easy user interface from where i can edit/manage all my prompt templates, execute them in a batch with my own api key for openai and rate the output in a systematic way against each other.
I respect some of what’s being said about “mappers” vs “packers” - but the article presents the idea that there are 2 kinds of programmer and you’re one or the other, largely based on growth as a “real” mapper.

I think a more realistic description is that everyone is a mapper. There isn’t a single body of knowledge that is “software engineering” - so it’s ok to encounter something new, “pack” it, then map it if it’s valuable.

Far better to encourage mapping than create false dichotomies that can easily work their way into cultural fit interviews.

“The candidate failed to find an obscure error in the JS console… clearly a packer - no hire”.
They're not meaningless. Someone can get a line management role and be terrible technically. In fact that's a good thing to do with someone who's not good technically.
A good interview question is:

Write a skills matrix for an engineering team.

That gives you an insight about what the candidate thinks seniority is, and how they are spending their efforts to move their career forward.
> that we successfully got rid of those horrible weapons in the 1980s to 1990s (which was very possible if the American government would have been willing

This is just wishful thinking. All countries agreeing to give up their nukes is about as likely as all countries agreeing never to go to war again because it's a net negative; not going to happen.
The Parents Trying to Pass Down a Language They Hardly Speak
The only problem I have with Mastodon is that it's hard to discover new things.
If you already have some people you know who to follow that's great, but there is hardly any discovery or recommendation beyond that.
Mastodon is already everything I wished Twitter had been. Maybe I'm not like most people, but I'm fine with that. It's a roaring success.

As far as I'm concerned, Twitter can just keep being Twitter... as long as it does it over there.
1. You’re welcome to name one then. The Marcionites would qualify if that movement weren’t extinguished thousands of years ago. All modern Christian denominations more or less agree on points that were decided that early on in the history of Christianity.

2. Right, most people do not follow this in practice even if such commands appear in their religious scriptures. You might remember that the whole point of the comparison was my contention that we can expect something similar to happen with Muslims.
Using TimescaleDB from a managed provider is limited, unless of course that provider is Timescale. Other managed providers are only permitted to use the TimescaleDB Apache 2 Edition.

This link has a comparison of features[1].

[1] https://docs.timescale.com/about/latest/timescaledb-editions...
What a strange reply. Most people on this site do know their CEO and are able and willing to leave jobs when they disagree with their direction. I have done it myself.
I usually offer 0,6-0,8 of the salary they will get at middle level (i.e. reaching full autonomy and being able to complete 90% of tasks). This offer is limited in time: they have 6-12 months to grow or they are out. Recognition of their personal growth and higher salary is a good motivation to stay if there’s no red flags in the company (poor processes, toxic environment, frequent overtime etc).
I was going to say natural rubber seems like the logical solution for this.
If Ukraine had nukes, Putin's regime would have stayed put.
There isn't such a layer for email that is widespread (there's certified email in Italy). PGP and S/MIME crucially lack time and validity stapling.

In a lot of EU countries you can however digitally sign a container and mail that (under eIDAS those qualifying electronic signatures are legally binding, unlike random publicly trusted S/MIME signature).

But I guess if your alternative is fax, then a lot of thimngs are better than that.
It's strongly encouraged, yes. But not mandatory and not obligatory, which was the erroneous claim to which I was responding.

Are you Muslim? You realize people don't take "half of faith" literally, right?
> just distribute it among the websites I visit and do not bother me with your ads

Are you a champion of privacy if you advocate for this? How will you implement this without a centralized tracking?

Hilarious.
JS boot camp is more like it.

A book would probably require enough self motivation that you might get a decent candidate.

These boot camps are churning out mediocre JS devs like they’re going out of style. Personally I won’t even look at the resume of a single one anymore. I’ve told our recruiter to not send me ANY resumes from boot campers.
>> Elon Musk described himself as "aspirationally Jewish" in a recent interview where he discussed the fallout with the Anti-Defamation League over the spread of antisemitic content on X.

> taylorswift-yeah-OK.gif
"Elon Musk describes himself as 'aspirationally Jewish'" I don't know if it matters, but this may not be the same thing.
> Musk is Jewish

Since when?!
Funny, this was exactly where I stopped reading and went to the comments instead
The author specifically mentions open source projects which is one area where changing tool chains is incredibly common.

From different platforms to users having very different versions of a compiler.
It’s a bit of a shame that senior titles are being tossed out like candy now, while I had to work my ass off to get there. It took me 16 years, which feels about right to me. I switched my career from systems engineering to network engineering in 2010 so I might have gotten there sooner. (IT jobs for college grads in 2004 were few and far in between in my area and I had to take what I could get.)
How many microbes does it take to make you sick?
With the continued shift to EVs, petrol taxes just don't make sense as a form of taxation to pay for roads. I think we should be shifting entirely to a gross curb weight tax for all vehicles. The fourth power law states that the greater the axle load of a vehicle, the stress on the road caused by the motor vehicle increases in proportion to the fourth power of the axle load. Meaning heavier EVs cough hummer, are doing x^4 damage over my already heavy car.

Capturing vehicle taxes by weight should incentivize lighter vehicles, and therefore, less tire wear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
I come from a country where the title "engineer" is legally protected and needs to be issued by an accredited school.

This had zero impact on software developers careers or salary, except if you wish to work for the government.
> It's really not a racket and it's really not critical.

This means, we cannot agree.
AFAIK only difference is that in Influx a given row can have more than one value so say "interface traffic" would be

interface_if_octets host=router,instance=eth0,rx=123584,tx=213956

while in prometheus it would be

interface_if_octets host=router,instance=eth0,type=rx 123584
interface_if_octets host=router,instance=eth0,type=tx 213956

which in theory yes it is more compact but it gave me more annoyances than advantages during querying

>While Prometheus is often good enough for standard metrics, it is just things it can't handle.

My experience is that just anything made to ingest and analyze logs ends up mediocre for metrics and vice versa. I don't think I've seen single product that did both well or efficiently. So I'd rather have good metrics and just use ELK/Graylog/whatever else for logs.
It’s hard not to be pessimistic in Germany these days.

Population is aging and paying for the retirement money for all existing retirees is already taking up over 25% of government spending. There’s barely money for anything else so taxes and social security payments are poised to go up while already being close to ~50% for most earners.

There’s a strong and growing far-right movement full of populist and even neo-nazi ideologies.

Infrastructure is still top notch internationally but funding has been cut over the last decades and it’s starting to show.

I could go on but I think you get the picture. Many people in my social circle want to leave the country so I would really think twice about moving here.
But now you’re just moving the goalposts and inevitably someone else will make the same declaration about principal engineers and will instead insist that only Chief Architects (or whatever next step up the corporate ladder of madness is) are the really truly experienced class of engineers.

It’s a pointless challenge to try and bucket engineers by skill levels like that. Titles are for compensation and rank, and nothing more. A senior at my company would’ve been more like a staff engineer at my last spot. Every company is different and thats okay.
I think it's pretty hard to get a sense of what is out there unless you work across a wide variety of companies.

I've been blessed to mainly work in companies that had very high engineering bars (finance, faang) but I spent two years at a scale up and the difference in engineers was crazy. Senior engineers who, when faced with an outage just threw up their hands and said "we dunno".

And this was still a place that was large enough and tried to have a bar. I can only imagine the next tiers down (eg, where do people who can't cut it at these places go?)

I don't know how much of this is 'innate' caliber vs benefit of working along others who has high expectations and taught you (vs not)
Tends not to be, yet the Americas and even today's Europe prove the contrary.
Ah, the older you get the more you lament the youngin’s aren’t what they used to be in the good ol’ days.
I asked for an image of The Muppets as the counter-terrorist team from Counter Strike and that got blocked, so "terrorism" is definitely getting picked up understandably.
I had a falling out with the primary account I cared about on Twitter and saw it as an opportunity to make a clean break from the platform. I have re-opened Threads and followed a significant chunk of the same people
I used to follow on Twitter. It took blocking a large number of the spam, marketing and porn accounts that were showing up, but now my Threads feed is clean and virtually indistinguishable from my former Twitter feed. Got to give props to Zuck - he may somehow end up acquiring Twitter’s user base for the low, low price of $0, or however much it took to build Threads. And without having to acquire Twitter.
> What we need to focus on is infrastructure for walking, biking and public transportation.

And better tires.
Argentina: The Brothels Behind the Graveyard
What exactly have you tried to do there? Isn't a schema already a model? What properties did you want your model to have?

Yes, in general it is difficult, because then software becomes mathematics. And that's on top of the software doing something useful and what the user wants.

But I think we are now getting the tools to get there. You will still need to become a mathematician, though.
> EVs have higher torque but that doesn’t matter unless to drive like a mad-man

Its not torque that matters. Its simply friction and normal force. And that's directly caused by weight. Tire Wear is something like (weight^4), so small increases in weight will have huge increases to wear-and-tear.

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I think the real issue is that 3000lbs to 4500lbs, while a significant increase in tire wear, is still small compared to the big 5000lb to 8000lb vehicles that people use in practice. I'm sure a 4500lb EV is bad, but I'd expect a 6000 lb SUV or Truck to be worse (and a 8000lb electric-SUV to be the absolute worst).

But beyond just consumer cars are semi-trucks, which almost certainly are the top tire-wear vehicles on the roads. I'd expect almost all of the plastic from "tire wear" to come from a semi-truck (again, weight to the power of 4), given their grossly increased weight.

> walking, biking and public transportation

Semi-trucks are replaced by trains. Not by walking and biking. I mean, I want more walkable paths and all. But this _particular_ problem is solved with freight trains.

Last-mile is difficult. Do we want 100-people in a neighborhood driving 100x cars to a store? Or would we rather have 1x large truck deliver a (heavier) package to 100x different people? We're screwed in both cases, and rail can't save us.

But trains don't use rubber and trains wheels / rails are made from steel. I'm sure some particles fly off as iron (or iron-oxide/rust), but surely much less than rubber given how much stronger steel wheels / steel tracks are.
There’s no clear distinction between religion and culture. Both my parents are antagonistic to organized religion (because secularism is a class marker in Bangladesh) but they don’t eat pork. Their moral axioms are rooted in Islam, even if they don’t recognize it as such.

The same is true for secular Americans. As an outsider, it’s quite obviously an outgrowth of mainline Protestant Christianity.
From what I have read it sounds like Mercedes has been designed to follow behind a human driver.
Pocket killed it for me. "Oh it
can be disabled!" they say. Good luck.
Director? Architect?
A lot of projects use something like CMake to abstract that away.

And even if ignore MSVC specific arguments, you’d still have to deal with multiple versions and variants of clang + gcc
He is a founder.
in germany and austria you can register the bike's serial number or get a number assigned and engraved into the frame. there are different private organizations that do this, but that's enough to verify ownership.

not really a solved problem though because when your bike gets stolen you still have to find it. it only helps when you actually do find it.
I came across this after listening to several 320kbps MP3 files and found that they sounded noticeably worse than 256kbps AAC versions. Support for AAC is widespread now and it should be preferred over MP3 [1].

[1] https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/consumer-electronics...
What's the means of production for a footballer? A football?
biodegradable vs durable, pick one.
The important point is there are far greener alternatives than EV's. EV's cost a lot of resources to build, which means a lot of environmental destruction and carbon output. Plus as we see they still contribute to this tyre dust problem. They are not the holy grail. Rail, public transport, e-bikes and better city design is.
AOL and Yahoo are still kicking. The question isn't whether Twitter will go out of business, the question is whether it will remain relevant.

Its relevance has declined significantly in the last year.
people aren't going to be happy if they don't get a promotion or continuous raises though after 5 years though. what else are you going to call them? have 4 different types of mid level because they can't be 'senior' until they reached 15 yoe? Really after 5 years in the same company, more so in software, you probably are actually one of the more experienced people in the company. idk what you are doing if you dont have senior level domain expertise.
Yes, immigration works well, especially in places like the US that have high rates of integration. Perhaps societies should not have pyramid scheme social programs, just as we didn't back in the day. It's not a necessary condition of a technological society.
To be more precise, "search and rescue" is a euphemism for "warfare".
Agreed, for archival purposes we should be using lossless codecs. Not because you can hear the difference but because it makes it easier to reason about whether there's any distortion introduced by the compression. And we can consider the original artifact, as created by the mastering engineer, an authoritative source of truth, even if it's an imperfect representation of what was performed by the musicians.
Ask HN: Anyone investing or looking to invest in Africa?
I'm from an African country where the monthly wage is around $50 a month. I have been living in France for the last 14 years, but I'd like to move back home and start something (real estate / tourism). A "small" investment from the west would have huge impact given the exchange rate. Where can meet people interested in this?
Luminiferous Aether
Everything humans create depends on humanity existing, and humanity ceases to be without children.

Human life is a prerequisite for everything humans create.
Since the bucket namespace is global you can always just use different accounts. But I agree it doesn't seem that hard to add this small feature.
You might find this interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)
If Threads wins, all I have to say is that we have learned nothing on this subject in the past decade and change.
I think this is a mandatory software update, no physical devices are moving, and that the article is written misleadingly, even if technically correct.

Or am I the only person that doesn't understand this new definition of "recall"??
You tomorrow could start out as a carpenter, buy a hammer and own the means of production. It's not a high bar to clear.
This really depends on your previous experience. If, for example, you have previous experience with C++ (which is what is often used in those hard niches), it would make sense to just apply to generic C++ roles, and work your way up to high salary by getting promotions or changing companies. If you're in the US, it probably wouldn't hurt to apply to FAANG-type companies, as they rely heavily on the leet code, so your lack of concrete experience in things they do will not be a big problem (likely will just get you a low pay grade, but you can change that with promotions later).
I’ll be convinced of twitters demise only when I stop hearing about twitter 9 times a day.

I remember waiting for Facebook to evaporate a decade ago too. Then I started hearing “Facebook” in the news every night and saw the logo on the back of Sugar packets at the cafe.

If anything - this is the biggest “no press is bad press” experiment of all time.
The most gigantic red flag for the platform right now is that embedded twitter links are completely broken until you log in. I'm regularly *not* logged in on most of my devices, especially my work machines, and it means I'm now training myself to just not engage with the platform at all. What's the point, if I can't see what folks are posting?
It runs on window, is not a subscription service, has a lot functions that I'm used to and has a lot of automated workflow possibilities. Theres a lot more it can do then I'm able to mention but here are some of the cool traits that stood out for me. It can group a chord progression and create a variety for multiple tracks without getting into the midi editor. Additionally, I can globally save those chords and use them down the line in any other project easily. Theres a lyrics function too where I can run parallel to a vocal track so the vocalist can pick up exactly where they need to and see what's coming. I've done a few demo projects and I really like it so far.
Literally every Lorentz-violating theory introduce an aether like term.

And, yes, they are published on peer reviewed journals every years.
Not mainstream, but there are reputable physicist taking it seriously
And that is a gigantic cop-out that indicates you can't defend your position. Surely there must be a corollary to Godwin's law for the inablity to defend yourself to comparisons with WW2 when it's the best example available?
"Systems programming" is an ill-defined term and different people seem to mean different things with it. I think the thing you're getting at is that Go has a GC and Rust doesn't. That's indeed a meaningful difference with lots of implications, both good and bad for both, which doesn't mean that Go is unsuitable for all systems programming.

Running programs with Java and C# (OpenJDK and Mono at least) is nothing like running a Go (or Rust) programs. You can't distinguish between a Go or Rust binary at a glance, but you can spot a Java or C# program easily.

In many ways Go is significantly more similar to C than Rust is, and in other ways Rust is more similar.
> Many people in my social circle want to leave the country

And go where?
In my humble unscientific test, I did have both at the same volume level (didn’t check the EQ though as what other commenter said), I even tried different speakers incl my car’s, nothing fancy or extremely measured, just as an average consumer perspective.
'Nazi raccoons' on the rampage as European population explodes
We don't have senior salaries anymore. For the budget you have you get what you're complaining about.
.. perhaps there are other considerations among management that resulted in selecting you, that are not obvious or even divulged
There are two main working solutions that have ALREADY been used and proven to work since WWII.

First: a fungal disease has wiped out ALL the rubber trees in south america, thats why we cant grow in it the Western hemisphere, a fungus. If we could grow it here we would and it would drop the price by A LOT. But, we already have a solution, a transgenic species that is resistant, nonsense Government regulation and moronic "public opinion" is the only thing stopping this from fixing the rubber problem overnight.

Second: sounds funny, but ever break a dandelion stem in half and see the white stuff come out? That latex, PURE high quality latex. Let that latex air dry and you rubber! No refinement necessary. During WWII they supplied most of the war effort with rubber from dandelions! Yes, it works, its not efficient but progress has been made and with ANY funding at all it could easily produce enough higher quality natural rubber for ALL our need and enough to export.

The ONLY problem is that companies make too much money producing low quality "disposable" tires that they will NEVER switch.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6073688/
[2] https://hcs.osu.edu/our-people/dr-katrina-cornish
I am more interested to know what are their plans about raytracing. Because if they are going serious about this, I would expect a 100% hardware BHV... not the currently horrible glsl shader implementation.
oh puh-lease

edit: having read the whole article now it's actually pretty even-handed, I guess mentioning Oppenheimer was just marketing?
You're Stack Smashing?