skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the past 3 years, Uxcel has grown tremendously:

- Over 236.000 users
- Over hundreds of interactive UX learning materials
- Improved gamification that makes it easier to learn, retain, and reinforce your learning.

There is a big challenge for all design managers right now — being spread too thin. As a design manager, you’re expected to map your team’s skills, identify learning materials from a dozen of platforms, just to find out that you lack insights on how learning impacts individual, team and business growth.

What if there was a tool that has distilled, to-the-point, and gamified learning material that directly influence your team’s skills and outputs? And on top of that, unlocks your entire team’s unique skills, strengths, and areas for improvement?

Wouldn’t that be great?

That’s the main reason why we launched Uxcel for Teams - the easiest way to level up your design team with automated skill mapping, backed with hundreds of distilled, to-the-point, and gamified learning materials made by designers.
We released a bunch of new features to help design managers:

1⃣ Build your team’s skill graph in less than 20 minutes
Gain a bird’s-eye view of your team’s skill set across 65 design skills, grouped in 6 main categories.

2⃣ Benchmark your team with the industry
Compare your team against 230K+ designers on Uxcel across roles, regions, and years of experience.

3⃣ Watch your team’s skill grow over time
See the impact of learning, assessments, and design challenges, and how they improved your team month over month.

4⃣ Build a personalized learning path
Assign specific courses, lessons, assessments, and challenges to turn their weaknesses into strengths.

5⃣ Improve their performance in a single click
Find out your designer’s top skills, and staff them to the right projects, at the right time to maximize their design output.

Would love to hear your feedback and thoughts on how we can help Design Managers manage their team effortlessly.
Now fix the kerning problem on canvas. That bug significantly reduces the readability of Google Docs et al.
Ask HN: How do you tell if something has a keylogger implemented
I know a game where people say it has a keylogger implemented.
Is there any way to tell if the program is not open source?

Thanks
Stop with the FUD. GDPR is not enforceable if you respect 1-3. https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=APD/GBA_(Belgium)_-_161/2...
I wonder what personality you have to have in order to acquire 8 billion and to give it all away. It must be a mix between a ruthless businessman, and mother Theresa. Never met anyone like that.
Mail.app the most popular client, are you kidding?

I don't think I even know a Mac user who uses it, and I'd remind you that you've already limited to Mac users.

Surely the most popular client is Gmail web? But Outlook, and iOS default even, presumably beat Mail.app by far too.
I don't know what the EU chat law thinks of that, I'd have to read the law[1], but no child was abused so it's not CSAM under a "common sense" definition.

[1]: The definition that the law uses is in Directive 2011/93. In a very quick check it probably would be considered CSAM, but I'd have to read the entire thing to be sure: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Possible, certainly, but given the difficulties it has with it, it appears it likely requires more training. Unlike with Chinese, the LLMs will not benefit from extensive training data mapping its tokens to and from sounds or rhyming with other words, but need to derive during training from data that rarely mentions these tokens at all.
Both of your comments are personal attacks.

“Bitter”

“White man”

“Facts are a mostly ignorable obstacle”

Please review the guidelines and save the clap trap for reddit.
Yes, you would ask a friend to send you a meeting time and place. This is a non-problem to my mind.
> The USB symbol goes on top, IIRC.

For some values of "top"; that is, some device manufacturers install the socket upside-down.
The frequency of these errors should be enough to cause you to distrust any kind of information output by a computer without ECC.

Edit: thinking about this a bit longer: that frequency is actually so high that you may well have a broken module in there. Note how it is the same module and the same address every time.
> If it had been common knowledge among castle builders, then why are there still quite a lot (about 30%) of castles with counter-clockwise staircases?

For the same reason why there are still a lot of tower blocks being built with combustible cladding or why we still find many houses not being built earth quake proof in prone countries: idiots and bunglers.

> The Tower of London, one of the most important castles in England, where royalty live(d) has counter-clockwise stairs!

That's a bad example. It was built in 1066 (the first part) by Norse people who occupied England and not the English. I wouldn't be surprised if the workmanship of building stone castles hugely differed between those two peoples at that time.

> If you’ve already breached all the outer walls and defeated all the soldiers there and have reached so far into the castle that you’re at the foot of stairs, you’re very close to victory and who would want to risk their life crawling up some stairs where the defenders are waiting for you?

That assumes that every castle was huge and wars were fought between hundreds of soldiers. Sure when you have 200 soldiers inside your castle having defeated everyone except a handful of people up the tower then this would be pointless, but that is not what happened in reality. It's a Hollywood imagination of the battles fought. Many castles were tiny and the army was in the dozens, not hundreds. Raiders and other small groups of enemies would come in a couple dozens and not in hundreds. All of a sudden those stairs make A LOT of sense.
No, a citation is not needed. It’s entirely normal that poor performers are fired. What is utterly implausible is the idea that poor performers are never fired. That’s a weird fiction people like to repeat here that doesn’t stand up to the slightest amount of thought.
You underestimate the ego out there that drives people out there to throw things away and reinvent the wheel again and again.
Just Windows Terminal. Now than NVDA supports it really well. Or, I should say, Windows terminal supports NVDA well.
That was my first thought on seeing this - it's eerily similar to the form factor of the Bob's.
vector DBs have much higher 'semantic' recall than classical search engines if you want to ask questions about your documents or previous discussions.
This is all addressed in the linked article. Even the bit about the tours.
Where all my autistic nerds at who look at the connector before they stick it in, and remember which way all their connectors are facing? hands up
They use safety and correctness for market segmentation. Kinda evil
What kinds of workloads do you run that you are capped by nvme speed?
No experienced C programmer is going to misunderstand u8 in a declaration.
Yes, and maybe some networked cameras out in the middle of it. If people could interact with it remotely like that they might have a wider appreciation. I’m thinking cameras on gimbals and solar powered with wireless internet one or another way. Perhaps have them track motion or something. Night vision.
I worked with someone who described his job like that, working on a suite of actuarial software at an insurance company, originally written in Fortran II sometime in the early 60s and subsequently ported from system to system in the years that followed.

I was involved doing some Y2K work there because I didn't mind playing with Fortran, and part of it involved changing a year field from 2 digits to 4, because who'd have imagined their code would still be in use nearly 40 years later?
Love lensm! I've used it on several occasions to teach people about inlining, bounds check removals, and other performance related topics that are best highlighted by actually seeing differences in assembly. I find it's easier for people to understand what is actually happening under the hood than just tell them "do this and it's faster".

I also highly recommend following the creator. I'm always impressed with anything Egon creates.
Some spiders may enter REM sleep – and maybe even dream, study says
Look, TFA is showing a model. Not the model. A model.

I can apply a transactional lens just to see whether it helps me to "understand" (in fact: to predict) something novel about the situation. If it checks out, none of your arguments matter. For a model, that's as good as it can get.

It's important to have more than one tool in your toolbox and to practice their flexible use. Advertising any model as "true" counteracts that - the net effect is harmful, even when the model is otherwise decent.
We don't even re-use parts on cars, which should be many times easier to re-use than parts on the space station
> Who said anything about a phalanx?

I did. It's right there in my comment.

I'm supporting the idea that a spear is superior in any defensive position by pointing out that the problem with an offensive block of spears is the need to move, which doesn't apply to defense.
Which use cases? Are there any use cases where the reverse is true that you know of?
I think the single most important aspect of Chuck Feeney's philanthropy was that it was done quietly, often in secret. He had already secretely given away much of his money before he was outed.

If I'm funding the Sean Luke Home for Distressed Kids, or publically giving $100M to, I dunno, the Red Cross, it's not really charity. It's buying a name for myself. The highest charity is giving where there is no quid pro quo at all. This means in secret. (Yes, I know, a public gift by the Bill Gates Foundation might have a chance at attracting other charity, so public charity could in some situations be positive. But it's still a lesser gift compared to Feeney).

Charity should also hurt. A poor woman giving $50 she could have used to eat, that hurts. The Bill Gates Foundation giving away $10M is barely noticed. The value of money is nonlinear. Feeney gave away all of his money, as if it were a burden and his duty was to relieve himself of it.

[Edit: I should have worded this better. I'm not a Mother Teresa style morality = pain person. But the value of money is highly nonlinear. I think that to be considered real charity, the amount of giving must be considered (nonlinearly) in context of the wealth of the individual. $50 is amazing from someone who is poor. $100M is practically nothing from someone who is superrich, and they should not be lionized for their trivial contribution by Objectivists.]

Were I as impressive a man as this. I am not. But I aspire to be.

Edit: this statement is terrible:

> In 2011, Feeney signed the “Giving Pledge,” a commitment started by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett that encourages America’s wealthiest families and individuals to dedicate their wealth to philanthropic endeavors.

This obfuscates the fact that Gates's Giving Pledge was inspired by what Feeney had done. Feeney didn't agree to live to Gates's principles, but the other way around.
And this is why tickets shouldn’t be closed just because they are old.
It's a funny title but can we link to the full article? "The Rent Is Too Damn Algorithmic"

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/631326/attorney-gene...
I hope that by then they'll have better solutions than an internet browser, and that their devices can interpret and render the data received in the best way possible without relying on code or style sheets from the publisher.
That's just made up statistics - average computer gets multiple errors a day.

This was fine when consumer computers were for games and porn. Now they store birth certificates, submit information to the tax man, documents to court, sometimes deal with matters of life and death
Well... Europe doesn't have a subsurface ocean ;-)
Nice to see my home town - and its castle - on HN.

Fred Dibnah included it in his programme on castles and how they were built. He also goes over its defensive and offensive features in detail.

Here it is on YT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64tCM9zXTE4#t=345
It'd be cute to log what processes are using that memory at time of error. Fun to speculate about whether a kernel bit flip is better or worse than ones in a web browser, photo editor, spreadsheet, network storage client...
Things I consider "a document" and that I would like to manipulate as files in my filesystem:

* A Facebook post.

* An email I receive.

* A form I fill in online.

* A chat session on WhatsApp.

* An SMS.

* An X-ray of my wrist.

* A video "voicemail" left by the caller when I don't pick up a Meet call.

* My electricity consumption as measured by the smart meter in my house.

* (the list goes on)

The fact that none of them appear in my filesystem* by default is, to me, the biggest failure of consumer IT since the Internet exists.

*Or at least in some standardized, interchangeable, mostly uniform container format.
Ugh the snake oil.

We cannot sieze the means until you can afford a couple billion for a semi conductor fab and to run it at a loss for a very long time.

The cpu instruction sets are becoming black boxes, the programming languages are controlled by committee, the internet is run by certification and big tech companies that will choke you out if they don't like you.

The hardware is getting locked down with tpm chips.

I could write the next revolutionary piece of software and the pre-existing big tech gatekeepers have power over its profitability and the hardware and OS guys determine if my program can be run at all.

So tired of wasting decades on snake oil. Never has freedom been so controlled.

The ONLY way to generate an agreement with your own purposes, top to bottom, is to make and sell your own hardware and software, on your own network.

The existing platforms are permanently compromised by interest groups.
also: https://inaccessibility.net
rewrites of large software projects usually fail in my experience. For example Netscape, WordPerfect, Digg, Myspace, Healthcare.gov. Most large projects have code bases that are decades old. (exception: Facebook)
Poles of Inaccessibility
I started the 'eml-client' in github.com/OJFord/amail as a way of viewing them rendered (they are plaintext files, so one answer is you can just read in less or whatever, depending what you need to see).

However fairly early on I discovered notmuch, so then switched it from being a viewer for just a bunch of eml on disk to a GUI notmuch client. So if you want to use a recent version of it you'd need also to install notmuch (it's very lightweight) and create its index pointing to your eml directory.

It's very much a slow WIP, afaik I'm its only user, no releases you'd have to build from source, etc. - but happy to help if you're interested.
Has anyone ever managed to generate anything useful with AutoGPT? I had several attempts and apart from wasting some money for GPT-4 API calls, it's never produced anything usable. Whereas if I manually enter prompts in ChatGPT I can often produce simpler project from the beginning till the end, if I partition them into logically independent parts.
It's the predecessor of Go1. If you buy the Pro/Edu version of Go1 then you get direct low level SDK control, though there are reverse engineering efforts that can do the same on the cheap ~5k version as well
I remember commenting with a "me too + info" on a bug years and years ago and finally stopped using Firefox for good about a decade ago mostly because this bug had been annoying me multiple times a day for years and Chrome was finally good enough to replace it.

It was always such a pain having to re-focus almost every firefox window until it disappeared to figure out where it'd come from because it'd often be something fairly generic like "Previous" that it'd choose to tooltip and push in front of absolutely everything else.
For Notion Backups, it was a mix of Hacker News and SEO, if my memory serves me well. These days, it is mostly SEO, with some word of mouth/directories (SEO is hard to replicate if you are in a crowded market or don't have any unfair advantages).

I'm on the team "start talking about your product early on, even if you don't have the mvp ready". Don't worry about someone stealing your idea.

If the product can solve someone's problem, it is good enough, even if it won't solve all the problems your potential customers might have.
Reminder of comments/discussion etiquette:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You could test that empirically by setting up a box with the express intent to crash it and then using a chaos monkey like mechanism where you start injecting single bit faults into memory at random addresses. Wonder how long the box would be up before you start noticing something is broken. It would be funny if you accidentally killed the chaos monkey first! Best not use that box for banking...
I think the article is a near miss on the right idea. The important point is that a _dedicated_ vector database is probably overkill and not justified for most real-world use cases.

But a multi-modal database that also supports embeddings in hybrid mode or _in addition_ to standard retrieval techniques is both still very useful, and probably sufficient.

What that means to me is that it is yet another vote in favor of less optimized but far more versatile and robust solutions like: OpenSearch, Elastic, and PostgreSQL. [when I say 'less optimized' I'm only referring to their current vectordb plugins, not the rest of the machinery]

OpenSearch and Postgre are phenonemal, robust, OSS tools and the only lingering downside seems to be that their vectordb implementations are still a bit less optimized for large collections - but that probably doesn't matter in practice.
I applaud Dan North for engaging with these McKinsey clowns, although it might have been better to ignore their report altogether. I fear that once again we'll see that what gets focus inevitably grows.

The problem is McKinsey's Developer Productivity report aims at The Market for 'Lemons' [1]: C-level decision makers that lack the technical acumen and understanding to decide on developer productivity. While you might say: neither does McKinsey, there is a clear desire to trade uncertainty for meaningless numbers that pretend to offer certainty. And so CEOs read this or hire consultants to conjure the "facts" for them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
Yeah I just tried it too.
It did disassemble it and showed jumps, but no source code.
It also didn't resolve calls to functions like printf.
I think you are downvoted for not quite being correct. I think "Let's be 'avin you" is by far better known as a police thing.

This is what made the spectacle of a drunken Delia shouting it at a crowd all the more absurd.
LLMs need to learn those mappings, because they're not inherent in the tokens, the same way humans need to learn mappings from colours to wavelengths. That one is not a perfect one to one representation of the data is entirely irrelevant. That they can learn it in a given context does not mean they have learnt every relationship the same way humans miss all kinds of relationships as well without being pointed right at them.

There's no doubt that LLMs are "dumb" in many aspects, but without exploring why they fail that doesn't tell us whether this is some inherent lack of ability to represent reasoning or understanding, or simply holes in their training. There's no reason to assume the training data LLMs currently learn on is in any way equivalent to the data a human child is exposed to growing up, so there is no reason to assume it will have the same strengths and weaknesses in what it is able to reason about and that we can therefore draw conclusions about it's overall ability just from probing something that appears like it should be simple to a human.

(and incidentally, I think people here will overestimate massively how well humans would do on the consonant test above; even native English speakers without any recent exposure to being taught rules as opposed to "just" using the language - many would be able to do it, but I'd be able to bet many would struggle, though most who'd struggle would express that doubt)
None, they are all converging on the same
features, it means the ecosystem is more complicated.
Downgrading Skype and Silver Lake to 'Evil' (2011)
In case you are wondering what LOLOMO stands for, it's "List of List of Movies".
Do you have QA running debug builds? In "release" builds, the asserts are compiled out. (Not sure what language and platform you're using)

Or does QA switch to release builds at some point?

When asserts fail for QA, what do they see/collect?
> [RealPage's] algorithm is based on pricing data from its own clients, prompting some experts to speculate that the company effectively provides a way for big landlords to collude and fix prices.

This seems like it would only be an effective form of collusion if everyone or almost everyone in the same area used, and therefore fed data into, RealPage. If it's only a small slice of a given city's rentals it seems like it would be much less effective.

Perhaps the real way to fix this is regulation requiring all landlords to publish their rent pricing data in an open and accessible way. I don't know if such data exists or not in the United States, or even here in Finland, but I would be absolutely fascinated to see it.

EDIT: Bloomberg Terminal users, does your magic know-everything machine have this kind of data?
Any filter worth its salt would also include "pr0n" along with "porn"
Experience says that at this stage people have inflated expectations of AI.

See 3D printing, few years ago everyone was into "0-mile" manufacturing and how it will solve the housing crisis, because we are just going to print houses.
I think this is a 20% improved utilization of CPU, earlier app was memory-bound or/and GC was consuming CPU. Now app has 20% more CPU available. It should be doing correspondingly more work. This could definitely be written clearly.
The CPU can do more tasks without being limited by memory pressure, perhaps?

I guess it depends on if they mean "we used 20% more CPU for the same output", or "we could utilize the CPUs 20% more".
Because the memory / I/O is not the bottleneck anymore, and the CPU can now run optimally.
I use uBlock to filter out Shorts.

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/143mdqv/

And I use a paid Firefox extension (one time payment of $1) called DeArrow to replace clickbait thumbnails and titles.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dearrow/

There's also a free alternative:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
Just a lot of sub surface seas ~ 300km x 300km square x 500m deep .. eg: the 45,000 cubic km Upper Rhine aquifer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Rhine_Plain#Upper_Rhine_...
Where do mortgages work like that?

The loan is backed by the property, regardless of fluctuations in its price. The bank takes the risk that the property may be worth less (or more) than when they gave out the loan.
Clearly you haven't learned the lesson of not fucking with those who make your food.
The best solution would be to add wheels as feet which gives you the best of both worlds. It does however add even more cost to an already outrageously priced robot.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wheels-are-better-than-feet-for-le...
Replying to myself: it's actually a bad idea because you have to update all indices at each inserted char! Forget about it...
Without moderation, it would quickly become a shit show once some user threshold is reached.

(Prerequisite: company offering moderation-as-a-service?)