skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sense is that you probably could help them get their technical act together, if the team was otherwise in good shape, but that you're probably not the right person to provide the kind of comprehensive leadership they need.

What's required to fix this situation is for someone to manage up and down the hierarchy, and it doesn't seem like you're going to be able to pull that off in this organization. Maybe someone with more experience could make it happen but it's probably just a shitty company and it's not worth the effort.

The fact that the CTO and directors let this situation fester for years is a sign that they're clueless and/or disinterested.

Best alternative would probably to create a new team to replace the previous team's services one-by-one with well-operated versions. And then fire the previous team entirely. Probably not a very fun job.

If you have better options, take them. I would.
> it's a caste system

All social institutions eventually become that.

It's inescapable.
To draw the attention of others nearby to look?

Maybe they should do something more discrete, like a vibrate function.... heheh.
Author of the article here, kinda surprised to see this doing so well here. But in case you're all interested, here's my repo of Talon stuff I'm experimenting with: https://github.com/Xe/invocations
>with almost zero external pressures

a lot of government action happens in the context of competition between nation states with stakes that can be much more intense than in the private market. That's how you got the Meiji Restoration, The Prussian education system that's now everywhere, lots of fancy tech during the Cold War, and much of China's gains during the last 30 years.

Much off the innovation in the US is government driven, military technological superiority. The Silicon Valley far from being some sort of private market Mecca has its roots in the defense sector.
BTW, I could design electronic suspension of key for you. It may not cheap, but you'll avoid any patent issues.
$0. I'm not responsible for somebody else's choice not to negotiate a decent wage.
How about a 486 instead? :)

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer
Which companies have used Elixir in production, I know Brex used to use Elixir but now used Kotlin and also the Bleacher Report.

Are there any more?
Louisiana doesn't even use common law.
Hey. I’m from Tunisia so I can relate a bit.

1. Build travel history. If you can get a Schengen, go get it and have a short trip to Europe.

2. Get the B1/B2 visa. It’s relatively easy for north africans. If you can enter the US with it, go for it, though flights can be expensive.

3. Apply for the canadian visa. 95% you’ll be approved for it.
>So no, that is not why people in the US can get a refund after playing a game for up to 2 hours...

okay, here's the EU part: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/new-valve-refund-poli...

not brought to court but that right-to-return law put another fire under their butt for sure.
Regulations cover the general case not just each individual case separately .

It’s reasonable to offer exceptions for mines in the Mojave, but baking that into the regulations requires even more complexity.
Oxford AstraZeneca First High Court case [video][18 mins]
We recently switched from Rust to Elixir on a new service in no small part to this. The idea of sharing objects through Tokio async processes felt difficult compared to this being a first class feature of Elixir. It’s not that it’s hard, per se, but it felt harder to get right.
Many different areas and topics. The most concerning to me is bans and shutdowns of public forums where there is discussion of how authorities are disregarding human rights as defined by the UN in the UDHR.
True, you could implement Ecto exactly in Ruby, except you'd be writing effectively Elixir and every library released that got close to this in the 15 years I've been doing Ruby has been either disliked or disregarded. Each with less contributor activity in their lifespan than a month of ActiveRecord attention.
Ask HN: How do you use GenAI for making your personal lives easy?
With the recent OpenAI dev day, I see the scope for Generative AI and LLMs exploding manifold and this pace of innovation is here to stay.

While I did spend a while playin with ChatGPT when it came out, lately I haven't spent much time with it. I was wondering how people used this for making their personal lives better. I do use an LLM at work for simplifying queries and Copilot to help me code but largely these are confined to work.

I'm looking for inspiration around things like making you tell better stories to your kids, or keeping track of your expenses in a more seamless way, helps you organize digital materials you have, help with learning and digesting material faster, keeping up with friends ... bringing order into the chaos that is life! :)
Coming from F# and only dabbled in Elixir, I find the language unfortunately a bit confusing. For instance, the signature of a function only reveals the name and number of the parameters but not type, so in a big library, it’s quite hard to recognize (mentally) what goes into what and one can only see one plugged the wrong parameters after one had ran and debugged the code. In strict-type language like F#, such issues would be detected right away during coding, thus it helps to reduce the time and effort immensely.

So my question is what are the main selling points of Elixir besides the Erlang environment?
>where the devices are intended to slow down or stop working altogether

Stop spreading disinformation please
Piracy is routinely found to be illegal when it meets the judicial system, and the distributors of porn profited greatly from the distribution system before the internet. Why would they be the drivers of this?

edit: replied to the wrong comment, but it's still relevant to the assertion that the internet would have been invented without public funding
Yes, an effort of the whole world's public institutions. Tim Berners-Lee didn't work for the CERN Corporation when he set up the Web.
Coinbase On-Chain KYC
In what way, today, has Apple prevented you from running whatever you want on a MacBook? Not some hypothetical "And Apple will 100% kill it if it ever gets to[sic] popular" future action by Apple, but an actual thing they've done to stop AsahiLinux, or someone else, from making the progress they've been making, on trying to run on bare metal?

In macOS, I am not prevented from running whatever I want. There are some extra buttons to click to allow certain kinds of software to run, but ultimately, Apple doesn't have a say on what I can and cannot run on my Mac. Macs aren't "still pretty much locked down" because the open source community hasn't been able to make a kernel up to your standards. That's just not a commonly accepted definition of "locked down".
My massage person is a wizard. They know exactly where to dig into. I went from pain and tears to pain-free. They keep mentioning scar tissue and blood flow. I spend an hour in traffic to get to a massage appointment and it's absolutely worth it every single time. Great if you can fix things yourself, but I need a wizard to fix up all my stuff.
From the 4.2BSD UNIX User's Manual (2/1/1983)

Adventure(6)
...
DESCRIPTION
The object of the game is to locate and explore Colossal Cave ...

So certainly before 1983.
> The internet would have happened anyway.

Maybe "mega-AOL" might've happened, but an open network of networks where there's no parasitic mega-corp acting as gatekeeper and tollbooth operator? Citation needed.
This part stumped me too. Maybe op had some deployment issues on VM systems.
I don't think 'having a large userbase' is a success or a necessity, you can have a better experience with 10-30 people who provide better discussion.

I think the issue is that we're worse than ever at finding good spaces for discussion.
Feels very apple-esque when people spin up compliance to government regulations as "pioneering". Then Epic has the same spin every other company does and they are ground to dust in the internet discourse.

But yeah, difference is Valve knows to be good to consumers (mostly) but make dev support a nightmare if you're not big enough.
I think this is the reason I was hired at my current company and it put me in an awkward position.

I was hired as employee #2 for a critical team at my company. For the first 3 months, my colleague and I worked closely together on everything I was doing. From production problems to day to day PR reviews, I had no one else to ask besides my colleague. We didn't even have a manager we reported to. Then suddenly I was told they didn't work at the company anymore. I was told they were still available for 2 weeks on Slack for any knowledge transfer I needed, but they would have no other access to our network, our Github, or anything else.

My advice is that option 1 in the SE question (hire a replacement, then terminate) should be avoided. How is that going to look to the replacement? It really shook me up. I was only a few months in, I didn't have time to build trust in the company yet. If I could have, I probably would have went back to my old job right away. Then what happens to that knowledge you were hoping to retain? A year later I still wonder if someday the same will happen to me.

Instead, I would recommend approaching the employee and working out a deal for them to amicably train a replacement. The replacement should know going in that they are a replacement and they should be told to focus on training themselves and others on this knowledge. If they don't agree to the deal then you fire them immediately. Yes, that'll suck, and maybe you even have a production problem because of it, but you can make it work.
Why are all of these examples of successful government tech investment so old? ARPANET, moon landing etc. are all 50+ years old - before most HN readers were even born. How many billions/trillions have been spent since then without achieving anything nearly as spectacular?
Hillock is rough.
FWIW "short" has always been 16 bits. It was introduced with VAX Unix (and a few other 32 bit architectures) so that you could easily port code that assumed 16 bit arithmetic.

The point isn't that, today, you'd choose to do what C did. But in 1977 there weren't a lot of other options. Early C did indeed have fixed, defined types. But moving to the VAX messed all that up. They had to choose to either add new types (and thus turn a bunch of code that would otherwise run fast on the VAX into weirdly-interpreted nonsense) or update the existing types so that idiomatic PDP-11 code still did what you expect most of the time. They chose the latter.
The endless open world / survival / scavenger games are all like this for me. You learn the ropes, start playing well, and after a while go "now what?" In Rust for example people seem to wind up mindlessly picking off new players, or blowing up peoples bases to steal materials so they can... make explosives to blow up peoples bases.
> The first type, my favourite commenters, whose grim-faced no-nonsense corporate visages grace standups across the world.

I'd have to put myself in this camp, how dare this guy prioritize making things not shit. Hasn't he gotten the message yet? I don't think the author is as smart as he thinks, he should definitely seek counseling
You can download www.oppenheimer.app to use Bard and ChatGPT side-by-side!
> Second reason is because Kevin Hanley from KHAN games is working on a game called Unicorn, which is based on an old BBS game called Legend of the Red Dragon

That drags up a lot of ancient memories. Never did get very far in that game.
You can download https://www.oppenheimer.app to use Bard and ChatGPT side-by-side!
Some effort from everybody in the world, even us, its users.

I'd estimate the "GDP" and traffic related to public institutions as a single-digit percentage of the whole web.
I am still trying to wrap my head around how this works. It sounds like it is similar to avy[1] but you use your voice instead of the keyboard? Coupled with some AST aware commands.

[1] https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/
[creator here] You can download https://www.oppenheimer.app to use Bard and ChatGPT side-by-side!
I read it recently. I came away amused by Borman being such a no-nonsense person. He would warn the other guys on his crew if they joked too much or goofed off. He was a straight shooter, and didn't mind telling NASA when something wasn't being done right.

When Apollo 11 landed on the moon he considered the job done. He thought they had beaten the Russians to the moon and why would anybody want to go back?

He was devoted to his wife, who suffered from addictions due to the frazzled life of her husband's career.
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Location: Mendoza, Argentina (UTC-3)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Open to discussion
Technologies: Python, SQL, Javascript, Go, AWS, Docker,
Snowflake, Databricks
Résumé/CV: https://nicolasbonader.github.io/cv-public.pdf
Email: nicolas.bonader@protonmail.com

Hi, I'm Nico. I'm a software engineer with 8+ years of experience. I've worked as a frontend developer, backend developer, and data engineer. In the last four years, my experience has been primarily focused on data engineering, although I have been working as a fullstack developer in my last project.

What I'm mostly looking for:

* Cool project

* A company with opportunities to grow professionally

* Always keep learning new technologies
either way, flavor-aid brand kool-aid is still cool-aide
> MS Entity Framework Core

Having worked with both EF Core and Ecto, I would gladly see the back of EF Core. Ecto is flexible enough to basically do everything you would with a raw SQL statement, but still use a relation mapper with it's validations. And if you have freeform output because you're doing a bunch of JOINs or querying a MATERIALIZED VIEW or whatever, you can just pipe that straight into a struct inline without having to declare a definition somewhere.
I'd rather have a panel of experts in the field with clear criteria decide the merit of the grant vs a crowdfunding-like model where people vote for the most charismatic person with the most well-produced video.
There's a pretty large list here: https://elixir-companies.com
Things were blurrier without
>> Government tech investment delivered the Internet,

> Don't forget about microchips.

The Romans are all bastards, they have bled us 'till we're white, they've taken everything we've got as if it was their right, and we've got nothing in return
though they make so much fuss, what have the Romans ever done for us?

https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ
Crash in Content Blocker Extension Due to Memory Limit on iOS 17
An unexpected iOS 17 bug that essentially limits the number of content-blocking rules
Blog link - https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-v4-5-1-for-ios.html
Don't work for Google, but been to the Toronto office (it is on the smaller side).

It is in the heart of the Toronto downtown, near Richmond & Spadina, next to the old & new City Hall. Definitely disagree with GP, I'm not sure what better area you would pick (but I love downtown). Similarly in Taipei, the Google office is right in Taipei 101 (like having an office in CN Tower - very cool.)

To be fair, Amazon's office in Toronto is next to the CN Tower and has a great view of it - so maybe Amazon takes the cake here. You have to pay for the cake though.
"happened anyway" is always logic I see applied to government made advancements and not to private ones.

A good read on the topic is "The Entrepreneurial State" by M. Mazzucato.
The internet didn’t become the central piece of society and commerce until around 20 years ago, so partially it is explained by needing time to mature and adopt.

Investments from the 90s onward have been more public-private partnerships, but things like the human genome project or a number of cancer treatments and pharmaceuticals have been developed in this manner.

Third, I’m not sure I would regularly expect something as big as the internet to be invented every decade.

Not necessarily disagreeing with you because I feel similar to your comment, but I wanted to dig in a little to see if it’s more truthful or more biased.
This article is higher education research erasure. The private sector gets absurd amounts of benefits from university research technology transfer. That's government tech investment that's handed to private companies on a silver platter.
As an email host... I've been turning New Outlook off for clients for weeks trying to explain this.

Apart from the security issues, it's also very annoying to have to explain that I can't actually troubleshoot any IMAP connectivity issues when your machine isn't the one thats actually making the connection.

Now we've been internally discussing whether we should just firewall off whatever Azure ranges are connecting to our IMAP backend servers and intentionally "break" the functionality. Not my first choice, but users keep seeing the "New" toggle and turning it on, causing all sorts of other uncontrolled chaos!

Cloud-first, in all the wrong ways. It's supposed to be a local app..
Your exposure to GenZ is very different than mine. My son’s friends come over for DnD night and they’re hilarious, wicked smart, and very grounded individuals. I’ve met friends of friends and found them to be similar. It’s only online social media (multiple sites/apps) that I find what you describe. And in that regard I have to emphatically agree with you. Perhaps just different social groups?

Also, NYTimes or WashPost are barely credible news sources today. I wish I could recant the multiple reasons that made me feel that way but there’s been too many articles, too many videos, too many audio clips from them and others like CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. Forbes is another where you’d think their finance section would be immune from political bias but even they editorialize beyond the pale. I’m sure you know what I mean regardless of political side. Aren’t we all tired of being told what we ought to feel is important and worse, the degree that we ought to experience those feelings. Man, after Covid, they’re all on the chopping block in my book.
He's also commenting on other threads in this post.
Not always, not the case with me.
It would be much easier to consider this as solution if it would _output_ the generated test steps, and/or cache them and only modify them if needed.

Your example above - 7 function calls in one test. let's say usually closer to 5, we have hundreds of tests. Every single PR runs E2E tests. We open a handful of PRs a day. Let's call it 5. We're already looking at thousands of invocations a day. Based on your pricing, that would be incredibly expensive.

This is with 3 eng.
Strange Loop presentation by the author of Cursorless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcUJnmBqHTY
Adobe and Apple.
Survivorship bias.

If a tech company (especially a small one) sucks, it will disappear rather quickly. So you only see the ones that made it work.

If the government IT sucks, it won't disappear.
QEMU-iPhone-OS-emulator (9to5mac)
what I am resenting is the misinformation false-narratives about workers who get tipped.
I think the view is a bit myopic. Certainly, government projects have inertia & cost overrun. But over the last six decades, here are some of the initiatives on my mind, which couldn't have been done without government investment in technology:

* Internet, as many people pointed out already.

* Nuclear energy & commitments to nuclear projects e.g. nuclear medicine, nuclear chemistry, medical research, particle physics & major instrumentation grants

* Space technology. Ability to understand the cosmos, origins and the unanswered questions about the eventual fate of our world & mankind. Including some flattering moments such as Apollo program.

* Meteorology & mapping: This is usually the underdog. We owe a lot to meteorological studies and USGS. Humanity (not just the US) has managed to stave off famines, several natural disasters or be prepared to face the next simply because how well we have mapped earth and it's resources by remote sensing technologies, many of which are government developed or sponsored in large.

I think what is rather true is government projects are endurance races. They aren't as flashy as SpaceX or ChatGPT, but without them the next glitzy tech will be arduous to get. As with all races, one can't win everything & the slow nature of it makes us question its worth sometimes.
I have occasional wrist pain (competitive starcraft and being a software engineer not a great combo) - the only real fix for me was going to the gym a lot. Now that I go to the gym 3-4 times a week, most all of my RSI issues have vanished. Strongly recommend. There is something crushing about wrist pain when your entire value is wrapped up in what you can make computers do.

Also, I love the style of this blog with the chat-replies from friends.
I cannot get into specifics because I don’t want to get banned on hacker news. I will generally wave in the direction of authorities that are violating human rights.
As a language, I wouldn't call it an upgrade over F# (subjective). The main selling point is probably running on BEAM w/ ruby-ish syntax. BEAM is kind of a big deal IMO.

I don't think it compares very well to F# types, but you can use typespecs: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.15.7/typespecs.html
Static typing for Elixir is in active development: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/09/20/strong-arrows-gradua...

Yes, it is currently dynamic and yes, that means you won't get much int he way of type information from the language itself, it's not currently a statically typed language.
That would have the opposite effect. If you don't want people to leave the game running when they're idle, you don't penalize the save-and-exit command.
When I have talked to Cruise engineers, they use the phrase "Move fast and break things" regularly. They have said to my face that that is their culture. They are proud of it. That kind of culture is not how you get an aerospace-like safety record.
This style of writing feels a lot like the sections of Gödel Escher Bach that had the tortoise and Achilles dialogues.

Anyway, I’m 52 and have been typing daily at tech jobs since 1995. I had a run-in with RSI around 2000, and tried ergonomic aids like a squishy pad in front of my keyboard to rest my wrists on, this sliding thing that I rested my elbows on. None of it made a lick of difference.

I changed the way I typed. I made sure to keep my hands and wrists relaxed, and swapped out stretching my fingers for keys with sliding my arms around… and it worked.

I still type a lot every day, and I’ve been pain free for 20 years. YMMV, obviously, but changing how you use your arms and hands might be a huge boon.
> I've gotten haircuts where the dude takes his time to do it right and is a pleasure to hang out with.

Wow. I always tip for haircuts, but I’ll tip around 50% if the person is just down to business, efficient, and gets me out of the chair quickly. I’m happy to talk to people to make their day more interesting, but left to my own devices, I'd rather just have the quiet.

So basically I’m seeking out and rewarding the opposite behavior than what you are. I can only imagine the whiplash barbers and hairdressers must feel.
oh I thought it was closed. Thanks for the pointer.
The industry, obviously. How does that affect the customer experience though? If call up my travel agent and have them book a vacation for me, what's the difference between that and calling TravelGPT and having it book a vacation for me?
Then make the burger $14 and give $2 to the waiter internally.
Because we've been gutting scientific grant spending since like 2005, leading to a cutthroat environment where for the most part only the most well-connected and well known get the big grants?