skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WFH is existentially painful for those that have coupled their identity too strongly to their jobs. They're confronted daily with the fact that their coworkers just aren't that into them (e.g. the job, and by extension, them) as they'd like. The likelihood this has happened goes up significantly as you move up the ladder, because the volcano gods demand sacrifice for that.

There's also a segment of the population that somewhat overlaps with the previous paragraph that uses work as their primary social outlet.
A Whistleblower Creates Headaches for Tesla
For the most part the Balic was conquered by the Russian empire, mostly from Sweden and Poland.

When the Russian Empire took the Balic states the restored and increased Serfdom to the strongest it has ever been.

Russian Empire and the Soviet Union have been horrible for the Baltics literally for 100s of years.
Ask HN: Better Names for GPT / GPTs
Does anyone else think GPT is a terrible name for discoverability? I think internally openai uses the name gizmo for a customer built GPT instance. I quite like the name gipety myself. Any other suggestions for a better name for a GPT instance?
> My dorm building in college had eight entrances, of which two were handicap accessible.

Around 13% of Americans have disabilities according to Google. 25% of the doors at this school were handicap accessible. I don't get "how bad handicap accessibility is" from this example.

Closing 6 doors to comply with a policy of course is completely stupid.
Really any similar meta prompt will work, the key is you're getting the LLM to give you an optimized prompt. Try getting creative with how you ask for the optimized prompt.
Made up or not, I got a laugh thinking about that situation
Listening to the latest episode of Radio Free Skaro they confirm that the rumors were stated on their show and read a quote from the person interviewed for this article who says they were just repeating what they heard of Radio Free Skaro!
Android is not exactly open source. Everything useful is bundled in Google play services. Almost all Android phones are not designed to be modified.

Let’s say I buy a Samsung phone and find a bug that I want to fix. How do I do it? Can you walk me through it step-by-step at a high level?

Also, you can release source code and still be monopolistic and abuse your competitive advantage. Chrome, Edge, and Safari are essentially open source but their competitive advantages come from being installed as defaults on their respective operating systems. They have an inherent competitive advantage over other open source browsers like Firefox (and the market share statistics prove it).
You're welcome! Please share examples of how it's helped
If there's one place for Fourier analysis to be is on linear algebra.

The calculus course is way too bloated for historical reasons that haven't mattered for more than a century. Pushing everything into that context only serves to make the contents hard to understand and seemingly useless.
Yes. That sort of thing. I had a 2015 model C-class Mercedes make two fairly serious attempts at killing me before I got rid of it. The first time it could have been a glitch, the second was so obviously borked that I still wonder why they released that stuff on the road. And no way to disable that 'feature'. I'd have loved to analyze what exactly went wrong there and why a bridge and an advertisement by the side of the road were classified as imminent frontal collision.

My present car just does what I tell it to, no gizmos. It may be statistically less safe (I'm willing to believe that) but at least it doesn't actively try to kill me in the name of keeping me safe.
more short term profit...
From the article: "An employee who was fired after expressing safety concerns leaked personnel records and sensitive data about driver-assistance software."
And I remember downloading 3D rendered images from BBSes back when I couldn’t produce them myself, was a kid at the time and 3D Studio was way above my abilities or computer power, had an XT then an 286 AT. Good times
Wouldn't python's _the framework_ be Django?
HTML Web Components
The problem with Apple is that they form a significant amount of users, so if you want a truly popular service you have to do your best on Apple devices.
Show HN: Malevich GPT – agent that transform your feelings to art
Hi, gyus! Yesterday I made a GPT Agent "Malevich GPT" that can convert your feelings to beautiful paintings as a modern talented artist. You can share your feelings and emotions with both emoji or words. So creating awesome paintings is so easy now
> USSR was an union of Republics, of which Russian SSR was just the one.

As the quote goes, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Pretending Russia didn't have a special status in the USSR doesn't win points in an argument, it just makes you look misinformed.
JetBrains have fantastic tools/products and a very pragmatic business model that is easy to understand. They spot real developer issues and solve the basics, that's why they are successful.

You won't find startup-y inflated delusions and useless-crap features there.

(disclaimer: I use their paid tools but I'm not associated the JetBrains in any way)
Same. I spent so long building Django apps and trying to solve problems that StackOverflow told me were inherently difficult, only to find out that Rails has built-in solutions.

This isn’t even a criticism of Django; the things that Django does, it does very well. But there are a lot of things that it doesn’t do that a mature web app will eventually need to handle.
Can you trust your own brain? Neuroscientist Heather Berlin explains
In Rust you can implement Add for all kinds of combinations of types. I.e. when one of the parameters moves it's ownership you can just perform the operation in-place in that parameter and return it. So you can eliminate temporaries at compile time. It means much more work in the library, but the library user can just write A + B + C.

So Rust has that and C++ has template specialization, const if, and variadic templates. Would be cool to have all in one language.
I'd be curious to see power consumption. SHA (and AES) are usually available as what amounts to an ASIC built into the processor, while this requires a lot more work to be done with vector instructions.
Show HN: Overlapr, a range overlap detection tool for UI representation
Some time ago, while working on a calendar-like frontend application, I developed an algorithm to help me visually represent overlaps. Recently, I decided to reimplement that in TS and pack it in a library so others can make use of it. Just today I finished the demo for that and decided to publish it here. It's not perfect of course, but I had lots of fun implementing it, and I'm very happy with the result. Feel free to leave feedback or any questions.
Please elaborate. It isn't clear, at face value, why this statement is evil.
Great work! Thanks!
The initial reason was emissions, but now that we have them all kinds of other stuff gets tacked on.
The majority in my company have forgotten what used to be quite standard office manners before covid. Hot food in the desk area of the office used to be a real no-no, likewise having notification sounds coming out of your laptop constantly.
"Can you tell me more about why you want X?"

They actually need Y.

Time saved.
The alternative to REIT consipiracy is that execs have run the numbers and loss from remote work is greater than the loss from office work. Painful.

Headlines don't support this, articles only get clicks when celebrating remote work. But there is a very clear disconnect where headlines are saying "remote work is more productive" and executive surverys are saying "we are moving back to offices".

Execs (on the whole, not anecdotes) don't hate money and productivity. If remote work was so much better, they would be rushing to it at breakneck speed. Instead the opposite is happening.

HN Note: Only a small fraction of workers are developers or work in IT. The white collar workforce is huge an varied. The remote vs. RTO debate is about workers on the whole, not just the small sliver that are devs.
I have the opposite takeaway. If I experience that people follow my input too literally, I try to figure out which of the following three applies:

1) I've been micromanaging them too much, and they stopped thinking for themselves. Possibly partly because they were lazy, or annoyed or because they thought it was ok.

2) They don't have the ability to see that my instructions did not make sense in the situation they're in. Maybe they didn't have the training, self confidence or initiative to realize that the instructions were assuming a situation that was different from the actual one.

3) There is real bad faith involved.

Most cases fall roughly under 1). In that case, the proper response is to reduce the level of micromanagement, and let the people figure more things out on their own. That means that even when I spot that they're making minor mistakes, I need to keep my mouth shut. People need to make mistakes sometime so they can learn from them. If they want to discuss those topics with me, I will try to treat them as peers not subordinates. While doing this I also try to make it clear that I expect independent thought.

Then there are the cases that fall under 2). In those cases, I try to give tasks or instructions that are either intrinsically easier, or if that is not possible, I may break the tasks down to more manageable units, while trying to actively provide training and mentoring.

The rarest case is 3) If this is the case, I will provide some push back. Luckily, as a tech lead, I don't have direct reports, so I can refer such cases to the line manager if it gets too bad.
I agree. But I think you've flipped the original question, which presupposes "trust." Your formulation is "does code review eliminate the need for trust?" Which is clearly a no, for the reasons you've outlined.

A 10000 LOC review isn't usually as bad as it sounds. Once you get some experience reviewing, it becomes easier to separate the critical areas from the boilerplate, and get a lot of value out of a 10min read-over. Most of the time spent on the review should be thinking about the implications of the code, not on passively reading it.

It's also helpful to think adversarially: "How can this code be broken?" This is much easier to do to someone else's code than to your own, because you haven't spent hours developing assumptions about it while writing it.

Sometimes the problem is that a patch does too many things at once. Those can be the most important to review.
> reduce our office footprint

Haven't these geniuses ordered their workers back into offices?
I've never liked the framing of RTO vs WFH in terms of distractions because 1) every setup is so unique and 2) one person's "distraction" is another person's motivation/recharge strategy. For me, personally, things at my home like my dog and good coffee can keep me working for 10-12 hours easily, racking up unpaid overtime for my company. My office by comparison is a depressing space and I am motivated to put in the bare minimum time there so I can go home and log back in and actually get things done. Of course on the other hand are people who find the office campus fun and engaging and they hate their home life because of kids or no real office at home. I don't think distractions can be framed in any meaningful way due to these variances. My work slack is full of wars between the WFH faction and the RTO faction, seemingly split 50/50.
If anyone is curious I found a website hosting a version of this book with a lot of apparatus to help you read this beast, actually seems pretty interesting...

https://finwake.com/1024chapter1/1024finn1.htm
That's a really good teach.
Yes, and in small cases you can work out the distribution explicitly. For example:
- 1/6 of all have their second smallest prime factor equal to 3 (that is, they have a factor of 2 and a factor of 3)
- 1/5 of integers have a factor of 5; of those, 1/2 have a factor of 2 or a factor of 3, but not both (that is, they're congruent to 2, 3, or 4 mod 6); so 1/10 of integers have second smallest prime factor equal to 5.

So the proportion of integers with second smallest prime factor equal to 5 is 1/6 + 1/10 = 8/30. Thus the first quartile of second smallest primes is 5, and similarly for any quantile between 1/6 and 8/30.

Don't ask me to work out the third quartile - this distribution has a really long tail. In particular I suspect the limiting distribution has no mean.
That seems bad, because you should hold an investment if and only if it is profitable. If anyone can take your investment from you as soon as they see it is profitable, you'll have no reason to invest.
Foliate v3
What logic? I made no logical statements, in fact I was asking a question.
This is fantastic. Thank you very much.
L.A. should really remove all parking requirements: https://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-.... Dingbats were mostly constructed before the '70s constrictions on housing development, including severe parking minimums.
Firing some could also bring a long-term profit.
The upper classes love to experiment with being in the lower classes, so long as they can retreat back if it gets too real.
GitOps Powering Security
All these CRT emulations seem to be optimized for realtime filtering (especially for retro gaming). What I am looking for is a high quality CRT node for Nuke, Natron or Blender. Is there something like that?
Microsoft's DevDiv has been a billion dollar a year business for the past 20 years (I know, revenue != profit, but that's a big number to work with)
It’s not clear to me why this comment thread is ignoring the obvious and repeatedly proven point that such corrupt “deals” are lobbied for and passed for the mutual benefit of the lawmakers and business owners. The only losers are normal citizens.

It’s 2023, stop acting so oblivious.
Unity lost $921M in 2022.
Let's table that for now and see if we can fast-follow with an iteration to our nouning paradigm.
The absence of brands which might be expected to target a very narrow market segment doesn't really help us understand if this ad for a mass-market product was targeted. But you're right, it probably was to some extent.

I guess my main point was that this is a completely different category from present-day individually targeted ads. Bank then Rolex didn't need to invade anyone's privacy when choosing to advertise in "More Money Than Sense Monthly"
> Imprecise asks from managers and leaders cause a disproportionate amount of turmoil and wheel-spinning. To combat this, leaders should be very precise with the amount of time investment they’re asking for when they ask for things.

The amount of time expected is one additional piece of information to add to an "imprecise ask," and it should be part of the conversation, but it really makes me wonder how information-starved your subordinates are if it serves as a valuable parity check for them.

How about this: never launch an ambiguously specified days-long task for a subordinate with an offhand comment? Always have a slightly more extensive conversation about it? It's really hard to maintain a major disconnect through the duration of a substantive three minute conversation. Try it. Try to write a realistic, two-way three minute conversation where a major misunderstanding between two people isn't uncovered. You're basically writing a comedy sketch.

Human speech is ambiguous, and it makes up for this by providing many different ways of describing a single situation, each conveying additional contextual information. If you say something in one way, the person you're talking to might understand it one of three different ways, but each time you say the same thing in slightly different words, the intersection of possible interpretations tightens down very quickly. Because of this, being strategically chatty is incredibly important for clear communication. Striving to be precise in your use of words is necessary and valuable in engineering, but it can never completely replace redundancy, except in formalized contexts. (Engineers can see strategic chattiness as a superpower, but for managers, it's an expected skill.)

It's great to explicitly mention time expectations, but even if you don't, your subordinates should sense something wrong and speak up if the amount of time you spend discussing something with them isn't proportionate to the ask. If a subordinate thinks you are asking for days of work in an offhand comment and doesn't speak up for clarification, then either they are scared to talk to you, or they are accustomed to being starved for time with you. Either way, it likely this stems from a pathological power distance.
"Have you considered the increased opportunities for synergies in the office? We should punt on this until next quarter's all hands when we can utilize our increased office presence to actualize our OKRs."
okay but the plumber doesn't have to learn fucking Kubernetes.
I don't see how those relate to a company's revenue or bottom line, which is usually what we imagine company's to care about above all else.
Tech has become the type of job where people are ordered to abandon family and friends to keep insecure management happy by relocating closer to offices. Not a viable career if you want a life.
My office has the exact same problems, plus we have people playing music out-loud and people taking personal phone calls for what seems like 20+ minutes in the working areas. The other week I got to hear all about someone's family get-together while trying to fix production issues.
As a counter example, Flexport recently fired its CEO, then did layoffs after.
> Sounds like they're completely right, then. "Don't bother Steve unless you really need something from him", which is exactly what he wants.

Then why is Steve in a job in the first place? Such an attitude would find more traction in the contingent consulting world. At a job, where you're paid to deliver for your co-workers, it's asking to be laid off or fired.
How long have you been on Mastodon? The federate/ don't federate conversation was huge even before threads launched.
Is this a sly marketing post disguised as a Ask HN? Maybe a Show HN would be better? I'm not offended, just this doesn't seem like a true asking for opinions type of Ask HN post.

Setting that aside, this is totally a valid business model - design joy (https://www.designjoy.co/) has been doing this for years now.

We're in a risk free subscription based economy.
American Troops in the Russian Civil War (2019)
Oh, that's interesting! Very different from my own personal experience in life, and the experience of people I've worked with, as you may have gathered.

I'm definitely interested in learning about an opposite experience. Care to share? Were these "Software" patents? Hardware patents? Gene Patents? Which country? Do you have references to the patents and court cases?
The llama.cpp author thinks security is "very low priority and almost unnecessary". https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/651#pullrequestr... So I'm not sure why a sandbox would bundle llama.cpp and claim to be secure. They would need more evidence than this to make such a claim.
The discrimination theory you describe sounds disparate impact, which is a feature of employment but not public accommodation law, unless the intent was to discriminate on religion and the facial neutrality if the policy was pretextual.

Though the US cases on broad headwear bans I am familiar with are mostly not in discrimination, per se, but on failure to accommodate a religious practice grounds (again, a protection that applies in employment and education, not public accommodation, contexts.)

E.g., https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/01/411213623... and
From an end user‘s personal, YouTube‘s ad block detector is unwanted malware, running on hardware that YouTube does not own.

If there is no law against that, then there should be. Let’s face it, the advertising and data harvesting revenue model of the Web has done so much damage, it deserves to be dismantled. If need be through legal enforcement.
A flight expert's hot take on holiday travel: 'Don't do it'
Show HN: Increasing Rate Limits on Public RPC Endpoints
> So your source that reporters are getting their sources from TikTok is...20-something year old kids who heard it from TikTok?

Depends on what "is" is... No, sorry, "it"! Depends on what "it" is, I meant: GP wasn't saying those 20-something year old kids heard it on TikTok that everyone their age gets their news from TikTok; they meant (AFAICS) that those 20-something year old kids get their news from TikTok. Which IMO is a legit "it" to show that they get their news from TikTok.
That’s true. But I coincidentally also made another mini project a few months ago for making those built-in transcripts much nicer to read from. You may find it useful:

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/youtube_transcript_clea...

Now that I think about it, this would work equally well for the transcripts generated by my new tool. I should just include that html file in my new repo as an added feature.
> Language models and giant training runs

So... Its November 2023, and we have a handful of really good open source LLM base models (Mistral, Llama, MPT, Falcon, a few code models, a few Chinese ones like Yi, a Arabaic one) and a few notable proprietary ones, and a few cool vision models.

... Where is all that hoovered up accelerator compute going? Shouldnt we be swimming in open and closed LLMs by now?
that's not russian. If anybody I'd credit the Romans with it... but let's not forget back when the Romanovs ruled russia
They should show comparison photos like the ones from https://wackoid.com/game/10-pictures-that-show-why-crt-tvs-a....

Additionally, LCD and OLED have their own subpixel artifacts, so I wonder if that has to/can be compensated for when displaying a CRT emulation.
Me personally no but my friend has sold lots.
I disagree. When you calculate the total spend of a company on Google on real estate then multiply it by their PE ratio and now that spend now has 0 return instead of 30x or so you get a pretty large double digit percentage of their market cap in delta value.

I think you are trivializing a pretty huge risk on the global markets.
Your answer implied that science is not hindered by the incentives that exist within a capitalist society, as the parent suggested. Was science hindered in the same way in the soviet union, in early US history, China, UK, Germany, France, ancient greece and so on?

I don't recall having heard about the greeks complaining on how they had to fine-tune their treaties for the review board or journal acceptance.
http://archive.today/lcqEK
CPU benchmarks will tell us the fact.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
"Common People" by Pulp is a great example of that
At my previous job it was about 10 per days after we started having an official process. I gather that people would just Google us.

It was very easy to filter the bad reports, though. About 10 minutes of work per day, since most were repeated issues. We had a default "reply" email with information.

The issue however was those people would get extremely angry when their security issue was deemed invalid, so we started just blocking recipients that would threat us or demand payment for invalid issues. Some would stalk me and other developers in LinkedIn and would demand immediate payment. Of course that only happened about 4 times.

Another issue was caused when some invalid issues would get SO MANY REPORTS from automated scanners, that we would actually decide to change to prevent the reports. In some of those we actually paid and credited the first person, but then the other 30 would demand payment too and accuse us of lying.

Huge shitshow.
I'm sure things have changed post-acquisition, but for a very long time Github's back-end languages were just Ruby and C.
Ha, wow good spotting!