skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you assume they were willing to leave a paycheck because of someone else getting slighted? If that were the case, then it is unlikely everyone would be in agreement. Which indicates you might be making incorrect assumptions, no? And, again, why assume they were threatening to leave a paycheck at all? That’s a bad assumption; MS was offering a paycheck. We already know their salaries weren’t on the line, but all future stock earnings and bonuses very well might be. There could be other reasons too, I don’t see how you can conclude this was either a bluff or not self-interest without making potentially bad assumptions.
This is unfortunate. I find "39k" to be a lot less clear than "39KB"

I first thought the title meant you had a strict budget of $39,000
Bud if you had a software job one month out of college I don’t think you’ve really had to interface with how bad shit gets.

A large group of these people are having a revenue problem, not a spending problem

I walked out of college in the Great Recession with a 900/month student loan debt and paying 500/month for rent in the shittiest apartment in the area with two roommates. I could only get minimum wage jobs that would send you home if you ever got close to full time so you didn’t get benefits. Working 50-60 hours a week got me about 1400-1700 a month before tax. I frequently had to steal food if I wanted to eat even every other day and healthcare was completely out the window. There was no improving that situation by being more careful about spending because there was nothing to cut. That was paycheck to paycheck with zero luxuries and not even all the necessities
You can unquantize actually! at the very least you can with midi input.

I use my po 33 a lot. It's something between a toy and a full fledged device. I've used it 'live' when hosting a pen and paper event i wanted custom music for. Usually though it's something I enjoy using when I want to do something musically without being too 'committed'.

I think there's a lot of value from an item being easy to use and evoking the concept of play. It makes it easy to keep up 'good habits' like music making on days where I dont want to or cant do more.
That's such a weird hill to die on. It's literally not a problem for any competent driver, not to mention that in modern cars this is completely solved by the addition of electric motors on the drivetrain so there is literally no delay whatsoever.

Calling it the "dumbest most annoying" feature when touchscreens in cars exist is just weird.
I think it's important to keep in mind that BOTH Altman and the board maneuvered to threaten to destroy OpenAI.

If Altman was silent and/or said something like "people take some time off for Thanksgiving, in a week calmer minds will prevail" while negotiating behind the scenes, OpenAI would look a lot less dire in the last few days. Instead he launched a public pressure campaign, likely pressured Mira, got Satya to make some fake commitments, got Greg Bockman's wife to emotionally pressure Ilya, etc.

Masterful chess, clearly. But playing people like pieces nonetheless.
yeah. full disclosure, i go far back to get latest couple of hundreds of videos. (i may increase this in the future) and filter out the crap that is live, shorts, and all the restricted non embeddable ones. and i get all their stats.
so i try to have around at least 100 "proper" ones of the latest videos.

even for mrbeast for example it goes back till 2019. and believe me, old videos are not that attractive to "kids", i was going to say, but i found myself skipping them too.

and present the user with an option to order by highest rated or highest viewed.

this way i get latest videos of the channel. eg. ordered by the most viewed.
and it plays continuously. shuffled in batches of 5.
It's open-core (if you care about that).

"The SSO is free up to 10ppl."

It's weird that "Content Search" is such a pro feature.
If the GP had gone to Kosovo or (as the common English shorthand for “Bosnia and Herzegovina”) Bosnia, do you think that would change anything? In my experience, northern Kosovo and Republika Srpska are the very hotbeds of banging on about Serb identity and national character in the region, more than Beograd.

Vojvodina is a good escape from all that. Obviously the ethnic Hungarian population there doesn’t care about “Kosovo is Serbia” stuff, but even a lot of the Serb population feel those disputes are far away.
I live in the US, in the Midwest. However it seems that the average distance to a library across the country is around 2-5 miles.

While probably too far to walk for the average American, it's certainly not too far as to be unreachable.
And new engineer onboarding.

You have a new engineer. Point them to the Call Stacking dashboard.

"Here's a list of all of our endpoints for our application.

Click on a trace, and you can see the relevant methods for that endpoint and the context in which they are called."

This will get your new engineers up to speed, much quicker.
I'm just trying to point out a couple of issues in your logic.

You cannot multiply wetland. It takes a thousand years to get a 10m deep peat bog and every second of its wet, rotting existence creates CH4. Wetlands offer lots of benefits —nature, water management, etc— but greenhouse gasses really aren't one.

More importantly you're only comparing standing volumes of carbon. We extract billions of m³ of lumber out of forests each year. Even the process of growing it, is far better. Methane is being consumed, not created.

The overall picture is complex but if we're thinking about things in the short term, farming lumber (and using less concrete, brick) would do far more good than creating wetland.
> Risk from GAI is very nebulous

Those are the very best risks to motivate and manipulate people!

Plus there's no risk of nosey eggheads trying to explain "how it really works." Now we're completely into the land of untethered ego!
Do you know the actual number of employees at each of these services? I'm not doubting you, only asking because I'm curious and have no idea personally.

It's interesting if their headcounts are similar, although maybe not entirely unexpected. It doesn't take that many people to maintain a messaging service, so there shouldn't be that much of a difference.

If I'm being generous to Signal, I could say that most of the extra employees at these companies (e.g. Facebook) don't directly work on Messenger itself, but work on the surrounding data collection/ad tech. At the same time, there is a certain number of employees that any company needs just for people to handle the administrative/business side of things, so that explains the extra people working for Signal.

If I'm being less generous, maybe Signal really isn't that different, and Facebook et al just have so many extra people because they are liable when it comes to content being posted on their services. For example they need extra lawyers and content moderators to handle all the stuff that is publicly posted on Facebook. This is something Signal just doesn't have to deal with.

This is all just speculation though, I don't have any numbers that indicate which is true.
In the end it's still a management problem. I do not think it is rank-and-file employees' duty to think about long term strategies or outside perspectives on the company or anything like that. It should be the management's responsibility to clarify this to the outside world. Again Google's management completely fails at that.
Condoleeza Rice?
you guys are muuuuuch moooore talented than I am. :)
Whenever someone on the right wins he is always FAR right as labeled by the media.

Gotta get those clicks and manipulations going!
The statement about Sam on the announcement post at https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/updates-from-yc/ evolved over time:

1. March 2019: "Sam is transitioning to Chairman of YC and has shifted his operational responsibilities at YC to other partners. This change will allow Sam to spend more time focusing on OpenAI while still being responsible, along with the rest of the partnership, for the long-term social and economic success of YC. Because YC is run as a partnership, there will be no significant operational change."

2. June 2020: "In May 2019, Geoff Ralston took over as YC President. At that time, Sam Altman stepped away from any formal position at YC."

3. April 2021: gone entirely

waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190310003417/https://blog.ycom...

Basically seems like they were updating it as leadership turnover happened as Sam went from president to chair to out, and Geoff from partner to president to out.
I like the concept of 'walkouts.' And I'd add they don't necessarily reflect badly on those being walked out on - sometimes they're just the result of a disconnect between what a person thought they were getting into and what it turned out they actually getting. As the author mentioned, walkouts occur more when there's no incremental cost in walking out, so I've seen them a lot at sessions for conferences that have a fixed registration fee - e.g., a presentation may be great but just over one's head. Imagine walkouts must really be prevalent in free MOOCs (how many college courses would you have dropped had there been no consequences?).
And even more off-topic (sorry!).

To this day I find pretty elemental algorithmic and/or deterministic composition experiments far more inspiring and idiosyncratic than gen AI. There is such a wide gap between gen AI sound generation and the prompter, that the result feels utterly disconnected from the composer's intent.
Pretty much half the people who work at any given bank have some sort of "VP" title. "Middle-level" would be overestimating the standing of many with that title.
> Vulkan basically isn't relevant anymore unless you are doing Android.

Why do you say this?
Still an opinion, sorry.
It started off quite construction focused, but it's since veered far off that course
i have this screenshot: https://storage.googleapis.com/indie-hackers.appspot.com/pos...

but you're right. will do. thank you.
If the rumors about LLM stuff baked into Siri on the next iPhone are true, it will be interesting see how they make the most use of the hardware with that.
I would also like to understand better. But it seems like it is visual effects that is meant. These tools were mentioned by name:
https://www.kabaretstudio.com/
https://prism-pipeline.com/
I think it was only a competitor app after GPTs came out. A conspiracy theorist might say that Altman wanted to get him off the board and engineered GPTs as a pretext first, in the same way that he used some random paper coauthored by Toner that nobody read to kick Toner out.
IBM? Try EMC or Cisco. I ended up at the former by acquisition; many friends ended up at the second likewise. AFAICT they both have much worse records of turning acquisitions into abandonware than IBM does (not that IBM's is great). Oracle and Microsoft have already been mentioned, but Intel deserves a place on that horrible list too. Tech has been full of such fat and lazy predators for a long time.
I think "was banned" is correct according to that link -

> future events ... are referred to in the past tense as if they had already happened

Lots of wordy theologist writing elsewhere in the article but it sounds like in practice it's just using the past tense.
Yup, sorry. I started responding on my phone which has a different account logged in.
Accurate. Psychology, history and the intersection thereof broadly supports the idea that we drastically overestimate our ability to measure character and intention based on in-person interactions. Some oft cited cases being how numerous British public figures who sat down with Hitler tragically misread his intentions, in contrast to those who appraised him from a distance based on actions, policies and writings. Likewise, GWB's famous ability to peer into Putin's soul.
> Closed stuff can always be built on open formats and protocols.

Could copyleft protocols be a thing?
It was OpenVPN with a TOTP 6 digit google authenticator MFA code. It worked just fine with Tunnelblick in MacOS and Viscosity in Windows, but I never found a setup that worked in Linux. And I searched for a while. I had to switch away from linux because there was no good solution to this.

And it's not the only non-easily fixed issue I've had with Linux over the years. The classic saying is "Linux is only free if you don't value your time" and I've found that to be true.
It is a management tactic. Don't list out a successor because that gives them leverage.

Saying there are several in the running makes all exec/senior management think they have a chance and be gunning as hard as possible for the possibility.

If you want an easy way of increasing the risk folks are willing to take with little downside to the company at this point that is exactly the strategy one would implore.
Thermoacoustic Stirling Generator Converts to Energy with No Moving Parts
When filtered to "cross platform mobile app frameworks" anyway, which is a huge reduction in scope - 1/3rd of respondents in that study in fact.

So 46% of 33% of mobile app developers that aren't building mobile websites use Flutter. That's not bad at all, but hardly supports a claim of being the "leading mobile app development framework" as you're down to ~15% of mobile app developers using it. And only then since mobile web is being excluded, who knows what it'd be if that was included.
When in doubt, always invert.
You can't win every contracts but the market we're after is immense and so even a small percentage of enterprises being more daring is sufficient.

But the argument is true for any enterprise software, you cannot be small and sell to enterprise (or you must have amazing product market fit), that's where open-source comes in.

We have overlap with many existing products, but we are the only one to provide such product, with emphasis on DX and excellent performance and scalability, and to be open-source. We do currently have a few big enterprise customers and many enterprise open-source users. It's a lot easier to get approval since they get it for free and it's fully self-hostable and air-grappable. Once they have tried it on a few non-essential workflow and see the benefits, then they are more motivated to make a case internally. Wide net, some catches until it becomes ubiquitous.

I happen to be a really strong believer in open-source so it's not just an adoption strategy but I think it happens to be also fortunately the best strategy for such infra level software.
Naive, in the extreme.
Maybe it was too much, but one counterpoint: if horrible managers never get called out how are you supposed to know to avoid them / how will they face consequences?

I understand authors frustration, I've experienced the same in the past but could not voice this beyond just some close friends and coworkers (who knew it already anyway), for fear of repercussions. I've since left but of course this person remains, and from what I hear is still as bad.

Outsiders might join that organization unaware of this. Others working with those teams might not know this and can get burned by it.

Was this particular call out justified? I don't know. But I don't think it is inherently bad.
Practice.

https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Articles/2020/04/10/The...
EdgeFS was pretty much a direct ripoff of multiple open-source projects, including one I worked on, so I'm not going to shed a tear for them. IIRC they even cribbed some of the material for manuals.
And weirdly superfluous to the point he was trying to make. Did anyone really need the name of someone with whom he has an axe to grind in order to believe the larger point about Google's organizational ossification?
In terms of features, they match on the simple / broad features.
When it comes to scale, reliability, defined compatibility,
and supporting tools that is a big no.

I have worked on VMWare stack in previous jobs.
but I run proxmox at home now.

Free ESXi without VMware tools is somewhat harder actually.
Still far better reliability.
Interesting to hear the author complain about Android, which today is held up as the one part of Google which knows how to ship product.
I think we now have an idea of what will happen if AGI is actually reached and efforts are made to contain or restrain it.
I think you're confounding patent and copyright.

To patent something, you must disclose it publicly.

Trade secrets are kept secret, but as a result can't be patented. At least not directly.

IP can be copyrighted, but it doesn't have to be patented. Copyright lasts much longer than patent protection.

There's no practical way of determining which trade secrets "go along with" patents because that could describe literally everything the company does. It wouldn't make sense to force companies to reveal all of their secrets or surrender their copyrights as soon as their first patent expires.
As a hiring manager, I don't believe choice of OS is critical to join a team and make an impact. So I may not bring that up. If it is really critical to YOU as a candidate, then candidate needs to bring it up as soon as possible in a conversation.
So, it wouldn't necessarily "know" much about Middle Earth, but might take a stab at writing like Tolkien?
You are missing the entire point of bringing in a consultant: plausable deniability and double dipping. For one, if you come up with some idea and it goes south, guess who gets the blame. If you, on the other hand, come up with the idea to bring in McKinsey, and listen to what they have to say, and that idea goes south, you get a pat on the back for bringing in a great consultancy into the mix, and if things went wrong its not even McKinsey's fault but dubious things like "market conditions" or whatever they cite. The things they often recommend to you are sometimes bordering on corporate espionage made legal by proxy, taking what worked with another competing client in your field and applying that formula to your own work. Then of course these consultancies are for profit companies, creating another investment angle for anything that you do for shareholders that are invested in both your company and the consultancy.

They are never going away. It doesn't even matter what they put in those slides and they won't be going away.
Just wait. In a few years these things will have 360 degree lenses embedded in people's forehead (or both shoulders) and things will settle down.
Understandable, and I hope one day to be able to offer a demo so people like you and I can make more informed purchasing decisions. To give you the developer point of view: after all is said and done (cuts/taxes/fees/fx/etc) I see just under half of the list price. I'm trying to make a living doing this (it's my one and only job) and I have no idea what price is "best" so I make a decision and have to stick with it. If I may ask, what is the impulse purchase price limit for you?
Another browser rouge-like is Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It's much more modern than its progenitors and its levels are much more detailed.

https://crawl.develz.org/
I would suggest that beginners not lead with "which tools should I capitalize on" and instead, take a step back and ask "what do I want to make"? Don't lose focus on the final output as you make your first steps. In the world of computer graphics today there are so many tools that abstract away various steps in the process of drawing pixels to the screen that you could very easily waste too much time suffering with low level code up-front and then later realize that the niche field in the wide array of industries that utilize graphics programming that you want to pursue actually only hires people who use Unity, TouchDesigner, threejs, and after effects and don't actually write a lick of C++ unless push comes to shove, and even then they might just contract an outside engineer for it.

Not to say that learning how things work on the ground level isn't immeasureably valuable, but I think trying to do that first is the slow approach. Learning is accelerated when 1) you enter the industry (so you should prioritize output up-front and let the deeper learning happen when you're earning a paycheck for it) and 2) you get a better conceptual understanding of what's happening under the hood offered by tools of abstraction like a game engine or visual programming paradigm.

This comes from someone who spent many years trying to learn cpp and opengl the hard way only to endure a long battle against an internal sunk cost fallacy I've harbored that kept me from taking the no-code approach. Don't waste your time taking this path if it doesn't help you make what you actually want to be making at the end of the day.
Just a friendly post about if you're after what the kids are calling an SBC device, you can get much better performing handhelds for a fraction of the price that support NES, SNES, PS1, etc.

The Playdate is a niche.
Is there a single large tech company that doesn't fuck over the customers of their acquisitions?
yeah you're definitely right. i tried it. it is extremely painful to add any channel to it. its country limited, and afaik you have no free option to add any channel you choose. and it still suggests some stuff, channel bundles, which are boring to children and such.

plus, there is no option for me :) i'm also thinking of myself.
What worked really well for me: storing email in a base64 encoding and then decoding it whenever user hovered over the link for my email.
"This post is for paid subscribers." Flagged.
Probably the most accurate description of what’s happening in the uk.

On your final paragraph, I can confirm that pay in east europe, and the standard of living, are higher. I am in the uk but have links there and people just dont understand how someone can work in the uk in tech an not afford a property or a family, whereas in east european countries that’s the norm. While it is not my case, I can absolutely tell that my peers in that region of the world are better off than i am, and by british standards i am pretty good.

The irony of brexit is that somehow karma is turning the uk in that which it despised.

The potholes in roads, failing health care, rising poverty, increasing government corruption and an ever increasing mass of people demanding dubious political action, makes me think the culture of the uk has seriously regressed in that it can’t sustain itself.

There is almost no company that has provided a service without more than minor issues in the past couple of years and thats alarming.

I frequently read stats about various uk institutions, such as hospitals or schools and they all have official good and outstanding reviews while google and other review sites show a very grim reality. This means the uk is faking statistics to appear better than it is.

I am extremely worried about the country. I dont think it will exist for long and it will split into its historical regions.
What on Earth is confusing about that?
Happy to expand on this. Only where you would consider to be not boilerplate, aka your business logic. I hate low-code that force me to use a rigid system for the core of my tools, but I love the velocity that it brings. What if we could have high-velocity for all the boilerplate (permissioning, queuing, frontend, secret management, etc, etc) but code for the business logic. That's what windmill is. In a way, this is what serverless was meant to be, write your business logic and servers autoscale and you can hook a gazillon managed services on top.

We bring that vision in a fully open-source and consistent platform that you can host wherever you please.
It's annoying, and sort of lowers my opinion of some of the user base here, because I consider personality cult to be a very low-value normie thing to partake in.

But no matter, I just hide that stuff like I do with Elon's crap. It'll pass soon. It always does.
As someone who just installed OpenZFS on Linux, I agree with you totally.

ZFS just is, no need to worry about layering device mappers and LVM. The automount is also very nice.