skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also they are using postgres for everything. I think that is a good example of picking one thing that you know very well and using that to the limits.

But i do agree that windmill is doing so many things that the elevator pitch need some work. But a lot of companies are trying to do the same. So i do not think people will think of workflow engine + online ide + app builder as a natural grouping in 5 years
> And n is fixed at the calling site, right? I wonder if something like "TypeVar, but for a list of type arguments" could solve your problem.

Yep, and TypeVarTuple should - all the syntax etc. is in place, there is an Unpack operator for TypeVarTuples, allowing you to e.g. append or prepend individual types to a TypeVarTuple. But you can't unpack more than one TypeVarTuple in an expression, it's specifically disallowed - so I can't properly type my function.
AWS S3 vs. Cloudflare R2 cost use case
E.g.: https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294?s...
Clicksaver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
The GitHub repo for the open source project gives a better intro/sell:
https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
(Especially the video)
It would be nice if its not LIMITED to working just with Mac M1, if it comes as standard USB or is extensible to all computers and you just need the right cord+driver, that would be important as well but if it can be problem-solved, I would do whatver was needed to address that
Nvidia's GeForce GPUs are selling well, but its AI GPU sales are ridiculous
Big Doctor presumably refers to the lobby that limits the number of new doctors. Not individual doctors.
Graham is English. The English have a wonderful talent for making backhanded “complements.” E.g. “you’re a truly unique individual” or “I always feel more intelligent after speaking with you.”

The American convention is to look for the positive and assume that was intended. The English convention is to look for the negative and assume that was the real meaning.

E.g. “Sam is going better than you. Do better.” Could mean “Even that incompetent dipshit Sam is going to do better than you can, that’s how much of a hole you’re in.”
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It's really too bad that Jeff Skilling is one of the few notable McKinsey associates who have ever spent real time in prison. There should be more.
Haha - I can't abandon my first programming love. :D

Ruby is fantastic.
> ...Vic Gundotra...

Please, let's honor the man's fiercely-defended policies.

He is Vivek "Vic" Gundotra. His Real Name is Vivek, and we should refer to him by it.
This is why I'm not understanding the excitement around open source models, they pale in comparison to GPT-4 quality, so I have no use for them until we have something comparable.
Yes. Just think of how annoying it is when you have to wait 5 seconds instead of 0.5s for a 2FA message, then multiply that by everything that you ever do with your workflow engine. That's not even to speak of cases where running the workflow (e.g. acquiring data) faster is a competitive advantage, although this thing is still probably too slow for truly HFT-level tasks.
There are plenty of nice GUIs for got as well.

TortoiseGit works, Fork is pretty good but it's a shame that GitKraken is so expensive.
Set up a VM based workflow and it can run fairly well with minimal intervention for years.

Set up a k8s deployment and you're fiddling with deprecated APIs every couple months - if you don't pay close attention the whole deployment spec falls apart within two years.

The VM stuff works for the majority of companies - you can even sprinkle containers in fairly easily.

It's still a massive if mature market that needs some attention and care, it's a shame it's going to get squeezed and abused by broadcom.
no gif to show it working? just a form to sign up?
I honestly think it’s possible to have large/mature companies that are still innovative, fast moving, transparent/candid internally, user focused, and low on internal bureaucracy. It’s just really, really, really hard.

You need to constantly be eliminating red tape and causes of slowdowns, because they’ll keep appearing. For tech companies this means spending a lot of time eliminating tech debt, slow/unreliable workflows, toil work, etc. It also means reducing cross-team dependencies, keeping decision making units small and independent.

You need a very performance oriented culture, where you only keep strong performers and fire miss-hires (or ppl who start strong but later start coasting). This is maybe the hardest part, as firing people is very tough and can have real negative consequences on the person being let go, but an accumulation of ppl who are just sort of coasting is one of the biggest reasons companies slide into mediocrity over time.

I think very, very few companies pull this off in practice, but I don’t think it’s impossible to pull off, just EXTREMELY hard.
Yes, it's a deal breaker. I started at a large technical organisation over a decade ago and was well entrenched in using a Mac laptop. But in the support team, the default laptop was a Windows laptop. "Oh, only solution architects and so on are entitled to Mac laptops". But they allowed me to bring my own device.

So I brought my own laptop, had it re-imaged and I became the most productive employee not only in the local team but also the global team in terms of support tickets and resolution of issues. I could do tasks so much more efficiently - for me - on a Mac than in Windows.

12 months later the policy changed and support engineers could choose.

I guess the difference is I have enough experience to know that using a certain device, my productivity will be much higher than struggling in with a non optimal operating system.

Tenure also plays a part. When you're starting out as an intern or a junior associate, "you get what you get and you don't get upset" and have to make do with whatever the standard is. As a staff engineer, you can throw your weight around a bit more. :)
Cringey AF rage against the machine callback
But it's so much more pleasant -- esp the testing and mocking support -- than all the other languages I've tried.
Mearsheimer: "Putin never wanted to take over Ukraine"

conveniently forgets the March 2022 assault on Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kyiv_(2022)
to second this, I really want an LLM that can call a REST API like ChatGPT plugins can. What is out there?

for this use case, it might be okay if it’s not as intelligent as GPT 4
I mean, sure if they are not ignoring your messages and you need or want to know them that's fine, but if they are still being that judgy for something so petty they seem like shitty people regardless.
Yeah, the pattern that bothers me the most in people's behavior in social media in 2023 is the rise of "parareligious" movements which are about people finding meaning in (frequently politicized) beliefs.

The following pair of examples seems to piss everybody off. In one corner we have the person with conservative views who was just an ordinary person working, eating, sleeping and watching TV until some point in 2021 when they discovered purpose in their life because they would wake up each morning and read a lot about how everything the government about COVID-19 has done (vaccines, masks, closures, etc.) and not just wrong because people made a mistake but because of some deeply seated moral flaws in the political class.

In the other corner is a person who believes they have long COVID or who believes they are exceptionally vulnerable to COVID so when they see someone isn't wearing a mask they put on two masks. On their Mastodon profile they say they'll ban you if you ever post a selfie of yourself not wearing a mask. (I had a friend who used to be into all sorts of things like music festivals and Martin Scorsese movies but now all she wants to talk about is fashion face masks.)

The thing both of these people have in common, though they'll deny it, was their life was empty and meaningless doing ordinary things but now that they're suffering under fascist oppression or are under mortal threat by a virus every moment of their life is elevated. Either one will have a hard time accepting a "return to normal".
But ~user is user's home for Unix friends.
weird, why doesn't it show up on her actual account? https://www.threads.net/@karaswisher just works
I suspect it's because they're happy with SV salaries they got. They think it's actually a good deal for them, and a signal they're "valued"
How did Trump receive the nuclear codes? Mostly just by a lot of deceptive tweeting.
Is there a place where you guys discuss... things? I'm layman interested in this topic akin to pop-physics/maths, but have no chance to just read papers and "get it". On the other hand, immediately available resources focus more on how-to part of it rather than on what's up overall. Also, do you have something like 3b1b/pbs/nph for it? Content that you can watch and say "well, yep, good job".
really? what do they let you do? as a user i feel like insta360 is everything gopro hopes it could be
Bing's RLHF is a mess compared to ChatGPT. Hopefully they can improve it, but the instruction following leaves something to be desired.
Strange article. Headline is deeply negative, but the content is a bunch of vaguely related neutral-ish facts.

I’m at McK and it’s just a bit slower than average imo.
It can not. (It does support go)
Oh, nice! I'd not heard of that one, but judging by the first TIGSource link xWUNG takes inspiration from the same game I did: Japanese cult classic Pendulumania (2000, CANO-Lab) https://www.mobygames.com/game/17800/pendulumania/ with both of those being mouse controlled. One of the challenges I had to "solve" was how to move from analog to digital control.
Parts of this reminded me of Daniel Ellsberg's admonition to Henry Kissinger about security clearances[1]:

"[...]You will feel like a fool, and that will last for about two weeks. Then, after you’ve started reading all this daily intelligence input and become used to using what amounts to whole libraries of hidden information, which is much more closely held than mere top secret data, you will forget there ever was a time when you didn’t have it, and you’ll be aware only of the fact that you have it now and most others don’t....and that all those other people are fools."

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsbe...
I don’t disagree. But I have also seen situations where middle managers are highly attuned to and proud of cross-team projects, and basically don’t pay any attention or give any weight to value delivered for end-users within teams, so everyone is encouraged to structure their projects to maximize communication overhead (even line managers, since doing so gives them the opportunity to grow their directs).
Without looking it up, what happened to the second biggest donor to the Democrats this year?

Is Donald Trump allowed to run a charity in New York?
Easy buy. Stripe Press has a fantastic aesthetic and quality to their books and this is a classic.

Less than $25 with taxes on Amazon.
It's 2023 – why is it still so annoying to respec in singleplayer RPGs?
Many thanks! It's an absolute joy to develop for Playdate (mostly because of the fixed, limited spec) and as much of a joy to play games on (mostly because of the screen and form factor).
Close but no Nobel: the scientists who never won [2016]
> They have Monopoly over the iPhone market

There is no such thing as "the iPhone market" for anti-trust purposes -- there is the mobile phone market. And competition in that market is inarguably healthy. Customers have plenty of choices that aren't iPhones, and largely they seem fine with them. You might as well argue that Chevrolet has a monopoly on the Corvette market.

Microsoft got into trouble because they were found to have a monopoly on the personal computer operating system market and then they deployed that monopoly to shut out competition in a separate market -- web browsers.

No one said that Microsoft had a monopoly on the "Windows market" because that's a tautology.

The fact that they were successful enough to obtain a monopoly in the PC OS market wasn't itself illegal. Their usage of their position in the OS market to gain an advantage in the web browser market is what was found to be illegal.
Agreed, YouTube Kids is not always for kids. There is some very weird, sinister stuff on there that isn't in-your-face obvious. Stuff like that is just weird, it's definitely better to approve certain channels and keep the kiddos from getting pulled into any algorithms!
Because… you want more Enron’s?
Looks like I need to work on my sarcasm phrasing.
Nice try UK undercover cop.
I work at a company that is very similar to Google (similar products, similar age, founder not there anymore - he's busy with windy.com now) and it's funny how similar my feelings are.

What I think is happening is that the best people tend to leave, and those who prefer safety and are fine with the corporate environment as long as they're getting paid tend to stay or join. I doubt this downward spiral to mediocrity can be reversed.

I actually can't decide what would be the best strategy from the CEO's point of view. I.e. how best to govern an aging, established tech company like Google? I really like what Aswath Damodaran said about Google - there's a "sugar daddy effect" - the various departments lack desperation to make it, unlike startups.
Fridman also blatantly softballs anyone he's interviewing. He will have people with opposing views on. First one, he'll agree with 90% and never seriously challenge. Next person comes in with opposite belief, he'll agree with 90% and not challenge. He offers little here, those two people should've been debating each other. Prime example is back to back interviews with Netanyahu and Yuval Noah Harari.
But no encoding :(
So much for freedom and rule of law
I think EasyBCD could find and add Endeavour as entry into Windows boot manager
List of nominations for the Nobel prize: https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/
This article is dubious.
No, there's two levels to this.

The dickishness/meanness of singling someone out by name in a public article on the Internet, which is what the comment here was primarily about.

And then the second level, which the commenter deliberately downplayed as a minor second point (but people here jumped on it...) that said person is a minority, so it makes one extra-suspicious about motives.

So I'm not sure where you got this "acting like race is about everything" point, because that wasn't in the comment.
Try Perplexity AI: https://www.perplexity.ai/
Decades-long buy and hold investing. Buy once then sit on your ass for 40 years. This works quite well but is actually surprisingly hard to do for most people.
This is what I cited (from the 1983 issue of Air University Review) which makes many similar points but concentrates more on his impact on the organization at the Navy level (https://web.archive.org/web/20130310192210/http://www.airpow...). I also pointed out to him that Rickover didn't think civilian nuclear power should be a thing towards the end of his life as well as some points about the Shoreham plant and the backup turbines.

e: "In time, he became increasingly conservative if not reactionary, putting space between himself and any responsibility for failure or accident. When the USS Thresher was lost in April 1963, he immediately phoned the Bureau of Ships to dissociate himself from any likelihood of failure of the nuclear plant in the incident. The bureau chief thought this action "thoroughly dishonest."
Review: $399 ToneX pedal puts AI-captured guitar amps at your feet
I don't think anything here is in conflict with the statement that Fortran can be faster than C in some cases, but yes you're right that technically that should be qualified as naive Fortran can be faster than naive C
How do you distinguish "I can fix them" companies that will not improve because they are where they are because of organisational and human issues and the ones you can actual improve and are ready for you?
A brief history of brief CEOs
> at no point have I ever seen large numbers of employees act outside of their self-interest for an executive.

This is still making the same assumption. Why are you assuming they are acting outside of self-interest?
Looks like the use case for BPMN and an engine that can execute processes described in that notation.
The way I interpret GP is not that they want more crimes to be committed, but rather that McKinsey people are already committing plenty of crimes, but only one of them went to prison so far.
Spam isn't a problem for you, I take it? What are you using to filter spam out?
MacOS, Linux or BSD requirements are all fine with me.

I would never accept working on Windows.

It's like working with my hands tied behind my back.
BTC has no finite supply.

Its domination will just change / already has.

I bought weed with BTC for years, I never cared how much it's worth I just used the current dominator value for 10g weed.

Not sure what advantage fungible should be? Even bills are fungible.

And there is no reason to assume BTC is less prone to inflation. BTC right now is not even stable enough to be deflationary or inflationary.
They've been very careful not to and they were obviously right. They were very clearly mobbed by those who benefit from for-profit side which has more power and will determine what has to happen and how to make sure he can run a profit driven company that violates US law except on paper.

The funny part is that this means there is no commercial board looking out for interests like those of stock holders, so the stock holders have basically put themselves in the position the board was in AFA no recourse if the CEO is selecting another interest over theirs as well.

They want to know what the board knows but don't want the stock price to reflect it.
> just 1 disgruntled employee's impression of their job performance.

And what’s wrong with that, if that’s their honest and informed impression?
Well, if you never get around to releasing the feature, you'll never have production issues. Ruby embodies "perfect is the enemy of done" in a way that I tend to appreciate.
I have not come across this sentiment before. Is there something specific about Ruby that makes you think this way or is this your general view of dynamic languages without a strong type system?
Same here. Use n8n. Self hosted and open source.
YC is invested in OpenAI. Wonder if they want a win-at-all-costs type person (if we go along with this premise) running a company they’re invested in, yet not want him running their company.
If she doesn’t want to be publicly shamed for being bad at her job she could always try to be good at it.
Two to three years is also when laptops become a 0 value asset in the books in at least some jurisdictions (not sure about the US tho.) At which point it makes a ton of sense to get rid of it (e.g. sell or give it away to the employee.)
The critics is more than fair and our positioning is not very clear.

We are doing a developer platform for enterprise to build internal software, including apis, workflows, background jobs, and UIs using code, but only where it matters. We happen to be quite decent in all aspects, with a focus on performance, and we have an active community of users and customers that are mostly developers and hence have plethora of feedback and feature requests, so we're happy to oblige.

By being at the right level and trying to expose the code as much as possible, we can be great generalists without sacrificing on the quality. Python, Typescripts, Go, Bash and all the query languages are where all the complexity is and capabilities come from. They are well developed languages with great ecosystem. We merely provide a way to run those language in a system fit for production at enterprise scale.
Some of this already exists to some degree: https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler
> Do you have more energy later in the day - when many of the people who woke early and were energetic in the morning do not?

Its hard to tell but I wouldn’t say I’ve noticed anything unusual with me compared to others
It is funny but it is the other way for me. I'll accept linux, but I don't want to have anything to do with Apple
I’m not sure how to understand this, surely doing “computational photography” (combining exposures, AI denoising and sharpening, smart postprocessing) is in every way more complex than “traditional processing” (camera eyeballing the white balance, applying a tonal curve and calling it a day).
> The latest Ultrastar HDDs are generally being aimed at cloud service providers, hyperscalers, and large enterprises, whereas WD Gold are going primarily to VARs, enterprises, enterprise-grade NAS, and small businesses that need to store loads of data.

Are there any enthusiasts here that use this much space for any reason, for what? At this point if I had a reason, I would probably still build an NVMe array at great expense
Llama 2 (and variants). Has the lowest hallucination rate (https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard), and its open source and so we know what went into it, and the community can improve it
The opposite, really - the chassis and basic suspension design, as well as most of the interior parts, are from the Elise. The rear sub-frame, hubs (5-lug vs 4-lug), complete drivetrain, brakes, and all body components besides the windshield are specific to the Roadster, though.

The Elise itself was sold in several forms with a ton of different ICE drivetrains (Rover 4-cylinder, Toyota 4-cylinder, Toyota 6-cylinder, GM Ecotec) and is popular for these kinds of custom drivetrain builds, since it was a highly modular platform - fundamentally the Elise is an aluminum tub with a front composite crash structure glued and a rear tubular subframe bolted on.
> I realize there is no way to say this without sounding like an absolute fucking dork

I don't think you needed this caveat. I appreciated being reminded of the phrase.
Well that is because you live your life from a place of fear. Not everyone is like that.
I asked Perplexity which LLM powers it and it said OpenAI GPT-3.
I think it is possible to create emulated block device stacked on UBI.
I think it's cool.

Also the "Parts Manual (EPC)" [0] is interesting since it contains the part numbers of a couple of models (maybe all, I don't know what models they offer) and is very well organized. I'm not sure I'd find this for my VW.

[0] https://epc.tesla.com/#/catalogs
Yeah looks like the whole comment section agrees, it must be genetic
> but basic logic tells us that several moderately well educated people should likely be more efficient overall than several uneducated people plus one exceptionally well educated person.

I'm not arguing that having a greater number of educated people wouldn't be more productive. I'm arguing that redistributing wealth involuntarily is less efficient.

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Economic efficiency implies an economic state in which every resource is optimally allocated to serve each individual or entity in the best way while minimizing waste and inefficiency.

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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economic_efficiency.asp

Robbing Peter to pay Paul necessarily leaves Peter worse off. The solution is not pareto optimal, and therefore cannot be a solution in a maximal efficiency.

Furthermore, in the daycare example, the solution necessarily creates deadweight loss. Robbing me to pay for someone else's daycare now increases daycare demand, which given a fixed supply, makes daycare more expensive for everyond, myself included. So not only am I paying for someone else's kids to go to daycare, but now I have to pay more for my kids to go to daycare to outcompete the demand they now present with their free money.

> Taxation is not theft just because you voted against it and lost.

If your city's population got together and voted to tax people who post on HN at 99% to fund banquets for children, would you similarly not consider that theft?
Folding Ideas had a great video on it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp2gikIkD8
How long is it going to take to run a single pass of badblocks against a 24 or a 28 TB drive? Weeks?