skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We made the same call as an agency, but back in 2018, moving from Basecamp to Asana. We'd used Basecamp for over a decade at that point.

We'd never been huge fans of 37signals or its leadership, but Basecamp was genuinely the only real choice, for years, for a shared workspace between an agency and its clients, so we kept using it.

Eventually, other software just got better at doing the things we needed it to do. Basecamp 3 was not something we, or our clients, liked. We stayed on Basecamp 2 until the end.

Jason and David had always been controversial figures – especially in Chicago, where we and they are based. It felt good not to be validating their egos with our money anymore.
Is it visible to the driver, while driving?
That’s not nit picky. One throws a fucking exception.
> ... why do lonely crosswalks not immediately turn the lights red for the cars when you push the button?

Sometimes Occam's razor[0] provides a satisfactory explanation:

Traffic engineers have to take into account people pressing a request button at an arbitrary point in time, or with high frequency, which can cause significant negative impact to traffic flow if a minimum is not enforced.

While a person, or relatively small set of people, seeking to cross a street is made to wait, the numerous people driving are kept moving such that traffic back pressure can be minimized.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
Camaros and Mustangs are famously reliable.
JNI is kind of a hassle. If most of the heavy lifting is being done by native code then using Java becomes pointless. Might as well just go with Python which makes calling native code a bit easier.
> Otherwise the documentation for my furnace is... on the furnace.

Sounds too simple, I’m skeptical it could ever work.
OP may know better, but in part it may depend on the ms latency between the sites?
My point is Cybertruck starts at $60, not $100k, and likely a majority of sales will happen closer to $60k than $100k. But I'd venture to guess that a majority of people buying even the $100k variant do qualify for the credit.
"This may sound implausible to many of you, considering how hard it is to write efficient matrix multiplication/attention kernels, and how much manpower has been put into CuBLAS and FlashAttention. The key here, however, is that transformer decoding has very unusual computational properties. In particular, because of the KV-cache, for BS=1 every single matrix multiplication in a transformer is actually a matrix vector multiplication."

How did they unlock this key ? In retrospect it seems so simple, but without the KV-cache this possibility would not have emerged at all. Hats off !
My understanding is that the models are pretty comparable, but nobody's reinforcement training set is not nearly as good as OpenAI's, so they're able to fine-tune their model to give more accurate results.
Wow! Music recommenders come up every once in awhile on HN and they're almost alway unusable for underground music. Aside from not recognizing some of the names I tried, this one does quite well. It just needs quick links to listen to examples and it'll already be more useful than Spotify, Apple Music or Last.fm.

Some test cases I used: Logic1000, Tessela, Piezo, TSVI, Two Shell, Caterina Barbieri, Schacke, Amnesia Scanner, Doss, Celyn June [fail], DJ Plead [fail], DVRTN [fail], JakoJako [poor results], LDS [needs disambiguation]

This may already be a better approach, but has anyone built a music recommender that's based on published data (stuff you can find on Discogs) like record labels, aliases, collaborators, remixed-by, etc? As a listener mainly to dance, experimental, and contemporary classical music, I suspect a system based on simple metadata associations would easily beat other approaches.
I am not sure why this is linked into the comment.
That comment is not interesting. The parent article is interesting.
Why We Sleep by Matt Walker goes into a similar topic. Paraphrased in hacker language by me, the gist is that the brain’s “cache” holds memories alongside the emotions. Whereas the “hard disk” part of the brain doesn’t hold on to emotions. The process of moving stuff from “cache” to “hard disk” happens during the dreaming/REM phase. Which is inhibited if you’re

1. Having nightmares that wake you up
2. Using sleeping pills
3. Using Alcohol to sleep

I’ve found that dreaming about the trauma/loss can soften the emotions over time
> principal engineer that is tenured will be on around 550K a year.

You ignored what I wrote
Lenny Kravitz Wants to Clear a Few Things Up
I see you're using ISO8601 and including timezone data, which seems best for generalizing.

Somewhat related: if you were storing UNIX timestamps that only need the resolution of a day and will always be UTC, would you use an integer for the UNIX time or just a shortened ISO8601 without H:M:S data?

I've been trying to decide on this for a feature in a tool I'm making. In either case, SQLite has the ability to convert back and forth, so it'd really be the exported JSON containing the data whose readability would be affected more than anything.
I don't get it. What is the purpose of a "wall" unit? If you just want to fill up a grid, why do you need more than one kind of unit? Is the wall just decorative? It doesn't seem to affect anything at all.
Not really, at least not right now. I know my workplace and a few others are weary of ex-Amazon employees. Usually get picked for interview if there's no one else and gets an extra behavioral round.
For management positions, it better be a internal referral who is willing to vouch for you very highly.
Why Rain World Has the Best Game AI [video]
Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk's Comments
Are there any other libraries or online services that does this well? I have a large number of PDFs from government agencies. I’ve tried AWS Textract and works fairly well.
as a person who really likes workstation i imagine that i'm pretty screwed now.
Not to mention that you take approximately the same risk minus a couple of hundred K in total comp per year but - tadaaaa - in return you get 0.0025% stock that will vest over the next five years.
Feature Request: A lot of people disconnect after some time, there should be some kind of countdown for auto-victory.
According to the management of LiveJournal competitor Dreamwidth, you get approximately one violent mentally ill person stalking and sending actionable threats of assault or murder to their partners, ex-partners or family using the platform as their medium of choice for every 20,000 US based users, each of which has approximately a 10% chance of carrying out one or more violent felonies in each year.

For each of these cases that do then occur, approximately 10% of them require somebody representing the platform to attend court (usually briefly) and approximately 1% of those result in a judgement against the platform even when they show that the platform took all reasonable precautions and legal requirements including, where applicable, closing accounts and reporting inappropriate behavior to the relevant authority.

So let's run the numbers for one million US users. You have 50 real psychos on the platform. Roughly 5 violent assaults (or worse) connected to the platform occur a year. 0.5 of them require the platform to send a legal representative.

Assuming the platform is following all legal requirements and can show this, there are 0.005 legal judgements in the USA against the platform for enabling violent crime per year for every million US users.

Or, if you have 200 million US users, you can expect 1 court judgement for not doing enough about violent criminal activity a year. Now, what about the four other major categories of crime communicated by US residents on the internet: drug sales, child sexual exploitation, domestic terrorism and piracy of entertainment products? That 1 judgement a year, unless you have a very good legal team, will become 30 judgements a year.

When they say that "people could die" they are using an attention-grabbing shorthand for "if we can not demonstrate a commitment to full legal compliance then the headquarters will be raided by two dozen FBI vans, or, if we're unlucky, Secret Service vans." Note that appearances matter much more than results, particularly because of the senility of the average policy maker in the United States. Look how badly Meta has had to drop the ball to get 9-digit fines and they have ten times the userbase of our hypothetical.
While I don't use TikTok I often see videos from there and it's really spooky to me how aggressive and omnipresent filtering seems to have become in that community. Even mundane non-fashion non-influencer "vlog" style content is often heavily filtered and, even more scary IMO, I often don't notice immediately and only catch it if there's a small glitch in the algorithm for instance when the person moves something in front of their face. And sometimes you can tell that the difference from their real appearance is very significant.

I really wonder what's that doing to insecure teenagers with body issues.
Processing (P5) had this: you can select any string of text in its IDE anl search for it in the docs, and if it's one of the built-in functions or constants it will open the associated static html page that came installed with the software, so no internet nor server required. And despite being offline you can still navigate the docs too. This feels a lost basic skill in static site generation these days.

It was the only creative coding framework that had complete, offline documentation like that at the time I might add. OpenFrameworks is still mostly autogenerated stubs for example.

IMO it was one of the things that gave Processing an edge in educational contexts over all alternatives. I was pretty sad to see p5.js not fully continue that tradition and require that you go online to read the docs, and that it's not a static website but that text is rendered with javascript when you open it (still complete and with examples though).

https://processing.org/

https://p5js.org/
the us has enough influence to pressure france into it. why, we’re all friends here! wouldn’t want to “betray” a friend, now would we?
It doesn’t matter if the conflict is important. It matters if there’s a chance of having a positive impact on the outcome. There’s no chance of that for Ethiopia. There’s at least a small possibility of that for Israel because America is tightly connected to key players and has a lot of leverage.
That already happens, in realtime. FaceTime uses eye gaze correction, Cisco is all in on AI codecs for image and audio compression, and other vendors are on similar tracks too.

When you talk to a client, a colleague or a loved one we’re on the verge of you conversing with a model that mostly represents their image and voice (you hope). The affordances of that abstraction layer will only continue to deepen from here too.
What if Basecamp isn’t that good?

Like, I know people who hate Ticketmaster but still use them because they have no other choice. It’s hard to replace.

How hard is it to replace Basecamp? Alternatives are aplenty. Some might even be cheaper and better.

This is a big reason to carefully manage your image as a company leader. It’s so a big reason DEI is financially beneficial in the: because you aren’t shutting out your best employees and customers by being unwelcoming to them.

Don’t make negative waves and unforced errors that give your customers a reason to explore alternatives.
Shooting in RAW gets you the real sensor data without any computational magic.
Amethyst Mistral 13B q5 gguf is what I’m using most of the time now. Synthetic datasets are great to finetune with, there is no moat for having inaccessible literature data sets

I’m offline now because I’ve had too many ideas and domain names registered too soon after conversing with Chat GPT4

I’m open to the idea of people reacting to similar stimuli that cause ideas to be done at the same time, but I didn't like that experience and I can run these models on my M1 with LM Studio so easily

I do think some chats get flagged when the model says something seems novel, like Albert Einstein working at the patent office. Not worth making it my whole identity in wanting to prove, just the catalyst I needed to try 7B and 13B models seriously and I’m quite pleased
Assuming the technology has actual value, Kia/Hyundai would likely be more incentivised to license it to other vehicle-makers, than to keep an exclusive license for themselves.
ZZT also inspired the overworld of Frog Fractions 2
You could always make it yourself! Not sure how well the method above would scale up though https://www.createjigsawpuzzles.com/
Book Review: Close Protection
BMW had this on mechanically linked system for 20 years. It's called "Active Steering" in their marketing speak.
That's a very good quip. Is it yours? Do I credit you for it?
Modern open-source .NET feels like a totally different community and ecosystem compared to .NET Framework. The Ballmer era focus on Windows, versus Nadella embracing cross-platform software.

The old stuff will stick around for basically the same reasons that people still write C/C++ software using Win32.
Ideological takeover. Sad to see.
I can't get the site to load either. It's probably overloaded.

Archive.org has a copy though: https://web.archive.org/web/20231201001803/https://blog.marc...

Not that there is a lot of content on that page beyond the title.
It's hard to find technical info, but IIUC it's there is not "fat and sugar" inside the fuel tanks. They burn horribly and will fill the engines with soot and have nasty properties when the temperature change like beeing too thik or too thin. IIUC it's a mix of biodisel and ethanol.

The fat has three fatty acids bounded with a glicerine. To make biodisel you ust split it in the tree parts and bound each one with a methanol. The new compound is smaller and easier to burn correctly.

The sugars are split in smaller parts, and after some steps you get ethanol that is a nice liquid instead of a nasty power, so it's easier to pump.

Saying that thee airplane uses "fat and sugar" is like saying that inside a computer is a "sand castle".
These types of stats aren't much good without some measure of criticality. Even if you only rarely use the full functionality of a truck, if it's critical those times you do, it's probably worth owning. It's the same logic used to justify car ownership in areas with good public transportation; you're paying for a capability on demand, even if you're not always using it.

Also, not all trucks are good for towing. Pick-ups/utes are notorious for yielding where the cab meets the chassis, right in front of the bed, because they're designed to take a load in the bed, not at the rear of the vehicle. We don't tow with our truck for that very reason.
> One cannot count on its sympathy, or on its antipathy.

ok but i'm still going to thank chatgpt just in case
Depends. The DNG/Raw photos you can force out of gcam will sorta have the noise. Less processing /sorta/. HDR+ with gcam is going to be exceptionally "touched" no matter what.

You can modify the camera drivers etc on some devices to get nearly no processing output (other than the debayering color filtering etc by the ISP). I custom modded an LG V20 that I use for my mobile photography. I've either totally disabled or adjusted nearly every function of the signal processor as well as modified the camera program itself. I also use a custom modified gcam on it.

Some samples: https://imgur.com/gallery/W42TVGf

Look at my user (helforama) on imgur and pretty much every uploaded photo I took and edited on my V20... I need to update that account with newer photos :) been using the phone aince 2016 for photos!
Users interested in a broader range of astronomical tools beyond coordinate transformations may be interested in https://www.astropy.org/ and its affiliated packages.
In what way do you perceive them to have been controversial here in Chicago?
The “burst” is actually a two second video. Plenty of time for that.
Yep, I do my development almost entirely within a Linux VM on a Windows laptop. Workstation already feels kinda neglected (lack of support for distinguishing between P and E cores is one recent unresolved pain point), so all of this is really putting me on edge.
That's not entirely true and deoends heavily on the phone.
> But for 99% of modules, this has no impact at runtime.

> Have you seen the number of modules installed by most major libraries?

Chances of success, negligible.

Translation: take 99% to the power of 'a lot' and what do you get?
This. Who cares about top end speed when I can reliably pull ahead of any other vehicle on the road in my Model Y? I use that capability regularly. I'd literally never go 100+mph - that's a novelty.
> If the grocery store wanted to charge me 10 cents per visit for the air I breathe, I would have fundamental issues with that, but I'd still probably pay.

Really? You'd just pay it? (maybe negotiate them down to 6 cents like google did then pay it?) I'd probably just stop going to that grocery store (eg like meta no longer serving Canadian media)
That hyperbole is absolutely unneeded.

> Hansson certainly is entitled to his opinion, and to publish his own blog. We are not in the habit of running “ideological enforcement” to ensure “quick compliance” from beleaguered corporate executives or whatever it is that he’s talking about in his posts. We simply have our own opinions and our own blogs, and in some cases, we have good choices available to us regarding the companies to which we give our business.

certainly isn't "[speaking] like DHH is running around raping women and curb stomping people".

And then you cherry pick some of the less problematic issues. Perhaps one more problematic is: "When we as employees of my company spend time mocking and expressing amusement at non-English names and that's disclosed to the public, be clear, my problem is with the disclosure, not the mocking".
Microsoft is hard on competitors.

I think the difference here is 37Signals was hard on its people.
> You can make exactly the same case about tonal voice leading rules too.

You really can't. They aren't laws of nature, but they are based on observation: "When I have two voices proceed in parallel fifths, it's as though one voice ceased to have an independent character. Unless I want that effect, I should avoid that." "When I frustrate a leading tone, it makes the harmonic effect less clear."

Schoenberg's system starts with the arbitrary: pick a tone row and use it! But there are rules based on observation there, too: if you use tonal constructions in atonal music, it frustrates the listener's expectations, so don't do that. The ear can recognize the rows when transposed, reversed, and altered by other techniques, so those are good. Serialism is less fully-developed and lacks the deep cultural background of tonal music, but it's not entirely arbitrary either.
Basically, pick an LTS version and stick to it for a given use.

Legacy is going to pick 8 (or maybe 6 or 7 for very old stuff), green field may opt for 21, and others should select 11 or 17 depending on vendor recommendations and support.
If you first turn off backups, you should then be able to turn it back on and choose your SD card. My backups have always gone to my SD card.
Ask HN: Do you validate your project's config files in your CI/CD pipeline
I’m curious if this is standard practice for most projects. If not, do you expect an error in your config files to be caught by unit and/or functional tests?

I’m the maintainer of a project[0] that could provide syntax validation for multiple config file types in a CI/CD pipeline. I haven’t really seen that type of quality gate in very many projects though.

[0] https://github.com/Boeing/config-file-validator
It's a genuine advantage, who would want to displace the US in this regard?
2to3 was a bungle. Python 3 was dead until six came out, which had an actual plan for upgrading that works (forward compatibility) instead of automatic rewriting, which does not work.
> As a mostly technical person, I'm not allergic to the business side of things, but I kind of don't even know where to begin.

I’m kind of biased. I think b2b sales experience selling anything is a great way to learn core business skills — things like finding the true business problem (it’s rarely what your customers say), navigating the gatekeepers and decision makers, negotiations, etc.

As I have said elsewhere, starting a small agency is a good way to start. If you know some 1s, figure out ways to do sales and business operations for them. Many 1s are terrible at sales and hate the scut work of business operations. Just make sure to charge enough so that you can pay them well and pay yourself enough to be worth your time. The key is learning how to add value above and beyond supplying access tech talent.

Note that this is not easy. There is a lot of suck in sales (and agency management), and there is a reasons sales people make a lot of money. But if you can’t do this, you probably shouldn’t start your own business. Running a business is a lot of dealing with day-to-day suck and embracing it.

> LLCs

This is a one-day or less research project.

> accounting

Word of mouth in your area. Possibly online if you’re in the US. Also possible in a day (or maybe 8 hours across a few days).

> finding lawyers

Same as accountants. The good ones will jump out at you by the way their clients talk about them with effusive praise and specific examples.

> figuring out how to hire marketing people

Ahh… now this is a tough one.

The short answer is that you have to be the 3 in marketing — that is, you need to know enough to hire and work with specialists who aren’t willing or able to do the business or tech work on their own, and you need to know enough not to be bamboozled by the charlatans (and there are a lot of charlatans in marketing/sales).

At early stages of a business, you should probably do it yourself, and you have to be good enough to do that. A 70% effort is usually enough to get a solid business revamp off the ground. This is all learnable.

Once you hit growth and revenue, you can hire an agency. The best agencies will not try to milk you, since they have enough business. Pro tip — don’t be an agency’s smallest client.

If you are savvy, you will ask around for folks who have had good marketing people, and you will get to know these folks. Tap them and/or their network when you need people.

A lot could be written about this, but I will just say that learning marketing has a huge roi, and having access to a good network of marketers also has a huge roi. Communities like the Dynamite Circle or Hampton are low key ways to help develop these networks.
People who commit crimes and are held accountable deserve a second chance.

In this context, you're looking at the "hold him accountable" phase of that process.
Yeah - not to mention that nowadays most will be comparing the price to other electric vehicles.
That threat model has existed since the birth of photoshop et al.
This is someone who people suggest is the wealthiest person on Earth saying he cannot afford to run a personal website without others financing it. WTF.

He is calling this a "business" but what were Twitter's profits. Perhaps it's not a business. Perhaps it's just a website having special agreements with some cellular carriers that has grown too large.

Regardless of whether the Twitter "business" survives, the ability to run a "Twitter"-like website is never going away. And the cost of doing so should continue to decline. Website size and inclusion of other peoples' content is a separate issue.

"I want to control a website with hundreds of millions of pages of content uploaded by other people" <--- If this is prohibitively expensive then perhaps that is rightfully so. What are the damaging effects of so-called "social media". Why are advertisers pulling out. "Blackmail". No doubt Zuckerberg is similarly delusional.