skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard so many terrible stories about working at Amazon that I'm not sure I would ever work there, both in the media and from friends who were severely mistreated.

It's a shame, because some of the tech they work on (like S3) is super interesting and high scale, but I do not want to acquire a mental health crisis from work.
You want to say Figma has no alternatives?
I like how they demonstrate the issue of data contamination across existing models. People should pay more attention to this problem, since an increasing number of models are directly targeting these benchmarks.
If your intention was to suffocate competition you got it right.
You're forgetting that there's a secondary market for these things, similar to how subsistence farming is largely gone in lieu of the supermarket. Just purchase a share of camel slurry, and you're solid.

Actually, now that I mention it, that seems to be quite a bit like Jesus' problem with the currency conversion specialists in the temple: commoditization of something meaningful can lead to evil.
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My guess this is just a good 'ol corporate power struggle.

There is no point in speculating until someone shows what the hell Q* even is.
Show HN: Interactive exercises for stress and anxiety that respond to breathing
Hey HN!

I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pia (https://www.piahealth.co) which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). Lungy is an app (iOS only for now) that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It’s been one year since Lungy launched (here’s the original ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34534615) - I was absolutely delighted with the response. One year on, we have re-designed and rebuilt the whole app, and added a real-time, 3D soft body solver which gives some really cool interactions like blobs / objects that inflate as you breathe.

My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were huge numbers of patients coming off ventilators and patients are often given breathing exercises on a worksheet and disposable plastic devices called incentive spirometers to encourage deep breathing. This is intended to prevent chest infections and strengthen breathing muscles that have weakened. I noticed often the incentive spirometer would sit by the bedside, whilst the patient would be on their phone – this was the spark that lead to Lungy!

Since making the first version we’ve made exercises fully customisable (you can dial in exact timings for each breath phase), added new breathing indicators, learning modules, e.g. self-care for anxiety symptoms, and lots of new visuals. The UI is now much nicer and is AA-compliant. The free version gives you access to a new breathing exercise each day, whilst premium ($14.99 per year, $39.99 unlimited) unlocks the full library of exercises.

The visuals are mostly built using Metal (a couple use SpriteKit) and there are lots to choose from - boids, cloth sims, fluid sims, a hacky DLA implementation, rigid body + soft body sims - each one reacts to breath and touch. The audio uses AudioKit with a polyphonic synth and a sequencer plays generated notes from a chosen scale (you can mess around with the sequencer and synth in Settings/Create Music). The nice thing about the visuals + audio being generative is that the download size is very small (~ 50MB) with no other downloads. We’re still working on improving the breath detection, using ML - currently, it uses microphone input, with optional camera input to guide positioning.

We’re also close to finishing the medical device version - “Lungy Health” - designed as a pulmonary rehab platform for patients with asthma and COPD, it should hopefully be released in the UK early next year.

Thanks for reading - would love to hear any feedback!

Version 2.0 here:
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1545223887
Does this like look a man who has had all he could eat?
> My manager was super mad and asked me when I was leaving. I said two weeks.

Serious question for Americans as maybe this is cultural: They're an at-will employee, seemed to already have a new job lined up and the company seemed to have burned all goodwill with them, why not resign effective immediately?
Some 'window-shopping' at a smart card retailer shows a mixture of Atmel, ARM and unspecified RISC processors in use. That would suggest to me that they not only have different instruction sets, but are much more capable than the 6502. I certainly wouldn't choose a 6502 on which to run my Java applets!
Race condition is as race condition does.
This particular non-profit has (had?) a clear mission statement, though.
It's not human, why are you offended by how it talks to you? It's a tool. Many tools need some adjustment before they can be useful for what you do. You surely won't be viscerally upset if you pay $20 for a tool that occasionally spills oil on you if you hold it wrong. You'd still think the tool is crap because its designers made an UX decision you hate, but you surely would not throw away the tool out of principle, right?
> it's faster than ripgrep when searching a git repo.

Source? Ripgrep's benchmarks show it significantly faster.
So when products compete on the market place, they shouldn't be allowed to win?

Even in sports there are winners & losers.
The mindset is that you can always find new factory floor operators to push buttons on keyboards and operate ci/cd pipeline interfaces. Software "engineering" is the new factory work. To be automated soon so y'all can be freed to work on important things.
> there is a yet undiscovered algorithm that can actually deliver the AGI that we seek - AGI that reliable and precise like fictional AIs.

Nobody wants to hear this, but AGI could very well be the next invention after practical cold fusion and faster-than-light travel.

Yes, we're moving faster, but does anyone know how long the road is?

A space rocket is moving very quickly (50k kmph?), much faster than any other technology such as airliners, maglev trains, but the closest star is still several light years away.
It's not that complicated. In no countries do companies want to spend staff time and effort and risk lability by giving tailored feedback to people they won't hire anyway. In short, it's not worth it for them, it's that simple.

Sometimes they do, but that's very rare nowadays. I think companies were more willing in the past, but all it takes is one angry rejected candidate with a chip on his shoulder and a lawyer on speed-dial, to change that company's culture on "honest feedback" forever.

It's why we can't have nice things, there will always be someone to abuse the system and take it down with him.
Because of the lockfile, it will use the same library versions when compiling again in the future. The main question for "will this compile" is whether the Rust compiler is sufficiently backwards-compatible, which (at least from my experience) it certainly is.

Also re "lots of dependencies": This is kind of unavoidable in Rust because the stdlib is deliberately very lean, and focuses on basic data structures that are needed for interop (e.g. having common string types is important for different libraries to work together with each other) or not possible to implement without specific compiler support (e.g. marker traits or boxing). Contrast this with Go where the stdlib contains things like a full-fledged HTTP server and regex engine. It's easy to build things in Go with a rather short go.mod file, but only because the go.mod file does not show all the stdlib packages that you're using.
Person working for ruthless corporation finds out that the corporation they are working for is ruthless.
> You brought in Elon Musk's personal credibility

No, you did. The guy's an engineer and a logical thinker, he doesn't dream up some bullshit explanations to fundamentally technical matters like the "white/blacklist" of hex squares and their default state.

You seem to have some really weird semantical thing you've getting attached to on the second "point". But in the end Russians aren't limited by their border, obviously Russians are deep in Ukraine, so to deny service to Russians, the blocks are done in areas where there are mostly / only Russians. Doing something else obviously would be counter-productive to satisfy the set requirements.
So? My distro doesn't come with almost any of the tools I need for day to day work. It has never been a problem for me to install a new editor or compiler on a new machine, I don't see why ripgrep would be any different. Especially since it's usually a single command to install anyway.
I refuse to watch it

The AI bots in the future will not like our callous disregard for the poor tamagochis
If in a PIP you can actually improve the thing in question, then the PIP is useless and your manager failed to communicate it to you properly.

In all other cases a PIP is not passable. Nobody becomes a significantly better engineer in 2 months if they haven't in their career so far, with the only new factor in the 2 months being "now you have extra pressure and a clock ticking".
https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github

I never intended it to be a side project, I just liked the extension and started contributing heavily to it, to the point where I became the maintainer for the next several years.

I get about that amount per month in GitHub Sponsorships. Not nearly worth the amount of time I put into it, but it’s relatively effortless work. It makes my regular work on other GitHub projects more enjoyable (due to the features that Refined GitHub adds)
I believe it's not possible to keep such thing a secret, so this reason as a main motivation for board actions sounds kind of weak to me
Can the UK regulator ban its sale?
This right here: a "senior manager" explaining in clear language how large organizations of humans simply do not scale. We revert to "statistics" and treat people as numbers, ignore they are human, and create misery at scale, not organizational efficiency, but tyranny.
You honestly think someone needs $20bn to build a Figma alternative or clone?
Reversing? Hmm whats that
> Everyone, literally, is just guessing. And then running scripts to evaluate the odds that things are actually working correctly. Just like BTRFS.

When filesystem or databases have serious bugs, they are often heisenbugs. Incredibly hard to pin down.
You need to be able to replicate the bug to find what is happening.

In one of the first jobs I had, large Oracle database started to corrupt data repeatedly about once a month or so. Oracle had to send on-site team to monitor the database operations to catch the bug in action. They basically had their own datacenter to record all the logs from database, networks and operating system.

It took weeks for them to catch the bug. It was related to certain network driver in the operating system and the bug manifested only with some specific network traffic pattern.
I know everyone here mostly knows this, but in LCoL areas (South Africa for me specifically), that $20K almost buys you an entire house that you can live in in near-perpetuity. Not only that, but I could hire low-skilled labor for 7200 hours for the same cost. Just thought I'd add a bit of 3rd-world perspective to the discussion.
This may be taboo to discuss here, but the wording could phenomenologically transfer to "the love of commoditization and scalability of meaningful things that give power is the root of all evil".

Enjoying a beautiful sunset is an enhancement of the soul, but enjoying 10^100 identical sunsets has accrued enough diminishing return to be trivial to the soul.
Nvidia CEO: US chip independence may take 20 years to achieve
Thanks for several interesting reading suggestions, some of which I have now added to my to-read list. I failed to find any "relativity of wrong fallacy" however; probably you meant the essay "the relativity of wrong" by Isaac Asimov or "the relativist fallacy", part of the family of "logical fallacies" so popular in the rationalist movement foremost.

Those are interesting topics in their own right, although neither are applicable to my position, if I may say so myself (even if I lean towards Asimov, if anything). We may or may not find occasion to discuss this and related stuff, some other time.
Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown in the US and Europe
> On June 12, 2014, Tesla announced that it will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use its technology.

with the following definition:

> A party is "acting in good faith" for so long as such party and its related or affiliated companies have not:

> * asserted, helped others assert or had a financial stake in any assertion of (i) any patent or other intellectual property right against Tesla or (ii) any patent right against a third party for its use of technologies relating to electric vehicles or related equipment;

> * challenged, helped others challenge, or had a financial stake in any challenge to any Tesla patent; or

> * marketed or sold any knock-off product (e.g., a product created by imitating or copying the design or appearance of a Tesla product or which suggests an association with or endorsement by Tesla) or provided any material assistance to another party doing so.

In other words, Tesla is giving away all of their patents only to entities that grant Tesla access to all of _their_ patents. That is hardly open-source in the software development sense of the word.

https://www.tesla.com/legal/additional-resources#patent-pled...
They're not saying there's no one to sue. It's that as libel and slander are legally defined, they don't apply to the dead. The estates have no standing for a suit.
Or if you're working with a list of lists, the wonderful: ↓⍉↑ will do
Consumers always have the opportunity to switch.

Also, VCs do fund competitors so it's not as black & white as you think.
The Windows provided curl is not for user consumption IIRC. If any application is using it, that’s a bug.
> would a similar employee who made a good faith effort be able to graduate out of the PIP

90%+ of the situations I have witnessed, extreme luck or act of god would be required to achieve the requirements. In the other 10% the PIP was an order from above that the line managers disagreed with and thus set a reasonable performance level.

I have also had the misfortune to witness one where the employee didnt realise it was all a con to fire them; they got the miracle, 10x'd their teams sales but "failed" some pointless side quest to get coffee for the boss every morning by 6am.
I was driving in the 90s and mucking around with the radio was quite different to using a smartphone these days. You'd maybe flip stations every 20 mins when one got annoying and it didn't even need taking your eyes off the road generally.
I have no idea. I guess Palestinians need something like the next Arafat, who actually commits to a 2-states solution. Or whatever leading group that is non-terrorist and that Israël feels safe negotiating with (there are a few). I feel that would be the best solution for most people involved.

That is, if and when Hamas is eradicated, which is a big if. A war with Iran isn't out of the question. Thing is Hamas represents like 35% of votes ? It's both a lot and very little. Maybe 10% of those 35% would actually be ok to take an assault weapon and resist. Meaning the vast majority would probably be ok to negotiate even a mediocre deal but owning their land and borders ? Can we even make a forecast like this ?

Edit : Bottom line, Palestinians will obviously and sadly be in a terrible position to negotiate, if and when that happens...
I think it might be a Xorg vs. Wayland thing rather than browser version. IIRC Wayland does not report coordinates of the window relative to screenspace.
Godot 4.2 Released
I'm not sure which response to give:

1. And then it gives you a Dyson swarm.

2. """I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution, like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.""" - Agent Smith in The Matrix
Doesn't work in my terminal. When you recommend yq behavior, please specify which yq you're using. There are at least two incompatible implementations.
Every dominant piece of software is its own monopoly as long as the documents have a proprietary format and there exist no independent readers/writers.
I really doubt a writer for the NYT is going to be in the bottom 1% of income or wealth.
The progress from GPT3 to GPT4 has been so substantial that many might argue it signifies the advent of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The capabilities of GPT4 often elicit a sense of disbelief, making it hard to accept that it's merely generating the most likely text based on the preceding content.

Looking ahead, I anticipate that in the next 2-3 years, we won't witness a sudden, magical emergence of "AGI" or a singularity event. Instead, there will likely be ongoing debates surrounding the successive versions like GPT5, GPT6, and so on, about whether they truly represent AGI or not.
Forbes built hall of shame for the questionable people on its 30 Under 30 lists
I agree with the sentiment that we should focus our AI efforts on automating the drudgery, not the things humans find rewarding and fulfilling work (like art). But you can’t then complain when many rather menial jobs are automated away.
Open-source Software: 28 Nov 2023: Senedd debates
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So the person interviewed is lying then, you claim? Inflating the number?

> I got to the point where they offered me a job, and I was going to quit. But I had a huge stock investment coming up. So there was no way I was going to rock the boat in any way, shape, or form just trying to get to this date.

> If you walked away during the Pivot or anytime before you had your investment before it was there for you, you would lose it all. And I'm not talking a little bit of money. I'm talking: I had a couple hundred thousand dollars coming to me.

> I played along, and I'm good at playing along when I have to be. So then the money is in my account. That next day, I called my manager and I told them I was resigning.
People might just not like nix for a number of legitimate reasons and they might to take an attempt at a new package manager with better UX. It's fine to make a new piece of software, even if 100 tools exist already. Package management is definitely far for a solved problem, and I personally don't think than nix is "it".
So many hate mongers in that thread, rubbing salt in the wound rather than trying to fix a problem that could happen for any filesystem.
How does this short post light on content get to the 3rd place in the home page with 7 points and no comments?
It is not a race or geeky thing. It's there so that when you are towing a trailer you can lower the headlights.

Usually it is supposed to be calibrated so that the highest position is the default no load in the back position, but you can recalibrate so that it is in the middle if you want.
In prison?
If they buys a business and run it to the ground. That is their problem. Not the public's.

The public wil simply shift to an alternative.
> The only utility or purpose they seem to have is to get rid of workers and staff through automation, and this itself is often celebrated in social media as if an end in itself. But show me where is the utility in this, for the society, for the tribe?

Our entire modern society is a result of getting rid of agricultural workers through automation.
Wouldn't that be extremely bad for the company?

If virtually all PIPs result in firing, wouldn't it be trivial to argue that either 1) the company is misusing PIPs as a stealth way to fire people, or 2) the company is completely incompetent when it comes to providing PIPs that actually work.

With most European labour laws, neither option is very good for the company.
What do you think about penpot as an alternative to figma?

https://penpot.app/
Let's Not Flip Sides on IP Maximalism Because of AI
How is public relevant here?
I do wonder if such a thing can actually exist in the realm of intelligence like in the realm of, say, flight. It’s not clear that’s the case.
The bug was finally fixed with the following commit: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15579/commits/679738cc40...

It looks like they managed to exactly pin down what was happening.
In my opinion, they're just playing catch up with Sony. Sony started buying up studios years ago and has some quality studios pumping out top notch games which are Playstation Exclusive. To deal with that Microsoft is buying up some too, they just went straight to the top and decided to go for an already estabished studios instead of going for smaller ones and investing until they deliver in 5-10 years.
After 50 years, US to return to moon on January 25
> I'm afraid this is just not informative at all, and doesn't give me a good impression of the rest of the book.

Coincidentally, this fairly describes the reaction of a sceptic reading the book of Mark.

Anyway, you quoted entirely the wrong section, given your earlier question.

> "“from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis,” a trip 50 miles out of his way, on foot!"

Someone going from Cambridge to London via Manchester .. would take the train, or a bus, or drive.

As noted, this was a walking journey. It could be hand-waved away, but aren't you curious why someone would mention an 80km detour but not give the reader any tidbits about why, or what went on in Sidon that was worth a) the massive detour & effort, and b) mentioning?

I agree, however, that this is not, by itself, a compellingly damning piece of evidence. I hope you don't think it was meant as such.

> But it gets worse. There's absolutely no detail here.

Again, you're echoing the sentiment of people reading these works and wondering why there's no source citations, why the authors don't identify themselves, why there's no record of dates, why there's no critical analysis offered.

That book I pointed you at contains a lengthy bibliography, and in fairness was intended to provide an overview of the field.

There are certainly much more detailed works - including that author's follow-up trilogy Mything In Action, which I can highly recommend.

Obviously Price, Carrier, et al, provide a wealth of very detailed analysis, if you are indeed genuinely interested.

> I've never seen anything to make me think it's worth spending more of my time digging into.

Are you perhaps strongly invested in a particular position on this subject?
I'm not that interested in benchmarking what will likely show negligible performance differences for the things I might use this for.

I try to avoid installing anything out of the mainstream on production servers, and keep dev servers as close to production as possible. That means any new tool or application has to more than pay its way with new or much improved functionality over out-of-the-box tools like bash/zsh, built-in job control (backgrounding), xargs, and GNU parallel. Not everyone has the same concerns but I've found my development and deployment experience stays simple and predictable if I keep third-party dependencies to the bare minimum.
That's like a cultural quirk they have over there, where even though it's not stipulated by law, people need to stay at the place they're leaving for two weeks, no matter what, otherwise the optics are really bad, for whatever reason. But it only works one way, if you get fired you usually get fired immediately, no two weeks to find something else.

In my mind, it just looks like employees have been getting the short stick for so long that they don't even know what fair working conditions look like anymore.