skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am in the process of getting this running on a Kubernetes cluster in my home. That’s where I throw all self-hosted containerised applications these days. But there’s a bit of friction.

Their entrypoint script makes a lot of assumptions and in their docker-compose example they use a single container running supervisord instead of multiple containers, each with a dedicated purpose (ingestion, consuming, web server). The setup is almost insistent on logging to a file instead of stdout. It also checks and tries to modify permissions of some folders(!!). This requires quite a bit of unpicking.

This is doable, but not frictionless to get it to do what I consider “best practices” but I understand that it’s probably a mix of “easy for someone who’s day job is not to be an infrastructure engineer” and “we were using supervisord for baremetal anyway”. Maybe a lot of it is personal preference but I do feel like the project is not taking containerisation fully to heart. Maybe being more user-friendly in their eyes is more important than being a containerisation purist.

Either way, I’ve got it nearly working with my Brother ADS-1700W, which has shortcuts for me, my wife, and “joint”, which uploads documents to different directories via SFTP which then automatically have their paperless-ngx owner set appropriately.
This is how things go. As a kid I learned Pascal in school from a wonderful teacher and I loved it. Unfortunately I only had a C64, while most of my friends already had PCs. So I got hold of a Pascal version for the C64.

I only realized many years later and many years after graduation, that one of my university professors was the original author the C64 Pascal.

http://pascal.hansotten.com/uploads/matthes/
Well it seems that PIPs are not actually improvement plans.

An honest performance improvement plan would identify key areas that can reasonably be improved, steps to improve in those areas, and a timeframe to achieve that improvement. Ideally with occasional check-ins to ensure the employee is on target for reaching the goals.

What I hear about American PIPs is that they are unrealistic or impossible goals for anyone to achieve, and presented falsely as an improvement plan because the company is too cowardly (or incompetent) to either fire the person or give actual feedback. In other words, it sounds like an extremely passive aggressive way to avoid confrontation, and also serve as a shield in an overall toxic climate where the legal system won't just tell the person with the frivolous lawsuit to go blow sand.
In a planetary gear setup, there's three different rotating planes you can hook onto. Traditionally one is free, two are rotating. But if instead, one is the output, another one the ICE engine (with electric boost) and the third one is another electric engine, the electric plane can change the influence of the output plane on the ICE plane, effectively intermediating the RPM and torque it sees.
Thanks for pointing this out, his book title Diplomacy was very enlightening.

One thing of note in the spew of bile aimed at Kissinger in the HN comment thread is that it appears to emanate from people who were children or not even born during the cold war, and who seem to base their opinion on the comments of rock n' roll stars, cooks, leftist journalists/activists (sometimes turned neocon in their later life, surprise!).

I lament the decline of comment quality on HN whenever a somewhat controversial figure is brought up. It's almost as bad as Ars Technica in those cases, and closely resembles the what comes out of the comment section of the worst right wing news cloaca.

I'll order biography by Niall Ferguson in the meantime.
That's not really true, there's plenty of applications that use these sort of bandwidths. A big one is optical communications (28 GHz bandwidth is actually not super high there), but also some specialised microwave comms and radar/military. They alm do processing at 10s to 100s of GS/s (obviously highly parallel).
Relatedly, some animals can steal chloroplasts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty
And if you use PyTorch, its O(1) operation. You just change how you index into the data.
zip makes much more sense to me. It interleaves two sequences same like two halves of a zipper interleave.
So he cannot be a war criminal because he's not in the military? And being part of the war cabinet and directing which villages to bomb on a map is somehow not commanding the military?
"Hey, your docs say that curl should be doing this, but it's not working for me?"

<2 pages of back-and-forth posts later>

"Oh you're using xCurl, yeah you need to talk to Microsoft."

It probably depends on the reach this has within the intended audience (people wanting to deploy libcurl on Xbox?) as to how much of a support burden it will end up, but I suspect more than Mozilla has to deal with from similar situations.
Understanding AI: How we taught computers natural language
Because they commonly swap to profit extraction models when they fail to integrate the acquisitions, and after that they typically shutter otherwise viable businesses. Most recently seen with Unity and Weta Technologies
His value was similar to the value of consulting companies to a CEO.

When a CEO decides he wants to do a layoff, he can either show up one morning and say he has decided to fire 7% of the workers, or he can hire a consulting company to prepare a thorough and very expensive report which the CEO knows will contain advice to layoff precisely 7% of the workers.

Firing people is sometimes necessary in a budgeting process, and bombing people is sometimes necessary in a war, but it's better if it looks like it is someone else's decision, even when the responsibility obviously rests with the executive.
We are not creating the "right" kind of AI
PIPs exist pretty much solely to create cover for firing someone[0]. Really just an awkward beaurocratic necessity with a deceptive name.

[0] Almost all employment in the US is 'at-will' so in principle anyone is fireable for any reason that isn't in a short list of illegal discrimination (e.g. can't fire someone for being black, or for not sleeping with you). In practice having even a flimsy veneer of poor performance becomes necessary as proactive legal defense.
> ..let them build an alternative..

Sure, let's just throw something together and it will work as good as something worth 20$ billion dollars..
I was thinking the same thing reading this article. In this case it seems it was pretty clearly meant to push this employee out before their stocks vest because its probably a lot cheaper to spend $100,000 hiring a new person than lose several 100's of thousands to a decent worker who has just been at the company for a while.

While atrocious its very clear math, but I hope employees keep leaving after they vest.
Pneumatic tires are one of these things for which "reality has a surprising amount of detail" holds. Anyone who ever changed a standard tire on a bike can attest to that. There is so much going on: wires inside the tire for stability, cloth to withstand the air pressure (which the tube cannot), beads to interlock with the rim flanges to keep the tire in place (but only when pressurized), etc.

I have witnessed bike tires where the bead/flange interlock wasn't perfect, and the inner tube was quickly swelling out between a small gap between rim and and bead until it burst with a bang that was louder than a gunshot. I once had a tire where the inner cloth was slightly damaged, and the tube was slowly creating a bulge in the tire over several days until it also burst. I found it amazing that all these counteracting forces still create something you can safely drive on, often for years, without problems.
Elon Musk to advertisers who are trying to 'blackmail' him: "Go f–- yourself"
The narrative on HN is almost always driven by negativity so I wouldn't presume that things posted here are representative of the actual working conditions at corporate, or exclusive to Amazon.

Here's an alternative view that popped up in my feed yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IVdaysrIS74
I stopped doing (for money) side projects in 2015.

Instead I started to buy solar farms from my yearly xmas bonus.
Invest 40K (10K bonus + 30K loan) -> 6000K/year. Net -- post costs & taxes.
On average the loan was paid off in 6 years (thanks to low interest rates).
From there on it's pure revenue.

Rinse repeat.
Not even accounting for the free tax credits I get out of the investment.

Just doing my planning for the '23 investment.
If I stop doing anything right now
the last loan will be paid off in 2030 (interest rates are up a bit),
and I will be making ~5K/month. Net. "Forever".

I use the time I gained for free work on important projects.
Did you solve the funding issues after that Christmas (?) post about not having enough funds? I assume probably not fully given you don't have enough manpower?
Why would Adobe pay 20$ Billion if "consumers have a choice to use other alternatives".. c'mon man.
If you were to have 80% of adults performing surgery every morning and every evening, tired and distracted, you wouldn’t be surprised when surgical accidents become the #3 cause of death.
I imagine it would have dinged you for going through Kuwait, where there is a road, instead of heading straight across the desert of Iraq.

The game is literally named "Travel". So it's annoying that it penalizes you for your knowledge of traveling between places. It would have been much cooler if they had leaned in to that and prioritized routes that you could actually do on public land/sea transport.

That's way more interesting to me than being able to look at a map and notice that Brazil does in fact have borders with both Colombia and Argentina (one of which is non-navigable).
Can you explain how Wise helps here? At a glance it looks like it only handles the trivial part (money transfer) and not the tricky parts like employment contracts, regulations, taxes, mandatory insurances (health, unemployment, retirement, etc.)
>This seems common in American companies.

If that same American culture is all over companies worldwide now, is it still American culture anymore?

>For example, American companies won't tell job applicants why they get rejected, lest they get sued by the rejected candidates.

Same in Europe, you get ghosted or at best, you get the same bland cookie cutter politically correct copy-paste rejection massage, no matter what the actual reason is, even if you explicitly ask for detailed feedback and promise to be open minded and not sour about it.

So back to my original question, is that still an American company thing, or just a $COMPANY_THING now?
You what's funny? When this PIP culture hits German labour laws. Then the result is basically pointless bossing, which ultimately results in, for the employer, rather expensive severance packages. Nothing funny about bossing, but funny that employers still want to force their head through a wall, instead of just offering the package they have to pay anyway from the get go.
We spend too much time thinking about celebrities in general. Irrespective of your opinions on Musk, Zuckerberg, Sam Altman etc, it's probably healthier to spend time thinking about your friends and family instead.
My overall point is that of course your cost of living will be lower when you consume a lot less.

And I disagree that the quality of life is the same for someone who lives in a nice house vs small apartment, has to use public transport vs personal luxury vehicle and so on.
Sure, that works, thanks!
This is not a tool that leverages AI to build cross-platform react-native apps, which is how I read the title.

Instead, it appears to be a generic template for an LLM chat app. Made in react-native.
> might allow space for Free Will

Space for what? What is free will? Is it just throwing some randomness into decision making?
I will probably get some slack for this, but not ever usage of a PIP is necessarily a bad thing..

The example above and large companies in general do seem to use it as a firing tool or at least pretence.

From experience we had one developer on our team who was gradually just showing less and less interest and quality of work was dropping so much so it was effecting the rest of the team.

I wasn't involved but he was put on a PIP that was quite well layed out and measurable. After the process he was better than before. I can't put it down to the PIP only of course, but as he said it was a way for him to focus on what was wrong and get back into being consistent.

Super rare I'm sure, but just thought I'd at least five one good example of its use case.
The movie clip of the Taiwan tire fabrication facility is very nice! We take so much of technology for granted.
Maybe 'dip your light'?
If they are so self-destructive then why are we so worried about Chinese technology to the point we need to throw around ever-stronger sanctions? Something is not right about this narrative. Sounds like a bunch of huge assumptions to me.
Senior Manager here. This is common to any large entity and may only influenced by workers' rights and culture.

1. Large numbers

In large companies, you have numbers. There are 10000 individuals so to say. There is a difference between individuals and groups. The larger the group, the more HR and controlling tend to use their understanding of statistics. This is the conflict between groups and individuals. Why take care of one person? In sum, it does not pay off.

This is not my opinion, but I heard it over and over behind closed doors: Where wood is chopped, splinters must fall, and so instead of working with the individual, you have different scenarios of the cost of litigation vs. others.

2. Job Offers and Rejections - Behind the scenes

Also there are processes to be met officially. Say there is a job offer on a job portal and you apply to it. Behind the scenes, there is already the right candidate with the right profile. However, in order to get the candidate through all the controls along the process, you have to evaluate other candidates as well. In the end, HR "knows" whom to pick, and this is also a reason why a perfect job interview can mean rejection. You simply are not the chosen one.

Process met, company happy - rejected candidate falsy scrutinizes himself. Would you as a company tell the candidate: "Hey, sorry for your time, investment, interest etc. But there was not really an offer for you, we simply had to comply to a process. Have fun + bye!"? Nope.

Take this into account. There is a balance between "Not the right fit" and "Not the chosen fit".
Reminds me of reYal, a game with "recursive" controls a friend of mine created: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1080780/reYal/
Why not have both? That's exactly what DynamoDB offers, and people want the SQL equivalent promise of "it'll keep up no matter what scale you're at".

The point is: You don't want to need to switch technology at a later stage, you'd like to build with the right technology from the get-go.

I almost always go for DynamoDB first, since for small projects it's essentially free, and for huge projects I do not have to worry about the ops overhead that follows normal SQL databases.

A lot of people also have traffic patterns that go:

- Very high volume during the day
- Almost no or little volume during the night when your users are sleeping

Aurora Serverless v2 gets us closer to this for SQL, but does not scale to 0 so it's not too nice for the initial phases of projects.
This is soooooo gooooood! Love it! :D:D
> How does this "hinder the growth of human development"

Easy. The larger any company gets, the more difficult it becomes to compete with them as customers of a potential competitor expect a certain set of features to be available to even consider migration, and thus the large company gets ever more and more market share over time. On top of that the large company may simply outspend a competitor in advertising or sue competitors for barely-legal patents.

Capitalism at its core is the ruthless elimination of inefficiencies, and competition is inefficiency (just look how many dozens of billions of VC were burned in the "gig economy" sector to get rid of competitors).

The problem for the development of humanity is that an entrenched, dominant/monopolist company has zero reasons to innovate and progress.
It is absolutely not the same in Europe. Maybe it depends on the country. In Germany, you are expected to give honest (and sometimes brutal) feedback, but always with a way to improve in mind. But the idea of taking a company to court for something like this in Germany is laughable.
At least for us at IPinfo, this is not the case:

- Tokenless IP geolocation access: Comes with full accuracy and daily updates. Supports HTTPS. 1k requests/day.

- Free tier IP geolocation access: Still comes with full accuracy, daily updates, and supports HTTPS. No credit card required. 50k requests/month.

- Free IP to Country ASN database: AGAIN, full accuracy and daily updates. Because it is a database, it means unlimited access. You can download the database and do whatever you want with it. Unlimited requests per second.

Anyone who wants truly unlimited access to IP geolocation should set up an IP database on their backend. There is a special and easy-to-use database format called .mmdb specially designed for that.
Not yet really.

The study of soft-tissue healing in animals besides humans has definitely informed what and when medical interventions are used in MSK healthcare. But even in the easier case of mere healing, most of the good animal model studies have led to only a kind of negative medical progress — i.e. they’ve given us reason to stop providing a medical treatment we previously thought might be beneficial.

Sticking with tendons for example. Docs used to be much more willing to give corticosteroid shots as a treatment for chronic tendinopathy, but more and more animal and clinical studies show that corticosteriods have a catabolic effect on tendons in the long-term and so should be used only when the short-term benefits are expected to be very large.

Medical interventions where regeneration in the context of injury is the specific goal (e.g. PRP and stem cell therapy) have a very mixed reputation within MSK circles, I believe — many clinicians seeing those treatments as basically a sham at this point.
What’s the best in terms of coding assistance? What’s annoying about gpt 4 is that is seems badly nerfed in many ways. It is obviously being conditioned in its own political bias.
I think Herbie only works on a closed-form expression. Besides from that though, if you are indeed summing numbers there should be some library to do that accurately, for example C++ Summation Toolkit [1] or the `accurate` crate in Rust [2].

[1] https://www.partow.net/programming/sumtk/index.html

[2] https://docs.rs/accurate/latest/accurate/
There's exceptional leadership, and then there are charming sociopaths.

Unfortunately, it can sometimes be hard to tell those two apart when a sociopath is actively pushing your emotional buttons to make you feel like they care about the same things as you etc.
Pretty much: directly solving the standard model quickly becomes intractable at much smaller scales. Most physics works with simplifications, like the Landau model mentioned in the article.
But, "which is what the term 'effective altruism' was intended to replace as part of a rebranding effort" is something you've made up, no?
The title does not reflect what he said.
It's not as big of a leap from using Google or Stackoverflow as it might seem on the surface.
I used to big a big Elon Musk supporter, way before it was fashionable. When SpaceX sent supplies to the ISS using their brand new dragon capsule, I was in awe. This was before the mass production of model S had started.

I loaded up the boat with Tesla shares and made a lot of money(that I’ve since spent on drugs, alcohol and women, no regrets). I figured a man who can kickstart our space ambitions like Elon did, he can build a car, a toy in comparison to a rocket. Elon restored my hope in humanity.

I reevaluated my views on him when he called the diver trying to help those lost boys in the Thai caves a pedo and wasted everyone’s time with some dumb contraption.

When he purchased Twitter for $45B is when I lost faith in him as a businessman. Elon is flying too close to the sun, and I hope he makes it back on track. For all his faults, Elon Musk is a great engineer, I just hope he stops with this X nonsense and get back to working on things that matter.

Sorry for the long rant
When the following works I'll be impressed: "ChatGPT can you explain possible ways to make fusion power efficient for clean free energy production given the known and inferred laws of physics?" and it actually produces a new answer and plans for a power plant.

It's very hard to know how close we are to this, but I do think it's possible these AI models end up being able to infer and invent new technology as they improve. Even if nearly 100% of the guesses at the above question are wrong it doesn't take many being useful for humans to benefit.

I wonder what humans will do when the AIs give us everything we could ever want materially.
To add another data point, it works for on me on Linux/Firefox/X. So the Wayland theory might be correct.
Of, both things can be true you know? I worked there, left for various reason, don't regret my years there and even considered going back. Why? Because most other places, and I have seen quite a few, are similar, Amazon is just up front, hobest and open about it. And, even more important, they follow their own rules, meabing as an emoloyee I can play the game as well since the rules are kind of known. Most other places, there either are no rules, or they are used totally at will by management.

I prefer honesty, even or especially, when cruel, about being stabbed in the back by axe.
Scotch on the Rocks: TV drama locked away for 50 years
>It is absolutely not the same in Europe.

It is my experience across 4 EU countries and 30+ interviews. If it doesn't match your own experience there's nothing I can do about it.

>In Germany, you are expected to give honest (and sometimes brutal) feedback, but always with a way to improve in mind.

You are expected by ... law? In which case it's a legal requirement and not an expectation. Or expected by ... candidates?

Also, the devil is in the details as German culture and language is often designed to cleverly camouflage negative feedback as neutral or positive to avoid lawsuits, so you can definitely have generic cookie cutter rejection messages that legally qualify as "honest" like for example in your Arbeitszeugnis.

How would you legally challenge that if otherwise? Do you sue the company because you feel like their feedback wasn't brutally honest as per your expectations as it was too generic and "nice sounding" and had nothing bad to say about you?

IMHO you choose a bad example as German corporate culture is not as "brutally honest" as you portray it to be, quite the opposite, it's just very good at pretending to be honest.

From my personal experience across several countries, I've noticed the more difficult it is to fire someone and the more anti-discrimination laws exist in that country, then the less honest and more generic your feedback will be, if you get any feedback at all and it's not a generic automated rejection.
previously posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38445889