skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Anytime I see layoffs like this, All I hear is "We hired for the sake of hiring when money was cheap and we wanted to signal 'growth', But now reality has set in and we need our employees to serve a purpose beyond simply headcount".... In my opinion they did these employees a disservice by hiring them in the first place. We need our companies to act more responsibly regardless of the price of capital. Innovate sure, but don't fill up your tank when gas is cheap just to do doughnuts in the parking lot.

I struggle to understand comments like this one. Spotify were being responsible at the time. Their employees are not 30-year mortgages, they are volunteer employees given no promise of continued employment.

Through a few degrees of separation it all boils down to "we could do X when prime interest rates were 3%, and now they are 8% we can only afford Y"
Basically what proper mobile OS applications are.
Yeah, sure, about two DM to the Euro. 20 years, I meant, not 30.

Betcha it doesn't mean the same in Yorkshire as in German, though: "Teuro" comes from Ger. "Teuer", expensive. (Cognate of Eng. "dear", as in "paid dearly".) Because wages halved, numerically, while many claimed prices were about the same in Euro after the change as they'd been in DM before it. Or, if not the same, still way above half, as they "should" have been for wage/price-parity to remain the same.
Yeah, I was surprised how hated my comment was. I was thinking something like, "pfft, kids these days are too soft." Or something like that.

When I was in middle school, we had an annual fundraiser for the American Heart Assoc. It was one of those "____-a-thon" style events where we all had to jump rope for as long as we could, and we gathered pledges from family members ("only 1¢ per jump, Aunt Sally!"). But this was only for an hour, and it replaced our normal PE period, so it wasn't a diversion from the normal course of schooling. And not everyone participated.

That's the kind of thing I had in mind when writing that comment, but now I'm realizing the parent comment was talking about the entire student body, for the entire school day.

I agree with you. My original take was hot... and bad. :)
All the more reason to start trying to regulate it early, before it is even more firmly entrenched in society.
Arabs are not natives in Gaza, or anywhere in the Levant.
Maybe it is region dependent?

The Z80 was still being used in embedded designs in the 90s. One company I worked at was still supporting Z80 systems and s/w at least until around '94. Possibly later, as I didn't work on those.

In the UK, I never saw a 6809 used in embedded designs (late 80s - mid 90s), I did see plenty of Z80s and 8051 derivatives.

However by that period (late 80s on) a lot of those embedded designs were using NEC V20/V30, as they made for easier systems to program than plain 8bit systems; plus the price range of the systems I had experience with allowed it.
Tell HN: SourceForge removed the page of my project
I am aware that my project holds no significant value to the open source community and that hosting it incurred a cost, but my project was taken down without any warning.

http://wintermoon.sourceforge.net now redirects to their homepage.
I like to stay at least 5years. That way you get a chance to support something you built. If you move on quickly, you never get to see how your engineering decisions pay off in the long run.
I think the distinction then was more like non-existent. Most chips then didn't have on-board peripherals (for some value of "then"), so a CPU-intended-to-be-a-microcontroller and a CPU-intended-to-be-a-microprocessor looked very similar.

Now we've added things to microcontrollers (serial ports, GPIO pins, timers, etc.) and other things to microprocessors (FPUs and memory managers). But back in the day, was a Z80 a microcontroller or a microprocessor? Yes.
> "Like most companies, we have a performance management process that helps our managers identify who on their teams are performing well and who may need more support. For the small number of employees who are underperforming, we use performance management programs to help them improve, and many employees do just that."

That language is so disrespectful. If I were an Amazon employee reading that, it would feel like being in a toxic, violent relationship and hearing my partner at a party tell others "They're so clumsy; they need my support. They fall down the stairs a lot."
Since Margaret Atwood was, presumably, a woman, this would only weaken striking's case by reinforcing the choice used by the author.
Ha why is this being flagged?? Evidence of conspiracy flagged as conspiracy.
But it's more fun than that because it's also used as a verb, as in to "rizz up," meaning to attract.
It's possible, but not cheap, to have a SIM card that can roam on any cell network on Earth, and present as a SIP client.
If you feel as you say you do I wholeheartedly recommend you seek out a consultation with a psychiatrist, a licensed medical doctor who practices evidence-based medicine.

It is better to rule out any underlying medical issues first before wasting time doing six months of poorly-reproduced CBT handouts to no effect.
If you go cheap, you could probably cut the cost of self-hosting in half in terms of obvious cost. The cheaper you go the higher the maintenance tends to be though, so it may not be a real win.
Yeah, maybe I'm just not jaded enough yet, but all the issues I've seen seem relatively superficial and solvable to me. It feels more like immaturity pains than fatal flaws to me. But it's not so young anymore, so maybe the immaturity is more insurmountable than it seems to me. I dunno!
Something like that, yeah. The idea being that you create a memory palace or physical space, and then memorize a map or route through it via spaced repetition.

Memory palaces are often recommended for reference-type information, so I think this would work well. There are a number of discussions on Art of Memory talking about this:

https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/mind-mapping-memory-techniqu...

https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/anki-to-load-up-a-memory-pal...
The 13 Year associative remote viewing project
In my experience the recommendations are always converging to songs I've already listened to hundreds of times.
It is. Then you’re an acid-base crystallization away to powder product.

Cocaine is not a synthetic drug. Been around long before any human was walking around.
> They were being responsible at the time.

Another strong contender for humanity's future epitaph.
They placed a bet, and that bet didn't pay off.

But what I'd expect is for them to cut only a little (not 17%), because they would place another bet on something else to remain competitive.

To cut so heavily looks like they've no great idea on the next bet that they could make, that they don't believe those people they hired could contribute towards another thing in the near future (or they have no runway to explore doing so).

Companies should place bets to stay relevant and grow, this looks like there isn't a big bet now.
Related: "Ask HN: What is the "next big thing" after "AI" hype subsides?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37807697
The SEC knows who is trading, and is likely investigating why.
Maybe because it sells better online?
> fonts that are designed to obfuscate the internal text, e.g. re-arranging characters or splitting glyphs up in strange ways, etc. It's worth noting that with the exception of the spaces, these techniques are used deliberately to stop people extracting text or the copyrighted fonts from the document.

Maybe (and, for the fonts, likely), but I don’t think it’s the only reason. Subsetting embedded fonts makes PDFs smaller, often a lot smaller (why embed an entire font because the document uses a single glyph of it as a bullet point? Why would one include Chinese, Japanese, etc glyphs if the document doesn’t use them?)

Even if it’s possible to do that without changing the code point to glyph mapping (is it? I don’t know enough of fonts to answer that), implementing it may be simpler or result in smaller files if one makes the embedded font dense in code points (I tried finding an answer, but soon remembered how complex fonts are, and gave up)

And of course, modern tools _should_ output accessible PDF documents, which means text extraction _should_ work. I wouldn’t know how well that works in reality, but have my doubts.
WebAssembly on WebKit for Windows
I've always used that button to "like" songs and used the "Add To Playlist" item under the ellipses menu to add things to a particular playlist. What was your process like before the change, and what is it now?
As far as I understand, women actually do teach each other explicitly (as in mother tells the daughter) to wipe in the direction away from the vagina, because it actually matters and they can give themselves a UTI going in the other direction. For men, it makes no difference and there is no reason for anyone to ever talk about it.

The flossing and teeth brushing thing, though, seriously? I don't know in principle if I'm doing it the same as other people, but I do remember quite well my parents teaching me to do it and I at least do it the same way they do. I didn't just figure out how to brush my teeth as a 3 year-old by trial and error. It was a topic of discussion at one point, at least with them, and that presumably means I do it the same way as my sisters.
Oh man, I didn't know they did that. Lame.
No this is not correct. Half of us will always be below the mean, this much is true, but we can obviously do something about the spread of the distribution.
Hope they gave you a fat severance package
This change reminds me of Netflix replacing their 5(?)-star rating system, with a simple thumbs up / down system.

Netflix claimed there was statistical justification for the change, but my most charitable interpretation is that their goals don't align with mine.
But Cathedrals still had central planning, blueprints, ropes stuck in the ground to outline what should be built. Thermites on the other hand use a process called "Stigmergy" in which work allocation and building structures emerge organically without central coordination.
How are you dealing with invalid policies generated by GPT? For example, in your loom video and the gif on the website, the resource for the s3:PutObject permission is incorrect: it should be "arn:aws:s3:::my_bucket_2/*" not "arn:aws:s3:::my_bucket_2".

Does this support resource policies? If so, how are you ensuring serious security vulnerabilities such as confused deputy are not introduced by this tool?
Personally, I cancelled my Spotify premium family plan over it. I doubt I’m the only one.
A reason why I am mostly on retrogaming nowadays.
> How is this relevant?

The topic is related to the quality of science. Science is composed of scientists.

>Do these people define what science or is it an established set of principles and methods?

Science is defined by the actions and output of the entire system.

Perceptions of science, your beliefs (perceived as knowledge) are affected by how scientists (and their fan base) define "it".

> You think scientists are the only ones who can do science

No.

> and what they do, wrong or not, defines what science is??

Yes. If you think otherwise, I would really like you to walk me through your reasoning.
I always write a negative “is empty” check as “size > 0” for this reason
And he talks about mass robberies in stores such as Louis Vuitton which I guess are not located in bad areas.
mosh: Mobile Shell
> reverse repo rate

Thanks for the reminder! I recall Fed was involved with something in reverse repo 6 months before virus blew up.

Federal Reserve has so many levers it becomes questionable that anyone understands medium to long term impacts. And FDIC works closely with Fed on bank bailouts like SVB.
I pasted "The 13 year associative remote viewing project" but "The 13" was cut off for some reason.
I relocated to Redmond, WA for a few years to work at MSFT. Let me tell you, every winter there felt like a sadistic game show called "How Miserable Can You Get?" And boy, did I win!

Thankfully, the good ol' USA is a massive country, so I hit the eject button and moved to FL.

3154 hours of sun in FL compared to 2170 hours of sun in WA. Huuuuuuge difference in mental and physical aptitude. I feel more energetic. More focus, more workouts, more horny, less self loathing.

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/average-annual-sun...
Just make sure you're getting enough lux, commercial SAD lamps are so dark it's borderline fraudulent. You need a LOT of light.
OpenBSD on Laptops
> Have you considered that your POV is limited, and that a woman reading this story (and every other story) might have a different perspective than you?

Are you seriously asking 'stavros if he considered that other people may have sexist views and therefore his non-sexist view take is wrong?
That and the z sound is just fun to say out loud and leads to other fun jokey terms like "rizzler" and "rizzard".
What's the preferred Python Web Framework these days?

I've read a lot of love for Litestar (formerly Starlite), since it seems people prefer it over FastAPI, Flask, etc.

https://litestar.dev

Or is the preferred web framework still Django?
Indeed. How does that disprove what I said?

Palestinians are not native to Jerusalem, neither are Irish people native to Dublin.
i love studies like this, i've always found this to be intuitively true, so my confirmation bias is like "YES", but i hope there's more and more research into this.

smartphones are such a new technology
At my previous job we used GCP and went through so much effort/tooling to try to fix IAM. We definitely would have given this tool a spin. Ignore the HN flashmob.

Another use case you might run in to as you talk with more clients is figuring out what developer IAM roles need to be. This was the far bigger problem for us as we had a ToS that restricted employees from viewing/accessing user data.
Well there's shutdowns and there's shutdowns; "hanging out with friends in the backyard, drinking beers and grilling" was pretty much illegal during some of them.
The problem with IAM from my experience is it's never truly owned by a single entity. If you have an IT team, its sometimes them. Sometimes its devops, sometimes security. However as a startup grows, the owners change. Policy is rarely developed from the ground up and more patchwork to accomodate teams or timelines
>check every few weeks

That means scrolling up through weeks of general discussions to find the one morsel of information you need. I am on community discords. I do not want to be on community discords. Please, just publish the absolute minimum information on a webpage. Discord has a broken search and no permanence outside its servers, it's worse than even the most barebones mail group. All I ask for is to copy any announcement you make on the Discord to your webpage.

A community that's only on Discord is not a community, it's a group of friends chatting with each other.
Remember hindsight is 20/20. If capitalists were as risk-averse as some would like, we'd be stuck in the past forever
Three

For 2023 I limited myself to 3 tasks per day.

There were days when I didn't get all 3 things (or any of the things) done. There were days when I achieved more. But crucially, I never committed myself to more than 3.

I never felt stressed by my todo list as it was very manageable.
I feel out of my depth here.. you need while loops to do a breadth first traversal of a tree that may have no bottom. (while !q.empty ...)
One of the big factors in this is how the costs go up! Will the cloud provider raise their price? Probably. Will your cost of electricity go up? Probably. Becomes a highly dimensional decision with no single obvious optimal answer, as a lot of low probability high risk events will dominate cost. If you're scared about house fires, the expected realized lifetime of the hardware goes down. If you're scared about OVH fires... likewise.
I saw a YouTube video by a guy who specializes in building D&D characters. He spends twenty minutes going into detail on each one, and then makes the pitch for subscribing to his Patreon account with something like "members get all the details in a convenient list so that you don't have to keep going back to this video."

So he's using the same bit of friction that this article is trying to solve, to fill his rice bowl. It's a bit of a shame that fixing this problem for me will cause one for him.
Well this is same for 99% products advertised on media. No one really take it at their face value. So why is employment advertising/selling is expected to be factual.
ChatGPT is 1yo now. Which LLM framework(s) do you use in production and why?
I've come across many LLM frameworks: Langchain, LlamaIndex, LMQL, guidance, Marvin, Instructor, etc. There's a lot of overlap between them and I don't know if any of them actually adds a value to LLM workflows in a way that's maintainable and robust. So far, I've been able to just build my own little libraries to use in some LLM applications (no RAG), but as I consider the more recent advancements in the field (guaranteed function calling, better RAG, agents and tool use, etc.), I wonder if using one of these frameworks would be a better approach compared to building everything on my own.

I appreciate your thoughts and comments on this!
Israel has been in political turmoil for nearly three years, in the last 6 months half the country was refusing to show up for reserve duty, this was purely an organizational failure, Hamas took advantage of a dip in readiness, trying to spin this into some web of conspiracies just continues to infantilize a group that has committed enormous atrocities against their own people for decades now.
And in a couple years it'll be considered old and cringe. Such is life, I suppose.
No company reflects “we’re family” in contracts or compensation packages. That fact alone tells us the message is and always has been bullshit.
>>they have been pulled from the TikTok vocabulary

“As we mentioned, we estimate that TikTok has about 80 million monthly active users in the United States. 60% are female, 40% are male. 60% are between the ages of 16-24. 26% are between the ages 25-44.”

Turns out when words are used by tens of millions of your younger populace, they’re actually just words for the general vocabulary, not the “TikTok vocabulary”
The reason I "hacker" don't use Unifi is because it's not trusted. It's a closed source device which requires proprietary apps to use and collects data on your network and connected devices without explicit consent - colloquially known as a "backdoor".

https://community.ui.com/questions/UI-official-urgent-please...
Honestly, it would be irresponsible and surprising if Israel _didn't_ try to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, especially given some of the things that the Iranians were saying publicly at the time.
> they are attempting to be the one-stop shop for all things audio

The only problem with that approach is they now have a huge number of half baked or broken features. It's infuriating as hell when you spot a bug or something not working as expected only to find a post on their community dating back close to a decade, with thousands of people confirming the issue and someone from their team repeatedly replying with a vague message about passing it on to the team.

Spotify's development has somehow been run at a snails pace even with their huge headcount.
JSON Language Translator
Maybe so, but they definitely feature Evil Lair fetishists.
Because margin on core software products tends to be far higher than other industries.

For example, retailers tend to have single digit margins. Software products often have 50%+ and sometimes 70%+.

Thus lots of excess money to hire people that aren't necessarily operationally critical.

A retailer with a large excess of store associates would fail quickly, whereas a software company can often survive in perpetuity
In fact they will try to terminate hires or reject candidates who express primary interest in work being "for payment". Every business looks for an edge, including exploitability checks (and checks against disrupting that line of thought for their other hires)
Error-Detection Tool Makes AI Mistakes Easy to Spot
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compiler enthusiasts catching stays:(
Another boring release without much innovation. I wonder what's stopping Django from releasing more useful features like other frameworks are doing. Maybe the team is stuck in the past.

They've been trying to improve forms for a long time but it still sucks. I think they should just remove it at this point and let external packages solve the problem.
Wow, that sounds pretty rough, I hope you're doing better now :)

Thanks for the kind words, your name definitely rings a bell. Small world!
From a personal heath intervention standpoint, that doesn’t matter. In fact, that may be the point.
When you talk to regular people (not activists and not politicians), their general attitude around climate change tends to be that nothing is really being done and that the Earth is doomed. I don't think that mindset actually encourages more activism and more action - rather, it encourages people to throw up their hands and ignore the issue (to avoid getting depressed).

So I've never really understood the concerted effort to downplay or silence good news about climate change. You can't keep telling people that everything they're doing is futile yet expect them to stay motivated to keep doing it.
Howdy! As a web developer in the game biz, I often need to translate text strings that I keep in JSON files. I whipped up this custom GPT with ChatGPT4 to do just that.
I think a lot of houses are made of bricks, not necessarily reinforced concrete. Appartement blocks on the other hand is all reinforced concrete I believe.
I have to admit that I find the isolation and security design to be rather strange. Isolating graphical applications requires a lot of pieces, one of which (what Wayland did) is preventing them from poking at other applications via the GUI. It requires isolating them in the backend (out of scope for Wayland, but Flatpak is at least trying). But it also requires preventing them from spoofing each other and thus deliberately confusing the user. This seems like it needs UI enforced on top of the isolated applications, which means drawing them in a box (like a nested compositor, at which point none of what Wayland did to isolate applications matters) or enforcing informative window decorations. And that part seems like it requires server-side decorations, but Wayland is allergic to SSD.

So I don’t get it. How exactly is the core Wayland protocol a good base for the GUI parts of isolation?
Researchers create AI tool with a nose for fraudulent wine
What are the leading theories explaining why some cities become filled with homeless people while the issue seems manageable in others?

I'm especially thinking about the difference between European cities and US ones where the difference in scale of the issue is notable.
What can stop the AI apocalypse? – Grammar. Yes, only grammar
Sure - one only needs a sufficiently powerful learning architecture to extract the signal from the data, and assuming that is the case then what is learnt depends on the data not the architecture.

That said, I don't think that LLMs are yet close to fully utilizing the training data. e.g. they are prone to hallucinating due to not thinking ahead and backing themselves into a corner where they have to say something. One obvious improvement for that one is more forward looking prediction (i.e. "thinking ahead" - engage brain before opening mouth), which for LLMs can be addressed by tree of thought rollouts and RL learning.

So, while architecture is not important if all architectures are equally powerful (in which case you'll learn what's available to learn), it certainly does matter if not all are fully up to the job, as it would appear none currently are.