skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the interview went off the rails because she insisted their answers werent valid. She was told she was fired for performance reasons (whether true in reality or not is questionable). i dont know if arguing with the exit interviewers has any point to it, shouldnt she just see an employment lawyer instead?
I read Hyperion recently and I think it would suffer from movie treatment. Like McCarthy’s The Road, so much of the horror in Hyperion comes from what is left to the imagination, like the terror of the shrike; and that which is internal to the characters, like the pain of the cross.

I doubt these could be translated effectively to a visual medium.
It's not "out of tech", but: look into the WordPress ecosystem. The tech is kind of boring and doesn't change that quickly, but there are still a ton of jobs available.
Would Luddites find the gig economy familiar?
No, it's not clear at all. The latest forecasts are not even clear about China surpassing US in nominal GDP. China's demographics look pretty horrible in the long term, US on the other hand is quite healthy. China doesn't really have allies like the US has.
They get what they deserve, and the people who shop there too.

Amazon has been shitty for a long time and that’s because people allowed them to be and even participate.
I left a shitty job with no notice, and still got a going away dinner! The key is to be a good coworker, not be an asshole, and try not to leave a total mess for the next person. Oh and don't work for psychopaths.
I assume it's one of those contractor gigs in the city that pays 1000+ GBP/day.
what if her entire dept and manager were let go? who should do the interview then?
If the employee is not aware of performance shortfalls, then that's a performance shortfall of their manager, not the employee.
TBH I'm surprised we haven't seen drone terrorism
Is a film only worth making if it stays accurate to the author’s vision?
The books exist and can still be read after films are made. The movie must stand on its own merits. If the filmmakers have their own vision that might make a better film.
Of course, there is no guarantee the film will be good, no matter what…
If you give a reason, it must be true. Otherwise it opens you up to "well, what was the real reason then?"
For comparison a regular French-door fridge is about 25 cu ft. So 131 cu ft is equivalent to about 5 fridges’ worth of materials. Not that one would store an archive inside fridges :)
This reply seems a little bit pre-baked and somewhat irrelevant for the site in the link. The OP is building up a small world network of direct recommendations, i.e. it is about as far from an automated recommendation service as is possible. The warm introduction feature sounds like a simple path finding algorithm.

There may be another lens through which to view this instead of "balanced critique of technology". Describing this as "sick" seems somewhat hyperbolic.

More generally, is it really technology that makes us anonymous or is it simply an emergent property of scale? When there are millions of similar engineers out there (to use a single field as an example) relying on word of mouth, or similar non-technological approaches seems unlikely to find the best candidate with any degree of probability.
>What if the author of this app is unable to run the product successfully and is forced to close it down.

That’s why many businesses would not consider a free service or a product. The developer of SQLite sells licenses for his public domain code for this very reason.
I've come across so many devs with "good" CVs who were full of themselves and couldn't do a single pragmatic thing. CVs, degrees, titles seem completely inflated and mostly meaningless in North America and in tech in particular. Sometimes I'm wondering whether people like you – assuming you are good at your job – shouldn't simply lie on their CV to get their foot in the door.

Regardless, you should have better chances of not being filtered out with small, profitable, companies.
> For each pixel instead of a single color value it generated k mean color values, using an online algorithm.

What does online mean here?
If you're a vimmer and a jupyter user, do yourself a favour and switch from browser to vscode: vim emulation is much better overall and you get proper python lsp experience, with jumping to definitions, type inference, copilot, and all that.

(Neovim user myself, as much as I dislike vscode for everything else, as of now it's hard to replace it when using jupyter)
Which was a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38963678

And before that, there was also this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38961859
Now that's brutal. Of course there isn't and you are quite right but there are such things as morals.
X-59 Supersonic Test Jet Rolled Out at Skunk Works
True.

I knew my comment would be downvoted.

Interestingly, one comment above said the author did not release an update in over a year...
Ask HN: Why most Y Combinator startups have failed to solve novel problems?
The question seems to inquire about the reasons behind the perceived difficulty or failure of many startups associated with Y Combinator in addressing or solving innovative and novel problems. It prompts an exploration into the challenges these startups face, potentially aiming to understand common patterns or issues hindering their success in pioneering solutions to new and complex problems.
20.5 Years of XP and Agile (2020)
I certainly won't apply to CloudFlare. Perhaps I was considering it.
The problem is stirring up hatrid against one or more defined demographics to make political advantage. It is a core component of fascism's path to power.
Honestly.. I'm a rails and elixir dev with 10+ years building web apps (back end mostly). It's not about the tech. Just getting a self hosted "hello world" static html file on the internet is near impossible, because ISP's make it so.

I could spin up a docker and nginx, set up my router to allow port forwarding, but the ISP will stand in my way. Port 80 or port (8)433 won't come through.

No amount of tech on my raspberry-pie will let me self host.
Style vs. origin.

A randomly selected hamburger, frankfurter, or wiener, probably isn't made in Hamburg, Frankfurt, or Vienna.

And sometimes it can get even weirder: Stilton cheese is named after where it was historically sold, but it's made elsewhere and you're not allowed to call a cheese "stilton" if you actually make it in Stilton. (Edit: I originally got Stilton and Cheddar mixed up).

As I'm a British national, I don't know if this is the full reason, or if this is in combination with the natural human tendency to care more about nearby things and that the Atlantic is so big that all of the USA is closer to one of the places called "Champagne" within the USA than to the original in France.
No. This is a fan-made user guide for people who want to make things with midjourney.
How would this compare to RxDB?
> Frankly she sounds like a pain in the ass

It's almost as if she's pissed at the prospect of doing other pain in the ass things, like looking for a new job. People being a PITA when getting surprise fired is such a weird thing, right ?

> doesn't understand the cold reality of the business-employee relationship.

Looks like Cloudflare's HR will now understand the hot reality of having their firing meetings scrutinized on social media.
gtp4 powered chatgtp, not gpt4
>implemented methods for secretly editing accounts.

>not sure if it was a bug or someone remotely changed the account records

It seems to me that determining whether this was a bug or a deliberate backdoor that allowed someone connected to Fujitsu to change account values should have been one of the first priorities of the investigation. The CNN article I read before the BBC article didn't even mention this, it seemed to just imply that this was all a mistake or at worst the government/Fujitsu trying to coverup the fact that the software was shoddy.
The thousands of users have the power to avoid costly migration via a less costly payment just like Darwin prescribed
Sales is not "fair", like engineering is "fair". If a salesperson fails to make the sale, everyone else in the company suffers. If enough salespeople suck, then no one has jobs.
It is quite in character for Martin Silenus. Especially at that point of the story.

If you had problems with that already, you shouldn't read Endymion and Rise of Endymion.
It should at least be related. World War Z bears little resemblance to the book, to the point that basically the only thing they have in common use the name and the fact that they both have zombies in them.
Free software is a gift. It does not create an obligation when one receives it.
https://nitter.net/karpathy/status/1745921205020799433
It's my understanding that Psilocybin and LSD do produce hallucinations, but that these are mere artefacts; a sideshow to the main game.
Go to levels.fyi, search Apple, then look for salary that is for a similar position and has a similar base. That's a starting point.

The base does have a quite wide range, I assume that's the range for a few different levels. Still, you are roughly looking at a TC starting from $230k all the way up to $400k and more.

"Niche space and serious talent" doesn't necessarily translate to higher levels or salary in a company. It all comes down to how much resource an organization has. (I wish my employer actually understood how "valuable" I am and that I achieved things very few in my company could do, but I am not betting on that or the company.)

All other comments here are useless and a waste of your time.
Show HN: BuildAnything – stream LLM HTML to an iframe
Nothing she did helped her find a new job, nor did it help her keep her old job.

I think the term is "pissing into the wind".
AD: Yes, what a wonderful application of tech. I very much enjoy seeing these hardware <> software open source projects. Congratulations on developing a finished project.
> Their training process is essentially a bunch of CF employees doing unimpressive powerpoint presentations. Their internal documentation is a huge Wiki and it's not really very well maintained. Their internal config management system is absolute trash and I'm convinced that the only reason they stay in business is they've got a few long-time internal employees who know how everything REALLY works.

This is every large company
The problem with judging any of this is the same as knowing your history lessons and sources.

All we've really got to go on is Brittney Peaches account and Matthew Princes account and neither are going to be reliable sources. We'll never know if what Brittney Peach said is reliable and we'll never know if what Matthew Prince says is true.
But let’s be real, we don’t have that yet, nor do we have something that operates like that in realtime, locally in your car.
I really enjoy tinkering with LLM outputs that generate code that can be executed directly. Especially the faster models like GPT-3.5 Turbo are a joy to play with.
On maybe slightly off topic point. I really want to learn more about compiler engineering, what people would suggest for someone with some background in programming but main background is physics (if that matters at all)?
I'm certainly not expressing the opinion that the policy is reasonable.
Oh yeah? I'm a 1000000000x engineer, formed entirely through posting on HN, and I think you're full of beans.
Maybe your comment comes as a too harsh of a portrayal of the person who provides valuable product or service for free but IMHO from business standpoint its true.

If you want money ask for it and I don't mean donations. The strange dynamic where you collect street cred in exchange for your work and expect to be taken care for doesn't work. Even if he finds a job and doesn't need donations, he will be working for people who wanted money and asked for it. It's the same thing with directly asking money for your services but with extra steps where you pay other people for doing the asking.
Turboprops are awesome and underrated. They have some advantages over jet engines such as faster response times (they can angle the blades instead of having to rev up RPMs), easy reversing (no pushback mule needed), and higher efficiency. They fill a niche really well.
macOS changed the visual looks of preferences and rearranged things, but if you had a bash script that just did a bunch of "defaults write", it would still work for the most part.
A billion of these stories never prepared me for the utter shitshow that laid itself bare to me when I first became a hiring manager. I’m self-taught, am strongly philosophically opposed to educational or past employer ‘prestige’ like working for FAANG or whatever. Still, I learned pretty quickly to not trust a bunch of naive ‘intuitive’ signals.
More context about the technology at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device which mentions "Betavoltaic nuclear batteries can be purchased commercially. Available devices include a 100 μW tritium-powered device weighing 20 grams[12]" linking to a press release at https://newatlas.com/city-labs-nanotritium-betavoltaic-batte... about a product from https://citylabs.net/ .

That's only 20 years, vs. the 50 from this article.

What isotope(s) are they using for 50 years? All I see is "After the decay period, the 63 isotopes turn into a stable isotope of copper", which sounds very odd. Why 63 different isotopes? What decay chain ends up with copper?
Why call it "Dune" then?
Agreed.

One of the few uses of ever-improving "AI" bot generation of characters, faces, blending images, etc. I can imagine is the ability for fans to remix films and TV.

For example...

* to edit together the original BBC TV Hitch hikers' Guide to the Galaxy with the better SFX of the otherwise poor film.

* to create extra episodes or installments of beloved serials where the text exists but the actors are dead

* Or, in this instance, to mix Lynch's visuals and characters with Villeneuve's less scenery-chewing version which sticks closer to the text.

One could even imagine editing Villeneuve's Arrival to stick closer to the text of Ted Chiang's sublime "the Story of your Life", where the way the aliens write is pivotal to the story but the screenwriters didn't understand.
What could it happen if they breach the NDA? Would they get terminated?
If your colleages are closing deals, and you're not, the company needs to find reps that do close deals.

I don't work for free, and I expect the sales people to go get money to pay me.
New to HN – brainiacs lets go
tech maverick diving into the HN scene. No fluff, just expertise. With a background in machine learning, I'm here to drop knowledge bombs and soak in the genius vibes
Houthis: US strikes have no impact on attacks on Israel-affiliated ships
Whet your appetite: https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/zcahum/hyperion...
Seriously, it's like a cruel joke. TL;DR - don't do this, instead read the entire article!
You should probably do the same thing.

Given the information, and given what I know about Cloudflare’s internals and how they have behaved, and given how Matthew Prince has been in the past. It is unreasonable to think Cloudflare is in the right here.
lies, it's only just about the big money, suppressing competition and controlling the industry

open source is a catalyser for progress
I already do.

There are some ridiculous changes to the story, and the end is so weird that it's funny, but the dialogues are so much better, the characters have substance. The scary ones are scary, the glorious ones are glorious. There is actual development in Leto. The whole world feels deep. Altogether, it feels like it was aimed at a more mature audience. The same audience that would also buy the books afterward if they didn't already read it.

New Dune however feels more like Young Adult Entertainment. It looks fantastic, but the rest doesn't really matter. I didn't feel anything for any of those characters. Some of the dialogues were really cringe worthy (the Hangar dialogue for example) I went there with someone who never read the books. They were confused also didn't bother with most of the characters or what has become of them.

I will go and see the second one though since it's Dune and I love Dune and this might also be the reason why this way of making movies works...the nerds still go in even if they complain and the "normal audience" gets something which won't be too challenging.
I totally see how a company could go after her in a legal battle to punish for that behavior, so it's definitely not a recommended move.

But on prospective employers, perhaps she doesn't need future employers who'd be pissed at their shitty HR drones getting exposed on social media ? She might not need to go work at a Fortune 500 company lawyered to the teeth, and could find a nice place that is willing to commit to higher standard of communication with their employees ?

I had a coworker go shout insanities at the CEO at a meeting after the company pushed a few of his buttons, it was totally unprofessional and a hot headed move, but I'd still see him as a good hire in a different setting. People can have flaws and bitch too much publicly and still be valuable workers in the right contexts.
Thanks, the description as confabulation is helpful, and should be more widely known.

Maybe the current usage of hallucination can be viewed as metonymy or perhaps synecdoche - the untrained observer sees absurd outputs, the description of the phenomenon does not include the reason.
IF you don't understand the difference between a murderous drug cartel and HR, I think you are probably not the right fit for corporate work.
keep it real. happy to work on a new idea, test/give feedback on new code you're crunching, or just amuse any creative ideas related to tech -gio jo (call me gio, jo, or gio jo)
I was curious to see how they were going to get me to upgrade from my M1 Pro. I still don't see a need to replace this thing in the foreseeable future.
I just can't really believe people with that. But i just asked 3 more people and they sworn the same as yours. Sure, language had an enormous impact on human intelligence and "thinking capability", but structured and complex language has evolved much later than clever and intelligent thinking was important for humans.

I feel very often like the need of having the right words to describe thoughts to fellow humans is on one hand crafting reality at the same time it's holding it, and therefore all of us, back.

Maybe this way of thinking is more what people understand as intuition?
Scientist on Japan's atomic bomb program tells his story (1995) [video]
Edward Hopper: An American Love Story
>getting sufficient eyeballs on them to validate a market seems like a huge pain due to channel saturation, unless you already have a huge social media following.

"Social media" is not the only channel, and "saturation" of that "channel" does not equate "channel saturation" because, as I said, it's not the only "channel", only one "channel". Explore other distribution channels. This should come first, or second only to market.

Select a sector.

Select a segment that can pay. It helps if it can be looked up, found, targeted, reached, addressed. Distribution channels.

Find segment's problems.

It is a huge advantage if interacting with said segment is subjectively not draining/soul-crushing. It is great if the interaction is enjoyable.

It helps if the entities are actually aware of the problem. That's a huge understatement. If they're not aware of the problem, you'll have to educate/inform/identify that problem for them which increases your sales complexity (and customer acquisition cost, and veering towards high-touch sales). You'll potentially be creating a market/category and it's a whole other game. Potentially huge reward, but definitely risky.

It helps (understatement) if these entities have spent money to solve the problem (bonus point if the problem still persists/was not solved - find out why/how/when/how much). (They have a budget to solve a problem they're aware of but the problem persists or the solution is sub-par). There's actual demand from someone who can pay.

It helps to talk with an agent who can sign a purchase order/check/ or swipe a credit card in a low-touch self service mode. Even more so if said agent has skin in the game/stake/a vested interest (reward/punishment with regards to the outcome of solving the problem/failure to do so).

Scope. Success criteria. Job to be done. Metrics. What does it look like when the problem is solved. Decision makers/owners, decision process (one? many? committee? veto? exec decision to green-light sufficient in spite of? no-go if anyone disagrees? discretionary spending and credit card swipe?)

Then start thinking about a potential solution or product that solves that problem.
> The expectation is someone only gets terminated in the first year if they are terrible

That's an over generalization. I've walked a few people out the door within the first 3-6 months who weren't performing that well. They weren't terrible, just ultimately not a fit for one reason or another.
Has IEEE people gone mad?

The author has fallen for the classic mistake of “daddy knows best and he loves me” and of course he sees himself as one of the daddies.

Of course “it’s dangerous” so is me releasing my own Linux distro to learn how it’s done, full of misconfigurations and stop updating it after 1 year.

And in the topic of content, has he seen what is posted in social media for the last 15 years? Or he’s just on LinkedIn talking to his select group of “friends”?

Seriously, this paternalistic waxing poetic about AI bugs me to no end.
Climate academics are on record as saying they manipulate peer review to reject valid science if it would weaken their "message", so that's not a good idea.
in case you aren't trolling, the sec news is opposite
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-10/spot-bitc...
What is the alternative though? I agree with the feelings and sentiments of the anti-ai people that want it to pay copyright, but I never hear any considerations for what comes next.

This is going to end up being the music industry all over again. It's going to be impossible for any individuals or small companies to get the rights needed, and instead were going to get massive content labels selling the rights, or only giant corporations being able to hop through all these new hoops.

We don't want a repeat of that as a society, creating yet another leeching middleman and horrible industry favoring only the incumbents.
Life is a gift that also comes with no obligations. Pity everyone takes it so seriously.
Reading that other people donated helped me to do so. I'm writing this to help other people get over the decision hump.

I self-host his [name redacted] on a fun site of mine. I like this style of app: small, simple binary that can share a machine with lots of other things.
The assumption going on is that they're trying to skimp on severance and unemployment by maskerading it as a perfomance issue.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959248 | 2 days ago | 136 comments
I don't know the regulation is her specific location, but in some place, having them on record firing you without cause might be useful.
The whole point of a personal recommendation is you're introducing people you know are good to people you know and trust you. What's the value-add by inserting a new app into the process, that charges one side?

LinkedIn works because you attract supply (e.g professionals) with the draw of getting the personal recommendations/network effects for free and then make money off demand (e.g employers/recruiters) by letting them pay to win and send you spam.

Two-sided marketplace businesses are supposedly the hardest to get off the ground. Especially if you're trying to charge for something that is currently offered for free.