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Ask HN: Interview shows like Charlie Rose that are still running
I am a big fan of Charlie Rose, but he now does interviews by Zoom which I don't like as much as in person. Are there any good modern interview shows like Charlie Rose?
Anecdotal but here's my experience.

A year ago a normie wedding planner was scouting locations for a couple that had a list of specific needs, nothing weird, just rooms for the night, sea view, allowed catering and had a garden space, but even if the requirements were pretty standard it's not something you can get at glance from maps or Google searches.

So it was taking significant time to open each location web site and validate them because one has to be sure and often locations doesn't explicitly have a list of features, you'd have to see photos or find the right snippet of text in whichever subsection it could have been, and the hit rate was petty low

So I tried asking gpt and quickly had 20 matches for her ready. Some were hallucinated, some we couldn't confirm the features, but more than two thirds where legit candidates, which saved a lot of busy work.

So in the end the planner opened an account and never used gpt ever again because it was weird and alien and couldn't figure out prompting.
Not to diss, but their landing page is too wide for mobile and the design overflows.
So you're saying that the word2vec king/queen result was the result of feeding the verbatim text "king+man-woman", and that text being continued as "queen"? I assumed that was more the result of doing math on the properties the model generated for the tokens king, man, queen, etc.

And in that case, why does "Write me a limerick <meeting this criteria>" result in ChatGPT producing limericks, when vanishingly few of the limericks in the source text started that way, and vanishingly few of the commands to write a limerick were immediately followed with one?
Thanks for suggesting us!

One of the nice things about Datasette is that it's based around plugins, which I think are a really great way to contribute to an open source project - you get to build out new functionality without even needing to wait on pull requests from the maintainer.
ANSI handwaves are delineated as follows:

few 10%
some 20%
many 30-40%
half 50%
most 60-70%
vast 80%
anyone 90%

A good way to think about this in social terms like polls etc (where %ages come up a lot) is to imagine the relative strength of two teams in a tug of war. 80% might seem low for the vast majority, but if you think about it as 4 people pulling against 1 it's easier to appreciate it viscerally.
Honestly it should just be something run by local governments or non-profit utilities.

This isn't a typical consumer product you buy at the store where I'm worried that the government will be bad at responding to consumer tastes, what consumers what out of their internet access is extremely simple: fast and reliable internet, that's basically it. It's not something where's a lot of questions of exactly how and where to advance things and give different offerings, like a smartphone or brand of yogurt or whatever.
TBH I'm not 100% sure what lesson to take from this. If in 2022, you thought that a) DAU across the entire family of apps was as high as it ever was going to be and b) that the broader economy was about to enter a recession, causing marketing spend to plummet, is a P/E of 9 still a bargain? Isn't that supposed to reflect potential for future growth, and if all the eggs were in the metaverse basket...
My database management experience is shouting "don't store an age, store a birthday".
This smells weird, surely? I'd be looking at who chose not to rotate those particular credentials.

1: "what are these accounts?"

2: "oh they're unused, they don't even appear in the logs"

1: "we should rotate them"

2: "no, let's keep those rando accounts with the old credentials, the ones we think might be compromised ... y' know, for reasons"

?
"It is puzzling to me that OpenAI continues to make it available, simply because of the reputational damage."

"reputational damage"? You might live in a bubble. I think most people use 3.5 with joy for free.

For my (programming) tasks it is also only slightly more useful. So much that I sometimes subscribe to get the higher quality, but for the occasional question 3.5 is enough. And if 3.5 is not able at all, because the question is too tough, then 4 seldom is capable either in my experience.
If it was a scan of an actual document embedded into a webpage, then maybe we can say it's an acceptable format. But having some designer do a layout and then save it as a rasterized image so that it scales beyond original size so that it lowers the legibility of the text, then no, it is not a reasonable method.
> the odds of a rocket hitting a satellite on its way up are incredibly low

Aside, but it's not left to chance. They only launch when there's a gap in the space traffic.
No, they burn up. You can think of how much work goes into the heat shields on spacecraft that are supposed to survive reentry. Satellites have none of that.
Cloudflare is showing how to correctly respond to attacks. Other companies should take note.
If I had been a real stickler when writing my piece, I could have pointed to the “Select” button missing an ellipsis (…), making it “Select…”. Since the first Macintosh, when choosing a command from a drop down menu that would present you with a modal dialog, the command in the menu would have the ellipsis. This would tell you that you would get asked something after selecting the command. So “Save” but “Save as…”.
Since “Select” presents you with a mode to select things before you do anything with them, it would technically need the ellipsis. However, I suspect it isn’t there (amongst other things) because the round button next to it is already an ellipsis. That would have to be changes as well.
So you see, I could probably write a whole piece just about that… :-)
It is exotic, as is Clojure generally. Most organizations with existing infrastructure are allergic to exotic when it comes to their data, from a culture, rather than technical perspective. Only you can judge the culture cost.

In technical terms, the NuBank presentations on their use of Datomic are some of the most impressive engineering at scale material I have seen.
Do they report on how much capex went into vision pro?

I can’t imagine them ever moving enough units to recover those costs.
(Pedantacic alert) Not born => not person. I think it is more accurate to say that age bound to a living someone in time.
Do you mind sharing the identity of the app? I am curious to see how/what you customized.
Ask HN: Seeking Feedback from Hackers on My New Landing Page
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Your insights, experiences, and suggestions are crucial in refining this platform. Whether you're a seasoned developer, a cloud expert, or passionate about sustainability in tech, I want to hear from you! Share your thoughts on the concept, features, or anything else that comes to mind.

> Questions for You:

- How do you currently manage and optimize your SaaS costs?
- Are you actively considering the environmental impact of your applications, and if so, how are you addressing it?
- Any specific features you'd love to see in a tool like this?

Let's hack together to create a tool that not only empowers developers but also contributes to a more sustainable tech industry. Your feedback is gold, so don't hold back!

Thanks for being an awesome community, and happy hacking!
I have never in my live received a robo call, then again I live in the EU. So yet another one of those unsolvable problems that have been solved elsewhere..
I heard CMMC 2.0 will fix everything in govcon.
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Yeah, I think I conflated a git specific question from the GP and a more general CLI question, my bad.

The argument can be made the interfacing with git is bad whether with mouse or with keyboard. My git secret weapon is to ask myself how do I make git do this thing that is easy in Subversion or Fossil and then I do that thing and I write it down so I can do it again in X number of months.
Amen to that. You seem to have completely gotten the point I was trying to make. Thank you!
Why Obesity Drug Coverage Doesn't Matter (Yet) for Lilly and Novo
India's oil imports from Russia hit 12-month low in Jan as sanctions bite
Cloudflare being compromised would be enormous. Something between 5 and 25% of all sites use CF in some fashion. An attacker could literally hold the internet hostage.
(Phrase originally coined by Yaron Minsky; the earliest text mention I know of is https://blog.janestreet.com/effective-ml-revisited/)

To be pedantic, "date of birth" does not actually imply "age". At the very least you need "instant of birth" instead, since dates are subject to calendars and time zones. Also Feb 30th happened in 1712 in Sweden; beware of modelling a domain so tightly that you leave some of it unmodelled (cough email-address validation regexes).
I always thought data storage methods where every state is valid were cool - ie. so that I could feed /dev/random into them and it would spit out something. It's even cooler if every valid output has precisely one encoding.

Huffman or arithmetic encoded data is one example of this. And formats that build off that (eg. most video formats) can decode random data as long as you put the right headers on, sometimes making beautiful artwork.
Sometimes a comment is appropriate. Sometimes a commit message is appropriate. Sometimes I need both. Often when dealing with legacy code I find neither. I'd be happy with either.

A commit message lets me tell a short story about a change that touches multiple locations in the code base. Maybe no one part of the change is all that tricky.

A commit message also allows me to explain why I'm making the change, whereas a comment may explain why the code is the way it is.

Commit messages and comments have overlapping use cases, but the Venn diagram is not a circle.

$0.02.
I had no idea Apple had a services division. What do they do?

EDIT: Ok, yes I should have just googled it. Apparently "services" is their code for media. Not like professional services. It's AppleTV, magazines, news and such.
Polyamory, the Ruling Class's Latest Fad
My personal reservations about Vision Pro aside, it's nice to see that Cook's Apple is at least taking swings at new product segments.
Yes a P/E of 9 is still a bargain.
that's such a sad statistic, people in the prime of their life, mainly caused by being out enjoying life at the wrong time
When has it been the US?
Ozempic maker now worth more than $500B
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Most programmers program for fun in th their free time. If you want to motivate us, then don't do things that demotivate us and you'll find us motivated.

What demotivates me are meetings with outcomes I don't care about. I don't care about story points, and meetings focused on story points demotivate me. I'm demotivated by sprints followed by another sprint followed by another sprint; the problem is right there in the name. I'm demotivated by deadlines I cannot comfortably meet and other dictates passed down from above.
Being right can be time consuming and expensive. So unless they are prepared to defend themselves, people fold under the vaguest of threats.
> Do not do this, its not a personal device.

You think nobody's logged into their personal spotify on their work computer? All those guys wearing headphones in the office have brought in CDs to play in their laptop CD drives?

And that business traveller away from their partner and kids for a week+ isn't going to video call them? Or watch some netflix in their hotel room in the evening?

That's so unrealistic, you could write IT security policy for a Fortune 100 company :)
Of course, if you’re going to constrain your data, make sure your constraints are actually correct…

case February => assert(value >= 1 && value <= 28)

Last time I checked, 2024 is a leap year, so Feb 29 is valid…
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This happened with me -- VP said he wanted feedback but clearly didn't like real critical feedback. Then that VP tried to set up a denied promo, even though I was performing two levels above my then-current level. Finally the company got bought and levels were frozen and he was laid off (as executives are often laid off in an acquisition), so who knows what would happened.
MusicFX exhibits better sound quality but much less creativity than OpenAI's JukeBox from April 2020. MusicFX seems never to change the feel of the "song" it produces. (Admittedly they're not the same paradigm -- JukeBox continues an audio sample whereas MusicFX generates audio from text.)
Anyone confused about the horizontal axis’ tick labels? Usually the range befor e.g. “5” is 4-5. But here it would be 2003-2004 in case of “2005”. I never consciously thought about this but is this way of indexing the standard?
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iCloud, Apple music, iMessage, maps
If they can bring some good features others adopt, it’s not all bad.

Opera is/was probably considered an irrelevant browser; it never had big numbers when it came to market share, but they had a lot of innovations that are ubiquitous today.

https://geektechnica.com/8-browser-innovations-started-by-op...

It’s always good to have innovators in the space, even if they aren’t the biggest or most commercially successful. They can push things forward when commercial interest might otherwise hold things back.
I remember this being one of my very first distros when I started using Linux, probably because of its very attractive name like many did here.

However what moved me away from it was the sudden abandoment due to the fallout between a primary contributor and the project's leader, to which the former made the focal point on his distrowatch interview, he would later create his own distro called TinyCoreLinux.

In my opinion this a fruitless attempt to restore any credibility that the project lead has lost after over a decade of negligence and abandoment.
After four consecutive quarters of revenue decline, Apple broke the trend and reported its first period of revenue growth today. Looks like the iPhone remains king. I really feel like they're over-invested in Vision Pro though.
But in my understanding you are talking about the delta, year over year. Trends. Would it not be a case of 500 applicants for one apartment reduced to 300, giving a landlord no cause to lower rents? At least that is what I am observing in major cities where I am living.
Blackmagic Camera, Filmic Pro and Halide. All iOS. Their problems are not exactly the same across but the button shapes are a great part of it. The other problem is, that people invent abstract icons for abstract ideas and then expect people to remember every one of those. Whatever happened to text labels beneath buttons?
(Not with the company) My observation is that ROS 2 is the go-to solution for new projects. Established co's have sunk cost in proprietary stacks and tend to spread the "ROS is slow and bulky" meme, but the reality is a sane, seasoned stack that has thousands of contributors offers a time-to-market advantage that is worth more than saving a bit on hardware. Most of the really time-critical code (actuator firmware, video capture etc) is done by C/C++ libraries anyway.

It's parallel to the general situation where Python is at the top of the stack in spite of being dog-ass slow.
It’s fasting for people whose biology prevents them from doing it themselves. Side effects exist, but so do side effects from being overweight.
I agree, but nevertheless Gemini is much better than WWW is many ways.

However, different people (including myself) have different ideas about what it should and shouldn't be.

My idea is that the WWW has way too much messy, bad stuff, complexity, etc; however, there are also some stuff that WWW does not have even though it might be good to do.

(Therefore I made up Scorpion protocol and file format, according to my own criticism of Gemini protocol. There is also Spartan, that someone else did, but I have some criticism of that, too (e.g. why is a user name and password allowed in the URL even though they are not used?).)
Be not idle You can run from some problems
Age is usually considered not PII, whereas a birthday is usually considered sensitive enough it needs protecting.

Obviously you could store birth year, but that leads to other issues.
Okay, I'll bite; what about a github account? You don't generally own code you write for an employer, so why would you be an personal repos from a company machine? (Likewise, there's generally no good reason for the company to have access to personal repos, so those security domains should never overlap)
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I’m writing Part Two of the article right now and I have a feeling you’ll like it…
You'll know your architecture is complex enough when diagrams of it land you a big raise at a new company.

Until then you need more services.
If you ask me, the last thing we need is for people like Peter Thiel to live longer than absolutely necessary.
I don’t remember how I got to “pedophile”, but I think one of the names of Hollywood actors was involved. Later I did “pedophile” + “jail” and got “priest”. “Priest” and “pedophile” yields “Catholic”. This game goes into unexpected territories.

Also:

priest + diarrhea = holy shit

holy shit + diarrhea = holy diarrhea

holy diarrhea + sweet and sour = chinese food
Ha what. Developers clamor for things that solve actually day-to-day problems like sticky and has, which Safari led the pack on. Not to mention subgrid, color functions, filters, etc.
I'd be very wary of this. Very few medical conditions have any kind of strong and simple link to known genes or gene networks.

"This gene combo has a 10% chance of mortality due to cardiac causes" doesn't tell you much about one person who died suddenly. There are a lot of people with those genes who didn't die suddenly of that thing, or did but of something else.

So at best you're working with a sort of a shrug in a certain direction.
Wait for Part Two…
My company Design Systems International (https://designsystems.international/) designed this site during COVID in 2020 when the interest in mortality data suddenly exploded. Happy to see it on the front page!
Let me ask you one follow up question: if you and the company had a disagreement of sorts and they examined your activity, would you believe they find nothing that they’d deem privileged?
Not if such citizens are sanctioned. Code Red. Hint hint.
The interviewer is an idiot. Manhole covers could have all different shapes: round, square, rectangular and other.
Which is less than 2%, so more a showing for investors than a real layoff.
love those guys at the UK digital service!
Hm, i wasn't much of a user of visual mode in vim. Seems something like gv is coming to helix:

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/1596

What does g; do?

Helix has (experimental?) macro record/playback q/Q?

https://docs.helix-editor.com/keymap.html#changes
A PE of 9 is comparable to lows of 2009. This is indicative of dire pessimism and unjustified.
>They did this by using one access token and three service account credentials that had been taken, and that we failed to rotate, after the Okta compromise of October 2023. All threat actor access and connections were terminated on November 24 and CrowdStrike has confirmed that the last evidence of threat activity was on November 24 at 10:44.

Okta hitting everywhere
You probably already know about this, but if you're looking for vegan stuff specifically, Happy Cow is a pretty good site to point you in the direction of decent options.
And the Cantor Fitzgerald CEO, a US bank authorized to deal in US treasuries, said at Davos (!) that iFinex/Tether actually had the USD they claim they have.

A strange development. But if they do they're sitting on one of the most profitable business on earth: emit a currency that doesn't pay interest, to the tune of tens of billions (and soon more than a hundred billion), and rake in the US treasuries yeld.

BTW we don't hear much on the subject from Centre (Coinbase+Circle consortium emitting the USDC stable coin). Coinbase gives a yeld on the USDC stored at Coinbase itself but they don't give it to USDC not stored at Coinbase. At 26 billion USDC circulating, this seems to be quite the business model too.
> the athlete herself is worthless and it becomes a competition of who has the better drug cocktail or is more willing to sacrifice their health.

Everyone would be bigger, faster, stronger and the best athletes would come out on top. There’s an argument to be made that it’s a more level playing field than what you have now where most winners are using PED’s and you’re at a disadvantage and unlikely to win if you don’t.
Plot twist: that article was written by AI.