skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
took a contract job where I was writing a thing in perl to connect a billion dollar collection of ecommerce sites to facebook ads in 2019.
I was responding to your astute observation not making a broad comment about economies of scale.

> I don't know of any multi-millionaire ticket scalpers.
Friendly reminder that cities aren't loud, cars are loud. Any measure of city loudness is just "which cities have the most traffic".
The most useful lesson from this book for me—because I found myself using this several times this week—is to communicate by saying "I intend to" to quickly explain the "why" behind what you are trying to do, or the rationale for a set of instructions you are giving to another person.

This helps people respond with flexibility, as it gives them a better understanding of when to deviate from the exact set of instructions you give them (such as if assumptions turn out to be wrong, or conditions change), and what parts of a request are necessary to follow exactly.

Though I remembered using this wording often, I actually forgot that I learned about the principle from this book until I read this comment. But the idea itself has stuck with me.

There is also a 45-minute "Talks at Google" video by the author, which looks like a good overview for his main ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzJL8zX3EVk
> the guy at the bottom who signed off the bolt work without even looking at the plane, which is criminal

Rumour is [1] bolt removal was entered in the tracking system as 'opening' the door rather than 'removing' the door and hence it didn't attract a re-inspection.

[1] https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...
How do you know that the mnfr is imposing shorter service intervals? Guesswork? Gut instinct?
How long until you drag this PDF into an AI chatbot and it spits out a 1 hour movie
Is this mainly overuse of trendy packages and frameworks through npm and similar? What exactly is bad about writing JavaScript as an employee?
Well argued snapplebobapple. Japan isn't cheap anymore; and neither will China be either in the long run
Yes it is :), but the library is also a synthetic data generation library, so for example you can create the data for DPO fully synthetically, check out the self-rewarding LLMs example:

https://datadreamer.dev/docs/latest/pages/get_started/quick_...
Offer a big canvas for writing and drawing while weighing 400 grams

(I have both)
I got an RM2 last year, and it's been the only product I've ever used a satisfaction guarantee on to return. I was looking to replace paper, which is basically always around my desk in sticky note or free-relator-notepad form.

The RM2 didn't have a great way to just give me a blank note right away. It had the quick notes journal, but that was still its own notepad you had to open up. Everything was slow to get to. A physical button, screen clear, start writing. That's what I was hoping for.

The lack of a backlight was surprising, it's easy enough to turn on a light, but when everything else seems to have one, it was a little annoying to have to turn it towards a window to read a note because it's a little later towards dusk.

The note parsing was unforgivable, literally writing a whole new page rather than indexing your own handwriting. Search was abysmal, since it only seems to search these notes that have been transcribed, and turned into a new page of just text.

It's a lot closer to an e-ink typewriter. I think they should market it like that. Had a lot of trouble using it as a notebook. (YMMV, I know a lot of people love it, though they tend to replace the software on it.)

Everything was clunky. Back to my notepads!
Indeed. For tech companies and a few non-tech companies but with a strong tech environment (think HFT), IT is where you gain an edge on your competitors. Everywhere else, you win customers because of better prices, negotiating nice deals with suppliers, great salespeople and a good SEO presence, and so on, not because you use the latest Kubernetes version that finally introduces support for that sweet annotation you were looking for, or because you use Quarkus instead of Spring (or whatever).
A joke I heard somewhere:

I will believe corporations are people when Texas puts one to death.
Show HN: LLM-based Chrome extension for reviewing job applicant resumes
I'm a recruiter focusing on biotech. My developers and I and built a Chrome extension to help me and my recruiters review applicant resumes.

Some of our jobs receive hundreds of applications within 1-2 days. This extension uses LLMs to review the resumes and provide brief summaries based on a custom prompt that a recruiter specifies. For example, asking about highest education level, specific skills, most recent 2 jobs, etc. The goal is to get a glance of every resume and make sure promising candidates are not missed.

The extension currently works out-of-the-box on popular ATS websites: Greenhouse, Lever, JazzHR, Workable, Breezy.

Would love to hear any feedback or answer questions.
Amateur making cool LCD displays
I hate the modern interview loop as much as the next person, but from a business perspective why would you want to risk 30 days of nothing vs a few extra hours to verify?

We should fix the modern interview loop (very hard) but the idea we’d ever go back to one hour is kind of out there.
Chris Lattner has made a few comments here about Mojo the last few months.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chrislattner

Here's his comment on swift for tensorflow:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37330031
I think it makes complete sense, but for years, it's been the norm to over pay to acquire.
I think the original author (or their heirs) can take away that MIT license during a special “copyright termination” window 35 years after granting it at least in the USA.
During the pandemic, my wife and I spent a lot of time on Facetime with her sister in Los Angeles. I remember how loud it was for her, people yelling, fire crackers, music, vehicles, a near constant noise cloud outside. It differed so remarkably with our home, which was very quiet, that I took note.
Is StubHub a ticket scalper?
The contrary argument, that a creator has the right to destroy their creation, is made in the Gary Cooper movie "The Fountainhead" (1949).
> Actually it sounds easier and more plausible than in a free society.

It doesn't have to be but with our current mindset, I would agree.

If imagining a cooperative society is hard then it is even harder to imagine the technology that would arise out of such a society.

Edit: for me the open source software movement is a good example of what a cooperative society could do. In 40 years we have gone from room size computers to mobile device that can communicate with anyone on the planet and have access to all the worlds knowledge. This would never have been possible IMO without millions of developers sharing their knowledge.
Is it possible for a hundred billion dollar company to hold constant stream of innovation that is not in big tech?

From what I understand MBA-fication of innovation is inevitable. Innovation is funded by revenue and revenue is backed by sales. Sales is driven by "who you know" aka networking.

Technical prowess will convince someone to buy your product, but networking gets you through the doors in the first. Inevitably you need MBAs to generate revenue. After a certain points MBA-fication creeps in to engineering decisions and innovation.

From what I understand, innovation is largely fueled by chaos and risk. MBA fundamentally is about risk minimization and certainty. So, I can't blame Boeing, like I can't blame Intel, IBM, Ford, GM, General Electric, Phillips etc.
Boeing bought Mac, but Mac's management and priorities infected Boeing. Maybe Boeing's old-school managers would have succumbed to Jack Welch's financialization scheme, lured by fat stacks of cash, but Mac's people certainly accelerated that process.

You can convincingly argue that Mac did make the MAX and Mac did oversee a process where planes flew without doors bolted on, because Boeing no longer exists. It's just Mac wearing Boeing's branding and facilites like a skin suit.
Mastodon.social. These enormous monolithic servers offer the worst experience and degrade the whole network. And now joinmastodon.org points you at mastodon.social first, then a list of the largest servers.

In other words, centralizing.
As someone who had this happen to them but in London: yeah, this is how it goes.

Once flights resume it’s a thundering herd problem of annoying proportions too.
Related:

The Illusion of Moral Decline - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38809036 - Dec 2023 (2 comments)

Is There an Illusion of Moral Decline? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36531987 - June 2023 (38 comments)

The Illusion of Moral Decline - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36351426 - June 2023 (27 comments)

The Illusion of Moral Decline - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36323064 - June 2023 (1 comment)

The Illusion of Moral Decline - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36238150 - June 2023 (2 comments)
Jon Ronson's Guide to the Culture Wars
Collecting data is hard, but the library is also a synthetic data generation library, so for example you can create the data for DPO fully synthetically, check out the self-rewarding LLMs example:
https://datadreamer.dev/docs/latest/pages/get_started/quick_...
Advanced Data Protection protects your data that you are asking Apple to hold for you. E.g., notes and photos. Apple doesn't need to see your notes and photos to hold them for you and give copies back to you.

The lawsuit is complaining about data Apple gets when the user uses the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, and similar. E.g., when you buy an app from Apple's app store, Apple knows which app you bought, how much you paid for it, and how you paid for it.

That's data that Apple is getting because it is necessary in order to provide the service you are using.
Finland's former PM to be new president after rival concedes
https://archive.ph/W6gZ9
When is the A5x2 coming and what exactly are you excited about it?
I dont think cheering on violence is a good place for society, so I guess we are even.
Wow. So, "stringing people along = murderable offense". Got it.
> What was the relationship then? In a New Hope, it’s known that Anakin was Vader, right?

From a certain point of view.
>... but found the move to the subscription service a couple years ago to be off putting

This is so common these days. I'm still waiting for the PineNote to become stable enough to be usable by non developers. It's FOSS, so it would be immune from the subscription service plague, but they're progressing really slowly.

https://pine64.com/product/pinenote-developer-edition/
Input, processing, output.

Sensors, brain, muscle movement.
I was at a large company during the dot com bust. Someone added a world readable field (I assume by accident or because they didn’t realize we could all read it) to our LDAP called “Departure date”, which let you look up who was going to be laid off in the next few weeks. :/
I had a similar experience. When I had one, I used it frequently but when I lost it, I never felt inclined to buy a replacement. I never loved it.

I feel that this _type_ of device may have a mass-market future but we are a few generations away from a device which could have mass-market appeal. The software is clearly not good enough but even in terms of hardware, the slow e-ink refresh rate makes for a painful UX. So despite all the technology, doing anything more than using it as an etch-a-sketch was irritating.

Also what I came to realise is that most of the stuff that I fill the many half-used notebooks lying about my home is of very temporary value - often only useful for an hour or a a day. When I switched to using the Remarkable, the issue of losing information went away but not in a good way; I now felt burdened with keeping the Remarkable "organised" - trying to categorize pages, de-duplicating notes, "garbage collecting", etc. Paper notebooks, which you fill and toss away don't burden you with this task.
Fascinating read, thank you for sharing this.
I’m not about to do this myself, but I can totally see why someone would. With the way some movies just fall off of streaming services and even rental services and just become unfindable, I’m glad there are people out there keeping independent collections.
>MicroProfile

>Optimizing Enterprise Java
for a Microservices Architecture

Captain Kirk:

When the spaceship nears colossal planet Enterprise, two kinds of developers on board will be revealed:

- those who jetpack enthusiastically down to the planet (their Buzzwordite (TM) foam resumes will softpad their landing)

- and those who retrorocket desperately away, seeking lean, mean, computing machines

Spock:

Logical flaw - you forgot off-by-one errors.
Please don't take personal swipes in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I guess that depends on your exact ecological niche within bioinformatics.

I got my start at a NGS facility, so handling FASTQ was closer to 80% of my time, so any speedups would have been greatly appreciated.
You forgot that papers and pens ceased to work the second laptops showed up because that's how technology works.

Some people on this site are just idiots and need note-taking apps for a "productivity boost", whereas I can go to the store with a written list of everything I need. They think everyone should be hamstrung the same way they are.
Haha, fellow Vienna resident here and I live on the Wienzeile in the 5th. It is one of the quietest cities on the planet considering the population density. The 5th has the same population density and area as Hell’s Kitchen, New York and yet half the time you wonder where the heck everyone is hiding, it’s so quiet here.
Anyone using teleport?

It’s not exactly a reverse proxy, but it does add a layer of authentication to web applications, ssh, and remote desktop.
> don't have the money to do that. A government bailout may be the only solution

On the condition of bankruptcy, sure. (This is how we did the auto bailouts.)

In reality, we probably need a break-up (and recombination of spun-out factories). Keep the military contractor a monolith. But reïnject competition into our civil aviation sector.
1D Animating heat transfer library written in Python
The media wasn't telling us that the problems were getting fixed though. It kept on hyping the doomsday in whatever way it could. We were supposed to wake up in 2000 to find our fridge door open and melted ice all over the floor. Why? Fridges didn't have clocks that told them to turn themselves off, or clocks at all.
I am guessing that people complaining about Wayland do not care that technically it is just a specification that is "much better" or "more lightweight" than X11. What they do care about is that Wayland is being forced on them before it works on the same hardware where X11 works correctly and X11 is being removed which leaves them without working system.
If you go by what is lightweight than just drop all GUI since text console is the lightest of all user interfaces.
Because when I look at the other URL, I see a popup saying to "sign up or sign in".

The idea here is to have content that people can actually read or watch. We're not promoting anything beyond that.
Given their response above, they figured out my intention even without being super pedantic.
Thanks for the link, it reads like some of those are dynamics are also part of the Karpman Drama Triangle[0] which is another common failure mode.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle
Asthma, IIRC there was also a study that showed just living adjacent to roads with high truck traffic caused sizable increases in percent of children who developed asthma compared to other local neighborhoods.
Since I am a happy user, I will mention rcu[1]. It is paid, but it makes remarkable more what it should have been ( no subs stuff ). To be fair, I never tried Supernote.

[1]http://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
Thank you for copying the twitter post text, although I cannot even parse what it is supposed to mean.

I would suggest that it would be polite that when someone decides to post some word vomit from twitter, they should also include a translation in the comments.
Isn't it? Couldn't they hold a Dutch auction for tickets, and then if they sold out at too high a price and really wanted to give more access to all of their fans and not just rich ones, add more shows to the tour until tickets clear at an acceptable price? The Dutch auction mechanic would mean that scalpers take on massive risk because anyone willing to pay a higher price would've already had the chance to do so. The artist is able to capture the premium from rich people who want to assure their ticket purchase instead of letting scalpers get that money.
> [..] The former can include people who don't show up for work, but it can also include high IQ people who are constantly screwing around and coming up with elaborate excuses. The best way to manage those people is to fire them as fast as possible.

> For managing the former, let them get their work done and don't do stupid shit that impairs it. If you can't figure that out yourself, you shouldn't be a manager.

I have a manager who also can't write two sentences without mixing up "former" and "later", "production" and "dev" and "staging" and "testing", "monday" and "thursday" and "wednesday". Doesn't help he's also an insufferable know-it-all taking everyone for an idiot (even though that's true more often than not but you get the point).
A translation problem. Between a Swiss company and the Swiss newspaper that interviewed them. Of course.
> This (driverless tech) is amazing for what it can do to help people that are old/poor and live in places with no public transport

This is so cynical. First cars were used to destroy much of the existing public transport in places like the US and Europe, now drivers are next.

This is so sick, employment (i.e. people) are only seen as a nuisance, a cost factor, a legacy, biding their time until they can be machined out of the picture. FTS.
Important paper showing the gains to mothers and society from WFH
Omg I’ve seen this actually done to a person. It’s terrible
Do you have any good Modern Java web dev links you could drop?
Ask HN: What is the most amazing Awk program you've used
I've been an AWK user since Unix Version 7, its been my Swiss Army Knife for decades (at times becoming a Swiss Army Hammer) I've used it to build a computer billing system. I worked at a company that gobbled smaller companies during the M&A boom times, AWK saved me merging cruft data into our master systems. I've even run an AWK webserver to do quick shares of data.

The recent post of a AWK program that is a GIT CLI tool moved it into the most amazing AWK program for me.

I know that Henry Spencer build a text processor and an assembler in AWK (30K lines).

What is the most amazing AWK program you've heard about / used?
Ukraine intelligence 'confirms' Russian forces using Starlink
California can still ace software in the long run. Second the secret sauce with apple isn't physical hw or software but the ability to set out both in a integrated fashion and actually get all the parts to hit targets to deliver.

Beating apple on software (linux?) is one thing. Ditto hw. Both at the same time is tougher.

Apple is operationally strong.

That won't leave to China either. Sure they've messed up etc etc but nothing life threatening
Yeah maybe management path was not for me, but after a while I couldn't shake the feeling of having "santas little helper" on my business card. When the people I managed were the people that were valued in the organization, and having all the job opportunities. (I am out of that now after cleaning my CV with a few years of IC and managing a smaller team)

But of course YMMV and all that. I am not saying don't, I am saying do - think about it first.
I suspect right around the time government hops in to "regulate AI" for "safety" and other "harmful content" reasons.
If you don’t want to participate in society, then don’t. But don’t be using tech you certainly didn’t build to be debating about if it’s particularly “compelling” to live in a cooperative species.
> Photos really don't belong in hiring in the US.

They don't legally or consciously belong in hiring in the US. Doesn't mean it may not be to your advantage to have one.
Unless they bring new users that would not normally use torrent and that happen to participate while they watch their movie?
Wow.

So basically, if one line of dialog in A New Hope had been less ambiguous as it happened to be written... Vader wouldn't have been Anakin?
Most companies are not Google however. ~10 years ago when I applied for jobs in small-to-medium non-FAANG companies it was really just a 1hr onsite at most.
Pretty fun until i found out that just holding UP ensures easy statistical progress, made it to level 9 in 3 minutes.
I don’t know that I agree, even at the simple project level. If the problem you’re trying to solve has been solved exactly before and you can find a good reference to copy then you might be ok (for example the inverted pendulum problem). But in my experience you end up solving a related problem instead and that’ll often require re-deriving the equations of motion with whatever quirk is required.

The other part that’ll catch you pretty hard if you don’t have strong trig and linear algebra going for you is that debugging is going to be really hard. I admittedly have been deep in positioning-and-attitude control for 5 years now, but the ability to look at a transformation matrix or quaternion and mentally grok exactly what it means odd going to be incredibly useful when you’re trying to figure out why your system isn’t doing what you think it should be.
I’m familiar with travel in that storm. It sounds like they didn’t really make an effort. They _didn’t_ get back, which is different from they _couldn’t_ get back. Which is probably why they got fired.

Overall, though, it doesn’t change your original point about interviews, and I didn’t really need to take us on this tangent.
You are rare :-)
Why would anyone care where a publication originates, as long as it does real reporting?
I get TV shows in 720p and movies in 1080p. On my 75 inch TV, it's hardly noticeable unless I do a quick switch back and forth between a 4k and 1080 source of the same movie.
What an embarrassing article. In Ferguson's scenario, there's nothing stopping China from "unleashing chaos in major cities" right now. Why doesn't China do it, if the US can't/won't do anything to China in return? Then that somehow turns into Chinese overlords running things in DC and Chinese censorship of the Internet. And all, in Ferguson's tortured logic, for the thoughtcrime of not willing to spend enough money on Ukraine.

I've read RAND's and others' summaries of wargaming a China-US war, and know that defending Taiwan would be difficult. I hope Ukraine can hold out. But bien-pensants like Ferguson making up idiotic scenarios and warp them for the outcomes that support their worldviews does not help.

Another in this vein is from Lucian Truscott. <https://www.salon.com/2023/11/28/you-cant-win-a-by-dribs-and...> Hard to believe that Truscott is, or was, a respected writer during the glory days of New Journalism. You know a piece is bad when even the perennially word vomit-welcoming places like /r/politics don't feature it. (To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, the absence of posts with 17.5K upvotes and 2.5K frenzied comments repeating Slava Ukraini and denouncing Ruzzia is the curious incident.)
10 years
Can confirm. Energy is about the only way I could rely on myself to crack open a totally foreign job market with less than a year of experience under my belt when I was starting out. I set myself the goal of 10 applications a day, every day, anywhere in Finland was acceptable -and within 3 months I had my first offer.
> But this is supported by the X protocol just fine, only toolkits were never changed to support it.

When we've had toolkits for 30+ years and this hasn't happened, that's called a hint.

Nobody* cares.