skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen it both ways. In one case dev spends 3 days refactoring code beautifully to fix the bug; ships to production only to find out that it wasn’t the only bug in this code path. Now they spend another 2 days refactoring before repeating the process and so on. Meanwhile, the company is losing money/customers/favorite vanity metric/whatever.

Or. Dev hacks a fix up, sends to prod. Sees another bug and fixes immediately. No loss in revenue/customers/favorite vanity metric/whatever. Dev creates ticket to refactor/fix code properly and adds to next sprint. PM removes from next sprint to get capacity for further resume driven management projects. Issue crops up again due to hack. Original dev is now able to do ticket originally removed from sprint.
I know! But most people in the US balk at coffee that costs more than a few bucks.
If the company actually said that it was going to be a 24-hour hackathon, that would trigger statutory overtime provisions in many jurisdictions. For instance, in Britain, that would mean you must work shorter days during the rest of the week, unless you and your employee decided otherwise (they can't fire you for changing your mind later, though).
It’s also a buggy piece of crap. It works for me on one of my two computers, but only after resetting it multiple times. On the other, I’ve never been able to get it to work.

On Apple devices, you just sign in and it all works.
I forgot where it was mentioned [1] that the mess comes from a poor management of international feature list.

In particular, Google wanted it to be successful in India.

But the prior app was designed with USA sensibilities and requirements. Such as, oh, requiring an email and Google account! The thought was that this wouldn't fly in India, and it had to work with just a phone number.

I'm sure there were perverse/crossed incentives on delivery deadlines that lead the leadership team to decide that completely breaking the existing flow/splitting the userbase was the way forward.

[1] Perhaps this Ars Technica article from 2022: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/google-wallet-rolls-...
Of course people are going to complain about content they don't want. That's the product. Twitter changed their product to deliver different content, so its audience has changed.

Calling it 'The Problem' like climate change or the national debt gives it too much power. Just use something else. People use group chats for real relationships now anyway.
Unrelated but can someone explain to me, on the way into the office the local Starbucks had a coffee with olive oil I think? Is this not as absurd & crazy as it sounds? What the heck is going on?
People asked on the other post for an example of our text vs. standard chatgpt. So here's an example:

ChatGPT (GPT 4): Elon Musk, the visionary behind SpaceX, Tesla, and other innovative companies, is reshaping space exploration, sustainable transportation, and artificial intelligence. Born in South Africa, Musk's work includes advancing reusable rockets to make Mars colonization feasible and popularizing electric vehicles to combat climate change. Despite controversies, his entrepreneurial spirit and groundbreaking projects have cemented his status as a key figure in driving technological progress and sustainability efforts globally, challenging traditional industries and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in science and technology.

StealthGPT Version: Elon Musk is disrupting space exploration, sustainable transportation, and artificial intelligence. The South African entrepreneur is developing reusable rockets to make colonizing Mars possible and jump starting the electric vehicle industry to combat climate change. While politicians bicker, Musk and his companies Tesla and SpaceX are making serious strides in sustainability and technology. IDs aside, his innovation and big thinking have cemented his position as a tech and sustainability visionary whose work is shaping our future.
Ask HN: Do you get lazy during burnout?
I'm just now starting to realize I'm very burnt out. However, I'm still very interested in tech, but I think I'm completely burnt out on my team and morale is very low causing me to feel very demotivated to work.

I'm an experienced dev. What have you done in positions like this? What has helped you get out of the rut? I have hobbies and friends outside work, but the lacking motivation at work (which consumes 8+ hours of my day-to-day life) is making me feel depressed and worthless. Has swapping teams within your company been a good move? Have you moved externally to resolve the issue?
That's because it's better at classifying than at generating.

Eg. Tree of thoughts, ...
That’s a restrictive license. It’s certainly a reasonable license given the investment they have put into training the model (and Stability’s membership pricing for small companies is, if anything, unreasonably cheap).

Nevertheless, it’s frustrating that the industry is fragmenting to a variety of licenses where you have to read the fine print and often licensing information isn’t announced until final release.
Who will expect any Antivirus company to sell our data ???
Agreed, though i'm _really_ interested in trying 1M token Gemini. The idea of uploading my full codebase for code assist stuff sounds really interesting. If i can ever get access to the damn thing...
If you don’t have an existing repo/site, can you start from scratch via this webui/CMS to create a new repo/site via some sort of SSG boilerplate/template etc? If that’s not already there it might be a good feature to add.
Personally, I'm waiting for the day that Google faces consequences for its actions.

For the longest of times they've had this giant money printer funding what is effectively a playground. An incubator of serial failure but without any consequence.

The trouble is, Google is close to immune to feedback. It's billions of users aren't customers.
IOW (as I've said before and been throughly downvoted for before): short-term profit comes before long-term sustainability.
google pay lore master
"bug with long antennas and chrome legs"

you only end there because it's so fast. nice. really a new explorative quality.
It is very fair to flag content that's ethically dubious. Calling flags "cringe censorship" only makes people flag harder.
Yes, there were a lot of us. Graffiti was an interesting thing, but after that came the FITALY keyboard, and infrared external keyboards. Some of us got serious writing done on our Pilots.
For those interested. What I did here was bring over the ChatGPT text and put it into StealthGPT's bypasser (it is a rephraser).

We also have other features such as a content generator. And we are looking at many different usecases for undetectable ai. Again not an ad here but explaining what we are doing. Any questions are welcomed on how the service works, and how we built it to be a success. There is absolutely zero pressure to buy. It does not matter to me, we are doing great.
it will never be having "usability" like photoshop, because what it seems like people mean with that is "a clone of photoshop"
Weight it by funding and I’ll bet you the school cube sat comes out far ahead.
You’re amazing for doing such a details, OSS-first announcement — you do an honor to ycombinator and HN by living up to the old school ideals IMO. My only complaint: more whimsy and tell us what danswer means! Literally this whole time I was thinking “huh maybe it’s Docker… or just some dude named Dan…”. For the slow like me, it’s dance + answer

Will definitely be checking it out, Dan or no :)

Optionally the system can be configured to go over each doc with multiple passes of different granularity to capture wide context vs fine details.

Just curious, is the granularity able to itself be controlled by LLMs, or does that refer to traditional content-blind sliding windows? I’m big on Minsky’s idea of Frames[1] which emphasize understanding the same input in multiple instrumental contexts/frameworks/backgrounds. Something you’ve thought of?

[1] https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Frames/frames.html
If the writers had written something decent, there's a good chance people would have watched the next six too.

Unfortunately, that's not what happened. :(
I just learned React/Nextjs for a take home coding interview assignment. I used useState a few times. Why would I need redux when there’s useState and useContext?

Other than being overly verbose, I think React is ok after building my website with Sveltekit. There just seems to be way more support for off the shelf react components and 99% of jobs ask for React.
"Lost the ability" is an odd way of putting it. "Lost the budget" is better.

Ideally we wouldn't have to pick and choose, but since I wasn't US Dictator during the 90s, the Hubble Space Telescope + a lot of probes throughout the solar system was probably more impactful for overall scientific discovery than the counterfactual where NASA invested in continued moon landings.
I would extend that from engineer to knowledge professionals in general. Our specialized tools, strange syntaxes, and invented worlds of code may shield us somewhat, but when you just want expertise and opinion typed out? That’s firmly in the LLM ballpark. LLMs are starting to nail memorization with perfect recall, beating humans. My own memories are always fuzzy and I need emails and notes and books to help me along. An LLM won’t need all that and even if it did it can access all of that much quicker than I.
not quite an aggregator, but you might like https://rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com/
This is exactly why the BlackBerry had the impact it did, though most users were (I think) corporate users.
Impressive feat. Got nervous when they couldn't contact the device, but turns out they did made history.

I might be wrong, but from my research it seem like they did this with $118 million paid by NASA. India did it with around $74 million, for reference.
> "They also mention that anyone can run another of these, but there is zero chance anyone will be able to do that."

This is an odd claim since it's completely possible today and has always has been.

Each Bluesky Relay and PDS host has endpoints that anyone can use to receive network data (post/like records, etc) in a totally permissionless way.

A Relay:

websocat wss://bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos

A PDS

websocat wss://puffball.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos

And there are additional sync methods as well for doing backfill, etc. Not sure how this could be more open.
Raspberry Pi 5 has a gigabit ethernet port, as do a number of other SBCs, like the NanoPi variants from FriendlyElec for example. In fact the NanoPi R6S has two 2.5G ethernet ports in addition to a 1 gigabit port.
What does it have to do with "crypto events"?

It should apply to any event, surely?
I think baseline it should be tuned to be statistically accurate. The problem is that people leave a lot in their prompt to be implied. Some interaction designers use this as an opportunity to infill their own subjective opinion of what should be inferred as a way to 'take care' of the user.

This isn't their only option... they could also just ask for more information.

A good approach here would be ask the user to further clarify what exactly they want before generating a person — "Do you want a random depiction or a specific depiction". A good tool for users is one which helps them be and feel more tactically or predictably in control of it; which means making them aware of its behavioural pitfalls so they can avoid them if they want to.
You're both right -- technology acts as an amplifier for human intentions (Kentaro Toyama's words, not mine).
Any chance you could drop the Common Lisp equivalent of the Python program in the original post here? That is, the code that goes in Vim, then what commands or key bindings you use to execute and find the "add two lists" syntax error.
No, you are wrong and the GP is right.
It's Starbucks, there's no experience
I'm not suggesting they are worth a single year of revenue.

But 80+% of their revenue, and probably the highest margin bit of revenue, comes from that Google payment. So whatever their value is, hinges on that contract payment. Thus, the multiple is interesting....where you might "compare total company value with an annual payment" to see what that mathematical relationship is. Especially given their rapidly declining market share.
It's a little bit of a gimmick. If you can't get fresh coffee to every location on earth, at least you can dilute the flavor with pork juice.

That said, mixing stuff with coffee does have precedent. Espresso mixed with milk is something that no coffee snob would call an abomination. Maybe pork juice is an even better add-in than milk? You don't know until you try.
Image diffusion models tend to have relatively low memory requirements compared to LLMs (and don’t benefit from batching), so having access to 128 GB of unified memory is kinda pointless.
It's fucking wild to me the trajectory here:

OpenChannelIO: stop making such absurd totalizing systems that hide the actual flash! We don't need your fancy controllers! Just give us a bunch of flash that we can individually talk to & control ourselves from the host! You leave so much performance on the table! There's so many access patterns that wouldn't suck & would involve random rewrites of blocks!

Then after years of squabbling, eventually: ok we have negotiated for years. We will build new standards to allow these better access patterns that require nearly no drive controller intermediation, that have exponentially higher degrees of mechanistic sympathy of what flash actually does. Then we will never release drives mainstream & only have some hard to get unbelievably expensive enterprise drives that support it.

You are so f-ing spot on. This ZNS would be perfect for lower reliability consumer drives. But: market segmentation.

The situation is so fucked. We are so impeded from excelling, as a civilization, case number nine billion three hundred forty two.
Yes! That feels like what my silly bother is. But also it ends up pivoting where everyone is doing it, and the rules are now more cosmetic and hipster than they are really for everyones benefit.

Gatekeeping is a huge problem for communities that are always connected. See video game metas, reddit sub-reddits, etc. These places just feel stale after the first few innovators define the "best of all rules", where there are people who follow and very, very small amounts of people who experiment.
Great approach!
For the past 2 years I keep experimenting with different ways to track day to day productivity. It has helped me tremendously in assessing how I should feel at the end of the day about my work day and the amount of time I put towards work. (I tend to overwork myself significantly). It is of course a lot harder to apply this approach to individual productivity tracking across my teams. But I do now believe, based on self experiments and within smaller teams, that there is generally a lack of visibility of knowledge worker productivity. Especially within larger companies. WFH and hybrid makes this more crucial to have for both management and self assessments on the IC level.
Why do you think that employee reporting doesn't work right now? You could have theoretically perfect coverage, including transactions that are not digital or even legal.

Faster discovery doesn't change the resolution. Random citizens cannot do anything even if they could see it. An employee can already post publicly, shout to the rooftops. Plenty do.

Technology can't fix this problem because it is fundamentally not technological in nature. We do not lack the technology to process payments at scale. We've been operating a global economy for a few years now. That is indeed a technological problem, but not the one we're talking about.

Wage theft is fundamentally a breach of contract. Your employer has entered a contract wherein they are legally required to pay you some explicit amount within some explicit timeframe. The problem is not that the transaction can't be processed or audited. The problem is that a person chose to never initiate the transaction, or they paid less than they agreed on. This is a legal problem which requires legal action to correct.

No matter how the evidence is collected, you still have to go through the legal process. The resolution is still retroactive and the employee is made whole for all missing wages present and past. You still have to pull bank records and have an auditor look at them. It really does not matter in the slightest if it takes milliseconds or days to pull the records. The legal process takes weeks or months and the employee is made whole for the same amount either way.

I'm not saying you're wrong because I don't like cryptocurrency, I'm saying you're wrong because you're proposing a technological solution to a problem that fundamentally cannot be fixed with technology. Your solution simply does not address the problem at hand.

The only actually relevant point you've made so far is that a public ledger would make audits easier. And sure, why not. Totally valid point. Also totally irrelevant. The outcome is precisely the same no matter what. The employee gets the same settlement either way. The legal process is still the same. The incentives for governments to investigate are still the same. The social and political issues driving lack of enforcement still exist. A public ledger just doesn't change any of that.

Cryptocurrency might solve some problems, I don't really know or care. But it definitely won't solve this problem. No technology will.
This is adjustable via the API, but not in ChatGPT. The API offers styles of "vivid" and "natural", but ChatGPT only uses "vivid".
Stock market today: Nvidia surges on AI boom, setting off a rally on Wall Street
No surprise, those are near-impossible to avoid. I mean, a simple:

if(check(resource)) {
use(resource);
}

is already vulnerable, unless you somehow make the entire piece of code run atomically.
But there is plenty of Helium 3 to mine on the Moon, to justify the cost.
$74m surely?
It does have value, enough value that the owners can sell that content to third parties and so reasonably I should get my cut.
Maybe it had an AT&T SIM? ;)

But seriously, it's weird how this really didn't make a lot of news today overall. Did the cellular outage really overshadow this? Times have changes if so. Our idea of "wow!" has been desensitized I guess. Pretty impressive to me!
Aha, you are proving my point about how misleading Apple’s communications are about this!

By default, iCloud backups are “secured” by a key that Apple stores and controls. This means that both Apple and anyone who can compel or hack Apple can still access your data.

Here’s the official documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
Why do none of the graphs show the speed difference? That seems to be your biggest advantage and the subject line...
ChatGPT plays the beheading game [Happy Trails]
They mention that drink in the article, so it's not unrelated.

And while I'm sure there's traditional culinary heritage that a Starbucks PR employee can point to as well, their olive oil coffee is just an upmarket answer to the popularity of butter coffees (most popularly branded as Bulletproof). Instead of just adopting that trend, they tried to lean into a more artisanal, cultured brand by highlighting its use of olive oil instead of butter.
Part of it is cost: In the mid sixties, NASA was about five percent of the federal budget.

Another part is safety: Apollo was extremely dangerous. There were a lot of single points of failure, three astronauts died on the ground, three more were very very narrowly saved over the course of only about ten missions. One of the reasons the program was cut short was the political worry after Apollo 13 of having astronauts die on the moon or something similar. This level of danger was considered acceptable given the mission back then, but I don't think it would be today. Who's right is a worthwhile question.

Another part was that Apollo had superb, hard working, young, smart, energetic people working on it. The nature and ambition of the project just attracted top people. The context of the Vietnam war also meant that there were a lot of engineers that would otherwise be working on weapons but maybe would rather not, and Apollo was a very nice peaceful project to apply all of that technology to.

I think you see a lot of the success of Tesla and SpaceX in the same observations. Both of those companies were super ambitious, and had a goal a lot of people wanted to get behind. Their competition was unattractive to work for, and seemed unlikely to achieve the goal of getting to mars/electric cars. The result was that they were able to hire some of the very smartest, hardest working people in the country. If you get a bunch of people like that together under a common banner, amazing things happen.
What about the empty interface type in Go?[0] Is that just as problematic for you?

[0] https://go.dev/tour/methods/14
I suspect that when AT&T built all the COs (1950-70s) they were constrained by both max number of lines and physical distance.

You’ll see numerous COs in a big city, but they are also pretty widely dispersed throughout the suburbs and rural areas.
The big bang is a fiction contrived to fill our void of understanding.

Convention looks at state as the building block of the Universe.

We are beginning to recognize that "potential" is the building block and state is the manifest resolve through constructive and destructive interface.

Looking at the "emptiness of space" it is apparent there are quasi particles and non absolute zero thermal energy (potential).

Through trillions of years these quasi particles interactions give rise to stably bound particles (constructive interference). These are the building blocks of all existing objective reality.

Conservation of energy is maintained as constructive emergence in one locality corresponds to energy deficit in another (cooling of the cosmic back ground radiation.)

Binary has nothing to do with it. The Universe is analog.
15yr club, 90k karma, former mod of a 200k sub - no stocks for me. Then again I've grown to despise reddit and whatever I contributed.
> US & Europe: Google Wallet (fka Google Pay fka Android Pay)

I think you’re missing an fka Google Wallet in that chain. Wikipedia has a family tree under the “History” section for that service (later renamed): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Pay_Send
The other 2 replies seem accurate, but I'll also reply.

The future earnings should go up with inflation, but not the discount rate. The government adjusts their interest rate to maintain the rate of inflation around 2% or so. The government interest rate is often around 5%, but can vary from 0 to 20%. The discount rate (or technically the cost of capital) is the gov't interest rate plus 4% or so (the higher the better for investors).
Did you have ChatGPT generate this?
Well, they tend to not call them decimal points in those countries/languages either!
Most of the compensation is in stock awards not cash
Any PN junction is sensitive to light. It's why diodes and chips are in opaque packaging (unless interaction with external light is intentional).

Raspberry Pis from around 2015 can be crashed with a flash of light from a xenon bulb, as the packing on a power supply chip was not opaque enough.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/raspberry-pi-2-power-crashes-w...
For a while now I've been thinking that war-dialing is probably still a fruitful exercise.

It would be fascinating to see what kind of machines are still out there lonely and waiting for someone to give them a call.
Don't think "Midi function" is an actual thing. It looks like $f(x) = 440e^{(x-69)/12}$ literally maps the number of a note in the MIDI standard to the actual frequency. I guess this question is a bonus to people who paid attention in a particular lecture in class (or who know music and can recognize the significance of 440 and of 12 in the exponent).
The US has that too, it's just decades late. FedNOW is being rolled out this year
There is a 0% chance this was a malicious attack