skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice example for the (common?) inability of many managers to assess performance realistically.
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This is the official press release but there's also a blog post with some discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39470189
IIRC Dashtoon studio allows you to create comics with consistent characters using stable diffusion: https://dashtoon.com/create
A word or a concept that is unknown has simply no impact on the output. Try to replace "baby raccoon" with "maxolhx" in the prompt, and it will ignore the word and render an Italian priest instead. Strictly speaking it still has an impact, but nothing we could easily describe. You're pretty much just playing with the seed.
Former staff started a new site called 404 Media
Which is why we are finally getting liability laws in computing, goverments and major companies are realizing how much money gets burned by security exploits.
Standard Chartered Bank's in-house Haskell dialect (and supporting libraries).

Codd's original paper about how relational databases are more flexible than hierarchical databases applies just as well when comparing relations against key-value stores like Python's dictionaries (or Haskell's Data.Map, or 'normal' ways to structure data in applications, which can be seen as the equivalent of statically typed dictionaries.)

See https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf
Vice got popular from very early internet videos before YouTube and TikTok kicked off, then it got indoctrinated by political ideas and everybody saw it. It turned trash. What are you on about lol.
If Atlassian did't use a full minute to update a certain roadmap view on my MBP from January I would be one step closer to agreeing with you even if it was still 50 MB.

But I am old enough to remember Gannt charts didn't use to take that long on old Pentium processors back in school, way before Git was invented.

Another thing is the sheer yuck of it:

If a typical web app was lots of business code, maybe. But when you look at the network tab and it feels like you are looking at the hair ball from a sink drain, lots of intertwined trackers to catch everything that passes, that is another story.
But then you need upper management that appreciates the "risk potential" of every area, and what is required to keep that risk at bay.
We need a new "appeal to customer" logical fallacy. Talking to the customer is not a panacea for running a business, and the failed company graveyard is full of products that "delighted customers" but still couldn't cut it in the long wrong.

Part of running a business is having to explain to your boss how you spent millions of dollars, and building confidence that you're making sound decisions and not just shooting from the hip. Many times that will mean making decisions in the best interest of the company over the customer, and there's nothing wrong with that.

There's nothing perfect about A/B testing, and like any tool it can do both good and harm. But when I have to explain to my boss about how I'm spending their money, there's a limit to how much lip service I can play up about the customer journey before I have to put my money where my mouth is and demonstrate that I'm putting their cash to good use. A story that includes A/B testing along with qualitative customer research is better than a story that just includes one or the other.
Same here: thinking about that grain and space. It's kind of funny that anecdotally there seems to be more interest in that in the community here than in another round of innovation in some packaging tool or whatever.
The images display at 720x720, on a 2x retina screen the image needs to be 1440x1440 to fill that.
I was a short-term contractor (3 weeks) for an at&t internal web app. It's amazing anything works at all inside that company.
> When users are only doing one-to-one right now, that's what you're going to be designing the UI for. Nobody likes a pointless dropdown to select the one possible option, after all.

Your UI does not necessarily have to expose the full flexibility of your underlying data structures.
Reminds of this classic thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/s/cqrama0L1z

>accidentally destroyed production database on first day of job

Same symptoms: while developing a feature locally, they accidentally pointed to the production DB, which was destroyed when running tests.
> is that really your position?

My position is that if you open development to 3rd parties they have to be able to develop for your platform for free. You can charge for the services you provide to the developers (fees if they use your payments platform, your distribution platform, etc), but you should not be able to force them to use such services.

The win-win is that by opening your device to 3rd parties it is made more useful for your users and hence more desirable. Iphones wouldn't be so popular if you couldn't access tiktok, instagram and what not with them after all...
It does seem to preserve freedom, until I can't work on my daughter's car in my own garage, and I also can't work on it at her place because she rents an apartment where working on cars in the parking lot is verboten.
720px actually, but more importantly, 720px is not actually 720px on a HiDPI screen.

I just measured it on my mbp and "720px" is actually... 1440 physical pixels. I was surprised too!
Most things have already been said, so I would think 60% of sentences probably contain plagiarism. “How’s it going”, “weather’s looking good today”, and countless other phrases aren’t original. Plus the longer a response, the more likely it’s got some technical plagiarism in it.

Also, 100% of computer science answers being plagiarised? How is that possible?
Web sites should be frugal. If content websites, even more so if they even lack comment sections, are getting huge that's a pure "skill issue". It's not our place to speculate why what should have been a content site became a web app.
It turns out you can make it all the way to become president of Harvard [1] while ignoring this rule so it is questionable whether it is as set in stone as you make it out to be, at least in certain disciplines.

In a way these models are a perfect mirror of the current academic climate. They plagiarise without remorse, they follow the latest identity-politics diktat to a point and make up 'facts' when needed to reach a desired narrative. Google Gemini is the latest example [2] of where this leads.

Given that it is plausible that models like these will soon be used in educational settings this is a recipe for disaster. The same goes for the trend to replace search engine results with 'interpreted' results in which LLMs take up the same role as Winston in 1984: Winston works in the Ministry of Truth where he alters historical records to fit the needs of the Party.

It is time for a decentralised distributed search engine which limits itself to pure search, something like YaCy [3]. Something to replace Winstonian search engines like Google and Bing (et al.).

[1] https://www.campusreform.org/article/claudine-gay-is-a-dei-h...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465255

[3] https://yacy.net/
makes me want to buy a volvo
Because the single-system paradigm doesn't work any more. However, modern replacements do exist, Airtable is one of the first; it's basically the notion of a "spreadsheet with more structure", and then building forms and such on top of that. I've recently been playing with Grist and like it, although it is rough around the edges.

https://www.getgrist.com
That data can be gathered with self-hosted JS if the devs were allowed to implement it. The infatuation with third party analytics is just a more elaborate version of leftpad.
IMO burnout has complicated emotional sources. You can experiment with working less transferring teams or what have you but those are really bandaid solutions. What you really ought to do is get into therapy with someone good and try to understand the emotional causes of your burnout. Once you understand them, it may become much more clear what you could do to improve.
I rolled out a hotfix release, let me know if that fixed it.
Standardized nationwide tests, or entry exams that are the same for everyone are the only fair and equal ways of choosing who is admitted to study and who isn't. Anything else leads to corruption and discrimination.

Helping those who are disadvantaged to achieve better educational outcomes should happen already way earlier, starting from their childhood. Proper teacher training, social services and extra funding for schools in poorer areas (regardless of race/ethnicity of population) is a good way to do that. That's basically how Nordic welfare states work, and the results are pretty good in terms of social mobility.
Studied political science, I’m slanging code. Actually, starting my own business now and writing a book.

Who cares, if a graduate is using their degree? Is an 18 or 20 year old supposed to understand what they are passionate about in life - and pursue that immediately after high school?

What a joke. Maybe someone else could be so lucky.
The bottom line is: of you want performance in Java, code if it was C!
Amiga BBS ANSI Animations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappenheim-hilt_rapier
If you read the announcement it seems they're actually not shutting the website down, jusy stopping publishing new content.
> "it's impossible to run on every keystroke"

Maybe not every keystroke, but certainly every time I press enter or shift. It feels like its live and instant. Dont think that a higher frequency makes sense.
What are you talking about? They're extremely clear when some hardware is aimed at developers and code is not yet ready for users, which for example is the case of the PineNote.
https://pine64.com/product/pinenote-developer-edition/
I can cleary assert that is not the case in all the European countries where I have bank accounts.
What would actually happen is less suburbs and more cities connected with trains. Distance to the closest city decreases preserving the agricultural productivity, and the proportion of people living in the cities inreases - wasting less energy and time on pointless commutes and increasing opportunities for good education and innovation.

How do I know - because that's how European AND American countries developed when there were no cars.

BTW in ideal world you of course have cars, but the petrol cost includes all externalities so only people who really HAVE TO - use them daily. Other than that they are used for public transport, medical services, firefighters, etc.

The fact that the most popular car in USA (which has <5% farmers) is Ford F-series truck is absolutely insane.
It is when (a) that data collection takes up a significant amount of bandwidth whenever I visit your website, and (b) I don't trust that that data collection really is as anonymous as the website says (or even thinks).

The major players here are explicitly not anonymous, they are designed to keep track of people over time so that they can collate habits and preferences across different sites to better target advertising. Yes, your AB test script isn't doing the same thing, but is it really adding any value to be as a consumer, or is it just optimising an extra 0.01% revenue for you?
Gemini is much better than the free version of GPT 3.5 though. At least in my experience.

Microsoft’s enterprise co-pilot is also fairly decent. It’s really good at providing help to Microsoft related issues or helping you find the right parts of their ridiculously massive documentation site. Which probably isn’t too weird considering.
Have one as well from the 1st edition and found it surprisingly good for the price.
Pebble: All Electric RV
Journalist indicted after accessing Tucker Carlson video footage
A chat plugin for VS Code will be a game changer.
By far the car I enjoyed owning the most was a Volvo V90. Good size and incredibly comfortable for long distance driving. We drove it from the UK to Portugal and back and it just ate up the miles, the thing practically drove itself.
It's pretty amazing but can get a bit lost/into a bugged state.
I'm pretty sure many big box places like Home Depot and Walmart are using actual facial recognition on everyone who is in or near any of their stores. This vending machine sounds pretty benign by comparison.
Yeah but it sucks. KDE Connect is the way to go.
Please keep the snide jabs on Reddit
Those are outlawed by international treaties.
The value is in the negative space, most commonly, the rejection of an hypothesis.

That is to say: Data can certainly advise you what not to do. Such as flying the ship into that spooky nebula, Captain
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/grammarly-georgia-college-s...
I don't care much for benchmarks, many models seems to be contaminated just to approach proprietary models in coding benchmarks.

I had never tried Phind before, but gave Phind-70B a spin today and so far found it to be really good for coding writing and understanding, maybe even GPT-4 level. Hard to tell for sure since I only tested it on a single problem: Writing some web3 code in typescript. This is what I did:

- Gave it some specifications of a react hook that subscribes to a smart contract event and fetches historical events starting from a block number. It completed successfully.

- Took this code and gave it to GPT-4 to explain what it did, as well as finding potential issues. GPT gave a list of potential issues and how to address.

- Then I went back to the Phind and asked it to find potential issues in the code it had just written, and it found more or less the same issues GPT-4 had found.

- Went back to GPT-4 and asked to write a different version of the hook.

- Took the GPT-4 written code and asked it to explain the code, which it did successfully (though I think it lacked more details than the GPT-4 explanation of the code written by Phind).

I will be testing this more over the next days. If this proves to be in the GPT-4 ballpark and the 70b weights are released, I will definitely replace my ChatGPT plus subscription with Phind Pro.
Saudi Arabia wants their stories about them spiked. Will Vice be on archive.org?
Even VS has send to REPL kind of experience for Python, maybe vim isn't the right tool, rather using something else.
That would have lined up with the signal issues too. Glad it wasn’t the case.
In India, it was Tez, then Google pay (IIRC two apps with this name existed at same time), then Gpay.
How many H100 GPUs does it take to serve 1 Phind-70B model? Are they serving it with bf16, or int8, or lower quants?
"That this moderation strategy would prevent the use of all slurs (even reappropriated ones) sounds like a feature to me, not a bug."

You're proposing erring on the side of censorship to avoid some gray areas. While this is a reasonable position, it doesn't satisfy some ideal of neutrality and won't really avoid the gray areas, and so still would require subjective judgement.
The article's headline is a little misleading. It is only referring to college graduates that are "underemployed," i.e. have a job not requiring college-level skills in general, as opposed to a job that is unrelated to their major.

Your case would not count as underemployment (of which examples are office support, retail sales, food service).
Michael Lewis
The system didn't make a decision on how much the CEO gets paid. It made the decision that the board of a public company can't give the shareholders money to their friends.
That is naive take, you really think if you work hard on improving code, pointing out flaws, there will never be any issues?

In reality that I live, there is never enough time, if you have 3-4 team mates pumping features out, it is already impossible to prevent every problem and review every piece of code.

I don't have to be cynical about it, it just happens that issues will crop up over time and I am there to fix them and there is never enough time to prevent them up-front, because if you will try then you will never deliver anything. Ship fast and break things is maybe too far - but still shipping something beats not shipping ideal state.
That’s a very broad brush you’re using for a patronising take there.

Technical people, who look at these decisions from across the Internet, aren’t exactly known for their humility, or assuming that non business people may have perfectly valid reasons for their decisions.
/r/RedditAlternatives/ list:

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1anols3...
Are people really that enthused about electric cars? smh
I think it's good and important that people occasionally call this out. Same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315585

I don't understand why you'd consider this "low hanging fruit". What could the author have done to make it a high quality submission in your eyes?

The alternative is to have more awareness of the amount of dependencies you really need, of when you actually need a framework with a runtime, and so on. He mentioned a fair share of essentially static landing pages that really have no reason to ship so much crap. And even though it's not explicitly mentioned: this isn't just a potential issue for end users. This code likely makes life hard for the developers as well. With every dependency you get more potential for breaking changes. With every layer it gets harder to understand what's going on. The default shouldn't be to just add whatever you want and figure it out later, the default should be to ask yourself what really needs to be added. Both in terms of actual code, but also layers, technologies, frameworks, libraries.
In my experience data often becomes the “decision argumentation” role which used to be filled by external consultants from E&Y and similar. Which is both good and bad, because data shows the past and that doesn’t necessarily predict the future.

Data can be very helpful though. We pull data from the public company records which show earnings to find possible investors. Then we combine that data with our sales data from HubSpot and Microsoft CRM (don’t ask me why we have both) as well as our internal sales systems. Which provides good data points for our sales department when deciding which potential investors to focus on, and shows them how much they’ve already “bothered” people. 10 years ago all of this was basically done by hand, now it’s mostly automated. Which sucks for the data researchers, but since the majority of those used to be unpaid students who now get to actually work on something more related to their studies, it’s mostly a win-win.

Where data doesn’t really help us is in marketing. Exactly because it’s showing us the past, and while that can be useful, it often hasn’t been very helpful in deciding how to do future campaigns. I imagine a lot of this is also true in other fields which produce content for human consumption. I guess in some areas it will be, but on most “creative” fields the data won’t necessarily show you what people will find “fun” or “interesting”. I think Hollywood, big gaming companies as mentioned in this article and others are sort of struggling with this. Thar is just my guess though as I only have experience with how our marketing department has come to the conclusion that while data is a good measurement of the success of various initiatives it’s not very useful in helping decide what sort of campaign to run next outside of which channels are the best focus, and even then, that also changes over time.
This doesn't just happen in a vacuum. I wonder what the conversations and actions were that led to this.
I went on holiday for 2 weeks. Came back to find the team had spent a week on a 5 minute task that had been clearly documented. Nothing had moved forward. Spoke to my manager that day and from that day forward it was clear what my value was. Eventually lead the team and helped the team develop processes and initiative so they could be productive in my absence.

Up until that point I knew my value but I don’t think anyone else quite got it.
So why is this criminal still not in in jail, with international arrest records all over? He admitted several of his crimes publicly.

double standards.
Why would anyone want AI generated content from Vice, the brand known for direct, novel, firsthand reporting from relatively unknown/inaccessible places? Why would anyone want to read what an LLM thinks North Korea is like? For that matter why do we think anyone will want to read an LLM’s take on anything that has to be grounded in a reality that wasn’t part of its training data?
I personally never visited their website to begin with so this choice makes sense to me. It feels like thats true for most mainstream journalism sites. Very curious if this is a sign of things to come or just unique to Vice.
You talking about Target Display Mode? Or did that never support FireWire?
A function that both opens a file and does something with its contents should be refactored. It’s painful to find code like this and happen to have a string or pointer to some buffer that already contains the data that needs to be converted but the conversion function is buried inside a function that tries to open a file. Go’s io.Reader is so elegant at this.
The Windows Ubuntu Operating System
So was the invasion of Ukraine, the usage of chemical weapons in Syria, and the enhanced interrogation techniques at Abu Ghraib.

Outlawed by international treaty doesn’t mean all that much.
I wonder what SuckIsStaples is up to?
Not just re-controller them?

This is a right to repair issue. Can't trust the remote third party maintenance service.
Well we would definitely be the first for something. In the worst scenario the first to become spaghettified and atomised!
The two most famous Belgians are fictitious:

Hercule Poirot, Tintin

Unless you are a cyclist, then the most famous Belgian is:

Eddie Merckx

Excluding the unmentionable infamous King Leopold II, of course.

But Belgium has only existed since 1839, so it has a limited run.
Or mid mgmt at tech co
At least you're likely not a person who works at a freelance agency where you purposefully do poor work or break things, so then you can bill more time "fixing" the problem - until the client gets the wiser at least, or there's another more oblivious client you can grift much more easily who doesn't know better?

The above seems to be how the top billing agencies on Upwork function, with fewer staff you can grift more people because the hours being billed aren't honest, and so you can have more clients and reach the "top" earnings position faster and more easily; with the same practices existing at least on one of the two prior platforms before oDesk and Elance merged.
Yeah -- you're right, this has been a long time coming. I just think the closures and layoffs these past few months have finally closed the chapter on the style of journalism and tastemaking they built.
Zuck is incapable of drinking water without coming off as weird. It is easy not to like him.

More constructively, Meta exclusively mines our attention and their pivot to the metaverse has been a joke. At least Cook has the decency to sell me wireless headphones that work in between ruining Safari and cracking ski goggles nobody is interested in.
Capped at 0.3% for credit card transactions, 0.2% for debit card transactions

See https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015...
We have a script which recreates the dev DB, but developers must run the command manually so that there was an understanding what's happening.
Dynaboard shutting down does not relate to pricing for end-users.

From a Low Code product perspective, we were still able to build a beautiful and functional product. Our product unit/engineer ratio is much higher than our competition (see, for example, Retool), which allows us to provide the best value for our users. Regarding the transition, I don't see any indication from the note you posted that users will have to rebuild all their apps. Rather, the founder is saying he will provide more information and possible steps. Who knows – maybe it would be integrated into Figma? And Figma would gain great runtime and IDE capacities?