skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great managers will feel natural to work with. You won't have to learn how to work with them because they'll meet you as a person and guide you toward succeeding in your role as needed.

Unfortunately, many managers are not natural managers but have instead learned how to "manage" from books, blogs, podcasts, and trying to imitate people they see as powerful.

My biggest lifehack for dealing with these people is to learn what books and other resources they used to teach themselves management, then study what those books portray as the ideal employee. Your job is now to play the role of that ideal employee and set the stage for the manager to feel like the ideal manager. It takes a bit of restraint and the performance can feel fake at times, but as long as you play the role they want to see and you make it easy for them to play the role they think they should play, you're going to do well in their eyes.

At minimum, I suggest every employee read a couple books like the Manager's Path book linked in the article so it's easier to identify when weak managers are trying to implement things they read from a book. It's like a cheat code to navigating managers who outsource their thinking to books and try to reduce every situation to something they read or heard a podcast about.

In my last case, my manager read a book about all about how managers shouldn't solve problems for their employees, they should only give coaching for employees to solve their own problems. He went full cargo cult on that advice and literally stopped helping us get things done within the company. His only response to any issues we raised would be a long string of leading questions and coaching, but he refused to actually do anything. I fought this for a long time until he mentioned the name of the book, I read it, and I realized that I had to start making him think that he was coaching me to a solution whenever I really needed him to use his position to do his job. It took some mental gymnastics, but after I unlocked his secret I became good at navigating around him to get things done.
That salad is beyond anything I have imagined.
Yes, that's correct. The 2 starts there.
I’m not sure why there’s so much focus on refactoring or improving it. When a feature needs to be added that can just be tacked onto the code, do it without touching anything else.

If it’s a big enough change, export whatever you need out of the legacy code (by calling an external function/introducing a network layer/pulling the exact same code out into a library/other assorted ways of separating code) and do the rest in a fresh environment.

I wouldn’t try to do any major refactor unless several people are going to work on the code in the future and the code needs to have certain assumptions and standards so it is easy for the group to work together on it.
I'm really worried about the implications of this technology for programming, art, and literacy in general. The skills required to be a good programmer or artist are not what's being sampled by these models, merely the output. There's a real danger here of losing these skills if they can no longer be developed professionally, and that even means no more human training data for newer and better models to be trained on. We'd be stuck with whatever trash current models are putting out.
It didn't impact hardware because intel hadn't taken advantage yet of the additional latitude offered by their original model. Then they closed the hole and they guaranteed no IRIW[1]. But in the meantime if your algorithm was susceptible to this reordering, there was no written guarantee that an mfence would fix it. But most importantly as the model was informal and not self consistent, there was no possibility to write formal proofs of correctness of an algorithm or run it against a model checker.

[1] in practice this means no store-forwarding from sibling hyper thread store buffers, something that for example POWER allows and is observed in real hardware.
Not "highly curated" but "not showing certain types of results that were specifically blacklisted" (there, I said it. Boo.)

A sure hit in that regard with American services is anything remotely sexual.

I'd expect such services to become better than the current "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave." and, while somewhat obnoxious perhaps, will lead to a result (to take the above example "The term whitelist is controversial because ... The allowlist feature in OpenWRT can be configured as follows: ...")
OS is not the same level of abstraction as a language.

This is an active problem in embedded. Cheap microcontrollers can have multiple cores that are not even the same architecture.

This means that just to get "blinky" running, you need to choose a (language, OS) tuple. And, given that "language" is generally "C", that means that your abstraction choices for OS are lousy.

Side question: last I checked, FreeRTOS didn't do a great job when multiple microcontrollers were involved--especially if the communication channels or synchronization were hardware-based. Has this changed?
What would be really cool is an easy way to have Marimo include ChatGPT seamlessly, eg I can decide that ChatGPT is going to have access to my current notebook (and possibly see the previous cell output to get context), and write code in the next cell, for my next request (or improve the current cell code, etc)

Then just bind this to DuckDb or other APIs and this should make it quite easy to build visualizations
I enjoyed Peripheral, having not read the book. I'd be curious to hear (spoiler-free) criticisms. (The concept was compelling enough, I definitely intend to read the series, especially given its cancellation.)
Show HN: Tech Leader GPT, a Chatbot Designed for Aspiring Tech Leaders
I found this cool usage of the GPTs feature of ChatGPT, it will talk to you about being a Tech Leader, it will ask you questions and give you feedback about being a Tech Leader. Let me know what you think about it!

I also want to give him the opportunity of presenting himself:

I wanted to introduce you to Tech Leader Insight, an innovative chatbot I've been interacting with. It's tailored for those in or aspiring to be in leadership roles within the tech industry. Here's a quick overview:

Tech Leader Insight is designed to engage users in conversations that explore their leadership qualities, decision-making processes, team management skills, and their approach to innovation and emotional intelligence. It asks a mix of open-ended and specific questions, adapting its line of questioning based on your responses, creating a personalized dialogue that reflects your experiences and challenges in leadership.

What sets it apart is its conversational tone—friendly, positive, and inclusive, making discussions meaningful and engaging for a wide range of users, from those new to leadership roles to experienced tech executives. It aims to foster a reflective and insightful dialogue, encouraging users to think critically about their leadership style and areas for growth.

Whether you're looking to reflect on your leadership capabilities, seeking advice on managing tech teams, or curious about innovative leadership strategies, Tech Leader Insight offers a unique platform to explore these topics.

Would love to hear your thoughts or experiences if you've encountered similar tools or have suggestions on how to make the most out of such interactions!
I think these gig economy workers and algorithmic punishments already have an element of that. It’s entirely possible to do a good job of it but it appears that no one chooses to do so - I presume the same would be true for LLM based processes.
VerticalSplit: SwiftUI container that presents two views stacked vertically
> Younger people who may not know: Tim Bray was one of the creators of XML.

Also editor of the JSON RFCs:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray#JSON

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/tbray@textuality.com
>I soon realized that converting images gets you 90% of the way to converting video so that became my next task.

Heh, cool, but where is bad apple?

>Bad Apple on HTML Checkboxes

Damn...
Sadly I see people struggling with overwork, afraid to push back way too often. What I learnt from my personal experience is this: when you push back, people respect you more, not less.

I started my career in a small shop reporting to a toxic and abusive manager. Due to a combination of factors (my own upbringing, being a naive new grad, a bad economy) I didn't know how to handle the situation so I just took it silently. Those were some of the lowest points in my life. When I finally left, I decided I wouldn't allow myself to fall in the same situation again.

Then I realized something amazing. Contrary to my fears, when I pushed back against unreasonable requests, for the most part people respected me more rather than less. Of course there is always people who retaliate, and the secret is you want to be far away from those people.

This is my hypothesis of what is happening: most abusive managers are low confidence cowards which use their formal authority to bully others. Because they are cowards, if you stand up to them, most often they will be afraid of losing face, and will choose to bully someone weaker instead.

Of course it isn't easy to start doing this out of the blue. Once you trained your manager to assume that you'll work 12 hour days and always say yes, it's very hard to make them change their mind, and you'll face retaliation. If you are in such a situation, I don't have great advice, other than you should look for another place to work, and start asserting yourself, even if in small ways at first.

Unfortunately I know many people will ignore my advice. They'll say I'm being idealistic, or that it worked only for me, or that they can't afford to lose their job. But I hope that at least some people will follow this advice and we'll give less food to the toxic managers of the world.
Absent GenAI, do the BigTechs of the world have enough growth going on elsewhere to appease Wall St volcano gods sufficiently?

They all seem to be hyping GenAI a ridiculous amount, prompting this question. And it makes sense for them to ride the hype train and get something out of it. But it also makes me wonder if that only makes the eventual drop even larger.
I recently started using a Mac at work and Gnome aping MacOS is the only thing that makes sense.

The applications selector, the settings drop-downs... spatial Nautilus... it didn't just start with Gnome 3. These are all poorly-implemented, half-baked versions of MacOS features. It has been going on for years.

I mean, the thin scroll bars for $deity's sake! On MacOS this makes sense because the trackpad and trackpad/mouse work, and work very well. On Gnome, it makes no sense at all since you can't hit them with the mouse pointer.

The pain is very real with Gnome.

It's a very, very poor ape of MacOS.
I love the Lynch version's sets, costumes, props, and art direction in general.
I can't believe! I recently filed a ticket and the guy who reviewed was the KDE leader? If you are reading this, thank you Nate.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240229165406/https://www.washi...
Early '90s, VBA was awesome.

I never understood two of Microsoft's owngoals:

1) The lack of a migration path from workgroup (LAN) to client-server for Access et al. So dumb. SQL Server should have become a first class citizen of Access. Or Access become a viable front-end end to SQL Server. Where swapping JET and MSSQL was a drop-in no-brainer. (Maybe that happened later...)

2) Not unifying tabular data. And then make Excel and Access "modalities" (?) for accessing that data. Lotus' Symphony (successor to 1-2-3) was so awesome; hybrid database and spreadsheet. aka The Correct Answer™. And Symphony was on DOS! (Lotus' Improv was even cooler. I wish I knew why it didn't succeed.)

I guess all this ML data pipeline Parquet NumPy stuff finally separated tabular data from how it's used. Yay.

I haven't used the Microsoft stack in anger since late '90s, when Java emerged, so maybe the .Net/CLR reboot mooted my complaints.

I never had the chance to use Borland's tools (Paradox, QuattroPro) in anger, so don't know if they did any better.
Looove that approach! Other than the TODO example, is there a full project I can look at that's based on Mountaineer? If I choose to be an early adopter, what are the current gaps / shortcomings I need to look out for?
I don’t think this works well. English is absolutely “Germanic” but it doesn’t neatly fit into any grouping grammatically, lexically, or audibly. The influence of French, and milder influences of Gaelic languages have transformed the language considerably. Those two have as much influence as does Norse. The Angles and Saxons were West Germanic, and they started the language. Reclassification of English as North Germanic would be about as accurate as reclassifying it as Romance.
Sure thing.

You're still wrong on the merits, though. To pick one example, the folks who work at my local MVA ("DMV" in most states) office do not work for me, though they're paid out of my taxes and those of everyone else who earns in Maryland. They don't report to me.

Nor should they, because if they did, they would also report to that freak who drives a car plastered with QAnon garbage around Perry Hall.

My city councilman and my General Assembly representatives work for me, but the people employed to deliver services managed by the state and city government do not.
That would be awesome. I would love to see his take on the next part.
Magicreply.io – Generate human like replies using AI with a single click
The U.S. solution mostly is just not to have that level of population density. Most larger cities in Europe for example are old, laid out and built before the invention of the car. Before motorized transport, people mostly got places by walking. The point of a city is that you have lots of people that can all reach each other in a reasonable amount of time. If you have to walk, you have to get those people closer together.

If you can drive, you can spread out more and still get reasonable travel times. A lot of big cities in the U.S. were mostly built out after the invention of the car, so they are built with cars in mind. The older ones mostly have semi-decent public transit available.
Did you look at https://grid.glideapps.com/ by chance for rendering? Curious what it didn't support if you did.
He bought it before me at least, so he *made* money. Doesn't matter if didn't predicted the top. He saw a stock that he thought will increase in value, bought some and sold at a higher price. That's what it matters
Starlink is the cheapest satellite provider for speeds over 10/1.

Maybe BGAN might be cheaper. But you aren't watching 4K TV on that
You can technically use the Python to write back to Postgres if you are comfortable putting your creds into the code window. The downside of this is your creds would be viewable to anyone you share the workbook with.

We have gotten a lot of requests for write-back-to-DB (Snowflake, Postgres, etc) so will be adding first-class support for this feature soon that will use the same connection creds which are stored encrypted in KMS and are not viewable to people you share the workbook with.

Would love to chat about your use-case if you want to reach out to us at contact[at]rowzero.io
Any rolling release distro is probably fine? openSUSE Tumbleweed generally gets new packages within a week or two of release.
Sounds kinda Stalinist to me.
No you're not. They're employed by the state which is managed by the politicians you elect.

I presume you mean to imply that civil servants are paid by your taxes, but that's not true either if we're talking about a sovereign state - a moments consideration would show that spending must preceed taxation, which is true as a matter of accounting.

Really you'd do better to note that state employees allow you to get money enabling you to pay your taxes (but that's also not a very helpful way to look at it).
I would say the one I go to tends slightly towards the latter, but there is usually 15 mins in the middle and the same at the end to chat.
Is ChatGPT making scientists hyper-productive? The highs and lows of using AI
By "Workout" do mean only exercise that can be tracked via GPS (walking, running, cycling)?

It doesn't seem to track any indoor activities like weight lifting.
One doesn't accidentally make things up, and for invoices to be booked, my accountant wouldn't have it any other way.
Sure, I could bet $1000.
Relevant? https://youtu.be/YSFyotLlhxA?t=669
Yes, seqcst loads map to plain loads on x86.
Miatas are great! Also one of the few examples of a model that got _smaller_ in a later model year instead of continuing to bloat. https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/mazda-mx-5-2000-roa...
Publicizing these stories helps break the illusion that truth is a critical part of the performance of any model, GPT-4 included. We are only guaranteed similitude with what is expected.

Distortion and confabulation must be expected, but how can we train the public to properly interpret the responses?
https://archive.is/Oa3xK
At the Toys-R-Us in Antarctica, kids really don't grow up!

"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys-R-Us kid..."
> I kind of flipped out, and was motivated to finish this blog piece, when I saw this: “UK government wants to use AI to cut civil service jobs: Yes, you read that right.” The idea — to have citizen input processed and responded to by an LLM — is hideously toxic and broken; and usefully reveals the kind of thinking that makes morally crippled leaders all across our system love this technology.

As someone who actually had to deal with the government recently in the US I disagree. It was impossible to reach a human or otherwise get an answer to my likely not too unusual question. If they had an even half decent LLM then I'd have probably had my answer and action items for me to do within 30 seconds. Instead I've wasted days in various attempts to get some type of answer.

I recently needed to fix some issues in something I filled with the government. Email support used to exist but probably cut due to budgets. Chat support used to exist but probably cut due to budgets. Phone support has no waiting queue and require 1 minute of entering numbers to hit the disconnect point (due to not available agents). Physical mail seems an option but I don't know the format or address. Etc.
I agree that addressing the systemic issues that are contributing to inequality is ideal, but that is a huge tangle to unwind. UBI doesn't solve those issues.

But UBI is a pragmatic help to people here and now in a single stroke. The ideal solution would require somehow rewinding the clock to make corporations pay more taxes, undoing much of the corporate welfare, getting society to be truly colorblind (vs those who just claim they are as an excuse to not recognize racial discrimination), and so much more.
So if someone buys a stock and then that stocks goes bankrupt. By that logic they lost no money...

Taking money off the table when it is enough for you is the way you guarantee that you make any money...
I had pretty much the same words in mind for a comment (to an almost creepy degree).
Are US EV sales a disaster or a booming segment? The answer may be both
You should replace "Q:" with "Ask HN:".

And FWIW I just searched for "bluetooth headset recording" and found many results, including already existing devices that are a headset which can record the audio.
> when there are alternatives

Because these alternatives are usually kept subpar. In many areas of the world with good mass transit options, people don’t choose to drive (London, UK for ex.)
There is no antagonism between the government and Esperanto that I'm aware of, more like disinterest. As I mentioned, there was originally a lot of overlap between people supporting either cause, but Esperanto simply never got as popular as Communism.

As for China Radio International, the inclusion of Esperanto among the forty-odd languages they translate content into is transparently intended to propagandize to foreign Esperantists more so than promoting the language.
Wow, Eggy, you have a really interesting background and even more interesting continued pursuit. Consider connecting: https://sive.rs/contact
> I don't see why I would want to use anything else.

I am back again to remind people that profiles suck on Firefox, container tabs are not a great solution, and there are tons of extensions that Chrome has that Firefox doesn't.

So just 3 very simple examples of why someone would use Chrome over Firefox.
Just because some technology may end up changing the world, it does not necessarily mean that it is a good investment:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Revolutions_and_...

* Via Ben Felix: https://www.pwlcapital.com/investing-technological-revolutio...
I am using KDE on NixOS and IME there are no issues except the occasional screen freeze on X11 with Nvidia cards (and none with Wayland, you read that right!). Filed bugs and merged changes too.
You can outsource this, you know.
Now you’re assuming that the group that would switch is bigger than the group that appreciates the tabs at the bottom. I doubt that the tabs at the bottom are the main reason people wouldn’t switch to KDE.
I didn't watch the video, but I assume it is not just ultrasound, but a very focused beam / beams of ultrasound in combination with MRI to hit just the right spot.
If you're trying to apply modern money theory, it only works at the federal level (in the USA), state and local governments are directly affected by taxation which must precede spending (or they have to issue warrants or bonds).

This comes back to bite California every time there is a major tax revenue crunch for whatever reason.
You can always add the NEON repos to get KDE 6 on Ubuntu LTS. I'm running with that right now on 22.04. Be sure to also add a repo to get newer Pipewire, as that really helps to avoid many papercuts.
:) I can add that Kobo Clara 2E has a nice backlight
Yes they are. So you can imagine how much is lost in Ukraine especially when Ukrainians travel to where it's even more discounted to buy in bulk. Use the dishes for 3 months to a year at $50 and proudly talk about how they paid in full.

Anyway the manufacturing costs are down from $3k to $750 ish. So things are looking up
The only thing that can be "guaranteed" about generative AI is that erroneous answers will be produced at some point.
The _word_ can't be used casually like that any more. The world has moved on from using the word casually as exotic unfamiliar flavour, without inviting unwelcome ignorant reflexive antagonism. For an example of that, I refer you to your own comment.
gnome & kde have links in the Nvidia section at the bottom with good articles showing current status.
In itself probably not very important. But it illustrates that this thing was trained in a way that places ideology above reality. Whole countries have already shown us what that looks like, and it's bad.
Church. You'll have built in community, they'll be inclined to get to know you, and it's low effort.
Nooooo!

That is the most frustrating thing about some projects:

They take existing users for granted and make a lot of changes to accommodate the new users they envision coming in torrents.

These users of course never arrive and in the meantime they have alienated the old user base.

With KDE you can put the tabs where you want them.

Or, if you want everything to be like in Gnome or Windows or Mac you can just use these.
clang-format can be applied to new changes only, for this very reason.

Adding it will remove white space nitpicking from code review, even if it isn't perfect.