skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol! This made my day. To be fair, I love a good Donna tune when she sings actual lyrics. Playin' was always an excuse to just be... a screeching possum is the best I've ever heard it. Whatever, it's rock and roll. Not like Jerry Bobby or Phil could sing either :-)
>people can and should be fired

I am honestly becoming bewildered at this point. This ad where they crush some things à la a YouTube hydraulic press video is now generating what appears to be actual hatred for real humans. Is our culture really this sick? What is happening?
Spreadsheets were the killer app for exactly that kind of problem.

Thanks to spreadsheets any low ranking peon can hack up a barely working, janky prototype of their idea for a tool over a few days, without having to deal with anyone else in the organisation.

Before spreadsheets, you had to convince higher ups to convince the IT department to take on your request. That would take at least three months. Then you'd need to wait another few quarters until they delivered you a barely working, janky implementation that didn't match your requirements written in something like Cobol or C.
I've had 50/50. These days I'm fairly okay with just taking the Macbook Pro. I did have one instance where I got one my first week and used my Dell XPS with Linux the entire 10 months I was at the place. I returned the Macbook basically unused.

Only one time did I interview with a place where I asked if I'd be given a choice what hardware/OS I could use. The response was "We use Windows". My response was, "no we do not. Either I will not be using Windows with you, or I will not be using Windows NOT with you". I didn't get an offer. I was cool with it.
> There will always be a bias towards some default settings in whatever popular tool, because people who aren't very discerning or dedicated will just punch in a few common ideas into the tool and take the first thing that looks good enough to them.

How is that different from the established practice of using stock photos?
It's not that simple. Something like this hurts the brand.
> one of the first persecuted were the communists

Yeah, because communists never get into factionalism and infighting /s
Yes, we consider both domain-specific applications (spider for text2SQL, gsm8k for math, codesearchnet for python) as well as open-domain conversational applications (ShareGPT). We use test set from each application to evaluate CLLMs’ performance in our paper.

On the other hand, technically CLLM works on any kind of queries. But the speedup might vary. Feel free to try out our codebase for your use cases!
I hate most simplistic metaphors but this one is insightful.

This is a big reason why Microsoft blew the mobile phone biz: their customers were not the users; the customers are central IT. The iPhone was such a revolution at the time that it was enough to force IT to allow the alternative. And from that MS had no feedback system to learn what they were doing wrong.
Name calling and dismissive responses aren't going to win anyone over.

Please be more considerate.
>Did you miss that and think they’re just bad at business?

A software shop closing up its software devs to focus more on a few golden geese doesn't inspire confidence for me. But it's not like shareholders actually look that intimately into the industry.

if you only offer software and can't get a 30% cut on all software you sell on a hardware platform, I'd hope you make up for that with more and better games. So this seems backwards to that strategy as a long term move (I know, a relic of the past).
If you’re seriously considering lying to the CTO you should instead just get a different job at a different company. That’s a really bad working environment if you think lying is acceptable or something to be proud of.
> Using nets around the facilities was discussed, but posed environmental concerns, human rights issues and wildlife risks.
If you haven't read it, I also enjoyed his book, 'House'. It has a similar theme to TSoaNM: multiple parties with the same ultimate goal, but conflicting approaches born out of self-interest.

I read it shortly after buying the house that would be (and is) our 'family home', of a very similar vintage (early 80s, East Coast.) Certainly not every home from the past was artfully constructed (or even well-built), but something just feels different with the modern, Fortune-500 homebuilders that rush an army of interchangeable subcontractors through cookie-cutter plans to maximize interior square-footage and stack as many units as possible on a tract of land.
Created a referral / affiliate software for SaaS
I never understood the hate against bottled water. If you're on the go and get thirsty, what's wrong with getting water instead of an unhealthy soda? I can't drink only beer.
My boss was an enthusiastic (sorta) young dev, who has reported directly to our CISO ever since I started, and is now markedly less enthusiastic.
If you ever come across a project where you are wading through levels of duct tape and wondering how this technical design ever got out the door you can be sure that when you get to the bottom you will find MongoDB.
Things like chromaprint are why I have found it difficult to search for what I want.

These tools are geared towards identifying matches (one to many) Chromaprint specifically bins things into notes assuming it it trying to match music.

I'm after something that will tell me, in human perception, how much a dogs bark sounds like a quack.

One to one comparison of short-ish samples with no assumption of content style.
I think the problem with it is more about how it’s emphasizing hardware physical attributes of the device but apple is mostly about the culture and the feeling in their past ads. When u buy an iphone u know ur not getting the best hardware but you but it for the culture and the feelings it gives you no?
exactly. like Jordan Peele says the difference between comedy and horror is the music.

If you mute the sound on this apple Ad, then play Padme's Funeral Theme as the music instead, its a whole different vibe. It's like watching the death of humanity crushed down into a soulless block of nothing.
The goal is not efficiency, the goal is to minimize the amount of damage that can be done by a single person or group with evil intentions.
My favorite part was the ad at the bottom of the article “Best top 5 drones”
Show HN: Barrier – Social Lock, an iOS Tool to Reduce Screen Time
Hi HN,

I’ve developed an iOS app called Barrier - Social Lock, which is all about managing and reducing screen time on social media and other addictive apps. I built this as a personal crusade against my own social media overuse, using Apple's Screen Time API to keep apps in check. The deal is simple: apps get locked and then re-locked after 10 blissful minutes of use.

Now, when it’s time to unlock an app, there’s a twist: you’re subjected to a 30-second ad. No escape, no alternatives. Why? Because I figured the only thing more annoying than a digital detox is having to watch an ad. It's my sneaky way of adding a bit of a deterrent, and honestly, because everyone loathes ads, it adds a layer of comedic misery to the ordeal.

I'm really keen to get your feedback on Barrier: Are there features you think could make it even better? Any annoying bugs I should squash? I'm all ears for any feedback that can help make Barrier the best buzzkill for app addiction.

Also, I’m curious to hear from other indie devs on your app promotion adventures. How do you get the word out about your iOS apps? What’s worked, what hasn’t?

For anyone game to try Barrier or interested in offering feedback, you can check it out at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/barrier-social-lock/id64482444.... Looking forward to any insightful suggestions!
If you copy-paste solutions from SO then please at least cite your sources and their license (CC-BY-SA).
Some people apparently have more empathy for objects than for humans.

I don't even care about downvotes anymore. This is beyond sick.
Everything in this story is dysfunctional, including the protagonist's approach. It is completely unacceptable for a team leader to give their people time off and lie about it and he is well in to territory where the company could fire him. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a fire-for-cause situation, in fact. Although upper management sounds so off the rails that he would probably get away with it and get a commendation of some sort; it does seem to be a play to the environment he's in.

A tip for new team leads; there is nothing here to feel proud of and a better play is to kick up a huge stink about people are working overtime and insist that the vendor be held to sane standards or project scopes reconsidered to fit in a normal work week schedule. Trying to make this sort of situation work is going to burn people out for nothing, or get people fired with no potential upside.

Unless I were truly desperate for work to keep my family going, a team lead has a responsibility to protect their team's reasonable work hours from insane requests. That is a hill to get sacked over, but not to lie for.
Depending on load patterns, for an internal tool that might be perfectly reasonable; you can trivially look at the history, for one thing.
A reply is always in the context of the thing that is being replied on. It’s how replies work…

If there is an article about berries and you say you love blueberries and I reply saying “I hate them”, it in the context of blueberries. It doesn’t mean I hate all berries. And I shouldn’t have to clarify that, since I’m replying to a comment about blueberries.

How else could this work?
It's probably Accenture and if not, something similar. Where they put graduates to do all the work and then charge the hourly for senior devs.
I agree that those implementations could be changed. I doubt the standard will be going anywhere since there are some sites that already use them.

Altering Web Standards in such a way that may break old sites is abhorent to Web Standards bodies. (See the array.contains prototype discussion: http://esdiscuss.org/topic/having-a-non-enumerable-array-pro...)

> Flash and jQuery are contenders, but still aren't comparable.

I would contend that they are. Flash was enormous, it was installed for 92% of all internet users. (Source is wikipedia, they've rewritten the page, but it still appears in google's cache, search: "flash player 92%") It wasn't just the standard, it was the industry. Jquery too used by at least 76.9% of all websites, compared to React at 4.2% all websites. (source: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details)

> But I'm not ready to speculate what the post-React world will be like.

I am.

React is currently adding web component support right now.

TC39's tuple/record propsal will reshape dataflow in component libraries/frameworks. Eventually we will get syntactic sugar for explicit resource management to make it easier to use a defer style setup/pulldown like in other languages. Both of those (plus the decorator proposals + extensions) will change the dataflow and ergonomics of the js landscape.

Frameworks will adapt into new shapes of be supplanted.

If react wants to keep adding new ways to do things to hold onto the "react" brand then by all means, but even now it wouldn't be unfair to say we're in a post-<this kind of>-react and a post-<that kind of>-react world.
The article does address use of nets
Prophet was pretty bad so yes, but it doesn't seem much better than ARIMA
Types of Equi Joins
You can install a shutdown hook to do cleanup like this.

Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(...)
Surprise, surprise: man made plastic that looks like food is not good for you.
I know, I know: eat my cereals and whole grains and shut up.
It's a pretty crap ad - they have a weird oblique shot of the product from a angle so you can't even get a sense of the proportions.

I won't comment too much on the messaging, but I will say that it very much seems to be targeted more towards the people paying for the ad than end customers.
I bet there was an argument inside Apple HQ from people who did know him personally about how this would land though,
which is fun to think about.
Brendan Kavanagh (Dr K) played that song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeL3h0F-KTQ

In response to being harassed earlier by the CCP at the same public piano in a London railway station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65iwnI2hjAA
Sigh. I think it’s possible to look at public figures and both see how they are praiseworthy, perhaps corrected errors, and still had impacts with their “mistakes.” I always hope that on HN there’s room for nuance, not just like sarcastic comments implying that a critique was one-dimensional and ill intentioned.
Yes, this will be open source.

This is an end-end system that just takes in video frames. Camera parameters are one of the things that is predicted. It gives promising results for a wide variety of environments (cliffs, diff types of bouldering walls, diff outdoor walls, etc.), though not always accurate. Path planning is also part of the end-end system. Will share more details in the paper.
I think you mean Aldus PageMaker. ;-)
I really want a term for the phenomenon whereby billion dollar companies frequently struggle to create the kind of technology three interesting weirdos can write over a weekend.
It's way too soon to call it a failure, but I'd be very surprised if GP isn't a loss leader strategy for Microsoft to capture the game subscription market.

The problem is that this is a very 2010's strategy and money is no longer free. So this approach is a lot riskier than it was than in the netflix days. I don't know if Microsoft, given this news, wants to keep playing the long game.
I mean, yes, there was a problem, but if more issues don’t develop, this still seems to be a huge breakthrough for quadriplegics. The guy still uses it extensively when he has free time. And that’s assuming they can’t resolve the issue before the next subject tries it.
Indeed! That server is very close to my M3 Max. I stand slightly corrected :)

Worth noting: the monthly cost is close to my 18-month amortized cost.
> I was very surprised to learn that it is actually just a “regular” network protocol for two parties to communicate like HTTP, FTP, IMAP, SMPT and etc.

Typo: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

And I suspect many of us tend to think of those as magical abstractions best dealt with through libraries as well:)
Well, if you'd tilt that thing into portrait-mode, you could comfortably read a full page of a classic daily newspaper, like NYT, WP, or the likes.

But news are bad for you, so don't do... ;-)
> empowered people to make lots of small useful utilities

Specifically related to this aspect, currently the closest thing I'm aware of that comes to mind is the Godot "game" engine: https://godotengine.org

While it's not an exact match for Hypercard in many aspects, three of the related areas where it is a particularly strong contender are:

* A small initial download size (<100MB) and short load/launch load time.

* Supports an "iterative"/hacky development process well--GDScript is very well suited to the initial "exploratory development stage" of "making something that works". (As GDScript itself evolves it's also getting better at being robust over time via recent additions such as gradual typing.)

* Godot's distribution/installation story is very strong--I would posit that it is light years ahead of any other ecosystem[0] in this area: Download the export templates (which are generic platform-specific binary executables) for the platforms you want to support and then export your project (which packages your project-specific code/resources for use with the executable)[1].

Currently, I would say the place where Godot is currently most lacking (somewhat surprisingly) in comparison to something like Hypercard or ("classic") Visual Basic is in relation to a lack of "drag and drop UI" creation. Godot has a quite powerful UI system (albeit at times... opaque) but the current UX for building the UI forces one to be very conscious of the scene's node tree rather than being able to just drag and drop widgets from a toolbar, or similar, onto a window.

(This UX is also an aspect that seems could be improved "relatively easily" via an Editor Plugin and maybe one day I'll get around to prototyping something for that particular rabbit hole. :) )

Obviously, it's not a perfect solution for numerous reasons I won't go into now but it's certainly my default choice for any GUI-based utilities these days--some of which I actually finish enough to "release". :D

[0] This aspect is where Python in particular falls down catastrophically.

[1] This also extends to being able to produce WASM exports for the web which opens a two-pronged distribution approach where people can initially use a web-based version of your utility and, if it's useful enough to them, they can also download an executable for local use.
The point of annotations is to avoid having to branch on type at runtime.

Consequently, whatever you sent in was assumed to be what the annotation was. There was no "compilation phase" to ensure that the type at the call point actually matched the type in the annotation. If those differed, then your program would just go boom.

Now, it could be that I'm remembering something other than MACLISP. It's been a lot of years.
Contrast? Not that I know of. Slip is a type of collision resolution that allows obstacles to slide off each other instead of just stopping. Similar to a circle rolling with slipping down an incline.
It seems to me you don't want less-legislation as much as different-legislation.

In a "hands off" scenario where the only only factor for companies becomes "avoid losing a civil lawsuit for Failing To Do Enough to stop a criminal you assisted", they will still create an opaque system with no due-process/oversight/recourse. They will do that by default, because it's cheaper.
From the domain I would have thought this guy spends all his time struggling with D-Bus
More info on the OS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXT
Why is this meaningful in any way?

People who eat more ultra processed foods probably have other unhealthy
Habits

I doubt someone who exercises, gets good sleep, eats mostly healthy would suffer from increasing their ultra processed food intake
Superderminism seems the odd choice to embrace here.

Also, given the Frauchiger-Renner paradox, the Occam's razor for fewest assumptions between the two would be contradictory outcomes being what needs to be embraced. Superderminism doesn't resolve Frauchiger-Renner.

Additionally, it seems really odd to me that it's at the exact point where a continuous system would be impossible to simulate (interactions with a presumably free agent) which is where things collapse to finite quantities, and yet as soon as the persistent information about such an interaction is erased it goes back to behaving continuously.

While superderminism could address the paradoxes, if superderminism existed the very behavior and quirkiness occurring seems superfluous viewed as a system design.
And everything is always in exactly one easily defined context, right? So for a comment reply we already know the full context just by looking at its immediate parent. That's how nested replies work, right?
To be clear, you’re talking about it’s instead of the correct its, right?
Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings
because of all the oil and plastic (which comes from oil) that is used to get it to you means more emissions which contributes to global climate change.
It was especially hilarious to watch the CTO of OpenAI get asked if they scrape YouTube, and could not say yes or no [0]. Possibly one of the most important sites in the Internet, and they're CTO claims ignorance.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1bfa7s3/openai_cto...
Very nice.

It's a 2D linear motor. That's been tried for robotics a few times. Here's a theory paper.[1] The Minatur Wunderland version doesn't use coils, just straight PCB traces, which is simpler but draws more current. The duty cycle is low, since there aren't that many cars for the amount of track space. They probably have an intermittent overheating problem with the track, the drivers, or both.

Here's a Hackaday version of a 2D linear motor.[2]

Festo has a commercial version that's maglev, too, for moving small stuff around in factories, but it hasn't sold much. It's one of those ideas that's cool, but rarely useful.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095741582...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjkw7rKhPfc
That's a thing! https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000004415524/e...
I was offered a job a few years ago by someone who saw my Stack Overflow answers, does that count? I don't see something like this happening with ChatGPT.
> Encourage fairness and kindness, and discourage hate

> Don't try to change anyone's mind

That seems inherently contradictory to me...
Wow. I was expecting an edit that would further mock Apple but this super simple change massively improved the ad IMO while maintaining all of the cool ideas the original creators had.
No it’s not! That is extremely low compared to say Apple, which doles out something like 50k for low severity bugs (source: they pretty much paid my college fees)
Explains how ServiceNow can be so popular yet so awful. They sell to the IT department who staffs up a team of solution architects and lock themselves in.

Usability of the software be dammed (it took years before even urls were shareable).

Slack was a revelation where its pricing model encouraged bottoms up adoption (only pay for seats used) and they encourage feedback from everyone (unlike Google docs where it takes an admin to report a bug, maybe).
In my experience on the above sites, and as a (small) community manager, it absolutely plays into it. A lot of people just instinctively respond negatively to displays of authority.

On the other hand, I think it's an important aspect of a community/platform if the goal of that platform is to be transparent and open, which I think is an important aspect of SO and Wikipedia, and I hope more platforms would adopt that view. I think whatever "elitist" perception such platforms have to suffer is well worth having high-quality, open platforms.

(I will say that no platforms are perfect of course, including SO or Wikipedia; there's plenty of criticisms to go around about specific policies and decisions. See: TFA :P)
A bigger faster apex drone optimized for killing lesser drones
is flint, Michigan located inside one of these countries?
If we spam critical EM frequencies drones may fall out of the sky. For example a laser pointer may overwhelm optical sensors, while ultrasonic distance sensors are often used to determine height and proximity to obstacles. Some pilot software may fail gracefully, by safely flying blind and landing gently - but I’m guessing most will fail spectacularly.
Parquet is column oriented and so row-based manipulation can be inefficient
To someone that’s reasonably computer savvy (professional developer but Windows and macOS only), what does X11 do? What are the benefits of this approach? What’s the ‘equivalent’ in Windows or macOS (if there is one)?
If it's all chosen because colors are deeply cultural then they would be the same. If important stuff is all different and arbitrary then it's not cultural.
The guy is a CS prof at Princeton. He worked with Mozilla on Do Not Track in HTTP headers. It's not some random teacher. I think he has a little idea of what UX should at least look like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_Narayanan
At least with the workday, you aren’t in it all the time, but yes, it reminds me of phpmyadmin over a database that needs a 5 hour maintenance window every week.