skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two things we know about the vendor are unforgivable: the fact that they let a core piece of logic depend on indefinitely augmenting a Mongo record, and the fact that a deliberate effort by 3 somewhat above average people could replace them in about 3 months of work.

The fact that the vendor reached the state of doing business with a Fortune 500 client indicates how helpless organizations similar to this client feel facing even modest SW undertakings. Indeed, the project scope in question indicates it could be accomplished by some folks here as a hobby project.

This also explains to me why Retool is so popular with tech leaderships, while not necessarily so with engineers. I wonder what other product approaches could address the same gap.
>There is a car. We think it drives by burning petrol somehow. How do we test this? We take petrol away and it stops driving.

You discovered a principle.

Better example:

There is a car. We don’t know how it drives. We turn the blinkers on and off. It still drives. Driving is useful. I drive it to the store
Apparently it is culturally insensitive in Japan to destroy beautiful tools and works of art. Most on X are just piling on but some Japanese might have a more visceral response to the ad.
Why aren’t you banning the use of such tools all over the company? I think I would do that with the only reason being the fear that it might leak private source code to random companies.
Pragmatically, the software powering most their properties, MediaWiki, is not suited for it. It's hard to see them investing in development of a new platform given uncertainties of success.
Sorry but no, having worked in advertisement it's still an awful ad that will haunt the company.

There is no world in which "destroy everything you care about and trade it for our product" is a good message and won't have a lasting impact for 5-20 years.

This is a stunningly bad failure and people can and should be fired.
Drones are now used as weapons as well, which means we need to figure out a good counter to them anyway.

Some (most?) prisons are near built-up areas, which means non-kinetic solutions.

- glue-ball cannon

- EMP cannon

- water cannon

- an eagle
Came here hoping to see something like this. Glad to see it’s the top comment.
Part of the beauty of climbing is solving a puzzle and figuring things out.

Edit: Unsurprised to see the demo on a gym route instead of actual rock.
Good, opt-in for these sorts of network effects based use cases never works. Apple doesn't have theirs opt-in for this very reason too.
Which is good if you want to have full support of the docker ecosystem as some containers don't support ARM.
>This is not accurate at all and really has very little place in rational discussion.

I wouldn't phrase it that way at all, but it has been a studied phenomenon that C-level positions have disproportionately more individuals with psychopathic tendencies.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240508223718/https://fortune.c...
Is it necessary to use a Google device (Pixel) to install it? I don't feel comfortable relying on a Google device for it.
we're here, talking about the ad, and by extension the product. which makes it a huge a success for the marketing team. are people that were going to buy an iPad before now not gonna buy an iPad because they got offended? maybe! are people who weren't in the market for a new iPad now thinking about iPads? yup.
"best OS" is so subjective here. I'll concede that the MacBook hardware is objectively better than any laptop I've owned. But it's a huge leap to say Mac OS is objectively better than Linux IMO.
It’s definitely treading new ground here. Every time I see something about Neuralink and the immense amount of advancements in AI, I’m bullish that one day my daughter, who is five now and in a wheelchair, will be able to walk one day because of these developments.

Much like the first pilots who risked their lives on the road to making commercial flights commonplace, Arbaugh has taken a huge risk being the first human Neuralink subject. But he is also thrilled that he’s able to play Civ VI until 3am, which sounds like a huge boost to quality of life compared to what was a complete impossibility just a year ago.

I really hope this works out, becomes a safe and commonplace procedure, and eventually my daughter is able to have advanced mobility far beyond what is possible today using wheelchairs. There are plenty of people cheering on Neuralink and watching each development with bated breath.
Odd that this says "X" while the article says "Twitter." Did the poster change the headline, or did USA Today?
> SO and Wikipedia basically spell out their actions and reasoning

You're able to appeal on SO as well. It's interesting to think about a situation where moderation decisions would be more in 'the background', as you say (like Reddit/HN), and whether this takes away from the perceived 'elitism' some moderation practices are accused of.
No, no! You have to buy two now to (checks notes) piss off Elon Musk!
man this site really hits that nostalgia.

the computer business used to have a lot more diversity of small vendors trying all kinds of crazy things.

it was a mess but it was fun to watch and dream.
I read some time ago on twitter something along the lines of “if you run enough A/B tests, you’ll end up with a porn website” and I guess that’s what the future of high-engagement-web reserves us
But that's not at all what I see. It's just a funny visual for "it does all these things". The hugely negative reactions are insanity.
Thank goodness the entire Apple ecosystem consists of millions of you and no one else then right?
Will post more videos on outdoor rocks soon! I just chose that video for the demo because it was easy to explain the route
> First-sale doctrine needs a serious update for electronic content.

Who says that there "needs" to be a serious update? You? This is emotional pleading without any substance.

> It's too important a principle for us to lose.

This is false. The rise of Steam and other digital distribution platforms for video games has almost completely eradicated the second-hand market - with virtually zero negative consequences. The real-world nullification of first-sale doctrine for an entire class of digital media extremely clearly illustrates that there have been few, if any, negative consequences for it.

> Content licensing, as opposed to outright sale, is a cancer spreading through our collective culture.

Now you're mixing two very different problems. Problems of being able to re-sell copies of copyrighted material is distinct from ownership. (the fact that a small part of ownership is the ability to sell to other parties is largely irrelevant)
I think the ancient yoga wizards of yore called that "Pranayama".
Is theis the current official explanation, or it's just an idea posted by the user?
On my phone this was good enough to fool me. I couldn’t see the back of the monitor. So as presented on the site it looked like a stock image.

I didn’t heavily scrutinize it. But without the additional context seen on a desktop it’s not that remarkable.
typo :) thanks
Maybe I'm lucky but I've never been fired for telling the truth and the truth is easier to align to. "There's a bug in a third party library that's part of the critical path "We can make it harder to hit the bug but can't fix it until the vendor fixes it", or "user growth has revealed performance issues no one thought we'd encounter this soon, we can spend three times as much money on infrastructure to mitigate it for the 2 months it will take is to fix it or lose customers due to performance" or "our biggest customer didn't know what they wanted until we delivered the first iteration, now they want something that isn't at all what we thought we'd be building. We can build it and be profitable or follow our dreams and die".

Again maybe I've been lucky but honesty has worked well for me.
@dang it would be good to link to the student's original website with RCA rather than this reproduction on Core 77. The article at Core 77 is almost entirely copy-pasted, and doesn't add any value.

Original: https://2021.rca.ac.uk/students/charlie-humble-thomas/
You asked: “Are u able to work in these stressful times?”

I countered that abstractions such as “these times” can’t have the property “stressful.” If you or anyone experience “stress,” that comes from a set of reactions to a situation. An obvious truth and what any therapist would focus on.
It’s genius.

Schmooze the execs with fancy dinners and trips. Deliver a horrible product so they need you for the foreseeable future.

The story itself says the CTO is unaware of everything. From his perspective, everything worked out fine in the end.

Win for everyone except for the devs who put in 80 hour weeks.
Look man, it deliberately evokes an old timey vibe or past mementoes with the music while graphically depicting items from that past being destroyed.

You not seeing anything isn't the point. Clearly many many many others do.
It can't reliably cite its source for an answer.
What’s wrong with smooshing inanimate objects?
This is besides the point but a 20 minute mile is a typical walking pace, not anywhere near a mid tier marathon pace (regardless of the definition of mid tier). That would be an 8:40 marathon.
Concur fits this analogy well. I'm sure it was great for the accounting team but using it to do expenses (at least couple years ago) was painful. Having used Brex and Ramp they both seem to be the Magnetic Me baby clothes versions of expenses
I’ve been thinking about this too. Weights and Biases has a platform. Braintrust Data— https://www.braintrustdata.com/ — does this as a platform too. I’ve played around with it a bunch!
That’s all I could see on mobile. The screen is to narrow to see more than the lady typing and the edge of her monitor.

So that’s all I thought it was. A generic stock image. So I didn’t pay any real attention to it because it was “just” a stock image.

I agree with you. It was totally unnecessary.
Articles and headlines are often written by different people

The days maybe not even literal "people"
A few replies didn't catch the sarcasm. You have to remember: There is no amount of sarcasm that will be obvious to all readers.
Ask HN: Swipe to *Code* Keyboard?
Is there a swipe to code keyboard that's casing aware, identifier aware, "';[]+ symbol-aware, etc.?

I feel like what's missing for me to be able to use my phone or iPad for development is a good keyboard, maybe like one of those old slide out keyboards, but those are not made anymore :(
Even so, swipe to code could potentially be faster than using a physical portable keyboard.

Clicks is also interesting, though it doesn't have separate keys for symbols like `;`, that's common with those tiny keyboards.

Combined with AI autocompletion (Copilot) and remote VS Code (already possible with Blink or just a browser), I feel like coding on a touch device could be made comfortable. It doesn't have to be as painful as it is right now.
Would you have an issue if I smooshed your house?
> using fireworks to destroy property

Which part of the video has the imagery you claimed? I can see police firing teargas and protesters throwing them back at the police, but not protesters using fireworks themselves to destroy properties from the video.
Yes, if we can. The users of Fury may be able to do this. Fury may only provide such an interface to users to let them pass such an dict/zstd/huffman or something like
Imagine if someone pitched this commercial to Steve Jobs
They read that column-oriented DBs delivered great performance.
Scorched earth policies are always en vogue, and easy to offer as a knee jerk reaction. They do nothing for actually making forward progress in the conversation though.*

*However...there are times where the best solution is a match and some gasoline.
Previously on HN [1] (106 points, 2 months ago, 112 comments) [0](76 points, 33 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39598699
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39675111
>I don't think Japanese unions would cover slackers, which is a popular view of US unions.

popular =/= accurate. But yes, the most criticized aspect of unions (at least from a liberal lens) comes from its ability to rally around every worker in the union, regardless of individual productivity.

But historically, unions in the US neeeded those protections because it's way too easy to fire a US employee for anything that's not illegal. Japan doesn't make termination any easier, it's just incoporated at the government level instead of corporate. To compensate, Japanese "slackers" just get good severance packages as an incentive to get out, or even move them as far out of the picture as possible.
Yep. Feels good man.

Same as all the psychs.

And altered perspective can make you wiser.
> If you're the sort of person who believes that human brains are capable of understanding the "why" of how things work in all its true detail, you'll find this an interesting challenge- can we actually interpret these models, or are human brains too feeble to understand complex systems without sophisticated models?

I think chess engines, weirdly enough, have disabused me of this notion.

There are lots of factors a human considers when looking at a board. Piece activity. Bishop and knight imbalances. King safety. Open and semi-open file control. Tempo. And on and on.

But all of them are just convenient shortcuts that allow us to substitute reasonable guesses for what really matters: exhaustively calculating a winning line through to the end. “Positional play” is a model that only matters when you can’t calculate trillions of lines thirty moves deep, and it’s infinitely more important that a move survives your opponent’s best possible responses than it is to satisfy some cohesive higher level principle.
The first time I watched it, it did make me feel...uneasy? Sad? Hard to explain. Watching things we're nostalgic for crushed away hurts in a weird way. A stark reminder that your early years are gone and not coming back. All when the end result is another soulless rectangle slab.

All of that said, I do think many are overreacting, especially those calling for firings all the way up to Cook over it(yes, I really read that, multiple times.) It's just an ad, it didn't physically hurt anyone.
They say that at the time they were an “Enthusiastic Young Dev” but worked for a Fortune 500 company reporting directly to the CTO and interacting directly with the customer and leading a team.

Something doesn’t add up or is it just me?
Hardly matters for Stackoverflow like questions if the provided solutions work/solve the problem you're having. Which for me happens majority of the time (with GPT-4 not the free version).
Swiss startup unveils post-quantum cryptography library for devs
My recent was a month ago, but to be fair, the CTO of that company (who wrote the existing code when I joined) last wrote production code in 2008, so his code may have not been using those newer syntax features.
Right. The project was gonna fail. Is it that inconceivable that some of the devs involved would’ve been fired?

Cant fire the CTO, after all. It wasn’t his fault his stupid plan didn’t work. It can’t be the big successful company his friend runs. It’s the disposable staff who screwed up.
Could always perform a normal web search with the LLM result and show matches
If you purchase someone's house you can smoosh or do whatever you want with it.

Did any object in the commercial belong to you? Are them even real?
I would have no issue if you smooshed a 3D rendering of my house
This is true for a product from an unknown startup. I'm willing to bet 99% of iPad 3 buyers have already heard that the iPad exists from a source other than this ad or its online echoes.

It's just a mediocre ad, it has no effect to either increase or decrease the sales. those who hate Apple will pile on, fanboys will rant about the beauty of creative sacrifice, most people will be indifferent to an unequivocally ugly and forgettable ad.
This is how it’s done in the Netherlands. You sign up for a bank account and they check your ID, your proof of residency, they do a video selfie, etc. It was impossible for me to get a Dutch bank account (as an American) until after I signed my apartment lease which was a bit of a catch-22 but not insurmountable.

But once that is all setup they have a system called digiID that is wonderful. Anytime your identification needs to be verified it’s done through your bank. I signed up for renters insurance, they did a little oauth thing with the bank, the bank asked which details I was willing to share (the insurance company asked for just last name, dob, and address) and I agreed. It took seconds.
Oh, man. I remember multi-monitor shenanigans just for the lulz. They were fun. (They were problematic in the CRT days because the magnetics would fight eachother sometimes, but even that was interesting to sort out.)

And I remember the Radius "full page" monitor's introduction, and even saw some in the wild a couple of times. They always seemed bizarrely fit-for-purpose, and some part of me really wanted to score one for longer than I'd like to admit -- especially once PDFs became commonplace.

But your own story just prompted me to hold an 8.5x11" piece of paper up to the 24" 16x9 display on my desk -- a display size that I've been using for well over a decade now.

To my surprise, it can display more than two 8.5x11 full-page documents at one time.

And somewhat to my disdain, I've realized that I have never once actually used it this way.
The answer is “it depends”
- Windows that can‘t open?
- Nets?
You don't need to eliminate all possible runtime errors. You just need to make sure they are handled and accounted for.

That can take the form of something like `try_divide` that returns a `Maybe` that you need to pattern match on. Or it can take the form of trust-me-bro via the equivalant of UnsafePerformIO, where you know that something is safe and you want to let the compiler know, but you can't prove it to the compiler.

You can also deal with errors by returning an `Either`. That doesn't mess with any totality guarantees.
They don’t the money to run more transit, never mind build it.
Were these objects stolen from somebody??
"people can and should be fired"

This is beyond ridiculous. Now someone should lose their job because some objects were destroyed. IF the objects were even real.
ActorSrcGen 1.1.2
The open-source project ActorSrcGen has recently undergone significant updates to help streamline the development of complex long-lived pipeline processes for C# developers. These changes enhance the existing model providing an easy approach to creating multiple message pumps feeding data into your high-performance pipelines.
it got you to write 81 words about it, so I don't know if I'd call the ad mediocre.
This discussion reminds me of that time a guitar was smashed in The Hateful Eight[0].

But that time the outrage was more understandable since they mistakenly destroyed an antique 145 year old guitar lend from a museum.

[0] https://youtu.be/mfToONTEgpw
You missed the part where they say they felt like a rock star. Different people are motivated by different things. The key is, if you are very hard working try to channel it in a way that will actually benefit you.
Why? They don’t want the knowledge to be more accessible to the masses all of the sudden?
Also, all those answers are backed up somewhere.
Not sure what he would say.

Considering neither of us knew him personally and you're just basing your opinion off a public caricature.
Do you use same dataset to train / eval the model? Was the model used for example trained on GSM8K dataset for example?
All error messages are necessarily bad to some degree
How about reading the entire Json document out of the database, making a copy of that document, updating the copy, and saving that copy to the database...

Is how someone on my old team designed an internal tool
Callable may have been the wrong word. I think I meant delegate.
(I do work with Godot, but not in C#. Some wires must’ve gotten crossed)

Regardless of the actual word, there is an extra thing I need to do to pass a function to a higher order function as an argument.

I was using this as an example to demonstrate how C#’s support for the language features I like require some ceremony which reduce expressiveness and require me to think about the language more.
One reading of this ad could be a play with the viral “hydraulic press” videos and the idea that the product is an amalgamation of all sorts of creative tools.

Another reading is the disregard for destroying nice things that lots of people would love to have access to or own.

I guess it really depends on the background of who watches the ad. In this regard it seems whoever came up with the ad lacked some cultural sensibility.
I didn't know it was the thinest iPad. That actually made me want to check it out.
Around 1987/88, I was finishing college and worked at a copy/print/desktop publishing business. We had, IIRC, Mac SE 30s with Radius full page displays and several laser printers (in addition to high volume duplexing copiers and a deal with a full print shop for larger runs).

Adobe PageMaker and Illustrator were the workhorses. I did the design and layout for newsletters, posters, business cards, menus, invitations, resumes, or whatever someone wanted.

The real kludge was the scanner we had on the Macs. It replaced the print head on an ImageWriter II dot matrix printer. You fed it what you wanted to scan and it “printed” over it, scanning it at 72 dpi, which wouldn’t pick up much detail. So we would blow up images on the copier, scan the large pictures, trace it into an EPS file in Illustrator, then use it for the client’s materials.

My speciality was turning Polaroid photos of gas stations/convenience stores into architectural style line drawings for a firm that did graphics and signage. Photo -> blow up on copier -> scan in multiple parts into grainy BW scans -> tile the pieces back together -> trace in Illustrator. They would then take my 11”x17” black and white line drawings and their designer would color them and introduce the proposed graphics. As time consuming as it was, it saved them money to hire us to do it and the results were pretty impressive - particularly since my artistic skills were minimal.
Minimizing the number of clicks -- work required to accomplish a task -- is actually a valid focus of UX, called information architecture. It even has a pithy rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-click_rule
That sounds like some Bad CaRMa that I read about once...

https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/opinion/opinion-pieces/...

... which while there were other red-gate posts out there, I can't find that one ever submitted as a dup to link the comments about it (this shall be rectified).
Bad CaRMa (2006)
Exactly 1 day after its authorisation was revoked in the EU

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/08/ast...
I would love if someone did a compare and contrast with LiveView and Blazor.
Operator skill level aside, how does this compare to the fish kick?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_kick
You discovered that people make mistakes. Congratulations
No need to go back in time. People say that about CGI in movies today. Studios lie about CGI, and even alter BTS footage. Directors are under NDA. Actors are clueless. Everyone says everything is real to appeal to the CGI bad crowd. Media outlets hype the new practically shot movie. After a few weeks or months after the release, the VFX studios behind the movie show off their work. Turns out it was CGI all along, but nobody cares at that point.
An eagle!
Perhaps they don't want their answers to be systematically leveraged to put them out of work.

Though considering the site terms and CC license, I don't think deleting will actually help much.
He might very well like it, who knows.
Ha! It's a probably little late to get on the docket for this years Mayfest, but I'd imagine next year wouldn't be much trouble.