skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rarely see anyone defending Apple, but I do see people constantly applying logic to them specifically that they don’t seem to apply to other companies. Take this:

> Apple don't react to anything until there's a large enough outcry about it, rather than immediately address the issue they wait to see how many people complain to decide if it's worth the negative press and consumer perception or not.

You can’t immediately address any issue. You need time to investigate issues. You might not even start investigating until you hit some sort of threshold or you’ll be chasing your tail in every bit of customer feedback. It takes time to narrow down anything to a bad component, bad batch, software bug or whatever it is.

As for weighing whether the issue is worth addressing at all - this is literally every company. If you did a recall of every bit of hardware at the slightest whiff of an issue you’d go bankrupt very quickly. There are always thresholds.

I wish we would just criticise apple in the same way we do with other companies. There is no need to invent things like “you’re holding it wrong” or intentionally misunderstanding batterygate into “they slowed down phones to sell you a new one”. They already do other crappy things, inventing fake ones isn’t necessary.
The Astro Content Layer
Sorry. When you spend time in the linux world, you forget people don't know about "Debian-family is outdated".

Inside, its an awakening as people need to be redirected from the old advice to the modern advice.
I bought into Alexa/Echo because at the time my late wife could not work remote controls (Multiple Sclerosis). She only had her voice.

It was great for her to play different radio stations, playlists, news. It did the job.

I did try linking it to a TV but that was terrible. Slow, janky, unreliable.

Since she died - Dec 2018 - "Alexa play LBC" "Alexa stop"

Oh, if you do have an Alexa device "Alexa, what noise does a hamster make?"
They are capable, they have even arguably done it a few times over the last 15 years. They don't want to.

Google wants your messages to feed their ad serving, which is their actual business. Messaging is just the crap they give away to feed their ad serving revenue machine.

Technically Google Messages is E2E encrypted, provided you stay one the happy path, which is harder than it looks, since they don't allow anyone but themselves to play in the happy path.
It aims at replacing them all, including venv, pipx, and more.

> Think: a single binary that bootstraps your Python installation and gives you everything you need to be productive with Python, bundling not only pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv, but also pipx, tox, poetry, pyenv, ruff, and more.

> Our goal is to evolve uv into such a tool.

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/blob/main/README.md
So let us have awareness campaigns, and make them unassailable by being perfectly honest - instead of furthering attempted manipulation ("mesmerizing people for persuasiveness through innocuous documentaries about the wonderful") as if it were aproblematic behaviour, and as if normal actually-adults would not be consequently exposed to dubious campaigns, with dubious results.

I do not know about many places around the world, but in some areas it is normally told to children in primary school that "well, before these milestones you had an important risk of measles or poliomyelitis" - just as part of the history of science and achievements, primary school level. Which again suggests that treating people like adults - even very "underage" - remains an important recipe to obtain, in the end, Adults.
Someone, maybe a family member, has an Spotify account connected to Alexa, and chose your Echo device as output
And yet Python3 is more popular than ever /shrug
I had trouble loading the article, so here's the image:

https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2024/06/medieval-gam...
According to TFA, pistachios are not listed as an ingredient. Maybe they are a part of natural and artificial ingredients or maybe some other natural ingredient is more convincing.
> We are a bit non-traditional

I'm curious to understand more.

Do you mean you're non-traditional in how you track Pipeline and working a customer through your sales funnel to Close?

(which I am struggling to understand what could be non-traditional about that)

Or are you referring to something else?

Genuinely curious, which is why I ask.
I'm not sure what you mean. I've been playing around with Lean and it works fine on a Mac. I am using VSCode, though.
> either that, or Google just didn't care

Let's just say I get the impression Google doesn't care. Really, that access control for Alexa data ought to be the standard.
I remembered the same. Perspective correction needs a division operation for each pixel and while drawing a scanline, calculating it every 16 pixels and linearly interpolating between them make a huge speed difference.
This made me recall another great Googlism. My Google Home device can stream music and what is that default player when I say OK, Google play...

It's Spotify. I'm a YouTube Subscriber, you know another Google product which is a Spotify competitor. Ok Google play AC/DC on YouTube Music. Nope, it's commercials in Spotify.

Can you imagine a world where Apple sold the music rights on the iPad to Spotify?

It's so ludicrously short sighted and against the whole principle of an integrated Google ecosystem. They sabotage long term gains for short term profit and wonder why they keep failing. Well, maybe because you compete against yourselves.
Also, when installing a wheel you can get a brief error message "Not a supported wheel on this platform" without an explanation of why this wheel is not compatible with your system, which can be infuriating.
AI-powered assistant for general cloud infrastructure management
It's interesting that Takeru Kobayashi [1], who won the contest six times in a row starting in 2001, also declined to sign an exclusive contract with Nathan's.

Slightly OT but obligatory, the photo in the article reminded me of this classic Bill Murray scene (warning: somewhat revolting): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWPn-C5l3Sk

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeru_Kobayashi#July_2010_con...
Well Gov. Mike Dewine and the Ohio Republican lawmakers aren't above a little graft:

> The Ohio nuclear bribery scandal (2020) is a political scandal in Ohio involving allegations that electric utility company FirstEnergy paid roughly $60 million to Generation Now, a 501(c)(4) organization purportedly controlled by Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives Larry Householder in exchange for passing a $1.3 billion bailout for the nuclear power operator.

...

> In July 2019, the House passed House Bill 6, which increased electricity rates and provided that money as a $150 million per year subsidy for the Perry and Davis–Besse nuclear plants, subsidized coal-fired power plants, and reduced subsidies for renewable energy and energy efficiency. Governor Mike DeWine signed the bill the day it passed.[0]

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_nuclear_bribery_scandal
The defense department is far larger than missiles and planes.

Also nuclear weapons simulation is what keeps the DoE continuously buying new world leading super computers.
That blog post should exist, agree. Here is an attempt at a short answer (with the caveat that I am not an expert in Temporal).

(1) Restate has latencies that to the best of my knowledge are not achievable with Temporal. Restate's latencies are low because of (a) its event-log architecture and (b) the fact that Restate doesn't need to spawn tasks for activities, but calls RPC handlers.

(2) Restate works really well with FaaS. FaaS needs essentially a "push event" model, which is exactly what Restate does (push event, call handler). IIRC, Temporal has a worker model that pulls tasks, and a pull model is not great for FaaS.
Restate + AWS Lambda is actually an amazing task queue that you can submit to super fast and that scales out its workers virtually infinitely automatically (Lambda).

(3) Restate is a self-contained single binary that you download and start and you are done. I think that is a vastly different experience from most systems out there, not just Temporal. Why do app developers love Redis so much, despite its debatable durability? I think it is the insanely lightweight manner they love, and this is what we want to replicate (with proper durability, though).

(4) Maybe most importantly, Restate does much more than workflows. You can use it for just workflows, but you can also implement services that communicate durably (exactly-one RPC), maintain state in an actor-style manner (via virtual objects), or ingest events from Kafka.

This is maybe not the first thing you build, but it shows you how far you can take this if you want:
It is a full app with many services, workflows, digital twins, some connect to Kafka.
https://github.com/restatedev/examples/tree/main/end-to-end-...

All execution and communication is async, durable, reliable. I think that kind of app would be very hard to build with Temporal, and if you build it, you'd probably be using some really weird quirks around signals, for example when building the state maintenance of the digital twin that don't make this something any other app developer would find really intuitive.
The "Four Yorkeshiremen" sketch by Monty Python always lightens my mood when this kind of bragging comes up.
If startup goes to zero, then everyone goes home with nothing. The founders typically don't lose any money of their own -- that cost is shouldered by angel and series-A investors.

Often though, the startup has a "soft landing" where it's acquihired by a larger company, and then the founders typically get executive or very senior roles (with large bonuses, etc) meanwhile the non-founders get standard employee packages.
Hmm, I'm an early Alexa PM (2016) that left Alexa before the OP joined it (2019).

Alexa's main failure was mainly that the tech wasn't ready - it was basically a ASR + NLU + rule engine. If we had 2023 LLM tech, then we may have "won" the Assistants market.

Yes, organizational bloat and politics was a problem but OP was hired as a result of the mass hiring spree, so he was a beneficiary of that.
> What do the wild horses actually eat?

The same that they eat in Chornobyl. Everything that is green except traffic lights.

This animal are the equivalent to "Eurasian zebras" and was designed to roam around in arid places. They are really hard and able to fend for themselves, even under high predatory pressure and radioactivity levels.
That won't happen unless they are forced. They know people buy iPhones to get the blue bubbles in iMessage, so they can be seen as "cool". They only make money by selling iPhones, not iMessage.
Wow. Thats a really fresh concept and an important need. Congrats on the launch.
Ah well, your question wasn't clear. But your clarification helps!
Copy and paste did not exist at all on the iPhone in 2008 - not even in Safari.

[https://www.wired.com/2008/09/iphone-22-safar/]
[https://x.com/kocienda/status/1538536958258909184]
What they likely meant was that the options would eventually be worth $5m, but not when they left the company and could exercise them.
> Thirdly, there is also often a lot more stress in being the founder. It is a complex, all day job. You have the weight of keeping things going for all employees, and when cash is low it’s your paycheck that gets delayed/cut first, not your employees.

I've seen startups from a founder perspective and from an employee perspective (VC style startups). I agree there is more stress as a founder, but people really underestimate the toll as an early employee - the gap is smaller than many people think. Particularly those ideal missionary-type early employees, they take on just as much mental ownership burden as the founders. It is also an all-day job. Let me tell you, when the money runs low, it is immensely stressful as an early employee - it is both hard to be the one making the decisions and it is hard to not be the one making the decisions. The ability to walk away isn't a benefit, it's a burden.

Their jobs can be different (or can be very much the same - depends on people and every startup is its own beast) with founders needing to deal with fundraising, board management, and ultimately having the impossible problems land at their feet which is often out-of-scope (and out-of-sight) for early employees. But the same core problem exists for both - your actions will dictate the success of the company.

And there is a huge amount of understanding of the founder burden and support for them, from financial to emotional to reputational. Where are the support networks for early employees? People will say the founders, but this is a load of crap for the same reason that founders rely on relationships with other founders rather than talking to their board or teammates.

Early employee is probably the worst engineering gig in Silicon Valley on most dimensions. Unless you just want to 0 to 1 build things. Then I haven't seen a job that can compare.
Yes. Still my favourite way to watch movies and F1 (via Vroom). I love working in environments, I am more calm and get distracted less.

One gripe I had was that I couldn't see the keyboard in an immersive environment, so I had to keep reorienting myself if I took my hands off of it. Now with visionOS 2 you can have the keyboard appear in an environment, so I'm excited to try that. The ability to have an ultra wide screen is a nice addition as well.
Just one, but one that's decent. We'll keep inventing new ones until then.

Maybe beyond.
It was enough for mongol/kereit/naiman/turcik horses (eastern steppe horses?). Of the 5 snouts, only the horse could rely on grass only without peas or roots, which made it the king of the 5, everybody knew how to take care of a horse, even semi-nomad clans had 2 to 3 per adult.
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You can see the time that the repo was last updated in the right bottom part of every search result
You are also competing against a beast that locks in multi year contracts and is embedded so much within a company's ecosystem that it is almost impossible to replace them. Sorta like JIRA/Confluence.
Using RAG is definitely a relief factor after reading that you're using AI and NLP for aggregate analysis, but I'm curious how much manual review this actually saves?

Since the model summaries would still need to be validated against the source results manually, your business' actual viability as a product hinges on whether customers perceive a significant time savings in the data provided via these channels over historical aggregation methods (like keyword analysis that you mentioned) and level of false positives.

What do you measure as the largest impact here? Is there a large time savings, is it additional discovery from blindspots that other methods don't cover? Both? Are there additional benefits you see to this model beyond automation and expanded discovery?
Arguably the most important, not the most important. You can make a strong argument for why it is, is all that I am saying.
Yeah, but that requires basically a special favor from the DBA to create the trigger for what feels like a basic, common-enough data-load task...

What I normally see though is that the auto-incrementing sequence (at least in MS SQL Server or Oracle) isn't clever enough to say "wow, that id already exists on your table somehow? Here let me bump the sequence again and you try again with a higher ID..."

Instead you get a 2am alarm because the generated sequence somehow ran into the block of IDs that you inserted into the table and crashed with a PK unique constraint violation.

Hence UUIDv7 or ULIDs being easy to insert from the temp table into the main table.
Yes - I do use it for watching films that I want to be more engaged in, usually films through Criterion. I find myself spending more time outdoors now that it's summer but during the winter I'm on it much more. I love the environments and do wish there were more to choose from, plus environments on more streaming platforms. The Disney+ ones are very well made.
None of this is very good justification for founders being the only employee that have the option to sell part of their stake.

> If you were an employee and had $200k total value in your options, and you could sell 10%, you're getting $20k.

It obviously depends on your financial situation, but having the option vs not will certainly matter to some employees. Not to mention that the stake could well be worth $0 in the future.
Yeh, moved to Michigan from England and was taken to the oldest pub in the city, 120 years old. My local pub used to be a hunting lodge used by Henry VIII
The early days of setuptools/easy_install (around 2004) were interesting. The way I remember it, the main developer had a clear "don't ask for permission, just build what you think is best and put it out there" approach.

That avoids the problems you can get where everything gets discussed to death and nothing actually gets written, but the downside was that the project spent a long time in an uneasy situation where it didn't have complete official buy-in but was popular enough that it would have been hard to push an alternative.

There were a couple of questionable early design decisions that didn't help.
I've seen him boast plenty about various engagement stats, and seen the site make superficial changes to try to boost them. It seems probable to me that "find ways to increase these numbers" is a pressure he's putting on managers/engineers, and that "remove potential reservations to liking content" came largely from that. I'm not assuming any high-level rationality.
My personal favorite is "Alexa! All Hue Lights ON" here - I only trust Siri with important cooking timers.
They don’t seem to mention how to get off the ground again after such a landing.

If that requires building a launch platform and/or shipping in a first stage, or moving the vehicle out over ground towards a launch facility, such landings will be expensive (even can end up being one way trips), making them economical for very few jobs.
Tech recruiter questions have evolved over 10 years
Now

Recruiter: Have you worked with microservices, continuous delivery, Docker, Kubernetes, React, AWS, and Snowflake?

Candidate: Yes

Recruiter: Let's move to the coding test!

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Recruiter: Do you have 5 years of experience in developing AI projects?

Candidate: Yes! The only thing is that I started coding 3 years ago.

--

Recruiter: How many work hours do you want to do remotely and in the office?

Candidate: I want to visit the office only for team-building events.

How it was before

Recruiter: Did you work with object-oriented versions of PHP?

Candidate: Yes, a bit. We started using PHP 5 on our recent project.

Recruiter: Lucky you!

--

Recruiter: I’m looking for a DevOps engineer. Are you interested in this role?

Candidate: I don’t think I’m a good fit; I’m a System Administrator.

--

Recruiter: Did you have experience working in Agile/Scrum teams?

Candidate: Not really.

Recruiter: Me neither.
Could you share details on limits to be mindful of when designing workflows? Some things I'd love to be able to reference at a glance:

1. Max execution duration of a workflow

2. Max input/output payload size in bytes for a service invocation

3. Max timeout for a service invocation

4. Max number of allowed state transitions in a workflow

5. Max Journal history retention time
> you're never forced to sell your mineral rights and let people on your land

You are correct; if you own the surface and mineral rights you are not obligated to allow for any surface use. The thing you describe where someone drills on neighboring property and you are tagged along is called Force Pooling and is a much more complex topic.

You are not guaranteed to be force pooled -- if your neighbor has enough land to lease a full unit, it's conceivable that resources may still flow from your minerals towards the productive well without being compensated. It's usually in the landowners best interest to negotiate in good faith with a lessee than to be force pooled.

If you own only the surface rights to your land and someone else owns the subsurface minerals or a lease to the subsurface minerals you can absolutely be obligated to allow surface access for development and production under reasonable and usual terms for such.
You could suggest they implement moddable.app so that you can write custom React components
You're lucky that you're not installing on an nVidia Jetson system that is pinned to Python 3.8 which forces you to use old versions for almost everything else, unless you want to give up on CUDA.
CMake modules to support Apple Metal shaders
I recently wrote some CMake modules to support compiling and embedding Apple Metal shaders as part of a project's CMake build system, using the Metal command-line tools.

You can find them on GitHub, along with some example code and instructions for using them in your own projects.
>the economic damage of the camp fire wildfires. That was caused by a single downed power line.

So why are they called camp fire wildfires if a camp fire was not the start of it?
So when you see me pull out my phone to snap a photo of some graffiti I like or use it to translate a sign I can't read or message my wife to let her know I'm running late, what are you thinking?
>OCR of every single image on my computer so I can copy and paste text from anything, all running locally on the NPU on my M1 chip

This functionality is baked into Windows since 10. But for some reason you need a third party program to expose it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.media.ocr?...

https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
We've had weeks and weeks of "Apple have dropped the ball over AI" so now it's Alexa's turn I guess.
I often think about how if more people understood the median cap table life cycle from Seed to Acquisition/Shut-down/IPO, there'd be half as many VC-funded companies and twice as many bootstrapped companies every year. Thank you for sharing your experience towards that goal.

Unless you're doing some niche b2b thing where you have no personal connections (in which case, why are you doing it at all?), the differential financial returns of going with VC are often negative, if not neutral. The main diff is you can "fail up" into the investor class if you prove your worth but the business goes sideways. But even that is a dissatisfying career for most founder-type people.

To whoever needs to read this: start your own company, avoid raising money.
Leveling up seems like a good reason for someone who’s stagnating at a bigger company. My experience is startup people want to recruit their most respected former colleagues, who by virtue of being respected are also getting promoted in place.

Titles obviously don’t transfer back to big companies, we had plenty of ex-cofounders and CTOs hired into the same junior roles as anyone else who could LeetCode.
Rust procedural macros empower us to conceal intricate details of function implementation, presenting a simple and clear interface to developers. If interface is straightforward enough for even ChatGPT to understand, it's possible to have AI write code for us.