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> Interviews might not be able to tell you if someone is excellent but some terrible people will absolutely reveal their cards.

You appear to be equivocating on the definition of "terrible". The type of programming interviews that people dread, and are the subject of the linked article, are technical coding quizzes. These audition-style interviews do little or nothing to identify people who are "toxic". And grinding leetcode doesn't make you a team player.

> Also, difficulty in firing people doesn't automatically mean organizational dysfunction, sometimes it's an attempt at preventing abusive management.

Organizational dysfunction and abuse management are one and the same.

> With how swiftly you are advocating for firing I would love to be at such an organization that made firing difficult if you were my supervisor.

I advocated firing "someone obviously incompetent". Why would you fear that?
The premise of using an LLM to interpret data assumes that LLMs can reliably reason over data, which is not always the case. Essentially, you're trusting a black box to analyze health data and blindly trusting the output. This doesn't seem like the best use of LLMs, but I guess the risks might not be that high in your context, and users may not even notice. It's important to remember that LLMs are not yet thinking machines; they process patterns rather than truly understand or reason: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-no-agi-openai
Could you explain what you mean in your first paragraph? In what sense does Windows ship with Linux?
Why bigger? Just the ones they use now, which the post I responded to suggested to junk them all. If that happened, then what?
Lets just all live in bubbles and never interact. Too dangerous.
Oddly enough, that sounds like something that Harry Crews said in an article probably in Esquire many years ago--he was dismissing a class of drinks as inferior to whiskey.
A script to download tar.gz log files and export to specific folder based on date and environment. With this tool I could save at least 100 hours.

People still trying to download by hand and exporting and checking one by one. For me only four question to answer.
Which project? Which year and month? Which day(not necessary) and which environment.
I feel like this is an old man yells at cloud moment but I refuse to link social media or google accounts with other services.

Why should Google's or Discord's policy dictate my participation in the web?
i really like the hierarchy in sidebery
Should have ended with "I use Nix, btw"
You didnt mention which distro.

Are you using outdated Linux? (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint)

Or modern linux? (Fedora)

Too many people fell for Ubuntu's Free CD marketing 20 years ago and repeat a prayer that its 'sTaBlE'. Its not stable, Outdated linux is garbage.

Since switching to Fedora, I install RPM fusion + Nivida and never touch the terminal. I don't use app managers either, I just havent had a reason to use either app managers or the terminal in the last 1.5 years.
Finally, 2024 will be the year of the Linux desktop!

On a serious note there seems to be an interesting lesson here about what sort of products just don’t seem to work in a non-commercial open source model. Specifically, simple user friendly UIs for non-power users seem to require financial incentives and competition.
And both Unreal and Unity both mostly only work on Windows. (Linux support very sketchy)
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Looks like this https://imgur.com/xelfxZB
Same experience with the new 2024 Zephyrus G16 and the latest official Win 11 image. Crazy. I had to inject drivers into the boot image using nlite.
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Blog post: https://blog.quarkslab.com/mifare-classic-static-encrypted-n...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269249
Apparently they use thyristors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyristor#HVDC_electricity_tra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_converter#Thyristor_valve...
It's not forced, but it's a trivial upgrade if you have a basic setup.
I also have a desktop where I do some hobby AI development and once in a blue moon, Nvidia drivers would break the system because of kernel upgrades.
No. I've experienced this (insufficient gap for BSM to be satisfied) during collision avoidance maneuvers where a lane change of this nature was the better option than getting smashed, and based on that experience, I can realize that weavers would mistakenly think LKA is repeatedly interfering with lane changes (a bad thing) when it's actually BSM doing so (a good thing).
Nice news, slow and steady grows in the past decade :)

Regarding the article...

> While Linux's growth is noteworthy, it's important to view it in the context of the overall desktop operating system market:

>

> Windows remains dominant with a 72.08% market share

> macOS holds steady at 14.92%

> Chrome OS trails at 1.41%

>

> Linux's 4.45% puts it firmly in fourth place, ahead of Chrome OS but still well behind the market leaders.

Uhm what? And some people claim LLMs are great at summarizing data...
Linux can win the desktop by just sitting still while Windows makes itself more and more awful and user-hostile.
I have no idea what you are talking about, I've used fedora for over a year now and aside from some tweaking, which I explicitly did myself, I've never had to go into some weird configs to change anything.

It just works
I'd avoid outdated linux (Debian-family like Mint). Try Fedora.
Alterum verbum est https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/statistics#Etymology_1
I have used Linux desktop for around two decades on my laptops and never had any issues with drivers or anything else. Various distributions have worked very well out of box with different models of laptops and PCs.
> It makes much more sense to me that ChromeOS is becoming more common than that everyday users are switching to Linux.

It's not necessary for anyone to switch to Linux to see this behavior. These are shares. I'm actually not surprised by these numbers because I've noticed Windows users use their desktops less, instead doing more with other devices. I wouldn't be surprised to see the number rise to 20% or more in the next few years even if there's no pickup in folks moving to Linux on the desktop.
Linux Desktop got so much better in recent years but it also stayed the same. If you’re trying to be productive and not just switching between editor and terminal windows there are still endless frustrations that never end.
Failure is expensive if customers go elsewhere. I'm not in the web world where we can push to production multiple times per day. I work with embedded systems which are not even in range of a cell phone signal in some cases (we are looking at starlink), so updates mean a human needs to physically go out and update the device, and in turn updates are expensive.
I've been on Mint for 2 years. Never looked back.

I never hit that wall you speak of. Has been so amazing I donate 20 bucks every year to the project, just because I feel it has no right being at the same time free and that good.
Please write a blog about it
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269249
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> higher moral principles must always take priority with there's a conflic

People disagree about their higher moral principles. Resolving to absoluteness requires violent resolution.
I encounter prematurely closed tickets all the time, practically every day.

So many software projects close bugs with bots, and they have an unrealistically rosy picture of how bug-free their software is.
If Google is paying Apple effectively not to make its own search engine, I would not be surprised if Apple and/or Microsoft were paying Adobe not to port CC to Linux.
My mother-in-law remarried about 5 years ago. Her husband used to operate some oven cleaning business pre retirement, not exactly “techie”

He uses linux, has done for years, he just wants something that works.
I don't think the problem is with "Starting with open source". The real challenge is maintaining the transparency and being straight-forward. The setting the expectations should be clear. It should be like "Hey if you A go to an here and if you want B go there because that has X & Y".
Why would I want to roll the dice with Windows install media from a third-party site instead of just using Linux (and possibly making it work better?)
There are ads everywhere on Windows. And onedrive hijacks your filesystem.

Even at my fortune 20 company I see: "DNC RATINGS COMPARED TO RNC" clickbait crap. I'm amazed my company lets that garbage through. Probably because we have legacy software + some corruption with purchasing. Sharepoint... really?
> Economists generally believe the baseline, target rate should be around 2-3%.

If it's lower than inflation, the government is just giving free money to the corporations with access to interbank settlement loans.
I've come to a similar conclusion lately. I used to spend a lot of time jumping on my latest idea, researching and even writing a bit of code to get started. I'm much better off writing my ideas down, hopefully in a form where I can consolidate the ideas into a few projects, but even if it just stops me wasting time on an idea that I'll lose interest in soon, it's worthwhile.

On the other hand, I've got one large ongoing series of projects that are relatively pointless, and that is the whole point of them. I'm learning from them and I don't have the pressure of completing anything (although I would really like to). From time to time they have been really important for my mental health, and I value them for that.

I'm also quite aware now that I need to feel achievement to keep me motivated, and if I have a plan and can check off an item on that plan then that counts as a good day. Work doesn't always give me that sense of achievement, so having something else that does can be really valuable.
We organized a LAN PARTY (oh my, what a flashback) in 2005 in our student hostel, where we played CS / Half Life on wine, under Linux.

I thought we were already there, 19years ago
> same driver support Windows gets.

Naive question: Most of ML workload in a datacenter runs on Linux, for which I assume there's good driver support. Why do we say that Nvidia does not have enough driver support on linux?
It's hard to say without looking at the controller config. Likely the main corridor is running mostly "coordinated" meaning that it's ignoring sensor input and just doing whatever timing is programmed for that time of day. Then there's a little gap in the coordination that only triggers if the sensor sees a vehicle.

Older controllers use line voltage for their clocks, so they drift much more quickly than you'd expect from, for instance, a wristwatch.

So I'd guess that you already had a rather small window in the coordination during which you can get service based on your sensor, and then the clock drift has put that window in the exact worse spot.

But yeah, changing the paradigm from presence-based to trajectory-based was the whole point of the project. If we could make these things trajectory-aware then there would be no need to manually coordinate them and then have that manual coordination fall out of sync (even with an accurate time source, you've got weather and construction and all kinds of other things that throw it off).
Every spell checker I've seen is more trouble than it is worth. They can never figure out what word I mean....

I bring up spelling in code review, but they are always a "fix and push without farther review"
I used to run Linux on my desktop as a teenager, but now as a middle aged man I just want to sit down after work, boot up my computer, click the icon of my favourite game and relax for a bit.

And for that, I prefer Windows. I have stopped caring about my distro, my window manager, my desktop environment, the package manager I use. Even my wallpaper is just the default Windows 11 one.
Categorizing Hacker News Posts
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- Treats employees extremely well

- Great customer service

- Only sells good quality merchandise

- Extremely competent and humble management

- No PR or marketing dept

- No frills - free of all class distinction and power distance

- Has good prices, sometimes the best

This article is trying desperately hard to frame Costco's dirty little secret is... their ability to run a perfect business.
Without knowing what distro you use it is impossible to derive any meaning from your post.
With modern hardware it's also completely viable to have a Windows VM idling in the background on a Linux desktop to run things like MS Office. Local RDP performance (with FreeRDP/etc.) is excellent and suitable for business or dev work that doesn't require accelerated graphics. You can have shared directories, a shared clipboard, and so forth.
These disparate, completely subjective things are not phenomena.
Show HN: HumanLayer – Human-in-the-Loop for AI Agents
I found myself building a bunch of LLM-backed features that needed to use tool calling, and some of those tools involved doing things that were somewhat high stakes - communicating on my behalf or modifying shared / production data.

one example - I wanted to replace a marketing website with a chatbot + vector DB loaded with the previous content, docs, and blog posts. Between hallucinations, missing knowledge base info, and the LLM generally writing like an psuedo-intellectual high schooler, I realized I couldn't trust it to communicate unsupervised with my website visitors. I needed a way to improve the percent of high-quality responses, and do it this at scale.

I wired up a prototype that would

1. consult me in slack before sending any response down to a website visitor
2. incorporate my feedback into the knowledge base, and
3. reformulate answers until I approved the message
4. send it to the visitor

That prototype evolved into what is now HumanLayer https://github.com/humanlayer/humanlayer#why-humanlayer
How could that even work? In some areas, surely the Pacific Ocean is deeper than any humans or deep ocean vehicles have ever been to? So would the cable be hanging across undersea chasms, or do they need to find a depth where it can be placed?

Also, is it just so heavy that it doesn't need to be secured?
Raising prices works wonders when a product is both underpriced and hard to replace.

It can backfire when the new price point bumps it into a different category of decision making, though. For many, a $20/month product is an easy decision but $100/month price tag bumps it to a point where it becomes a more complicated decision making process. If you're not careful you can easily raise prices so much that people decide to jump to a more full-featured competitor product.

Projects like this one that are personal/side projects have an additional risk of raising prices: If the product becomes expensive, many people are going to notice that it appears to be highly profitable while also being within the realm of what a single person or small team can produce. Competition starts appearing quickly and you're back to cutting prices to stay relevant.

Finally, higher prices come with higher expectations from your customers. Whereas previously they might shrug off a slow response to a customer support request at $20/month, their $100/month service might lead them to expect more customer support, not less.

There are several indie SaaS companies that get posted on HN from time to time that take the opposite approach: They offer a low price but they're up front about what to expect. They don't try to pretend that you're getting world-class reliability, uptime, or support, but they do commit to offering a good service at a fair price. They could raise prices to match competitors, but now they're playing a very different game with very different expectations.
It depends on the nitpick. If it's something like a spelling error, then that's worth fixing.

If it's formatting or something that can be linted, then that should be automated.

If it's code style, I generally let that slide if it's just a difference in opinion, or I'll try to have a discussion with my coworker about our preferences (though I would still approve the PR). If it's genuinely bad code or a junior dev then it makes sense to provide feedback.
I'm not using Wine, it's all native. That's the big deal for me: it took zero effort from me, it Just Works.
I know python packaging has it's issues, but so far I personally have gotten pretty far with plain pip. The biggest shift to me was switching from original virtualenv to built-in venv module. On the other hand, if I wanted to be really serious about dependency management, I'd steal a page from FAANG, and build a monorepo and avoid all this hassle with package managers.
What blows me away is how poor printers still work. On a bare Debian laptop, I just walk up to it and it prints via USB with no configuration needed. Network printers I think auto-discover reliably as well, but it has been a few years since I've done that (we have a tendency to not trust printers at our small security firm so we don't hook them up to the network)

At least they've solved that you had to wait 2 minutes anymore when plugging your mouse into a different USB port before it finds the driver from Windows Update again
None of those contain the US calling for the destruction of Iran. Any others?
I’m sure you would! GC is like communism. Always some excuse as to why GC isn’t to blame.

> or a design that does not respect how GC works in the first place

It’s called shipping a 90 Hz VR game without dropping frames.
Oh absolutely, which is why I said I hope people can take these and add some sort of resistance training as they lose the weight.

And also totally agree that we need to invest in PT and educating PTs on how to work with people in larger bodies. As a formerly unhealthy person who only found exercise in their 30s, it's ridiculous to me that my high school gym requirements didn't teach me how to safely lift weights or use a gym. They would just let us use a barbell without any proper training, and the first time I tried to bench press with some friends (because we probably saw someone in a movie doing it) I injured myself. Every high school student should be learning how to use a gym, get through a yoga class, learn some calisthenics, etc. Set them up for their life so it's not so intimidating as an adult. Instead, at least for me in the 90s, it was a lot of playing basketball and baseball, nothing to keep me healthy on my own in my life.
ChatGPT says

The documentary he's referring to is likely "Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu," released in 1980. It chronicles the last day of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times before they transitioned to newer technology. The title comes from the nonsense phrase "etaoin shrdlu," which appeared frequently in Linotype machine errors due to the way the keys were arranged. The documentary provides a fascinating look at the end of an era in newspaper production.
UT2k4 supporting Linux was so progressive back then
Using discord is a great way to focus on what's important and get not great, but good enough ux and community tools basically for free.
Can confirm. Playing Elden Ring on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Just installed the Steam flatpak, enabled proton, installed the game, works just as well if not better than my Windows install. Nothing extra to install gpu driver wise this is practically vanilla OpenSUSE install with Steam really the only extra thing, playing online with multiplayer summons, etc.
If someone is not helping you, but you pay them for a year that is very costly.
Fedora woke me up to how Fedora is the best.

I'm not even going to say Linux, because people confuse it with Ubuntu/Debian/Mint GARBAGE. Never use that later crap for desktop. Its so outdated and buggy. You are using the terminal on a daily basis to get basic features working, if your hardware works at all.

Fedora is so good, I feel offended I didn't know about it until now. I am bitter against M$ and bitter against Canonical.
Checking this physics on this kind of thing is really hard. The math saying an object can operate does not tell you how the object comes into existence, for example.
They've been maintained, wear parts such as bearings and seals can be replaced. You can keep well-made machinery running almost indefinitely if you take care of it.
Deplatforming puts sex workers at risk
> Just post the big bombshell thing and not express your opinion about stuff?

Yes.

> Often it's the expressing opinion part that's more important than the actual nits.

Your opinions are not that valuable. Focus on the most valuable feedback you can give first.
I can't tell if this is a complaint or admiration.
You honestly think giving full, no rate limited free access is viable in the LLM space, where each execution is actually pretty expensive?

Because that's what you're asking for, as it'd be trivial to reset the rate without accounts.
MS Excel uses floating point, and it's used a ton in finance. Don't use floating-point for monetary amounts if you don't know what rounding mode you've set.
No one has to evacuate a city when someone breaks a solar panel, though. Deaths aren’t the only parameter here.

Nuclear safety events are rare, rarely fatal, but can be very large in impacted area.
In this case the "resource" is ostensibly the contents of your wallet.
Oooh, the Microsoft approach! :)
I've been guilty of this too, and generally I'll write something along the lines of "this would be nice to do, but it's out of scope unless you want to take it on".
>the customers who feel (sorry for the term) "entitled"

Why would the word/ term "entitled", need an apology?
So Go supports both structural and duck typing? Why is that a problem?
US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died
The explanation might be simpler.

He still needs to play, in some way, to a domestic audience.

The fall of the USSR was objectively bad for a large part of the Russian population. Their economy and quality-of-life metrics have never really returned to pre-1991 levels. Their geopolitical relevance has been degraded, and Western institutions have nibbled away at their sphere of influence. They've lost millions of square kilometres of territorial holdings that date to Imperial times.

He needs to perform some action to prove he's delivering something, and a stilted "you bait us long enough and we'll bite back" response might well fit, especially if they're already on a "the West is encroaching on our motherland" narrative.

I still believe that if the Ukraine had made some token concession-- for example, offering a binding secession referrendum in the Donbass, that would have given Putin the bacon he needed to bring home without an actual war.
> I've used Ubuntu in the past and had all sorts of display graphics driver problems.

Were you by any chance using Nvidia graphics hardware?

If you play games, you'll likely have the best overall experience with AMD graphics. (Assuming the GPU model isn't too new; it can take some months for the drivers to catch up to new models.) Most desktop distros will have everything you need; no need to go downloading drivers from vendors or turning to third party software repositories.

If you don't play games, either AMD or Intel graphics ought to be good.

Nvidia drivers can be made to work well with most games, and certain distros make the setup easy, but they come with baggage and hassles. They're huge, and they have a long history of integrating poorly with the OS overall. The problems they caused me outside of games were part of what drove me to stop buying their hardware.
Why do people insist on this?

A rate of inflation + 0.5% is double of a rate of inflation + 0.25, that is double of a rate of inflation + 0.125%, that is double of...

You can have as many steps as you want.
Show HN: Hacker News API wrapper written in Crystal
I built this my junior year of high school as an alternative to a paper we had to write. My teacher didn't understand Crystal so I've never talked to anybody about this project. Open to feedback or criticism.