skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article has the line:

> (in particular if they are encouraged by a “cheaper, faster, better” organizational goal)

This struck me, I have never remotely worked for a place that seriously believed "you get what you pay for." I wonder what that would be like.
This is a scapegoat- I see this thrown around in dev forums on reddit all the time. I asked my CFO if this had any impact (small fintech startup of <200 employees globally), and he said it has no impact on our planning or any real material impact to our books.

This was a small speedbump in the financial statements of alphabet/meta/apple etc, and both revenues and earnings climbed despite the impacts. They kind of even out after 5 years regardless.
My employer used Peoplesoft, in the days before Oracle bought it. Of course, you can't set up Peoplesoft on your own, you bring in consultants. When I reviewed my notes from all the pitches, I found that they all had said that we should modify our processes to suit Peoplesoft. I guess we did--I was new there.

I would also say that painful, unduly costly implementations seem pretty standard for ERP products. I have heard such stories about SAP.
Seems like a lot of your challenges can be solved with https://storybook.js.org/
its also crazy how much cheaper it is than AWS. the primary DB is around $500/month with 32 CPU and 256 GB of RAM and 7TB. AWS RDS db.m6gd.8xlarge which is 32 CPU and 128 GB of RAM costs $2150/month before paying for storage as well.
The GenAI Stuff you don't like/hate helps blind people to navigate the world because generating images also allows to analyse images.

There are plenty of other areas which will help a lot of people left and right including you. Cancer research, material research for energy.

Cancer for example can be detected in xrays thanks to GenAI stuff. Its a lot easier to get an x-ray machine somewere around the globe but an expert is hard and we do not have enough radiologists anyway.
I wish I could downvote this drivel into the ground. The author is clearly working backwards from their utter grumpiness toward Apple. I’d love to see this exchanged with a ‘source’ that’s not a wannabe tech journalist poorly editorialising. We know that LLM inference chews resources, and it’s a completely common and justifiable call by Apple to limit the hardware that ‘supports’ it.

I’m genuinely not sure what’d make people like this actually happy. These sorts of outrage merchants are so tiring.
Is your RAG Reranker not helping? This might be why
My experience has been that the talent density is the main difference. Netflix tackles huge problems with a small number of engineers. I think one angle of complexity you may be missing is efficiency - both in engineering cost and infrastructure cost.

Also YouTube has _excellent_ engineering (e.g. Vitess in the data space), and they are building atop an excellent infrastructure (e.g. Borg and the godly Google network). It's worth noting though that the whole Netflix infrastructure team is probably smaller than a small to medium satellite org at Google.
They get that with Crusader Kings 3.
The world is full of technologies that are ubiquitous but imperfect.
AI #82: The Governor Ponders
The link in the post is to a specific point in a live blog. It will forever and always be a snapshot of that moment in time, as you can see at the top of that page. Here’s a link to a moment in time when Reuters was also reporting dozens, they of course also updated since then: https://x.com/Reuters/status/1836031152869581310
These guys were pioneers who set forth a lot of the patterns used in other PM software (Did they invent "Velocity"?). I hated Pivotal in the early days, but after a couple years on the job I learned to really love it especially as the newer flimsier sprint planning tools were popping up in the early web 2 days.

Only Trello really "beat it" fairly - Jira was always top-down forced, and Asana only won with designers because it was pretty while Pivotal was more tactical (not to mention they clung to skeuomorphic UI a little too long). The rest is history.

I guess we can say Pivotal was quite pivotal in the AGILE/sprint/PM software race. RIP
Thanks for the reply! Upvoted your comment because it's genuine discussion.

I have to say I disagree though, or rather, I find Funes unconvincing (hey, a fellow Argentine!). First, it's just his personal opinion and not that of the Vatican or any official dogma, and I have no doubt individual Christians can still believe regardless of whatever happens in the cosmos. I think the "Enlightenment" perspective from the article is more about deeply thinking about the consequences and whether the idea of the Christian god is compatible with intelligent life in multiple planets.

I think Funes' line of thought is a bit of hand waving, and essentially an "I choose to believe regardless". For example:

> Aliens, he speculated, could already be redeemed because they could have remained in full friendship with God, while the human race “could be precisely the lost sheep, the sinners that need the shepherd.”

Well, yes... but the story of the original sin and humans needing redemption, us being "lost sheep", Christ dying "for our sins", etc, are all fundamental to Christianity. They are not an "accident", they ARE the religion. If you remove this aspect (e.g. because hypothetical aliens don't need redemption) then it turns into something entirely different. You cannot excise this from Christianity and still have it remain the same religion at a fundamental level.

Also, this humanizes aliens too much. What if the alien lifeform is a highly intelligent hive mind comprised of cannibalistic entities with no notion of the self (as we understand it)? Are they "already saved"? Or should they be redeemed? And how, exactly?

This is still an Earth- and human-centered point of view. I believe this is what all those philosophers considered at odds with the sentience on multiple worlds hypothesis.

I can see a different religion still being compatible with multiple worlds, but not Christianity.
> Unlike marking only on the surface of a 2D piece of paper or magnetic tape, this method of encoding uses two optical dimensions and three spatial co-ordinates to write throughout the material - hence the ‘5D’ in its name.

Ummmmm.......
The Last Days of the Samurai
“Completely due to” was meant in the sense of “fully reliant on” not “solely reliant on”. Tarrifs are not the only tool used, and US companies would simply not be allowed to fail, period.
Intuit has how many? I am one. Give it time.
> And these costs, where do they come from? Does every trial cost a million dollars a day? (I mean surely small claims court trials don’t right?)

small claims courts don't have a jury.

If you're suing a giant company and asking for hundreds of millions in damages, they're for sure going to pull out all the stops. It's not My Cousin Vinny.
A related mental trick I use to move on from some mistake I'm stuck on is to think the following:

In the future, I will make another mistake, and I will be regretting that instead of this. So I should focus on the present and the future, and try to identify and avoid that mistake (pick a different future!), rather than obsessing over the past.

It's incredibly obvious, of course, but going through the exercise of thinking it out explicitly really helps.
I probably wouldn't swap unless you have a specific complaint with SNS/SQS. I do like how easy it is to spin up Rabbit locally via docker-compose for testing, but I don't think that convenience is worth refactoring a significant portion of your code base.
> The general slowness extends to simple things like x-rays and blood tests too. This is not just US but whole of the west seems to have the exact same attitude.

In France I could have a blood test right now, without an appointment, and an X-ray by tomorrow morning (just checked).

But the ER is generally far too slow and some specialists have much too long waiting times.
Optimizing Sign-Up UX with AI: 2 Use Cases for LLMs
If anyone is making a clone, feel free to reach out to me. jim.jones1@gmail.com

Previous user of Pivotal Tracker - I'll tell you everything that I loved and hated about it.

I know a couple other devout users as well that I could introduce you to.
As an option, Dettol pine oil disinfectant cleaner is still available https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dettol+pine+oil&ia=web
Any solution that requires updating clients, servers, and networking equipment to support the protocol and/or adjust the network address scheme of the environment will require the exact same steps doing an IPV4 to IPV6 migration would require.
The system should require multiple identical copies uploaded independently.

The "independently" part is hard, could require some kind of web of trust.
Europe needs regulatory certainty on AI: Open letter from Meta and others
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/real-estate-brei...

https://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/reits-to-capital...

Whilst these are not direct examples, they show the commercial estate market is in deep trouble if people are not going to return.
It sounds like you have basically given a formulation of Maxwell’s Demon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon

“All you have to do is harvest the hottest/fastest molecules” pretty much describes exactly what Maxwell’s Daemon is.

Now, you can see from the Wikipedia page that there is at least some debate about the topic.
But, I think that generally, most physicists think that Maxwell’s Demon would violate the 2nd law, and that the 2nd law is a real limitation.

It certainly sounds like this device would violate the “metaphysics” definition of the 2nd law, “entropy always increases”.
Because it sounds like it’s harvesting energy from heat for “free” (not actually energy from nothing, not violating conservation, but free in that you are not paying for the loss of entropy by increasing entropy somewhere else, which is typically “required”).

I am not a physicist, and in my layman’s understanding, I have always felt that the 2nd law seemed fishy. A lot of other people do, too. It’s called “a scientific law”, but it feels more like a philosophical “principle”. It feels different than, for example, “the law of gravity”.

But, this invention, if it is not a hoax or error, sounds world changing. 94 nW/cm2 means a milliwat for 2 square inches. That’s already usable amounts of power for tiny devices. Can you roll up a couple square meters of this stuff into something like a capacitor and get a usable “free” AA battery?

Is heat about to be free energy? No more problems with global warming?
Are our refrigerators and air conditioners soon going to be a source of energy rather than a sink?

If this claim is true, then this is world changing technology available to anyone with pretty basic thin film technology…. And there are YouTubers who will be replicating this soon. Let alone real fabrication labs.

You can see why it’s reasonable to be skeptical…
That's the Mario's hat patent
All the Viam code that runs on your machines actually is open-source (see https://github.com/viamrobotics/rdk).
You'd pay for things like data collection/storage in the Viam cloud, cloud-based ML training, etc.
They don't, but depending on one's understanding an perspective they can be described as violating. The point is that just because something can possibly be described as a violation does not mean that there are perhaps other perspectives that may understand them without such violation.
That is fair, I can respect that! Keep going!
Not holding my breath but I'll take one of these 5D memory crystals in 5¼ drive bay form factor thank you. Imagine a 100TB disc for a few bucks. Hell, I'd settle for 1TB.
Its no more magical than v4. In fact the BGP turn up call I usually have to do does both v4 and v6 at the same time.
Hoping AWS and my ISP implement IPv6 before I retire...

(AWS has partially implemented IPv6, but it's still not usable in my mind)
The Bible is hardly based on the clay tables. Genesis, the first book of Moses, tells the story of the flood, which the Sumerian refer to as Gilgamesh.
You're probably right, but Netflix does a good job building their engineering brand by writing up and sharing their technical work publicly.
I have all the in the works, including complex assemblies and reporting.

I wish I had the $ to hire help.
Not safe to say— I have first hand experience.
Which human? Despite large sections shared by all mankind and even other species, each individual has an unique genome, except identical twins.
CTRL+F "entanglement". Disappointed.

No interstellar comms for us.
A past job used Pivotal for several years until a new employee asked if we'd ever heard of Linear. I think we started the migration maybe a month later.
Most people probably have a PT account lying around or can find a friend with one. I just checked and my account from 6+ years ago is still active.
Note: I was there at West End Games when we launched Paranoia. In fact, I drew the original computer illustration as well as the secret society logos (they were inked by another artist).

A little known story: there was a player in Dan Gelber's social circle who was a total rules lawyer. He annoyed Dan & crew immensely. So Dan created a game where it was treasonous — reason for summary execution — to show any knowledge of the rules. They had a lot of fun killing that player's character over-and-over.
Sorry to be that guy. But the UI is more Windows 95/2000 (minus the Icon in the leftmost side of the title bar).

Win3.1x just had a little dash at the far left, and simply an Min/Max on the right.

I love the look btw
One place that I see this happening is the Ukraine/Russia conflict where just because there hasn't been a nuclear exchange yet, people assume that there won't be, and keep pushing the line on acceptable escalation (on both sides -- Russia in starting the war, and the west in defending Ukraine). No we've got western tanks on the ground in Russia and Ukrainian drones bombing Moscow and who knows what is going to be the triggering event. 75 years of MAD doctrine thrown out the window and now we're deep in uncharted territory.
The US has no common health system. There are a few systems that are common (Medicare) but that is only for the elderly. The rest of the system is all done on the state level. The rules vary amongst all the states.
This looks good, and I’m a target user in this space.

One thing I’ve noticed is the prevalence of Docker for this type of tool, or the larger self-managed PaaS tools. I totally get it, and it makes sense. I’m just slow to adapt. I’ve been so used to Go binary deployments for so long. But I also don’t really like tweaking Caddyfiles and futzing with systemd unit files, even though the pattern is familiar to me now. Been waffling on this for quite a while…
Excellent satire on Hacker News participants.

That WAS what you intended, right?
How Cloudflare is helping domain owners with the upcoming Entrust CA distrust
I understand where you are coming from. But for ME I have personally ever wondered why are people afraid of others knowing their medical history.

This I know is a very unpopular opinion, but for my specific case, I've got plenty of medical record that may be considered "shameful"? Got several colonoscopies, endoscopies, I lost a finger, I had a LIS (anal operation) , etc, etc, etc haha. Yet, I kind of don't really care if people knew about it.

Maybe I have never truly suffered discrimination (I'm what we call "whitexican" here in Mexico, so I'm privileged. And that's why I think like this.
I believe they mean similar to the fonts when you're learning the alphabet, not when you're learning to read. Like those books where you trace "A" ten times then "a" 10 times then "B" and so on.
Out of curiosity, how do Spice/Chili/Rayon compare against the boring answer, OpenMP?

I guess they must have some really neat capabilities.
Will this work across different goroutines?
Oracle-Backed Chipmaker Ampere Explores Potential Sale
Nearly every corporate leader I've worked for charges after any trend that's hot. They don't have a tech background and can't tell if something is real or hype. They don't want to seem like a fool that's missing out, so they act a fool and chase everything.
Look up Cal Newport's Deep Work book, he's writing one now Deep Life that you'll probably want to get as it will deal with this very subject.

The idea of working and playing at the same time is a bit fantastical. It's true you can flow, you can be creative, while working, but that's not play, and for probably >95% of workers, work won't be play. Work may be meaningful and purposeful, but really it pays the bills and provides meaning/purpose.

Play is something we associate with children and puppies/kittens, with games and sports and make-believe. Play is an enjoyable amusement which might mimics real-life tasks and skills in a safe environment. Work is real, and it isn't going to be low-pressure and fun for almost all jobs, otherwise why would they have to pay us to do it?

I'd look at finding true depth in the work you do, so you're finishing projects on-time, with high quality, in a non-distracted way that enhances your meaning/life. Then you use the ample spare time left to play.
Do they have Erlang OTP JIT enabled on RabbitMQ? Why does it still feel so slow?
Community colleges care much less because the students that go there are choosing those schools for very different reasons. In some cases it’s financial, in some cases lack of options, in some cases for very specific certifications, etc. Community colleges also have less ability to chase rankings through lack of $ to plow into marketing budgets or other fluff used to inflate rankings so there’s no reason to care all that much. The issue also isn’t something a student will be too aware of after the few months of college search prior to enrolling.
>How do you get teams to use it?

Carrot: Thorough documentation with examples, and ease of migration that is as close to 100% automatable as possible, ex. with bash scripts. Migrating should be so easy that your own team could assist with it and not lose cycles.

Stick: Duress and coercion through management alignment, OKR scoring, and deadlines. Bonus if you can involve Legal for regulatory compliance issues resolved by your new components.
Funny story, I work out of a small part of Accenture and was just today explaining to a client that this is how we work (pairing, TDD, etc.). Way back in 2018 or so we had a partnership with Pivotal and they taught us a bunch of their ways of working. It's been a challenge to maintain, especially through Covid, but a lot of the core ideas and practices are still alive. It doesn't work on every project, but man when it does it's a very nice way to do software.
>The quality of our education has fallen in addition to the rising costs.

Maybe as an average because more people are being educated, but I find it hard to believe that our top students now are any less educated than the top students in the past.
First of all, this is for C, and most extensions are written in C++ or Rust nowadays.

Secondly, the right tools are having Python, the C and C++ compiler, node-gyp and cmake.js installed, and actually understand how they work.

But what do I know, nowadays folks use C and C++ as scripting languages putting a full library into a single header file to avoid learning how to use the compiler and linker.
Not really.. IPv6 was theoretically ready in 1997. But, it was theoretical. It was still buggy. In 2000s Internet expansion skyrocketed and noone really cared about IPv6. Buggy, too different from IPv4, basically overengineered. They made prediction that was absolutly off.. And thats why adoption is crappy.
Agreed, it's mostly clickbait
They released the 13 mini because their product lead time exceeds one year. They didn’t have a Plus model to replace it with in time. It still sold more units than many Android models.

In addition, the mini is significantly larger than the 4S, so it doesn’t really address GP’s point.
I have a new version that utilize the graph. Not pushed it yet.
Then I use the embeddings to tag the answers and use tags + graph to try to understand if it is a good or bad reasoning.
Hope to have it out next week.

A bit to many bugs now.
I like what I'm seeing, though I'm not sure I have a use case. On a VPS, I'll typically run a cloudflared container and configure a Cloudflare tunnel to that VPS. Then, I can expose any port and point it to a subdomain I configure in the CF dashboard. This gives https for free. I can expose services in containers or anything else running on the VPS.

I'll concede there's probably a little more hands on work doing things this way, but I do like having a good grip on how things are working rather than leaning on a convenient tool. Maybe you could convince me Sidekick has more advantages?
>But so do solar panels. A PV system turns a moving particle (a photon) into an energy gradient, a voltage.

Solar panels only work because there's a temperature difference between the panel and the optical surface of the Sun.

Solar panels are not an example of a Carnot violation. As far as we know, no such examples exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency#Thermody...
Broadcom is in my bad-vendor list due to the handling of VMware.

Most of my job as a developer now is wading through bureaucracy that other people created (e.g., figuring out a poorly-designed, poorly-implemented, and poorly-communicated third-party API that often would be easier to do myself from scratch).

When I do hold my nose and wade through someone else's bureaucracy, and become dependent upon it, it had better not be pulled out from under me by some coked-up MBA who doesn't care what customers think of them.
We did this [0] as a 3-devs startup, and it was one of the best things we ever did!

For us, we found ourselves repeating again and again when we had multiple UI projects. It became boring and we decided to write the design system. It took us about 3-4 months to complete this.

- It takes a LOT of effort to migrate old projects. A LOT! So, make sure you really have the time and effort for a migration like that.

- In my opinion, it only makes sense to have a component library if you have multiple different projects / repos.

- Try not to reinvent the wheel. Design your components library, but follow a pattern of a popular library so you can see "hey if you have used this library, it's the same here. Just the UI is different"

- Write an extensive documentation with examples (here's ours: [1])

- In our case, integrating dark mode, docs, and i18n into the design system (in an opinionated way) saved us a lot of time.

[0] https://github.com/hyvor/design
[1] https://hyvor-design.pages.dev
> I was using an angle grinder to strip paint off of a large table top and necessarily had to remove the guard.

You did not have to remove that guard, you chose the wrong tool for the job. Chemical stripper and sanding tools exist, use the right tool for the job or next time you might lose that finger.
This looks nice. I find R to be an unreadable mess. The comprison shows a great improvement.
I had some thoughts on Jira: https://honeypot.net/2021/10/01/jira-is-a.html

TL;DR it's so completely customizable that it's more like a DIY project management toolkit. Pivotal and Linear have/had a more opinionated approach: "here's how you manage projects. Good luck and have fun!" Jira almost seems to push otherwise rational people to build the most baroque processes imaginable.
Hi,

Having Open Source Project on GitHub does not mean you need to become less agile. First there will not be instantly 1000 of people sending you pull requests, second even if they do - you have no obligation to take them in.

However if you say, we can write crap code... and no one would know because they only see binaries, this is not really a way gain a good confidence

In my opinion those days just having a "binary you can use" is the worst way to go for something like database/data store. If you are not sure about your Open Source plans having something like SaaS solution with free tier so users can experiment easily could be way to go