skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What do you even talk about for an hour?

We once had 1 hour long standups. The reasons were:

1) large team

2) many devs loved to go into detail about their work, and no one stopped them

3) the expectation was that a standup must be about describing what you did yesterday, in detail

What we did:

1) split the team into subteams where each team has their own standup (down to 5-15 min)

2) the standup's facilitator now stops devs from going into too much detail, "you guys can discuss it further after the standup"

3) now the expectation is that a standup should be about checking the project status and if there are any blockers, and that's it, you don't have to recount your whole yesterday in great detail
They succeeded though
Neat. It looks like it's more focused on the visual side of things since the screenshot shows two different ways to visually output the results?

I wrote a universal logger that we've been using for our production systems for years that piggybacks on top of bunyan / console / etc. It's pretty much an abstraction layer that provides more structure to logs.

It allows us to easily swap between different logging libs without having to change our entire codebase. For example, we originally started with roarr then eventually migrated to pino, and it was just a few lines of re-config to do so with loglayer.

You use the existing config of your logging library and just feed the instance of it to loglayer.

https://github.com/theogravity/loglayer

It basically prevents problems like this:

// Using `winston`:
winston.info('my message', { some: 'data' })

// Using `bunyan`:
bunyan.info({ some: 'data' }, 'my message')

to:

logLayer
.withMetadata({ some: 'data'})
.withError(new Error('test'))
.info('my message')

A common use case is using loglayer + console initially, then swapping to something like pino later on.
Thanks. I mean it seems pretty straightforward in its position. I don’t agree but at least it’s clear.
- Upper management wants to reserve remote perks for themselves. Otherwise what's the point of being upper management without perks.
It's only available for certain channels. You can see more info here.[0]

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13338784
Samsung's rollable smartphone may arrive next year with giant screen
Good theory. Killing remote seems the first line of defense in covering.
It counts if the unit economics are positive. Right now the only people who know if it is are at OpenAI.
It's the nature of all cycles. I work in AI and I think the capacity for AI hasn't even been scratched as a utility. We'll see it continue to make breakthroughs and be applied across tons of business cases. We're in the "this is neat, how can I learn more and apply it more places" phase -- like a toy phase.
The best usage of AI that I have seen is where people need something to show but quality doesn't matter much. AI is great to generate a lot of "something" (data, text), and if you pay attention you'll start to see where it fails. But for jobs/tasks where nobody pays attention (or nobody cares), AI is great.

Need to write a report to present at your company but nobody will care about it? Use AI.

Blog posts just for SEO? Use AI.

Illustration image as a header for a post where you need an image just to share the post on social? Use AI.

I am not saying people is in the right to do this, but this is where I saw AI being really useful at.
interesting

% /usr/bin/jq --version
jq-1.6-159-apple-gcff5336-dirty
or you get hacked and your account is used for spam

or you email an innocent picture of your naked baby in their first bath and the ML gets your banned
I have been using Amethyst and like it.
I've set my Slack notifications to the "Hummus" sound instead because it's a lot less stressful and funny. Yes it's on your Slack too. Join me in chickpea silliness.
> Managers and executives felt a tiny bit less powerful for a small amount of time due to their workers pushing for remote and having the leverage to do so.

I don't know about top executives, but many managers work remotely and would rather keep it that way. Most managers are close to the leaves of the hierarchy tree and are just as powerless as ICs.
ACE of 6, father of 3 under 7. I love fatherhood, but it is easily the most difficult leap of faith I've taken in my life. A majority of my coping mechanisms were based around quiet time to myself and that basically doesn't exist anymore for me.

Children are a deeply personal choice that make basically no sense. They are the ultimate selfless act, and much of the emotional damage children suffer is due to their parents not understanding this. They are exhausting, expensive, and time consuming... until you die. And every time you decide to use them for your own gain, it will cost them something.

To more directly address your point: children will force you to cope with their existence. Whether you have the ability to introspect on yourself during the process can turn that into growth is on you, not them.
This is an interesting one because, to my knowledge, and unlike alternative App Stores etc on iOS, there’s surely nothing stopping an Android phone manufacturer from developing a Mac app to offer equivalent functionality?

I’m unsure whether the DMA compels them to provide specific APIs beyond the ability to connect to arbitrary devices and draw to the screen, and it’s maybe a little bit concerning if it does. My understanding was that nothing in the DMA specifically compelled Apple to create e.g. MarketplaceKit, it’s just that the alternative would be to open up iOS far more than Apple is willing to do.
it's really an indictment of management, whose inability to learn how to manage a remote workforce means that they default back to the idea of management by walking around that they learned at HBS

if your management tree is a bunch of ex MBB consultants, you absolutely have this problem whether you believe so or not
I'm on liraglutide (Saxenda) for 2 months, can't get semaglutide (Ozempic) in my country without being diagnosed with diabetes

Anyway. Food cravings gone, I was eating like 10 times a day before that. At least, but sometimes even more. Now I'm on intermittent fasting/OMAD and has 0 problems. No hunger, no cravings. Feeling significantly better.

Lost 30 pounds so far.
> but is not common enough that anyone here would talk about it

But I don't care about whether or not people on HN would talk about it. I'm saying that it exists. Ultimately it is a moral judgment about personal responsibility. You find it in attacks on "welfare queens" similarly. Yes, of course there is always the element of being an aggrieved taxpayer. But there is also the vague cosmic - puritanism? - critique of "why should they have it easy when I had it hard?" I'm glad that you uphold HN as a place that is above such sentiment. But here I agree with you! I do not take such critiques seriously. Yet they abound, and they are a clear parallel to people attacking Ozempic because they find it "too easy" for becoming or staying thin. And so, we come full circle.

> not indicative of anything.

This entire sub-discussion is about fallacious arguments, and it is a fallacious argument that I am saying it exists. Therefore it is entirely germane for me to bring up a trolling website to find an argument used by a random nobody, as it proves the existence of a narrative. Perhaps you may quibble that it is not a narrative that exists in abundance. Then we are simply arguing preponderance, because I have already established existence.
The base is: $284.1K. If you can make it 4 years where the average employment length is a year you can make that $420k. But it will require 16 hour days, luck and some high degree political skills.

It's like big brother where someone on your team will be pipped each quarter and you need to make sure it's not you. When a teammate asks for help find creative ways to make them look bad.
Intel postpones building chip factory in Germany's Magdeburg
I had a friend who lived 90 minutes from work. He complained that the commute sucked and wanted something for it. I talked to a friend who pointed out he took the job. It was his decision to take a job 90 minutes away. It was not the company's responsibility to pay him more than others because he chose to live that far away.
Who is getting value though? That should be easy to answer yet there's no clear answer yet.
Thanks for confirming the nightmare.
Lots of generational differences here: A opened the build while I’d just wait for the email in case of failure. Second, they kept it open, which in my time I wouldn’t have (Perhaps you neither, which would explain why you never noticed).
> and productivity are better in office (i.e., what they actually say in their announcements)

They had the exact opposite conclusions when they were pushing WFH. They also shut down comment threads and questions from internal employees asking for data backing up their more recent claims.

> Big tech companies are mature and no longer need to compete so heavily on brand/perks

If AWS starts losing employees at any serious rate, they will collapse. They already have a huge amount of products and services where the initial engineers left and where oncall/support load is absolutely brutal.
The Obscure Maritime Law That Ruins Your Commute
We know this isn't true because of the necessity of unions. Mining coal and many other trades are a lot worse than cleaning toilets, and people still had to do them nearly for free.
Just checked- both 'enter' and 'return' active the rename action.
Like a private plane to commute from California to Seattle every week to work in office!

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/starbucks-ceo-commute-priva...
US tax codes prevent hiring software devs. No one is going to hire US software devs ever again. (Good voting guys!).

https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/12/19/the-tax-change-that-s-...
Your heart is on the left side of your chest so its probably reacted to that
As I replied to a peer comment, my employer moved my office from a 10m walk downtown near my house to a 45-60m multi-modal commute to an industrial office park. I didn't sign up for that, but I like my job. Now if they'd had to factor in reimbursements for actual distance traveled for employees maybe they'd be more motivated to stick closer -- and to only hire employees within a distance budget they're willing to pay.
Yes, he’s what I’ve termed an Apple apologist:
https://www.observationalhazard.com/2021/08/apple-apologetic...
Transmeta and Denver never had great performance. If you want an x86 CPU it's so much safer to go with AMD.
GPT-4 is genuinely useful for some stuff (summarizing documents, giving hints how to solve things in languages I do not speak, etc.)

Meta and others have released open weights with the claim that they compare to GPT-4; I imagine these are good enough for many of the similar tasks. There are bound to be at least a few more improvements in open weights before bust.

Apple is already building laptops with a mind towards local AI. As NVidia's and AMD's et al AI chips drop in price, they will be included in regular desktops and laptops.

While local-AI becomes more practical, the prices on remote-AI will go up, further driving local-AI improvements. Perhaps at some point will will have a subscription based weights service, where you get updated proprietary weights for your local model for $X/yr.

Local-AI will be fine for Microsoft. And for Google. So, I don't think AI is going to disappear; If anything, it will become more ubiquitous. Weights may start being released less frequently and the SaaS model may go, but that would likely be a net gain.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558554
I recall seeing the following very neat idea on HackerNews some time ago, but can no longer find it:

The idea, if I remember correctly, was to intercept system calls and play a sound every time one occurred. So you'd get a series of beeps every time the disk was accessed, somewhat similar to the spinning noise from HDDs. It would play a different type of noise every time the network was accessed, memory was allocated or freed, and so on.

They reported that developers got pretty good at diagnosing and debugging their programs, purely from listening to it run.
Missing Fixed Effects Don't Justify Segregation
Reagan was taking it mostly from a single case, about which he then made up a bunch of shit, because reality wasn’t bad enough for him:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Taylor

He also liked to imply that people living large on welfare & benefits fraud (which, already not really a great description of what was going on even in this exemplar case) was widespread and not, you know, a thing he knew about from a single case because the woman was caught and charged with crimes. What an asshole (Reagan, I mean—well, her too, I suppose).

Basically this lady was committing fraud in just about every possible way she had access to, and welfare was just one of them. She then, maybe, kept doing it after release from prison, if you read between the lines a little (though mostly estate and insurance fraud, not welfare, if she was still committing fraud)
If you're allowed to get out! There are some vicious managers out there. The worst among them will force a PIP if they so much as think you might be hoping ship.

Luckily, in my time here, it has seemed like managers with this egregious behavior tend to get forced out of the company. However, they do insane amounts of psychological damage while they're here. Some teams have faced real tyrants :(
Isn‘t clip superseeded by multimodal llms?
I sympathise. It annoys me to no end that accessibility seems to be an afterthought on the modern web.

Another thing for me is that popups annoy me. If I get too many modals pop up on a page, I get emotionally frustrated. This is quite common these days with some websites– all it takes is one GDPR cookies modal and an AI chat popup in the bottom right corner– and that's already way more frustration than my brain can handle.
Everything? Employees and the servers?
It feels a bit disrepectful to reference the title of Tim O'Brien's book for a review of this year's latest tech gadgets.
> Reagan "welfare queen" story about someone showing up in Cadillac to use their food stamps. Did it happen, probably.

Real person, but absolutely not representative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Taylor
More importantly - it doesn't work on anything but apple hardware.
Good question, remains to be seen. Will need to see how it plays out!
> But I don't care about whether or not people on HN would talk about it.

You certainly don't have to care, but that is the discussion taking place. It is a necessary precondition for this supposed parallel to exist.

If you're trying to tell us that you can't focus and are flailing around like one of those whacky blow up thingys down at the used car lot, have fun with that. It no doubt goes well with your comedy show.

> This entire sub-discussion is about fallacious arguments

Oh, I see, so you really are unable to focus. I get why you appear to be so confused now. It is not so much that you're confused in what you write, but that you're off in your own world. Well, that's pretty funny, at least.
The concern with over-employment is that many "healthy" organizations rely on trust. Someone says it takes ~4 weeks to do something, I don't want to have someone else "re-scope" the effort to verify that it really takes 4 weeks. If someone is only doing 3 days of work each week - then realistically this task could have been done in a little over 2 weeks.

On a long enough time horizon, someone will pick up on this and perceive the engineer as "slow." If multiple people are doing this in the team - then the org is probably in trouble.
Perhaps culture and productivity is actually better in office. I'm remote and would like to keep it that way, but that's also an hypothesis to consider (Occam's razor). These big corps claim they're data driven, so perhaps that's what their data is saying.
I don’t care how long anyone works. If you work 5000 hours but don’t produce anything useful, you’re no good to me.

I know exactly who gets work done. I can easily check the git repos and I’m at the standups. Some people are straight up negative value but cannot be fired. It’s impossible to fire anyone.
Yea, words like "driven" and "relentless" and "urgency" betray the reality: It's probably a pressure cooker with constant, needless hustle and urgency. Agree with OP: It's not what most people are looking for out of their work.
> and there are plenty of AAA studios targeting iDevices.

Ah yes. Like... Mihoyo, the anime-babe gachapon company. They're AAA, right? And who can forget Capcom, who was paid handsomely to release Resident Evil to an install base smaller than than the population of Wichita? Between RE8, Astral Train (is that what it's called?) and that one Alien port, you've practically got the entire Steam Catalog at your disposal. Eat your heart out, Elden Ring.

More will arrive any day now, at least once Apple finalizes their next publishing deal with someone that isn't Eidos or Capcom. Funny habit though, where studios will port a single game to Mac/iOS but then ignore the platform wholesale for their future titles. What's up with that, I wonder? Seems to not really be an issue on Linux, must have something to do with the financials.

But look on the bright side! All those old games ported to Mac still work fine, as long as you're willing to source a machine supporting the specific version of the OS it was released for or run it in a virtual machine. Sony and Microsoft really ought to watch out, Apple is angling to be the new Nintendo of lootbox-like experiences.
At some point an arbitrary conspiracy theory will be shown to be true; and the title of this article will have to change to read "Reducing people's belief systems through dialog with AI"...
came here to ask.

Since I don't know enough about ML to know if this is good, is it as good as the original 'Pragmatic Programmer', to justify the title?

A lot of books rif off a poplar name, so asking if this lives up to it, and worth more time investment to read it.
The obvious thing to do, if gen AI proves bust, is to funnel funding and other resources into miltech.

This will further alter the personality, intent, and product of Silicon Valley; refuseniks will be winnowed, and many people may find themselves working on projects they may find disturbing.
I think they (and me!) were looking for news on

https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html
Love when the “we use data” people shut down discussions around hard metrics when it’s not convenient
Sleeping on the left side allows the stomach to operate better while sleeping on the right favors the heart. I'd always heard this, but recently read a short article confirming it. Dunno if it's true, though.
Do they love Nermal?
It's not really a monopoly (at least if we have to listen to them) and it wasn't handed to them, it was built on top of Steve Jobs' strong intuition and radical product choices for building an extremely appealing device at a palatable price point.

Since then, they have been surfing that wave and that's pretty much it. The reason is pretty simple: people are sheep, they like to appear cool and "IN", iPhone was the thing that did that so they keep buying that.

But in my opinion the tides are turning, Apple gear doesn't have the coolness factor they once had (everyone has them anyway) and the technological side is on a slippery slope for some time now.
They still have some strong factors (like the chips) but those are being slowly but surely reduced to nothing by the competition and it doesn't look like Apple has much left in the tank (the idiot in charge fired everyone who could have done anything worthwhile anyway).

As for their marketing, it is basically the same. It once was memorable and cool but nowadays it's all very forgettable and meh when it's not completely controversial in a bad way. As far as I'm concerned, their marketing doesn't bring them that many sales; nowadays the vast majority of people who buy Apple stuff buy it for reasons unrelated to the product marketing/specifications.

And this is exactly why Apple is becoming something else, something that their loyal customers who ensured their long-term success do not really like...
Just to clarify, GameCube and Wii CPU was an IBM PowerPC chip. GPU was ATI in both, later acquired by AMD.
I can install a whole number of AppStore or opensource apps that allow me to access other machines graphically. I really don't see why accessing the GUI on an iPhone should be treated any differently than accessing the GUI on a terminal server or an android or linux box or something.. The argument doesn't really make sense to me..
Replying to bookmark
Now you're going tribal in the other direction, "CEO and cofounder at Zentail". Zero effort to actually understand where the other group is coming from, just pointless aggression and condescension.
Okay, but then, why upgrade to a 16 Pro instead of the much cheaper 15 Pro? The price difference applies there too — there needs to be some reason to get the newest, most expensive one. This generation it is not hardware.
I work less at home. Too many distractions.
> everyone seems to have a different perspective on what D&D even is.

There's a variety of axis you could split it on, but if you wanted to look at the departure from low-fantasy adventurer's just trying to eek out an existence to the players becoming heroes going on epic quests, there's a pretty universally agreed upon point that really kicked this shift into overdrive, and it's the original Dragonlance modules. They weren't the first to position the game this way, but they were the first to really stick with the population. We started seeing more AD&D splatbooks that raised the power level of characters, the Companion rules came out for the Basic/Expert line that raised the power levels there, etc. AD&D 2E further embraced this, though you could still play the more traditional sword and sorcery style, but 3E largely cut off the original style of play completely.
Which is why Jassy bought a Santa Monica home in time for COVID - even that little personal story is of course nonsense
Google continually lets the embedded community down. You can promise this time won't be the same, but I don't trust them anymore.
I think that's what the "proxy" section is describing: A proxy which as long as it is trustworthy records direction of data transfer and with that makes any request going through it verifiable according to their scheme.
Love it! I use a similar Powershell script for testing cabling/changes. Laptop left on in middle of office with speakers turned up. So handy.
I just had what should have been a one-hour task grow to consume most of my focus time for the week, due to hitting a perfect storm of internal platform bugs and getting caught in an edge case straddling the branches of a cloud migration.

Everything in software engineering is like this. You never know when you're going to stumble into a rat's nest of unexpected complexity. Should I be on the hook to pull 100 hours this week in order to maintain a normal pace on my tickets despite the snafu? Of course not, that's ridiculous. At the same time, there is no way for my skip to verify these types of stories across 100 reports.
No mention of it in the article, even though they wrote:
> But it’s also why Cook’s Apple delivers fewer surprises. The delight is still there, but there’s less amazement.

The Vision Pro is literally mind blowing.
This test is actually fairly well validated. The purpose isn't to specifically diagnose your problems, it is to find the floor for how much trauma you may have experienced. Sure, some may have had parents under the influence occasionally while others witnessed heavy usage in front of them. The point is that even for the "light" case, that is a significant issue.

Think of it as childhood trauma triage. It is a good first pass to help people understand their past and maybe help some people understand that their past is more traumatic than they realize.
It's kind of wild that it took Apple to make this feature before we could get a decent Instagram client on a laptop.