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Show HN: Max – AI-powered performance review writer for busy professionals
Hey HN! I'm excited to share Max, a SaaS tool that helps busy professionals write compelling performance reviews quickly with the assistance of AI.

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Max is an AI-powered platform designed to solve the common problem of writing thorough performance reviews when you're short on time. Reviews are personalized based on your role and company you work for.

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Why Max?
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Climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation
The press release from CFPB the article is about: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-order...
Have you checked out Stytch? I'm more than a little biased as the founder but would love to hear any feedback you have if you do. I thought your blog post covered a lot of really important points that are often forgotten when evaluating auth.

We support both a user changing their own email and with our embeddable admin portal, you get an out of the box flow where your customers' admins can update the email (and any auth setting) for other team members.
Get Info and uncheck the "Hide Extension" flag. Agent.exe.app

/s I have no idea if it's true, but mosdef possible
At this point, 2FA is the only thing I use my phone for anymore. It's the only reason I even have a phone; I spent about a year without one until I had to for 2FA. But I don't need to carry it around anywhere for that. It would be inaccurate to call it a "mobile" device.
Yes! I often put it like this: education/reading is about formation, not just information.
Huh. Wow. I don’t normally use VSCode, and you are correct. JetBrain IDEs correctly report some nonsense like <p><div><img></ul>test</p> as an error, but VSCode does nothing. That’s really weird.
I would much rather they pass laws that you can't acquire, indefinitely hold, or sell the data. Meta and Google should not know where I went for breakfast if I didn't use their services to get there.
Not sure I have an opinion on the actual formula, but I do think there are some other data that would be useful here.

Precipitation frequency should also be considered. For example, Seattle is considered a "rainy" city, because it rains so often, not because it rains so much.

Likelihood of major weather events is also a factor for a lot of people. I'm not a fan or tornadoes and hurricanes, so I'd prefer to live far away from places where those things have a reasonable chance of occurring.
> You need to understand [the input data] before you can do anything meaningful with it.

IMHO that's the main reason people turn to any sort of automated data-processing tools in the first place: they don't want to look at the input data. They'd rather have "the computer" look at it and maybe query them back with some additional info gathering requests. But thinking on their own? Ugh.

So I boldly propose the new definition of AGI: it's the data-processing entity that will (at last!) reliably liberate you from having to look at your data before you start shoving this data into that processing entity.
buncha people caught wind and purchase the product used/torn for pennies on the dollar, and send it in, in order to take advantage of the offer (and the retailer).
Claim:

> Take a look at videos on YouTube by ThunderF00t. SpaceX is pretty problematic.

Response:

> Thunderf00t has basically 0 credibility when it comes to SpaceX. He predicted that starlink couldn't ever work, for example. In fact, he even thought that this landing would fail.

You’re claiming Thunderf00t is a good resource on SpaceX. The response gave examples of how he’s been consistently wrong.

That is not an ad hominem attack.
That's a hard question to answer, because I do it automatically, 100% of the time. For me it's probably a result of childhood trauma (and maybe a high degree of empathy).

I suspect most people learn to do it as the result of bad experiences. As with many things, that's more likely in childhood.
Looks great! Cool idea and a very clean interface.
One note on the website: the "Calendar / Todo / Project" nav buttons throw 404 errors when clicked.
> For example if a function needs to take a record containing x as a field with type int, it should also accept a record with y as a field that it does not use.

Not sure if I misunderstand what you mean, but this does not require subtyping. One of the key distinguishing features of row polymorphism is that exactly this can be achieved without subtyping. The extra unused fields (`y` in your example) are represented as a polymorphic type variable _instead_ of using subtyping. See for instance page 7 in these slides: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/courses/819/slides/rows.pdf
this is such a hilariously bad idea, its like knowingly installing malware on your computer - malware that has access to your bank account. please god, any sane person reading this do not install this, you've been warned.
Reasonable people are going to differ about what "noticeable" means, and it will further differ based on the size of the tank in your vehicle, since a $0.04 difference times 8 gallons is not going to be the same as times 75 gallons

But, to answer your question, yes: I just checked and the spread seems to be $5.19 to $4.19 here. But to circle back to your original premise it's quite possible that even $15-ish is not worth the glucose/time spent interacting with this objectively terrible app and then driving to some likely inconvenient station
Thank you again @Boynine for this follow up, I sent you an email with the screen session detail.
Yes but that is specifically (they actually mention this) because some companies don’t recognize public domain license, so those companies rather buy a few thousand dollar license than going through the internal bureaucracy to get it approved - if even possible.
Otherwise how could we join the <x>.cpp fancy gang? We'd have to name the project "agent.js" which is super boring!

/s
we have a bit of both here

thank you
Apple Releases iPod (2003)
IPv6 has other differences than the address length. A theme for IPv6 was to make it even easier for network equipment to process to make it faster; which aligns with "dumb fast scalable core; smart expensive edge" Internet philosophy - this is in contrast to "smart hard-to-expand core; dumb cheap edge" phone system philosophy

Compare the packets. https://www.networkacademy.io/ccna/ipv6/ipv4-vs-ipv6

> Did the authors of the standard just assume that migration and adoption would be easier than they've turned out to be?

No, but IPv4 and IPv6 can be used together (they're separate protocols) so there was no need for that.
TLDR; the answer is knowing how and when to use AWK ;)
it is true, but i wasn't complaining ;)
It sounds like the topic is perceived wisdom (“what makes a person seem wise?”) rather than actual (practical) wisdom which is good use of knowledge and experience to make good decisions.

I say this because I know folks who seem wise (perceived as high IQ and EQ) but lack judgment, because they are working off models of the world that does not comport with reality, so their utterings do not work in real life. Wisdom isn’t about batting a thousand of course but wisdom is about always allowing reality be the teacher.

Many people who present as wise are academics and gurus and they sound really good on podcasts but don’t have much empiricism and experience doing hard things.

Ironically people who are reflective and have gone through the crucible of running a business (or doing something with a lot of headwinds) end up being actually wiser because they have to deal with world (and its flaws) as is, not as they think it should be.

Stonebraker is an opinionated figure in the database world but he has started so many companies and have dealt with the realities of how people use databases that his judgement (which could still be wrong by the way) would carry more weight than a pure database researcher who says all the right things.
> Qualcomm is almost certainly ARM's biggest customer

what about Apple?
The real incredible thing is the "automatically generated subtitles".
Try enabling them and watch the video again,
Those need to be created by some AI, I guess.
I don't think that is true.

I think wisdom has a lot more with paying attention, being self-reflective, and accumulating experience, as well as caring about the questioner. A wide context window at the moment of the question doesn't help much if you haven't noticed and reflected.
Do they? An arch with bultin lane predication (like AVX512) could easily implement wide SIMD on top of narrower ALU and then skip the masked out lanes. Actual runtime would depend on the number of non masked lanes.

I'm not up to date on GPU architectures, bit I wouldn't be surprised of they do this sort of stuff.
Your dog probably is more fun to talk to than your co workers!

I work in exchange for currency I can then trade for goods and services. Employment serves no other purpose.

I don't work to make friends. I have a variety of other options for socializing.
> Causality violation can happen in general relativity

The only theoretical case I’m aware of are closed timelike curves (CTC) which are paths in spacetime that loop back on themselves, allowing an object to return to its own past. A famous example is the Gödel metric, a solution to Einstein’a field equations.

It should be noted, however, that these solutions are generally regarded as unphysical because they require conditions that don’t seem to exist in our universe (such as a globally rotating universe).
I did this and it just used my card to book round trip tickets to Yosemite almost immediately
If they accumulate the plate data as a searchable data base, you have 10 billion grains of sand, but you know nothing about each grain, just their number. Then a warrant is issued for XYZ123 and you sift the sand for XYZ123 and know all about it from plate filings and you can see where it was with time slices.
Thus only a judge approved plate is tracked and you would have no saleable data - but each state might?? sell plate databases?
Not if they end up cancelling each other's patents. :)
Thank you! Sonnet 3.5 is indeed a powerful model, and we're actually using it. However, even with the latest version, there are still some limitations affecting our specific use case. For instance, the model struggles to accurately recognize semi-overlaid areas, such as popups that block interactions, and it has trouble consistently detecting when UI elements are in a disabled state.

To address these issues, we enhance the models with our own custom logic and specialized models, which helps us achieve more reliable results.

Looking forward, we expect our QA Studio to become even more powerful as we integrate tools like test management, reporting, and infrastructure, especially as models improve. We're excited about the possibilities ahead!
Getting paid $4,000 to participate in a trial that could potentially save thousands of lives for a disease is incredible. But even better that it's a somewhat neglected disease that doesn't often occur in the western world. Sounds like the experiment was a success and I am hopefully/excited to see this rolled out!
SideTab Pro: A Chrome extension for vertical tab lovers (6K users and growing)
This question is sort of like, how is Linux ever going to be competitive with state-of-the-art proprietary Unix?

Suppose Facebook are tired of paying a premium to Cisco et al and decide to commission their own network equipment. That stuff doesn't have to be competitive with x86 on single thread performance, it just has to be reasonably power efficient. So they take some existing free RISC-V core and make a few improvements to it and use that. But they publish the improvements, because they're not actually trying to be a hardware OEM and if someone else takes their design and does the same thing, they know they get those improvements for their next generation.

So then that happens. Google want the same thing and make more improvements. Netgear use it in a consumer router, and they're not big enough to improve the chip, but they ship it in a product that sells a million units, so widespread use causes the community to optimize software for it and fix bugs. At this point Samsung or Qualcomm realize they only have to improve the SIMD support a little and they can stop paying ARM for their low and mid range phone SoCs. But if half of Android devices are now RISC-V and Qualcomm are already designing the high end cores themselves, why pay ARM for that either? So now it's in the high end phones, and someone starts putting the same chip into laptops.

All it really takes is for enough people to not want to pay ARM to create an ecosystem that allows everybody else to do the same thing. The free designs eat the low end of the market and then the high end uses the same architecture because why wouldn't it?
Cofounder of Clerk. I agree - our pricing has been significantly reduced since this was written (partially in response to this post)

We do intend to build more products, but if you're using us for pureplay auth we shouldn't cost 1% of revenue at scale.

(As far as I know, we don't cost 1% at any scale, except very early startup days pre-revenue who opt not to use our free plan.)
I think it's probably better to think of it more as top down (club of rome, malthusians, austerity measures) vs bottom up (kohei saito, eco-socialists, shorter work weeks) degrowth.
Evolving the Responsible Generative AI Toolkit with New Tools for Every LLM
Wisdom is taking your own advice.

Words that I’ve found easier to accept the value of than to extoll. Trying is the first step to failing I guess;)
Totally agree. A general-purpose solution that ties together different messy interfaces will win in the long run -- i.e the IP protocol, copy-paste, browsers. In these cases, they provide a single-way for different aspects of computing to collaborate. As mentioned before, semantic web initiatives did not succeed and I think there's an important lesson there.
So many techniques shown in the video: graphics cursor, toolbar, menubar, click&drag, rubberband
Ahh, all of these offices look so cool! I love the "success" sign that has fallen down. I love the powered-off machine labeled "do not turn this machine off".
Interesting that the insurance companies aren't interested in supporting weight loss, the complications from being overweight are gonna be a whole lot worse than getting the drug. Did someone run the tables and find that obese people are dying too quickly to end up with medical bills?
I know it goes beyond cell phones, but as someone who agrees with you and has the means and know-how, I find opting out through personal choice impossible. If you don't carry a cell phone, how do your loved ones reach you in an emergency? etc., so the only real way to win is through regulation. And the laws and enforcement won't change anytime soon for the reasons you mention. Super frustrating.
It’s wild to think that a disease as ancient as malaria, which plagued the pharaohs, has finally been eradicated in Egypt. Yet maintaining this status might be even harder than achieving it in the first place
This is one of the problems I have with modern discourse.

We're suppose to trust institutions based on the idea that institutions are inherently trustworthy.

Having dealt with a few I honestly think they're marginally more trustworthy _but_ are better at hiding and obscuring their biases... which is worse in some ways.

Best example in the article:

> “They’re in really good shape when they come in, and they’re in really good shape after two years,” said Dr. Olson-Kennedy, who runs the country’s largest youth gender clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

> That conclusion seemed to contradict an earlier description of the group, in which Dr. Olson-Kennedy and her colleagues noted that one quarter of the adolescents were depressed or suicidal before treatment.

Also this study is funded by the government (our taxes) and has received almost $10 million. Not releasing the results is wild and the reasoning is worse. I have almost no faith that this team won't try some sort of p-hacking to get the results they wanted to see.
I think this makes sense, because, in general, wisdom requires gathering experience and reflecting on it (well in advance of any questions). Reading is an activity that promotes that.
I work at WorkOS / AuthKit.

We took the Heroku approach. All apps get a free *.authkit.app domain for the hosted login page.

AuthKit never has any WorkOS branding. Clerk puts "Powered by Clerk" on your login page unless you pay. This feels gross. Imagine if Heroku/Vercel were injecting ads into your app?!

AuthKit has free MFA. I believe everyone should get secure auth. Clerk charges to enable MFA. They also charge for passkeys and features like impersonation. Why?

Custom domains cost us $ to run (we pay Cloudflare) so we charge for this. It's also designed for commercial apps. The authkit.app is great for any hobby app.
They'd already crossed that bridge with this[0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/2/23985299/iphone-bridal-ph...
Almost all in-order processors will do pipelining, so that's there. Many are even multi-issue. Andes has an out of order core [1] and so does SiFive (though I don't know of many actual chips using these.

[1] https://www.andestech.com/en/2024/01/05/andes-announces-gene...
[2] https://www.sifive.com/cores/performance-p650-670
It's not obvious that in the general case, employees can be motivated by getting work done if the reward is more work to do.
> Assuming you can get access to someone's workstation when they're not looking

Man sometimes I really miss working in an office
Defeating such diseases takes constant vigilance
Related. Others?

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19191746 - Feb 2019 (23 comments)

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18547998 - Nov 2018 (6 comments)

New Draft of “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12568414 - Sept 2016 (33 comments)

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1083662 - Jan 2010 (4 comments)
I'm porting a small C compiler to 64-bit RISC-V and just learned a quirk that uint32_t is represented in-register as sign extended to 64-bit. Without Zba extension the compiler has to insert a bit-clearing sequence every time the value is used for operations that cannot be agnostic in two's complement. The quirk has enough impact on benchmark scores, SiFive typedef'ed an u32 type to i32 in their Coremark repo[1]. The Coremark team later updated their rule to address this trick[2].

[1] https://github.com/sifive/benchmark-coremark/blob/4486de1f0a...
[2] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual/issues/353
There were two competing SIMD specs, and personally I'm glad that RVV won out over PSIMD. It's an easier programmer's view and fewer instructions to implement.
Name produces flashbacks to browsing Usenet on Windows 95.
Yes it will happen!
You can sue an EA. EAs can go to prison.

Regardless, not once in my life have I ever thought "man it's way too time consuming and onerous for me to spend my money. I wish there was a way for me to spend my money faster and with less oversight."
How hard would it be to finetune a local VLM for computer use? Sonnet 3.5 is reaaaallly expensive.
This has not been uncommon in the US. A smaller military may have made it less common, guess.

Nor is it particularly new. In Henry IV, Part 1, Shakespeare has Falstaff say of his troops "Nay, and the Villaines march wide betwixt the Legges, as if they had Gyues on; for indeede, I had the most of them out of Prison." Fiction, yes, but obviously plausible to the audience.
A brief history of network router architecture
Can you point out where telemetry or other spying can be found in this codebase?
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Yes. Most of the major apps play this review game, and there's no way to compete if you don't play it too.

The major apps typically exploit selection bias to solicit 5-star reviews. They will wait until the user meets some criteria for "having a good experience" and show an app review prompt at that moment.

Then, having amassed thousands of 5-star reviews, they will turn up the threshold so that only a trickle of the most likely 5-star reviews keep on trickling in to negate any negative organic reviews.

There's a related practice of "pre-prompting" where the app first asks the user whether they are satisfied and only solicits a real app review from those who pass the screening question.

It's all quite shady and makes it hard to trust app reviews. But until the app stores solve this, app developers need to play the game.
>cartel-like

Billion dollar pot calling the small fry kettle black. Scientific publishing used to be like this (and may still be in some fields) and this state of affairs didn’t come into being by accident: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...

Yes, that Robert Maxwell. Israeli[0] arch-spook. Father of Ghislaine and other spooked up kids.

[0]: Fair to call them his primary customers but he’s had others.
on changing emails: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927216
while I 100% agree with you, it seems this article is about the rise of working “online” in general with email etc around the turn of the Millenium
This will probably sound ridiculous, but I can't get over the fact that he was playing Dota 2 for years, thousands of games played and was still in bronze league. I consider RTS games like this a proxy for intelligence, and while it isn't a perfect proxy due to it also requiring hand dexterity / mechanical skill / some arbitrary memorization, I do still think it's a good indicator that there was something off with him mentally.

You should passively improve with the amount of games he had under his belt, even if you put no conscious thought into why it is that you're losing or what you could be doing better. He performed at a level which is what, the lowest 10% or 20% of players? Many of whom were probably new to the game because most people will climb in rank over time.
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