skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It kind of works that way, it’s just confusing that the bank tells you their point of view.

Your bank account is really two accounts: an asset on your books, and a liability on the bank’s books.

When you talk about accounting for physical inventory, that’s a whole new can of worms.

The most popular way I see is this:

- you keep track of goods by their cost to you (not their value once sold)

- every time you buy item xyz, you increase an asset account (perhaps called “stock” and the transaction labeled “xyz”). You also keep track of the number of xyz. Say you buy 10 for $10 each, then another 10 for $20 each. Now you have 20 and your xyz is valued at $300. Average cost: $15

- every time you sell or lose some xyz, you adjust the number of xyz, and reduce the asset account by the average value of those items at the time of the transaction, or $15 in this example. The other account would be cost_of_goods_sold or stock_shrinkage.

Many other approaches also work.
In the specification, you have to read it carefully to understand the purpose. In the Getting Started guide, there's a diagram that lifts the confusion a little better.

The Model Context Protocol helps you build a translation layer between an LLM system, and some other system or data resource, such that the LLM may operate that system on your behalf or scan that resource for additional context in generation. You wrap a resource or some system local or external with an "MCP Server." The LLM can operate that MCP Server, which in turn operates the system or reads the resource.

The text kind of says that... but the diagram in the guide drives it home. The diagram or some form of it should probably be added into the top page of the spec.
It's on Wikipedia though ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_characteristic
> frankfurt school writers, (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, etc.)

None of the three writers you mention were part of the Frankfurt School.
I agree it's not metal, but it's definitely industrial. I'd call it power noise or electro-indstrial. Metal usually means guitars, not synths to me- however the sub-generes of industrial are confusing and mixed up. They're mostly whatever a band wants to call themselves, and most of them make music that fits into all of them.
It's much easier to support Trump allies when they refuse to disclose their donations and arrange their meetings behind closed doors where nobody can know what they're discussing. If only Musk was more like Tim Cook, then he'd have the rapt respect of every moneyed American liberal.

When Elon complains about European antitrust intervention, he's hilariously out-of-touch and embarrassing himself. When Tim Cook complains about European antitrust intervention, he's making a serious and informed plea to lawmakers and citizens that must be respected because he knows best. Two flavors, same conservative medicine.
Nah - you get citizens to self report odometer readings annually, or use annual inspections. And you employ a few people to run your 'fraud team' which will use CCTV to catch fraud, and auto-mail out letters with fines.

15 peoples civil service salaries = $1.5M say.

They will contact local car park owners, municipalities and states who have ANPR cameras, etc. From each, they'll get a spreadsheet of plate no, date/time and camera lat/lon. Many police departments already centralize that info to search for stolen cars etc.

They'll then run the whole lot through a python script to make a database of plate num + annual mileage. They'll then compare that to the self-reported mileage and investigate any underreporting.

Assume that this is implemented in the USA, and 1% of people fake the odometer by 50%. Assume the tax is 5 cents a mile. Total vehicle miles traveled is 3e12 miles, and assume we can easily detect 30% of offenders, due to them driving long distances on highways, and fine all those detected 3x the fraudulent amount. Total takings: $337M.

Clearly worth enforcing.
there are infinitely many grains of sand, get one in your eye and sure your values will probably adjust by mere reflex. you aren't necessarily bound by the "infinity of facts" in every case. I won't even disagree that politics is often based on what a constituency values. still, how do you eat the elephant, as always, one bite at a time.

what I see this time around is that the pursuit of fact itself is devalued and under attack. you are certainly welcome to toss this belief of mine on whatever pile of unmanageable infinity that gets you by. society is often choosing to devalue facts in my opinion, and often substituting far dodgier "information" in its place.

To me "infinitely many facts" sounds real close to "who knew it could be this complicated" lol
would this qualify? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJiKvzRGMkU
Yep. I've been developing in C++ professionally for a decade and I still have to look up "what's the safe way of making a string literal available in a header file" when it comes up.
You are probably right... in most cases. Companies have lawyers and those lawyers are very risk adverse. The PIP is basically a period of employment where the company collects evidence on your (lack off) performance. This evidence can be shown as justification for firing, in the unlikely even it is needed.

PIP = "Paid Interview Period"

I've never seen anyone recover from a PIP.
That may have been my mistake. I use super & hyper interchangeably and don't always notice :)

PS: Should be an easy patch, will update!
As someone who has been in that situation, it's better than "your performance is shit, you're fired". In my case a large part of the problem was that I was not picking up on what should have been obvious cues. This provided a needed wake up call, and prompted me to improve.
I inherited a project that uses Go for an industrial control system. It needs to manage valves and pumps and sensors in a performant and accurate and reliable manner, and that's what the developer (an electrical engineer) chose. FWIW the system has been in production for a couple years and works splendidly.

The me of yesteryear probably would have developed such a thing in C++. In an alternate universe, there's a version of me that learned Rust 5-10 years ago and would have chosen that.
it's a ~ 160 billion company that only reached this far because of copyright violation

Sora's presentation [0]: on multiple text input examples "... the video does not contain any text or additional objects."

are you gonna say it's a prompt for no text on signs or banners or is it a way to get rid of subtitles & watermark logos?

[0] https://hpcaitech.github.io/Open-Sora/
Let's Build a AI Photo Generator with Python and FastAPI [video]
The sanctions only prevent exporting a certain class of GPUs to China. There's nothing stopping Chinese companies from setting up their operations overseas (ahem Singapore), or even renting space from AWS/Google/Azure.
Yes all these ui appear to be designed to create the appearance of usefulness but to frustrate the customer when they try to use the service in any way that does not result in the lowest fees.
> That's a really good strategy to make sure American AI startups don't achieve escape velocity if they have to fend of dozens of fungible clones.

A strategy pioneered by Meta.
> Rust ignores many [safety models]

...

>I'd like to see some actual examples

When I said opinionated and ignores I did not mean safety models. I meant programming concepts like OOP for example. And do not tell me that it is not needed, wrong, etc. It is totally fine and useful for some situations and not so much for others. Developer should have a choice.
I may be able to help, I just sent you an email.
I've never seen anyone put on a PIP where the intention was anything other than eventual firing. In all these cases, the person was doing an awful job for over a year, or in some cases, since they were hired.
You may not be ignorant - there may be an analogy there. But the post does come off as a bit tone-deaf.
To clarify, I wasn't talking about the developers' priorities as a whole. I personally get inspiration for "big" projects to work on by scrolling various platforms and seeing what the most frequent complaints are, but that's not how development decisions are made.

And I can promise you, non-destructive editing was repeatedly requested by users, not just software developers. I have also seen a large number of users happy about the feature being implemented, as well as videos and screenshots of it being used effectively. It was a net positive in my opinion, even if there's more work to do in addition.

That's not to say your particular issue won't be addressed of course! You're just the first person I've seen to make that specific complaint, compared to the larger number of users asking for more CMYK support, shape tool, built-in Resynthesizer etc.
What's been really nice about the RC1 release is that more members of the community are willing to try out 3.0 (compared to the various 2.99 releases) and give feedback. People use GIMP in lots of different ways, and if we don't use it in those ways then we don't see their specific problems.
I am amazed at how many people don't get what is going on.

These companies business models rely on free money economics, and with interest rates up they cannot survive which means all of the growth they targeted is now a huge problem.

Platforms are becoming hostile towards its users because they are quite literally telling you to kick rocks and go elsewhere. They do not want your business because it costs them too much money.
I visited their office in Bellevue once and it wasn’t small, although not huge either. There were a lot of smart people working there at least. You don’t really need hardware in China to train models, you could host it in the USA and just use it remotely. I don’t think these sanctions will be very effective unless they completely cut off trade and communication with China, which is going to hurt us as much as them.
What are the reasons Apple might stick with the one-time-fee model for Logic and Final Cut Pro? (What are the advantages? Even if those advantages might just be for goodwill with their existing (pro)consumer base.)

(Not rhetorical here -- I'm genuinely curious)
“Due South” was set in Chicago but shot in Toronto. It was fun to keep track of the recognizable Toronto locations while watching.
>what sort of role/position would that be?

Go work a normal engineering job for a bank or government on something close to whatever was the core system 30 years ago. You should see the signs when you get close enough.
I thought there was a more concise way to write "German WWII soldier".
I haven't figured out if Quentin is an actual cannibal or a comedic genius.

It's definitely one of the two, though.
Nvidia's CEO and Culture
Sieve (YC W22) Is Hiring Engineers to Build the Future of Video AI
What do you mean by "open"? AFAIK Qwen, Deepseek etc are just as open as the rest.
How are AMD cards performing? I heard it was still very hit and miss in regards to support. Have you also tried things like F5-TTS?
Have you tried Pro Launcher?

Disclosure: I'm the developer of Pro Launcher.
I thought this was a life hack recommendations article but it’s about Quality of Service.

@dang or @op can we get QoS added to the title?
Read the article. What is concerning is not that some politician with extreme views did well in an election. The concern is that a politician did well because of a large number of votes from people who admit to not even knowing much about him.
Worked as a PM at a well known tech company, great relationship with my director. He leaves, new director comes in and within three months I'm on a PIP. I'm given a list of work products to create for a new offering that has been discussed, which on the face of it are entirely reasonable, and the standard 30 days.

100% ghosted by my Director. Weekly 1:1s? He no-shows 2 of them. Near zero input. In "fairness", I knew what was happening, but had some tiny semblance of good faith. Hah.

Final meeting, he shows up with HR. "So we've been talking about (when?) and I have just completed my final review of the documents you created (bear in mind these have had significant input from multiple stakeholders who, not for nothing, generally approved), and I am still left believing that your output is not up to the quality or depth that we expect from our PMs, so..."

I pulled up the receipts, because why not? I think he may not even have known that GDocs provides good metrics on documents, including who has viewed, and when, and how many times. I did this with the HR person sitting awkwardly there. "You reviewed this document? GDocs says you've never accessed it. And this one? Never accessed. What about this deck? Never accessed."

At that point he turned his cam off and clumsily handed it over to the HR person. They asked if I'd like to follow up, but that the company would support the Director's decision. Fine, didn't expect any different. They did acknowledge that they could see too that he hadn't done anything to even present a token perspective that the PIP was anything other than firing with 30 days notice.

Lives and learns, we do.
Tidal is no better. They closed off access to free users recently, and have never bothered with developing a good API. Spotify has more artist diversity and a much better discovery algorithm. I have used both.
For a community supposedly "committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience"[1] Rust activists perhaps unsurprisingly lack in tolerance, empathy, and awareness. The community has changed, too. I liked them more circa ~2015 from before the corpos caught on to "the most loved" language, and have since blown evangelists' expectations for future adoption way out of proportion. As long as the drawn-out vendetta lead by Rust activists contra Go is concerned, old proverb comes to mind: "Hating popular things does not make you interesting."

[1]: https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct
I think if you were confident and believed in what you're saying, you wouldn't have a pre-written complaint about people questioning what you say every other sentence of your comment.

> What the point is, change does happen, and yes for the better (I can hear the disillusioned starting to type already), and we do infact fix things in Canada.

According to most Canadians things are changing for the worse, and that's pretty obvious when you look at housing, healthcare, groceries, general affordability, etc.

> We do have a different market than the US. This is of course a good thing.

We have a far less competitive market, we have much lower wages for the same jobs, higher taxes, higher cost of living.

> We also have the second largest country on the planet, yet with only the population of California.

What does that have to do with anything? We have the richest country on the planet in terms of resources, I don't see how having more land and resources is some kind of excuse for poor performance.

> I'm sure some will want to respond here with loads of "who cares", and that's fine.

We have the worst housing market in history, we have falling per-capita GDP due to completely irresponsible levels of immigration, which is also overflowing our healthcare and justice systems. We have record youth unemployment, record homelessness and food bank usage. We have a nonstop stream of corruption scandals in the federal government. Tell me again how the government is good but good things just take time lmao.
What kind of stuff do you give up with an SPA?
Turns out people have different ways of saying the same concept because language is ultimately human and not a mathematical proof.
Yeah, as I said, I see where you're coming from. I'm just saying that, as far as I understand, it's not unusual in any way. In fact, it almost seems to be a part of the Silicon Valley VC playbook to blatantly break the law and either grow so huge that the law has to change to accommodate, or cash out before the law breaking has consequences.
Yep, the game plan is to keep settling out of court so that (they hope) no legal precedent is set that would effectively make their entire business model illegal. That works until they run out of money I guess, but they probably can't keep it up forever.
Sure, but in our company, it's different. We ended up keeping the person in one or two of those cases (I forget the numbers because there were so few).
Maybe not.

Superscalar is when say... Think of the following assembly code.

Add r1, r2
Sub r3, r4

And the add and subtract both happen on the same clock tick. The important thing is that a modern CPU core (and even GPU core) have multiple parallel ALU pipelines inside of them.

Because r1, r2, r3 and r4 are fully independent, a modern CPU can detect the potential parallelism here and act in parallel. After CPUs mastered this trick, the next out of order processors were invented (which not only allowed for super scalar operations, but allowed the subtract to execute first if for some reason the CPU core were waiting on r1 or r2).

There are a ton of ways that modern CPUs and GPUs extract parallelism from seemingly nothingness. And because all the techniques are independent, we can have superscalar out-of-order SIMD (like what happens in AVX512 in practice).
SIMD is... SIMD. It's one instruction applied to lots of data in parallel. It's totally different.

You really need to use the correct word for the specific kind of parallelism that you are trying to highlight. I expect that the only word that makes sense in this article is SIMD.
Who said anything about firing for non-work reasons. One can be fired immediately for work reasons without a PIP.

Note that the PIP alone does not suffice as valid supporting data if the employee contests it. It helps for there to be more data than it.
Well the factories are just getting completed now, downstream effects wouldn't be expected until later.

This is like people saying for the past decade that solar will never be anything because it was <1% of energy production.

Predicting the future based on position only works if the velocity growth is the same for all points. I don't think that will be the case. Unless we just give up, and actively choose not to compete.
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Author here! Super excited to share what I and a whole bunch of people have been working on the past year. Ask me anything!
Given enough resources, floss tools are often best in class. With your short-sighted attitude, Linux, Firefox, Blender, etc wouldn’t exist and we’d all be a lot poorer for it—fully controlled by the Oracles of the world without option.
Is this TypeScript of Go?
Nope. The claim is absurd and damaging and you should be ashamed of yourself for entertaining it.
Any project effectively has a handcrafted build system, whether it's built on top of CMake, Bazel, Scons or built from scratch doesn't really affect that.

And if it's doing everything from scratch, it's more likely to be simple and self-contained, making it easier to maintain.
What's special about Montana anyway?
The state I live in has an average of about 4 elections a year. Sometimes as many as 8.

Being required to vote in all of them would be a large burden.
I don't think I would enjoy receiving one of these. It looks scary, and the PII side of things is creepy.

If you like my work, say so on social media. That does way more for me than this novelty panic-inducing letter.
what do you mean? I can easily run 70b on my macbook. Fits easily.
> Suppose the same principle was applied to a home owner. At the end of each year your property is evaluated and you're taxed on the difference between last and this years price.

This is exactly how state property tax is assessed in the US. You're not taxed on just the difference but the entire assessed value of the house. There have been cases of seniors who have bought and lived in their homes for 30, 40 years having to sell because they could not afford the tax after the value of their home went into the stratosphere. Similarly for poorer neighborhoods experiencing gentrification when property value shot up beyond what the original buyer paid, and they are forced out. When objections are raised on how a wealth tax would be infeasible to administer, my rejoinder is local governments levy it all the time, on the middle class, they just call it a property tax.
I think it’s just corporate culture in some places. I’ve done a stint in management and I’ve had the “fun” of dealing with all these performance measurements. I personally think they are rather useless in any sort of office work where your employees have a high degree of independence and complex tasks. I also think they come with a huge risk of creating a working culture where employees game the system. If you clock time on the hour then you can be sure nobody is going to help each other, because how do you clock that half hour? If you sell software by ridiculously short estimates and reward your employees for meeting them, then how happy are your clients with all the post-release support they’ll have to pay for? If you have one employee who’s build internal tools that empower everyone else, but haven’t delivered on X, Y, Z and you’re personally getting judged on those metrics then how do you keep up over all productivity when you’re forced to let them go.

There are a million examples of why they are bad, and I can’t really think of any in which they are useful on their own. Which becomes the issue when decision makers advance in ranks and “I don’t dare make decisions without covering my ass” managers slip in. Or when HR gets too much political power and push their tools as the law. Often organisations simply grow into poor cultures because the systemic value of measurements is shit compared to individual management. This is of course helped along by bad managers, who when given too much freedom create an organisational culture which is far worse than the meritocracy of data driven management.

I think it’s a little rough to judge someone who may have grown up in these cultures as a bad manager from a couple of lines of text.
Of course. I don't retreive all 4+TB every week or month.
> So while PIPs might be started with the expectation that most employees won't improve, I think they're also started with the hope that they will.

I've seen it both ways and I think it comes down to the quality of the company and the manager - which, of course, varies widely. A good manager doesn't need PIPs because they're always communicating clearly and consistently to their reports about how they're doing. Ultimately, PIPs exist due to concerns about legal claims for wrongful dismissal which can be hard to defend if there's no clear paper trail of documentation.

As expected, a management process mandated by HR and legal concerns instead of just modeling on what great natural managers do is going to be hit or miss and sometimes go horribly awry.
Why would a dev use this? I want my app to perform as high as possible, regardless of other apps (published by other companies) on the system.

This should be a user-controlled feature, with tasks identified and labeled by the OS.