skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a company that emulated Valve’s hyper-flat structure on their engineering team, with 1 manager having 50 direct reports. That’s as close to a management-less structure as I can think of, since your manager can’t attend meetings or do 1:1s anymore.

It’s great at the beginning. We started with a team of mostly self-motivated people and the lack of upward review made technical decision-making easy.

Eventually, you hire someone who is not self motivated. Also, some existing people get wise to the fact that no one will check up on them, and read Reddit for half the day.

About 4 months in, every team had 1 person like that. They had to work around them - one team can’t ever get designs cause the designer is checked out, one team’s backend work takes 1.5x as long as everyone else.

People say things to the underperformers, but there’s no teeth to anything, no one is anyone’s manager, so it’s just suggestions. They get ignored. Resentment builds into each individual team’s culture. Deadlines start slipping.

1 year in, non technical leadership is fed up. They don’t see benefits from the flat structure, and hire a new CTO and new middle management layer.

The new managers come in briefed with “the team is lazy.” The underperformers get pushed out, and have trouble finding work because their skills have absolutely atrophied. Any remaining high performers are permanently tarred with the reputation of the org from the flat structure days, and get micromanaged. To the new managers, they are kids who will misbehave the second they aren’t watched (which, in fairness, is kinda what happened at the organizational level when they weren’t watched.)

Sone good middle management providing timely oversight and feedback could’ve avoided the whole situation.
A little bit. It was a great idea at the time when I had work. It's been listed for sale for 2 months now which is to be expected with the rate frenzy.
Mastodon vs. Bluesky is a new standards war
There was once a billionaire in Brazil who blew it all.

Instead of Netjets you can own your own jet(s). Instead of restaurants you can buy them or have the chef come to your house. At the extreme end, you can start a space program.

The sky’s the limit!
We have no savings right now (I am not working) and could afford a $400 emergency, but we live paycheck to paycheck. Income is good, the extra just gets spent on various things due to having multiple disabled people in the house. Eventually we hope to rebuild the savings.
Have had it listed for months now, I expect it will sell when rates cool, in which case I'm gravy.
How to add Tailwind to a Hugo website?
OP, your site's scrolling is completely broken on an older iPad. Just can't scroll the page at all. It shows only first screenful. Pulling it up just shows whitespace below and bounces back. Reader mode shows the whole page, but then all formatting is gone, so it's also unreadable. Just FYI.
Show HN: App to discover job listings directly from company websites
Malaria is mostly West Africa.

be careful about what you eat and drink but it’s not like you catch these diseases just from walking around.
This kind of tool is why companies will push back towards on-site interviews, and consequently RTO, given that the people who interviewed are the ones who could easily go to the office to be interviewed.

Honestly, it's hard to blame the company. If the employee is willing to lie and cheat even before they were hired, it's expected that companies will take away their tool to do it: remote calls and WFH. As always, the honest worker gets shafted.
Speaking hypothetically, that has little chance of destabilizing our society. If a foreign secret service wanted to destabilize America, adequate research would reveal the specter of medical debt predicts the mood of our spectation now.
Bingo. I should have waited another 10y on the house.
(Eleventh-century English is ... suprisingly approachable with the right textboox: https://ancientlanguage.com/vergil-press/osweald-bera/ https://youtu.be/YwECgGWCwis?t=508 .)
> Google Chrome has/had ~23 paid developers,

If you believe this, you maybe shouldn't be making claims about the economics of browser development. That's off by ludicrous amounts.
It's ironic that you are offended by another cultures habits when TFA is a post about localization, it's the same exact subject.
Amusing, but completely hopeless and misguided. This is showing up years late.

Nobody training an AI does so continuously and blindly. AI isn't Google, it's not automatically ingesting the news of the last 5 minutes. An H100 costs I believe $25K each. Nobody spending hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions on training an LLM is just going to throw random garbage at it and hope for the best.

At this point in time a whole bunch of companies are seeing training data as the "new oil" and as a result building a business model based on selling high quality, curated data. This can be at least a starting point for anyone looking for good content.

Also, when we're talking about scouring the Internet for content there's many metrics available. We can see whether those fake websites are actually used by anyone and referenced anywhere. You can use a LLM to try to work out whether they're serious or a joke. You can see content spread from the source to end users.

In reality, such an approach has an extremely minimal chance of working.
> I'd rather be rejected than got job I'm not qualified to do

As many people have pointed out, the interview process has diverged from real-world, day-to-day tasks you would be expected to accomplish once you get the job. Not actually being able to do a leetcode test (either due to lacking knowledge or interview stress) might not have any reflection on someones ability to succeed in the role they are interviewing for. How many people are dealing with sorting algorithms or traversing binary trees without access to the internet as part of their job?
I agree completely. Far more startups are sunk by the cost of hypothetical technical problems than real product/market ones.
Yeah tech has always been a meritocracy built on ethics and we need to remember that.
It was pretty much dead by the mid-70s. PASCAL, C, FORTRAN, and COBOL killed it on mainframes + minis and it was too complex for micros. (Thus - BASIC.)

The twitching corpse lived on in the form of JOVIAL for DOD work (until ADA happened), and CORAL persisted in the UK because of bureaucratic momentum. Simula was another derivative that lasted for a while.

But C and PASCAL were better, simpler, equally productive languages. As soon as they appeared ALGOL 60 didn't really need to exist any more. And ALGOL 68 was an ALGOL too far.
5% for me + various breakage fees and other minor costs.
Think about this: The sum total of the human-generated knowledge was derived in a similar manner, with each generation learning from the one before and expanding the pool of knowledge incrementally.

Not true. No amount of such iteration gets you from buffalo cave paintings to particle accelerators.

Humans generate knowledge by acting in the world, not by dwelling on our thoughts. The empiricists won a very long time ago.
I am beginning to doubt we are going to make much of dent. Some one recently told me ecologists and biologists don't frame it as exploitation when they talk about predator-prey or parasite-host relationships. I really didn't know how to respond to that.

I think we are able to kind of reduce the exploitation A BIT, via social norms and culture. And that too only in regions where resources are abundant and the environment isn't too chaotic.
One of the clearest differences in the election was medical debt policy. Measures to actively fix the system, plans to go even further. Or, the status quo after the UHC-Change merger.
Absolutely. None of these look good to me. I would rather just have plain text. I wish all of these fancy sites would at least include a plain text / simplified reader mode by default. Front end stuff is getting way too over engineered .
Frustratingly, all the demos are blank canvases for me. I use PiHole at home but I checked the query logs and I see no blocking anywhere. Enabled all JS via uMatrix and uBlock Origin but still no dice.

macOS, Safari and Firefox.
It was also my favorite interview format as well.

Interviewer had a small API. Found missing error handling, missing validations, poor choice of ID column type, missing index for a high volume read query, possible XSS vector.

Loved the format so much I ended up making a small FOSS tool for code review as interview: https://coderev.app
You can't tell people no phones allowed, you can't tell people, no recording on premises; people will do as they will, especially when out on recreation. But you can tell people "Our nightclub employs a small team of gentlemen who run around snatching phones". Claim yours by description and biometric unlock at the exit.
You're right about how "useful" needs to be defined. Monero at 30tps and blockchain growth rate is useless for global adoption. Lack of fungibility also makes every other cryptocurrency useless for global adoption.

You're also right that PoS is more sustainable than PoW, but I think this will change your mind: https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/lv5285/alt_take_on_...
It did for me. Thankfully since the energy consumption does not scale with the transaction rate, it's not a long term problem I think. Currently, the high energy per transaction stats are only because the adoption is low.
i did this more than 20 years ago. i was between jobs. my choice was to go back home or go travel. so i sent my stuff home to my grandparents and went to travel...
Whoops, you are correct. Thanks.
If your non-democratically installed government wants EU and Nato membership against the majority of citizens...that absolutely undermines Ukraine's national sovereignty.

Here's what I mean by "too much to unpack":

(1) If your non-democratically installed government

Not true in regard to the events you are referring to (at least to a first-order approximation). Let's just say I could easily tell you why this take wrong if we had time, but because there's so much to unpack, we don't. All I can recommend is -- please check your assumptions, and do your own research.

(2) If, hypothetically, a government (democratic, autocratic, or somewhere in between) makes a decision that goes against whatever the latest polls of the moment happen to say -- no, that does not mean it is "undermining the country's national sovereignty". That's just not what "sovereignty" means. If you don't fully understand this, you need to stop right now and look into what the term actually does mean.

(3) At no point since 2010 has any government in Ukraine attempted to push for NATO membership against the tide of public opinion in Ukraine. This is a pure and simple fact, and I strongly recommend you roll up your sleeves, do the basic research and determine the valdity of what I just said, on your own, all by yourself. In particular, the years 2010 and 2014 will be very important in your analysis.

(4) I'm pretty sure the situation is exactly the same with regard to EU membership, though it's not a matter I've looked into directly. However, the infinitely bigger matter of concern for you should be: if it's your belief that this is not the case, then why do you believe this? Is it something you've looked into directly -- or just something you think you might have heard somewhere?

(5) Nevermind the author's credentials. Just consider the statement on its own terms. It literally doesn't matter at all who said it, or what their credentials are.

Academics are people like anyone else, and it turns out many of them are just as susceptible to propaganda and muddled / ideology-perturbed thinking like anyone you will meet on the street. Some even way more so, in fact. Precisely because society has told them that they're so darn smart, and that people will just automatically believe whatever they say.
Emergency fund is useless when expenses are 5k/mo, and that's just sitting in my room working in 15C with my food costs and expenses as low as can be. Burned through 40k already.
Claude has been my got to, mainly because of the huge context window. But today, that doesn't seem to be the case, or you hit the rate limit pretty quickly and have to wait a whole day.

Google Studio with it's 2M context window + this experimental version could be a good replacement.
According to Mozilla's financial filings, CEO Mitchell Baker's compensation increased from $5,591,406 in 2021 to $6,903,089 in 2022. During that period, Mozilla's revenues – long dominated by payments from Google to make it Firefox's default search – dipped from $527,585,000 to $510,389,000 [...] "Fully 30 percent of all expenditure goes on administration" [1]

In 2018, Baker received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation from Mozilla, a 400% payrise since 2008. Over the same period, Firefox market share was down 85%.
[..]
In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, Baker's salary rose to in excess of $3 million. In 2021, her salary rose again to more than $5 million, and again to nearly $7 million in 2022). In August 2020 the Mozilla Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues, after previously laying off roughly 70 in January [2]

I'm of the opinion that there should exist mechanisms for nonprofits to reclaim ill gotten remuneration from ex CEOs

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/09/mozilla_ceo_mitchell_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker
Because it directly contradicts their world view where child-rearing and the success of said child’s genetics is the highest purpose one can pursue.
What happened when India banned TikTok
Mostly plain text files saved locally for easy copy-pasting.

I'll occassionally use prompts from the Anthropic library (https://docs.anthropic.com/en/prompt-library/library) and make some minor modifications to them. E.g. I'll modify the "prose polisher" prompt from the prompt library for refining written text in specific ways.
Even before getting any sort of demo/landing page up?
We've known that sugars increase the rate of tumor growth for 50 years already.
I wish I knew about Google Studio way earlier, I don't understand why Google haven't marketed it? I found out about it through word of mouth.
I’m in business technology consulting. You’re right about tons of pain points and opportunity.

But the limiting factor is not AI or any kind of tech, it’s getting these businesses to trust you with fitting into their existing systems and giving you their time.
Turbo Pascal back in the day was super fast. One of the fastest compiled languages I had used before we had incremental compilers and background incremental compilation. C/C++ compilers have mostly been a lot slower than those old Turbo Pascal implementations. MS Quick C 1.1 was a notable exception in the C compiler space. It could do 1 pass in memory compilation of most c code. Modern frameworks feel way slower even with scripting languages that require no compiles.

Coming to think of it, my 486 from early 90s when running DOS was one of the fastest computers I have used when it comes to bootup and applicaion load times. I was like type name of program, press enter and the program is up and ready to use. The systems that I had before that did take a lot longer to launch programs and anything with Windows has always felt an order of a magnitude slower. Modern tiny linux disros can match that speed, but then that is only with a very slimmed down system minus any gui. The MacBook Pro with M1 Pro did feel a lot faster than previous macs or windows machines when it came to application launch times and general gui responsiveness, but still no match to those DOS systems.
I agree: An annoying/avoidable implementation shortcoming, but arguably relatively orthogonal to security.

> there are over a dozen different PIN block standards

You almost certainly don't need to support all of these inside the PIN pad or even ATM/POS. If necessary, translation can happen in other parts of the system.
As Andrew Kahng was one of the co-authors of Cheng et al., all of the issues with his reproduction still matter here. The Nature paper went through an investigation and second round of peer review.

AlphaChip is used to make real chips in production. Google publicly announced its use in multiple generations of TPUs and Axion CPUs, and MediaTek said they've built on it as well.
I’ve always understood paycheck to paycheck to describe households that don’t have a buffer. Meaning, if the paychecks suddenly stop, or a sudden large expense, there’s nothing to bridge the gap other than social programs.

By this definition, I would imagine a very large number of US households fit the mould.
You use NATS as opposed to Kafka, I presume?

Also, what's Clickhouse for? Logs, observability data?
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Have you found the output for arbitrary grammars to be satisfactory? My naive assumption has been that these models will produce better JSON than other formats simply by virtue of having seen so much of it.
An FT opinion piece thinks that the interference angle misses the point:

https://www.ft.com/content/37347819-22ba-4b6d-a815-ec6115a8f...

For many years, political and economic conditions in Romania have been ripe for this sort of breakthrough. Blaming it on Russian interference and the support that Georgescu generated through the social media platform TikTok — factors cited by the court on the basis of declassified intelligence reports — is to miss the larger point.

The FT is the opposite of a pro-Russian outlet. This is the first time that I see a European mainstream paper acknowledge broader issues, which gives some hope. The article also makes the valid point that nationalistic movements are not unambiguously positive for Russia. This is a self evident point, which has also been suppressed for the past 10 years.
> Also can we train this same model on regular language data so we can converse about the genomes?

Yes! That is what has been done in ChatNT [1] where you can ask natural language questions like
"Determine the degradation rate of the human RNA sequence @myseq.fna on a scale from -5 to 5." and the ChatNT will answer with "The degradation rate for this sequence is 1.83."

> My biggest point of confusion is what type of practical things these models can do.

See for example this notebook [2] where the Nucleotide Transformer is finetuned to classify genomic sequences as two of the most basic genomic motifs: promoters and enhancers types.

Disclaimer: I work at InstaDeep but was not involved in either of the above projects.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.30.591835v2
[2] https://github.com/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/...
> Its very approximate, but up to now that’s been very hard to do from just the sequence and no other data.

the synthetic syn 1.0 project used a promoter search algorithm written in cobol by one of the leaders. one of the professors on the project had a wordperfect macro that found protein sequences, point being they weren't the best programmers in the world. i would hardly say its been "very hard"
Without his consent seems implausible. Clearly somebody has been coordinating it and he should have noticed this and done something. Pretending that it was all just coincidence is just bad faith.

"And happens in most countries" is just a blanket statement. Major proportion is still declared and you dont just skate into presidential election 2nd round with 0€ spent.
why do i think this will be integrated into sagemath? :D
With great power comes great responsibility, and the responsibility to maintain what started out as “a few lines of groovy” is not one I’d ever take up again.

There’s a middle ground between overly flexible and very constrained, and I think GitHub actions nails that.

Individual steps/actions are reusable components with clear interfaces, which is tied together by a simple workflow engine. This decoupling is great, and allows independent evolution.

As a point to this: GitHub actions doesn’t even offer git clone functionality: it doesn’t care about it. Everyone uses the core “GitHub/checkout” action, but there is nothing special about it.

The same for caching - the workflow/steps engine doesn’t give two shits about that. The end result of this decoupling is things like sccache and docker can offer native integrations with the cache system, because it’s a separate thing.
The question asked how somebody would pay for an unexpected $400 expense. If you answered “credit card” then you were considered to not have the cash to cover an emergency. I’d use a credit card…and pay it off when it’s due.
Yeah "policymakers" was intentionally vague, to include people who aren't themselves politicians, but are involved in influencing policy. People like staffers and policy-focused writers and people at think tanks and government agencies.

Your impression that this is just a right-wing politician thing simply isn't accurate. I have been reading arguments - mostly from the center-left - about this problem for years, long before the war in Gaza.

Frankly, you sound like a very young person who just started paying attention to politics, and think that the one thing you've seen happen so far is the only thing that has happened.
In concrete terms, what you would or will see, if enough money starts going down this track, is open-source contributors changing their behaviour as they seek to make projects "donation-optimised" and to maximise their personal share of donations, and likely also "donation-bait" projects which exist simply to game the system. But even though all this could get quite bad, it's still quite likely to be less bad than the status quo. EDIT: If you're thinking of making such a contribution yourself I don't think the downsides should deter you yet, at least unless you're lucky enough to have control of a truly large bag.
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what part of "Civilians got targetted" did you misunderstand?
As an employer, I know candidates use LinkedIn’s “Apply in one click” in bulk. When we contact them, half of them notice they don’t even fit the criteria in our ad (be a Java developer, for starters).
There are a lot. like this: aac8022d-350a-4c3e-9012-314159265358
Yeah. I sometimes feel like I'm being a bit extravagant but it's pretty small-scale in the scheme of things. No interest in multiple homes, yachts, jets, etc. Don't even eat out all that much except when I'm relatively modestly traveling.
The idea that votes have to be ignored in Romania because Russia is a unique understanding of democracy.

And it's uniquely yours, because no one (even in Romania) is saying "votes have to be ignored because Russia".
This thread is specifically talking about travel where you can go to places that have affordable healthcare, no?

How much you care about other people’s opinions is, again, entirely up to you.
i think this is the sign of an inadequate safety net. i also grew up poor with a single parent who could not work until us children were old enough to be able to be at home without supervision. so we had to rely on government support.

now i am not exactly well off either. but i never felt i was financially insecure even when i was low on money. that safety net is always there, and having experienced it, i am comfortable trusting it.
One thing I want to try is looking at all the packages on a minimum install of a Linux distro. How many of those are just a dude?