skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This dilbert-style management has become very normalized in tech - to the detriment of everyone.

It fundamentally comes from a place where there are too many layers of managers, none of who want to make crucial decisions that can bite them back.

Aka leadership only in org chart but not in setting direction, leading from the front, or accepting tradeoffs.

Ultimately it all boils down to org chart leadership. If managers could be voted out of the org chart by people below them in the chart, they'd have no choice but to show more spine and help the people below.

But this is not going to happen in corporations. So the best thing to do is quiet quitting. There is a reason this exists.
Before it was a settlement it was a military base. It did have walls protecting until 1940, where under WW2 Japanese occupation they were demolished. The name stuck even after.
The south gate of the wall remains as part of Kowloon Walled City Park

You can see an illustration of the wall in the infographic here
http://archive.today/2omPT
Would you elaborate how you arrive at this viewpoint? From my point of view I seem to be missing some crucial information.
Insufficient grid capacity can also be local, there are many cases of inverters turning off because of too high grid voltage in the Netherlands
Google Workspace ESignatures
* Common functions such as parsing functions in languages that don't support function overloading

* "equals" and other global functions.
Citation needed. People get bitter over good things sometimes too; because they see others as having gotten more, or perceive unfairness when there wasn’t any, and so on.

I am not implying bitterness is bad. But you can absolutely be bitter for almost any reason.
Implementing Raft: Part 0 – Introduction (2020)
That seems about right. That's actually helpful. When you have a management failure, trying to solving it by "getting better at management" isn't really a solution.
I think it's something people keep rediscovering. It's a pretty fun programming problem that lets you explore lots of different domains at the same time (video processing, color theory, different coordinate systems for visualizing things) and you get a tangible "cool" piece of art at the end of your effort.

I built one of these back in the day. Part of the fun was seeing how fast I could make the pipeline. Once I realized that FFMPEG could read arbitrary byte ranges directly from S3, I went full ham into throwing machines at the problem. I could crunch through a 4 hour movie in a few seconds by distributing the scene extraction over an army lambdas (while staying in the free tier!). Ditto for color extraction and presentation. Lots of fun was had.
And the core code mostly calls other libraries for heavy lifting -- eg `mammoth`: https://github.com/mwilliamson/python-mammoth
If the spacing between the lenses is equal to average human eyes, then that thing is huge!
I fucking love the 19th and 20th centuries, the speed of innovation and change has been amazing with rapid development of entire new forms of media and experience, but it makes me wonder, are we kinda at the end of that? There’s only so many novel ways to engage the five senses, if we give up on social media…

It’s hard to imagine 100 years from now social media won’t exist. Intergalactic social media is still social media.
Net International Migration Drives Highest U.S. Population Growth in Decades
> Brilliant.

Is it though?

Doing unconventional shit with animals: it's obscenity. People have been litigating the difference between ordinary obscenity and shock art forever. This is an easy call for me.

You can slap a "message" on obscene things and it's a perfectly valid way of making art, but I don't think it's brilliant.
I get around 40 (+/- 5) on my M2 Macbook Air with Chrome.
Whenever someone says "there's not much geometry going on" you've identified a person with little capacity for imagination
Except not as a 1:1 trade!
OpenAI Realtime Embedded SDK
Pakistan's missile program is 'emerging threat', top US official says
Rust No_panic Macro
Yeah. The whole notion that "AI will be good" is itself a category error, as if this could even be measured definitively.

https://x.com/mickeymuldoon/status/1859825564649128259
> What verb would you use for your interaction with those words?

Perceive

> Exact name eludes me sometimes, but I do know exactly what I need and what I plan to do with it.

This is just analytic language. Even if the symbol fails to materialize you can still identify what the symbol refers to via context-clues (analysis)
I need a browser I can embed in a page and make it do things programmatically. Browserstack has that?
People devote themselves to their non-romantic loved ones, including parents and siblings.
>stop glorifying cowardice

I mostly agree. I don't think its cowardice most of the time though. Its that laws now favor criminals if you attempt to do anything yourself. Its become public policy that "rich" people buying things can simply absorb the loss and the police don't even have to do anything because no one bothers to report it. The police win because crime stats go down, thiefs win because they get the goods, the victim absorbs all the cost and if they try to do anything the victim goes to jail for whatever charges that made the police have to get up and work.
Person who closes the most tickets gets a car

Second place gets a set of steak knives

Third place is you're fired

Always Be (C)losing
Yeah, those are few and far between, generally there will be a DefinitelyTyped for anything popular, and you start choosing libs that are written in TypeScript over ones that aren't.

But for your own handwritten application code, there is no excuse to use `any`.
Perhaps those three different groups should just coordinate together, rather than individually using this data, and arriving at three different and possibly interfering conclusions.

Aside from that grid operators buy power from producers. They don't plan future capacity more than 72 hours in advance. If you're a producer with expensive power you won't sell much. If you're a producer with cheap power you will sell a lot. It's already a functioning market. Solar is a very small part of it.
What would jailbreaking allow that couldn't be mocked up in AR mode instead of iPads-strapped-to-face mode?

Yes, you'd have to have your various "apps" in your same "suite" app (like Microsoft ships Word, Excel, Powerpoint, inside Office for iPadOS), but third party apps wouldn't know your new UX/UI paradigm anyway.
My older relative is complaining that their working life roughly coincided with the time where computers became mainstream but were still hard to use, and now that computers have become easy to use (think smartphones and tablets) their (the relative’s) productive days are more or less over and all their hard-earned difficult computer knowledge is becoming obsolete. So they were the generation that had it hardest, because they had to deal with computers (unlike earlier generations) but had to do so before computers became easy to use (unlike later generations).
> While we have shown that we can use the Dwingeloo telescope to receive the carrier signal from Voyager-1, we cannot use the telescope to communicate with it. NASA uses dishes in the Deep-Space Network (DSN) to communicate with Voyager 1. These dishes, located around the globe in Goldstone, Canberra and Madrid, are optimized for these higher frequencies and have a diameter of 70m, much larger than the 25m Dwingeloo Telescope.

I wonder if this was included as a "please don't ask us if we're capable of hacking it, we are not" CYA.
I read it as "were in disbelief that this was even possible [in knockout]".
The "author:" part was just being treated as a keyword, and was restricting the results too much. I haven't found the comments I was looking for, but I have found Chain of Thought prompting, 11 months before it was cool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26063189):

> Instruction: When considering the sizes of objects, you will calculate the sizes before attempting a comparison.

> GPT-2 doesn't have a concept of self, so it constructs plausible in-character excuses instead.

I also found the Great Translation Argument (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35530858 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35530855). And, apparently, I was still framing things in terms of the sci-fi nonsense in 2020, but I had the right ideas (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22802105):

> Corollary: you can't patch broken FAI designs. Reinforcement learning (underlying basically all of our best AI) is known to be broken; it'll game the system. Even if they were powerful enough to understand our goals, they simply wouldn't care; they'd care less than a dolphin. https://vkrakovna.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/specification-gam...

> And there are far too many people in academia who don't understand this, after years of writing papers on the subject.

This criticism applies to RLHF, so it counts, imo. Not as explicit as my (probably unpublished, almost certainly embarrassing) wild ravings from 2018, but it's before 2024.
Oddly enough it's fine on mobile. It's only on the desktop where it's impossible to read without adding custom CSS.
"the communist reforms from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s" is a little generous; for better and for worse the article seems very aligned to the politics of the current leadership of the "New China"
damn, that's bad ass. did that simulator run on a Windows system or was it something more esoteric?
> Some of these people don't understand that they won't see that tournament again

Just as many don't care or see it as an inconvenience to be there. They might do less damage to their families by just being honest and skipping.
I'd love to know how much faster we've gotten since this was released (now unmaintained)

https://netflixtechblog.com/fast-json-api-serialization-with...

I really thought this pure ruby implementation was neat, though I never actually used it in production. It's been long since abandoned.

I'm curious in general about the status of pure ruby implementations. It looks like they killed json_pure? If so, that's a bummer. Does anyone know the details? By far the most interesting part of the posts to me are the Ruby optimizations not so much the C ones.
I'm not sure the actors are mumbling their words. I think the issue stems from the way sound is decoded on people's devices. Movies used to be mixed down to stereo and TVs have no problem producing the sound. Now that it's possible to stream, say 7.2, the TV will tell the service to send something like that but the TV does a poor job of outputting the center vocal channel through it's two rear $3 speakers so you can hear it. The same audio track decoded with a nice cinema amp and two center speakers will generally be really clear. (Also some TVs have a setting to boost the vocals to try and fix this)

Again, with the dark movies. They seem to be color graded and encoded for HDR screens, and most HDR screens are really a fake type of HDR and so the movies just come out super dark. They look a lot less horrible on a really great high-end TV in a totally dark room.
What does dignity and cowardice have to do with manhood? That's a weird projection of toxic masculinity. Not wanting to get your stuff stolen helplessly isn't about manhood at all, it's more about dignity, which is a basic human right.
Slowly but surely, desktop Linux is developing an ecosystem of quality of life applications like this that make using common peripherals and stuff on Linux not feel so bad.

Some of my other current favorites are:

- CoolerControl (https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol) - fan control/curve designer/temp sensor overview tool. Seriously awesome tool!

- LACT (https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT) - AMD GPU tool for overclocking, etc. Anything you would do with the radeon app on windows

- BoatSwain (https://flathub.org/apps/com.feaneron.Boatswain) - Elgato StreamDeck tool
As someone who recently lost power and water for weeks post Helene, do not discount the power of distributed grids. Distributed core infrastructure will make for much better climate resilience. Don't miss this in your efficiency calculations.
The market regulating itself:
It's from a manager / founder so yes, implicitly it is
Can you please stop posting these? This is the 7th one you've submitted, and users have correctly been flagging them because this is not on topic for Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

I don't want to take submission privileges away from your account because you've posted many good things in the past, but if you'd please stop this barrage, we'd appreciate it.

I understand how the story would generate strong feelings, of course, but HN is a site for intellectual curiosity.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing! What sort of things are you working on now?
Well, sure, but you could also ask the question: let's say Mozilla loses this funding. Will the web, either as standards or as a marketplace, improve as a result?

I think the answer is a pretty definitive "no way in hell". All browsers will start pulling "the old tricks" like replacing adverts on websites to fund themselves.
You don't have to provide complete types. If you know what you need to access, and what type to expect (you darn well should!), you only have to tell TypeScript about those specific properties and values.

Generally, the conveniences of allowing any are swamped by the mess it accumulates in a typical team.
> Note - Newer revisions of XBOX 360 has no access to CLK and you must use Matrix oscillator

If there's no CLK line on the mobo, does this mean newer X360s have everything that might be clocked (I assume at least CPU, GPU and V/RAM?) in a single chip, SoC-like?
This is the coolest HN post I’ve read in months.

Cheers.
Yes, the drive has been get to the USA to have a good life, and now it is get there fast before they close borders just because.
Can I ask where BERT models are used in production these days?

I was given to understand that they are a better alternative to LLM type models for specific tasks like topic classification because they are trained to discriminate rather than to generate (plus they are bidirectional so they can “understand” context better through lookahead). But LLMs are pretty strong so I wonder if the difference is negligible?
I have no clue what this means as I don't understand what to what you refer via "sounds".

Are you saying you cannot tell whether you are thinking or talking except via your perception of your mouth and vocal chords? Because I definitely perceive even my imagination about my own voice as different.
Hummingbird: A lightweight, flexible HTTP server framework written in Swift
How would you use a LLM inside a lawn mower? This strikes me as the wrong tool for the job. There are also already robot lawn mowers and they do not use LLMs.
most of them do, also have you heard about quantity?

the amount of storage build for spent nuclear fuel+energy buffer vs buffer for just renewables aren't even in same ballpark. Just do a simple fermi estimation. Btw - the white "smoke" coming out from cooling towers of nuclear power-plant are pure water vapor.

And that's not even going into MSFTs or other reactor types. just traditional ones.

Honestly, such blind faith is actually hurting renewables movement by giving climate change deniers more ammo to pummel the movement with.
If you don't care about your child's development and be there to support them, then you can just skip having children in the first place, or building a family altogether.

There's no shame in being honest to yourself and others, as you said.
Yep, adopting strict after the fact is a different conversation, but one that has been talked about a bunch and there is even tooling to support progressive adoption.

Types that are too complex... hmmmm - I'm sure this exists in domains other than the bullshit CRUD apps I write. So yeah, I guess I don't know what I don't know here. I've written some pretty crazy types though, not sure what TypeScript is unable to represent.
Also the line about sending this email while on the weekend to his staff at his son's tae kwon do is particularly absurd.
> get bogged down typing the best possible ways to do it but it's a moving target

As someone who is still learning this is a huge reason why I've come to love dynamic languages. Any project I do involves a lot of rewriting as the code evolves, I found that trying to predict ahead of time what the structures and types will be is mostly a waste of time.
The best middle ground for me so far has been using python with type hints. It allows for quick iteration, I can experiment and only then update the types to match what I have, so that I can still get LSP help and all that.

But I could see this being less relevant with more experience
I applied at a company called WattTime a few years ago. I didn’t get the job but their work involved some of that. It sounded really interesting.

https://watttime.org/about-us/climate-trace/
From the point of view of the server, the request might be a response. ;)
Google seems to think monogamish is the new word for it, but that is a really confusing word (I thought it meant you can cuddle puddle with your friends).
This is a Winamp visualizer.
IME this is much more prevalent in organizations that hire "nontechnical managers". I personally will never work in such companies again, the experience of having your boss have literally no clue what it is you do for a job is not one I'll sign up for again.
Key takeaways:

— The South Remains Fastest-Growing Region, led by Texas and Florida

— Population Increased in Most States except in Vermont, Mississippi, and West Virginia

— Migration Drives State Growth. Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina saw the largest gains from domestic migration, while California, New York, and Illinois experienced the largest net domestic migration losses between 2023 and 2024.

— Florida, California, and Texas saw the largest gains from international migration.

— Population Decline in Puerto Rico Slows
I assume those are probably very hard to fix since (again, I assume, I'm just a hobbyist in the hardware space) that sort of glitch relies on propagation delays (e.g. a short burst triggering some latches but not others, or triggering the latches in some specific synchrony).

Can anyone confirm if I'm on the right track with my guess?
I think you would really have needed to learn Perl in the 1990's.

Perl had three huge advantages (at least for me) when I first used it in 1992: 1: familiar syntax which paralleled well-loved tools (sed, troff, grep) 2: associative arrays as a built-in 3: regular expressions as a top-level language feature (not buried in some library with clunky syntax). A few years later, CPAN was another huge advantage.

Nowadays, syntax compatibility with sed is a disadvantage not advantage, associative arrays/dictionaries exist or are easily available for basically every language, and CPAN was the model that everybody else copied or did better. So really the "regexp syntax is immediately available" is the only remaining advantage, and it's rare that it would be worth it.
I highly recommend sitting down and really watching a couple talks by Michael Levin. After Robert Sapolsky, I haven't found a person that changed my perspective on whatever passes for reality more than Levin.

https://drmichaellevin.org/ (link to his lab)

https://www.reddit.com/r/MichaelLevinBiology/comments/18x3vn...

Academic YT channel https://www.youtube.com/@drmichaellevin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky
Helium's Frank Ong: Building Out DePIN's First Big Success Story
...except when you're still in the car, while driving in San Francisco.

Photographer had their camera bag stolen from their car while waiting to get on to an on-ramp in San Fran. see https://www.ktvu.com/news/real-estate-photographer-robbed-of...
Only because most people don't set their DNS server manually. When most OSes and/or browsers start ignoring the default DNS settings ISPs will devise another system which does impact the main point of the service.
> I fucking love the 19th and 20th centuries, the speed of innovation and change has been amazing with rapid development of entire new forms of media and experience, but it makes me wonder, are we kinda at the end of that?

Yes, we are more than 20 years past the end of that (“the 19th and 20th centuries”).

> There’s only so many novel ways to engage the five senses, if we give up on social media…

(1) It’s not 350 BCE anymore, I don’t care what Aristotle said, we know now that we have at least 8 major sensory systems, and there are debates about the exact number of senses with a low plausible value of 8 and an upper bound to the current argument of about 33.

(2) To the extent that it is true that there are a finite number of ways to engage however many senses we have, “if we give up on social media” is pure excess verbiage. The statement is more or less true without it.
It cost me over $500 to upgrade my 4mb RAM to 16.
Google releases its own 'reasoning' AI model
> They're really for something lost, not stolen. Generally, they are specifically designed to not work well in adversarial situations.

In practice, AirTags tell you where it is, which is useful for lost or stolen items.

What you do with that information is a whole other topic outside this scope.

I've recovered or helped recover several stolen items located with an AirTag and I'll keep on buying them as long as they're good for both.

So far in the cases I've been involved, the thief wasn't aware of the AirTag. In some cases, they had iPhones on them. I'm not sure why they did not get an "AirTag is following you" notification, or why they ignored it.
Joules is the solution to both the problems (the second is that Wh for energy is as silly as speed hours for distance)
To the users of this software, it isn't an oops at all, it's absolutely _desired behavior_.

To hapless tenants, it is a negative. They're the _victims_ of the algorithm, not the users.
Ending the 'terror and panic' of coming off long-term antidepressant use
Looking forward to the response article on how types can make easy problems hard.
Defense industry has lower standards and higher salaries for tech jobs, because they're restricted to nationals only. Not sure about AA
https://www.transitionzero.org/products/solar-asset-mapper perhaps
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"if you don't let people steal your stuff you're not a real man!"

That was awfully presumptuous and condescending. I think the people advocating we let thieves take our things are the ones who need some updates.

Ad hominem attacks aside, you're presenting a false dichotomy. There is nothing mutually exclusive about analysis and violence.
You can certainly use Selenium and Appium with Browserstack and automate it.
Search vectorize and outline a knowledge graph on any topic
Gemini Flash Thinking Mode
Get all perils insurance and make sure your typical use is covered. Often, commercial use will not be covered so it's important to double-check!
> The etymology is not green/yellow/red. It's just not-Yellow or yes-Yellow. See Stephen Levy's In The Plex (2011) pg186:

Yes, I know. I was making a rhetorical point using a metaphor.
You can easily put React components into static website once you need them wherever you need them.

That's one of the selling points of react that was initially important that you can use it in limited fashion.
What is wild is that I saw a flat screen lenticular Canon display playing some custom DOOM clone in about 1998 at a video game developers event. It must have been at least 17" 4:3. It always seems it was something that accidentally fell back through time because it was so far ahead of its time. I remember feeling like a caveman because I put my head around the back like I was looking for the magic of how it worked.