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Ask HN: How does your company do performance reviews?

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Linus Torvalds, the famous embroidery file converter developer

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So for Christmas, Tove got this embroidery machine from Santa Claus. Since then, she's busily been...
So for Christmas, Tove got this embroidery machine from Santa Claus. Since then, she's busily been filling the kids clothes with names, re-doing their Tae-Kwon-Do uniforms etc etc.And why do I care? It turns out that all those embroidery machines can be extended with new patterns, and most of them - including the on...
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Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog

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How short can Git abbreviate? (2013)

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How short can a Git hash be abbreviated? A full SHA-1 hash is 160 bits, 40...
How short can a Git hash be abbreviated? A full SHA-1 hash is 160 bits, 40 hex characters, which is a bit long to talk about and retype when you’re not just copy-pasting. Therefore most people will use just the first few characters to refer to commits, but how safe is this? I know of a couple posts where Linus Torva...
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U.S. Senate and Biden Shamefully Renew and Expand FISA Section 702

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Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles

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Show HN: Source Code for CSVs

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More examples of Scroll Datasets from datasets.scroll.pub. April 21, 2024 — The source code for this...
More examples of Scroll Datasets from datasets.scroll.pub. April 21, 2024 — The source code for this blog post contains a dataset about the planets and generates this HTML file as well as a CSV, a TSV, and a JSON file. It demonstrates Scroll Datasets. Scroll Datasets are normal plain text blog posts written in Scrol...
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I am thinking of open sourcing the ozma-io core platform code

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Home Assistant has a new foundation and a goal to become a consumer brand

arstechnica.com

Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open smart home platform...
Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open smart home platform is an open source OS you can run anywhere that aims to connect all your devices together. But it's also bespoke Raspberry Pi hardware, in Yellow and Green. It's entirely free, but it also receives funding...
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Opening a small business in San Francisco is still a nightmare

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Five years ago, I decided to pursue my dream and launch Arcana, a wine bar, restaurant...
Five years ago, I decided to pursue my dream and launch Arcana, a wine bar, restaurant and entertainment venue on the Mission Street corridor. Little did I know what it would take to open those doors: years of hard work, heartache, blind alleys and bad-faith conversations. It almost led me to give up hope.Most notab...
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The reason PG&E rates are skyrocketing in California

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Carrier, inventor of the air conditioner, is moving on to the home heat pump

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Carrier Global, the nearly 100-year-old manufacturer whose founder, Willis Carrier, invented air conditioning, is being transformed...
Carrier Global, the nearly 100-year-old manufacturer whose founder, Willis Carrier, invented air conditioning, is being transformed by the growing market for heat pumps and other HVAC climate technologies, which have outsold fossil fuel furnaces for two years in a row."HVAC is at an inflection point right now," said...

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The Resurrection of Rajasthan's Royal Liquors

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After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip

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Enlarge / A cropped portion of a ca. 1980 ad for the Microsoft Z80 SoftCard, which...
Enlarge / A cropped portion of a ca. 1980 ad for the Microsoft Z80 SoftCard, which allowed Apple II users to run the CP/M operating system. Last week, chip manufacturer Zilog announced that after 48 years on the market, its line of standalone DIP (dual inline package) Z80 CPUs is coming to an end, ceasing sales on J...
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Australian prime minister takes on Elon Musk over church stabbing video

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Generate code for declarative language instead of programming language

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Code Generation AI is all the rage these days. But is generating code for programming languages...
Code Generation AI is all the rage these days. But is generating code for programming languages like JavaScript and Python the right path to take? I think not. I think we should be generating code for declarative languages like Excel or SQL.What's the difference, you ask?In declarative languages, you express what yo...
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Alienating Tesla Buyers by the Cybertruck-Load

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@TBPInvictus here: Back in December 2022, I hypothesized that Elon Musk’s antics and his newfound desire...
@TBPInvictus here: Back in December 2022, I hypothesized that Elon Musk’s antics and his newfound desire to own the Libs were going to destroy Tesla’s appeal to many of his most important buyers. The latest data confirms those sentiments were on point. I looked at 2020 voting data and TSLA registrations in counties ...
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OpenAI Japan

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We are excited to announce our first office in Asia and we’re releasing a GPT-4 custom...
We are excited to announce our first office in Asia and we’re releasing a GPT-4 custom model optimized for the Japanese language.Editor’s note: Japanese follows English (日本語は英語の後に続きます)As we grow our operations internationally, we’re expanding into Asia with a new office in Tokyo, Japan. We are committed to collabora...
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EURISKO Lives

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Wireless Charging: Trading Efficiency for Convenience

ifixit.com

Wireless charging is a common sight these days. You’ll find the technology in earbud cases, cell...
Wireless charging is a common sight these days. You’ll find the technology in earbud cases, cell phones, and even your bedside table. The benefit of wireless power is obvious: The convenience of freeing ourselves from all those pesky cords and various connector types. But that might be the only benefit. What about t...

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First real-life Pixel 9 Pro pictures leak, and it has 16GB of RAM

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Enlarge / OnLeak's renders of the Pixel 9 Pro XL, the Pixel 9 Pro, and the...
Enlarge / OnLeak's renders of the Pixel 9 Pro XL, the Pixel 9 Pro, and the Pixel 9. The usual timeline would put the Google Pixel 9 at something like five months away from launching, but that doesn't mean it's too early to leak! Real-life pictures of the "Pixel 9 Pro" model have landed over at Rozetked. This prototy...
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Electron 30.0.0

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Electron 30.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 124.0.6367.49, V8 12.4, and Node.js 20.11.1.The...
Electron 30.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 124.0.6367.49, V8 12.4, and Node.js 20.11.1.The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 30.0.0! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. Continue reading for details a...
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Using Your Vector Database as a JSON (Or Relational) Datastore

zilliz.com

TL;DR: Vector databases support CRUD over "traditional" data formats such as JSON. If you're a solo...
TL;DR: Vector databases support CRUD over "traditional" data formats such as JSON. If you're a solo developer or a small team and don't want to manage many different pieces of data infrastructure, you can use Milvus or Zilliz Cloud (the managed Milvus) as your only datastore and easily migrate vectorless collections...
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Intro to "Ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power": Naming power

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