skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat idea. You may want to crawl and farm some data from hackernews, reddit, lobste.rs, metafilter, stackoverflow etc. Maybe you could even use wikipedia reference links.

Right now the UI is very search centric, but there's not many results yet. If you look at wikipedia in 2001, search was at the bottom of the page, and it was more focused on adding content and browsing. https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/wikipedia-2001

* An idea would be to show contributors what others are searching for on the home page, so that they can add links to that search. I just searched for 'email' and found one link. Someone could see that and contribute their favorite related pages.
* To recreate wikipedia, you'll need some feedback mechanism for contributors to feel its worthwhile to contribute. This could be as simple as having a profile that tracks 'karma', 'likes', etc.
Can confirm — I’ve had awesome conversations with Simon on Twitter.

I’ve also had really negative experiences with Twitter.

My conclusion is that Twitter is frequently derided but really it does nothing more than act as a megaphone for human nature. If you don’t like Twitter, you’re probably just following the wrong humans.
We no longer live in the days of tribal warfare and duels of honor. Violence is not a legitimate response to ridicule. And the side that decides that being banned from social media or being made fun of means the tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of progressive techies is the one that needs to practice empathy.

People like Matt Gaetz are fascists, and fascists thrive on projecting a aura of menace and intimidation and righteousness and cultivating a sense of respect and authority that justifies their violent ideology. The way to fight that is to ridicule and humiliate them, to make it clear that society has no place for their brutality and foolishness.
Twitter + Clubhouse really is pretty fantastic, too bad I cant stand either
Nope. There is Tesla and there's Therasense.
I've got a Samsung watch and the the heart rate monitor has serious reliability issues. Apples is not only suppose the be better but you got blood pressure and o2 monitoring. I'm definitely going to switch over in the future
It's a long standing tradition from older forms of chat software (IRC, ICQ and so on) and yes, it seems endemic to Russian speakers for some reason. I always explained it to myself that it saves time and also by the fact that to type ":)" in Russian kb layout you have to press Shift+6, Shift+0 compared to Shift+;, Shift+0 in US layout which seems a bit more cumbersome.

Anyway, this is going away as most of the younger generation just uses emoji instead.
There's actually a regional difference. Growing up on the east coast in New York people rarely smiled at each other on the street. Someone you didn't know smiling at you could mean a crazy person, or some sort of con artist trying to suck you into interacting with them.

Living on the west coast for the last twenty years, the situation is totally different. On a bike trail, on the sidewalk, people often smile and nod at each other. At first it was very off-putting and I found it hard to reciprocate. Over the years I've forced myself to do it so as not to seem unfriendly, but it's been a bit of a chore. That natural paranoia I feel, suspicion about people's motives, is something I grew up with and I don't think I'll ever be able to put it down completely.
Ask HN: What are your tips/tricks for escalating your issues with big corps?
As question implies, big corporations (banks, telecos, etc.) often let customer troubles get lost in the shuffle. You're only able to call an 800 number and the system is designed to make it difficult to escalate an issue to anyone that can actually take action.

What are your tips for getting around this system? For things like Google, we often see people do a hail mary post on HN. Sometimes people email Tim Cook or Jeff Bezos. But especially for banks, it's difficult to find someone who cares. What has worked for you?
No but fitting the device inconspicuously in a bill is another matter.
>I mean if the device can't produce a driving force why call it a "drive"?

Because Star Trek called their thing a warp drive and that's become the general term for this kind of speculative technology.
A land tax: doesn't violate private property or privacy rights, counter-acts wealth disparity, impossible to evade, and considered the perfect tax by economists due to doing zero harm to economic efficiency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
I'm not sure what argument you are trying to make. That in some putative future where AR headsets become a meaningful product category for wearable Apple might not be in a strong position?

True but not really germane.
Oh, yeah, I agree it's bad UX. I just wanted to explain what you as a user can do about it.
Another thing I've noticed uniquely with some Russian colleagues, and I've never quite known the meaning of, but I assume is Russian cultural attribute, is silence. A few times I've e.g. been explaining something to a Russian colleague, I'll go on and on, and when I'm done ... nothing. This always gets me anxious. What does it mean? Does the person think it's the dumbest thing he's ever heard? Did the person not understand what I said? Does the person need more time to think about it? Does the person not realize I'm finished? What is expected of the speaker in this scenario? Do I just wait? Do I prod? Do I explain it again? Do I leave? Is there some microexpression I should be looking for to differentiate? Or is this not actually a Russian thing and just an anomaly?
I take your meaning but JTN r/StringTheory hasn't been active in over a year. (I will not succumb to the temptation to make that into a string theory joke.)
Glad you enjoyed! Investigating how tunable parameters impact the generation is an interesting idea, I'll definitely investigate it for my own application.
What would be the first question you would ask an AI supercomputer?

Myself: What does 42 mean?
Ask HN: How many people in tech/VC/startups use adderall/cocaine to work more?
Just curious really. Do you see it as rampant or at all regular with some people? Are there very successful people in the valley that did this?
I am no security professional, but from what I have read, probably.

This is why it's important for things like password managers, personal documents, etc. to be encrypted client side if backed up or hosted somewhere on another machine that isn't yours.

A good line that I've seen people use on this forum: "the cloud is just somebody else's computer".
But if you can do that, why not just use the hypersonic missile to hit the carrier? Why add the extra step of dropping drones?

And deploying drones at Mach 20 might be rather hard on the drones...
THANK YOU!

I just kicked Solitaire's ass for the first time in at least 15 years. I couldn't remember the rules but my hands took over and it was like I was killing time at my moribund old job all over again.
couple of extra hints:

Python 2 but can be ported forward without much effort. Manifest.mbdb is now Manifest.plist (there's a sqlite thing now too). timestamp sql might not work so great, would need to check query.
Part of it is luck. Just like job interviews or college applications. Even though I'm sure the people vetting YC startups are smart, they have to pick a few companies from a huge number of applicants without really knowing much about any of them.
No blood pressure
Turn off all the notifications. It’s way, way better without them.
Same with Apple. Location Services constantly sends your location across the network to their servers - it isn't just passive GPS reception.

I have location services disabled on all of my devices without exception.
It's insulting for many white men who don't come from privilege - some from poor backgrounds, or rural backgrounds, or non-college educated backgrounds, or health status, etc, etc - to pull out the hackneyed "white male privilege" stereotype here.

Why not use the more accurate term for people like this, who went from a wealthy or upper-middle class home, to an Ivy, to a FAANG, to an easily funded startup? They're the elite, or the 1% of whatever similar term you want to use.

Because "white male privilege" sterotypes millions of white males incorrectly. But I know it's a very popular stereotype right now among part of the population, and so often hard to resist.
The burden of causally connecting a testable covid case to death in the short term from known symptoms of that viral infection and the burden of causally tying a subjective concept with debatable criteria like "overwork" to specific deaths is night and day different.
Don't say that too loudly !

Management will use it to justify only paying for 10 hours per week instead of the 40 !
It has already started with the nonsense of cutting your pay if you don't choose to work where real estate is very expensive. As if the value of your work diminishes if you don't live in an expensive neighbourhood.
What are you expecting them to do?
> Google viewed the large increase [of disabled location tracking] as a problem to be solved, so it removed this setting from the Quick Settings pane of devices it manufactured, and it sought - successfully - to convince other manufacturers using Android to do the same

> We don't know who all rolled over for Google. The complaint and employees said they didn’t have much choice as the only way to have Google’s key apps was to use their preferred design of Android.
Honestly, it’s crazy. We back incredible women who end up spending at least four times fundraising than similarly qualified men, consistently get offered lower valuations, and end up raising less capital. It’s fucked up — the three solo female founders we backed are some of the best performers in our fund I so that makes me wonder how many incredible women aren’t getting funded at all who would also crush if they had the resources.
> Dry tests use a lot of helper methods and those are a layer of indirection.

This is exactly my point, you reduce noise.

> To understand a dry test, you have to also understand the helper methods, and whatever helpers they all call.

To understand your TEST SUITE, you understand all the helpers exactly once with DRY tests.
I wonder how much did overworke contribute towards saving lives?
Yes, it is suspicious not to let an independent committee audit the lab, and to disallow access to all information related to it. I'm not going to deny that. It also doesn't make it a cold hard proof.

But I do know that pissing of China at the start of a pandemic isn't a good way to help the world mitigate the pandemic either. You need international collaboration and for everyone to work together and relay what they learn of the virus and its transmission and all that.

At my work, we have policies similar where in the case of a production event, you don't blame the dev who released the bad code or made the faulty change, because doing so creates an atmosphere that doesn't help with root causing and fixing the issue.
I have been using the samsung line of watches since before apple watch was ever a thing, despite some heart rate variance the leadership in payments samsung commanded was and still is unparalleled.

people with apple pay carry a backup card, a samsung watch allows paying with magstripe emulation in case of legacy terminals. pre 2020 pandemic this was indespensible and there are still often inoperable nfc terminals and MST is a great backup.

I hate the elitism around the apple watch and its minor changes to standard health tracking wearable tech that has had normal LTE and other full phone functions from the get go... not to mention the ridiculous requirment that an iPad isnt enough to set up a watch, you need to buy into their phones.
they should create some GPU-based crypto instead of wasting all that heat

talking about AI safety when there is no AI in sight is like arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, time is better spent actually building models of (natural) intelligence
And yet still no way to get the little blue check mark of authenticity
What is causing the most recent flat earth theory outbreaks all over the world? Could it be some environmental factor like pollutants, IQ is declining, bs online is increasing. Somehow it has to be the ultimate conspiracy theory measured by outlandishness.
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They wield supreme judicial power. The legislative body can then try pass laws to more precisely define the activities involved.

The judiciary can then declare those new laws to be unconstitutional.

That is an active judiciary. It is be deplored. The judiciary in the US is supposed to be the weakest branch of three. The EU is an example of what happens when it's the strongest.
> A pet peeve about projects like this is that the entire website talks about the software project, from a developer's perspective, and it's basically impossible to find out what the software does from a user's perspective

No, it talks about the developer community from the perspective of target members, because that is what it is the website for.

The projects, of which there are multiple, aren’t even mentioned, and it doesn’t appear that any of them are currently targeted on public users; on the projects page they have reference to two areas, a “Client Solutions Group” that is engaged directly with three food pantries for developing custom software for each pantry's needs, a “Common Services Group” building shared components to support those efforts, and a reference to “Other Projects” supporting the community website and infrastructure.

So, yeah, the community page isn’t an info page for prospective users since they aren’t trying to solicit users or making software that isn’t targeting people other than those they are directly engaged with for custom work.
Asimov wrote a short story[0] about this exact scenario!

Many people at HN have probably read this already, but maybe some of them could be part of the lucky 10,000![1]

[0] https://templatetraining.princeton.edu/sites/training/files/...

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/
Not my experience but ymmv (and clearly has).

> You can hardly find old used servers for less than 1000$

I picked up a second hand Dell PowerEdge 610 with 96GB of RAM for $400 AU, it's overkill by a large factor for what I need but damn. Either I was super lucky or servers aren't (weren't?) expensive.

> You can get that for less than 5$ a month
pocket change and host it

Until you actually use it and then it ramps up rapidly to the point where you'd be far better off just buying a server.
The poor don't have fixed interest rates on their debt.
I don’t think graphics rendering is really the problem — worst comes to worst, you just reduce graphical fidelity — and regardless, rendering 300 AI characters roaming around is clearly doable, and it’d be the same with viewing real players. It’s a client-side problem, and doesn’t have to really scale much with player count (Stadia’s main pitch was that you didn’t need high end PCs to play AAA games — not that it would enhance games’ ability to play online)

The hard part is dealing with 300 players communicating simultaneously with random delays and state changes, in an environment that doesn’t really handle delays very well (a text chat can be 10s late and no one cares. A character moving can only be a frames late before interpolation becomes obvious, and you start teleporting people around). And tracking the state changes across users and passing them around tends to add up, causing further delays.

Of course, you could always change the game model itself too. RuneScape & Maplestory trivially enabled large groups of players simultaneously (pretty sure you could easily find places with 200+ players visible and active). Runescape was basically turn-based and ran like 1 turn a second, so much larger room for delays. Maplestory capped actual active play to relatively few players, but enabled large quantities in towns acting as glorified visual chat rooms — which solved 90% of the feeling of being in a large community. The Maplestory strategy I think nearly every MMO implements.
Police hunting canabis farm instead find crypto mine
Nokia had a decade-long lead in mobile phones.
I'm not sure what the article is trying to say here.

The argument is not that these people are so uniquely skilled. The argument (as I understand it) is that they are capturing the returns from automation, because they control the capital and market-ish economies generally funnel gains to owners of capital.

The "pie" grows in size, but capital owners also take an increasingly large slice.

That said, ultra-billionaires who didn't inherit their money are uniquely skilled, if not also uniquely well-positioned to take advantage of those skills. But that's not really what economists mean by "skills-biased technological change" except in an overly literal sense.
Because the cost of finding out who the most competent legislators are is much higher than the benefit I get from casting my vote, which has a one in several million impact on the outcome of the election.

It's why most people vote for who is the most recognizable, or who is the tallest, or who had the most ads on TV, or who their family and friends vote for. The cost of informed voting is much higher than the benefit. It's just one example of the market failure of the political system. In other words, everyone does what's in their own self-interest, and we're all worse off as a result.
You'd have to ask Ada programmers.
Off topic: I love that you're using an "f" in the word demografic (standard spelling is demographic). I've been learning a lot about how all the weird spelling exceptions came into the English language and the fact that we still use "ph" to make an "f" sound is just super interesting to me. It's mostly present in words that came from Greek through Latin, which represents the sound of the Greek letter "phi" as "ph". Then, as far as I can understand, the spelling remained unchanged even after all those words began to be pronounced with our current "f" sound.
Houston's 'Darth Vader house' listed for $4.3M
"We are NOT developing rapamycin or metformin for dog aging. None of our drugs in development are a classic longevity drug that you will have heard of. Most have never been previously described as aging drugs." – https://twitter.com/celinehalioua/status/1398335368567480325
My pet theory is that it takes more effort with a Russian keyboards to type the smiley face.

With English, you do "SHIFT + ;" for the colon and then "SHIFT+0" for the bracket. When I type it, I hold down SHIFT with my right pinkie, and hit ";" with my middle finger. I then outstretch my pointer to hit 0. It's mostly a single fluid motion.

With Russian, you have to engage two hands instead of one. We have more letters in our alphabet so the ";" key is occupied by "ж" (a "zh" sound as G in Gerome), and the colon gets moved to "SHIFT+5". So now, to make the colon you have to first find "5" on the keyboard with your left hand, while holding down SHIFT with your right. Then you have to disengage your left hand, and reach for the 0 with your right to make the bracket. Rather than do all that, you can just place ")" and the context is enough to understand it's a smile.

It could also just be tradition. My earliest memories of the Russian internet are from the late 1990s, and the convention of "))))" was already in place.
Honestly I don't think you are being as clever as you think. It would take ten minutes to write a filter to remove these spam comments and files and focus on your real ones (and every data mining company is doing this already). You can't beat a computer by trying to act like a computer. They are much better at it than you.

Have you considered just..not using the service?
"My views on abortion are informed by science."

Hopefully you'd know enough about science to know what types of questions it can't answer. I guess not.
From now on, I need to start responding to "How are you?" with "Normal".
> I put my watch on the charger whenever I go to sleep.

One of the things that always confused me about the Apple Watch (and other smartwatches) is that they market them as sleep tracking devices, but if you do use it for that purpose then I'm not sure when you're supposed to charge it. I guess you could charge it during a morning (or evening) shower but is ~30 minutes a day of charging enough?
> *CONTRIBUTES*

Thank you for pointing that out. It's an easy mistake to make given how very often one can see that terrible disease, "Overworkitis," on death certificates... /s
Honest question, an email I infrequently use in own the list https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Is it safe if I simply add 2 factor authentication(edit: change password of course also) or do I need to add something else?
another way to think of it:

P some value multiplied by how far off you are from the setpoint.

Integral term is just that from calculus... adding stuff up over time. some value (gain) multiplied by the error every N (min/milliseconds/seconds) and sent to the output. usually clamped at some value to avoid runaway errors. aka turn up the heat a little more periodically to eventually reach the setpoint.

another math term(derivative being the rate of change of something with respect to something else basically)... the derivative term is supposed to be a way to dampen the output so you don't overshoot it and oscillate around the output value. if you can critically dampen the output you hit the setpoint without overshooting it and quickly. the trick is knowing which to use when because all systems are a little bit different with differing responses to the outputs and some systems are cascading and rely on other pid loops which is another bag of worms.
Why would a lack of encryption make it not reverse engineering? There's a database schema, it was engineered* and used to build a database. They went from the live data back to the schema.

*For some definitions of "engineered", apparently.
The page you are looking for, https://www.abc.net.au/article/100175796 cannot be found. It might have been removed, had its name changed, or be temporarily unavailable.
The WoW world is not very mutable unless something big has changed since I last played it. The amount of state to be managed is small. It’s basically location, inventory, some ephemeral projectiles, etc. Only a small number of players can see each other at the same time too, so it’s not like thousands of people in a virtual colloseum.
I think you are 100% right. I didn’t have the words for it I guess, just the emotion, and picked something off the shelf.

I’ll just add this though, I promise you 2 girls would never have gotten this funded lol.

And I ain’t a girl either, or a white knight.
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You probably mean “yoke” not “yolk”.
I’m not married to this fight. Nepotism is a gameplay mechanic in the whole privilege thing. So is corruption, collusion, etc. The broader theme can still stand.

But, I don’t want this fight, and you are probably right I’m off base and too quick on the trigger here.
Change your password, change the password of any other site where you use a variation of that password, and enable 2FA on all your accounts. Use a password manager and change your passwords to longer randomly-generated ones over time (most password managers make this easy).
What a strange thing to hear. Even I can tell you that many more than "two" YC companies have become profitable, and I'm pretty removed from the business side of YC.
It seems to run relatively smoothly, but what's keeping it from running lag-free? Opening up "My Computer" takes 3-4 seconds. Why doesn't it open instantly?
Amazing project, not sure what are the commercial or real world applications?
This is a much better response than what I started to write.