skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've completely misunderstood my position, or else I've failed to communicate some of my background assumptions. I thought I referenced the "chicken or the egg" problem and fruitless red ocean fights throughout the twitter thread, but perhaps I was too subtle. The entire point is to establish a new category rather than go up against them directly.

I'm very aware of this and it's not something I'm ignoring. It's the central thesis of "So You Want to Compete With Steam" [1] which is background for everything I think about. How to solve the Chicken or the Egg Problem is absolutely fundamental to these issues. Just because I don't have an immediate solution for it in a new space (other than spend truckloads of money) doesn't mean it's not something I'm thinking of constantly.

My answer to "here's how to compete with Roblox" and "here's how to compete with Steam" is literally the word "Don't" in big bold letters right at the beginning of both articles.

Also, I think you give Roblox short shrift. 99% of everything is garbage, that's just Sturgeon's law.

[1] https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-...
> You can flip this argument for those leaving California as well. Out migration out of California should be discounted because the folks moving out are the ones who are no longer productive or competitive in states with higher productivity.

That formulation still makes California sound shitty!

> This comment also privileges the choices and constraints faced by 2nd generation immigrants over the choices and constraints of 1st generation immigrants, which is unnecessary

No, it avoids distorting the picture. Second generation immigrants and other native born Americans have much more freedom to go where they want, so their choices are more probative. First generation immigrants by contrast face a very restricted set of choices driven by immigration considerations.

> Most folks moving to Texas are moving to find a cheaper home

That’s exactly the conservative critique of California. It’s laws make housing expensive. Add to that crime and school boards more focused on taking Lincoln’s name off buildings than opening up and teaching kids in person. All that sucks for middle class people. And that critique isn’t rebutted by pointing out California has industries that suck in massive numbers of immigrants. In fact it’s the exact opposite. For a middle class person, it’s better not to have a small segment of the population making $750,000/year.
Seems odd that lobbying from what would be much smaller entities would somehow overtake lobbying from the giants.
That's how most outsourcing/consultancy companies work, lure you with a seniors and then replace them with a juniors/mediors
Ask HN: Side Project on Resume
I am currently at a director level and looking for a VP role. Over the last two years I have successfully founded a profitable SaaS business. My company is aware of the project and this is not an issue.

My question is to those at VP level whether I should be listing this project on my resume/LinkedIn. This is not compliance/IP question as if needed I can sell my shares. This is rather an optics question if it makes my resume look stronger or weaker given I founded the project while working at the company.
Fun story: I actually did something like this but on the opposite end of the spectrum. I would interview candidates, not intending to hire them but tell them about my product and offered them a free trial at the end of the interview. Didn’t work as well obviously since most didn’t work for another company at the time and it was a B2B product
You have no idea. Al Qaeda has nothing on the cartels.
If it is like a mirror then what about people around you getting all that light reflected back into their eye - light which they can't really "see"? Seems like if you are around something like that all day where multiple people are wearing such clothes that it could possibly be damaging?
Why not name the company?
I don't think it is, there are literally tons of YouTubers that advertise alternative platforms such as Nebula/CuriosityStream.
They're not talking about the mole outsourcing his work so he can slack. The whole operation runs at a net loss in order to place the mole in a position to support the financier's goals.
At least Apple actually makes stuff, so many companies really are just marketing companies, 'their products' being complete commodity items.
Classical (Co)Recursion: Programming
they have something like this but full body - for those people who wear the full body mascot outfits eg games/ Disney etc..
Can it be used in reverse to keep the body heat in instead? If the body is producing the radiation, it should be usable in reverse.
Thanks for the Norman Greenbaum link. I'm familiar with the song, but the video's new to me.

First psychedelic song I can think of (and I'm a big fan of the genre) is See My Friends by the Kinks (1965): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ugr0pgUo1c (the video is just of the Kinks performing the song, though).

There are plenty of videos used for psychedelic songs, but it's usually hard to tell whether the video was made specifically for the song, and most are either recent or montages of videos from the late 1960s.

Some contemporary videos (all from 1967) for psychedelic songs which are more than the just the group performing:

Strawberry Fields Forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8

A Day in the Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM

Arnold Layne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3DGpINHX5Q

See Emily Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0EDM-Yu9o

Paper Sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cp_3NEWTzU
How much it cost to operate for its first decade of life is certainly not representative of how much it'll cost for the next given how its archive and usage have grown significantly.

The grandparent implied that'd be the cost to run the site, the parent suggested it's not representative now.
I recall reading about an incident where a journalist with access to North Korea was detained for a while over a phrase that said a guard "barked" orders, as the locals deemed a comparison to a dog rather unflattering.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36200530
This is often being done by the mods of the site though, and not by the submitters. I've had it happen to a post of me, and I've seen multiple comments by other submitters that the post title was added to include "in Rust".

I'm not sure what the incentive for the mods is here (overall higher engagement on the site?), or if it's still being done, but from a certain point on, I think it could even be harmful to Rust, by preventing it from being recognized as a "normal/mainstream" language.
Demystifying the Draft EU Artificial Intelligence Act
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2107/2107.03721.pdf

"Manipulative systems"

"...Two prohibited practices claim to regulate manipulation.

(a) the placing on the market, putting into service or use of an AI system that
deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness in order to
materially distort a person’s behaviour in a manner that causes or is likely
to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;

(b) the placing on the market, putting into service or use of an AI system that
exploits any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons due to their
age, physical or mental disability, in order to materially distort the
behaviour of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or
is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological
harm;

In briefings on the prohibitions, the Commission has presented an example for each.
They border on the fantastical. A cross-over episode of Black Mirror and the Working
Time Directive exemplifies the first: ‘[a]n inaudible sound [played] in truck drivers’
cabins to push them to drive longer than healthy and safe [where] AI is used to find
the frequency maximising this effect on drivers’. The second is a ‘[a] doll with
integrated voice assistant [which] encourages a minor to engage in progressively
dangerous behavior or challenges in the guise of a fun or cool game’..."
"Hypocritical" seems like the wrong word to describe caring about multiple things that are sometimes incompatible.
Do you have the same thoughts regarding JavaScript?
As long as the job can be delivered to a mutually-satisfactory state, then it shouldn't matter if it's done by an A/B/C or D team. A lot of times in software "consulting" firms, the "profit" margin diminishes or is negative the closer you approach the top levels of developer in terms of quality/seniority. So it's in their best interest to get the most out of less-senior developers, otherwise they simply don't turn a profit.

The clients though, they want to pay the consulting firm relatively the same price they would pay for a standalone developer employee, per hour. The entire industry is broken and a lot of it has to do with broken recruiting, the recruiting industry, the "consulting firms" (body-shops) that are just resellers, and onerous employment regulations that make firms prefer outsourcing to shady outfits instead of hiring in-house developers.
Ok I think I misunderstood you if passing it through something like DMC is not what you mean.

So I have some fibonacci encoded binary blob[0] (uint8_t for each byte), is there some kind of pseudocode example you could share of how I would pass each bit from the file through the a statistical model (like for exponential moving average, I'm not sure what to do with each bit I iterate over or how to store it after it would pass through from what you are trying to explain to me)?

[0] https://gist.github.com/cinquemb/94168c02da2a30b269cc5baef8c...
And that wouldn’t be an issue if twitter wasn’t so dominant for this form of communication between positions and people. It’s because it is so entrenched without a meaningful equivalent service that this becomes significant.
I'm confused. The parent was complaining about solving smoking but letting Juul "in" and all the chemicals it introduces to people. I was merely saying there are far more and far worse chemicals in our food. That we should address chemicals in our food before we worry about Juul given the help ecigs have limited smoking.
The point is that they didn’t move to NYC because they love NYC as a place. They moved there because a Bangladeshi network can help you get a job at Dunkin Donuts and sign up for various social services. Once they had their legs under them they left the city.
Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27777717
Israel says it’s targeting Hamas’ cryptocurrency accounts
> Counterpoint: At a top company like Google, full of some of the most talented people in the world, there simply won't be enough promotions to go around.

I don't know anything about google specifically, but generally it's not the size or the talent level of a company, but the growth rate. If you want to be promoted, the most important question is whether or not the company is growing. Else the only way to go up is if someone else leaves.

High turnover can also accomplish this effect but is limited to a very small number of industries.
Agreed. What I've done. Make a shorter list of some processes (10?) and create blank pages for each. Do a dump of a month or so of tickets and create pages for things you want o capture. Begin adding detail as you have time. With more involved tasks, team up with someone or make an outline of the processes during an informal knowledge transfer session.
I think that it's now in a gray area and that we'll see if it's legal or not in the upcoming years. Because let's be honest, the current legal systems weren't designed for ML and AI...
"Whenever I watch a movie now it's almost always a disappointment...What happened?"

Lol. What happened is that you look for good movies on Amazon Prime, dumbass

"Passive media consumption is fundamentally bad"

Lol. Talk about drawing a crap conclusion from a shit sample
Got a citation, or are you just being a know-it-all?

Sure, at the end of the day their paycheck is money that came from their sponsors, but I'm pretty sure they mostly pay for the flights themselves. Many drivers live in Monaco, so they've even shared a chartered private jet going to some races and back.

Or I've even seen a driver take his wife and kids to vacation from Switzerland to Finland, on a private plane, with no sponsors being tagged in the Instagram story (but well, let me guess, you're going to tell me I'm being advertised to in other ways).
> [...] which Samsung did in 2018 when it partnered with Epic to launch Fortnite exclusively on the Galaxy Store. [...] Samsung apparently pursued other exclusives with “popular” app developers [...]

So an alternative app store provided by the largest maker of Android phones, which pursues exclusive apps that will then only be available for Samsung phones, is supposed to be good for competition?
That is already in the works. Sweden has a woman who have already made false statements that she has withdrawn but they are using the rape charges to get her to the US.
> But you were saying the farmers where indulging in murder.

I said no such thing.
Idk cheating in the college I was in (Top #30 US Institution) was punished severely. I fondly remember my Data Structures professor, bluntly telling us she'd end our academic careers if we were caught cheating. Fondly because she was a great professor who clearly had no time or patience for that kind of bs. It was school policy for expulsion, and this is a very well known school.

This of course may have changed dramatically in the last two years given the major shift in how we all live but I would suspect that this is more common than you think.
Slight exaggeration but even given that aspect, I'm uncomfortable with the community's reaction
Experimental ClickHouse: Projections
How to Choose an Acceptance Test Framework
Show HN: AllSpice Hub – GitHub for Electronics
Because when you want to go watch cat videos, having a "HOW THE JEWS ARE CONTROLLING THE WORLD WITH 5G" video next to it is:

* buzkilling and revolting

* makes you associate the platform with nonsense

* scares people of association with the platform.
> "If you're not using a time tracking system, you might be violating the law" was a common phrase.

This seems a reasonable thing to say. If anything it's helpful by perhaps providing the employer with information about requirements they were ignorant of.

> but the offers strongly implied that a having a system like that was necessary to satisfy the legal requirement. Which was not the case.

But coupling it with this is a sleazy sales tactic.

One can nullify the affect though by having at least one person on your staff tasked with being knowledgeable of all of your industry's employment requirements and your company's current state of compliance with them.
How would that work? Normally you don't get to hear much until after you sign the NDA.
>I'm the dictator of the cookies I baked yesterday

Your cookies are not important for the scientific world, and she is NOT the baker of the Scientific papers, just a publisher, and since it's not her content she has even less rights to block a country from partially self made work.

Don't you see the irony in it?

>...to remove all barriers in the way of science (but don't name insects after me)
> "Why do you want to work for us?"

"That's what I'm here to find out. Tell me, why should I pick you?"
Thanks for the upvote.

I had a feeling that the previous comment would possibly not be well received. My intention was not to make a strawman argument - that's why I added a clear caveat about the limited usefulness of analogies.

The point was perhaps a bit childish, I admit, but then again, the HN audience is very diverse with many different backgrounds. Many may be intimately familiar with academic realities, others might not and simply get triggered by the old "evil publishing corporation against freedom of information" trope.

The two examples were meant to target the latter end of the spectrum, and judging from your comment, they probably failed at what I had in mind: to allude to the fact that there a multiple parties involved here and they are coming from different perspectives and they have different interests in mind. That's where the analogies end, of course.

Sci-Hub is certainly convenient. But convenience does not justify everything.

P.S.: A potential evidence that my point about the different backgrounds of the HN crowd may have been correct is the fact that my "analogies" post is the only one that has more upvotes than downvotes.
I once interviewed a guy who put on a great show during the interview. The kind of interview that feels more like a well-practiced sales pitch than an honest conversation with the candidate.

Checking his LinkedIn, I discovered that he had a consulting company that ran concurrently with his most recent jobs. His most recent jobs were all less than 12 months of tenure, and the start/end dates didn’t match what he provided on his resume in some cases.

Curious, I started digging more. Through some LinkedIn friend-of-friend backchannel references I eventually deduced that he was trying to run his freelancing shop as his primary job while getting full-time employment at companies with flexible and/or remote employment where his real daily activities could go unnoticed (for a time). He collected a paycheck and benefits while running and building his freelance company. He would also try to recruit some of his coworkers to become part of his consulting company “on the side”. I suspect he was trying to outsource his own work to his freelancers as well.

Eventually each company would catch on and get sick of his behaviors, strange lack of availability and presence during the day, and work output that varied depending on how much contract work he was trying to do.

Then he’d move on to the next company to continue collecting benefits and a paycheck remotely while running his freelance shop.
https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el/issues/127

Not OP, but I suspect this is what s/he meant
Good Kickstarter idea!
> And if we think about what has been going on over the platform lately, the features Instagram introduced are literally a copycat of biggest competitors: Stories from Snapchat, Reels from TikTok and the social audio rooms from Clubhouse.

It’s a tough world for innovative startups if giants can just steal their innovations with no repercussions. We need updated laws to prevent this.
> How can you design a user's experience (lest we forget what UX stands for)

Right. Most designers are not UX designers, they are graphic designers hired to do UX because they can make pretty pictures in Illustrator.
It discounts international immigration in from every state, so California isn’t especially penalized in that regard. It’s not unfair—all it does is separate the question of what makes a state a good destination for international immigrants (which involves very specific factors) and the question of what makes a state a desirable place to live for Americans who have unrestricted choices about where to live.
Universities will definitely expel cheaters, though they may give a couple chances first (with increasingly-worse penalties like failing grade and violation on transcript). One of the things people are complaining about with this software is people claiming to be wrongly punished.

Typically there's a faculty union or senate which negotiates policies with the administration. Individual professors aren't all alone in the fight. Though they may individually choose to give lax punishments or look the other way.
Related: https://galambo.wordpress.com/2021/04/21/rss-tools/
This sounds like the plot for a really fun movie.
Building a Business on Open Source
It doesn't matter. I just expect an intelligent answer that reflects understanding of the circumstances in which you, as a candidate, are in. I also look for signs that you might be bad fit, a risk, a fraud or a waste of time.

We all know that most people don't exactly love their jobs. I think it is fine. Just because I do doesn't mean everybody has to. You can still be productive without being workaholic and abandoning your friends and family and promising eternal love and devotion to your company.

But I am also obligated to find people that will actually help the project and bring value to the company and try to find a compromise between seeking perfection and filling positions.

On that end I need to somehow judge, from a very limited amount of information during a very broken process if it is worth to continue with somebody.

If you can't find a semi-convincing answer to a question you should have expected to be asked, there is probably some problem with you. Do I really want to spend effort trying to figure it out?
You don't think students who worked hard deserve privacy?
It's not uncommon to have to sign an NDA just to visit an office (you never know what you might see on a whiteboard in a public space).

Makes coding meetups a bit awkward at those places tho.
That depends entirely on the region you are targeting. There are parts of the world where the IOS users are around 3% (eg. India)
But all the code used IS open source; this does NOT mean anyone is free to use it in e.g. commercial or differently licensed products.

I mean there's some licenses out there that do allow for it (I'm not that well versed in OS licenses), but open source code often comes with caveats. GPL for example makes it mandatory for you to make any changes you make to it open source yourself, making any GPL-licensed code suggested by Copilot unusable in a commercial closed-source application.
https://goomics.net/348/

This one is fantastic. Seems a little strange that they're wearing an apple shirt when google does the same thing though and its a google comic that seems generally self-scathing.
There's relatively new instructional strategy called the "inverted classroom" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom). It's where students read texts and watch online lectures by master instructors, but then go to in-person classrooms to work on problems and get tutoring with individual attention, and the opportunity to interact with other students.

The advantage is that students get really comprehensive exposure to the material. First from a formal lecture and then from in-classroom attention with questions and practice. It's sort of like standard college lectures and recitations with TA's except there's more emphasis on the recitations and the lectures are from really excellent instructors.
A Puzzle About Puzzles
> I believe in a system where the people can critically assess and evaluate all laws and regulations and has the power to get them changed. I don't believe in a system where people can just pick the laws and regulations that suit them and choose to ignore the other ones.

Fair. For the record, I don't believe in neither of the two systems that you describe, or rather... I don't think that those descriptions are meaningful.

i.e. you describe what "people can" do... you might intend "can" to mean: "have the ultimate power to", but to me that's obviously untrue (if people had the ultimate power to change regulations for the better, gerrymandering wouldn't exist, if people had the ultimate power to ignore law and regulations, police wouldn't exist).

What you describe could be true if you mean "can" to be "are allowed to". But obviously people are never allowed to do something as a blanket rule... and thus those statements are less universal, and much less interesting (People can change laws and regulations, as long as they have the support of mass media and the establishment. People can ignore law, as long as LEA turn a blind eye to it)

What is more interesting, is defining what people -should- do.

If people can critically assess all laws and regulations, should they change them?

Unjust laws are obviously not being repealed. Is that the people relinquishing their responsibility, or are there roadblocks preventing that? Who has the power to stop them? How can we empower the people?

If people think that laws are unjust, should they ignore them?

Is that good for society? How do you protect people who are doing civil disobedience?