skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in gestalt therapy this is called being at an impasse - you are in touch with yourself enough to know that you're not happy, but not yet sure how to change your life to be happy. long term I do believe it is better to be in touch with yourself even though there may be periods of discomfort or confusion. it's better to do that than to be humming along feeding your trauma until you reach the age of 50, have a mid-life crisis and realize you've wasted so much time not in touch with yourself.
"Understand" in the sense of the Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Or, in this case, his/her campaign contributions.
Engineers don't write the text of patents, patent attorneys do. And for the kind of boilerplate in a patent like "describe a modern processor", this text and images are actually quite likely to itself be heavily copy-pasted from previous applications.

Honestly, I would be more surprised if any engineer (intern or otherwise) at Intel ever noticed that the images came from an AMD presentation, let alone actively participated in copying the images from said source.
Yeah, sure, that's all true - but Urban Airship doesn't handle any of that stuff for you. You still have to do all that stuff, but call Airship somewhere in the middle of all of that.
"time to interactive: 1.0s / first content paint 1.0s"

My man, let me introduce you to ... HTML. It has "time to interactive" at 0.0 seconds and content paints instantly!
How would that be different that doing this on any eComm platform?

I don't understand what's unique about doing it through Turo.
Proof of Work’s raison d’etre is to mitigate Sybil attacks so a naive solution to the problem would be to have people “mine” their airdrop.
hn is a privacy/piracy/(decentralization but not on the blockchain) enthusiasts. we produce gems such as this highly upvoted alternative to Dropbox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224:

> getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

we are by no means business models experts
I'm with you there but we still don't know how it works, just that it does. The method though is you take a bunch of images, you plug them into a multi dimensional array (a nice way of saying a tensor), have some kind of tagging system, and when you ask the system for an answer, it will put one out for you. So for example in the astronaut riding the horse, there is, on some level, a picture of a horse with those similar pixels, that exists in the data of some object tagged 'horse.' Likewise with astronaut. What is important is that the data sets are absolutely massive, with billions of parameters.

Here's a more of a 'not 15 year old' explanation: https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/posts/dalle2/
This has been discussed on HN before.

I don't condone Intel behavior, but let's be honest here: AMD underinvests in software and expects others to pick up the slack. That isn't acceptable.
It's an interesting dark pattern...

I understand when products are compared directly: Uber vs. Lyft, Uber Eats vs. Grubhub, etc. Often consumers are looking at the exact same product and purely deciding based on price. I can see what a company would add that dark pattern to squeeze every dollar they can get.

AirBnb, Turo? I don't get it, are folks comparing the purchases directly to "other" products?
Stack Exchange (and by extension, Stack Overflow) publishes all their data (anonymized) for download and offline usage as part of the Archive.org project. If you wanted, you too could have a copy of it locally to search while the site is down.

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
Exactly this. By honesty I mean I will go above and beyond to make sure the client would be satisfied, instead of focusing on closing a sale. I get anxious and worried that the client won't be happy and will dislike what I have made. Therefore, a sales rep that can close and just smile would do wonders.

Could have probably worded my initial comment better.
I don't think so. Here in France, we have our share of troubles. 27 of our 56 nuclear plants are offline and we were asked to reduce heating and electric consumption earlier this week to avoid power cut and keep the grid on.

We have lots of difficulties keeping our plants on, due to badly designed and/or maintained plants, and this won't improve with global warming (e.g warmer river and sea in hot summer will make reactors more difficult to cool). Our failure to build our EPR in time and within budget is not reassuring either (from EUR 3.3 to 19.1 billion! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...)

I'd much prefer than we switch to solar and wind as fast as possible and as nuclear energy becomes less needed, we retire the big, old plant as safely and cheaply as possible (mmh). Of course, we'd better focus on retiring the most polluting plants first (coal ones in Central / East Europe) but the faster the transition, the better.
I have had good experiences renting on business trips with Turo itself. I wanted more exotic cars than what I might get at Hertz so created an account and all that. It's true the price goes up substantially from the originally stated rate though, maybe I didn't quite see the discrepancy because I had already created an account.

My biggest gripe with Turo, and the reason I don't use it much, is it's really inconvenient, even though you book through the app. For example, I land at SFO. With Turo turns out to get the stated rate you need to go to the car's location, which ime is usually some inconvenient neighborhood where the owner lives. SO it's kind of weird Lyfting to some neighborhood to get a car. Otherwise it's like an extra $80-150 to have the car waiting at SFO (or whatever airport). Then returning is the same ordeal.

I am a bit used to the dark pattern in the app they and places like AirBnB employ, for better or worse I'm used to it, and so never really get my hopes up until I see the final checkout price right before hitting "Reserve" (which adds friction because the fees are never the same across cars/homes). One thing that I think would make Turo viable for business travelers like me in the future would be a much more frictionless delivery process, perhaps acquiring a rental area at airports like the regular car rental companies have and not adding giant fees to avoid inconvenience. Put the onus on the person providing the car to have the car at the expected place at the expected time.
Cheap bastards love things like the iPhone SE - it provides all of the capability they need for applications, fits in a pocket and doesn't break the bank. If they have better devices like big TV's or real computers, the fact that the screen is small or slightly less small doesn't matter as it's nowhere near the screen of choice.
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>I know biometric data is intrisically secure.

I work in security (at a crypto/web3 company!) and the opposite line of thought prevails in the field, most security experts argue that biometric data is fundamentally insecure especially for auth. A quick google search shows a lot of research backing that, from universities to major tech companies.

>Using ZK-Snarks with biodata allows you to verify, profit and protect your data. Instead of handing it to some entity to do god knows with.

How is this going to happen exactly? The requesting entity, like a doctor, asks for medical history. I use my retina to verify, and thanks to ZK-Snarks they have no knowledge of my retina data. How are they going to get the blood pressure readings? They need the data to analyze and understand. And what stops them from saving it in their own DB?

Similar with many of these web3 products. Think, uniswap or defisaver. Ok you can use ZK to auth, they have no idea what wallet address is connected. But as soon as you use it they know exactly who and what you transferred and traded, all stored in a DB.
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I've heard similar things, but with "sand" instead of a rock. Presumably a nod towards silicon.
Some O’Reilly books are available on ebooks.com DRM-free.
to be clear Airbnb isn't a startup anymore, they're a public company with around $6B annual revenue and 6k employees
What business owner calls all employees into a room just to be counted? Is that how you utilize your employees' valuable time?

This has nothing to do with the cidery owner. Do you know the exact headcount of any of your friends' businesses?

You may very well know that your buddy has "about 10" employees or "half a dozen". But to the exact number? And how to explain knowing the exact percentages of cost increases? Can't exactly line them up to be counted like cattle, pardon me, your employees.
Maybe I'm a rarity in this, but I actually prefer paying for services that are not VC funded. That way I feel like I am less likely to have the rug pulled out from under me.
Would love your thoughts on some random queries based on what you said for you.com, eg.
https://you.com/search?q=implement%20interior%20point%20meth...

https://you.com/search?q=numpy+array+filter+elements+python
- results include AI writing code, StackOverflow, Arxiv papers etc.
Ignorance is bliss in this case, because this is even more unstoppable than climate change.

You thought climate change is hard to hold up?
Try holding up the invention of AI.
The whole world is going to have to change and some form of socialism/UBI will have to be accepted, however unpalatable.
Apt thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30925205
To continue the napkin math and assuming your calculations check out... Lets say the distance is 7000km and the avg. speed is 12 knots. You'd need less than 30 tankers to have a daily delivery of gas.
> Why again the Victorian moral project and supposed "prudery" was in the wrong, in the first place?

Because it was a social sledgehammer used to punish people's existence (homosexuals, for example) rather than encouraging socially positive behavior (like teaching your kids to read).
this really looks a lot like youtube is actively survey-phishing.
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"We don't want to be pulled into a shooting war with Russia" translates as...

Or...it translates as "We feel bad, but the chance of this escalating to a nuclear exchange with a state who's leader and mouthpieces are throwing around the N-word with abandon would mean far more people, not just Ukranians, are going to be impacted." But that wouldn't fit the narrative being pushed.
Interesting subtext that their website is so painfully slow...
I mean, there's a lot of speculation that this is exactly what NFT art is most commonly used for.
Soon after my startup launched, Gwern asked to do a test of our reading-enhancement technology on his site. His test is now described in the Abandoned section on the linked page. [1]

I learned a very valuable lesson from our interaction: having someone test out your software in a public way is great, but if they fundamentally disagree with how the UX should function, you can't cede control.

Gwern disagreed with us on two fundamental points: (1) which color schemes to use, and (2) whether the user should be aware of (and presumably control) the activation and settings of the technology.

We knew from our usage data that practically no one used the greyscale theme — almost everyone used our colored themes. We also suspected that running a test where users were not made aware of the purpose of the color gradients would confuse and possibly annoy users — especially if they couldn't turn it on/off or change the colors.

The results were not surprising to us: lots of people were confused, and the color-based themes were more popular than he anticipated. In all of our subsequent partnerships/testing, we firmed up our UX guidelines and didn't so much control of testing procedures.

It was perhaps the right move to be flexible in the beginning — who were we, next to the mighty Gwern! But looking back it would have been much better for us (and I think Gwern as well) if the UX had been done in a way that gives users control. One nice looking example of our desired UX is here. [2]

1: https://www.gwern.net/Design#abandoned

2: https://unreasonable.is/how-to-stop-working-and-be-more-prod...
And yet they still have a $800/year LLC fee, the highest of any state.
I think it's great if a hardware company leaves the software for others. This leads to open specifications.
It's actually illegal in Europe (EU) to NOT display the final price, and the price shown on the search in Airbnb or airline searches is the final price.

Specially because in EU all the prices shown in stores/everywhere is the final price, with VAT, service, tip, etc, etc...
Seems so.

Tangentially, I think it's unfortunate that "hope" can't help form the frame here. I mean, it's an elephant in the room, but I think it's friendly.
I personally think GUI mode is simply better. There is no real advantage to running emacs in a terminal imo.
From a customer’s point of view, absolutely.

But fees are many times also used to avoid or evade taxes and royalties. For example, resort fees can be used by hotels to avoid paying royalties to the franchisor.

There is never any good excuse to hide or gatekeep the total price from a customer though.
Ya, I have much more faith in the courts to discern fair deployments of dark patterns than I do any legislative body.
> Even if the founder wants to do that, it would involve every single investor signing off on it, which seems like an uphill battle.

Would it? Don't owners of companies general cede day-to-day business decisions to those running the company (i.e. the CEO)?
They've been talking about exactly that for a while but recent events seen to have nudged it along:

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/3/15/eu-countries-ba...
Cool people do cool things.
I had an interview with the company and the interviewer was kind enough to show me the device.

When I was solving this class of problems in 2016 (image acquisition, object detection, identification, measurement etc.) with same kind of limitations (everything has to happen within the device itself, no uplink to the cloud) I managed it with a box of 100 kg and a size of really big suitcase.

Seeing this (sensor package and computation) within small device impressed me personally.
If you build the infra with Terraform (one of my favorite tools of all time) you can do this with a 'terraform show'. The code itself will also represent a description of the infrastructure.

Unfortunately this only works for things that are built with Terraform, not already created infrastructure to my knowledge.
Use them to prototype ideas. Use them to code review the next tier to try and level them up. Reward their efforts as you're damned lucky to have them, as their success = team success = your success.

Or, feel threatened by them, drive them away and then complain you need more developers. A bigger group of no-troublemakers looks good and you profit from the larger empire.
The artist or the audience would have to ultimately select something from all that automated originality.
Nothing has happened to him. He has had literally no personal, professional, or legal consequences at this point. Unless the situation changed since yesterday, he has not had anyone "[sicc] lawyers and/or police on [him]". He is not a victim.

The fact that he works in data science has absolutely no bearing on the content of the tweets we are discussing.

I'm a bored guy on the Internet, I'm literally typing this comment while taking a shit. I don't care at all what the outcome of this is. I'm not "trying" to do anything or push a narrative. You, in the other hand, have left a wild amount of comments in this thread and keep reminding everyone that you personally know him. Maybe you are the one with personal biases and ulterior motives when it is you versus the world?
That's documenting an emergency, all-hands-on-deck response to a crisis.

I absolutely can pair for such an event. I'll pair for knowledge transfer. I'll pair for fun. If every second counts, or if the goal isn't maximum productivity throughput, the sure, pair away.

My point is not that it can't help for world-class developers, but rather that two world-class developers working on routine coding are absolutely not more efficient than two world-class developers working separately.

And people who advocate for pairing typically advocate for 100% pairing. Which can be fun but it won't be more than 2x as productive as two world-class developers working independently.
Was it an MX series? They sucked.
When Spectre was in the news there was a comment along the lines of "we now forced rocks to think so hard they're getting stress disorders"
Well this is a pretty good social critique, but I would like to tackle the technical side a bit more.

1) As the WorldCoin people know, there is no way a raw iris scan is going to be consistent enough to produce the same hash every time. Every scan of the same person's iris is going to have slight differences compared to previous scans. And a hash, as HN well knows, is designed to amplify slight differences, so it is, if you will, a "different-maker." (It makes two things more different from each other.) So to address this, they're saying "Wait, wait, we'll spread some ML in between like so much peanut butter," with the goal of transforming multiple slightly-different scans of the same iris into something "the same" enough to generate the same hash. So this part is a "same-maker," that makes different things more similar. Aside from how half-assed this sounds (a same-maker and a different-maker fighting each other[0]), now throw in what you already know from every "Turns Out Some Problems Came Up with This Particular Widely-Hyped ML Application" article in HN for the past 5 years. No ML model is perfect and they all have false positives/negatives and the like. Remember this is supposedly for identifying people. What if, before you apply your different-maker, your same-maker makes two different people's irises the same, such that they have the same hash and the different-maker can't tell the difference? Then your shit is fucked there, happy camper. I'm saying, not in this decade, will this work right.

2) If you're ever wondering whether a particular tool or piece of technology is something designed to serve humans and adapt and accommodate itself to humans, vs. something humans are supposed to serve and to which we're supposed to adapt and accommodate ourselves, just look for the handle. Obviously I'm being a little facetious but you get the idea. Someone brought this up elsewhere on the thread and I thought it was spot-on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30932568

[0] ...although it does sound like fertile ground for something GAN-like
I think you're missing the point.

You're talking about transparency, which is important, but it's not user experience. We know how to make edit buttons that have transparency, just have an 'Edited' link and make the edit log accessible. Easy. This is not an engineering problem.

The problem with the edit button is the abuse vector, what the low friction path is, the effect of the feature on the community, the whole user experience.

It wouldn't even be right to compare Facebook's edit feature to anything Twitter does, because the communities and the mediums are wildly different.
iirc they add insurance cost at check out, but I've mostly used GetAround lately.
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If fungus has a language, it means we can 'talk' to it.

So long as we can put electricity in, and get different electric signals out, we have a sort of interface.

If they're sentient, then wow, great. If not, we can probably work out the right signals and species to use in growing a mushroom-based Turing machine.
God, I hope so.

I've been going back to Robo3T lately. Sure, it has it's own UI/UX issues, but it doesn't feel like I'm fighting the tool all the time on really basic UI/UX stuff. And it loads up in less than a second. Never thought I'd see the day where I'd actual prefer a Java desktop app over something else.
>Current market dynamics dictated the death of these startups. If this was last year, they would have gotten funding to survive.

Fast would not have received the funding to survive (if it received any additional funding it would have been predicated on probably cutting staff at least 60% if not more).

People are literally raising every single day. Funding might not be at the peak frothy levels it has been at before, but these are hardly bear times right now.
That just means their mediocrity is up to spec
I can write the same code significantly faster with an IDE because of all the autocompletion and code navigation. I don't use the version control features other than the occasional blame, preferring to stick to a command line for that.
Just like all the horses replaced by cars who became traffic police?
Who is this for, except dell? I don't see any reason why anyone would adopt this outside of dell.

Using resources on coming up with a literal design system to unify their look seems like a waste of time to me. You don't really need an entire design system, just design guidelines, which require a lot less effort.

As for the design itself... I don't know. Honestly there is not a lot to comment on here. "White and flat" is what it is. They don't seem to be able to use it to make their own site look good. There are things overflowing, text is wrapping, etc, and somehow the site is incredibly slow.

Content-wise it's also just full of circlerjerky UI/UX fluff and nonsense. No one will ever care to read any of it because Dell are not the MUI folks. No one cares what some consultant Dell hired to do all this thinks about design.

Oh yeah, there's also this great bit in their docs under "TypeScript support":

> If your application is using TypeScript to pull in the JavaScript from our CDN, be sure to declare Dell Design System as "any" in your index.ts file so that the imported DDS library variable can be used inside your application.
Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee this morning, but I don't understand the scenario you're describing. Could you elaborate?
I see a few solutions in the comments: but one thing that is not acknowledged is: "What do you do if the email service executes successfully but your server crashes before the POST is returned". I guess this isn't the worst thing in the world since that just means you send the email twice.

Edit: Actually the worst case is pretty bad, you could accidentally double-charge a user using Stripe.
I had a Geforce 2MX 200/400 back in the day. It was... interesting.
physical art too
That's what I suspect is happening too.

ADHD doesn't necessarily present as "hyperactive child" or the other stereotypes to which it often gets associated. Many people receive an ADHD diagnosis in adulthood after years of (more or less) successfully coping by employing organizational strategies, e.g. good list-making, appointment reminders, setting extra alarms, and so on.

In terms of OP's rotating interests, the colloquial term is "hyper-focus" and it occurs because people with ADHD are dopamine deficient and generally crave novelty. That can lead to both regressive behaviors like substance abuse or more progressive behaviors like adopting new hobbies and interests.

For the latter, it's easy to get quick dopamine hits when you first dive into a new subject/hobby. But as time goes on and you dive deeper into it, the novelty you first experienced begins to wear off. The quickest antidote is to find a new fixation and start the process over again.

I've experienced this phenomenon many times myself, and much of what OP described resonates with my experiences.