skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a number of other posters have mentioned, "starting a company" is basically finding customers willing to pay for a solution you can provide and then ensuring that enough of them pay for you to continue to operate the business. For a subset of businesses you might have an intermediate step of selling the vision to investors to get them to provide funding, but at its heart starting a business is identifying a problem you can solve and persuade enough customers to pay for (either directly or indirectly if you're trying ad or partnership supported). If you don't want to do that, the odds are not in your favor that the business will be successful.

There are exceptions where a technologist builds an amazing technology and happens to accrete enough people around it to "do the boring stuff", but it is way more common that they'll build something awesome and nobody will ever know because they don't market and sell it effectively.
This paper notes that average output can be flawed...which is the case with all AI-generated content and why it's important to note the importance of cherry picking/selection bias whenever posting it publicly.

Fortunately, AI Image generation has helped visually communicate how AI content generation isn't quite sci-fi magic where you always get what you want with zero ambiguity. Yet.
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Capping interchange fees dealt a big blow to many of the biggest problems of Visa/Mastercard duopoly (i.e., lack of incentive to reduce interchange fees).
The cultural fragmentation of TODO tags is worse than their inaccuracy.

I use the classic TODO, BUGBUG and my own (the last one is usually 'xxx' for brevity, and never in checked in to a public branch). That's it. Life is too short for needless complication.

The PM over there in the corner has just invented eight levels of TODO severity, and will soon multiply the truth by putting them in a database (somewhere), start a set of meetings to track them, and is already talking to tool vendors about building an Enterprise TODO Framework. Dry gulch that PM before you lose your sanity.
At least here in Europe most meat is produced with animal feed grown on arable land (mostly in South America).
I really don't agree with this at all. I was put on antidepressants late in my teenage years for unexplained fatigue which was misdiagnosed as depression. I was first put on an SSRI - Lexapro. I went from 140 pounds to 180 in a month or two, and I certainly wasn't ravenously eating.

I went off an on it a few times, and I can see how other people would have a really hard time getting off of it. I was also put on Wellbutrin, and that had no effect on my weight (if not slight weight loss), it was better as far as sexual side effects go, and it was easier to come off of.

I now have a prescription for Adderall - again, for the fatigue - and I can see how some people could be addicted to it. Personally, I think it's a shame we can't just sell it over the counter. It's amazing for if you need to drive late at night, and it's the best damned cold medicine there is. If we could make an Adderall type stimulant where your brain downregulating receptors wasn't a factor a lot of people would lead significantly happier lives.
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This is totally irrelevant if you are replacing caffeine with adderall. This is like saying you can stop drinking beer it doesnt reduce social anxiety. I solved this by taking a low dose of xanax.
Ban-worthy post in my opinion. The official bot will make this post, and some number of jobs will be lost in the shuffle, with the result of the overall quality of this valuable service decreasing.
Unless someone is specifically naming the military standard they are compliant with (and provides an auditing record!) it’s bullshit, 99.99% of the time.

Legit vendors who sell actual mil-spec equipment (except stuff that has known shitty mil-specs like entrenching tools) don’t use ‘military grade’ anywhere when they’re selling to the military. They go through procurement and identify the specific mil-spec’s they are compliant with.

Military grade is the weasel word way of implying they have done that without being able to be sued because they aren’t.
Interesting how many upvotes this got yet this didn’t make the front page. Wonder if this topic is shadow banned or something from HN.
It was mostly the tools. We couldn't even get Calva to run properly in VS Code on her computer (we just gave up, mysterious errors and none of the recommended fixes online helped).

Plus she liked that Python has an "intuitive" feel, just looking at code it kind of makes sense, whereas Clojure looked crazy and meaningless unless you "knew". Which would have been mysterious and exciting for me, but was intimidating and dreadful for her.
Just because both have an enjoyable ritual aspect does not mean that they are equivalent vices or even remotely comparable.

Humans ritualize all sorts of activities, positive and negative.
>I just respond to recruiters now.

If you do this, automate it. I have one email address just for recruiters. I had a script run and look though my gmail inbox looking for keywords, ask the salary/rate up front form recruiters. Email me if you want the code. It is in Java.
Square-Enix sells all of its Western game studios and their games to Embracer
What a strange position for a lawyer to take. Contracts primarily keep honest people honest: hey, we agree to do these things, and if either of us is unsure we can look back and see what we agreed to. If you don’t agree up front, don’t sign.*

And NDAs have plenty of value (oh, I can’t talk about what I’m working on? Good thing you let me know!). Yes, they can also be abusive and that is worth addressing, but they can also enable a lot of valuable things.

* in some cases, such as employment, this kind of negotiation isn’t meaningfully possible, which is where legislation is useful.
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> Ag is definitely one of HNs blind spots

I met a young man from Missouri.. he had a large frame but was just 20 years old or so.. He was harried and furtive and was getting into some trouble here and there. Upon knowing him a little bit, he was traumatized by large, loud, dominant men giving him orders, while as an intelligent young man he had questions. Of course many of the men I refer to here are from the Ag community.

North American Ag is not solved, and with the Oklahoma Dustbowl and current crop patterns in California, it must be obvious to science that sometimes, Ag has evolved for CONTROL not INTELLIGENCE. American factory animal farming is a living nightmare in places. American treatment of topsoil, and of fresh water, and industrial placement at the Great Lakes for that matter, are a DISASTER. You defend the Ag "community" like they need defending, from urban smart-people? They are beetle-like survivors of decades of market distortion, ego and alcohol.

Disrupt the Ag sector, yes please.

ps- your elected representative William Gates already started the ball rolling with farm ownership. see any news story after his "revelation" .. first result in GS

" Today, Bill Gates owns 242,000 acres of farmland in 19 states. In addition, he owns 25,750 acres of transitional land and 1,234 acres of recreational land for total land holdings of 268,984 acres. His largest holding is in Louisiana (69,071 acres), followed by Arkansas (47,927 acres) and Arizona (25,750 acres). Aug 27, 2021"
The ecosystem that supported buffalo herds three centuries ago no longer exists.
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16 shares a divisor with ten, and thus has the same problem
Universities have their own biases as well --whether it's to pad one's CV, the PI's CV, or whatever, but they are also not free from interference against 'pure' research.

There is a lot of "garbage" research that happens at universities. Yes, we do expect quite a bit of research to be dead-ends --that's the nature of research, but there is a lot of research that is knowingly fraudulent or uses very suspect data and or methodology.
I had to give up getting short codes (or so I thought until I read the comments here).
In theory, I agree. However, this is only currently true for small parts of the beef supply chain in the US. The vast majority of meat tissue growth people eat here comes from factory farms.

I don't have a major problem with meat eating when it's done sustainably and humanely. The real issue is that this is not the case for way too much of it now, and current meat production practices are yet another example of unsustainable overconsumption in general. Yet more than half the population regularly celebrates and enshrines that overconsumption, reinforcing it. This is not a good look to anyone who's really thinking long term & globally about these things.
Were they fired because they challenged the findings, or were they fired for their behavior after being told their paper wasn't up to snuff for some reason?

Same thing with Timnit...was she fired(or "resignation accepted") because of a paper she was writing, or was she fired because of her behavior after being told the paper needed more review(or whatever)?

I really doubt that Google is so wrapped up in the "computer designs chips better than humans" paper that they are firing anyone who sows dissent. A much more parsimonious explanation is the dissenter was welcome to dissent, but behaved in a fireable way after being told other people don't agree with them.
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The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website
I see where you're coming from, but it would also be an extreme liability. For example, imagine companies demanding that you sign in with only your uniquely-identifiable government email address so they can better track you. The necessary technical qualities to resist such attacks (eg allowing any user to generate a bunch of additional nyms) will never be considered in make-everything-legible government thinking. Social security numbers and drivers license numbers are already abused by surveillance companies, and so the last thing we need is another government-issued identifier without something like a US GDPR to prevent its abuse.

Also, the kind of long term stable online identity you're desiring can already be had by registering your own domain name.
Sure, it's common to have it working for a long time, because breaking changes and interactions between different systems occur very infrequently at the level of bootloader and firmware, but when it happens it can easily get into very difficult support situation. Logistically speaking, firmware is not a nice place to play around. It's not well coded, not well tested, and rarely "used" by an end user.

For one I wouldn't put great confidence in a script to manipulate UEFI boot entries, because it is not idempotent and there are precedents to brick the UEFI with unexpected sequence of interaction. Also Windows' reboot options and its annual upgrade tend to mess with the boot variables. I had to help repair colleagues' laptops that had Grub's boot entries erased by Windows upgrades.
Cabling and controlling all that RS485 is bigger obstacle these days, it seems, than enjoying plug & play profinet with PoE combined with OPC UA for higher levels
Perhaps it held more weight in the past? Now "military grade" encryption is cheap so everything is "military grade".
But in actual fact, it is very easy to use. You might not get that from the video because it's inspired by Vi: commands are not echoed, other than colon commands and search patterns. So in the video you don't always know what is going on: did the display change because of a command you don't see or was it spontaneous? That is all painfully obvious if you're in the driver's seat.
LendingClub Q122 Earnings: when a Fintech company buys a bank, the magic happens
It's nice to see some examples that haven't been filtered by the creators as being the best ones, to show how capable it really is. This paper (at least to me) makes me even more impressed by DALL-E 2, it hasn't parsed the input exactly but it's still incredibly impressive imo.
I'm a supporter of this guys patreon[1] because I love the idea that someone with this much experience and talent is using his effort to make tutorials etc that help everyone (rather than some closed codebase only enriching a small set of stakeholders), and I'd love to be part of being able to give him enough fuck you money to not have to worry about anything else.

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Still better than what happens in the US.
4th option:

- Create ticket in team backlog and add ticket number to TODO comment (and have CI pipeline check that ticket number is valid)
A case study of Toyota unintended acceleration and software safety (2014) [pdf]
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GAT are also supposed to enable an encoding of HKT. Which means that support for advanced type system features as seen in Haskell, Scala etc. will become feasible once GAT stabilize.
I've only watched the video, so I don't know a lot about the tool. But from what I can tell, it's a really neat way to view text as it's streaming through a pipe, _and_ it keeps a line at the bottom, for you to be able to type a line, which when you press return, sends your text to the STDIN of the program that is streaming the text.

This can relieve a pain point if you ever need to work on a serial port, and as you are typing in a command, the other side sends text, which overwrites the characters you were typing (depending on how the local echo is configured). It reminds me of a line based serial terminal emulator, where the input is a separate text box, and the output is a larger box above it.

Oh, and it also seems to have methods of sampling the data as it comes in, so that it can be configured to only show the messages you are looking for, and also counting them?

The source file is also tiny: https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/pw/tree/pw.c

Very Unix
Two counter points.

- Where I live (The Netherlands) you don’t have to live in a city to have good PT. There are places that you cannot reach by train or bus but they are few.

- While sometimes a car is necessary, the cars many people prefer (insanely oversized “trucks”) are hardly ever necessary.
That sounds like a problem due to the current lack of protectionism for strategic assets? I.e. it is not viable to do domestic base industry in a lot of areas.

COVID showed us that governments are quick to stop exports if they feel there is a need to.
I would recommend adding a license as well.
Agreed. We need to support increase funding and pay for public scientists. It is not even remotely competitive to the private market, and it is frustrating to know that I could earn substantially more if I left my academic research position.
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> SanDisk, and Lexar provide encryption software for their USB keys, hard drives, and other storage products.

I'm someone who bought several Sandisk devices over the years. The first thing I do after buying and unboxing is setup LUKS[0] on the device with the Disks utility in Ubuntu. These USB flash drives usually ship with an `.exe` piece of 'security software' written to the disk, which I never execute because I don't trust their claims. I prefer battle-hardened and trusted things like LUKS, instead of proprietary products that use snake-oil terms like 'Military Grade'.

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That looks incredibly sad. You are spot on, there is a period between when stuff is used daily and when it is determined to be of historic significance where objects that would have been determined to be of historic significance are at risk of being demolished or recycled.

The inner city of Amsterdam barely escaped that fate and that's a very large object where at least some people would be directly influenced by the decision to destroy it being farsighted enough to realize that this is a terrible mistake. But for subjects such as these the destruction happens on a much smaller scale and not enough people will notice in time to avoid a disaster.
Your apply link is 404ing for me.
Battery life is perfectly fine with an NVidia GPU on any modern laptop with Optimus or a MUX. You just have to set it up to fully power down the GPU. I get 9+ hours of battery life with a 3070 on Linux, it's just always fully powered down.

Even at 1440p 240hz, pushing 2x more pixels than 4k60, I still get 5-6 hours of battery life.

Yes, it sucks that you have to go through the weeds to get it to work, but once it works it works.
yet those savings can get them squat.
I’m more concerned about “clean cooling “ solutions, which basically heat up rivers and oceans