skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed the main thrust of the article. They were trying to land in the mid market segment and expand from there into the large market where it’s more expensive to acquire sales. However, after doing a bunch of research actively interviewing their user base, the author couldn’t figure out a way to get these users to use the product enough for that land and expand strategy to work (it wasn’t sticky enough to actually start generating sales). In essence, from the author’s perspective, there was no path forward for success with the current business stategy.

You are of course free to disagree and you may be right that there was a path there or they could have pivoted to do something totally different. What the author was trying to convey and maybe you missed is that they weren’t interested in spending another year exploring trying to find a totally different viable business strategy.
The literature about this topic that I know (limited) doesn't talk about recovered memory, or any memory much at all.
Yes, and that's a downside. My opinion though is that unless you are tunneling every single bit of your network traffic through something that is concealing your identity, fingerprinting the vast majority of devices and users is trivially easy. There is just an amazing amount of surface area: browser fingerprinting, protocol version fingerprinting, network access pattern fingerprinting, DNS snooping, TCP fingerprinting, and so on. Since ZT (and Tailscale and Nebula and other similar things) are all P2P it's trivial to fingerprint someone by just collecting the IP endpoints they routinely communicate with. Anyone who belongs to a private net with a few fixed points can be easily identified over time by the fact that they talk to those things in a certain pattern.

I have some thoughts about features to really defeat this. We've got an entry on our feature queue for guard nodes you can run in the cloud and have also researched implementing a form of "light" onion routing. It wouldn't be intended to be as strong (or as slow) as Tor, but sufficient to prevent passive dragnet surveillance.

In any case there is a conflict here between goals. So far the performance, rapid startup, and enterprise goals have won out over the small privacy benefit of the ephemeral-outer-key construction. It's a scope thing. So far we've never scoped ZeroTier as a meta-data-concealing protocol like Tor, just as a P2P mesh protocol for easy remote access between devices and locations.

Still... it's tempting to try to find something in the V2 design to at least mitigate this issue. It's something we're thinking about.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in POM generator for Selenium?
I have some plans to implement a POM and script generator for Selenium which includes multiples selectors and uses some AI selectors.

It will work this way:
- Go to the page you want the POM for
- Open the chrome extension
- Click on generate POM
- We will generate POM
- You can add/remove some sections

Some other benefits might come with it is Email and PDF testing for Selenium.

Curious what you think about this?
I think a conflation of parenting with education in general can shed light on this; here are some questions to ponder along those lines:

- Could someone who's never learned calculus be expect to apply it to a problem?

- Could someone with little experience in reading be expected to write well?

- Could someone who had little education in his or her childhood, but taught a robust education in his 20s and 30s (or later) be expected to perform as someone who learned it younger?

- If someone spends his 20s in jail, would you expect him to be able to get a white-color job afterwards?

- A smart person does damage to his cognitive abilities by drugs etc, both acute and chronic/permanent. Is this a nature or nurture consideration? What about the genetic and environmental factors that lead to this drug use?

- A smart person learns and becomes proficient at a skill in a month. A less-smart person struggles in the first month, but keeps at it, and becomes proficient in 6 months. For that skill, (This is almost a tautology), would they perform the task at an acceptable level?

My point is that we should consider a model where capabilities are based on physical qualities that are largely unchangeable (for the better). A distinction from genetics: The base is genetics, but other things like injuries also play this. However, skills and learning are linked heavily with the nurture side. Genetics etc plays an important role of how well someone can learn something, but the learning still must occur through information acquired and sorted in the brain after birth.

Stated another way: It's clear that humans (And to a lesser extent other mammals) rely on a childhood full of nurture and learning. Physical touch, social interactions, learning skills, etc. This alone is enough to debunk the strawman in the article, even if you recognize the critical role of genetics.
Not sure people are 'bothered' by it, more amused at the irony. At least that's my reaction.
Just because some entity feels sentient doesn't mean it is sentient. I had this experience with a chess program that was beating me in the 1980's. It felt alive. Many people talk to trees and feel they answer back. Anthropomorphism is a well know phenomenon. It follows that the general public will believe that an AI that mimics a person actually is a person because they won't have the training to recognize ways in which the AI is not a person, but very clever computer programs.

The most interesting thing about this is an AI that mimics a spiritual guru so well that people start following it. This combination of clever programming and the programmer behind the code will be very seductive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/9/20851753/ai-reli...
They're engaged in criminal activity, so secrecy about where they hang out is kind of the point.
Ninety minutes, free-flowing conversation, perhaps a glass of wine

Yuck. Of course it creates more productivity, they're sucking free time out of my evening and injecting into my work day. Screw that. I'm eating a sandwich at my desk in peace and then I'm going home an hour earlier than these shmucks.
As someone who regularly works 10-12 hours a day, shifting the end of the work day a further 1.5hrs sounds like a special kind of hell.

I'll be sticking to my hasty desk-lunch thank you very much.
I wonder to what extent all the mathematical modeling can be replaced by modern run-of-the-mill data science techniques.
I refuse to do actual browsing without NoScript in place. No ads, no popups, nothing.

Well, sometimes there's literally nothing, because SPA, but most of time it's just some kind of cover or body opacity set to 0. Totally worth the tradeoff on desktop and mobile. No ads, man. No fucking ads
Unfortunately, China will likely attack Taiwan unless Russia is humiliated.
Why ignoring genetic differences between people exacerbates inequality
The first thing I looked for on the link was a download. Apparently not provided. I may (politely) email the author and ask if one is planned in the future.
Oh interesting, so we can purchase our way into better paying jobs now? Where do I sign up and how much does it cost?
Tom Waddle Appreciates Bears GM Ryan Poles' Patience
While there well be political motive behind that clause, it is still inherently sound to have a lower limit.

We wouldmy want say hackernews to be regulated the same way as twitter /Facebook after all.
it's the process of trying to get paid for content, not attention grabbing
Scihub seems to have stopped updating. I haven’t gotten a recent article out of them in a while.
Based on stats and forecasts.

"the UK has been on average 6% wetter over the last 30 years (1991-2020) than the preceding 30 years (1961-1990). Six of the ten wettest years for the UK in a series from 1862 have occurred since 1998." [1]

[1] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat....
But it's not greed. It's an attempt to spread out the development costs among all of the users. Here's an assignment: spend 6-24 months writing a book. Then watch someone give away copies for free. In the past, book writing was a good way for society to fund information synthesis and research.
Not having money (or material resources) also incentives you to develop your own internal resources/skills. To some extent, it's part of life.
> who gets a covid text these days?

Both my kids and my wife have had to do mandatory PCR testing every week for the last year for school, and the kids also do a weekly instant test. Now that work is making me go back in, I also will be testing regularly again. It's a lot more common than you think.
Nikola Tre BEV Eligible for $185,000 Incentive in New York State
We watched politicians and celebrities bail out folks terrorizing our cities for months on end while calling for them to harass political opponents.

Those same politicians are calling this mostly peaceful protest illegitimate.

The dishonesty and double standard is on open display, and the refusal to have an honest discussion only fuels the fire. The same fire used to justify further fuel.
I agree with that - maybe the only practical way to get a human brain map of sufficient detail to fully simulate is to grow it virtually, and maybe this would take too long compared to a human life.

I think it’s just a useful starting point to make the argument it is possible given infinite time and perfect data. Then, we can ask how much can be optimized and how to get the structure needed digitized.
One thing missing in a lot of suburban places is the ability to walk to do chores.

Out of curiosity, what destinations do you have within 15 minutes of walking? Can you buy milk? Go to the bank? Have access to a coffee place? Etc.

It’s nice to have walking paths, but so many new developments in the US seem to actively make walking a poor option (beyond exercise). The roads in many of these areas even if there is a store nearby are upwards of four or five lanes across, and then the stores are setback behind huge parking lots without much protected walking from the street to the store.
This has been discussed previously, but clearly people can study for IQ tests and improve their scores. Another issue is obvious: at what age does one start administering IQ tests? Can we distinguish the IQ of a baby at six months? At two years? At age 10?

I'm not sure you read my full comment, as I do agree with the article's claim that parental involvement does matter in outcomes. I'm just pointing out the two poles of the 'nature vs. nuture' debate and what their historical roots are.
I don’t know about uncles, but there is an evolutionary hypothesis about the role of grandmothers called the grandmother hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis

Not sure how much scientists feel this applies to family life in modern industrialized society, but I think it’s very interesting that there’s an evolutionary theory for why Grandma was always pushing food.
I love this.

I think to expect perfection in timing and aligning work done by humans, even where someone could make reasonable foresight arguments, is overlooking how challenging this wide level of supporting an ecosystem is.

The response they made is in regards to security and making ut clear to users that they are expected to be anti-fragile to change. Even if the roadmap itself changes.

I've changed decisions, even flip-flopped several times due to uncertainty. When at the heart of the message they are acting with positive intent, I applaud their short, sweet, and to the point message along with their reasoning.

I worked with an organization that allowed TLS 1.1 for far too long because customers systems hadn't been updated. If they paid enough money, we had to allow it. Meanwhile we were getting beat up by the competition because, "Why would any good development company allow this?!?"
Skirts aren't the only reason to avoid transparent stairs. I always wear trousers, and I also get freaked out when I have to climb transparent stairs or even stairs with holes in them. Why? I can see through them and below, and it makes me worry that the stairs could break and I could plummet to my death at any moment. I cope by not looking down and holding onto the handrail.
Why should we believe this video? There are no citations.
And what you Russia gain from that?
That’s called weather, not climate.
Yeah, the real advance with crypto has turned out to be decentralized scams, where it can be difficult to prove even afterwards that it was an intentionally executed scam.

But when the pattern repeats time and time again, you gotta start to realize what it is, even if you can't define or prove it.
Yeah, Mark Galeotti recently translated parts of Patrushev's interview - he seems even more crazy than Putin, and he's arguably the second most powerful person in Russia right now:

https://twitter.com/MarkGaleotti/status/1531956066451394577 (https://nitter.it/MarkGaleotti/status/1531956066451394577)
You don't know you're poor unless people around you have more money than you do.
This is very cool. If you are as confused as I was at first... it is not a game. It is a blog displayed in a pixelated art/game style. Click into the Notebook and then the About tab.
It is clear what Trump thinks: “January 6th was not simply a protest, it represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country to Make America Great Again.”

"So much love"
https://archive.ph/wKe2X
Colin has been an admirable ally to the women's rights movement in recent years. For example, he has been giving evidence about biological sex differences in strength to the California courts this week, to help protect incarcerated women from being raped.

It's likely this is retaliation for his efforts in educating people on the importance of biological sex and sex-based rights, in an era where these are increasingly being demolished.

I find it shocking that these tech giants have apparently collaborated to cut off his income streams. I do wonder what is happening behind the scenes to coordinate this attack on him.
Sort of a vendor lock in type deal.
I don't think "noone" was the best way to describe it, but I do think GP was onto something. How about this instead? The people making the biggest deal about this are the same people who are always downplaying and justifying Twitter's rampant censorship.
In Taiwan right now, I was surprised how close some Taiwan-controlled islands are to the mainland. Kinmen is just 10km away[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinmen
Unarmed, saving a few pocket knives and pistols, do not make for a “coup.”

It was a protest, plain and simple.
Java code actually consciously tolerates data races for performance reasons, the prototypical example being the implementation of String#hashCode() (racy single-check idiom).
Surfers are very familiar with how two waves that come in different angles combine into a very high wave at the intersection. I really don't understand why monster waves seem so mysterious to scientists. I'm certain they happen all the time but no one is there to observe them except for the occasional unlucky sailor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedge_(surfing)
No, scaling a model of V1 would not yield consciousness.

The point is that V1 is a large part of the visual cortex. It's something the brain dedicates a lot of resources to, and we could implement something similar in silicon almost trivially. Your smartphone GPU may have enough compute to simulate an equivalent computation at 200 frames per second.

It's possible that in the future, we'll be able to simulate consciousness very efficiently once we have a better handle on the kinds of computations that are involved, much more efficiently than what the brain does.
Neat! For unit conversions there is an older tool called 'unit' which can convert nearly anything.
"this mostly peaceful protest illegitimate"

What mostly peaceful protest was that?
Easy karma I suspect.
It’s also a popular fizzy soft drink. There is nothing better than a cold bottle of Mate in the morning.
Real change will happen when kilts become trendy.
Fear of heights is a thing. Architecture should be still bound to human needs (at least, too a lesser extent. /s)
It refuses to deal with a clock running fast, resulting in my laptop not being accurate. (It usually hovers around 10 minutes in the future)
Is the "we" who doesn't like Trump, a better class of humans than the "we" who does like Trump?
My sympathies are split. I think the kind of infringement that the archive does by keeping timestamped copies is a great service. But the kind of infringement that competes with bookstores and publishers is a terrible insult to the writers and editors who work long and hard on a project. During the pandemic, bookstores like Powells were still in service and looking to support employees. There was no reason to hurt them under some argument that books were somehow unaccessable.
I was introduced to Harris's theory in Pinker's books (I'm guessing How the Mind Works was the main one though I've read a couple of his books and wouldn't be surprised if he returns to the topic in a number of them).

I think this article ignores one key leg of "Parents Don't Matter" team's argument. It's not that parents don't matter so much as peers matter a whole lot more. From Harris's Wikipedia article:

Harris argues that children identify with their classmates and playmates rather than their parents and other adults, and that personality is formed both through efforts to fit in with the group or to compete with specific others.

Kids are more interested in impressing their peers than their parents. Especially, in my experience, starting around puberty.

So obviously parents can have a huge impact on their child's development by, say, locking the child in a closet for the first three years of his life. But in most cases, the argument goes, parents' ability to mold their child to their fondest ideals will be greatly circumscribed by these genetic and social factors. For a parent to overcome these forces requires extraordinary measures (see the Tiger Mom).
Java ARM (for linux) version has been around since Java 15 (came out September 2020), and for MacOS since Java 17 (September 2021) [0].

[0] https://jdk.java.net/archive/

And here is instanclient for ARM: https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/instant-client/...
You are partly correct, but bad schools definitely exist. My neighborhood elementary was definitively bad. Underfunded, no PTA engagement, truancy, low scores on everything. It was largely due demographics as the neighborhood aged, fewer kids were around, they tried to attract out of district kids and became a dumping ground. Eventually when the neighborhood demographics changed back to families, instead of fleeing to private schools the parents actually just put in some work, rebuilt the community and within a few years it was turned around. The downside being that now parents are rushing in to get into what is now a good district and home prices skyrocketed.

I agree that the difference between an ok school and a "top" school really isn't that much. Rankings are based on test scores, graduation rates and such which almost certainly select for good students more than good schools. When parents push their kids to certain schools, topping the rankings becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I can't find the study, but I had read a while back that getting accepted to top colleges was a better indicator of future success than actually attending.
Awesome! Surprised to see the resolver correctly handle my typo:

$ dig seat2222tle.time @dns.toys +short
"Seattle (America/Los_Angeles, US)" "Sat, 11 Jun 2022 08:22:42 -0700"
Pass the butter.
You do realize that a lot of women have to deal with creepy behavior daily, right?
Let me recommend a really nice offline complement for this site:

https://www.amazon.com/Grandma-Gatewoods-Walk-Inspiring-Appa...

Here’s an online taste:

https://www.outdoors.org/resources/amc-outdoors/history/gran...
Similar issue with reflective floors. See this /r/CrappyDesign thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/l7h9sb/ballro...

Edit: sorry, I misremembered the link. Still, another example of the same problem, not involving stairs, with a lot of comments, so I’ll leave it for that reason.
I've ever only seen people gobble down food while working on my visits in US. Across EU is much rarer.
So I see a travelogue (hiking), updated regularly, presented as a 2d game in a web app.

Great idea.
"How hard can it be to get your most popular user into any search engine?" Is it a telling find that something you'd expect to be easier to find, isn't? Who is really banning whom.
I don't think you can see through these stairs, seems however like it is possible to build glass stairs without them being fully transparent.
Well, there certainly are cultures that consider the face to be so private that you have to mask it (at least for women). And this shit has been going on for way longer than 200 years.
People with misophonia will attest that other people eating at their neighborhoods desks is extremely distracting and annoying (and not only because of noises - but smells as well)

So, I'm with France on this
It caused me to take a bad fall at sea one time, rogue waves do happen and they are horrific.
So accusations of censorship over this very behavior only apply to certain platforms, but not to Truth Social? Just so I understand your assertion.
I think that this is a quite harsh. The EOL for Node 16 is more than a year away, there's a good reason for the EOL change, and Node 18 will be LTS almost a year by then.
<strong> and <em> are the recommended ways to semantically bold and italicize text. <b> and <i> don't have any semantics and can still be used where it makes sense.
You may well be correct, the instructions might just have been to code along with the book, I know that part of the exercise was definitely to ensure that I could use the tools. It was 28 years ago, I'm fuzzy on the details :)
That’s a beautiful staircase, but it would be just a special with any other tread. The beauty of it is the lightweight construction and exposed engineering of the delicate support structure. I think a black marble tread would be rather lovely and an interesting contrast of old and new materials.
Twitter doesn't claim to be "America's "Big Tent" social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology".
What is the obvious reason, for it escapes me?
It depends on your nationality. US, UK, Canada must be part of a approved tour group and accompanied by a guide which by definition isn't independent travel. https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Iran
If you had to put that 2.56 gallons into your car or water heater like you put batteries into a TV remote, or ink cartridges into a printer, I think people would be much more aware of exactly how much fossil fuels they use.

Having fuel piped into your car and home makes it an unseen problem, and people instead get distracted by small things like whether their drinking straws are made of paper or plastic.
Bizarre and terrible food ads that would probably never run today, 1940s-1960s
I'm reminded of the episode of Superfriends, where brains (with eyes) from Mars take over the bodies of the Superfriends by merging with them.
Is anyone surprised? The Donald doesn't care for anything but himself and he was willing to ruin the whole nation and what's left of its democracy for his own ego. Hypocrisy comes for free in this package.