skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Met a CPA. Or maybe just book keeper. Worked through April 15 tax day then 90 day vacation in Costa Rica. Left the returns with extended deadlines to others in the office.
Even dial it back a notch from that. "We can't help but notice you're having negative thoughts about the company. You're being put on a Though Improvement Initiative."
Community of dev interested in agroecology and resilience
Title : Community of dev interested in agroecology & resilience

Hi all
We are a group of developpers chatting about agro-ecology & resilience.
Our topics are gardening, bee keeping, food forest, building sustainable houses, cooking our own food, DYI tools..
Mostly located in France, but we want to exchange tips with anyone.

We meet on Slack. Feel free.
Interested in joining, drop me a msm : theremotetribe@gmail.com

Gwen
I was young at the time, but this doesn't match my recollection. Everybody thought businesses whose value was measured in "eyeballs" were scams, but the internet was well established in industry, government, and academia.

Yahoo and Amazon didn't look fundamentally different from Pets.com to me at the time, but they managed to survive.
FoolMeOnce Holdings?
HN is tech + everything else that's interesting. That basically includes "everything possible" (under quotes because it needs to have some basis in science / empirical knowledge)
Does this serotonin make its way to the brain?
What’s wrong with the name? It sounds cute.

Oh: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ploopy
There were definitely a lot of people saying that, usually after losing a lot of money with crazy investments that 'could not fail'. On actual 9/11 (that's why I remember it very well; during the meeting the CEO's secretary came in and told about a large attack on the US), I was at a large Dutch client of ours who said they will cancel all internet projects and move back to Windows only software. The CEO had lost millions listening to his accountants and investing in World Online [0] and had no faith anymore this 'web thing' would go anywhere. A large insurer who also was our client, scrapped the webbased employee benefits project they started in 1999 in favour of a Windows client.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Online#Post_IPO
Whatever "Brex" is...
The fact that "most of them aren't going to last long" is not enough to deduce that any specific one of them is not going to last long. All things that are old were once new, and survived. Again, the implication does not go that way and cannot be used even as a rule of thumb. It does not hold.

If you tell your rock star friend to go back to school, you are helping him minimize risk. The chances are that he won't make it, but that's not a consequence of the Lindy effect. It's because surviving in the rocking world is difficult as it requires that people pick your music repeatedly over other available bands, which is the requirement for the Lindy effect to apply, not its consequence.

More importantly, if you tell every rocker to stop and go back to school because their chances of succeeding are low, you end up with no rock bands. Because all rock bands have to start out being new.

Believing that most new rockers won't become big is fine. Believing that any rocker that is new won't make it is wrong, in fact you can be certain that some will.
If you are planning to own it for a long time then you’ll be fine. It’s only stupid if you buy and then sell it when the price went down, but the price will generally trend up year over year and you’ll come out ahead (though some say you never come out ahead owning a house).
I've been curious about this too, because he seems like a wet blanket of an interviewer to me.

Maybe his neutral, staid approach is non-threatening to famous people?
Being married with kids helps me. To be able to live for a new family unit and striving to give them a better life than I had, is sustaining.
If you think about it, Disney+, Amazon Prime et al all use WASM under a web layer to deliver their apps to TVs so even though people aren't using it on mobile anymore, the hybrid scene is still alive and well elsewhere in the industry.
Whoops, typo. I'll update the website
SpaceX fires employees involved in letter critical of Musk
It turns out that you can't just expose a bunch of classified documents and then flee the country
I Miss Facebook
He was on Joe Rogan's podcast way back when, talking about AI and the other things Rogan finds generally interesting. If you'll note the history of Rogan's rise in podcasting popularity, it is that he has on people he likes and finds interesting and they just shoot the breeze for three hours. So of course they talked about AI, his experience with communism, etc. Once you're on Rogan's show you've basically cemented your own following.
Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
Web3 doesn't feel like the right framework here? Generally the types of tokens used in the "web3" world are inherently traceable.
Something similar to Passkeys (https://developer.apple.com/passkeys/) would be more appropriate, generating a new key pair for every website accessed. In order to provide the attestation of age, the public key provided could be signed by a trusted authority. (not that I like any of this, but something like this would be the least objectionable implementation)
If my bank withheld my withdrawals of my money, I'd not behave the most even tempered way.

Whilst I DO think crypto is a scam, or at best a very terrible waste of time and effort from all involved. I will accept that I could be wrong.

But, scam or not, this early turbulent history will cement a stigma of crypto being synonymous with grifters and scammers. I don't see a future in it.

It'll be interesting to see if btc breaks through the 20k barrier today and what effect that has on the hype.
I understand, that’s a good question actually.
He always manages to ask the least interesting question at any given time. It's infuriating to watch.
4+10+18, so 32 base 10, or hex: 20, but in base 15 this actually works out.
Musings About Software Development Estimations
That injury radius must be on land right? Like if it hits water how destructive could the splash be?
I‘m on the verge regarding this theory. The existing court was explicitly created to have enough agency and independence to do just what is discussed above. Abolishing it and (maybe) creating a new one will not fix the problematic environment that causes the ineffectiveness in the first place.

On the other hand, re-creating it would at least be „doing something“
Maybe he pays? I don't know how standard it is to pay for guest appearances in Youtube podcasts, but maybe he pays well to get people through the door.
Vimeo was never "shitty YouTube." Vimeo has always been less shitty than YouTube, with a much cleaner and more professional interface.
A recent discussion on video support in Fedora
sycophantic delivery and the way he dresses to affect an air of authority perhaps?
"Security" is a multi-perspective endeavor. When large institutions use the term "security" they are referring to their own security, which is generally at the expense of your own security. And unfortunately most people naively think that "security" is a scalar where more is good, when in reality they themselves are being made less secure by institutions pushing way past the Schelling points.

Surveillance state, digital restrictions management, treacherous computing appliances, "two factor authentication", airport searches, totalitarian schools, prohibitions on mobile phones or pocket knives, no outside food or drink, etc. These are all instances of making some central entity's position more secure, while running roughshod over the ability for individuals to make ourselves secure.
Rate of return is a remarkably good metric for identifying scams.

If they offer more than ~12.5%, run away. Avast, ye salty dogs: a piece o' eight ain't worth losing yer shirt over.
According to Church themselves, apostasy does not make one leave the Church.
The article embeds a tweet that states,"It took Nazi-era atrocities, forced sterilizations... for phrenology, eugenics, and other pseudosciences to be relegated from science’s mainstream to its fringe. It should not take mass injustice for Cheap AI to be recognised as similarly harmful."
IEnumerable is fun. A while ago I wrote a lazy streaming no-accumulation Batch extension method using a bunch of features like yield return and manual enumeration that happens to be one of my more upvoted answers.

public static IEnumerable<IEnumerable<T>> Batch<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, int size)

https://stackoverflow.com/a/44505349/213246
Seabird feed laced with laxatives
I don't understand how people have the patience to listen to a 4 hour podcast that only gets to the meat of the discussion after an hour.
If you're looking for a place with a community you can ask about those things I recommend, /r/ethfinance. I decided against using Celsius after asking around about it there. There's also been good discussion about what makes a good stablecoin over the years. Hint: Stables like DAI are a completely different thing from what Terra was.
Check https://web.archive.org/web/20220313204334/https://ploopy.co...
Do you actually have specific notable (and comparable) examples of technology based industries that reached relatively the order of magnitude crypto has that were rapidly killed off?

Otherwise, as is, your response to me is without merit.
Really interesting. Any references to what you are doing / how you are doing it?
EU politicians believe it will. Other leakers also agreed it would set a dangerous precedent.

What are your counter points it won't be a precedent?

See https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/28/julian-assange...

Slippery slope fallacy isn't a fallacy, if and only if it is demonstrated again and again as modus operandi.

Tell me if this sounds familiar. A law is made that targets heinous individuals. Then that law is broadened. Eventually everyone that law is used to target ordinary people or critics.

E.g. civil forfeiture laws. Designed to seize organized crime assests. Eventually used to shake down innocent people.

Was it used first to shakedown an innocent man? Nah. I'm pretty sure along the way it's use was broadened bit by bit.
Thanks for sharing!

The dot product example gave me pause because map2 seems to be the same as zipWith. Does that exist in Ante? Without context I might have thought map2 was going to act as bimap. Take that for what you think it's worth :)

Also I might be having a brain fart -- but isn't the dot product in your example equal to 32?
I'm really sad that even professionals hate the cookie/gdpr/data collection banners for the wrong reason. And most people hate the wrong entity for being responsible for their existence.

If companies weren't actively spying on their users, if the didn't collect every last bit of data they can, there would be no need to put up a banner. If the website needs cookies for core functionality (essential cookies) only, there' no need to inform, ask or badger the user for anything. The websites/data collectors are the bad guy here (from where I'm standing) and now that they have to ask us if they can please spy on us, the EU is evil because they force them to ask?

The main presented point of this bill is "We will eliminate the obligation for the spies to ask you if they may spy on you" and even the author of this piece is celebrating that.
The UK is notorious for not having ID cards. That's a solved problem in every other developed country as far as I know.

The reason behind it is privacy (lol, considering their total failure and unwillingness to enforce the GDPR) and yet they are totally fine with the tax office having the same database and information (which is no doubt accessible to law enforcement).
Walking on Hot Coals: A Company Event Goes Wrong
I can't say that I particularly like him, so I guess I listen to him because there are no better alternatives I am aware of. If there are any that are better, I'd be happy to hear about them.

With that said, I almost can't understand the question. Basically it's a podcast that invites a lot of experts (some of them famous, some not so much) and has long discussions on "smart" topics. Lex is smart enough to at least seem to understand most of it, so the discussions are not as shallow as you might see them in other places.

I don't really like anything about him, but the things I don't like at least seem genuine.
Tell HN: I haven't answered a call from Google Ads, this is what happened
There was a cold call from Google Ads associate, I wasn't available to talk and asked to re-schedule the call, but I couldn't answer the follow up call.

Today they suspended all Google my business listings.

Anyone had the experience before?
Square Enix Announces Final Fantasy VII Remake for the Steam Deck for June 17th
Brought to you by Schadenfreude Press.
You're conflating morphology with the cult-like zealotry against the four olds.
Probiotics can (potentially) be very beneficial, but are also often seen as something that "couldn't hurt, so why not try it?".

Just wanted to share this article to let people know they are not always harmless, and in some very specific cases, could lead to death. [0]

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18279948/
There is no alternative with anywhere close to the caliber of guests he gets.

Plus, like Trump is a poor person's ideal of a rich and successful person, Lex is a young impressionable person's idea of a smart person, this makes him relatable to his main audience.

Plus, Rogan moving full episodes to Spotify made the YT algorithm fill the vacuum with the next closest thing.
He is successful because he can attract guests worth listening to.

How he attracts those guests? He has a successful podcast with many listeners.

It’s a positive feedback loop.
> If the product mostly does what it should then support costs shouldn’t be crazy.

One of the huge benefits of not hacking your product together as fast as humanly possible!
I've never heard of a floating recloser, I think it's a novel take on the device.
I really despise "won't someone think about the children laws" and I say this as a parent. It is not society's job to shelter your children from the unsavory, it is the parents' job.

Besides that, it is hard to argue against any law that is couched as protecting innocent children. Obviously, having to verify with ID the age of every website visitor is impractical right now. The logical solution is for government to mandate and issue Internet IDs that must be used to access any web service. This bait-and-switch leads down a slippery slope that erodes anonymity on the Internet, not that there is much left.
Is it possible to attach files to an entry?
because he manages to get cool guests and the guests like interacting with him. I personally find his style to be "shallow", and stopped watching.
I'd bet it's a combination of these things. I know a few people with moderately successful podcasts, and the core thing is this: getting prominent people on your podcast is easier than most people on the outside expect, and harder than most people seeking guests expect.

Prominent people generally like getting their ideas out there, and having a 30-120 minute conversation is a relatively scalable way to do that. Sure, they get asked by a lot of people, but that's where the other points come in.

Let's take prominent guest X. They might get 100 podcast interview requests a month. They might do 1-2 podcast appearances per month (average, most guests cluster their appearances for PR purposes). From the very start, Lex, through his MIT stature, first and second second-degree connections, etc. would very likely be in the top 2% of the 100 people asking; most people asking are some combination of no audience, not targeted in their ask, abrasive, etc. If you're in the top 2% of 100 requests, and they fulfill 2 requests per month - you're looking pretty good. Throw in an element of "luck" in the first few guests if you'd like.

That's just getting started. Once the flywheel starts, it's easy.
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This right here.

They want that sweet Ponzi-adjacent money.

All the receipts, none of the liability*.

(*they hope).
This seems to be most important part. It could be beneficial as prevents evaporation and warming. LA reservoir even has floating balls for this https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/150812-sh...
Also, and I understand it is a quote in the article but the GDPR isn't "highly complex". It is actually one of the more understandable pieces of legislation I've ever read. It is, however, vague and gives a lot of leeway to local data protection authorities in interpreting it.
Perhaps, for famous people, it checks the box of "being accessible to the people" but also doesn't risk being asked controversial/hard hitting questions.
Surprisingly (or suspiciously) steady financial results are also a fair marker of an offering being a scam or fraudulent, particularly when there's no explanation beyond "good management practices."

Since a pure fraud makes up its books, it's easy to declare a steady path of returns. Reality tends to be more complicated, and delivering steady returns in a turbulent market is both hard and expensive (by way of hedging contracts).
Show HN: A Thrift Formatter VSCode extenstion
after 15 days, I reimplement thrift-fmt (python commandline tool thrift-formatter) as a vscode extension.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31594094
I've known many people denied care, myself included, I've been asked to pay up up front or we don't admit you. This includes treatment for brain tumors and infection.

ERs can't deny life saving care, but that's the exception.

Is this the conception people have of the US healthcare system? That everyone's taken care of so why are they complaining?

Let me disabuse you of that notion.
> even though there are workarounds to make that 1-10x slower rather than 100-1000X (eg. C-based implementations, including all the itertools stuff).

These only apply for specific problems, and very few applications are purely CSV parsing or purely matrix math operations. In the real world, you often spend more time marshaling your Python data to C than you save by doing your computation in C.

> But as you note, bottleneck is the I/O, and a program waiting for I/O in Python and I/O in C will wait the same time after the computation is done.

The bottleneck in a static site generator is I/O. The fact that Python, Ruby, etc based implementations take tens of seconds or more while Go and Rust finish instantly for an I/O bound problem is pretty damning.

> If you are writing software that can parallelize well independently (eg. web apps) and your memory pressure is not the most important thing, you simply run multiple Python processes to max out the CPU (this avoids the GIL unlike async Python).

The goal isn’t to saturate the CPU as much as it is to complete requests in a timely fashion. If it’s just some light translation between HTTP and database layers, Python is fine, but if you have to do anything computationally significant at all, it can range from “a huge pain” to “virtually impossible”. I gave the example earlier of a web service that was struggling to complete requests in even 60s (despite using Numpy under the hood where possible) while a naive Go implementation completed in hundreds of ms.
IMO your number is still too high
Buses is fair enough.
What creates that distinction ? in the lisp / fp world you quickly stop considering functions as separate entities.
He has had some of the wealthiest folks in the world on his show, e.g. Musk, Zuckerberg. I doubt they came for the money.
It sounds and looks like "poopy", and makes me think of poo.
You are probably receiving downvotes because of your assumption that based on the evidence -you've- looked at (which I would suspect is probably a single digit percentage at most of all the evidence presented), and decided "Oh, I don't see a problem here, so why would the UK Courts", when plainly, that's not exactly the way of things.
Not knocking this product, but I personally prefer a trackball on top with buttons to either side. My thumb get very stressed out using the "on the side" arrangement where the top I can vary how I interact with it more (hover hand, rest a finger on it, flick it with index/middle, etc).

~~Either~~ Both are preferable to the standard mouse for me, though!
Interesting/clever flexible board design that eliminates the need for one cable. Never seen that before.

You can see it a bit more clearly on the sister product page: https://ploopy.co/mini-trackball/
My random two cents:
- He was smart and exploited a resource: at first, it was MIT profs, etc., whom he would talk to. This happens to be an institution full of interesting people; he interviewed them, let them speak, and built an audience
- Once he had an audience, he was able to connect to others beyond MIT. Which then grew the audience further.
- And so on.

I sometimes get annoyed when he doesn't push back on things but I suspect the problem every podcaster has is this: if you push too hard, some people won't go on your show.

Overall, I think he does a pretty good job, and if you have long commutes or other long periods of time where you can listen to something, you could definitely do worse.
Many providers in the EU will also gladly block connections based on IMEI if you can prove you're the owner of said IMEI.
The illustrations are _so good_, beautiful work and rendered well for breaking down the whole to understand the meaning of the components.
> you yourself deliberately do stuff with crypto

It's...their business?

Also, responsive ≠ helpful.
All you need is a simple formula: Figure out roughly how much time and headspace you need for pleasure/leisure/quality time with people, idleness etc. The rest of your time is spent on providing for you and yours, then bettering the world, in that order.

Do these things and realize that if bad things nevertheless happen, they were always beyond your control. Work on not stressing about that which is beyond your control. Don't suffer tragedies twice over.

If providing for you and yours does not leave enough room for happiness, you are in Crisis Mode. Happiness will not be achievable in this time. In this mode, your highest priority after doing what needs doing is to exit the crisis situation.

Disclaimer: this is somewhat tongue in cheek. I do believe this is the right way to live, but it's very much easier said than done.
I was an Australian freelancing internationally at the time it was introduced, and took pretty good care fully understanding the bill to the best of my ability. It really seems to be as bad as it sounds.

But what worried me was that it was actually written quite coherently, I felt like it had been well considered by some people of technical background, but the bill still had ill intent. So I'm not sure what's worse, legislature misunderstanding technology so much that it's harmful, or people using a good understanding of technology to be more precise and underhanded in their abuse.
I am pretty sure Google leeched my contacts from my phone in a similar way once. There need to be hard penalties here since the company cannot undo the damage. It might just have been a bug on their end, but it is fairly possible implement data sharing in a way that errs on caution. Especially for a company that allegedly values private information.
You can make home prices fall, by creating a shortage of dollars/credit that's worse than the shortage of houses. For hyperbole, houses wouldn't trade for hundreds of thousands of dollars, if there were only 1k dollars total in existence. A housing shortage wouldn't change that. Fed is currently removing dollars from circulation by reducing their balance sheet, and removing available credit by raising interest rates. Eventually this will weigh on houses prices (along with many things).
$700k luxury items can easily drop by $200k.