skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A startup I worked at used equity as an argument for 80 hour work weeks, but kept employees in the dark as much as possible about everything relating to said equity. It took two years to find out that our equity was essentially worthless.

The only silver lining to this story is that no one was actually pulling 80 hour weeks because the information asymmetry that the executive suite maintained around this topic created an atmosphere of mistrust and a common opinion that our equity must be worthless, since if we had been given something actually valuable then they would have wanted us to know about it.
i suspect your internal model of a monorepo is fairly disjoint with an actual implementation. you’re arguing for non-monorepo based version concepts, without giving space to why having everyone locked to “latest” has large cost savings long term for maintenance and security. without those constraints, a monorepo is a bad choice.
They took the jobs people would have had, they didn't take the jobs people currently have.

Amazons factories would have employed every human on Earth if they had to use humans. That's what happened to the robots taking our jobs. They took them from the future, decades ago, and you didn't even notice.
Not all crops involve tilling soil, some orchards are in extremely rocky hilly areas. It’s one of the reasons olive trees are so associated with Italy.

Anyway, preparing an area for cultivation is a one time cost. People actually grow crops in areas you consider impossible because someone already put the effort possibly thousands of years ago even if it’s not currently economically viable.

Terraces also work in hilly areas, though building them is expensive. Removing stones from fields is the origin of field stone houses and quite a few stone fences at property lines. The degree of effort required can be huge but at the extreme end people plant orchards in areas that are covered in boulders.

For places where none of that effort is worth it, lumber is still a viable crop as long as it gets enough rain.
Why don’t you just delete the apps that are causing that level of anxiety?
The Internet has always been full of private fora where people limit the range of discussion. There are plenty of subreddits where you can express your views, should they happen to fall on the opposing side of the issue.

The freedom to have discussions on topics you want in restricted spaces is not censorship, folks. And it’s (unfortunately) a thing that happens when your space is open to the entire global Internet.
You are not wrong, but my understanding is that... this is the very reason some NYC subway maps are not made public.
I think there is some rule that the cigarette ads need to be targeted to smokers and not to non-smokers. As in Marlboro can try to make ads to convince Gauloises smokers to buy Marlboro on their next purchase instead of their usual brand but wouldn’t be allowed to make ads for non smokers to get hooked. (As if it would work That way)
I think techniques based on observation and acceptance might have a better chance of working than trying to forcefully extinguish or fight it.
If you see someone cool having an abortion you'd intentionally get pregnant to also get one? I don't get it.
Everything old is new again: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/under-your-feet...

Seems like a great idea though. If anyone can make it pan out the Swiss can.
Having been raised in the pro-life (anti choice) camp this kind of practical impact needs to be discussed, yet will fall on mostly deaf ears.

Many will consider a girl chosing a dangerous, illegal procedure as a criminal and therefore less worthy of consideration. More so than an innocent child who had no choice in its conception. My guess is they won't seriously consider the argument until they themselves, or their adult daughters, are literally in the situation of needing an illegal abortion themselves. (And possibly only in an extreme circumstance like molestation or rape, as some are taught self shame and hatred every week at church.)
On the one hand, that's the salary of 2-5 engineers. Pure PR.
On the other hand, it's more than $0.
If you think all fates are fixed and invariant, then some are meant to die in birth, some are meant to die before and some are meant to live. Their actions and those of their parents are fixed before they occur. Thus, no penalties are incurred or even possible.

If, however, free will exists, then the aggregate sum of good and evil will be weighed and your fate determined. Essentially all humans will live an ambiguous life and end up relying on forgiveness.

Or, it might be that this world is all there is and so behaviour that maximizes the situation of the most people is the optimum choice.

Edit: imagine how things would have been different if the ruling followed the guidelines on a different Xtian religion. Jehovah Witnesses forbid transfusions - lose the right of both abortions and transfusions going forward.
Sounds good, doesnt work.

One place change == X possible conflicts.

Ten places over longer period of time (a lot bigger PR) == XXX possible conflicts.

All depends on the size of the team and project.

Tho its hard to find a good place to switch from one approach to the other one.
Abortion isn't a global problem, it's a local problem. The citizens of Africa aren't victimized because Texas bans abortion.

The citizens of Africa are victimized when Texas subsidizes oil production.

I'm not a fan of a world government, but a mechanism for dealing with the problems of sharing resources and dealing with free riders and the race to the bottom would be appreciated.
The Reply All podcast ends with a thud
In the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Oahu, it took me a while to notice that all the graves were for people missing in action, and it really struck me when I noticed that the graves with marks on them were the people that were found... like, there were families and people that cared that did their own investigations and successfully, (or on the flip side just those people were the ones that somebodies cared enough to keep looking for and also found by happenstance or any wide variety of environments.) I was just casually walking around and got around to reading a placard and it was like "nobody here was found" "unless" and that really rocked my world! It's so many people!

The curiosity now is would finding this ship add more marks to more graves? It seems much of this crew did get off the boat (how many?) but waited 3 days in the ocean for rescue and 89 survived. Is it too late to find either the ones on the boat or just their tags? Are these people already marked as "found"? Just not sure the nuances.
This was a really weird take to begin with. I.e. I feel like the courts were a lot broader in the ways they defined „Werbung“ for abortions than Werbung for other areas.
Pros

* Breaking changes can be done at once. Very helpful for runtime deps.

* No chance that a repo is out of date.

* Upgrades are atomic (may be hard to test a system in a half state).
I'd also note that the agreement doesn't provide a license for non-development purposes. "Crunchy Data provides access to Crunchy Developer Software free of charge for development purposes", but there's nothing that says that they provide access for other purposes.

Basically, the license seems to be (and IANAL): we provide the software for development purposes...without a subscription, it's only intended for development purposes

They didn't say "we provide this software for your use...without a subscription, it's only intended for development purposes". They basically said: we provide this software for development purposes, it's only intended for development purposes.

If it's only a disclaimer, where's the grant of rights to use the software beyond development purposes?

Yes, if I were a lawyer defending a user, I'd definitely be arguing your point. However, I think Crunchy Data's lawyer would simply point out that there's literally no grant in the license for non-development purposes. Maybe a judge would take pity on you given that it seems hidden, has some ambiguity (though maybe it's not ambiguous to a lawyer), and because they allow you to spin up the operator basically without ever knowing these terms exist.

Given that there are many other PostgreSQL operators from companies like Percona (which I think has a great and long track record of supporting open source databases), EnterpriseDB, and Zalando, I don't see why I'd want to choose Crunchy Data.

You might be right and I think you would be right if only looking at the piece I quoted, but given that there's no general grant in the license that the "intended for" is merely a disclaimer for, it seems like the license grant is that they provide access for development purposes. IANAL and I'd rather work with software and companies where I don't have to be a lawyer. Crunchy Data could have said "We provide access to this software free of charge for any purpose. Without a subscription, it is unsupported and not intended for production use. We are not responsible for anything that happens if you use it in production." That's not what they said. They said that they provide it "free of charge for development purposes" with no grant for non-development purposes.
Database indexes most likely. Consider GitHub...

1. Hashes are determined outside of their context, by git.

2. They store this is a database

3. Conflicts are so rare that they can be ignored. They must happen within the same repository. If they are in different repos, then it is not a conflict.
IANAL, but in this case there is so much prior art that I would just ignore the patent. If someone comes trolling, then that would be the time to challenge the patent. You might even be able to so it on the cheap with an ex parte reexamination.
You'd show it as an easily accessible alternative, potentially reducing the strict use of contraceptives. And overall that would have worse consequences than preventing pregnancy in the first place.
If you're based in Europe then you're quite right. This is a GDPR issue - identifiable PII in the model, and you can force the vendor to remove it.
Nice little gem I didn’t know about at the end of the article: https://github.com/sponsors/explore
Correction: 500 times your reaction time would be about 40 seconds if your reaction time is 200 ms.
That line seems to come from their Privacy Policy[1]. From my reading it seems to cover the main website and application process for teams requesting access and/or funding. I didn't see anything about the language models themselves.

I'm also not a California resident, but I am under GDPR, which I understand is similarly strong. I'll try emailing them and see where it goes.

[1] https://openai.com/privacy/
If OpenAI can modify their models so that they don't output human images, would it really be so hard to modify GPT so it doesn't output names? For example:

> prompt: "Who was the first president of the United States?"

> response: "The first president of the United States was Aw@e%%t3R!35"

Sure, it'd make GPT less useful if it garbled all names, but that's a tradeoff made for the sake of ethics in the case of image generation. I don't see why this situation should be any different?
This only works to a point, especially if the excessive worry is the result of past trauma.

> Or saying hello to the worry but don't stop to chat

Alternative approach: get to know the part of your brain that's worried. What underlies that worry? What is that part of your brain afraid will happen if it didn't bring up this anxiety? It's trying to protect you from some sort of pain, even if this behavior of excessive worry has now become maladaptive.

That's sort of the basis of Internal Family Systems therapy. The idea that our brain has discrete parts (different neural nets probably), and that they're all trying to protect us. Getting to know these parts can let us understand why they do what they do, which can give us the tools to heal them, and allow them to take on new roles.

Sometimes this "labeling" technique can lead to negative blowback if parts of your brain feel that you're now in danger because you're ignoring their warning signals. The same problem happens with meditation too, which is why you hear lots of stories of people being destabilized at meditation retreats. I think this risk is higher for people with trauma in their history.
Did that for years, ruined both my health and teeth. No thanks.
Those are not multiple governments. There is only one sovereign government in a given location at a given time, assuming the conditions are peaceful.
We need something similar to the EFF but for invalidating patents and other IP protections given to those who got them through the design of the lawfare system. It's too expensive for most small to medium size companies to take on a multinational that has fooled the government into granting them an exclusive license over some part of innovation that they didn't actually innovate.
And yet there's huge amount of smokers. Not sure banning the ads helped that much.
under that definition the upper echelons of nestle are pretty certain to be criminals, so yes
> Edit: And that people who are not primarily programmers may find 0-based indexing weird

Alas, if just our forefathers had called it "offset" instead of "index".
AFAICT, the Germans and the French are more annoyed at bailing out the south than the south is at being bailed out. AFAICT the Greeks trust the EU government a heck of a lot more than they trust their own.

Ask the Poles and Ukrainians about what they think about EU membership. By some metrics Poland is the fastest growing economy in the world.
Laziness aka lack of energy can actually be a result of diet. However I question that we choose to eat low quality food. It is plausible that the food industry is lowering the quality of their food to the point that it is actively harmful to humans.
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> ” I’m merely claiming that they have less cultural impact than at almost any point in modern history. To operate on the fringe is almost akin to wearing an invisibility cloak from one of those Harry Potter stories.”

Despite this being the central claim of the article, the author doesn’t make any effort to defend, explain, or even list examples of that claim. They state it as a fact. And I disagree with that central foundation, so the article is kind of useless to me. I learned nothing from it. I still think the long tail of creators and artists have more influence in the society than they had in the 2000s and before.

The article is a long effort to brag that the author was right about something a long time ago. But, without the premise above, I think they are wrong. The blockbuster being dead prediction was grossly wrong, but that along doesn’t support the claim above. Neither noticing that Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify earn more money from the big things. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the small creator earns less money. The article also ignore about small creators earning money and reach from Substack, Patreon, Kickstarter, Twitch, YouTube, etc.
Ads for hand weapons? You mean like 9mm pistols and such? Why? That would be pointless for the advertiser (not to mention distasteful). German gun control laws are quite strict:

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

Owning a gun for self-defence is only allowed in rare cases like security personnel and politicians whose lives are threatened. The normal allowed categories are hunting, sports, and collectors, but even then you need a licence (with a few minor exceptions like flint-lock rifles and flare guns).
> Some grain by-products, such as maize husks, are unsuitable for human food. And feeding grain to animals does generate food for people indirectly, in the form of milk, meat and eggs. However, this process is highly wasteful. For every 100 calories of grain fed to a cow, just three emerge as beef. Along with other feed crops and pasture, rearing animals also uses land that could produce human food.

But we don't only need calories. In fact we already produce and eat many more calories than we need (but we distribute them unevenly so that a third of the world eats too many and 2/3s not enough). The reason we feed all this grain to animals is so that they turn it into nutrient-dense meat, dairy and eggs. Those are rich in micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) that we can't get as well from grains (or not at all like B12 vitamin).

So maybe farming looks "inefficient" if you consider only calories, but when you consider nutrients in general, meat (including seafood), dairy and eggs are actually the most efficient source of those we need to stay healthy and thrive.

But even if we only count calories, the amount of cropland that we would free for rewilding if we stopped farming meat completely and produced no meat from ruminants, no pork or poultry, no dairy, and no eggs, is miniscule:

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets#more-plant-based-d...

In short, we'd go from 1.17 billion ha of cropland for farming animals and growing crops, to using 1 billion ha of cropland.

That's a tiny change and it would most likely quickly need to grow as the global population increases. And it's such a tiny change because most of the land used to farm animals, or grow grains for animal feed, is not cropland, but pasture, which is for the most part not suitable for growing crops.
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Stop looking a gift horse in the mouth.
This is like when watching movies in a language you are trying to learn. The English subtitle won't help you learn, you only learn to use it as a crutch. You have to use the native subtitle and a dictionary, that way your brain is motivated to learn in order to be able to enjoy the movie.

Brains love crutches.

This is also like learning a new keyboard layout. You have to just start using it however painfully slowly, but it's precisely that inconvenience that motivates your brain to get it before long.
The thing that gets me about this is that evangelicals considered this whole area to be an issue for catholics, and nothing to do with them and nothing of interest.

But it was made a wedge issue, and became an artifact of the culture wars, and now here we are.
i haven't used scala, but from the looks of it, yeah, "path-dependent types" are a narrow subset of full dependent types, intended for stuff like this exact use case :D

there's things you can do to track list length at the type level, but it usually involves putting your data in a special-purpose linked-list thingy: https://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/tutorial/typesfuns.htm...

(the `S` and `Z` refer to peano-style natural numbers)

although if you go that way, you can actually get a lot of that without dependent types! here's an example i found of someone doing a similar construction in C#: http://www.javawenti.com/?post=631496

last but not least, in TS you can use the builtin support for arrays as tuples and just do:

type AtLeastTwo<T> = [_1: T, _2: T, ...rest: T[]]

which looks very nice, but it's pretty much only doable because the type system has specific support for array stuff like this, so not a really general solution.
Ask HN: Best country to educate and raise Neurodivergent kids
I am in India now and my son is on spectrum - I would love to know experiences from different countries where education, health care and happiness for neuro-divergent kids on autism spectrum is better supported.
I did great and finished this only in two sessions

This is a great article.

I learned to disable all but important notifications. But I still suffer many symptoms the author has described.

IMO, an overwhelming amount of the content on the internet adds nothing on top of its title.
You eventually learn to consume all the content without putting too much effort, by skimming quickly, otherwise it's exhausting.

I don't know what could be a solution here. Some sort of filtering for the content is needed, but how to implement it exactly?

Perhaps one should put more focus on reading books instead of free articles on the internet. But this does not solve the problem completely. Many books suffer from the same lack of sense.

Does anyone have any ideas or any related experience regarding the content moderation for consumption?
> Good luck with being uncomfortable bald

I'm not bald, but I do enjoy exposing hypocrites whose empathy and concern for the disadvantaged is selective. Is it anything more than a rhetorical tactic to try to force your will on others?
> I also haven't seen ads for hand weapons. Are they illegal in Germany, too?

I'm not sure about a ban (I guess there is, though) but since gun ownership is restricted the market is quite small. Outside of narrow targeted ads (say in gun owner magazines) it'd be a waste of money.
That depends, how much do you make each year? If that question seems out of line, effectively that's the question you're asking Github.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think if your personal account is marked as a maintainer for the repo, it doesn't matter if the repo is under its own org? I feel like most projects create org accounts, so would be kinda surprised if that wasn't supported somehow.
I think it is specific, because a) Julia is a dynamic language, and b) it uses dynamic multiple dispatch.

I think these features are great, but on their own they lead to exactly the situation as described.
Also, its the average speed that counts. I doubt the avg speed of a freight truck running between two relatively close swiss cities exceeds 50km/h. Avg speeds drop sharply with any stops or slowdowns.
That's funny. I remember when nobody knew what TikTok was, and TikTok-watermarked videos were all over Reddit's front page. It was a great marketing spot for them.
The last one or two decades really solved a lot of distribution problems of the long tail. You can not make a decent living playing live medieval tavern music on Twitch (and supplement with income from Spotify). Or make a living drawing fanart with DeviantArt and Patreon, publish your indie game on Steam and consoles with relative ease, get books printed in runs of 100 copies, instead of tens of thousands.

The thing the author misses is that they are looking at what big companies are doing. But big companies aren't well suited for serving the long tail, because there are fewer economies of scale in doing that. The vast majority of supply in the long tail comes from individuals or small companies, often people who start it as a hobby and notice there's enough money to do it full time.

And the economics work out, because the more underserved a niche the higher the prices that are acceptable. A teddy bear at the corner shop is $10, but plushies in fandoms where little official merchandise exists go for ten to fifty times that.
Why should anyone contribute their time, content, thoughts, and often money into a company's platform when the company doesn't care about anything but protecting it's bottom line, and then severing you from and taking control of your already spent time, content, thoughts, and often money?

The other big problem is that Reddit hides the fact that it takes every step possible to limit users in order to protect it's bottom line... That's textbook bad business.
Yes. Same goes with me.

My partner and parents know that I have this. I don't tell it to others.

I also go to the same location through many roads, but only once I have one etched into my mind.

I have to use G-Maps 7-8 times for visiting the same location if there are even days-wide gaps.

I am also bad at getting directions in maps. I have to orient and reorient one multiple times to figure out where I am, which way I am looking, amd which way I need to go.

I often just walk 10-20 meters to figure out which way I am looking or need to go.

Yeah, I am missing the "location module", too.

I have had this long before I had access to any sort of digital maps or GPS.

And, for me, Google Maps has been a lifesaver.

If I go with the help of it 8-10 times, I never ever forget the road again.

This is so weird for me given I have so good memory since my childhood. I could always memorize things real fast, without any superficial tools like mnemonics, flash cards, etc.