skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so subjectively measured

There's your answer. Equalize pay and benefits because there's no telling whether those in charge of assigning pay have any good sense at all for quality. It's the argument of salary vs. hourly vs. per-item all over again.
“Drinking our own champagne”

I feel like I need to take a shower because of how vomit-inducing that statement is.
This is not like shared libraries in that my program is guaranteed to load and run regardless of what libs are on the system. Also, I am guaranteed my program is running with the exact same library I tested it with.
Just seeing the domain on this leaves me so conflicted. A16z content is excellent but I have a strong distaste for crypto (and those who peddle it).
I've been working on my OS library for 9 years now, almost entirely by myself. For the majority of that time I kept documentation separate from code. Now I do enjoy documenting stuff - I have diplomas in both Computing, and Creative Writing - but my various approaches to documenting the project would start off with the best intentions but soon enough degenerate into an irrelevant mess as I tweaked code, forgot to update related webpages and demos, etc.

In 2017 I stopped working on the project entirely: I'd coded up a new major version of the library but never released it because knowing I had to overhaul and re-document so many different pages, demos, etc ... like a dementor, it sucked all joy from me.

Then in 2019 I recoded the entire project from scratch. This time I thought about the documentation first, before I wrote a line of code. I decided the best approach was to generate the main documentation from inline comments. I did this for both core code, and for demo examples - the demos stopped being standalone afterthoughts and became instead my end-to-end testing suite. To present the documentation to any developers who might show an interest in the library, I coded up the library's website in a way so that the core documentation[1] and the demos[2], with easily accessible code, could be very easily copied over to the website whenever I rebuilt the library (which regenerates all the documentation). I also added a set of lessons to the website, and a set of "How do I" articles - both of which are an ongoing project.

The library's website doesn't have any functionality where users can ask questions - but that's what the GitHub issues and discussions pages[3] are for.

The system isn't anywhere near perfect (I still need to automate the demo testing, for example, and there's no CI for copying stuff from the repo over to the website, etc) - but, given the depressing messes I've managed to fall into in the past ... it's working really well for me!

[1] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/documentation/

[2] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demonstrations/

[3] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas
This is not the first time. But it’s the biggest net gain so far by a good wide margin.

Still a very long way to go before becoming similar to a fossil burning power plant. They got equivalent of 1 megawatt for a single second. A typical coal plant is hundreds of megawatts continuously.
I hope it’s a little heartening that a parenting style that says ‘my body is my body’ is relatively popular which means those kids never have to try to dodge a kiss from grandma they don’t want.

That said, reading about Temple Grandin’s hug box experience might open something up around the sensation.
Either way I support AI art and AI in other fields. Just because artists are mad it's gonna take their jobs does not seem like a legitimate reason to halt human progress. It's just inevitable the way things are going.
When Google Play Music died I made https://inter.tube as a replacement music storage locker. It supports almost all of the Subsonic protocol but I haven't had the time to make a web interface for things like the playlist editor so I don't really feel comfortable marketing it. I think it could be useful for a certain niche though. Slowly re-working it to use Cloudflare Workers and R2.
That’s a cool idea. I wonder if you could make a expressive enough query language with it
How could there be a higher dimensional, shorter path between the points?
> Companies have a strong preference for this kind of job. They need no additional encouragement to create them and havent since the beginning of the 19th century.

They might prefer it, but there are always tradeoffs. The equilibrium we are at now has a certain proportion of agentful jobs. In a world where hiring for them is riskier than the world we have, at the margin companies will shift away from them toward agentless jobs.

> I think they tend to be a lot less subject to automation even if the companies clearly want it more.

Companies generally prefer humans over automation. Automation is a capex; humans are an opex. Automation runs the risk of flagrant failure; humans can fill in gaps in rulesets and ignore or modify bad ones on the fly to get work done. Automation requires complete legibility into the problem space; humans have private knowledge that is often essential to the problem.

As of now, we don't have automated systems that can exhibit agency. Deconstructing jobs into ones that require agency for smaller and smaller problems makes automation much more tractable, because you've already done a lot of the work.

I do agree that we're likely to build systems that can exhibit agency before we get to the point where robots can perform as well in the physical domain as humans do; radiologists are more at risk in the near term than nurses.
I still currently work at Klarna.

The article is a very good write up of what happened. I'm going to talk about what the current internal situation is and how people are feeling based on what I'm seeing.

Since the layoffs there has been a noticeable shift in atmosphere. Previously quite a few people would regularly come to the offices, now not so much. Some still do come but significantly less. Performance has gone from people often going beyond what was expected to "I'll do enough to keep my job". A colleague who was previously very keen working for Klarna and would often work a good 11 hours+ is now "disenchanted" and doesn't quite know what to do with themself.

Job satisfaction and overall happiness has rapidly declined and is still going down. Some departments do internal anonymous surveys where people outright get asked if they are happy at work. From the ones I saw, every single one had a drop of at least 20%, some significantly more. Participation rate of those surveys has also declined. Most people I spoke to outright said they're not participating anymore because they're on the way out.

A good 50% of the people I asked, outright said they are looking for a new job. I expect some are not sharing because they want to keep it a secret. I'm expecting my team to loose about 40% of its members within the next 5 months. As far as I know, there is only replacement hiring, no active hiring.

One of my very talented colleagues that I have been working with for 3 years got laid off. During a chat with our direct supervisor I asked them if they could tell me the reason. Trying to reassure me, they said I had nothing to worry about and that my colleague wasn't fired for poor performance but other internal reason. I knew this colleagues salary so I also know they weren't let go because of their high salary. Since then my team has an open position that is hiring for this exact role. Make of that what you will.

As you might have read from the article, communication was absolutely horrendous. One of the key things I'd like to mention is that Klarna always promoted open and frequent communication. Only this was never practiced by the C-Level. This was incredible apparent during the layoffs. Many people had questions but C-Level was dead silent and let HR people "manage" the fallout. My colleague had their meeting at the start of the working day on Tuesday (layoffs were announced the day before). My supervisor got told of the layoff 15 minutes before my colleagues meeting. Informing my supervisor was done through a 3 sentence slack message.

2 weeks after the announcement, quite a few pregnant women came forward that they also received an offer. Additionally, a lot of people on long term sick leave were contacted. Since the layoff decisions weren't made centrally, I doubt these groups we're specifically targeted but Klarna is, in comparison to the average Swedish company, quite international. I know of at least one case from a decision maker (not C-Level) that a woman was laid off because she was 8-months pregnant and due to go on her maternity leave. I'm not going to speculate on what, if any, legal actions are following from this.
+1 on existing log viewers being particularly well suited for text over non-textual assets. My experience here is limited but I believe Grafana has a dynamic image plugin if you store a link to an asset in blob storage or Base64 encode it.

I've also heard of people storing those links in a database like Snowflake then creating displays on top using Tableau or Looker, to avoid having to build a web app from scratch.
Synthwave and retrowave
> The self congratulatory back-patting

HN is guilty of this constantly. Everyone who posts here is implicitly in the right and users unequivocally back that attitude, even when it realistically is a scenario of "maybe you were a shit employee and were fired for it and your employer isnt in the wrong?" or "your Show HN really isn't that impressive". We're not allowed to say anything critical of other HN users without being downvoted or reprimanded by dang.

So why is it any surprise that every startup company has precisely the same back-patting culture?
Clearly something did matter since Klarna grew a lot and will probably continue growing. What matters is access to capital.
How much economic harm would a ban on untested bioaccumulating persistent small molecules cause?

Suppose that there was no evidence that PFOA was harmful. Should we allow unlimited use of it?
You've never been to war, eh?

> Define 'comfortable'.

Hot and cold running water, a toilet, shower, electricity and internet, shelter, medical care (not dying of easily curable diseases, for example.)

Really, IMO, the baseline is what folks at the Google campus have. If everyone in the world had that QoL as a baseline I think we could declare victory and go home.
The Witherspoon Institute is a Princeton, New Jersey-based nonprofit organization with ties to the Family Research Council and Roman Catholic traditionalists.

Author Matthew J. Tuininga is Assistant Professor of Moral Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary and an adjunct professor of politics and core studies at Oglethorpe University.

Calvin Theological Seminary is associated with the Christian Reformed Church, Protestant Calvinist Christian denomination.
A proposal on how to make crypto investing simpler
I recently talked to a friend of mine who has been investing in the crypto space for 6 years. He has been involved for a much longer time than I have so I've always looked up to him as my mentor in the space.

But recently, he told me that he really has no idea what he's doing when he invests in crypto. He told me that there are too many tokens for him to keep track of. The tokens are way too complicated and its impossible for him to really do his due diligence on the tokens because these are not just simple companies. This is an emerging industry with a million ideas with a million different ways of doing anything. There are too many details for him to make any reasonable judgement on if a token is a good investment or not.

This got me thinking.

If someone who has been in the industry for 6 years is clueless on how to really invest then what hope is there for the retail investor to make smart investing decisions?

There is no hope. They're literally just buying lottery tickets and a lot of people are going to lose all of their money.

But then I started thinking a little more. There are common ideas in the cryptocurrency space that are very likely to succeed. These ideas are pivotal to the future of web3. We cannot build a new financial system or the idea of web3 without these things. Some examples of these are energy efficient blockchains, environmentally friendly blockchains, proof of work blockchains, blockchains that aim to be used as major world currencies, protocols working on decentralizing data storage, blockchain oracles, and many more. Many of these ideas are pivotal and will be very important in the future. Wouldn't it be so much simpler if all a retail investor needed to learn was a simple concept of wtf is a blockchain oracle, at a very high level, and why is it important to make their investment decisions? This is compared to studying the differences between Chainlink, API3, and a bunch of other random oracles.

With this methodology, users could invest in technologies they believe in without worrying about the tokens. They'd be automatically diversified, making their investments safer, and crypto would have been way simpler for them to invest in.

This idea has led me and some friends to begin working on an app. We're currently working through our SEC registration and are planning on launching it next month. If you'd like to try it out or tell your annoying friends (who keep asking you about crypto) to screw off and invest on their own you can find the waitlist sign up on our site, which is linked to this post.
People have been worried about this since TV was invented.
My WFH setup is an adjustable standing desk with ergonomically positioned monitor and keyboard.

I don’t spend 2 hours in traffic.

I exercise every morning.

I can put my feet in the grass whenever I need a break.

Remote work is awesome!!!
I have two…

The truly abandoned project is FountainCards.com. It accepts typed input, converts it to a “handwritten” SVG, sends to a pen plotter, and mails the card. I built the whole app, bought two pen plotters and was ready for production. the reason I stopped was because I didn’t care enough about marketing to the clientele who needs that kind of thing - mortgage brokers, car salesmen, etc. It felt like I was helping the client act like they cared about their customer by sending “heartfelt” notes without _actually_ caring about their customer. In other words, I was helping them send really nice spam.

After that, I spent some significant time thinking about what project I would really care about, which leads to the second app…

I’ve been working on MoneyHabitsHQ.com in my free time since January. It is a simple take on a personal finance app. The idea is to try to get the maximum benefit from 3 minutes of budgeting per week. There are a bunch of features which will make the app nearly “invisible”, while still helping people keep track of their money.

I haven’t started marketing it because getting the UX right on a budget app is incredibly difficult. I’ve been in quiet beta for a few months, and if anyone wants to try it out, feel free to email me: Stephen@bate-man.com and I’ll get you a promo code.
Then you'd probably be glad to hear that this particular article has little to do with crypto.
Show HN: Pasticcio – my pastebin with public walls
My weekend project, as I wasn't happy with other pastebins.
Suggestions are welcome!
That's not the line taken with Fleischmann and Pons.

To be clear I'm not supporting/rejecting either F&P or this article's writers at all as I'm not knowledgable in the field, merely pointing out that the need for reproducibility was reinforced by their reported results and the inability of others to duplicate it. It's a good lesson - nothing is proven until it is repeated.
Lots of experimental things that had nothing to do with its core business such as Blockchain currency. Klarna massively expanded in the last 3 years. In 2019 there were about 3200.
True story: “But our Discord is very active“ is the new “hard pass”. Tell your friends. We’re gonna make fetch happen.
Even fission is renewable (i.e. can power 100% of primary energy until the sun burns out) using breeder reactors, which can run with huge EROI on just the uranium and thorium traces in average crustal granite. Conveniently, breeder reactors were first demonstrated in 1952 in Idaho at the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1.

The term "renewable" is such a poor word for 'long-term sustainable'. I wish we had something that didn't make everyone think we were violating the laws of energy conservation.
We used to have that. It was clubby and racist. If you went to church with the banker, you got a mortgage. If you didn't and your last name was uncommon or Slavic or something, you didn't get a mortgage.
ah, yeah, that seems like an easy feature to add.
The save bandwidth? Do you mean memory? You want to link against the exact same code you developed and tested your program with. Ensuing you get and exact match is critical for robust code.
We built https://metrik.one

It’s an advanced analytics tool for Mailchimp. It’s mostly targeting regular newsletter senders, but gives detailed insights into an audience w/o violating user privacy. We like to think about it as the Plausible for Email Marketing. Unfortunately the development took too long, my business partner and friend ran out of runway and my kid was born. Still planning to market it, but so far under the radar.
Private health insurance can be extremely expensive, especially if you have a chronic illness, or are over age 40. I buy my own as a freelancer; the monthly premiums for even a basic plan are extortionate. There are government subsidies for lower income people, but many tech freelancers earn too much to qualify.
I would add one imo big change that happened between 2010 and 2020.

- subscription model almost completely replaced one-time purchase model for software.
I think a lot of this is that nobody has long term incentives and plenty of people believe "we are awesome" is truth.

As a developer, if I paper over problems and claim to have resolved them, people will love me, trust me, and give me bonus pay. If I bring up problems, people consider me a trouble maker.

And when the bill comes due, I will just jump to another company.
There's a difference between being introspective and just being a jerk.
Reminds me of this short comic: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVuUBtePAQS/
Not quite: many higher order and haskell-y things have been implemented on top of python, as well as the usual pedestrian OO stuff, so I don't see python as fitting this one dimensional model of programming language, mostly it demonstrates the limited scope of this "Blub model".
> It would be cool to link back to the comment

Just click the commenter
Around the Great Depression, in an effort to get control of inflation, the 1942 Stabilization Act was passed. Because employers could no longer attract new employees by offering higher pay, they started offering other things like health insurance. Since it was payed directly by the employer it wasn't taxable income and didn't fall under control of the Stabilization Act, and since then it just stuck.
https://www.lost-item.com

I lose stuff a lot. It started as a URL (https://www.lost-item.com/eric/) that I can put on a sticker on my stuff so that when people find my phone, wallet, credit card, keys they can contact me.

I preferred that over my phone number or email address because I didn't want to put anything that identifies me on the items, so a form on the internet acts as a barrier.

In general, I find that people are really nice about it. I've recovered my full wallet at least 3 times and my phone probably 5 times.

Yes, I am forgetful. If I were smarter, I would just not lose stuff. But because I'm not, I have that.

Hosted on github pages and uses firebase, so basically it costs me $1 a year + the domain registration fee. So after I recovered my cell phone just once, I basically figured it's been paid for for life.

Lifetime revenue from strangers on it is less than $100. Value of items recovered to myself, probably $3k.
Aptera is a modern attempt at a similar approach. It makes me a little sad because the Aptera really makes so much sense but I think it will not make inroads in the market, just because it is weird.
Depends on the company. I've worked for plenty of companies (especially smaller and non technical ones) that didn't ask for everything you created there (or in your free time). Non competes aren't some universal thing that all companies have.
Right, that was exactly my first impression. Thanks for putting it into words so well.
Up until a massive expansion push some years ago, Klarna used to be a profitable company. It expanded from 3200 employees in 2019 to the 7000 that are there now. They also started spending money on experiments that had not much to do with the core business.
No, it's not. Your focus will probably take a sharp turn to another thing, but because you're not entertained. Here... it's probably because ADHD doesn't mean you'll fail, even if untreated.
Yeah, so the company ended up losing the most confident/competent person (since they have the highest chance of quickly getting another job).
It comes from a time when it was not so mundane. My grandfather on one side was the first in his family to truly read and write well enough to have a job involving it.

That is a big deal and far from a default.

Yes, now graduating high school is not an achievement, but it used to be quite one, especially for the average person.
Take a look at Quarto: https://quarto.org/
How about, instead of discouraging uncommon words (English or any language), browsers provide a simple way for users to see the definition of words? I don't know about Windows, but on Mac, hover over the world and press ctrl-cmd-D to active the dictionary feature.
Visa’s margins are like 50–60%.
I was once on a flight watching Zoolander while a guy next to me watched some Avengers movie. The contrast in color grading between the two was shocking. Zoolander had crisp differentiated colors/objects, while the Avengers film was a morass of soft-focus muted purple and brown.
My guess is that people are interested with this topic and want to read discussions from other people, but don't really have anything to add right now. Sometimes I upvote topics using those thoughts.
To be vulnerable to this kind of extortion, there has to be something about your life, true or false, that you'd prefer people not say about you.

I was thinking, and I don't think there is anything that I wouldn't want said to my friends or family.

Everything that could be said is either plainly untrue, or wouldn't sufficiently bother me to change my behaviour.

I wonder how other people get into positions where this isn't the case for them?
Can you cite some of these cases?
> “macro-optimism but micro-pessimism”

This is an interesting idea, I have I feeling I know the what they’re getting at, but if you have any examples of how they put that into practice I’d love to hear it.
+33, since HN is value for value.
Cult members need something to hate to reinforce their identity.
> I'm so sorry Danno. We're still waiting.

How long is the transition phase for Apple until EU users will be allowed to install any software on iOS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163704

Edit:

> After being signed by the President of the European Parliament and the President of the Council, it will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union and will start to apply six months later.
If you are getting a quick, small loan in Mexico, you probably don't have an iPhone because they cost multiple times as much as an Android one. So, it's not worth it to make these apps for iPhone users because that demographic is totally the opposite of what you want.