skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often it doesn't make sense. They need to cut, so they cut. They need to spend, so they spend. They need to hire, so they hire. Is this usually consistent? No. They acquire companies and later shut them down. They hire tons of people then fire them, then later have to hire back people and start up projects that duplicate what they bought but later killed and then realize that the competition is in that market so they start it up again, but in a worse way. They allocate time and money into major moonshot projects and internal efforts and later kill off those projects they invested tons of time and money into. Startups are sociopathic in many ways.

As I learned long ago, don't expect venture-backed and post-IPO startups to act "logically". It's all a big hustle and a scramble for market share and whatever other metrics. There's a lot of collateral damage along the way, employees and customers be damned.

Startups aren't a "meritocracy" and management teams don't operate by best ideas win. Markets are brutal, management teams are opportunistic and often self-serving, investors are focused on growth at all costs and hitting metrics, and companies don't operate in ways that suit logic. They suit the needs to capture markets or do whatever they do to get ahead. Sometimes ethically, sometimes not.
Well the obvious example is RenTech's Medallion fund which consistently out-performs human stock traders.

The Medallion Fund has employed mathematical models to analyze and execute trades, many of them automated. The firm uses computer-based models to predict price changes. These models are based on analyzing as much data as can be gathered, then looking for non-random movements to make predictions. [1]

Renaissance Technologies' Medallion fund, which from 1988 to 2018 clocked annualized returns of 66%. After fees, those annualized returns were still remarkable, at 39%.[2]

[1] https://wealthofgeeks.com/medallion-fund/#:~:text=Algorithmi....

[2]https://money.usnews.com/investing/funds/articles/top-hedge-....
It may be helpful to contextualize some of these numbers. I'm a law student at a similarly-ranked law school in a lower-COLA area. Like most of my peers I have a job lined up at a BigLaw firm in NYC which pays $215 base and about $35 in bonuses for a total of $250. This steps up in a rigid scale yearly until partnership (or you burn out and die). The older numbers are pre-covid pay bump which has reset comp, and with consulting bumping I suspect comp may rise again.

It's a substantial capital outlay (even though I don't know anyone paying full sticker) but if you can stomach the work it pays for itself fairly quickly. Happy to give a more detailed breakdown of financials as I suspect there are not many lawyers on HN (I made an account to comment on this).
It is regretable that a lot people takes these kinds of "questions manuals" as an incentive or an excuse to feel justified for being a total asshole.
out of curiosity, which hospital is this?
Yes, they generate enough heat as it is.
Not really about being anonymous as I've seen the same pattern when playing with people I know in real life, although playing with strangers removes a lot of restraint.

It's more that those games create a scenario where you are going to be frustrated for 20+ minutes because of mistakes of others, and you likely started playing because you're trying to get away from frustration IRL.
That's not true. The concept of free speech, and what is specifically allowed and disallowed by the First Amendment of the USA, are two different things. Not least which is that the latter applies to a small fraction of the world's population.

Censorship of ideas by a private company is not a first amendment issue. It is a free speech issue.
This is true.

I think it's frowned upon, here.

I won't do it deliberately, but, if I'm unsure of the answer, posting what I think is the answer, in a confident way, tends to get results. ;)

I've also learned to ask fairly detailed, well-researched questions, from StackOverflow.

They bitch at you, if you ask a "stupid" question (but usually answer it, anyway), but I have found, if I ask a detailed, well-researched question, crickets chirp.

I have basically given up on SO for anything useful, these days. I'm sad, because it used to be a great place to learn.

If I ask the kinds of questions they'll answer, I get sneered at. If I ask the kinds of questions they say they want, I get ignored.
Not true, under Gorbachov SU raided every and each country seceding SU. One example being Georgia where Russians soldairs raided public protest and killed dozens of kids.
The business strategy for social media moderation seems to universally be "offer the least support possible without breaking people's addictions or losing advertisers."

In no particular order: misinformation, foreign influence on elections, low quality content, unfair bans, report abuse, content theft, scams, unresponsive support, cyber bullying, harassment, spam, addiction, monetization instability, mental health effects, impersonation, radicalization, grooming, etc. aren't addressed because they usually don't affect ad sales enough to motivate action.

When the perception of a site becomes too negative, the absolute minimum is done as a response.

Porn and copyright infringement do affect ad sales, which is why they are resolved instantly, even at the cost of these other problems e.g. unfair bans.
> remember that time that lesswrong proved agi would be present by 2014?

Can't say as I do, and I was there in 2014, so presumably I would remember everyone being super disappointed. Link?
No, an empty array means that the cache is never invalidated.
This is great, I can stop emailing markdown files back and forth with my content writers.

Would this work as a sort-of wiki, for crowd-sourced documentation and translations? Or is it a bad idea to let the public edit things?
Great article. Hits the best points without wasting time on minutia.

That is the other heuristic when describing a problem and reporting what you already learned, that makes the whole process an art: keep it short!
That's no problem! Lots of people probably don't know about it. But it would be good to link to https://news.ycombinator.com/lists (also linked in the footer of every HN page) since there are other obscure things there too.
If Orkut got integrated into Google's ecosystem, spinning it out probably would've cost more money than they could've sold it for.

I imagine they factored this in before deciding to shut it down rather than sell it.
> majority of researchers in the field who have been researching for decades already know deep learning isn't the correct way forward

Do you have a reference for this? It’s not my experience.
Yes but this has not yet been experimentally tested, so it's currently unknown.
A third party that indexes the content for searchability and shows too much of it to its users is not bait and switch. Come on.
Show HN: Samen – build API's with TypeScript, get a typesafe client SDK for free
Hi HN!

After years of lurking and reading, I'm thrilled to post my very first Show HN.

We are a small development agency from the Netherlands, we build web apps, mobile apps and API's for our clients. All with TypeScript. For most of our projects we are responsible for both client (app) and server (api).

We used to do this with express and similar frameworks. In this situation you need to write code for your client to call the API, parse the incoming data on the backend, and then there is always hassle sharing your models between client and server.

Since about a year or two we use our home grown backend development kit we call Samen, and never ever looked back. Samen has a minimal API (just one function) with which you export functions in a special file called "samen.ts" in your source code. Samen will analyse your exported functions and generate an SDK for you. The SDK will include the models you use, and all the endpoints as regular async functions.

We're very excited to get feedback from the HN community.
I have a high school aged daughter and Snapchat is the messaging platform of choice among the kids at her school. It is not just a local thing. She also participates in a sport which has her travel across the US frequently for competitions. All the teens at these competitions also seem to use Snapchat as their primary messaging app. When she meets competitors from other places that she wants to stay in touch with it is Snapchat ids that they exchange.
As I learned during my Tcl days, languages like Python should stay as scripting languages, because as you pretty well describe, you end up writing everything in C anyway.

A lesson learned 20 years ago, before everything .com went bust.
What I did was, IMO, a different and bigger direction to fine art. I mean I could tell that this wasn't an impressionistic painting just given that some areas of the grass were too detailed. It looks "just fine" though to untrained eyes, which are well over 90% of the population.

1. How long would it have taken me to get good enough at painting to exceed what I generated in under an hour? How many people have the motivation to spend that time?

2. How much would I have had to pay an art student to make a painting better than what I generated in under an hour?

Ten million sub-par Monet knock-offs didn't exist, but could exist very shortly at minimal cost. Even if it never gets any better this is already potentially disruptive, and the models are getting better every month.
Honestly, I agree that there needs to be work done. I think the first step is to get the police to not be as ignorant as they are. The fact that Keffals tried to notify the police of a potential harassment effort and they chose to ignore her should've never happened. Police today are poorly trained and educated but still get an exorbitant budget. I think it's time for people to declaw them or retrain them or possibly both on top of dealing with Kiwi Farms directly.
IMO 1, 5, and 6 are not appropriate for early stage startups (unless you’re making enterprise software). They’re going to slow you down, add unnecessary burn, and just generally not be value adds. You should be focused on making a product that people pay money for, not box checking for a hypothetical SOC2.
IMHO, the legal definition of "utility" is not necessarily useful. The law is slow, while the real world quickly becomes dependent on pieces of tech. I believe that one day the law will finally catch up and these providers will be likened to utilities.
https://youtu.be/FCvtqy4-RS8
Well, it's economic warfare and two are playing this game. But Russia is certainly not innocent here.

Russian funds were indeed frozen, but with the exception of banks processing gas payments so that can go ahead. Russia went further than asset freezes, and nationalised swathes of Western property in Russia, like leased aeroplanos for example. By EU countries laws, frozen Russian assets are to be returned at some point and cannot eg be used by other parties in the meantime. Whereas Russia declared a lot if Western assets their own property now.

I agree it's awkward, the West couldn't expect Russia to not respond to the sanctions. So in the narrow context of gas exports it's not simply "bad Russia good West", but Russia is clearly an active belligerent in this economic conflict.
Yeah, "femma" is literally "fiver" in Swedish. (Or "fifth"; "Jag kom femma i loppet" means "I placed fifth in the race".) And "seiska" is the colloquial pronunciation of seven in general, not just that publication.

So "seiskafemma" is just the digita concatenated; "seven-five" in stead of "seventy-five". Doesn't feel all that weird to me. For one thing, other languages do that too. And for another, it's all the "-kymmenen" bits that are too long to pronounce, so leaving them out (when that doesn't introduce confusion, of course) seems eminently sensible. Really not weird at all.
The question was about storing state in the URL. You are referring to storing a session I’d in the URL. Quite different.
I do similar but use javascript:window.location.href="https://archive.is/newest/"+location.href for pulling from archive.is. That works for many pages.
If you've never made any money - how much are you really thinking about taxes?
As someone who's been actively looking for a headless CMS recently, I'm curious about how you compare yourselves to Contentful [1]?

From a quick look the key difference is that Payload's backend can be self-hosted, but Contentful is SaaS only.

You've said that you're targeting enterprise customers and mention an SLA in that respect. Does that mean your enterprise offering is also SaaS only?

[1] https://www.contentful.com/
Everything is mob rule, or fear-of-mob-rule rule. Most companies have principles on how they do business, and they adjust those principles based on how people (internally and externally) react to them. That's why Google shut down its search engine for the CCP - it's mob rule at Google, and if you decide to do something that enough people find unethical, you won't hear the end of it until you stop. Why do you think this is a bad thing, or that it's somehow not the way the world works?
Not flagged, but that domain is downweighted, as are most major media/web sites on HN. The downweight is pretty carefully calibrated to allow the (hopefully) most interesting (or at least most upvoted) articles through, but then we get these weird outliers that stay underwater.

I'm not so worried about a major news piece (someone else will just repost a different version of the story, as happened here), but sometimes there are really cool and interesting posts that get lots of upvotes and even comments without ever reaching escape velocity.

It's a bit Rube Goldbergian but my thought is to have separate software watching for those, and maybe plugging them into the second-chance pool or something (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).
Your brain is also closed source and you can train it on copyrighted material as well.
I went to ATT to ask for a business line for $500/month which includes them doing the cabling for free but ended up speaking to a bunch of people there and was able to negotiate $25k out of my pocket but only $100/month for a minimum of 2 years.
I’m similarly bored with “AI won’t have any meaningful impact on arists” takes.

Think of a well-reviewed game like Slay the Spire (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slay_the_Spire). Excellent gameplay, amateurish art which they had still to commission for ~thousands of dollars.

Now they can get better quality art, for pennies, in minutes. Is this a boring example not worth discussing?
There's an alternate control app for you phone that will apparently do it.

It's from Litchi:

https://flylitchi.com
Great stuff. One related hack I have for oral communication: if you mishear/aren't sure about part of what someone said, repeat back everything you did hear as part of your question, so they only have to repeat that one part. (Bonus: It validates that you were listening!)

Examples:

"We saw <garbled> and so we left."

'You left because you saw what?'

"I collect samples with <garbled> at the beach."

'You used what to collect samples at the beach?'

Otherwise, they will repeat the whole thing, or rephrase it, or even worse, start by appending detail that assumes you heard the original part correctly.
> Speech can be violence

No. Don't blur this line or you not only lose credibility, you descend into absurdity.
yes there is a deeper systemic crux to this symptom and it won’t be solved by a business
That bartender's name? Albert Einstein.
It's not Cloudflare's job to do anything. They can just stop DDoS protection for everyone BUT nazi sites if they want to. That's called freedom!

...but they're not free from public reactions to their choices.
Ironically, "the cat is on the mat" is a conventional example sentence in linguistics of metonymy (semantics).

I have no examples but imagine things like at the top of his game are immensely problematic, albeit not very visual to begin with.
To SSH into servers at $work, I need to run a command to 2FA-authenticate against our SSO and obtain a short-lived SSH cert for my local SSH key. We have around 10 tech employees and around 40 servers and it's really nice when onboarding new servers or new employees that we don't have to juggle authorized_keys around, and when offboarding employees we no longer have stale authorized_keys files to worry about, since access will expire automatically after 20 hours once the employee is removed in SSO. There's no hardware backing the CA, and it's all homebrew (NIH style) 2FA-SSO with openssh CA invocations, but it works and is quite convenient. We also use the same CA for host keys (again, certs issued by our NIH-style homebrew fleet management), which allows us to avoid TOFU prompts when onboarding new servers.
If you deplatform a Nazi by murdering them, is it still murder?
Amyloid beta may not cause alzheimer's disease, but you still don't want amyloid beta plaques in your brain. They may not themselves be causing damage but they are almost definitely a sign of damage to the brain, so anything that appears to increase them should be handled with extreme caution.
I equate League of Legends with drugs or junk food. It's not fun, not rewarding, not creative, not anything. I could play 3 or 4 40m games and at the end have a completely empty feeling. It is, however, extremely addictive.

I'll try hard not to get addicted to something that meaningless ever again. Games like LoL are the soul-sucking rock-bottom of games.

My experience, of course.
* A CISO designs and staffs the whole security practice.

* A CISO is management-team and, especially, customer-facing.

* A CISO's reports tend to be managers, not IC's.

* A CISO often reports to the CEO, the CFO (if they own risk), and, sometimes, to the board.

* A CISO will tend to own multiple security sub-practices: product security, IT security, abuse, sometimes risk.

* A Dir/Sec tends to report to engineering management.

* A Dir/Sec is occasionally customer-facing, but it's not most of the job.

* A Dir/Sec will tend not to own things like abuse and risk.

* A Dir/Sec will usually, when first hired, do IC-level work on prodsec and IT security.

* A Dir/Sec's reports are usually ICs.

A pretty normal progression might be:

1. Hire a Sr Sec Eng

2. Hire another Sr Sec Eng

3. Hire a Dir/Sec

4. Hire a bunch of Sec Eng (build out an ops team, a product security team, and a team for IT stuff)

5. Promote the Dir/Sec to VP/Sec and hire managers for the teams.

6. Get real big.

7. Promote or hire a CISO (the CISO hire is often an opportunity to bring a marquee resume into the company to impress the market).

I think the thing to remember about startups is that even startups with traction rarely have the headcount slots to get past (2) or (3) on that list until they have lots of engineers; I don't have numbers to back this up but my guess is that the median startup with a 3+ person security team has over 100 employees.

So, if you're talking about your first security hire, as a young startup, it's hard to make a CISO make sense. You might call your first security hire "the CISO", but I'd say willingness to be called a "CISO" at a startup when you have low-single-digit reports is probably a mild red flag for that person.

It may be an idiosyncrasy of mine to call the title "Dir/Sec"; "Dir/Sec" is the fluffiest title I think an experienced security person would be comfortable taking in a young startup. But you could also call that person a "Security Manager" or a "Security Lead"; some of this also depends on how flat your org is.
I assume all the code is open source on github if I'd like to run this myself on my own expense? Maybe an installation / configuration guide if there isn't already one would be helpful.
Truelancer has worked fine for me.
Can I kindly ask you to explain what is the problem with this kind of message?

I see this all the time - journalists critique pseudononymous internet writers. All through these pieces there's references to "who they really are" and "could they get away with saying this in public with their real name".

Why is this a bad thing? I know the NYTimes isn't the most moral upstanding institution, but they are hardly stochastic terrorists?
I’m confused as to what folks think the alternative is.

Winning is a zero-sum game. If they target something higher than 50%, there would have to be a reservoir of players willing to take less than 50%…
Wouldn't that be dynamic typing?
Ask HN: Should HN care about accessibility?
I've noticed the HN site fails quite a number of key WCAG accessibility metrics (particularly around colour contrast, but even more basic stuff to ensure the site makes sense to screen readers and those needing assistive technology). Most would be simple to fix and I believe would benefit a not insignificant percentage of the userbase. As HN readers should we care? Are there any current users who have had issues using the site because of this?
That is what I see with my teen daughter too.
Its not quite the same but one of the Moving Companies around boston has a rowing club.

https://www.gentlegiantrowing.org/sponsor

"and approach to moving as a sport, requiring dedication and teamwork. Many Gentle Giant employees are current or former athletes from a wide variety of sports and competitive backgrounds. Current and former employees include both Olympic, collegiate and club rowers."
KF's policy is very straightforward - do not engage with the people involved. Doing so or conspiring to do so is grounds for an immediate sitewide permaban.
And we're allowed to pressure them to act more ethical.
Not unusual, but it seems like you would want to be contacted in an emergency. So it's a good thing that cruise ships will be getting great internet service. You still have the choice to ignore non-emergency calls and only take emergency calls.
Wow, it looks like the teeth don't move with the head, uncanny indeed.
Unless the dice fuck you over extra hard x)
A (mid-20s) friend shares a name with a (70-year-old) ex-IRA member, and has been pulled out of the line for extended interrogation every time he's flown since he was a child because his name triggers anti-terrorism flags.

Last I heard he even had to get a special insert for his passport where the US State department affirms that he is not, in fact, an elderly Irish paramilitant.
> We might be watching a mass disruption of art as a profession.

Like how mcdonald's disrupted the Michelin restaurants industry

It might change a very small subset of art creation, it's still far away from anything actually usable. ie it's cool to generate your DnD scenes for your weekend sessions, it won't replace an actual illustrator for a paid projects or fine art
Schoolteacher. I'd be doing it already if the pay and respect gap to software wasn't so huge. I still might switch eventually after reaching some reasonable savings goal.

A little concerning how politics in the US seem to be targeting teachers so much though. I wouldn't dare practice outside of the northeast US, where education is still somewhat decently respected and funded, for this reason, but I wonder where we'll be even here in ten years time.
> Another theory: that for some people, hitting a problem is an excuse to stop working entirely and claim to be waiting on another team for support.

Agree, but sometimes it isn't even the user's fault and they do things like this out of desperation or frustration.

Imagine working in a place where nothing works right, you always have to search through shit documentation to find tiny nuggets of wisdom, and everyone is always pushing to get more done in less time. Then, if you sense a chance to have a short break by throwing something over the wall to another team, you might also choose to do that rather than work even harder to try and find some missing answers for the questions you seek.
There’s cost, time, and unknown returns in spinning it off.

And it would apparently give a geographically dominant 40 MAU to a competitor.

It’s an insult to users and team members for Snap to just shut it down, and it could become bad PR, but there’s a reasonable case to be made on near-term business strategy.
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