skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> USA could close all of its coal mines with the same money spent in emergency Covid vaccines

Have we not recently been reminded that the true cost of reducing domestic energy production is much higher than the mere bottom line estimate of shuttering the production facilities?

Germany and France might like a word. With Ukraine slowly shaking their heads in the background.
Those two lines are just the VHDL equivalent of #include <stdio.h> - i.e. boilerplate that you'll see in almost every source file.

But it's true that you don't have to describe the ALU down to the bit level - thanks to those two lines you can say "q <= d1 + d2" instead of having to build an adder at the gate level. (Though you can, of course, do that if you really want to!)
Yeah, same in Lithuania.
This is a pretty lazy and non-value additive article honestly. All it does it just reference things Naval or Warren buffet has said and then “subscribe to my newsletter" at the bottom.

I feel like you could easily write something like this by doing a scrape(Naval's twitter) + scrape(buffet's wiki page) -> GPT3_summarize(that content) and you'd get this article.
Your Money or your Life is another classic.
Pretty much. I was referring to attempts to display status, whether covert or overt.

I think he thought I was referring to ostentatious displays of status like top hats and monocles.
> If I ask you to reproduce a block of GPL code in my codebase and you do it, you violated the license. It does not matter that I primed you or lead you to that outcome. What matters is the legally protected code is somewhere it shouldn’t be.

This isn't accurate. If I reproduce GPL code in your codebase, that's perfectly acceptable as long as you obey the terms of the GPL when you go to distribute your code. In this hypothetical, my act of copying isn't restricted under the GPL license, it's your subsequent act of distribution that triggers the viral terms of the GPL.

The big question that is still untested in court is whether Copilot itself constitutes a derivative work of its training data. If Copilot is derivative then Microsoft is infringing already. If Copilot is transformative then it is the responsibility of downstream consumers to ensure that they comply with the license of any code that may get reproduced verbatim. This question has not been ruled on, and it's not clear which direction a court will go.
It looks like a scam. I never confirmed my number, but they need to send a sms to it so they can confirm it.
I'm 40. My parents are the only people who call me ever.
A good education in a good field is a good start. If you are reading this you probably already have that. All it takes is living like you are poor, and investing the difference.

Some years ago my wife was talking about a poor family we know: while looking their finacnces over realised if you subtract 401k (which they don't have) and house payment (my house was a lot nicer, though both of us should have it paid for in 30 years) I actually have less take home pay to live on in a month. Of course that difference means a nicer house to live in, and a very comfortable retirement plan.
This will be a God send for Facebook. Reels will thrive if TikTok gets banned.

If they're going to ban TikTok, why stop there? Just purge it from app/play stores globally and problem solved.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33421751#33423115
I think changing the verification badge into something actually useful instead of a status symbol is a good thing. If there is a great exodus of Twitter influencers and it starts to affect traffic, then twitter can just add some kind of notability mark to high profile accounts.

Edit: They already plan to add a tag for public figures.
A house on the beach and a plot of land with a bigger yard are assets?
There's not enough "room" to produce interesting content solely on Twitter vs YouTube — you have to hiccup out your value in segmented tweet threads. Thus if Twitter does provide value to followers it is in referencing outside material. Elon is supposedly directing Twitter engineers to go full-steam on reviving Vine so we'll see if that can turn things around.
For reference, a single shot (1.5 fl oz of 40% alcohol) has 14g of alcohol.
We also peak bubble right now. There were similar stories 2006 and before.
> Then look at YouTube: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouT...

> Almost all made famous by YouTube.

I looked the top 50 in that list and maybe ~5 of them are what you describe. The rest are big music labels, TV channels, artists and other such independently popular figures, not very different from Twitter.
I don't know if the parent story is apocryphal (sure sounds like it), but having done that job (high school gig), I can testify that it's pretty great: flexible, easy, and you get paid, in cash, for every quantum of work. Plus it can just be really fun -- tons of great stories, and there were nights where I rolled away with hundreds of dollars in cash in my pocket.

Easily one of the best jobs of my life. I like to say that my career satisfaction peaked early. It would actually be a pretty good gig if you're otherwise well-off and just looking for some socialization in your life.
> Additionally, the argument that you can't copyright a style is playing fast and loose with most things that are proprietary, semantically.

This has been true since copyright existed, Braque couldn’t copyright cubism — Picasso saw what he was doing and basically copied the style with nothing to be done aside from not letting him into the studio.
That would be great! I wonder if there are any dark mode tilesets for maps... not sure how that would affect legibility during the day but it would be perfect for evening at camp, for previewing the next day's hike.

Thanks for the link. It's too bad but it makes sense for privacy reasons.
This is super cool. I just tried it out by looking into a few health/medical topics. So far, I’ve only tried the “internal” experience of “create note with search”, “expanding” and clicking on links – I haven’t tried saving links from my normal web browsing. It’s a nice alternative to using Wikipedia for quickly researching a topic, the benefit being that it gives me bullet points so I’m not overloaded with information.

I don’t see myself replacing my Obsidian notes with this any time soon, but it could serve the niche of the first pass of research – a quick way to collect information, where afterwards I’d consolidate my findings into more permanent notes in Obsidian.

What would make this really useful is more data sources. As far as I can tell, Recall’s “create note with search” only uses Wikipedia right now. It would be awesome to be able to compile information from multiple sources into one note. For example, I was just looking into anemia. It would be cool if, in addition to Wikipedia, I could pull in some information from WebMD, Mayo Clinic, or Harvard Health, too. A more fine-grained way to pick and choose what information I want to add would also be useful.

Nice project, I’ll keep an eye on it! Also, good job with the mobile UX, it’s pretty good!
I'd be suspicious of those claims with that job, but hotel shuttles are a great way to network in a large city near a busy airport.
Looking good. however, it seems like main content are printed through javascript, there is no text in the static html. I wonder the rationale behind this; it is not like you want to make a paywall.
This is rarely a defect of the piano as built, and more that people don't realize that pianos NEED an environment with a stable humidity of about 45% year-round. If humidity changes drastically, the wood will crack and the piano action will suffer.

This is true for any brand of piano.

You can either install a humidity control system (known as "Dampp-Chaser systems") onto the piano itself, or invest in whole-home humidity control. The latter is always preferable when possible.

If you don't do either of these, the piano—even the $250,000 ones—will fall apart over the course of a decade or two. Almost all used pianos held onto by people who don't play (e.g., the piano is furniture) almost always are busted.
mass decision design discussion for a big business and design decision.
You might enjoy this book which features similar events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
> my friend who is an attorney said she prefers arbitration

So let her opt-in. Why force it?
But friends or romantic partner is actually what's important in life. Wealth is just a number on a ledger. We can debate whether friends gained through status or partners gained through status are ideal friends or ideal partners. But its undeniable that friends and romantic partner is much more important to life than wealth.
That's basically the one situation in which non-competes are enforceable in the US. The problem is, most people don't understand that, and fall prey to companies putting non-compete clauses into their employment agreements that say they can't go do CRUD software development at any company in a 50 mile radius.
That ‘we’ sure is carrying a lot of weight. From the context of this thread, it seems likely most of the sacrifice would be from folks in Turkmenistan, who would be told to change at the point of a gun no? Likely leading to a non trivial death count from violence or starvation.

I’m pretty sure you didn’t ask them if they were Ok with that sacrifice.

To quote C.S. Lewis - “ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.”
Here's my take:

Ringtones were never really interesting. When I got my first cell phone it was fun choosing from the limited set of included ringtones, and my friend had one where we could program our own monophonic songs, which was cool. But it was just novelty, like changing your desktop wallpaper. And like desktop wallpaper, anything too complex or interesting can become an annoying distraction.
How do you propose to keep artists able to pay their bills and live a decent life if you're completely cool with training AIs on them?

Bonus points if you have any actionable scheme beyond waving your hands and talking vaguely about "basic income".

Keep in mind that the life of a professional artist is currently very perilous, anyone working freelance is constantly battling against the social media giants' desire to keep everyone scrolling their site forever. Words like "patreon" and "commission" and links off-site to places an artist can exchange their works for money are poison to The Algorithm and will be hidden.

And also if I am reading this right, you have absolutely no problem with an image generator that's been trained on copyrighted work producing work that's either copyrighted or copylefted? You are utterly fine with disregarding the copyrights of the original artist and/or whoever they may have assigned the copyright to as part of their contract?
I'm not a twitter user either, I'm not sure what that has to do with viewing Musk's actions as either being good or bad faith. That seems like a limiting and bizarre way to view things. Similarly, I didn't accuse you of being inappropriately emotionally invested... I'm more fascinated that people see someone doing something wildly illogical and then say to themselves, "well it's Musk, he must have his reasons"... yeah, I'm sure he has his reasons. That doesn't mean they are good and I have no idea why anyone would assume so given how all of this transpired.
Have you seen the OPC series of CPUs? (One Page Computing - the challenge being to keep the code small enough to be printed onto a single sheet of line printer paper!)
I'm sure are artificially intelligent friends give precisely zero fucks what you do and will steal your shit with impunity. If you do crime on a large enough scale, it's called innovation.
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/image-sensor/mobile-image-...
It sounds like that's not filtering out the non-content, though. If I just wanted news about my interests I'd use a Google alert.
The universality of "software" as a digital "techne" makes the aim of this article too fuzzy.
Using the exact author's descriptions, here are some more "defined" apps that are working toward his goal of "dynamic documents as personal software."

- "Write formulas that compute" + "Interactive widgets" anywhere on the page :

- For the simplest sheet-like computations -> https://reactivepad.com/
- For a wider gamut of DB/Sheet type formulas -> https://coda.io/ (on top of its no-code relational DBs)

- "Users can create live searches that extract information from freeform text" into "Structured data views" :

-> https://tana.inc/ magically turns every typed line of text into a row of a Semantic Graph DB. Then, no-code queries are editable in multiviews (like notion-style DB views for every block of text anywhere).

These apps do not need extensive configuration or plugin integration to achieve these goals.
They are not even "low-code". On the contrary, "Potluck" aims to be more "programmable" : more like a "programming portal as a doc. (https://maggieappleton.com/programming-portals)

Edit : He already mentioned that "Coda’s goal is particularly close to ours." Maybe a "Coda+Tana.inc" hybrid will get us nearer to his aim of "computations run on data interpreted from freeform text" as he expressed it.
Something like 90 or 95% of the greenhouse effect is from water vapor. The only reason we really care about atmospheric CO2 is because we think that it triggers more atmospheric water which is the real driver of global temperature change.
I have to say this article is a bit light on facts. For the curious, here is the actual press release from the Bureau of Labor Stats:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm

On the face of it, this isn’t because of a decrease in hours worked because the productivity rate uses that in the denominator. Plus, hours worked actually increased.

This is of course assuming that hours worked is accurate. If this number is actually higher than expected (for example, if workers are spending time commuting rather than working) then it will incorrectly underestimate productivity rates. I looked into how this is calculated:

https://www.bls.gov/productivity/technical-notes/labor-produ...

Importantly, see footnote 6 about salaried employees:

> In the nonproduction-worker-to-production-worker hours ratio used in the current methodology, both the numerator and denominator are actual hours worked. However, to be conceptually consistent with the CES data, the denominator should be hours paid, which excludes off-the-clock hours worked by salaried production employees. That is, this ratio implicitly assumes that production workers are paid for all of the hours they work. However, according to the CPS, about 30 percent of production workers are paid a salary. Thus, the nonproduction-worker-to-production-worker hours ratio is biased downward and therefore does not capture all of the OTC hours worked by salaried nonproduction workers.

Here, the BLS is explicitly saying they can’t capture all of the hours you work. Intuitively this is true. How could they?

This is just my hypothesis. It would be great if there was some survey data to back it up regarding hours actually worked by salaried employees.
What is this going to solve? Blue checkmarks was intended to find the real public person instead of thousand scammers. If it now means that you have paid for account, then what is the point?

This is not going to help their finances either. Someone [1] did a calculation:

"If one in five current blue ticks paid $20 a month that would raise just under $15 million a year for Twitter… Twitter’s current revenues (mostly from ads) are $5 billion a year. Musk’s apparent plan would generate about 30 hours’ worth of annual revenue."

https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/1587381512500125699
I’m guessing this was an unsolicited outreach on the part of the investor?

Any inbound request from a VC should be considered malicious unless proven otherwise.

I would caution you from publicly shaming VCs. They are power brokers with influence in a very small circle, and many are genuinely spiteful people.

The best revenge is success.
Which is what is banned in California. If someone wants an enforceable non-compete, they need to pay them (fairly and explicitly) for the time they’re not allowed to compete.
power to the people... for only 8 dollars a month!

is anyone sick of this salesman shtick? it's even more egregious when used as some form of crusade for the people.

let's be clear here, the 8 dollars a month is the motivation. He doesn't give two-shits about any moral sense of right or wrong or the well-being people that used the service.

he'd be more respectable/relatable if he had said "It's 8 bucks a month because I need to pay back the loans."
The keyword here is estimated. That’s only a ballpark number. I think they did that because they were severely undercutting the competition and they want people who wouldn’t have thought about it to call their sales team. It’s not the final price.
Just be careful, you can't take it's with you (this is a religious statement, most religions agree but if you believe an exception I guess this comment doesn't apply). As such there is no point in saving too much. Enjoy what you have, save money, but plan on spending that money before you die. (Since you don't know when you will die have some insurance for long life )
> Critics of the YIMBY movement say that they aren't opposed to building housing, it's that they believe the government needs to focus on getting below-market-rate housing built.

Can't wait to see how San Francisco's government, which spends $2M to build a toilet, can build below-market-rate housing.
The biggest problem with OIDC is how non-standard every implementation is.

I mean, there is a standard, but then there's what everyone actually does. Even within the standard, there is a very surprising amount of it that is... optional.

Even discovery endpoints are non-standard... basics like `/.well-known/openid-configuration` is recommended but not required... and don't even try to guess where /userinfo lives!

Claims are willy-nilly, and even some IDP's provide duplicate-in-intent but different-in-name claims, like `phone_verified` vs. `phone_number_verified`. It's just a complete wild west out there!

Anyone bringing some level of standards to the delegated authentication arena would be very welcome in my opinion.
Steinway also makes pianos in the USA, with a slightly different design than their Hamburg-built ones.

I personally find them to be over-priced (since they have a stage monopoly), and lacking the quality control that Bechstein or Fazioli have.
Much better to just go in and turn on Settings -> Camera -> Macro Control
And I agree with Stephen King. YouTube rewards content creators and provides a strong platform for creators to market themselves. Twitter provides a platform for brain farts and now they want to charge for a blue checkmark. I guess Musk believes if people are stupid enough to believe in his lies before that they'll be stupid enough to pay for a blue checkmark.

Wait until you see how they begin marketing the subscription.. it will be ridiculous. Might as well be trying to sell snake oil.
I was just out in New England visiting some friends.

In the area we were in[1], almost all the houses look the same, seriously unimposing, aggressively bland.

They'd point over to a (admittedly large sqft) boring looking house and say "oh yeah, some super rich guy lives there, heir to some fortune or another."

It was weird coming from the west coast where the front facade[2] of a house is itself a status symbol of sorts.

[1] A generally well to do nice area with a bit of history to it.
[2] And sometimes just the front, hah! Horrible vinyl siding everywhere else...
In theory, not so much in practice.
Cool! Glad to see some folks planning to give this little app legs of their own.

You will have some great views of the KT during winter for sure. FYI the stretch between Leota and Elk Creek is brutal.
Nikon and Canon and all the other camera companies, Japanese, German, or otherwise, are not software companies and have a pretty awful track record for even the basic software in their camera interfaces. Post processing is something they could not or would not get involved in.

Apple ate their lunches and then some. While I'm an old-school photographer who thinks a great SLR camera is the photographic equivalent of driving a Porsche, I don't miss carrying pounds of gear around. (OTOH I HATE the Ux of iPhones for photography.) I digress. The camera biz is a classic biz school study in humans being human.
Then surely you’ll have no issues providing a cite of the relevant criminal code?
Building companies are not necessarily zero sum tho. You can win over your competition by delivering value. The value delivered to society generally more than cover of the loss your competition encounters. On net its a positive sum game that the more this is done, the more net positive society sees.

Assuming fair competition based on innovation on efficiency of course. Corruption and coercion not apply
and now we have more of a paper trail to stop them
In the music industry, even the tiniest sound sample used in a work entitles the original creator to compensation. It might come to pass that using any portion of an author's work in your training data will confer certain rights to the author over the AI generated product. You'll have to perpetually keep records of your training data for commercially available work, lest you be sued. A whole bureaucracy will evolve, a Getty Curated Training Data, public domain training data sets. Basically the same sorts of issues that we've had over the past 30 years, except replacing "internet" with "AI."

And if the past is any guide, the forces of capital will prevail commercially, but after aborted attempts to rein them in with lawsuits, hobbyists and kids on social media will be mostly ignored by rights holders.
> taxing winnings from gambling never made much sense to me.

If you didn't tax winnings, then you're merely inviting a deluge of tax evasion and money laundering schemes. But note that gambling losses are deductible. (You can even itemize your lottery ticket spend.) The caveat is that gambling deductions can only be used to offset gambling winnings; again, because otherwise you're inviting a ridiculous amount of difficult to police fraud.

> Especially if it's run as a government monopoly.

Some states, like California, don't tax state lottery winnings. (But neither do you get deductions for lottery losses.) For other states--at least those with an income tax--I suppose it's just a matter of simplicity to not distinguish state-controlled from private lotteries.
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In a democracy the population is responsible for voting in the government.

In a dictatorship the population is responsible for not overthrowing the government.
>Bots get taxed.

Crypto scammers make so much that paying $8 is pocket change if it means having scam tweets be more visible.
My thought was more like gmail getting hit by (likely) the Chinese in an attempt to get David Petraeus' email accounts, esp. the emails where he was sharing things he shouldn't w/ his mistress.

Honestly if he kept it in his pants he probably could have been President.
The original definition of re-factoring was changing code to improve the quality without changing the behavior. Going by that definition anything you do in response to changing requirements is by definition, not re-factoring. I guess it's just come to mean "changing code" these days, but I think this is regression in terms of expressivity.