skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yah I used to type 1911, but its interesting just how old some sites allow you to be. Some places can't even deal with 100 year olds (which isn't that uncommon) while others allow you to be 150+.

Presumably some places appear to just be doing todays date-120/130 years. So its possible to create an account that likely won't be able to revalidate ones birthday using their age validators in a few years unless they adjust the age because you will be over what they think is the max age.
Huh. I guess I always thought the hat logo was a nod to Sinatra ( https://sinatrarb.com/ ), given Crystals relationship with Ruby.
You know damn well there's a new "Staff Engineer" at Apple who fluffed this "algorithm" up as an argument for a promotion from Senior Engineer. And likely a few product folks and managers who ballooned this entire project way out of proportion for their own career advancement.
Depending on the site if they are gonna use it as verification in the future. Im not gonna remember the randomly entered date.

Its not like you can identify 87% of the US based on Date of birth, 5 digit Zip Code and gender. Oh wait. https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/index.ht...
I've noticed the migration from excel to smartsheet for many companies/tasks.
There are websites that are very much like an app, like Gmail or Slack. 20 years ago, most people used standalone applications for these.

Other websites are not app-like at all: Wikipedia articles, blogs like substack, API documentation; these are documents. And they still make up a significant portion of my browsing -- so yes, my browser is still a hypertext viewer. YMMV, like I said, maybe you mostly have apps open; I don't.

And many websites are in-between: project management tools like JIRA and shopping websites like Amazon are document-based (tickets, product pages), but offer actions on top of those documents, like an app would have. They also have external links like, you know, hypertext.

And the latter is true for even the app-iest of apps, which makes it useful to have them in the browser (for the same reason, some desktop apps end up embedding browsers). And conversely, even the document websites have actions that are more or less central to the experience, e.g. Wikipedia has editing, blogs have comments.

So there isn't a clear line between app and document, that's a false dichotomy.
Musk publicly shaming his engineers for code they wrote is beyond inappropriate conduct. Any internal strife is entirely on him.

Professionals should not be expected to extend any respect to those who treat them like dirt.
Copyright protected work can only be lend for one person at the time.

>If people worked long and hard on something, they deserve the right to prevent it from being given away for free.

So FreeSoftware/OSS people don't work hard?

I think Ricard Stallman made a really good presentation why today's copyright is unfair for small authors but really good for the "harry potter".
One time my car decided that I was going to crash into one of those water tank things at a fork in a highway (actually, this was at a merge, on a curve, which is odd because you don't expect that) and it started doing it's alerting thing, and I had to swerve just so it would stop thinking I was going to crash into it. It was a curving merge, so briefly the car thought that I was driving towards an obstacle, but as long as I stayed in my lane that was never going to happen.

That incident gave pause. If the brakes had engaged, might that have caused a crash?
Slowdown or not, Amazon does not expect people to stick around for long.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1406481956435550210
I don't know and I never claimed to be an expert. You are the one who asserted something without any basis, not me.

Either form the basis or don't. There is nothing wrong with my tone, I'm just pointing out the obviously missing context to your post. What you quote about the rules has nothing to do with my post. If anyone is flamebaiting, it's you with the baseless partisan assertion.
Cash is the investment where you expect to lose the most. Hedging against cash losses (also known as inflation) is largely why people chase other investment opportunities.

Cash is the easiest investment to hold. If it were stable it would be very attractive, but it is not. The monetary system works hard to ensure that it isn't stable, with mandated targets to ensure that cash holdings lose money every year.
> That doesn't describe the vast majority of investors though

I think you have a skewed view of the average investor. About 58% of Americans own stock, but only 35% of Americans own any outside their 401k. That means 40% of investors only have money in their 401k. I couldn’t find the numbers for how many of those investing outside of their 401k just owned index or mutual funds, but I even if it was only a small percentage it would mean a majority of investors aren’t buying individual stocks.

There is a vocal minority who invest speculatively. It makes sense that this number would seem larger than it actually is, because they are the ones who talk about investing. You don’t see questions or posts from people just investing in their 401k and index funds, but there are more of them than the speculators.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/25/few-in-u-s-...
I agree with the general observation that "needs" are a more powerful means of making a sale. Advertising tends to focus on "wants".

Yet, at the huge risk of getting downvoted into oblivion isn't rejecting "wants" as a legitimate source of growth a bit Marxist? If the economy only served needs and not wants we would be living in a very bleak and oppressive world.
Show HN: Set up internal tools directly in G sheets, Airtable and Notion
Hey HN! Vinesh, Ian, and Kunal here. We’re building Bracket (YC W22), a bidirectional ETL platform — software that syncs data two ways between your data stack and the spreadsheet tools that your business teams rely on (e.g. Google Sheets, Airtable, and Notion databases), with the ability to add transformation logic (like SQL statements or MongoDB aggregation statements) in between. (https://www.usebracket.com/)

In other words, if you want to join columns from two Postgres tables, sync the result to an Airtable table, and allow your Airtable users to edit certain fields from either table back to Postgres, you can do that with Bracket.

We built this for teams that need to spin up internal tools quickly, but prefer to keep their business teams in the tools in which they operate most efficiently. For example, here are some of the use cases among our current users:
- Turn feature flags on / off for their customers from a G Sheet
- Edit orders data in Notion
- Adjust trial periods for customers in Airtable
- Edit user info (like email) based on input sent to customer success teams
- Track and edit the status of support tickets

See a demo of a sync between Postgres and Airtable here: https://www.loom.com/share/9aa52b9f38584b2894b65bc106fba141

Transparently, we are figuring out pricing and care way more about feedback which is why we don’t have a pricing page — we don’t want that to be an impediment to getting your input and building a great product.

We’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and use cases. Especially if you’ve been looking for a bidirectional ETL tool now or in the past, we’d love to hear what tool set you wanted it for and for what purpose!
Title is "Lucid Air Touring and Air Pure Now Ready for the Road with Market-Leading Range"
I've been a stubborn Wikipedia defender and donator for the past couple years, but this new fundraising banner style is the first time Wikipedia has begun to lose sympathy for me. I hope to see much less of this in the future
If only. My grandad was a lifelong truck driver and a pretty good one AFAIK, he kept working well into his 70s with a safe driving record. But eventually as he got older he caused three minor accidents in less than a year before he agreed to stop driving. This was in the late 00's as he was approaching 90.
>on a device that is also more expensive

An InReach Mini costs roughly $300 while a Spot device costs less than $200. An iPhone 14 is $800.
Tiktok asked for my birthday and I couldn't navigate away from the page. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app to try and circumvent entering a birthday. They banned my account.

This account was active for 2+ years and they out of the blue REQUIRED a birthday like wth.
"Social justice" is the opposite of justice, and therefore evil :)
I think technology has advanced a lot since then. I see videos of peoples’ transactions on the lightning network being confirmed within a few seconds. It’s taken off in a lot of markets in poorer countries from what I understand.
This could work and is 100% reporting "news":

"But he would offer only limited details about the central questions swirling around him: whether FTX improperly used billions of dollars of customer funds to prop up a trading firm that he also founded, Alameda Research. The Justice Department and the S.E.C. are examining that relationship. There are some who question this narrative of mistakes made and are calling it a fraud".
If you count Silverblue, I use it on almost everything but my primary desktop, which runs Windows 10.
Apple is building up a nice portfolio of life-saving features. Currently we have fall detection, a-fib detection, crash detection, satellite communication. These are all solid value-adds and differentiators from the competition. I'm not sure if they amount to a strong selling point for _everyone_ yet, but I'm sure that's where Apple is headed.

I am extremely bullish on Apple's ability to measure health signals in the next 5-10 years, that when fed to AI, will be able to detect health issues long in advance. This may take more sensors, more research, more AI development, but we're definitely headed there. At some point iPhone and Apple Watch will probably be marketed as the devices you need if you don't wish to die early.
Sounds similar to photosynthesis. Light+Water is converted into chemical energy. Interesting that lights boost hydrogen conversion in a similar fashion.
Hylang is fun and everything, but they make a lot of breaking changes in minor releases. It was "(import [module [function]])" in 0.20 and now in 0.25 it's "(import module [function])" and the old code doesn't compile anymore.
You'd think if they were this serious about being a player in the app market they would've tried a bit harder on their windows gaming store app. But no, it's still a clunky, buggy mess after years since launch.
Sure, but the author isn't seeing a dime more because the library decided to pony up for the better book binding.

The point is that authors' revenue from books sold to libraries is the same as what they get from a retail sale.
Was Wikipedia much less good last year when they spent $116m? 5 years ago when they spent $70m? 10 years ago when they spent $30m?

What are they doing 6x more of compared to ten years ago? 80% more of since last year?
Knowing Qualcomm, there's probably a major royalty cost involved.

If Apple spends $450 million to enable the service [0], that's about $2 per phone sold in 2021 [1].

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/apple-spending-450-million-w...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-11/apple-exp...
The worst part is that it's not just the name of a car, it's the entire EV sub-brand. So you have the Audi Turd, the Audi Q8 Turd, the Audi Q8 Turd Sportback the Audi Turd GT, and so on.
Elon Musk's SpaceX expects first Starship launch to orbit this year -NASA
Hourly billing is nuts.

This book helped me stop. I’m happier and, more importantly, so are my clients.

https://jonathanstark.com/hbin
Tell me more about the internal strife these engineers created, I didn’t see that mentioned in the tweet thread. Maybe it will help me understand your position better.
> Honda Fita

Stretching a bit to fit a narrative?

There was never Honda Fita. In USA, that's Honda Fit, and in Europe the same car is called Honda Jazz.
I'm also a HAM and work Search and Rescue, I would also never use this as my primary emergency device unless I had someone I knew actively monitoring the frequency. Buy something like a Garmin InReach Mini (~$15 a month subscription free) or a PLB (no monthly cost)
>PLB users generally do trust that their devices work the first time they're used for real, and this trust is backed up by a lot of real world use.

Although they are not foolproof. See for example the story of Kate Matrosova. [1] Basically, mountain shadows made the location readings erratic which, in combination with extremely bad weather, meant rescuers couldn't find her.

[1] https://www3.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/21/the-young-woma...
With time and effort, Yes you can. ¡Si se puede!
Does that mean you give real answers to the other "password recovery" questions?

"Verification" questions should get random answers that get saved in your password manager.
Over the years, I've found that the best ideas come to me when walking to the bathroom and back. Especially when I'm trying to come up with a good solution to a difficult programming problem. Just getting up from the screen and engaging in some mindless physical activity seems to cause my subconscious to spit out surprising insights that I wouldn't have come up with if I had been 100% focused on the problem at hand. It's really a bit of a mystery how the human brain sometimes works this way.
> socially constructed (along with other norms you may have heard about, like gender identity) and since they are socially constructed they are culturally relative.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-construction-natur...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-institutions/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-social/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-ontology/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-knowledge-soci...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-ontology/
have you worked in set ups like this? what was the tricky thing to get right?
I find more likely that the programming "boilerplate" comes from the legal "boilerplate".
How is fossil fuel a scam?

I understand the climate impact (and possibly the lies), but equating that to a scam?

Fossil fuels do have a positive impact.
This is not true in my experience. Matching donors donate up to the amount they state if, and only if, you received the donations to be matched. While there may be some nice donors who will donate above their pledge, it is in no way something the organization can count on. If a donor makes a pledge to match, it's solely up to the donor whether they donate above and beyond.
Wikipedia is one of the worst things that was ever launched on the web. Many people say that it's reliable, except in cases of controversy. That's a spin. A more honest way of describing it is that it's a system designed to accumulate trust by providing people with trivial information and then spectacularly fail them when the information is critically important for some society-wide issue. The failures aren't unfortunate mishaps, they are inevitable by design.
Wait, Microsoft has an app store?
> In the end it's just business. You either make a client happy or you don't.

Spot on.

1) Do good work. Be patient and kind to clients. Remember when someone asks you to do something for the 8th time, "Hey, it's their money."

2) Make sure you write your contracts in a way that lets you raise rates every January. Aim for a 10% increase every calendar year.

3) Give clients a discount if they sign retainers, or longer contracts. This ultimately means less sales cycle, and more profit for you.

4) Raise rates on clients based on how much you like the work. If you really don't enjoy working with one client, raise their rates until you can stomach the work. If you like a client... yeah cut them some slack.

5) Always know who your stakeholders are at a company, and make sure you send some nice thank you gifts this time of year. Even if it's just a card saying why you appreciate certain people on their team... letting those people know, and letting their bosses know... that buys you a lot of goodwill. 'Tis the season. (=
@Wazoox Toyota joined this fun with their performance line 'TRD' (Toyota Racing Development) which they add in large letters to vehicles in the US, and which many enthusiasts of competing vehicle brands consider a good description of Toyota vehicle racing capability
A list of Identicons-like (Avatars, Hash Visualization) ideas and libraries
InReach, and any users (other brands offering competing two-way communicators) of the Iridium satellite network, have ongoing fees. They're rather small compared to someone dying in the wilderness.
Equity compensation for open source projects
Hi all,

I wanted to get community opinion on one of the thoughts I had for a long time now. I am thinking of turning my startup (https://deskree.com) open source, but it is my internal belief that contributors should be compensated for their input. As an early stage startup, fiscal compensation is tough. However, I was think about some sort of equity compensation system based on the level of contribution.

What do you think about this idea? And what might the best way to measure the contribution against the stock options in such case?
Show HN: PortfolioPilot – intelligent portfolio management for every investor
Hey HN! I'm Alex, one of the co-founders at Global Predictions.

We are officially launching PortfolioPilot today! Since starting the company 2 years ago, we’ve been working tirelessly to build a personal portfolio management platform that empowers everyday people to feel more confident investing. We focused on aggregating your entire net worth, evaluating across a set of standardized metrics, and offering suggestions based on our commercial-grade Macro Insights & Recommendation Engine. We started by building a product we wanted to use and iterated and refined based on early user feedback. We now have almost a $1B on the platform, and incredible macroeconomic models that are helping thousands of people manage their investments independently.

Really proud of everything our team has accomplished, and we’ve put together this video to show off what we’ve built: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8vf6ozAK_s

If you haven’t already, sign-up for free at www.globalpredictions.com.

Please let me know what we can do to improve the product, we are really craving feedback as we head into the new year and decide what to focus on next!
Jaime Lannister, the character portrayed by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the hit show Game of Thrones, said it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WawVLChRYzg.

All kidding aside though, a COO is a role that basically compensates for the operational day-to-day part of the business (think budgeting, planning, etc.) as opposed to the strategic side (the direction the company is heading to).
I'm not the OP but to me the article did everything in its power to muddy the waters. It seems to try get me to feel bad for or even like someone who appears to have committed major crimes and lost billions of peoples money. If you didn't know anything about the situation and read this article you would think Sam did nothing wrong, is blameless, and just had some bad luck.

Not once did the article tackle the question of where did the money go or why is it okay for this persons company to misplace billion of dollars of customer money?
I ran into some with pinned, out of date, dependancies. Specifically cellery
Here's a browser written in pure Common Lisp: https://closure.common-lisp.dev/

These questions are so silly. Nobody's written a web-browser in Rust, Python, Ruby, Java, Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, Typescript, Javascript, etc. but that hasn't stopped anybody from using them.

Just admit you don't want to learn Lisp.
This is the strategy I use. I determine ahead of time how much money I want and distribute the hours such that it adds up, plus or minus a few here and there. It is all made up.
> Look directly at the blockchain, and instead find 49.4% of the addresses were in profit

But those addresses probably include most of the estimated 20% (or more) of Bitcoins that are lost (because they were usually lost when Bitcoin was less valuable).

In those cases the address hasn't lost money, but the person lost it all.
Is that the internet archive that archives everything except for his niece's dumb tweets?
For most cases I would not consider it the best option. However I have used bitcoin codebase based coins for transactions where the time-span was short enough that it was a reliable store of value. Reliable store of value really depends on how long you intend to hold it. Dollars are a terrible store of value over 100 years and decent over 2 years. Several crypto coins are a bad store of value over 1 week but a decent one over a couple hours.

There are certain circumstances where I think it may make sense for someone to pick an alternative currency; I'm not arguing it is superior to the rest of them.
This headline should be corrected to say that. Disappointed in Quanta for resorting to clickbait. It’s cool research even if it’s just fish!
Continuing the trend of all cars looking the same.
My "birthday" is January 1, 1970 (an homage to unix) for any database/system inappropriately asking. This way they don't have my data to leak or abuse, but I still know what I specified if I'm asked to verify it.
I don't understand this - are you implying that the only way to safely drive on highways is to always maintain a follow distance equal or greater to your stopping distance?

I don't think it's reasonable to prepare for the car in front of you to stop in place as though it had hit a brick wall. Instead, the safe follow distance is derived from the current speed and breaking power of the vehicle I'm operating and the vehichle that's behind me, and the distance to the vehichle behind me.
Past performance doesn’t guarantee anything, but it sure is a valuable tool for prediction. A 150 year track record means a lot more than a 10 year one.
Indeed.

Many of my best ideas have come to me in the shower, on a walk and even in the middle of the night.

It's ridiculous to say you should have a stopwatch with you at all times, so daily billing it is.

If they don't want to that, just assign 8 hours as a full day and stop worrying of you reach them or not.
I'm currently building a React Native app and I was wondering how much easier would it be to create a PWA that would live in a WebView inside a native app just so I could publish it in the App Store.
> Especially, who would be dumb enough to admit to being under 18

For websites that respect COPPA, under-13 might be your best bet for less targeting

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
Tech lay-offs teach us a lesson about the ‘war for talent’
I didn't know that this existed. It's very nice. The old documentation was really getting stale.
The great thing about Bitcoin is that it’s whatever the holder wants it to be, and nothing they don’t want it to be, while at the same time being the opposite of that to someone else, depending on what argument their trying to make and whether or not they’ve personally lost money.

Anytime someone speaks crypto to me now I feel like Adam Sandler floating past Clint Howard’s window in Little Nicky: I don’t want to be part of this, they don’t want me to be part of this, and all I can do is wish them luck while they tell me they don’t need it.
I think that's Jamie Lannister?
You have to mentally be 6 if you’re enjoying the garbage they’re chucking onto Disney+.
It's surprising that they didn't go for a more aerodynamically looking shape.
hey that's me! hope you received that email
I was excited about Lucid enough to buy a tiny bit of stock before the car came out. This change to a newer, more expensive model, is the exact opposite of their announced strategy of reducing price thorough successive iterations.

The Air Sapphire is a quarter of a million dollars. How is this company helping attract wide attention for affordable electric cars in America, where it produces them? I'm not thrilled.
The thought of going back to upwork gives me nightmares.