skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to me how HN is awash in "GPT will destroy everything" posts, but the use of computers as persuasive technologies gets big yawns.
This is so cool. How long did it take you to get some of highly sought after photos?
> I’d ballpark the cost of that call at around $100/min in 1947 dollars.

Which turns out to be $1337 in 2022 dollars which seems appropriate.
> Paying for a car without financing

A cheque cheque (not sure what the right name for it is), not a cashiers cheque?
“Digital Vinyl” for Sonos Speakers
Yeah I mean when someone is happy and excited that they're going to get a job that pays $45 an hour then they probably won't care whether the employers know English or not.
I've seen it work well when practised by small, mature and highly independent teams. Where things start to fall apart is when management gets interested or heaven forbid, the company decides to spin off its own bastardized version of the process (often by bolting on the worst aspects of waterfall).
> And to be clear, premium prices are set at the registry (i.e. wholesale) level, not at the registrar (i.e. retail) level. That means that these names are premium at all registrars. Premium pricing is not unique to Google (either the registry or registrar); it's used by nearly all new gTLDs.

Does that money go to the registrar?
What, isn't Dentsu doing a good enough job?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentsu
https://bennuaine.com/

I was inspired by "do things that don't scale".

My business creates European hand-blown titanium crystal stemware for whisky and spirits.

This started as my quarantine project and has grown fairly rapidly relative to my expectations. The product is very expensive to produce because each glass is made entirely by hand in Europe but the results are pretty beautiful. It's not a golden ticket financially but it's very stable and healthy.

Most rewarding is the community of spirits enthusiasts and professionals who I've been able to connect with.
Aren’t the factorio solar panels propped up on little steel struts?
This thread has strong HN boomer vibes.
Why would I trust RAND on anything policy related? The last time we crossed paths, the woman who referred me for an interview had to move to Switzerland, and they made a show of hazing me. (The last interviewer literally said the words "Autistic people can't work for RAND")

They need to retool their insider threat program, at least the employees at SEI know how to lock down their devices :-)
Big Tech Corporations took over. When it was nonprofit and universities it was the Open Internet.
I find it fairly common for people that do not have US English as their first language to not use punctuation the way that I was taught in school. I do that too when I think the punctuation is wrong for what I'm conveying (especially . or , inside quotes, when quotes are a command). Non-native people commonly use quotation marks that I don't know how to produce with my keyboard, put $ after the number, etc. A space before a question mark is not unheard of.

The somewhat read flag is "kindly" (likely Indian?) with "Marc" (likely not Indian) but it's common for people with a name that's difficult for Americans to understand/spell to use an Americanized name.

Using an email address that doesn't match up with the company's well known domain name is a real problem. Suggesting payroll comes by something other than check or direct deposit is a red flag. Luckily, requesting money via wire transfer tipped this person off before things got real bad.
one-page computer

It seems smaller than that --- more like a business card. After all, the Z80's instruction set fits on one standard page too:

https://ia600604.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/1/...

More amusingly, the mascot looks like the Go gopher grew a few more appendages.
Relax

TX is about to start its legislative session and reps can suggest literally anything

This will never even make it to the debate floor
Thanks for the very interesting article. But man, is it filled with needlessly complex language.

> The upper gastrointestinal tract is well-endowed with taste and fat receptors, with sweet taste being detected, as elsewhere, by a heterodimer of the taste 1 receptor (T1R) family, T1R2/T1R3. These receptors have been localized to intestinal brush and enteroendocrine cells, and are coupled with α-gustducin as the α-subunit of the G protein (Fig. 1). They recognize sugars, d-amino acids, sweet proteins, and artificial sweeteners. Of importance to a possible role in the incretin response, these receptors are colocalized with glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) and L cells containing peptide YY (PYY) and K cells containing glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) (3). Incidentally, fatty acid responsive GPRs are also coupled to GLP-1 release, but are found predominantly in the colon (5).

Can be restated in plain English: Cells in the GI tract between one's mouth and duodenum have similar sweet taste receptors - T1R. Some of these cells are endocrine and store GLP-1, PYY, and GIP (incretin) messenger hormones.

For context, messenger hormones cause changes in cells receptive to them, including the nervous system. Indirectly, these hormones can affect metabolism and feeling of hunger or fullness (this is not in the paper but is known).

The paper then discusses inconsistent (but meaningful) evidence for sweet taste receptors influencing the messenger hormone release and insulin-glycemia response. Notably, the author suggests sucralose sweeteners consumed before carbohydrates might spike postprandial (after-meal) blood sugar and insulin response. However, the extent of this effect could depend on an individual's genetics. The link between messenger hormone release and sweet taste receptors is established because this effect is diminished in vivo in mice lacking specific sweet taste receptors.
>That said, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE are especially problematic for Iranian leaders because Iran's official sect of Islam is opposed to that of those countries.

Ah yes, I keep forgetting about the whole Sunni/Shia (sp?) thing. (One of the many fun things I've mostly discussed verbally)
What we need is for workers to control the means of production so that eventually one guy can become the king and rule by decree.
I know what Mojahedin-e-Khalq is.

(I'm childfree in the "listens to a lot of crystal method" sense, but you run into all sorts.)
Are there screenshots
It's the precise opposite of an ignorant opinion; it's in fact rather well-informed from myself being a former employee of a law enforcement agency. You can parrot copaganda pamphlets all you like, but the idea that police are always the good guys and only spy on the public for the public's good is dangerously naive.
If some random user joins my E2EE groupchat, yes, my expectation is that some unknown actor is now reading my messages... It would be no different than some rando getting added to a Signal group. At least in the groups I'm in, that would cause a flurry of messages asking who they are and who added them.
In the U.S., a lot of places that take payments, including state and county government, only take credit card payments through processors that charge additional fees. I've seen as high as 5% with a $50 minimum. But if you pay with a check, no extra charge.
I know what you mean.

However, you can't expect a company to tie up a support person for 48 hours on their screen and you get back to them 2 days later, that is ridiculous.

Where is that line drawn that is not too short and not too long? I don't know, but there has to be a line.

I do think it is my responsibility to continually check my screen to see if there's been an answer to my last message. There are two sides and both must be responsible actors. I think 5 minutes is plenty of time, for example. As the saying goes, "You snooze, you lose."

And it has happened to me and everyone else, of course. BUT, and here is the cool thing - when I get back on the chat, I just say that I was chatting and got distracted...but then the tech support person can go review the notes and quickly get up to speed on the conversation.

I love chat.
There are plenty of cities near the desert to suck up the power without ultra high power transmission. Like phoenix, Vegas, LA…I’m guessing all those opportunities will be soaked up before they start putting them in them in the middle of nowhere.
To put into perspective how scary that is, we have to remember that the Japanese government had hired (paid with our taxes) a troll farm to influence Twitter users before the 2021 elections. When the scandal was unveiled the Twitter account name went famous: "Dappi" (actually it was only one of the many accounts of this propaganda).

In particular, it was depicting leftist politicians as corrupted, weak, encouraging insults towards them, etc.

So, it may seem to you "just fair" that the Japanese government develops such techniques as a response to China and Russia doing the same, but here there is the knowledge that the Japanese government, under LDP rule (center-right to far-right), already have used these kind of weapons against its own population in the recent past.
Shhhh, you're giving away our industry secrets!

No no, everyone hoping to make games should continue to spend years hunting for shortcuts. That one elusive art style which is easy to make and requires no art direction.
You’re making a very black and white assertion about something that seems quite obvious: that there’s a grey area to communication, especially between people with different expectations, communication styles, etc. I don’t think you’re entitled to an example after being so reductive about the topic.
I still miss Cat Spanish (by CatAcademy), it was such a niche yet effective way to learn a foreign language.
Sprints are bullshit, so people use this method to work around this. It's actually kanban implemented over Scrum.

It's just too common for a task to turn into an "epic" mid-sprint. I only see value in sprints as regular checkpoints but the expectation that all tasks are finished after 2 weeks is just contrary to reality of software development in large organisations.
A personal check

(US American spelling)
Local contractors (at least in the Bay Area) take Venmo or Zelle nowdays. Lawyers too.
Well, that just depends on the programming book? If you pick up TLPI it will talk about stat and inodes. Pick up a book on perf, it will talk about syscall overhead, etc
> This conversation is locked

Says all you need to know. They are going to shove this down people's throats, whether they like it or not. Maybe not now, but it's coming. It's kind of disgusting how they talk about this change so matter of fact, as if Chrome is the only choice that people have.
> Great comment, I’ll add there’s a MacVim-like GUI wrapper but for Neovim called VimR that i really like.

Thanks for pointing this out. One thing I like is being able to command tab in MacOS -- if you have multiple terminal windows it breaks that, so any kind of GUI wrapper, even if it's basically just a glorified replication of the terminal app, is useful from a usability perspective. (To me at least)

That's how I originally moved from vim to MacVim -- I wanted terminal for sysadmin stuff, something like Sublime for coding, TexMaker for LaTeX (because it's it's own beast), and so on and so forth.
That sounds rather misanthropic.

I don't want touchscreens in a car. I don't want my UI to change. That doesn't change the fact that many people do. Companies build for what customers want, not what engineers want. And even then, many (maybe even most) engineers would align with the average customer.
I've never written or deposited a cheque; I don't know that I've even seen one. But checks are alive and well in the US. Contractors like them, I've written them to myself to transfer money between accounts when electronic transfer restrictions are too painful, etc.

You may as well start spelling it the US way, because we'll still be using them ;)
s/antiquated/acquainted/ - probably just a spelling error that was autocorrected to the wrong word.
Changes to the USA/Canada border at the southern end of Alaska
Not losing anything but coming this close to getting scammed can feel very embarrassing. Thank you for putting this up to warn others. I can tell from the intro that you still feel duped. Yeah, it seems obvious in retrospect, but it really is very understandable. We want to believe it’s true so badly that we’re willing to look past all the red flags.
Ugh, no offense but I'll skip neovide then -- I hate stuff that does the crap GIMP does where it doesn't blend in with the rest of macOS
Thanks. I read the overview and what looked like the lack of support for existing CSS framework and stylesheets prompted my question.

Unless I'm misunderstanding how CSS support works here, I think this is a deal breaker for me at the moment. Being able to include external stylesheets/frameworks is something of a must have.

Appreciate it is Alpha level software so look forward to learning how the project evolves.
Ask HN: YouTube channels like Ben Eater but for CS, programming and math?
I like that Ben Eater's videos are not some popular tech video. They actually teach something with great care and detail. He uses pen paper explanations and not slide presentations.

The moving hand and pen paper feedback seems better to me for the same reason a chalk and blackboard wins anyday to me.

Are there similar channels in the domains of CS, programming and math?

I am interested in these 3 subjects. But if you have a favourite from some other subject which you think people should know of then go ahead share that too. I sometimes watch in depth physics or bio videos.

I like the in-depth part and without slide mayhem (that people now call education). Animation is all good if used appropriately like 3blue1brown.
It's not bad grammar. It's just not American English.
There are so many layers to the comparison. I couldn't pass it up.
Why would it matter how thick it is? Isn’t it the surface area that the contents are in contact with, not the depth of the wall?
Some fantastic points summarised from various people under section 2 of this: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-co...
I thought you were talking about this one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag...
Did something dramatic happen?
Dutch West India Co. and colonial wars over Caribbean islands, mostly.

There's also an argument to be made that, in addition to cotton, the sugar trade contributed to the intense economic incentive for American slavery, leading to the American Civil War; that argument is weaker, however, since sugar wasn't as important as cotton to the South at large and since (to my knowledge) there wasn't a large consolidated commercial enterprise like DWIC for sugar (or Chiquita for bananas and the banana wars).
What kind of embedded projects have you made in your personal time before? I'm a backend engineer and I like to build embedded stuff as well for fun. What are some differences between your two jobs? Do you think embedded stuff will get boring at some point where your hobby becomes a chore?
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

Here is the url for reference if anyone wants to look at it
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

It doesn't look to me like there is anything holding them back from loaning as much money as they want regardless of the risk now.
Please feel free to replace my example any other recurring cost. Your Netflix subscription, the cost of an IKON pass, your car's yearly registration.

The analogy is, of course, not the point here.
I prefer

not_sent = users - {u for u in users if send_welcome_email(u)}
We've been experimenting with SD and results are quite underwhelming. DALLE2 seems a lot more usable. Any reason why most are sticking with SD? (If that assumption is true)
It could be a solution. Lipids should be pretty stable in acids. It would be interesting to see a comment from someone interested in chemistry.
Do you trust any work related email sent to you using a gmail account? Cause I absolutely don't. I work in a very very tiny startup and even this guy sent me the acceptance mail through his company site.
See also "Python Distilled" by this author (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/python-distilled/978013...) — this pragmatic guide provides a concise narrative related to fundamental programming topics such as data abstraction, control flow, program structure, functions, objects, and modules
I write a check to my landlady every month and deposit it in her account. It's the most straightforward way to pay rent in this particular case.
So you sold methodologies to companies as a process expert and none of them ever hold up? Maybe you reached the wrong conclusion after all.
Another trick you can do is when you find a composition you like, but it's off in whatever way, is lock down that seed, and then apply variation to that initial noise state, and produce a bunch more images from there.

The popular AUTOMATIC1111 webui implements it: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...
I think there was an update either at google or firefox recently because a ton of websites have started behaving like this for me seemingly out of the blue.
Back in 2005, I remember working on startups running on Scrum principles. It worked well at the time, we where able to ship, grow the team, and move forward with a nice few-features-per-week cadence, working remotely, on a small team; less than 10. Tt always worked fine, but very centralized and slow, as all-things-dev were at the time.

I worked with ActiveColab in 2007, Skype 2007, Yammer 2009, Trello 2011, Pivotal Tracker 2013, Trello 2016, Confluence 2022, Slack 2013, Google Meet, and sometimes I think, scrum became _less-relevant_ over the years as more advanced product management tools became the norm and the product manager role matured by leveraging them.

These days, it's not rare to see lead developers manage kanban-like boards very effectively, releasing on time, with grace, without the need of a scrum master to coordinate efforts.

I do like asynchronous scrum daily standups using http://geekbot.com on slack, when on-site or/and distributed and doing sprints. I seen this work well on startups going from pre-seed to series B.

Personally, I am fascinated with team dynamics and how they've changed over the years. We are definitely living the best of times as a developer and I still see sparkles of well-applied scrum every now and then that works nicely.
Scrum is the bane of my existence as a developer. It sucks all creativity and enjoyment out of software development, and replaces it with anxiety, shame and mountains of tech debt. And don't get me started on the velocity metric that so many managers can't seem to live without (see Goodheart's Law). For whatever reason, I'm 10x more productive when I have the autonomy to bounce ideas off my team and proceed in the best way I see fit.
The Ukraine debate is I think the one example I think you can come up with, and something like 50% of conservatives are on the same page as liberals on Ukraine.
Here's a question, where you are, does "Direct Debit" exist?

In the UK and here in Australia, when I set up a utility account I get a message saying "why not set up a direct debit?", which means that a transfer goes straight from my account to theirs at the alotted time each month, for the amount of the bill.

You get your usual bill usually a week or two before the debit goes out so you can make sure it's OK well before the transfer, and the debit process is guaranteed to return the money to you in case of a dispute. You can go into your online banking app and cancel any/all direct debit authorisations whenever you like.
Usually big companies such as Discord give perks to the bug hunters who find bugs. Apparently Apple doesn't have that. There are probably people at Apple who won't admit that they have bugs, when every operating system has bugs, the code is too big to not create a single bug or exploit.
I'm using a language with easier data parsing this year and so far I'm having a much better time (I'm also more time poor and these exercises fit in pretty nicely to a bit of after dinner free time).
One thing about Duolingo is that it’s very easy to spend very little time on it. It will cheerfully tell you how awesome you are, when you’re spending 5-10 minutes a day.

When I did 30-60 minutes a day for a few months (I did Spanish, then Portuguese, then switched to Memrise because it had European Portuguese), that seemed to lay a decent foundation. Conversationally, I was hopeless for a few days, but I learned quickly (unlike when I went to Mexico without having done Duo). I don’t think there’s any substitute for being thrown a curveball or two by a real person and having to muddle through.

Meanwhile, here are CIA estimates for time to reach professional working proficiency. 600 hours for Spanish or French, up to 2200 for Japanese or Arabic. https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/. Just gotta wait for that 3000 day streak!
> Is it so hard to imagine a world where .com is no longer the default, and companies/individuals have to pay exorbitant monopoly prices to some gatekeeper?

.com is not a requirement. Companies use non-standard TLDs everywhere. .com is still the default, but you would do just fine with other TLDs, and if some gatekeeper arrived this would only strengthen the argument as businesses would flock to lesser known TLDs.

Of all of the things I worry about regarding computing, the internet, etc., domains does not make the list.
I used this in AoC for the first time a couple of years ago, as a consequence of diving deeply into asyncio. https://explog.in/static/aoc2019/AoC23.html
Ah, okay yeah that would be really good. It’s hard to find time to hang out with a native speaker if you aren’t already in that country. Maybe this is already possible with ChatGPT?
You might. Most people won't, especially not with how easily it can give you a wrong answer.

(I am extremely bullish on probabilistic productivity tools)
Bizarrely, ants were attracted to our Tesla power connector on our previous car. We googled it and it was a common problem, ants seem to love electricity.
> Gmail doesn't charge me $850/year for an email address, but somehow they managed to avoid people squatting thousands of addresses and selling them on the after-market at an exorbitant markup,

They don’t charge you for Gmail addresses, yes this is true, but there is definitely a thriving aftermarket for people squatting on desirable “OG” email addresses and user names, just as an example -> https://www.playerup.com/accounts/gmailogusername/

Clearly $850/yr is a price people are willing to pay, since there are plenty of great premium names unavailable at these TLDs. Greed or not, people are complaining here about the fact they own hundreds of other names and don’t see these kind of prices, but to me the economics seem pretty straight forward. They just happened to price these domains better than other registrars in my opinion…
How is twitter intending to use libsignal? I doubt it would be via the primary AGPL license[1], forcing them to publish the source code of their backend service. Does signal sell private licenses?

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal/blob/main/LICENSE
The point is to develop good intuitions for how large language models behave. If someone can develop a differentiable script runner that would be great! But the intuition about how the language model is behaving is useful for more than this specific problem.
This is the place. And you're already here!
Watch Tesla add a boot washer instead of modifying cab layout dramatically!
That is the place Rust is for me, regarding the use cases I still care to reach out to C++, outside of compiled languages with automatic memory management.

If I do them in Rust, I would need to build from scratch and I rather not, as that isn't my focus.

Besides F#, there are also Haskell, Scala, Kotlin.

Java and C# are also getting there, even if a bit slowly, and compromised by backwards compatibility.
Corporate America has a major over-efficiency problem