skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is rough. I'm sorry you've experienced this. I had a similar experience a few months ago interviewing with a profitable YC company with a multi-billion dollar valuation.

I would encourage you to think of the YC investment (or any investor's "stamp of approval") as an indication of a potentially successful return of capital for investors. Not a good company for you as an employee to achieve your goals.

Inherently, labor and capital are in conflict with each other. The things which make a company successful for the investors are usually not aligned to what makes it a great experience and outcome for the employee.

I did a retrospective on my journey interviewing at this YC company and my key insight was to evaluate the leadership, not the investors. The hiring manager was great. But after retrospectively vetting the CEO and leadership team, I came to the conclusion that they were really struggling with building a healthy business in a really competitive space.

As part of my retrospective I tried to take an analytical view of the competitive dynamics. It's pretty clear in the near term that the LowCode space I was looking at is going to face pressure from incumbents amidst a general re-pricing —

https://blog.devnos.com/posts/2022-12-20-lowcode/
Why not saving sources? Can save a great amount of time
It's a complete roulette based on the case worker assigned in my experience. I feel you; I also have very variable income and it's shocking how few programs can handle that. I also question how much of this is purposeful due to things like my having to write and mail in a paper check when I do pay for my Medicaid. It's 2022 and you only take money order or checks that physically arrive in the mail?! And my encounters with the MI UI system were just ridiculous.

Hope things work out for you. They need to get that sorted out, particularly for people who lived in Flint and were victimized by governmental incompetence and should be checked regularly for lead damage. (I was lucky and moved out of Flint in 2011. :| )
Ask HN: Plaid for Indian and APAC Banks?
Hi,

We're looking to build a verification service and wondering if anyone knows if there's a Plaid equivalent that supports Indian and APAC banks?

Thanks
This is just not how it works on the psychological level. Mathematically yes, but we are not machines.

Someone with a net worth of $1bn is not going to brazenly bet $500m because hey, who cares it’s only half my net worth. That’s ridiculous.

Just like this entire post and discussion. It’s a frustrated poor intellectuals self explanation for why they are unsuccessful.

It’s also the line of thinking that when taken to the extreme killed around 130m people in the 20th century.
Yes, but value is not created out of thin air, you need capital to create value, i.e. you need to be wealthy.

So you could extend the yard-sale model and include a rule that after each round, each $ will turn into $1.5 with some probability.

Guess what? Now the rich players can't just risk higher stakes in the coinflip games, they will also have more opportunity to introduce more money into the game through value creation.

So that would make the outcome even more extreme than the standard yard-sale model, not less.
> So to enable RDNA1, they'd need to ship RDNA1 code in all their libraries

RDNA1? more like 3 binary slices. Navi10 (5700 XT), Navi12 (AWS G4ad) and Navi14 (5500 XT) require separate binaries!

> I do believe that running oneAPI on AMD is possible, but it still needs HIP/ROCm?

Yes, HIP runtimes for AMD GPUs rely on an underlying HIP implementation.

> Wonder if it would be possible to bake a L0 backend for AMD

Yes. But why would anybody not named AMD do that? It's AMD's hardware so AMD has to support it. OSS/hobbyists can only do so much.

> Frankly I wish AMD and Intel just started working together more on this stuff

Why? AMD truly does not care about GPGPU APIs for the masses. For their management it's a useless additional expense so they haven't been doing it.

A chunk of the community has wanted to consider AMD as an NV alternative for this, but AMD are not selling the same product. They think that their gaming GPU line is gaming centred w/ often bare minimum support for other markets if any, while NV cares about a much wider audience.

That's how the market ended up with: Q3 2022 Discrete GPU Market Share Report: NVIDIA Gains 88% Market Share Hold, AMD Now at 8% Followed By Intel at 4%.
The BBC's In Our Time discussed Gatsby last year. The guests had a great comment: at the time the story in Gatsby was considered trashy and not worthy of a great novel. It would be as if a great modern author wrote a novel about the Kardashians. Today's readers don't have that problem and can enjoy the great writing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000r4tq
You must play through mistakes like they're not there, keep the rhythm with your foot and the melody line in your head. Also don't play the hardest stuff you just learned in recitals, play stuff you can do with your eyes closed while holding a conversation.

Brilliant life advice in general, keep your head in the game, carry on and maintain the flow.
If the data contains sensitive information about individuals (PII), you can't replicate that across all environments if you're in a regulated industry. There are ways to anonymize the data, eliminating the PII risks while preserving data utility so testing is accurate.
2-gram microscope illuminate how brain cells operate in freely moving mice
If you want to go the extra mile, you can report it at https://www.spamcop.net and other RBLs.
are you controlling for global life expectancy?
Because we're not installing solar farms and are installing rooftop solar in many locations because land is limited and expensive and roofs aren't? Not everywhere has large amounts of empty land waiting to be built on
Storytime! I used 750 word a lot about 10 years ago and then they lost all of my data somehow, it was my journal and I had used it to process some deep trauma. Losing it made me lose all faith in SaaS as a concept and since that moment I haven't kept anything important anywhere where I don't have access to the bits directly. It's probably kinda like self driving, maybe in reality data loss is really rare, but losing data when it wasn't your fault just feels so much worse. I imagine just like dying when your self driving car malfunctions, even if on average it kept you safer.
Good indicator of hyperbole FUD and marketing attempt: article headline begins with "<x> is dead"
The article argues for not ignoring the parts of reality you’re uncomfortable with. Good or bad is neither here nor there. The point is to not be constrained by having a skewed view of reality or by avoidant behavior.
Same. I tried to switch to iOS about a year ago, but I ended up returning the device after spending over $50 on highly-rated ad/script blockers for Safari, and finding that none of them really worked.

Back on Android, my daily life is blissfully bereft of ads, except when I visit somewhere with live TV. It's a shame, because Apple makes some great pieces of hardware, but I won't be back until they loosen up on controlling the software that I'm able to run on my devices.
Things that are technically necessary to facilitate functions requested by the user like shopping carts or login tokens are exempt under clause 22 of the ePrivacy directive.
Don't set any other cookies and you won't need to ask for consent.

Politicians aren't forcing websites to set more than the strictly necessary cookies, which require consent. It's marketing/advertising that does.
They exist, but they are more and more niche and hence pushed out into unattractive venues. I've been dancing salsa for 10+ years and I am more and more disappointed by the this. I want to go out and dance in a club where party vibes are in the air, where people have fun and show off. However, local salsa events in my area happen in schools, community halls, fitness studios, etc. If they have dim lights and decent AC, I call it a win.
My son is learning the piano and I cannot seem to teach him rhythm. Aside from the habit of stopping at every error (which bugs me to no end), he can hear a song once or twice and pick out the correct notes, but rhythm is still a mystery to him.

I learned rhythm so long ago (it was a core part of my elementary school music class before I ever started learning an instrument on my own) that I have no clue how to help him.
US stocks sink after strong data support further monetary tightening
"Tuition" is a bit nebulous for PhDs because most of your time is not actually spent doing coursework: my program had students take 4-5 classes the first year, and 2-3 more at some point in the next four years.

You were otherwise registered for placeholder courses like "Dissertation research" and expected to be full-time in the lab. There were plenty of educational opportunities (journal clubs, seminar series, the occasional workshop), but certainly nothing like a full undergrad course load.
They use that money to fund all the scholarships and expenses for the non-revenue sports.
As others have said tracking consent through the TOS is also not valid.

AFAIK the only legitimate way is "Do you want to be tracked? Yes/No".

If that means less ad based business models so be it (as far as the GDPR is concerned).

Maybe it even means the return of quality content.
To be fair back in the early 2000’s PHP was one of the best options.
A puzzle seems to be why some scientific fields fare better than others, in the face of the replication crisis. Why do we take Maxwell's Equations seriously? It means that replication, while important, is not the be-all and end-all of science research. There must be something else.
I would simply not use the title anywhere. If I got an interview or offer, I would point out the problem with the job title at that time.
Great comment, I agree with pretty much everything you said. I'm definitely going to steal the "Friday recital" idea.
Wait, who is saying “male/female differences in physical strength are entirely due to social factors”?
yes, it was always the point.

Microsoft was the main proponent and gave talks to every single government agency in the world in favour of it. never mentioning OIDC. while google was promoting it left and right to developers. also never mentioning OIDC. Only the open/decentralized parts.

it was the classical embrace, Extend, Extinguish play. By now a classical move of both Microsoft and Google.
Steve Woz said something in his book that always stuck with me: the younger generation is missing out on what it was like to grow up during a time where it was possible to grasp the entire machine in your mind.

People always chime in to say that you can still do that today. But back then the constraint was real; it was the best you had to work with, and it forced you to think of creative ways to use it and maximize it.

Anyway, super cool piece — thanks for sharing!
Does it matter that you lease it specifically from a corporation? I'm just going to guess that you are more interested in where any how you live than what the ownership model is of the place your living. For example given two properties in all ways equal except ownership models, you would take the corporate-owned one? I find that a bit far fetched.

Even then, because we typically lack experience with a variety of ownership models, it will be difficult to dis-entangle the familiarity bias from our conceptualizations.
Doctor is culturally a trademark
> your car needed to be "power cycled" on a regular basis just to keep it moving forward

you'd be surprised how often watchdogs get their GIGO conditions triggered and things perform a cleanup reboot while you drive
Not that this isn't dumb, but what he paid for was the customer base and the domain name, not the software. The software is cheap; acquiring the customers is not.

Rewriting software from scratch isn't cheap, either, especially if you're doing it at the same time as trying to keep the existing code base running. It's practically never a good idea.

But even if it were worth rewriting the software, it's still not what he paid for. He paid $44B because the software is so famous that we're talking about it here, and that would last even through a rewrite. (Assuming the rewrite was done correctly, which it usually isn't.)
I'm not saying induction can't replace gas for most applications, but they do gloss over some inconvenient things about gas stoves when they talk about boiling water 10x faster.

Gas stoves in the US have restrictions on their BTU outputs, even "high end" home models. These restrictions have been in place for a long time now. Once burner output starting being "eco friendly" this really killed the usefulness of gas in a home kitchen. It's a fashion statement and has been for a long time.

Not put it up against commercial gas appliances.. like the specifically mentioned using a wok.... Well they mention boiling water but totally neglected to advertise a BTU output. A high-end induction top is 40000-50000. Which is 3-5x of a home gas burner. Boiling water with the right pan you can get optimum heat transfer which, with the higher BTU explains the 10x speed up. Getting back to a wok, a gas wok burner will be 80000-120000 BTU. Yes, enough to heat an average sized house is what wok burners toss out. Because how you cook in a wok an induction can never achieve optimal heat transfer. Using the wok as a example, is a very poor one. Almost nobody is really cooking with a wok at home because you need to exhaust that much heat as well.

Over all I would agree, home gas stove are for posers.
You can self host a Gotify server (single file executable, web interface), install the app, set it to connect to the server on the local network. Sending a message is as easy as a curl to the server. It will show up in the apps.

https://gotify.net/

https://github.com/gotify/android

The problem is that there is no iOS app. You could use the browser there but maybe ntfy would be a better fit (Android + iOS.)
Google is making its internal video-blurring privacy tool open source
Yeah that's a really good point. Our microservices are like 30? 1000+ is intractable but up to 50 or even a 100 it's doable. We rely pretty heavily on AWS Cloudformation to deploy. All our services have Cloudformation templates. I'm sure Terraform would work too or be even better. Since every service knows how to deploy itself, building a preview environment wasn't too difficult. It's just a matter of stitching them all together, which was made a lot easier with Cloudformation nesting of stacks.
And for many purposes, still is.
We live in a world where high pay = status. Not ideal if you aspire the world to be more Meaningful or Spiritual or what have you, but this is reality.

And when in the United States alone the average salary hovers around $75K/yr, a 24 year old being able to command a near $150K base-salary (excluding bonuses) is in the eyes of many absolutely flying high.

Add to that Finance/Consulting/Professional Services eats/live/travels/dresses in a manner that is high status in our society and the jobs quickly becomes a status symbol and attracts those who are willing to sacrifice some amount of passion for status or material wealth.

It also is a field where it confers that wealth and status without Having to Know Someone or Be A Genetic Outlier In Physical Performance/Appearance.

Lastly, survive long enough and climb the ladder high enough and you start gaining Power. That wealth no longer buys you things but rather connections, access, and influence. Finance sits in close proximity to many powerful people in the world, and thus by proxy also gains status.

SWE/IT offers similar levels of wealth but unfortunately lacks that proximity to power (yet) and as a class of professionals seems to espouse cultural values that go against the ostentatious displays of wealth that the average person associates with high status. At the very least, no one is showing up to morning standups in a custom tailored suit.

Source: my social circle growing up mostly consisted of working class immigrant families. Getting into a T20 University and breaking into Wall Street was the very definition of Making It.
Why are acquihires difficult to do
Wow! Amazing. The code is not minified inside the XPI, which I greatly appreciate.

Thank you for the recommendation!
It should be "thinking in relational algebra but writing in C#". Arguable Linq with C# represent relational algebra better than SQL.
I am going to go with https://github.com/unoplatform/uno (cross-platform UI for anything from Linux/Windows/Mac on desktop, iOS/Android, or Web. Kind of like Flutter, just for C# devs.
It's the journey, not the destination.
To reduce mass incarceration, reduce violence
I recall not caring much for A Tale of Two Cities. I keep thinking I should try other Dickens like Bleak House. I do enjoy some other Victorian authors--at least the few best-regarded books I've tried like Wilkie Collins and Anthony Trollope.

I vaguely recall not liking Billy Bud in high school although I read Moby Dick as an adult and was mostly glad I worked my way through but it did take an effort.

I don't think I hated Catcher in the Rye at the time. It just didn't make much of an impression one way or the other.
When you send things using your gmail address, you still retain the IP rights to your material and property attached inside, but you also give Google a perpetual, unrestricted, non-exclusive right to that material, should it be looked at and deemed interesting.

The same thing probably applies to stuff made in this app by Apple.
Even dubstep surprisingly. Wobbly, groovy bass sounds (like a wheezy trumpet)
Amazon Sunsets Cloud Drive: What's Next?
> And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nothing beats a domain + website, then you can link all kinds of accounts there.
I mean, I don't really disagree with you. For sure, most all services have in the history of society been mostly, if not entirely, consumed by the rich. For most of society, most everyone has been poor. If you could afford fancy stonework on your house, if you could afford someone to make your bed, of course you were rich.

The past century has seen an explosion of wealth in the world, with many people coming out of extreme poverty, emergence of large middle class in the US, etc. So, the world has gotten a lot richer. But, what does it mean to be richer?

Some things seem relatively obvious -- people have bigger houses. They get to have things like fridges and vacuums. These are tangible goods, for which the cost has fallen in line with increasing specialization and automation.

I'm saying that I think it's interesting that while a richer world can purchase more goods, it can't necessarily purchase more services, since the cost of labor rises in a richer world. Basically, productivity has to increase for people to be able to purchase the services with the rising cost of labor.

I'm not really concerned with the things I mentioned going extinct -- it's not a huge deal if we don't have stonework on buildings in NYC, and indeed if we can build housing faster than before by way of automation, that's great. But many people have wondered "why can't we build beautiful buildings in NYC like they used to?" and I'm basically saying, I think rising cost of labor is the reason, and it's interesting that this goes hand in hand with becoming a richer society.
Show HN: Create a Children's book with AI – with illustrations
Hey together with wife we took part in AssemblyAI hackathon and although we didn't win we felt good enough about our inital MVP that we took it a bit further.

You can describe your characters and give a title and however long/detailed description you want, the gpt-3 will generate a children's story from it, dall-e will generate images. Images are postprocessed with stable-diffusion custom model (for stylisation) and that's the final result.

It's still early as it was done in about 2 weeks, but I count on your feedback.

I am software engineer and did basically all of the engineering work myself.

Feel free to ask question regarding implementation plans, etc. cannot wait to learn what you think. I'll appriciate any feedback.
The article is missing the best/worst named apple product. I'm in the camp of best. For sure its the ugly ducking, odd ball out, named unlike any other apple product.

Safari.

Like Explorer, Navigator before it, it invokes adventure and exploration. It doesn't mean anything per se in technical terms. It is however, a product.
I know I missed the footnote; still, the quote meaning is sill missing in the article meaning.
I agree, this is the type of bug where the test would not have been written until after the bug was found. When the bug gets found, the test will be written, the code will be updated and no one will touch it unless another bug gets found; rinse and repeat.

Just like it is hard to proof read your own papers, it is hard to write complete tests for your own code.
Put another way, it actually is important here that the set of colors we are talking about is finite. It's NOT the case that just having every finite subgraph be C-colorable entails that the entire graph is C-colorable, when C is infinite. For example, if G is the complete graph on an uncountable set of nodes and C is a countably infinite set, then every finite subgraph of G is C-colorable, but G itself is not.

So somewhere in the argument, the finiteness of C must play a role. This is in ensuring compactness.
Or if it needs code that’s paged out or all cores are thermal limited or the GPU hung. CPU time usually isn’t the limiting factor.
That's a really good point.

I think what made it quite easy for us is that we maintain a staging environment. Staging is constantly tested by QA simulating our workflows so non-production data is being constantly generated. When we spin up our preview environments, we use snapshots from the staging systems to seed the preview environments.

Your point on data though really gets to the crux of the problem. Deploying the services is trivial these days with k8s, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Docker, etc. but the data part is hard.
This is to some extent an implementation limitation, not a theoretical one.

Typical SQL databases support neither the data organization nor parallel orchestration features required to support these types of JOINs well. The practical issue is that you can't add these features to an existing database kernel architecture if it was not designed to make this feasible from day one, and people are rightly reluctant to design a new SQL database kernel architecture from scratch so that these features are available. SQL databases are trapped in a local minima.
Aspartame-induced anxiety and changes in GABA signaling and gene expression
The Commodore Automodem (Model 1650)
Pretty big hit today. Still not down to the pre pandemic value yet though.

I’ve heard people theorize that at some point the banks will sell off Musk’s collateral to secure what they can; I’m not familiar with those types of loans (not being rich enough) but if anyone here is I’d be curious if that’s even a possibility.
Back in the days of Mysql w/ MyISAM engine it was sometimes way faster on big data-sets and underpowered DB servers to do the query exactly this way. Even with all the correct indices in place the JOINs (especially if more than one table was in game) would often just freeze the server for 15-20 minutes, while joining data at the app level in the for loop and with the lookup tables for id-s would typically take only a few seconds. Obviously this is an obsolete hack for long time now...