skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I write content that helps people move to Germany. Plain and simple.

My last corporate programmer job was harder to describe. I make computers do what people want them to. I turn people's needs into software they can use. Concretely, I helped computers read and understand PDF invoices.
Writing HTML in HTML (2019)
Usually the lawyers get a bunch and you get a coupon for a free month of Instagram
GraphicAudio provides an alternative audio production for most of them.
I’m sorry, I thought that by “we” you were referring to a group of people including yourself (first person plural), not, in fact, “most people”, whom you seem to believe are naive and uninformed, a belief that is probably correct. Unless you were?

EDIT (replying to your edit): They are neither cheating nor exploiting any loophole. At least in the U.S., there is no limit to the total compensation that a non-profit corporation may pay to its officers. The law refers to “reasonable” compensation, which of course is meaningless. In 2019 there were so many officers of “charitable” corporations earning more than a million dollars annually that the IRS instituted an excise tax on their earnings (21% I think).
There was a trend around 3 years ago, where every uber driver that asked about what i do for a living, then asked me how costly would it be for me to build them a smaller version of the platform.

I don't get that question much today.
Also one needs to keep in mind that many startup "successes" are actually either negative or neutral outcomes. I know several "acquisitions" where the end result was investors making negative returns (receiving back pennies-on-the-dollar, if anything.) Meanwhile, the former CEO gets a cushy job as an advisor at the new place, announcements all over social media, etc. The actual companies barely had any revenue.
Nix is one thing, but going all-in on NixOS would have been better.

NixOS is a more ideal fit for a “steam OS fork”, frankly, than Arch, other than the fact that “Steam on NixOS native” only runs 1/3 of the games in my (large) library that “Steam on Flatpak on NixOS” does (and I wish I had time to help get it there, but I have an 18 month old kid who consumes all available time and energy!)
Thank you for the reference!

> What makes the technique useless for your reading/browsing experience?

It is entirely a matter of personal preference; I tend to read very quickly, and long complex sentences laden with parentheticals are more enjoyable than obstacular.
Here are the ~thousand feeds I subscribe to formatted in HTML with links to the site and the RSS feed: http://superkuh.com/feeds9.html

Here are the ~thousand feeds I subscribe to formatted in opml for direct import into feed readers: http://superkuh.com/2022-11-04-feedlist.opml
I don’t see that working across cities/countries. Lyft/Uber have a powerful network effect in that with one app you can get a cab in nearly every major city in the world
Does it matter if I want my laptop to sleep properly? Somehow it works properly on Windows.
LOL, just was submitting the same link and got here. Was too late to publish first)

Anyway, I'm one of the authors - the other one published the blog post on medium. Hope this will give you some Christmas mood :)
shipping 600k books to individual backers is a massive undertaking without writing, editing, publishing, and other merchandise.
Serious. I found donating blood to have been a bit of a mistake, the bastards just won't stop calling asking for more.
Because TikTok is a Chinese company? There is precedence of American companies not allowed to operate in China. Why pretend to be surprise?

> this is unfair because the US is pursuing its own narrow internal interests in Ukraine

So narrow that Ukraine president decided to come visit to rally support?
Honestly, I think Agenda [1] had a brilliant take on this - a free version with baseline features, and a continual improvement of "Pro" features. Pay for it once, get all the current pro features plus whatever they release as pro in the next year. Then your feature set freezes at that level, and whenever you feel like they've added something worth the pro price point, you pay for the catch-up and another year.

They get to maintain one version of the app, with a reasonable number of feature flags, and users get to pay when something adds value.

[1] https://agenda.com/
Twitter’s new view counts for tweets offer measurement without meaning
Goldman offers more services through Apple as it revamps consumer-banking
it reminds me a little bit of the thousand brains theory from Numenta. we'll see what they turn out in the future. i think philosophically they're a closer match to minsky.
The OP didn't genuinely ask any questions, they simply mischaracterised the banners that are on Wikipedia at the moment. I'm not the only person in this thread that seems to be having a hard time finding one that's implying Wikipedia could shut down at any moment.

"Yes the criticism is wrong, but that's your fault for not informing the critics" is absolutely victim blaming.
Well I tried it and ed9b544e... is god awful, documentation has so many typos. God file 'redis.c' with 3k lines having even commented out code and some comments that I would not pass my code review.

But I love it and it is great recommendation.

Going to move with commits to see how it unfolds :)
I think the BS-generation problem with ChatGPT goes far deeper than citing sources, for a variety of reasons.

1) It's not a search engine, even if it behaves a bit like one. It's not "retrieving answers" to your questions (from sources that it could choose to cite). ChatGPT is really just a "language model", so it has no notion that what you're typing is even a question/query .. your input is just treated as sequence of words (which ChatGPT has zero understanding of), with ChatGPT's response then being a further sequence of words that it has calculated are (one) statistically probable continuation of what you typed (you can keep asking it for alternative answers, and it'll continue generating additional alternative statistically probable continuations).

The websites/etc that ChatGPT was trained on are just sources of language that it consumed in order to learn the statistics that let it make these continuation predictions. It's not memorizing "facts" from websites, just word statistics, and these are mixed in with the statistics from all the other sources it was trained on. If it generates the word "walk" as part of a response, it can't cite a source for that since there essentially is none - only a bazillion text sources it was trained on that collectively made the word "walk" a high probability continuation on the words it had generated leading up to that...

2) Even if ChatGPT had been designed to deal in "facts" (rather that words statistics) associated with specific sources, the bullshit problem isn't just knowing the varied reliability of the sources it was trained on, but how those "facts" are combined. To combine multiple facts and correctly deduce something new from them would require intelligence, but ChatGPT doesn't have any intelligence - it's just a statistical word generator, so the way it combines snippets from different sources is again just statistical word generation, with zero knowledge of the meaning of the words it is generating or whether it makes sense!

What makes ChatGPT seem semi-intelligent is that a lot of what it was trained on was text written by semi-intelligent humans, so the "sequence of words" it is generating, following the statistics of human speech, seems like something a human might say... until you start paying attention to the meaning of the words and realize it's often good-sounding garbage.
My Lenovo Legion laptop gets an hour and a half more battery life on PopOS than Windows 11 for casual uses (gaming is about the same but I don't do that on battery). No tweaking or arcane config needed, this is just a plain, regular out of the box experience from a fresh Linux install. If I boot Windows, it will randomly lose the correct time while sleeping and sometimes power itself off. No amount of BIOS or Windows tweaking has resolved it. On the Steam Deck side, Linux sleep seems to work perfectly, I never experience the device struggling to wake from sleep or restore itself and it doesn't drain the battery over night on a whim either. OTOH my wife's Surface laptop with Windows seems pretty great too.

In my experience, if it's not made by Apple you can't trust it to handle power management without hands on experience to prove it first.
Early Forms of Interactive TV
You can. But did they?
Show HN: Play 20 Questions with ChatGPT
Hi HN, I've been having a lot of fun with ChatGPT over the last couple of weeks and wanted to build a game with it.

This is my first game, but I collaborated with a friend on the design and visuals (he owns a successful gaming company called FrostyPop).

We chose 20 questions because ChatGPT is amazing at confabulating mostly correct answers to just about any question you can come up with. In development I was testing the phrase 'ship in a bottle', and asked ChatGPT how big it was, and it responded "Small enough to fit on a shelf, but large enough to sail the seven seas!" That's what convinced me it could be a cool game!

Cheers!
I was just thinking about how much world-class content is available between podcasts and email newsletters, and it's all free. Whereas if you wanted to say, read an article on the web from the same sources, you're looking at a huge paywall. The "podcast app" market is heavily saturated with many great competitors. Yet the "newsletter reader app" just...doesn't exist? I'm stuck using iOS Mail with its lack of reading options, no saving my place or otherwise bookmarking. I just can't believe nobody's made something to fill in this need?
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this is like saying why does rich people get to have their own maids and butlers so they never have to do any housework, and effectively double their time in a day.

at the end of the day, everyone has a boss and Elon's is the general public. his stock is tanking. while you can say it's not the same as being fired as a regular employee (and it's not), he doesn't 'get to do that'
YOU are 100 percent correct.

Generally speaking when Google prevents and limits what end users can control -- the offending product gets worse and eventually dropped.
Potential theory: riders get kicked off of Uber for poor reviews and are forced to accept Lyft's 2nd tier pay?
Very neat. Nice to see more free and easy p2p stuff. Getting a p2p video/audio/screen share application going is definitely a lot less work than it once was. https://teamvideo.app/

webRTC stuff has a ton of cool potential for p2p projects, hopefully more and more of it starts cropping up.
Question Answering Using GPT Embeddings
Libro.fm is another good one, I use it exclusively instead of Audible and they give some (undisclosed and probably very small) portion of profits to your local bookstore. Sanderson's books are available there.
> Pro tip: you can add “/feed” to any Substack publication to subscribe to its RSS feed

For most readers you can just paste the main URL or the URL of any article and it will autodiscover tehe feed without any URL futzing required.
Depending on what is comsidered tact my statement could be hyperbolic. It is important to encourage others and stating the good as well as the bad is important. Though negative reinforcement must be unflagging to be effective, and positive reinforcement must be irregular to be most effective. At least that is what cogsci taught a couple decades ago.

But phrasing criticism unemotionally and directing it toward the decision or product instead of a person, isn't what I'd call tact, it is just standard politeness. It isn't manipulative so much as precise. The decision is what you want to change.

On the other hand, saying nice things to spare feelings without any actual intent to encourage specific behavior is dishonest and manipulative even if well intentioned. In extreme cases it can even turn into gaslighting where you gloss over problems and they think they are doing fine when they aren't. That sort of tact is toxic.
You may feel differently in a couple of years, and if you do, consider a business with tangible goods or in-person services, where you see immediate results. It's unlikely it will have the growth of a tech startup, but you will get some satisfaction with every product/service you deliver.

I've been bouncing between writing code and work-with-your-hands type startups for 16 years and it has kept me (arguably) sane.
I built a side project recently to help with this. It searches Google, then feeds the relevant results from the pages into GPT-3 to get a summary. It seems to be accurate so far in my testing - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/researcher .
I think the short answer to your question is yes.

You still have to be able to hook up few wires and you'll need to be able to power your LEDs and understand your power needs there, but the live compilation in web based development platform (that's served by the device, no cloud) makes it really ideal for rapid prototyping and getting up and running quickly. No fussing with Arduino IDE or compile times. It's one of those things that "just works".

If you want to see it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMKltz8ji0k
If you're on a Mac or iOS, NetNewsWire can fetch and extract the whole article for an individual item, or you can set it to automatically do it for an entire feed: https://netnewswire.com/help/mac/5.1/en/reader-view
no, you should make it impossible for apps to track users like this.

if not, a new app will pop up and do the same.
So why is there no RSS feed link on the Neiman Lab page?
> The sweet number is somewhere around 6 to 8 people in an average high-speed connection.

Based on mesh architecture WebRTC, so unfortunately not really an option for anything but small calls. WebRTC is fun, but in the end, someone has to do the encoding, and w/ mesh, the client pays the price.
Great recommendations; a couple i had not come across.

>Understanding Microprocessors (Motorola)

>Dissecting DOS

Can you share or point me to where i can get the above from?
There wasn’t historically a C “platform” in the sense you describe it here due to C’s age. Rust built itself around a single “platform“ because Rust was built in the 21st century. (Python and Ruby didn’t have “platforms” either, but they had uncommonly useful standard libraries.)
This reminds me of a good principle I try to come back to:

If the way things are before was better, why did we end in the place we are now? If the answer is 'no explanation' then it's this explanation, or alternative, which is bad.

In other words, if we rewound things back to where things were before Lyft... then we would expect them to end up in the same place they are now, [now-then] years later. It would just be a replay.

Now it's different if things changed: if computing power got 100x more expensive, okay, taxi companies might come back in style and win in a replay.

But failing that? Evidently people prefer Lyft & Uber to taxi companies: because the world was once [large percentage] taxi companies vs. [tiny percentage] ridesharing, and now it's the other way around, post-competition.

Note: to get to the author's preferred outcome, just assume a non-Lyft non-Uber low-cost ridesharing company. That seems like the best way to get to that point, without swimming against the tide of history.
Pope warns Vatican staff an ‘elegant demon’ lurks among them
A little tangential to this but my favorite drawing program for sketching, Mischief, did this perfectly for art. Sadly the company shutdown and there are no more updates.
Aren’t you depreciating your car by more than you’re saving in taxes this way?
oh thank god there are diffs.
> or how to mitigate some of the security downfalls.

I think I'd go further, there are places where it advocates downright unsafe practices. Eg. It's been a long time, but I thought I remember it introducing gets() unironically, without any caveat. For those that do not know, there is no safe use of that interface possible.
Pretty sure you have no idea what that word means.
It's all relative isn't it? Singapore is a tax dodge, but I would't characterize low corporate income taxes as a tax dodge. How does one get money out of a corporation if not via marginal personal income tax rates?
> It absolutely is [rent-seeking].

I agree, and I haven’t argued against that anywhere in this thread. You seem to have missed my point entirely. The part you’re not addressing is that copying others’ work is also rent-seeking, it’s trying to take value for yourself that someone else created.

> For five to ten years

So you’re okay with rent seeking for authors for a certain period of time. Good, we agree there. Now, how did you come up with five to ten years? What justifies that term? Does it work for all creators? How do you know?
(not sarcasm, geniunely interested)

What prevents anyone from building a company that gives authors 50% or even 75% cut? From the technical standpoint, an app to download/listen for audio is not a big feat. One may host and serve audio files via any Bandwidth Alliance[1] CDN and keep the bill quite low, it is just audio, in the end. I'd say, a viable prototype is just a couple of months of work for a team of two-three people with day jobs.

[1]https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
> What is an indie business?

Mostly video courses, job board websites, affiliate link hustles.
Looks cool. Usually, when needing something like this, I use Jitsi Meet but having options is nice.
I guess we will never know hehe
How many concurrent users can it support on a single cheap nodejs server? Or is the client the bottleneck?
I think this article is "directionally correct", but wrong (or at least misleading) about some key details.

> Instead, Bankman-Fried’s parents promised to pledge their Palo Alto, California, home as collateral. The Palo Alto home is rumored to be worth $4 million. And that is the full extent of the collateral pledged to guarantee the $250 million bond. No other collateral was posted or promised.

The first couple sentences are true: his parents have agreed to convey title to their ~$4M Palo Alto house to the court as partial guarantee of the $250M bond. But I think the last sentence is contradicted by the actual bond agreement:

"2 non-parent sureties to sign bonds in lesser amounts to be agreed to"

This is in all-caps at the middle of page 5 of https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59.... Which is to say, at least according to the published agreement, it is not true that "no other collateral was posted or agreed to".

> Yes, you read that right. Bankman-Fried walked out of court a free man by signing a piece of paper where he promised to pay the court $250 million if he decides to flee to another country with no extradition.

It is true that this is all that Sam did, but it intentionally fails to mention that 3 (or perhaps four?) additional people have also signed up for the same agreement to be responsible for the gigantic (potentially non-collectible?) amount should Sam disappear. Presumably the hope is that they are able to apply social pressure to keep him from disappearing.

Given that much of the failure of FTX related to overvaluing of collateral, the irony is definitely strong. But I think we should still try to be accurate when pointing out the apparent absurdities. Further corrections of course appreciated if I'm wrong about these corrections.

Edit: dragonwriter points out below that the "2 non-parent sureties" are likely just additional signed surety bonds, and thus the article is probably correct the "no other collateral was posted or agreed to".
What book would you suggest to someone who started with the K&R 2nd ed, then did other things, and now wants to catch up on the more modern C standards, at least the more widely supported ones?
Spending time on social media platforms like Twitter, ProductHunt, and IndieHacker can often have negative effects on mental health, as seeing others' successes and high earnings can cause feelings of toxic jealousy and comparison.

To improve mental health, it may be beneficial for the author to reduce their time on these platforms and focus on practical tasks such as talking to customers, finding new customers, and developing their product. These actions can lead to a more fulfilling and balanced life.

If the author feels that quitting these social media platforms entirely is the best decision for their mental health, that is a valid choice. Alternatively, the author may find it more mentally healthy to transition from being a solo entrepreneur to an employee with a stable monthly paycheck. Ultimately, the goal is to find a path that leads to greater happiness and well-being.
This is a really pathetic attempt at an attack. The person behind that Twitter thread needs to get a life.

“He’s standing in front of a blackboard but he’s not even that smart” is what this boils down to.
Reading 2k+ commits is a big waste of time.

Forcing yourself to read every commit to a project you "like" in order contribute to it is putting the cart before the horse. Just because you "like" a project doesn't mean you will have the skills to contribute usefully to it. This isn't a bad thing. I "like" GCC, but I don't have the skills to contribute to it. I'm not losing any sleep over this, and I'm definitely not thinking about reading every commit to GCC in chronological order.

If you use a project, you might find a bug or some deficiency in it. Then it might happen that you have the skills to quickly fix this problem. Either that, or this bug causes you so many problems or slows you down so much that it becomes worth it for you to develop the skills to fix the problem.
> they just decided to track journalists for fun with no-one telling them to?

That's not what I suggested in the slightest. Stop lying.

> seems pretty unlikely to me.

Sure, because I imagine they didn't just do it for fun. But that doesn't mean a more senior person has to be involved.

Back it up with evidence. Your feelings are worthless. I'm right, and you are wrong.
Thanks for explaining. So if he skips they ruin his parents for whatever they can get up to $250 mil.
This is silly. You could use the same argument for the writer.

And, indeed, this is done. If I'm remembering correctly, Hardy Boys and such were done this way, with the actual writer paid in a different way.
Deep C Secrets is one of the best programming books ever written.
I assume by sanction OP means you can’t do business with TikTok which means TikTok won’t have any ads to show for these people and make no money from it. Pretty sure they’ll stop supporting US market when that happens.
Seriously, What is the best way to save passwords?
I don´t see myself trusting any password manager, and the recent LastPass being hacked just confirms my point. How this can be done? How are you guys saving passwords?
Seems a bit like StretchText.

In general parentheses in text should arguably be avoided in text. They almost always make the text harder to read. You can generally re-arrange the text to be clearer, sometimes by simply removing the parenthesis, in others by moving the aside to its own paragraph.
I feel you. I wish you all the best.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is the only book I've read that shares a real vision on how hard is to try it.
I listen to audiobooks that I’ve already read while working on task that aren’t mentally challenging. Sanderson’s books are actually great for this as they’re all interconnected and that makes for a good reason to “reread” then.