skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now I'm forced to expect my price to be 15-20% more expensive than the list...

If the industry moves to service included, then the prices will still be 15-20% higher, or more, than they are today. You will have removed the incentive for those that want to provide better service however.

Multiples of 5% calculations is pretty simple and keeps the brain sharp. It’d also be easy to show the price with tips, but dark patterns.
`ST` isn't `State` (though the interface is very similar), it's a restricted variant of `IO`. An `STRef` is an actual mutable reference, backed by actual memory.
(just want to say i am extremely impressed by your answers in this thread - very precise and clear)

> there is a lot more opportunity for Neon in serverless, devtools, and edge

serverless i get, but am not sure about the other two. i guess my conception of database business is that it is a volume biz, ie mainly the terabyte-petabyte scale workloads are the valuable enterprise business. high value mixed workloads are a subset of that but i’d imagine “postgres++” would be a good value proposition as well (easy migration with no replatforming).

my impression is that devtools/edge would be relatively low volume. perhaps high margin but not enough to make up for low volume. do i have a misconception here?
I always felt like it was but apparently there is a real chance of me seeing several hundred dollars over buying the horrible 2018 mac air. Nothing close to the 1800 I shelled out for it which I could never recoup.
A couple anecdotes from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34159699#34160408
Just like new york
> posting that he thought women were genetically inferior as software engineers.

Is that what he posted? Do you have some quotes?

Edit: if this is not in fact an accurate representation of what happened, it makes a good example of one of the cons of thinking in public: you may be misinterpreted and/or misrepresented forever after if you reach a large enough audience.
I'm unimpressed with the concept of Orion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb

is more inspiring to me.
This should be more appropriately labelled. Looked like historic account until you read a few lines and realize the absurdity.

Some people don't have that kind of filter, as evidenced by all the conspiratorial stuff online these days. Its in very bad taste to not label it.
Whats the competition? If you are otherwise looking at a service industry job, or other forms of low wage kind of shit employment then I guess this sort of thing becomes increasingly desirable.
Have you made any progress on the ADHD tool?
What’s the use case here? A state wants to find all members of a certain family, so they get DNA from the population and compare against a genealogy database? Seems like there would be more straightforward ways to achieve this?
Jobs was a poet. A brutal, calculating, ruthless businessman, but ultimately a poet. I have no doubt that every important decision in his life was driven primarily by emotion.
New Year's morning I drove along the coastal highway for a pretty good stretch, and the conditions are already a little sketchy, but I don't think it's so dire that you'd just get washed away or something.

The biggest risks I encountered were partial flooding in low lying sections that bank inland, and various sized rocks. No signs of new erosion along the edges of any sections I encountered.

Edit: to be clear though, I wouldn't say this is a time to take a joyride in the area. I'm more speaking to the fact it's a bad idea for a fun vacation right now, not a death sentence
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
I think I understand your larger point, but whatever corrections or amendments need to be made to the myth of Jobs, the idea that he was in any way average shouldn’t be one.
And the revolution will be corporatized.

Once the federal level stuff gets sorted out, you think ma and pop growers will be able to compete with big tobacco or some other outfit? This is a dependency-forming market opportunity. It's likely a 10s of billions market, maybe hundreds. Alcohol is 287 billion per year.

I guess the only good news is that cannabis is a lot easier to self-produce than tobacco.

And once they figure out how to get nicotine into cannabis...
Weather today: the rise and fall of the best and worst weather app ever
> Think bigger: just being an enemy of an unfriendly state, potentially in your own country 25 years hence, who knows?

I don’t understand the logic of the supposed threat you’re talking about: if you’re so worried about some future dystopian authority that throws its ‘enemies’ into prison without them committing any crime, why would they need a relative’s long-ago stored DNA to do it?
At the time, Google was the default search engine for Safari. Apple could have changed their opinion on that.

Google was also trying very hard to build and maintain a coalition of smaller browsers (at the time) that can compete with IE's complete stranglehold on the technical web ecosystem by virtue of its sheer mass. Apple is a notoriously fickle partner in any kind of technical coalition (note how they got bored with other companies dragging their heels on the usb-c standard and released their own standard several years earlier). They had the leverage of both their own browser and their mobile phone platform to position against Google or towards Microsoft if they chose to.
Ahhhh, that makes more sense. I did jump to the conclusion you meant UBI, or full-time “welfare” benefits for artists (à la https://wikipedia.org/wiki/UB40 — the eight musicians formed a band, deciding on the name 'UB40' after a friend suggested it was an appropriate name given the unemployed status of all of the band members).

But you are still implying some cost to the rest of society to support creatives in their cups. And I am saying that many people who are working don’t like that. Plenty of people think artists should have to worry about their own balance sheet and society provides them plenty already, as opposed to your special-status-for-artists comment “people be able to make art without worrying about medical bankruptcy or homelessness”.

Instead, Western society’s usual deal is supposed to be: work 40 hours a week and you get your needs met, plus some disposable money to use as you wish, and the rest of your week (evenings, weekends) to do whatever you wish (art, open source, whatever). Alternatively society provides ways to monetise your interests. Those deals actually work in some countries, and don’t work in many others. I understand why you feel that the 40-hour deal might be broken in the USA. Many people from other countries look at the deal given to the median American with envy, and that is perfectly reasonable too.

I have multiple artistic and musician friends where the jobs-for-money deal seems to work for them and they mostly own their own homes (however I am a ~50 year old in New Zealand and the majority of my artistic friends are 40 or over). I also have arty friends that get government benefits!

And yeah, the USA medical system is rather perverse: hopefully you guys can fix that for all of yourselves (not just artists etcetera).
Loading Suica with a foreign credit card was unfairly good because there was no fee and it’s coded as travel, so that’s maybe 5% back with the right card.

I say was because it’s currently broken apparently, as they switched payment providers to one that requires 3D Secure in an way Apple Pay can’t do.
> He was an average person.

Average people tend to at least care about their own children. Jobs treated his own appallingly badly.
All these new "weight loss" drugs are semaglutide peptide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaglutide

No way messing with insulin production doesn't have long-term delayed consequences.
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Show HN: Twenty questions using GPT-3 API
Hi, I build the twenty questions game using GPT-3. It was a fun trying to use GPT-3 to provide specific answers.

To play - I found it works best if you ask full question. It is not 100% fool proof. It gets confused with few questions - like it may say No to both "is player retired" or "is player active"
If question is single word but it is somehow associated with the word to be guessed, it would say Yes. Once the game is over (or if you give up) it would show the final answer and few lines of information.

I hope you like it. Any suggestions / issues welcome. Thanks!
And financially, it was probably worth it to them.
Nah, I didn’t assume any such thing. However, I now think you’re a meanie who doesn’t appreciate my anecdotes.
Well, that depends a bit what you mean by "function-defining expression".

Let's say `(new function(input) { return input })` is a valid expression. If it then doesn't matter (in any circumstance) whether you do

let myFunction = (new function(input) { return input })
myFunction(1)
myFunction(2)

or

(new function(input) { return input })(1)
(new function(input) { return input })(2)

that's when you can call the function-defining expression to be referentially transparent. If, on the contrary, creating a function increases a counter and you use that counter in your programing for something and it makes your program behave differently depending on how many functions are created, then the function creating expression would cease to be referential transparent.

I think that's not a bad example actually, because I assume it feels more natural to people to be able to treat an expression that creates a function in the way above and expecting that it won't change how the program behaves. And this is really what functional programming is about - it is exactly this feeling and guarantee that FP enforces throughout the whole application, not just in some places.

If you are talking about creating a named function (i.e. a class member) that is not an expression, then there isn't really much point in talking about it since we are now talking about definitions, not expressions anymore. Unless you can change/create definitions programmatically - in that case the code that does it programmatically is the one that needs to be considered, not the definition itself.
He was a dick. And there was a strong trend around 2010-2015ish that essentially said "Jobs was a dick and a genius. Therefore I must act like a dick, to prove that I'm a genius". So many startup CEOs acting like assholes to prove they're revolutionary visionaries.
> digital sharecropping

This has to stop. People are making products which one company uses to profit. This company is buying their labor—albeit in a really roundabout way. We’ve heard this gaslighting from e.g. Uber, where their workers weren’t employees but “gig workers”, or some other thing.

The only reason companies do this is to get their labor for cheaper. No, these are YouTube workers, their labor is bought by YouTube, and YouTube should obey all labor laws when they buy their labor and profit from their work.
Not enough of Vancouver is zoned for middle density housing. If you opened up the zoning for Vancouver, you'd see the construction trade in Vancouver expand and more middle density constructed throughout the city, instead of limited patches of high density that can only be constructed by a limited set of developers able to get financing for such a huge project.

Here is the zoning map of Vancouver, 80% of it is zoned for low density development and this is the root of the problem:
https://i.redd.it/xy30s6tayvo91.png
I agree, this is a dark pattern that needs to be addressed.

That and the other thing where they arbitrarily changing the bar colors from Orange to Red or something else.

Its very manipulative, and serves no legal purpose as you haven't formally agreed to be part of human experimentation which can potentially be considered a violation of laws depending on where you are.

There's a reason colleges have ethics board and official waivers when conducting experiments like this.
A shame no photos were included
No disagreement that was the end effect. What I'm saying is it's interesting to observe how easy would be to slip from strategization to "oops we are illegally suppressing wages" without that being the intent.

What apple is seeing here is a company they believe to be a partner pulling key staff away from an extremely important project to them (Jobs took the success of Safari very personally), which they didn't anticipate because that's a partner harming them on what they believe to be a shared goal. It's like "dudes... You want Safari to succeed too. Why are you pulling away the staff that would make it succeed?" Which is why I suspect he jumps to the conclusion that Google is working on a competing browser, not the Google is simply following recommendation chains and executing their standard strategy of hiring the smartest people in the room.
Families Offered Several Million Yen to Move Out of Tokyo
Oh yes, I have everything under the sun: Ancestry, FTDNA, MyHeritage, 23andMe. I’ve even had the leading experts in the field helping me and working alongside me on this but it’s really just a case of bad matches.

There’s only so much you can learn from a half-cousin once-removed: her grandfather, born 1911, went to a barn dance, had a good time, and didn’t stay in touch. This man produced my paternal grandma according to my YDNA line — YDNA comes from a male and is passed to males. The YDNA has given me some direction, but no solid answers: I’m trying make a single male from a combination of a male from the most prominent family in 1800s Saugerties, NY, an unknown from Chicago (by way of Bohemia), and two unknowns from two different parts of Grand Forks, North Dakota (both Scandinavians).

And this all happened before the internet of course: 1860-1960 is the range that I am working with.

This h1C1R I speak of is my best match, followed by third-cousins. I’ve exhausted every avenue that’s been visible to me. To the surprise of absolutely nobody, it’s very uncommon to know who casually slept with who generations ago. :)

There’s a lot of census searching (and scraping, and CSVing), newspaper article reading (lots of juicy details in small newspapers) and some luck. I have a tree built out some 1600 people strong. Hopefully with the holiday sales, new matches will come my way that are helpful. :)
Where exactly in CA? I live in an apartment on a quiet street and the worst noise problem I have is the upstairs neighbors have a heavy dog that likes to jump around.
Oh 100 units are still built. But they are sold as condos targeting upper middle class as those are more profitable for builders to sell. And these are not affordable for many.

We need policy that requires mixed units. Some for the affluent, some for service workers, etc.
I made something quite similar, it runs with support for things like color: https://github.com/runvnc/askleo
They had a mutual non compete going. Here’s another instance where a cold recruiting email was “against policy”: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1443263744906305543?s=...
Sure. I used to play a game with friends called "Rule number one is 'dont visualize', rule number two is 'dont visualize'" where we would make up awful shit and the only defense was to not think about it.
All content is advertised on by YT, they just don't start sharing revenue with you until you have 1k subs.
It's not about eliminating government, it's about building an alternative that some people can use voluntarily if they wish, while others who want to keep the government system are free to do that at the same time.

It would be like a town where the government fire department was corrupt and stealing from the town's treasury, so some people move outside the city limits and set up their own volunteer fire department.

Maybe it doesn't work as well. Maybe there are fires the volunteers aren't prepared for. Maybe some government firefighters start fires in the unincorporated area to make townsfolk afraid to leave and join the rebel group. But at least the volunteers aren't stealing from the treasury any more.
> posting that he thought women were genetically inferior as software engineers.

I recall that it was mostly about predisposition and preference, not ability. It was certainly spun in the way you describe, but I'm surprised to see that take here. The memo was thoroughly dissected on HN.
I think it was more parallel than that: while we’re running crime scene dna against genealogy dbs, let’s also look for hits on an a white Elantra at the scene. Notice they also said the Elantra was a dead-end last week, so at that point they probably already matched the owner with the dna and knew where they were.
Anyone working there at the time made approximately a zillion dollars from stock compensation, so it doesn’t seem like it worked.
I’d go with a percentage instead of flat fee. Or some tiered structure to the flat fee. Some of these mega hosts own 40+ properties.
"Though I don't think they can use the "I have a lot of bills" argument, as the finances of Mr. Scott aren't relevant in the constructive discharge law."

Probably not, unless they knew beforehand what Mr. Scott's tolerable financial situation was and purposefully reduced his compensation to below that level.
In a world with new AI tools and ChatGPT, I believe that Wikipedia will remain as the central information source on the internet. I think people will always respect and desire to use Wikipedia as a democratic human-created information source. Even if an AI encyclopedia is more expansive, it will be missing the democratic ideals of Wikipedia.

I believe that someday ChatGPT or a similar program could produce an entire encyclopedia with 99% accuracy. Imagine that a person could ask, "please create 100,000 articles for an encyclopedia about these topics" and have a result within a reasonable amount of time with references and citations listed. This depends on what information is provided to the AI, the design of the AI and the computing power available.

I also believe there will be an emergence of human-created personal encyclopedias. One problem with Wikipedia is that it can be difficult to make a dramatic change to an article. An individual might see a simpler and more effective way to display the information on a single page, but they cannot make the change without deleting other people's work. By utilizing personal encyclopedias, I can see how individuals could make improved and creative versions of Wikipedia articles.

Overall, I think that Wikipedia, AI encyclopedias and personal encyclopedias will coexist on the internet in the future. Wikipedia will continue to be the leading democratic source of information on the internet, while new encyclopedias will emerge as useful tools for education.
You don't even need a fingerprint, you can detect DNA in the air 300 yards away:

https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-pulled-thin-air-...
A bunch of people could be doing political activism at some location and be tracked down. Such scenarios don't seem too far fetched and the way these things will be abused in the future will probably be much more perverse, in ways we can't even imagine today.
I'm working on a side-project full time for at least a few months. I just finished ~4.5 years of employment and have some cash saved up. I want to create something emotionally evocative and helpful to not only me but others. I'm also kinda worn out from being in a weird environment at work for too long. So, I want to create for a while just to shake off the cobwebs and surround myself with more positive workflows.

If my project seems to be going well then I'll keep at it and, if not, then it'll become more like an artistic self-expression and less like a failed attempt at entrepreneurship. :)

I'm building a "sneaky" mental health app. It presents as if it were a modern, sci-fi take on Tamagotchi coupled with a daily self-reflection routine. It's a fledgling ant colony on an alien planet being nurtured by a personality within an orbiting satellite. The player finds themselves compelled to keep their pet alive, commit to the routine of checking in on the pet when the satellite has LOS, and a meditative journaling routing is established by blurring the pet care routine with a self-care routine of journaling and breathwork. The player goes along with all of it since they're interested in keeping their pet alive and growing and are slowly fed entertainment as a reward.

Finch App is the most likely competition in this space. The largest difference is how our audiences discover and think about us. Finch users feel they need help and seek out Finch. Finch understands this, calls attention to the needing help, and presents itself as an anxiety-free warm hug. Finch wants users to "come out of their shell" and to engage with the world. Then, Finch nudges that engagement towards self-improvement. It's great.

Untitled Ant Game users think they're fine as-is (but are underappreciating how far from the ceiling they are), frequently lean into gaming to wind-down and as a means of escapism, and are more likely to adopt concepts that make themselves feel "smart" rather than applying labels to themselves that make them feel like they need fixing. Untitled Ant Game strives to talk about mental health at a higher level of abstraction, hinting at the complexities of psychology, and allows the user to feel like they are discovering knowledge by connecting all the dots. It then provides tools to allow the user to apply their new knowledge.

I'm excited to see how I improve myself with my software and if I can touch others who might typically be reticent of adopting additional self-care habits.

I'm also excited to try and build a game, lol. Everyone who's anyone says it's a bad idea, that it's hard, and that it's not valuable. They're probably right, but sometimes you just gotta touch the hot stove for yourself to really learn. :)

Full building in public, you can find a Discord link in my bio or you can follow https://www.untitledantgame.com/ it'll update ~daily for the forseeable future. Twitch streams coming once I get my thoughts more organized.
A YouTuber who goes by the handle kofuzi just released a video that goes into the fine details and analysis of his channel's metrics with full transparency. He's easily among the top 3 video content makers who focus on running, running shoes, and running events. Despite putting out high-quality videos, his channel isn't nearly as popular as OP (probably due to his focus being more niche).
That had nothing to do with the weather. Tesla makes very heavy cars, some of which have brakes that don't match the performance implied by their acceleration.

Meanwhile Devil's Slide is in an area suited for low speeds, careful acceleration, and reliable braking.

With witnesses are describing this:

> "As I’m driving by, I’m like, ‘Wow, he's driving extremely fast to take that exit. You're not even supposed to be going up that way,” she said. "And I can see in my rear-view mirror this car that just go over the edge and straight down."

It's hard to imagine it was anything but driver error.
It may be common knowledge for people that already have a channel, but I’ve never seen anyone give exact revenue numbers to outsiders before.
TikTok Ban Debate Moves from Washington to Main Street
Wow, after using this word I got 6 in a row of pack 1 in exactly 2 guesses.
This sounds like something I would've written. Know you're not alone in recognizing this, and best of luck! One of us will get he message across.