skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. Yes, he led Apple to become a $1T company, but making money doesn't make someone a bozo alone.

If anything compromises Apple products, in 90% of cases it's Apple's design philosophy or (stubborn?) ideals. Not a push from the spreadsheet bozos.

For better or worse, I think Tim managed to keep the product side of the company very close to what Steve wanted.
I’m sure this attitude isn’t a reason at all for why kids have poor relationships with adults.
I guess it would be done that way in the US, because you have no privacy and no data protection laws.

In the UK if your car is reported stolen the number plate is added to the ANPR search database, and if a camera spots it - including vehicle-mounted ones - it'll flag up. Otherwise, it's not going to get noticed.
And because Apple bought Authentec, it cornered the market on fingerprint base authentication…oh wait.
Author here: you are correct but the EPUB and PDF stuff actually didn’t work for this (it exited while rendering). iirc one of the problems was Quarto didn’t know how to format Polars dataframes
You want to imply that the short is unprofitable because the asset is so good that it'll never decline in value.

That is the exact opposite of the reality (and misses the entire point of the article).

The point is that shorting tether is likely to be enormously profitable, but you won't be able to collect your profits

This is because no well capitalized and stable broker or exchange will touch Tether, and the only counterparties who might lend you the Tether to short are extremely likely to go bankrupt when Tether does collapse.

So, you'll put your millions of dollars at risk on deposit, pay your interest, and end up with a $100 million or whatever profit, owed to you by a now-bankrupt exchange, so your profit will never arrive at your bank account, and your best case is suing the husk of a bankrupt exchange whose shady owners absconded to a non-extradition country.

The trade is bad because only disreputable and insufficiently capitalized counter-parties will touch it, not because Tether is great in any way.
Something like overleaf.com ?
Why? Isn’t the point of climbing k2 because it’s stupidly dangerous?
This is factually incorrect, and saying a trading shop failed because of language choice is, um, less than smart.
The Pmarca 2007-09 Blog Archives [pdf]
Keep away. Obviously crooks involved in the tether from the beginning. These crooks are big financial institutions and you might get sucked in to a short squeeze.
Even C0 (for instance on a Bosendorfer Imperial) doesn't nearly go that low. You'd have to synthesize the sound, I don't think any normal arrangement would pick it up even if it was present in a performance (for instance, that organ mentioned elsewhere in the thread). 70 mm Dolby Stereo tracks from motion picture reels will go as low as 3Hz. I'm not sure if that makes it to Blue-ray though, would be nice to try for a lark but not enough of a win to shell out money for.
This isn't true at all. You can possibly get away without a graphics programmer on those platforms due to the immense market of graphics techniques available due to... graphics programmers publishing them.

There's a ton of shader development happening. Optimizing the graphics stack takes some specialization.
You KNOW it smell crazy in there
> Ask any software or IT engineer who was at, say, Amazon, Facebook, or Google, as the company grew from serving a few hundred thousand customers to hundreds of millions of customers.

It's not the number of customers so much as the number of diverse things they do. Ditto for a country's taxes. I expect the Faroe islands' industry is fairly limited compared to the US, so they may not need as many exemptions, tax credits, deductions, etc. No doubt there's still considerable room for streamlining though.
Have you tried overleaf?
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn.

All of Lee Kwan Yew’s books.

The Ancient City

Some Spanish literary classics, in Spanish. (I’m at newspaper reading level, not great, and still trying to improve.)

Always with Honor, by Pyotr Wrangel

Lots of great tech books I have on preorder from No Starch Press.
Overleaf (https://overleaf.com/) is pretty popular for this, and also tracks things like edit history
The thing is, ChatGPT doesn't do search. And we don't want search - we want information, which we obtain by searching. If ChatGPT provides curated search results and compiles them into a neat paragraph, along with some associated links for more information, that itself is more than useful compared to search. To take into account stats, more than 50% of searches end at Google because most of the required information is provided in fact boxes.
My totally wild guess is they helped drum up some of that initial customer interest and opened your eyes to it. Is that right?

Anyways, here's my free advice. You get a refund if it's bad:

- One, define whether this is a small business or a startup.

- Two, separate sweat equity from financial equity.

In a classic SV-type startup, the company is illiquid for a 4 - 7 year time period. You want ownership at the end of that time period to reflect the fraction of work adjusted for risk.

With respect to the work, "having the idea" and doing some validation on it is typically worth a small premium but not a large one, because 99.9% of the work at time of starting the company is in the future. The main question is whether the potential co-founder will contribute roughly equally for the next 4 - 7 years. If not, don't try to change the equity split -- find a different co-founder or hire them as an employee (and their added value should be far more than "motivation and quick learning skills" because you should have that too).

With respect to risk, there's a few stages in the early days:

- Pre-product v0.1

- Pre-customer interest

- Pre-PMF (this is the big one to get past)

It sounds like you already built v0.1 and have proven customer interest. Thus you've de-risked the startup for this potential co-founder significantly. That's worth another chunk of equity. But you have to make a judgment call as to how far away you are from PMF: ideally there's an equity split where, if the product blows up tomorrow you won't be frustrated about him/her having a ton of equity; but if it takes another 2 years to translate customer interest into real PMF, (s)he won't be frustrated about working for a dramatically smaller share (or, if we're being realistic, both of you will be a little bit frustrated but not super frustrated).

Lastly, with respect to financial equity, I would ask if you really, really need that 150K to get to the next stage. I'm assuming 150K is meaningful to you because you are a Masters student. Can you get to the next stage with 10K? 20K? 30K (and then raise outside capital)? Can your potential co-founder afford to put in 5K? 10K? 15K? My general advice is when the sums are in the 5 - 10K range, each person just puts in what their financial situation allows for and it's small potatoes at the end of the day. But 150K is a lot and you should structure it as a separate investment [1].

The tough part here is to come up with what you think the business is worth today. Without knowing anything about your idea, it sounds like it's at best something where investors in the U.S. would put in ~$500K for roughly 10 - 20% of the company.

[1] Note though that a truly independent investor will typically get Preferred shares for their money -- but they will probably disagree with one of the founders having Preferred shares, so the shares you negotiate as part of this investment will likely be converted to Common shares upon raising real capital.
Productivity machine – the tool for restless people
Hey everyone!

I'm Dylan and I'm a senior in high school. I've built several projects in the past but this is the first one I've posted on hacker news. Kind of nervous ngl.

I'm always trying to optimize my time and be as productive as I can be, but I often feel like there could be something even better that I could be doing.

I used to search for blogs on maximizing productivity for inspo and then make a Notion page on how I should proceed.

That's tedious, so I built this app to automate the process using GPT-3.

Anyways, this was really fun to make, I hope you guys find it useful!
Lots, in Europe. Top brackets which are really easy to reach in most cases - think 50-60k per annum:
Austria 55%
Denmark 55%
France 52%
Sweden 53%
And so on...
Anyone know of any good typesetters who I can hire to typeset an ebook?
The whole point of all treatment is to alter our subjective experience of consciousness and thereby experience a greater sense of well-being. In effect, alter our minds.

That is true whether you're taking advil for your headache, anti-depressants to help you through PTSD, or the removal of body parts that have become toxic to your existence (e.g. your gall bladder).

That doesn't mean that all mind-altering treatments are created equal, and hormonal changes result in fundamentally different outcomes than changing (destroying) the underlying physical structures those treatments are operating on.

Put another way, lobotomies alter the hardware that all of these subjective experiences run on. Other forms of treatment are effectively modifications to software, or modifications to accommodate existing software. Drawing analogies between lobotomies and other forms of treatment is interesting as a thought experiment, but means little in practice.

But the real issue is that lobotomy just doesn't work. If lobotomy worked, it'd still be in the modern doctor's repertoire along with bloodletting and other practices. It's used here to represent a "Bad Idea", and we know far too little about gender dysphoria to relegate existing treatments to the same category.
Oh you're right.YouTube probably couldn't have been profitable. They could have gone out of business, however.

Vimeo has reasonable unit margins, though, and has since the early days.

What I'm mostly irked about is that there was no room for experimentation. YouTube was impossible to compete with.
Commercial rates are still way higher than residential. I’d be curious if it were actually possible to buy a whole floor of mini apartments and turn them into offices instead.
How is letting consenting adults make their own medical decisions "child abuse"?
There is a lightweight object oriented extension to C called Objective-C [1] that unfortunately never gained much traction outside the NeXT/Apple ecosystem. There is also Cello [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C

[2] https://github.com/orangeduck/Cello
Police choppers here fly ~ 2000 hours annually, I don't think that having them for 400 hours per year is going to be worth the price of buying them in the first place.
I'd love to believe this was true but I absolutely can't imagine that it is. If the art doesn't need to be created by a person, which is what people are shooting for, here, the only artist you'd need is an art director. The world simply doesn't need a zillion art directors. Until we figure out how to treat people as intrinsically worthwhile and not not punish them for being made redundant by automation, it will always be a catastrophe for everyone targeted. It was true for auto manufacturing, it will be true for artists, and it will be true for workaday software developers. Just the way it is.
> Others turned to the laboratory. The psychologist Jonathan Freedman recruited high school and university students to carry out a series of experiments that measured the effects of density on behavior. He measured their stress, discomfort, aggression, competitiveness and general unpleasantness. When he declared to have found no appreciative negative effects in 1975,
the tide began to turn on Calhoun’s utopia.

This is the only paragraph I was found in reference, and I find the reasoning extremely weak.

Calhouns mice are a generational study, the human study obviously did not involve nearly as much time, and it's doubtful whether the space are as crowded as the mice study was.

Submariners have well documented health issues and recuperation after spending long period of time on cramped spaces, and a submarine is arguably more spacious than what the mice have been subjected to. Not to mention the simple fact that nobody (hopefully) had to start a family on a submarine, or a prison per replied comment.

Conducting similar study in humans is impossible given the obvious cruelty and ethic concerns, but if I have to guess the outcome are going to be no better than the mice study.
This is interesting - however as someone who used to enjoy mild drinking and just lost interest in booze, it's still worth stating that alcohol is definitely still bad for the body in a myriad of ways.

2022 was my first completely dry year - health and mental clarity has never been better even in my late 20s.
The article goes on to raise that exact point. Did you stop reading halfway through?
Yesss! This is exactly what I've been waiting for. Until sum types are available, the current implementation of generics are mostly useless, at least for the majority of cases I want to use them.
You can still design the systems and try to test them. Build programs and throw load tests at them.

Scaling software is more about careful choices than some ultra deep understanding (though really understanding your data source is very important).
Learning / Curiosity:

Fantastic Fungi, Paul Stamets - Because I watched the Netflix documentary

The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli - Because someone here mentioned it and it peaked my interest

Cloud Hidden, Alan Watts - Because I hord Alan Watts quotes and need to finally read one of his works completely

The Molecule of More, Lieberman & Long - Came across it at a book store and looked interesting

Pleasure

The Go-Giver, Burg & Mann - Been on my list for a while but can't remember why.
Paul Graham has some great essays on business / startups:

http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Try to build your own prototype.

I found a fairly low-friction way to add a custom online services subsystem into UE4/5: https://github.com/RyroNZ/UE4MasterServer

You can replace the python with anything that lives across JSON. I had no issues getting this to compile & load in UE5.

Once you have this in place, you could grab one of their arena shooter MP prototypes and focus almost entirely on the sessions, servers, matchmaking, accounts, logging, fleet management, etc.
Hey, I'm bored and I can try to build it. Any way I could get connected with this lawyer? My contact information is in my bio.
The goal should be to reduce drug use and end addiction. "Harm" is relative. There are functioning heroin addicts(either tar or hillbilly heroin) that some people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hart) would say aren't "harming" anyone. It's still not something to societally encourage.

I also said nothing of criminalization of addicts. Seller's, sure.

> Methadone and clean needle clinics are pointed in the right direction, but they're not enough. They just happen to be all the people who got them put in place could manage.

This makes no sense. The halfass'd effort is worse than nothing at all.
…keep reading :)
As more automakers put factory features behind paywall, a bleak future awaits
You are right, and to go a step further - Generating full games with AI is possible now. Computer games that weren't even considered possible 2 years ago.

I've been playing text-based adventure games that I have made with ChatGPT and they are fascinating. Try the below command in ChatGPT (don't read the text below if you actually want to play it though!).

> Hi, I would like to play a text-based adventure game with you. I will say commands and you will respond either describing the situation or saying what the characters have said. Responses should be kept fairly short. The game will not end until I say the word 'endthegame'. In a combat situation, you will tell me how many hitpoints the character I am in combat with has, and I will describe the attack - you will evaluate that attack and decide how many hitpoints to deduct from the enemy. The game is set on a spaceship, however the spaceship is under attack. There is a portal gun. Part of the solution should be to teleport to the enemy ship and kill the enemies, and this should be telegraphed to the player after a few turns. The goal will be to stop the enemy ship from destroying our ship. I will say some things that will not be possible in context, or that are too vague, and if this happens you should respond saying why I cannot do the action, or that it was too vague. In general you should try and accomodate the players actions though, even if they have negative consequences - but not allow them if they are too vague or are multi-step.

Can the above now be considered 'source code' to a game? A text-based game which is fun to play (at least I find it fun!) and with free-flowing narrative, where your actions have consequences.

It's pretty wild to go into this game, where you can go up to characters and start 'proper' relationships with them, talk in natural language, and be able to make genuine choices about how to solve a problem that the developer didn't even dream of.
Yeah, on Wayland I've got pretty much everything I had on MacOS (besides Force Touch, which I never used anyhow). Using a Magic Trackpad on my Linux desktop feels very intuitive now, I gotta hand it to the people contributing input handling/gesture code.
Your last 2 sentences conflict with point 1 and 2.

If companies don’t need as many employees in tech where the bloat is then why would they hire them back in the same proportion with new jobs? If they hire them back in a much smaller proportion then it would be hard to find a job, no?
Is there currently new and previously not knowable information regarding its utility compared to when the price was going up?
Ncsoft( a big game studio) is doing this with unreal engine 5 for a new mmo looter shooter.
https://about.ncsoft.com/en/news/article/lll-interview-22111...
I mean, there's a "slight" difference between taxing 10% vs 50%, so I guess it's kind of okay to demand some things in return.
It would have to be stupendously large if you ever want to build inside it using ordinary building materials, otherwise it will be like living on a permanent earthquake.
This site is teeming with book recommendations.

Here is the all-time top of the Business category: https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/7/all-t...
Seems to work in both ways :)

> Translate the following text to marketing speak (add loads of bullshit): ...

> "Introducing Bullshit.js - the revolutionary new JavaScript bookmarklet that's changing the game when it comes to analyzing the powerful influence of market-driven language on any web resource. With just a simple drag and drop of the link to your bookmarks bar, you'll be able to tap into the unparalleled expertise of our advanced translation service and see the impact of your marketing strategies in real-time. It's the ultimate tool for any business looking to dominate the competition and drive successful results in the digital age. Don't miss out - start using Bullshit.js today and see the difference it can make for your brand!"

(I wonder what happens if you transform it back and forth like 1000 times)
Woah there... there are PLENTY of racist gay people.
Yeah this just how taxes on capital gains donations work. Zero sinister about this
I've written my books in Latex - the pdf output goes to Amazon for the print copy, and then I run it through pandoc to get a perfectly formatted epub that I upload to amazon and apple and anywhere else.

It takes a bit to get setup, but now I have the template going it makes a perfectly formatted book a breeze.

I wrote about it here: http://theroadchoseme.com/how-i-self-published-a-professiona...
It was originally Perl or PHP Python fits well.
They had to do it for the rhyme!

I also kind of like 'recurse' as a new construction for recursion in computer science to immediately disambiguate it from recurrence in ordinary language.
Good ol' unfounded click bait headlines. Gotta love 'em :).

I didn't read the article.

Washington Post is almost always worthless as an unbiased source of useful information.

I went straight to a reliable source of data: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"Software Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and Testers"

Job Outlook, 2021-31 25% (Much faster than average)

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

"Information Security Analysts"

Job Outlook, 2021-31 35% (Much faster than average)

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
They did provide the link.

The image is apparently from a period predating the time when the current consensus that disallows depiction of the Prophet originated. Back then it was ok; now it isn’t. Were The Guardian to print the image, it could be construed by some interested party (of various possible affiliations) as a willful act intended to cause offense.

For precedent predating our current excessively charged social environment, the film The Message (1976), starring Anthony Quinn, does not show his person at all.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074896
I tried to render a piece of music horizontally on one canvas. That didn't work past a very low limit. In the end I chopped it up into multiple canvases and scroll at most two of them at the time (there is some risk of artifacts at the point where they meet, unfortunately).
There was a separate incident with another male in December. People are so drunk on planes they don’t know they’re not at the bathroom?

Serious question: Is this a byproduct of socially being allowed to relieve oneself in the street?

As in, if you develop that habit while sloshed, the chances of it happening again increases with each drink.
I theorize (but cannot prove) that the processes underpinning creativity in the human mind are exactly the same statistical processes that ML models use.

Think about it: you live your life. You experience things. You experience art, and experience emotions or have interactions with other humans grounded in that art. You form connections with certain styles or techniques.

If you then turn around to create art, you form in your mind a general idea of what you want to create. You then draw on your past experiences to actually create the physical art. What process other than statistical extraction from your mind could it come from?

For sure I believe there are things that we don't understand about the human mind. I think the impact of drug use on art creation is very interesting, for example. It indicates that random chemical processes in our brains can play a large determining role in the actions we take (and in this case, the things that we create).

But to say that humans do not use some sort of inbaked statistical world model in the creative process seems wrong to me.
> It is an excellent book but I think it could have an abridged version for the vast majority of people who don’t need the crazy amount of minutiae in it.

From the article:

> There would be other battles, like the one over a long section on the history of grass in Texas Hill Country, in the first volume of the Johnson biography, that Gottlieb wanted to cut—“a tremendous battle, an angry, angry battle” is how Caro, who ended up on the losing side, describes it.
Just look at Apple's recent job postings. Here's one, but simple searching reveals the pattern:

https://g.co/kgs/tV5rGG

They need

1. Recommendation systems experience

2. Machine Learning

3. Auction theory

4. Ads pacing

5. ML / Reinforcement learning

Gee, I wonder what they're scaling out...
They're not dumb. They're management consultants!
For pleasure: getting into the rabbit hole of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series (41 fantastic sci-fi / comedy novels)!