skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they suffered a big breach recently like many other companies and want to get in front of possible lawsuits. Not sure how that would even work legally if they knew and didn’t disclose that before forcing arbitration on users.

Alternatively, there was an exploit recently in the windows Tailscale client, and the auto updating functionality seems to have not worked very well (for me at least— I had to manually upgrade it and it was annoying). Who knows, maybe that exploit is what led to the rash of high profile breeches lately— I’ve been puzzling over the source, and thinking also about the CircleCI and LastPass breeches as possibilities.
the fact they raised money at a $3B valuation only a year ago shows how insane the 2021 market was

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/19/lattice-raises-175m-more-a...

This is the same marketcap as Asana now, which I would guess has much higher revenue figures than Lattice
Who doubts this?
Highly palatable == makes you want to eat more? That sounds like circular reasoning: of course foods that make you want to eat more make you want to eat more.
It doesn't work for addictive substancies (like sugar), people will just pay more. We have sugar tax in Poland already and it didn't change anything. We also have 105% tax on cigarettes, yet still a lot of people smoke.
This is a pretty disengeous response, it's clear I'm not saying it's because it's Coinbase or Coinbase's CEO.

I'm saying it's because it's the literal individual "Jack Altman", outside of his capacity as a CEO, has personally rubbed elbows with the right crowd.

Lattice had 700+ employees working on a product that HN would normally lampoon for having even 100 working on, they were massively bloated and there is literally no chance the organization wasn't aware that they were hiring people who wouldn't add enough value to weather any sort of mild storm (and they all but say that in the letter).

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They did so because it shows growth, and they put company growth above even the slightest bit resiliency because that's the playbook. Show growth at all costs because you can just fire those people and write a cutesy letter and a severance package with... some of the money that showing growth let you raise!

It's a crappy thing founders often do, but again, if you sling tweets with the right crowd and hang with the right people, all is forgiven.

Essentially the CEO gets to behave badly, as long as the person is well liked. That's not how a meritocracy based on anything like "brand equity" should work.
There was a quote I take particular issue with in the article:

>"And she says that being on time is a social value that people made up."

I have problems with this because it's not really a social value, it's just a matter of how businesses and schedules work in the real world. Waiting around on someone is not rude at all, and taking people at their word regarding time is not a bad thing either. Time is money, regardless if people are comfortable admitting it or not. If I'm selling my time as a consultant or contractor or whatever - people have stuff to do, and my time is limited. If someone wants my help and isn't willing to value my time enough to show up when they said they would so that I can help them as much as I can, well, that's not a made up social value. That's just business.

I get that some cultures, particularly from warmer countries, have less emphasis placed on being on time, and time is actually quite fluid versus rigid. I've lived in such a country (Mexico) and I get it. However, when you're from a cold-weather climate and waiting on people takes precious daylight or warm-ish hours away, you start to understand why people value their time, and don't really like people who don't value the time of others. It just reeks of self-entitlement and an overinflated value of self-worth.

Generally, the economic output of countries that value timeliness versus countries that don't are also in stark contrast to eachother.
This is my perspective too -- free trade is great between countries with similar values, but it's much trickier to navigate without that. We've totally seen that with Russia this past year. Europe was getting lots of cheap heat by buying Russian gas, but effectively trading for a weapon to turn against themselves and their values.
Right, because "feeling good" is the medical definition of being medically healthy?
if you have land a horizontal trench at 7 ft will work just fine. I was going to do this on a new build but building code basically required a heat pump to start with. I was going to put in a cheap furnace for the first year or two and install a ground source heat pump myself, but with the cost of my regular heat pump it will never make sense to change over.
Native from Ozone Park, still living here. I'm excited but not surprised to see Ozone Pizza AND New Park on that list. This neighborhood along with Howard Beach to the south was mostly Italian immigrants and their descendants so good Italian food was/is a staple. Of course it was full of mobsters and is the Goodfellas neighborhood; parts were even filmed around here for authenticity, check out Nier's Tavern. Into the late 90's and early 00's you could still walk into a local joint like Ozone or Romeo's and sometimes in the corner would be a table of well dressed older gentlemen speaking Italian. And no one sat near them because you knew not to.

New Park is a local landmark and its been around for decades, my father ate there as a kid. They have this unique old school slice with lightly sweet sauce and the bottom is salted giving a wonderful balance of flavor to the ingredients. They don't make frilly slices so no buffalo or vegetable slices, just standard toppings. It's big with JFK workers and cops so the place is busy and volume is high and they tend to under-cook the pizzas so ask for it well done. And even if its under cooked and slightly doughy its still damn good.

Ozone Pizza is not only good but cheap. I can order a pie, usually half mushroom/eggplant and half pepperoni, with an order of garlic twists that comes with this amazing marinara sauce for $23 and change. Delivered. Domino's cant compete in price or quality. They also have a really good buffalo slice based on a white slice. Before I stopped eating a little too rich I used to walk over and grab a buffalo slice and a beef patty with cheese n pepperoni (another NYC staple not many know of - take a fresh Jamaican beef patty, slice it open, cover with mozzarella and top with pepperoni then bake. see also beef patty on a roll with cheese - perfect drunk food)

Not on the list but I'm also a fan of Dani's House of Pizza in Kew Gardens. I love their signature pesto slice which is usually sold out. A few times my brother and I would get sick of waiting for a pesto slice so we'd order ahead and pick up a full pesto pie. Their regular slice is very good with a sweet sauce. During the summer I sometimes walk or cycle up to forest park, walk around until I'm hungry then go to Dani's for a pesto and regular slice. I usually sit on a bench at the LIRR station around the corner and dig in.
I bought a high end serval a couple years ago. I think they stopped producing that line. We never got any firmware updates to address battery life, wifi, sound, bluetooth, trackpad issues. I think they perhaps realized the fu'd, and that product line might have represented a sunk cost for them. I can't blame them if thats the case from a buisness pov, but as a consumer, I'll shop elsewhere for my next 'it just works' linux laptop. Many more options now than a handful of years ago.
A missed opportunity to use semilattice.com %)

(But maybe some math nerd had registered it even earlier.)
The A player thing is less about how good they are at hiring and more about how strong of a player they are overall. Founders generally need to be A players to be successful founders.

An A player will still make hiring mistakes but they have the skills/ability/aura/whatever to convince other A players to come work with them.

Many A players won't want to work for/with a B or C player because they won't see this as a good opportunity.

Not sure if they actually meant that B players can't hire B players but maybe. This sort of framing is pretty high level though.
Building dependently typed FP language from scratch in Haskell
new tutorial with code and some interesting concepts / questions raised
> Re your tweet - are you one of those people who believe a covid vaccine caused that player to collapse?

No. That would be stupid.

I believe there's a chance that it did. At first, 1%. Now, given that they haven't released his vaccine status yet, and as my Tweet shows have paid for an expensive PR campaign to slander anyone who questions whether there has been a cause (a campaign that has clearly had an effect on you), I have updated my probabilities to believe with 20% certainty the vaccine caused his heart attack. What odds do you give it?
Well they do some of that: reconnaissance both electronic and visual, coastal bombardment (and air strikes) with cruise missiles, and they can land very small groups of special forces too. Not to the extent surface ships can but if suddenly something made surface warfare impossible, submarines could take over a chunk of it. And you can imagine easily how drones might be embarked on a submarine and launched like cruise missiles.
My Costco didn't have a single egg in stock at any price last week. They've been limiting egg purchases for months.
It was a very lucrative fad, and as per that other thread, it sounds like Coinbase bought into it anyway by increasing headcount to build an NFT offering anyway, just after they were late to the party. If that’s accurate, then lose-lose.
isn't Common Crawl much, much larger than this? ~6 pebibytes from what I remember
JPMorgan Scammed by Startup That Lied About Its User Base
Seems wrong to go after the consumers when we can question why we let companies line their own pockets by selling vices so successful that they are destroying everyone's health, yet so normalized that we don't think to question why we let megacorps do it.

I also think it's a scale thing. Selling grandma's cookies at the grocer? Fine. Megacorp optimized junk (and nothing else) sold at every 7/11 on the continent? Perhaps not so excusable.
Are you sure you are talking about Chile? As far as I know it doesn't have a child labor problem nor is it a big producer of rare earth metals.
My impression is that current thinking is that sugar is much worse for you than fat.

I hear fat being demonized or mentioned in the same breath as sugar and I think of all the 90s and earlier "low fat" trends which basically ignored sugar intake.
Rich Hickey has an excellent talk "Simple Made Easy". He points out that "simple" and "complex" describe objective properties. The terms are often (incorrectly) used interchangeably with "easy" and "hard", which are subjective.
To me, the comparison does not make sense and was definitely not my intention when I mentioned Linux in the guide.

It's just that privesc and kernel exploits is possible under some conditions on Linux.
More vaccines seems like one of the most straightforward future mitigations since viruses like Hepatitis/HPV/mono/HIV/herpes/etc cause almost a fifth of cancer cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus
"Today, we thank the shipmates who will be departing."

Imagine writing that sentence!
We are all looking forward to your research paper that disproves his claims. Or you know, any proof.
It's a nice thought but this would send companies hurtling towards IPOs even faster than they are already doing, and using even more tricks to pump the stock.
System76 is a brand for ideologues. They ship laptops with FOSS UEFI. That’s their gimmick.
If you think that’s good, also check out further down in this thread. Gotta love HN for finding people that wrote old libraries. In the below case, it’s a library for using grayscale on a TI83.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34356244
Electrification is the only way to curtail climate change.
Neither does taping the webcam because the mac has that thing wired in serial to the led. I wonder what other security measures he accepts without thinking critically about them?
This attention seeking behavior is really bizarre. SBF clearly has some sort of personality disorder.
It's common practice at this transaction size to skip the level of due diligence that you're proposing. The reasons being:

1) It takes a lot of time to do this level of diligence

2) Companies aren't comfortable sending over their entire customer database to a purchaser before a deal is closed. And, if they send over a sampling, it doesn't solve for your use case.

2) There are indemnifications included in the final sale agreement that firmly protect the buyer from cases of fraud like this, so it's not actually necessary from the buyer's perspective.
There's data providers that sell this info.

If you didn't put it on LinkedIn, the spam callers got it through different ways (sales tooling, direct from data providers, leaks, etc.) If you're putting your phone number out anywhere (even in the signature of your email), they're collecting that info and selling it
Pachyderm Aquired by HPE
yeah because full access to the filesystem is only solution.

asking for permission to a longer storage.local exemption for the user? noooo let's not even think about giving user control of things. let's the European union pass post-fact legislation after file system access is abused by adnetworks. then they get the blame of being annoying, not the browser vendor who sell ads.

let's stop being naive. there are a million ways to fix that bug with better UX and respect for user control, but this is a scape goat to have that feature.
At my old firm, our federal project profit margin was a bit lower than median, though once you factor in the sales, contracting, and leg overhead the bottom line was somewhat worse than the project actuals made them look. Since our side of the house did relatively short-burn contracts (6-12 months), federal work was generally not that valuable for us; I used it for filler work when our usual sales pipeline was weak. The real value was for the side of the house that did long-term software and support work or heavy citizen support outsourcing, when contract durations can be measured in decades. Same for a friend who inked a $5bn DOD deal; the margin isn’t great, but it’s a 10-year deal that gives her a stable cash flow basis to grow on.

(Also, OP is probably underestimating the full-sheet cost of a federal FTE, as well as the complexities of fund-based budgeting and forecasting.)
I will never willingly use YAML on a project ever again. It's a bloody disaster. I would actually prefer XML over YAML.
> coup de tat

Coup d'état: French, "stroke (coup) over/of the State (état)".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

/pedantry
The top 5 scripted TV shows in 1992 were Roseanne, Home Improvement, Murphy Brown, Murder She Wrote, and Coach. The only show in top 30 that I would say was any good is Seinfeld.

Today, broadcast TV seems to be mostly procedurals and cable TV is mostly reality. If you like sitcoms, there has definitely been a dropoff since those have lost popularity.

Streaming is where can find the good TV shows. Remember, 1992 is before HBO started making good dramas and those were pretty rare before then. The big advantage of streaming is the variety, there are a bunch of mediocre shows in genres that barely existed before.

I just finished watching Derry Girls on Netflix, a comedy set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. I would rather watch the 18 episodes of that than any amount of 90s sitcoms.
This might be the first Ryzen 6800U Linux laptop, which is cool, but it's a bit hard for me to get too excited about it...

* One of the biggest selling points of Ryzen 6000 is the chip's USB4 support, but looks like the Pangolin won't have it. It also only has 1 USB-C port, which is a bit of a headscratcher in 2023. Does it support PD even? (Not mentioned)

* 16:9 FHD display (no brightness specified) - high refresh is nice, but again, weird that it's not 16:10 in 2023 and IMO, QHD would be better for a 15-16" display.

* soldered memory (32GB at least)

* Numpad keyboard. This will be a positive for some, but I'm in the centered keyboard camp

* Only a 70Wh battery and still not so light (1.8kg)

While it's running an older chip, if you're not going to have USB4/TB4, and the points I listed are important, I think the Tuxedo Pulse 15 Gen2 is still a better 15" option atm (5700U chip, but lighter, bigger battery, better (still 16:9) display, Ethernet, SODIMM slots). There are some Ubuntu certified ThinkPads that are an option too (they have Ryzen 6000U chips but also no USB4), although almost all the models are w/ soldered RAM on ThinkPads now, which is a bummer.

If you want USB4 on AMD, the best (Linux friendly) options right now are probably the Asus G14 GA402 or a ThinkPad Z16. The HP EliteBook G9s are an option as well, although you need Linux 6.0+ to fix a broken HP BIOS update (HP support is also aggressively indifferent to Linux users) and I've seen lots of complaints about the fan curve and the SureView displays so I'm hesitant to recommend it...
Yup, I definitely think that IF is part of the magic. Ketosis makes IF easier, in my experience, because of that elimination of the hunger impulse. Even on the days I do eat, it's usually not til mid afternoon - I don't intentionally practice IF anymore, but my eating patterns tend to fall naturally into an 16/8 window.

It's very hard to adapt initially, especially if you grew up religiously starting the day with breakfast, but the difference is pretty evident once the adaptation happens!
They described having an HRV: "it has an outside air circulating system fitted with a heat exchanger."
Still waiting to hear one of these valid and good uses cases for a publicly distributed ledger. One of these days I’ll hear one, but I haven’t yet. Circumventing oppressive regimes seems to be the only thing I’ve heard of that vaguely sounds like a value proposition.
Screening, the HPV vaccine and dropping rates of smoking.

It would be nice if we could stop advanced cancers but at least we're getting better at prevention.

I lost my dad to cancer last year. It's a horrible disease. I really had no idea how horrific it is. My dad had a year longer than his initial prognosis thanks to new immunotherapy drugs.
Hinton is doing basic science, not ML, here. Given who he is, trying to move the needle on traditional benchmarks would be a waste of his time and skills.

If he invents the new back propagation, an army of grad students can turn his ideas into the future. Like they've done for the last 15 years.

He's posting incremental work towards rethinking the field. It's pretty interesting stuff.

Edit: grammar
The Internet is simply a collection of IP networks.

The World Wide Web is the collection of HTTP servers and "Web Browser" clients like Chrome, and, uh, Chrome. Also WebKit.

An "Internet browser" would be something like `dig`. Though, maybe that's better called a "DNS browser" in this boring world where every app that talks to one or more remote servers must be called a browser.
Ah now I see what you mean, and I fully agree :)
I like the word “load bearing” here applied to software and business; it’s a good metaphor
>> Don't try to write software that will last 100 years.

THIS.

I've worked as a developer on huge, multi-year projects and I've worked on rip and tear six month projects and everything in between in the 10 years I've worked as a developer. None of the stuff I ever worked on was never maintained for more than 2-3 years after release before being nuked and built from scratch with some new fangled framework or database or data platform.

When I first started as a developer, building your stuff to withstand the zombie apocalypse was something we all aspired to. We all wanted to be like the Y2K developers. You get called in 30 years after you retired to re-write your code because all these legacy systems are still running on the code you wrote when you were an angsty college graduate at your first development gig.

The truth of the matter is companies don't need something that's bullet proof to last even 5 years any more. I've always felt in some regard, nuking products is done simply for upper management types to prove they're worth keeping around, more than these things need to be rebuilt.
This reminds me of the British post office software debacle that sent innocent workers to prison for fraud. Software doesn't prove anything, it burden of proof should be on the prosecution to prove that the software works. Also the defence should have the right to a 3rd party audit
The secret key is what keeps your account safe in case of compromise though?

Security is always at odds with convenience. - Steve Gibson
You need a better adjective and to try Windows Terminal with a modern shell shipped this millennium. ;-)

I like yori when in a DOS mood.
If you click on "past" under this submission, you see two identical URLs:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Geoffrey%20Hinton%20publishes%...
'support the project'

And what project would that be?
I want to agree with you, but then I hear about the concept of "defederating" and how small instances are subject to a ton of scrutiny and might even be blocked by some large instances by default, and I see this as a concentration of power--akin to "Google and Microsoft get to decide who can send e-mail and you are an idiot to run your own mail server"--more than as a mere happenstance of decentralized systems being (of course) made up of centralized endpoints.
How lucrative could it have been when the one major player (OpenSea) was slashing staff as early as July 2022?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/07/15/nft-marketpla...
The thing we don't know is which early cancers actually progress to advanced cancer. It's possible that we detect more things that look like cancer, but that would not have ever progressed into full blown metastatic cancer (at least, not before the patient died of something else). So that could artificially make it look like we've gotten better at treating cancer, when actually we've just gotten better at detecting non-life-threatening cancer.
No one really knows what causes them - plenty of theories but not facts - and that's why they are both exceptionally facinating as to how they form, and yet also utterly terrifying.
What is an over budget file?
Great email from Jack, but I have to wonder about the strike price of any options issued 6-12 months ago - they're likely underwater at this point, and may still be even 3 years from now when the exercise window closes. Not much anything Jack can do (I think?), but I worry there may be individual employees paying out of pocket for equity that is not worth what it was when originally granted.
Thats flawed because the room can change. My vacuum uses lidar and just makes a new scan, you don’t need to cache any data to plot a route on the floor.
Sure, but now you're talking about what could be vs what's available right now! And what "could be possible" will always be a lot better.