skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paragraph 1: Our company has recently been at the center of some unfortunate rumors and false accusations. However, we want to assure our valued customers and shareholders that these claims are completely unfounded and without any merit.

Paragraph 2: We are proud of the work we do and the products we provide to our customers. We have always maintained the highest standards of integrity and transparency in our business practices.

Paragraph 3: We ask that the public not be swayed by the misinformation being spread by our detractors. We are confident that the truth will come out and our reputation will be cleared. In the meantime, we will continue to focus on delivering the best possible products and services to our customers.
2023 is the year of Bing, calling it now.
Russia has already lost (written 24. March 2022)
Earthquakes’ influence isn’t just about when they happen. I might be hard to visualize but the actual structure and materials need to change to adapt.

For instance in europe lead pipes were widely used for the internal plumbing and nowadays it’s replaced by rigid and pretty durable polymers. The plumbing goes into the walls, floors, etc. to each place where water goes.

Except that doesn’t work if your walls and floor can shake. You don’t want pipes break into your walls and leak internally. So pipes can’t be rigid, and you’ll have to compromise on durability for flexibility.

When buying an appartment, our plumbing was rated for 30 years. After that, even if everything else is in a perfect state, we’d all have to tear down the building walls and change the plumbing. It can be done, but cost wise it’s not so far from rebuilding from scratch.

Public buildings get away with way longer life by either paying for way more expensive techniques, and/or having the plumbing and any other things that could need inspection or maintenance put outside the walls. It works great, but is ugly as fuck and can have other practical issues (all pipes being exposed has weird safety issues, some europeans house do that and it’s really not great)

And that’s just plumbing.

PS: the second hand housing market is actually super healthy. In particular you get to see how the buildings and neighbors are doing after a few years, and the risk of a bad surprise is that much lower.

PS2: you can live longer than 30y in a house/appartment. Its value just plummets, except if you prove you made all the recommended updates to extend its useful life. It’s basically the same as keeping a car for 40 years. It can be done, but it’s not the generic nor recommended use case.
it's called Java
I've seen some good analyses lately showing spotify's business model just can't survive in the long run with the way things are going in the economy and the record companies are squeezing them while simultaneously maneuvering to own them/buy them over time. Apple/Amazon/Google are diversified giants that can seemingly get away with running things without a need to make as much money as Spotify/Tidal/Whatever which just do music/podcast streaming.

In the long run these services are all unsustainable and bad for music.. I sometimes wonder if the young people going back to vinyl is somewhat of a pushback on how lame the entire experience of using these streaming services can be.

Podcasts can do well and have done well for a very long time in a small business model with sponsors & product promotion.. throwing massive money at them has always seemed an odd choice.
> When you buy a book or some other artwork, it is implicitly assumed you will put it in your brain, or your meat neural net. And that your brain could produce something related to this content.

It is implied that if you are using the work by youself, or via a tool you made youself, it's fine.

However works that you redistribute, by copying it yourself or indirectly by tools, said silicone neural nets being one example, instead require a "wide redistribution license agreement", and those are implicitly limited by default unless the work is put in a sorta public domain license.
I used to have two otherwise identical displays, but it still does it for me now that all of my displays are different. Notably, I think this stuff happens more when you have 3+ monitors. I don't remember having as many issues with just two displays.
While Plex has some shortfalls with handling music (mostly that most tags are applied at the album level, not the track level), it's still the best option I've tried for handling your own streaming setup. The PlexAmp[0] app they developed sands off many of the rougher UX elements from the web app, but it requires a paid version of the Plex server.

[0] https://plexamp.com
Archived Version [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/UUWtH
I get needing to keep a company lean and that businesses operate to make money...
But most of these recent layoffs really make me feel uneasy.
Spotify is a little different because AFAIK they are still operating at a negative net income, but still let's take a look at this.
They're going to let go 600 people.. that's maybe an annual 90 million in savings (150k salary). The company's revenue is about 9 billion with -39 million in net income. So while this move might take them into the positive net income, it's still only going to save them what? 0.1% of their revenue.

I realize it's much more complex than this, but I have been looking at it this way for nearly every recent headline/company and the savings are never really that significant. I'm not saying that people who don't contribute or people who are bad employees should be kept around forever because the company is healthy. I'm just observing the financial "cost" of these laid off employees compared against the companies revenue/net income.

Having been at a company that's doing layoffs and surviving multiple rounds of layoffs myself, the impact (in my opinion) on the remaining employees is quite significant. I have seen people constantly frustrated with losing team members, managers leaving once a few of their employees have left, good employees finding other employment, etc. I'm not sure what I would do in these companies positions, but it seems strange to just cut your workforce when the trend has been going up financially for your company. These types of layoffs just create negative, especially with the current state of the world. Are any of the board members taking a salary cut? Are any of the C level's taking a cut?

end rant, I need to get back to work so this doesn't happen to me.
I'd give "In Our Time" from the BBC, and Econtalk, by Ross Roberts, a try if I were you. They both follow the traditional podcast format with a host and guest, but there is a lot of work done by the hosts ahead of time to ensure your time is well spent. Definitely high-density content.
Every podunk little settlement in the Midwest has a street grid.
Do you honestly think they aren’t both describing the job situation in Japan as it applies to women from the poster’s perspective?

Because I can only assume you’re playing pretend at this point.
It's been over 25 years. It's really time to let this one go.
Go work at a fast food place and goof off. You’re fired.

Go play ping pong (literally dealt with this a few years ago when we had to go in the office, some team we relied on used to just waste time and move slow) and “estimating is hard wahh”? 400k tc and still complain how life is hard lol.
Gleam gets Incremental Compilation
Article about it here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...

> Profits emerging from the LP in excess of the 100x multiplier go to the nonprofit, which will use it to run educational programs and advocacy work.

> The board [of the non-profit] is limited to a minority of financially interested parties, and only non-interested members can vote on “decisions where the interests of limited partners and OpenAI Nonprofit’s mission may conflict”
Regarding HN in particular, I use https://hckrnews.com/ with "top 10" visible to reduce the amount of things I need to check. If that's too much, subscribe to https://hackernewsletter.com/ and don't consume content on the main HN website.

Realizing the we have finite time and cognition is key to help us accept and reduce what we consume and what we like.
The geoblock is just an indicator that it's becoming more and more global, with more users. Who are the bad actors here? The "copyright lobby", the "scammers", or is it the vendors making and selling these draconian fencing tools?
> This is what I often describe as doing agile vs being agile.

I just started a new role leading a 30 person Engineering team at a company doing Scrum. My very first questions to everyone was why are we doing this? Answers ranged from some expectations like regular/predictable delivery of product to "because that's how software is done." From there, it's figure out a process that makes sense and actually achieves objectives. Scrum provides a nice framework, but everyone needs to be bought into the goals of it first. (My next actions were to get rid of most of the useless workflow rules in Jira and build that accountability at the team level...it works amazingly well that way)

I agree that it's much more doable at a small company. Once companies get big enough, the need to centrally plan and coordinate seem to create an irresistible urge to apply identical processes to all teams, compare velocities, and all sorts of other bad habits.
> Perhaps we are in new legal territory, where existing copyright laws and legal theory doesn't cover the issues completely?

Not only there is probably no law but there is no precedent in human history to define the morality of these tools. Until now it was universally accepted that people could see public art and learn from it. But here it's not a person, it's an algorithm.
Why the Air Force put Kubernetes in an F-16
Sounds like a great time to reduce my monthly payments to Spotify by 100%. I overspent during the past two years and based on the macro economic conditions I need to increase my personal finance efficiency.
It's up to employee. I had a FCD bank account (store dollar) and convert into local currency when I got a good rate. Though later on I just don't care much, Wise's rates is acceptable and I convert it into local bank account ASAP.
thanks for the quick answer and cool for REPL. Yeah sure I can just launch Gwenview on the output directory.

> probably but GIMP plugins are not something I've looked into

I was just thinking about a black and white or grey level output image with the desired area , no need to integrate it in GIMP of whatever. I've tried a prompt like "keep only the face", but no luck so far.
Is this symptom unique to ADHD? I certainly accumulate hundreds of open tabs of things I want to come back to and research, but I don't have the other characteristic symptoms of ADHD.

I use a browser plugin that lets me create markdown highlights from websites and I copy them into my Logseq system. I tag them and then, when I want to dive in and do something about a topic, I go to that topic and there are all my notes from hundreds of websites I've found interesting over the years.

Maybe the difference between my experience of this and the ADHD one is that I enjoy the times I get to sit down, dive deep, read the sites, and make the notes, but people with ADHD have trouble with that stage?
Find a good therapist / counselor, which may take more than one attempt. The first counselor I had, for maybe 3 sessions, was terrible. The 4th session was with his boss, she asked me how it was going, I said I didn't really click with the guy, and she took over my case. She was great.

It's well worth it to learn how to accept and like yourself. After all, the one person you can count on having the rest of your life, is you! Good luck!
> A decade ago I moved off the good iTunes and foolishly lost my complete library of metadata of songs, so I want to avoid that again.

Relying on anything that is closed source, or worse, an online service, brings with it the eventual inevitability of losing everything. No product or company lasts forever.

For things that are ephemeral in interest (e.g. movies you only care to watch once), that's fine.

For things that you really like and want to have a strong guarantee you can enjoy them later, the only solution is open formats and have the data in your control.

For all the music (and a few handful movies) that I want to be able to enjoy forever, I keep them locally in a redundant backed up ZFS server. No corporate change of heart can ever take those away from me.
Not a fan of that, either. It just seems like the kind of command that new users should avoid because they won't anticipate any consequences and experienced users do avoid because they can anticipate any consequences.
switch(keyword) :
case "unlock":
return unlockDoor();

Or something like that. what you're talking about is less like a config and more like a program.
Why not mention the product name (RemoveX) / link to the product website (https://removex.io/) instead of this light on information webpage?

I use AppCleaner (https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/) for the same purpose.

Does RemoveX find + clean files related to the application under different user accounts? Or offer export of the file list to make it easier to delete those files? AppCleaner does neither.
Jupyter notebooks seem very close to what I would imagine a practical application of Victors ideas to be. In fact, its very close to a couple demos of his I remember.
You can also pay for the new premium subscription for $42/month
Echoing what umberthreat34g said, check out Rectangle (https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle).
Historically Google far outspent Microsoft on their “super computers”, though in recent years MS has been closing the gap.

https://www.platformonomics.com/2022/02/follow-the-capex-clo...
Hey, André! Good seeing you here. I love your work!

I’ve been one of your supporters (via Patreon) for several years now (I literally have your name somewhere in my monthly budget — haha), and I will continue to support you, even though it’s not a large amount of $.

I sometimes wish I could work on open-source projects I love full-time, but instead I get to live vicariously through awesome folks like yourself.

I hope all is well with you. Keep up the great work!
> I’m not sure how deel handles this situation with employees in countries with stricter worker protections. Do they require the company to pay severance, do they include that in their fees?

We hired engineers in Mexico through Deel and were required to provide the mandatory severance up front (I forgot the exact amount but I think it was like 3 months salary?).

That money sat in an escrow account until we let go of the employees at which point we still had to follow all of the local labor laws which I believe also meant that every severance needed to be individually negotiated.

Deel handled all the mechanics but we still had to follow the process (meaning that the time between deciding to lay people off and actually being able to do it was a month if I recall correctly).

For what it's worth the experience convinced me to stick to traditional contracting companies for my remote engineers. Deel is probably a better fit for a company looking to transition to having a full time headquarters and business set up in that country rather than one that wants to just leverage the global pool of engineers.
I never listened at all until last year when somebody pointed me to Darknet Diaries. Now I’m completely hooked.

It’s hard to find good ones though. I haven’t had as much luck.
Or write everything in one line

It is annoying when you search for two words and they are not found, because they are on different lines

We just need better diff/merge tools that can handle text without line breaks. wdiff is installed everywhere for in-line diffs, but no one seems to maintain it. There have been patches sitting around for years: https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=wdiff
Just set aside a specific time to check the things that are interesting. Say, during lunch for 30 mins or carve out a 1 hour block where you just read.

5 hours a day seems excessive and a waste of time. How do you get anything else done? You can build a million dollar business in 5 hours a day compound over time.
For future, please share any thing you find.

I have some "quantified self" use cases that I'd like to try out.

- Monitor my breathing, nudge me when I'm holding my breath.

- Monitor my posture, nudge me as needed.

- Real time feedback for learning tai chi, qi gong, etc.
it seems to be constantly that way norwadays. I think they might give priority to paying API users, and of course by now there has been enough time for applications to implement chatgpt stuff.
I take this in the same vein as "Patagonia Founder Donates Company to Charity" and view it as a clever shell game.Mostly because Im cynical and have watched SV/VC game way too long to be healthy.
I had to look that up: https://www.aronson.com/the-disaster-year/
One request costs about 1 cent to process? Is that what Altman is saying?
SaaS Founders at Work '22 Edition: 42 Inspiring Heuristics and Hunches
This made me miss original Tetris too, and you can find it online (although they claim this is the version for the "old-school Super Nintendo console"): https://arcadespot.com/game/classic-tetris/
> Such numbers must exist because there are only a countably infinite number of numbers that can be described using a finite collection of symbols, but there are an uncountably infinite number of real numbers. So not only are there numbers that cannot be described using a finite number of symbols, there are vastly more of these than numbers that can be so described.

Why is almost no one more critical of this? A 'number' you can't describe or do computation with? Why do we still call this a number? If I ask Google to define number I get

> an arithmetical value, expressed by a word, symbol, or figure, representing a particular quantity and used in counting and making calculations.

Almost all (in the mathematical sense) 'real' 'numbers' can not be expressed, nor can be used for counting or making calculations.

Over the years I'm becoming more and more convinced we should reject the 'real' numbers as our default mathematical object for numbers, and switch to a basis that has a computable foundation. There is some work being done in this area, but not nearly enough in my opinion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number#Use_in_place...
I find there is a selective black and white perception of the world.

For example, renewables right now rely heavily on quick-to-dispatch gas plants - and that's fine as a stepping stone to a carbon-free future. Though the plan fo eliminating it is still vapourware - maybe better batteries, maybe larger grids, maybe something else.

But creating a hydrogen economy that somewhat relies on fossil fuels, with a clear pathway to eliminating the fossil fuel component? Anathema!

I have nothing at all against renewables and batteries, it sounds neat but remains incomplete here and now. But until it's clear it can replace all our uses of energy, I remain baffled by people who would like to shoot down any potential different path to that same goal.
Let me explain the point:

* There are hundreds of millions of people living for under $2/day. Coding was a pathway out of poverty.

* There are billions of people with family incomes under $30/day. For those families, kids learning to code was a pathway to wealth.

If tools to be productive cost money, it will go the same way as other domains of engineering, where you can't be productive without a significant investment.

EDA tools to design electronics run $5k-$100k, and making an IC might have NREs of $100k. That places it squarely out-of-line as a career option for many.
Based on the article, the person appears to be also talking about privacy, security, and freedom. Where the corporate tools can unexpectedly and stealthily be phoning home or the direction they go in are corporate controlled too much. This is less of an issue with truly/more so free and open source tools like Nim, Vlang, Free Pascal, Odin, Dlang, etc... They don't have the same kinds or levels of corporate gotchas attached to them. They are more "tools of the people". In various languages, corporations are more akin to users and donors, than they are dictating the direction and forcing their way, despite what the majority of users may want.
There are countably many finite collections of symbols.

There are uncountably many countable collections of symbols.

Edit:

The above is true if your symbols are countable. If they are uncountable, then obviously there are uncountable finite sets of your symbols (As the singleton sets are a subset, and those are uncountable).
> I dunno, maybe if Spotify wasn't spending hundreds of million on podcast deals and actually focusing on what its users want, they wouldn't need to lay people off.

One of the people specifically called out is Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff, who "decided to depart," which is how you phrase C-level firings when they coincide with layoffs.

I imagine that the disastrous podcast deals with the royals and Obamas had something to do with that.
Other than just marketing BS, probably lack of customers who use GPUs. Both AWS and GCP have capacity issues. The biggest factor is also that Google is a direct competitor and invented the technology even, so obviously they will not cannibalize themselves by giving google more money to train its own models.
Not really, no. We have evidence that even very low levels of lead is dangerous. The cost/benefit analysis is different. We have no idea what the "safe" level of PFAS is. Maybe its zero, like lead, but maybe not.

Every sip of water you drink has arsenic and cyanide in it. These chemicals are harmful, but not at very low concentrations.
There's risks, sure, but it was a successful business model for more than ten years, and it only ended because a sociopathic billionaire spent dozens of billions of dollars in order to promote his favorite neo-nazis and anti-vaxxers. It's hard to blame the devs for not seeing that one coming.
It seems transformers don't generalize in this class and neural turing machines and neural stack machines do.

You get the general rule (in linguistics known as competency) but can't flawlessly do it (performance). Transformers can't seem to get competence here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_competence
People exposed to weedkiller chemical have cancer biomarkers in urine
> developing a genuine human bond is somewhat of a mystery

I think shared experiences are key to creating a common bond. If you talk with old school friends, most people will end up talking about past events, this is a re-enforcing mechanism.

I think also that there is an intensity to the shared experience that matters as well. Sitting across the desk from someone for 10 years might build a bond, but it might also not last long outside of that workplace. Whereas people doing something physical and emotional together creates a stronger bond.

Personally, as someone with older kids, I'm now trying new physical activities and meeting new people. I can see I am making new friends, I've created conversations and interactions which go beyond just the original weekly activity.
Did you already know how embeddings work?
It seems much more likely that the driving factor behind their low birth rate is their very high rate of overwork. There have been a number of articles about how impossible it is for a typical salaryman to have enough free time and energy to even care about sex, let alone find a partner.
The haptics of the HP-1xC were the best. I wish they would still be made in the original quality. The SwissMicros clones just aren’t on the same level (also their displays differ significantly).