skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently shipping without fear - google had a lot of the fundamental research happen at google brain and developed a LLM to rival gpt and a generative model that looks better than DAL-E in papers, but decided to show no one and keep them in house because they haven’t figured out a business around them. Or something, maybe it’s fear around brand damage, I don’t know what is keeping them from productionizing the tech. As soon as someone does figure out a business consumers are okay with they’ll probably follow with ridiculous compute capacity and engineering resources, but right now they are just losing the narrative war because they won’t ship anything they have been working on.
The breakdown of this though is that sometimes management thinks "oh all (internal, I assume?) support is solved with the cost of only 1 headcount" and then they just let that rotating week become more and more hellish. Then never prioritize anything to make it better because the maximum "impact" of that work is taking the footprint from "1 eng per week" to "1 eng per week" (zero perceived "real" impact. And if you provide alternate metrics to correctly show the load, they'll just say, well clearly it still fits into 1 eng week, good job, keep it up).

And eventually employees burn out and start mailing in that week and now suddenly nobody cares except the other teams having trouble getting support, but apparently that is a diffuse enough complaint that nothing ever came of it.

Not that I speak from experience...
I wonder why this seems to repeatedly[1] not get front-page attention? I really liked it - thank you for posting it.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%09Rust+for+the+Polyglot+Programme...
It seems straightforward to have a list of legally forbidden countries...?
[2019]

The actual article should be this one:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b04168
> Now wondering what the boundary between "BBC radio programme on Sounds" and "podcast" is.

This thread is teaching me that people would even draw a boundary there at all. It's clear from the people posting here that many really think of podcasts as "couple of guys sitting around shooting the shit", but there's a hell of a lot out there outside of this one genre.

It's a bit "I tried a bunch of science fiction books, but I didn't like them so reading isn't for me."
Hm, couldn't you make the same argument about punch cards? The abstractions you talk about translate to different mediums differently. I think text/code/string is a very universal and low tech medium, but I don't think there's anything about it that would make it ideal for working with those abstractions. And, let's not forget that there's a myriad of different abstractions, which to me suggests that there might be as many different ideal mediums.
Does Florida know about the internet yet?
I think this is what you are saying but to reword it for how we do it.

We have one "on duty" person each week/half-week/two-weeks. Their priorities are:

1. Support tickets.

2. Whatever they want (usually code cleanup).

They aren't expected to get any project work done. We also track the amount of time that they are spending on support tickets. If it is getting high we move more cleanup tasks into the regular project work cycle.

If you have oncall you can often co-locate these as well (oncall is priority 0).

The main risk is that if your support load gets high than there is no room for cleanup/automation which can become a feedback loop causing more support load. I haven't seen a good solution for this other than keeping track of the load and scheduling proper "project work" to address it when it gets too high.
The fact that people pay for something is not an indication that it is productive labor.
Game of Trees Milestone
In theory the website is advertising jobs to people in every labor market on earth. Since there is a huge variety of labor laws out there, I'm guessing the website violates many many laws.
> The problem is that neural network models, and their outputs, are not copies of the original works. They are a set of probabilities (weights) that are trained based on thousands or even millions of data points.

True, but in order to train these models you have to copy and save images that are for the most part copyrighted. So while the models are not copies of images, they are definitely derivative works.
Buildings lose value in almost every market. It’s just that in western cities the land increases by so much more than the building decreases we don’t notice it.
This doesn't work for rational numbers either.
Take any rational a/b, then 0 < a/(2b) < a/b is both closer to zero, and it is also a rational number.
Yep - the consumer credit sector is already behind; perhaps life would be different had they focused on experience rather than exploitation.
Netflix's New Chapter
Dumb question but do you have to do anything manually to ensure it’s actually aligned to a single cache line or does it just happen because of the way things work?
Lower productivity is highly questionable.

I’ve really only seen layoffs boost productivity. Suddenly there is less overhead and fewer cooks-in-the-kitchen.

Morale hits are real, but tend to fade if people feel confident that they’ve survived another day.
Observable HQ takes a step beyond that, being a reactive notebook.
This is a remarkably crude and revanchist move from Republican politicians. It’s embarrassing but mostly bluster and spectacle. It won’t work, and there are already for more effective and sophisticated forms of media control wielded by their allies (See Jane Meyer’s Dark Money, or Messengers of the Right). But at the end of the day it’s school-wars red meat for the rubes, and that’s good enough for De Santis.
wheres the line between a job board and an aggregator?

As far as I can tell this just links through to the actual job postings, which may or may not be compliant.

It will be an interesting transition period. I remember job ads telling Colorado residents they need not apply, but if you emailed them I bet it would have been fine.
> they may have been "paid" for it previously, those cultural items can be appreciated without needing to pay someone for it.

You are arguing against your own point here. As I said culture stops being created when there is no money for people to create it.

Should copyright never expire? no. is 25 years enough? you betcha.

> There are also many contemporary cultural items that were created without monetary recompense

Again you are missing the wider point. For culture to be created you need a mix of people, and those people to feel safe enough, and have enough time and energy to create said culture. They will also need money for materials.

As I suspect you are not on a poverty wage, you will have the time, energy and healthcare to be able to create a new thing. This is not a luxury someone who works two jobs just to make rent has.

> our use of the word "stealing" is unnecessarily loaded and specifically means that the creator was deprived of physical ownership which would be incorrect.

stealing is taking with intent to deprive. I mean specifically what I say.

taking someone else's work and selling it as your own to make money, whilst depriving that person of credit or income stream. It is morally wrong.

Now there is an argument about corporations abusing copyright (they do) but, throwing it all out only benefits people like google, amazon and facebook.
I would happily see Spotify die, they have exploited the artists more effectively than any other organization since the advent of streaming.
"Are you suggesting we ban research into _any_ new materials whatsoever?"

Quite the opposite. I'm saying the items should be tested/researched. Hence my use of untested, as you also point out.

Essentially, stop trusting the company because they are acting like a child. You ban that class of chemicals until they can prove they are responsible and the chemical can realilistically be handled safely (unlikely for consumer products since the waste at product life end would be unmanageable). You can do this through a strict certification and surveillance program as well as limiting the use of the product to industrial applications where no alternatives exist.

But the only real point I was trying to make is that people are more likely to support bans on a rational basis that the companies have fucked up before and lied/manipulated and are likely to cause more harm like that in the future. The stuff we are discussing at this point is a little outside of that as we are getting into what people would debate considering what is reasonable.
100x is a great return even for YC standards, but the best returns that business angels, VCs and YC have had is in the order of magnitude of 10000x (yes, ten thousand). So capping at 100x still makes it attractive for investors, yet leaves a lot of potential capital for the non-profit.

As one example, Sequoia invested in Airbnb at $0.01 per share, and Airbnb's current stock price is $102, almost exactly 10000x return. This happens more often that you think if you're not in the early stage & top VC world.
Obviously children should not work in sweatshops and rather go to school instead, but do good numbers exist, that the "hysterical" campaigns increased those numbers and not just put the kids on the street to do scavenging on toxic dumbsters?

Well intended is not always well done and hystery is seldom helping. I remember from my youth(in germany), that work for kids was also forbidden. With some exceptions like delivering advertisement to every door. The result was, that this was a very shitty job, very badly paid (you were replaceble) and the ones illegally working for the bike shed for example, made way more money.
With ADHD, a single HN post could have me following source material and child nodes up to 5-6 layers deep.

Once the time-blindness wears off, the anxiety sets in you realize hours have passed and outstanding work is due soon.

What sort of worked:

- Blocking web sites during work hours (SelfControl for MacOS and NextDNS for devices)

What did work:

- Consistent sleep schedule (10PM)

- Mindfulness meditation in the morning

- Getting physically active in the morning

- Working in a different environment

What helped on top of that:

- Getting prescribed for ADHD medication

- Professional counseling from a therapist

- Dealing with what’s causing your anxiety (or depression)
Research shows layoffs result in a lowering of productivity:

https://www.boardoptions.com/Learning%20from%20the%20past%20...

https://pavestep.com/post/the-effects-of-downsizing-on-remai...

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-layoffs-cost...

https://garfinkleexecutivecoaching.com/articles/career-advic...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/radhikaphilip/2020/07/23/the-pa...
All books are affected by this.
Ask HN: Why is Google freaking out about ChatGPT
It seems like a recurring narrative is that this level of AI will disrupt Google and others, but why? Is it just because it will become easier to crest “shovelware” articles that will mess with uniqueness of pages, or a personal assistant type feature “Book me the best hotel in Phoenix” or something else?
It's a bit harsh but I mean, all it boils down to is: Teachers shall teach the curriculum.
What about kindle books
As an Icelander, our traditional culture has already been completely marginalized and destroyed by the outlawing of piracy, as well as of raping and pillaging.

If the rest of the world would agree to look the other way on those topics, I'm sure we could be persuaded to once again accept double-digit percentages of the population as sla..., ahem, immigrants every year.
Has Covid ever been a deadly disease?

It is contagious but not deadly as far as deadly diseases go.

In the areas of Africa where malaria is endemic, it kills an estimated 400,000 people a year. Covid didn't even get to 40,000 in those regions and those are the least vaxxed areas on the plant.

How deadly could Covid be when the policy for people with symptoms was to stay at home without treatment or medication until the symptoms got too much too bear. Try that with malaria or meningitis and see how well that would turn out.

If anything it could be argued that it wasn't that deadly but the policy above made it more deadly than it should have been for those who succumbed to it, not to mention those who have developed long Covid.
Make it possible
Lol, funny, I dig it.

Right here in real life I just do http://zim-wiki.org + a custom CSS Template + a few shell scripts.

http://jrm4.com
I agree entirely with you but had a hard time ignoring the "yeah but what have you done for me lately?" tone above
Why does it fail to exist? It’s an axiom that can be added to intuitionistic axiom systems just as well as for classical ones, no? It’s orthogonal to the law of the excluded middle after all. In constructive mathematics with AC, you would just call the selected set element AC(your-set).
I’m not going to suggest it’s a good idea, but I know when math books became a topic it was supposedly because some type of political stuff was being included in the problems. Haven’t followed it closely but I do remember hearing that.

I’ll see if I can find a link.

EDIT: Found one. https://nypost.com/2022/04/22/floridas-banned-math-textbooks...
Whatever random book any random teacher bought or was given.

The whole point is that they have to remove ALL books that aren't approved through The Process. Of course there's not going to be a list of those. There isn't some master list of books that are lying around classrooms everywhere.
Classroom libraries are a big deal. Every step taken that makes a teacher's job riskier, less pleasant, or less like what they want to be doing (teaching kids, without having to worry about whether some plainly-positive action is legal), drives good teachers out of the profession.
Try clicking the '[-]' sign to the right of 'next'.
Again, revenue is not really all that relevant for this kind of business. They’re a low margin business because they must pay huge bills to record labels. R&D doesn’t cut record label costs.
Google still has it's own platforms. If we take a look at last generation consumer AI's, voice assistants, Google definitely beat Microsoft, and not only because Cortana sucked.

Microsoft may dominate the AI market for office stuff soon, but for general purpose language models Google still has a great shot, especially when it comes to mobile platforms
Another one I love is "right sizing". A phrase I have only ever heard when companies lay off.
> * The team does short sprints.

How short is short?
A Comparative Study on Text Augmentation Techniques for Low-Resource NLP
We live in a world of “sanctuary this” and “Do not comply with that” and “I will not enforce the other”.

In other words, we live in a world where a nontrivial percentage of the population, especially many in influential positions, have decided that they don’t need to obey laws they disagree with.

How else are you going to get people to comply with the law?

Note that I am not asserting that any law is “good” or “bad”. But the proper way to handle bad laws is to win elections and change them, or use public sentiment to pressure lawmakers to change them.
I've been using TickTick for a few years and am pretty happy with it.
On a technical note, it's still an ICE. And Toyota's absolutely trying to show that it can actually be pretty much the same ICE but reinforced to deal with the much higher pressures from having to work with compressed hydrogen. But, while there is still internal combustion happening the major difference is that a hydrogen ICE produces heat and mostly water, rather than heat and mostly CO2 (). You just can't go as far on hydrogen mostly because the amount of dead weight required for hydrogen is so much higher than for fossil or electric.

) With the usual caveat that of the hydrogen product itself is currently not green, but as always, putting all the pollution in one spot, at scale, means far less pollution per car than if every car's running its own fossil furnace
Inside Japan's Most Minimalist Homes
> No, you've been musked.

Sorry internet troll, but no, I haven’t. You’re the one stupid enough to take Musk at his word, not I.

> you agree that Tesla's video promoting full self-driving was staged.

Of course I do. Any sane person would also agree.

> Sure it did.

Read it again. Then apply logical thought to it and not “yeah, here’s a link that I can parrot around like an idiot!”
Ah, what a stellar use case. It's been forever since I looked into git notes (or was it annotations? can't check right now). But I guess those had significant flaws. Empty commits that you can use the message as a todo-list and fixup/amend in changes as you go. Might try this.
High memory use will still peg a CPU at 100%. They don't get many opportunities to do other things while waiting for cache refills. Increasing core speed/single thread performance will not help much in memory-bound tasks.
> Children are massively financially costly… daycare, clothing, food, medical care, education, etc.

Except Japan has made nearly all of this absolutely free. So the financial cost argument falls a bit flat.
There is a big difference between using a substance to save life and limb.

And putting it on every random consumer product whwre it has no need to be
The same reason why some companies consider "US-only" to be remote
AI models aren't observing anything. The people who train them are copying other people's works to do so. By saying an AI model is "observing" images you're begging a question.
How many people in your team?
This app: https://selfcontrolapp.com/

I don't quite know how it works, but it allows me to setup a website block list that I can't get around. I'm sure if I really tried I could figure out what it changed and get around the block, but 1) then it would defeat the purpose and 2) that takes effort that I don't want to spend.

Then I put my phone in the other room, and voila! 95% of my distractions are out the window.
If the industry is anything like every other industry, than bottlenecks were surely induced BY the lockdown then and not prevented by it.

So the justification for the lockdown was caused by the lockdown
Who is ‘Davos Man’ today?
One known recent evolutionary event is geographic variation of lactose intolerance.
It’s also pretty straightforward to work through a VPN and get paid out to foreign accounts.
one listing says EMEA. What's that mean?
The looming AI-generated SEO nightmare feels like we are on the cusp of a cousin to the machine translation problem.

Many years ago, someone had the fantastic idea to improve translation by comparing websites available in different languages. This shift made machine translation noticeably less embarrassing. It also meant that instead of hiring a translator to translate a site fully, you could cheaply hire a shop that runs machine translation and fixes the worst errors.

The knock-on effect here is that many websites that would constitute input data for future machine translation systems are essentially already machine translated. So we are in a G-in/G-out situation.

(source: a translator friend of mine in the AAA games industry)
NASA solved a $100M problem for five bucks (2012)
Ah a fellow archiver - don't listen to them! We must preserve at all costs!

I wish you abundant storage redundancy.
Wait, obviously Amazon has their own checkout software. Is this a name recognition play to have AWS come with Stripe batteries included?
~2025: Stripe becomes Amazon SBS — Simple Billing Service
You for sure hit the minimalist aspect and it's a good looking app! I am not sure if you're mean in general time tracking or with Timeretain. In general time tracking no but I use time tracking for personal use and not for tracking paid projects. For me having a mobile app is a big deal since I use it track personal habits etc but thats probably more of niche use. My advice would be keep you focusing on your minimalist approach since you saw the need for that but I would investigate toggls business model and see if you can match that while catering to a different subset of users. Good luck!
Poland ups pressure to send German-made tanks to Ukraine
Let's see if I can clear this up:

An equivalent way to phrase the Axiom of Choice is: there exists a function that takes in any non-empty set, and returns an element of that set.

IE, this exists: choose a :: NonEmptySet a -> a

That's it. All of this stuff about "take a choice from a countable number (IE, list) of sets" is fluff; once you have choose, you can make a function that takes in an Iterator (NonEmptySet a) and produces (NonEmptySet a), such that the output will contain every element.

oneFromEachSet :: Iterator (NonEmptySet a) -> NonEmptySet a

oneFromEachSet iter = NonEmptySet (choose (first iter)) <> (oneFromEachSet (rest iter))

Where '<>' is set union.

Does that fix your issue with an "infinite" number of choices? Or do you take issue with assuming 'choose' exists, now that it's a single function?
> His customers, he added, aren’t just looking to maps for directions, but as inspiration for future trips or even as art worth hanging.

I think that alone accounts for the vast majority of this increase. The article throws that in as a minor detail but I'd bet money it's the only reason. Of course you don't get as many clicks for "More people are buying maps as art". 2 of the 3 examples of maps they give at the end are exclusively art (raised maps and the coffee map).
Both Spotify and Netflix depend on content that they don't, and can't, own.

Netflix became a desert after WB, Disney and others decided they wanted their own streaming services and took their content with them. And since Disney basically owns everything, Netflix now has nothing (except their own content).

Spotify is fully at the mercy of the three-four big companies that own nearly all the music in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation

And don't forget, you also need to complete with companies with near-unlimited money and quick access to users like Apple, Google, Amazon
Show HN: I Made Cheaper Email Scrum App
Are wages rising, falling or stagnating?
> Nukes and geothermal simply cost more

They only cost more because of "environmentalists" fighting both new reactors, fuel element transport and waste storage tooth and nail in a way they don't fight coal ash ponds or heavy metal tailing lakes...

(The average lifecycle cost of nuclear power at scale in France - where plants were built before anti-nuclear hysteria - is about 7 cents per kWh, same-ish as the cost of solar or wind fleet, and with fewer intermittency problems. Solar might be cheaper in Hawaii and California, but most places are not blessed with 3,000 hours of sunshine a year.)
If you write an application that makes money in a manner that involves transactions from people somehow, it will be the case for you. That is in fact the majority of developers.
It also drives families with kids out of Florida to more sane educational operating environments.

Florida already has the worst teacher shortage in the nation: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/01/22/our-child...
I always read `reflog` as `re-flog` not `ref-log`. And, I was confused about the connection between flogging and the finding all git commits. It was much later that I made the connection.
Right, like all those cryptocurrency companies structured as non-profit foundations in Switzerland.
Your post doesn’t make sense mathematically. As a function from the reals to the reals the function f(x) = x+1 doesn’t “include negative infinity” (have no idea what that is supposed to mean). Negative infinity is not a real number and is not in the domain of the function or its range. If you think “infinity” (which one?) is not a number then do you believe there are no infinite ordinals? How do you justify the view that countably infinite ordinals don’t exist?
Good. Guess why PayPal after leaving eBay wasn't moving on Amazon.

Maybe they were doing enough money already :)