skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't get it. The fines are HUGE and the prison sentences really short.

So what do you choose? Pay x000 euro? Or go to prison for 1 day, a week at most? There are a substantial number of people picking the second option. Hell, people joke it's about the experience.

(Also this is in fact mostly about speeding tickets, not public transport fares)
Well, actually the ChatGPT essays-fed answer (https://twitter.com/stef/status/1617222536344764416/photo/1) is pretty close to what Paul Graham himself said, although he would not admit it. Real Paul talked about anomalies, and that's eerily close to "accidents and mistakes" in my opinion. :)
I came here because I heard that interesting news is discussed here. I was here for about a week before I discovered that this place was related to startups. I rarely comment and I have never posted. I keep coming back because of the quality of the commentary, my subjective opinion is that the commentary here is orders of magnitude better than that in other forums discussing interesting news.
Agreed, it can be a challenge to debug. I probably spent a couple weeks getting everything working for my app server the first time around. It helps that I control the source code though, so I can lean on some old fashioned text logs to pinpoint problem areas. Wine updates can sometimes break things too (had some problems with early 6.0 releases breaking the network stack), so it's important to hold Wine updates and test new versions thoroughly before updating.
In my experience, HTML+CSS is better in every way except page breaks. If they added more pagination-related features, it'd be better in every way. It's been too long since I played with it, but I remember tons of weird issues, like images being at the bottom of one page and the caption being on the top of the next, etc.

Additionally, CSS really needs way to say "when text overflows from this container, put it in this other container". With that, it could replace Indesign for me.

That said the rate of improvement with CSS is really great. :has() alone is super powerful. I also love color-contrast().
What if you recall, but your math, physics, or computer science studies took place at home (e.g. the COVID cohort)? It only accepts answers for results at high school.
Prison guards smuggle drugs. Then they invent all these weird policies to avoid admitting that. Until the pandemic they claimed it was visitors, but when shutting down visits didn't change the rate of drug detection they invented this drug impregnated paper crap.
So now they are going to have to separate into three businesses - an infrastructure business and two other business that buy services from their infrastructure since it really can’t be separated at this point.

And you really think that the government is going to go that far or that it’s a good idea?
unless you have identified a company whose bad developers are better than your bad developers. And if you have developed a process to identify that I think it's time to pivot.
What’s New in Flutter 3.7
Show HN: HTML 1.0-ish links recently posted to HN
> what's the difference between a higher up-front price on the menu for the item or a lower price with the expectation that at payment you'll pay 20% more?

Taxes.
It's probably just resting.
Then their first target should be Apple.
Google had an average tenure of 2.5 years for 25 years (before the current layoffs).

So, it's bullshit reason given by an entitled generation. Basically they want High Salary, High Benefits, Psychological Safety, Activism Time using company resources, Always support progressive causes.

None of them care about growth or understand basic capitalistic structures (ROI, ROE) or have managed a profitable division in their life.
Human tooth are also Ivory
well, that is the definition of "breaking news", more is to come. You don't have to drop anything if the topic is not of interest to you, but if you're buying a laptop right now you might care.

when dawn breaks, we have a whole day ahead of us.
In most states, private prisons get guaranteed minimum occupancy rates in their contracts with the states. If, for some miracle, people stopped committing crimes, and no more got incarcerated, these prisons were guaranteed a minimum profit level.
A work-from-home colleague just lost a work day or two when the manufacturer of his home wi-fi network reached down from the cloud, silently updated the firmware, and introduced flakiness in the process.

Imagine that happening to your washing machine, or stove, or fridge. By malice or incompetence, the invisible hand of the cloud reaching down and making a device work differently than you're used to. No thanks.

But an easy fix for those recalcitrant 50% like me. Just make the device refuse to function at all unless it has (recent) internet connectivity. Problem solved.
Japan has changed in important and visible ways
Dept. of Defense official says troops need training about online misinformation
My Samsung phone has begun offering to pair with washers and dryers in various fast food restaurants I visit. After the third or fourth time, I decided to have fun and accept, but sadly it seems I need to have physical access to complete the process :(
Better question is what has been done to prevent the next MH370 and I bet the answer is nothing much, it took a back burner once the story was out of the headlines.

There are only a thousand reasons aircraft operators might want to know where their planes are and if there are any issues. I’m sure that the gps position and black box data could be streamed over radio and/or satellite.
Even so extreme poverty is a contributing factor to how some end up in situations where the impulse is to commit a crime, even murder.
In absolute terms more bureaucracy is required now because they must all duplicate administration that they can currently share.
Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers
Hmm, I must have misread that paragraph based on my expectation.
Small chance you worked anywhere near it, but just wanted to say the logging in OpsGenie is amazing - I kinda love working on anything that requires me to dive into the OpsGenie logs because they are so verbose and well done.
Bork argued that antitrust law shouldn't inherently challenge bigness. He felt that the antitrust should seek to maximize consumer welfare. That's been interpreted by the courts to mean lower prices, but any economist worth their salt will say consumer choice is an aspect of consumer welfare.

It doesn't matter if Little Caesars pizza is the cheapest option, if there aren't any other pizza options, consumer welfare is severely negatively impacted because some consumers won't like Little Caesars.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg—despite being lionized by liberals—was an extremely pro-business justice who played a strong role in the Supreme Court siding with businesses in all but one antitrust case from 1995ish on. With her gone, I think this case may actually have a chance
For real, most developers repeatedly copy/paste things they find on the internet without understanding how they work. So the AI isn’t doing anything special that humans don’t already do.

Source: Bitter old SRE who has had to fix many broken software patterns ripped out of StackOverflow and the like.
Uh I'm sorry but what makes you claim that that is Snowden?

I see a rambling post by "Curly Cockroach". Nothing there says Snowden or I'm missing it.
> Wait until you find out about the application process for literally every large company you have ever used...

Good companies don't ask about high school unless they are getting interns (and even then they usually ask about college)
So now the government is going to force a separation into multiple companies and by doing so increase user tracking and sharing information across companies…

Win???
Google is a global company with huge EU antitrust issues as well as the advertising monopoly dispute in the US which is more of a rival corporations issue than a political one. They are now looking too big to succeed...
>a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely."

Might want to look into better prompt engineering. This is pretty generic and there are better prompts you can use.
big cloud providers will probably throw this in for free or really cheap.
Also worth mentioning that he got a ~%500 raise in 2021
It should be basically a human right to have a nice, well sealing, lockable door for a bathroom and a good fan and/or window.
Take a look at this.

https://toldby.ai/4kQNd-_tvUG
Sept. 2022: https://archive.ph/WsLD7

> PagerDuty's Results Sparkle Amid Gloom in Enterprise Software

> For its fiscal second quarter, ended July 31, PagerDuty (ticker: PD) reported revenue of $90.3 million, up 33.6% from a year ago. That is ahead of both the company’s guidance range of $87 million to $89 million, and the Wall Street consensus call of $88 million.

> On an adjusted basis, the company lost 4 cents a share in the quarter, while management had forecast a loss of 8 to 9 cents a share. The consensus view on the Street was that the loss would be 8 cents. Under generally accepted accounting practices, the company lost 44 cents a share.

> For the January 2023 fiscal year, the company now sees revenue of $365 million to $370 million, with a loss of 10 to 12 cents a share. It earlier forecast revenue of $364 million to $369 million, with a loss of 17 to 21 cents a share.
This is just the stuff on the web form. There was more on the written follow up:

In high school, how did you rank competitively in maths and hard sciences?
Which university and degree did you choose, what others did you consider, and why did you select that one?
At university, did you do particularly well at any area of your degree?
Overall, what was your degree result and how did that reflect on your ability?
In high school and university, what did you achieve that was exceptional?
What leadership roles did you take on during your education?

The first step of applying was filing a bug report, because applying wasn't possible. You can find the github issues people created. Yes, I did withdraw my application.
> Maybe this joke will get ignored, but then we could've had the same conversation few years ago about "prompt engineering" becoming a job, and here we are.

The joke is on all of us if we only treat this as a joke. Rails pioneered simple command line templates and convention over configuration, and it took over the world for awhile.

An AI as backend is the logical conclusion of that same trend.
It also assures customers who have concerns about the longevity of your company that, even if you folded, your product itself wouldn't just vanish. So it's a kind of insurance in addition to being a marketing strategy.
That is an interesting point about this (potentially) being age discrimination.
I would love a PD competitor. I've considered building one in the past, I'm mostly just afraid of the oncall/reliability load.

It's expensive and hard to use. Lot of opportunity to someone to come in on the "pagerduty but simple" train and start taking market share away.
What are you replying to, EGreg?
Modern C compilers have these features. They just need to be enabled.
I appreciate that they allow you to submit it nonetheless. I was expecting to get blocked. My hyphenated address with a .me TLD seems to break a lot of signup forms, and many of them won't let me submit the form with a valid address.
4 8 15 16 23 42?
Is there any industry segment where vendors have converged to a common interface for their business customers to configure devices and receive appliance telemetry for private use? How does telemetry data ownership work in regulated industries like airplanes?

If there are no commercial precedents, are there open-source firmware or hardware IoT devices setting a good example?
You call a company of fictitious entity, but What entity is not fictitious? A company is just an organized collection of humans, sometimes outnumbering the employees. Is a group of employees a fictitious entity? Is a union a fictitious entity? A family or a marriage?

I don't see anything fictitious about it.

If your point is that a company is not a human, of course it isn't. Nothing but a human is a human.
>This isn't a PR exercise. Context is needed

Thank you for explaining the context so well. But I disagree with your first claim. I'm saying it is totally a PR exercise.
10+ years outdated

This is a much better roundup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa4SLWXtwi0
That's nice of you to say. Thank you! The other thing I'll say about our process: we don't have it exactly right yet. We learn some new big thing about once a month or so, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down; every time we learn something, by implication, it means we've been doing something pretty wrong previous to that point.
Vienna Startup Package 2023
> None of them care about growth or understand basic capitalistic structures

Maybe they rightly don't care about those things when they see what blindly optimizing for ROI and other "capitalistic values" does to the rest of the society they live in.
Just in case you didn't read the author's byline, he's currently being paid by Microsoft and was a former consultant for Activision Blizzard.
Anti-aging gene shown to rewind heart age by 10 years
NASA, DARPA will test nuclear engine for future Mars missions
I noticed a typo on the main page at the bottom under 'Step 2'.

Import your settled transactions from you gateway.

I built something similar for an internet based sweepstakes site to automate the accounting for prizes using quickbooks/intuit API and lob.com to print and mail the prize checks.

I have an issue with quickbooks/intuit and their oauth refresh token longevity. It seems that the refresh tokens will expire and are not replaced when you do the normal 'refresh token' dance.. The only work around so far requires the user to go through the oauth ritual to receive a new refresh token. :(
Yes $42 feels quite cheap to me. I pretty much always have a ChatGPT tab open, mostly for coding but also sometimes for searching more broadly or exploring it's capabilities.

It's worth it to me just to have access to a version that doesn't go down as much. I would say I can work about 30% faster on most computer related tasks having it.

It feels like another Google (to me). I'd pay $42/mo for Google if it didn't exist otherwise.

The nice thing too, if Stable Diffusion is any indication we'll have an even better open source version in a year or two.

In either case I just want access to the stuff the automates the largest amount of boring repetitive work.
The article says this is a total comp cut, not just a salary cut. Salary before stock incentives for 2022 was only $3 million or so. I'm not sure what it had gone up to for 2023, but if it is a similar ratio of salary to other incentives, almost all of this 40% cut would be through stock incentive cuts wouldn't it?
Had a chat with some of the `typescript` discord folks. Apparently the accepted belief is that “all exceptions are treated as unchecked and there’s not much buyin that exposing the thrown error types add value. Basically it’s “bring your own research” to handing errors, or configure a default catcher.
"The Vienna Startup Package invites selected international startups to Vienna that are motivated to expand into the DACH region and immerse themselves in the local startup ecosystem. The intensive, four-week program will help the startups understand the Austrian market, identify new business opportunities and connect them with relevant stakeholders in Vienna."
Anybody with money to spend is going to be astute enough to realise that the burden of self-hosting is far above any potential direct cost savings, and so self-hosting becomes an option utilised only by those who probably wouldn’t be going to pay for it anyway. Essentially, it’s a pain-in-the-ass free tier.
$50M pays for like 100 employees at Apple.

It's not saving the company from doing 10% layoffs.

Not even 0.1%...
What a strange assumption. There are probably more students here than startup founders (yeah, I know you can be both).
Was a startup founder. Sold it. No current intention of doing it again, but may change someday. No option really addresses past founders.
Starting by bringing back caning in elementary school would pay substantial dividends in about 10 years.
There's a historical crime fiction series that intertwines the real history and discovery of Choloroform, gynecology etc. with crime:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38114460-the-way-of-all-...

The author "Ambrose Parry" is a pseudonym for the combined talents of a crime writer and his wife, who is an anaesthetist with a master's degree in the History of Medicine
Start with distribution for employee

Good: P(good)=p
Bad: P(bad)=(1-p)

Have a bad employee detector

P(detected as bad|bad)=q1

P(detected as good|bad)=1-q1

P(detected as good|good)=q2

P(detected as bad|good)=1-q2

Fraction of employees detected as good:

pq2+(1-p)(1-q1)

Fraction of employees detected as bad (and therefore fired)

p(1-q2)+(1-p)q1

Suppose you pay a discount on ability to hire new good employees as d (so probability to hire a new good employee is dp instead of p)

So you benefit as long as

p(1-q2)/((1-p)q1)<dp/(1-dp)

Or

(1-q2)/q1 < d (1-p)/(1-dp)

Plugging in
p=.8, d=.5, q1=q2=q (knowing good and bad is equally hard)

(1-q)/q < .167

Break even is then

q = 1/1.167=.857

So if you start with 80/20 distribution and after a while improve your discrimination to 86/14 then firing benefits you even if you are hiring from a 40/60 pool.
it was around 45 minutes
Put me down for NPP as well, and also PuTTY. Yes, I know that there are hundreds of SSH clients on Linux, but how many of them are also telnet and serial terminal clients as well? More importantly, it's what I'm used to.
https://micro.domains/ seems to be somewhat useful for this
I didn't know mammoth ivory was becoming more common (due to thawing permafrost). There are still some ethical considerations at play, it seems--this article is decent overview: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/why-woolly-mammoth-ivory-coul...
1) The people who are really caring about this are trying to avoid having the data be stored on some server also, and 2) so are you claiming Apple got this wrong?... Like, their mechanism here sounded pretty sufficient to me.
Sucker Bait
Smart stove internet remotely activate your stove so you can boil water before you arrive home given you have the a pot of water on the correct stove , no thanks.
What's wrong with the Django docs? I think they are decent.
For comparison, Jensen's (Nvidia CEO) total compensation was $23.7M in FY2022.
I guess that depends on how you're measuring, but I don't have a side-by-side of a recent Intel mac to compare, really.
This puzzles me, there are often cases where hostnames are baked into frontends. Also, not everyone wants to use docker, so it's not exactly mandatory to have docker images. Dockerizing most things is rather simple, anyway.
It's good enough. I know zero powershell, but I know other languages enough to understand the common grammar. With ChatGPT I'm a fairly rapid powershell programmer right off the bat - as evidenced by the script I've been writing this afternoon. I don't know any of the (overcomplicated) syntax, but now I don't have to.
I am not sure Google could survive splitting prod. The enormous value of internal vertical integration that enabled them to grow ads & search traffic would be hard to replicate if there wasn't one signal source of truth that you could contact directly when there is an infrastructure problem.

I think "colossal pain in the ass" underestimates the order of magnitude of pain it would involve (borne by the hapless engineers, no doubt). Divesting the Cloud part of Google (IE moving Cloud into its own independent "prod2") is also somethinig interesting to think about.
> Irregardless

I see what you did there. And you’re right, but “would have” is not there yet, it’s just a common mistake like swapping your/you’re.
Undergrad in our lab was working after hours and once dropped an entire jug of choloroform which promptly exploded on the floor. He shat a brick and ran out of the building. Fire Department and Hazmat cleanup crews both showed up and shut down the entire building.
So work for a place that gives out equity? Maybe I'm getting a totally different view of offers to engineers (at non-Canonical companies) than you are, but most of mine have contained passion-inducing amounts of equity - if you believe in the 409A. Which you can't, until you can.
They're spending over half a million dollars a year to house prisoners[0]. The resources are there but they're not using them for rehabilitation.

[0] https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/comptroller-stringer-co...
Hacker news user happy that 50% of customers won't connect smart appliances

I thought that number would be much lower
Mmmm... and what about copyright ? I mean: may I dump all of HN and then consider it a book to be sold for my own profit ? And if I can't do it... what is the difference between this idea and using HN to train an LLM ? And what if I don't want my comments be parts of this LLM ? Or what about the "trash" accounts that don't want to be identified ?

Don't get me wrong: the idea could be nice but... ain't it time to think twice about all this before applying the last technological fad ?
I think it's because Snowden sent out his public key to this account, on his twitter account:

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1617623779626352640
There's an even a freer alternative, not FOSS though.

http://zcal.co

It also allows connection to multiple calendars.
Terrific profile. There are several institutions in India named after him such as the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bhabha Hospital, etc.
For the vast majority of google searches there are no relevant ads. All these searches are subsidized by someone googling "flights to new york" and booking a flight right there. Google provides an immense public good with free (and mostly ad-free) results to all kinds of questions, which other flight search engines do not.

Imagine: A flight search engine as a marketing gimick starts a web search engine, and shows flight results if someone searches for "flights to ...". Seems like a good thing, no? It seems like no other flight search engine would have a right to complain about unfair competition here.
They are atomic scientists, so they actually aren't even experts in any of those fields. The risk of nuclear war is a geopolitical question which has nothing to do with the science behind the weapons.
how did they accidentally send you money? Are you sure it is not a scam to get you to feel bad and pay them back through another channel before they do the process to reclaim the funds from paypal?
What you're describing is more commonly known as the "Prosperity Gospel" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology - which is a niche theology that claims believers will experience "health and wealth" on earth.

Predestination is a much more mainstream Christian doctrine that has nothing to do with "good people" vs "bad people", or even "good actions" vs "sinful actions". Predestination means some people are "destined" to salvation and others are not.

Predestination is a challenging theology that has to balance God being all knowing (omniscient) and free will.
Merits of the case decided by who? A bunch of not-lawyers on HN?

Do you think the government should step in and not allow any device to bundled with a browser? Why stop at browsers? Why don’t we just force all manufactures to ship every device without an OS?
That's a different antitrust violation.

This one is about ad tech.

DoJ is probably filing this lawsuit first either it's easier to win and/or they have gathered enough evidence.

Pretty sure they are looking into App Store antitrust too.
How is this not textbook false advertising?
I appreciate the semi-functional trial so I can get a sense of the look and feel before paying.
Self-hosting can always be made HIPAA compliant if you do it right.