skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd go full stack Rails with Turbo and Postgres DB. As things grow, you can easily migrate your Rails app towards a JSON API layer and create new clients to interact with it either with your favorite JS framework or mobile app. I just love how quickly you can churn out new features in Rails -- or how easy it is to implement things like authentication or an admin panel by simply adding a gem.
A car is mostly an amalgamation of mechanical devices and we have a solid track record of steadily and incrementally improving those over dozens of millennia.

Modern cars also have a lot of computing power in the form of fairly dumb systems that are good at sensing things and following rules e.g. "based on conditions X, Y, and Z the flow of the fuel injector nozzle should be N". Got a solid track record here too albiet one that's decades long and not millennia.

A tool that replaces a human data analyst needs to do a lot of inference. When I'm translating stakeholder requests into code and reports, it's about 10% coding and 90% human inference. Remains to be seen how good machines can get there.
Not necessarily. It would take a pretty tremendous gerrymander to give the Greens (as an example) a seat in the state legislature. At the point where they held a meaningful percent of the vote we could easily incorporate their voters into this framework. The simple truth is most people support one of the two main parties (independents are about 1/3 of voters but these are generally aligned between the two major parties than any alternative). You could take issue with the legislature being allowed to localities instead of parties. The scheme used by the European parliament is nice for representing more fringe political orientations but it neglects the immediate material interests of different regions. Given that most of what the state legislature does is allocate resources to different localities, the ideological issues are probably secondary to the basic questions like who gets water, or funding for roads.
So I have to allow my resources to be clogged up by others who have no skin in the game? It is my harddrive, I get to choose the ones and zeros on my private property. You do not get to fill them up with spam that I have to maintain forever.
> And you can get a pretty healthy meal as long as you go light on the cheese and sour cream.

As someone who gets at least ~30% of their daily calories from dairy, that sounds backwards. Nutrient dense animal products (especially cheese and thick yogurts, maybe less so sour cream) are the healthiest things you can eat. The 1980's-borne thinking that says otherwise had only produced obesity epidemics.

So I'd say you can get a pretty healthy meal if you skip the rice, double the meat, and always get cheese and sour cream.
Not really sure why you're getting downvoted, other than to assume an emotional reaction from the community to layoffs impacting tech.

Frankly - People seem to be forgetting that until 2013, MS was still doing stack ranking and routinely letting go of the bottom 10% of their workforce (and they were hardly the only ones doing it...)

I don't see it as unusual AT ALL that these companies are doing a wave of cuts to headcounts after the large hiring sprees during covid. Especially as interest rates rise, so they're looking to lower debt burdens in the short term and pay off loans made at low interest rates instead of rolling into a higher interest loan in the new environment.

If anything... I'd expect the exact opposite - a CEO that fails to address cost centers as debt becomes more expensive is a liability, and someone the board might be looking to replace (ask to step down).

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Does that mean I'm not sympathetic to those who've lost jobs? Of course not.

But tech had to rev the engine pretty hard to handle the extra load during covid when everyone was indoors and doing things online, and now that demand has dropped. So they're letting off the gas pedal.

If folks don't like it - blame the game. Work to unionize. Work to incentivize co-ops and shared ownership. Work to increase taxation on these companies and their highest earners (which... if you're in the tech industry almost certainly includes YOU). Don't go work for giant tech conglomerates and then act surprised when they act like giant tech conglomerates...
The answer is in your question.

It's the credentialing. The pediatrician lacks the credentials of a neurosurgeon. Just as non-doctors lack the credentials to work as a doctor. The hosptial, insurance, and court would all be looking at the credentials.
If you take just a single class of gun safety, they'll drill into your head that you should treat any gun as loaded until you personally check it's not. If someone checks a gun and sees there's not bullet in and hands you the gun, it's your duty to check it again. Even if you saw him doing in front of you just seconds before. Checking a gun to see if it's loaded should be a reflex. It does not take long, maybe one second.

Why should you treat a gun when you shoot a movie any differently?

If Alec's case goes in front of a jury, a lot of people in this country are familiar with how to handle a gun, and they won't give him a pass.
Anyone claiming Musk's purchase is a disaster is just looking to take shots at the guy. I say this not because I think it was a good move or a bad move, but because it's impossible to determine the success or failure of a deal that size in just a few months. It will be years before we can honestly asses how his Twitter acquisition went. I remember when Facebook bought Instagram, many pundits mocked Zuckerberg for spending over a billion dollars on what was then a basic photo sharing app. Many years later, the Instagram acquisition looks like a steal.
Right. The reason legal fees are so expensive is that the courts are kept semi-efficient by offloading costs to lawyers.

The system needs repeat players, who are scared of being disbarred. You can triple the number of lawyers, and costs won’t decrease much.
No, PDF to Word has been included since Word 2013.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/opening-pdfs-in-w...
Are there districts that are low on people, industry, and agriculture that get representation based purely on their size?
U.S. economy expands at 2.9% annual rate in fourth quarter
If this is the case, the lawyers should have nothing to fear, and the plaintiff nothing to lose but a parking ticket. I say we stop arguing and run the experiment.
Do you have the source for this? I tried ChatGPT:

>> Someone on the internet wrote "humans cannot consume more calories than 2.5x their basal metabolic rate" -- which study might they be quoting?

> I am not aware of a specific study that states that humans cannot consume more calories than 2.5x their basal metabolic rate. Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the amount of energy a person needs to maintain basic bodily functions such as breathing and digestion, and it can vary greatly depending on factors such as age, sex, and muscle mass. However, the total daily calorie needs of an individual also depend on their level of physical activity and other lifestyle factors. So, it's likely that this statement is a generalization or an over simplification.
Something about the way that the answers all have the rhythym of punchlines but rarely make sense unless it seems to be by accident is a lot of fun
It's a response to extreme demand during covid. When - you know - online service usage was at all time highs because everyone was stuck inside and doing things online.

It was likely the right call to hire then, just like it might be the right call to reduce headcount now.
Well, we know for a fact that every once in a while, we get hit by an asteroid (which is exactly what this is about). I'd call that cyclical and not made up.
The one unifying characteristic of all social network communities is that they all have a defined Other that they are better than.

They all invent some rationale for why they are better but all of them are, in the end, the same.
There's much valuable advice - sort of.

20+ years ago, he was one of a handful of well-known faces of personal finance, was nationally syndicated, books, etc. There were fewer outlets and fewer options than there are today.

His focus on debt and changing mindset around that will help some people, but if he's a turnoff (for whatever reason), you'll get 99% the same advice on most issues from dozens/hundreds of other personalities.
You must be quite used to always being right in everything, since you think it's adequate to call somebody an asshole out of the blue when opinions are different.

I've managed restaurants and worked professionally with implementing POS systems. Any restaurant owner who tries to force customers pay an extra, hidden fee, after the food has been ordered and consumed knows that what they are doing is fraudulent. Maybe they don't know it is illicit.

Every POS system has a way to delete fees and parts of an order. Business would be impossible without this, since waiters make mistakes and have to correct them. And if the system doesn't have that function it is a problem for the restaurant, not for the client.

Many people share the same misconception that you have, that somehow the machine or POS system decides what the customer has to do. The purpose of a POS system is to make life easier for your staff - if that is implemented in a way that makes life harder for the customer it means you have failed badly. The human is the master and the machine is the servant. Therefore you as a customer politely but sternly refuse illicit fees when they try to force them on you.

Your talk about "going to city government" shows that you don't understand that these kind of fees already are illegal on state and federal levels. Recently the Federal Trade Commission in the United States has committed explicitly [1, 2] towards cracking down hard on these hidden fees, that they call "junk fees" in the hospitality industry. Let me quote for you:

"Unavoidable charges imposed on captive consumers: Consumers may be forced to pay junk fees because they have no way to avoid or opt out of them. They might be dealing with a company with a monopoly or exclusive rights that can extract fees because there is no competing option. Or consumers might get hit with fees after they have already sunk costs into a product or service, and they can’t easily walk away."

This is from the White House [3]:

"Surprise fees that consumers learn about after purchase. Surprise fees that consumers do not expect – and which may not be mandatory – similarly make it hard to comparison shop and can burden household finances."

Are they throwing temper tantrums? Are the state attorneys who are successfully prosecuting large hotel chains for junk fees throwing temper tantrums? Is the EU throwing temper tantrums about this?

Back in the real world there are countries where it is customary for restaurants to add a service fee - usually 10% - on the final bill. This is clearly stated on the menu, and usually the waiter will ask you for permission to add this fee before bringing you the bill. This system is used instead of tips. If the customer don't want to pay the fee they have the right to refuse it and all restaurants accept such a refusal. Imagine if the waiter said "Sorry, our machine doesn't allow us to remove the fee, so you have to pay. You pay now!". Most would laugh, you would pay.

[1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/prepare-for-renewe...
[2] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/...
[3] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2022/10/26/the...
> A failure due to numerical difficulties of computers is not considered to be a counter-example.

This seems to be something like an escape-hatch to reject any counterexamples.

> An issue attributable to numerical issues (for example, numerical stability and round-off errors) will not be considered as a basis for a valid claim of a counter-example.

So if their algorithm never converges with your input, it's not a counterexample?
I don't know why you are being downvoted. 2005-2010 was the heyday of blogging as I knew it. Maybe you "had to have been there", which would put you in your fourties, at least.
Interesting, earlier today an post was made about confluent cli going "open source" and now they're doing massive layoffs.

Was this an "open-source folks will do it for free anyhow" or someone wanting to save their work from obsolence?

(Earlier flagged post) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34527670
You should be able to have them close your account by sending them a formal letter.
Lol mine gave me 3 output related to Trump
Thank you for that. I forgot the distinction. Like T-rex eating the lawyer hiding in the toilet in Jurassic Park.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/macroeconomic-changes-ha...
The techniques for folding a very large antenna to fit into a small space were (are?) used to launch US intelligence-gathering satellites, like Trumpet[1]. For some examples of how they are folded, see https://spp.fas.org/military/program/sigint/shrouds.htm

1 https://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/trumpet.htm
"Remember when lemonade was a cent? It is now a dollar." http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10132005
But that's his persona. He never really goes full on, always tries to maintain neutrality. In his interview with that rapper who was saying vile things he just kept talking about love.
I found this on r/fatfire. A poster there uses it to give their children a quick overview of personal finance.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/dsHN33xk
Totally agree, advice giving isn't making decisions for people.

It's the niche where people blame others for their choices where it gets hairy.

The realisation of responsibility comes with mistakes: I made a bad decision following someones advice but that someone didn't decide for me.
He's a real estate millionaire that has moral issues with declaring bankruptcy. Real estate is like life's cheat code: borrow money from the bank -- buy rental property -- pay the bank back with someone else's money. All this "get a second job"/"deliver pizzas" advice is disingenuous in my opinion when the real secret is borrow money and become part of the landed class.
Interest Rates Are Rising: Calculating Tech Debt’s Actual Impact
I've been intrigued by the concept of "impact interval".

How long do we need to "work around" the impact of this tech debt?

It was revealing to see how much this affects the actual costs of that debt.
The first link looks like a good translation of the iCalendar to JSON, I guess you can't really beat the iCalendar standard when it comes to representing events!
When I looked into this a little bit, I found Copilot for Business states they do not record any of the info you send them. Though obviously you are still sending out code to a third party. I could not find any info about their policies for “normal” Copilot which I assume means they are recording all the code sent to it and using our code to further train the model.
If your Start menu or apps are freezing up on Windows Microsoft has a suggestion
> If you did this, and then fired a live round in the gun, it could injure or kill the person holding the gun or someone nearby.

All the more reason to be careful how you load it, then.
8% of Confluent laid off now, was this a "cost saving" or "save-my-work" opensourcing? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34532295
Mantine is such a good library, especially when compared to Material, Semantic, etc. I’ve used it with a couple projects and have been very impressed.
The $BIGCORP can use the tool too, it's not exactly asymmetric. Imagine what a patent troll could accomplish with something like this if it were allowed.
I've only recently come back to the world of web after doing mostly devops/backend stuff.

While getting on the JS framework treadmill might get other people hired, staying server side + Bootstrap kept me sane and productive. The only place where I spent an innovation token[0] was on htmx and so far it's been absolutely worth it.

[0]: https://boringtechnology.club
Reminds me of another malicious compliance case: In Switzerland employers have to give employees reference letters that cannot be disparaging, so instead of writing negative remarks they just use coded language where "good" means "bad", "very good" means "mediocre", and "excellent" means "good". The government tries to ban this practice but it still continues.
The lab I used to work at is deep in origami-inspired engineering: https://www.compliantmechanisms.byu.edu/

They have resources for anyone wanting to learn more.
Space mining startup prepping to launch 'demo' refinery this April
I didn't read that book but watched a seminar via YT from the author. It talked about real estate investment and I found it eye opening from how/where profits came about. The example I remember (I have no idea if these are feasible numbers, just pulling numbers out of thin air for an example) goes something like this:

1. Buy 50 unit apartment complex for $10mln. Get investors to pay $4mln, loans for $6mln. Cash flow is $600k/year from avg of $1000/mo.

2. Slowly invest in the property, refurbish units by maybe adding in-unit laundry for example. Keep property well maintained.

3. After some time (3 years?), get property re-assessed and now its worth $15mln. Refinance the property to $15mln, pay off $4mln to investors, take $1mln from loan for renovation recovery/profit, tax free, pay off previous loan.

The eye opening part for me was that the goal is to not build and sit on the equity like a residential house but use the equity and increased property value to refinance and the extra money from the loan becomes essentially tax free profit. There is risk that something like a large employer leaves town/lays off people and now you have less renters and property value might decline and things like that. He had a real estate developer discuss how they would do this and do it well by researching areas, property values, etc. This also gives some insight into one element of why rents might be skyrocketing recently - loan rates are higher so developers/investors doing this re-assess/re-fi pattern have higher costs.

So what was portrayed in the YT video did not seem fabricated, he had an actual real estate developer talk through this process.
Sorry but whoever wrote it should know it hasn't worked. None of them are even jokes. Just random sentences.
I've only read a little about Nostr, but I think the difference is that with Nostr you own your own identity, so if a relay bans you you can just switch to a different relay and continue as you were with no significant disruption.

You're probably right about shared blacklists eventually becoming a thing though.
You're going to move - the taxes are going to eat you alive. I live on the NW side of Columbus and have many friends living in your area. It's now starting to dawn on them the taxes are going to drive them out.

It's interesting to hear about your wife's family history. My wife's family are the founders of that area - there's a plaque in town telling the history. They used to own large amounts of land in New Albany and the Westerville area. Lost it all during the Great Depression.

Things change.

On the bright side, AWS services are going to be super fast now!
This is similar to my process.

However, I also use ChatGPT to make the updates for me, adding additional information and context, which I then ask to be integrated into the document (e.g. update the introduction to include...)
DoNotPay seems to know very well what they’re doing.

It really doesn’t strike me as true that law requires absolute precision. There are many adjacent (both near and far) arguments that can work in law for any given case, since the interpreter is a human. You just need no silly mistakes that shatter credibility, but that’s very different from “get one thing wrong and the system doesn’t work at all or works in wildly unexpected ways.”

Low end law will be one of the first areas to go due to this tech. DoNotPay actually has already been doing this stuff successfully for a while (not in court proceedings themselves though).
I have worked with Watson and now working on Ask. I can guarantee that it is much better and more accessible. Slite is uniquely positioned as it has been an opinionated knowledge base from the beginning.

But don't take my word for it; you should sign up for the beta and give it a try :)
One of my favorite jokes from 30 Rock is when Liz is complaining to Jack about a relationship problem:

>Jack: You have more sexual hangups than an adult chat line run by Gilbert Gottfried.

>Liz: What?

>Jack: That was written by a computer program we're working on to replace you.

It's a joke with a funny idea, but it's just too convoluted to be funny to humans.
As a co-worker of mine put it some years back, "I was not expecting this year's big growth sector to be fancy IRC."
UK govt Matrix has unenviable task of consolidating several ERP systems
I suspect its less to do with actual, objective legibility and more to do with patient anxiety. The things that doctors (and pharmacists, etc) hand-write tend to be personally important.
> I've often said that if you really want to make a lawyer squirm, suggest that we have socialized law care. Most modern countries have some version of socialized or single payer health care, so why not make it the same for legal services?

We do have socialized law in the US, in the form of public defenders.

> Why should rich people get access to better legal service than regular people?

Oh, is “better” what you’re talking about, not just access? This is different than what the first half of your paragraph implied. The answer, of course, is money. And rich people in all the “modern countries” you’re referring to always have access to “better” than what’s provided by all social services. Always. Unfortunate, but true, that money makes life unequal.
Lol! Questions that need answers . . .
Yes, a super massive strike is likely very rare and does not happen very often. But smaller asteroids hit the planet more frequently (relatively speaking), yet would still cause a huge catastrophe. It wouldn't cause a mass extinction, but it would still... suck.
It is for robotics, no relation to social media.

> On a complex control task, diffusion models achieved a task completion rate of 89%, exceeding recent state-of-the-art of 44%.
Techies ask PM to 'prepare UK chip strategy as a matter of urgency'
It's sort of a catch-22, Law in the US is only a lucrative market to disrupt because the regulation and gatekeeping has made labor expensive. If lawyers didn't bill 300+/hr in the US, then an AI powered startup to replace them wouldn't be cost effective. There's a joke I saw recently about a guy hiring a lawyer for a $800 traffic violation and getting a bill for $1200.

I can't speak to the price of a lawyer abroad, but a quick google seems to indicate US lawyer salaries on avg are up to ~2x as much as in some parts of Europe[1][2].

[1]https://www.legalcheek.com/2020/12/revealed-the-eu-countries...

[2]https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/lawyer/salary
Is a newsletter a blog? For me, a weblog (or blog) has always been a webpage that I can either read in my browser or my newsreader.

If a newsletter that arrives via email is a blog, is a newsletter that the post office delivers a blog?
NovelAI does this, to some basic extend.
Really? Then why pay for the thing in the first place. Why keep the data and make the queries if the results don't actually matter? I'm impressed that you have the ability to envision such a possibility, perhaps you can use that ability to come up with something reasonably likely as opposed to "conceptually possible".
Not available to everyone though.

> Only members of the civil aviation community, incorporating airlines, airports, companies, organizations, associations, government agencies and qualified individuals, may register a domain name in .aero.
Combination of LAMP and Go, which is what I have been doing for years. You can knock out a functional MVP in PHP faster than anything else and iterate very quickly. Then spots where performance is an issue work in some Go microservices.

This has done my team very well for years.