skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's different types of blogging:

- blogging as speech. Not trying to "build an audience" or monetise, just a place where you can write publicly. Rachelbythebay is probably the best example of this.

- blogging as business. What the author is talking about - build an audience, sell some ads, make some money. Writing as a commercial activity.

- blogging as content marketing. Probably 90% of blogs - not directly monetised, but SEO fodder for a business.

The first isn't dead, but is obscure. The last is mostly braindead (there are some really good posts in amongst the SEO crap, but mostly it's SEO crap).

The middle one is hard to do right - there are soooo many "travel bloggers" out there trying to make this work, and so few who actually do make it work.
Dead companies don't swim in profits and own a major part of Linux projects.
Show HN: Tap Passport/ID for remote user registration by NFC
Allow users to verify their identity instantly by tapping their ID or passport. Integrate by using our apps, or iOS/Android SDK if you have an app of your own.
You could add a camera to the oven to see what's inside from the app.
The problem with the challenge is that one must provides a solution to the problem along with the problem. IOW, you must have a solver that can solve your input problem.

Their challenge is a weaker equivalent to: there is a problem that have two types of example: solvable and unsolvable. Their claim is that their program can solve all, including unsolvable! To disprove our claim, provide an input that is unsolvable, along with its solution, and show that we do not find the given solution. The catch is, a problem that is not solvable has by definition, no solution.

In their case, the issue is not that the problem to be submitted has no solution, but that its solution is NP-hard to find. They are basically asking submitters to first find a solver for a NP-hard problem.
You aren't flipping burgers -- you're steaming burritos.

In that sense, your degree was successful, no burgers in sight.
People where hiring because their valuations were large. All the organisations now had to grow into that valuation. Expansion and contraction of head count is a normal thing in an orgs life-cycle that reflects the economy. CEO's job is to think about the stakeholders first and then employees. There are not many levers to play with to adjust the net revenue, growth and valuations. Growth have become stagnant or even lower, revenues are impacted and valuations are down. Only lever that is in control is head count others are dictated by external forces.

PS. No one employee was complaining when these companies were in a hiring spree and could see it was not sustainable. Startup had a hard time competing with the salaries offered by these orgs.
Any time. I wish every child could have rich formative years so they can avoid long lasting emotional pain.
The best stack is the one you know.

I guess I’m old school, but I built SimplifyRecipe.com in a few hours using Laravel. That’s not to say that Laravel is better than anything else, but I’m extremely fluent with that ecosystem.

I will say, I believe that Laravel or Ruby on Rails would be my favorite starting point for a solo development effort. I spent 1000+ hours working on JavaScript framework development and found it to be really cumbersome.
It’s not enforced at runtime, but otherwise I feel like typing is in a pretty good place in Python right now. If you’re diligent about using Pyright or MyPy as linters it makes life a lot easier.
why do retail traders "need" to exist?

Retail traders realistically have only luck to rely on to beat hedge funds and banks. What they do is akin to gambling, which is on net quite negative for those who participate in it and heavily regulated. Retail traders don't serve any purpose in our society. They don't help with efficient allocation of capital and anyone who might be an actual savant in trading can join or start a firm rather than staying independent and unlicensed.
> Norway

A 70% tax on petrol cars will shift the scales somewhat. I really doubt 8/10 of new cars would be EVs if the VAT and purchase taxes were applied to them as for ICE cars.
> The difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance might be the smallest proveable piece of evidence. A word, an email, an assumption, an ommission etc.

This seems like evidence that I'm right, not that I'm wrong. The tiniest facts matter, and an AI that is prone to making up facts wholesale would totally screw up a case.
Canonical Promotes Ubuntu Pro to General Availability
With a couple of tries I got a perfectly legible... T

https://imgur.com/a/PRl42rb

To be fair, I kind of remember handwriting X (and x) as totally counter-intuitive in school.
Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem?
I think you had a little projection there calling me in a bubble. Why don't we focus on what is actually happening instead discrediting who I am with assumptions.

Wages are stagnant, energy costs are going up.

Hourly Wages change yoy
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Zeb7

Energy Price Index
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Zebr

>food prices have come down

False, and before you blame the egg crisis on the reported avian flu, milk and bread demonstrate the same rise. Pick a product, it's gone up, PPI for all commodities shot up indicating macro changes to the economy (in this case reactions to inflation where producers raise rates) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Ze8G

eggs
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Ze80
milk
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Ze8b
bread
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Ze8h

>housing is crashing

True, but not in ways that helps consumers. Landlords are doubling down and renting. Properties are sitting on market far longer than normal. Median sales price will decrease with interest rate changes, but with the root cause issue unresolved of lack of construction (supply), very large demand as the new generations age, and flippers and renter barons unchecked.. The housing market is not going to be affordable for low, middle, or even upper middle class citizens. I also think this kind of talk completely belittles how massive of a change occurred to housing prices in the last 5 years. Compare that to wage increases and viola, your normal every day person is in bad shape.

median sales price
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Ze67

Do you want anecdote? People aren't doing well. Go talk to your neighbors. A single corrective change percent movement from GDP reported by Axios is manipulative and a narrative article in my opinion.
still collecting frontend parts
I didn’t say free, I said subsidised.

You need to reduce friction for good habits and increase friction for bad ones. At the minute, our societies do the exact opposite. Unhealthy food and Netflix and cheap. Healthy food and education are expensive.

It doesn’t matter how it happened, once someone is in the hole, the negative feedback loop makes it very hard for them to escape. If you are worked to the bone on minimum wage to keep an overpriced roof over your head you will likely fall into the trap of eating shit food and binging on Netflix because summoning the energy to cook, teach yourself skills and exercise is going to be difficult. And the more you give in to doing that the deeper into the hole you fall. People at the bottom need breathing space. Reduce the amount of money they have to spend to survive which means they don’t have to work themselves to the bone to survive and they can actually focus on improving themselves. I’ve literally seen it happen with my own eyes.

And yes, for some people life can be too easy and that can also cause depression. Which is why I believe we need finer grained categories to narrows down the root causes and provide more tailored solutions than just handing out happy pills willy nilly to everyone.
NAE is about as trust worthy as the US Chamber of Commerce. Their biases seep through their text.

Where do those existing residents in those working class neighborhoods go when immigrants move in?
They get priced out and either end up homeless or on section 8, that's what happens. No new housing units in the low end ever get made, only the high end gets new builds.

See this
https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-we-spending-millions-housin...?
Not to mention the rewards for doing so are much lesser. If you build a family and at some point your wife decides for whatever reason she no longer wants to be with you, whether that's having an affair, or just getting bored. You will have your children taken away, your wages garnished for the rest of your life, and everyone will always assume it's your fault.

I guess at this point what reason do most young men have to invest in society?
I disagree that CEOs aren't thinking for themselves. In many cases, they are thinking perfectly rationally. Companies don't live in a vacuum. If everyone else is raising salaries, it's to attract and retail talent. If you don't do the same, you will lose current employees and not attract new ones. If everyone else is doing layoffs, then it's a good time to do layoffs that perhaps you were considering anyway.

Say you've been wanting to close down an unproductive division and let go of low-performing employees in other divisions for a few years now. You sure as hell weren't going to do that in early 2022, when you'd risk a lot of other employees jumping ship at the first signs of cracks in the house. But in 2023, you can do layoffs and get away with it.
TikTok’s New Defense in Washington: Going on the Offense
Tbh as American should I be more worried if my data is shared with some far away government agent who is probably pronouncing my name incorrectly or our domestic favourites NSA or FBI? I believe the current paranoia about China completely overshadows the real danger for american citizens, but maybe that is the intention.
"oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo", max speed, style 6

https://i.imgur.com/eX4nhoA.png
What you're missing is that the article says the ones doing the wiping are "responsible recyclers and refurbishers" -- at this point the machine has already passed out of the hands of the owner, so it can't really be argued that the owner's privacy or consent were protected. Kind of like a thief saying they clean cars before reselling them, but now they no longer find the title in the glovebox.
I have no idea what you wrote means and it certainly does not pertain to what I wrote. There is a very real crisis going on with men in the U.S. (and the world according to the article). It needs to be addressed. One consequence of marginalization of men is their tendency to radicalize politically. Amongst white men in the U.S. this radicalization is far more likely to be right leaning than left leaning. Regardless of the political direction this radicalization leans toward it is an issue and one should not let ideology blind us to reality. Wars, civil strife, etc. often times lead to totalitarianism (both left and right leaning) and all of its accompanying evils.
If I drink to a very buzzed state three nights in a row, I become palpably depressed, irritable, and anxious. If something bad happens during this time, it cuts deep and feels overwhelming. All of the negative things in my life become tormenting devils.

It takes about 24 hours of sobriety for me to begin to feel normal again, and at least 48 to feel I am at my normal baseline.

I always assumed the alcohol was depleting my serotonin.

Beyond that, most of my depression seems to be due to my heroic and idealistic self raging and wallowing in the chasm between my ideals and hard realities that I cannot defeat.
https://archive.ph/5ZcFD
A financial stampede
I like your approach.
Right, but that doesn't really answer my question. The stories appear harmless and so many are flagged it has to be automated. So presumably it's software driven. But - why? With political or contentious topics it's usually obvious why stories go dead but for /shownew it's not.
> People who are de-platformed are almost always people who others WANT to hear.

I think if that were true a certain social network would have at least 70m more American users.
Pointing out their unique social environment doesn't change the fact that people there are happily driving EVs that fit their lifestyle, despite living in a cold place with few garages and large rural expanses.
I think OP is referring to the 2nd paragraph.
I've been looking at electric cars recently and am disappointed that I can't find any plugin hybrids with an electric range of 60 miles or more. 60 miles would handle all my family's commuting needs accept for the two or three times a year we go on vacation to a place with out good charging infrastructure. I don't want to have to waste time driving out of the way and sitting at a charger when there are small children in the car.
Pfizer Exploring Mutations of Covid-19 Virus for New Vaccine
CL with Hunchentoot and PostgreSQL on the back end, probably.
presumably the point at which it's potentially dangerous is the point at which governments have a plausible justification to start getting involved, not when you're doing safe experiments to find out whether the potentially dangerous thing has potential benefits that might justify riskier experiments

also sulfite isn't within the usual meaning of 'toxic chemical', it's a common antioxidant food additive, although like acetic acid it's corrosive enough to have killed people in high concentrations

the last time I inhaled a bunch of it, it was not an enjoyable experience
It's the closest thing to a precedent.

Hip-hop originally recorded and transformed vocals, instruments, and beats to create something new from pieces of something old. The practice occurred without permission and obviously ended up in court. Now sampling requires a licensing agreement. The additional cost has fundamentally changed the genre (over the last 40 years).

Hip-hop and tech both ignored IP rights because neither started with a legal framework and both would have found the additional cost prohibitive.
> Not having to write an API for your webapp to consume is huge.

This is something that is so understated. I use Blazor to achieve similar semantics in many .NET codebases.

The speedup you get by pulling the client state into the server is incredible. The time savings is easily measured in thousands of hours at this point. It's almost like working with old school PHP again, but you get all the 2-way stuff as well.
Remember we’re talking about MVP. Moving this stack to a VPS would only add a day.
Can you follow up and ask it "Is [title] by [author] a published book?
What if I want to etch rubylith with a hand-operated plotter?
This comment made me realize how much of an echo chamber HN is (myself included). We seem to call ourselves "tech enthusiasts", but it's only for some tech, and we wonder how other tech survives because we do not comprehend their usefulness.
How would they be able to parse facts from fiction? Just because something is online does not mean it is true.
Xorbits is the fastest framework compared to Dask, pandas API on Spark, Modin
High Yield Savings Accounts (HYSA) like Marcus by Goldman Sachs can be a good place to keep the 3 month cash reserves.
> For an MVP, I'd choose what I'm most familiar with and can be fastest with.

That is absolutely the takeaway here. Use the technology you are familiar with and/or can be fastest with. MVPs are risky enough, don't add in "oh, gosh, I have to learn the tech (libraries, deployments, monitoring, database access, etc)" as well.

The only case where I'd pick a new tech for an MVP is when there is an existing open source or free project that I could use that would obviously get the project shipped faster by providing extensive pre-built functionality.

For example, I once used Sharetribe https://github.com/sharetribe/sharetribe even though I was only an intermediate ruby programmer because, after time spent evaluating it and other solutions, it had functionality that could get us shipped faster.

From "git init" to our first beta customer was 1 month of time. Then to our first paying customer was 1 more month. One developer (me). To be fair, my co-founder had done a ton of market development before I started coding, so the initial market/feature discovery was done; that's a huge part of any MVP.
Oh, that's cool, thanks for the explanation!
Oh? In that case, it should be very easy for you to go back into his archives and find some things where his supposedly egregious anti-crypto bias led him to say things that have been proven false.

I think you'll have a hard time doing that, because what you see as bias looks to me like him correctly spotting the BS early on.
The best feature of an internet connected oven is that the clock is always accurate. No more manual updates after a DST change.
What about base64 encoded images? Nntp doesn't support binaries but it's sure distributing a hell of a lot of them these days.
'Shark Tank' is casting for season 15
If the rights of the listener have been infringed, why wouldn't the listener simply go to where they can continue listening? Nobody's holding a gun to their head.
I don't see the problem here.

> Defendant (as dictated by AI): The Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. Smith in 1978...

> Judge: There was no case Johnson v. Smith in 1978. Case closed, here's your fine.

Next time please be more careful picking the lawyer.
Try "Ministry For The Future" if you want an even more horrifying opening to an climate change thriller. (They also end up using geoengineering to mitigate climate change in that novel.)
Mastodon already has "censorship" options, and still people use it big time to distribute CP.
https://www.secjuice.com/mastodon-child-porn-pedophiles/

If I were to run such a node in Germany, and someone would use it to distribute CP with it, I face from 1 to 10 years in prison.

Yeah, no thanks.
> almost every company could handle this by simply not rehiring after attrition

The problem is that there's a selection bias for attrition. It's possible that your worst employees are the ones who stick around the longest.
10% churn is not abnormal for a big, bureaucratic business.
Microsoft Edge 'Phoenix', a reimagining of Edge with new UI and features
No fan of the internet of shit here or anything, but I don't think these aspects of the firmware will get any more nefarious. The other terrible things about smart home devices are already well-known.

As usual, I just recommend sticking to only smart home equipment that can work over local radio or some other bus that's not internet connected. Strongly recommend people check out home assistant; for moderate power users it's pretty easy to wrangle a bunch of Bluetooth LE, ZigBee and Zwave devices. I can find off the shelf Zwave devices at my local Lowe's and ZigBee at my local Best Buy (Philips Hue devices work fine for me out of the box.) Of course, when it comes to ovens, you're probably shit out of luck. But whatever. Not sure what serious value add a radio on an oven adds. Guess you can see the timer from the couch...

I'll be keeping my Samsung appliances off the network personally. No real need for whatever SmartThings might offer anyways.
"Since this is leak only contain contents of git repositories there is no personal data." https://arseniyshestakov.com/2023/01/26/yandex-services-sour...
"Serotonin" is itself a complex entity.

There are 14 known serotonin receptors in 7 families

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-HT_receptor

not to mention other targets such as the serotonin transporter which is a target of many antidepressants.

Serotonin pharmacology includes antidepressant and antianxiety medication, psychedelic drugs such as LSD and mescaline, the nearly unique drug MDMA (aka Ecstacy), drugs to suppress vomiting, part of the action of some antipsychotic drugs, anti-migraine, and drugs that increase gastric and intestinal motility.

Platelets, your gut, and heart valves are just a few tissues that are full of serotonin receptors: some serotonin-active drugs can seriously damage your heart valves, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenfluramine/phentermine

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The conclusions that people made about free serotonin in spinal taps of psychiatric patients in the 1960s have been long used in a facile manner in psych med marketing and the chickens seem to finally be coming home to roost on that one.

I'd almost call the SSRIs "antineurotic" drugs in that they are helpful for both anxiety and depression in many people. There has been a lot of negativity about them in the news in the last months or so, particularly reports of bad efficacy which I think draw the wrong conclusion.

Basically if you try "X mg of fluoxetine vs a placebo" you are going to have poor response and a lot of side effects. In good clinical practice you see your doc, fill a script, talk to your doc in three weeks, maybe increase the dose, maybe try a different med if you don't get a response or if you are bothered by side effects. If you do that you get much better results that the average clinical trial of a single antidepressant but you are going to talk to your doc (maybe sometimes to the nurse over the phone) several times over 6 months or so.
Booked? What do you mean?
> And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more ‘drive’, or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity’.

> In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

-- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
'without consent'
There exists a contingent of people who insist that whenever a big company does something it is because they have gotten all the smartest people to do all the research and run all the numbers and they have determined with absolute confidence that it is the most profitable thing to do. I think about those people sometimes.
Not to mention most ovens have the ability to schedule pre-heating your oven to a set temp at a later time just using the oven controls.
I've created VegLog, an iOS app that helps me track my vegetable growing. I wanted an app that would let me compare my harvest over time, and look for patterns in growing conditions to help me maximise growth.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/veglog/id6444013681
Maybe that's where we're headed. It looks like it's becoming more and more okay to just make things up to please your tribe. Why shouldn't that seep into the courtroom. I hope this doesn't happen.
or a notification on your phone when the oven is at temperature, has been left on, when the timer has gone off...
Nah. It's about making your financial results look better. My company touts every quarter how not only is revenue up, profit per revenue is up, ie. we're making more money on the money we make. Yet, when it comes to compensation and dealing with cost of living, the statement is that we haven't met our targets so it's a 3% pool. Not minimum or maximum, but that for someone to get more someone else has to get less.

COVID had many enlightening observations about the economy, one of which is that there was a lot of inelasticity in consumer demand versus compensation. Companies have realized that there is a lot more value to extract from employees.
The issue at hand (that I originally brought up) is that a lot of people claimed Biden was wrong to say we are not in a recession. Those people are wrong. I said as much in my original post.
Another way to think about this is that IBM may be the ones playing up this comparatively-tiny reduction in headcount, because they expect to be rewarded for it (share price up). They would have seen the opposite effect from publicizing the cuts of '22, so they did the cuts but didnt talk about it.