skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Going to China for that long and not trying to learn Mandarin is a misstep.

I went to China with intention to stay there one year to save some money and continue travelling. Then after less than a year I met my future wife.

> Where I lived, Shanghai, there was a western community that essentially interacted with each other in their enclaves and never developed any meaningful relationships outside maybe dating someone who was Chinese. In Shanghai at least you can get along just fine without learning the language, but you will miss out on so much because most people around you can't hold conversations in English.

I lived in Beijing and avoided foreigners outside work enviroment (well we had drinking lunch breaks and ocassionally drank even during dinner after work), didn't frequent bars/clubs for foreigners and first few years even avoided western food. In my first three apartments I had Chinese flatmates (no foreigners, always only me) and we had no problem to communicate in English. The problem in general are different hobbies and culture, not really the language, most of the westerners will have more to talk with other westerner even in broken English than with Chinese who is perfectly fluent in English, it's just fact and speaking Chinese won't change a thing about it.
Is this anything new? Every restaurant from Burger King to Benihana is hiring and has been for what seems like the last two years.

The lines and horrendously bad food/slow service have pretty much kept me eating at home.
The spate of AI "artwork" I have seen over the past few months has seemed to me to be good "prompts" for artists. Many of what I have seen has a germ of something interesting in it — but is often missing in other regards.

An obvious example that comes to mind are the recent "Jordowsky Tron" images [1]. Any art director could comb those images, consider changes here, there — and end up with something better than the AI.

I guess how derivative you think the final results are depends in part on how much "artist's prerogative" the art director employs, how derivative you think the AI prompts are to begin with, how derivative you see all art....

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/officialmidjourney/posts/454...
tried this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
did not work well
Yes. In my reply to the first comment I mentioned setting the opening price is "more complicated". Every exchange has their own system for the opening auction which you buy into when you list with a particular exchange. Most exchanges have an algorithmic way of calculating the price. For NYSE, it's again more historical. A Designated Market Maker (DMM) for a stock technically determines the opening price. There is a person physically on the NYSE trading floor who represents the DMM firm who technically opens the different stocks. They have a weird custom keyboard from NYSE for this purpose...

The price is usually calculated algorithmically by the DMM firm and sent to the person at NYSE to approve. Pretty arcane. Also somewhat shady, as the DMM firm can be and is part of the auction themselves. DMM firms can analyze the order book to see what the imbalance is in the overlapping region, and place an order of their own to correct the imbalance and then set the opening price. I can see how one can profit from this in certain situations
Who says you are supposed to enjoy the journey? As a trivial example, 'the journey' of studying for an important exam is hard work, and you would enjoy playing video games instead a lot more. But by focusing on the destination and enduring hardship, you ace your exam, which has a massive effect on the rest of your life. Was the destination not worth it?
T-Mobile advised to stop using ‘fast’ and ‘reliable’ in fixed wireless ads
I used to share that opinion but as emails and DM's between three letter agencies and the social media platforms have been leaking it's harder to defend corporations. I will defer to Shoe for some details. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdjQWuJeVqE [video][13 mins]
Yep, pretty much all of this.

There is also the part where the machine I sit down at to attempt to learn programming also happens to be the same machine where I do banking, budgeting, YouTube, Reddit, HN, porn, gaming, socialising, falling down Wikipedia rabbit holes etc. etc.

There are lots of distractions for the distractable mind.

>Productive things become much easier when they're procrastination from something less fun.

QFT.
What baffles me is why they don't create guns that are incapable of firing live rounds. It should be mechanically impossible to fire a live round. The blanks should be keyed or shaped in such a way that guns capable of loading and/or firing them cannot load live rounds unless someone deliberately counterfeits a blank.
In Russia? An abundance of fragile human-sized windows and "slippery when wet" floors.
Does not seem to be very consistent. When I generate 2 texts with the same "style", it never looks like written by the same writer.
Can you self host this? Feels dangerous to check an external service for RBAC.
There is nothing cuter than my six year old daughter sticking her head into my office and asking “do you want chi-potal? Mom’s ordering chi potal.” The pronunciation kills me.
Like a desktop or laptop?
I lived in Denver for 20 years and was kinda stunned the first time I went to a Chipotle in Massachusetts, it was like night and day.
I've had pushback on items like this sometimes with the standard "YAGNI" excuse. A few months ago I came across some blog post describing the reverse: "YAGRI" - You Ain't Gonna Regret It. Just... store the extra data.
> What happens if our magnetic field disappears for a while?

Magnetic compasses stop working, the aurora are visible everywhere except for light pollution, elevated levels of beryllium-10 and chlorine-36, satellites need a bit more rad shielding, otherwise very little.
And a heck of a lot of lazy prosecutors who are just accustomed to winning because the proles aren't supposed to know the technicalities.
>The message is clear that reality is messy. But not that love is an illusion

Rick explicitly states that it is, on several occasions. First, during the love potion episode:

"Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people calls “love” is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science."

And again at the end of Season 2, during a wedding "toast", he expands on both love being an illusion AND on being smart making him an asshole:

"Listen, I’m not the nicest guy in the Universe because I’m the smartest. And being nice is something stupid people do to hedge their bets. Now, I haven’t been exactly subtle about how little I trust marriage. I couldn’t make it work, and I could turn a black hole into a sun, so at a certain point, you’ve got to ask yourself what are the odds this is legit and not just some big lie we’re all telling ourselves because we’re afraid to die alone? Because, you know, that’s exactly how we all die … alone." (And before you say "ah but the show isn't endorsing Rick", this message is immediately reinforced by the bride coldly murdering the groom.)

The messaging couldn't really have been clearer.
Surely pursuing philosophy would be a better advice than pursuing religion? Religions do tend to include some philosophy but with a lot of mysticism and other stuff thrown in, and the philosophy itself is often not very well thought through. Why not just go for the philosophy itself? Stoicism could be a great start with Seneca's "Letters from a stoic".
Good point. As a user, I still want to click on a final unsubscribe button and not just unsubscribe automatically.
FLask would be myy pick!

I have worked with it in the past, and having familiarity for the MVP trumps all, for me. As I can rely on it to provide me with a solid backend without having to worry about unexpected..
True! I still like my way, but feel free to code it like you wish, more nerdy stuff is always welcome. :)
OpenWRT has a Miniflux package too so you could feasibly run it on your router.
> the mainstream public moved on

I'd really like to see some good data on this, because it's not my experience. I probably read more blogs today than I did 10 years ago. I see tons of sharing of blog posts and website content on social media. It's true that the narrow sliver of people making a living as content creators may have moved on, but I just don't see that the "mainstream public" has.
Why did they film it on a PotatoCam3000?
? It is fair to expect a cursory knowledge of the terminology for the topic in discussion.
Do we know how this would compare to using libpdf?
Yea when I read "tiny ion" I think "oh something like a sodium or potassium ion"
For the record: I think this article is mostly describing a honey trap for scamming rich celebrities in the future, but I don't expect this kind of anti-ageing to be a linear process. It's probably a lot easier to "gain back" 5 years of your life by radically changing your lifestyle and eating habits, but much, much harder to rewind the clock by 10 or 15 years.
One Welsh Pub Became the ‘World’s First’ Vegan Steakhouse
unfortunately, my human brain wrote this, and it is not optimized for SEO :/
Just numbers and letters are allowed. but yeah, the google file whould be useless but possible bad. Will think about!
Show HN: Don't lose track of HN post comments
Yesterday, I got lost track of the HN post comments.

I fixed that problem → http://hntoast.com

I make this in the last couple of hours. So, if you have any feature requests or feedback.

Let me know your thought about this tool.
$90k to $900k: Pay transparency laws usher in baffling pay ranges
I think this phenomenon is actually something else: in the 1950s people who were commonly depicted as being part of society tended to have a house with a garden and a nuclear family structure where the husband, but not the wife, worked.

There were plenty of people who couldn't afford a house with a garden, or who didn't have one for other reasons, or who were not married or had a different type of family structure, or men who didn't work, or women who did work. But they were made invisible by the lack of portrayal, both in that society's image of itself, and in our image of that society.

(Or by a different mechanism: when people outside of that structure were portrayed, it was as outsiders and aberrations, whereas married couples with children who lived in houses were portrayed as the norm. For example, the protagonist of 'On the Road', commonly associated with that era, does not have a fixed address or a job, nor a wife, nor children. The protagonist of 'Invisible Man', a book central to the discourse of who does and does not get represented in media, lives in a basement apartment alone without a wife or family. The protagonist of 'The Bell Jar' is a woman who lives alone in an apartment in New York while working at a job, then in her mother's house, then in a mental asylum.)
Part of the problem is the need to put something in front of people who go to Youtube and other such platforms. Perhaps if there was no "algorithm" to give you "suggestions" as to what to watch, there wouldn't be this need to consider the platforms to be liable for what users upload. Present a bare search bar to guests/new users, sort of like the main Google interface and as users view and subscribe to channels, just show them their actual subscriptions, instead of commingling suggestions with subscriptions, leading to confusion about which channels are actually subscribed to (I like to consider myself fairly savvy, and more than once I have found I wasn't actually subscribed to a channel that I watched quite regularly). Stop suggesting things to people based on what they've already watched, and maybe you could legitimately argue "we're not directing people to content, we're merely allowing them to search for content they wish to view". As long as a platform is making suggestions as to what to show users, it could be argued that they should use that power for "good" and be liable when videos are surfaced that are "bad", for various incompatible definitions of "good" and "bad".

It's not unprecedented for a privately-owned location to nonetheless be told "you may not censor anyone based on the message they wish to spread". There's no reason why a system couldn't be developed to make the actual uploader of the content the one that is liable, and few people have the wherewithal or the capability to have airtight opsec.
The opportunity to say goodbye to your team, go to a last lunch together, and spend some time commiserating is very valuable.
> One could also argue the real problem is the tech industry constantly ignoring regulations that were put in place for good reasons

This is it. The tech company wants the ability to sell a shoddy product to its customers, and the legal system said no.

And frankly, I don't know how anyone could honestly claim (without being ignorant or deluded) that feeding legal arguments into court, output from modern-day voice recognition fed into ChatGPT, isn't shoddy.

> ...but “legal advice from lawyers”, “medicine from doctors”, “insurance from companies that can prove they can pay out”, and “equities backed by actual assets” all exist for good reasons.

Exactly. The legal system is no joke, and if there weren't regulations about who can practice law, you'd have all kinds of fly-by-night people getting paid to do it while getting their clients thrown in jail.
Misleading. That report discusses "medical errors", not "medical malpractice". They are not the same thing.
And I hate snake_case.

You want post rationalized arguments? Even though this is a parody to bikeshed on a polemic?

OK, well first I hate to type underscores, then I hate "shift -" because it's RSI inducing and unbearable. then_i_think_this_is_ugly. Finally I hate that we use a symbol so removed from natural human writing it screams subservience to the machine. Who is going to rebel if we programmers don't?
When looking for information, I despise videos and will avoid watching them if at all possible. For exactly the reasons you mention: random access, too much fluff and low information content.

The only exception is things like home repair advice, fixing washing machines, etc. I assume that the people with most knowledge of these skills are more likely to produce videos than write down something.
My 1991 self that just saw T2 for the first time is freaking out.
The x's are bad across the board I think. Although on the whole I think this is pretty cool.
Brother it is, thanks.
It is. There is this hysterical idea that reading code somehow makes you "tainted" when it comes to ever "safely" implementing something similar.
I’ve been using AI to write with great success. Mostly business documents. My general process is this:

Think of the concept I want to write about as well as the supporting evidence for the topic. Ask ChatGPT to write me something in my target format using the topic and supporting evidence as input. What I get back is essentially a well-written skeleton that I can use to fill in additional details. Finally, I pass my revisions through ChatGPT to touch up any errors, rephrase wordy things, etc. I lightly edit the final draft and I usually have an excellent result.
I'm pretty sure you name is Tavier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
Agreed-ish. I prefer the abstract/summary rather than first paragraph (though first paragraph is informally often the same thing, nothing prevents abstracts/summaries fcom having multiple paragraphs).
I actually saw this myself recently while looking at Netflix job listings before I ran across this article. Almost seems like they're sticking up their middle finger to "the man" for making them post pay ranges.
chipotle is possibly the only fast food / fast casual that feels somewhat healthy. Real, whole food. Minimal fried options. Decent value. I wish more players occupied that niche.

The quality over the last 3 years has been abismal though regardless of which location I go to. The food prep stations are always a mess by the end of day - verging on health hazard. The meat seems to have gone down in quality too. Every time I’ve eaten there in the last 2 years I’ve thought to myself “god chipotle sucks now I’ll never eat here again”

But every other month or so I’m by a chipotle, trying not to eat complete garbage, in a time crunch, and trying not to spend $17 on processed food and chipotle is there waiting to disappoint me. Again.
I'm facing 20 years in jail. I would MUCH RATHER have an actual world class lawyer representing me than a freaking chatbot!
US workers at Google have already been fired. Non-US haven't. The number of US workers is known. The number of intended firings is known. The ratio of US workers to Non-US is known.

Doing the math the conclusion is that non-US workers will be disproportionately affected by the layoff. I think the layoffs are foolish, but they aren't an offshoring plan.
For starters I speak local language of country where I live and this dumb discussion is hypothetical when I defend people unwilling to learn local language, because they can get by with English which is perfectly fine and I have urge to have small talk with other people while they work even in my home country.

But yes excluding myself from sheep in whatever community whatever language they speak whether my mother tongue, English or language I don't speak, is perfectly fine with me, I have no urge to belong somewhere to some category you can put me for your convenience and that's how I (will) raise my kids to be independend and have critical thinking instead just doing same as everyone else just because everyone (dumb) is doing it.

Not sure why would I be not competent to help my kids because I don't do same things like everyone else with need to belong to some community, they seem to be doing fine already in elementary school.
I copy my blog text to Substack and use the platform as a push mechanism. I hear your concern and am open to suggestions.
This is SUPER FUCKING COOL

The UI is beautiful because it gets out of the way

The fact that you have a built in SVG export is chefs kiss

My only suggestion re the export is you should have it save as .svg, on my mac / chrome it just saved as an extension-less file.

Is there any way it could output line paths instead of shapes? I would love to be able to use this with my pen plotter but because of the output it effectively does tiny traces around each letter instead of natural strokes like a person does
The current chatbots are kind of like a calculator for language—they’re not going to do all your work for you, but they’ll definitely speed and streamline the process.
I was hoping for some better insights. Kind of already practicing these ones
yes, it does indeed use pdf2docx under the hood. From a technical point of view, it doesn't do anything new asides from straddling Python and Electron into one App.

However, from an everyday user point of view, it does make it rather simple to convert pdf to word document. An everyday user won't be up for doing that via cli commands. And every alternative user friendly solution requires uploading your documents to servers (which could spark privacy concerns)
The tld for aviation is .aero.
DoNotPay Retires 'Robot Lawyer' Before It Even Has Its First Case
Where have all America’s workers gone?
More like Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core
Linear Constraints: the problem with O(1) freeze
> Isn't this a world shattering event?

Quote from the article:
"“Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” he added."

> Why is no one talking about this?

We are? It is an article on CNN. A lot of people are talking about it. In fact there were multiple previous posts with a lot of comments in the past few days about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34495334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34495334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490701

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34502058
Blogging, as it was in the first decade of the 2000's died long ago.

Yes, there are still blogs, and still people blogging. And many companies have something they call "blogs".

But once we're done with there hairsplitting, this is not blogging as it was. That died circa 2012.
Individual relays could implement censorship, and you could choose who censors your information.
Privacy seems like it would be a major issue. As a litigant, I would not want the opposing side piping my case information to a third party and having this information used to train the AI for future cases.

AI could be very useful for helping pro-so litigants prepare documents. I imagine with this use case as well as the oral argument use case, judges are also worried about low quality output wasting the court's time.
This comment seems overly harsh in my opinion. I don't think the author comes off as a self-involved twat and I generally found the website helpful.

> Neither me nor my coworkers give a damn about being kind.

I don't see this as a good thing to "brag" about, and I think trying to do something about work being stressful is a good thing.
Sounds like you've never experienced a catastrophic failure due to an automation that didn't work right.

I did last year, and my company is in the process of de-automating certain processes that can endanger that company if they go wrong.

There are many things in tech that are too important to automate.

I'd even posit that the more experience you have in tech, the more you've seen how things go wrong, and the more you realize that automation is a tool for humans to use, not a replacement for humans doing a task.
:)

As someone who likes to mispronounce things to play with words (and annoy my friends), I appreciate this. She's (probably) not doing it on purpose like I do but I've pronounced chipotle many different ways "chi-potal" being one of them. Fun!
> These "issue traced to staffer" stories sound like management cover up for management/system shortcomings to me.

At the end of the day, the engineers are responsible for the engineering. Managers are responsible for managing. Shifting all responsibility for execution issues on to management can give warm fuzzies, but in reality managers aren’t all powerful in shaping execution by engineers.

Companies that put all blame on managers when things fail are inevitably encumbered with excessive micromanagement, as the managers are effectively saddled with responsibility for execution as well.

The article was purely anonymous. I don’t think it’s fair to assume they’re jumping to blame or fire individual engineers.
It wasn't so much a critic of your article as thinking about coping mechanisms when the volume of articles being put out is significantly increased and nobody will be able or want to deal with all this noise. Fight GPT by GPT :)
And if we're just talking certain subjects, like recipe blogs for example (and I'll give you paragraphs of my life experience above each recipe), those seem to be doing very well. I know I access those (and grumble about how much I have to scroll to get to the actual receipe) about 2-3 times a week when cooking, usually.
Pardon me sir but Ben Affleck is for comets, Aaron Eckhart is for Earth's Core.
That is quite literally what the article talks about.
I'm not saying i'm perfect, just more honest with myself than using the "don't have time excuse"
the earth's magnetic poles have already flipped at least 10 times in the past few million years. I recall reading that there could be a long period of increased solar radiation affecting life and causing a lot more cancer during the period that the actual reversal takes place but it's all theoretical.
How radical quality improvement has been set at Toyoto and how to map the Dantotsu process in Software Engineering.
The Why Files did a video on this... pretty entertaining, and pretty scary if things actually happen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3fkTq_p0o