skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The brains structure is derived from dna but it contains learning capabilities that comes after the initial creation. Pretty much like how 5 lines of code can get you image recognition, of course it uses lots of libs, but I can still do that myself with 5 lines. The training is the hard part
Yes, savings are "intrinsically less moral" as savings are money not being used. And since wealth accumulates itself the more savings the more income inequality. It is intrinsically immoral that the wealth controlled by two dozen Western families is larger than the wealth of three billion people.
Ask HN: Has OpenAI followed Y Combinator startup advice?
In my view, OpenAI is at this point a roaring success. Interesting tech, significant adoption, serious investment and partnerships. Given Sam Altman is at the helm, I wondered if they (or anyone for that matter) would consider it a textbook example of following the advice that Ycombinator offers through the startup school and it's other programs. Do you think it has, or hasn't?
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> Small SaaS
> 4 billions requests & 1PB of data per month

Pick one!
I love tree style tabs and I really want to encourage people to set it up and really customize their user stylesheet to make the best use of it. I have removed all traces of the original tab bar at the top and the three primary window buttons (close, restore, minimize) giving me back lots of that precious vertical space. Their GitHub has a ton of CSS snippets to help you with customization. I'd also be happy to share my user CSS file.
Stable is boring when stable reflects what has been done time and time again. Interestingness requires novelty. Someone who seeks stability in living on the moon and has a plan to make it happen would be hard to call boring – until many more people follow the same blueprint, at which point it too will become boring.
I read it in a book and thought it explained a lot of what our corporate, and media driven society has become. There are agendas and you can almost track their movement, and how the window of what is socially acceptable has moved. I think everyone should know and study the overton window concept.
Most French-speaking (AZERTY) and German-speaking (QWERTZ) countries, that's like at least 500 million people...
No one is claiming the end is near for Amazon. That's a strawman. But it's clear from the earnings release that the business is experiencing strong headwinds in multiple areas of the empire. Amazon closed out its slowest year of growth in its quarter century as a public company.

And Amazon does care about the stock price. If they didn't, they wouldn't issue guidance to Wall St analysts every quarter about expected revs and earnings. Not all big tech companies issue guidance. Apple stopped doing it several years ago. Google has never issued guidance. Maybe Amazon didn't care about the stock price a decade ago, but that's definitely not the case now.
Show HN: Create personalized AI Assistants driven by Notion (with no code)
We just shipped updates to our platform to make it super easy for users to connect their personal Notion workspace for using with LLM assistants (like ChatGPT).

This means that you can do things like question answering on your notes, docs, code etc. for any use case you can think of. We built an Investor bot that answers common questions about our fundraising X-D https://app.algovera.ai/workflows/view?id=algovera-investor-... Some more ideas: job seeking bot, user feedback bot, dating bot, ...

You can check out a demo video on our recent twitter post https://twitter.com/AlgoveraAI/status/1621243837246046209

More integrations coming soon like Discord and Slack.

We use LangChain and GPT Index in the backend :)

Would love to hear how it works for you.

Oh and btw, if you're interested in getting funded to build an LLM app we run a $10k monthly microgrants program (sponsored by Ocean Protocol). You don't need to be technical to apply. The grants are a public good (no strings attached, equity free). Feel free to reach out if you want to brainstorm on ideas https://handbook.algovera.ai/docs/Handbook/Grants/Proposal%2...
The quotation "cancel culture" may be associated with a particular tribe, just as the words "liberal", "conservative" are, but in all such cases the idea expressed is broader.

Just as the Republican party is big on personal liberty and the Democrat party is (I think?) trying to conserve the environment, today there are some people trying to "cancel" anyone who is pro-trans and others trying to cancel anyone who is anti-trans. I see stuff like this pop up in all sorts of surprising contexts, including someone who was convinced that "epileptics are all faking it", a parter's mother who thought I had to be lying when I said I was vegetarian, and some weirdo who began campaigning against all apps made in the Xojo programming language because he didn't like the company's decision to change the design of its IDE's user interface.
A period of time with a lot of inflation and wage growth? How dare I say the two are related.

It's not a blanket statement. Real war causes inflation, monopoly power causes inflation. But in the context of modern US, the biggest thing is wage growth.
The higher educated white collar class is coming to terms with the fact they are just as disposable as the rest of us.
My experience with the Cloudflare sales team is they were woefully disconnected from any ability to make good on their promises, and that it didn’t matter to them at all. It was a strange narcissism -bit wasn’t that they were deliberately lying, it was as if the notion of truth and lies didn’t matter. That if they kept blabbering assumed that they’d get the sale.

In general you can’t trust salespeople and need to get everything in writing. Cloudflare is a prime example of why.

And I’d add in my case because we were keeping track of their promises, we caught them before the sales process completed. It cost them seven figures a year. But maybe it doesn’t matter - their sales approach still has them worth $20 billion.
And here's a list of countries ranked by median income based on data from the World Bank. The US is "only" 5th by this measure.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...
Carbonation is an odd process... You can carbonate a liquid (by bubbling CO2 through it at high pressures). That liquid, if put in a cup, will slowly lose its carbonation, over a few hours.

If you put a sealed lid on the cup, the pressure will build up inside the cup as some CO2 comes out of the liquid into the top of the cup, till there is an equilibrium and no more gas comes out.

Thats what the canning process relies on. So the can isn't sealed under pressure - the can is sealed at room pressure, and then within a few minutes the pressure builds up inside the can.

Kinda neat!
Worst case, there's always

http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/
Bing used to be a joke, but nowadays they actually do a decent job for cases in which Google fails.
Cookie AutoDelete is my go-to for deleting cookies.
> Do you think the Xorg devs are spreading lies about Xorg?

Some are, yes, this is incontrovertibly true. But this one? You should hit the "history" button that's in the corner of every wiki. That page hasn't been edited at all since 2013, imported from some other document written I don't know when, and literally the only thing it actually says about security is that "needs to be designed with security in mind".

What does that mean? What specific shortcomings have they identified?
Not entirely, unfortunately, at least on my experience.

Putting the keyword "download" after the name of software, ebooks, or music will lead into weird websites that distribute malware, and they rank very high.

I just tried searching for an old Game Programming book I happen to have. There's two piracy sites, then one site with a "Download" button that gives me a DMG with an executable. Those are above Archive.org, the official github repo of the book and the official website.

For music download, I searched some Bowie. There's Amazon... plus a few pages of of weird websites that I have no idea what they are, but look like "paid piracy", they either ask for credit card or give me a DMG which supposedly has a downloader.

For software I searched the one I made by the company I work at. There's stuff like Filehorse, Softonic (I don't even know if they're legit), then there's a few which look like those aggregators but end up giving you malware when downloading.

That's with ads blocked, and subscription to several lists.

In the end IMO this is terrible for small businesses, people will end up distrusting anything that's not Amazon or anything that they try to search organically, or they'll get malware.
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I dunno, I recently learned about how the Toyota Synergy Drive system works in detail. Despite being the type of person who'd be interested in that kind of thing I thought it was not generally well understood, I've only come across one website which described it in detail.

I asked ChatGPT about it and it game me a fairly surface level answer. I then asked it for more details and it went into detail far beyond what the average person would be able to tell you. I thought that was quite impressive for a fairly obscure bit of mechanical engineering.
Amazon makes it harder and harder to do this, de-emphasising the seller in listings. I used to be able to confidently "buy it now" from the search results page but I'd never do that now.

The fact that the answer is "look through all the reviews to see if they're shady, check the seller, check the sellers reviews" is an absolute product failure by Amazon. I shouldn't have to do scam research to buy a toothbrush.
id wasn't first in a lot of things. They were essentially porting existing graphics technology to the PC. They succeeded because other programmers turned their noses up at the "underpowered" PC in favour of systems with "better" hardware. Carmack certainly did a lot of work and devised some ingenious ways of getting the most out of PCs but he was adapting things more than pioneering them.
this was clearly telegraphed some weeks ago when they cut off Twitter apps (Tweetbot at the like).

Not a good way to go about it in order to engender good will, but I would never recommend building something that you expect to last forever around a free API by a for-profit company (which could be cut at any time). We've seen this movie before.

As for Twitter's demise, I wouldn't count on it. I noticed a toot on Mastodon from someone I used to follow on Twitter mentioning they had 150K followers on Twitter and 1/10th of that on Mastodon. This person is a very harsh Elon (and Tesla) critic, so if anyone were to leave Twitter in protest it would be them. But that would mean losing a 150K audience, so not gonna happen (it's an influence, not money question).

I myself did drop Twitter (though I didn't delete my account mostly in case I want to look someone up there) for Mastodon, but find that I go very little to Mastodon anyway (doesn't have anywhere near Twitter's breadth of content). So basically I've dropped Twitter-like engagement altogether, which is a ReallyGoodThingTM because it was a time sync that added very little value to my life. But I think I'm in a very small minority; most people want to stay connected. I'm still on IG (family/friends photos), and HN (interesting content), but that's it.
Exactly! Hyperinflation is terrible and economy destroying. But I think a good argument can be made that moderate inflation, much higher than the typical 3% target is very good for most people.
That goes for pretty much any resource; there's a lot of botched or sub-optimal explanations of complex things out on the internet. But being able to have a conversation with someone who has a decent conceptual grasp on something is better than a perfect encyclopedic article alone, and ChatGPT is able to roughly do that for a lot of subjects.

As for how you know it's accurate, you don't really have to know it's accurate most of the time, because if you're using it to try to learn something new it's probably going to become apparent quickly enough. Nobody is reading something and then going "Welp, now I'm done learning."

As a software example, you can ask it about implementing the Fourier transform. If it says something wrong, you'll find out.

The question then becomes how often it is inaccurate and how badly. But in that regard, as long as you don't treat it as an all-knowing oracle, it's at least as useful as having a friend that knows a lot of stuff you want to learn.
Ask HN: How to get a small software license approved?
Background:
I've been a software developer for over 20 years. Mainly contracting/consulting roles and I've mainly used my own laptop for about the last 10+ years.

I've found a few tools useful to my own workflow over the years. One of those is a proprietary app with a licensing cost of $150 per seat.

I've now started working with a company of about 800 employees with a company provided laptop. I want to get a license to install my tool on this laptop, but I'm running into resistance. Some developers at the company say there are freeware and open source alternatives, but those options are poorly implemented and missing features after using the proprietary tool.

My immediate manager has only been in management for a few months and didn't have any luck navigating the procurement hierarchy.

Any advice on pushing this to the next level?
I think the managers have actually rationalized and come to terms with it - after all, they’re the ones raising pay.

It’s the FED that hasn’t seemed to have figured it out yet.
Thank you for the links on debates and discussions.

And I am also looking for analysis; debates, interviews and discussions are too long. Analysis usually are 15-30 mins on a topic usually covered by 1-2 people and, if balanced, considers and covers both sides of the argument and views.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641044 [99 comments]
I've heard that they do a lot of price manipulation with holidays, so I can see why they wouldn't want to provide enough data for customers to track prices over time. Also, you'd be bypassing their advertising.

But yeah, it would be great if we didn't have to use their websites to navigate the data.
You are right it is not. One persons spending is the other's income.
I agree in general except HN also rewards quality a bit more. All new comments get a few minutes to bask at the top of their subthreads. So a really good, late comment can still get to the top and stay there.
Asking authentication service to not use risk while using phishable authentication methods is essentially asking them to not bother with any protection from phishing and various password and 2nd factor theft.

If you don't like risk-based auth, use non-phishable authentication method like security keys.

Note that false negative (letting attacker steal) is roughly equivalent as false positive (not letting actual owner access the account) from the owner's access since the owner can't access the account in both cases (most attackers try to take over the account and lock out the original user - if you are a target of sophisticated attackers who would silently steal and watch your information, you wouldn't complain about risk based protection). But the former is worse from privacy obviously, thus any sane provider tend to choose false positive over false negative. The only way out of this bind is to use non-phishable auth, and at this point, security key is about the only one, with app based notification being close.
Is wage inflation the only part of inflation?

You are not answering the question. Let me reformulate: How do you reduce general inflation without hitting jobs?

It is okay to admit this is logically not possible.

> This is a non sequitur

It isn’t :)
https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/i-went-see-foodies-queued...

'I went to see why foodies queued for hours to try new Ealing's Popeyes which made £20k on its first day'
You’ve given me an idea. If widespread automation drives down wages, it should also lead to deflation. That should make welfare programs cheaper as the State needs to pay out less money to welfare recipients.
Worrying part is the account could get banned. Could you reply here if that’s true? Would that take down dns/registrar etc functionality? Google does this and people would move to cloudflare thinking you wouldn’t do this account ban but nowhere is it stated.
I'm in the "impulsive purchase including buyers remorse" camp. Also yes (wo)men in Elons Musks inner circle who are unable to contradict him.

Now that the deals i done he needs to make the best of it (for his ego but also for Tesla control reasons).

What will come of it remains to be seen. It could still end in a number of ways
I remember grownups telling me how terrible the change was, because any dust on the tab now flipped downward and fell into the can, whereas before it was pulled away.

I was never that concerned myself.
> The social graph on Twitter is hugely valuable.

This seems to be taken as given, but how specifically would you expect someone to simply monetize the social graph? Just because data exists doesn't mean that anyone wants to pay for it.

As for the value of the brand itself, we could say the same thing about Yahoo in 2010.
The boringness comes from nuance, which this post seems to lack, and that truly revolutionary ideas are rare.

Sure, you can be not boring by shouting your hot take from the rooftops, bluster like trump etc, but the truth is that 'truth' is not absolute, everyone has a slightly different perspective, and adults take that into consideration.
Changing jobs doesn't incure hardship. You don't have to quit your job to start searching for a new one. These people should always be interviewing to find if someone out there values their labor and skills more instead of just settling for less.
But vastly more expensive, that's for sure.
Is the problem that the password reset link looks like it is throwing an error?

I had this the other day, doing my login once every couple of years.

It required that I turn off any ad blocking and allow cookies to get the "error" to go away. I was then able to do the whole forgot password / login thing.
This is the nonsense narrative the mainstream media is trying to pedal to drive populist engagement, but it doesn't make any sense. The interest rate hikes have dramatically decreased wealth inequality and tempered inflation without affecting unemployment. The Federal Reserve has shown that they don't care that their high interest rates are driving down stocks, so they'll continue to allow them to tumble. By contrast, they have said that they would lower interest rates again if unemployment increases to much, but by some twisted logic, people think that it means that it's their goal to decrease employment rather than unemployment being something that they actually care about.
Matt Cutts made it seem like they were serious about it. On reflection, his departure seems like a turning point, albeit perhaps coincidental.
it feels like no one even cares about the elites anymore; sad, just sad.
Pretty easily, if they match a buyer/sellers. That’s literally what exchanges do.

Redemption is when Tether the entity is the buyer - aka someone takes USDT and goes to Tether the entity and gets dollars for it, 1-1. That’s what seems to never happen, except perhaps for specific Tether insiders. Though the ones I’ve seen claiming they’ve done so (SBF being the prominent one), are far from credible sources now.

If some random person wants to give me $1 for my nominal $1 of USDT, that’s cool - and that happens on exchanges regularly right now.

That depends on market perception, etc. though and has only the potential connection to perceived ability to redeem. Which has been kept sustained, as you can see by this thread.

By comparison, Verifying someone can deposit and withdraw cash from Wells Fargo is pretty easy. Just stand in any of their branches for an hour or two, and you’ll have tons of evidence. Something no one has of Tether still, after all this time.
Index funds are much better investments than sports cars, after all.
Yeah some sort of physical optimization that depends on forces definitely come into play in organizing the brain structure but at the end we can mimic that in code
Plane.dev is mentioned.

Has anyone experience with it? It seems quite interesting but I need more opinion on what they call "backend sessions"...
You're missing the step where Teachers College of Columbia University first hijacked the teaching profession for a specific progressive philosophy that aspired to a scientific approach to education, but went with pseudoscience around things like "learning to learn" instead. This provided fertile ground for fad after fad that later swept teaching. This created grounds to want to restrict teacher autonomy in the first place.

I recently re-read To Kill a Mockingbird and was surprised to find a first hand account of what an initial encounter with this philosophy was like back in the 1930s.
Why is your email address my password? Wtf?
Roald Dahl's childhood biography Boy describes the incredible abuse he went through at Repton and an Old British primary school. Caning was a common punishment, love was never present, and fagging was an evil practice in which older boys were deputized to treat younger boys as slaves. There's a reason Dahl's fictional books so frequently feature kids getting revenge/justice against big bad adults (or giants, in the case of Sofie in The BFG).

Boarding schools for minors are generally bad, IMO. My parents both went to (and one also taught at) boarding schools in the US. By their accounts, such schools tend to attract perverted or power-hungry maladjusted adults who enjoy the kind of power over others that can only be had at such institutions.
> Furthermore, it is stupidly obvious when something is just being dropshipped vs coming from Amazon's warehouse

The issue isn't so much that you buy something and then the process of shipping from China starts. The issue is that it's often the exact same crap being sold on AliExpress, but has been filtered into the Amazon Warehouse for those SKUs.
> eee-vic-ser

https://github.com/google/evcxr/issues/215
Hm... Perhaps a bit off topic, but burning a million pounds is sort of a reverse-inflation move, right? Relatively speaking, it makes everyone else's pound that much more valuable?
Ok but for large companies regulations are very rarely munch of an inconvenience anyway, with a very few exceptions (many of those are in fact EU regulations that actually benefit the consumer).
They have the manpower to deal with it and often the pull to influence regulation.

Generally it’s individuals and small to medium sized companies both inside and outside the UK that are negatively affected by Brexit.
What's not correct about it?
Those Shahed drones are too small. I'm just thinking from first principles, if an ultralight plane has a range of 500km and has a 100kg pilot in it which could be subbed for a warhead, you could do an awful lot of damage with hundreds of such things in the air.
You can’t just say that a human comes from a gigabyte of information. That info is fed into a massively complex physical system, which he is ignoring.