skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Needl looks really cool, congrats on the launch!

Wondering if you could speak on a few topics in the spirit of hacker news / yc community:

1. Wondering if you've run into any friction yet where employers block the end-user from integrating with their apps? Just curious to what level that is or is not a common practice for enterprise users?

2. After using previous products that promise similar "search across all apps" functionality I soon felt the early excitement/novelty wear off and returned to old behaviors (ie, searching using each app's search). No doubt this is just a testament to how hard new habits are to build (and the old to let go of) but I'm wondering what your thoughts are on the human behavior / psychological aspect of products that have characteristics like this? As a tangential example, recent blogs posts featured on HN talked about how perhaps a chat-gpt conversational interface is not actually ideal to replace various UI/UX as it may take more cognitive overhead for the user to think of how to describe what they want when normally the UI/UX is what previously assisted them to arrive at that data. Basically I'm wondering how congruent (to existing behaviors) or novel your UX is and to what extent you believe this presents challenges to your team when designing (and perhaps marketing) the product?

3. Can you speak on your YC journey?

Thanks and good luck!
It lowers your house price but may increase the value of the land that has been sliced up.
They were likely paying for a web dyno, but were using a free database instance.
I used to think it was overrated, then I gave it watch over recently and it's, imo, the best of any of the prestige shows ever. Certainly no other prestige show hits strongly over all the seasons, and I think it has one of the best endings ever.
It's not anti-democratic for a higher level government to override a lower level government, no. That doesn't make it necessarily a good idea. Some issues make more sense to manage at a higher or lower level, and beyond that of course I have opinions on specific laws being good or bad.

What level of government you decide certain policies at is orthogonal to how democratic a thing is*.

As a relevant example of higher level authority on zoning, IIRC Japan just has twelve levels of zoning for the whole country; cities can choose which one to use for different areas, but they can't make up a new level. Whereas in the US, every city seems to have a dozen or more variants they made up themselves. Neither of these is fundamentally more democratic than the other.

* assuming we're talking about democracies at each level, of course.
I use it a couple of times a year, the reason I keep it is that my mom likes it, so I'd prefer to keep the status quo going, but if Netflix changes it I probably should cancel it, yes.
Clickbait. Yet another Gravity Battery story, the idea of lifting weights up, then capturing energy as they fall. There are hydroelectric systems doing this in California: pump water up to an elevated reservoir during offpeak hours, then harvest returning water during peak hours.
> Welp, lesson learned

Yes go to HP/Dell/Lenovo/Apple where no one works on open firmware, i don't understand your mindset....
Did they explain why the notifications didn't work?
I've lived in many homes and a couple high-rises. The noise isolation in the high-rises was miles ahead of that in the homes. I'm guessing the concrete construction is a pretty big factor in this.
Is it still impossible to save files onto the desktop?
I'd imagine Atherton would remain more or less the same with the exception of some homes being converted to duplexes and triplexes. At least in Minneapolis with the 2040 plan, more affluent neighborhoods tend to stay that way.
So he made a fake account to ask the question then replied with his original account?
I think the real problem is the density of opportunity and jobs in cities. I’m hopeful that remote work will break that tyranny to some extent. In five years when the emotions have cooled about return to office and the director of finance provides an analysis to the CFO about how much they could save and increase EPS while improving productivity using 2020/21 data and the CFO takes it to the board, that will be the end of the opportunity density in the cities.
Writing the code is not the real problem, understanding what code should be written is the real challenge.

So when AI can tease out my clients requirements when they have no clue, or even worse are adamant they know what they need, but are clueless, then I'll be concerned.

And furthermore, try getting regulatory approval in say, the banking or machinery safety sector for a system that you can't explain in detail what it will do for any given circumstance.

This problem of explainability already exists, one of our local banks gave a talk at AI meetup and said they were able to get results with AI/ML that they couldn't roll out because they could not explain adequately to the regulator the exact results it would give in certain circumstances.
I'm not saying anything about coding, I'm saying that if you code a thing in whatever language (let's say Ada) and I have a fresh install of an operating system (let's say Debian) and a compiler for the language you use (like the GCC Ada compiler) I should be able to compile your script into a program without having to install additional dependencies (like Alire).
Certainly happens - in this case IT usually contacts the employee, who connects us with IT and then we share our SOC II / describe our security processes and they grant us company wide access. Ends up not being a massive problem, but the added benefit on an employee / individual being able to self-serve offsets it, in our mind at least.

At some point, we'll likely kick off an enterprise-focused initiative. Thanks for bringing this up, very good points.
Sorry, you know the norms for social relationships in the 1960s?

>Its like if you made a period piece about the building of the railroads in the late 1800s and every white character just said things like "boy I sure do hate those chinese" instead of actually creating realistic characters that demonstrate their hatred instead of just being a caricature of a racist.

Have you watched mad men at all? it's nothing like this level of storytelling.
Celsius Used New Customer Funds to Pay for Withdrawals
I read the article some time ago. It was only a few times of the current population, but with existing technology. It did not count in emerging technology like vertical farming, lab-grown food etc.
> we’re shipping the very latest GNOME Web 43

My mistake. When I read this line it had me thinking Gnome.
It's probably helpful to ignore Hollywood here. We see exploding cars all the time, but in real life cars don't explode.

They can burn of course, and a fireball is a fireball, but an explosion creates shock waves, and all kinds of ancillary damage. Recall the Beirut explosion recently - the fire was relatively contained, but the damage from the explosion is vast.

So yeah, talking about gasoline here - the liquid doesn't explode, it burns. However the gas (as in gas, not liquid) can explode, rupturing the tank and spraying burning liquid everywhere. The worst case is a tank mostly empty - the fumes explode, spraying the rest of the liquid. The best case is a full tank. Liquids can absorb a lot of heat, without expanding or creating pressure. Once they boil though (which requires that the liquid doesn't already "fill the tank", pressure builds leading ultimately to the rapid disassembly of the container.

Incidentally this is why throwing an _empty_ aerasol can on a fire is very dangerous, possibly more dangerous than a completely full one (depending on the contents).

But to your point, and explosion and a fire are very different animals, with very different outcomes.
You've just described synthetic identity fraud.
For what kind of an app? If I was tasked to put an app someplace today, the answer would depend if it was easily containerized, and what kind of scale you're talking about.

For small apps, if containerized, I would host on Google Cloud Platform using App Engine Flexible Environment: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible
Add on their managed database, of course.

But also, random VPSs are so cheap that if it works fine as is, you could do a lot worse than just running it on Linode, Digital Ocean, Hetzner, etc.
... and I moved to Texas from Brooklyn, and I can assure you, longer term residents than me are still finding it foreign. That's slowly changing...
Yeah probably. I was a little surprised myself, but it is my dev machine so not that surprised
Yup! Hopefully the workaround I sent was easy enough -- please let me know if there's anything else I can help with!
They had to or they wanted to?

It says there was a business slow down. However, it did not say how much, if they were losing revenue, or why they didn't have a plan for this. [This implies that their business people understands the nature of the business and can comprehend that low periods happen in the business]

Also, the article states their stock is down, is this a free falling business or do they have a plan of attack to deliver value to their customers? (Rather than attempting to show good numbers via reduced staff)
About work? Yeah

In life? Nope. I keep finding new passions. Picked up the guitar after years of not playing and my creativity is born anew.
But isn't your position premised on an entitlement to live in a particular place? I don't recall ever creating or affirming that entitlement. And it doesn't exactly strike me as reasonable. There are expensive neighborhoods that I cannot afford to live in. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Indeed.

From TFA: "The “builder’s remedy” is a very old law from the 1990s"

Ah, the ancient times!
Exactly this.

I don't know why some people seem to want a "one true desktop" monoculture.

The whole reason I use Linux is because I get to make choices that make sense for me.
I 100% agree with you that greater intimacy leads to greater risk of being harmed.
The thing I don't agree with is "human intimacy cannot occur without substantial mutual harm". That sounds a bit too absolute to be true and is also not my personal experience. But it might be just the way philosophers talk, or maybe "harm" has another definition here and includes things like "changing the partner" that one would not define as "harm" in another context?
> While incorrect data being used for beneficiary fraud happens, census is india is limited in scope by law, and is not used for targeted benefits delivery - there is very little reason to lie here, since the data isn't correlated back with, for eg, your ration card.

Try explaining this to common Indian villager. Ground reality is they see the same govt employees collecting any data and they have their own assumptions. Govt employees themselves do not do very good job of explaining anything.

> NHFS (National Health Family Survey), used here, is a sampled survey (not a census), and has a detailed guide[1] on how they go about accounting for these biases, and ensuring their results remain representative despite sampling. afaik, the results from NHFS have the same limitation as a census - and it is not used for targeting benefit delivery.

I assumed so. Its not the question of the process set for NHFS. On-ground reality is completely different from their assumptions.
I like the cut of your gib.
'hone' means to 'sharpen a blade.'

'sharpen your skills'

It doesn't imply, to me, that the sharpened blade should be used as a weapon.
Java Version : https://github.com/team-dodn/spring-boot-java-template

Kotlin Version : https://github.com/team-dodn/spring-boot-kotlin-template
No, I meant that (assuming I'm reading the data correctly) the exchange was orchestrated and not at all organic.

I don't normally post publicly about these things but when people try to mess with another startup's launch thread, it gets my goat (YC-related or not), and to use manipulative tactics while doing it goes over my threshold for saying something.
That was the new “eco” plan that was introduced alongside the ending of free plans — $5/mo for 1000 hours shared across all eco dynos.
People developed these great environments like EMACS and other open source software out of passion, not because they were chasing profits. There are many instances where seeking profits, as in the corporate world, reduces innovation and creates a short term mindset. A lot of the best research comes out of state-funded labs, even the development of the transistor and the computer in the USA, the development of the internet, all funded by the state.
Free db but paid dyno in this case I think
Tokyo has lax zoning, but it looks the way it does only because people who live there want it to look that way.

Houston, which also has loose zoning, looks totally different because most Texans want to live in suburbs and drive cars.

In other words, zoning laws are generally an expression of what the majority of people already wanted.

I can tell you for sure that in most parts of California (and most of the rest of the USA) the majority of people want to live in a detached single-family home that they own, and prefer driving cars to public transit.

People who prefer a denser arrangement are an especially vocal minority on the internet, but if you put it to a vote, you'd end up with pretty much what we have today -- the fact that people wanted them is why they got built in the first place!
Yea, they could provide a fingerprinting algorithm and a database of every fingerprint they've generated. However, it wouldn't help you identify false-positives.
It is life-changing, and echoes in Peggy’s character and relationships through the entire series, as well as being called out explicitly at half a dozen key moments.

Peggy’s baby is a crystallization of the contrast between her and Don. Don tells her, “It will shock you how much this never happened.” He is always running, ignoring what life repeatedly tries to teach him. Peggy makes the decision to give up her baby the keystone of her character: She could have had Pete and the life of an adoring housewife, instead she embraced her choice and consciously took a different path.

What the writers resisted was the potential melodrama of reintroducing the baby to Peggy’s life in some way. But that would have undermined the moment of Peggy’s choice: It was gone.
ask their students to write things in class and get a feeling for what those individual students are capable of. Then those that turn in essays written at 10x their normal writing level will be obvious

I think that's a flawed approach. Plenty of people simply don't perform or think well under imposed time-limited situations. I believe I can write close to 10x better with 10x the time. To be clear, I don't mean writing more, or a longer essay, given more time. Personally, the hardest part of writing is distilling your thoughts down to the most succinct, cogent and engaging text.
At this point, my white whale for a Linux laptop is functioning sleep. Any problems/higher than expected power consumption?
I always thought the socratic method was where somebody (Socrates) was teaching something to a student. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that doesn't seem right for describing the JRE

But I think Louis Theroux has a not dissimilar style.

(Unless you're asking me if I'm Louis... I'm not)
Various people seem to think I'm blaming the person doing the work - nope, I didn't. Blame isn't the point and won't fix anything. But strategically the best option is to work with stakeholders towards incremental force, squeezing the trash compactor slowly. If stakeholders insist on backing everyone into the worst possible corner, then so be it; next time they'll probably listen.
>But still, without lockdowns there was great risk as can be seen from what happened to the likes of the UK...

Uh, what exactly happened in the UK?
Old narrow-street, maybe an alley in the back, grid-layout suburbs with the odd block corner zoned commercial and all-neighborhood-streets routes to all kinds of businesses and parks and libraries and such are a whole different beast from the twisty-road car-dependent mazes of post-70s suburbia. And they're so much damn nicer. Too bad no-one builds them anymore.
Yeah and I think they’ll regret it. If you think the voters of California are good stewards you’ve not paid attention to California.
The problem for us devs is not that it will replace you completely (although that day is coming, but it's at least a decade away). The problem is that as developer productivity increases dramatically this may put pressure on developer job positions, salaries, etc. One hope is that as the price of developing software plummets it will increase demand accordingly so that we won't feel it that much. God knows there is still a ton of areas where software or better software would help out a lot but it is cost prohibitive at the moment. Once we get into robotics basically anything that humans do can be improved with software.
Have you tried to do it with pyodide? What issues did you hit using that?
I love royal regalia as much as the next guy, but this is a made-up big number.

Treat this as you would a non-liquid startup talking about a huge market cap or when the Trump brand gets valued at whatever it takes to make him a billionaire.

The jewels are valuable because of their intrinsic beauty, their cultural significance, and the (exploited) labor that went into making them. No need to put a number on it.
Was not my intention at all, sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I'm not saying you're accusing me of anything, but what would be a fair comment in you're eyes, I'll be happy to learn.
They deleted the database.

On Heroku, databases and dynos are completely distinct entities, each with their own payment plans.

When you set up a dyno and “add” a database, as most people do, it’s really easy to think that they are part of the same plan, and conclude that the “pro” or paid dyno is actually the combo of the dyno and database. They are not.

I understand why they did this, databases can be shared between applications, that’s handy, but this is a sharp edge.
It's cool, and it's nice to see renewed focus on 3D on the web for game engines like Unreal.
As a "community" member I have to say it was annoying when they started prioritizing the integrators during the parts shortage. It feels more like a generic dev board supplier now than an educational / maker focused product.

The compute model in particular was a mistake IMO. I'm sure they do great business but their original focus is lost.
Atherton is the Beverley Hills of Northern California.
Why No One Saw the Success of Demand Response Coming
Maybe it’s time to end commutes then?
Yeah, but I was also making a further point: if everyone uses the enjoyable language in their spare time, and nobody wants to use the miserable one unless they have to, you get a gradual brain-drain. More and more people have more and more experience with the fun one, and over time it gets easier to hire for (or find contributors for)

Of course it's sticky- someone who's already an expert in the miserable language may not choose to totally re-skill themselves (and anyway, once you know something that well it tends to become less miserable). But the new generations will heavily favor the thing that's welcoming to them, not the thing that's prickly
'Math less traveled' make one less of a programmer? [1]

[1] Esperanto centered example: "If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript" by Angus Croll
High rises are, but not very many people desire to live in a high rise. Hence the inefficiency. I mean if everyone lived in a 5x5 box it would be super efficient. But yeah, I think people would rather die first.

I'm also curious if you could actually back up that New York statement with some unbiased research.
OpenAI once wanted to save the world. Now it’s chasing profit
> If you adopt Nix fully, ...

The case where Nix is not adopted fully is the one I have in mind.
JScript (Microsoft's JavaScript dialect) can be used as a general purpose scripting language (in purpose similar to shell scripts or maybe VBA, but using JavaScript and ActiveX). And until you install your first code editor to map the file extension to, the default action on double click is to execute the script.

Or at least that used to be the case, not sure if this is still a thing in Windows 10/11.
Ask HN: How do I find Tell HN submissions?
I’ve searched through the lists, and I couldn’t find anything for Tell HN posts.
Certainly a very lively space, feels like just about everyone is trying to solve the problem at hand. Always happy to share thoughts / learnings in the space -- we should find a time to connect, feel free to email me at max@needl.tech
Errata-AI/vale: A syntax-aware linter for prose built with speed and extens
>Moving these decisions to a state level doesn’t allow for the advocacy of a neighborhood to matter as much. That’s not good.

I firmly believe that it is good. Neighborhoods shouldn't have the right to work together to exclude other people from moving to that neighborhood.
They should start their own tech company, with a union, and employee owned.
Yes migration is good.
The Internet Loves an Extremophile
Is there any data on the % of layoffs on actual technical folk (SWEs, etc...) vs non-technical staff (recruiters, etc...)? That's one thing I wonder, as a SWE. Is the market actually now flooded with SWEs, or was the actual number of laid of SWEs a much lower percentage of the total people laid off?
Seems like there would be massive, easy arbitrage in buying the home and saying you are moving in then changing your mind and building multi-family, then taking the buyout from the coalition of rich neighbors.

Free money for defection and could easily exhaust the resources of this coalition.
Why the xe? Why not use neutral they, polite she or dominant he ? Is xe representing more than "they"?
curious...why are source files required to be virus scanned?

source is just text...unless you mean intermediate binary items that get linked later?
> I've never had them wipe a database on me,

Give it time, apparently ;)

If you're like me and are really into ease of use, I really endorse Digital Ocean. People don't seem to use it in Big Important Companies, but I never had a problem with anything I hosted there when I was my last, medium-sized company, and everything was so easy to manage in the GUI without having to learn proprietary APIs and whole stacks of infrastructure-as-code stuff like in AWS land.
> to deliver value to their customers

HubSpot is best in class at marketing and CRM. It's delivering a lot of value, the growth numbers just aren't as good as they used to be. It boomed in 2021 and then tapered off in 2022
Socialism can mean a lot of things. But originally it meant the control and management of society by workers, on a democratic basis, including the workplace.
I'm curious to know who you would suggest supporting instead.
“Unlike human-written text, model-generated text tends to lie in ar- eas where the log probability function has negative curvature (e.g., local maxima of the log probability).”
Only 109 retrievable images out of the 350,000 most-duplicated is fewer than I expected. Maybe it's just the stringent definition of retrieval, but I would have expected many famous works of art like the Mona Lisa and Girl with a Pearl Earring to be readily extractable. Maybe these just aren't quite pixel-perfect enough?
sound like grug need to use some accrued pto, take break from problem for while.
The analogy seems not to apply?

The emails mentioned by the parent don't sound like alarms. Because an alarm is usually for 'drop everything and focus on this' situations.

The equivalent in email terms would be a receiving an email with a subject in ALL CAPS bolded and underlined.

Or in general intra-company communication terms, a phone call from your boss without any pleasantries and a serious voice.
America’s fever of workaholism is finally breaking