skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you about the "bubble" within the financial markets, over exuberance happens.

I was thinking in terms of technology use in every day life and how it changes the way we live. I am a digital immigrant, and I can't fathom how we lived without internet back in the days, and how it has revolutionized the way we live and work.

I know that AI will change he way we live and work, I think we might underestimate its impact.

Back at the dot-com era, I quit my cushy job, and jumped into the dot-com world, one of the best decisions of my life. Today, I have another cushy job, so I wonder.....
I have multiple 0365 accounts, have done for years, and don't pay for a plug. Not sure what's different with your O365 auth process.

Signatures are a pain.
Venture debt is typical variable. So like most big startups.
So pdf is officially dead. R.I.P.

(Big company product only bundles with widely used product, if they are desperately longing the the descending userbase. Look for flash, when users begin no longer installing by themselves, it come to the windows.)
Trump’s Race to Execute Every Federal Prisoner He Could
It has becoming rather frustratingly slow.

You can bet the "rewrite" aka "make it look modern" jazz won't make this better.

Probably worse.
Perovskite-Based Thermochromic Windows Reduce Load and CO2 Emission in Buildings
Aniline dyes were first synthesized around 1856. The first aniline dye, known as Perkin's Mauve (Tyrian Purple), was discovered by English chemist William Henry Perkin. This breakthrough in organic chemistry paved the way for the production of a wide range of synthetic dyes, which were cheaper and more colorfast than the natural dyes that were previously used.

Initially, aniline dyes were available in a limited range of colors but by 1859 "hotpink" (magenta and solferino/fuscia) was fashionable, and others "from 1860, and in the '60s by various shades of brown, violet, blue, green, yellow and black".

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?....
This sounds exactly like the kind of idea mentioned in the article. It's extremely obvious and sounds really good, so the conclusion that should be drawn is "there is some confounding factor that would only be obvious to domain experts", but because interests rates have been kept low by our wack government instead of telling people to do more research I bet you could actually get several thousand dollars of VC money to burn before figuring out what the issues in the space are.
Also true in biotech, see also xkcd 1831

https://xkcd.com/1831/

Humility is the key trait that many CS grads are lacking. Personally, I attribute it to the explosion of CS popularity since ~2010. Most bio majors are still nerds (and I assume the same is true for education), whereas I think a minority of CS grads these days are motivated by passion and curiosity.
The highest performing, most expensive employees are going to be pretty senior and pretty experienced, ie older - the demographic least inclined to bet the farm on equity in a startup.

They’re likely to be at the stage of their life where their “runway” is their kids’ college tuition, or their (possibly early) retirement plan. Most will be far more inclined to take a (stable) pay cut rather than make a risky bet.

Plus, this whole downturn is rooted in drying up credit. Startups are more likely to fold than ever, and will largely have to either slow hiring or reduce non-equity compensation.
My father did this. It allowed him to close out a full life on his own terms and is definitely an option I would consider if I were to ever find myself in that kind of place.
I knew you would take offense at the comparison.

But it's not a comparison, it's just an example of the same statistical dishonesty.

When the pipeline was in fact blown up, of course we're going to look at vaguely worded threats in another light.
Ah yes. Actively engaging by continuing to respond. The telltale signs of "pause".

Your whining is amusing, though! So I hope that can bring you as much satisfaction as it is bringing me, at the moment.
> Personally, I think Microsoft has a HUGE opportunity here, imagine if the OpenAI - PRO account was actually free -- but only on edge browsers, or inside bing.com

If that were true I’d see people downloading edge and only using it for LLMs. MS hasn’t figured out how to monetize it yet, their only goal is to catch up and possibly dethrone google. Not an easy feat from MS who have blundered and still blunder a lot. Google search on the other hand is becoming less and less useful day by day.
My state's DMV is able to identify postal addresses that are not physical residences. My guess is that they get this data from USPS, which requires remailing services to register their business. Wouldn't be surprised if the DMV also checks for how many people at a given address have applied for a government ID and if it exceeds a particular threshold, flag it for investigation.
Stripe Can't Lose
I don’t think we should really ascribe internal mental state to another person as respectable as Kareem that’s contrary to what he’s just told us.
Show HN: Out of order execution in Jupyter notebooks is a solved problem
Briggo kind of did this. They started with convention centers and airports. Costa bought them reasonably quickly.

It was the perfect middle ground: it didn’t claim to be top of the line but it beat most chain coffee for espresso drinks.
I recently got laid off in the UK and it was really hard to find something decent. There's jobs out there, but most aren't all that great and the interviews were much harder to come by. I was ghosted by recruiters countless times after being told I would be put forward for certain roles which has never happened to me before...
Somewhat tangential, but I feel like a neat children's story could be written in a similar vein as "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" but replace Christmas with "Science", and the various things stolen being scientific implements, demolishing peer-reviewed journal institutions, deleting research data/past knowledge etc.
[Ireland] In process of getting laid off, 2 interviews. Applied for about 30 roles.
I skimmed the article and the video, but I couldn't find exactly where they mention what this new direction will be and what technologies will it use?
I was. But I was younger then, and less prone to injury.
> This is like when my father excitedly told his friends about the coming computer revolution in the 90s and they responded “well it can’t do my dishes or clean the house, they’re just a fad!” Makes me want screaaaaam

Did the computer revolution make your father’s life better?

Serious question.
Everytime I read something Kareem has written I am reminded how poised and intelligent he was/is. I wish more people in the public spotlight would aim for that.
I recommend anyone separate VLAN for your work at home environment. The company might spy but far more importantly, the risk of viral infections and hacks is so dramatically higher in a company than you alone at home with your family.
Where are you looking? How many years experience do you have? What types of positions are you looking for?
Right. We were running it on the lowest settings possible. Pretty blobby haha. But the great part about RS at the time was even at high graphic settings its wasnt that much better.
Check out Costa's BaristaBot (formerly Briggo) https://thespoon.tech/briggos-coffee-haus-becomes-costa-coff...
"ne" and "ner"?
I'm pretty sure he meant to write, "The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!"
>For us to have confidence in them, we would need to know that they haven’t been fed propaganda and conspiracy theories—we’d need to know that the jpeg is capturing the right sections of the Web.

But finding the 'right sections of the Web' is a subjective process. This is precisely why many people have lost confidence in the news media. Media outlets (on both sides of the political spectrum) often choose to be hyper-focused on material that supports their narrative while completely ignoring evidence that goes against it.

ChatGPT and any other Large Language Model can suffer from the same 'Garbage-In, Garbage-Out' problem that can infect any other computer system.
I hope this will spawn an Electron alternative. Would be nice to see a break from Chrome monoculture.
The bottom 50% have collectively more than doubled their net worth in the last 3 years[1], and their wages have outpaced inflation even at its currently high level[2].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBLB50107

[2] https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker
I dont think avoiding legal is the only point. Many people would rather go out with VSED than via injection, as it is a more "natural" dying process.

Edit: I find it very interesting that some people react negatively to this sentiment. Surely we can understand and respect that people hold different values and desires with respect to death.
Alternatively I found a local roastery that would deliver by mail. It appears that they primarily sell to local coffee shops. I found it the cheapest way to get specialty coffee. It gets roasted day of, and arrives in a day or two, so I just order when we have a couple days of coffee left. https://fortunacoffee.com/collections
Are there any reasonable alternatives (please, no outlook)? I love Thunderbird on principle but it's been years and the whole damn UI still freezes while it's downloading messages.
Wholly agree.

I worked there many years ago, leading the re-design and re-platform (fun dealing with 90 years of archival content with mixed usage-rights) and paywall implementation (don't hate me, it funds journalism).

When you see how the stories get made and how people work there, well, its just amazing.
One of my first real jobs I was tasked with maintaining the department's website. After a while I asked my supervisor where it was actually hosted. He took me over to another building and showed me a headless G3 B&W PowerMac on the floor of a shared office. It had been the original developer's machine and they just left it running dutifully for years. This was before https was common and it was a static site so really you could have hosted it on anything.

The people working in that office were unaware of what it did, just that it should never be turned off. ;)
Apple Services now generate more revenue than Nike and McDonald's combined
This is something that can be done with interpreted languages (I have done it with PHP -SHAME- -SHAME- etc.).

Not so easy to do with compiled and linked software, and a great way to get thrown out of an app store, if you do it for iOS.
I wanted Thunderbird to be the answer to the question I have been asking for years. "How to replace Outlook in the corporate environment?" Every time I investigate it, Thunderbird is a resounding no. Why? This is not the vision of the Development Team. But if it was a side goal it would afford them the development money to do all the other things.
> Total "crash" issues encountered: 2.

That part?
I am studying that option. Thanks.
I think violent crime peaks in warm months but property crime peaks in cold months, IIRC. Am I correct in assuming you’re talking about violent crime?
Better off how?

Can't afford to buy a house or start a family at anything like the rate 50 years ago that's for sure.
Ultimately he won't, because counting stats aren't as important as being the best in the moment, especially when rules have changed that have turned NBA competitions into glorified 1990s era all star games. Players can literally take an extra step with the ball in their hands that they couldn't 20 years ago. Bigs can no longer crowd the paint. For guy who is as bad a shooter as Lebron, those are crazy benefits.
Ask HN: Cold Calling. How the heck do I do that?
I provide IT consulting services, but I just can't understand how can I call a firm out of the blue and convert them into a client. Maybe from fear or maybe just the concept is so new to me. I am used to just working on my tasks with my team. Selling is new to me.

Any advice from experts?
If someone really wanted to make a change, setup some bot farm to fuzz comcast's own address search for literally _everyone_ in a given region, and report real numbers for who can and cannot get service there. Then like the nice folks that made the online method to fight your tickets and such, mass submit them in batches to the fcc, or all individually as disputed complaints. Comcast "could" do this themselves, but reality would be horrifyingly destroying to their fake metrics, thus they'd never get any more grants, and we can't have that.
It’s actually a nice feature that gives you exposure to photos you would not otherwise see. It’s one of the main things I miss from Photostructure (beside the speed) now that I use photoprism.
Yeah you can do that, it will just look very bad on you so people don't
Stable Diffusion is literally doing this. It uses algorithms developed to increase the resolution of blurry photos!
> I’m constantly surprised at how much of an anti-science, anti-technology undercurrent there is on HN.

I doubt anyone here is anti-science, you can't just cherrypick science results which suit your agenda and call other side anti-science because they see also different results.

As for anti-technology, it's perfectle understandable people who are more familiar with technology than majority of the society are also more aware of potential risks, so they have problems with some new technology which brings new problems.
I'm always a bit pleasantly surprised when following technical terms with a metaphorical meaning (an AR sandboxed playground) and it turns out to be they're used in the literal sense - it is an AR box, filled with sand!
Anecdotally, on my high-end desktop, with 2 Google accounts and a NameCheap private email account (all IMAP), Thunderbird is sitting at 0-0.2% CPU, 2 entries in task manager totaling 190.3 MB.

It does have a quirk with IMAP, in that it only checks your main folder until you visit a sub-folder. Then it'll check those, but even then, any time I go in and click a folder, it tends to react by "really checking."

But quirks aside, performance doesn't seem like an issue for me.
> Maybe it works for all of your test cases, but

This reminded me of an article I read awhile ago, probably here on HN:

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...
Had they all quit that would have been fine - nobody can force you to work. But they chose to not work and keep their jobs.

> The laborers who held the skills needed

So did many other people. They conspired to break the law by arranging to violate their employment contracts in a group so as to cause undue difficulty to their employer and they held public infrastructure hostage to prevent anyone else operating it.

> Reagan's actions have had a profoundly disturbing effect on the American middle class

The death of unions is a lot broader of an issue than RR killing the ATCU, and generally much deserved. Unions exist to save lives where the law isn't capable but for every plausibly relevant situation like air-traffic control or deep mining there are a hundred overreaches like trying to unionize Amazon warehouses.

As society and work got safer in general it became less important to have such an option as the right to blockade someone's property and dictate who they can hire.
*dissipated might be a better word
Sorry for not being clear earlier; for the client I'm using, when you read an email from someone, there's a sidebar that lists all of your past emails to/from them. It's very useful to see past interactions with the person in one glance.
To be fair, I don't think the two things would happen concurrently.

I have, in fact, seen this exact scenario!

I don't think it's likely, but losing a domain is a small price to pay if that were potentially a goal.
But no vote to condemn the NSA for warrantless surveillance of American citizens...
Coffee vending machines are everywhere in Japan (and have been for a long time).
Yea but you could legally run a bunk house or even just keep a spare bed “available” for someone for $50/month or something and they “live there”. Not saying it would be worth it per-se but definitely ways around that for anyone who is willing. The government can’t regulate something like that very well.
I think it is a lot more common than people realize. I had an uncle who did the same.
How does this work? Care to share the prompt and output?
Sheermal tends to be wedding fare in my experience
Avatar grossed roughly $3.8B worldwide
Avatar 2 has grossed roughly $2B worldwide.

None of these figures matter a damn. Gross figures aren't profit. And you need to adjust for inflation. Avatar 2 doesn't even show up in the top 25 all time when you adjust for inflation.

If the prod cost for Ava2 is $250 as reported, and marketing is roughly the same, then you're down to $1.5B before all the theaters take their cut. It doesn't mean that Disney netted $1.5B.
I agree, I was mostly talking about the default reddit experience.
There Are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All (2014)
People say “free money spigot” but I don’t understand it. Google has 120b in the bank. How was it able to leverage nearly zero interest loans before? Why isn’t new risk free (nominal) growth on cash a benefit considering they have so much cash?
It costs $14 to get a single cup of Starbucks coffee delivered to my office on Uber Eats. It's $17 if I want it in closer to 15 minutes. How did they think they could do it for so much less?
Developer Portals Can Abstract Away Kubernetes Complexity
Pretty sure Kareem always wanted to win when he played.

Maybe this is just him understanding that the scoring record is a statistical artifact, not a real competition.
No it's the new "I use go btw" (which itself is the new "just use python for that", which was the new "do it in java for portability". I wasn't old enough to witness C++'s initial rise, but it was famous for it's hype squad and people selling it as a silver bullet. As was C (that slow language will never be as good as a real programmer doing it all in assembly is the story there IIRC)).
Have to say I dislike the fact that Mimestream will cost money, but they don't say how much yet. I don't want to get used to something that will then cost more than I can afford. I don't mind paying, at all, but if it's going to be a €5 a month subscription that'll be too much for me, for example.
Still seems in the interest of the natives to keep foreigners out though eh? They didn’t make the policies after all.
Trick is to find a testing lab that doesn't sell probiotics. American Gut Health used to be that lab, but they're too busy sequencing Covid now. Hope they get back into the game.
So it's more like talking to a person.

If somebody asked me how heap sort works (my favorite sort!) I can sketch it out. If they ask me where I learned it, I really don't remember. Might be the Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman book. I can't really say though.
The older I get, the more it is that "4 years" ago feels like 4 days ago. You calling out my perspective of "recently" is totally fair, because to me, it feels like recently, whereas truthfully maybe not so. Thanks for the reply, I appreciate the facts.
probably depends on the coffee being served, but how much is a starbucks every day?

plus the pandemic probably added to the problems.

seems like monthly price point is hard for consumers to gauge value.
Is determinism a property of a programming language? I know it’s very important, but I’m just wondering if it belongs to the definition.
What are you talking about? It’s easy[0]! /s

0 - https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/seig87/how_to_make_cus...
I had the same thing happen.

It was quite jarring, for me, as I had been quite sought-after, before (Which was why I had the job I had, at a marquee corporation).

Turns out out, it was because of my age.

Lot of these laid off folks, are probably gonna encounter the same thing.
It’s when outsiders invade some place. So is it good or bad?
Cybersecurity Incident Takes Down Indigo for Second Day in a Row
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

They brought some of the accountants from Hollywood to the bay area and now all equity not owned by the founders or investors mysteriously becomes worthless right before a liquidation event.
I'm just making the implicit explicit. I'm not sure why you put quotes around luck.

> when it's the universal condition of humanity everywhere, and at all times?

Doesn't it make sense to question or try to change these assumptions? Or are things fine the way they are?
Having one in the first place. ;-P
Bear in mind that that's apparently the mean salary, which one would expect to be somewhat higher than the median (as it's more affected by high salary outliers in upper bands).

The people in the NHS that I talk to say it's running on goodwill and sticking plasters right now.
"Dry scooping is a novel dietary practice characterized by consuming pre-workout powders without mixing with a liquid as directed."

From the abstract.
If they think this network is convoluted they should see mine!
In general I have a rule of "ignore the opinions of professional athletes when they're talking about things other than sports". Kareem might be the only exception I've found so far.
Maybe an opportunity for crowdsourcing? Instead of paying the fine to the FCC, pay the fine to whomever files a successful challenge. Maybe make the fine per-address. Maybe require a nominal deposit from challengers to discourage false challenges (deposit(s) returned upon successful challenge(s)).

Probably adds too much complexity to be worth it (especially the part about deposits), but still interesting to think about.
Yes some financial news outlets have been doing that since at least 2015.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7939067/ap-journalism-aut...
There are no other cultures on Hackernews, only Nacirema.
If Italy is anything like Spain nobody gives a crap about building code stuff.

When I moved into my apartment it had just been "certified" by an electrician which took a week. There were outlets without covers on them. Exposed live stripped wires hanging in the hallway. Ground wire to the breaker box but not actually connected to the rest of the house. Exposed terminal blocks hanging everywhere. I doubt this "professional" even bothered to visit the place and just cashed a royal fee to sign the paperwork.

It's a total joke. If this crap gets "certified" then a DC cable beside an AC one In a conduit is really no issue :)
No language will save you from:
- A lack of knowledge about the domain, this includes the technical framework in which your program exists, behaves and interacts
- Code errors which result in valid code, but does the wrong thing, Rust isn't magic
- Bad choice of datastructures and algorithms
- Incomprihensible code documentation and bad development practices.

While I get that languages can eliminate a type of problem, they don't eliminate badly written software. Most of the time, the software development process itself, is more important, if you really want to examine what it means to build secure/safe software.

Having a team dedicated to developing software safely and using a language with stronger type safety guarantees vs. having a person just build something with the same language, does not magically imbue the end product with good qualities.

Take your example, if you don't have a good foundation in distributed systems, and try to build a distributed system in Erlang, you will only get so far, before you hit your head against the wall so hard, you start studying distributed systems instead.
You assumed the risk of naivety. $300k is a drop in the bucket for tech investment. That shiny app is representative of a business model that isn't based on retail coffee shop margins napkin math.
I don't really like the New Yorker, but even I agree it's a way better deal than Medium. I can't remember the last time I read anything on Medium that wasn't mostly vacuous.