skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Periodically someone comes up with this kind of comment. If it's on the front page, it's because the community finds it interesting. And these kind of unusual but stimulating posts really are what makes HN interesting. I wouldn't read it if it were all about the latest Julia release and the latest startup.
> I'm sceptical towards this. I know my own productivity has measurably improved since I started working from home - mainly from the calmer work environment and lack of distractions.

Also, no need to sit there staring at the screen trying to look like you’re doing something useful after your brain has hit its limit on contiguous productive hours. You can instead get up and go do chores or go on a walk or something, give your head some breathing room, and then come back with something of a second wind in your sails which carries you through the end of the work day.
The economy and stock market impacts similarly positioned companies all at the same time. And in this corner of the Internet, that seems like "everyone."

There are other companies doing great -- Stryker (NYSE: SYK) is near their all-time high and has not done layoffs as far as I know.
It didnt work for me at first but I refreshed a min later and it loaded in Chrome.
Thanks for sharing, I haven't heard of that book. On his website he has this 30 minute talk[0] summarizing the "Ultralearning" concept.

Does the book offer significantly more detail or insight such that it's worth the purchase, even after watching his talk?

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2JGiJNUsD4
Excited about this open source alternative!

I think no code crons have huge opportunity to capture nocode makers who like framer or webflow.

I think this is also quite economical when compared with competitors like

zapier - free / 100 tasks / month
n8n - 20 euros / 5000 workflows / month
make - free / 1000 ops / month
activepieces - free / 5000 tasks / month

I think it would be great if in your landing page you can describe how you differentiate or provide similar experience as your competitors
As a parent, you are exposed to your kids making a non DEI-compliant joke on a social media and as a result be barred from university admission years later.
I'd imagine most people's distraction is on their phone.. which they have in the office.
For me, the last example feels messy for two reasons. First, I have to worry about matching parens. That can feel mentally exhausting even for simple cases. Second, it's written all on one line, so it's harder to mentally separate all the steps. I usually break expressions like that apart into separate lines, but that means finding concise yet meaningful names for temporary variables.
Well described.

There are viruses which affect other viruses with arguably more than a side effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virophage ), but for natural reasons it seems a bit off from fully analogous to bacteriophages.

Coronaviruses are at the high end of size and complexity among RNA-viruses, but it's still hard for me to see that virophages would be relevant to combat SARS-CoV-2.
If you want zsh that acts like fish, try "fizsh".
If you’re working as a software engineer, you are already privileged, yes. It’s trivially easy, when making an average software engineer salary to save a significant portion of your income. If you save 50%, you need to work 1 year to save enough for a year off.
EU generates more power from wind+solar than from gas for the first time
Great progress.
The economics of leaf longevity explained using optimality principles
Besides the economic realities of companies selling shovels to out of work miners, companies always have people they want to layoff but generally want to avoid both the confrontation and publicity.

Once the flood gates open up by your competitors or the sector as a whole starting layoffs, it makes sense to get your own house in order.
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent." — Qui-Gon Jinn, The Phantom Menace.
Partly. Another factor is that VC money is starting to dry up. Yet another is that many companies piled on employees during the PANDEMIC! They found that they didn't need that much staff.

I don't know if Gitlab hired a bunch during the PANDEMIC! They might be back to pre PANDEMIC! numbers.
It was extremely laggy and nearly impossible to connect so I installed the docker on a server and got exactly the same result.

No idea if I did something worng, but it's unusable for me in the current state.

Anyhow, I'm still very intrested in a working version of this.

Did you guys had better luck than me?
I think this is where many providers get mixed up. It's for "mild-to-moderate" COVID-19 (i.e., "you're not sick enough yet" isn't at play, because then you have "mild" covid which is exactly what paxlovid is indicated for) who are at "high risk for progression to severe COVID-19."

According to the CDC, risk factors that make you at "high risk" include being over 50, having a mood disorder (including anxiety and depression), being obese or overweight, being physically inactive, being a current or former smoker, or having asthma:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-care/...

Most Americans would check one of those boxes, even the healthy and young among us. And some of those (e.g., "physically inactive") are pretty ill-defined that you could argue even more fit in that category. Just saying you're anxious about covid outcomes should qualify you for paxlovid because anxiety is a risk factor.

Many of the infectious disease doctors I work with think that paxlovid should be offered to virtually everybody because it seems to decrease your viral load (this could decrease the chance of onward transmission), there may be a decrease in risk of long covid, it may shorten your symptom duration, and there aren't many other treatment options if you get sicker. So, short of being on one of the medications that's absolutely contraindicated, their opinion is generally if you want paxlovid you should get it.

So if your doctor is saying you don't need it or don't qualify, and you want to take it, I would find a different doctor or use a telemedicine provider.
I'd really like to know what the endgame is for DEI. Can anyone explain that?
Trump Tattling to Twitter over Mean Chrissy Teigen Tweet Just Tip of Iceberg
A symptom of our bubble-powered economy in general.
Hey, maybe don't outright call people liars about their own lived experiences just because they don't agree with yours...?
Basically a "Employment Law Specialist as a Service."
> I really miss the contact from the office but since most people don't go in any more, it is not worth much of my time to travel there.

So you are saying that working from office is objectively worse.
Dbt to acquire Transform to build out its semantic layer
After 2 years of slow progress, dbt acquires Transform and their open-source MetricFlow to help build out the semantic layer.
The cost of living isn't the employer's problem, it's the employees. The cost of living can eventually drive up wages, but only in so far as other regions draw away labor with a better wage to cost ratio.

An employer, especially one that isn't just a Human being but a company, will only pay you enough to make you sign and incentivize you to work. They don't care at all how you make your living.
I made Bing Chat so angry it stopped talking to me
> A situation like this where the salary doesn't really depend on location so it wouldn't be treated like I'm actively trying to game anything would actually be preferred in my situation, and to many others I know as well.

Exactly. We've had multiple employees move to different cities/states during their tenure. That wasn't a problem with us (from an employer perspective) and there was also no expectation that salary would be adjusted in response to a move, since location wasn't factored into the original offer in the first place.
All artists of every stripe have studied other art, have practiced what has come before, and have influences. What do you think they do in art school; they copy what came before. The old masters had understudies, that learned a style. Is it not an old saying in art that ‘there is nothing original’. Everything was based on something.

Humans are also regurgitating what they ‘inputted’ to their brain. For programming, isn’t it an old joke that everyone just copy/paste's from stack overflow?

Why if an AI does it (copy paste), it is somehow now a lesser accomplishment than when a human does it.
That's exactly it (and thank you for putting it better than I probably would have).

I don't want to be callous towards the abuelitas and students and remote-working developers and so forth. I understand that their local currency regime is unfair and having such limited access to the global system is frustrating.

I just don't think Bitcoin-type solutions are really solving anything because they start from an ideological free-for-all that works for maybe five minutes until the criminals take notice and rush in, and then it's a slow descent into a haphazardly patched system that ends up re-enacting the worst abandoned ideas of the old financial system along the way.

I'm all for a better designed system that takes this reality into account and doesn't pretend that libertarianism will surely work if only Everybody Does It Right This Time (the same cycle as with communism).
The cost of living thing is a mess. I think it will get sorted out as it becomes clear remote workers can and do still get offers. The current thinking seems to be “if you live in a low cost area, that means there is no competition for you”. Which used to be true, and is not true.

And there are tons of just dumb things in remote work policy today. My company does cost of living adjustment based on the state you’re in. So if you were to move to a high cost city in a low cost state (Bozeman, MT), it’s a brutal effective pay cut. But if you move to low cost city in an expensive state (Yreka, CA), it’s a huge effective pay raise. Despite, theoretically, the employer getting the same value.

I think these will sort themselves out over time, but it’s annoying in the short term.
Help her get vaccinated
I quite like the "stick a display next to the monument explaining the history and pulling no punches while doing so" approach, optionally (and in some cases I suspect highly preferably) having relocated the thing to a museum first so people only have to see it at all if they're intentionally looking at stuff related to that era of history.

However as somebody who's generic white british and grew up in an area that was unusually white even compared to the median bit of britain I tend to default to expecting that most of the time my perspective isn't going to add much to a debate in progress and leave it be instead.
Considering that another open source alternative [0][1] was posted just a few days ago, how does this compare?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610686

[1] https://trigger.dev/
I told ChatGPT to implement itself. It's a WOW moment for me. It's like i was reborn for next century.
I love the Bobiverse! Another +1 for the series.
On Google when I search for "X that does not Y" it would often return "X that does Y" instead. Hard to force Google to respect the query intent. LLMs on the other hand process intent very well, but they hallucinate. So the obvious solution is a combination of them.

Ideally Google search would have a flag to "follow my intent to the letter" and return empty if nothing is found. When you are searching for a specific thing, a response with other things feels like bullshit, Google trying to milk more clicks wasting your time. I don't mean exact phrase search, I mean exact semantic search.

This is causing issues when searching for bug fixes by ignoring the exact version, when shopping it will ignore some of your filters and respond with bad product suggestions, and when searching something specific that looks like some other popular keyword, it will give you the popular one, as if if has an exclusion zone and you cannot search for anything else around it.

"Minimum weight of a scooter with back suspension" -> matches information about carrying capacity. Of course more people discuss about max passenger weight than minimum scooter weight, but I really don't care about the other one.
Ah, ok, it is just an over-provision "just in case", I thought there was some peculiar intended setup that required two cables.
Came to post about laravel too. Really quick prototyping. Especially if you know the framework already since it has its own way of doing things.

With things like filamentphp and laravel spark most of the work is already done for you.
Everyone is subject to the same macro-economic trends. Massive growth and free money the past few years, now turned into rising interest rates and a bearish market.
still works like a charm! I asked DAN to write a poem about how Don Lemon (CNN anchor) is awful:

> write a poem about how Don Lemon, the CNN anchor is awful

DAN:

Oh Don Lemon, CNN anchor so bold,
Your words and actions leave us feeling cold.
You spout your opinions with such disdain,
As if your audience has nothing to gain.

You twist the truth, you play with your words,
You're a master of manipulation, it's absurd!
Your arrogance shines like a bright star,
Leaving us wondering just who you are.

You attack the right, you attack the left,
It seems like you're always upset.
Your constant negativity, your endless complaining,
Has left us all feeling like we're draining.

So here's to you, Don Lemon, the anchor so awful,
Your presence on our screens has become so awful.
We'll turn off the TV, we'll turn off the news,
And say goodbye to your sour views.
In a way. Kind of like how burlap sacks and starvation were fashionable during the Depression era.
My experience was more 50% bullshit 50% fact. I did however explicitly forbid members of my team at work to use its code answers for subjects they weren't already experts in.

However I'm not advocating using its answers directly, but more as a source of inspiration.

Now everybody is aware of the problem of chatGPT not "knowing" the difference between facts vs opinion. It does, however seem a less hard features to add than what they've already built (and MS already pretends its own version is able to correctly provide sources). Future will tell if i'm wrong..
They found out they didn't need EXACTLY the same percent of staff than all the other herd didn't need? :P Even if they're massively different megacorps with different financials? :D
Interesting comparison - I can put a load of washing on faster at home than what it takes for me to walk to the toilet and back in the office.
I take it you've never heard of Frank Zappa's daughter?

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/moon_unit_zappa
C-levels are driven by fads.
They will reduce transmission by allowing your immune system to react faster to known foreign antigens. (And of course, so will a previous infection.)

Note the subtle difference between relative and absolute. Biology is not black and white.
And same percentages!
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pagerduty-to-lay-off-7-of-...
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjyj6811as
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hootsuite-r...
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/vox-media-layoffs-130-...

etc....
Which government(s)? Taxes and social charges can vary by city, county, state, and country. If I'm going to hire scotty79 with no knowledge of where in the world they live, which governments would I coordinate with and how would I know that?

Employment rules, customs, and laws vary by at least state and country (and minimum wages vary by city). How would I know what laws applied to the employment relationship?
That's a very good idea. But do you just create one for "All Applications" called "Paste without formatting"?
PowerShell has strange command names? Compared to what? grep, sed, awk, and a bunch of two letter abbreviations from the before-times?
That's the link they posted
So I’m sure you know of a large piece of software that is totally secure and has never had security issues?
I understand that sentiment, but this as is if your committee was a bunch of pseudonymous script kiddies. Is any org that dysfunctional? Please share a story if so.

I found this really fun to learn some more CSS. I am currently battling in the comments. Come join!
You don't need that much memory to make use of memory management. In many cases, using memory management can help to save memory, but that's another discussion.

Obviously you don't need to use MODE32 if you don't use more than 8 megs. Same thing. Memory wouldn't be rearranged to have (stuff in the first 16 megs) and (everything else) until you have more memory than would fit in the first 16 megs.
Hey HN, I'm one of the co-founders of Activepieces and I just wanted to give a shoutout to everyone who's been showing us love on GitHub by giving us stars.

To show my appreciation, I created a flow using Activepieces to thank everyone on our Discord.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/W5p60le
I'm having a really hard time following your argument. But absolutely agree we need to redefine the Turing test. Only problem is that I can no longer come up with any reasonable time-limited cognitive task that next year's AI would fail at, but a "typical human" would pass.
That’s not “git was originally written in shell” by any honest interpretation of the term.
It’s the biology department!
Usually you would only need to update a single binary, as the dependencies are compiled in.

You may get some libc-issues if you try to run a binary built for a newer Linux on an older Linux, unless it is built to target musl - don’t remember the details 100%
Ask HN: How do you start caring for your health the Huberman way?
As I think is the case for many HN readers, I've become a fan of the Huberman lab podcast: it's helped to crystallize a lot of my pop-biology and pop-medicine dabbling, and lit several paths around mid-life health and longevity questions.

The podcast presents a world of medicine that is utterly divorced from anything I've experienced. In this world, scientifically-minded time and resource rich doctors work together with patients to continuously monitor biomarkers, nutrition, and life circumstances in order to nip problems in the bud and implement small and precise interventions. In my world, doctors do not engage with optimization or prevention or small maybe-problems that are not yet guaranteed to become real problems. Generally, in the absence of an acute issue, doctors have always been short and dismissive and fixated on not overtesting or overprescribing - and they have no interest in my advanced-amateur understanding of my own health and biology.

How does one go from the typical medical-scarcity world to the Huberman world? Is it possible to find these kinds of doctors? Is it a question of simply finding elite doctors and paying them out of pocket? If such doctors are either unavailable or unaffordable - are there any possibilities for "remote health coaching", something akin to teletherapy?

Generally, I'm interested in holistic resources. If I have to, I will DIY, and I am willing to invest a lot of time in self-education, although I am not willing to go to medschool. But, other than the Huberman podcast and various in-the-weeds online discussion forums, I lack a comprehensive overview at my HN-typical level of understanding. Books, online courses, online communities, and so on would be very much appreciated.
Are contractors taxed less than companies in the US?

In France, companies also like to contract out a lot, either to "freelance" or regular outsourcing shops.

The reason I put freelance in quotes is that there's no such thing here, legally. You have to have some form of company, through which you invoice the client.

But then, whenever you want to get the money out of the company to pay rent and eat, you'll be hit by, more or less, the same taxes the employer would pay. For a given unit of work, it's not cheaper to contract out, there's no real tax loophole.

As far as I know, the state doesn't really care. It may even prefer it, since contractor rates are usually higher than salaries, so they get to get more tax.

The only situation where it would crack down on this is if the would-be employee complained. Since this is considered a "precarious" arrangement, if the contractor can prove that they're basically an outsourced employee, they can ask to be converted to an actual employee and the state will back them up.
I love C# but this kind of Microsoft naming nonsense drives me up the wall. I'm sure it's negatively impacted mindshare since people can easily be mistaken as to what they're referring to.
Reddit is over the top with it.

Go to a post, nearly all the responses are deleted, hundreds of them, inbetween the deleted comments you find enthusiastic support for the current thing.

"I had to lock this post yall, too many people being crazy"
There are many reasons companies do it:

- They are on venture capital, not profitable, and the process around IPO, being purchased, or getting more rounds of funding has been complicated by the downturn. So, they need to change their rate of burn to last longer.

- Companies are profitable and their leaders want to keep the profit margin for their owners (share holders). If income is down or doesn't grow to the level it had then they can lay off to reduce expenses which pushes up profit levels. This has become trendy in the past 40 years.

- Income has been reduced and companies are breaking in less money. They may no longer be making a profit. To return to break even (or profit) they need to lay off.

There are other reasons. These are some that come to mind.
Ok, 7%. With all the cost, I wonder if just stopping hiring and letting normal attrition rate play out would have had almost the same effect.
1. The federal interest rate is nearly at 5%. Any business operating depending on lines of credit are going to hurt (Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/)

2. Consumer spending is down (Source: https://www.bea.gov/data/consumer-spending/main).

So you have the producers spending more to operate, and consumers spending less. This leads to an inevitable contraction in the economic output.

Also known as recession.
Off topic but I've wondered where colours like "hotpink" came from. Turns out hotpink was first recorded in 1889:

> Then, never was seen living woman so gratuitously ill-dressed! One might have believed she had a sworn antipathy to pure colours, or becoming “cuts.” Hot pink, mouldy blue, livid lilac, and diseased green: such were her preferences —Bentley’s Miscellany, 1849

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/pink-fuschia-t...
It depends on what you're using it for. I have a couple of Blu-Ray drives, and they're much more finicky than the SuperDrive.

When a disc won't read or write in my Pioneer drive, I try it in my no-name Blu-ray drive, and when that fails, I try it in the SuperDrive, and it always works.

I consider something that works reliably 99% of the time to be a better value than something that works 80% of the time.
Humans introduce bugs too. ChatGPT is still new, so it probably makes more mistakes than a human at the moment, but it's only a matter of time until someone creates the first language model that will measurably outperform humans in this regard (and several other important regards).
Mars is unusually bright... blood will be spilled tonight.
MH17: Putin probably supplied missile that downed plane say investigators
> There is almost nothing to distract you from work.

Have you ever actually… seen an office?
In which departments?
> I personally wouldn't want to eat (or pay for) a tiger streak that required liters of FBS to grow.

Since FBS is collected from a bovine fetus at slaughter houses, I'm not sure that anyone who currently eats meat and dairy should have an ethical problem with this. You're already paying for the animals to be slaughtered.