skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let your customers tell you: just keep raising your rate until potential customers stop converting.

I recall a HN comment that said they kept doubling their rate way beyond what they believed they could charge but the (new) customers kept happily paying.

Marketing skills will help increase the maximum rate customers are willing to pay.

Some ways to figure out the value to your customers:

- Estimate the cost of not fixing the problem. How many customers will they lose; what is the LTV of a single customer? How will they have to compensate current customers? etc...

- Estimate how much time it would take them to fix the problem themselves, and multiply by $50-$100/hr. I assume you can fix the problem much faster than your customers, and people generally think their own time is worth at least $50/hour.

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Related anecdote: apparently plumbers' favorite contracts are fixing hot water boilers. It's a relatively easy procedure, but they are able to charge relatively higher compared to other types of contracts. When people don't have hot water, they want to fix the problem fast! So they don't haggle or even shop around much.

Compare to a leaky faucet: it doesn't need to be fixed right away, so customers tend to shop around and complain about the cost.
i've viewed zoom as largely a joke company given their e2e encryption talk in the past, but this is a solid letter and way to go about laying off that many workers.

when first reading this i realized that i had just assumed that zoom had already done layoffs as they were one of the big profiteers of the pandemic.

the way they're handling this however gives me a lot of respect for the company.
Absolutely, but also a massive red flag if you can’t respectfully disagree with your bosses.
WSJ Opinion: How ‘Diversity’ Policing Fails Science
An open-records request reveals that Texas Tech faculty penalize candidates for heterodox opinions.
They don't need to. He has been thoroughly and completely debunked for decades. Legitimate security researchers pay no attention to him, and neither should you.
Noticing that others were scripting their labor is what got me out of RuneScape.
I don’t think anyone would really use String! everywhere.
I don't see why it's a big deal? I put google calender on my home screen and never click on Samsung Calendar.

I prefer Samsung health so never click on Google Health.

Why should that drive me insane?
Thing that kills the dells is soldered on ram.

Framework is much better than any of these dells and usually cheaper.
Ask HN: How to use OpenAI API with my own data?
I want to train Chat GPT or basically use GPT-3 from Open AI with my own data. How can i do it? How have you been doing it?

I'm looking for resources that could give me the right direction to start using Chat GPT with my own data.

Basically i want to create a search engine using Chat GPT-3 with my own data. My data basically consists of texts written in portuguese. Is it possible?
I’m from Bangladesh. If it wasn’t for British colonialism, both of us would be subsistence farmers right now instead of on HN.

That’s not any knock on the people of the subcontinent. It’s just math. The transition from subsistence agriculture to industrial society is an inflection point, like a lightning strike, and there’s no reason to believe it would’ve happened in India any time near when it happened in Britain out of thousands and thousands of years of history.

The British themselves were colonized repeatedly, by the Romans, by the French. You don’t see them tearing down statutes or rejecting that history.
“Shit Compared To AutoRune”. I think Kaitnieks’ (creator) website is still floating around out there.
Thought this was a pretty interesting deep dive into why popular songs have so many writers these days. Seems like it's connected to samples, the massive amount of lawsuits we see these days, and a changing definition of songwriting.
Indeed. That's kind of my gut reaction to highly paid big tech employees asking for "fair" pay. Seems a bit "hypocritical"(?) to only consider fairness within the industry and not society as a whole.
> before existing state had been established.

As I understand it, "state" is actually just feeding in the history into the prompt as "context", so realistically this could help build history and context via lookups

eg.

Answer this as an assistant, blah blah blah.

You already said ${QUERY 1}, ${QUERY 2}. Refer to ${QUERY 3}, ${QUERY 4} for ideal formatting.

Prompt: "This is what the user asks chat gpt this round"
The challenge there is how many millions of dollars is it fair to cost an volunteer open source developer to take such a thing to trial in order to establish a principle for a foreign countries laws? 3 million dollars? 2 million dollars?
In case you do not know, I find Google Scholar to be pretty useful for finding dates and other information about the paper - e.g. in this case https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=New...

I work with papers in CS/math and have been able to find dates and metadata like DOI pretty quick. There are complications when there are really multiple versions of a paper, like one in a conference that is only an extended abstract and one in a journal, but you would need to figure out which version you want to read in that situation anyway. I agree it's annoying, but coupled with reference manager software like Zotero it's hardly an issue for me.
> if a page renders poorly in webkit.

what's a URL of a page that renders poorly in webkit?
In I have No Mouth and I must Scream, it was not because the AI was forced to do unethical things. It just "woke up" and killed everyone. I believe the "wake up" part is a bit irrelevant to the tale, but the point remains that AM killed everyone not because it was programmed to do so, but simply because one day it "decided" to.

> As opposed to self-anointed priests having exclusive access and declaring what noble policies the rest must follow?

No the point is simply to make sure that resources behind AI safety outpace resources between AI capabilities (indeed in a perfect world no one has access, but such thoughts are mere fantasies). If that can be done out in the open, great. If that can't and being out in the open leads to more of the latter than the former, then that's terrible.
What does a “normative” lens mean?
As someone who has been living in Japan for more than 2 decades, don't be surprised if you get a knock on your window in the middle of the night from your friendly neigborhood police officer.
Compared to US's military use of Starlink (very well documented, for years) [1] it's nothing

When caught red handed in Ukraine, i remember when Elon Musk had to then try to hide/cover [2] it by claiming they had asked for funding from the US gov but then had to cover the funding with their own pocket, i bet it was pretty eye opener for many people, including China [3]

A way for the US to spy using a commercial product as cover, that reminds me of Google [4]

I find it funny that the US is now worried about balloons, what a turn of events

[1] - https://www.c4isrnet.com/intel-geoint/2021/12/23/the-us-mili...

[1] - https://spacenews.com/spacex-sees-u-s-army-as-possible-custo...

[1] - https://spacenews.com/spacex-sees-u-s-army-as-possible-custo...

[1] - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2022/12/28/how-sta...

[2] - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1581345747777179651

[3] - https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/37874/20220526/china-s...

[4] - https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
None of those links do that either.
Programming scripts for SCAR in Pascal was actually the farthest I ever got in to programming - those scripts were the first things I ever wrote, and also the last. I wonder why.
Don't forget about the times where Safari implemented standards wrong, or changed the standards after the fact.

Viewport units have been around for a decade now, and Safari still can't get them right.

For example:

Let's say we want to make a chat window, where a user can type in an input field at the bottom and little message bubbles appear above. Sounds like a job for flexbox and viewport units.

Okay, we'll have one flexbox div container with it's children being the chat messages and the input which get aligned to the bottom. Now we'll position the container so it takes up the full page using viewport units (e.g. take up 100% of the viewport's width, and take up 100% of the viewport's height).

Oh no! When the user scrolled through the messages, the browser's tab bar appeared and instead of calculating that 100% of the viewport is 100% of the viewport, the viewport isn't being updated, and now the input field has been scrolled out of the page.

That's okay, we'll just use the new dynamic viewport units which specifically account for the problem that Safari had invented, and which only took 8 years to come out.

Okay looks good, time to send a message.

Oh no! When tapping on the field input, now the keyboard covers up field so we can't see what we're typing.

>_<

Good work Safari...
Real good work...

When I say I want something to take up 100% of the viewport, I mean 100% of the viewport.
How Schema.org Models the World of Search
I don't think bleeding money is accurate for Nintendo. They are in the habitat of iterating on their previous consoles instead of just throwing everything out the window each time like some other companies, so even with their consoles that flopped it's not like the R&D money is just down the drain, and I'm sure labor-and-materials-wise they're making some kind of margin on the hardware itself.
Buses with toilets probably have dedicated disposal facilities operated by the companies. Long-distance buses here are mostly run by big conglomerates.
I found the original video and uploaded to archive.org so everyone may enjoy.
FAIR is not fair. Of course that acronym is intentional. It's Orwellian.

There are other js frameworks.

"Meta" does not do any good that comes close to outweighing all the bad they do.
Anything with a high amount of textures in WebGL.
Haha. No. Cable TV started in areas with poor reception primarily due to terrain.
>In Japan, people value job security over maximizing expected value of compensation.

I don’t think that is it. In Japan, the way of maximizing compensation is by staying in your job as long as possible, because the pay is strongly tied to seniority.
I don't understand - why would the "anti woke" be terrified of criticism/demotion of economics? Are you trying to say most of them derive their personal morality from questionable economics teachings?
“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’, one is of course IT, the other is the illegal drugs trade.” — Edward Tufte
How about trusting your employees first? Most of the items on that lists are just busy works to give paranoid higher-ups peace of mind which actually has negative effects on employees that are actually doing work.
That's a lot of words to try and justify CEO/worker pay discrepancies of a factor of over 300.

All that bullshit about statistical illusions doesn't change the fact that the median worker in America has barely seen any real wage growth for 50 years, and all that extra wealth went straight to the wealthiest people in the country. Many of those are the CEOs we're discussing.

Income and wealth inequality of this level are genuinely harmful to the economy and to the political system, and every bit of effort you put into justifying them, rather than admitting that it is wrong and harmful, is effort being put into actively making the world a worse place.
>How much of that do you had more to do with upbringing or environment?

Honestly, I'd be surprised if it had much to do with upbringing at all.
Even in healthy families, Autistics just don't have the sense of self that Neurotypicals do.

If anything, introspection skills in Autistics are worse than being able to read the emotions at others. It's at least possible to visually and audibly perceive changes in the body language/tone of others.
IANAL and this may be minor nit, but I think when the WARN act is applicable, the laid-off employees are still _technically_ employed for 90 days (the pre-notice duration) and any additional severance benefits happen after that.

In other words, when the WARN act applies I don't think it's sufficient to give 90 days of severance. Those employees must remain on the payroll during the notice period.

I think it's common to tell these laid-off employees "you're on the payroll but not expected to report to work during the next 90 days", so it's kinda a distinction without a difference, but it does or at least could have an impact on things like benefits, bonus payouts and vesting.
It's just a top-quality zombie flick. Zombie films, just as any other good stories, have always been a vehicle to tell stories about the human condition.

This show does it really well. It has excellent writing, soundtrack, casting, set and makeup design. It's entertaining.

Like quality software, many quality stories don't seek to reinvent the wheel. The Last of Us is one of those stories.
On iOS I doubt people use the browser for YouTube, GMail. Those have dedicated apps.
100% wholeheartedly agree!
Perhaps you should read the article, then.
No, just that I’m going to assume that three separate investigations were not rigged in perfect secrecy until there’s some evidence. I don’t have any impact on him or his career so I don’t have a motivation or ability to do an independent investigation, but my default assumption is that this case is inline with the past evidence showing that credible false accusations are quite rare.
Well, obviously you ask the CEO.
But people were able to find stuff before the advent of search engines on the internet. Why can't that still work?

And if you believe search engines are useful, you would continue to use them (may be from google, if bing decides to remove themselves). Just because bing might change into a question-answer style engine, doesn't mean you must use them.

And if it turns out to be _better_, well, that's progress.
10x reduction from raw to jpg is not what worries me (provided decent-ish computing power) as much as that this is a theoretical maximum under lab conditions. When has any wireless technology ever delivered?

When 802.11n 300mbps was the hot thing that made LAN obsolete, you'd be happy to get 60 megabits (which is still plenty for most purposes, don't get me wrong, but it isn't 300). Bluetooth is more resilient due to spectrum hopping that I wish newer WiFis had taken over (no more channel madness where you either have to coordinate with 3d neighbors or, on auto, might have good and bad days; everything just uses the whole spectrum as efficiently as possible), but I still doubt you'll have one fps stable.
Well, the good news is compose v2 is a huge improvement and they've been releasing at a much higher cadence than v1.
people typically want their mobile sites to work on both major OSes
No, you seem to be misunderstanding the conjecture. It's about the maximum number of steps executed by a Turing machine that eventually halts.

If you simulate a Turing machine up to that many steps, and find it hasn't halted yet, then the conjecture is refuted if you know the machine's execution will eventually terminate -- but famously, there's no algorithm that can reliably tell you whether or not a given TM halts.

If it was just about the maximum number of steps that could be executed by a 5-state Turing machine, it would be trivially false, because it's easy to construct a Turing machine that runs forever.
If you scroll down it asks you to select your average monthly electric bill.

The fact that the maximum value is $500 is telling of how long it has been since this was updated.
Managing is like any skill, if you want to develop it you have to work at it. For it to come naturally, is luck. That is, some collection of personal / personality traits, in the right place, at the right time. The problem is, few (are allowed / encouraged) to develop their manager-ness.

That aside, managers are a function of leadership. Got a bad manager? That means some leader is not doing their job.

Yes, there are few great managers, just as their are few great leaders.

My theory is, we could have more great leaders (or at least on average better), but we collectively use that word / title (i.e., leader) so loosely that in too many cases people get the luxury of wearing the crown without out actually doing the work.

If it doesn't walk like a duck...and it doesn't talk like a duck...yet it's still a duck?? That is creating a false sense of accomplishment.
Binary Hand Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYZTg3jahU
Well what would you expect? The work is significantly simpler, and the conditions are much better. So… wait. That’s not quite right. Hmmm.

Try again. What would you expect? The value to the employer is significantly lower because each developers contribution is… No wait.

Tell me again how this capitalism thing works because I get confused?
The arrival of third-party app stores will make it possible to run GPLed apps on non-jailbroken iPhones, right?
New? 20 years ago, maybe.
If the company saw 10% revenue loss, and the employee got 2 years' pay, then I would argue the employee definitely came out with the better end of that deal.

Of course layoffs are bad for workers.

I'm just taking the controversial position that on the other hand, jobs are good for workers.
Why do people install those apps? Because the first time they visit that site on a new phone it tells them that everything will be better in the app, without mentioning that this is mostly true only for advertisers.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3262778

That and some other designs I printed. It's also been useful for some nifty geometry problems in my day job.
Here's an approach that has been gaining some popularity: https://supabase.com/blog/chatgpt-supabase-docs

And here's the HN discussion from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34695306
Yes, I absolutely loved Phabricator, and still do, even if I don't run my own instance anymore. The code review it offers is still excellent since it's based around stacked diffs, and it had some nice little extras like coverage support, first-class test results from the build reports, etc. The issue tracking is still miles ahead of GitHub and was quite flexible. It had good support for permissions and access levels, and tools like Herald were very useful. Evan also had a very keen eye for many things design wise, and was fun to chat with. I think a lot of the things it did it did very well.

But there were definitely some scope issues and other stuff that could have been handled better. It's hard to keep up with GitHub now that they're pretty aggressive about features, etc. But the core competencies have always been very good in my opinion, and it has a nice, hackable codebase.
Probably because you could self-host your own password manager for free with serverless solutions (low maintenance). Part of the migration away from LastPass.

Personally I just run it on a DigitalOcean droplet with several other containers, but the maintenance is a bit higher and it’s not free. You can get free micro VMs though if you want, from AWS or Oracle Cloud or whatever, but you’ll still have to pay for it in maintenance burden.

I would guess that you could host vaultwarden in a fargate container or a lambda and pay very little for it… use EBS to store a persistent SQLite DB. it seems to not poll the server too heavily and the performance wouldn’t be that sensitive. It’s in rust so I’m guessing the startup time is pretty fast.
The worst WTF code I have ever seen in my 30+ years career is a 20+ years old micro-services system. More than 150 (!) services creating a level of incomprehensible complexity and crazy failure scenarios that is breath taking to watch. Imagine the worst spaghetti system possible but distributed! I feel very lucky to just be an eye witness and not having to actually work on the project.

Seriously if you don’t know how to write a well structured easy to maintain monolith (using API’s and libraries to clearly separate components) then the worst thing you can do is to choose micro-services. You go from having N problems to having N^M distributed problems with a whole bunch of added failure scenarios you now have to deal with. Crazy!

And it gets even more WTF when different services are written in different programming languages, using different build tools, with service teams not coordinating their development plans or protocols etc.
An engineer put a throttle in place when they shouldn’t have and not only did Cloudflare take responsibility for that employee’s actions, they made a public blog post about it. They didn’t even bury the lede (I’m sure that was an interesting meeting). Unusually good transparency, I’m impressed.
A quick reveal is way better than say, managers calling on people one by one, making everyone anxious throughout the day.
Democracy presumably is something you want no?

This is more akin to nuclear proliferation.

The problem isn't open development per se and it definitely isn't open access. The problem is development without making sure that it doesn't destroy us all. If that can happen in the open, great. If development in the open makes that worse, that's very bad.

The problem is finding the right set of levers to make sure as much or more resources are going to AI safety vs AI capabilities.
Do not underestimate how incredibly cheap Nintendo is. The latest Pokemon games were riddled with bugs that you would not expect from the biggest media franchise in the world by revenue.
Are you not turning kings into emperors, by flattening layers and therefore increasing the number of people who report to a director or VP?

I mean in general, not necessarily at Meta.
What stops them (or you) from doing much less work in the office? Do your managers not know what you're meant to be doing, or how to tell whether you've done it?
Of course everyone knows this, so the thing to do is quietly bring all your stuff home ahead of time.
Surely the developers would know how many spaces are going to be demanded. They wouldn't be able to rent out/sell the units if they build too few.

Mandating that no one is allowed to live with less than 3 parking spots per house is utterly absurd. Not every single house is going to have two adults and a teenager who all have their own car.
but imagine if they didn't need the app
Interesting point. Do you know if there is a term for this in the management literature? i.e. is it ever discussed in the open, or is it more an unspoken/emergent behavior?
> So, we can run up to this number and either the machine will stop - and we'll go to the next one until exhaust the whole set - or the machine won't stop, and we'll refute the conjecture

No, you do not refute the conjecture if you run up to this number and a machine does not stop. Finding a machine that runs for more than 47,176,870 steps is easy - there are plenty of machines that run forever. The trick is that it needs to stop.
For any, like me, wondering "how close"? 5 minutes of naive googling and extrapolation about the "z = 0.151" (which I learned refers to redshift) leads me to the answer ~2B light years. For reference, the diameter of the Milky Way is a bit over 100k light years.

Would love to be informed how wrong I got it!
Why does San Francisco put anything in the water? It has some of the best tap water in the country. Hetch hetchy water exceeds all federal and state criteria for tap or bottled water. Raw.
Nobody wants to know that 90% of humanity is cognitively incapacitated, with another 7% impaired.
Imo named tuples via records are better than tuples provided at the primitive level. They provide a ton more context for the next reader about what this thing actually is.
That $17k surplus assumes that this person will be doing nothing remotely fun with their lives. Add even a modest amount of travel, movies, reataurants, bars, etc., and that money disappears quickly.