skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I doubt that this is any coordinated effort but like hiking profits when there is inflation is just opportunistic

You see profit hikes and inflation together because “profit hikes” are a mix of price increases and cost cuts, and the former literally is inflation.

Also, because inflation increases perceived near-term risk, and absent infinite risk tolerance, the natural course is to seek either to mitigate risk by cutting off more speculative activities.
How is this take? Free and Open Source Software isn't owned by anyone.

Being a contributor, even to my own pet project, cannot compel me to contribute my valuable time to the project in ways that I do not so chose. And you can't compel me either to spend my money to hire some third party security firm to audit this code that isn't owned by me or anyone.

If some third party wants to compile this un-owned piece of code and sell it to another, the onus is on them to comply with security regulations.
People do not charge at peak time, PG&E is waaaaay too expensive at peak time for that :)
Please read up on the oracle problem.

All of the examples you list require external trust outside the blockchain, making its use moot.

(Perhaps recurring subscriptions could be done without external trust, but I don’t think it helps the domain much.)
This is the real answer. I walk/ride a bike a ton for about 7 months of the year here. Winter months I am driving much more often than anything else. Standing around waiting for a bus, walking a mile+, etc in the pitch black when it's 40 degrees and raining is not fun and given the option of just driving I take it.
Ashrae Recognizes Achievements of Members at 2023 Winter Conference
Understanding and coding the self-attention mechanism of large language models
> I mean some are legitimate services.

No, there aren't.
Our database is heroku postgresql database. What's the best way to get this working with DuckDB? I see there's a postgresql connector but I'm not totally following how to deploy it. Would I just spin up a dyno with the docker image / custom build pack and connect it to the DB?
Check the policy terms.
> Staking as done by this protocols itself never promised you anything but a yield in the crypto currency itself.

That's a fixed percentage promise. There's relly no difference if it's expressed in crypto coins or in entries in the database of a software system of ponzi schemer.

If you have a fledgeling crypto on its ride up, it's not only fueled by new investors but sustained by new investors. If the coins are minted at will the supply will eventually exceed the demand and the coin will start loosing its value. And then the inevitable crash to the bottom happens. It's crypto equivalent of hyperinflation of normal currencies that happens when money supply exceeds demand for money associated with economic development.

> Maybe you think crypto in general is a ponzi scheme

I don't. I just feel like promising fixed, large percentage gains makes something Ponzi scheme. Something like Bitcoin or Ethereum that have tight control on coin supply are not ponzi schemes. Those are just new type of commodity. Mildly useful, but scarce, unique and easily transferrable and divisible.
NO. It's a part of the brilliant Scrum scam. Basically, Scrum mandated that every office has its priests (Scrum masters), who make sure the Scrum does die off or gets replaced by something else. These people usually are useless and owe their entire salaries to propagating the Scrum/Agile ideas, so they do it with lots of conviction. In return, they have to get certified with the Scrum organization (paid for by the employers), which brings revenues to the original authors of the scam.

The fact that most companies didn't get a whiff of it yet and are still paying salaries to people who have basically net-negative impact [1] tells you a lot about how much the business world actually cares about efficiency.

[1] Not only they don't contribute, they are also often demoralising to people on the team who have to bust their ass to earn a salary. A scrum master even told me in confidence once that he considered becoming a developer as it'd probably mean more money - but, he went against it, as it'd mean actually having to do work...
Yeah, remote power switching is definitely doable. It would either be wiring directly into the motherboard's or controlling an external power switch. The challenge is making it user-friendly, supporting it, meeting compliance requirements, etc.
My hope is this will mostly translate into being able to distinguish between who really knows what they're doing (the AI is a tool to be used for some tasks and its work is to be scrutinized like anything I'd find on GitHub or elsewhere) and those who are barely hacking it in the field, but I also worry about what you're describing.

Like color/exposure auto-balancing tools in video editing. They can be really useful and can often produce solid color/exposure results! But most of the time they only get you 80% of the way or sometimes just spit out really ugly results. Ultimately auto-balancing didn't ruin editing - mediocre editors can't get by on it - so hopefully we don't see that here!
Aside from the argument that it's enabling terrible practices — which I could go on about for a good few hours — the tool itself is awful. I mean it's criminally bad at what it even tries to do, putting aside the fact that what it tries to do is wrong in the first place.

I want to change an "issue" to an "epic", and I'm presented with a workflow more becoming a database migration, which of course, isn't far from the truth. They've made their poor design choices your problem, so when you want to do something like this, what you're actually presented with is all the complexity of migrating data from one database table to another with different fields.

That's just one example, but I can tell I'm ranting already. I hate Atlassian _so fucking much_ though.

It says enough that it's not marketed to people who do the work, but those who "manage" their work, where no management is needed. May it and Atlassian burn in hell for a long time. Amen.
For off the record discussions you can host a Matrix server. For recorded meeting you can use Jitsi. For recorded discussions and knowledge you can set up a wiki or a forum
USDC on Solana has sub-second transaction times and 6 digits of precision.
Money is being optimized if the land is not free. Solar panels are relatively inexpensive even if inefficient if the land is sufficiently expensive. Electricity cost can vary a lot. If you have a lot of expensive panels and don't have to hook up to the grid that can save a lot of money
I do, every day. I still don't have an emotional attachment to the people I'm video calling from across the world. The folks nearby? Yes.
I think it's easier to identify a low performer after a year of work than it is to identify a high performer after an hour of whiteboarding.
If you like making every use of the computer a taxable capital gain or loss, you can "use" the computer for some definition of "use."
I own a home very close to the PCC you’re talking about and only ever go there if we forgot something in the large weekly grocery run we do at the QFC. Met Market isn’t really an economical option either, but we do love their pre-made food options for when we don’t feel like eating leftovers.
I mean, that's one way to look at it. But in practice Catholics aren't, and never have been, a monolith, belief-wise, unless you define it so narrowly that the only Catholics are, well, maybe some of the cardinals.

(Or not even those, if you take the view of some post-Vatican-II breakaway sects who consider the Pope to be illegitimate)
One of my favorite things in gaming is when lore develops from bugs.

When they added the ability for Kerbals to be killed in Kerbal Space Program, they tripped over a bug where the first Kerbal in the game's engine, Jebediah (the one who dated back to the original introduction of astronauts at all, where only one existed), could not be killed. Because of some of the game logic having gone unmodified from the earlier versions, some operations would cause him to be loaded into the pilot seat and those operations didn't check if he was deceased. As a result, you could lose him on a mission only for him to spontaneously appear at the controls of another mission.

The community responded with fan-art of "Jebediah Kerman, thrillmaster."
Put an airtag on their shoelaces until they're old enough to have their own phone.
A total of 617 workers were laid off in the Seattle area, according to a notice filed with the state.
> You must go through a third company

Pardon me if I'm ignorant about the situation, but could this simply mean that they just want a business entity and not an individual? It makes it easier for them since they don't need to deal with verifying your employment eligibility, issue you 1099s, IRS reporting, worrying about hiring discrimination lawsuits, gig worker lawsuits, and all that mess. Paying a company for services doesn't require anything other than wiring money and getting a receipt from that company.

Figuring out the expense record-keeping and tax stuff becomes your responsibility (rightly so).

If this is the case, you can register a LLC and be a 1-person business, and that would solve their problem.
Good to know! IMAP is the poormans OAUTH :D
I think I have to reluctantly agree. At least you can mostly just ignore “crypto” (unless you’ve been in the market for high-end graphic cards I guess), which is more difficult to do for ads. Ads also cause the engagement maximization dynamics of social platforms, dynamics which arguably have turned out to be a huge societal net negative.
I could depending on the proxy I got from my provider. I'm currently working on adding the ability to select a higher quality proxy for difficult to scrape websites and to add captcha solvers as well.

But if I have to be honest, I can not guarantee it at the present time.

This app is the side-project I starter 2 months ago, it's evolving fast but I still need to add some key features for enterprise customers.
It's never going to be any sort of economical to do this on a already existing truck, you'll get complete trash efficiency.
Was this article AI written?

This is exactly the same format of argument that convinced me as a learner to use notepad++ for years, which I now believe to be a garbage idea. IDEs provide so much important contextual information - a copilot program to show you different techniques would be helpful in a similar vein.

Caveat: chatGPT is a chat program, that it can produce working code in places is a coincidence, it would not be appropriate for this use
Thanks for reading and for the constructive feedback!

Yeah, the About page is something I haven't touched much since I first launched the site, and I agree that it feels not quite consistent with the tone of the site or where the company is at this point.
Ok, thanks. I admit am lazy and mostly read just comments :/
[Tangent warning]

I recall some scare awhile back about a possible link between diphenhydramine and dementia / Alzheimer's. Googling turns up a study from 2008. Anyone know if that held water, or if there is ongoing research into that link?

I've generally avoided the drug since hearing about that, but I used it much in the first place.
I could be remembering incorrectly, but back when this was occurring no one knew that issue was specifically limited to "mob spawns attacked certain people". The more honest description is the line about "From the beginning of AC, some players have complained about unbelievably bad luck."

People blamed this behavior for everything from loot drops, to combat outcomes, and to aggro mechanics.

And also remember that AC was before MMOs became massively popular, and outside of specific events and locations, there wasn't always more than a handful of players in a certain area for a given server where aggro mechanics like this would matter.
This just seems like a way for someone to say they passed some bill that "helps" climate change, when in reality no-one will actually use it because EV conversions are exceptionally rare and generally high priced.

No-one is doing a bottom of the barrel EV conversion on a run down 2008 toyota corolla. I just don't see who this is targeted towards in any practical sense.
I've been using this phone for a year and haven't gotten used to it. There are too many scenarios where the swipe you want is difficult to pull off. It used to be common UI guidance to use gestures for extra convenience but not to rely on them.

Like if I'm using the map, it's swipe up from near the bottom to open nav options or swipe up from slightly below that to open app switcher; keep in mind I'm probably doing this hastily at a red light. Lock screen is swipe up to unlock but also to look at notifications. Home screen is swipe down for notifications or control center, depending on which side, I always forget.

Facial unlock has a hard time with my glasses. I have to input my pin half the time. If I'm driving, I can't look at my phone. Also idk why it has to auto-lock immediately like I'm paranoid; there used to be a setting to delay auto-locking for 30min unless I press the lock button myself.
Statistics is actually pretty hard to get right, and it is the nature of the problem space that errors aren't immediately apparent unless one actually runs analytical regression on the algorithm to confirm it has the right "shape," which (a) can be time-consuming given the complexity of the algorithm and (b) doesn't tend to be part of unit tests because unit test doctrine is pathologically opposed to nondeterminism.

(This last pert is not an unsolvable problem, and in fact random algorithms should be unit tested. But it requires the right kind of unit testing).
Eh - it's really a conversation about how dogmatic you want to be here.

You have all the info you need with gitflow to go back to the state of a specific release, and then create additional releases based on that state.

Basically - there's nothing stopping you from going back to your 1.0 tag well after release 2 or 3 or even 4 are out, and then branching from there and creating a new 1.x release.

You have a wrinkle left over afterwards, since you now need to determine if any of those 1.x changes should actually make it back into develop (and this is really a case by case question) and you also (at least in my opinion) need a really valid reason for creating the extra maintenance of this wrinkle, but large paying customers can sometimes be a valid reason.

I think you have to tackle the same problem with TBD - there are certainly times when "spun off forever" is acceptable, but there are times when you genuinely want some of the work done on an old release to make it back into the mainline trunk.

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Long story short... just prefer not to be dogmatic about these decisions and you can generally make most things work. Your customers don't give a flying fuck how you handle branches, and it should really be a consequence of what the team needs right now, rather than a "set in stone" process.
Roman Catholic culture is one of those by far. What better way to attest to the sacredness of human remains but to incorporate them into the most sacred architecture we have?

Human remains of Catholics are buried until their cause for canonization calls for exhumation and examination of the relics. By the time of canonization, division of the relics has begun and they are distributed for veneration to various communities and places. This is how we treat sacred remains: by making them accessible to all the faithful for viewing, veneration, and inspiration.

What was your question again?
You raise good questions, especially for someone considering striking out on their own.

Personally I'm laser focused on this question: "How do I match what I could earn in salary as a software engineer?" Beyond that - I can figure it out on my own. Until then - I'm burning savings and need to figure it out.

As far as I can tell, the safest fastest way to get from A (unemployed and without income) to B ("engineer salary") is as follows, assuming "engineer salary" is 150k/year.

1. Have enough savings to live for 1 year with $0 income and another year with reduced income - say, 50k/year. Having 40k on top of that in savings: half of that to get you started, half to buy businesses in the future and/or to buy services to do that then.

2. Buy an ad supported online business on Flippa. Budget: 20k. This can be for one or multiple businesses, though multiple is probably better for quicker growth & profit potential. (It doesn't have to be Flippa btw, but that's 'good enough' for our purposes).

3. Assume no income in year 1. In this year you add pages to your site(s) and continuously improve them, using Google search analytics to confirm what you're doing is working. Your traffic should be increasing.

4. Assume 50k/year income in year 2. This is either through ad revenue or selling one of those sites you bought (probably the latter). Continue doing what you did in year 1, but better.

5. By year 3 you've hit your goal. By year 4 you've exceeded it. Every year after that, you can expect your income to substantially grow, for at least the following 3 years.
Framework laptop came with a broken MoBo and a broken display. Working with support to prove my malfunctioning hardware has been a many months ongoing struggle
Some of my fondest gaming memories are from this game. There was nothing ever quite like it, and the allegiance system created a special type of community bond that I haven’t seen repeated.

At one point I had 10 “vassals” sworn to me, and in our allegiance that came with the expectation that you assist and mentor those under you. Stakes were higher when our allegiance committed to being red dot PKs on a white server with a few other stronger groups in play.

The server emulation scene has come a long way since retail shut down, but even the most populous servers are a pale shade of this game in its hey day.
That sounds like a catastrophically bad idea.
You wouldn't need to get rid of the current limits, just expire the patent sooner. If a company generates $10 Billion dollars in the first 5 years of their 20 year patent the reminding 15 years isn't necessary to incentivize innovation.

Rewarding innovation has been archived, just skip ahead to the part where the public at large benefits.
Yeah, it’s called Visa lol

In all seriousness, USDC comes pretty close to that i think or something built on algorand
No, you are totally wrong, and they don’t all require external trust, any more than sending emails requires last mile mail delivery. Yes, some things require physical items to be shipped but increasingly the value has been completely digitized.

What makes you think I haven’t researched the oracle problem and hundreds of other things related to this space? Vitalik writes about tons of things in crypto, and so do I. I have been building solutions for years.

They are FREE. If you don’t like them, don’t use them. If you don’t have time to even read a summary digest of what they do, please don’t patronize others. I don’t have time to read about how GPT transformers work in detail, and you won’t find me condescendingly telling people to please read up on the AI alignment problem. And certainly not knee-jerk dismissing and downvoting EVERYTHING related to AI without even spending a minute reading answers to mu own questions !
“Automobiles: a convenient crutch for people who can’t ride horses, or a recipe for disaster?”

“Word processors: a convenient crutch for people who can’t type, or a recipe for disaster?”

God these headlines are going to be hilarious in ten years.

Yes, AI code is primitive today. The first implementations sometimes get basic stuff wrong and often get complicated stuff wrong.

But the state of the art is evolving daily. It’s somewhere between ignorance and gatekeeping to act like the issues we see today (which are already much fewer than we say a year ago) are so endemic to the concept of generated code that the whole thing is a terrible idea.

Most code will be written by AI. You can choose to adapt and leverage that, or you can choose to be that guy who insists that your field is the one true place that we should resist automation (for the good of the world, of course, not any self-interest, that’s just a coincidence).
Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Billion-Scale Models on Low-Resource Hardware
Quite the standard you’ve set there!
Open to employees
It would be great if we could switch over to using punitive taxes instead of incentivizing subsidies for behavior modeling.

The correct sustainable choice is to use public transit - offering a subsidy for EVs will be a generally inaccessible benefit to the working poor and will further encourage congestion.
There are no legitimate services in crypto at all.

> I use it to pay for services or donate money all the time

I can do this with Pix, UPI, Wise, Apple Pay, MPesa, etc.

What is crypto doing that is so special other than complete gambling and speculation?
there is still ample unexplored design space in the realm of pinball.
exactly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
> Should we trust Steve because Rick is a good driver?

We should accept that all drivers make mistakes, even you, and demand measurable safety metrics from all our control systems. Is that really so weird?

What we should not do is start thousand-comment flame wars on HN about how Steve is unsafe and that we should take away his license. In fact, those three mistakes are of course routine for human drivers. I bet you personally, statop, have done them in the past. And yet, no lynch mob.

That's the "hate" part I'm talking about. Please stop. Please. It's really hurting the discourse about a product area that's actually very subject to measurement, and about a specific product that is objectively very safe.
Not buying it.

The tool itself promotes terrible ways of working. "Agile", with a capital corporate A. For arsehole.
I think there's a secret third thing, domain specific fundamentals/boilerplate.

I've had good results with code generation for minimal proof-of concept things, like 'show me code for [maze construction algorithm]' or 'visualize this platonic solid in mathplotlib, with numeric labels on every vertex' or 'fetch data from https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/34741898.json and build a pandas dataframe from it'.

I've come to prefer it to visiting Stack Overflow when I need to get up to speed on a new thing, so that I don't have to read people's petty ego trips or irrelevant answers. I also find it responsive when I give carefully detailed prompts to develop an algorithm, as it saves me a lot of typing mistakes and syntactical screwups, eg mixing up dimensions in 3d or flipping [x:] and [:x]. Debugging sometimes feels faster than on my own code, because I didn't mentally commit to the error and create a blind spot for myself.

It's much easier to get good results by specifying incremental (across multiple responses) or stepwise instructions in pseudocode, rather than big bang problem statements. Although the latter occasionally kick out magically-working complete programs, they're much more likely to yield catapults: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aCgSwmm5Ho
Is this in Jersey City, across the river from Manhattan? (you don't have to dox yourself if you don't want to, but everything you say matches what I saw living there, particularly the ferry)
There's nothing I hate more than a massive massive super market, offering the same variety of products as a decent sized store but with wiles filled with many feet and entire shelves with exactly the same product. So much pointless walking, hunting, and searching for so little benefit.

My favorite grocery store is about 1/4 to 1/5 of the typical supermarket like a Safeway, because it has all the same products without all the fluff. And an actual real butcher counter with plenty of on staff butchers, instead of row upon row of prepackaged cuts.