skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What portions are of greatest interest?

I will have a better idea of this after I've had a chance to play with the software! Unfortunately that may be in about a week.

Naively: I think a DB of successful builds and what Nix functions/files produced the working packages and at what versions could be really useful to things like dream2nix or nix-init. (I think that CLI for one-off installs has considerable value itself.)

For my present use cases (perhaps not future ones at my org!) the cases enabling distribution of binary artifacts without publishing sources are not of great interest. For me, those fall into the enterprise-y bucket.
https://simplenote.com/ automatically stores history for each note:

> Notes are backed up with every change, so you can see what you noted last week or last month.

I have used this feature, but only very rarely. It would be nice if SimpleNote could also search the note history, too.
You could put it as a SaaS API or behind a paywall as a web app - you genuinely could get paying users and wouldn’t have to break the economy while you do it!
Bad math sry lol
I agree that's bad. What would you suggest to try to moderate the advancement of AI and make sure that AI capabilities don't outstrip AI safety?
That would be completely pointless, since you will get results for your neighbor.
Open Recall is an Open Source N-Back Task Game like Simply-Recall designed to improve working memory and cognitive abilities.

Research shows that N-Back training may lead to gains in fluid intelligence (IQ) and working memory ability (Soveri et al., 2017).

The N-Back task is a memory training game that is designed to improve working memory and cognitive abilities. To play the game, you will be presented with a sequence of items such as letters, numbers, or words. Your goal is to indicate whenever the current item matches the item that was presented "n" steps back in the sequence. The value of "n" determines the difficulty of the task. For example, if "n" is set to 1, you would need to recall the item that was presented one step back. If "n" is set to 2, you would need to recall the item that was presented two steps back, and so on. The game typically continues until you have completed a certain number of rounds or made a certain number of errors. To play, simply focus on the items as they are presented and try to recall the item that was presented "n" steps back. Good luck!
Why few seconds? Some java applications can easily take minutes to initialize.
Intelligence is not in AI, and is not likely to end up there in the lifetime of anyone old enough to read this on their own.
It’s a shame GE hasn’t managed to follow suit after 130 years.
We know about that page. I use it to find what libraries & frameworks (including ones where they lie and call it a library like React) to avoid.
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Because if you're in that 3% and you possess a reasonable amount of empathy, worrying about that 97% is just exhausting.
Biden to Urge Quadrupling New 1% Tax on Stock Buybacks
Bell Labs is a special case (afaik). My father worked for Western Electric (and I actually did a couple summer internships there). In any case, BL / WE had a special rank and pay structure. They understood they had talent that was more valuable not as management.

I don't remember the details but do remember there being certain "heavy weights" that didn't have anyone under them.
You can go sit under the (regrowth of) the original tree that these treaties were signed next to near Yamashita park in Yokohama.
Also the wifi password for a public event venue on the waterfront there is something like Perry1854
I built something similar internally, just use Python expressions directly.
Much better said, i agree
Where is this excerpt from? Did you write it yourself?
It's a lot more boring though. Which is probably why they don't want to go back.
But they make the ad performance look worse, because they're active users who don't click ads.
Their only flop in the past 20 years was the Wii U. (The Gamecube is now over 20 years old.)
We need quality blogs resolving every problem but there is AI now...
I'd say it's the other way around. Any sane API client would retry for 503. But people might not.
Rephrase, an email domain to interpret and summarize your text
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With the goal of enabling users to digest information, we are excited to launch an ALPHA product that helps summarize emails with one click powered by OpenAI.

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Another player in the WebGPU field you may want to add is https://usegpu.live/
Didn't hit #1, but got to front page twice: once with SheetUI [0], another time with CS cards [1].

My observation on what I did right is similar: remove the need for sign ups so users can use it and see value immediately.

As for what happened after that, I've had one well known online Japanese tech zine (gigazine) did a write up, stackshare ranked it as top 5 upcoming tools, various back links from other websites that mine for interesting bits from HN, several VC reachouts, saw lots of interesting uses of my tool, and some recurring revenue.

[0] https://sheetui.com
[1] https://cs.cards
There is arguably 1 item on that list which is strictly busy work, not many. Every other piece seems either good for communication or at worst neutral.
Money is going to be returned to shareholders. It should be the same rate whether dividends or buybacks. Buybacks make more sense since people that want off the bus that take the deal while those who want to stay on reduce their dilution.
Me? I don’t have a stance one way of the other, so I have the luxury of not having to prove anything.

It’s very convenient!
Asheron’s call is in a similar situation. The community has implemented, from scratch, their own servers and a huge amount of the game post Throne of Destiny.

Interestingly, the game was content complete for Throne of Destiny on the server side because apparently someone found a thumb drive of the server files at a conference long ago. I’ve been secretly hoping that someone from Turbine would leak the entire game source as a final fuck you to WB backpedaling on making the servers public.
No chance of Apple implementing this outside of the EU if they are not forced to.

They are getting billions from Google every year because Safari is the most used browser on iOS, and they will do what is necessary to make this last for as long as possible.
Top engineers should be in the room.
Yeah you're probably right, this particular lifehack/exploit has a very high barrier to entry.

But the general idea still stands. I remember hearing Anthony Bourdain would not adeverise great little restaurants he found for fear of running them.
The traditional way Japanese companies get rid of unwanted employees is to assign them tasks so meaningless and mind-numbing, or just no tasks at all, that they quit by themselves.

Random link: https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/21/boredom_rooms_japan_e...

This might be less effective nowadays with ubiquitous internet access.
Sudden Flood Risks Threaten 15M People
Wouldn't be a HN thread about pay increases without someone saying it's not enough.
They should've named it Jeeves, so we would be able to ask Jeeves some real questions again.
I once wanted this. Now I realize that this will complete Chrome's takeover of the Web, and that sucks.
Managers don't have to have the hands on skills. What's more important is their understanding of the players, and making players better than they would be otherwise.

Those well-regarded managers are often so because they create a whole greater than the parts. Average managers break even. Bad managers decrease value.
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Does not work with Hacker's Keyboard (https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard). It closes itself after a few deciseconds, whereas usually the permanent notification feature can be tapped to open and use a keyboard anywhere. Or maybe I haven't tried using it on the new Android 11 yet and yet another of my favorite hacks broke.... now that I try it elsewhere, it seems this app got broken by google breaking userspace again... Never mind, looks like I'll have to go and fetch a USB keyboard for this in the future :/
> The most important thing to note is that this is our foray into developing flox in the open and we value all the feedback, thoughts, and especially criticisms.

One of the things I really, really love about the way Tweag has approached 'development in the open' with Nix is their series of announcement posts for updates via NixOS Discourse. If Flox can reasonably fit something similar into their strategy, I think that would be huge.

I do so far really like the engagement in all the official Nix communication channels as well as HN. I know you and Rok have both spent tons of time offering help and working with other Nix users in those spaces, and it goes a long way with me to see you guys out here being the ones to answer questions.
That's incredible results!! Both products look amazing, well-deserved :)
It is a fair point (I think your tone is what has set people off, and for the record I didn’t enjoy it either). The real question, in my opinion, is what does humanity do in general with our fellow humans whose labor is displaced by some form of automation? And that fully includes all of us here on Hacker News.

Do we prevent the lose of income to people by forming a collective bargaining group (guild, union, co-op—whatever you’d like) to prevent the job loss and maintain income? Do we tax the owners of businesses who are using large amounts of automation so that the profits are shared with larger society? Do we let the market figure out it out?

It’s an incredibly difficult and complicated question and I don’t have a good answer. But I do personally believe that the people who will be hit hardest will be average people: ourselves and our neighbors and we should consider how we want to react to that fact sooner rather than later.
I think the reason video games have been able to stay at $60 for so long is because the industry has been growing. Even though the unit price stayed at $60, the number of customers has grown year after year, and software has it's notoriously low marginal cost.
It's also common at some of these companies to get "demoted" from a higher track. That basically never happens to managers.
I agree that it's nuanced. There are people whose contributions cannot be measured in discrete units of output. But others are. Also some people who are naturally lazy can be made more productive by virtue of being next to others who depend on them in some way.
Thats a bit more difficult. I don't think there is a great way for cron jobs other than triggering them and reverting if there are errors, though I haven't seen a single deployment tool that would do this.

For batch processing, Dokku checks the process uptime - if the process stops/restarts within X seconds, its likely unhealthy, and the deploy should be reverted. Some frameworks expose http endpoints that can be used to perform healthchecks as well.

At the end of the day, monitoring for errors in an error tracking service - such as Sentry - and seeing if new errors start spewing for a given deployment is probably the only better thing folks can do, although reverting code isn't always straightforward.
My experience exactly using any untyped programming language. Fun for small throw away projects but not for serious large scale software that large corporations rely on.
That’s higher than Chrome’s market share on mobile according to that site. Seems dubious.
Who told you to sit in your shame? Honestly you sound like a prick. Acknowledging your prejudices isn’t shameful, denying you have prejudices, well, that says a lot about you - and none of it is good. All I can hope is maybe some day you’ll grow up.
Culture vs. Systems (Lethain)
Wait Nintendo makes Pokémon games?
I think that you just need a special entitlement to enable w+x page. I could be wrong though, haven't dug too deep in this.
YouChat 2.0 – Unlock the Power of AI with the Search Assistant That Works
Does XMPP support conversation threads?
How would you know? Can any ladies here confirm whether they can or cannot pee in a bottle?

I imagine if you place the bottle at the urethra opening it's possible it might work.
ChatGPT user here. Was cool to try out, but I have no real use cases for it. Maybe next time I have trouble brainstorming what to cook - but it seems rather niche.
I get to apply my causal inference and measurement skills to a lot of compelling situations in collaboration with some really intelligent and skilled people. I truly feel like I get to perform technically excellent work, and I feel very privileged in that way.

My day to day is mostly economic / econometric analysis, conceptualization and formulation of technology, and writing, but also occasional meetings to gather information, feedback, answer questions, teach and collaborate with others.

I try to effectively “sample” the org by interacting with people up and down the org, so I can assist Execs in incorporating directors, managers and ICs knowledge / pool good information / systematize planning, etc.
> While everything you say is true, this isn't really unique to Japan though?

I can’t speak to many other countries, as I haven’t really looked as deeply into them as I have into Japan.

That said, the differences in Japan are significant in social ways that they are not in other places (like the US, where I currently live).

Want a decent/nice apartment? Some places won’t rent to you unless you have a permanent job (the dispatch jobs often/typically don’t count). It doesn’t matter if your income is much higher than it would be while working at the permanent job.

This exact experience happened to patio11 in a provincial part of Japan where it would probably have been prudent to try to be more accommodating to financially successful residents. For reference, he quit his salaryman job because bingo card creator was making a multiple of his salaryman income. When it came time to renew his lease, the landlord was not accommodating even though patio11 had proof of his drastically increased income.

Want to get married as a male? If you don’t have a permanent job, then your marriage stock takes a massive hit. The dispatch jobs are considered much lower on the prestige scale.

The list of detractions go on.

Note that this probably wouldn’t be a big deal if the changes had been gradual and/or society had changed just as rapidly, but those things didn’t happen. The hiring was completely gutted, and it never returned to anything close to prior form.

I will add that these changes happened during a time of rapid change in regulations (mostly deregulation) in Japan in the 90s. I personally think that these changes were probably good from a corporate-level economic perspective. That said, these changes also led to a complete and irreverent shattering of the social contract in Japan. It was not a change that most people wanted. It is a change that the government and the large corporations, with much goading from the US, foisted upon the broader Japanese population with complete disregard for the social fabric of society.

What could have been done differently? The changes could have been slower. Many of the changes just could have not happened, imho. Social support systems could have been developed before or while these changes were implemented. Pro-consumer laws could have been enacted.

Instead, the Japanese bureaucrats showed how deep in over their heads they were at the time by just acquiescing to western pressure to deregulate without really understanding why the existing system in Japan actually worked (short version: a lot of “non-competitive” features of the broader Japanese economy functioned as a de facto social safety/support system that never got replaced).

Note that patio11 has discussed this topic in more detail with more references than I currently have, so I would search for his stuff if you want to dig deeper.
We are hitting the awkward transition period between the actor being the person performing the script in front of a microphone and/or camera and someone doing the performance at a keyboard, directing computers to create an emotive performance. It seems only a matter of time before actors are only walking the boards in live performances or in retro media. Not surprised they are pissed.
It gets hairier than this.

For example, in Postgres, the place where all the metadata is stored that the DB uses in internal business logic is not regular C structs, but as rows in special tables (relations).

Like say you want to look up the physical file location of a table, using its ID (something Postgres functions have to do internally at various points). It does this by reading from a relation.

It's sort of like a compiler that compiles itself. It can't always have been that way, so I have to wonder at what point the codebase swapped over to doing it this way.
Me and my wife hated it as well.

Bought an elliptical and hyper-extensor at home and we love both. The elliptical can give you a very powerful cardio session and that's very important for us the sedentary people. Plus it helps with weight loss.

The hyper-extensor activates muscles that get lazy with sitting. Works very well.

From then on just go crazy; all sorts of squats, situps, stretches and whatnot.

I don't like it in the gym. Too much preparation time in both directions.
I highly recommend the book “Body by Science”. I have followed it for months and my strength has more than doubled. Spending only 15 minutes a week in the gym. Yes fifteen minutes. Once a week. The book explains why it works. The actual exercises is only a few pages. Perfect for anybody who hates going to the gym and/or can’t do cardio.
Seems a bit dishonest to ask people to contribute without explaining what the files are actually used for anywhere in the site, just "they could be used by Jagex". C'mon, I'm not against piracy, but I don't think it's cool trying to manipulate people like this.
I don't even think it requires that in a strict sense. No one knows how long the cycle time is or if you are will reach a new long-term mean or not.

Another important point is its not the case that all the hiring is LIFO. In fact we know that many old-time googlers were let go. I am sure many of the more recent hires have stuck around.
To be entirely honest the average american isn't biking at all, they barely even walk
I don't understand how that is contrary to my statement.
Gas stations had a special exemption because they were totally willing to just not accept credit cards.
That's a great idea! Take me back to my best life - 10 years old spending my summer vacations playing RS with my cousins.
As a struggling software engineering project manager, are there any reference material I could study up on to better help my team? I want to be a useful as possible to them.
>What are companies even for in society to you? They're supposed to provide goods and services.

In a free market, they're supposed to provide goods and services, and the way the free market incentivizes that is by giving them rewarding them with money.

>Does a restaurant not strive to have good service and quality food in some part for the sake of it? Does nobody ever start a business in a field they genuinely care about?

There certainly are people who do things out of passion or altruism, but we can't run an economy off of that. There aren't enough bakers who care about feeding people in and of itself to feed everyone on earth. As such, the economy is set up to give people money for providing goods and services, so that we don't need to rely on people's passion/altruism to keep us fed.

>Financials are not the ultimate signal of success. They're part of surviving and growing, but far from the only thing a company should ultimately desire to maximize.

And that's fine, if money isn't your end goal there are other types of legal structures for that (ie. non-profits or charities).

>The "long term" is a healthy, respectable business.

Right, but that only matters insofar as that a "healthy, respectable business" generates more money. It's not something to pursue in and of itself.

> If you just follow short-term financials all the time, obviously that won't work. But chasing only financials in general won't work either.

My argument isn't that we should always chase short term financials, it's that the decisions made (ie. layoffs) aren't necessarily inconsistent with long term growth. The monetary regime changing in such a way where future revenue is suddenly worth less is a example of this.

>No, I'd rather we had higher expectations than the absolute bare minimum. I'm not sure why your takeaway from what I said is that they should needlessly hire and maintain employees.

"higher expectations than the absolute bare minimum" says nothing about what you actually want, considering that there's a laundry list of things that people seemingly want from corporations. Be specific. Is it just not hiring people only to fire them a short time later?

>Yes, I would rather companies do not senselessly hire a bunch of full-time long-term employees during a very blatantly obvious temporary boost in the market only to inevitably shit can them in a year or less.

1. hindsight is 20/20. it's not really clear that they intentionally hired people with the knowledge that the "boost" was temporary. If anything, if you knew that there would be a crash in the market, hiring would be a bad idea, given how much it costs to hire/ramp new engineers up.

2. if it's really so "blatantly obvious", then surely the engineers who were getting hired knew what they were signing up for? After all, it's not like the nature of at-will employment is some sort of secret. If you don't want the risk of getting 6 months later, don't sign up for the job. Don't ruin that for the people who want to take the risk.
> How did all of the Hydrogen in the Universe -- get there in the first place?

Backwards! How did all the Universe get there around the Hydrogen?

> Ultimately, the question comes down to "how do you create something from empty space", which comes down to "how do you create something from quantum foam/perturbations" (if the empty space consists of quantum foam/perturbations) -- which probably brings up the question of solitons, specifically how solitons can be created and sustained in quantum foam (in essence, the creation of a particle...)

Why would you assume space comes before matter? Because you have it backwards, and ultimately the correct question to ask is: how do you create space from empty matter?
Love or hate Lauren Southern, this is a bad position for Airbnb to take. It's arbitrary and over reaching and it's really none of airbnb's business. Focus on renters that are using properties for illicit means or destroy property and break the law and terms of service.