skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really difficult business and I recently ended in a dispute with my civil engineer wife because I wanted to move a shelf towards the center of the room. She is I guess right reminding me that trial and error is not a good strategy in her business. I always think, that a 120 year old building somehow should not collapse due to my books.

However, when it comes to earthquake standars over time it really gets even stranger. I live in a region in Germany that recently got an 'upgrade' on earth quake forces after recent surveys. However, regulators still do not enforce new standards. So my wife has to recommend all her customers to adopt new standards, but tells them in the same sentence that it is not yet required. With rising construction costs nobody choses to. So we are all waiting cynically for the predicted major earthquake so that we are on the same standard again. Some by design, some empirically proven.
Zoom and WebEx both have this if you install the plugins, as well.
Ok, I see that some have a Discuss link and others do not.

Ycombinator, I wanted to tell you that when you announce that one of your companies is hiring, it matters to some seekers what the company does, and clickbaiting that crucial info doesn't send a good signal, about concordance of values.
Data Engineers suck at unit testing. They shouldn't.
> It just turns out tech was especially vulnerable.

This should not be surprising at all! The entire tech rally was fueled by a huge amount of leverage. That leverage was very cheap in the last 10 years, because there was a lot of money sloshing around and the interest rates were zero (sometimes even negative), which meant that the bar on portfolio returns was very low.

I'm going to simplify a lot: let's say you have a portfolio that returns 10% p.a., if the risk free rate (ie bond returns) are 0, then you can say that your portfolio gives people 10% in excess of what they could get by holding safe assets. But now rates are 5% (for the sake of simplicity), that same portfolio only gives you 5% excess returns. On any single given year that's not a huge difference, but if you compound this over 10 years, that's the difference of having earned 60% vs. 160%. Huge difference!

So as you can see this relatively small (in absolute terms) change really compounds itself into a massive re-evaluation of investments. When rates are negative, you'd be happy to hold assets that merely do nothing - ie neither gain nor lose value - but once rates start to rise appreciably, the future value of those investments needs to be discounted and because we are dealing with compounding, the discounting itself can be pretty brutal. This is then further compounded by the expectation that money supply itself is shrinking, which makes the pool of available money smaller as well.

It's really a double whammy which will mostly affect highly leveraged and risky bets, as they become much much less palatable.

It was really perverse how many tech companies had no discernible avenue of ever becoming profitable, and yet had billion dollar valuations. People were looking desperate for parking capital anywhere they could.
Also curious to know if it has web clients and desktop clients.
@dang is the flag necessary?
Ask HN: Slack vs. Facebook Workplace
Our 10 person startup is half in and half out of Slack, in a worst of both worlds mix with Google Docs and Notion. Has anyone used Facebook Workplace? Thoughts on pros and cons?
Joel's posts are always so good. Content and presentation
It just goog… ehm bings your question and then summarizes what the resulting web pages say. Works well, but ChatGPT works much better.
I agree 100% with your last point, even as someone who is relatively more skeptical of GPT than the average person.

I think a lot of the concern though is coming from the way the average person is reacting to GPT and the way they’re using it. The issue isn’t that GPT makes mistakes, it’s that people (by their own fault, not GPT necessarily) get a false sense of security from GPT, and since the answers are provided in a concise, well-written format don’t apply the same skepticism they do when searching for something. That’s my experience at least.

Maybe people will just get better at using this, the tools will improve, and it won’t be as big an issue, but it feels like a trend from Facebook to TikTok of people opting for more easily digestible content at the expense of disinformation
Ahhh, that sounds likely, thanks!
The article points out that there are at least 2 different ways that people have found to get Bing/Sydney to spit out the exact same prompt - it seems legit to me.
I'm the opposite. For me, WFH is table-stakes. There isn't a realistic amount of pay, PTO, benefits, or anything else that would make me work on-site right now. We're still in a pandemic, and the risk of contracting long-covid and no longer being able to do knowledge work due to impaired cognition are far too high for me to consider working in an office these days.
FTA:

"The domain names in question are subdomains of newly registered TLDs that rely on different domain name registries."

There are multiple TLDs/SLDs involved (and the pool will likely grow over time)
In the talk they explain why the app gets slow now and how the app they plan to release by the end of 2023 fixes it with sliding sync.

Hopefully that improves your situation
The last house we lived in---a moderately expensive and well constructed house, compared to many of the others we looked at---didn't have electrical boxes behind wall- and ceiling-mounted light fixtures. The romex was just directly connected to the fixture and the fixtures were secured with drywall anchors.

Disastrous?
This.

The cold market-oriented view other HN'ers are espousing is certainly valid, but there are many, many small employers whose owners have a personal relationship with the employees.

It IS naïve to expect that from a very large company, though, where the managers' span on one job is a couple years, at most.
> What does it mean to be worst-in-class for text chat

Poor discoverability of, basically, everything, paste doesn’t support standard options like pasting text only without formatting, so cutting and pasting from format documents takes either manual format correction or using a third app to paste without formatting and the cut again to avoid the ransom-note look. Formatting that supports Markdown entry (kind of), but only Word-style WYSIWIG editing. Teams text chat is a major let down coming from, say, Slack.
They've become infrequent
ChatGPT/GPT3.5 and its weights can fit on a small thumb drive, and copied infinitely and shared. Tech will get better enough in the next decade to make this accessible to normies. The genie cannot be put back in the bottle.
nice - more motivation to try this :)
I think most programming communities experience fragmentation as they grow. I would say the javascript ecosystem has had an order of magnitude more fragmentation at every layer: package management, server, client, module specification. IMO this is the cost of progress.
TWLO is a SaaS whereas Ubers more of a physical service business can they be compared
But the HN chatter was convinced that GPT would dethrone Google! Google has no chance!!

Another silly tech prediction brought to you by the HN hivemind.
why unregrettable, I think it is quite the opposite - regrettable attrition because it is the people who have the most in-demand skills on the job market can/will leave for full remote/better hybrid schedules.
I'm interested how you handle suppliers that have usage-based pricing (which I imagine are the norm in the telephony space) if you can't pass this on to the customer. Do you offer your customers an unlimited plan, price it high and just hope they don't use so much that you go backwards?
> where people cobble together clauses to create a franken-contracts

A blight in any number of industries. I'm most intimately familiar with construction. My go-to example is a project where the contract specifications from the Owner required, in one paragraph buried deeply within, that a certain critical person have a license for their craft.

Not a problem, that's how it usually goes and why the state issues licenses, after all. The problem was that the project was in Alaska, and the specifications explicitly listed out a license in Virginia.
Yeah, that was my best guess too: visual density

"Information density" normally means "how much information can fit in a piece of the screen", which is going to be the same for all monospace fonts (at the same font size, anyway)
I don’t know what’s the solution to this problem, but this library is extremely useful. Most of the time, you don’t want to read the books entirely, but mostly to check something, read a section or browse see if what you’re looking for is there.

Eventually, you may buy a book that you know is worth it. Right now even the table of contents may not be available before buying.
On a Mac, I got stuck in some sort of loop that prevented me from joining any calls, and even uninstalling the Teams app didn’t fix it. I had to use my iPhone for every Teams call, and sometimes the Teams web app.
"Just don't use it" is not salient advice for non-technical people who don't know how it works, and are misled by basically dishonest advertising and product packaging. But hopefully the market will speak, users at large will become educated about its limits via publicized blunders, and these products will be correctly delimited as "lies a lot but could be useful if you are able/willing to verify what it says."
I don’t know much about Teams (we’re a Google Workspace/Meet shop) but I know they are selling all sorts of crazy access rights packages because any given Teams group I meet with, if they send the invite, it’s a different connection experience. You need an account. You need an account on their domain. You don’t need an account, but you need a guest account. You need your own account with Microsoft. You need a user name. You don’t need a username. It works on my phone, or not. It works in the browser, or not. It works in the desktop app, or not.

What. The. Hell?!
Love Envy Code R.
It depends on the nature of the problem at hand.

For example if we threw money at a group in 1905 do you think they could have come up with special relativity, or do you believe that it required geniuses working on the problem to have a breakthrough.
It does if you are doing a currency conversion. It does not at other times.
IRC is not a protocol that as it stands can meet modern user expectations of usability and functionality. If I can't use it to communicate with people at large, it is not a lot of freedom that is gained.

Most of what you complain about societal pressures either apply to IRC (access to specific servers) or outright fail IRC by default by not providing the feature (state).
I think generally the point here is: if you're worried about getting locked into a totally open ecosystem, there's nowhere for you to go.
Ask HN: What’s stopping bunny population growth?
Rabbits and bunnies have a gestation cycle of 31 days and give birth to 1-12 children. Why aren’t they everywhere? They have no predators in the wild so why isn’t their population exploding?
Revenue growth rate was > 50% per year when most of these people were hired. Now they project 20% growth. That has more impact that wanting to earn interest on a savings account.
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> But what is your take on what needs fixing ?

I appreciate that it's a bit frustrating to have someone vaguely identify an area of concern and clarification and actionable suggestions are much more valuable.

There's two things. One is that the data structure ontology[1] is difficult to internalize because of its complexity. When I write Clojure code, I consider the capabilities of the data structures being passed to the function. I think we have some implicit understanding of this early on. You expect the type of such and such to support seq-ing or deref-ing or something else. You're thinking in terms of capabilities and that's good. But if you want to be exacting, at some point you'll have to be able to point to an interface or several in the diagram and say, "yes, I really do expect something that conforms to IPersistentVector or IMeta or something else. In order to preserve backwards compatibility, this is more confusing than it needs to be. Moreover, at that point, you're not in Clojure-land anymore.

My second point is that at this step in the narrative, you're reading Java code and the illusion of 100 functions is broken. I ask myself, "Why, aren't Clojure data structures implemented in terms of protocols?" There's a perfectly good way of abstracting functionality that seems good enough for users, but not good enough for standard library implementers? It feels like the answer is, "We don't want to break Clojure1.x and we don't want to deal with the Python3 problem." Which is fair, admirable even, but it still leaves me left wanting. I think there's a simpler, more consistent Clojure hiding in there, waiting to be let out.

Apologies for the awkward way this reads; I simply wanted to get it out before lunch time.

1. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jafingerhut/clojure-classe...
ooh awesome. I'm just starting the video but I'm really hoping sharing is improved on iOS. Like full quality video sharing from the share sheets, or seeing my matrix rooms/contacts in the top row of contact suggestions, but most importantly the ability to add 'comments' to photos/links I share with people

e.g. share a link to a GitHub repo or a photo and be able to quickly say something in the same sheet without having to switch to the app and say the thing and the back to my browser

edit: had to use YouTube in the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUPJ9zFV5IE
Spy balloons, due to their much lower altitude, can take higher resolution photos & more accurate 3D scans of facilities as well as pick up short range radio transmissions (both intentional & unintentional) not possible from a spy satellite.

I'm no expert but let's say you wanted detailed intel on a oil refinery, manufacturing plant or military facility. With a sensitive enough antenna a balloon fly-by might be able to pick up WiFi signals, keyfob codes, security radio crosstalk, even wireless keyboard emissions.

Also, remember, China has extremely sophisticated facial recognition it uses to track its citizens. A fly-over of a facility at a shift-change could give them a lot of people to target for human-engineering attacks at the site's security.
"With deeply personalized experiences we expect to be able to deliver even more relevant messages to consumers, with the goal of improved ROI for advertisers."

https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/post/february-202...
I was forced to memorize that keyboard shortcut because for the last several weeks Teams will randomly stop recognizing mouse clicks.
Sin tax?
I really don't get the current trend of font ligatures for things such as !=. It seems to me you loose the fundamental structure of the code. I get it looks good in screen shots on Twitter but when I tried a font with them it just seems to make me have to pause and think more.

What have others experience been?
She could have listed the others too.
> if an employee does not want to relocate, it is their direct manager's problem

Doesn't OP say that this only applies to employees that live within 40 miles of an office? It sounds like if you're remote, you're not affected.
I had to look up each of them. This looks to be the only one that is based on Element:

https://schildi.chat/
Yeah, “seamless integration with other Microsoft products” is a pretty big exception, I will admit.
Adding tips will probably just cause the business to lower the wages, making the workers more dependent on a semi-random stream of tips instead of a fixed income, making life worse for them. Restaurants now work like that, and workers are voting with their feet. No need to extend this to other industries.
Monaco until the day I die.
IT Reality Check: Infination replies to Microsoft advocates (2008)
The writing is on the wall. Are you really going to resign that lease on all that office space when you've proved you can do business without it? The experiment has been ran on a grand scale. The results show working from home does not lead to society ending, rather things like cleaner air. If I were a company with a big lease obligation right now, I would be trying to toss the hot potato and sublet this waste of budget as soon as possible. Seems there's plenty of business owners who would happily take on that burden themselves out of pride at least these days, "we work in the office for synergy" and all that dilbert style thinking which remains ever popular.
I suspect it's likely. It's really hard to argue that there's nothing "sufficiently transformative" about turning some source code for a web api into a machine learning model capable of presenting code suggestions for a wide variety of different types of problems.

The actual issue isn't the training of the models, but the use of the resulting output: Just because training the models was fair use, doesn't mean that a case where you use some code the model regurgitates from its training data verbatim is.
They won't empathize though... or rather they will empathize, cruely. They will see the suffering they have created, know what they created, and still laugh about it back in the locker room.
If the only way to detect this "fraud" is that VPNs are in use, then why bother returning to the office? Seems like it's only a cost center with no added benefit.
I already had a trust issue with these 'authoritative' search engines and however they are configured to deliver the results they want me to see. ChatGPT makes the logic even more opaque. I am working harder now to make my Yacy search engine instance more performative. This is a decentralized search engine run by the node operators instead of centralized authorities. This seems to be our best hope to avoid the problem of "He controls the past controls the future."
> The results of female national elite athletes even indicate that the strength level attainable by extremely high training will rarely surpass the 50th percentile of untrained or not specifically trained men.

Irrelevant, because it requires training, which is not at all what we're talking about when we're talking about the general population.

> Results indicate that untrained men have greater upper and lower body strength than trained women athletes in terms of both absolute and relative strength.

Let me know when half of men can iron cross their way across a difficult move with their "greater upper body strength".
I never had to solve that problem in detail, but - check the software you have installed, linked in any way to a microphone, and its permissions, and all the "contracts" (licences) you may sign or have signed.

Some who are spared from that phenomenon of eavesdropping have followed that path.
I too have been following the Berkeley Mono font, and I think their website and promo materials are all very well designed. However, I tried the trial version of the font and found the kerning odd and unnatural seeming.
It's more likely that the daughter played music from that artist on YouTube, and your public IP address was associated to it in YouTube's data.

Still sketchy, just less mysterious.
Right, most SaaS are bought by other SaaS many of which are unprofitable

What do you predict is the resolution to this dillema?
My lord, that behaviour drives me mad.

The experience of using the editor for writing and editing is horrendous.
The US Secret Service has opened a forensic training program in Estonia
The United States Secret Service has opened a regional cyber security training program in Tallinn, Estonia. The Baltic Cybercrime Forensic Training Program (CFTP) is designed for law enforcement personnel from across the Baltic region to develop new methods of investigating and prosecuting cyber criminals.
There's a viable model: credits. You don't pay $0.01, you pay say $10 for 1,000 pages. Most web companies usually provide a lowest offering that's geared towards reasonably heavy users and provide nothing other than ads and the like for light users. Hence the ongoing war between blasting us with ads and sometimes malicious ads vs keeping from destroying our experience and risking getting infected by the latest 0-day.
> 3) For things that are not cryptography, I can usually write it better myself.

We've accepted specialization in most aspects of modern day society as a good thing. I fail to see, outside a small subset of programming, how you will always be able to write better code yourself for whatever domain you're working on.

> 5) I have a much better sense of what the code is doing this way.

This is not scalable.
To note, this is what we call the AI alignment problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkbPdEHEyEI
Exactly. It just shows that we can't really control such complex systems. Kind of funny that he got it somehow right. Years ago, I though, nah that can't happen and sounds stupid.

What makes me think that LLM may be a big thing, is that complex language seems to distinguish us from animals. So maybe this is what is required to invent everything else. Or, let's say, at least it is a major factor.
That's a good question.

If you ask it "What have I said so far?", do you get an exact replay, or what?
It's not called "survivorship bias." That's a term for looking at, e.g. mutual funds' 5-year records, where the only ones you see are the ones who've been around for 5 years, and not the ones that failed.

Company "loyalty" is sometimes a valid concept, but the probability goes down the bigger the company gets.
Already a thing. The machines are called smartphone/YT/TT/IG, etc
i wish somebody would write an entire science fiction series about this! maybe set on a desert planet, after humanity made the same mistake with intelligent machines as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)
“Doctor gave me a pill, and I grew a new kidney!”
"You can work remote forever" was a trend during Covid when it was hard to hire people. Like Yo Yos, Pet Rocks and fidget spinners, the fad has passed along with the leverage that developers had.
Is it a requirement that you use an Element-based client?
> For chats, it is embarrassingly slow at rendering

To be fair, despite all the other ways that Slack runs rings around Teams, rendering speed isn’t one of them.

But, yeah, you’d think this would be an easy opportunity for a big win for Teams.
Designing to prevent common mistakes – even if they're stupid mistakes – is a good idea, but you can't idiot-proof absolutely everything. At some point personal responsibility starts. I think this is somewhere before "I'll use a frayed extension cord from the 70s" – even a child can understand that's not a good idea.
Stones That Seem to Grow, Move and Reproduce
>our horrible safety net

This is intentional- an employee who feels secure is an expensive employee.

Mitch Mconnell debating $200/wk Covid relief funding: "my god, they won't work!"
I really like the app, it's snappy and works great with a small footprint, at least on Windows.

I confess I was also intrigued by the use of Sciter as a platform, so I guess a question could be if you would recommend that for crossplatform apps, or if you came across things that "surprised" you along the way?
Yeah. Usually the cost of adding a dependency is over the long-run, so it disappears in the near-term decision making, but sometimes it's so significant it shows up in the near-term. It's good to notice when that's going to be the case and point it out to those applying the pressure, because that will be in a language they'll hopefully understand
"bunch of homeless Turks/Kurds dying on the streets"

Is that common in Turkey? It rather sounds like an American extrapolating from the situation on the Tenderloin.

In the Muslim world, extended families tend to stick together more than in the West and provide their members with some safety net. Your crazy uncle will have just a cot in a small side room, but won't be left alone in the street to fend for himself.