skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my (limited) experience the sales team often can’t answer the questions I have about their product anyway. So the first call is a reiteration of my needs that I specified in email. Then we schedule a second call with a more senior salesperson who also can’t answer it. So we have a third call with an engineer to talk about one part of my use case, where I start my explanation over from scratch.

With GitLab, the sales team kept trying to show me demos of their product I already know. For months they kept trying to steer the conversation towards CI/CD when I had a completely different topic I wanted to focus on.
I understood about 2% of that.

It blows my mind that people can understand how things work to this level.

I would love to get to that point but it seems impossible, or at least way too much time than I could invest in it.
With over 600 hours on kerbal space program with the interstellar mod installed I can expertly say this is a huge deal.
Yup this is me. For so long I've thought people were only exaggerating about not being able to get anything done without a coffee in the morning.

I love coffee, some days I drink 3 cups, some days I forget to drink any at all.

When people "can't get things done" without their morning coffee, is it general haziness/fogginess or are they experiencing headaches?
> Though for me the real takeaway is that LSP specifies UTF-16 offsets. That sounds unpleasant to work with.

It is beyond time for UTF-16 to die. And yet it looks like we're stuck with it for the inevitable foreseeable future.
We need to start running these schools like a tech company. Institute a performance management system like OKRs, and put students on a PiP if they need it. If students still fail to perform, punish the parents.

Student achievement should be individual but also partly tied to the performance of the school.

Work should be managed via Agile manifesto, with students having stand ups and participating in planning poker. Velocity should be monitored and getting done as many tasks as possible should be encouraged.

Also I think all student work should be done via git.

Just think of the possibilities! We would already have a legion of workers right out of high school! This would put downward pressure on tech salaries, making the workers far less costly!
Those poor people
worth reading both sides: https://www.eff.org/document/voice-tech-corp-v-mycroft-ai-co...
This was me in high school and early college. Sleep apnea, not even overweight (which is pretty rare, especially for a kid). It was a pure miracle that I was functional at all but yeah, slept easily 14 hours a night and looked like a zombie during the day. Principal thought I was depressed.
Me too, always cheaper on Booking.com.

When asked directly, they just tell me to book on Booking.com.
Generally everyone has to take gym class. Sports are additional. Teams are competitive to get into and different kids will specialize in different ones depending on their strengths and interests. Some schools do require every student to choose at least one sport. There are other extracurriculars such as drama, speech & debate, and special choirs or chamber orchestras that may or may not be compatible with different sports.
> It's a failure of modern western society IMHO where we see people actually needing sleep as "lazy", rather than a requirement to actually be their best.

another one is that we let the morning people set the rules. If your butt isn't in a chair at 8am cranking out widgets you're "lazy" but the morning people can go home and be in bed at 8pm and they're virtuous and hardworking.

Our society has an implicit bias in favor of the morning people and against the evening people. And I think that amplifies a lot of the "people who need sleep" problems because it's not just needing sleep in general, your sleep patterns had better align to the prevailing social norm too. If you'd rather live 10-7 instead of 8-5... tough shit. And even remote jobs sometimes have meetings/etc that you can't avoid.

One of the interesting ideas about autism is the "night owl" tendency may have been socially desirable in the past... when your life is on the line, it's good to have someone who can reliably be awake all night and focus on small details that might signal danger. But now it's maladaptive since everything runs 8-5 and we are in considerably less danger of being eaten by predators.

(it is unnecessary to medicalize everything, even if it's just that some people prefer to work later, that should be enough. But there seems to be some basis to the connections between autism and sleep problems, something like 80% of asperger's diagnosees have comorbid sleep problems. That seems like the kind of link you really don't see that often or strongly.)
"I added the .active class to the div! What more do you want?!"
>As an adult, I eat no carbs, all meat and vegetables, I work from home and sleep in as far as I need every night. My thinking is laser sharp.

I need carbs to think.

If I do not have rice for 3-4 days, I can not do research work.
I can write code, or read papers, but new ideas or brainstorming others' ideas don't happen as naturally.

Could be a genetic thing, I guess.
> Want to disrupt any niche? Make really good software.

I really want you to be right.

I've found that high Quality tends to be fairly pricey. There's a reason a Mercedes costs three times as much as a Toyota, and the car doesn't seem to have many more features.

Incremental improvements in Quality can mean a great deal of extra time and detailing.
The big difference with this analogy being: the HOA is an active entity that can change the rules. If you take some GPL2 code and use it, the license doesnt change - if it's gplv2 or later and someone distributes it gplv3, it doesn't change for you, etc.
There's no such thing as an outage, there's just scheduled and unscheduled maintenance.
The parent comment was a little misleading. In the US there is a ton of sports available for every student to join. Really the only people who don't play sports are those who don't want to.
*rote

So this tool would never work, because what, are you going to repeat every follow up? See its not actually about "cheating" its about lying. Any person who would do this can't hack it and would rapidly be found out.

People who have memorized vast literature are probably good at programming. Pretending otherwise is cope.
Isn't this how we somehow (per|con)verted "likes computers" into STEAM? Everybody deserves to participate!
> In big companies like GitHub people don't typically choose their own video conference platform. It's picked for them.

Yes, for larger meetings that applies.

Realistically, people will ping each other and video call on slack/hangouts/whatever if they don't like company's choice.
> I think it might be worth partnering with someone who specializes in community building, then.

Curious if anyone has any concrete experience on what this step looks like / how thats done.

And for whatever it's worth I agree on some level that building the site is the easy part but I still remember when building a functioning well-designed web app seemed daunting / impossibly complex and it still is to most people. A beautiful working site like this is always an achievement.

[speaking to myself mostly] I think anyone that can build social platform alternatives like this should as often as possible to create a richer ecosystem less in danger of being dominated by abusive / destructive monopolies.

Were still in the car brand phase of social platform options when it seems like we could be at a artisan coffee roasters level.

I want to find my next social media app at a farmers market.
> I'm still getting LinkedIn recruiter spam daily.

As long as it hasn't intensified, I guess. If you start getting a lot more recruiter spam then you'll know that the jobs are few and far between. The easier it is for employers to hire the picker they'll be, which makes things much, much harder for recruiters to find a good fit and more pressure to be the person responsible for filling the position to keep their own job.
Great idea but you should include every field of Science
If they were just going to open it up to the clowns in this absolute hellscape of a for-profit gTLD third-party rent-seeking shitshow anyways, why not just let any domain at any 'TLD' be registered directly with ICANN instead of this waking nightmare where 'Donuts' owns '.hot'?

I mean I guess there's the beaucoup bucks ICANN gets with application and other fees?

But really, you could just say to a ICANN-accredited registrar 'hey, I want cool.beans' and if not taken by someone else, sure why not. Technically it would be possible, no? Just redirect anything not a TLD already to ICANN? We already have the URDP for disputes and it's not like above said clown show prevents someone from buying mygoogle.limo anyways
I remember by high school bus always picked me up before 7. I think my first class started a little before 8.
I don't endorse the GPs view in totality, but I don't think its necessary to have some secret cabal deciding things in order to have a discussion about the 'purpose' of complex social systems. taking just the example in the OP, parents need to go to work from 9 to 5 to feed their family, so they need their kids to be in school sooner than that so they can get them out the door, so they go to school board meetings and make sure that the start time stays early. No one shadowy is making this decision, its the result of a consistent failure to address the root causes and orient the system towards its intended purpose as part of a larger social system.

If I start living in my van to renovate my house, but I never call any contractors or work on it myself, how long is it before I just become a guy who lives in a van? In the same sense as the van, sets of institutions that aren't subject to constant maintenance and orientation towards their purpose evolve to fill whatever broken niche exists by way of stochastic individual action.
Also, critics of Toyota's offerings never understand the appeal of reliable and easy to fix cars to the masses, and how people value boring over unreliable, cost optimized "excitement"
HN has a search bar at the bottom of the page
And here was it used for in seriousness
https://inews.co.uk/news/labour-staff-deceived-corbyn-facebo...

Staff of the UKLabour party deceived the leader at the time by making very targetted facebook ads, so it would look to him like they were doing what the campaign as they were meant to be, while they were actually trying to undermine him.
I would love to recommend Matrix to friends, but the last time I looked, migration of chat history from other protocols was still in development. Has anything changed here, particularly wrt WhatsApp?
It’s interesting to read this. I grew up eating a pretty limited diet in retrospect. The seasoning was salt and black pepper mostly. The first time I tried Indian food I was about 30 years old. I’ll never forget it. My mouth exploded with the flavor and a glow spread over me. It’s not that it was spicy as in hot, it was simply remarkable. I’ve often thought since that I must have been missing some sort of basic nutrient in the food that my body was deprived of. It was a very strong feeling.
Way to shoot down an argument nobody was making. OP referred to safe, which Baltimore isn't, and yet kids take the public buses as the primary transit to and from school all over the city for the past several decades.
And yet the default reaction of the "rational" chattering class has been to defer to the government. Over and over, no many how many times they're lied to. Brilliant.
I think most schools have physical education, which is pretty much just mandatory exercises. After-school sports are more about culture and competition then exercise. Not everyone is competitive, and it could be really damaging for some kids to be forced into a competitive environment they don’t enjoy. It is much better to allow kids to choose whether they would rather participate in other non-competitive cultural activities after school (such as the theater, hacking, anime drawing, gardening, or whatever)
Don't Believe Robots Are Taking over Jobs: AI Will Open New Career Paths
I have two CSTs. One has the extra buttons. I used them for a command key under my palm. I don't use them anymore. Too many wires for too little bang.
Odd, most pre workouts supplements include caffeine.

I use a pre-workout from a very famous supplement brand which includes 175 mg of caffeine and I can definitely tell the difference. I can't tell how much of that is because of the caffeine, because it has more stuff like creatine and L-carnitine among other things, but I cant I feel like I last more doing this and I have more energy.
Are you a us citizen?

If not, you are almost certainly breaking the law and if you have a visa or green card, are almost certainly out of status.

Even if you are a US citizen, I suspect you are breaking Mexican law unless you have some sort of tech expat visa.
Hmm, GitHub has a gran total 2100 employees.

Even if they were paying 10$ per user, it's basically the salary of one non-lower level engineer to have cross-company communication they are already used to.
So eventually the caffeine breaks down, lets go of the receptors and all that adenosine that has been waiting and building up latches on and the drowsy feeling comes back – sometimes all at once.

So, the debt you owe the caffeine always eventually needs to be repaid, and the only real way to repay it is to sleep.

Since many people also have trouble falling asleep this seems like a win-win if you can the timing right.
Using Lua with C++
Yeah I stopped reading the title at "Google cautions..." Pretty much anything they have to say is in self-interest. I don't personally use GCP but maybe that's separate enough to use. Everything else is for ads/search biz.
A slightly related super annoying thing that's beginning to happen more and more often, is that after the booking is confirmed, the 'host' will send a link to a third party service that asks you to upload your passport/ID and enter other personal information, for them to perform a pre-screening of you, whether you're a pedophile, a well-behaving person in general, all under the pretence of making your stay easier and more comfortable for you.

After making a lot of fuss, they'll eventually waive the no free cancellation policy, but then I still have to go over the whole process of finding another place to stay.
>In these situations, your choice of software and how well it supports future features may as well be a dice roll.

It's definitely a judgement call, and that's where having the experience to make that call correctly can save a ton of headache down the road. Some times YJGWI (You Just Gotta Write It).
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See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is–ought_problem.

Few philosophers are moral absolutists (i.e. believe that “real unbiased morality” exists). There will be a continuous dispute about which morals to imbue our AI products with.
It wasn't just any ship but a patrol ship!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11736433/Nin...

imagine the world's most popular AI refusing to say anything critical of putin but not obama, or refusing to acknowledge transgenderism or something if you have difficulty understanding this
I see you enjoy Apple products, and I seem to remember you're older and you have more to teach me about the world but...

Wasn't Apple once the paragon for software quality? Didn't people flock to it when it was still incredibly expensive because it was objectively better made than the competition? I remember wishing my parents were richer and would buy me a Macintosh instead of having to use a PC.

A Ferrari costs more than a Toyota, but you have to decide if you want to make a car that sells a lot, or a premium car. Can't have both, but these days in software they're all making Ladas, and no one is shipping Mercedes, let alone a Ferrari.
Both parents work because prices adjust to demand.

That is, if both parents work, prices can rise because demand rises (remember demand is the desire to buy, but also the ability to pay). When prices rise, this puts an even greater pressure on single income families. ie: their single income has to be stretched father because they are competing with two income demand. This is economics 101.

While two incomes increases the spending abilities of the household relative to single income households, it comes with the additional instability of the household depending on both incomes (perhaps they purchase a larger home that requires both incomes to support) while exposing the household to the increased risk of either one of them being fired or laid off.

This is a well-studied phenomenon beyond the interpretation that "work is fulfilling."
Unfortunately the same patent troll sued twice. Mycroft's blog posts on the second suit:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200807211354/https://mycroft.a...

https://web.archive.org/web/20200516014621/https://mycroft.a...
>I honestly can't think of a single incidence of the patent system promoting innovation in the last 20 years.

Without patents pharmaceutical industry would be nearly impossible, i.e. it's very hard to come up with a compound but very easy to synthesize it as soon as it's known.
The issue is that while successful suicides are higher in boys, suicide attempts are higher in girls. Importantly, the whole "record levels in teen girls" is notable because unlike in boys where suicide attempts went up by ~4%, suicide attempts in girls (which are already ~2x higher) increased by an additional 50% in the last few years.

TLDR: Boys die from suicide much more often than girls but girls make attempts far more often and the rate at which they are doing so is only increasing.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm
I got out of academia, but I'd love to keep reading the new hot and influential papers to keep up with the research trends in the research communities I am interested in. So I like this idea!

However, there are so many junk papers that the paper title itself is rarely useful. Too much context is lacking: where was it published? How strong is the conference / journal? When was it published? How many citations so far? What sub-sub-sub-field is it in?
> With IPv6 support and adoption a whole network could be set up independent of any other authority besides BGP.

Private individuals have access to IPv4 blocks and maintain their own soverign networks. That fact doesn't change the reality that most people most of the time pay a network operator (ISP, Telecom) to operate their network. Network operators aren't going anywhere, and these network operators still maintain full control over how packets transit their network. In the case of WWAN networks, they will also know roughly where you are.

All IPv6 does is expand the address space and put the price of an address within reach of anyone... but it doesn't change the knowledge or hardware required to run your own network.
I made a list of calculators like this which were shared here on HN over time https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6546011091d53380354484a3... (there aren't many)

From these https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/ and https://notepadcalculator.com/ are the most programmer friendly (supporting <<, ^, binary, hex etc)
> Russia knows that any use of nuclear weapons is crossing a line, and that the regime is done if they do so.

Yeah well we thought that about the taking of Crimea in the first place, then we thought that about this invasion yet here we are.
Mine wore out on my Logitech G300s after using it for camera movement in Dota. I'm hesitant to buy another one now because I realize that the mouse wheel switches are probably not built with as long an intended lifespan as the main buttons.

I haven't found any other mouse that has this shape/size and button options, so I might just have to buy a few (in case they stop making them), assuming the middle mouse button will die again. But Roccat mouse in the OP looks close. I also should look into if the microswitches can be replaced or even upgraded.
War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition
Sounds very American, but here in Canada (and many other western countries) we have the same awful hours but without the same insane level of obsession with school sports as in the US. So I dunno, doesn't sound fully explanatory.
How are you able to build something like this while only paying engineers 50k/yr?

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lago/jobs
This really resonates with our observations.
I think it's a "business" problem first (pricing) indeed and a technical one (once you've decided on pricing).
Your insights are why're very bullish on "hybrid" pricings: usage subscriptions, fixed costs that can be overaged but with prepaid packages or prepaid credits. In that case, the end-user still gets the "we pay what we use", while there's predictability/peace of mind on the final bill (you can't exceed what you prepaid).
Debatable, and irrelevant in the case of AGI which would have both by definition.
Does the research bear that out?
Have you read the article text or just the headline? The article says the same thing you're saying (trill dropped the case) & cites legal costs already incurred by then as being a burden on mycroft.

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[Edit] Ok you've edited so my reply no longer makes sense, but one case or two there would be legal costs to mycroft regardless.
Twitter is showing everyone all of Elon’s tweets now
I think most Americans have their head in the sand when it comes to healthcare. I agree with you completely btw, as an American expat living abroad. It's so bloody obvious how the profit motive distorts all of US medicine when you are not living in that system anymore. Honestly, it's like something out of a corpo-capitalist dystopian film.

I wouldn't trust a US doctor or dentist (oh god, US dentists are probably the scummiest healthcare professionals on the planet) unless it's something very obvious.
Teams isn't as good for video as Zoom but it's much better then Slack or Google Chat's video; both of which I've used for work or personal.
I'd like to see the results from comparing coffee, tea, a caffeine-free herbal tea, water, a break without any substance, a break at your workspace vs a break at a breakroom some distance away, sitting while drinking vs standing while drinking, sun vs indoors, conversation vs silence, and so on.
I'm aware of history of DX12. It started as a clone of Mantle, which they made with full knowledge that Vulkan is going to be a thing. No one stopped them from collaborating on Vulkan instead which originated in Mantle the same way. I see no excuse here but the classic NIH / lock-in push.

For the reference: https://twitter.com/renderpipeline/status/581086347450007553
Other cool #aiart things:

- "MusicLM: Generating music from text" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34543748

- /? awesome Generative AI site:GitHub.com
https://www.google.com/search?q=awesome+generative+ai+site%3...

- #GenerativeArt #GenerativeMusic

- BespokeSynth DAW: https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth :

> [...] live-patchable environment, so you can build while the music is playing; VST, VST3, LV2 hosting;
Python livecoding; MIDI, [...]
i've come across any number of consultants who simply conspire with management to get what management wants in the short-term, usually to the ultimate detriment of the project.

mind you, i've been a consultant myself. not my favourite job, but i like to think i was honest.
It's not that... it's parents' start times at work.

A lot of places have very rigid work schedules and schools need to account for a certain percentage of parents dropping kids off and then driving to school.

Kids are sacrificed because, surprise-surprise, they have no real say in the matter.
I thought fine-tuning allows you do "inject the prompt" only once. https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning

Ah, the rub is that a fine-tuned Davinci costs 6x a standard Davinci. Interesting. https://openai.com/api/pricing/