skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, a tool that aids the collaborative design of workflows through user interfaces will be useful for a lot of teams.
It only spots labellers that are not in the middle of the curve of those who you employ. My point was, if factors like salary affect labelling quality, how do you steer that? You don’t know whether if you’d pay double, you’d get much better fact-checkers, for example.
Read the full change list on Reddit, it is not small.
In practice (I.e. actual practice that pays my rent) it's been good enough for me
Paying your competition not to compete, if only we had a government entity focused on limiting anticompetitive behavior.
It doesnt have any kind of internal representation of the world?
“you need to really provide a lot of value to get someone to open their wallet.”

I think it’s more about asking for money.
i haven't actually seen that approach work. If you got an examples, I'd love to see it.
> suffering from web programmers

Agree 110% !

If you said I could only name one use-case for Go, it would be "web stuff".

Go is practically made for it. Whether you are consuming or serving "web stuff", the Go stdlib covers 99.999% of "web stuff" use-cases.

Rust doesn't have ANY stdlib, let alone a "web stuff" friendly stdlib. Which means you have to choose between :

(a) Re-inventing the wheel, yet again; or
(b) Choosing between a dozen crates for this that and everything else.

Meanwhile Go comes batteries-included with http, crypto, json and all the other "web stuff" that you'll likely ever need.
>> What am I getting for my money?
>> you need to really provide a lot of value to get someone to open their wallet

Tool like babel provides a ton of obvious value, but they need a good business model to capture it.
Ah - thank you. "True sharing" makes way more sense to describe the situation. The general problem with locks I've seen again and again - and maybe CAS doesn't improve it, but I thought it did. It is challenging to profile this stuff carefully. I've been disappointed many times by my attempts at multithreaded programming when locks are involved. I've implemented a multithreaded Common Lisp programming environment (https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp.git) that interoperates with C++. Two locks that cause me massive headaches are (1) in the unwinder when we do a lot of stack unwinding in multiple threads and (2) in the memory manager when we do a lot of memory allocation in multiple threads. Parallel code runs multiple times slower than serial code. In another situation where we do parallel non-linear optimization without allocating memory, we can get 20 CPU working in parallel with no problems.
I think that would work for US nationals, for example, but I'm pretty sure they don't accept people with a Portuguese passport.
I don't think there is a wide spread usage of 2FA on twitter to begin with. I doubt that the people do it by default anyway in any country. So it is not like they are forced out of twitter (yet, at least) but lets be honest, most of twitter usage is via smart phones and people who accustom themselves without computer can use 2FA app on computer. It is not like they are out of options, that is of course assuming that 2FA is in their mind.

> These people are also unlikely to be able to pay for 2FA sms

I don't think most people anywhere are going to pay for 2FA SMS.

> but it will stunt his growth potential

Elon is clear that he cares about revenue now not growth specifically in a markets without much potential in near-time profits. So this will make more sense for him to do
Title is still accurate, the tool is for password protecting a static HTML page. The page starts out as a static HTML page. Then this tool generates something that has password protected it.
Please don’t do this… There’s plugins for working effectively with lisps. You probably just need the rainbow parens or better contextual highlighting.
Using the term "female" to describe a woman can be perceived as reductive and dehumanizing because it reduces her to a biological category. By using the term "woman," the focus is shifted from her biological characteristics to her identity as a person, which is a more respectful and accurate way of addressing her.

Worth noting is that there is no equivalent term to "female" when referring to men, who are almost always referred to as "men." This is because there is an underlying cultural assumption that men are the default and women are the exception. While the use of the word "female" to describe a woman is not inherently wrong, using the term "woman" is more accurate and respectful, and nobody would use the term "male" to describe a man in the same way.
What’s it like to take a $249 drug-free psychedelic trip?
Look at stuff like TeamTrees. People buy a service which they think is positive to the world.
The cost of supporting Babel (and other open source products in general) is more an administrative and political cost than a financial one in a lot of places.
Undermentioned macOS feature: right click an image in Finder, Quick Actions > Convert Image. Lets you change formats, resize, and strip metadata from images, and supports bulk operations too.
I was thinking of editing my comment to add "Or be able to support filetypes other than HTML", but I suppose in our glorious "everything is the browser" future, filetypes other than HTML are as anachronistic as 8" floppy disks.

Sigh.
>Remember that decade where Firefox shed market share to Chrome for being too "slow" and "bloated"?

The only part I remember where Firefox was notably slower was videos when Google led Firefox for a ring around the rosie when they singlehandedly decided to use a proprietary codec for their youtube videoplayer after first making everyone believe they were working on using a different one which FF started working on supporting. I can't count the amount of complaints i heard of firefox being slow there.
I had a good laugh when one of my previous employers tried to solve that with an Outlook plugin. You know what that plugin did? It scheduled half-hour meetings to be 25 minutes long, and 1h meetings to be 50 minutes long. It was actually advertised as a "feature": "Never be late for your next meeting" :)
I get that this is one frame for how one uses money:

> What am I getting for my money?

But it's not the only frame, and I think it's vastly overapplied.

Between various online newspapers, magazines and Patreon-supported writers and whatnot, I spend probably $2k/year. What do I get out of it personally? Very little. But the world gets quite a lot out of good journalism, and I'd say the world needs a lot more of it.

I get that fundamentalist capitalism wishes to squeeze everything into the mold of dollar-denominated quid-pro-quo exchanges. It's certainly a useful frame on many occasions, but it's ultimately a bit me-me-me for my tastes. I have no opinion on this particular project, but in general I think we should find a way to support things that are useful to lots of people, because otherwise those things tend to go away.
I agree that this should be an offense to everyone no matter where you stand on politics. You are right, it is just wrong.
My job is to teach them ways to work and manage their workloads and projects (as well as the skillsets of the trade). They are wasting their own time and mine by taking that tactic.

So yes, if they are clearly trying to shirk ownership of their projects and tasks and pass the buck that is on them.

Project deliverables are just one component of my job. Fostering skillsets and career progression are others.

If someone wants to try and be clever by purposefully being obtuse and shirking responsibility, that is 100% on them. I grant them the freedom of manuervability and decision making to not do that. They are in charge of their own destiny in that way.

And to be clear I have only had maybe 1-2 people that really brought that to their finish line. Most times as soon as we have some type of talk and communication opens of what I’m trying to do and why, it works out.

I get that this place is very anti-management. But the reality is in most orgs you do need some level of hierarchy and leadership.
It's also worth noting that the founder of Rome left the Babel project a long time ago and was not involved in this 2021 fundraising post.
related question - I learned on a long bed Logan toolroom lathe. cant _really_ cut threads on that guy because of all the slop, but I often do a prepass to get things started before I use a die.

I've really been interested in getting a jewelers lathe with a goal of making smaller parts and particularly screws. but it looks very expensive and intimidating. many thousands of dollars for a few pounds of 100 year old steel with a lot of very fussy and foreign looking tooling. I really love to fix things up and learn, but would love some advice about how to start.

anyone have a suggestion?
If it's not worth it, why are sellers using Amazon and not, say, Shopify?
Sounds like a leading question which is supposed to debunk that whole category by suggesting one counter-example. So no.
How do you think TeamTrees raises funds?
Information processing is the wrong level to place consciousness at. Consciousness is impossible without acting and without a world to act in. Acting creates data from which we train our brains.

It is related to the agent-environment system. The internal part is information processing, but the external part is the environment itself. Consciousness does not appear without an environment because it does not form a complete feedback loop. The brain (and AI) is built from sensorial data from the environment, and that makes consciousness a resultant of this data, and this data needs the full perception-planning-acting-feedback loop to appear in the first place.
I wish I could just visit about:tabs and see a plain text listing, one URL per line, of all the tabs I have open.

No esoteric attack vectors, no major new features or integrations, just a quick and easy way for any user regardless of technical ability to dump their tabs before they update firefox or reboot their system ...

... since everyone has been burned by a FF restart that, for unknown reasons, fails to restore tabs even when configured properly to do so.

As it stands, you need to dig several directories deep into /Library (or whatever, depending on your OS) and then use JSON tools to export ... I've already lost most people.

FWIW, rsync.net has an outstanding $1500 bounty for this feature[1]. Consider this an inflation adjusted bump to $2500.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24524923
Ask HN: Interested in Creating a Series of Analysis Videos on Startups
I'm interested in creating a series of snapshot analysis videos on small startups either leveraging A.I. API's such as OpenAI's Davinci, or various AWS/Azure/Google Cloud tools, or startups that have created their own transformer/ML tech and running it straight on the cloud. That being said, I am not sure how to make this interesting or engaging, e.g. entertaining through the YouTube/Video medium.

I really would like to go through and analyze about 25 startups, in video form, I'm going to do it whether I can actually make the videos interesting or not...but, I would love anyone's thoughts on how I can actually improve these videos and make them interesting.

Here's my pilot episode. I have no affiliation with the startup analyzed, Eightify, I just found them on HN and thought it was interesting:

https://youtu.be/1t94qkviuZg

One thing I definitely plan on doing is making future videos between 5-10 minutes long rather than 15.

Please ping me if you know of another startup/small AI/ML company which you would like analyzed. I will not do promotion and need to stay distant from whatever startup video I create, so please provide a link and no other info (otherwise I won't do a video on whatever you send). We can always talk after I create a video on that topic if you would like, but I would like these to all be as, "blind" as possible.

Thank you all in advance.
you might find this worth checking out:

https://www.amazon.com/Master-His-Emissary-Divided-Western/d...

he had to address this issue in the preface. The topic became a research career-ender after getting picked up by pop culture, but we do have solid science on hemispheric differences. The pop culture picture is, indeed, pretty wrong.

It turns out that functions don't lateralize that strongly; they both tend to have the same capabilities, but operate differently.
Why everyone is talking about Refik Anadol’s AI-generated ‘living paintings’
BroTab exposes a python library for doing same in Firefox
Can we trust search engines with generative AI?
Marginal benefit of manual memory management for the extra effort to write rust code is not worth it for a lot of use cases. Who wants to think about lifetimes and not business logic when writing a web service.

Vast majority of programmers are likely to be users/customers or software written in rust rather than users of the language itself.
Does Amazon have a monopoly on the market, then? Because if not, I don't see your point
Feels like you’ll need to be leveraging something like container queries in order to make smaller components responsive.
"The march toward perfect alienation and exploitation will make any job unthinkable at any pay rate." [1]

[1] https://kemendo.com/Myth.pdf
I'm currently in the middle of creating a user-contributed site that I think will benefit from "schemas" (or just organization / "cleanliness" in general)... as a COMPLETE beginner who's very concerned about this issue (I really don't want my data to turn into a mess)...

1. what resources would you recommend?

2. Is there a "gold standard"?

Article already mentioned some great terms to look up and explore.
This is Lisp, it’s definitely the Good Place (TM).
We've changed the URL from https://adguard.com/en/blog/firefox-manifestv3-chrome-adbloc... to the older blog post suggested by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850531 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850753.

Does that help?

Edit, ok we'll revert it. Sorry all!
> magically declare that all employees are 2.37x more productive now

If this is not true, other companies will include WFH in their offers and will kill two rabbits with one shot: win best talents and will make them more productive.
> the mechanism behind the underrepresentation and behind the 2:1 hiring advantage is the same.

That turns out not to be the case.

> Which group will have more qualified candidates?

The candidates were equally qualified.
This is because Portland's homeless (like SF and Seattle), are not like Houston or NYCs homeless. They are much happier being homeless than housed, on meth instead of opiates (like the rest of the US), and generally reject the system and have no interest in being a part of it.

Baltimore was just able to significantly reduce their homeless population by giving them housing. Portland needs the Portuguese "rehab or jail" mentality. What they're doing now is NOT working.
As I remember it, the balance of the bytes in the AES block are used for the counter. At any rate, the convention is essentially universal.
I usually prefer to write more readable code, and then optimize later if necessary. If the short circuit becomes critical for performance then I would leave a comment, or as the parent suggests just order it with an early return.
The “corporate profiteering” thesis is so blatantly motivated that it shocks me that this is treated as a serious hypothesis.

In what world is the massive, multiple waves of stimulus just completely unrelated but instead it’s those greedy corporations who are for some reason no longer bound by price competition.
Sure, simplicity is great. At the same time, the comment was about parenting and how, once you have a couple extra mouths to feed at your table, experience shows, that ones life tends to become more occupied and thus busier. This is care work, not that bullshit busy work you are talking about. There is a difference.
> babel is used by many many corporate entities, an e.g. $5/month payment would not stop them from using it, IF that payment was trivial to make

But for a corporation undertaking the obligation to pay any amount of money is not trivial to do. Someone inside has to justify the expense, probably write a document about it, depending on the corporation all kind of hoops need to be jumped, decision makers convinced, checks and gates passed.

It is probably not meaningfully harder to do all of these for a $50k yearly licence than for $5 monthly licence.
Ok, we've switched to that URL from https://adguard.com/en/blog/firefox-manifestv3-chrome-adbloc.... Thanks!

I guess we'll keep that article's title though (in de-baited form) because "Manifest v3 signing available November 21 on Firefox Nightly" would trigger weird responses.

Edit: nope, reverted. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34851017.
See also "Software Below Poverty Line" from 2019: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
Take one shot if you thought this was going to be about .htaccess and a second if you’re confused why it wasn’t.
This is an interesting article, but I was distracted by the Byzantine ways people write “millions of dollars.” I’ve seen “MM” before, and now “mn”.

Perhaps I’m the only one who is fond of standard prefixes and uses “M$” for millions of dollars.
"I would expect..." ≠ "It actually has to be this way"
> This is the logic I personally used in deciding not to use D.

Good call - I was unfortunate enough that I had to use it professionally for a few years. As comic book guy in the Simpsons would say "Worst language ever!".
If human experimentation was that more useful, wouldn’t a lot more scientific results be available from countries with more lax laws against it?
I think he is asking for list, not general statement like this.

I have a child which likes Dahl's books, tell me names of these amazing authors on par with him.
6to5…err, I mean Babel, Already accomplished it’s mission to bridge the feature gap between older browser implementations. And like all bureaucratic melanomas, the maintainers made a strange decision to not only expand their domain to ES7, but to ALL FUTURE VERSIONS OF JAVASCRIPT FOREVER.

Babel became Webpackified and splintered into poorly understood preset bundles of the latest revelations of the TC39. A fractal of API documentation could then be written and rewritten again for the next mission: Newer is better. Modularize everything. Maintenance is a virtue.

I’m guessing that the brain trust at Babel HQ saw how the left-pad situation panned out and something clicked — we could turn our discrete task into an indefinitely lucrative operation as a rent seeking dependency for everyone. Every week could be infrastructure week so long as JavaScript kept adding features.

But what their hubris didn’t factor in was a petard hoisting much higher on the food chain — the Chromification of the web. Now that everyone who’s anyone is building a browser on the same engine, there’s no need for a second cabal of feature creatures to get a cut of the action.

It’s the same reason Firefox’s Wikipedia page has to be disambiguated with the term “cuckhold”; the same reason core-js can’t ask for a dime without macro fiscal policy being invoked by armchair techno economists. Why are you running out of money? Simple — We already paid for it!

These projects have transmuted one kind of technical debt into another, and the sooner they’re gone, the better we’ll all be in their absence. I would pray for a cosmic force to come and topple Babel back to earth, but the irony would be lost on them.
It is sometimes referred to as the rush hour of life.
you can not have both competition in the browser market, and every browser being the exact same all the time...

I prefer less monopoly and more competition
> I wish she would react with more curiosity about it

Here's (the two biggest parts of) the firehose. Have a long drink. React with curiosity to all of them:

https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/recent

https://arxiv.org/list/gr-qc/recent

> I wish she would ... actually dig into it a little!

You don't have to just wish.

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/p/talk-to-physicist_27.htm...
Replacing evaluative concepts with sterilized descriptive ones is Newspeak 101.
Durability is also overrated.

Jokes aside, I’ve been responsible for a system that processed ~1 billion monetary transactions per day. Even with a fanatical focus on consistency and correctness it was still always off. With the philosophy promoted on the OP the chaos would have been complete… is my gut feeling at least.
They didn't have to raise funds. The creation of the project was subsidized by existing businesses and it offers a service that lets people have trees get planted.
I have been waiting what feels like 10 years for a toolkit like this. Just signed up and will dig in more, but initially this is solving a lot of problems for me as an entrepreneur. I manage the product and set the direction, but I don’t touch the actual backend code. Everything else though (design, website, marketing, sales, creative direction, product) falls to me. I think a lot of folks are in this position.

-keeping design consistent from wireframe to mock-up to finished product is a challenge. Esp with small, bootstrapped teams without a dedicated design person (let alone department) consistent, professional design is a challenge. This will allow me to mock-up exactly what I want and pass it off to dev in one process.

-I use figma, balsamiq, photoshop and have tried probably every other wire framing tool out there. None of them actually solve this problem because they can’t generate the actual code. That is a crucial part.

-This bridges the gap between having a designer create a design system and deliver mood boards, fonts etc. and actually putting those things into practice technically and consistently. Getting a design made isn’t the problem, there are a million designers out there - actually using it consistently in a way that’s practical is another challenge entirely.

Thanks for this product, can’t wait to actually use it more.
Exactly. You wouldn't do "obvious fraud" with this setup: you would do "things that aren't obvious but a couple good researchers could prove". You don't even need to scare everyone out of the security, just do enough to make a few big players go "ooh, I didn't know _that_".
It’s actually probably easier to get $20k approved annually than $5k. The bigger number implies skin in the game at all steps in the process and has an air of legitimacy.
In an interesting sense, this is because of Apple.

It used to be simple. You set up an online store; you put some ads on Instagram and Google; you earn back what you paid for the ads quickly. With each additional sale, targeting of customers gets easier, and cheaper.

Apple dropped their privacy changes. Don't get the idea that they had good intentions and are protecting the user- they've got an ad product on the way and just wanted to raise prices across the market.

So now in order to get those first sales, you need to put your ad in front of a lot more people because you can't tell which ones will be interested. That raises the cost of acquisition for your customer base, often beyond what's economically viable.

So who wins? Amazon, because they own a massive customer base and if you pay them enough, they'll put your product in front of customers. They have market power and they happily take advantage of it.
Opening Up My Highlights/Notes Garden
I don't know JS at all, I just found it funny that in my modern Chrome browser the example automated conversion just output exactly the same JS as was input.