skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been on one night train (Moscow to St Petersberg) and, for the experience, I greatly enjoyed it. Was it the most comfortable? Naw. The bed was too short, too hard, and it was far too hot and stuffy in the cabin. But I'm glad I did it.
…and BigTech™ continues to DOS itself out of existence, fine by me!
Aren't some of the newer TLDN's pretty good alternatives, such as ".shop", ".store", ".social", ".insurance", ".save", ".software", ".search", ".game", ".travel" etc?
I am sitting at a Google desk and there are 5/6 people not here in the desks in my vicinity. I would prefer fewer desks and to actually get to sit next to people rather than being scattered among a sea of mostly empty desks due to people WFH.
Show HN: PNGR Stack – Postgres/Nginx/Golang/React in Docker-compose, hot-reload
I originally shared this here [a couple of years ago](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612106) - since then I've upstreamed a bunch of improvements that I've made to various forks I have running in the wild. It's substantially different from the version I originally shared, at this point.

Some highlights for dev ergonomics:
- Unejected create-react-app w/ typescript for the front-end
- Themeable semantic-ui component library tied into the hot-reload loop
- json-web-token based user sessions, including middleware with token refresh
- sql bindings via sqlc (autogenerates db mocks, too, all hot-reload)
- server-side rendering with a sidecar container (prerender)
- stubbed out backend "worker" container for async tasks
- pre-baked database migration pattern

This has been a really productive (and performant!) starter project for me - hopefully it's useful to others.
I might be misinterpreting the question, but the way to buy an expensive domain is to go through a broker.

We bought it outright (sent money to escrow), but a lot of people will do rent-to-own. For example, we would have paid $10k/mo for it, and then when we hit $170k it would be ours. But in the meantime, if we missed a payment, the rights would revert back to the original owner.
In rural America, right-to-repair laws leading against growing corporate power
good choice - you definitely don't want to be caught without a chair when the music stops.

Whether one likes musk or not, and whether or not you agree with how he is running twitter or not - he let go like 80% of the company and it is still more or less running (with some bumps) - I don't think other companies will go to quite that extreme, but I'd bank that some executives right now in some companies are asking themselves "can we at least cut 33% of the staff and still keep things (more or less) running"?
Mastodon Postmortem
Another problem with multiplayer is that if you don't cheat but play well, people who lose to you can be so whiny and abusive. Not jut in game, but following up with nasty emails on the platform etc.
> "The general hypothesis of the project is: Consciousness, or something resembling consciousness, emerges not from the capability of a single task model like GPT or Stable Diffusion, but from the oscillations between the inputs and outputs of different instances of different models performing different tasks."

This is the underlying theory of classical liberal education, stemming back thousands of years.

We learn different ways of thinking, different lens through which we view the world, and we can apply those lens as needed to solve different problems.

Indeed when conversing with someone who has over-indexed on just one type of learning, we take notice, we say that person's worldview is limited. (For example, an engineer trying to sell a new product, but who doesn't understand that people aren't willing to toss away all their old skills for what is an incremental improvement in workflow, they should take a few courses in psychology! :) )

Take any famous work of architecture. An engineer can appreciate it for the eloquence of its construction, an artist can appreciate its beauty, the shapes, the shading, colors, textures. A historian can appreciate how it incorporates elements of the region's history and cultures.

Someone trained in all three (as anyone who graduated from a good university should have been, to at least some extent) will be to switch between modalities of thought at will, and also integrate those modalities together, and thus hopefully, derive more pleasure from their experiences of the world.

Of course AIs will need to have multiple models!
Only if you choose to do so, otherwise, no.
> not to say that they're at all badly built

It's okay to be honest. Are modern TPs better built than Walmart laptops? Of course. But do they live up to the price tag and legendary Thinkpad name? No. Not at all. While modern TPs have dipped significantly in quality other manufacturers have been catching up.

Some of my issues with T14 Gen 1

1. Cheap daughter boards for USB c ports that hilariously die every few months, on a laptop that only offers USB c charging...

2. Keyboard is trash. I'd rather use the keyboard on my Acer Nitro. High actuation tires out my fingers.

3. Terrible trackpad. Absolutely terrible. Not just the texture but the firmware, it works fine for one second then all of a sudden, it's this laggy, unresponsive mess.

4. Cooling is terrible and laptop throttles constantly.

5. Build quality is terrible for a TP. Screen started peeling off when I dropped it once, the chassis screws are easily stripped, extremely thing plastic gets chipped, random components die and aren't easily replaceable like past TPs.

6. It's just buggy. Function key lights are incorrect randomly, when I plug in my mouse, the trackpad gets like 1-2 second input delay.

On the flip side I've been using business Latitudes and Elite books at work which aren't great but still work better than this TP.
smtp.gmail.com:587 is still STARTTLS.
The more that someone posts about their single bad experience, the more bad experiences people will remember, since they likely won't remember if it's the same person posting about the same experience multiple times.

Although admittedly, in this case it looks like their previous post was just a comment somewhere, not a full Tell HN post like this one. So I wouldn't get too bent out of shape over this case.
Yeah I guess I understood that, but working in Django myself I don’t quite get the point of it. Is it some older lighter version of Django and what for? I think this was more my point.
I would suggest that 'the medical world' has fringes like that you describe but that the overwhelming, vast majority would take a significantly more nuanced view.

Honestly even that description is massively underselling how much more comprehensive the ethical views of 100% of the medical profession has here. The fringes like that are a tiny rounding error.
Unfortunately no, but I'm going to make it work on wayland too at some point
Sure. Context matters here. The person I was responding to, gave literally none outside a few snippets of the parent.

The context I was following down from the top was (mainly) "obvious parody".
I guess they think it’s a step too far for now and people would rebel. That’s probably coming next like in a year or two.
The problem I have with shared desks is that morning people get the best places close to windows and away from traffic and noisy corners, night owls are at a disadvantage. Also quite often shared hardware is in a sad state (keyboards with broken legs, mice with slippery wheels from people working with greasy fingers, etc.)
In a word, yes! Here's some links for you. Maybe there's schools around where you live that have a more student centric way of teaching. Smalls schools may fare better than larger ones etc. I find that talking a lot about things that happen with friends etc help, why are people so wierd and so on. Like you said yourself, it wasn't until you read it in a book..

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_arousal_approach
+ https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ABo+Hejlskov+...
This combined with mandatory in-office days seems insane. Are they still insisting on the latter?
That post said, in 2015:

> 100% of the top 20 YC companies by valuation have the .com of their name. 94% of the top 50 do. But only 66% of companies in the current batch have the .com of their name. Which suggests there are lessons ahead for most of the rest, one way or another.

Compared to the article:

> Today, only 42% of Y Combinator startups in the winter 2023 batch use a .com domain, while only 40% of the most popular Product Hunt startups used a .com in 2022.

which supports the assertions in the article. It's still true that there are only 3 YC companies in the top 50 that don't have a .com, so maybe the lesson is "just plan to buy the .com later"!
Internally Google might be just fine, but optics are equally important in this industry. Before Sundar took over Google never went through bad PR. It's just an observation, not a dig at Google's affairs.
Nice idea, I really like it.
1200 miles, but takes 3 days to fully charge.
> it seems like they truly care about their community

I continue to get good vibes from so much of what Valve does. It might just be good PR work from them but it seems like it goes beyond that.

- They maintain an online service which is used by millions, if not billions, of people around the world. They actually(!!) provide customer support for this service.

- They sell computer hardware, admittedly for the primary purpose of using the aforementioned service. I've never heard about any serious complaints about this hardware that are left ignored (this might exist but I haven't heard of it).

- They develop an online multiplayer game with community support. I almost never hear bad things about how this community is managed from members of the community. I guess this is the most likely to be just "good PR" but again, I don't tend to see these issues escaping community discussion as I would expect for hot-button topics.
Thanks for this. I won't be using PayPal ever again but hopefully it can help someone in need.
They do, and in fact, the federal government even has a special exception for patents. They (think: the NSA) can file a patent, and if the public files a similar enough patent, then the older, government one is revealed.
How quickly the tide turns in our industry..from massages at your desk to sitting on each other's laps. Hey they could perhaps still continue the massage to each other though.
Your voice is indeed a form of authentication to other people that know you. How long until it becomes a valuable token which needs to be protected?

I can see various forms of 'man in the middle' attacks taking place with selective conversational interposing allowing an attacker to inject false data into a live conversation between two parties.

Imagine a simple example using caller ID spoofing: Attacker calls two parties and uses stolen voices to establish a reason for the call(as both people will know they did not instigate the conversation, both will need to be convinced that the other party did). Now the conversation is started and has context. Now the attacker can steer the conversation to various topics and selectively invert various factual exchanges or negotiations. Afterwards, both parties will be left with a valid memory of the interaction and, unless they confer on who instigated the call, may have little reason to suspect that sections of the exchange were manipulated.
In addition to the price issue folks have mentioned, I also think it's less important to have a .com if your product isn't consumer end-user focused. E.g. if you're selling to developers or other businesses things like .io or .ai are fine. My guess is that .com is still important if you are selling something direct to consumer.
National Labs usually patent tech like this. Sometimes they open-source, usually at the discretion of the researcher and funding entity. If patented, they either:

1. Commercially license to one or more corporate entities

2. Spin up a start up and license it themselves
Why did other religions deem it immoral to charge interest?
Take a commonly held opinion. Something that all the smart people hold to be true.

Frame it wisely and wittily enough for fast food. Feed it back to those smart people.

That's Terry.
I don't see why "migration, driven by economic opportunities" is a bad thing. Socioeconomic mobility is tied heavily to where you live (proximity to economic centers). I doubt all or even most of the new residents are tech workers. Plenty of working class people come from all around the country move to California or New York. I think the failure to build housing not only disenfranchises those people but also lower / middle income families already living in the area.

I find it odd how people can be pro-immigration and anti-migration. Keeping people out of your community is similar to keeping people out of your country.
Even if California adds housing, how can it possibly add enough water, roads, schools, parks, etc? It's just trading one crisis for another.

The coastal regions are already over-crowded at current prices. The overall cost is just too high. It's wasteful compared to building in other regions. And, it's unnecessary because so much of modern work can be done remotely.

Instead of allowing 80% of housing at market rate to subsidize 20% low-income housing in an unsustainable growth pattern, California should mandate that large employers offer at least 20% of their office employees the opportunity to work remotely. Creating an escape valve for local demand would slow the growth of housing costs without adding new infrastructure requirements.
They tried very hard to stop it. Eventually the lead developer of the WarForge (emulated server) effort was approached with a job offer from Blizzard.

One thing about Blizzard is they’re extremely litigious wrt to piracy and emulated servers. See WoW, etc..
Pretty sure all 4 and 5 letter .com domains have been taken since at least a decade.
"our company is called Iwei, and you can reach us at Lwei dot com"
For anyone else curious, NMC is probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_nickel_manganese_cobal...

> Lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxides (abbreviated Li-NMC, LNMC, or NMC) are mixed metal oxides of lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt. They have the general formula LiNixMnyCozO2. ... NMCs are among the most important storage materials for lithium ions in lithium ion batteries. They are used on the positive side, which acts as the cathode during discharge.
Well, that could be justified as maintaining the health of the employees by forcing one of two to stand up at any time.
> I imagine it is a tiny fraction of the people getting laid off that go that route - imo, most are out applying for jobs.

Speaking for myself; I'm doing both. I applied for a job, and I am also working on my own company on the side. I have some run way, and could have gone all in on my company, but this is a terrible time to be seeking investment as a founder, and it probably will get worse. What I like: job stability, and having "free"[1] time to work on slow-growth projects. I fully expect things to get worse before they get better, so the route to profitability for ambitious new startups may be tricky.

1. It's amazing how much additional time you get back when you switch from a high-pressure FAANG job to something more normal
Google Maps seems to think there's a change of trains.
The issue of running down the CMOS battery is well documented, and I believe there are hardware-level alterations in their second revision that avoid it, both from Intel and from Framework altering their internals so the main battery can keep the CMOS battery charged.

My understanding of that problem is that it's not fatal or permanent: it's a "remove the battery and clear the CMOS" kind of situation that's required to get things working again. A case where it was really permanently unable to charge or operate and was within the warranty period, I don't know how a replacement/refund would be avoidable in that case.
Indian English has lots of loanwords from Indian languages in it. That's the biggest difference I'm referring to. Try reading any Indian finance news without knowing what lakh, crore, and lakh crore mean, for example.
Fair point. That the company is still run by the guy who was sufficiently motivated to create a tool for that purpose initially explains a lot.
This sounds like an easy way to keep the players in sync.
That is important if you have multiple players nearby each other on the same corridor.
I'd like to see a total conversion rate once all fees are taken into account - I bet it's not actually that competitive when all is said and done.

Also, you're exposing yourself to a non zero risk of whatever exchanges you're using at the time to process your transaction/withdrawal go bust.
> In Europe, where tips are not customary, attitude from service workers is much worse than US.

There are cultural differences between the US and Europe, also concerning how service workers interact with and towards those they provide service.

Thus, Europeans and USA'ians could observe the same set of behaviours from EU/US service workers, and both would praise "their" worker and be appalled by the "other" worker's behaviour.
I love Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice" on this topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Ice_%28poem%29
Stripe, bank transfers or Wise.com should all be pretty good options.
SMS to Slack is not solving the providence problem of who triggered the 2FA flow (hasn't been an issue with customers), and it solves a problem for money - correct.
I guess I had already figured that Google switched to hotel-style desks when covid started.
This seems great. I do not have a clue as to what are the best ways to get a modern Python GUI app running, but I can absolutely slam together a Django application to make a web form. Hugely lower barrier to entry than trying to tackle Electron.

Is it efficient or web scale? Probably not, but I will definitely consider this rather than say Gooey.
I just use Paypal as a proxy to a checking account. No funds are actually stored there.
New York City’s Largest Office-to-Condo Conversion Prepares to Open
On AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities
100% agree. I thought open plan was bad, then the norm became open plan hotdesking (no permanency). Such a morale killer.
> But most people don't have time for that.

But again, if the best economical system of the galaxy in the richest country of the universe can't guarantee basic things such as feeding yourself properly I'd say you have quite a big problem

When do we start acting ? 50% obesity ? 75% ? It's already the top 1 cause of death (cardiovascular disease). What does it say about our society ? Looking at it from the outside makes it look like sabotage if not suicide, very few people profit from it, and in the long run everybody loses
eBay must be run by Reddit mods
And very few of them will ever serve anything useful.
The process of transacting physical items has many opportunities for fraud that isn't addressed even by perfect authentication in any way. This is where eBay's tough problems arise.
Really cool and super neat! Well done OP!
https://archive.md/KsZJL
Ohw hellow thayre! It’s a pretty good show indeed.
Words can't adequately describe how much I love my X2100
> Generally if you have good skills people will want to network with you, unless you're anti-social or have some other personality issues.

Not really. In my experience that is the exception rather than the rule. Especially because most people will have no way to know you have good skills if they don't already know you.
CLSQL, most graphics toolkits or lisp-stat.
In addition to what you said, after the rated cycles most Lithium batteries still work and can still hold 70~80% of their original capacity.
Haha, for typical use with Synchron’s device they are using eye-tracking. The BCI-only mode is just for research purposes/baseline. It’s also just what’s in the paper, they may implement other UIs in practice.
You're looking at such a short time frame, that it's not a surprise that this all seems like a new phenomenon to you.

Lets jump back to 90 years ago to Europe. Do you think the lead up to world war two was caused by a lack of critical thinking? Do you think if I sent you back to 1920 so you could howl into the wind about critical thinking if you believe you'd have made one iota of difference to the devastation that occurred?

I would like you to give me a power, that is to make critical thinking an uninterruptable process in your mind, and also have the ability to spam the shit out of you with things that you should probably be thinking critically about anyway. You would be a wreck in days. The number of things you take for granted about the world around you, things society and the social contract take care of silently and with little notice would now be things you have to think about. You would have to back process that entire queue of completely dumb shit we don't think critically about but likely should. You wouldn't get anything else done.

Instead you, me, and Mr McGhee push those things out of our mind because we have work do to, relationships to work on, food to eat, stress to relieve, new things to learn, etc. Humans require a lot of time doing a lot of illogical human crap to remain sane, and not set around being machines.
> accounts for emerging technologies and industries

Wouldn't it be very hard to do so? They are emerging: how can anyone know what the true impact will be?

One of the things that struck me while reading the report is that metro areas that are growing rapidly right now are locking in their choices for the next 50 years - for better or for worse. But, given the way that most places are growing, I'd say most for the worse.

This report calls out Boise and Nashville as fast-growing cities in ideal locations. I don't know a ton about Boise, but Nashville seems to be managing their growth every bit as poorly as Austin, and the state of TN is actively hostile to passenger rail and other forms of public transportation.

In 20 years, will they be really regretting these decisions? Contrast with, say, Detroit - just now (optimistically) hitting rock bottom. It will not need to make decisions about growth management for another 10-15 years and will be able to benefit from 10-15 years of knowledge and changing attitudes.
Agreed, I have the perfect setup at home, I paid for everything (except laptop) and I pay for all of the electricity, bandwidth, accessories and upgrades, and furniture and upgrades.

Saving the company a lot of money and I'm at my desk way longer!
The shakedown part is that FTX is privately seeking the money back with the explicit threat that it will reveal the officials' names publicly (in court filings) if they don't cooperate.

>FTX said in a news release that it would privately contact the recipients of political donations made in its name, including from some of the company’s top-ranking officials, to get the millions donated to them returned. If the money isn’t returned, FTX said it would take the recipients to court to get the funds back.
I remember visiting MS (Redmond), in the 1990s (It was at the "Longhorn" launch, if that helps date it).

A friend of mine, worked in one of the nearby buildings, and took me to his office (He was doing documentation, or something for Encarta).

I was struck by the narrow, dark, corridors, and the small, windowless, offices. My friend said that all MS engineers had a private office.

I have since been told that the building I visited was probably an old one, and not representative of most buildings, and I think that MS went open-plan, since.

I have also visited the Facebook (it was still called Facebook, back then) office, in NYC.

The programming floor was a really big, noisy, open-plan office, jammed with desks (standing and sitting), and everyone was talking away. No windows. The floor was surrounded by conference rooms and offices, which had windows.

The Japanese offices of my own company were sort of like that, but with uniform desks, and quiet as a mouse; even with hundreds of people. No individual offices. VPs, with billion-dollar budgets, had a small desk, in the corner.
Thanks. I'm going to deactivate my PayPal account.