skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this 2021 blog article[1], MS Teams is undergoing two simultaneous overhauls:

1. Teams will use a shared, Windows systemwide Blink-based WebView2-based host instead of using its own private Electron environment.

2. The Teams' UI is changing from Angular to ReactJS.

So Teams will remain a modern-day HTA, for better or for worse, but sourcing from my own experiences working with Angular, ReactJS, and MS's WebView2 vs. Electron, I'm not convinced any of these changes will substantially benefit the end-user experience except perhaps a modest reduction in memory-usage attributed to using WebView2 instead of Electron.

[1]: https://blog.thoughtstuff.co.uk/2021/08/stop-saying-microsof...
I have two projects that could use help:

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The first is Concise Encoding, a secure ad-hoc data format (think JSON, but secure, more data types, and also has a binary encoding). https://concise-encoding.org/

The spec is largely done, and I'm primarily working on the reference implementation (in golang) and portable tests (so people don't have to keep rewriting tests for every implementation), but I could use help getting other language implementations out there.

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The second one is Dogma, a BNF-style metalanguage for describing binary and text data (because there wasn't a decent one for describing binary data). https://github.com/kstenerud/dogma

Dogma is mostly there as well, but while it is primarily focused around writing technical documentation (and I have written a syntax highlighter for VS Code), there are probably a lot of other tools that could be built around this technology (which I simply don't have enough time to pursue).
Uber, Lyft Score Victory as Court Affirms Right to Treat Drivers as Contractors
I'm sorry, how will a LLM trained on human writing look less human?

We've already seen that, without very restrictive lockdowns by researchers, LLMs will display all the worst kinds of human traits. Why would this be different?
It’s hard to localize when the Internet exists. That’s the root of the problem IMO. All of a sudden you’re competing on the global stage for everything and Internet scale and distribution creates winner take all effects for everything that can be expressed in text, audio, and video
If we want to optimize for income and make health a secondary concern, then our system is abundantly successful.
Until very recently, all of the C++ code I wrote was in the 1998 style or in the 2014 style.

Since 2017, there is std::variant, which is a sum type template that _technically_ allows for language-level exhaustiveness checking via std::visit. It's not pretty, but it gets you there without requiring compiler support.

Rust's version looks way better.
This is only true for treasuries which are risk free. Any other bond includes other confounding risk factors impacting price which come out in MTM. These were agency bonds so would include duration/prepayment risks. But you also can face substantial liquidity risks in a fire sale, if you mark your assets to the full liquidation value, you need to mark against an order book to the depth of your holdings. Simple HTM NPV assumes you don’t face these pricing risks because you are holding for par+interest, discounted at risk free rates.
Hat now partially digested.
It’s a fine title. It’s descriptive and honest. It doesn’t read as click bait/scam.

Click bait would be, “Passive income guaranteed in publishing,” which would make a (false) promise you did not.
i used to work for one of the uk's larger training companies (the instruction set) and we were approached by Addison-Wesley UK to turn one of our c++ courses into a book. i had written about half of the course, so i said sure - how hard can it be?

the answer was: very hard.

when you are presenting a training course, you can do a lot with personality, hand-waving and stuff you had just read about the previous day. this does not work for a book. i found even transposing the course to book chapters really hard, and i eventually said "no can do".

i did do some tech review stuff for them afterwards, and got a couple of hardbound volumes of knuth as payment.

bottom line - writing a book is hard!
That's just your assumption. Don't get me wrong - it sounds plausible, but it is unlikely that such scenario would have played out.

Maybe we have too many news outlets - you can even read that some employ AI already to write articles for them. They are going for quantity over quality.

There are always going to be people wanting to gossip over a headline and if a news source doesn't provide much beyond that, are they actually providing anything of value?

When we didn't have internet, many people would have looked at newspapers on display and discussed headlines without actually buying a newspaper. Was it a problem then?
I put as much effort in as you did. Calling Libertarianism equal to opportunism is about as bad faith of a take as calling mainline Democrats socialists. Reading that you're the type to say, "Russia didn't really practice communism" just made the cake that much sweeter.
I find that silly songs are pretty essential for actually doing it. Calendly is good for scheduling phone chats with friends while you do annoying tasks.

Also the Reader’s Digest New Complete Do-It-Yourself-Manual is pretty great.
14-20 minutes of commercials per hour was lost.
I had identical problems trying to setup signal on my grapheneos a few days ago
My God, if there's anyone I could think of who might do a less financially competent but more corrupt and often fraudulent job of holding people's money than the banks, it would the government. Yeesh.
Almost gotten a job in UnitedHealth... and I was looking forward to it, thinking I will improve experience for users trying to find and get services.

I am really naive.
The discussion is about late-stage investing, though. Obviously yes, the occasional unicorn funds a lot of slop and failed choices in series B rounds. But if that were true, then they wouldn't be laying off a paltry 17 people because of a minor market downturn, would they?

Again, the timing of this makes it abundantly clear that something YC was doing in the years before SVBs failure is instantly impossible now that it's dead.
TBH The ending of that musical ruined it for me; The people 'take back control' only to squander the water and die of thirst.

Sooo... Corporations are bad, but people are bad anyway so it doesn't matter? IDK. Might be a product of it's age (bitter endings were big back then, right?)
I think that you need to read more into what backstops the FDIC.

Taxpayers do.

FDIC pulls from the Treasury when they can't cover what's needed. FIDC are only meant to cover up to 250k but it looks like Yellin has decided to cover a lot more than that, and that will come from the treasury.

>The FDIC is not supported by public funds; member banks' insurance dues are its primary source of funding.[8] When dues and the proceeds of bank liquidations are insufficient, it can borrow from the federal government, or issue debt through the Federal Financing Bank on terms that the bank decides.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Deposit_Insurance_Corp...
mimir
> Never once I have been under the illusion that I have some kind of special right to someone else’s unique combinations of bits.

Copyright law isn't about your special rights to someone else's unique combination of bits. It's about what rights they have the legal ability to deny you to those bits. There are plenty of situations where copyright law in one country differs from that of another country; and neither of them are "right".

- An work that is still under copyright in one country at 50 years, but lost copyright in another when it hit 40.

- A videogame that requires a server to run, but the company running it abandoned it.

- A picture of a public place, like the Eiffel tower at night, which runs afoul of copyright law in one country, but not another.

- Software that is abandonware, legal to copy/use in some countries but not others.

Not following the copyright laws of the US (or, for instance, France when it comes to the Eiffel tower and it's lights) does not automatically mean you think you have "special rights to someone else's bits". It means you don't recognize the authority by which they claim they have special rights over your actions; at least as it pertains to the current situation.
Ask HN: How do you promote waitlist landing pages when you launch a new product?
I'm building a new product for DevOps and software engineers. I prepared a fancy landing page to explain what it does and what users can get.

Meanwhile, exposing the landing page itself is really difficult. I cannot post self-promotion postings on Reddit, my Twitter account doesn't have enough followers, DMs are treated as spam. I feel frustration these days.

I know I need to do things that don't scale as an entrepreneur. But I don't know how I can do that when I cannot post the landing page on forums where our target audience is in.
I don’t really see the problem with that.

The whole streaming model is a sort of rental situation and I can just cancel and try another service.
hm.. making it only do web seems like a missed opportunity. How hard would it be to make it run on native or other platforms?
I didn't edit that part as it felt like "teammates" was admitting a greater feeling of guilt, or something.
We also installed a Mr Cool DIY system in our house about 3 years ago. We also did it ourselves. It works well, no complaints, and has an app that you can control it anywhere with. 36k BTU 21.5 SEER Multi-Zone all for about $3700.
I believe the two words have a bit of gray area in between them, but here's how I understand it:

If you issued a $100 invoice that is going through processing and will be paid to you in 30 days, but you owe someone $50 right now, you're illiquid.

If you have $100 long-dated bond that is currently worth $50 on the market, and you owe someone $60 right now, you are actually insolvent. Not just illiquid.
I wrote something similar, I called it "Class Catcher" it was a VB program with the Web browser Control. I paired it with Pick-a-prof to get the best classes. I even sold a few copies via Facebook Ads.
Thanks, I’m glad! It’s a topic that pops up for me a lot. Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26905647
Hulu enters the chat. Hulu drives me bonkers. I pay a monthly fee for it, and yet it feels like there's more commercials on it than there are on broadcast tv.
The 65b model now runs on the 14" MBP with 64GB of RAM for $3,500.

The base config is $2500 to begin with. So not thousands plural, it is one grand more than the base config and a lot of devs/pros go for the 32GB anyhow.

Apple laptops also have atypically high resale value, I usually sell mine after a couple of years for 50%+ of what I paid for it. By the by, Apple have a two week return policy. ;)

I think only your first catch applies. But if you can come up with the right mvp even that might fall away.
> That assumes the bank is paying a higher interest rate to depositors in the interim.

Of course they are. I just looked at a Bank of America 10K [0], in which they reported more interest-bearing deposits than non-interest-bearing deposits. They pay embarrassingly low average interest rates (of course), but those rates still go up as interest rates go up, and I also expect that more customers will demand interest when rates are higher.

I do expect that average deposit interest rates do not increase as much as market interest rates, so a high-interest environment is generally better for banks.

[0] https://investor.bankofamerica.com/regulatory-and-other-fili... - see table 8
Writing a book is great if you want to enhance your professional reputation which can translate into making more salary.

In fact, your best option is probably to give the book away for free.
Can you point to where I said Fox is a reliable news source?
Sometimes they are gems, others yeah...
More like paying for a service that a company chose to put X amount of dollars in is not automatically a service to society.

I might pay someone $1000 for a fruit basket, but society is certainly served better if I put that money towards someone's lifesaving surgery instead.
Surely, the DVDs the US troops bought in the market when they were there were 100% legit... The mendacity of the producers and manufacturers has to be off the charts when you can't even let the Iraqi market slip through your fist.
You mean humans traditionally drew hands with 7 fingers and other such? I have a hard time remembering a single human drawing "sucking" in the way AI-generated hands do.
these people are most likely already independently wealthy and can retire if they choose to
Command line things that are noisy can legitimately run faster, being bound by the rate at which the terminal can dump characters

With high refresh rate displays it really helps avoid a blurry mess too

I can read the stream almost like The Matrix
Let's bomb and destroy a county for twenty years and then get mad that they aren't paying for Netflix.
In the current climate with large language models, I predict that the expected payoff for writing a book will plummet sharply toward $0, due to the sheer saturation.

Not all books, of course - but the ones that are geared toward passive income. Imagine some guy with a small bot-farm that manages to generate thousands of different "authors", and generate similar books for each and every one of those - then spam the living sh!t out of marketplaces. And then tens of thousands of other people do the same, because they follow the same tutorial.

Before you know it, there are millions and millions of different books on the same topic, all somewhat unique - in the sense that they've been generated by a LLM, and not copy/pasted like in the good ol' days.

It's going to be fun.
Their solution is not a monthly recurring event.
> US has been arming Taiwan since its inception. How is now different?

After Nixon and the relations being restored in between China and the US, a detente was reached on this. The US avoided arming Taiwan in a way that it could be a threat to China, and China did not press the issue. The US broke that detente.

> Taiwan is rich enough that can build own weapons

No non-superpower country is capable of building their own weapons that could allow them to stand against a superpower.

> In particular, Taiwan could make nuclear weapons

Having a few missiles that can mount nuclear warheads and travel a thousand km is not having 'nuclear weapons'. Every major superpower has the air defense systems that can shoot down such missiles from up to 500-600 km and dozens of kilometers altitude. You must have a legion of such missiles with multiple warheads to be able to saturate the defenses.

> But couldn’t defeat the US Navy beyond range of aircraft and missiles.

That's decade old thinking. China has hypersonic anti ship missiles that can reach over 1k km now, and a lot of submarines. Gone are the days of the aircraft carrier...
but wondering how he or she found the buyer and settled?
I have written ten books, two trad published, the rest self published. Books sales are minimal usually 2,000 lifetime.
My income was primarily speaking fees at industry events (cybersecurity). Having a book to sign is always great to get more speaking gigs. All of that evaporated on March 11, 2020.
But I am still going to write books, because I enjoy writing books.
I need to up my rate :D
I need a chat bot baked into a news app that can summarize the latest developments for me. It's too hard to keep up on my own!
Uncool, and not in the hacker spirit[1], as I understand it. A hack should not cause or potentially cause harm.

[1] Using the Jargon File sense, of course, rather than the modern day bogeyman.
The thing about these superscalar out-of-order processors is that they reorder the instructions behind the scenes. You can run out software on something like an Intel i7 and it will sound better than anything you’ve heard in the last 10 years, but our special in-order, RISC chip with a 4 stage pipeline, while slightly more expensive than the i7, will give you the wholistic listening experience.
I think you are likely correct on this but I do think having deadlines helped me make sure I actually finished. If I was to write another I would self publish.
Anything and everything is AI/ML today. A few years ago we used to have a product which would keep track of inventory on display shelf (basically how many items are on shelf) and inventory in backroom and based on that math would generate an alert to the store owner if the number of items in backroom were lesser than a threshold. Basic math. That same product is being sold today without a single line of code change as an AI/ML product.

In short, all this AI/ML stuff is just buzzword, ultimately the work you will do in almost all these companies is regular run of the mill work nowhere related to ML or AI
Dual Fluid, TRIUMF team up for SMR development
The empirical experience is that landowners take good long term care of their land. That is how it keeps its value.

You may be disappointed to learn that lucrative radioactive sludge cover opportunities are quite hard to find in today's market.

You're right the fishing right zones need to account for fish migration paths etc.
Allowing quotes from news or summary re-wording of articles (which are pretty darn hard to prohibit) without allowing URLs to sources... is not so great for reliability and trustworthiness and fact-checking of news shared online.

I get what they are trying to do. I don't think there's a way to do it that isn't going to make everything much worse.
If you’re going to hint at elaborate kick-back schemes, at least spend the effort to think through how that would work and spell it out.
Basically a modern, hi-tech version of “type your message on nokia, hit send and throw it as high as you can”.
Yes yes! One million times yes! Shut up and take my money.

$4K lower than a quote from a local contractor for a less capable system.
Do a password reset, then change the email.
It’s a shame this doesn’t apply to mobile notifications. I leave Uber and DoorDash alerts on for obvious reasons, which they use to tell me I have $1 off my next $70 order or whatever. I think they’re even time sensitive.
I was tempted to give a similar answer, but I'm not so sure it's irrelevant. Yes, the windchill won't affect the energy efficiency of the heatpump. But it will affect the rate at which the house loses heat, and thus the BTU's the system needs to provide to maintain a temperature. If the heatpump has been exactly sized to maintain a house temperature of (say) 70F at the expected winter low, adding a strong wind on the exterior of the house seems like it might make for a chilly morning. The effect isn't as strong as it is for bare skin at body temp, and hence the exact numbers will be off, but it's still there, right?
I think making people wait is a way to kill your startup. If you have a product it is much easier to promote than no product.
There are plenty of thriving communities on Slack and Discord and Mastodon, often private, that seem to be doing just fine despite, or perhaps because of having a code of conduct that everyone agrees to before joining.

I'm not sure how you expect a platform to escape having bots screaming about Hunter Bidens laptop unless there are guidelines on what constitutes good conduct, with repercussions for violating them, so that the bots can be banned. That you've made the leap of logic to conclude that only "highly controlled content from dictators-for-life (e.g. unelected moderators or technology company employees)" will be approved is your loss.

Every community has their own biases, and if you need a safe space to post your screed against the blacks/the whites/Jews/Gentiles/gays/straights/immigrants/natives/bankers/soccer moms/the rich/the poor/cats/dinner pics/etc don't worry, there's a community out there for you.
I get “how this all works” but valuation seems like magic
>> A developer costs about 250K a year all up.

Gotta love HN math. Calculations to two decimal places, starting with a number plucked from the high end of a distribution with standard deviation of at least 100K.
Good for you! Nice work getting paid speaking engagements in the past and I hope they pick up again for you. Seems conferences are starting up in person again this year.
I not only self publish but I print and warehouse my latest book and only sell it from my website. Still can't sell more than 2,000, but I cover my costs.
The people aware of them also don't care. If I see a NFT profile picture on twitter, I can't imagine why I would bother to validate the authenticity.
Bitcoin always rallies when crypto has bad news. It's propped up by wash trading by the tether cartel so people think everything is fine.
I haven't followed the specifics closely, but I thought it finally came out, through some office or court, that the FCC had, in fact most definitely tampered with a major public "vote" concerning Net Neutrality.

I don't have the particulars here, but recall it was something that was very obvious when it happened, but took some years to prove.
It's really very simple:

1. Humans are terrible at drawing hands and feet (ask any illustrator, amateur or professional).

2. Advanced Interpolation software reads and generates images based off of both real-life photos and illustrations of hands drawn by humans, depending on what materials are fed to it.

3. The images generated carry forth the failings of humanity.
I Love You, Now Leave Me Alone: What Friendship Means to an Introvert
Didn’t want to look at the article because I get real intense discomfort when viewing AI generated faces. The hands aren’t as bad but still pretty uncomfortable.
It’s almost cubism in a way but still too uncanny valley for me
That's just crime... I did something similar with the QR codes in my parking garage to park for free.
Some people I follow on Twitter have used this model really successfully. I think now I have a bigger following it could work for me too
Btw, some great books on Steam locomotives/engines:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NQ9JG2M - American steam locomotives 1880–1960. The author of drove locomotives, and was the transportation curator at the Smithsonian Museum. He wrote it over 30 years, and you can tell the amount of care and detail he put into with the details and history.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UYU1PC - How Steam Engines Really Work, provides a modern perspective on the important systems and concepts for steam engines.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072BFJB3Z - The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. Talks about how precision engineering was critical to the invention and wider use of steam engines.
> As a hard rule with rare exceptions, don’t break after conjunctions or short modifying words such as “and”, “the”, “on”, etc.—carry them to the next line.

That's interesting because my inclination is that
"One Year On and
What Next for
Remove Working?"
works best because "and" and "for" make it clear to me that the line is continued and that the current line isn't a complete clause.
How many new books, songs, and videos are published everyday now. We have never had more new content.
I have written a technical book with a publisher in the past. It was a nice experience, but same as the author in this (great) post, I don’t think I would do it again. It is very time consuming, and IMO not worth the time spent.

But I admire people who dedicate so much time writing high-quality books. On my side, I chose to invest more in writing short books, practical and solving one problem at a time. Yes it isn’t as high-quality, but I’m convinced there space for all kinds of books :)
Not an Instagram user, but aren't those just normal uploaded pictures like any other?

What makes them have "NFT features"? (except some tags and the obvious "NFTish" art style)
Just setting up my mztdn
Sort of feel bad for the ethics teams that get let go. When it comes to ethics or money, the corpos will always choose the money over the former.