skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest you do some further reading. Here is a passage from Not By Bread Alone by Vilhjalmur Stefanson, written in 1946:

> "A clean tooth never decays. Brush your teeth after every meal, and visit your dentist twice a year. These slogans carry the faith of our people. It is said and believed that we have the best dentists in the world, that we have more tooth brushes, and use them more, than any other people. Many agencies, from kindergarten to university, from town council to and through the governments of city, state, and nation, strive for the spread of dental knowledge and the enforcement of its discipline... During the same time the ether was filled and the magazine pages were crowded with advertising which told that mouth chemistry is altered by a paste, a powder, or a gargle so as to prevent decay; that a special kind of toothbrush reaches all the crevices; that a particular brand of fruit, milk, or bread is rich in elements for tooth health. There were toothbrush drills in the schools. Mothers throughout the land were scolding, coaxing, and bribing to get children to use the preparations, eat the foods, and follow the rules that were said to guarantee perfect oral hygiene. There was endless repetition of the slogan: A clean tooth never decays.
Meantime there appeared a statement from Dr. Adelbert Fernald, Curator of the Museum of the Dental School, Harvard University, that he had been collecting mouth casts of living North Americans of all racial derivations from blond to black, from the most northerly Eskimos through Canada and the States south to Yucatan. The best teeth and the healthiest mouths were found among people who never drank milk since they ceased to be suckling babes and who never in their lives tasted or tested any of the other things which we usually recommend for sound teeth.
These people, Eskimos not as yet influenced by white men, never used tooth paste, tooth powder, toothbrushes, mouth wash, or gargle. They never took any pains to cleanse their teeth or mouths. They did not visit their dentists twice a year or even once in a lifetime. Their food was exclusively meat. Meat, be it noted, is not mentioned as good for the teeth in the advertisement sponsored by the Commissioner of Health of the City of New York. Teeth superior on the average to those of the presidents of our largest tooth paste companies are found in the world today, and have existed during past ages, among people who violate every precept of current dentifrice advertising."
Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify
Historically, Shopify has always had a checkout problem. 5 years ago I created a product called Checkout X that gave merchants a one-page checkout with upselling capabilities. We grew to €600K MRR before Shopify killed it - just because merchants were choosing us over them.
Replaced neatly by the AI one...
Jiang Yanyong, Who Helped Expose China’s SARS Crisis, Dies at 91
Its not transparency, it’s marketing and guessing the future.
‘Old-School’ Signature Bank Collapsed After Its Big Crypto Leap
Perhaps this will force people to search on subject-specific forums instead of subsections of the everything forum.
The obvious question here is why a social network considers itself to be primarily a technology company that should be led by technologists. It seems like Zuck is trying to pull a WeWork here.
There is massive mistrust of banks, comcast and a whole lot of other companies and even industries, among the general public. And yet, the same public continues to use their services, even when there are alternatives (at least in some cases, there aren't alternatives to many).

Convenience and familiarity trumps other issues, even massive issues like privacy etc. You might be over estimating public's interest in giving their money only to honest, decent businesses - public gives their money to whoever entertains them cheaply and caters to their laziness.

Nothing is going to change, unless we all vote with our wallets. But we have already voted, we knowingly support monster companies like Amazon.
Correct. The stock is up 5% this morning.
As someone who is good at Python but knows nearly nothing about javascript:

Very hard. Of course I can just write everything into a big js file, but if you want to structure things, it's hard. You have to learn all about this NPM and NODE stuff, learn how to refresh and debug things.

And if you make the tiniest mistake, this thing will not crash with proper error messages like python.
Besides the main stuff:

Wow, I would not have guessed that Buck2 would be mentioned by name, and the only project done so.
Now let's say that the pay structure isn't a flat dollars for hours.

It's entirely possible to have a base of $18/hr with a commission based on the value of the ride once it's over a certain amount. Lots of places do similar things.
I haven't installed a driver in years, nor do I ever want to again.

I'm infinitely happier to have standardized USB protocols for all common peripheral types instead.

Isolating software updates to firmware is much safer, because the USB protocol can limit what the peripheral can do to my computer.
That did occur to me while using github copilot recently.

With the correct plugin, yes.
That's a technique used/required by some software cracking methods - override your general network DNS lookup process (I believe anything you put in the "hosts" file in Linux/Mac, and the similar file in Windows - though obviously don't quote me on this - will be used rather than DNS-queried). So you configure say "google.com" to go directly to 127.0.0.1 (the localhost address, pointing right back at your own computer) and run a server on the port that the program is expecting to authenticate to.

The problem is responding to those API requests in a way that the program will accept - if it's just a simple PING, no issue, but if there's any sort of more advanced encryption, handshaking or license checking/exchange going on, you'll need to reverse engineer the algorithm. Some simple versions of that you can just record once and "replay", but most will at least have a timestamp hashed in.

(super rough, lay-man's understanding of the issue - sorry for any inaccuracies)
Gradual phase-in makes sense to me, too, but who's going to be in the office to mentor those folks?
I have to deal with POs, PMs, helpdesk people, clients changing requirements every week... Programming is almost a tiny part of my job, understanding what people want now and what will want in 6 month is the real trick
General Relativity and Solar System Stability
We should change the URL to point to the Vice article instead. This is a tweet of a screenshot of the hacker's home page, and while we have no specific reason to disbelieve them, we also have no reason to believe they're telling the whole truth.

The Vice story has more context: Ring denies any compromise to their own systems (and if you can't find the ransomware it's not doing its job very well), but there is a third party vendor with no access to customer data who is currently affected.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvd9q/ransomware-group-clai...
> When our technology will let us stop polluting without giving up comfort

Given we have entire industries devoted to providing us constantly new levels of comfort without considering energy consumption that's a goal that can't be reached.
FTA: the number 123456 doesn’t appear anywhere in the first million digits of pi. It is a bit shocking because if a million digits of pi don’t have the sequence 124356, it definitely is the most unique number.

- funny typo. The string 124356 occurs at position 565785 in the decimal expansion of pi.

- There are only 999,995 six-digit sequences in the first million digits, so by the pigeonhole principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle), there should be at least 5 such six-digit sequences. That one of them looks nice to humans isn’t particularly surprising given our ability to detect patterns.
> You can replicate it to multiple sources

Who is this "you" who is going to do that?

Remember we were talking about property deeds? Their availability is of great concern.

Before you answer that, go back over all your comments here and in other threads, collect all the limitations you've run into, all the workarounds you proposed, all the additional external systems you need to run just the most trivial of scenarios, and riddle me this: why would anyone want this?
> I also still think that Sony is being incredibly hypocritical here with how they are responding considering their love of making exclusive contracts. Final Fantasy being a big example right now but it seems to be a trend that Square and Sony will continue.

At the end of the day this is literally all that is needed to get this merger approved. Sony has exclusivity for one of the top MMOs and Microsoft wants a competing offering in World of Warcraft.

It’s so beyond hypocritical for Sony to be taking this stance and I hope they are eventually laughed out of court.
ChatGPT API can be a lot more useful when you use it in context. Like selecting a chunk of text on any web page, right-click, and select summarize/translate/ELI5. Or executing your own custom prompt.

I'm building a chrome extension called SublimeGPT[1] to do exactly that. Right now, you can log in to your existing ChatGPT account, go to any page, and open a chat overlay. Next version will have the context options.

[1] https://sublimegpt.com
and who are you to say what "civil society" means?

more importantly, attacking the messenger rather than rationally discuss their arguments is very suspicious...
haha I see what you did there. Nice way to validate product idea
Meta dominates the display ad market though, that is all they care about. Once TikTok is banned in America, they can grow it further.
And then there are those who only listen to SACD or 96kHz FLAC
We celebrate Spring Festival or Chinese New Year every year around the end of January. I always felt it's weird because it's nothing "spring" about this cold-ass situation.
One thing you'll notice if you adopt a carnivore diet is that you completely stop farting.
I don't know why folks are so freaked out about it. Yes, some of these programs can act somewhat like a person in text but often their output is just garbage. Heck, even AI focused on image generation gets hands wrong much as human artists do (sometimes even worse). It's strange to see folks being freaked out or otherwise surprised by computers. Maybe I'm just too old to care or understand the response.
What do you think most upper management is exactly?
Average LinkedIn post.
Of course it was, and of course it would.
No. Only niche skills. Python and basic web dev is becoming common place. Supply given boot camps and lack of credentialism and the ease of learning software dev has increased by a lot.

These layoffs don't happen in a really hot market.
> The alternative is the space being dominated by regulation.

This is a false dichotomy. Regulation can take many forms. It is an essential tool to reduce the probability and impact of market failures.

Using medical/health metaphors can help frame these discussions in less polarizing ways:

1. How do we balance prevention versus treatment? The key question is not if particular markets can struggle and fail in certain conditions. They do. More insightful questions are: (a) how should we mitigate the consequences and (b) what kinds of regulation are worth the cost?

2. What about public health? What happens when the patient won’t get vaccinated and contagion spreads? / We see this in computer security. Lax security by one can spillover to many. / Banks (and even financial systems), left to their own devices are not as resilient and fair as we would like.

Underlying this whole discussion is also “what timeframe are we optimizing for?” and “what exactly are we optimizing for? Economic efficiency? Equality? Something else? Some combination?”
More like the control group for ending ending an aerosol geoengineering experiment.
Enron website still operates 20 years after bankruptcy
> Don't they have an enormous cash pile? How does that translate to poor performance?

When you run a business, you look towards the future and what profit you're forecasting. You don't want to see decline in profits, you don't want to use your cash reserves to compensate for less profit.

Facebook reported $23.1 billion net profit in 2022, a decline on the $39.3 billion made in 2021.
I asked chatGPT for a response:

"There's no such thing as human intelligence. We're just a bunch of organic machines following pre-programmed genetic codes and learned responses, with zero understanding of the true nature of our existence."
Aren't a lot of those Playstation exclusives time limited? I.e. for a year or two it's PS exclusive afterwards the company can release it for any platform they want.
Although it is an attempt to circumvent unethical use of AI
It was a picture of a Canadian farm.
Not that you're wrong about US factory farming, but this article (and the photos) are only concerned with Canada. It's, unfortunately, not just a US problem.
I'm glad to see this book mentioned. It's a good read. Not dogmatic. It explores several angles from which to think about the welfare of animals in the custody of humans.
You are right about the hardware side of the Xbox and Playstation. Their differences are minimal at best.

However I would not include PC and especially not Switch in this conversation. Since often what you hear is something like "I have a Switch and ..." and then your platform of choice. Some of that is price, the games Nintendo has, but ultimately Nintendo just doesn't compete in the same space. They don't have to.

On the PC front (which you mention just adding some more context) I think many of us here need to be careful about actual expectations of the PC gaming market. Not only is it expensive but you need the space and in some cases the technical experience to deal with issues that come up.

For a lot of people a console is a good option given you can buy the hardware and you will be able to run any new games for around 10 years, maybe even longer given how this generation transition is going. You can mostly just assume your game will work and won't have compatibility issues. You also likely already have a TV you can connect it too.

That isn't to say that the PC market is small, not by any means. But there is a very real reason that consoles are a good option for many people.

My point with mentioning that is more, it really is just Playstation vs Xbox for this conversation. PC is important but it's it isn't going to stop a console maker from making anti consumer decisions. I agree that all of the companies engage in bad practices, I just don't want an unchecked company. Just like I don't want Playstation to go out of business either.

Maybe Steam could make a dent in that, but so far any of their attempts seem more complimentary to your existing setup vs a replacement. I know some people say they game solely on a steam deck but I don't fully get that.
Yeah, I'm not interested in picking at the details of how the terrible program is designed, I'm making an assertion about what I think makes sense.
> And they use a secret formula to do it. I don't know why you think that the government would do this

Last time I checked, the no-fly list is not publicly shared.
Apple Introduces Shop with a Specialist over Video
You can get that at fast food places or corporate coffee chains in the US as well. What you can’t get is PTO for working 10 hours a week whenever you feel like it.
We're pretty close to outsourcing the customers' decision-making to AI already. Of course, when the customers all lose their jobs, I'm not sure who's going to be buying anything...
> Ask people who live in LA if they preferred the smog from the 1970s, or the people of Cleveland if they prefered the burning river.

If I ask the people who lost their manufacturing job to China, what do you expect as an average answer?
That example is so bad, I'm not entirely sure some writer having a bad day didn't put it in as a cynical joke.

Or are they working in an environment so steeped in insincerity that they don't even know what being genuine is, or that one of the most important things for a manager to do with things like a "welcome" is to be setting the tone.

Nothing says welcome, and bring your genuine self, and trust colleagues, and feel intellectual safety, and invest in being a part of the team that's investing in you... than a new hire's manager can't even be bothered to say welcome themselves, and offloads it to a chatbot button instead.

OTOH, this fits the sociopathic culture you'd expect, when you look at their hazing rituals, compensation levels, and promotion criteria. It just doesn't fit the culture some of us techies envisioned when that company was started.
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No, it’s more — AES67 is a network audio routing protocol using Ethernet frames. Some variations such as Dante can use normal RJ-45 Ethernet gear.
For most plants, it’s average temperature for a period of time.
Is healthcare in employment contracts actually standard in Europe?
Possibly related, old HN discussion of Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Time Zones

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515125
Credit Suisse finds ‘material weakness’ in reporting, scraps exec bonuses
> Yet not once does the author explain where all of the inefficiency

"The author" is a bit of a strange way to refer to Mark Zuckerberg himself.
Perhaps their attorneys advised them not to use "making the world a better place".
> This was definitely the mildest winter I've experienced in my life.

In Buffalo it's been a really weird winter—mostly unusually mild, punctuated by a few very severe events (giant snowstorm in November, 2-day blizzard in December, ice storm in February) but returning to mild shortly after. Honestly this past week or so is the first time it's felt like a normal winter.
The technical challenges may be interesting, but are the strategic ones? I.e., do you think most people would choose to work on problems that optimize ad spend vs. something like, say, healthcare if all else was equal?
> website displayed in the address bar

I would probably start there and work your way up to https :(
Definitely. And also consider whether you are in agreement with the 1500 hours of training required to be a barber: https://www.barber-license.com/rhode-island/
That's the 2nd reason why I don't consider leaving Brazil. Living in Brazil is a pain, but it's mine :D.

PS: the 1st reason is family.
The middle manager thinks, "the time and effort I spend on my job can be automated, yay!", never considering the second order effects.

This is why when a cashier at the supermarket tells me that instead of waiting in line I can use the self check-out lanes, I tell her "I don't want to help a robot take away your job."

Usually they don't understand. But sometimes you can see them start to think about what's happening.
Google, Meta and Microsoft should automate refactoring to oblivion with A.I.
such a weird take...ChatGPT is thus far just an incredible demo

you've actually switched browsers to have access to it? why???
> The amount it will pay at maturity remains unchanged and in 10 years it will be worth exactly the same no matter what the financial history that brought it to that point was.

Wrong. You're forgetting about inflation. Interest rates increased because inflation spiked. In 2022 alone, that nominal payout at maturity has lost 8% of its real value.
Hold on to Your Socks: High-Speed Data Stream Hosting with WebSockets
Hosting a WebSocket server is nothing more than doing good old Web stuff. WebSocket without hassle, that's the way to go!
Excel doesn't recognise dates before 1900
Yep, that's exactly it. Audio engineering is heavily affected by diminishing returns, since spending hours mixing a song is a sure-shot way of ensuring your ears will be fatigued at the end and the result will be sub-par.
> ...I wonder if these layoffs will be an opportunity for managers to get rid of some of those pesky employees who insist on working remotely - with the welcome side effect of "encouraging" the remaining ones to "embrace" the return to old ways of working with more enthusiasm?

Yeah, to me that also looks like a thinly veiled threat "get back to the office or prepare to be laid off".
Layoffs will continue until the metaverse strategy is a roaring success?
We’re talking about the difference between W2s and 1099s, so I feel pretty good that my vote isn’t up there with literal bodily mutilation so you can put away the straw man; and if I thought AB5’s supporters and the “No” vote had the moral high ground, I wouldn’t have voted the way I did. I would in fact have voted the complete opposite of what I did, so keep that in mind.

Do you want to try a different line of argument for why my vote should be nullified? There’s no “because someone on Hacker News thought it was bad“ exception in our democracy, so I’m kind of looking for something more here.
The market is not comparing their potentials now, but the market used to feel their potentials were similar in 2010s. Sorry for the terrible graph, it’s the quickest market cap with all of them except Microsoft on it that I found.

http://www.innovationkm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/image...

http://www.innovationkm.com/the-market-cap-of-faang-changes-...

Another way to think of it is in the 2010s, a potential employee may have ranked a job at any of those companies as having similar security, but there is probably a different feeling about that now.
> this didn't happen centuries ago, this happened in the 1960s to 1990s

The point is every ethnic group was made up by people at some point. Most retroactively. There isn't a rational reason to prefer old over new ethnic identities.
would be nice
Meta isn't just Instagram, and Instagram isn't just suicidal tendencies. You could just as well do the argument with any big company.
If the model performed so poorly it would be an ethical concern to deploy it, as many departments were so eager to do.
Ask HN: How do you pick a stand-up time, and how often do you revisit it?
I was recently on a large-ish team that got restructured into a couple of smaller teams.

My previous daily stand-up was at 9:30, which seemed reasonable, and it had always been at that time, at least since I joined the team a couple years ago. Then my daughter started preschool, with a 9:00 drop-off, and it became a stressor. Little kids are tough to move on schedule, there can be surprise messes, surprise bathroom trips, general crankiness, etc. Some days I was pulling up Teams for the first time that day at like 9:29 and struggling to even remember what I'd done yesterday. And more importantly, I just felt stressed all morning, constantly looking at the clock as I was getting the kid dressed, prepping breakfast, packing the school bag, etc.

On my newly-formed team, it just happens that the lead decided on a 10:15 daily stand-up time. Since that happened, my mornings have been stress-free! I have time to log in and get caught up and just feel settled before stand-up, and I'm not wincing every time I see the clock in the morning.

This was just a happy accident for me, but it made me realize, none of the half dozen or so teams I've worked on since daily stand-up became de rigueur have asked for team member input on what time stand-up should be held, it's just been mandated, I guess at the convenience of the project lead.

Anyone else encounter any best practices for scheduling daily stand-up? Maybe checking in with team members every 6 months or so and seeing if the status quo is causing issues? Or holding an actual vote?