skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See previous discussion of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35175529
Appears founder may only have 5% of Zoho now:

>> While Vembu has been running Zoho for nearly a quarter century, his sister Radha and brother Sekar own the bulk of the company, according to Indian filings. A product manager at Zoho, Radha has a 47.8% stake in the company that’s currently worth an estimated $2.2 billion. Sekar, founder of Vembu Technologies in Chennai, owns 35.2% worth $1.6 billion. Vembu owns 5%, worth $225 million. The family, now worth at least $4 billion, was ranked No. 48 on Forbes’ 2022 list of India’s 100 Richest under Sridhar’s name due to his prominence as founder and CEO.

Source:

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2023/03/13/zoho-srin...
>It means there's pretty much no downside to banks loaning an arbitrarily large amount, because if the student doesn't pay it back, the government will.

Obama administration ended this in 2010:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Family_Education_Loan_...

The problem that remained, of course, is the federal government itself lends students a blank check as long as the check is deposited at an “accredited” university.
TBH requiring Windows isn't so bad as it seems, because Microsoft provides a very-lightweight version of Windows free-of-charge. Remove your storage drives just in case before booting, to prevent Windows messing with your data. This is a relevant link:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Windows_PE
I'm thinking a bit more broadly than that. It'll be about real-flesh experiences, learning physical musical instruments and playing with others, experiencing real physical peril, a thorough rejection of transhumanist ideals; essentially a reiteration of the Romantic movement which led to things after the Industrial revolution like the Kibbo Kift: By their very nature, things which can't be ingested by an AI and monetised.

Of course, after that you'll have a synthesis of the two ideas emerging. That's too many steps ahead for me to predict, but there are passages from Iain M. Banks' Culture books which might be on the money.
Officially, they will only treat life-treatening problems for free, for tourists.

In reality, if the person doesn't seem to be trying to take advantage of the system, I'd not be surprised that hospital staff don't bother sorting out billing the patient.
Total weight of wild mammals is less than 10% of humanity’s
Only helps if your instances don’t need to talk to each other
That’s pretty much all high school kids are qualified for. With some exception. Well, unskilled labor at least. Not quite synonymous with blue color but close.
Who's gonna be the first to wire up ChatGPT's API to a live system? A human copying and pasting is one thing but the playground interface gives a bit more room to work with but the real adventure begins when it can actually affect some sort of change to the outside world via an API it's been glued into.
Or you can make a tradeoff and simply exclude these outliers from using your product, instead of optimizing for their unique case.
We have issues working with lead at work, mostly due to toxicity. Putting a hole in a sheet isn't as simple as getting out the drill, not mechanically, but due to all the swarf that needs to be cleaned up. 3D printing a bolt-on cover would be lower risk than drilling lead, a quicker turnaround than getting a die made and lead cast, and give a prototype that doesn't need to be handled with gloves.

For the right application, there are some good wins here.
You're being a bit too bogged down in the specific example there; I never got into the game myself and only used it as an example because a relative used it to socialise pre-pandemic.

I mean, VRChat can do the facial expressions, video games don't prevent exercise, and there's plenty of ways to share germs if you find vaccines too clinical and high-tech.

And of course, I'm currently using my glowing rectangle to group socialise with with people who have different and similar opinions and backgrounds, for example yourself.
Yea, I think it sounds high because people see "Omg I'm 2lbs heavier than this morning!" but they don't think of it in terms of their body weight. If you weigh 200lbs, 2lbs fluctuation between morning and evening is just 1%. Try getting that type of precision from anything else. It's actually quite good.
Wouldn't questioning those pre-existing notions be the first step towards constructing such a machine? It sounds silly to dismiss the idea time could go backwards because we don't have any machines that work that way, since that typically how all ideas work before we implement them.
The article addresses this:

> Cargill and just three other agribusiness companies control about 70 percent of the world’s agriculture market, according to Oxfam. Brands like PepsiCo, Nestle, Mondelez, and Conagra produce and market the vast majority of the offerings found in US grocery stores.

> Grocery retailers, too, have become increasingly consolidated. The ongoing Kroger-Albertsons merger, which could be blocked by the FTC, for example, has raised alarm bells from consumer advocates; if the merger goes through, Kroger-Albertsons and Walmart together would control 70 percent of their industry.

There are also enormous barriers to entry if you want to become a Tyson Foods or Kroger competitor.
That's exactly what it's referring to, but in a derogatory way, and more gender-neutral. I.e., a place that teaches people how to act professional-class, how to have the correct opinions and prejudices, the correct conditioned responses, the correct verbal tics, and so on.
Burn the bridges, learn from it, and move on. Some people may say that it's always better to keep the doors open, but let's be honest, does it really matter what they think of you? What matters is what you think of yourself. They misled you, fired you, and now you're here wondering if it's appropriate to block them. They don't care about you, and neither should you care about them. The world is big enough.
Manifesting an angel to sponsor a low key hackspace on Oahu. Plz email rapht at nshkr.com

Aloha
We're Drowning in Subscriptions
I read this many times on HN. As far as I can tell Excel copied most of it about a decade later with pivot tables.
> more error prone

not when using Rust ;-)
I think they're missing some dimensions.

Namely mutability, side effects, formal verification ie. How equational / axiomatic a language is, how static/dynamic a language is (runtime typing etc), how concurrent, how scoped a language is eg. Red vs Koka.

All of the above have a massive influence on the structure and intent of a language.
Regarding additions mics, yes that enabled more advanced spatial processing, especially when arranged in a determined and calibrated geometry. One could imagine glasses with several mics placed at optimal locations on the frames. Such multichannel audio could then be processed into multichannel spatial audio streams.

As for the rest, thank you for wonderful ideas! Everything you propose is technically possible. The difficulties arise first in assessing the increased benefit to users versus the increased complexity of user experience, and second in prioritizing the work versus other features. Over time we do hope to add additional selectable “skins”, which is to say different UI designs, that allow users to choose UI’s from a wide range. Everything from the simple to complex layouts, from accessible to exotic color palettes, from professional to playful themes, etc. I could definitely see more advanced visual representations of transcription uncertainty showing up in such optional skins.
Nope. "No formal limit" or "infinity" is just another way of saying "dynamic memory allocation". There is a reason you usually find this advice in game adjacent places; to punt everything to the dynamic memory allocator makes it very difficult to know if you are keeping within the memory-starved limits of e.g. the game console you are developing for, or on mobile to keep a garbage collector from stepping in and ruining your day.
Other social experiences that you pay a lot for include country clubs and Scientology.
Neat. I’ve built some courseware and a sort of similar platform that I’m going to soft launch next month. I built it out of about a decade of necessity in working with coworkers and customers on these types of problems and not really having anything like this. The thing is, I don’t really want to run the platform long term.

Are you hiring?
Aha! Thanks.

So this behaviour is likely unfit to be used as a feature, but could in some cases be used as a clever hack to, in a way, preserve some edited (cropped) data.
I wish HN had pinned comments to save others time
Is there where ChatGPT and GPT-4 and the like can be helpful? I know a few days the discussion of AI tutors was double edged, but if we focus on the later stages of schooling / career path, can AI tutors be useful
for advancing the fields where apprenticeships make sense?
My favorite version of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Axyqk5ERKQ

The female singer was some unknown, named Melissa Manchester.
I would really love to take a look at this book but I'm not really interested in C/C++, has anyone tried to follow along but with another language? How did you find it?
Blinded peer review at least enforces some degree of impartiality and anonymity, though obviously challenging in practice.
https://github.com/mpoon/gpt-repository-loader
That is the point of having a competent CFO.

The letters "CFO" are pronounced "those in the know".

Doing a cash sweep is NOT rocket science and there are lots of services that can do it for you.

A company can also project forward and ladder treasury instruments to mature at the right times to provide liquidity. T-{notes,bills,bonds} are issued by the US government and thus have at least as much resiliency as the SDIC.
One Rumour I heard is that the ones about making bombs was actually written and published by the CIA and intentionally wrong.
Yea, pretty much entirely due to the loan system. It’s also sustains worthless departments.
But it should seem pretty obvious that something like maternity leave couldn't, and shouldn't, be an "earned benefit" - should everyone except to accrue a month of "maternity leave benefit" through the ages of 20 and 40 or something?

It's good that we do have benefits that only apply to subclasses of people (i.e. parents), but how those benefits are structured shouldn't be at the whims of a company if we feel, as a society, that they're important for people generally.
Do you agree with "racism and sexism are bad for all definitions of racism and sexism"? I disagree with that statement, I don't think it is wrong to disagree with that. But lots of people agree with it, and then define racism and sexism to be whatever they don't like and you get a boring monoculture.

That is why I hedged my comment with that it depends on how strict you are. Depending on how you define racism and sexism all of those things will change. So blanked statements that we need to ban them without properly defining exactly what we are banning is really bad, but that is what happens almost everywhere in discussions.
Im releasing on 39+ platforms. https://github.com/donuts-are-good/bearclaw for example releasing using https://github.com/donuts-are-good/release.sh
I have a feeling that a lot of commenters mix up structure design with structure implementation.

Rule talks about the design (and I find approach interesting) yet implementation can (and most likely should) be limited.

E.g. we are designing a world. In this design we say children can have toys. It doesn’t make sense to design universe so that children are limited to 5 toys or any other arbitrary number. But no room can fit infinite number of toys so implementation is limited. For some it’s 500 toys but for some it’s 500.000 toys.

Names or parents are good real world examples. Sure, most people have 2 parents pr at most 2 names but this rule argues that if there’s more than one it shouldn’t be limited at all (which also makes sense in real life even though IT system might limit names to 256 characters because hardware).
I think we’re talking about different projects. This one just gives you a text output of an entire repo.

https://github.com/mpoon/gpt-repository-loader
> 3. A blood sports arena for the brilliant to complete for professorships (almost all of whom will lose and be saddled with 6 figures of debt and 7 figures of opportunity cost)

As somebody with a PhD, I say ho hum. I only took on 5 figures of debt, after quitting tech after the "dot com bubble." I had been bored out of my skull with the monotony and lack of intellectual challenge. But 7 figures of opportunity cost? Maybe even more, if I had joined the right startup. But I moved from low tech to high tech, using my degree in industry. Money is nice, sure, and can solve some problems in life. But real value is satisfaction. It doesn't have a price tag. There isn't a number of digits that would make me reconsider my choice.

If your primary measure of success is wealth, then university has never been the answer.
Or, as cousin Melchior put it, 'anything other than a first or a fourth is wasted'.

(Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh. Not sure how internationally read it is, but a worthwhile classic. British degrees are classified from firsts to thirds (via upper and lower second class honours) - but the story is (initially) set at Oxford, which at the time awarded fourths.)
does anyone have a link to the actual recipe? I subscribe to nyt but not to the food section
I always loved Desiderata, its really wholesome and genuinely good advice.

I know it doesnt deserve it, but as a sort of sacrilege I couldn't resist asking GPT-4 to do a version of Desiderata reframed as advice for Instagram Influencers (on the basis that nothing could be further from the sentiment of the original). Interestingly it kept throwing out the original text again, it took a lot of tries to get it to alter it. Apologies in advance for this:

Instagramata

Go confidently amid the filters and the likes, and remember what joy there may be in authenticity. As far as possible, without compromise, be on good terms with all followers. Share your story boldly and kindly; and listen to others, even to the trolls and the haters; they too have their perspective.

Avoid vain and dishonest influencers; they are vexatious to the soul. If you compare yourself with others, you may become insecure or arrogant, for always there will be more popular and less popular accounts than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your collaborations. Keep interested in your own niche, however humble; it is a real expression of your passion in the changing trends of time.

Exercise caution in your endorsements, for social media is full of deception. But let this not blind you to what value there is; many influencers strive for high standards, and everywhere online is full of creativity. Be yourself. Especially do not fake engagement. Neither be cynical about feedback; for in the face of all algorithm changes and shadow bans, it is as perennial as the hashtags.

Take kindly the advice of experts, gracefully adapting to new features. Nurture strength of character to shield you from negative comments. But do not distress yourself with unrealistic expectations. Many fears are born of insecurity and isolation. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the internet no less than the memes and the reels; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt social media is evolving as it should.

Therefore be at peace with Instagram, whatever you conceive it to be. And whatever your goals and aspirations, in the noisy distraction of online life, keep peace in your heart. With all its glamour, drama and broken dreams, it is still a wonderful platform. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
No, it is not suitable as a clever hack. It doesn't work reliably or well enough for that.
The Zero, One, Infinity Disease
I would argue that it nowadays teaches more herd-behavior and political correctness than depth of thought (example: last Stanford Law dean case)
Pretty good example of what chatgpt can't actually do. It should be unable to distinguish between BS self help money types and actual profitable ideas.
This has been my experience too.

It's either what you mentioned or they have very outdated development practices.
This. Have gotten the DE of the XPS and everything worked flawlessly. Along with Dell ProSupport it's hard to beat it.
> 1m keys

As opposed to not working at all?
But you have 40+ engineering improvement on his VW. And the last 40 years have been revolutionary for engine performance.

In the end cars got heavier and their cross sections bigger. Killed all the would be fuel improvements
don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

i have no sympathy for holmes
Text density (and link density) are extremely useful features in Web Search/Information Retrieval, and they're very cheap to compute.

Using these metrics for a web crawler are an interesting take.

You essentially just count the number of words per "area" of text (plus the ratio of linked words to all words), and you can pretty much tell the "main content" apart from navigation elements, without actually having to render the page. It's not perfect but it works at web scale; see my WSDM 2010 paper, "Boilerplate Detection using Shallow Text Features", for example.

There are different ways to define "area" for density, and it looks like this implementation computes the density for an entire subtree of DOM nodes. It's interesting that no matter how one defines "area", it will work somewhat well either way.

Fun fact, you could say that I got my PhD thanks to my bad eyesight. Some time around 2008, I browsed the Web without my glasses and I noticed that some gray areas are denser than others...

My interpretation of the situation is that there is a fundamental text law at play here, with two types of text, "long text" (anything as long as a sentence and longer) and "short text" (things like navigational menus, buttons, anything that needs to be quickly understood, like "STOP", etc.), and that also applies to non-Web printed material (travel catalogs, for example).

If you are curious about this statistical text law, you'll find more details in my PhD thesis, https://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/...
When Arin Hanson/Egoraptor released his Sequelitis Zelda rant eight... freakin'... years ago (God, I'm old, and so is the internet I loved):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOC3vixnj_0

I thought: All the things he complains about in Ocarina of Time are things Japanese gamers would love. There's always only one path forward and it's always SUPER clear what you need to do. Back in those days, Western game companies preferred open world for RPGs and RPG-like games, and open world was one of the reasons for the "yoge kusoge" (Western game, shitty game) meme in Japan. Japanese players suffered from a "where do I go? what do I do?" problem in Western open world games that a more linear structure like in Ocarina helps to alleviate.
Am I crazy or did Biden just try to pay for a bunch of student loans? Legality still pending AFAIK. Just because Obama may have ended one policy doesn’t mean they aren’t backstopped by the government.

Either way the point remains that the debt cannot be dispelled through bankruptcy which makes them less risky for banks.
FDR did not abandon his plans because of a change in the court's jurisprudence. He abandoned them because he ran into insurmountable opposition from his own party that killed the plan. The House Judiciary chairman called it unconstitutional, for example, and it repeatedly failed votes in the Senate Judiciary committee. It had been made abundantly clear by mid-year that the bill had no chance of passing, hence its failure; otherwise, he would have pushed for it regardless of what the court ruled in West Coast Hotel. Even still, he complied with prior court rulings that had struck down parts of the New Deal after his efforts failed.
Sure, and JSON is as well. 0 takes three fewer bytes to encode than 1234. But if I parse JSON and my numbers come back as a type backed by UTF-8, I'm going to be left confused and angry. Nobody expects their JSON parser to give them back numeric values that their CPU can't natively perform operations on.
Those whom this interests should check out the Tildeverse
Well, I was sensible enough not to try so I cannot say!
+1 to that. Car windshields are clean today after a long ride on the autobahn.

I have apple trees in my garden and if you dont physically shield the apples, wasps and other insects will just eat them up in no time. Nearby there are enormous apple tree fields. Nothing touches their apples. I wonder why.
Const is a hard language feature to design well. There are a lot of pitfalls in the way const is used in C++ and TypeScript (I’m including “readonly” in the discussion).

Rust gets it right, but Rust is relatively complicated.

The languages which are most similar to Go are Java and C#, both of which also lack const types, or have a very limited version of constness.
If we are talking about "most" mathematicians, then you should also admit that most mathematicians are not a member of the finitist church, and that most mathematicians appreciate the distinction between countable and uncountable.
> It means there is special protection for strings that is not available to anything else

Lots of languages have no C/C++-style const objects yet immutable strings. It's weird to pick on Go specifically for this. (Since it's the JVM model, at this point it may even be a majority of mainstream languages.)

If you mean specifically the panic when modifying a static string, is this not just the default `mprotect` on rodata? You can do that to any memory page you want. It's a feature of the kernel's memory management, not the type system or even the language runtime.

> library-authors get panic reports about immutable byte slices.

I'm really skeptical this happens in any meaningful amount. Go offers the feature to transform a byte slice you know you won't want anymore into a string without a memory allocation; or to pass a string to a function which wants a []byte and will not mutate it, usually to wrap an optimized implementation working on both strings and []byte. Modifying a string's contents is always undefined behavior, even if it doesn't panic immediately - the compiler will assume strings are immutable and make "as if" judgements accordingly.
> My PTO is an earned benefit (legally)

Your case does not generalize. In the U.S., there is no federal law requiring the payout of unused PTO.
Thanks for correcting me! I will hold in my heart that this is chicago-washing, regardless of evidence to the contrary. And Jim Ellison is definitely more knowledgeable than me.
Forget Utopia. Ignore Dystopia. Embrace Protopia
You haven’t taken the time to understand it, therefore it must be useless. Others who practice it must be doing useless things. This seems like a common solipsism among software developers.

The problem with your definition of abstraction is that you’re thinking of indirection.

Abstractions in mathematics create precise definitions with provable laws. When you have a proof of a theorem you can ignore the details underneath and think in terms of the abstraction.

I wouldn’t be so cavalier about dismissing category theory. It’s interesting for many reasons but it’s not here to serve you. You could find ways that it can improve your programs and how you think about them, as others have, or you can get on without it. And that’s fine too!
Software developers also don’t make that much in Germany. You also need to get past the apprenticeship gatekeepers. No thanks.