skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The physical location in many people’s circumstance is far away from the high cost of living area that the company is located. “Working remotely” and still having to be in a designated city really doesn’t help much for most people.
Why were they jumping ship to maximize TC? Was it because raises are dead?
Much less - 99% of our transactions are < $20, so every time we get hit with a dispute it's already an instant loss in terms of the dispute fee cancelling out any revenue gained back from winning the dispute.
They are not. Materials is an identifier, the name of a struct field, while "metal" is a string literal, the key of a dictionary.
Looks like a great trip and with all that disassembly I can imagine it not being an easy one, especially for a one day thing. Still, if you change your mind or want to chat about someday relocating it with all the other space-themed art in Fremont feel free to reach out to parade@fremontartscouncil.org or my username at Gmail. Awesome build!
Hard to say, I guess. The US is a bit weird (pretty big, lots of huge companies call us home) so it probably gets more lobbying than most other countries I guess. I’d expect the UK to have a trajectory more like similar sized European countries (Germany maybe? Maybe compare to France, but of course French people have a unique relationship with their government…)
And looking in a grandparent's direction at precisely the wrong time
The original post is about dissenting views though right? I think you nailed the topics, but there's typically a "side" that gets more downvotes, and I think the point is that being provocative is asymmetrical.
Haven't tried this specific instance but kerosene (which is the major component of WD40) is a great solvent for waxes.
Yep. I paid out of pocket to attend Handmade Seattle last fall and it was easily the best money I've spent - in spite of Handmade's emphases on systems and graphics programming both being pretty far outside my wheelhouse.
I am the people who just write scss.

For an app I may use bootstrap as it is a framework with bigger blocks.
Read my sentence again - I'm bemoaning the lack of iteration. Are the disastrous bits of the CFAA and the DMCA ever going to be repealed? Will any of this new privacy legislation apply to the traditional surveillance industry ("credit bureaus") ? It seems like once commercial interests get their sponsored laws and loopholes into the endzone, we're left to suffer them indefinitely. It's why we're always reaching for "constitutionality" as the main hope for eliminating oppressive laws, rather than thinking that congress could reverse course.
For man was already eating others of mankind out!
A potentially rational explanation (though I don’t necessarily believe in these inter dimensional beings) is that, these beings take a form familiar with to us explicitly to communicate.

The google research about communicating with animals got me thinking. Inter specious communication may be impossible without actual embodiment or holographic display. I.e if we wanted to speak to a bird. We might need a little hologram that also does a little dance while chirping.

The same be happening to us when our brains become susceptible under DMT.

<takes tin foil hat off>
It may be wise to file an opposition unless you're looking forward to losing your domain without compensation.
Well, this is just one battle.

A "win" for Apple, in an individual battle, merely means that the status quo remains unchanged. They have to win every battle, to win the war.

And Apple is already losing very significant battles elsewhere.

For example, in the EU, with the soon to be in effect App Store laws, Apple is being forced to allow sideloading, and won't be able to charge the 300% fee, in the EU.

In the USA, maybe this court case fails. But there are more court cases being brought against them, and also laws being considered that could force Apple to change anyway, even if they win the current court battles.
> I wonder why a US appeals court is needed for that decision.

Because it was an issue disputed in a US District Court case, and someone disagreed with the outcome.

> This should be obvious to any laymen who has heard that antitrust legislation exists.

The same decision (applying California unfair competition law on the headline question) also found Apple was not violating anti-trust law, so, your hypothetical layman would have come to the right conclusion only by coincidence, on the wrong basis.
Yeah, why haven't they overthrown a brutally repressive regime? Haven't they heard of Ghandi?

Please - don't do this. You don't know how hard it is for revolutions to succeed
Honestly, this thing inspired my imagination more than I could have imagined. I had so much fun that I ended up building dozens more embedded systems projects, and eventually redirected my career more towards embedded systems, too. Embedded systems really let you interact with them in a tactile way, as you put it, that computer-based software does not. I found it irresistible.

Jon's oldest child -- pictured on the web site as an 8-year-old -- is now a sophomore in college, majoring in engineering. I'd like to think the rocket had some small part in that, too.
The reason you see so many of us being so insistent is because most of us work at highly dysfunctional companies with incredibly boring and annoying people and don't want to spend 1-3 hours per day commuting to the office and/or spending more on staying alive so we can be closer to the office.

I've been remote since the start of the pandemic and will never go back. I'm the happiest I've been in my adult life (mid 40s) in large part because I'm able to get more sleep, don't have to deal with the noise and density of the city, and don't have to deal with commuting. My home office is better than any office environment I have ever had. I put less than 5k miles on my car in the last year. I eat far better and spend less money on eating out.

I have also received great raises every year since the pandemic started (and before) and have been promoted (for the second time since the pandemic started) to what is probably equivalent to an L8 at Google (I don't work for a FAANG company).

Some of us are flourishing in this new work environment, and we are being tired of being told that we'd be better off if only we would spend an hour commuting to hear Fred's mildly racist/misogynistic jokes and attend useless meetings in person instead of passively listening to video calls while we get actual work done.
Yeah, same with my company. "DO NOT USE GOOGLE AUTHENTICATOR" is littered throughout our Intranet and onboarding docs in bold letters with recommendations for different options. And people still use it and lose their codes all the time.

Now it's tied to the Google Account which means it'll be tied to either their personal or work account and now we have to worry about personal account bans removing their 2FA or when they leave the company, our suspension process killing personal 2FA that were synced via the wrong account.
I don't think the GP is suggesting that the GDPR mandated those shitty popups, I think they're upset that the GDPR allowed them. They're basically a massive loophole. Of course the site operators are to blame for their individual popups.

That's without addressing the fact that the EPD is what triggered them.
Can we please remember that things can be "public" without being "online"?

The big companies don't want you to think about this because they benefit from being able to hoover up everything with a couple of clicks. There's nothing wrong with having to show up in person at a courthouse to see arrest records.

Making a human have to physically show up to make a request for a record does a nice job of adding just enough friction that you can't create these abusable repositories quite so easily.
I’m seeing a lot of misunderstandings about how trademark works, so just to set the record straight:

(As usual, IANAL, and I only know about US trademark law, but many countries have signed IP treaties with the US, so it’s probably at least similar in most places)

- Trademark is very different from copyright. Copyright stops you from copying something, trademark only stops you from pretending to be (or be associated with) the person/company the mark represents.

- That’s the purpose in the end: Trademark protects consumers from being scammed by imposters. And it’s pretty well-scoped in terms of not doing anything else.

- Trademark is much harder for companies to get than copyright, and much easier for them to lose. A company must demonstrate that the average consumer is likely to associate the mark with them and them alone. They must sue anyone who infringes on the mark to demonstrate that they are still protecting it. They can lose protection at any time if the public largely stops associating them with the mark.

- Trademarks often apply very narrowly, which is why products in other markets can still be called “GPT” if a consumer wouldn’t likely confuse the two. OpenAI wouldn’t get to “own those three letters”, but they would be the only people allowed to use those three letters in the brand name of an AI model (or however the PTO decides to scope it).

- Trademarks by definition MUST be non-functional. A car company can’t trademark the arrangement of gears in their engine, but they CAN trademark the paint color if no one else is using that particular color and consumers associate it with their brand.

- A company doesn’t need to “invent” the thing they are named after. Apple didn’t invent apples, Amazon didn’t invent the Amazon. It’s certainly not a great idea to try and get a trademark on a name that was previously used for something else, but if you can demonstrate that consumers now associate the name with your product you may be able to get protection.

- And if you can’t demonstrate that consumers generally (it doesn’t have to be all consumers, but it needs to be a lot) associate the name or mark with your product, then you don’t get protection.
Package management. Being able to clone a random open source repository and you can more or less count on `go run .` doing what you expect. And you don't even have to wait that long because how fast it compiles.

I would however disagree on it being simple. I wouldn't use that word. The language is so barren that you end up having insufficient abstraction power to make simple things simple. Instead simple things are verbose.

As for concurrency, well the language is so simple that it's easy to misuse when you are writing concurrent programs. This is required reading for anyone beginning to write concurrent programs in Go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31698503
You may want to file an opposition unless you look forward to losing your domain name without compensation.
A belief systems analysis of fraud beliefs following the 2020 US election
SRI is like, the secret bit of stanford where the faculty only do research and no teaching. It's where Siri and Nuance came from, and two staffers who worked there in the 50s quit to found FairIssac. Most notably for the HN crowd, its where Englebart worked on his Mother of All Demos, and where LaTeX was written.
"Snapchat+ subscribers receive early access to new My AI features, and have the ability to unpin or remove My AI from their Chat feed."

Also worth noting that as a free user I have been able to remove it from the list that is shown on the web version of Snapchat [1], but that change doesn't carry over to the mobile app.

[1]: https://web.snapchat.com/
I am a sensitive sleeper and after waking up from loud sounds and roommates for a while, I got Loop Quiet earplugs (I wear the smallest size), and I’ve been wearing them every night. Occasionally I pull them out during my sleep but they stay in very well and are definitely effective. I sleep much better now. I would recommend them.
For context as well, the peak of unemployment in the US during the great depression was about 26% (figures I see vary but all fall under this number).
I'm a PhD student working with neuromorphic computing. I like to think about SNNs as RNNs with discretized outputs. The neurons themselves may have some complicated nonlinear dynamic (currents integrating into the membrane voltage somehow etc.) but they are essentially just stateful transfer functions. The notion of spikes is a crippling simplification, but it's power efficient and you can argue for numerical stability in the limit. So I tend to consider spikes as an annoying engineering constraint in some neuromorphic systems. Brains function perfectly well without them, although in smaller scales (C. elegans).

The true genius of neuromorphics in my view, is that you can build analog components that performs neutron integration for free. Imagine a small circuit that "acts" like the stateful transfer function, with physical counterparts to the state variables (membrane voltage, synaptic current, etc.). In such a circuit you don't need transistors to inefficiently approximate your function. Physics is doing the computation for you!
This gives you a ludicrous advantage over current neural net accelerators. Specifically 3-5 orders of magnitude in energy and time, as demonstrated in the BranScaleS system https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/science-development/focu...

Unfortunately, that doesn't solve the problem of learning. Just because you can build efficient neuromorphic systems doesn't mean that we know how to train them. Briefly put, the problem is that a physical system has physical constraints. You can't just read the global state in NWN and use gradient descent as we would in deep learning. Rather, we have to somehow use local signals to approximate local behaviour that's helpful on a global scale. That's why they use Hebbian learning in the paper (what fires together, wires together), but it's tricky to get right and I haven't personally seen examples that scale to systems/problems of "interesting" sizes. This is basically the frontier of the field: we need local, but generalizable, learning rules that are stable across time and compose freely into higher-order systems.

Regarding educational material, I'm afraid I haven't seen great entries for learning about SNNs in full generality. I co-author a simulator (https://github.com/norse/norse/) based on PyTorch with a few notebook tutorials (https://github.com/norse/notebooks) that may be helpful.

I'm actually working on some open resources/course material for neuromorphic computing. So if you have any wishes/ideas, please do reach out. Like, what would a newcomer be looking for specifically?
This is exactly what I would use dbt for
Maybe you grew up long before I did, but my childhood began in the late 70s, and I remember Proposition 8 (2008), Matthew Shepard (1998), satanic panic (1980s and 90s), and I know people my age and younger that survived conversion therapy "camps".

I don't really disagree with the rest of your points, and I can be convinced that churches have gotten incrementally more political since 2008, but I don't think the differences are quite as stark as you say. Churches have been political and cruel to out-groups for a long time.

I suspect that some of the perceived difference can be ascribed to experiencing church as a child vs. experiencing it as an adult.
Processed World
Yes, of course, "anyone" can build a project on this platform. Unless of course they are anonymous, or broke, or want to touch on various medical topics, or demagraphic topics, or mention genitals, or if they violate any of the other dozens of vague current and future restrictions that OpenAI has in place.
Always been a bit suspicious of that since it contains oxalic acid, which is toxic. I assume it's water soluble enough to get rid of easily before you use the surfaces for food though.
Quite the opposite - I'm questioning fairness of judgment based on output from GPT-4 when solving complicated tasks etc, which is very hard to justify as "stochastic" unless you beg the question.
Ask HN: Can shares be canceled without notice?
I had some shares in a startup that I left a while ago. I never had access to the cap table.
When I checked recently, I saw a note in Carta: "XXX shares are canceled and do not return to the equity plan." and the reason is "Recapitalization".
Can one lose all their shares in such an event even if the company still exists?
> That's why the guys with the beer bellies wearing Hawaiian shirts at these shindigs are often well-to-do fountains of knowledge who just want to have fun. They have been around long enough.

Hey that's me (aside from the fountains of knowledge part... and the well-to-do part...).
It's a poor use of AI really that doesn't add anything to the product, and was instead clearly there to add something to the stock price to cash in on the hype.

If it was actually opt-in and helped people make better snaps...

(I'm well outside their key demo now, but their push messages seem out of touch even taking that into account. No, I'm not interested in lenses or adding people I've never had any reason to hear of...)

edit: Thinking about it a bit more, after their initial thing they've generally been missing boats... they could have made a nice TikTok clone with the snap map as a bonus - but most of the vaguely interesting snaps on the map don't have user info, and subscribing to the interesting users seems bugged on top of that.
No it doesn't, as psychological studies are done using control groups that, if implemented properly, ought to respond equally to any Hawthorne effect.
How are people creating new items? App, or extension?

How are people accessing items? App, quick access menu, extension, browser bookmark?

How are people changing passwords? In the app, using the password generator or not, in the extension with the password generator, in the browser using the injected UI?

The thing about 1Password is that it seems like it's simple, but under it all there's usually multiple ways to do the same thing. Using some telemetry they could easily see that only 2% of users are using this one particular feature, and cut it if it's not getting used. Or this fantastically useful feature is only getting 20% of users using it, maybe they need to introduce it to users in a better way. Etc.

At the end of the day, having this kind of data can make for better decisions. I'm not a fan of telemetry though. I'm honestly surprised the security team at 1Password agreed to this one as well.
Using the Veil of Ignorance to align AI systems with principles of justice
30-60 minutes is a very long time, do fire departments normally take that long to start dumping water on the house? Some site says "NFPA Standard 1710 establishes a 320 second or 5 minutes and 20 seconds 'response time' goal for not less than 90% of these type incidents."
It’s embarrassing there’s no toggle for minimal processing for everyday pictures of my kids. I just want some simple denoising filters to deal with the ccd Jank and mostly I want to see in the picture what my phone shows on the screen.
HSAs and FSAs are not entirely swappable. HSAs require a qualifying health plan, and are a pain in the ass to move around in my experience. FSAs are actually better for those that are laid off--you can use the full balance of the FSA before you pay it. Say you commit 3k to a FSA, you can use 3k of it on day one (or the day you are laid off...). Your company is on the hook for the remainder of the balance if you aren't there to pay it back.

I would be annoyed as hell if someone kept asking to be interviewed but never accepted the position. Interviews aren't free, don't waste peoples time doing them if you aren't serious/need to practice. Pay for an interview coach.
I don't know why it would come up in HN (though apparently it did though this discussion). But he has lots of supporters, your comment represents exactly the kind of narrow view people are talking about. It's not a given that everyone would hate a sitting supreme court judge, an elected politician, etc.
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This was his exact thing.

He was very against the casual use of dissociatives like ketamine and nitrous, and said it was from these visions that Tony felt he needed to burn himself.
> Either you're security-conscious or you do random changes based on anonymous forum posts, I just don't really see an overlap.

I think there's going to be a not-totally-insignificant minority of people out there who are both worried about security, but just don't have great technical knowledge. (They sometimes show up on r/privacy if you need convincing they even exist.) Even if it's a really small percentage of users, given how large the Windows install base is, that's still going to be a fair amount of people looking for any kind of fix for the "problem" that their security scanner has warned them about.
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They are significantly worse than the standard, extremely simple method of setting a budget and providing that amount of money.
That's what I think too.

I'm imagining like an Amazon, but more so that it connects you with people that can create whatever you're looking for.

Need a website? Prompt AI to generate an example and then let it connect you with someone that can build the whole thing.

Need custom shoes? Prompt AI to generate an idea of what you want it to look like and it'll connect you with someone that can create it.

Etc....
> or when they turned on everyone's location sharing and made it opt-out?

Possible related article for that quote: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15864552/snapchat-snap-ma...
A lot of psychological studies are so poorly designed you can ignore the results completely for other reasons and not worry too much about this effect.
I have wondered if stagnating wages has meant a growing population that basically can't afford a professional for any purpose. Someone who works for $15 an hour is going to have obvious difficulties hiring someone that asks for $100 an hour.
No stranger than Windows, given WIMP, even if you want to disregard the link to the trademarks for "transformer" (which I now realise doesn't work because the URL doesn't contain the search term, so here's one item from that list: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00...)

Trademarks are just like this, always have been, probably always will be.
> Opt in is the same as not doing it at all.

That is more of a statement about the detestability of telemetry as a concept than anything else.
Haven’t tested this particular one but using the badger eink display has been a blast. Super low power — you can run that one off of a lithium coin cell battery. You can control when it wakes. I presume this one will draw more with a larger color screen and wireless, but again you can control when and how it wakes to balance power draw vs. more frequent updates.
Saw some comments on the protocol being fluffy and typical implementations resource hungry. This is an interesting guy to follow:

https://universeodon.com/@supernovae

He's the admin of universeodon, a mastodon instance with 13K MAU. He recently shared that in a month's time, 3TB of text was transferred just in ActivityPub events. Images a multiple of it. I don't know what the bill is, but I was pretty shocked by the stats...for "just" 13K users.

And the cruel thing is that it still doesn't work properly. Likes/boosts and replies do not properly synchronize.
It's resizable for me.
So I'm curious what happened for them to do a complete 180 in belief as to the security implications of syncing tokens off the phone?

Did the holdouts on the relevant team not make it through the layoff rounds or something?
"electricity isn't hard" is obviously oversimplifying things a bit. there's definitely some skill involved in electrical work.

perhaps it would be better to say that a lot of electrical work is well within the skillset of a general contractor, and doesn't require a multi-year apprenticeship to learn. something like installing fixtures is a task that anybody is capable of, but instead the contractor has to call the electrician back in after the finishes are installed to do it, because we don't trust the general to do it safely. that's a waste of everybody's time and resources.