skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Theory of Zoom Fatigue (2020)
Bulgaria Approves Draft Law That Turns Pirate Site Operators into Criminals
Why are these things not issues? I think it's totally valid for someone who doesn't understand OCaml to raise issues of usability or documentation. It's not just the issues of experts that are a concern. And it's very demoralizing to get a "you're holding it wrong" response to a complaint.
The places like that around here seem to make their money off expensive massage recliners and other deluxe furniture, where the mattresses are just there to get people in the door every so often.
Twitter Blue: What's Wrong with the Way They're Blueing It
Is the risk of being called a Boomer, or any other pejorative by faceless teenagers, or anyone else, a concern to 1) anyone over 20 or 2) anyone who has been on the Internet longer than a month?

I text like I type/write, and even did with a dumb phone with a number pad and did so on USENET and BBSes. Why? Because text is a notoriously more difficult medium than talking in person through which to convey meaning.

Communication is hard! Face-to-face is hard even with people you know and who know you well. Text is much harder, so removing as much ambiguity as possible is desired.

Why should the reader be left to figure out if he's reading Tumblr dialect or Reddit dialect. If you want to be understood, if you actually want your message to "translate" as closely as possible to your meaning, the onus is on you.
Central Air Data Computer gave airspeed for fighters used gears for computations
BBBY is not in any major indices
Vaclav Smil - How the World Really Works, and Numbers Don't Lie.
Right. My point is that senior devs should be communicating the consequences of continuing down a rushed path. If management doesn't listen, they're making a calculated business decision (right or wrong).

If management is going down a rushed path and unaware of the tech debt piling up, that's a failure of senior developers to raise those issues.
Introduction to HTTP Multipart
They aren't buying your shares back if you aren't selling them. The buyback makes each share worth more. You don't sell. You have something more valuable than before and now you can borrow money against it. That's the point.
On the contrary, I find it more concerning that people are willing to discount the efforts of hundreds of people to progress human spaceflight just because the CEO is an asshole.

It is interesting that you would immediately default to a cult-of-personality retort when I never mentioned Elon in my original post. SpaceX is not just one man.
Agree, their mattresses are decent. Bought an expensive one from a seller with a guarantee recently, had to refund it as it sucked which turned in to a month long process. In the end, it was donated to charity and replaced from Ikea. Ikea's come in only two styles: firm (IMHO commonly ordered, more profitable for Ikea, but less likely to be considered comfortable by more than one person and more likely to lose shape) and extra firm (safe for more than one person, lower profit margin for Ikea, typically longer lasting).
Well, you could just think of it as energy storage...
I like his video too! Thanks for sharing.
I sold my Prius C last year and it was the biggest mistake. The goal was to get a slightly larger hatchback like the Kia Niro, but now I want the newer body style Niro but cant stomach buying a new car at a dealer. I'm stuck at the moment waiting for all these repos to come through so I can get something cheap for cash.
> ... I don't think meat is bad for individual health

I agree with you here too, meat eating isn't in and of itself unhealthy, but the quantity and scale that most people engage with it at is not doing their body any favors. You sound like a very conscious person when it comes to their body, which is unfortunately atypical.

As someone that is extremely active as well (training 5x per week muay thai and ashtanga yoga, with lots of kettlebell work mixed in), I also agree that recovery can be much harder on a vegetarian diet. You really have to think about your nutrition more, but personally I've decided it's fine for me to make that recovery sacrifice for the benefit of animals and the Earth. I don't expect others to do the same though and I'm fine with that.
… His secret is the workspace app Notion…

… the reason Notion has such a devoted fan base is its flexibility…

… Notion’s most devoted fans say they’re unlikely to jump ship to any other promising platforms anytime soon…

Is Notion so good, or is this product placement PR?

See:
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I pitched this on a recently thread, but it was 12+ hours after it was posted, so I'll try again here.

What I really want is a program to waste the time of phone calls making unsolicited sales pitches.

It would do voice to text, run a simple language model to generate responses, then synthesize the voice back. It doesn't need to be a sophisticated model, not much more sophisticated than the classic "Eliza" program. A few years back someone did this with a canned loop of vague responses and it fooled the sales people for surprisingly long:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoOrlh5i1k

It seems like it could all run locally for low latency. Probably the most important part to get right would be a TTS system that isn't immediately pegged as a robot.
The swiss knife of BBSing... it even had a Cost Manager that I used, so my parents won't kill me because of high phone bills.
When you did your DIY install, was that for everything (purchasing the necessary parts, wiring, roof mounting, etc), or did you DIY certain parts of it and leave the rest up to professionals?
It seems they are refining 4 more than planning a 5 based on different interviews. I’m not sure if it matters though, could just be a branding issue more than anything.
I'm also on the hiring side of this. I follow the process the company gives me.

Honestly speaking, 70% of the candidates can do the job, but I fail 90% because they can't pass the coding question. It's a filter with a serious problem. Yeah it's all we got, but that filter rate justifies a big discussion because it's crazy.
My hope is that if they aren't showing us the history then they literally aren't keeping it _at all_ (though they might keep it 30 days still for LE?).

That's probably just a dream and they just want to push you into keeping it on while they keep it for later just in case?

On the bright side this can be fixed with a client side extension :D
Two of the biggest (non industrial) CO2 emitters are heating and transportation.

One of the lowest hanging fruits would be reducing CO2 emitting car use, using a massive capital expenditure to enable lower emitting public transit and cycling to enable people to drive less.

It's endlessly frustrating that even those polices, where are relatively cheap in the grand scheme of things are apparently too impossible for our political leadership.
Yes, that's the key part.

Physiologically it's well known that that the antibacterial peptides are part of the immune system. They were discovered as a part of the pathogen defense mechanisms of insects, found to be present also in vertebrates as well and only then, of course, exploited for chemical mimicry as pharmaca.

How anybody could believe taking that component out from the rest of the defense system, and breed pathogen resistance against it in isolation, could be anything but begging for calamity is beyond me. It boggles the mind that this has been permitted to go on, but particularly unexpected it is not at all, sadly.
> perfecting my .vimrc instead of actually working on projects. Messing around with static site blog generators when I should actually just be writing content.

I feel attacked.
The thing is that, since you can only cluster around a single ordering, a boolean column is very rarely the most useful one to use.

But then, given the number of things that very rarely happen in a database, you are prone to have 1 or 2 of them happening every time you do something. Just not that specific thing; but if you keep all of those rules in mind, you will always be surprised.
Oh you racers are crazy people.

Me and my buddy are just trying to feel the wind in our hair. Maybe anchor for a night or two; maybe swim or catch a salmon.
This actually looks really promising. I find it really annoying to write yaml files and running shell scripts inside of a string. It also has a lot of boilerplate code that is just copy-pasted every time I need to write a new pipeline.

I really like the potential for a good community here just like Github Actions. Also first-class support for running the CI is a gamechanger. Really excited to see cicada's future
Would you read a paper on "wood coated transistors" ? :-)

I completely agree that the phrasing of the topic is misleading at best. However, the paper does add to the growing body of work on "organic" electronics. The journey of organic LEDs from concept to product is, to me, an interesting corollary. How much "metal" can you remove from electronics? How many of the elements that make electronics "toxic"? How many of the properties of the underlying organic base can you retain while still having a signal carrying capacity?

As an example;

E-"paper", made from cellulose hosted transistors, that are configured not to "switch" but to change the chemical composition of a "pixel" that changes is light absorption characteristics (and thus its "color" with respect to non-activated pixels.

Clearly a sci-fi "dream" or construction at this point, but understanding how to make cellulose a conductor while retaining the ability to make it into paper is a step toward possible realization of such an idea.

The bottom line for me is that "organic" electronics is one of those black swan type ideas that could really change a lot of things. So I collect papers like this one to track what people with time to research the questions find out. :-)
> So if I don't get dividends, can't vote, and am not entitled to a share of the company's assets

As a stockholder, you are entitled to a share of the remaining assets after debts are paid at dissolution.

Of course, the nature of bankruptcy liquidation is that there tend not to be remaining assets.
I presume you were scratching your own itch but maybe you can answer a question for me, why are the majority of productivity apps on here only available on IOS?
One way valves in nanotubes and nanopumps for wrestling mats on the floor and walls to remove pools and gobbs of human sweat and reduce the risks of spreading bacteria and fungi among athletes? Do 3M material sciengineering experts knowhow?
Note that OpenAI is under pressure from the EU to do something about using user data. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/19/1071789/openais-...
Jumping from Kermit to ZModem was quite a revelation for this Muppets fan. I was so sad to find I'd been needlessly reducing my download speed just by going with the fuzzy green frog, when presented with all of the different download options.
Here's a YouTube link to anyone curious about transparent wood: https://youtu.be/uUU3jW7Y9Ak

I don't know if I agree with it being "incredibly dishonest" - I think it's a bit misleading (like most popular science), but it comes from a place of wanting to get clicks/ be more mass-appeal, rather than to actually deceive.
I hear you. I actually thought about this when making the comment, but decided to make it because the website at hand, gwern, is also deeply interested in AI and GPT and has a lot of posts about it.

It does feel a bit like the mid 2010s when everyone was talking about applying blockchain to everything. The difference, I think, is that the proof is in the pudding. I have browser plugins and HTML5 physics simulators now that I didn't have just months ago.

Re: your particular issue, I am not joking, you should use ChatGPT to help you write a browser plugin that simply blocks those comments. The browser plugin I mentioned that I used GPT to create is actually for blocking low-effort HN comments. My HN browsing experience is much better because of it.
Oh that's where that Day-O song came from. I thought it was a bespoke commercial jingle this whole time.

One Day Sale.
Kermit is still used in the embedded space, on modern platforms specifically for uboot.

zmodem can also be used in embedded spaces to retrieve files if the only interface is a serial port.
Even if we used sulfur, it's a band-aid solution. But it could buy time.
It's a hidden gem, but gvsbuild [1] has made it easier again these days - I just discovered it ~a year ago and it's beautiful :)

[1] https://github.com/wingtk/gvsbuild
In French class I was taught that /y/ can be made simply by doing /i/ while the lips are fully rounded.
+ macOS
I found this the funniest:

Joshua Achiam @jachiam0·2h

Perhaps a hidden hand is at work here. Maybe this is a part of ChaosGPT's master plan
Just realized I meant to say *Notion and not Motion... note to self, don't leave HN comments when you're sitting up at 4AM with acid reflux :P
The media is reporting what scientists are saying, who thoroughly consider all angles. You don't see it mentioned because it's a hypothesis that was rejected (long ago), with reason.

Hint: The _rate of change_ is critical. Past climate shifts that happened in short order, lead to mass extinction events (like we're participating in now).

If you're truly "really curious" and "not trolling", there's a wealth of information at your fingertips!
It’s probably a good idea to disable Edge’s follow creator feature until this privacy issue is fixed.
I'm older than median around here but still firmly working age. A black man was lynched in my hometown during my lifetime. There was no trial.

One of the things most consistently infuriating about discussions of american policy on HN is how firmly committed we are overall to not reckoning with this. This is very recent history, they didn't just admit defeat or become wholesome ex-segregationists for the most part. The policies continue to have effects, and the intergenerational nature of wealth imbalance means even if they didn't we'd still expect to see consequences into the present.

I jokingly refer to the way the civil rights era is taught to elementary school children as "and then the last racist killed MLK." I don't think that's necessarily even an inappropriate way to first bring it up with young children. But I wish people here expected more of themselves.
Well, the FTC has already made companies delete models which relied on deceptive trade practices to acquire data.

So if they offer the setting and then ignore it, they could literally be forced to delete their model. Overall if you trust them to hire lawyers who understand that, and plan accordingly, you can trust the setting.
> The most obvious one would be WFH. We had a global feasibility test, and from the worker's perspective consensus is

WFH was never about the workers perspective, it was enforced and companies had no choice.

That the workers were positive about it is irrelevant to whether companies were productive with it

If you go far back enough in my comment history you'll find me arguing FOR WFH, but I'll still be the first to admit that all companies I personally observed took a huge hit to productivity when WFH was in force.
Do you have any citations for that specific figure that lay out a timeline?
> Companies may deem these acceptable concessions relative to having a consistent and un-biased process....

YES! Yes, exactly. A consistent and unbiased process that reliably weeds out people who is very bad at programming is incredibly useful. I'm not convinced live coding interviews are either of those things, but assuming they are, they are absolutely worth the listed downsides. Do they filter out lots of great programmers along with the bad applicants? Yes, totally, and that's a major waste. But all of the listed alternatives are less reliable, less consistent, slower, and friendlier to cheating.

I would love to eliminate live coding interviews where I work. I hate the things. But I have never encountered a mostly consistent and kinda objective solution that compares. I was hopeful that the essay was leading to a proposal for one and disappointed once again at its lack. Please, someone tell me what the giant tech companies should use instead, and I will gladly throw these "please reverse this linked list" interviews into the trash.
There are tools which overwrite linked libraries, eg: chrpath.
Does anyone else get irrationally annoyed at their keyboards changing what they type to Brand Correct Language?

As in, I type youtube but it gets autocorrected to YouTube. I don't want to give that much respect to the brand!

Less irrational was when helping my parents shop for new windows while they were doing a remodel. Yes, keyboard, I mean physical windows for the house not Windows the OS, please stop.
Tongue in cheek, but it would be extremely nice if you made something scrollable, too.
There is a spectrum of permaculture that ranges from low yield totally self managing systems where you basically hunt and forage, to high yield partially automated systems that almost look like slick modern farms. Those low yield systems can still be very productive, but you have to go get it, so it's obviously more of a subsistence farmer or agritourism thing.
There is nothing weird about it. I have been doing it, and many others I personally know have done it since forever. It seems for boarding school folks, at least around where I am from, diary is really a companion right from the beginning; for me it has been since really young. However I also happily use one or two clean/simple note taking apps and it is on my phone at any given time (paid or free; but strictly non-subscription).
I couldn't agree more with this! so much bad stuff to un-wind and hacky stuff from the previous person who (badly)wired the outlets and other stuff I swapped out.
Look at the political strain that develops when gasoline prices increase in the US and Canada. Loads of people start demanding cheaper gas and expect the government to step in and ensure low-ish gas prices.

The gas tax hasn't budged since 1993 despite really needing it, largely because of the backlash politicians would get for making gasoline more expensive.
Agreed. I doubt they're allowed to say out loud that they're releasing 5 soon and it'll be as much a step up as 4 was compared to 3.5. They can call it 4.1 but that won't change the outcome.
> the third-largest tech market in the world

Do you have a link handy?
> If the company were to wind up while still solvent,

Has this ever happened to a publicly traded company?
Ask HN: What is an event you would attend in Portland
If you were in Portland, OR May 3rd to May 8th, what would you do or go to, etc. I have a few ideas but open to suggestions, everything is whatever really.
Now, try to switch away from Authy. That's the trouble you'll find.
> and you also were told that exceptional men do not concern themselves with small evils

I personally find some immorality in whoever is telling people this.

This is that gray area, why is "going along" preferable to not; and when is that line actually crossed?

But Rothbard's position, to me, has it's own mountains of gray area that could often lead one to taking no action and allowing evil instead of acting against it through ones own "sin". The Nazi populace, here, rather than the Nazi soldiers and officials. Perhaps that's what I missed: is there a blame in Rothbard's math that accrues to inaction? I know you aren't advocating as doing nothing, but to me that seems like it would be a common individual decision from the "these actions are all one sin or another" calculus.

What's your take on this flip of that war/"just following orders" scenario: would it be a smaller evil for an external country to assassinate Putin with the goal of trying to end the war in Ukraine with less overall death, than the evil of supporting Ukraine in what then becomes a longer, bloodier war? (Or would supporting Ukraine not be seen as evil despite leading to deaths?)

EDIT: for the "storm the capital" example - does that action come from failed moral reasoning, or from beliefs that differ from those of those who wouldn't storm the capital? Couldn't they arrive at "this is a sin, but it is still the least bad option" even in that Rothbardian sense?
> The age of adtech is closing and the world is better for it.

YouTube Premium exists and plenty of people still use adblock, or nothing at all. Most people are not going to pay for a subscription.

As for your other point, SaaS is a thing and has been for over a decade...

If anything I'd say ChatGPT is the beginning of next-gen adtech.
> unintentional strawman against demonstrating any kind of coding during an interview process

I don't think that's a fair statement. One of the alternatives, take-home coding exercises (with possible live call afterward), is a kind of "coding during the interview process", yes?

The essay more specifically concerns a certain specific type of coding evaluation, with live evaluator who is unknown to you, in a setup which inhibits many normal problem-solving techniques (pacing, drawing notes, thinking silently for 10 minutes, etc.)

> It can literally be a simple task that one would expect any working software developer to be able to complete without too much fuss.

I think the two of you are in agreement even for that point. That is, the author seems to agree, writing "They likely do a great job filtering out people who are incapable of programming".
I'm actually not so sure, especially if you use buses. The problem is its inconvenient, and if you have a car you take that instead of a bus, so no one takes the bus, which makes it hard to justify the bus and frequent schedules.

Our small suburban city of 15k actually has free bus service up and down our main stroad. Everyone is probably within a 15 minute walk to it. But it's aimed mostly at school kids, so the hours are very sparse during certain times of the day. E.g. when schools tend to get out it's every 10 minutes, but outside of those hours its every hour or so.

A lot of it is cultural too. My wife lived in Santa Monica, and she would drive for 1 hour to go 2 miles rather than walk or bike, and this behavior was common among her friends.

I live a 10 minute walk to school. My neighbors still drive their kids to school. There's no (good) excuse for that.
Netflix subscriptions wouldn't exist in this situation, your example is flawed
After exiting the expansion phase, we are in a consolidation and cut expenses cycle. If you can increase productivity then you will find value. If you take a tech specific viewpoint this is the hope for AI. At the same time AI will create new market opportunities overall. In addition the digital transition and the digital to cloud transition will continue.
Twitter has the advantage of huge entrenchment of many communities for a lot of use cases, and a lack of good competitors. I do not believe that a decentralized alternative is likely to take their place.
Facebook work filtering posts 'cost me my humanity'
We haven't figured out commercial pricing yet. It may be a scale based on company revenue. Targeting bigger businesses though, it will be less than it would cost to develop the model independently, but likely trying to target low 5 figures.

The datasets are also available and a non-commercial Creative Commons license. You can pay $5 for a download and rehost it elsewhere, or just wait for me to upload it to Kaggle or Hugging Face
I've had to copy text out of Chrome and into an editor to decipher an I versus an l before (mostly for imgur links or the like), its awfully annoying