skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm someone who has used and paid for Notion for several years at this point.

What I would say is that it's very versatile. It has almost Atlassian Jira levels of features (and arguably of bloat), and it's possible to reasonably organise a lot of thoughts/knowledge/tasks in a wide range of ways.

I think the reason why it's so popular and oft lauded is because the range of capability allows people to really engineer workflows and processes that work for them and that without the prompts of the examples that Notion and its community provide they may not otherwise arrive at.

So for me I'd probably say that the product itself is fairly good. It's far from flawless (e.g., it uses Electron), but does a solid job of a wide range of things. The killer differentiator against its competitors, however, is the library of templates and example projects - this initially was produced by Notion itself but then the community really grew, shared its own interpretations, and _productivity content creators_ really latched onto it as a good conduit for communicating workflows, processes, and systems for working/getting tasks done.
> Remember, public domain is the natural state of information.

Nah, decaying is the natural state of information. It requires non-trivial effort to keep information available for reading and interpreting. Even paper, one of the best mediums for storing data over time, decomposes if not actively protected.
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Someone was just talking about using geothermal energy from Yellowstone. Maybe we can use it here? Just a wild thought.
It is anecdotal as soon as you look at places that aren't US like EU.
While hearing about record sea level heat numbers on the radio this morning, it occurred to me that a project to actively cool the ocean with zero-emission energy (ideally nuclear) might be a worthy undertaking.
> Betteridge's law of headlines aside.

Godwin-Bettridge-Graham law: Any headline that ends in a question mark which is posted to HN will have Bettridge's law of headlines mentioned at least once in its first dozen comments.
Insurance money? Maybe they wanted to build a better launch pad.
We should be able to use the latest horizontal drilling tech from fracking to tap Yellowstone from miles away
More surprised that theverge is using word "leaking", when it should be "sending" or "reporting". Leaking, make it look like an accidental behaviour.
I have periods of intense thinking of a problem I am trying to solve.

Then I just do something different. Take a shower, go for a walk, whatever. For me changing the environment helps a lot, or using my body.

Then the ideas start to flow.
Get TLDR, the examples it gives almost always save me from man or google. So handy!
Thanks for trying it out! Right now we give the game engine some initial examples, and some character details are stored outside of the LLM context.

The token limit problem / memory isn't really being handled very well yet.
There is some character consistency slippage that does happen with the current mechanism as well so hoping to tackle both of these in next version.

Trying to figure out the best way to get community input, long term would be great if anyone can make a custom RPG with custom world rules and lore.
I stopped at "contradiction" when it became clear the author has no idea how investments work or what wealthy people do with their money.
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I love using my macs for development, but I would not say that it's "very similar to linux". Having to go out of your way to install a package manager is one of these things.

WSL is close enough to linux that a lot of docs just add in a little note for WSL users to follow linux instructions instead of windows.
For that to happen, living in a dense urban area needs to be much less expensive than living out in the middle of nowhere. The average income in Mississippi is around $25k / year. I'm not sure what the distribution curve looks like, but I'd guess 2/3 of the population make at least $20k / year. Cities should be designed so that a person can live a good life on $20k / year in a city.
Social media scatters your brain, and then you buy stuff you don’t need
Right, that's the canonical way to produce the vowel.

But what the video explains is the fact that the rounding is actually less fundamental than the length of the resonating tract. It means that you can keep your lips unrounded and produce a vowel very, very similar to the canonical /y/

Edit: I made a typo in my original comment, I meant to say "by centralizing /i/ slightly" (not "/u/")
Right. Once you take the lignite out of wood, you have a porous structure into which you can put other liquids. There are other variations on this theme - super strong wood, conductive wood, etc.[1] Some of those tricks work on cellulose agricultural waste.

Probably the most useful idea in this direction is oriented-strand board from bagasse, the long strands left after sugar is remove from sugar cane. Layers oriented in different directions are glued together, like plywood, to make something like particleboard, but with better tensile strength. It's a low-end composite material.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stronger-than-ste...
I feel all discussions about the coding interview are missing two critical points: first, how we got here, and second, why are we still here.

First, how we got here. I didn't experience this first hand, so I'm just making a recount based on what I've heard and read from "old timers". My understanding is that before whiteboard, leetcode-style interviews became the norm, tech interviews were mostly unstructured and quite informal. In the really old times (pre 90s) you could get a job just by knowing how to use a computer. I believe this wasn't that unusual in the 90s and early 2000s. I still remember hearing a founder-CEO bragging that his interview process was a 30 min chat with each candidate, and if he liked them, he would hire them.

From what I could gather Microsoft is the first big company that started using these "coding challenges". Then they became wildly popular thanks to Joel Spolsky [1], the publishing of Cracking the Coding Interview [2], and Google made brain teasers world famous.

Second, why we are still here. First, I believe there is a huge cargo-cult factor. Companies want to copy big tech, and alumni from these companies go on to found their own. This kind of interview has been honed and polished over the years, landing in a local optimum. An entire industry of websites and products has been created, and there are many entrenched interests. People might hate it, but the process works well enough for tech companies that they don't need to worry too much about it. Another under-appreciated factor is scale. This kind of interview sort-of scales well, which is important when you hire at a massive scale. That's why things like "have the candidate come to work one day and pay them" won't work for companies that need to screen thousands of people a week. Lastly, a standardized and "well known" process introduces some guardrails that can avoid some obvious pitfalls. The book "Working Backwards" explain how the Bar Raiser program was created at Amazon when a bad senior leader hire used the unstructured approach to hiring to build an empire misaligned with the company. At a big enough company this is bound to happen sooner or later.

Third, where do we go from here? I find it extremely unlike existing big companies will change their methodology any time soon. It might not seem like it, but for a company like Google it would be a massive undertaking to overhaul their hiring process. It would take years to achieve the level of efficiency and effectiveness of the current system, and surely there would be tons of opposition.

I believe the only way forward is for new companies to experiment with other methods of hiring, particularly at the beginning when they are nimble and can experiment freely. As they grow they will face challenges scaling, polishing and standardizing their process. At some point they will become the next generation of Big Tech, and the cargo cult wheel might spin again.

In any event it seems we need some sort of structured approach to hiring where we assess the match between company and candidate.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...

[2] https://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/
I think many people underestimate the capabilities of SQL databases by a couple orders of magnitude. I once worked on a feature that integrated tightly with a third party service. Their api didn't have any support for aggregate queries, and my company was smaller without real BI or data team, so I ended up writing a tool to dump our account data into a local Postgres db in order to do a some data analysis. By the time I left the company that db was approaching 50 GB, the table holding the primary data had about 40 million rows, and a couple of the supporting tables were over 100 million rows. This was all on a 2018-era Dell dev laptop - a fairly powerful machine (6 core/12 thread, 32 GB RAM, SSD), but certainly no server. It took about 90 seconds to update the materialized views that summarized the data I looked at most frequently. More than acceptable for my use case, and there was a lot of room for improvement in that schema (it was pretty much a straight dump of the api data).
I agree with you here. I'm not advocating everyone be vegan -- I'm not even personally vegan! I don't even think most people should be vegetarian, as much as I'd love to live in that future. I don't even think I made any arguments one way or the other, just that it's generally pretty bad and maybe we should do less of it!

I just find that most people when confronted with a fairly straightforward way to mitigate massive environmental and global health problems (eat less meat), people will get up in arms and defensive and shut the conversation down immediately. They'll make all sorts of assumptions about what you're implying about them, which I feel like points to the fact that people in their deepest self know that it's somewhat wrong.

It's kinda funny is all, it's the same behavior I engaged in when people told me I should consider smoking less or not at all.
> It prompted a lot of discussions in my workplace cafeteria and I recall it was discussed at length on Blind. The consensus I saw at the time was that Amazon has a really rough culture and something needed to change.

There have been multiple reports in the Seattle Times about how brutal of a place to work for. It's been a while but I recall a headline about how often an employee broke down and cried at their desk.

Open secret basically at this point.
This Notion spam is getting tiresome.
Edge sends data to Bing. What's the leak here.
Why would a user want to disallow training?
Gotta get out and move in your free time. It'll only get worse if you don't.
I guess how I feel is, if there are 50 new services that spring up overnight with different opt outs that would be annoying for people to deal with. If the website operator isn’t getting value out of the service they might just block you or put content behind an paywall and we all lose. =/

Also, the article claims the scraping generated so much traffic that it got reported to the owner as an attack. I’m not claiming anything other than what’s being reported. They should have at least throttled their application to reduce the load.

If the owner didn’t notice the scraping we might not even be having this conversation.
Having a purpose keeps one alive. One of those purposes can be working productively.
People love to say stuff like this. Meanwhile, I've never opened the App Store, have installed every GUI app on my system with Homebrew, most notable apps aren't even distributed through the App Store...
This looks excellent! I have a soft-spot for the elegance of Lisp but can't live without a robust type system. A few questions I didn't see immediate answers to on the GH page (sorry if I missed something/could've found those answers if I digged a little deeper):

1. Beyond the typeclasses you mentioned, how powerful is the type system beyond standard HM stuff? Are there GADTs/existential types? Any other interesting features?

2. The lack of records sounds like it might be a deal-breaker for current use. Is that as bad as it sounds? Is it something that is expected to be addressed soon? Are there any other large omissions?

3. How does it integrate into the existing Common Lisp ecosystem, if at all? Is there any friction there?

4. On that note: in the REPL example it looks like you need to wrap your expressions with (coalton ...), which feels like it'd get frustrating. Is there any way around that? I guess even a reader macro would help...but still wouldn't be ideal.

5. Is Coalton backed by any kind of corporate funding? And (assuming you're involved in Coalton in a professional capacity) ...you guys hiring?
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Regardless of any special events going on, check out Ground Kontrol Arcade. They got real nice drinks and large amounts of authentic arcade/pinball machines - new and old.
> I can imagine that the consequence of this might actually just be strengthening the "barrier" the magma has to erupt through, and when it finally builds up enough energy to do that, it'll be stronger in proportion to how strong the newly cooled down barrier had become?

Certainly the movie version has the one rogue scientist working late into the night redoing the calculations and realizing that as soon as the plant goes live it will trigger the volcano.

In real life, I have no idea how this kind of thing gets analyzed, and what kind of uncertainty is involved. It feels a bit like those "put a bunch of reflectors in space to stop climate change" ideas. On the other hand, removing energy from a system seems like a good way to make it safer...
There is a plot point a bit along those lines in the DLC for Horizon Zero Dawn with a project to prevent a Yellowstone eruption that is controlled by an AI.
I have met people who think they understand a particular topic I am versed in, but actually don't. Similarly, I am often wary that I get superficial knowledge about a topic I don't know much about through "laymen" resources, and I doubt one can have an appropriate level of understanding mainly through analogies and metaphors. It's a kind of "epistemic anxiety". Of course, there are "laymen" books I stumbled upon which I think go to appropriate levels of depth and do not "dumb down" to shallow levels the topics, yet remain accessible, like Gödel's Proof, by Ernest Nagel. I'd be glad to read about similar books on all topics, including the one discussed in this thread.

Knowledge is hard to attain...
Plug for a friend who is building this exact thing - a tool that makes Obsidian collaborative, and also allows syncing between Obsidian / Roam / Notion

https://samepage.network/
I still miss sz and rz when I ssh from a computer with no ssh server like nearly every windows box. If I remember right, sz = send a file from the server I'm in back to the client server. rz = receive a file from the client server.

You can accomplish the with a new scp session on the client server, but it's an extra step. I use this as a helper when for building the scp command.

function scppath() {
echo $USER@$(hostname).$(dnsdomainname):$(realpath $1)
]
No. Atleast not on Firefox. I think? idk lol
By default yes.

My search suggestions are disabled and I exclusively use keyword searching like g, y, ddg, da, ...
I had closed the HN thread, but after reading this line, I reopened it:

>During operation, the covert operating system (AMSS) has complete control over the hardware, microphone and camera.

W-T-F

Microphone and camera control?! If this is true, it's a government spy's wet dream, and a privacy nightmare.
The reliability of sleep/wake was the original killer app for me on a Mac laptop. I used to carry my Dell around from meeting to meeting flat with the lid half-open, just so that I could get started right away when I sat down.

I borrowed a Macbook and being able to snap the lid shut, carry it normally, then open it and just start typing was so freeing. It sounds like a small thing, but a small thing repeated many times throughout many days adds up.

My wife has a work-issued Dell and it is amazing how loud the fans get while it is sitting, unattended, with the lid closed. We notice it not infrequently… why did the TV get quieter? Oh, actually the background noise got louder.

It’s amazing that “sleep” is still an issue for Microsoft Windows computers today.
Have seen more than one report of a modern Dell Windows 10/11 Laptop that melted itself while shut and supposedly "sleeping" in a backpack because it randomly decided to fully wake up and run some CPU intensive process.
The shitty advertisements in Apple News would beg to disagree that Apple doesn’t think advertising is worth it, or the App Store advertising that has all but ruined organic search on the App Store, which I would think would be an even more dangerous road to walk down, but no they are absolutely jogging towards advertising with gusto.

And I fucking hate it as an apple customer for a couple decades now, I’ve watched the slow slide and I’m not saying it’s as an “if only Steve was still…” I just mean that the company no longer has product people making the ultimate decisions and consequently the product is suffering the slow death by business decision done based on what’s best for this quarter/year profit margins…
Ha yes. If I were to write down my habits into a style guide "never use the preferred capitalization of any brand" would definitely make it in there.
Probably because he knows doing so would make his life harder and give him less data to scrape.
Not sure what “Stable Diffusion” this is using; the interface doesn’t look like either of the StabilityAI frontends (clipdrop or DreamStudio) that make the newest model (SDXL) available, looks like maybe stablediffusionweb?

Doing some quick testing on ClipDrop, the sets I’ve run have been overall – and mostly individually for each set of four – more diverse than their results (using no style filter, and the analog film, photographic, and cinematic styles) in gender, race, and (for the men) facial hair style or lack thereof.

(Heck, I don’t keep the base models around, but my usual first-choice-for-general use SD1.5-based checkpoint is a lot more diverse on this prompt, too — a explicit style prompting; i wonder if the site they are using is doing a lot of extra hidden positive and/or negative prompting — or a fine-tuned model w that might be introducing additional bias — to get what they feel is a consumer-friendly look from quick prompts.)
For some context, Rothbard is really hard on the volunteerism angle, he is a philosopher searching for non-violent ways of formulating society. He is one of the stronger "proto-libertarians" in my view because he recognizes that undoing existing social programs is just as arbitrary as creating them: forcing a government to be small requires a powerful government. Hence the Ouroboros reference; you can't escape the violence! Rothbard isn't saying "do nothing", he's really saying "it's impossible to undo the mistake" - a statue can never be torn down without incurring more violence.

Re: Putin and Ukraine - this is a perfect example really. It would be a small evil to assassinate Putin. So we must accept we can not have a government that cannot commit evil. This line of thinking is enough to turn most libertarians or pacifist/volunteerist into plain old republicans or democrats (which is one reason why there are not many moderate libertarians). I fully support Ukraine - and to support them - we must do a bit of evil. However: whoever actually pulls a trigger and kills another human being, even a mass murderer, is still a murderer themselves. If the solution to killing is killing, we will never solve the problem. So long as we accept that, we can have a chat about the conflict in Europe!

Re: The capital: Yes! So we have to accept that no one committing violence (either defending or attacking the capital) is morally clean in the entire situation, and that everyones argument for committing violence needs to be understood and judged. This is, to my continued amazement, actually exactly what has happened. We do this for mass murderers and terrorists and people who rape other people. It's exceptional and I don't think we're proud enough as a species of what we've done. Throwing out our "gray area" and replacing it with moral certainty is the only real danger!

Edit: I've enjoyed this chat! TY! I should get back to work now xD
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According to wakatime, sometimes I go a few days with 0 hours, and sometimes I hit 15. Programming productivity tends to be very streaky for me.
LOL!! I thought I was the only person who did this. Back in the mid-90's I did the same thing. One day I was feeling a bit randy and decided to visit a certain centerfold magazine website and download some images that way.
I’ve gotten around this when I need by deleting the viewport containing the headers and moving out the large chat div, then I use one of the debug screen cap commands built into chrome on that div to save a giant tall image. Kinda bad, they should eventually just make print specific css.
Cicada: Write CI/CD Pipelines in TypeScript
Yes, I phrased my comment incorrectly; I had in mind identifying (all) the cycles, and that for a linked list they're the same thing. For a DAG it doesn't generalize because you can't find more cycles without storage to exclude the earlier ones.
Perhaps, but by the time this happens, I'll probably have died of old age. And if it happens sooner, then I expect that there will be electric cars that, either as designed or through aftermarket modifications, won't phone home.

And if that doesn't happen, then I guess I won't be using a car. Which is probably the best idea in terms of environmental impact, anyway.
This links to a TestFlight help page.
>There are ads in my OS user interface!

Yes.

But this can all be turned off through settings, GPO or this:
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Congrats for the promising project :)!
What is the main difference between dagger.io and Cicada ?
Thanks
Change the min iOS to 15 or something
Yeesh, I was just trying to get availability information about the 2023 Bolt EV a few weeks ago and was told no dice for at least a year. Presumably now that means never.

The article says the sales "lagged behind" the tesla model 3, but the two weren't in remotely the same price bracket, and as far as I know every bolt EUV produced was sold immediately if not in advance. There must be some important motivating information missing from the article. They had a slam dunk vehicle that was possibly best in class that people actually lined up to buy, and the piece makes it sound like there are no comparable replacements planned.
Well, for one thing, for such quantity to make physical sense, both the real part and the imaginary part should be of the same dimension, e.g. "length." Also, the result of a measurement is supposed to come from (be an eigenvalue of) an observable - an operator, and, on the one hand, I think I'd have a hard time conjuring one up; on the other hand, the eigenvalues are "supposed to be" real anyway! So, no, that doesn't work.
sz and rz! Such good memories.
Hmm... where do we pump the heat to?
Now keep reading on to literally the next sentence.

The article's point is that the `if-else` behavior is inconsistent with `match`. And based on the part about double quotes in comments, the parser seems to be fucked up something fierce in other ways too.
And in case anyone doesn't know why, it's so autocomplete works.
Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus
Mattel introduces first Barbie doll representing a person with Down syndrome
They are in love with Apple.
This isn't relegated to animal agriculture.....
> The age of adtech has only just begun.

I learned a new word recently: Neuromarketing

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