skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hit ⌘RAC (Reload Select-All Copy) enough times to copy the text to the clipboard and pasted into a text editor.
The analogy that came to my mind was that if you take a deck of playing cards and lay all the cards out on a table, face down, the table weighs a certain amount (the table's weight, plus weight of the cards). Then, if you flip over five cards at random, you have created enough new information to make a poker hand. But, the weight of the table did not change when you created that information.
Home Prices Are Rising Even in One of the Worst-Hit US Markets
Oil Companies Give Back the Cash
And leave instant record transfer on the table in the time of an emergancy? I think all health records should be encrypted using pubkey crypto one key to patient and one to provider.
Okay thanks. Anything of substance?
Well the Patriot Act was not going to just pass its self.
Yahoo Once Considered Buying Netflix – But Unfortunately Acquired Tumblr Instead
Imho the problem with LaTeX CVs is that they all look bleak and the same because it is (on purpose) tedious to create anything except the standard format.
Brain does not have capsule networks
https://archive.ph/PIO4X
The article is too fluffed and tries to make a general judgement about platforms that is in reality more nuanced. But I agree with some part of it - platforms are often abused by their owners.
BOOM! -- with ONLY one move, world is getting better and better everyday!

I know this sounds idealist, but, They should make this patent free to all.
I'm sure OP can just share his erotic memoir of his exploits to explain.
....and which cars actually support this vaporware?
You'll be disappointed, it's not an entirely new client but rather a hybrid. Some pages are in a new design, some in the old, it's a huge mish mash in the same way Windows is.
RIP Metaverse, We Hardly Knew Ye
Apple barely pays dividends. Shareholders seem very content in not getting them.
Why do you think the workforce who generated record profits for Intel only a couple years back are suddenly "unneeded"? That's just reflects the dumb decisions made by the leadership. If anything the CEOs and upper management who made those bad decisions and still taking millions in bonuses should be fired.
I recently used Ink to build a small debugging CLI for a websocket-heavy project of mine. All it does is subscribe to a specific channel and print out the message or send dummy data when I press a specific button. The frontend websocket code could be reused easily so it was very fast to do.

Very convenient to run multiple terminals as multiple clients in parallel. Much nicer at least than something like Postman for Websocket tests.

Full screen took some time to get right and still flickers when using iterm 2. But it does work on the apple terminal and for now I am happy with that.

My only issue is that Ink does not support nested rendering / overlays, i.e. modals.
We don't tolerate poorly named variable and method names in software development - why is it tolerated in mathematical notation?
Steam is better DRM than the DRM options we had before, which were an absolute nightmare. Upgraded your motherboard? Better call customer support to get your account restored.

Spore is the worst example[0] that I remember. The article has someone complaining "no way am I paying $50 to rent a game!", but while we still do that (irritatingly) at least the "rental" process is now smooth and streamlined, and, in my experience, works great.

[0] https://www.denofgeek.com/games/has-spore-been-destroyed-by-...
> the broad political environment of Ukraine. Of which the ideological figurehead is now Stepan Bandera. Do you disagree?

Bandera died in 1959 [1]. Maybe you mean symbol instead of figurehead?

If so, still, I would love to see reliable polling for his sustained support in any prominent, extant Ukrainian political movement. Because from what I see, it remains a problematic pocket of the Ukrainian population, and one to a large degree under Russian occupation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera
> It's not an idea, it's a literal legal duty.

It is a legal duty but there's a huge amount of leeway. You could certainly implement lots of policies that put employees on close to equal footing and argue that it's in the best interest of the company. No one would find you in breach of fiduciary duty, although the board/shareholders might disagree and remove you.
Google Ads - Their bread and butter product is a mess.

I find Google Search Ads ( excluding partner network ) to be disappointing in recent years.
Layers of complexity and reduced effectiveness.

With Google Ads I believe a decline is on the way for the company.

No one breached their moat, they are just screwing it on their own.
Making it progressively worse.
> Richer data does not mean better data. It does not mean more actionable data either.

How actionable you make it depends on how good your engineers are. Diverse input data is definitely more actionable than just RGB pixels from images.

> But maybe it's not. Maybe the additional flops required for sensor fusion would be more useful if given over to the planning part of the problem. After all, you don't have infinite cycles.

On the contrary, it reduces your compute requirements. For example, adding lidar means you are getting direct distance measurements instead of wasting compute cycles predicting distance using voxels. It's a much more effective use of compute.
The exec does know how to work it out: You hire a consultant to give you an answer.

The job of the executive isn't to know the answer to every question. Their job is to make sure questions get answered. There are an infinite number of ways you can do this and hiring a consultant is a valid option.
WCCFTech is pretty much blogspam, their output is targeted towards Red vs. Green and Console vs. PC outrage. It is mostly regurgitating press releases, probably written by ChatGPT at this point.

The content is barely journalism to start with.
Unsurprising to see TV writing overtake film writing in the last decade plus; TV writings lends itself much more to streaming shows (which are considered TV even if they never appear on cable / "normal" television).

Interesting that adjusted for inflation however, writing pays roughly what it does in the mid 1990s per the article.

That's a little surprising.

It's also probably a more competitive industry however, and the median pay (which is what's measured) doesn't account for the best writers probably doing better than ever. And then maybe more part time people trying to break into the field but not getting much.

If there's a pretty large middle ground buoyed by union pay scales and contracts, then both ends (high/low) will not really be accounted for in the statistics.
> If they don’t have anything coming down the pipe, they should save their money.

I know it's a hypothetical and I get your point in a way, but I think in that example the execs have some explaining to do as well, as to why they hired those 500 FTEs for a temporary need, or why they apparently have no further interesting ideas to work on. I guess you could point to Shopify or Meta as a real-life example of this, where they were on an absolute hiring spree and didn't stop to ask themselves if they actually needed that staff in the first place.

If they never plan to expand again, it sounds like the company will wither without any innovation or research taking place, and if they do plan to do another 180 and hire 500 people next year, they really need to consider how expensive hiring and training is and maybe smooth out their pipeline a bit so they don't have to oscillate so wildly.
That's an interesting idea, I've been thinking of ways to make submitting easier (silence, kill-word, etc.) Whatever the case, it would need to be optionable ofc
The Geopolitics of AI Chips Will Define the Future of AI
Show HN: Complete guide to reward modeling for RLHF (with code)
This post consists of two parts. The first part explains the reward modeling process along with the gist of various important research that led to the evolution of reward modeling as we see it today. The second part is a step-by-step Python implementation and explanation for training a reward model.
What is an honourable spoil of war? Surely it's just theft?
The basic G-Shock (e.g 5600 model) will be around $50 which I think is a fair price given the ruggedness of the thing. More expensive models (like 5610) will be in $100 range since they have solar cells and self-adjust based on radio signals from atomic clocks. I think that's fair (I don't have one though, I'm cheap :) ).
The end of the article speculates that the sheet system was dropped since the tiles appear scrambled. I'm wondering if the artists still used the sheet system, but a memory optimizer tool re-ordered the tiles to help free up a little more space on the ROM.
> its not at all clear which will be the leading platform going forward (Python, R, Julia or something else altogether). This ambivalence might sound absurd on the face of the exponential recent growth of Python

It sounds absurd because trends don't reverse overnight. You can be fairly confident that Python will be the top language in this space for a while and that R will never be the top choice for most applications.
It's the least painful way to create a high quality PDF. And "fiddling around with abstruse technical stuff" (not that I agree with the characterisation) is something probably 80% of HN enjoy.
I am comparing child sacrifice to the externalities of a dividends-driven system. We may not kill our children with knives, but we certainly let them starve.
Illegal gold mining influencers are tearing up the Amazon
Well, Amazon running applications on AWS Lambda is more like them having a general purpose cluster which all their services borrow when they need to run some boring unpredictable tasks than it being some bizarre remote service thing. I mean, it's theirs, it's technically local. Local enough.
It seems like the enshittification life cycle directly results from the involvement of venture funding, since it requires the infusion of capital to allow operating at a loss in the beginning, baiting users onto the platform while killing off competitors.

By contrast, the Basecamp approach of bootstrapping cannot make the initial first step of operating at a loss by definition.
This is classic. It would be helpful for folks to put this into context.

Madame CJ Walker was the first self-made woman millionaire in America. She created beauty products for Black women, a deeply underserved market, and recruited thousands of women to sell them directly to consumers (as well as through salons or mail-order). The women working for her earned good commissions, by all accounts, so that's a bit different. Through history, the opportunity to earn money directly through gig work has been very important to women and their financial independence, as in so many cultures they must fit remunerated work around other caregiving.

So, great opportunity -- but with any great opportunity comes sharks and grifters. Multilevel marketing schemes where you've got to recruit others -- great example, big in religious and military families in the US. Slightly less predatory schemes where you nevertheless need to "invest in the product" and pay for inventory on hand, assuming personal risk for the company. And that's not even getting into the personal safety concerns of going into peoples' homes.
I sort of wonder if they are even a game company anymore.

I mean we could model them as a totally dysfunctional game company they happens to have a platform. Or as a basically prudent platform company that happens to release a game once a decade or so.

They should get rid of their web browser, that’s the sort of market where they can’t keep up.
We should really change that if that's true.
An Incomplete Guide to Modern Java I/O Idioms
White House challenges hackers to break top AI models at DEF CON 31
Pretty sure Starbucks, its franchisees, and affiliates all pay state and federal fuel and payroll taxes, and state/local sales taxes. When they own a location they will also pay state property tax; if not, their landlord will pay that tax with their rent.

The fuel tax is especially relevant insofar as it’s explicitly meant to be a direct fee on the users of the roads to pay for the roads. Their drivers and those who contract for them in logistics will also pay for licensing, registration, and tolls.

There’s a variety of meaningful discourse to have on the proper tax structure for Starbucks… but representing them as freeloaders on the roads and the police does not belong as part of it.
In which way, exactly? My feed looks more or less the same.
That's not really a correlation that exists anywhere else. A white collar office worker on average makes significantly more than a blue collar worker but they don't particularly take more risk or anything.

People are paid based on opportunity cost. Executives are paid very highly because the cost of them making a poor decision, or not making a good decision, is very high. Meanwhile, the cost of hiring me and me not performing to expectations is low. It's not because they're God's or anything. The supply of people with leadership experience is also definitionally low.

Of course there's a lot of old boys club in executive roles in reality but that's the boards and shareholders problem when they do a bad job.
How we made our chat app search engine friendly
> Libraries don't solve this, to be clear. Let's say you have 100 services that reference `someUtilityFunction()` in SharedLib==1.0. Oops, there's a bug! OK, let's publish SharedLib==1.1. Great... now you still need to go and update, test, and deploy 100 different services, because they're not going to pick up the corrected business logic otherwise. And of course, you might have the case where someone got lazy and didn't upgrade and they're still using SharedLib==0.0.1-alpha, and there's a bunch of breaking library changes that happened between that version and 1.0 that were never implemented...

Yeah, but that relies on a lot of "ifs" when a bugfix is done.

If the services don't have tests before deployment, you'll have problems.

If a rarely-updated service doesn't get the fix, you have problems.

If someone got lazy and didn't upgrade (how is that even possible? they don't have to do anything to get the new thing other than rebuild, redeploy) you'll have problems.

OTOH, there's no "ifs" about getting a bugfix when they're all using the same copy of `someFunction()`.

When they're all using the same copy of `someFunction()`, the bugfix will go in with the next build of their service, without them even knowing.

After all, you don't have each team keep their own copy of the kernel, do you?
Discussed at the time (of the article):

Colonels of Truth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11360140 - March 2016 (20 comments)
Watch out for Sinbad
I've been tinkering with a project and one thing that stands out to me is cost. For example, I had a super simple architecture on AWS with 2 load balancers in front of 2 ECS services running on Fargate. Using the smallest possible instances that simple system was costing ~$3.50/day or ~$100/month. That included basic things like the Route53 entries, certificates, the load balancers, the ECS containers, AWS code pipelines running a couple of times a day, S3 buckets for logs. It did NOT include databases, SQS queues, Redis/cache services, monitoring. Just one web server and one api server.

I'm not a novice with AWS but it is easy to get comfortable spinning up idealized service architectures without calculating the costs. Even at meagerly funded startups it is no big deal to spend $1000/month on infra costs. But I am not really interested in forking out that kind of money for my weekend hobby projects.

It is just not financially reasonable for me to have multiple micro-services alongside multiple databases, caches, CDNs, queues, etc. Even when I consider having my own EC2 cluster backing my ECS services (probably a cost savings but I haven't investigated) I feel confident the cost will be significantly higher than just building a monolith and obviating the need for multiple load balancers, queues, multiple databases, etc.
Why is it a waste of time? With LyX it goes really fast.

I use personally Asciidoc and asciidoctor-pdf to generate my resume as PDF. It's easier and less prone to funny formatting shifts typical of Word documents.
> We may not kill our children with knives, but we certainly let them starve

This is hyperbole. We have hungry kids in America, and that's a tragedy. But they're not dying en masse, and we're certainly not celebrating that as a necessary sacrifice.
Whether you're right or wrong, the negativity isn't needed and accomplishes nothing.
Chile also has a leftist president now with a strong desire to protect the environment and lithium mining can be very harmful to the environment. Obviously a big reason Lithium is valuable is for EV batteries. Managing these resources to prioritize the the health of the planet will probably look very different than prioritizing profits, so it makes a lot of sense for the government to step in.
> Being able to easily access them via a remote shell is a killer feature IMO

You mean like being able to access a web page?
> But then what are you trying to hold him to? A subjective opinion?

He needs to make a claim about the evidence in question if he thinks it's fake. (He doesn't. He knows it's a genuine video.) Again, a vague assertion that "sometimes people make deepfakes about me" doesn't cut it.

> The defense will always contest its veracity if the burden is on the prosecution to prove it and they haven't.

The defense is highly unlikely to make the claim that a seven year old video on a prominent channel with top industry reporters didn't happen. Plenty of pieces of evidence get entered into the court's records without being contested.
Everytime I see this project I'm flabbergasted (in a very good way) that we can achieve this.

I wish Node was portable, it would definitely be far more superior than GO CLIs that lacks this kind of features.
it sure doesn't look like it's trying to spoof a google sign in screen to me.
A less nefarious reason behind companies increasing profit margins, is that with more uncertainty -- i.e. potential supply chain disruptions in the future -- companies feel the need to make more from what they are able to get to the end consumer/customer.

Generally speaking, there's a lot more that can go wrong than go right in terms of getting stuff to people especially from overseas. (True anywhere in the world.) And the specter of uncertainty basically elevates the default cost of doing business for everything.
BTW: You can access most scientific articles through sci-hub: https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
A previous commenter said they were "non-technical staff" with citations, so here's hoping.
Speaking from experience, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) work only ideally with Word. Don’t use LaTeX unless you know for sure the individual receiving appreciates it.
Some image enhancement is scientifically valid. Stacking frames could make a blurry license plate legible. I don't want to live in a world where that is inadmissible.
Ok, but that's just an implementation detail, it doesn't matter whether I own a share directly or through some fund.
Anyone who follows an acronym for advice isn't cut out to be an effective manager.
At least in the US, most phones purchased in stores are carrier locked. I cannot purchase an unlocked pixel at most, if not all, nearby retailers.
When 75 is time to die: the film imagining state-run euthanasia in Japan
The study could offer incites into delaying the onset of dementia.
Is there a way to run this locally?
NPM audit: Broken by Design (2021)
Isn't that just a massive maintenance mess?
Sorry but this is a pretty nonsense post.
Did they understand that the two companies were quite different one from the other?
Yeah I dunno what they're talking about. This was the largest loss of all time for Intel. Nobody in their right mind should be issuing a dividend... and I'm a shareholder.
That’s AWS you’re linking to. Google cloud europe-west1 is in St Ghislain, Belgium.

https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/
With today's 100GB game downloads, it's easy to say that developers gave up on these kinds of tricks.

But they have to be doing something (other than data compression), right? Otherwise we'd be seeing 500GB downloads?
Research mathematics.
People care. Hiring managers can be nerds too.
That's what I thought of too. Just finishing reading Sorcerer's Apprentice - a kind of slog of a read written by one of the insiders of the Castaneda cult. I wonder if he "borrowed" the name...
He talks about enshittification and how platforms die from the first sentence -- that's a big part of the topic. But ya, I guess he could have flipped the order, and put the Tik Tok case first, then backed up his hypothesis with the other examples.
Well, no you missed my point. I understand it is subtle, so I will expand on it.

I said that wealth was created in the transaction. Labor may be required to create the thing being sold, such as a business, but that labor is becoming less and less important over time. Take the sale of the company “WhatsApp” to Facebook. They sold for $16 billion, but they only had 55 employees with some equity. That’s a lot of wealth for those people.

With AI, this type of productivity (like WhatsApp) with less labor required will only increase. More productivity, less labor.

The capital for creating WhatsApp came from investors. The founders likely had no capital of their own. But they are super wealthy today.

Those who expect to be employed (labor) by strictly being told what to do for a salary will be on the sidelines of wealth creation.

Those who figure out how to use AI to build valuable things and then sell them to others will create their own wealth.

AI is the “fix” for less capital and less labor.

Everybody needs to think about jumping into the pool and start swimming. Anyway, that’s what HN is supposed to be about: entrepreneurship.
The same argument could be made about platforms that allow alternative app stores, and those that don’t.

Both are available for people to choose from.

Why does DHH consider choice to be good in once instance and bad ad in the other?
I have come across a few great comments on intelligence here on HN — intelligence is not the bottleneck of almost anything we do. Let’s say you became “comically” smarter overnight, could you really significantly benefit that extra knowledge? Besides going for the Millenium Prize problems, the benefits would not be too significant, for example is it that valuable in the startup space? (otherwise we would see PhD students as CEOs everywhere). Opportunity/luck is much more meaningful.

We also regularly see these “with my super intelligence I predicted your next 347 steps” type of thinking, but that’s just bullshit. The bottleneck here is data if anything, so intelligence won’t aid much in itself.

The thing is, we live in an infinitely complex game with independent agents, many of which don’t operate on any sane strategy even. Let’s say we are at an endgame Monopoly — would knowing ahead of time your opponents dice rolls help you win?

(Of course I’m no expert on any of these topics, so take all these with a huge grain of salt)
I don't understand the physics, but as I said, it was a cool show.
A lot of the trade-offs that people like to complain about IPv6 were specifically made to "rip the (backwards compatibility hack) band-aid off" and help make sure that we won't be pining for "whatever comes next" anytime soon.

IPv6 could have been a lot more pragmatically backwards compatible, absolutely. It would have been much more doomed as a temporary solution in that case. The IPv6 we got was designed to be a more permanent solution, which makes it feel much less pragmatic. That's somewhat how trade-offs work.
Discussed at the time [1], I've resubmitted to see how the issue has been addressed or improved.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761334