skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we even in a free market anymore?

Competition is supposed to bring prices back down but all the industries seem to have monopolized and now they just set the max price people will tolerate before getting rid of the service or product all together.

Also known in economics as a profit maximizing monopolist.
> I move my body everyday.

I consider this the most important item on his list.

1 hour of moderate intensity workout a day and you can mostly forget any diet optimizing that is flodding the magazines, forums and ads. Adjust exact activity to your preference and interest, but that's the baseline. I'm also mid-50, was overweight in my 20s and now I'm as lean as he is (170 lbs, 6 ft tall) and have more energy than ever.
??? I regularly stay at a Yotel in Manhattan and have never encountered that. It's recent if it's the case.
Sure, it’s up to management. Management here decided that layoffs and a buyback were the right call. If you think you know better than the people who run the company, please share.
it ingests and can help you sort through logs, and also does performance monitoring. I guess I would describe it as prometheus + logstash + powerBI in a single unit.

And with a healthy dose of blue cross bolted on for the surprise bills and difficult bureaucracy.
Lawsuit against OpenAI for being a scheme of Y Combinator
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> You don't remain sharp by just sitting watching TV all day because you have no impetus to grow.

What if they watch Jeopardy all day? :-)
Hey folks, author of the post here. I'll be sticking around for a while after posting to answer any questions!
First, where are you? In the US? What state?

Small Claims Court in California tends to be effective. The great thing about filing a small claims court case is that the other party has to either settle, or show up in court. They do not have the option of ignoring this. They have to send someone, or lose by default.

Most small claims courts have online instructions on how to file, and many will accept filings on line. Here's California's page: [1]

Facebook reportedly no longer requires arbitration.

[1] https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/small-claims-california
> Long before modern humans existed, 100,000 years ago

100,000ya ago is not "long before modern humans existed." Modern humans are Homo sapiens, and the oldest known Homo sapiens remains (to date, that we know of) are dated to 300,000 years ago, which is now apparently 200,000 years before "long before" Homo sapiens existed. I guess the good news is we invent the time machine before too long.
How does it prove it? Why the same logic doesn’t apply to the upper management, they were at the company when it had record profits. So they are competent enough to recognize that certain efforts are not needed anymore and it’s time to cut losses.
Unpopular opinion, NeXT hardware was kinda junk. It was a 68030 machine released into direct competition SPARC and MIPS chips that were 3x faster. It had a 2bpp framebuffer (and UI) that would have been really clever and attractive in competition with monochrome workstations of 1986, but frankly when it shipped it looked kinda awful next to the 1MB SVGA cards arriving on the market. At the OS level, Mach was outrageously primitive for a commercial unix (no shared libraries!). And the one genuinely unique and innovative feature (the big MO drive) turned out to be a technological dead end.

The NeXTStep layer was really the only selling point. And in hindsight that was enough. But the hardware itself? Only barely worth remembering.
Could you give some links on claim on ethanol mixing not being a great alternative?
You're the first person in this thread to mention microservices. The discussion has been around broader service-oriented architecture. Sometimes those services can be quite large, in which case the boilerplate overhead is not nearly as onerous as you describe. I've worked on services that had 200+ engineers on them.
At our company, we've been using ChatGPT as a fun, creative and engaging tool that feels like having a quirky, digital sidekick! Picture this: we're brainstorming and optimizing ideas, and suddenly, our very own AI assistant comes in, adding a splash of color to our discussions. It's like having an extra team member who never tires, always ready to enhance our prompts with fresh ideas and boundless creativity. And the best part? It's ChatGPT itself that's writing this story for you! No matter the challenge, ChatGPT has our back, making work not just efficient but also a truly enjoyable experience.
These employees were evidently net negative value for the company, or they would have kept their jobs.
There is no point in trying to figure out fair and unfair, as there is no clear metric with which you can measure things.

For example:

-An actor has to maintain a physical appearance

-at higher risk of losing income due to an accident since it could change their appearance

-has to travel and generally do more physically strenuous tasks

I am not saying actors should be getting paid more either. But prices are best determined by supply and demand curves, not by people’s “feelings” on fair and unfair.
Joke's on them, I deleted my account months ago.
for a new project that I had to architect, we had a section that was web facing... and it was previously prototyped with React. When i spoke to the team none of them really had React experience but most had AngularJS experience. A lot of the benefits we saw was intermediate to expert knowledge in our stack and it was having an open conversation with the development team + organization to understand it instead of proposing something that's way out in left field!
What would be the legal reasoning for such a SCOTUS opinion? It seems like you're hinting at equal protection, but I'm not clear how you'd tie together the necessary pieces. Even assuming the composition of the court changed to be more friendly to living constitution arguments, I'm just not seeing this. Can you spell this out a bit more?
Mostly caused by parts of the world not governed by the rule of law and capitalism (and democracy of course).
I think the important thing is to concentrate on the diet and exercise and not sit around living an unhealthy lifestyle and hoping to get on one of these drugs that is possibly not that great anyway or has some serious side effects you could end up with.

It's pretty obvious older people who have kept their fitness (cardio & strength, not just one of the two) up and their weight down their entire lives have profoundly higher quality of life.

That requires a totally different lifestyle from the standard "geek lifestyle" though.
What a joke. Working from home made this happen to countless people already, specially those living alone in the first place and absolutely nobody seemed to care. People started drinking "because they can't smell mu breath" over Zoom. Humans are social creatures and not all of us have a steady social routine outside of work.
> generally there is a cost

For a lot of small-claims style things, lawyers will give you 15-30 minute consultations for free (YMMV on how useful these are, by nature its often the lawyer giving you a bunch of information you may already have, will only a couple of minutes for actual questions that they may not be ready to answer), even if you don't have a preexisting relationship.

I've seen this a lot in tenancy cases, where basically they filter out "bad landlord withholding rent" small claims style cases from "bad landlord doing illegal renovations or owner-move in evictions" that can be larger and more complicated, and want you to hire them for the second, but will give you some time for the first, in hopes that you remember that help when you run into the second case.
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HN has an average opinion. If 90% of comments on one article say capital punishment is bad and 90% of comments on another article say that paedophiles should be lynched then the overwhelming likelihood is that they are being hypocritical. The idea that it happened to be a completely different subset of HN's audience commenting on each case is statistically implausible.
Not directly, no. There's no marginal revenue generated from a person viewing an episode of a show on Netflix (unless they're on an ad-supported subscription).

The value of each show on Netflix is that it gives users one more reason not to cancel their subscription. The value is in Netflix always having more content for you to watch.
> I would keep Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, Stack Overflow.

I'd be very sad to lose YouTube. It's the jewel of the internet.
> How do you define single issue?

- Everything in the bill should be able to be summarized by a one-paragraph, three-sentence, no-semicolons abstract relating the purpose of the bill. None of the content of the bill should be surprising given that abstract — it should "follow from" the abstract.

- The abstract's sentences must all be logically connected, able to be diagrammed as a causal network. There can't be one sentence that introduces some completely independent purpose from the purpose discussed in the other two sentences. You can't say "We want to build a bridge. Also, we want to buy some tanks." — nothing connects those two concepts into a single coherent purpose. But you can say "We want to buy some tanks. We also want to build test ranges for those tanks." — the two concepts are connected and form a single coherent purpose.

> Take a budget bill.

No, don't take "a budget bill." The whole purpose of Congress as a social technology is to output a budget; every bill Congress evaluates is for the purpose of defining the budget. Congress should not be passing "a budget" through one bill, any more than a software company should be making a release every few months that entirely rewrites their whole product line from scratch with no code reuse.

Bills should represent discrete patches to the budget (implying also: to the executive departments and regulations funded by said budget), and should be debated the same way that e.g. Linux kernel patches are debated on LKML — including being rejected as "too big to be debated"!

And this perspective — of the whole of the legislative process being "about" the creation of a budget — should be burned into the process itself: no bill should be allowed to be introduced that "defunds" something without also excising the law that defined that thing; no law should be allowed to be introduced that "creates" something without also appropriately funding that thing. The legislature should be ACID — a bill should never leave the law in an inconsistent state (inconsistent between the set of laws, and the budget defined to "power" those laws.)

To be clear, that debate would not be line-item level — five fighter jets, three waste-treatment plants, twenty FDA auditors, etc. But it should be confined to a set of things that, as above, can be summarized coherently; and which can also be discussed and debated coherently, with the same set of experts needed to read and analyze the validity of every line-item involved in the bill.

Compare/contrast the court system: nobody involved would think that doing a single court case that evaluates 1. whether a company is committing accounting fraud; 2. whether its founder assaulted someone, and 3. whether another founder should get custody of their kids, would be a good idea. Those three questions each imply separate judges with different specialties, separate sets of expert witnesses, separate jury selection processes, and separate lawyers that each side would want to retain. (And, in fact, separate defendants!) And yet, in legislature, we see bills that do exactly this.
The fascist party has zero seats in parliament. Both the president and prime minister of Ukraine are Jewish and there was discussion about prosecuting Azov before they were wiped out in the fighting. Every country has fascists, overstating their number in Ukraine is Russian propaganda.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/dataviz-remake-fall-ext...
This crazy notation / division only makes sense for simple SaaS or simple mobile apps, with a likely best case of a quick flip/aquihire. If you're building a tech business (cough "deep tech") like life science, hardware, etc there's really no revenue MVP and the stages look more like they did in the old days.

This sounds like a negative opinion (and I admit I am turned off by the default "all the world's a SaaS/app" assumption in most venture investing these days) but in truth I'm fascinated by the evolutionary pressure that has led to this.

I am disappointed that the bulk of the industry has embraced "singles and bunts" rather than trying for homers, and that the huge cash at the other end (megafunds) has largely gone for the "with enough thrust [cash] you can get anything airborne" approach. But if I'm unhappy with that it's my problem.
Discussion on the lawsuit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35852364

This tweet...explains a lot.
> why keep such valuable items at home in the first place? if they are replaceable, you can just insure them. If they are not, they are better stored somewhere else, no?

You would think, unfortunately banks have done a great sleight of hand in the US limiting their liability related to safe deposit boxes /and/ safe deposit boxes available to rent are nearly impossible to find. Nearly every bank branch in any major metro will have a waiting list that is years out to get a box.

What's so valuable? Well, basically the same stuff most people keep in a random desk/dresser drawer, but ought to have in a safe: Paperwork mostly, guns, jewelry. It's not like I'm storing anything worth tons and tons of money, but the insurance break on getting everything fully covered when you have that sort of safe is significant, and it's one-time up front expense to ensure you can properly store things like paperwork, guns, and jewelry which is easily worth tens of thousands of dollars anyway.

The only difference between me and every other random joe that buys a gun safe at bass pro/cabela's, is that I know what an /actual/ safe is, and I went about acquiring one rather than the cheap RSC you can bypass with a pry bar and a hammer or a sawzall.

> By having such high valuables at home, aren't you putting your family at risk?

Many people have things at home equally valuable, they just don't bother actually doing anything to protect them. I don't think doing the work to protect them adds any additional risk.

> Also, why talk about these things on the internet? Isn't that painting a target on your back too?

Sure, I suppose so. That's true of so many things. I think it's important to be transparent with information though and then mitigate or hedge any risks that come with it. For instance, in my case, I'm nearly always home, I'm always armed, and my valuables are well protected. If someone were to find out and decide they wanted to rob me, the most likely outcome is they'd be leaving in a body bag, so they're unlikely to think that is a wise idea.
The child can join any branch of the military reserves to pay for college to include the Coast Guard.
The calories must come from somewhere, and the body has an amazing ability to adapt to whatever we put into it. There will be adaptations no matter what, so why not guide that process a little?
ChatGPT AI can pick better stocks than fund manager
This. So many people tell me they don't have the time. And then they go on discussing the next Netflix series they wanna binge cause it's hard to find new ones cause they have already seen all the good ones.
Apple already ruined their laptops with the heavy-ish metal chassis. Even the new MacBook Air is ~1.24kg.

Windows laptop companies, please DO NOT follow suit! Though some of them already did so, sigh.

Please Apple, please just replace your shiny aluminum with plastic (or some better alloy) and make your fanless offering 1kg.
Isn't the database just another service?

Are other services also restricted in the same way?
> I think there have been times in the past were dividends were thought to be conditioned on the company performing well. Say not having to lay off people. I recognize there are other ways to think about the situation, but I think it

Companies can do well and lay off people at the same time. In such case, they just believe they'll do even better without those people.
Maybe I'll keep squatting on my own handle. A script to automate login / logout would be nice. I'll put it in a crontab and forget about it.
you could also just not invade someone else's country. it's a pretty easy thing to do
I would assume they meant home (or land) ownership in Southern California, which was not a classic expectation of American life.
> I recently used Ink to build a small debugging CLI for a websocket-heavy project of mine.

why not just write tests?

i'm getting super down voted on this, but come on... why? this person built some buggy utility and those bugs can end up causing more problems than just writing tests in the first place.

no wonder we end up with such buggy junk software... people... write tests!
But, from what I see, at least half is ground beef.
Could also be stress, anxiety, and depression to name a few
Have you tried WebFlow?
Many rounds get their start in the military - .30-06, 45-70, and do substantially more damage to a human body than the 5.56 round, not because they started in the military, but because of ballistics. Other rounds start off in the private sector and get brought into the military, like the .308 and 6.5 Creedmoor.

There is nothing particularly deadly about the .223 round that isn't common to all rifle rounds, particularly larger calibers. Rifle rounds are deadly to living creatures, human or not.

The military has, time and again, dropped and adopted rounds balancing many interests, not only effectiveness on the battlefield, but also the logistics of moving ammunition from point a to point b. Sometimes the latter comes at the cost to the former. Recall that when the 5.56/223 round was introduced, it was panned as being completely inadequate for human targets. It was replacing a .30 round that had more stability in flight, more range, and more punch when it got there. Those rounds replaced a .45 caliber round before that.

The reason people say, "not an assault rifle," is because in the gun world that has a particular technical definition that the AR-15 does not meet. Using the term outside of its technical definition is nakedly an appeal to emotion for political purposes. There are more sober ways to make the gun ban argument without resorting to this language, but I'm not holding my breath. Fearmongering is effective.
My current model of AI is that we're applying massive amounts of compute to force a function approximator to learn a function. To solve this function, there is likely a huge mismatch between the learned results and the internal logic used to generate those results. I believe that it is possible that the mismatch is several orders of magnitude, and thus it might be that the cognitive core could be quite a superintelligence hobbled by the layers around it.

It is quite possible that there are cognitive strategies at use that haven't been invented yet in the outside world. At this point, it would require better training data, or even more compute, to let that intelligence reach the outside world unfiltered.

Only time will tell if any of this is true, it's just speculation on my part at present.
That type of room i not just a safe, but also a "panic room." Which could be anything from living in a terrible area and worried about civil unrest, to someone wanting a 100% confidence their tornado shelter would protect them no matter what.
html tag is setting

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so text on the webpage is appearing as white-on-white for me, at least on Firefox.
phoebe waller bridge has a single credit of interest for writing, which is "no time to die", where she is one of 4 writers and doesn't have a story credit unlike the other three writers. The other writers include Neil Purvis and Robert Wade (who both have 20 years of bond film writing credits each).

She won awards for Killing Eve which is a show that is "mid" in every way.

Sometimes people get large paydays for reasons other than talented writing. If Phoebe Waller-Bridge is getting large paydays for writing its not because of her comprehensive work history and achievements.
That's a fair argument
Some benefits of Scrum over Kanban:
* Scrum is less flexible. It is easier to force everybody into a fixed process. Kanban can easily become cowboy development especially with junior devs on the team.
* Scrum comes with clear short term goals. Kanban may hide the important milestones.

With that said. I think the drawbacks of scrum are just too many. It is inflexible. You have to sit in meetings to solve Scrum-problems instead of real problems.

Retrospectives are just magic though when you work with people that are great at agile software development. Ad hoc talks during daily work can never replace that. The velocity one can achieve by constantly improving and challenging the software developing process during dedicated sessions is just ridiculous. But it also have to do with having the right people. 2 hours of people whining about test environments will not accomplish anything.

Edit: Btw, problems with test environments is usually down to poor architecture and hard to solve. Design for testing too...
The corporate world will want to do $x because $x is in the news, they won't be making nuanced arguments about tradeoffs in a domain they don't understand. Least of all arguments that go entirely against the trends in the industry.
I worked with many different UI kits. From native windows to Ubuntu to automotive to embedded to Android to Apple. I find HTML and css by far the most convenient UI toolkit there is. Never have creating UIs been so easy as with css. A relief it is.
I think you're assuming the body doesn't form small tumors and destroy them naturally.

If something else is helping the tumors grow faster than the body can kill them naturally - then it's going to result both more severe tumors AND more tumors in general (as we discover them, since we usually don't know about tumors that form and get destroyed by the body naturally).
TIL "RSC". TY.
The attention-bait of the movie aside, I think when talking about the challenges with an aging population, it's more useful to understand what the "decay curve" (not trying to make a pun, I'm thinking of capacitor discharge) looks like. If Japan has a life expectancy of 87/81, are people mostly unable to care for themselves and others for the last many years of that, or do they mostly stay healthy and vigorous until near the end. Is there a reason healthy 75 year olds can't take part in caring for the infirm?
The correctness of this comment wildly depends on the reader's interpretation of the word "sophisticated".
> this seems to make the case that writers were previously overpaid way beyond normal americans, and perhaps salaries are regressing to what average americans make

The simpler explanation is writers were appropriately paid based on their supply and demand in previous years, and a decrease in pay in future years indicates a shift in supply and demand.
In RO context it's called remineralization (or alkalinization, I guess), not softening, and a lot of home RO systems have a final stage for it.

Googling for reverse osmosis minerals will bring you to a large number of probably fabricated claims about water pH and health that ultimately align on taste preference.

> “Remineralization is typically to enhance the flavor of the water, because reverse osmosis reduces the level of minerals in the water significantly, and some consumers prefer the taste of the water when there is enhanced mineral content,” explains Rick Andrews, of the National Sanitation Foundation’s Global Water Program. - https://www.thespruce.com/best-reverse-osmosis-systems-45868...

https://www.homedepot.com/p/ISPRING-Premium-10-in-Universal-...

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Express-Water-Alkaline-Water-Fil...

https://thewatergeeks.com/how-to-remineralize-ro-water/

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