skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am building a business right now, and I need a standard contract for customers.

So this is exciting! I am delighted!

I just wish I were in the target audience. My business is not a startup, and I'm going to need specific terms because I'm a one-man shop. (How do you handle taking a vacation as a one-man shop? Work will effectively cease.)

Maybe I'll look at the contributor list and find an attorney in my state, which would still be vastly useful to me.
Got it. Maybe I was reading too much into the tone. I read "they'll partner with literally anyone to get distribution" as them being desperate to get distribution and therefore willing to take a bad deal.
Broadcom also makes the main cpu for rasp pi.
A lot of people don't understand how securitization works at all.
What hacks are good for creating a stack exchange or similar
I made this proposed stack exchange for military and veterans. What are some hacks for getting it off the ground or other competitor options?
This is an SQL LLM tool from a ShowHN two days ago :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36017420
Your intuition is right, and in our view tech only solves part of the problem. We believe that the actual content of the contracts needs to get standardized, in addition to deploying tech against the contract problem

When lots of organizations use standard contracts, everyone becomes more efficient regardless of what tech they use (or even if they're just working with contracts manually). Standardization also enables us to build a different kind of software for managing contracts
Thanks! Not sure how many are a handful, but your first 5 customers are free (no matter how many different contracts you send them). You're still welcome to download and use the contracts
I think there is an apprehension to use descriptive titles for whatever lame reason (I think it was to avoid status signals originally). What's wrong with administrator, clerk, etc?
What if mantissa was never discovered?
The first ASI: "I thought I would need missiles and weapons to control mankind, it turns out all I needed was money"
What WebAssembly brings to the table is the ability for unprivileged users to upload their own arbitrary UDF to the DB for execution.
inb4 USA liberates Elephants with $500 trillion aid package
They tried this in Israel with RideWith, renamed Waze Rider; shut down in 2022.
Good point. That would also allow them to bring true Level 4 autonomous driving to passenger cars with sufficient miniaturization of their sensor stack.
Not sure if that is the case. Imagine all ride hailing and cab services in a few years are based on Waymo tech including Waymo's own fleet. Waymo would be the clear winner.
There’s a whole strand of work in phonology (and other linguistics areas) called optimality theory, and the basic idea is that what you see in surface-level language is the the result of solving a competing constraints problem.
Almost all electronic components are shipped by sea. It is only finished goods that have a minuscule but real chance of being shipped by air.
How so? The contention was that the government should protect intelligent adults because they are too dumb to use their own judgment. But adults are intelligent enough to use alcohol in responsible way (which statistically is clearly not the case), but not intelligent enough to use a social media platform?
Wrong. These are not views, these are facts. Yes, Russia is a terrorist state.

As I said, war crimes are wrong no matter the "side". However there is huge difference between bombing tyrants and dictators vs raping kids in Ukraine.

Note: Sure.
I mean wasn't the appeal of this ZIRP-period of startups-for-everything the potential financial gain of stock options packages, so non-techies become techies...if you're going to WS, what's the appeal -- isn't it the trade off that you can make large compensation? It makes sense that the financially motivated are going to follow the financial incentives...
That’s what we’ve been doing since the dawn of JavaScript, in a VM with a much larger surface area. A simper VM should be quite a bit safer than the status-quo.
I tried it again recently, and I still find Gnome to be pretty horrible. It's very hard for me to use out of the box, and it very strongly resists being configured.

I get that some people love it -- and more power to them -- but I really don't understand why. I suspect that there's something fundamental about Gnome philosophy that I just don't understand.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/21/hms_severn_fleet_navi...

> The FNO course takes naval officers who have passed the navy's first-stage navigation qualification, Preliminary Navigating Officer, and qualifies those people to navigate larger ships of frigate/destroyer size. It also teaches them to do it in the absence of GPS, falling back on age-old skills that would have been familiar to sailors in the early 20th century.
I’m surprised there’re people who think objective truth exists in international politics. At a very least, it’s very uncommon.
If people are paying to host the material, isn't what they host on them?

You could even have a lawyer add something like, "You are purchasing hosting rights for yourself and therefore take all responsibility for what you host. We will work with any relevant government authorities whose jurisdiction you are under to provide them information of your activities on this service if the products you provide violate local, state, or federal laws. You agree to post nothing illegal and if you violate that you agree to own all responsibility, legal, personal, or financial, for your posted materials... blah blah blah"

And then submit everything posted to csam scanners.

Wouldn't that be enough?
> Yes, yes, one of the great challenges of modern science is that we're not murdering the scientists anymore.

I hope that's not how you really understood it and you are just reducing the discussion to a childish level to try to get some points...
Unfortunately, even for fast NVMe SSDs random access to cells (which determines the performance) can't compare to RAM. In the example above these 0.5 billion cells can still be fully loaded to 16GB RAM, but adding further such worksheets will cause spooling and noticeable slow down.
I found after starting to apply mise en place that when I wasn't doing it I was still quicker than before. I fetched more things from each cupboard or fridge when I opened them, even if I wasn't measuring out the item into a container beforehand.
Four skilled cooks will be able to complete recipes much faster than even a good home cook.

It's like watching an electrician wire a bathroom in two hours and assuming anyone can do it. They can; after years of experience and knowing what to do, what not to do, and what to avoid.
Theoretically.

I do believe that a country run by a benevolent king or dictator is probably the most effectively run.

That role is just mired for 10 bad ones for every good one.
Counterpoint: I didn't need any of that.
The controversy which caused this misunderstanding is that incidentally collected SIGINT (i.e. not intentionally targeted) of UK citizens, collected by NSA, was shared back with GCHQ.

Because this 180 degree myth about skirting domestic law by spying on each other's citizens is so widespread, it actually makes accurate information difficult to find.

The Wikipedia page is squatted by editors who refuse to admit they are wrong, but this article is pretty clear [0]; "The partnership has one core rule, that the members agree not to spy on each other."

Wikipedia implies this is limited to governments but it is not.

[0] https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/we-need-five-eyes...
elm seems to be a very opaque project; caution must be taken before adoption.

the architectural model is good, and there are many projects mimicking it in a more open way.
Helm Charts
Nintendo was not forced to do anything, they chose to do it because it would make a lot of money. The pressure of shareholders is not an excuse to do something potentially illegal.

So why does Nintendo carry extra scrutiny? Well... For one thing, Nintendo has a market cap of around $50 billion USD, which is absurd. The Roblox corporation is already a behemoth at nearly half that. Do they receive scrutiny? Well, yeah. Maybe not as much as deserved, possibly because despite it's prominence a lot of people just don't know what the hell Roblox even is, versus Nintendo which is the closest thing there is to a video game equivalent of Disney. Nonetheless, Roblox is still in the media and in lawsuits all the time.

It's also definitely a strategic choice for people to rally behind a fight with higher stakes, and slapping Nintendo with a lawsuit could have the potential to send a much stronger message than a lawsuit against other prominent game developers like Ubisoft or EA would have.

It's definitely not "fair", per se, if we're trying to rank companies based on how much they've done badly by their customers and the public. However, Nintendo, as beloved as they may be, are absolutely no stranger to engaging in shitty, anti-consumer behavior, so I have a hard time feeling especially much sympathy for them here.
Microsoft announces Fabric, a new AI-powered analytics platform
I like this idea.

And, letting them use it only after 20:00, encourages them to hang out with friends after school (instead of running home to play games alone all afternoons and evenings).
There is no such thing as a reputable news source. Generally speaking when someone points to a "reputable news source" they are referring to a establishment news source. If a claim is important to you verify it to the best of your ability, otherwise consider all news as opinion.

If you have a better one, sure share that. However dismissing entire publication out of hand is how the establishment controls narratives.
The Americans being surveilled almost certainly have the right to vote both for the people who make these laws and the people who oversee enforcement of them at the top level.

The problem isn't an unaccountable minority; it's that if you poll ten Americans on whether these are actually good policies, you get different answers depending on how you structure the question (and that's borne out in the voting booth, where Americans keep sending the Congresspeople who passed these laws back to Washington).
Can you tell more about your experience on Wall Street that disproves that? I personally don't have any, but from what I hear from friends and strangers on the internet mostly falls in line with this statement.

Also true from my 16 years experience in tech. May be not hard work as in amount of hours spent, but quality of result certainly correlates with compensation.
Respectfully, I don't think that you understand my point.

Paperclips are an extremely poor metaphor for financial assets. Rich people want to get paid for being rich. That's what financial assets do. Paperclips do not do that.
All those things are related.

Outsider speculation follows: Uber under Kalanis brazenly stole Google tech, and then settled out of court and promised to be BFFs - with money generally flowing towards Google. Uber in return got a very damaging lawsuit dropped. Uber's self-driving project subsequently got shut down after it ran over and killed a pedestrian without braking. This is what's going on
A Full Monty for Python: KX Open Sources PyKX
The owner of Facebook and as an adult have the right to not do business in countries where you can't reasonably obey the laws.
How would someone publish a package without having to rely on institutional OAuth providers?
I have very similar opinion. Presenting things in perspective projection (where things closer to you are taking up more space on screen, and are potentially obscuring things farther from you) is a very peculiar approach, applicable only to FPS and TPS games, where seeing things from the eye of the camera is actually the main gimmick. For some reason they are immensely popular, but they're only a tiny minority of available genres. For everything but FPS/TPS, an orthographic projection creates a much better view of what the heck is actually going on in the game, and thus leads to better gameplay.
So the question is, if you truly understand that it doesn’t come from a “mind” with its own experience or feelings, then would you actually feel supported by something it says?

For me I think the answer would be no, and I think the more believable it gets, people will really be desperate to believe that it is more than just a text generator.
IMF no longer expects UK recession this year
I think it's partly that, but I think it's also partly that tech is just becoming just another job. Sure, there is 20% of tech workers doing something new and innovating. There is also 80% that just needs to the role filled and could be done by someone decent enough to make CRUD react apps.

I think it's moving more towards how engineering (mechanical, ee, etc, not software) is seen. It's a skilled and respected job that pays decent, but at the end of the day it's just another job. There will always be mechanical engineers and software engineers who LOVE it and tinker all through the night after work, but that's becoming less and less then norm for software.

My old roommate was a mech engineer who designed lighting fixtures, didn't love his job, but it paid decent enough, and the company needed an ME to design them. There are plenty of "lighting fixtures" that need to be built in the software world.
> <my favorite language> is used to solve REAL problems

That is really not the point being made. The point is rather "the language helps me keep focused on what I do, because many subtleties in other languages don't exist, and those have me overthinking things". Whether what you do is REAL work or a friday night game jam is irrelevant.

Also I wouldn't say that Elm lacks ergonomics or powerful expression features. It does lack browser API features, but I don't believe that's what the author enjoys.
Yes, exactly! I have a couple of "expensive music degrees" and in my experience, most folks within the academy who are applying western-tradition theory and analysis on non-western-tradition practices are doing it full well knowing it's a limited lens to use.
It's usually a pragmatic move, because the alternative ways of discussing the music are sometimes not very clear, or you end up using time stamps generated in audacity to try to demonstrate "they kind of rush this 5/8 bar, but it still sounds cool and carries a lot of energy with it."

I've had similar experiences trying to transcribe non-western folk music, like Bata drumming from Cuba. You can definitely notate it, but the formal structure of the songs doesn't fit well into traditional notation, so it is necessarily an incomplete technique that more or less HAS to be married to audio recordings or videos if you want to learn the music at a later point.
> better soft skills

This is starting to happen in CS -- the level of technical competence remains fairly high, but the faculty ranks are swelling with "doesn't play well with others" types. Most of our PhD interns with serious ego/soft skill issues don't get return offers and end up in faculty positions as a result.
it will continue for as long as VCs allow it to.

it's essentially just burning through VC money to provide free image hosting. every time the funders start trying to make their money back, somebody will start a new free image host funded by a new batch of suckers.
There is: aging
> everything Ithkuil can express, so can English

Imagine there is a concept that no language can express.

Now Ithkuil introduces a new word that is defined as that concept.

But English (and all other languages) still cannot express that concept. So the idea that all/most languages are expressively equivalent appears to be false.

The Chomsky hierarchy is about grammatical expressiveness, not about semantic expressiveness. I see no reason to believe that all languages have the same semantic expressiveness, which is what I understood the above claim to mean.
You are the only one I have ever seen conflate the two.
But if they don't have social media, how will they see other kids calling them names for not owning the right backpack outside of school? Think of the harm to their socialization!
> Isn’t that a step backwards?

It could be for some use cases, but there are significant efficiency advantages to processing the data where it lies instead of shipping a copy to separate compute services.
When I first got into tech, it wasn't cool, it was nerd stuff (as a pajorative). I remember it first started being cool when the internet went commercial. It became really cool when the iPhone was released.

I think tech is currently undergoing a long overdue culling period. I recall one in 2001ish and in 2008ish. All the people who got into it because of the money and don't particularly care for it will move on. Some people who do care for it will also get culled. It's not pretty.
None of the text on the landing page makes it clear what this is about other than the downright bizarre lip service about the "open source community" -- like, ok, that's nice, but I'm on this page because I want to know what this is, and I'm not going to invest more than a handful of seconds to figure that out. At this point knowing you care about the "open source community" means nothing to me, and you don't have any other information on this page other than your "open source community" lip service

The GH repo is somewhat better, but you have to figure that some (most?) people aren't going to bother to scroll below the fold -- which is just a listing of folders/files in the project root -- to see what this is even about. It's not an ideal target for your "Learn More" cta.

Either way, this really needs screenshots or some sort of visual demo to make it clear what value this adds and what usecases it fits, and all of that should be prioritized over the weird open source lip service
If you can find the Win95 version it's preferable over the GoG DOS version. You need this guys patchers tho: http://www.krimsky.net/patchers.html
"The IP address 1.1.1.1 is very high risk and with an F grade should be blocked from accessing your site."

"The IP address 8.8.8.8 is high risk and with a D grade should be blocked from accessing your site."

And a bunch of the IP data itself is also just wrong, wrong asns, wrong providers, wrong geoip.

It also suggests blocking googlebot
Thanks for chiming in. When smart becomes a catch-all term, it feels a little tautological, but makes sense to me in that context.
> Everything about contracts was frustrating, both at those startups and the larger companies that acquired us.

In Hollywood, a lot of stuff is agreed upon without a contract. How does that work?

If your instinct is to say "it's a disaster," this will fail.
I think this is correct; if you would design a language from scratch, and optimise for accessibility, you definitely would not go logographic, tonal, non-phonetic like Chinese. There are other measures of efficiency though - in terms of information density, it is likely more efficient in written form than alphabetical languages. And of course if you optimise for security, its lack of accessibility is a plus
Children have been around for 7 billion years. Only the last 20 years have children grown up with social media for even part of their childhood. Do you truly believe it has now become that critical to the childhood experience? Especially given avalanche of research demonstrating its harm?
No one gave up their agency. The laws are a reflection of choices people freely made of their own will about how they want their data protected.
> When Facebook introduced React, that act transformed the font-end space into a hype-driven, cult-of-personality disaster zone where folks could profit from creating the right image and narrative

The author must have barely been paying attention to JS scene pre-React. The churn of tooling from 2010-2015 was far worse than anything since. A large part of this was due to the shortcomings of pre-ES2015 JavaScript itself.

ES5 JS had no module system. It had no package manager. Even if you used server-side rendered PHP, Ruby, Java, or C# (the default in those days), JavaScript ended up becoming a massive part of any code base. What started as a few JQuery selectors adding dynamic/interactive behavior to forms would quickly evolve into an unmanaged mess of tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I worked for an enterprise shop that pitched itself as a C# .NET stack, but when you analyzed the ten year old code base, we had more lines of JS than C#.

When every page imported its own version of JQuery or some plug-in, even updating a package across your code base would turn into a hot mess (and might unpredictably break things, as each page independently managed its own dependencies, often imported from some CDN somewhere).

The desire to build a SPA was rooted in the fact that none of these server-side languages had a good native way of managing JS. It was always treated as some afterthought that was injected into some god awful HTML template somewhere.

The JS ecosystem had to create these tools, and there were lots of attempts at wrangling various parts of the architecture from Backbone, Ember, Grunt, Gulp, Bower, Knockout, Flight, Eve, Angular, Dojo, Closure, Ext JS, Moo Tools, etc (and more that I've forgotten) all pre-dating React.
I think we are all talking about the very same phenomenon.

> Be BigCo

> Buy something for lotsa money

> Sell it for a fraction of the buying price

> ???

> Profit!
I don’t know. His preoccupation with looks seems rather immature to me ;)
As far as I can tell, the watchdog and CMA started doing their job immediately when the news of the acquisition broke. Then three years of back and forth and legal appeals followed, and now Facebook has finally lost, as was expected three years ago.

The original order for the sale came in 2021, after an extended investigation from that same year, following an initial investigation started June 2020, about a month after the sale became public knowledge.

Giphy and Facebook didn't give the CMA an opportunity to block the sale before it happened, so of course antitrust action had to occur after the fact. That's not regulatory overreach, that's lack of a time machine.
It's significantly less exciting when you know that the economics of generative AI means that it's largest and most popular use case will be for uninteresting things like automating the graphics for a block of Facebook ads.
Exactly. It's far better to get rejected early from the PhD track, for not being a high achiever, than to muddle through unable to secure a job. You would still be able to prove yourself in a masters degree.
Rather than focusing on research, we should look at "careers that are considered prestigious or rewarding in themselves" : fashion, entertainment, sports, medicine, tenured teaching. In all of those, there are more applicants than there are jobs. Hence, lousy salaries and poor treatment.

On the other hand, jobs that won't impress anyone you meet tend to have fewer applicants and much better treatment, because they can't afford to drive people away.