skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of startups were just trying to be 'rent-seekers'. Placing themselves between customer and product/service suppliers and trying to make money by providing a small service. Or sometimes just trying to grab all the inventory and auction it off at higher prices.

This may work when interest rates are close to zero, but when they creep up, it becomes easier to make money holding t-bills.

And thus, those startups go kaput.
…but how necessary are those 99% for the viability of the new system? Perhaps we're better off without them.
That could explain some situations, but I very well doubt it's as simple as "managers are unappreciated".

Some managers are given wide latitude in controlling their teams work. Some managers execute on that, others don't.

Some managers are given a lot of control over hiring. Some execute on that, other don't.

Some managers are given wide latitude over reviews. Some managers execute on that while others don't.

The reason managers are perceived to be less useful in tech usually, in my experience, boils down to where they spend their time and political capital. They either spend it on their team and enabling them or on themselves and enabling themselves. All of the above are ways that could go either way and the feeling is generally an accumulation of those decisions over time. I guess I could surmise that there's just a lot of "bad" managers in tech, but I don't think that's a useful sentiment without knowing why.
I had the same surprise. Which raises an interesting question: does that count as "breaking the back button"?

Theoretically, no: the back button is working as expected. At the same time, it was a significantly worse experience for me because it took a lot longer to go back to the "parent" page (HN).
Thanks for the reminder: Zune. You think iPod belongs in the same breath as the others?

Random protocols aren’t products.

Surface is a strategic failure because it didn’t define the tablet market a decade ago, and iPad / Chromebook is what every grade school kid uses. Now it gets to cannibalize sales from their PC partners, who I’m sure are thrilled to be competing with their OS supplier.
> It's particularly interesting because conservation of energy does not hold on such large scales.

IMHO, conservation of energy still applies, so Big Bang model is just wrong. Use Occam's razor when in doubt.
Maybe if building a startup wasn't such a risky endeavor we wouldn't need venture capital and a lot more people could do work they feel is meaningful and are passionate about.
We have Government funding available for such purposes; a better connected and more open PHI system would reduce barriers and costs for these kinds of endeavors.

We would still need controlled trials, which would continue to work similarly to today. But those would be perhaps less expensive as a result, reducing research costs and turn around times.
They already are. You're given all the details of the DMCA claimant in the DMCA claim itself, so that you can sue them.
Before the release of the LLMs where everyone could run it, the amount of slurping was probably manageable. Now that anyone can train an LLM and SO/SE/Reddit/etc are obvious places to go for training data, I can see where the systems would easily be overwhelmed. People contribute to SO/SE because it's a common place to go for community help. Training a for profit chatbot from the community data that wasn't provided to the chatbot by the community seems to break the spirit in which the contributions were made. I'm on the fence of the argument, but most definitely in the direction of not liking all of the model training for free.
> A SV insider that leans hard left has a problem with the way Elon is running Twitter.

Get in line bro.
No, spherical logic.
As a silver lining, perhaps the cash-grab, zero value-added clones will no longer clutter our google results?
The Supreme Court could have chosen not to interpret the Commerce Clause so broadly to say that not engaging in interstate commerce affects interstate commerce and therefore counts as interstate commerce (IIRC that started with wheat, not drugs), in which case most federal drug laws would not apply unless the activity actually involved interstate commerce. Then an amendment would be needed.
Same reason why cats try to dig a carpet.
Thank you! My misunderstanding, I had forgotten cell shading.
Microsoft is very committed to support apps compatible with Windows versions from 1995 to about … 2007 or so.
Seems like two big ifs - that they’re over represented, and that they wouldn’t switch to Reddit apps or web
J&J ended up paying $9 billion but they still ended up being allowed to spin a subsidiary to hold that money and essentially take on the liability of future lawsuits or what happens when the money runs out and there are more claims.
Are you trying to say there have been no profitable companies created since Facebook?
Have short-lived branches for whatever change you're making, merge into main, repeat.

Is there a problem with this? Seems too obvious to even call it a strategy.
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I see, and it appears that Apple's is also only see-through by overlaying the VR onto a camera stream.

I thought it was like the Hololens, which btw is also in the 3.5k-range.
When corporate lawyers are involved, any "ask" should be interpreted to be an order with deliberate threat of major economical repercussions on the side should you fail to comply with the request.
> Financial research firm CreditSights estimates that 3M could ultimately be on the hook for nationwide PFAS cleanup costs of up to $142.7 billion. That’s almost triple the company’s $53 billion market capitalization, and that’s before any personal injury claims and other lawsuits.

What does this actually mean? It's just showing off a big number without giving any real context. 3M is the only manufacturer of tons of important materials as I understand it, so it's not like they can just get erased from the market. But what does accountability actually mean in this context?
This attitude bugs me a lot. It seems really common, especially in more recent texts about language design and implementation, that parsing is heavily de-emphasized to the point where practically nobody talks about it. See Essentials of Programming Languages by Friedman & Wand, the relevant sections in SICP, Programming Languages: Application & Interpretation (which goes so far as to call it a distraction).

I get that parsing is more of an implementation detail and doesn't really belong to the space-brained realm of language design per se, but it's a bit annoying that most texts refuse to give any space to the topic, and rely on your language being S-expression based or assume you're going to use a parser generator. Like, in the real world, even if one will never actually implement a fully-fledged programming language, you're still probably going to have to parse things sometimes. I would love a book that goes into detail about different parsing techniques and considers best practices and patterns and tradeoffs/design considerations -- would pay good money for that

It reminds me somewhat of the situation in analysis, where there are lots of theorems that aren't written down anywhere because literally every book states them as "easy" exercises. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but I can't find much in the way of concrete guidance on implementing parsers. I'm aware of the beautiful series on parsing theory by Aho & Ullman ("The Theory of Parsing, Translation, and Compiling"), but those are more focused on theory rather than implementation
But this wasn’t a biological experiment on the citizens, which is the issue. It was an experiment to test the spread of material in a subway system.

The article is claiming without support that this was pathogenic biological testing on people, which is not the case.

Let’s assume instead they used a harmless chemical tracer. Would that still count as a violation? What about releasing flour through ducts?

The issue with the article that makes it click bait is they are making a claim of “germ warfare”, insinuating that citizens were exposed to dangerous infectious agents which is simply untrue.

If the article approaches the subject honestly, and then question wether such action was ethical, even using a harmless substance, that would be one thing. But as it’s written, the article pushes misinformation, which is a shame, because it’s clearly an important subject.
The amendment was a goal by prohibitionists to ensure the law wouldn't be easily repealed. To their chagrin, they didn't realize the will of the people in banning their ridiculous amendment.
Just because a bunch of forums do it that way doesn't mean it's correct. When I was at Twitter the Compliance team determined that all user-generated content was Personal Data under the scope of GDPR. Those forums may be getting away with it right now, but they're playing with fire. If someone wanted to raise a stink with regulators they could be in trouble. I guarantee you if Reddit or a site of similar scope tried something like that someone would.
It’s a more complicated problem because if you get rid of say prisons and the police you don’t get groups of individuals privately funding such things. It’s a free rider problem where as can be demonstrated around the world the only known solution is collective taxation.

If you want GPS and are happy to pay for it then why should I pay if I can get it for free without paying? With GPS the idea of encrypting the data might work, but that doesn’t work for say vaccination were public safety results from individual choices.
The Tubbs fire did a fine job of this, but it’s always dimmer than the luminosity of HN orange on a typical screen, so it depends on how you define “color”.
> I think it would be good to have a distro where core OS and user application is completely separated, and can be updated independently.

There is nuance here. Technically, this is how it currently is, since the "core OS" is the kernel, and you can absolutely update that separately from everything else.

But lots of what people tend to think of as the "OS" are just applications (in Linux, anyway), so if that's the point of view, then it gets trickier. You can still update that stuff independently, but you have to decide what parts count as "core OS" to you and you'll need to update each of them independently.

True "user applications" are updateable independently.
> These rules are more commonly disrespected by short-term guests

So enforce them, it's one five minute zero-interaction phone call to have a cop deal with a noise complaint. I can, and do, throw loud parties at my apartment, stumble through my hallways drunk, and host rowdy out of town friends and no one dares question my ability to live there.

Trying to enforce social norms by not allowing "certain kinds of people" to sleep there is grade-a bullshit. Trying to get outcome A by making a rule about B is unfair to everyone who is B but not A and A but not B. This kind of reasoning is why it's so hard to get multi-family housing approved. A nice suburb in my city forced the development of new desperately needed apartment complexes to be on the the border because "less desirable" people live in apartments.
I have some doubts about the data: the government of France has supposedly 1 repos, but for instance the French Statistics Office has 244 repos [0], the "digital" team of the Prime Minister's services has at least 537 repos, and that's what's on top of my head.

[0] https://github.com/orgs/InseeFrLab/repositories + https://github.com/orgs/InseeFr/repositories

[1] https://github.com/orgs/etalab/repositories + https://github.com/betagouv
Ah, thank you for correcting me.
I get that it's a regional thing. I don't think you need to know the underlying explanation just to memorize the term. Otherwise nobody would say things like 'mute point', or 'for all intensive purposes', or 'could care less', etc. Most people usually use the phrases in the right context, but clearly don't understand what they are actually saying or they wouldn't say it.
> there's anything preventing US-based organizations to use non-US-based computing platforms which are universally accessible

Trade/technology embargoes and sanction regimes are just such things. For an example how arbitrary those can be, the US sanctioned a German port for participating in NordStream 2 construction — and that project had zilch to do with the US, even its financing was done in Euro, not USD.

> The UN's headquarters are in the US,

And the US somewhat regularly declines its visas to the UN representatives it doesn't particularly like. So?

In any case, an international organization (and its members) is not automatically outside of the jurisdictions of the country (countries) it's physically in; if such a need arises, the governments have to pass specific laws regarding those specific organizations and its members, granting some sort of immunity or another. Or they just don't, and the organization simple has to function as a non-profit multinational.
If you knew one simple trick all the answers on Experts Exchange were at least freely available.

That trick was to simply scroll past the paywall. They had all the answers exposed so that google would index them. It was hilarious and silly.
You mean some raving diatribe on the Internet is actually total bullshit? Shocking!

In all seriousness, thanks very much for your post, it's the kind of informative content that I really appreciate about HN.

At the same time, this blog post gets to everything I hate about the Internet and online discourse these days: nobody even attempts to argue in good faith anymore. US drug policy over the past century is rife with plenty enough problems that you don't need to blatantly make shit up to get your point across, as this author did.
People are wincing at the idea of watch that is 5+ minutes off, but I typically intentionally set my watches roughly 5 minutes fast anyway. Helps me avoid being late for stuff. (I realize this makes no sense if you think about it too hard... shhhhhh)

If I need the precise time, I can pull out my phone or just ask another human who nearly because they will surely have a phone :)

(Note to non-watch enthusiasts: we are talking about the tolerances on very old watches; a modern $100 mechanical is usually accurate to within 5-10 seconds a day)
Government bailout, it's clearly too big to fail
I've had long and thoughtful posts censored. Yeah it sucks. It makes you not want to help people, at least on Reddit. Why would I spend my valuable time helping someone out when it might just get deleted by a 16-year-old modding a subreddit in-between CoD matches?
That's not the original point. The original point is it can't possibly be intelligent because it's just trained on predicting tokens.
Again and again it always comes back to "but muh revolutionary war!"

An aberration. Great Britain was a little fuckin busy during that period, what with the existential threat of the hundred years war, and a largely inept King.

Great Britain sent only about 50k troops during the entire affair.

Had they not been so busy, it likely would have looked a lot more like all the times India tried to get uppity.
I wonder if we'll start seeing devices other than laptops that currently use barrel jacks for power shift to USB-C. 240W covers the vast majority of things even an enthusiast might have on their desk.

It'd be nice if they did, if only because there's a single agreed upon way to deliver power with USB-PD, and USB-PD bricks hash out the details with the connected device to deliver appropriate power. It's a considerably nicer experience than with barrel jacks, with the various different sizes and pole configurations they can come in and their "dumb" nature all of which makes it easy to plug in a brick that physically fits but fries your device.

It'd also enable better modularity, making it easier to replace the bargain bin bricks that come with some devices with something higher quality.
My template for a semi-complex GPT-4 prompt
Nothing prevents anyone to use the USB-PD protocol over a different cable and plug (and maybe some do but we don't know it) rated for 10A. It's just so much more practical both for users and when designing to just use off the shelf USB-C (which AIUI has its design rated for 5A) as the physical part.
It's the wrong way of managing risk.

Startups are about increasing risk and that means good startups are about managing that risk.

There's different strategies for doing it. The current one en vogue attacks the ambition of the ideas
I'm curious how many people will use this to shred their comments into racial slurs or other similarly noxious content instead of a period or "This comment has been removed by Shreddit. Learn how to protect your privacy at <URL>."
It's not always easier. There are too many gatekeepers and rent seekers now who will prevent useful services from becoming profitable
Aw man, I’m sorry to hear that. Especially as so much of the artwork really is very good -- it deserves a much better showcase.

It’s the artistic equivalent of a really cool tech demo without any useful product behind it.
I'm surprised to hear the author state that war is more destructive than in the past. Is that actually true? Certainly we are more capable of destruction than in the past, but modern millitaries have put a lot of effort into being less broadly destructive, unless they specifically intend to broadly destroy things. Photos of bombed-out cities in Syria are jarring, but even the worst devastation there doesn't look as bad as what we saw in WWII, WWI, or even the American Civil War. When is the last time a city was "sacked" or a countryside "pillaged"? When is the last time an entire city population was executed? If anything, it seems like war is much less destructive than it used to be, because weaponry and tactics are much more precise than they used to be.
I had a similar demand and started working on something for myself. It's a very simple system where you have a set of checkin buttons and a progress button at the top. There's a progress page where all checkins and progress display in a chart that can overlap, making a little easier for one to see how the progress and the checkins possibly correlate.

I'm still working on a landing page, but I put some screenshots[1] together to show what I'm talking about. This is a mobile friendly application, data is grouped according to the screen width, meaning that on a computer you are able to see with more details the chart points.

The system is working well for me, now I have much more content to share with my doctors and track medicine usage as well as any other event in life I'd like to track, such as sports, naps, booze etc.

I'd be happy to provide access to whoever want to give it a try, just shoot me an email: username at gmail.

[1] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IXzFvwVjP11PtOTEvQ6L...
As a hobby project, I'm adding AI text generation to the OpenMW NPC's. I'm trying to figure out how this would work for a 'real' project without having to develop an entire game first.

I would definitely not be able to do that if OpenMW did not exist.
My guess is that they are doing something like:

* use some version of GPT, to preprocess the prompts

* send preprocessed prompt to “real” model for inference

* post process result to filter out undesired output

Then they can honestly say they haven’t changed the version of the model, without telling you that they have probably changed a lot of their pipeline to process your prompts and deliver a result for you
Many a True Nerd is also in the middle of a playthough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwH1xJhcXG0dR6Ue5o39y...
Maybe grad students...
I loved Boyhood, one of my favorites.
There’s some irony that one of the M is for Mining - the poster boy for superfund cleanups. I guess this would be an ultrafund
How would you stop people from gaming the system? At some point, don't you need an actual human trained in business/markets to make a decision. I wouldn't want capital allocated by something like the YouTube algo or the Facebook feed algo.
The article did say that:

> The seeds had to go, too. While poppy seeds might be legal, it is never legal to plant them. Not for any reason.
Tech companies that have gone public since Facebook. Name a few besides AirBnb that are consistently GAAP profitable not by their own made up metrics like Uber
Startups are a special kind of company I’d say. I’m kinda curious myself… I guess openai, tho technically I doubt they’re profitable. I’m probably just forgetting a ton of obvious ones!
This is my approach. There's only been one or two times that I needed the latest version of something, and when that happened I just built them myself.
Just make sure to take your data with you whatever you do !!

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/36004304835...

https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
in india, if you are owing a second or third home, you can deduct 1/3 of the income as "expense" flat. its auto calculated so you don't even have to claim it or can claim more than that.

if you are a business, (as opposed to individual owned) (a guest house or bnb or whatever), you are treated as a normal business so on all incomes you can claim expenses which you have actually paid.

this is a stupid rule to let businesses treat their business as "home" and then claim flat rate expenses (why did nobody think of fixing this till now?)
Just being pregnant is enough not to get hired because employers hate maternity leave.
These aren't massive communities, these big modders often know each other and work together.

I'd say it depends on your background and availability. Most people in any of these intense tech scenes are a combination of a)young/low-commitments - in school, summer, no kids, etc. so they have the time and energy to dedicate b) grew up in these scenes so that the barrier to entry to start creating is much lower than someone like you or me trying to figure out how to mod a game for the first time and c) members of a strong community. I used to be in the fansub scene and there's something about being celebrated by your peers for achieving something that only they recognize. Same with the crack scene. I'm sure modders in these communities feel the same way when they can release something and receive so much positive feedback. It's great!
Seconds the recommendation of AllThingsOnePlace as great place to learn about usb psu in general.
But watching his video I can't help but wonder with all the talk about the important of energy at the national level, why this kind of analysis is not done by one of gov. Agencies ...
> What is – quietly, because they haven’t tried to launch a major invasion recently – most militaries are probably similarly incapable of the basic tasks of industrial warfare?

I once read an article that argued in the absence of war, it's impossible to tell if a doctrine or commander is good or not.

Maybe you've got five officers up for promotion. One officer wants to give soldiers high-tech equipment, a heads-up display in every helmet and a grenade-dropping drone in every backpack.

One officer wants to train loads of soldiers as linguists, so they can win hearts and minds in any country they might occupy.

One officer wants to focus on PR at home, as maintaining a steady supply of cash and adventurous young men is key to winning any conflict.

One officer wants to cut bureaucracy and red tape, as every individual in a support function is someone not in a front-line function, and it's front line fighters that win battles.

One officer thinks the important thing is physical conditioning and classic soldiering - Marching, marksmanship, long hikes carrying heavy backpacks.

How do you decide who to promote, if it's 30 years since you were last at war and none of them has ever won a real battle?
Yeah, every time I see that number trotted out I’m just like “and the point is…?”

If there’s an issue with the cost to process that many calls I’m much more suspicious of inefficiency on the API side than the client. Those numbers seem very reasonable.