skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Today we're sharing several important changes that will shape the future of Headspace, including a significant restructure of our organization and a reduction of our workforce by ~15%. Employees affected by the reduction will be notified in the next few hours via a 1:1 conversation with their leader. If you are among the employees impacted, you will have already received a calendar invite for a priority sync. My goal with this email is to share how we got to this decision, to take accountability for the decisions we've made, and to outline what's ahead."
And yet tuition didn't go down as cbpp would've predicted. We at least agree that we ought to use the most recent data when determining whether something has actually been debunked, correct? They used the most recent data at the time, but it's no longer 2018.
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Make some sick dope ass prompts. Then you'll get a $200k job as Sr Prompt Engineer.
This must be the inspiration for Salvatore Ganacci "Horse" clip, the vibes are eerily similar.
And sharing the link with other people (a desire stated on the website itself) makes it wrong...how?
Do the creators need sponsorships to survive? I have no idea about how YouTuber revenue works.
I really hate people making the argument that "it's not pay-to-win, because you can win without paying!".

Pay-to-win doesn't mean you only win if you pay. It just gives you an edge if you do, and it's shitty. This is why I used to like DotA 2, to the extent that someone can like DotA 2, because all purchases were purely cosmetic and didn't affect gameplay at all.
Import attributes are at Stage 3: https://tc39.es/proposal-import-attributes/
> Eventually only a few people will do all of the farming with an army of tractors, and everyone else will be lying in poverty begging for food.

The first half of this happened. The number of farms in the US dramatically decreased from ~1930 to ~1970 due to automation, and of the remaining farms, most are small but most production comes from large farms.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...

Farm harvesting vehicles look like this now:
https://www.deere.com.au/assets/images/region-4/products/har...
That's a roughly 32% per-annum return on the beta card.
Tell HN: In my entire life, I have never enjoyed a scrolljacking website
Not once.

I don't care how hard you worked on it, I don't care how many web technologies you abused to get it working, I don't care how many hits or views or conversions or whatchamacallits it got for you.

If I visit your website and I see a scrolljacking, window-breaking, bandwidth hogging accessibility nightmare, I'm either going to force it to open in Safari Reader or leave entirely.

No content is worth this crap.
An unfortunate but not unforeseeable consequence of the ultra-capitalists' common talking point that people who take "risks" should be rewarded. That has always been the lamest excuse for why people with money deserve more money for doing no work.
I think these radio stations are pretty mercenary, driven by profit seeking rather than ideology. I think if there was a buck to be made, they'd play back-to-back female artists all day, every day. I assume the stations are (modulo basic incompetence) playing what keeps their audiences listening the longest. It's trivial to say "oh look, there isn't enough representation on the airwaves", but unless you have a convincing argument that more representation would bring in more revenue, why would they listen? The FCC is not going to mandate it on the basis of the public good, go ahead and put that out of your mind.
Back when newspapers involved paper, providing an ad-free experience for people that subscribe would have been extremely expensive: A very large part of a newspaper's footprint was actually setting the paper into pages in a sensible fashion, printing and distribution. Printing an extra copy of the paper that has no ads would have been quite expensive, regardless of advertiser revenue.

Today, it'd be quite simple, as most ad blockers prove every day. I'd argue that today, many small newspaper websites are virtually unreadable without an ad blocker. 2-3 videos playing all at once, plus regular banner ads, while trying to make close buttons invisible. The same number of ads appear in a mobile browser too, leaading to basically no space to read any of the actual content.
And then managed to pass a law making discharging student debt in bankruptcy nearly impossible. Seems like if congress could pass that law, surely they could pass a “debt is now forgiven” law. And maybe stop writing new loans that are so burdensome.
thanks so much. this is extremely useful and could help in training a specialized model for math and logic.
Can we not call that "cute"? That seems needlessly abrasive for people who are genuinely unaware.
"I want to take full accountability for where we are and give you some background on how we got here. While we felt we were planning conservatively for 2023 to enable a path to profitability in 2024, it's clear that we underestimated just how much the current economic environment would affect buying behaviors across our small and medium business (SMB) and consumer channels. The truth is, we let optimism get the best of us, and as our CEO,I didn't make all the hard calls last December that I needed to make. In light of the difficult capital markets, we remain committed to being cash-flow positive in 2024 so that we aren't reliant on outside funding to serve our members.
Because we missed on our first half of the year bookings plan, we now need to make significant changes to ensure we still become profitable, even in a downside scenario."
As you say, this is so reductive as to be meaningless (it includes all games, so you might as well just say "game"). Pay-to-win means you pay the company to get an edge in the game.
Pretty fun watch. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting... Thanks for the info, both of you, will have to take a look
Any resources to recommend?
That's kind of my point. This dude is a COVID minimizer and that's why he's been praised institutionally. He objectively failed at his job and helped move the US COVID response to the private market, so now the pandemic is invisible and few of the so-called "tools" are available to people.
Poor fidelity. Wait, that's the wildfire smoke.
That's one of the reasons why I bookmarked it and will test it in various CI pipelines on Monday. ;-)
Great link, thank you. I'd not heard about this wiki before. Now I'm going to lose more time I don't have to spare watching some documentaries.
Yes, it was definitely the "data pillaging" that was degrading service, and not the fact that Twitter is now hosted on a Mac Mini under somebody's desk...
Coil [1] was an attempt to do this via Web Monetization [1].

[1] https://www.coil.com/

[2] https://webmonetization.org/
I'm currently moving and my desktop is all packed up, so it has given my Deck its chance to shine. As a Stardew Valley machine, I'm getting upwards of 6 hours of life out of the battery, can't sneeze at that at all.
How to train early-career scientists to weather failure
Can you read an article before being negative?
To me the browser is the wrong vehicle for this. How can we have a completed unregulated internet and just clean up the mess in a browser.

To base regulation on something as amorphic as a web browser….

Demonstrates illiteracy of the subject matter.
I'm not the author, but after reading the manual (https://hurl.dev/docs/manual.html), it seems to me that the tool can be used both ways. That being said, i think the value of this tool (beyond a tool like curl, wget, etc.) is that its likely preferable to base usage on non-interactive use, or at least leverage the tool via its .hurl files. While i actually like the succinctness of the homepage in describing this tool, you're not wrong that the author could have added an additional sentence stating the interactive or not point slightly more clearly. Even still, the documentation is much better for this tool, than other tools that i have seen. For this i'm thankful!
Running the matching engine at discrete times doesn't eliminate the speed race, as that's mainly about jockeying for queue position. You could put in an auction instead, but that's just changing the rules of the game rather than eliminating the game.

But really, the key thing is that liquidity provision actually is a service -- market makers are basically selling insurance. There's money to be made doing his, so people will compete to do so. That's what the millisecond race is about. Faster trading -> less risk for the MM -> less capital needed -> lower profits acceptable. Contra what you're claiming, the race is cutting into profits, not raising them.

If you want to reduce market-maker profits, crack down on payment for order flow, and let everyone compete for a chance to trade against it.
EPEL Fedora maintainers should just stop updating their packages, if RHEL uses Fedora packages, just stop updating them or make them available explicitly for Red Hat through closed sources that you need to pay for. Fight fire with fire.

I have little faith that RHEL will change, especially after that blog post from the vice-president calling AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux "freeloaders" and that they bring no value to RHEL. They are the reason RHEL is as big as it is today and they're actively fighting against what made them big.
Not that I necessarily think it's best to stay with Postman, but have you looked at newman, which is the CLI runner for postman configs? We had postman as a test suite for something (which is more an API than an app), and I got tired of having to deal with setting up extra steps to test and of exporting the postman config to save in the repo, so I put newman on the test system and just run against the config directly in the test environment and check the output.

I don't necessarily recommend editing the postman config json directly to set up new tests as it's a PITA, but it's generally what I do so I don't need to keep importing and exporting it with Postman.

A tool designed for working with on the shell is likely better than what I'm doing with newman (since the config is not the most accessible), but it also meant I didn't need to rewrite a bunch of existing tests and verify they actually did the same thing.
Losing access to Redhat services won't immediately bring down your servers, but if you are unable to install security updates or new software without switching to a different distro they might be as good as dead.
> Linux has ???

Famously, the Raspberry Pi.
> If you can't admit that YouTube is a mass media broadcaster

Mass media broadcasters also set content policies, and usually are much narrower than YouTube in what they will carry (both as to actual content and provenance.)

So, sure what you're point is there, is it now that YT is excessively tolerant rather than too restrictive?
I have a Steam Deck.

The battery life is good on old games, that's true. But you can comfortably play a lot of modern games at 40hz/40fps mode; but just not for a very long while. It feels bad knowing you can run them decently but not really unless you're plugged.

Like, I wouldn't call people who want to play modern games on a handheld elitist? It seems to me that you're the one that has an elitist attitude as you're invalidating other people's opinion based on what... ? People want to play the games they want to play.

Not only that, but as with any industry, the video-game industry has evolved over the years; games are not just prettier but there's also plenty of changes in how games are played. So it's not unreasonable to think for a lot of people games that were released 20 years ago don't feel like the games they enjoy.

Really, there's a ton of really amazing games out there. And it's a shame to not be able to play them as comfortably as one would like to.

Also, by your own reasoning, there's hundreds of games on SNES/NES/N64/PSX that can be played perfectly on sub 100 dollar consoles. Damn to all those elitist that only care about consoles capable of emulating XBOX 360 era games, it's never enough for them!
I am into my first thousand books. If I have a queue of 10-20 already purchased (garage, deals, new, offers) and someone recommends a book somewhere such as HN, I add it.

I don't think tracking books you want to read is Tsundoku.
I think it's just like that because skatole is only one of many odours in excrement, but it's the one that makes in uncomfortable and makes you want to get away from it. So evolutionarily it's useful to just get away from skatole whenever encountered.

So it's not so much that it smells like poop, just is as revolting in some more general sense. And DMT probably has a lot of bitterness to it(can't remember what it tastes like, honestly, but I remember its cousins AMT and DPT being intensely bitter, though I didn't vape them).

Weirdly, skatole also smells nice in very small quantities, and is apparently used in perfume.

So yeah, odour is a pretty strange sense...
Some of those are religious issues, but none are moral issues.
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I live in Massachusetts where ticks are prevalent and a high percentage of them are known to carry Lyme disease. Perhaps more than 35% of them. I’ve had dozens of ticks on me and at least a dozen of those have started feeding before I noticed them. About six or seven managed to feed overnight before I noticed them.

Thankfully, I’ve never gotten Lyme. However, one of my friends did. Half of his face was paralyzed by the time he found out.

From my experience, I can say that while the consequences are severe, the chance of infection seems to be pretty low. Either that or I’m just extremely lucky. Perhaps I would be an outlier in the data. Or perhaps immunity to Lyme is more common than we realize. Part of me is surprised that I only know one person with Lyme.

Either way, my advice to everyone is to be vigilant but not overly afraid. You can be an outdoorsy person for many years in one of the most Lyme infested areas and be fine. Just be sure to check yourself at regular intervals, especially before AND after sleeping. The risk goes up the longer the tick stays on you, particularly once the tick starts getting full. The rule of thumb I’ve always heard is that if you get the tick off within 4 hours, you should be fine.

My friend who got Lyme never noticed any ticks that summer, but his symptoms developed within a month of a camping trip, so that’s probably how he got it. Noticing them is so important, because they are stealthy.

Last year, there was a day when I found five ticks on me all at once, just from going through the front yard to get the mail. I felt one of them crawling on me after going inside. Again, be vigilant, you won’t usually feel them. If you do feel one, there may be others. In addition to the five on me, I found two more on the floor, which had probably fallen off of my clothing. Most of the year it isn’t that bad. Although, a group of them is actually easier to notice.
A coworker once asked me for shell tips. I gave them a few that came to mind, and also invited them to peruse my .bash_history, because I figured there might be other tricks hiding in there.

They later asked why I sync all the time, almost always in threes.

"Huh?" Looking through history, I see that I do. Apparently it's been ingrained into my subconscious, like a sort of stutter, and I type it sometimes out of habit when I'm deep in thought.

Old habits really do die hard.
What country are you in?

I've watched YouTube for years and years and I've never in my life encountered more than 2 ads in a row. I've never encountered an unskippable ad longer than 15 seconds, and every ad that is skippable is skippable after just 5 seconds. And while ads are often included at the start, once they've played I've never seen ads get inserted before the 3-minute mark -- they're usually around minute 4 or 5.

(It's true that after a 3-minute video finishes playing they've started playing another set of ads, but you can just hit pause and navigate to your next video. You never need to watch them.)

I've never encountered anything even remotely close to 2 minutes of ads to watch 3 minutes of content as you're describing. It's usually 10 or 15 seconds total. But I'm in the US, maybe there are countries where it's different?

I'm particularly curious if there are objective stats around this. It's crazy to me that our experiences could be so completely opposite.
Personally I think it's a combination of

a) much better resources being available than in the past, which explain concepts clearly and in relatively simple terms, and

b) much better tooling existing now than ever before, so many things that you used to need to do "by hand" are now taken care of by relatively standardized tooling. Even just automatic differentiation engines are a huge deal, not having to backprop "by hand" (first release of TensorFlow was 7 years ago, so if you looked at it a decade ago I'm assuming you had to implement backprop yourself). Beyond that another jump was from Tensorflow's delayed execution/compilation model (it really was a headache to work around its APIs/set up the computation graph) as well as just having a generally ugly API, to PyTorch's "literal" setup, where it feels like you're just writing regular Python code and performing operations "normally"
IMO, the thing Goodreads has that nobody else is automatic updates from a Kindle. When I finish a book on my Kindle, Goodreads automatically tracks it. It doesn't seem possible for Story Graph or Bookwyrm or Librarything or any of these others to do that, which means I have to manually curate my list of books I've read and want to read.

Right now, my process is this: 1) buy a book, 2) read it, 3) my friends can see that I read it and left a star rating.

I think this makes a pretty hard barrier to entry in this market, because I read 99.9% of the time on my Kindle, and I'm lazy. :)
> I just switch to the backup until the replacement arrives. Try that with your $1000 iPhone.

Do you really keep them fully sync'ed? How do you sync photos?
It will be $8 a month if you signup during the beta and pay yearly. Seems kinda steep if you're just using Pocket as a "read later" tool that scrapes the page.
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It'd handle it fine, considering that's still an option. The account hosting side of things is a little trickier but it's doable.

https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...
I feel exactly the same as you about ads, and have built/owned my own ad network, as well as run nearly 90% of my business through ads. My business partners don't use ad block but I always use it, and they always tease me about it. Even if 1 second of my precious energy and mental well being is spent on hearing an ad accidentally I feel sick.
Interestingly, I've smelled pure skatole in the lab and it didn't smell bad at all, it smelled like mothballs (not surprisingly considering the structural similarity to naphthalene [moth balls]).

My theory is that in the synthesis of skatole, you end up with a lot of indole impurities that smell like feces even in small quantities. They can be hard to remove so people associate skatole with the smell. It's pretty common in chemistry, many chemicals have bad smells from minor impurities. Isopropyl alcohol is a good example, it has small quantities of acetone. Ethanol has small quantities of acetaldehyde. Really pure ethanol smells quite sweet.
Well, and frontend work. ChatGPT wouldn't been anywhere near the product it is without the webterface.

As far as PayPal integration, no but it makes you the subject matter expert (SME) in the room above a room full of people who aren't, and maybe aren't even developers.
I wish this could become a thing. I'd pay for a stupid NYT article every once in a while. I don't want a subscription. Let me just give you 25 cents or something. Even the work arounds are annoying so I end up just not reading the article. No one wins there.
The number of U.S. farms continues slow decline:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...

Note the relatively constant amount of farm land and corresponding increase in farm size. See e.g. https://time.com/5736789/small-american-farmers-debt-crisis-...

"Many small family farms are struggling under crippling debt, and failed payments and farm bankruptcies are rising. To make things worse, the prices paid to farmers for commodity crops (agricultural crops grown in large quantities for sale in the global market, such as corn, soy, cotton, and wheat) and subsidies are falling because of increased supply due to technology and globalization."
https://foodrevolution.org/blog/small-family-farms/
I’m glad they did, we were in a pandemic.
I am not fully aware of the context and I couldn't even find it. Could you send some links for "reforms to lending and, particularly, repayment programs designed to ameliorate the creation of the same debt problem"?
> requiring them to have an internet-connected smartphone to even be able to be banked by Bitcoin

An internet connection is not required to hold a private key. A hardware wallet would probably make the most sense.
> pandemic is functionally down to the same threat level as seasonal viruses

This is propaganda produced by the white house including Jha. The fatality rate when vaccinated is the same as the flu unvaccinated, assuming reasonable vaccine match (people aren't updating their vaccinations, so that will drift) or constant infections (long COVID). This view also omits the wild transmissibility of COVID vs flu, making is much worse even with the same IFR. Severity * number of people infected = impact. COVID reinfections can happen multiple times a year and have little relation to seasonality. Worse than flu.

Most people expected to catch the flu once every few years (maybe once a decade). People are getting COVID at increasingly rapid rates. New data from Japan said reinfections are possible within 3 months.

https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/16723497564361277...

This view also omits long COVID which the WHO said may affect 1 in 10 infections and could lead to hundreds of millions requiring long term care.

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1651227079684358151

Yes people are tired of the pandemic, but the messaging you have been given is designed to protect the economy. Obviously. Other people, rich people, making money off your deliberately constructed ignorance of the basic facts of our situation are making stacks. Jha helped do this and that's why he is celebrated by elites.
Would you consider sharing the sheet? I am always looking for books!
Existing LLMs are already pretty good at this, no?
The tricky part is mapping however the NL question refers to the various types of data to the actual column names, which is where I'd imagine some prompt engineering (or pretraining) would be necessary.
At one time, it would test for the existence of Pi-specific devices, but it’s been a long while since I ran it there.
When my son was little and eating a hot dog I asked him what animal it was from. He cheerfully announced, "puppies!"
Is source level debugging a possibility with this or does it only cover breakpoints on .wat text?
Really? Huh. I mean the ROG Ally can do 120hz.

For me personally, 40fps/40Hz seems like the sweetspot for these consoles. Ideally on a decent (1080p) resolution which at that screen size looks phenomenal. But I think ultimately we both want the same thing; more power, more efficiency.
> It will also show whether w has changed throughout cosmic history.

Of all the science being done on this mission, this is the one I’m most excited about.
I personally like the approach of defining things via an OpenAPI and then using Dredd to validate the spec against itself.

Even for tools that generate the spec from source code, it is usually still possible for user error to define the metadata for an endpoint incorrectly. Dredd catches that.
How much are you willing to pay me? I'll also accept a percentage of your future salary as for sure Sr Prompt Engineer for literally any FAANG.

(Yes, this is a joke.)