skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that simple.

When developing software, a company might aquire a license to add some library or code to their product.

This happens all the time with OS's like Windows (licensing the ability to play media formats, etc.) or games (licensing certain engines or algorithms).

That doesn't mean the company squired a license to release the libraries or code as open source 20 years later.

So you'd have to go through the codebase with a fine-toothed comb, line-by-line, because the original developers don't work for you anymore, and the license agreements are long lost.

Releasing large software projects are a massive cost to any company that wants to be protected from potential lawsuits.
Brezhnev considered himself Russian, as did Khrushchev.

Kaganovich's background is more complex, but that's splitting hairs.

What's more important is that, to a first order approximation -- the way the SU conducted itself geopolitically was as a continuation of the Russian empire. Including in particular the strategy of maintaining as many buffer / vassal states between itself and perceived competitors as possible. And as holiday resorts, etc.

Which is of course basically Putin's strategy, and his prime motivation for subjugating / neutralizing Ukraine as well.
Well organized PR campaign? You're giving reddit users and Christian too much credit.

Christian got caught up in this becsuse the Reddit CEO is a walking PR disaster, and Reddit's protests are a cute diversion at best. Anyone wanting to truly damage reddit should have been planning migrations, not shit posts.

>I love a good risky David v. Goliath gamble and would’ve liked to see him win, but sometimes you lose it all.

I don't think Christian is being put out on the street over this decision. You're on Hacker News and think an app dev with almost 15 years of experience is left with nothing?

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he was close to retirement levels of money. At the very least he can have a very long leisurely location before his next venture.
Former Twitter safety chief gives inside account
With our apologies, we can't seem to find anything based on either your HN username or the e-mail address in your profile. So sorry that it was somehow dropped or otherwise went into the ether! Would you mind mailing either me (my first name at oxidecomputer.com) or sales@oxidecomputer.com? Thanks for your interest (and fandom!) and apologies again!
The animal does not seen disoriented, just exploring the object. I seems play behavior

If I'm not wrong, the giant worm Crassicauda does not affect orcas, but can attack false killer whales and relatives, so is not an impossible hypothese
Apple didn't get to nearly $3Trillion market cap by letting people do what they want.
The idea that the US would not achieve air superiority against Russia is laughable. Russia’s Air Force has been pathetic in Ukraine relative to all their claims of supposed capabilities. The lack of stingers is not a hugely important factor compared to modern fighter jets, long range striking capabilities, and a competent set of pilots.

The “game changing weapons” that the US has been providing are very old. And we’re still not giving them the good stuff. Secrecy is not the reason.

Ukraine wants ATACMs for the HIMAR units and F16s.

The storm shadow missiles which have been making headlines lately are fired off of Ukrainian Soviet era planes
That looks closer to the right solution, but...

> Remember, your private key is your identity in Nostr, so if it is compromised you'll lose your followers and will have to start from scratch rebuilding your identity.

This is the same gripe I have with home servers on the fediverse: home servers come and go, and private keys sometimes need rotating. Making you lose all your friends and content when that happens is not an acceptable tradeoff.

I think the solution is entirely separating "identity" from every single other concern such as security (private keys), hosting (home servers), and public identity ("display name").
Ask HN: Simple interface for non-technical users to communicate with a back end?
Hi HN,

I want to help automate part of a process for the company of a friend of mine. The company is a small construction business.

Currently they have a website, with a form that clients can fill out if they need a repair. If they fill out the form, an email is sent to a secretary who copies the content by hand onto a sheet of paper that is then given to the repair people who are sent out to the clients location to perform the work.

We have discussed together how we could optimise this process. Their webform supports webhooks, and I am considering writing a backend that receives the form and then generates a PDF that can then be given to the repair people.

But in some situations, it is necessary that the secretary and/or the clients need to provide additional details. I need some way for them to interact with my backend. However, both the secretary and clients ar non-technical users. I am thus asking if anyone has any good ideas how to setup a communication channel between non-technical users and the backend.

Note that I am primarily a (junior) python backend developer and I have barely any frontend experience. Building a custom web app would be a solution, but it would take me a lot of time. Instead, I am considering right now to have the secretary interact with a combination of (google) forms and email.

For example, the original form, filled by the client is sent via webhook to my backend. Then the backend sends an intermediary email to the secretary with the client-provided information and some form that the secretary can fill out. The contents of this form are sent via webhook (or some other way) again back to the backend, which handles it. Eventually, the final PDF for the repair people is sent via email to the secretary to distribute it.

So my idea is essentially to create a UI that is a mix of forms (for users to communicate with backend) and email (for backend to communicate with user). The advantage I see is that various form builders exist and they have plenty of features, authentication and similar should be very simple, both forms and email are intuitive to non-technical users, and development and maintenance cost of this "frontend" is very low for me.

I am asking HN to see if (1) anyone has used a similar solution and has any feedback about it, (2) anyone has another suggestion on how to approach this problem or (optionally 3) anyone knows an existing tool that already does what I am trying to do.

Tech-wise, I am planning on building the backend in Python ideally, with FastAPI and SQLAlchemy, although I am contemplating Pynecone/Reflex. I am open to using a different techstack or approaching this from a more frontend/fullstack point of view, perhaps using NextJS/Vercel, but I am far less experienced in that.
We lost an electronics legend in June (YouTube)
When I was 13 I had a lot of fun at the beach with my friends. Sure beat the heck out of working 100 hours a week at the paper mill in town.
I don't know where I personally draw the line or whatever. I'm not okay with the bank bailouts, or the PPP forgiveness. In fact, I was so staunchly against the PPP that I chose not to take it, despite easily qualifying. I made the choice for my business to take an SBA loan that gets repaid with (low) interest.

I would consistently vote against giving tax money to private entities, given the chance (but look at our options here--we're just voting which private entities to give it to). I'm sure I'm in favor of giving private entities money in some cases, but my core belief is in personal responsibility (to a point you might find extreme), and so most of my positions can be deduced from that.

That being said, I would totally be all about a program to loan students the money with no interest. I think that solves really all the problems. It's not hard to get out from under it. It's very clear what you're signing up for, even as a young adult. It's not victimizing young people and their poor decision-making.

I'd even be totally okay forgiving the previous terms of the existing loans, and eliminating the interest. But to have other people pay for your expensive, optional education that will (hopefully) greatly benefit your life? At everyone else's expense? No, I'm never going to vote for that, no. We already give most people a very expensive primary school education, and just looking around, I would say most of that education is squandered & forgotten.

I don't vote with my heart. People struggling is not a big motivator for me in the voting box (but it certainly is in my personal life). I want them to do better, but I think the struggling is an important part of that process. It certainly was for me. I would encourage people to really dwell in that struggle; I consider it a fundamental, pivotal part of my human experience.
I'm curious about this: When you were experiencing this, why didn't you quit? I truly feel bummed for the people remaining at Twitter who are miserable but for whatever reason feel they can't just quit.
That will be the case once H1-Bs are reformed and universal healthcare becomes real. Until then, this is an unrealistic and cruel position.
>requires a one day deadline for takedown

The DMCA does not require takedown within one day. It requires “expeditious” removal. But courts have held that response times ranging from 5 to 14 days are expeditious, and in a recent case against YouTube (Business Casual v YouTube), a 23-day delay was excused because the court applied the standard for purposes of volitional conduct and direct infringement, sidestepping the DMCA entirely.

Some quotes:

The plaintiff “has not pointed to any authority to support the proposition that YouTube was under a legal obligation to conduct its investigation into Business Casual’s complaint on a more compressed timeline”

“Business Causal has failed to claim plausibly that any purported delay by YouTube constituted active, volitional conduct that caused TV-Novosti’s alleged infringement”

That case was significant for a bunch of other reasons, too. See discussion at https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2022/03/youtube-defeat...
Sadly, “LSD is safe” doesn’t mean “things sold as LSD and that feel similar to LSD are safe”. Lots of research chemical LSD analogues feel very similar to LSD but are dangerous. Just wanted to leave that disclaimer in case anyone on the fence about trying it reads this. Be careful.
By contrast, compared to only just a couple months back:

ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729880 - 65 days ago (1 comment)

Ask HN: Is prompt engineering just snake oil? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35665168 - 70 days ago (196 comments)
Amazon's retail side was almost always marginally profitable and that was while they were reinvesting like mad in retail infrastructure (data centers, warehouses, etc).
Honestly, the competition shows on Food Network are good fun. I would gladly welcome more of that format. Guy's Grocery Games is the only show I bother watching on there now. It's blissfully lighthearted enough to be a good distraction, and it's got no sleaze whatsoever.
Good summary — Parasolid is indeed the key here. I think it’s a similar story in the chip design space — there are not many good open source tools at scale, most people turn to Cadence and Synopsys who have been developing crazily complex (and buggy!) EDA tools since the 1980s.
Could Putin Lose Power?
Who cares about source code? The build system links unaudited libraries downloaded off the network. The very definition of a supply chain vulnerability. Source code literally doesn't matter.

I will not be satisfied until they release all the signed binaries that ran on the machines on election day for the whole world to see. None of this "nothing but pen and paper" bullshit imposed by the courts either, we have reverse engineering tools for a reason. What are they so afraid of?

They should have to prove beyond shadow of doubt that this system is not compromised. Open source both the software and hardware and release the binary artifacts used on election day. Let the whole world take the whole thing apart in Ghidra. If the system is so "unquestionable" as the judge claims, no one will find anything wrong with it. If that happens, I'll never again speak of this matter.

What do they do instead? Censorship, arbitrary fines, intimidation, persecution.
Hopefully DigitalOcean follows soon with pgvector support in its hosted offering.
Science really does advance one funeral at a time[0]. Covid helped a lot. Sadly, Einstein stil alive in heads of scientists.

[0]: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/shared/ods/documents?PublicationDocu...
I've been very impressed with Phind.com; at this point it has basically replaced 80% of my web searches for technical questions. The linked sources help with verification and getting context when necessary.
> RFK, Jr. is a presidential candidate with nearly as much support as Biden

He's polling between 45-60 percentage points behind Biden in most national Democratic primary polling; in the few key states that already have state level polling published are mostly in the same range, though he’s only 40 points behind in one recent Wisconsin poll.

“nearly as much support as Biden” is nowhere close to the supported by evidence.
That UI simply looks amazing, I might actually consider this once Textual no longer works.
>If Reddit was in fact killing 3rd-party apps why does Narwhal still work?

Come back to me in 6 months and see how that statement rings. I wish the best but history serves that Reddit's user have never heen able to put their money where their mouth is. I believe Relay is also doing this, but they seem ready to shut down if users don't pay up.
Would anyone use a smarterchild v2?
I have been watching heypi.com and chatgpt and I feel disappointed in the personalization aspect. I brought this up in a previous post and am wondering who would use a version of AOL smarter child v2
Show HN: Embedding-powered course search at Johns Hopkins
Inspired by hn-recommend, I spent the last couple of days making a "deep" course search at my university. It largely uses the same things, but I ended up implementing a "retrieve-rerank" system with encoders optimized for asymmetric search from Sentence-BERT. I think the results are somewhat interesting, and shoutout the author of hn-recommend again for the inspiration!
Not if you want healthcare and to keep paying your car loan, student loan and mortgage.

I’d say employment is less a choice in the us than any other oced country
This thread reminded me of some of the jokes in: "the life of brian". Thanks for that! I'm will rewatch it soon!
Just personal and porn. No trolling.
because your average CEO doesn't know AI from Auto-reply and inbox rules.they know AI is the hot new thing and they gotta have it.
Fair point. I was only considering the perspective of US citizens.

It does make me wonder how much the ratio of forced labor H1B situations has gone up at Twitter as US citizens all bail from the fire.

I cannot imagine why anyone would work there if they had a choice at this point.
Adding some randomization to the exponential backoff times to avoid the thundering herd problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem
Market value and fair value aren't necessarily the same thing.

The 38% is just the one day premium. The offer was at a discount to the stock price less than six months earlier. It was possible that the stock price had overreacted to a tech sell off, and if the market had rebounded by the summer the bid could have looked genius.

Market pricing in M&A is somewhat opaque and different than trading prices because it's based partly on synergy value to a bidder. To use your house example, if the house next door was willing to pay $1.5 million for your house, then the $1.38M is not above market even if Zillow and the list price say it's $1 million.

There were other potential suitors for Twitter, like Microsoft, Disney, Salesforce and private equity. They might have valued it more than Musk based on the benefits it brought their firms. Twitter would be a lot more valuable inside Amazon, Google or Meta but there were probably antitrust issues there.

Plus Twitter's board and management team had access to a lot of material non public information that investors did not. Even if you thought the market price in early April accurately reflected all the public info on Twitter, the Board was looking at 5 year projections and much more detailed pricing/demand/customer info.

The Delaware Courts give a lot of deference to board judgment in these situations, and Twitter's board would have been well within their rights to say "no, that 38% is not good enough" if that was their conclusion after a good faith and reasonable process.
It is true that we are focusing on the North American market, but we are also not trying to treat the European market with radio silence; please accept our apologies! We can't find anything under your HN username or the information in your HN profile; would you mind mailing either me (my first name at oxidecomputer.com) or sales@oxidecomputer.com? With our thanks -- and apologies again!
I think Turkey tried a couple of years ago to specify that the spelling of the country’s name in English should be the same as in Turkish. I remember reading about it in the news.

Probably that suggestion/rule is followed by some parts of the UN and perhaps some documents from a few foreign ministries. I certainly hadn’t ever seen it in the wild until the GP comment. It made me chuckle…not at the commenter but at the country.

But what the hell, yes I wrote (and will continue to write) “Turkey”, but I won’t call Istanbul Constantinople, much less Byzantium.
Might be time to reflect on how much useless information we consume
We used to use our DVR to record things from Turner Classic Movies. Not just sitting around watching the channel, but we used it to gather things up, although sometimes we watched things on it live too. It was about as good as owning the movie in DVD or Blu-ray and we could watch it anytime we wanted, for years and years, when recorded on DVR. Then along came 4k and the new 4k-enabled cable box deletes our recorded movies after 365 days, even if space is not required. Screw you, Comcast.
If your point is that both old Twitter and new Twitter have people who have put money into it, and expect to not lose their money, you are correct.

I would still recommend not using the word “shareholder value” for the concept. It’s just…having a business that you don’t want to lose money? Some people do dislike the concept of business, but I don’t think they should talk about “shareholder value”, they should just attack capitalism.

In any case, it’s still irrelevant to a discussion of Twitter. The old management was also expected to turn a profit, but somehow avoided Elon’s string of silly ideas.
I think Twitter was definitely overstaffed. You don't need that much manpower to run a tech company, at least on the technical side.

The problem is that Twitter organized itself as an overstaffed company, with complex structures, complex code, lots of R&D, etc... Than Elon Musk came in and did a Thanos snap and immediately fired half of the workforce, and I guess quite a few others left, especially among the best who would have an easy way finding a good job elsewhere. But while the workforce was drastically reduced, the complexity of the system wasn't reduced and probably never will. So, you get what happens now.

It is possible to run a Twitter-like website with much less resources than Twitter had before Elon Musk bought it, but you can't run Twitter as it is now.
> Multi-character constants are historical baggage.

It is more that it is an implementation detail of some compilers that was then (ab)used by certain platforms.
Do you think old Twitter didn’t have MBAs?
Sharing Information Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds (2011)
Productivity Paradox
That dynamic has changed a lot with multiplayer games which are in continuous development. For instance DayZ just hit record player numbers after nearly a decade:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/11nlu70/recently_dayz...

But even if that's an outlier, online games can have a surprisingly long tail where the game remains profitable even if the player count doesn't grow anymore (as long as the developer supports the game at least).
Be able to brag about ones lack of education takes a lot of courage. Kudos to you sir.
This is a great time, in my opinion. Don't expect perfection, but things are really far along.
I will repeat the point once more, please directly engage with it.

Earlier in this comment tree the other user wrote:

> Unfortunately, I do not think you can force racists to stop being racist. Bigotry is perfectly legal.

I agree with this, so the presupposition for the rest of the comment chain is that this statement is agreed upon, unless otherwise specified. I pointed towards this statement multiple times and asked: if this means that minorities will be discriminated against (since the agreed upon statement is that racists will still exist), and the attempt at "positive discrimination" is forbidden, they are simply discriminated against. What is your solution to this problem? How do we help them to no longer face discrimination under your proposed solution?

I don't think you have a solution, as you have so far failed to bring one up (even though I asked this question multiple times). So far, your position is equivalent to "they just have to suck it up". Can you finally offer a different position?
I will definitely reach out. likely you have me under jmh@sharkmob.com which was my corporate email address at the time. Alas, I have moved on from that job. But just so you know I am not lying.
I don't disagree with you. But convincing jobs to lower their automated HR requirements in a time where they can still hire plenty of college grads seems harder than encouraging post secondary education. Which is already harder than getting proper primary/secondary education. In addition, it seems futile to discourage acedemia from encouraging students to remain in their bubble. It goes against their best interests.

I'm simply talking about the path of least resistance. We're well past the times where you walk into a mom and pop shop and grab a job in a few days time. At least in Metropolitan areas.
It’s well documented that advertisers have been fleeing Twitter because they see the new management as bad for them. While Twitter has engineering and reliability problems, the loss of advertising revenue is the life or death challenge for the company.

I’m pretty ambivalent about advertising, but it was the only reasonable way for Twitter to make money, so I would not have bought Twitter and then chased away all the advertisers.
> PBLLC still has shareholders

Strictly speaking, no, they don’t, and neither do regular LLCs. Corporations have shareholders, partnerships have pattners, and LLCs have members.
> But maybe we should start with a mirror, and collectively ask, "Why are so many so unhappy?"

How is this even supposed to be determined? It isn't like you can test for happiness like you test a pool for Ph levels. Assuming we can is optimistic
People worry in an emergency because they don't know what's going to happen.

People do not worry more or less because of some particular 1 in a billion billion event that happened yesterday. Well, maybe yesterday, but wait a day!

On the other hand, revising rules and regulations would have real costs for you the taxpayer.
The recent lack of the lake is more due to manmade structures and improvements rather than drought. Current estimates I read say the lake may recede in the next two years. Provided there are no more large storms that might refill it. The last time the lake existed in the 80s it took a few years to recede as well.

Some good pictures of the roads are here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/california-storms-tula...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/article/tulare-lake-kay...

Instead of Google Maps, here's a Sentinel hub link that shows a large body of water on 6/30/2023

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=11&lat=36.057...