skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels worth pointing out that Canadians get paid in CAD, and the salaries don’t seem to go through the exchange rate.

E.g. 140k CAD is considered senior dev pay where I am in western Canada even though my American peers make significantly more when my salary is converted to USD.
You can directly launch a firefox profile with "firefox -p 'profile-name'"

This will create a separate firefox instance running with that profile. It's not as nice as having a button in firefox to accomplish this, but if you use different shortcuts or keyboard commands to launch things it works quite well.
KPIs are a tool and like every tool they can be misused by unskilled practitioners.

HR KPI — hire 20 engineers: you can hire 20 morons.

Sales KPI — close 100k of business: you sold the wrong use case and all of those customers churn

Eng KPI — reduce bug frequency: you make reporting bugs too onerous to do

Bad execution isn’t fixed by KPIs, it’s fixed by good execution. Good execution benefits from KPIs.
Clickable link to product page: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4
Chrome is inferior here in this area.

Because you can activate mobile view in Firefox WITHOUT devtools opened, but in Chrome that's impossible.

Lot of times I hated this at Chrome.

Also, that shortcut in Firefox will immediately give you mobile view, and in Chrome not as you first need to type shortcut for Devtools.
If you want to be incredibly pedantic, something can be tautological without being part of the definition, and something can be part of the definition without being tautological (by way of contradiction).
just fwd'd it to phishing@paypal.com but if you search their community page, you will see there is a ton of service@paypal.com complaints: https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/me...

If this is a genuine invoice, then this whole thread is moot.
A bit tangential, but I absolutely love your blog design. Minimalistic, yet very aesthetic and unique.
> This means that the process is eternally tied to the cloud now.

"You will own nothing, and you will be happy" has followed us to... spreadsheets? We can't even own the things we're wageslaving away at our desk for.
I’m surprised they are still a thing of weddings now that everyone has smartphones. Maybe they are considered nostalgic for the period before smartphones and digital cameras. Or maybe there is no good way to share photos from guests.
I see IA used more and more frequently as a free file host for new copyrighted content (e.g., custom hacked up Windows ISOs), which is incredibly frustrating. Without changes, perhaps active curation like a normal library, I fear the site will get forced off the Internet soon.
Turning popular video games into great board games is a harder than it sounds
Show me the incentives and I'll show you the results.

It's my favorite Munger quote, and it's a really good one. So often businesses invest so much time, effort, and money into everything but incentives. No matter how much you spend on culture, perks, diversity, swag etc, if the incentives are not aligned to some over-arching goal internally, you will not get the results you're looking for.

Let me ground this in a concrete example. If your KPI is a certain number of calls per day from a sales person, here's how the most Machiavellian caller will hit it:

1. Spend little time with good prospects (they're paid by call, not by conversion!)

2. Call old numbers/disconnected/rapid disconnects

3. Call multiple numbers at once, reduce call quality
etc.

For any other metric you pick (conversion rate, call time, etc) there are similar schemes that have undesirable side effects. Either you very carefully build a composite framework of incentives to use, or you take the index fund approach and compensate on overall company performance (like a stock bonus, profit bonuses, etc). Personally, I think the best option is stock bonuses, but you may disagree.

Either way, getting those incentives right is absolutely key to performance.
Maybe it's just me, but basically all the best senior managers I've had have been in their 50s and with plenty of experience under their belt. I've had one or two in their late 60s who where starting to lose touch with the field, but most managers in their 50s I've found have kept up pretty well.
Unfortunate as it may be, we would be remiss to accept Digg's 2010 exodus as recent, especially in internet years. At the same time, I'd be interested to compare and see what is currently purported to be the 'golden age' and what it ends up being.
1. Get word lists for many languages, as well as vulgar word lists.
2. Generate Markov models for each word list, to generate words and score how much they sound like a regular or vulgar word in each language.
3. Make a list of words that sound like they could be a word in many different languages, but are not words and do not sound like vulgar words.
4. Find which of these words aren't domain names yet.
Wrong approach. Person's identity and authentication should not be based on the immutable and public information like social security number, driver's license number, address history, etc. There are many ways such information can leak and when it does its stays there forever. We need a proper digital ID, certification and conflict resolution mechanisms. It would not be cheap but the alternatives are costlier in the long run.
Rijkscollection: A Personal Virtual Museum
Reminds me of a blogpost by Scott Alexander that I can't find right now about the last unenlightened person, as far as he can see, in the world.
I think people like to play with the idea of surviving "death" where it's almost a hyperbole, rather than saying "the person doing CPR did it correctly and compressed your heart to keep blood moving".

Also interesting, there are other forms of CPR: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12540141/
hi HN! excited to ship our latest pod with Cursor! Covering:

- joining OpenAI Converge and getting early access to GPT-4

- Rethinking the UI/UX for coding

- The thinking behind Cursor's current featureset, including prompting (ft. Priompt!), chats, and documentation

- The challenges of very long context lengths

- Why Quantization benefits are offset by low Utilization

- and basically going over all of Aman's Greatest Hits

looking forward to your feedback and hope you enjoy! questions welcome, will make sure Aman sees
If you continue to break the site guidelines like this, we will ban you. We've had to warn you many times already. This is not cool.

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I know I'm old guard but uml worked well for me.
If it was too successful on its own it wouldn't be in all those devices. Whether or not it has the best chip designers its ARM that has changed the world.

It seems a bit like Linux to me - you could say Linus Torvalds is disappointing because he's not as rich as Elon Musk and yet one might argue both that he has done more and that if he had tried to get super rich out of it he would not have achieved so much because every effort to extract significant money would have lessened the breadth of his impact. People wouldn't have co-operated.
All the crusty broken shit in Excel have become features over the last thirty years.
> This sounds very much like trusting a fox to guard the henhouse. When do they then do with the submitted personal information? Why should we trust that they will behave ethically with it? What happens if, and when, they have a data breach?

They have no incentive to behave incorrectly as all their business is based on trust.

https://help.joindeleteme.com/hc/en-us/articles/817118498523...
I'm confused as to what this is? Is it just a wrapper to gpt API that parses the response? And it looks like it manages the convo so you don't have to send over entire history?

I have a somewhat related project that wraps the gpt API and let's you interact in a codebase, where the LLM can request access to certain files, propose new files and edits

https://github.com/breeko/j-dev
Your final observation might be true of parts of the USA. But go to Berlin in winter, or anywhere in northern Europe really, where "it's cold" and "being outside" are not considered oppositional. Take a winter walk down a Berlin street with outdoor restaurant seating, and see people sitting under blankets, with warm coats on, and hats ... enjoying dinner ... and patio heaters.

They are not cosplaying at anything. It's just how it is.
Show HN: Open-source, lightweight tracer for debugging LLMs applications
This allows you to set up logging traces with minimal effort on any python codebase and store it into a mongo db database or a local directory. I'm leveraging it mostly for developing on language models, and use the data for a downstream evaluation and debugging. Since I'm didn't want to rely on any of the opinionated frameworks (Langchain with Langsmith, etc), I thought a simpler plug-and-play solution would suffice.

I have a lot of features in mind for the roadmap -- let me know if you'd like to add to it and feel free to drop in any suggestions. There is also a quick Streamlit app added to stare at the results; I'm not a Streamlit pro and preemptively apologize for any UI issues.
My blood pressure just drove up reading this.
Disagree on what? What angle is this from? Their bosses? The police? As a reader of journalism, I appreciate that they tested this edge case. I am not responsible for their safety, and as autonomous adults I trust they know what they're getting themselves into.
You're going to get a lot of advice, but some general comments for your consideration. As always, your mileage may vary.

> failed a number of technical interviews because I can't make architecture diagrams

I would caution against correlating interview failure to a lack of diagramming skill. Diagramming is a teachable skill; how to formulate architecture is much more complicated. If I am considering hiring someone who I see can design strong architectures but couldn't represent that in a diagram, I'm probably not dismissing them because of their drawing skills. But that's only when I believe they can design an intended architecture.

> I can't for the life of me draw the architecture of anything

I had an engineer on one of my teams who had the same problem. With him, he understood some things but in other aspects he was more murky. So, I asked him to start by writing down the architecture. Literally, write words and sentences that describe the collective of systems, i.e. Service "A" is a REST API, and it connects to Database "B"; a client connects to Service "A" over HTTPS, etc. etc. I don't know if this would help, but if you can do that, you can start to translate the words to pictures.

> I don't know how people learn to do that

By doing. I don't know anyone who has ever been trained to create an architecture diagram that knew what they were talking about. Just start small, and then ask someone to describe it back to you. When you begin to hear what you consider to be correct, you'll know you're making progress.

> I've never used diagrams in my day-to-day work

This tells me a couple of potential things: you're possibly not working in complex or large systems, or maybe are not responsible for communicating those systems to others. "Complex" is a relative term, so interpret that as you may. Ultimately, arch diagrams serve as a way to visualize complexity with the goal of letting others understand.
this doesn't seem to work. I just keep getting captcha redirects. I'm using firefox with ublock but not on a vpn. Strange.
Visualising AI
Posted within a day of this feature from the WSJ, https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-debt-slowdown-... which makes the same comparison, among others. If you enjoyed the op, you'd probably enjoy this article as well.
Yeah that's me :(

You always read about these stories and think "they probably deserved it" and then it hits you.

I have no idea why Google thinks my app is "Stalkerware". This is like a bad dream I'm hoping to wake up from.

I think this is "automation gone wrong".

My apps are privacy friendly, have no ads, and most are even open-source, e.g.:
https://github.com/d4rken-org/sdmaid-se

How do you formulate a reasonable appeal without knowing anymore details. I've been formulating an appeal texts the whole day, but don't know what my argument should be. Saying "my app isn't Stalkerware" probably doesn't cut it. I fear this is my first and only step.

Some similar apps also got banned, but others didn't. I don't see a pattern yet.

If Google thinks a certain type of app is no longer welcome in the store, then that's their choice. But then they should communicate that instead of banning me without warning, and banning me for LIFE from selling my own apps...

Any advice? I feel so lost :(
> We can't even own the things we're wageslaving away at our desk for.

But we never owned those things we're wageslaving away at our desk for, that's why its called wageslaving. Whether our employers own them or rent them seems pretty immaterial.
FYI, there’s a startup doing CO2 → Methane conversion called Terraform Industries.

https://terraformindustries.com/

I asked the cofounder of his thoughts here:

https://twitter.com/ccorcos/status/1694021803654693342
Some of the code in the libre software I use every day is 30+ years old. And if you're on a BSD you have code in your kernel copyright 1979.

The modern software environment works, I think, just from the sheer quantity of useful building and patch materials. To run with the building metaphor, it's like having specialized supplies on-hand so you can throw up a passable shed in a weekend with just duct tape and a screwdriver.
I wrote some new docs on this recently:

* https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros/Python_Guide/Call...

By having Python in Basic, it becomes available to cells too, since Basic macros are callable from cells.

Note that you may need to reduce the security level to 'medium' in the drop down Tools->Options->Libre Office->Security->Macro Security. When LibreOffice opens, it will ask you whether you want to enable macros or not.
Because someone else submitted it. Dupes happen, dude.
> Transhumanism applies to basic everyday things like glasses, crutches, chairs, cars, etc.

Come on, that's a bit of a motte/bailey argument. Yes, technically, we already have transhumanism since glasses were invented. (or you can go back even further if you like. Are wooden legs transhumanism? How about clothing? Tool use?)

However, all of those are clearly a huge difference in (at least) degree to someone having brain implants, voluntarily replacing parts of their body with synthetics, changing their entire identity with the use of tech, spending significant parts of their life in virtual reality, etc.

Also, I think there are different kinds of criticism you can apply to the ideas of "scifi transhumanism": There is the basic argument that humans should just not tinker with themselves, because then they "stop being humans"/stray from the life the god/nature/whoever else intended for them. I find that pretty dumb, to be honest, and often rooted in religious or cultural objections. (Ok, I'd be down to counter that argument with the point that we've always tinkered with our bodies to some extent)

There are other arguments though, asking about the resulting power dynamics and the kind of society that transhumanism wants to create, which I find more interesting:

First, who actually gets access to all the cool bio implants/genetic enhancement tech/etc? Are we just going to distribute access the same way we distribute wealth today - i.e. the more wealth and/or power you have, the more access you get? At the end of that road lies a world where our current problem of inequality escalates and different classes eventually become different species. This honestly doesn't sound like a good world to live in.

The other question is who controls all the tech. Ok, so some ultra-altruistic billionaire devides to offer neural implants and cybernetic body enhancements for the masses, for free. Does everyone get full access to the code abd functionality of their implants? Or will they be like today's smartphones, with half of the device locked down and the other tethered to the billionaire's cloud infrastructure? A world where you don't even have practical ownership over your own body honestly sounds even more frightening.

So yeah, I too would love to live in some cyberpunk world and go crazy with body enhancements. But I think until we have solved the problem of power dynamics, we can't have nice things.

And Elon&co right now seem to mostly confirm the fears around this than to address them.
Etsy store generator
> I've seen some visualisations generated from code that were so small when panned around you have to zoom in. It's not a great experience.

I would love a Google-Maps-Like architecture diagram. Zoom out and you see high level flows, zoom in and you get the details you want to see. Different overlays to let you explore how systems are connected or how certain sub features work.

Obviously this is hard to do and even harder to maintain but it could be really cool.
> Many of the thousands of causes of stress in modern life can't be changed by an individual

The counterpoint is essentially that if people engaged in social outward-looking collective action, as opposed to solitary inward-looking meditation, then you can change the world -- as has been demonstrated countless times.

You certainly can unelect politicians in the next election. Environmental movements have made gigantic progress towards cleaning up the air. And congestion pricing is starting to spread as the solution for cities to reduce traffic, and it works.

As an individual you probably won't be the single tipping point. But collective action happens because lots of individuals work together, and it requires all of those individuals. But it requires more than changing your reactions, it requires collective action.
I'm going to get downvoted for this but it's truthful.

People who typically extol the benefits of cannabis are typically recreational users themselves.

The theraputic dose for pain and appetite relief is very very low. Enough that a recreational user wouldn't get any enjoyment from it.

And typically those who are recreational users are outright abusing the drug and don't want to admit it because being stoned isn't as obvious as being drunk to someone who smokes a lot.

The problem is, we have no quantification of what abuse is. Is 1 hit abuse? 1 bowl, 5 bowls, 1 blunt?

Personally I would equate 1 bowl of weed to one glass of wine or a can of beer. Depending on the strain too this can even throw off the balance. If you're smoking multiple bowls, then it's equivalent to drinking multiple glasses of wine or beer.

If you're smoking a blunt, You're taking shots.

You could even switch this analogy to coffee since weed is similar to caffeine in terms of its obvious physical damage. Too much caffeine and you're a jittery mess. Too much weed and you're a couch locked burn out.

Yeah it's not a perfect system but it's better than nothing.

Cue the posts about high performing stoners and how it doesn't affect their work

I too know some high performing alcoholics.

It's obvious what abuse looks like when it's alcohol or coffee. It's harder to identify abuse of marijuana. Maybe it's time to start.

Regards, a former 15 year "all day everyday" stoner who quit cold turkey 6 months ago.
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Chrome's bar is restricted to word boundaries, while Firefox's is not.

You can type three characters from the middle of a word, and Firefox will match it, while Chrome will not.
Vegan Sam Bankman-Fried is subsisting only on bread and water in jail
That is some tinfoil concoction, not reality.

There’s a world of difference between having a file stored locally in Windows and one purposefully uploaded to Office 365 for data analysis.
Please use the Articles original URL when it's available i.e. : https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...

You may choose to add the archive URL into the body of the post. ty
> can we surmise that there is no need for an external chemical to shut off the mind or to even alter the mental state of a person?

That is exactly what the Gateway Hemisync process claims to accomplish. See my post below for more information on it.
After fight to oppose, affordable housing is still coming to Sunset
> Home address and phone number?!?! The horror! (Did people forget yellow pages existed?)

Are you absolutely sure that people who had real concerns about their privacy and safety allowed their phone number and address to be published in the book? Also, it was the White Pages, btw.
Apple themselves tell you to use Metal instead of OpenGL on Apple platforms. It’s not beating the big corporation if the big corporation isn’t in the competition.
Use VSCode with the AHK extension, it's a million times better than notepad for AHK
I'm assuming you mean like "ex-FBI" or "ex-CIA".

You're totally right and that is a huge problem as well. But I would say a slightly different one.
The profile UX on Chrome is almost as horrible as it is on Firefox from a user's perspective, namely you need to reinstall all your addons and have no shared history so you need to check twice every time you're looking for something. The only difference is that on Chrome, it's the only way to have two different accounts on the same site, whereas on Firefox you generally don't need it unless you need the highest level of separation.
The book _The People's Republic of Walmart_ by Leigh Phillips <sp?> and Michael Rozowski <sp?> makes a compelling argument why employing the same technologies companies use to manage supply chains and decision making on a state level could actually produce a working communist system.

Of course, we first would need to agree that this is desirable and that's probably the point where it breaks down.
Korea and China build nuclear at scale. It has not gotten cheaper for them. In china it has failed so spectacularly that they've now switched back to building more coal instead of nuclear. The reality is that politically required regulation makes nuclear completely uneconomical. The only solution is a political movement that lessens the regulatory burden.
> What did the US foreign policy establishment know about Afghanistan

That Osama was hiding there. Which he was, at the time. And that he had carried out 9/11. Which he did.

The Irag and Afghanistan wars were not the same. Practically everyone supported the US in Afghanistan. Practically no one followed the US into Iraq.
Yeah, our org has a big problem with over-generalization in our internal services that I've been pushing back on. Due to the large size of our org, they're under the false impression that our services are large-scale, but they're actually very small compared to anything external-facing.

When a partner team filed a feature request on our team, and I gave them an API that just does exactly what they need, they were like "that's it? No 1GiB graph response to DFS through?"
Yes, and the fan blows directly onto your mouse hand, making mouse usage awkward as well.