skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they didn't think that maybe the right way to bootstrap a social network would be to make it full of authentic conversations, at least to start with.

I doubt that any social media platform owner wants authentic conversations - even initially.

Instead of giving arguments, I refer to Paul Graham's essay "What you can't say":

> http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

If people were really authentic in their conversations, they would be in real trouble quite soon - and the social media platform on which these really authentic conversations are posted would be, too.

So, what social media companies do is enforce some kind of "editorial policy" (moderation) which makes the conversations that don't become censored still feel "somewhat authentic" to many visitors, so that this bluff only gets busted after some time in which the platform's owners can make sufficient money.
Layoffs were mostly in tech no? I don’t see much complaining about a shortage there anymore. Certainly not compared to some years ago when every HN idiot was copy pasting some phrase about software eating the world in response to concerns over the future of the labor market.

Mostly I see this from places offering low skill work, and IME, there’s a host of problems there. Pay is one everyone talks about. A lot of these crappy jobs looks like they pay more than they used to. I see very few jobs paying minimum wage anymore, but they don’t seem to hire full time workers anymore. Funny enough $7.25/h at 40 hours is more than $15/h at 30 hours. There’s also process issues. Not sure I want to go into all that I’ve noticed right now, but I really believe these companies are lazy as shit and could help themselves by being a little more proactive and adaptive to the current market.
The H1B and EB green cards are already pretty expensive. I’m pretty sure the USCIS is using that money to subsidize its other activities.

American university education is really expensive. I don’t think any amount of money from this is going to help subsidize that. I’m not sure why it is so expensive but charging more for h1b and green cards isn’t going to help that cause.

Edit: I support the idea that the US workforce should be self sufficient and not rely on immigration. That has to come through reducing cost of higher education. I just don’t trust the uscis to give up their $$ in support of that cause.
Have they finished banning all the journalists now so that they can control the definition of "accurate"?
Show HN: Flake schemas – teaching Nix about your flake outputs
Feel free to post the actual content that everyone is complaining they cannot see.
I suspect people are interested.
I see no reason why "select" advertisers (where "select" means, "Elon selects them") would not be offered an option to pay extra to disable community notes from being on their ads, even though they are implying that's not the case here. why would Musk refuse more cash to support propaganda he agrees with anyway?
> The proper answer, imo, is that nothing except for my own heart and reason can guide me as to what is morally right or wrong.

I think if we had the ability to trace the origin of each belief about what is right and wrong you would be surprised by how greatly law, government, and religion have influenced you.

Edit:

> There are really only individuals

This must be why solitary confinement is considered such a great privilege when incarcerated.
As one of the thousands who planted one of the million trees within Sacramento, California during the 1970s, I did my part toward reducing CO2 and added cooling of urban areas.

You should too. It's not that hard.

I am doing it again, but in another city.
I dunno. Half the interviews I had in last 6 months were Webex invites. The other half MS Teams and one radom Google Meet in there. (in Germany, so probably Webex is more sticky with these dinosaur companies over here)
It was also named Lync in the mean-time, no?
This is super cool. I use Emacs `abbrev-mode` for taking contemporaneous notes but autosuggesting words would be great.
Sure. Like how a neighbourhood with low rent, cheap cultural non-corporate restaurants (pho, tacos, gyros), full of students, young professionals, immigrants and all the character those things have is like a young platform. Then because it's a cool place to be, brands move in (hello Starbucks), rent goes up, and the people that made it interesting in the first place are pushed out.
Microsoft had Lync, which wasnt flashy but was simply solid.

Sadly it was depreciated for Skype for Business that had fewer functionalities and was just plain worse.
Last I checked it was pretty hard to use a car without wheels or tires. But some how the world managed to use Office for decades without Teams.
The world that hoards it’s IP so a few can be rich is sadder for sure. China will soon overtake the US in EVs per capita.
They don’t. Murex (my shell, https://GitHub.com/lmorg/murex ) is all about the interactive environment.

Elvish is too.
My go-to for a critique of distributed transactions is "Life beyond Distributed Transactions:
an Apostate’s Opinion"[1] which says in the abstract "performance costs and fragility make
them impractical". That was 2007, though.

1 https://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs223/papers/cidr07p15.pdf
There's damage and there's damage. If the cybertruck advents a culture of dents and dings being ok on vehicles that's a net positive. Perfection is not only a fools errand, but a burden. It makes the barrier of entry to enjoyment that much higher. Let your bumper get bumped, it's all better that way anyways.
It's remarkable how you've managed to completely invert the reality.

Please link where racist hate speech is "widely disseminated" on reddit. (Reddit has been strictly controlled speech according to San Francisco values for a decade).

Or please show, anywhere in America, a "crowd saying things to say keep black kids out of their local school yelling".
You'll probably learn more about programming while trying to create a startup than most CS undergrads do in 4 years. Don't skimp on theory though!
More recently, an entire reality TV series was made before they noticed that one of the contestants had Nazi face tattoos: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/30/skys-th...
Don't forget the other problem we're running out of labor in the US.
As someone who's spent many thousands of hours on Usenet (in the 1990s), my advice is not to waste your time.
Ah yes. The famous capitalists who caused famine in Easter Island and told Chinese people to decimate the forests of China to fuel the smelting of small quantities of pig-iron.

Ostrom didn't debunk the tragedy of the commons. She merely suggests a framework that would avoid it, which has never been tested at the scale of 7 billion people trying to solve global warming.
Switzerland is relatively niche, I think the UK would be a better comparison
I still can't bring myself to call Facebook "Meta", and I can't bring myself to call Google "Alphabet". It feels too much like helping them to bury their bad reputations.

I can't refer to Twitter as X, either -- in part for the same reason, but in part because "X" is nondescript and already has meaning, so every time I use it, I'd have to follow it up with an explanation of what "X" I mean. Which means I'd have to say "Twitter" anyway. Which means I may as well just say "Twitter" to begin with.
When I pay with a credit card I get a couple of things:

1) Item not delivered / broken / service not what I ordered => dispute.

2) Shop hacked and 2 months later charges my credit card $20,000? The charge hits and I dispute it, but the money is not gone out of my account. Can you imagine them hitting my debit account?
And people on Linux like CLIs instead of being stuck on Win95 like experience.
A new low for the...quasi-legal...ad inventory the last 6 months:

18 year old "breeder" who has "already pumped out 20 kids", and is getting "LICK LICK"

https://twitter.com/jpohhhh/status/1697008262028116178?s=20

EDIT: thread is getting derailed by whether or not people have seen specifically Cheech and Chong. Recentering: ads are widely weed edibles, AliExpress dropshippers, and sexual apps/content.
A new model of non-local interaction between dark matter and gravity
I seriously believe it. Climate change will almost certainly lead to food insecurity and political upheavals, leading mass migration and war, not to mention potential knock-on effects where, for example, photosynthesis reductions due to extreme heat at the equator, rapid rates of methane release as permafrost melts, mass death in a heating and acidifying sea...
. really there are just so many things that could go wrong, much more wrong. So yes, we should be very serious, and very scared.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230831131550/https://www.nytim...
yikes, can i even trust this company now
No that is 2 very different mono-culture attempting to eliminate the other

You seem to believe that because 2 cultures exist it is "multicultural" but that is not the reality, "multicultural" would be accepting the other culture as equally as valid as your own, tolerating their existence in a legal and market framework (i.e willing to do business with them, and not use government power to make their culture illegal)

What we have today is 2 cultures attempt each attempting to banish the other both using markets, and using governments.
Looks nice. The comparison with S&P500/similar Index funds is an important metric to track. I’d also built a tool https://monkeybeat.market/ which demonstrates a similar concept.

I’ve been exploring such projects off late myself. I found https://github.com/ananthakumaran/paisa to be a really clean and well implemented project on similar lines. It already handles a bunch of asset classes familiar to the country I’m residing in which is tempting me to give it a shot sometime soon!
So if it wasnt Musk and instead someone you align with, youd agree with the policy ?
All of us Dvorak users quietly shed a tear.
its a great use case. I love these kind of ideas. Can you measure the impact it has made so far for your team?
The "fediverse" failed to learn from usenet and is doomed to repeat it.

Usenet's downfall came from no management of resource usage or abuse-management costs (both of the spam and the "that message is illegal" sort).

Sites dealt with mounting costs by outsourcing to specialists, which lost a lot of usenet's distributed advantages (e.g. local copies providing for ultra low latency access, availability during outages, traffic sharing when many users were using the same groups, only having to appeal to your choice of local authorities to carry something rather than distant ones that didn't get a crap about you, etc).

Due to overhead costs it's cheaper for fewer providers to support more users, this along with acquisitions caused the centralization onto a few and then essentially one usenet provider who then implemented policy (monetization schemes, walled gardens, censorship) that eliminated the residual benefits of usenet over alternatives. The alternatives were more flexible, and had less baggage (particularly the quasi-monopoly provider), and with no reason left to use usenet over them eventually they took over.
> You won't be able to skip the ads with screen turned off.

FTFY
South Korea is hostile for new families. Unless you were born to rich parents, have a decent education with a good job (that's with a Multi-national or a Chaebol), own property in Seoul, find a partner, and survive the probability of divorce, having a child is impossible--let alone having two to meet the population replacement rate.

What's the solution?
There is https://www.inredadiabetic.nl/ontdek-de-AP/ which has both glucacon and insuline maybe there are others still in testing phase though.
Love it: The bottom banner view is a killer feature
Hrm I read it for 15 seconds seconds and already noticed a second, the refocus on combating manipulation. Maybe re-read it?
I think nobody posting anymore is an overcorrection or reaction to the days of over sharing and posting about every little bit of drama.
So just like the software industry story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614313 from a few months ago, is this a case where the accounting illusion of amortization (preventing companies from deducting expenses as they occur, and instead spreading out already-incurred expenses into the future) is creating a short-term incentive to destroy real products and services?

How is this better than simply working on a cash basis, letting companies take the loss in year 1 when they build X, and then, for tax purposes, carry forward those net losses against the future revenues? Sure seems much simpler.
Almost every single 2A-related ruling is party lines though. Seriously. Almost every single one.
Actually being able to get to the recipe for one.

Just generally being competent at navigating the site is the main thing, she uses it to find ideas for crafting often.
I agree, but a lot of popular window managers aren't very good.
Use a different company.
In my opinion, name should always be a two field setup. One would be the full name for legal documentation. This can be tokenized for searching databases. The other would be the preferred name of address "You may call me Jim" which shows up on "Welcome Jim!" messages. Trying to parse out names is almost pointless. There are so many different name standards it's bonkers. If you want you could even include a phonetic section for pronunciation.

If you need to split first, middle and last name for US government form entry you can just ask for those when you need them individually.
there is no "general public" just like there is no 2.5 children. More than 1 million working adults in the USA are in uniform or under non-disclosure to security sensitive things.. you will never address those people in the same breath as lowest-common-denominator fear mongering, as is immediately and unwisely suggested here by "good" people.. oh by the way .. "caring about human rights" people will start to behave in a mob like any other mob.. in many cases.. crowds make bad decisions.. etc
Can you tell us more what you used to build it? RAG system, or jus prompt engineering?
This exists for incoming ACH transfers, and it is called a UPIC account. It is used so that a company can give out their account info to customers, but the bank will deny any third-party withdrawals. The money is directly transferred into the company's "real" bank account.
In particular, why remove existing shows from streaming services. How does that affect accounting?
You could stream at higher bitrates (apparently Apple does) without resorting to discs.

You might even be able to design an adaptive bit-rate codec that improves/devolves as your internet connection demands.
Dockerfiles are more versatile. For example Kubernetes also uses Docker images (thanks to the OCI specification), but you don't configure Kubernetes with docker-compose.yml files, and Kubernetes usually doesn't even use Docker under the hood.

But sure, for local deployment docker-compose is awesome.
Ade Edmondson's character in Bottom was named Eddie Hitler and no-one batted an eye
The campaign is always running. Although one of the participants has his own entire Twitter clone.
Wholesale Prices Are Increasing for 211 TLDs
That's the end state of copyright.
I suppose that's what happens when we leave it as late as possible to even start to do anything.

Unfortunately, we're going to have far more gigadeaths when crops fail due to the climate becoming unpredictable and wars over clean water become ubiquitous. It always surprises me that people claim that deaths will result from cleaning up our act when that's a small fraction of the deaths that will be caused by climate catastrophes.
In our HIV patients we see more more cryptococcal meningitis than CNS toxoplasmosis. Crypto is typically not going to have any significant radiologic abnormality unlike toxo in which imaging plays a large role in diagnosis. So I'm guessing, being a radiologist, you've got a sampling bias that favors toxo.

PO amphotericin B would be a huge boon in treating these patients and shortening hospital stays. Outpatient Ampho B is not a good option in most cases.
Rather than some vague "right" being proffered in a blog post, I prefer to exercise my right to not use Twitter since a very toxic oligarch has taken it over.
> IME using Ansible for small-scale automation is no faster than just running the tasks manually, once development time is taken into account

You aren't wrong here but still the payoff is typically worth it, especially for small scale. "Development time" is one factor but the alternative -- building servers or infrastructure manually -- causes all kinds of problems when individual servers are not consistent.
There's also a backend. Back in 2007 a web app was mostly backend code that would send you HTML to display, and at worst it would have some AJAX for a chatbox/autoreload.
You may be convinced, but I'm convinced that the barrier to entry for black Americans is that they don't go to college, and if they do go to college, they don't go into STEM. So they're by and large not qualified to enter the sector.

https://dhewd.mo.gov/documents/EquityReport2020.pdf

It is easy to blame immigrants. But immigrants aren't involved in the bit where the disparity starts showing up in a big way.
Also, they do really good regional pricing. In Vietnam it's $36/user/year for the basic version. There's nothing else with close to similar functionality at that price and it means we can forgive a lot of clunkiness.

It's less than half the price of Slack with way more features. We even get Loop knowledge management which is shaping up to be pretty great actually.
> So the studio doesn’t want to do this, it’s just less bad.

Less bad than what? Apologies if it was outlined in the article, I can't get it to load over my crap connection.
(1) When a resource is unlimited, it's easier to distribute that resource cheaply to everyone, which is exactly what communism strives for. Resource scarcity leads to power being concentrated in a small ownership class - e.g. capitalism.

(2) Why think "more cars, planes, phones, content, etc" are unique to capitalism? People want to travel and to be entertained, regardless of the economic system they live in. Communism doesn't mean people will suddenly want fewer material goods.
The switch cost wasn't exactly nil. As far as I'm aware most cisco stuff came with a commitment to a per-device, per-user or per-seat license and support for a period of time where the cost of those is reduced more the longer you commit when you negotiate the contract. Webex was bad enough that some enterprises were switching mid-cycle to another product and just letting the license/support for Webex go unused. Which is impressive considering how cheap corporate/enterprise procurement/finance/IT are. Granted, a lot of teams or departments were initially signing up for other services without knowledge of their corporate/enterprise IT departments which really made the quality contrast between them and Webex undeniable but that happens with a lot of stuff that gets squashed even if teams like it better and it makes them more productive.
>Office 365 business standard: £123 including Office, Powerpoint, Excel, Exchange, Sharepoint...

If they can squeeze ChatGPT/generative-AI functionality in there for cheap that's a slam dunk.
Hot take: If you so frequently say the same things in Slack, do your subordinates think you actually add any value?
There's already political notes on ads. You're fine to tout conspiracy theories, but you need at least some evidence.
File a chargeback to your CC company. Don’t waste your time with Amazon reps after the first call. Chances are they’ll ban you from Amazon which makes it easier to transition to other services.
Why is it the bean counters need to perfectly pair the cost of show A with views of show A? And then cheaper B to B? There’s a synergy in having the whole platform.

Your advice would be telling Apple to ditch the $10 headphone dongle because it has a low ROI, and they should be using the factory to crank out more iphones…
Honest feedback?

Firstly well done for building and shipping it. I know it takes a lot of effort.

Secondly I tried this the last time you posted, and I've just tried it again.

I asked a really specific question: "I want a pair of black wingtip shoes I can wear with an office suit that cost less than £120 and are available to buy from the UK". You've offered me FootAsylum (that's a sneaker store, no wingtips) and Robert Wayne - who return 0 results when I search for 'wingtip'.

If you compare that with Google - I can use that query, or just type 'black wingtips' and I can click 'shopping' or 'images' and see a whole lot of products and prices that match my query.

Additionally, if I click your "Give me three gift ideas..." question, you don't answer it in a way I'd expect if I asked a friend. You give me three shops and pretty much say "go look". If I was chatting to a friend, she might say "a bouquet might cost you X, I'd get roses from Y, I have a yoga mat from Z, they're really good, and what about this or that." It's far more specific - all you're really doing is suggesting places to shop.

Shopping is very visual and you're pushing words instead of images / product suggestions. If I ask for a 'less than £50 gift idea for my brother who likes guitars', I want to see 10 pictures with prices of things I could choose.

Finally, the cashback push (I appreciate it's your app) seems like a pretty hard sell - it makes the suggestions feel like an excuse to onboard for cashback (which I appreciate they are!) - maybe tone this down; perhaps put an ad beneath the box, rather than ending every conversation with the push for your app?

Anyway, good luck with it, hope some of that helps!
I gave up and bought an Xbox as a blurry player, and it works decently well.

But I prefer to rip everything anyway, and the Apple TV that plays the rips is silent as far as I can tell.
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, maybe?
any chance it was blogged about? It'd probably be the one I'm misremembering?!
I think it stopped working about 3 years ago for me. I was in Japan for 10 years and moved last year, so I have been using a +japan address with apple. Of course in that time I've been using icloud and iphotos so I changed the region to my current country rather than make yet another account. I also removed the "non+" gmail address from a very old apple id thinking I could then attach that gmail address. Apple told me it would take a few months for the system to let me.

It's been a nightmare. Apple lets account creation succeed without email verification and with SMS verification. So with my very common name, as soon Apple allows it, someone with a similar name uses my email to make an apple id, preventing me from using it. Without knowing or owning their phone number, it's impossible for me to fix. It takes 2-3 weeks and multiple hour long phone calls with apple to free the email again, at which point someone else uses it and the process repeats. Every phone call is horrible, it is really confusing to explain the problem. Every phone call starts with the support staff believing I am typo'ing my email address. After a few times I gave up trying to fix it.
You don't think that the South's centuries of chattel slavery, and then a century of formal apartheid, and now a kind of less formal apartheid doesn't have a lot more to do with why black Americans face barriers to entry to middle-upper-class professions?

No, it's the immigrants' fault...

(I wonder who you blame for lack of black Americans in C-level positions, doctors, lawyers, politicians, various millionaires and billionaires, etc. Not that many folks from India in any of those, so immigration from Asia can't be it...)