skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it reasonable to describe purchasing parking meter rights and raising the rates as "making money"? Who did the "making" of anything here?

If you rewrite your question with "taking" instead of "making", does that make a certain answer more obvious?
People are putting PFAS-laden "compostable" items in the municipal compost, it won't be long before the "organic" compost should be considered toxic waste (if not already). But we only elect "activists" and not serious people, so nobody with power is going to look into this.
Is it though?

Maybe other platforms don’t have the same scale of horribleness as the web stacks, but there’s still a problem.

For the dotnet ecosystem, for instance, I’m not reinventing functionality when nuget packages exist.

But the same concerns persist because I’m not really sure if it’s secure, without auditing.
I'm assuming this is the from cotton fertilizer runoff.
Auth dns is a different beast. There are efforts in the IETF to work on it:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dprive-unilatera...
Use them as trash liners or you can cut them to make doggy doodoo bags.
You nailed it. Each time Apple recommends a new part swap, we have to wait for it to show up in the mail. Most of the wait has been this.

Regardless of how I try to look at this, the problem is ultimately Apple. They’re facilitating a repair system which can take potentially months to repair a computer monitor. That doesn’t seem okay to me.
It’s easy to pick on defined benefit plans when they are underfunded, but they do have advantages for the employer - when the retiree (and spouse) die, the obligation is over. A given contribution can fund more people at a higher level if the obligation ends when they die.
How do they comply with countries that requiere logs actually?
Color me skeptical. A single organic cotton bag requires 20,000 uses due to ozone depletion? Apparently the researchers chose one specific dataset to determine how much electricity is used for cotton irrigation, and then further assumed that all of that electricity is generated from burning natural gas. It's not the gas itself that depletes ozone at that rate, but rather two chemicals used to pipe and transport methane long distances, which escape from leaky pipe infrastructure. Gee whiz, isn't cotton terrible? [0]

If we looked at each one of the metrics, both for single use plastics and for their alternatives, would we find a similar story of absolute best/worst case scenario to paint single-use plastics as environmentally friendly?

The original article also notes that plastics industry groups jumped on the pandemic to write to regulators and grocers imploring them to ban re-usable shopping bags due to them being "virus-laden" cesspools. Which is not at all what the science suggests (we figured that one out pretty early in the pandemic as I recall).

These people are interested in one thing only: getting as much plastic into consumer markets as humanly possible. They are not operating in good faith by any stretch.

[0] https://www.metabolic.nl/news/are-organic-cotton-totes-reall...
You don't understand how dictionary attacks work.

1) Dictionaries are TINY compared to the number of possible hashes. Something you could reasonably fit on a single hard drive in many cases. Humans really aren't that creative when it comes to choosing passwords.

2) You don't hash every entry in the dictionary on-the-fly. That's stupid. You store the hashes in a large lookup tree and compare hash-to-hash. There's basically no processing power required, especially compared to actual hashing work.
Hmm, maybe this is more clear:

> like a young teenager who has always been warned not to say things that might upset or intimidate people who already lack confidence.
Different in Chinese, according to some clicking around translate.google.com. That seems to be one of the big hurdles for a lot of words that are otherwise very widespread.
Isn't this more likely to have been inspired by marginalia* than a personal blogs thread? Doesn't seem to have the same results from the Apple Watch example, but it's what immediately came to mind for me when I read this post's title.

*https://search.marginalia.nu, commonly mentioned on HN https://hn.algolia.com/?query=marginalia
AOL UK launched in 1996. My account is a journalist's complimentary one from back then.

It was a worldwide service which is why it rebranded as "AOL".

I don't really use it any more, but one of its half a dozen alternate account names is still my mother's primary email address.
No one is suggesting that servant leadership is implying their leader is actually a _servant_. Rather, it implies that serving your team humbly should be a priority over stroking your own ego. I'm not sure how useful it is to generalize the concept as "fake masking". Do some people use it as an ego trip? Sure. Are some people good leaders with their people's interest in mind? Absolutely.

Many times in life, someone has to make a call and it's usually the person in charge. Not sure why that has to have malicious intent behind it. You don't have to like the decisions your leaders make, but that doesn't inherently make them bad leaders just because the team isn't 100% on board. (I will concede that good leaders will take the time to get the team on board. It's usually laziness to explain the "why" that results in teams not being on board. That or ego prevents them from letting go of their ideas.)
If your job just got eliminated because of an AI opening opportunity, then it very much is threatening your livelihood. Or any of the other various methods it might be threatening. How obtuse do you have to be, or how much kool-aid have you been drinking to not be able to see the ways of threatening?
Branches are still valuable in many cases but it can be valuable, situationally, to replace them with things like cmovs instead. You'll need to benchmark it to be sure - it's not like the old days where branches were always worse.

Branch hoisting, on the other hand, is a win like 90% or more of the time (I can imagine it being a loss if it causes stuff to fall out of icache), which is why most compilers will try to do it automatically.

Worse than branches (generally) are indirect calls (i.e. virtual methods, function pointers) that don't predict well, so you especially want to avoid those in tight loops and if you can't avoid them you want to sort your data so that the call target doesn't change frequently.
> Ironically, apple.com doesn't even support dark mode!

The wording if this makes it sound like supporting dark mode is table stakes. I don't think this is really the case. Personally, I don't expect a site to support dark mode by default.

I was ready to say that I guess that most users don't really know dark mode exists, but apparently over 80% of users prefer dark mode according to "studies" described at the links below. However, the methodology of any of these studies isn't really described, so I'm not at all sure of these results.

https://thesmallbusinessblog.net/dark-mode-users/
https://marketsplash.com/dark-mode-usage-statistics/
Pretty cool - just wondering why one of the requirements is "The website can appear in an iframe"?
If you are bob@gmail.com or bob@yahoo.com, I am sorry about the decades worth of product offers, porn subscription offers, forum or blog reply notifications, etc.
Readable Podcasts (*not simply transcripts)
*Not simply transcripts ie. articles. It's the original podcast audio + time-synced, human-quality transcript. Neat.
if you're going to go to some random thread and post about your slightly related hobbyhorse, at least provide a link to some information about whatever you're upset about.
That's way more types of plastic than I expected. Still, most regular lego and duplo is indeed the same: ABS. But I didn't expect they'd have several different types of plastic just for different technic pieces.
Honestly the reality is a good coder is one that keeps chugging and doesn't give up.
Pretty wild how much "just execute better" posts there are, one wonders if its the common response to a situation like this, from this community, and what that says about trustworthiness in general of YC "founder" types!
Thank you for feedback. Sharing a bit more details to make things clearer.

Upon a function invocation, PgCompute does the following:

1. Constructs a function signature (name + arguments) and checks if the function was invoked before. (there is a deploymentTable object that tracks functions that were already sent and executed on the database: https://github.com/dmagda/pg-compute-node/blob/main/compute/...)

2. If the function already exists on the database and its implementation is NOT changed, then PgCompute just sends the function signature to the database for the execution using the `select + schema + "." + funcName + "(" + argsStr + ") statement`.

3. If the function has never been executed or its implementation is changed, then the function is first deployed/created on the database end and then executed. JS allows you to capture the function body as text and send it over whenever you like. PgCompute uses the `create or replace function " + this.#schema + "." + funcName + "()...` statemet to deploy the function.

The transitively invoked functions should work if you execute functionA first via PgCompute and then execute functionB that calls functionA. But I still need to check this.

As for the scope of supported JS APIs, presently the functions have to use the APIs that are allowed/supported by plv8.
Cubans are nice and poor. With their strong friendship with Russia and China, that is where we want them to be.
> Usability and layout is key and engineers have a great perspective on that.

No.
Very sorry to hear this. Did you have any copyright to the apis or the code? Or even a ToS on your slack channel? IANAL so wouldn't hurt to speak to a lawyer.

Also sorry I am not good reading the signals - why would being a female founder make you angrier than a non female founder? Id be angry as F too if a clone of my hard work appeared out of no where!
Its also pretty telling how quickly this is getting flagged off the front page!
haha oh yeah.. that was something else. My favorite episode will forever be 'Road rage'
Unhook one piece, remove all the tension, and see how far the two ends you just created end up from each other. Not very scientific, but it works very well.
VCs need their exit. That's why they buy in. That's how the system works.
Apartheid translates to entirely different words in a number of languages it seems.
Open source startup behind the scenes: Baserow’s stack, team, releases, features
> She said further work to develop the technology was needed, but added that government-funded research had shown it was possible.

Wow, she just lies so easily.
https://www.awwwards.com/ showcases some pretty websites
IFCOpenShell was news to me. Thanks for sharing. You're doing God's work.
Putting the electricity into giant resistors would be a more productive source of on-demand energy usage.
"the long nineteenth century" A phrase used over and over.

Reminds me of an old George Carlin joke:

"Mathematicians have just discovered a new number. The number is called "bleen."
Bleen is reportedly between 6 and 7."

New discovery: the nineteenth century was more than 100 years! The more you know.
We use the thin bags for the cats litter box. Since we don't get them "naturally" anymore, we buy them at the office store.

I particularly hate the thicker bags we have today. We're supposed to take them back to the store for recycling (which the article says is not done), but simply the fact that we can't toss it into our curbside makes that a non-starter, so in the black bin they go.

That said, we bought a set of cloth bags years ago. Easily over 10 years ago, we use them every week, they're in great shape and I mostly prefer them to when we had the thin bags. Launder them now and again. We had a seam go on one of them, and had a tailor sew it back up. The clerks at the store identify us with them, some of them recalling back in the day when they were originally sold.

The funny thing, though, is that there's this cloth bag with a Target logo. It's half again bigger than the others, I keep it with them all, but specifically shove it in the bottom to deter its use.

Inevitably, if that bag comes out, it gets gorged with gallons of milk, bags of oranges, cinder blocks, and bowling balls -- both of them, rather than the paper towels, popcorn, bags of cotton candy, etc.

Quick stops we almost always just carry stuff out to the car, and put them into one of the cloth bags we carry all the time (assuming we forgot to bring it in in the first place). If we do get the store bags, they're single use. I just toss 'em.
Scientists grow human embryo in lab without sperm or egg or womb
That really depends.

While that could very well be the case, I find it funny people tend to assume their ISP does this, and also assume that trusting large corporates (often outside the jurisdiction they are in and subject to foreign law enforcement requests) with their data is automatically preferable to their ISP.

In the absence of widely-deployed ECH the ISP can potentially still see all hostnames visited from SNI field.

Some fears you commonly hear about from US users, like ISPs selling user browsing data, is illegal in other territories like the EU. So this calculation is different in various contexts. Where ISPs are not able to monetize it you would wonder what the business case for the (very expensive) snooping of queries is.
> you've failed

Yes, and this is very common

> potentially stoppable

So this is a key difference. ShapeUp is much more focused on Actually Shipping vs `potentially`
> considering your competitors' employees already infiltrated your slack channel.

It was a public community slack channel. There may have been proprietary/protected information shared in there but in my naive opinion (NAL!) that wouldn't be protected by trade secrets if it was shared publicly. Some things could still be protected by copyright or trademark but it's pretty unlikely. It's possible copying the API could be infringing but Google v. Oracle[0] makes that a very uphill battle.

"Secret sauce" is highly valued by founders and product managers but IMHO it's generally overvalued and doesn't constitute a moat. For the most part, competitors are allowed to copy most things and leverage whatever other advantages they have over the original innovators.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
Just my 2cents that I wrote about here[0]. It boils down to:

1. Ease of use for non technical folks (my dad in the post)

2. The dangers of having an exposed ssh port (even on non standard ports)

I just don't have the time or compute to constantly tweak my security settings for a publicly exposed port, so the easiest way to solve the problem is to not have the port publicly exposed

---

0: https://blog.imraniqbal.org/tailscale/
It's a disaster because the city government is granting one company a monopoly by delegating to it a government power, and the contract is too difficult to renegotiate, and it fleeces the city's citizens in ways that they can't petition to redress (the city can't lower parking fees, and it can't even remove the meters from streets where maybe now there should be no paid parking).

This sort of deal is very suspicious. One wonders if there's been kickbacks of any sort. Chicago is famous for its corruption after all.
ui.nuxtlabs.com now redirects to ui.nuxt.com
Feels way better now that it's an official part of Nuxt domain.
The UI looks great, I'll definitely try this out!

I think this is a response to the now popular ui.shadcn.com which isn't supporting Vue but React instead.
do you live somewhere where having your career eliminated is not a huge deal? where is that?
AI risk is a spectacularization of a new source of wealth

When agriculture and then fossil fuels + supercharged agriculture with petro-fertilizer allowed humanity to become 100x more productive, the owners of the land & capital managed to capture the gains almost entirely, leaving the proletariat powerless except for their labor, and still struggling to survive despite the enormous windfall in energy

Now that AI is on the verge of becoming the major producer of wealth in the 21st century onward, the owners of the capital would like very much if we would talk about anything except the possibility of capturing the wealth of models trained on the public's behavior and distributing it directly as basic income, the way Alaska and Norway redistribute profits from oil to citizens. The data that has been drilled and refined into inference models belongs to humanity, to every book and letter ever penned, why are allowing the investors* of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to capture the value and leaving the rest of humanity to toil?

The talk of extinction is a magicians trick to divert attention from the fact that we could likely move to 4-hour workweeks in the next decades, but only if wealth distribution is forced onto the capital owners, they will not share if they are not made to.

* yes, indeed, the public can be the investors! as is the case with mutual funds and so on, but the people who are being obsoleted are going to have no significant wealth tied up in these stocks in order to receive dividends. I would support, as an alternative to aggressive taxation, a forced dilution of the stocks of any company found to be replacing its workforce with a superintelligence. Distribute the newly minted stocks to all citizens so dividends can pay out to the rightful receivers of royalties.
Can't reinvent everything all at once lol.
Vlad was dabbling with similar things to Marginalia with Teclis around the same time Marginalia first made headlines.

And to be fair, I was simultaneously inspired by the blog thread to build a curated blog filter for my search engine, which led to a series of changes that overall tends to promote more of this types of results in general.

The fact that we're several to have similar ideas sort of validates the ideas I think.
> Most metro markets have multiple tech recruiter/contracting houses that have connections with regional employers.

These have been the ones that ghost me the most. I’ve gotten plenty of messages from these types of recruiters who claim they have some positions that would be a good fit for me, they call me to briefly chat about what they have, and then disappear.
I don't see why you cant let people download and self-host the sync service if they want. Most people would probably pay to use yours but many people would want to self host as opposed to using fragile and feature-incomplete community supported plugins... people seem to replicate the sync server anyway, why not give them a better experience and live up to the "your notes" promise that is all over the website.
> It's the only way we have to measure value.

No it's not. For one, it can only assign values to things which are actually exchanged. When you look at things on the scale of states, this isn't always a possibility. You can't put the ISS on craigslist and see what it sells for.
>These open models still cost millions of dollars to create. Meta let the genie out of the bottle, but it won't be free forever.

This particular model was funded by the UAE government. If they could do it, it should be similarly possible for a western government to create and release one as a public good.
A lot of them pay external design houses to do it. There are several design houses that I know of that are ex YC founders so the connection is already there.
And that's before you even get your first power bill.
Talk to a lawyer. Copying your API is possibly a copyright violation. But take the lawyer's advice with the following grain of salt. It is in a lawyer's interest for you to go to court. But the best outcome FOR YOU is almost certainly a negotiated settlement. However your legal threat is the best way to get them to settle.

https://www.bhfs.com/insights/alerts-articles/2021/supreme-c...
You’re still missing the point. Not everyone has the option to change jobs. Your unsolicited feedback has the potential to cause harm. So why not just ask first? It’s so easy to do.

“Just get a better job lol” is a ridiculously privileged response to “your good intentions may have unintended consequences.”
Not sure what the two of you are complaining about. It's really just this sub-thread that's all complaining. Everybody else is sharing fun stuff.
I do not see why costs arising from agency risk, as seen pervading the US on state and county and city levels, should be disregarded.

> Each individual fund is much smaller and is paying much higher fees, both management fees and transaction type fees.

Compared to Vanguard/Fidelity/Schwab/Blackrock/etc offerings that are easily available in any brokerage/IRA/401k?

> Each individual is much harder to insure than the group and has to go to a for-profit insurer to get an annuity (as they have with the DB pension). They pay the risk and for the insurer's profit.

And yet insurers are able to pay annuities without needing the power to tax entire populations. There is clearly a disconnect between the theory and practice, due to the aforementioned agency risk.

> Each individual has to manage pre-retirement market risk and pay a price to do so, e.g. they're using target date funds and the money is in low-yield bonds for the last few years before they retire, losing returns at exactly the time it's most costly.

Another way to look at it is they are invested in lower volatility investments because they are at a point in their life where they can not afford volatility.

> The question of funding is separate. It's up to my employer to decide if they want to set aside the whole 100 bucks up front that the pension costs or if they only want to set aside 80 bucks. So, either the pension is fully funded, or 20 short, either way it's cheaper.

Yes, it is cheaper and great for those who are early enough in the scheme to be a benefit recipient, which is why I specified older employees who compose union leadership in my original post.

It is not cheaper for younger taxpayers and younger government employees shunted into lower paying tiers of the pension. I have a sister in law who is 7 years older than my other sister in law. Both work for a state government, and the older one has worked a lower paying job her whole life than the younger, by at least $20k per year. However, the older one will retire with a benefit worth at least 2x as much as the younger one.
Nope, see finnish for supereasy counterexample
Very much agree with you. C# is a great language and the .net runtime(s) are really productive. I'm speaking specifically about Web Parts which is a pretty old toolset a la legacy WebForms.

Ironically, legacy .NET toolchains like Web Forms and Web Parts can be very productive and very easy to maintain, if designed well. Most of the pain comes from the MS vendor lock-in and lack of continuing support. Microsoft has moved on from these technologies so they are no longer well supported and don't have a very defined upgrade path to more "modern" approaches.
Python is not really the bottleneck in LLM applications. It is for tabular RL, but certainly not for deep RL (i have had discussions with DM folk over this in r/RL, and the ppl from stable diffusion).

The problem is the bus, cuda, and the sheer volume of data that need to be transferred.

Pytorch itself is actually a wrapper around torchlib, which is written in C++.

The compilation step of PyTorch 2.0 provides a sizeable improvement, but not 2 orders of magnitude as you’d expect from python to c++ migrations. The compilation is due to the backend more so than python itself. See Triton for example.
So the double amputee with no feet is going to bike to go food shopping?

America isn't Europe. We have spaces between places and are not packed in like sardines.