skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not? If you wrote that on your cake shop’s banner, you’d prevail with more egregious policies.
Ironic that the last screen wants you to 'drop a comment' on LinkedIn... or even signup for the mailing list 'with Google'.

I guess this guy thought knocking Apple for Meta's unscrupulous methods would just guarantee some nerd-kudos, but didn't feel any need to follow his own advice in practice.
At the last few companies I worked the Product Owner gets to name the Product. The general path has been "look up Latin, Greek, German, Gaelic, cartoon, fiction and find something that is attractive to the PO".

I don't even know what a Y combinator is but this is Hacker News which is somehow from Yahoo! iirc.
> Forgive me the snark, but I'll believe it when I see it. The last years didn't inspire me with confidence.

Indeed, it will be hard to change the minds of all the folks at Qualcomm who have operated here for years under the status quo. I see new leverage for those who have lobbied for change in the past.

I'm cautiously optimistic.
There is no need for complex organisation structure, hierarchy or any expert alpha in a group of 500..., mostly relatives.

Your family is your basic, natural decision making structure. Then your knowledge and know-how was seemlessly transferred between generations.

It's not success of decentralisation but of natural unity of bonds and shared common goals.

One for all, all for one.
One as all, all as one.

For 5000 it would still be workable.

What intricate organisation structure, except religious cult rules, did Greek Polis as Athens have?...
Is there an eBNF+PEG or similar grammar for the language parser that a more complete language reference can be generated from?

Does Lean have docstrings with embedded markup like Python?

The Python Language Reference:
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/

The Python Language Reference > 10. Full Grammar specification: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/grammar.html

LearnXinYminutes > Where X=Python: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/

In the language and then the docs, Python's collections.abc Abstract Base Classes did not initially exist. There's now a table of ABCs in the docs:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.abc.html#colle...

In Python, they're not interfaces, they're ABCs.
It may look good in recruiter's papers. I.e. it looks like he did his job just right, but the candidate was dissatisfied with the package at the end. What can he do about it?
Does it happen on all profiles? Perhaps some of them are using features likes pins/highlights to show curated tweets?
i had a kid (~last week) ask me to edit his PhD proposal (I guess in the EU you have to already have a project in mind?) and I said I would happily edit it for him if he first let me try to convince him not to do a PhD.

my hypothesis on the value of a PhD: if you are the kind of person that can finish an honest PhD i.e., real work that's not necesssarily novel (I don't give a flying fuck about "novelty") but actually requires you to stretch hard to achieve, then you don't need one and it will cost you years of productive/rewarding/lucrative work in industry (and 100% academia is not for you).

i don't know what the "on the otherhand" is though - I really have no idea how anyone comes away from this process thinking "hmm yes I want more of this pile of bs" so I have no idea what kind of psychopaths go into academia (for which the PhD is indeed a prerequisite).
Rescinding offers is so filthy and unforgivable.
Man, that is tough. (IANAL) Here in Eu(and UK) if you're made an offer and they cancel later after you accepted you would have a good shot at suing them. Especially if you quit your current job or decide not to pursue another offer and you have paperwork to prove it.

However, ability to sue doesn't mean one will. Considering the inconvenience of it all. That's why I simply do not believe a single word until pen is put to paper(or a digital certificate signs the contract) and I act accordingly.

I had a situation before I was made 2 offers. I wanted to accept the second, but I dragged on telling the other guys until I had the contract signed. It feels "wrong" to do this, but I recommend this to everyone. It is in your best interest to do that just in case your preferred company tries to screw you over on some clause in the contract(that's exactly what happened BTW, I could negotiate from a position of power precisely because I had the other offer). Large companies will not blink before screwing you over so why should you afford them the courtesy of politeness a person should get? Large companies are not people. Yes, people work there, but most of these people if you knew them privately would probably give you the same advice.
I’m not sure there’s anything to backup this short time frame. It worked for you and that’s great, but basing your support for something like legalizing all hallucinogens on anecdotal evidence is not ideal.
Exactly, government is a symptom of society.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420831
I feel like you read more into this and maybe added in your own biases.

I don't think these archaeologists are interested in worshipping society's elites. Maybe hundreds of years ago when you had to be an elite to be an archaeologist.
Switched jobs for the same reason.

Employer went remote. After a while they decided we’d stay that way. At contract negotiation time I told them I wanted my contract amended to specify that the role was remote with no expectation of any time in the office. They wouldn’t because who knows what the future holds.

Well, I knew what I wanted my future to hold and it wasn’t compatible with anything but full remote.

Found a remote role with a company that already had its employees spread across like 6 states and three countries. My contract, without asking, said the role was remote with no time in office. Regardless, I wouldn’t see them demanding RTO any time soon—whatever location they picked they’d be losing probably 2/3 of their staff, or paying to open tiny one-person offices all over the place.

In hiring others, so many people I talk to spend a lot of time in the initial call asking about the remote thing. They’ve clearly had the rug pulled out from under them before.

I’ve had a few people now bail partway through the process because they got a great offer from some other company only to come back a week later asking if we can pick back up because it was a bait-and-switch and the final contract specified hybrid or fully in-office.

I just don’t even understand the thought process behind that from the employers… like, do you really think you’ll get to the offer stage and the person will go “Well, I really wanted remote and they lied to my face, but hey one in the hand I guess I’ll start planning a move halfway across the country. shrug”.
Nope, there is no limit for number of alerts. In fact our summary notifications help managers or teams to view them more intuitively.
I started automating part of my house some time ago and used an ezlo zwave hub, which is a small Linux box where you can ssh in. If you change the default 8char password that's printed on the box, it resets to default upon reboot.

That's their answer per why:

> Unfortunately, the current configuration of the controller for networking connections will be taken back for default, including new credential set for SSH connections after a simple reboot because of security reasons
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The OS is the layer below applications. They obviously can control what data is being sent.

Now perhaps that our software model doesn't make it very convenient, but blaming Apple is completely honest and understandable.

We should stop seeing our computers as uncontrollable machines that must leak data, they are human made
If you want to completely ignore context, then sure. I got a chuckle. But I think ad absurdism didn’t work here.

Also, you deleted your comment conveying disdain over the Twitter to X rebrand. Considering rebranding is very common in mergers and acquisitions, would you say you feel strongly about it, and if so, why do you feel that way?
(RTO is Return To Office, for those like me left wondering)
a major rule should instead be: "choose the song you love and let's learn it" -- tells me a lot more about the kind of teaching they do than off the bat shooting down songs. sounds obnoxious. teachers can do whatever they want ofc. doesn't make them good teachers
Thanks!

And yes, we'd love to support OSS LLMs. And we welcome contributions ;)

Rivet also has a plug-in system, and our friends at AssemblyAI were actually able to develop a plug-in for using their audio transcription and understanding AI models in Rivet!
There seem to be MANY companies in this space.

One I am aware of is https://www.restack.io/
Yeah, it shows
It's not an option for all situations, but I've found that photos and videos from events, taken with cell phones and shared online by relatively average people who happen to be in the area, often offer a far more realistic and accurate portrayal of what's going on than the so-called "mainstream" media's coverage.

For larger events or situations, it's often possible to get footage from numerous different sources, including from different physical angles, helping to corroborate and clarify what's actually going on.

One example of this are the protests that happened in Canada during early 2022. The Canadian "mainstream" media, which is quite tightly controlled and close to the government, seemed to be portraying the protesters in a very negative light.

On the other hand, there were also many photos and ample footage online, taken by various people walking through the protests, which showed very different views of the situation. The "mainstream" media's portrayal often didn't correspond well to what I was seeing from all of these other independent sources.

I didn't particularly trust the Canadian "mainstream" media before then, but that situation really made me distrust them and their "news" coverage.
Better, clean natural gas. If they were to capture the methane emitted AND use it to generate renewable electricity it should count twice towards reducing emissions.
I can’t stop thinking that in 2-3 years this kind of functionality might get bundled with popular chat platforms by default.

As I keep trying to generate :sexy-cthulu: and :van-gogh-with-an-eyepatch: , my queries time out, perhaps for the best.
Does fly do runaway billing?
Don't hate the player hate the game. At the end of the day it's the policy makers that choose to look the other way
Blocking traffic won't help if the size of the DDoS is larger than his pipe.

A VPN to a provider with a lot of bandwidth might help if Nintendo online can still work that way.
Nice! Love this!
> but very little of the money given to them goes to the browser itself or even their research projects

hi, do you have a breakdown or some stats for this?
Your thread focuses on harm to learning, and you say there is not a single study with the opposite results. Naturally, most of the replies have been drawn to debating screen time, probably influenced by the CDC and NIH recommending screen time limits in the very early 2000s in the post Y2K panic fallout.

This article dives deep into screen time, citing research that indicates that there is no causal proof between the quantity of time children spend online/on social media and any specific outcome.

https://www.lucieslist.com/guides/screen-time-kids-research/

To me, it seems we might be echoing the technology panic cycle that has existed with penny novels, the cinema, the radio, comic books, role-play games like DnD, the internet, video games, and now smartphones and social media.
could Apple give you a refund?
Generally it's worth talking to a lawyer about cases like this.
what could you do in 11 days?
98%?
100% effectively.
It’s not necessarily that much time. It’s not rare that I block hard on some issue for a significant time, and the moment I stand up and go to the kitchen making some dishes, the solution pops up.
It was an union-busting move https://www.advocate.com/business/grindr-union-busting-accus...
"and the post is completely lacking in concrete analysis."

I do agree here, but I think it's telling that the rust solution is, without analysis, just better.

Is this the best developer or best case study? Perhaps not, but it is interesting in that little analysis was needed.

In the case where you have some constraint placed on you (running in the browser, company policy forbids rust e.g.), the analysis is worthwhile. Otherwise, assuming the fix didn't take long (relative to the requisite analysis and dev training), the decision to switch to a less shoot-yourself-in-the-foot language seems reasonable to me.
Admittedly, Target gives 5% off to RedCard members. So I should know going in that they’re going to want more than my “loyalty”.

I suppose that’s the loyalty pact customers are agreeing to. They agree to continue patronizing a business after that business flies behind their back to tell everyone what, when, and where they’re doing in their store.

However, if they’re not tracking you with a loyalty card, they’re still tracking you with your normal CC (Walmart has some messed up integrations with third parties around media purchases). Cash, privacy masks, sporadic gate changes, faraday bags, and gloves may be the only way to get around tracking at the moment ;-)
Furthermore, they are usually top down directives: you need to cut X% of your staff across all groups. The axe needs to swing somewhere. As layoffs have usually been preceded by hiring freezes, managers have to make some calls. Alice is great, but not a unique skill set. Bob is not that good, but he is the only person who can maintain the FooBar system.
What I am talking about is that there were schools in Afghanistan that were closed after Taliban came to power. Some teachers that continued to teach girls were tortured and imprisoned or executed by Taliban.

It was Sharia court that made them go to prison or get sentenced to violent punishment. That Sharia court was given power by Taliban. It was not tribal court that did that, it was Sharia court.
You can also just not use any Meta apps. It won't completely prevent Meta from building a shadow profile on you, but it'll help.
I see a bunch of Disney characters there.

They look exactly like how they're supposed to look.

That might be a problem, legally speaking ...
IIRC there have been supreme court rulings about the legality of web scraping but they were all publicallu facing services like Amazon or other e-commerce sites.

Twitter is locked behind a login wall now so the rules in theory might be different.

Of course, bots can still get in through the human door.
What bitcoins are good for is funneling money from people who have money and no better ideas what to do with it or incentives to do anything with it, towards people who want to build renewables even though, their output at times already has a negative price in absence of bitcoin mining.

Sure, in totalitarian economy there could be a lot of smarter ways to utilize resources and opportunities, but we don't have such economy for very good reasons, so in our economy, bitcoins are the simplest possible mechanism (technologically, politically and economically) that facilitates this funneling and we are lucky it already exists. The only problem is the cost of new mining hardware, but with Moore's law dying out and fabs overbuilt because of the pandemic shortages I think new, more efficient generations of mining hardware should come out at longer intervals and mining with few years old hardware should be feasible if you are powering it with renewables at peak production times.
It increases risky behavior because it’s now assumed to be less dangers that I’m not convinced a generator mounted cut off will fully mitigate. Also it increases costs and presumably false shutoffs due to stagnant outside air conditions or similar when the sensor cuts off.

I could easily see a person now choosing to run an indoor generator and relying on the cutoff to trigger when the levels are too high. In a hurricane situation I could even see taking that risk myself under desperate circumstances.
If these two are the only study and follow up you have no definitive conclusion should be taken (per your second link)

>Despite suggestive early findings on the therapeutic use of hallucinogens in the treatment of substance use disorders, rigorous follow up has not been conducted

> Although the open-label design does not allow for definitive conclusions regarding the efficacy of psilocybin

There’s a huge reproducibility problem in studies like this, and what you’re pushing here has not had multiple rounds of conclusive studies to boot. Basing sweeping policies off of one off “studies” or presenting them as objective fact is a dangerous course of action.
Ah yes, just like when the internet died in 2001…

——

Being a bit more fair, yes a bubble did burst then, but it was a “too much, too quick” type of bursting, not a “this whole thing is a scam” type.
Thanks for this write-up. This is absolute gold. It's crazy looking back and seeing how different everything was.
Interesting idea to jack up beef prices even more... So, having worked with a few ranchers out in Wyoming on the oil and gas side, I can tell you that in some cases the cattle have access to free water, but it ain't that good water you and I can drink. Produced water from oil and gas wells, depending on cleanliness at the well head, can be "land applied" and that is what some ranchers use. This water is a health hazard for us, but is supposedly fit for cattle. That water still evolves entrained gas and has some sort of rough minerals/chemicals for the body in it. I wonder if this is all getting captured by their calculations.
> Markets dominate the world, they are not a hierarchy.

Correct. But markets are downstream from hierarchy. The hierarchy determines the access to its rewards, those rewards can then be used to participate in the market, either by directly spending them or by influencing other to do so.

> Social networks

Social networks are most certainly a hierarchy. They distribute rewards proportional to a user's success and prominently show the metrics underlying that success. They are a kind of turbo-hierarchy where your position is always obvious to everyone and changes instantly. If everyone unsubscribes from your YouTube channel everyone will know, but if nobody reads your book you can still derive status from your 1982 bestselling book.

On a more general note, a hierarchy is just a mechanism for aligning an agent's actions towards group goals via the distribution of rewards. I don't know how or why there are so many people that associate it only with the Caste system or hereditary aristocracies. Funnily enough, the hereditary aristocracies were quite adept at changing their hierarchies in response to external events.
Cool idea, but first I got a file which immediately read "This source file is part of the Swift codebase" or smth, and them I got one which is just the characters "})", so pretty inbalanced. Took me a while to figure out that the arrows change between files.
In the current market, there are a lot of people starting out their search looking to make X, and 1-2 months into the search they realize the only immediately available opportunities are "X - 25%".

In those situations, it's not always a waste of everyone's time. Some candidates (not all, to be clear) start out the job search process with salary expectations that are very unlikely to be easily met compared to 2-3 years ago.

The recruiter in the scenario above was probably hoping the candidate's salary expectations would settle down toward the lower end of the spectrum (which clearly didn't work out for anyone in the specific example above, but it works often enough for it to be a not uncommon practice)

Edit: To be clear, I think it's pretty lame to mislead candidates and I don't advocate for this strategy. But it happens. When I personally interview someone who has salary expectations higher than we're willing to pay, I tell them upfront on the first 30 minute screen call and simply tell them to reach out again if their circumstances change. (They often end up reaching out a month later)
And yet, Twitter makes it easy to mass register accounts in bulk.
Excellent site! Used it for a couple minutes and it's a revelation.

And agree, RSS will be a great addition.

How are you going to monetize it so it continues?
Subscription?

Also, it'd be great to have a filter to show only the Top or Best news from the Week
That is not a reasonable position, "peacefully" writing software that you know is to be used to murder and silence other people makes you just as complicit those crimes (definitely an accessory). No better than a getaway driver.
I'd give it 99% chance to be worse.
The challenge is that even a minimal implementation requires quite a lot of functionality.

Take a Wifi-based smart outlet, for example. The functionality is literally a single output that drives a relay. But in order for that to work, it needs to join a Wifi network - that means that you need some way to get an SSID and password onto the device and it needs a DHCP client to get an IP address. There also needs to be a way for the controller to discover the device's IP address, which means there's now likely an mDNS implementation on the device. Then there needs to be a way for the device to receive commands, so now we've got an HTTP server.

If you want out-of-home access, which I suspect most people do, there's even more work required. Usually this means a central server that the device connects to since most regular people don't have a VPN connection back home. Another option is HomeKit, which is explicitly about local control with all of the remote access magic handled by Apple. But HomeKit is yet more stuff to run on the device, and only works if you've bought into the Apple ecosystem.

This is a ton of scope creep for a pretty minimal device.

A Zigbee or Z-Wave based outlet would be better, but that really just moves all of that scope creep from the individual device to the hub.
Time to jump from Flexport, sinking ship
Paqui ‘One Chip Challenge’ Is Being Pulled from Shelves
Don't you need to use Google on Android for them to even have your data? I've seen this propagated, but I havent experienced it.

Anyway, in the decade of using android, I am not sure what privacy has compromised. I havent received any custom ads from just using my phone.

If I search stuff on the official google search, yes I do, but if I use incognito, I do not. (For instance, I like seeing sports scores occasionally, but if I search it with google, I'm bombarded about sports).

Google search isnt Android though.
I think this is a good idea. Start small and measure responses from early adopters.

Make light use of software at first. Use existing tools to build a process before attempting to build an application.

Start with friends and family and their friends. Define the real problems that people have with current resources. What provides the most value to those who use your approach?

I have thought about this concept myself. There are usually very fun and interesting things to do and see in a travel destination that are not necessarily the primary, dry tourist attractions.

Travel memories are built around social engagements-talking, sharing, learning, experiencing. I think a solution that emphasizes these things would be beneficial and well received. But again, this will take some effort to sort out.

Good luck.
There were more flowers on my property this year than last year, but I felt like the number of bumblebees I spotted were considerably less. I figured it was the unusually dry weather, but maybe the weeks of smoky days from the Canadian wildfires blowing across the Midwest was a big factor too.
Ask HN: Google Workspace Alternatives for Startups
Hi, What would you recommend Google Workspace alternative for startups?

I have setup my account and having a terrible experience with it.

I am literally on the verge of losing my first customer because of inefficiency of Google Workspace.
https://archive.ph/66CNK