skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>12k is approximately nothing to a multinational firm.

True, on the otherhand, that is one person - there are probably thousands and thousands of other people, at the same company, doing the same useless tasks - many of which costs a lot more.

You could say the same thing about the project I just left - company spent $15M to develop a (free) mobile app, and after 3 years we have less than 10 users - and ZERO active users - and yet it keeps getting funded year after year for more enhancements and more millions of $$$ - and there are probably 50 or more of the same type of apps being developed by this same company - none of which have even a trivial amount of users, it is an open secret in the IT part of the company, but nobody wants to say anything, because everyone wants to keep their job.
I give it a few years before GamePass is as much a month as a full price game and the only way to make it a good deal is to convince yourself they you were going to buy at least one full priced game a month anyway.
From what I have read SBF doesn't "feel things" like compassion, remorse, or respect for authority and government. On one hand one could argue SBF stole the crypto (after all he was in the best position to know both the wallets and the exact timing it was going to come crashing down) and he is raising cash to flee - if that is even possible. On the other hand it's kind of brilliant timing if SBF didn't take the crypto for the actual parties to put more suspicion on SBF. The trial does not seem to be going well for him in either case.
Forza is pretty good
From a purely ethical standpoint, sure, I agree. But we live in reality, and there are plenty of activities that seem ethically victimless, but are practically necessary to criminalize, in order to uphold societal frameworks and expectations of morality.

In this case, by giving every CSAM criminal a potential excuse that they "thought it was AI generated," the real victims are further victimized by being deprived of justice or forced to prove their realness.
Who was saying that??
You may think that intuitively, but actual studies actually indicate the opposite. Usage of CSAM material leads to increased risks of contacting and abusing children.

This needs to be balanced against rights to privacy and expression, which I personally think take precedence, but pretending that it can serve as harm reduction is just not correct.
It says they're adding water. You can currently improve cooling and efficiency by adding a misting system the external unit of a traditional air conditioner. I wonder how the efficiencies and costs compare.
Secrets in the repo is actually something I've seen for a long time, and there's not much tooling necessary for it beyond just shelling out (yes, I know) to gpg in your deploy scripts. I saw this on CVS-based projects very early in my career, which then fizzled out as the "12 factor style" (secrets in ENV vars) took over.

Can I ask what the modern solution for this is?

Also:

> If code changes need peer reviewed, how so configuration values don't get treated at least the same way?

The easy answer to this is a CODEOWNERS file, with the app code being owned by the devs, and the config being owned by ops. But again, not sure how to do this for secrets without their being plaintext in the repo. Do any code review tools support encrypted content?
Out of curiosity, what skills or experience are your recruiters optimizing for while reviewing resumes?

Having a decade of experience and nearly 100% match with a fullstack job description (even down to microservices/event-driven systems) and getting a rejection without even a screening call means I either presented myself poorly or there's something else they're looking for that might not be advertised (or emphasized). In either of those situations, I would appreciate even a hint so I could improve my odds in the future, because rejections are getting tiring.
Wait, so most workers are alienated, and alienation makes a job bullshit. But most jobs are not bullshit?

> A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.

- Ursula Le Guin
Because of the closeness to Nature?
I've been campaigning against this consolidation since EA bought Westwood in '98.
> My mental block is a brain injury that went undiagnosed until I was 30.

Would you be OK with elaborating on this a bit more?
My advice for founders building a B2B SaaS...

* YOUR FIRST HIRES SHOULD BE CUSTOMERS *

You'll be building the right thing from the start. Selling will be easier too since confidence in the team is just as important as the product. Onboarding will be easier too. Support will be easier too. Heck, everything is easier.

Other advice:

*DO NOT HIRE A PROFESSIONAL PRODUCT MANAGER*

Instead, provide product management training to that customer you hired. You'll avoid playing the telphone game. Your devs will be closer to the customer this way.
More like the blockchain fad. Just as anybody can fork Ethereum to create their own shitcoin, anybody can throw a UI layer over Stable Diffusion and pat themselves on the back for their innovation.
This is the classic WSJ defending the Fed protecting the upper class wealth and telling the lower classes to suck it up, imo.

Greedflation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=tU3rGFyN5uQ
This has always seemed like a somewhat short-sighted take from regulators. While I do think that platforms have some responsibility to police content that users post, I can’t help but feel like it just creates this cycle of

1. Latest political event creates rise in related disinformation

2. Regulators issue ultimatum

3. Platforms make big public statement that they’ll “address it”, ultimatum paused

4. Next event occurs before 3 is realized (if it even can be, reasonably)

5. Repeat

To me the much smarter investment would be making serious “online literacy and critical thinking” programs to help decrease the effect of disinformation on populations
We Know Exercise Prevents Cancer. A New Study Tells Us Why
I agree with the fact that there are a ton of low effort shitty companies riding the AI craze, but I think that cat looks pretty cool and it's still very impressive a computer could generate it.
NASA Launches Psyche Metal Asteroid Mission
Sorry, but your position is consistent with the mainstream scientism:
"I have no explanation for X based on materialistic point of view, so either it doesn't exist or let's reduce the phenomena to fit our taste".

My point was, even if we don't know what is the deep explanation of the phenomena, my own experience is infinitely more credible than any other "scientific" stories I might hear, because to deny my own experience opens the door to deny other things including logic and everything I know and my own senses.

Also note that free will does not in any way assume that our decisions or actions are without cause, after all from religious point of view, everything in existence is caused ultimately by God. Even one can argue, that saying that free will is not based on causes, actually means free will is impossible, because that mean our will is based on true randomness which doesn't sound "free" much.
I think that's a bit glib. Right now it's true that nobody's going to leave the Apple camp because of Siri, but it's also true that nobody's going to leave the Android camp because of it. That state of affairs could change.

It's not a time for complacency, if only because driver assistance is becoming more important every day. There are good, sound business reasons to put competent people on the Siri team.
Anthropogenic aerosols could delay enhanced monsoon precipitation by decades
Nice. Tested it on desktop and iOS. Works well. The content plays nicely, though I couldn't understand any of it ;). Good luck
$350k a year is an absolutely massive amount, even assuming you have nothing (no savings/equity) at the moment, you could achieve financial indepdenence within just a couple of years, if you make some lifestyle adjustments.

For starters, check out this blog: https://earlyretirementextreme.com/.

It's written by a guy who achieved FI within just 5 years of making $80k a year. Granted, he didn't have kids, but you're making over 4x as much as he was.
Brush yourself off, man. Apple used to make $20 wired Earpods that had a better mic and driver than the $180 disposable Airpods. They are, in fact, trash. Expensive garbage, intended to occupy your landfill and drive an upgrade cycle.
> By moving things to the title bar, you gain back some real estate that you can dedicate to this ever expanding set of other tools and content.

But the loss of the title bar causes actual pain and interferes with practical use. It's hard to imagine any tools/content that would be worth that loss.
MapTiler is _way_ cheaper and a bit more ethical.

Also: you can double dip. When the free tier of mapbox runs out, swap over to MapTiler/StadiaMaps or any other provider of vector tiles.
http://golfcourse.wiki

It’s a golf wiki. It kinda sucks, but I’m doing my best. A surprising amount of people keep using it, but I wish more folks contributed.
I think that the vast majority of people who are creating SaaS companies are not looking to improve society if it costs them money in the long run. Fortunately, it seems to be possible to both satisfy human greed and improve the world—if imperfectly—as a side effect. SaaS founders aren't the best people we've got, in the moral sense, but sometimes they're the best we've got, in the sense that we'll take what we get.
1) Humans are extremely poor predictors of the future and even worse when it comes to disruptive patterns.

2) They often try to drive scenarios that are merely an extension of existing systems.

3) Very few people are in a position to review AI progress accurately as most advanced systems aren’t public.

4) Those that are in that position speak of a great deal of ways that AI systems are failing, while simultaneously positioning their companies for the advent AGI.

Is it a land grab in preparation as the market would clearly demand? Yes. You can see this in the intense lobby work happening with government around the world.

But there is obviously a feeling of inevitability, or at least a desire to create the impression of the feeling of inevitability, for an AGI.

I would imagine this technology wave will be similar to previous waves, but faster, as they have been getting faster, making mature try for AI a 2040-2045 proposition. That leaves only another few years until we enter early mainstream adoption — at most. I assume there is a lot of discussion about Smihula / Kondratiev waves and turning points happening and really the turning point is what everyone is positioning for. Got to be in at that point and have the strategy set if you want to win this wave, and then get ready for the emergent second generation (salesforce, Google, etc.) competitors to come at you.

Anyone else see that as generally correct? What am I missing?
This will also never do anything if you pass it 0.
Surely the FBI agents were cunningly framed by the real Dread Pirate Roberts.
Also note, that there is DD-WRT, which is a similar, but different project. Some routers might be supported by one, but not the other. I have a Netgear Nighthawk, for example, which is not supported by OpenWRT, but by DD-WRT.
I could see a combination of this approach and one of the audit approaches like `cargo crev` working well in the unsafe case:

- Require audit if there is new unsafe code

- Otherwise, rely on cackle to enforce no use of fs/net etc in safe Rust

This could provide the best of both worlds, automating most of the audit burden while still providing strong guarantees.
Yes, I use Goose3 to scrape the article information
The scroll bar, for me at. least, is also used to gauge how far along in a document I am. So its use is more than just for moving. If I have to find out here I am in a document by scrolling that just means extra effort on my part.
Same. I remember first reading about all of this back around...2013 maybe? But it blew my mind at the time. I want to say that the article I read was that last one from Paul Irish, but I'm fairly certain the author of the article was a woman. She had dug deep into Chrome's internals to figure out the rendering pipeline and mostly focused on that. It was a really neat article though it might be slightly out of date at this point.
Highly safe aqueous rechargeable batteries via electrolyte regeneration
I totally understand you. Carousels on websites are often overused and can be annoying when they auto-scroll. However, with Carousel Hero, you create slides that you can upload to your social network of choice (e.g., LinkedIn, Instagram).

Social media carousels often have a wider reach than regular posts because even just a swipe is counted as an interaction that can positively influence the ranking/recommendation algorithm.
Are they actually bitcoin mines or are they a way to leverage export restricted hardware (such as Nvidia A100 or H100) by executing compute jobs from mainland China?
Most people could say the same thing about wheelchair ramps, another form of accessibility
Yeah, it's a leaky analogy and doesn't quite compare. The biggest difference with cars is that they're titled and so ownership is much easier to prove. Although, if you have title issues with property you can also get yourself into quite a difficult situation. In the case of Apple products, Activation Lock more or less functions like a digital title system.
Awesome feedback. I really appreciate your suggestions!
The idea is to recharge the dessicant at night, do these places have high nighttime RH? If so, that smells like trouble.
Honestly you guys might be better of finding out upfront that the company is the kind of place to not hire women that might have kids in the future.

Sounds like a delightful place full of delightful hiring managers.
> if the first thing a company has to say about a product or feature is that it's powered by AI

They actually mean: we couldn't get it to work, so we added a black-box method to make it work, sometimes. And the examples on our website are all cherry-picked.
I do dream of some serious Erlang alternative that runs on its own without needing an entire runtime, but in all honesty Elixir / Erlang are insanely optimized, it blows my mind. I think I'm too used to the C#'s and Pythons of today, I too used Basic and a little bit of Pascal back in the day. I'm always excited by D but it gets overshadowed by Go and Rust it feels like, despite having really good features and a familiar syntax for anyone coming from C# / Java / C-like languages in my opinion.
We are talking about computer hardware, Microsoft or the OS vendor is irrelevant. For the record you can install Linux on many Surface devices unimpeded.
I think all the jobs I have had in the past (over a decade) as a software engineer were BS.

- I have worked for a bank. You tell me why do we need yet another bank nowadays, and why on earth do we need to make a fancy SPA with effects and all? Anyway, they paid good money and I gained experience

- I have worked for an e-commerce platform. Again, if it disappeared from the internet no one would complain. We were into "let's build more microservices" mindset. A waste of talent (the engineers I worked with were intelligent people) and time. But hey, I was a Staff engineer, and so I got a bunch of money in exchange for my wisdom in distributed systems (but I still wonder why do we need distributed systems when a one big machine or a couple of them would have done the job)

- I have worked for a SAAS company. The classic pay per customer per month. Totally useless as well (there dozens SAAS companies like us out there). In this one we were more worried about using "boring technology" (PHP, nginx, Postgres) instead of asking ourselves why do we even exist as a company

- And a long etc.

In every company I have been I never felt we were doing something meaningful for the society. I don't feel bad, whenever I see around I see useless companies (not only in IT). I just take as granted, in the capitalist society we live in, that people just want to make money, send their kids to good schools, enjoy vacations in a sunny place, and then retire in peace... so useless jobs/companies are needed.

What makes me a little sad from time to time is to see us, the human race, spending brains, time and billions in Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, while we don't put the same amount of resources to solve a real problem like what's going in Israel/Palestine/Russia/Ukraine where people are dying.
Look at the if statement again.
I made a similar template in LaTeX I'll share here in case it's useful to anyone: https://github.com/lukehsiao/latex-year
Unfortunately folding to an unreasonable (in terms of security) request like this emboldens them to be stupid in the future as well.

The customer is usually wrong.
People don't write for free on the internet anymore. If it's free, it's a prelude to an ad of some sort.
If things are so tight in the layout that taking the title bar away is actually necessary, then the layout is already fundamentally bad.
People are suggesting mechanical fixes, but ignoring the real issue:

The people who write those cookie popups, serve the ads, prompt you to download the app on every page load? Those people are in these comments section, and should feel like shit.

If the contribution of your life is shitting up our greatest creation via cookie banners, popups, autoplaying videos etc? You should feel like shit. Go do something useful.
Looks like this is by Hugo Fiennes, who among other things designed the Nest thermostat and (at least partially) the iPhone.

https://www.engineering.com/story/meet-the-man-who-designed-...
Gotcha. I never got into the whole Jedi craze so I guess it went over my head. But I understand now
Sorry but this "Meta shouldn't have released the weights" BS is exactly that... bullshit. All models should be open to everyone at any time, full stop.

I don't want to live in some corporatist future where we plebians have no choice but to eat the table scraps of cloud services that some selfish, political bureaucrat somewhere has deemed acceptable. Because that is the direction we are heading...
I once worked at an agency and was assigned to a project for a very big athletic shoe brand to create an app for a particular smart watch (no, not that one) to integrate with a run-tracking system they were building. We also built the mobile apps for it.

We got the whole thing done. They paid a lot more than $12k for it, plus whatever else they were spending.

After it was done, but before release, they bought another company that had the same stuff already, and scrapped the whole project.

I’d say 90+% of the development work I’ve done has never made anyone any money, and almost as much has never helped a single person. It’s a weird industry.
So basically, as I understand it, the full process is as follows, starting with dry dessicant:

1. External air is blown over the dessicant, which pulls moisture out of the air.

2. That dry air is then blown over water, which rehumidifies the air and also cools it by evaporative cooling. This part here is essentially the same as a swamp cooler.

3. The air is then cooled further by what is essentially a normal air conditioner, but which doesn't have to work as hard because the water is already cooler from step #2.

4. The dessicant, though, needs to be dried out, so as the article explains it I think the desiccant is heated by a heat pump to dry it out.

Please someone correct me if my understanding is wrong. It's an interesting design which basically combines a swamp cooler with a heat pump (after all, AC is just a heat pump that pumps heat out of the house). I'm skeptical of the 60% number though given the extra energy that needs to be applied to dry out the desiccant.
I guess this means that the goal is to use hydrogen as a battery of sorts, sinking excess hydro and other power into the electrolysis process. I haven't done enough reading about the power efficiency of hydrogen, but if there's enough energy to reasonably provide daytime capacity augmentation, I imagine the hydrogen -> water -> hydrogen process can be a relatively closed system, not requiring constant introduction of fresh water as the H2 + O2 are recombined and then split apart again.
These attacks would be very noticeable in a crate that was not already using unsafe. That's a pretty reasonable start, at least - and it gives a little more benefit to reducing the number of unsafe-using crates you pull in.

(For non-rust folks, using mmap requires using unsafe, so you can't map your own machine code in without being explicit about unsafe)
> Nobody likes Teams at Microsoft either

Then why can't they make Teams not terrible?
It'll return 0.
Competition is meaningful. If you weren't there putting on the pressure, we'd have a bunch of fat lazy companies with expensive, crappy products.
This man is calling anyone that does not become a billionaire a failure and those that get it a "success".

This binary thinking is beyond stupid. It is a reasonable thing with hard work to become millionaire and to earn more money than what you need. It is a reasonable thing to work on interesting problems with interesting people.

Once you have enough money your are not going to get happier with more money. On the contrary, with billions in the bank you can not do normal things because people could want to kidnap your family, and people around you are faking all the time their true intentions. You are being asked for money all the time and so on. You can trust nobody.

Most people that get into YC are going to get enough of those good things, but not too much, and this is going to make them to be in the top 5% in the world in satisfaction.
If you get tinnitus, spend the first couple of months looking for a solution. Get opinions and second opinions. If that doesn't work, then wait for 6 months and then try again. If that doesn't work then wait for 9 more months then try again. If that doesn't work wait for 12 more months and then try again.

Most likely you'll habituate to the sound (as I have). What was once a living nightmare will become (miraculously) a non-issue. Occasionally, as one person said it even becomes "comfy" - or as I told my wife recently, it's just the sound that the world makes when you're alive. Really, it's not much different from other signal processing affects in other senses. If you close your eyes and concentrate you can see visual noise. It's also there when you open your eyes (floaters for example). But you don't worry about that because it's commonplace. Sound seems different because it's new - but it will become the same type of thing.

An important part of getting better is accepting that (likely...) you're not going to get better. And then, after just being with it for a while and not trying to push it away, you realize that it's not so bad - you get better. Just let life suck for a while. My experience hasn't been pleasant, but I've learned a lot about the nature of life. Fair trade. Wouldn't want to do it again, but glad to have done it.
Nobody knows if building AGI is even possible (or what that even means). So it would seem reckless to put all of our eggs in that basket.

Not to mention that it seems immoral to mandate what every single human being does with their lives.
A language is invented; mathematics is discovered.

I peg to differ. Mathematics is invented when you define the axioms of some structure, after that you discover the consequences of the axioms you picked. First you define the natural numbers and the operations on them, then you discover the primes. So actually invention and discovery are not mutually exclusive here, but invention is more fundamental as it defines what is there to be discovered.