skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because government is run by people from/with close ties to the businesses and take massive bribes that we quaintly call "campaign contributions" from them.

Any excuse to allow the mergers will be found because of that.

In a word, it's plutocracy.
I think the parent was making a coy reference to the TV show Arrested Development, how it has a couple with the confused belief that the state can't prosecute both a husband and wife for the same crime[1].

In any case, in the US, the analogous legal structure for prosecuting such enterprise crimes is generally RICO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Racketeer_Influen...

[1] which I always read as those characters getting the wires crossed between double jeopardy (you can't re-prosecute someone for the same criminal act) and marital privilege (you get some level of protection from prosecution when you're married since spouses can't be forced to testify against each other). In the show, their attorney really does suck and they make excuses for him.
Exactly. I have my lights tied into Home Assistant to turn on/off when a room is occupied for couple of rooms and a wakeup routine for the bedroom tied to the alarm on my phone (lights mimic a sunrise 30 mins before the alarm).

I also have a couple of convenience automations like turning off the TV if it's been idle for X minutes (I've probably fallen asleep).

I've found they are mostly set and forget. Haven't touched it for about a year and don't plan to touch them any time soon.
I've worked in an "agile done right" situation. It certainly wasn't a utopia but the best experience of my professional career so far (14 years).
Yes, you can transmit messages via SMTP using TLS, but you don't need any special tools to read the email once it's reached its destination which is the point you seem to be missing. And before you scream PGP, almost nobody uses it.
Probably the first two, plus first-mover brand recognition. Millions of $20 monthly subs for GPT4 add up.

They might also be operating at a loss afaik, but I suspect they're one of the few that can break even just based on scale, brand recognition, and economics.
Are you purposefully not mentioning the IQ cutoffs the military uses for soldiers. it has been as high as the 50th percentile for the air force.
Data access has weaker network effects than you would expect. Generated chats / outputs are rarely good enough as training data, the "best"/"cleanest" data is still expert-created.
There's also some sort of ban in place in my home country of Germany. I think there's technically no ban, but people keep getting arrested for protesting regardless.
I thought you could skip ads in dvr?
What 12 factor is telling you to do is to not build a log file rotator into your application.

It is the least controversial and most broadly beneficial of the 12 factors.

Why do you think it’s foolish?
"5. If any are missing, it fails."

That's literally all you need to solve the scenario you described with .env files.
How to Count a Wolf [video]
That area is really beautiful.

~1 hour commute each way. Doesn't sound like much until you start to add it up and factor in things like wear and tear and gas. Driving 17 highway is a lot of fun and beautiful, but it is like playing Russian roulette with accidents.
The one that jumped out was Magical Girl Raising Project, which a younger me might have described as dark and edgy, but me today would call misery porn (it's not actually porn, just to be clear).

Now that I browse again, most are really good, but some are just a bit dull while being great examples of being from a certain place. Not to call it out in particular, but I ended up dropping Robotics;Notes for being kinda dull, despite it being part of the 5bp semicolon extended universe (Steins;Gate et al).
The dungeon itself is the game/puzzle/challenge that the players are trying to overcome, either for the default goal of finding its treasure or for a specific goal like find a specific macguffin or other target. In this mode, the players trade their resources to overcome challenges and if you can achieve your goal without fighting or expending resources at all, the more the players are able to achieve. The default is not to fight every monster you encounter but to decide if you need to engage to achieve your goal. Random encounters are a way for the dungeon to fight back against the players and to put a clock on them - the longer they take to explore the dungeon or the less efficient they are in their exploration, the more they will have to deal with encounters that are unlikely to have any treasure at all.

It’s a very complex and interesting game to play. Unfortunately newer editions have gutted this gameplay by removing xp for gold (thus removing the default goal of most dungeons) and removing all of the procedural dungeon crawling rules. The tabletop form is still superior to CRPGs as your ability to interact with the world itself and overcome challenges in interesting ways is only limited by your imagination and ability to creatively apply the tools available to your character.
The Hue lights are wildly overpriced. I have the WiZ A67 Wi-Fi for my office (so I only use the warm white and cool white) and it's much brighter than Hue's offering, which is so valuable in an office. I can also switch its setting using a normal light switch so I never need to open the app.

If you're playing with colours, then Hue usually does do better in the blues, greens and purples but it probably isn't going to make much of a difference to your life.
Or a complaint about bad writers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_prose
Will get more and more difficult. This morning Youtube kicked me out because I was using adblock origin. And update fixed it, but if they start putting DRM...
Working on Remuse, a fresh music newsletter. https://letter.remuse.co

Realtime collaborative music sharing site remuse.co to go along with it.
No constituional protection is absolute, as they usually contradict each other to at least some extend. The difference where different societies place the focus - the US is strongly in favor of freedom of speech, whereas European states usually are less absolutist about speech.
> It's also not worth debating philosophy with people who will argue that $10 is not clearly worth less than a finger.

Some of these arguments feel like the equivalent of spending billions to create a state of the art fighter plane and not realizing they forgot to put an engine inside of it.

It’s not $10 vs. “a finger,” it’s $10 vs. the finger of someone who goes about using their fingers to threaten people to give them money. If the difference isn’t immediately obvious, I think it’s time to step back from complex frameworks and take a look at failures with common intuition.
Well. My team doesn't hold rallys where people yell to gas the jews after a major terrorist attack. So... It's not that I can't imagine it being used against me it's just that I don't do that anyway so not being allowed to do it isn't a loss.
To be fair, remote controlled lights can be genuinely useful. The reason the Clapper got popular with the elderly is because people with mobility problems have a hard time reaching switches. In those cases it solves an important problem. I wouldn't mind using it myself, except I think the clapping would be annoying, especially if it misinterprets and doesn't work. So I'm not opposed to eventually using one of the remote controlled lights or plugs the article mentions, but I thankfully have no need for it yet.
There are not many countries in Europe that have jaywalking laws. Only Germany and Poland come to mind.
If a system is billed as having certain properties, but in practice it repeatedly fails to have those properties, there's a legitimate criticism to be made.

I can understand why it might be frustrating to hear the same criticisms repeatedly but it doesn't make them illegitimate.
Basically this is what you want to see (and hear): https://youtu.be/qeUAHHPt-LY?t=229

Mooo!
> I also believe that within say 1-3 years there will be a different type of training approach that does not require such large datasets or manual human feedback.

I guess if we ignore pretraining, don't sample-efficient fine-tuning on carefully curated instruction datasets sort of achieve this? LIMA and OpenOrca show some really promising results to date.
While valid points in many contexts, I've seen many other contexts where following this principle/pattern a/ yields none of its benefits b/ results in very significant business impact.

Here is some obvious case observed many times.

A small and very fast pace team builds a server application having limited to no external dependencies. No db even.

Just a server doing stuff.

It does have some config yes, many many key/value pairs even, a config file ended up with a dozen properties just to control Req per sec limits and such.

Now just to deploy the thing, since of course env defined configurations is where things belong in best practice, the dev team setup a process to peer review those env values and despite all of that, fail to get the app running.

Human errors happen but since more mistakes and release delays were caused by misconfiguration than any other reasons, the keen and bright enginnering team all agreed it would be better to have a config repo. One genius in the group argued that having a config service would be even neater than have the app read from a git repo! The whole got so hyped and of course spend the whole next sprint building and testing that. Brilliant, it worked!

Except that of course outages happened, of course. Outages happen.

Bringing down all environments one by one, hence blocking pretty much everyone. Everything went down because hey, since we made that effort which took for longer than we thought to build a config service and have our app reads from it, one of the dev minds thought it was a genius idea to have the app reload the config every 5 mins at runtime so that if a configuration change was made, no need to even restart anything.
Of course error handling wasn't robust and well tested since the boss reminded the team we've got to ship a product by the end of the quarter and solving the universe can maybe wait 5 or 10 years after the IPO.

Team resorted to simply track the config in the repo. Kept the runtime reload of the config and things worked just fine.

Things can be done right and impacts could have been avoided. The example may seem like a twisted case since these were all configurations, not environment specific values.
But I've just seen so many occurences of env variables being separated from the application repo costing so much and distracting contributors for no benefit that I have grown very cautious of it.
What's the difference between "lazy" and "serious executive function issues"?
Tauri 2.0 Alpha (Mobile Update)
What, a dildo? It can be mentioned in a polite society. Just not in a prude one. (Now, whether it's a reasonable question or just being immature is another thing...)
depends, I don't think it's even possible to have as many horses on earth as there are automobiles :)
You could phase it in slowly like Ireland did.

Cars on a Monday.
Lorries and HGVs switch on Wednesday.
All remaining traffic on the Friday.

Done!
Is this a guess or is it informed by facts?
They're mining the gullible for phone numbers, among other things.
I've always found it interesting that MS basically started LSP but C# has probably the worst LSP implementation I've ever seen. It's flat out broken.

Rust, Go, Dart, etc all vastly superior. I recently opened up a powershell script in nvim and even powershell's LSP is better.

I guess there is a new C# LSP with C# Dev Kit and it seems better in vs code but I haven't tried to use it with nvim yet.
Your assumption is that amazon is using their data to make things like their site's search feature better for you. That's not the case. Your data will likely never be used for your benefit. It will only be used for amazon's benefit, and if they've got office chair legs to push, that's what you're going to get and they'll continue pushing them until they feel they no longer need to.

That data exists to help amazon manipulate you and/or get the most money from you whenever and however they want, no matter how you feel about it. Maybe it would be mutually beneficial for amazon to show you ads for things you actually need or care about, but amazon only cares about amazon and amazon's needs. When, how, or if they use your data against you is up to them, not you.
The major benefit/challenge of being a military kid that moved every 2-3y is that you make friends really fast and resocialize very easily. This also means you don't have any roots. My example is often that my friends in high school were friends since kindergarten, something I have no frame of reference for. It probably only hurt in high school for sports and clique based activities.

For going from highschool to college there is almost zero negative, since it's the nth time you've moved and had to rebuild a social structure.

Consider the number of total school changes for an average domestic student is 3. K-5, 6-8, 9-12, and in those cases they keep their friend groups.
>Education and learning is a skill that's transferred in a very large part from parents.

No it isn't. Being able to impregnate a woman or give birth does NOT magically make you a great teacher! My mother has an innate gift for teaching, and she STILL benefited from 4-6 years of college courses and continual training and improvement over the 30 years she taught and is still teaching.

Meanwhile, the entire time she has taught, parents have done everything they can to shift blame from bad home life and kids that don't value education to "you aren't doing enough" even as she literally buys her students winter coats, from her own pocketbook, as the school doesn't even buy her new markers for her whiteboard or new material so she can stop using 25 year old VHS tapes that are literally losing their contents from normal wear, even as she is one of the favorite teachers in the entire school system because of her immense empathy, even as "bad kids" do very well in her class because of how sincere she is, how much she cares, and how good she is at her job.

People say "We've increased so much what money we give to schools" completely ignoring that the money has NOT been distributed in any sort of even way, and even in my state which has largely good outcomes for education, the vast majority of the funding goes to a couple prestige schools in the south that were already rich because they are in rich towns, and the little money that trickles to the impoverished schools in the rest of the state largely goes to paying administrators led by superintendents that are just whoever the "Good old boys" were twenty years ago. Actual teacher pay has not kept up with inflation.

I'm so sick of all this teacher blaming bullshit around education. Actually trained teachers have been shouting about what they need to improve things for decades, and none of the managerial class has given them even a shred of what they actually need, while everyone continues to blame them, and have even claimed public education is just indoctrination. It's infuriating.

Education is a skill, a professional and knowledge based skill. Teachers aren't baby sitters, and if you decide you only need a high school degree to teach, don't be surprised when it goes poorly.
> It isn't mysterious: you selected the best students, so your results will be the best.

You're implying that individual results don't change by grouping the good students together. In your vision the good students stay good and the bad stay bad. I don't agree. The good students become great by surrounding them with other good students.
I don't know if it's changed but I felt like a super genius a few years ago when I finally got my HA up and running on a pi, and I'm a linux person and former system admin. There's Home Assistant and Home Assistant Core, Docker or not Docker, install HACS or don't. Some things don't seem to work unless you're on a Docker container but then it's a pain to ssh in and find folders to install stuff. I really hope it's better now as my HA install has mysteriously died and I haven't had the heart to dig in and see what the issue is so I'm guessing I'm going to have to start from scratch.
They raised $200M and sold for $1B.

Options from the last raise would be under water, but they operated for years before that raise. There are likely a lot of employees doing reasonably well.
Are just suggesting this as an option or do you have evidence that it is true?
If you get even older you may reach the point where getting out of bed is something you'd only like to do once a day. Hopefully these doodads will be more reliable by then.
We're only 500+ days in to what the Russians planned a few weeks to take. This is clearly going fine. But it is good fun to see these shit takes from people, carry on.
This is super cool, I'll install this!
> I’d give anything to hear the real silence again

Same, I was unlucky enough to get it at ~16-17
She’s 8. She’s not responsible for much of anything. She’s not mentaly capable of being responsible for making future career decisions. If she said she wanted to be an authoritarian dictator, I’d crush that dream fast. But she wants to help animals. And being someone that she looks up to, it doesn’t take much for me to crush a dream. So do I start crushing that dream now (her wanting to be a vet comes up weekly, so either I would ignore it or have to keep reiterating my position), and ruin any chance of her becoming a vet, or do I let her invest years into it before telling her I think her career choice is a bad idea?
But this thing happened in the conventional financial system, which is not billed as having those properties, so no, it's not a legitimate criticism.
By the author, sure. Both scenarios result in loss of agency for the individual.
most of the employees came in at later rounds, so play it out. ex: They'd get say $100K in options on paper, but the pitch would be the company is high-growth, so expectation of 2X, 10X, 20X, etc over next few years. That $100K is really $200K next year, $2M the year after, etc.

Except they sold the company at a ~flat multiple over the valuation. If employees got RSUs, then at least they made say $65K after short-term capital gains (30%+). But if as options... no growth over the latest valuation's strike price, so nothing. $65K is not $200K and certainly not $2M.. and $0 is even worse.

FWIW, I'm a happy customer, am happy for the founders, and hope the new features keep rolling out through the acquisition -- our usage of Loom grows every month! The issue here is not the founders, but HR & VC. This is why joining companies with high valuations is a big risk as the VC's have already set inflated prices that ate your potential payout -- you earn on growth over the strike price at time of joining -- and these high markup companies have a lot of revenue to grow into.
I read this book. The tone of the entire thing is “look how amazing this guy is”.

If you read a book that presented Elizabeth Holmes or Bernie Madoff in this way, what would be your perspective?

I don’t pretend to have the facts or know for certain of anyone’s sure guilt, but a lot of the evidence is awfully damning.

(For example) Michael Lewis strongly insinuated that SBF took calculated and justifiable risk when losing track of $X00M for months at a time
> Sure, installing PopOS is pretty easy if you follow the tutorial, but what happens if you try to install Steam one day and it breaks your desktop environment?

I think you're replying to the wrong comment. This was a comment about installing Home Assistant OS, which shouldn't ever be a base for running Steam!
And let me guess, you live somewhere in the midwest or south?
How many are brave enough to challenge it in the face of arrest or worse police violence?
If there was some other major thing that came online in 2018, I think it would be easy to rationalize this chart as confirmatory evidence of that too, though I mostly agree.
So having no experience is bad, but also going out of their way to get experience is also bad? Isn't this presenting a bit of a no-win scenarios?

Then again, that seems to be common with the job market.
There’s nothing immutable about a private blockchain.

Suppose Company X buys 100k in hashing power and signs everything accordingly so it all looks fine. How do you know they didn’t instead buy 200k and run two blockchains side by side until they need to pick one months later?

Alternatively, they instead buy 1M in hashing power so they can spend 1 day making a believable 10 days worth of history on 100k hashing power blockchain.

Now you can argue publishing a blockchain makes it immutable, but so does publishing anything else. Don’t want people to see the data? Publish hashes of your database backups.
It's a https://xkcd.com/927/ situation because (1) there's so much money at stake and (2) many involved are incompetent/have bad taste.
They are also trying to lobby the government for AI "regulation" in order limit any competitors ability achieve OpenAI's level
Ask HN: How are you teaching your kids to type?
I've got a few young boys, definitely too young for this at the moment, but I'm hoping to ensure that they become proficient typists at the right time.

When I was younger our elementary school used a combination of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, and forcing us to not look at our hands, but I'm not confident that all schools now take this skill as seriously as they should.

Has anyone tried to teach their kids themselves? How did you do it?
Absolutely agree re: abusive TOS clauses. My question is this: if you were on a panel evaluating whether it's more abusive to a) migrate customers to a plan that's $10 more or b) end their service because the vendor no longer offers that service, which would you vote for?

Note that consumer panels will have less ability to force a vendor to set prices or provide specific services, so there will not be the third option of c) force the vendor to continue providing the service at the contracted price.
I think OpenAI may eventually have to go upmarket, as basic "good enough" AI becomes increasingly viable and cheap/free on consumer level devices, supplied by FOSS models and apps.

Apple may be leading the way here, with Apple Silicon prioritizing AI processing and built into all their devices. These capabilities are free (or at least don't require an extra sub), and just used to sell more hardware.

OpenAI is clearly going to compete in that market with its upcoming smart phone or device [1]. But what revenue model can OpenAI use to compete with Apple's and not get undercut by it? I suppose hardware + free GPT3.5, and optional subscription to GPT4 (or whatever their highest end version is). Maybe that will be competitive.

I also wonder what mobile OS OpenAI will choose. Probably not Android, otherwise they would have partnered with Google. A revamped and updated Microsoft mobile OS maybe, given their MS partnership? Or something new and bespoke? I could imagine Johnny Ive demanding something new, purpose-built, and designed from scratch for a new AI-oriented UI/UX paradigm.

A market for increasingly sophisticated AI that can only be done in huge GPU datacenters will exist, and that's probably where the margins will be for a long time. I think that's what OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and the others will be increasingly competing for.

[1]:https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-jony-ive-talks-rai...
Even if they didn't profit from the ads, could they get rid of them?
It certainly feels like we are headed to an armed confrontation with a state armed with nuclear weapons. I doubt we will truly fight over Taiwan and the USA is bluffing and North Korea isn’t going to start a fight, but I think Iran or Russia or Russian proxies could easily devolve into all out war.
I just paid the $20 for a month to try it out. In my super limited experience, GPT-4 is actually impressive and worth the money.
I would assume the datacenter and infra needed would also contribute a sizeable chunk to the costs when you consider upkeep to run it 24/7