skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some persons are extraordinarily good at discovering big+solvable problems, and at continuously convincing other people that it’s worth burning themselves out in pursuit of it.

I think it’s worth pointing out that some projects are worth that level of devotion, and visibly so in real-time.

But we can’t make a project worth that level of enthusiasm and attention just by demanding people to act like it is (the siren song that leads to the earlier-discussed culture spirals). Often-well-meaning people will put the cart before the horse, but no amount of quacking will turn you into a duck, etc.

On balance, it’s healthy to be skeptical of people demanding devotion to some process or objective that’s not rooted in first principles you can agree with.

It wouldn’t surprise me too much if a meaningful proportion of the 3.6m applications per year are filed by people who find the first principles behind Tesla’s culture worthy of their devotion.

But yeah, the number of companies or projects that would benefit from that style of approach is quite small. 20% is the ceiling, 10% feels closer to the truth.
How certain are you that the upper tail is not impacted just as much, if not more?
Legislation or not, it is very entitled to think that that which is cast to the public is something you have any control over. Any illusory power you might have is merely legal, which in the grand scheme of things doesn't amount to much. The entire notion of copyright is built on this false premise of control. But in the world of ideas or information, bits are copied freely and easily and there is nothing that can be done to stop it.

Don't like it, don't post it
Where are we going to manifest more teachers from? In the current labor market, there are a lot more openings than job-seekers. You can always get more people into a specific job by raising wages, but that mostly that’s just a bidding war that redistributes the labor shortage to whoever can afford the least. It can raise labor force participation, but there is not so much juice to squeeze there. Kind of like how higher home prices don’t fix a housing shortage.

Historically the main way that labor productivity has been improved was through technology. Without that you get Baumol’s cost disease.
I thought this was gonna be about the $100M given to Newark schools that just...disappeared. Soaked up by the bureaucratic sponge.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-schools-educ...
Spend more time but not doing busy work.

Some schools assign way too much of what is basically memorization, producing students who are very good at memorizing things and not very good at applying them.

Also, students need breaks. “Cram schools” which simply assign too much work and put too much pressure, produce anxious students without emotional skills who burn out and in some cases also turn to be bad at real-world tasks (because they spend all their time learning how to get good grades, taking shortcuts and not “learning” the material).

But a long school day full of sports, student bonding, interesting hands-on or “applied” work, and the boring essentials, seems like it would produce better students.
Simplifyrecipe.com!

It works great but promoting it was a big fail.
Well TIL
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/register/

It's $5, but still...
https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/

A weird and cumbersome web based synthesizer.

In the examples below, double click on a node to trigger a signal in the circuit and produce sound.

Here is a "song" that a friend made with it:
https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?2.9.C4.m.1.15,6.9....

And here is "Happy Birthday":
https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?3.1.G3.m.1.24,4.1....
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How much do startup founders make in a $1B acquisition?
The Loom acquisition for $975M today got me thinking... how much of that do the founders see upon exit?

Here's my guess, but would love to see what people think:

- Seed Round - Y Combinator (Mar 22, 2012).
- Seed Round (Oct 7, 2016): Raised $600K.
- Seed Round (May 22, 2017): Raised $3.2M.
- Series A (Feb 19, 2019): Raised $11M.
- Series B (Nov 26, 2019): Raised $30M.
- Series B (May 28, 2020): Raised $28.8M at a pre-money valuation of $321.3M.
- Series C (May 20, 2021): Raised $130M at a pre-money valuation of $1.4B.

My rough guess of the dilution is 93% -> 78% -> 66% -> 53% -> 42% -> 39% -> 35%. I tried taking into account option pools and standard dilution.

Assuming all investors had 1X liquidation rights participating, then they get the $203.6M invested back, and the founders split the 35% of the $771M which comes out to about $90M per founder (3 co-founders). After CA tax (assuming 48.5% take-home) that's ~$44M.

I found this nice blog explaining founder dilution: https://dri.es/founder-dilution#4

LMK where I went wrong in my calculation.
Is it more than 20 bucks?
We've trained our AI with 70B parameters launching today
Is this comment an assertion of the truth of Great Replacement theory, i.e. disgusting Nazi propaganda? Because that is how it reads.
This is a great way to increase the compliance to coding standards and test coverage. If you can automate enforcement of this, it's even better. For example, your CI build could fail (or just send out notifications) if it detects that a modified file doesn't pass current coding standards.

Of course, it sounds like you have buy-in from management for these quality standards. For people who don't have this kind of buy-in for the whole team, they'll have to work individually to maintain quality.
I'm not sold on the idea that this is an either/or scenario. Classroom-based instruction is critical, imho, for social development, but having personalized learning as an option for areas of struggle (or areas of excellence) that proceeds at your own pace has been helpful for me (as an adult).
Even homeschooling falls into the personalized education bucket, and the data I've seen seems to indicate that parents with no educational background are actually able to outperform public schools.
"Rich people think thing that got them rich is good for everyone" should be a part of the zeitgeist by now. Individual attention and social learning doesn't "scale", so lets do the thing that does because "that's more efficient", the actual needs and desires of human beings be damned.

Somehow we forget that one of the most important aspects of learning is a clear understanding about why one does it and how it benefits us. This must be repeatedly reinforced over years, and close to zero people want that reinforcement in the hellish form of a gamified and entirely soulless piece of software.
Especially solutions for various software and stuff.

I ran into an rare issue with one software last year that I couldn't remember what it is. I saw the error in the log and posted it in Google. There are only one Reddit post in search of this error. The deleted user deleted the comment of the solution, preventing anyone from fixing the issue. That deleted comment have more than 200 child comments for thanking for the simple solution and other are asking other what are the solution after the deletion.

Some got around by quoting the comment to for those deletion situations. I get they want to protect their privacy and whatnots. It is rather infuriating when it is the only solution in the entire internet that are deleted.
Missed opportunity to call them Exporters
It wasn't just automakers, it was also the car owners. The first cars were owned by the 0.01%, and those sorts of people don't like being held responsible for mowing down smelly, dirty plebians.

So, they paid for cartoonists to draw cartoons that made pedestrians look like careless idiots, got their newspaper-owning friends to write editorials, the car companies joined in, and boom, jaywaying laws.
I’d love to know an app like this that works with banks from the EU, or at least Spain (not only aggregation, but moving money as well, and the SDK is icing on the cake).
You picked one of the most unequal, lowest Gini countries ; one known for tax havens at the cost of quality of life for its people. In the EU we have Ireland, which many will tell you isn’t being run well.

I don’t want to disagree with you for no purpose: I agree countries need to keep their spending in check. I live in a country that is far too generous on the wealthy (no substantial capital gains tax, corporations get lots of tax breaks). Are we competitive? No. In fact, a decent portion of graduates prefer moving to neighboring countries that offer better quality of life.

Governments don’t exist to serve corporations. They are elected for and by the people. If all countries on Earth had the same corporate tax, this discussion would be very different.
This sucks.

What sucks even more is that T-Mobile is STILL the least evil of the only three nationwide wireless carriers in the U.S.
fitzJSON: a JSON-compatible format optimized for configuration.

https://github.com/xtao-org/fitzjson
LOL, I just posted this yesterday, a magic 8 ball seeded with a quantum-generated seed from https://app.quantumize.io/sign-up

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/notoriousbrk_how-to-utilize-t...
Signal to noise ratio was a lot better back then I think. Nowadays you're more likely to find the likes of ThePrimagen than Beej, if you even make it past the sea of content farm tutorials.
The author of the post acknowledged they were trolling
I got a cochlear implant.

My tinnitus is 100% gone.

YMMV
This is a user experience research failure as it didn't consider how Students view and benefit from interactive group learning. A few billionaires who prefer being alone projected their own personal values into everyone else... and apparently their needs and concerns about learning aren't the same.
I dream of library for example named libcpu that have backends compiled from Verilog/VHDLl(or even get traction under something better)so people could play with existing CPUs by implementing them and/or creating something complete different without the need for expensive FPGAs and not constrained by their size. Building emulated machine by using some connecting code(maybe a framework) and hard part hidden in libcpu for major chips.
You might be forgetting the cost to train a 1.8T model.
"Possession is 9/10 of the law"
The title of the right bar could just be the menu pull down showing the current selection instead.

[ < v Add Tokens ]

Yeah, for the player the left bar being the "battle log" and the right bar being their character isn't a bad UX if the rest of the clutter is reduced.
There's this great series of lectures I watched during my intro to statistics and probability course: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfiOKXnQpw_l0rbiV_QW8lwl...

It goes over Bayes' Theorem early on, which I assume is Bayesian-by-default. I didn't realize this isn't universal.

I watched it because my professor seemed to be teaching from the same textbook, so it followed the same general course structure. The textbook we used was "Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences — 9th edition". You can find a PDF of the eighth edition just by googling the name.

You could probably follow along just by taking notes during the video lectures, but if you want to give yourself homework, the textbook provides a lot of practice problems.
Yeah, I've found pedestrian crosswalks, particularly at intersections, to be death traps. The I've been hit by a car once and almost hit a dozen times, always at a cross walk. Far too many people zipping around corners or simply ignoring the cross walk all together.
New research shows plants could worsen air pollution on a warming planet
I think the important distinction is ‘a user may plausibly have this non default configure’ vs ‘this config is obscure almost nobody will be running it this way’
I think it's overblown, but consider most other fields, even most other STEM fields, and how often people working in them come from a hobbyist background. How many hobby chemists, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, etc. are there? Those are more expensive, dangerous, or involved to get into as children. Today's future software engineers already have everything they need to do pretty much anything that a full time professional would do at work.

It's not that computer people are better, smarter, or more passionate than other professionals. It's just that the barrier to entry (in the 1st world) is just based on your interest level.
From my perspective it may be just fitting to the answer. We try to find symbols, without confidence, that the paper still contains information, and any text for trainig. With "rights" network you can achieve any possibile result. It is remember me a russian freak-scientist, which try to read words and texts on the detailed sun surface photos.
I went to a public middle school that's the among the lowest funded in the State of Colorado, yet it has frequently ranked in the top 10 in the State of Colorado (frequently in the top 1 or 2 for math and reading) and it's the top rated school in the city. It's also located in Pueblo, a town of historic poverty relative to the rest of Colorado.

The problems with the system are obvious: lack of discipline, bad teachers, bad curriculum, not focusing on merit, not focusing on grades, lazy enforcement of rules, not focusing on a learning environment. Note that money doesn't appear in the list of problems. They also had the fewest schooling hours of any school in the district and almost no homework.

It was ran by a genius who cared and was willing to say "no" to the dogma of his teaching peers.
I posted another one the other day which didn't get any traction but probably goes in the list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37835295
> But as it is actually used now for 3000 pound vehicles to zoom about in, it makes no sense for pedestrians to be intersecting and sharing the space at all. Just due to the physics of collisions between a person and a vehicle. I don't think slow vehicles is a good solution because we do need to get places.

Urban design talks about street vs road. You can have places for vehicles to zoom about in (roads), and you can have places with shops and businesses and homes for people to use (streets), but you shouldn't try to make the same place serve as both. So in cities and town centres you need to prioritise pedestrians and cyclists: low (and enforced!) speed limits, narrow streets that naturally reduce speed, car-free zones. It doesn't need radical new development, you just need to break the assumption that cars are entitled to go full speed everywhere and everyone else has to deal.
Israel is also broadcasting their bombings and collapsing buildings. Shame on both.
> No mistake was made.

The article in question disagrees with that.

> “... I’m even more appalled since many of them had nothing to do with the letter,” Furman wrote.

I guess they'll have to drive the truck backwards, and with mistaken names crossed out? And if anyone was affected the truck driver will personally vouch for them in an attempt to reverse the damages.
https://ant.care/

https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants

I'm making a digital ant farm. SimAnt + Tamagotchi that runs in real-time. Written in Rust/WASM/Bevy

The goal is to give people cute ants that do cute ant things 24/7, ask people to look after their ants and feed them once-per-day, and then deny the ability to provide ant care unless users engage in a breathwork/meditation exercise.

I would love help. I'm very much so in over my head. I have a billion things to add and the number one demotivator is not having people to tinker with, bounce ideas off of, and get hyped alongside. https://discord.gg/pg5Tu68cdW come say hi!
I've biked all my life (never had a car) and I can always brake better than any car at any speed.
This is really cool. Maybe you could collect the data and make a predictor for how many surfers will show up at a given spot at any point of time during the day. You could record past numbers as well as other factors like weather, time of day, amount of sunlight, etc, and have the model adjust its predictions based on those factors automatically
I've never thought of tutoring as an "intervention", rather as complementary, but considering how ineffectively some subjects were taught to me in the classroom, I wouldn't disagree that it'd be a useful complete intervention.

If you don't have access to a tutor, it's basically up to blind luck whether you're able to learn from the resources available.
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Such as the politicization of everything, or the abandoning of teaching basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills in favor of woke political agendas, or perhaps due to the hollowing out of cultural/religious consensus and the corresponding doubt's that there is any unifying factor in the academy.

After all, universities were born in the high to late middle ages out of the conviction that knowledge found its unifying point in the Word of God's revelation of Jesus, but today the vast majority of (western) universities have long abandoned the pursuit of truth. Theology, once seen as the queen of the sciences, is generally regarded as less useful and less true than fiction writing.
I use the HTTP server built into Mixplorer (the best file manager I've ever used). It can be added as a Quick Settings toggle.
I think the core issue where I strongly disagree with this article (and also what seems to be the disagreement why at least some tech billionaires have a completely different experience on education that leads them to finance such initiatives) is concentrated in the following paragraph of the article:

"I have tried to illustrate as often as my subscribers will tolerate that students don’t particularly enjoy learning alone with laptops within social spaces like classrooms. That learning fails to answer their questions about their social identity. It contributes to their feelings of alienation and disbelonging."

"I have tried to illustrate as often as my subscribers will tolerate that students don’t particularly enjoy learning alone with laptops within social spaces like classrooms.": I do agree, but (for me) the reason is not the laptops, but the classroom.

"That learning fails to answer their questions about their social identity. It contributes to their feelings of alienation and disbelonging.": Well, I felt alienated in school, and felt much more home hacking or on the internet (according to the HN comments to this article, this seems to be true for some tech billionaires, too)
Of course the big examples concerning "unlimited" are the "unlimited" data plans of cell phone companies.
Eh, many of the tech billionaires/millionaires never completed their college educations.
Haha. I thought about swiping for others (for free) but dismissed it at another MAANG because it's easily mitigated company-wide by:

0. Facial recognition at entrances auditing badge swipes.

1. Correlating security system logs with network MAC addresses and Wi-Fi association activity.

2. Security guards may be tasked with auditing occupants.

While such may earn social kudos, practical responses would be to unionize and walk out until reasonable, specific demands are met. Failing that, find other employment.
> you wouldn't take a shortcut across a dual-carriageway in the UK

I would and do, and I appreciate the law being on my side when I do.
The incentive is that soon it will be illegal to sell them.
If the only viable fix is to downgrade clients to an earlier protocol, do you take that to mean that there is a fundamental weakness in the protocol itself?
See also the YouTube video from the guy that made this https://youtu.be/hBFbo3VF1TQ
Exactly. The cost to remediate the hazmat stuff as the carrier is disassembled allows the scrap yard to make a profit, but it's not getting "free money" from the government.

When the aircraft carrier Oriskany was sunk as an artificial reef, the environmental remediation cost was $11.89 million.
I completely agree.

The first things these people with far more money than capability for introspection miss is that education is not about that next Einstein. It is about integrating the median student.

If you want to find diapered brilliance, you should probably be building a network of talent spotters, or something like Fast Grants. Not attempting to build robot tutors.
Making a $2,000 Synth for $99
Don’t tell that to people buying Tether.
To be fair to other industries, the barrier to entry of being a hobbiest chemical or mechanical engineer before going to school is a bit higher. Unless I’m underestimating the number of folks with laboratories in their parents basements. ;)
I made this site called Rashomon. It was a "news-betting" market, where you get de-titled articles and bet on their political bias (left, center-left, center, center-right, right), where the political bias was determined from allsides.com. I never fixed all the various bugs and stuff but the idea's there. I pulled some articles in case y'all want to try it out (for about 24 hrs)

https://www.rashomonnews.com/
What do you propose to pay each kind? Have you included benefits and start up packages, per user licenses?
I love the sound effects
Yes.

Gentoo on Pinephone Pro with T-Mobile.

I absolutely love the hardware privacy switches for the cameras, the microphone, WiFi & BT, headphone jack (enabling UART) and the LTE modem (including GPS) under the back cover.

Just absolutely love it.

Not for the faint of heart but anyone who can build Linux from Scratch can do this.

https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/
Canadians have the right to be forgotten. They won a lawsuit against google too.
Personally, I think that learning on one’s own outside of an educational institution is perfect for those with the self-discipline for it. For everyone else, a traditional school environment may be the better choice.
Bit of shake up going on. Their billionaire founder is coming back into a CEO role, cleaned house at the top (of folks that came in from Amazon), and after rescinding job offers a month ago and 20% layoffs 9 months ago, they're now trimming another 20%.

Internet rando analysis: Flexport most likely surfed the COVID wave of shipping, but the new macro makes the go forward much more challenging with aggregate demand declining (you can see this in both marine and over the road shipping volume declining). Boom time->war time transition as an org, hit by both rapidly rising interest rates (cost of capital, equity valuations) at the same time as volume declines precipitously.

https://www.flexport.com/research/post-covid/

https://www.flexport.com/research/after-the-boom-evolving-e-...

https://www.flexport.com/blog/how-long-will-covid-impact-las...

https://www.freightos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/FBX-Oce...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/economy-is-in-a-freight-rece...

https://www.ccjdigital.com/economic-trends/article/15543395/...

https://talkbusiness.net/2023/02/u-s-freight-volumes-fall-to...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
They've been doing it forever: https://killedbygoogle.com/
FTX was supposed to be cryptocurrency-based — you were buying tokens in an immutable blockchain, and yet the real money was tracked in spreadsheets, and the exchange had an infinite money flag for their own accounts.
D: Where are the SS of easter eggs?

https://eeggs.com/tree/1154.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Easter_eggs_in_Microso...
Sounds like it would be a good idea for Starlink to have multiple satellites then.
> Microsoft will reportedly get a 75% share of OpenAI's profits until it makes back the money on its investment, after which the company would assume a 49% stake in OpenAI.

49% isn't _just_ a share, it's a significant portion of the company.
I have a feeling this website is gonna be full of gay prostitute ads and dildos
The ads on YT have made videos unwatchable. I regularly get 5+ ads in the first 5 minutes of longer videos. Instead of considering paying, I’ve just stopped using YT, except for the occasional video here and there.