skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These statements are simply contrary to our firm’s values

Signing something without charging money?

> At this time, we remain in dialogue with two of these students to ensure that any further color being offered to us by these students is considered

What does this even mean?
Yeah, I know; I used the term "compliance desk" ironically. Sorry.

I just meant that someone is going to wake up, and realize that it's their problem, personally.

Or not.
Don't forget speculation/gambling which is probably a larger business than even crime.
isn't it telling that the law office is not named individually, but named in a collective identity as "Top law firm" ? This literally says "you are being punished by the indisputable authority" .. for signing a considered letter of opinion ! let's be very clear about what is happening.. not the subject of the conflict, but the effects on collective public expression
So many numbers these days are just a marketing pissing match.

Browser versions come to mind. I'm on version 118. Which browser? All of them.
If you hated him enough and thought you could kill him with impunity? Certainly some would.
From carpenter to virtual reality designer
Why bother with that when AI/ML/CV can track what comes off and on the shelves? Amazon Go
UBS may as well be a US bank. Their primary currency is USD and it was partially also international pressure to prevent an economic collapse. The Swiss government could have taken the Swiss part of CS and let the rest dump.
if you trade with yourself you still have to pay transaction fees to the cluster. Every transaction would incur a loss.

>And that can concievably become the bulk of BTC trading volume if there isn't a steady supply of new people who are willing to buy in to Bitcoin at any price.

that would end up just slowly transferring all of the BTC to miners as transaction fees... what a scam!

I uh, guess that creates liquidity though?
Around 15 years ago I broke my nose which eventually led to a loss of taste and smell. Around 8 months ago I had surgery on the internal structures of my nose which in addition to allowing me to breath again, I can also taste and smell. The experience has been completely mind blowing.

On the flip side I can no longer order the spiciest of spicy Thai and Indian food from my usual restaurants. The owners poke fun at me now.
> Intellij's refactoring crown

Not sure IntelliJ has a crown here. I use Eclipse and it has some pretty amazing refactoring options. And I really prefer it to IntelliJ (for my use cases at least). Are there particular things IntelliJ can do that Eclipse can't?
> You'd have to desire to eat e.g. yogurt with added sugar over one without.

So in your mind, there are alternative, inexpensive 6- and 12-packs of plain, unsugared yogurt sitting in national grocery chains, just waiting to be consumed by people with no sense of taste at scale?

Edit: also keep in mind that people who have lost 40% of their sensory input are apt to go through a depression, and that being sedentary has a lot of risk factors that overlap with the risks from obesity.
The Westminster Declaration
Yeah, it's interesting to me how from a user's point of view both technologies do something similar, but from an architecture point of view the use cases are mostly disjoint. I totally agree that something like Reflect makes more sense for most apps people build today.

Anyway, congrats on the launch! Reflect looks great. I'm really excited to see the building blocks emerge for local-first software.
What previous actions? Previous actions were that the US gov did let SV and First Republic fail.
Uhhh nope... The firm is named in the subheadline, and it's not a recognizable enough name to go in the headline:

"Davis Polk rescinds job offers to Ivy League students who signed Israel letters" doesn't make much sense to most readers, does it?
I'd never heard of him until today.

I would stand up to defend your right to read and enjoy a good book by a person that you aren't an expert in.

In general, I try to start by extending the benefit of doubt. It seems like nobody here stopped to wonder if pmarca had any idea that the dude wrote the Fascist Manifesto. And if he didn't, does he still deserve to be shamed for enjoying his other work without Googling him first?

What if you found out the author of the last thing you read was a fascist after the fact? Should we be mad at you?

Do you Google the author of everything you read? If so, that sounds exhausting.
An obvious argument against this: so far we haven't seen a problem at all with halvings. The network's hashrate continues to rise.

BUT - that is only due to the increase in purchasing power of BTC. At the last halving in May 2020, BTC was trading at 8-9K, so at its current value of 28K "half" the BTC is still worth MORE. In real terms the block reward has gone up, not down. And so has the hashrate.

A BTC maximalist might say that the price increases because of the halving and this will continue for all future halvings, making the real-world value of the block reward approximately consistent over the next few decades. I doubt it, because each halving should have less and less impact on the price. There are millions of BTC already mined and actively trading so is the price really going to double when we go from making 900 new ones per day to 450 new ones per day? And down the road, from 450 new ones to 225? And so on? Eventually the newly mined BTC are such a drop in the bucket compared to the already-mined ones being traded, that a reduction in emission cannot have much impact on price. I don't believe the theory that the halving was responsible for the last pump either. I think it's more the market conditions during the pandemic that encouraged speculation.

But just for fun let's pretend that this does happen. The price doubles (give or take) after each halving to maintain the real world value of the block reward. In that case it could theoretically work all the way up until the very last halving takes the reward to 0. Because the fees people are willing to pay are still going to be on the level of "a piece of candy" for a transaction. Whatever that translates to in BTC. Scaling up the real-world value of BTC works for magnifying the block reward which is denominated in a fixed amount of BTC, but not for magnifying the fees which are just a bidding war and not fixed value.

And really, it would fail a bit before then because long before the final halving, you already have ultra-low rewards denominated in Satoshi. You couldn't scale Bitcoin's real world value enough to make those one or two digit SAT rewards mean anything, without also making it totally unusable for ordinary transactions!
This is honestly one of the best kept secrets in tech. If you actually want some work life balance and don't care too much about job titles and status, the best gigs period are those where you support the "front line" devs in some fashion. Nearly the same pay, but less stress and more self-direction. Tooling and QA folks rarely get called up at 3am on a Sunday morning because prod is down.
What person buying an i3 cares about performance?
You honestly believe that government funded work didn't "make much difference" with dealing with COVID?
Couldn't agree more on the VC front.

To take it even further, what provides more value? Instagram or OpenSea (NFT marketplace)?

When you stop and think about it, it's the Spiderman meme. They are both pretty useless and are most likely a net negative to society.
if you like the video leave your comment on the site (y)
I wonder, if something similar can be implemented as a browser extension
https://archive.ph/1Uv6T
Hey Aaron, cool product! Well done so far.

Curious why you think no-one has done TCR before? Also, any insights on why you're bullish on the "multiplayer web"?

Will be cool to see example docs / repos as they come out!
as stated by many creators, most revenue for content creators is merchandising. The ad revenue is a nice extra bit.

The big thing is, ever if they got $0 from revenue, their lion's share still comes from other sources. And blocking views hurts them significantly more than loss of revenue from ads due to lack of the big money movers which are based on views not ads.
Show HN: Duro (YC W23) – a marketplace for on-demand gym services
Hey HN! Gabriel & Logan here, cofounders at Duro (duroapp.com). Duro is an online marketplace that enables users to effortlessly purchase passes, classes, and memberships. It seamlessly integrates with gyms' CRM systems, allowing for convenient check-ins and waiver signing across multiple locations using just one account.

Check out our YC Application: https://duroapp.notion.site/Duro-Y-Combinator-W23-Application-73686908e9354411a539d7115cb474eb

Hotel gyms suck and short terms rentals have no fitness amenities at all. With 205,176 health and fitness clubs worldwide, there is no easy way to book them on-demand without a membership. We wanted to make it easier for fitness enthusiasts to find the best gyms instantly, no matter where they go.

Logan is a proven B2B partnership builder and fitness fanatic. Gabriel scales mission critical systems for NASA’s Mars rovers. Together, we’re on a mission to revolutionize the health and wellness industry by making fitness facilities accessible and turning the world into a big open gym.

Incumbent gym CRM software platforms such as Mindbody, Zen Planner, and GymSales limit their potential by offering marketplace models available only to their contracted gyms. ClassPass complicates gym booking with its membership-required, cash-to-credit conversion. Gympass is exclusively an employee benefits program.

Fitness enthusiasts are deprived of accessing the full range of gyms and fitness studios in the world. We're constructing an open ecosystem for gym CRM software platforms to make their partners accessible to anyone. Duro aligns incentives for customers and merchants with fast access and high margins. We empower customers to choose what they want, when they want, without a membership.

What’s your experience with fitness facilities when traveling? Is there an independent gym in your hometown you can connect us to?

Anything else that comes to mind? Thank you!
I love that lists like these exist. Like the Internet Movie Firearms Database[1], or the list of split diopter shots[2].

[1] https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page

[2] https://letterboxd.com/lubber/list/split-diopter-shots/page/...
I'm not sure I would feel comfortable using the Winsorized mean -- it doesn't have any particular statistical properties, and it lacks any intuition appeal because it's not clear what the value represents.

I can understand a line of logic that would give rise to something like the Winsorized mean -- after you look at your data, you see some obvious outliers. It feels dirty to just drop those values (which would lead to the truncated mean) because the information from an implausible value is more likely to be near the extreme than it is to be near the center mass.

What to do with those extreme values?

Here's something I now want to experiment with -- bootstrapping the extreme values. Take note of the original empirical distribution. Then, create a new distribution by removing the top and bottom X% of the observations and replacing them with values drawn i.i.d. from the original empirical distribution. This could lead to some values being replaced with the outliers that we originally wanted to drop. After we do this, record the mean. Then create new sample distributions until we have a distribution of new means. What I am curious about is how the shape if this distribution of means will be impacted depending on that X% value selected at the beginning.

What are some well-known distributions that appear to have outliers? A log-normal distribution maybe?
Oh god, that's made me realise. Does a GDPR right to removal extend to LLM's that have been trained on your data? What probability of retrieval counts as still storing your data?
BoA deposits are down 8.5% yoy. This is forcing them to take out expensive loans from other banks that cost more than the loans they made early pandemic. Not a crippling issue, but they are losing money everyday rates stay high.
Show HN: OpenAI for React Native
Hey folks, I'm happy to share a package I've been working on that bridges the OpenAI APIs to React Native.

Under the hood it's using URLSession and Ktor engine for better performance and reliability.

Here's a demo of the package in action: https://github-production-user-asset-6210df.s3.amazonaws.com... or checkout the GH link.
I am a data engineer at a fortune 50 company, I do. It's infuriating that I'm expected to have a unique alphanumeric key to every single thing I use on a computer. That would be 100's of keys. It's nuts people think we should have unique passwords for everything.
Most of the serious programmer oriented editors support LSP to some degree now. Vim, emacs, Sublime, etc. Even JetBrains’s IDEs support it in addition (or alternative) to their own custom tooling.
As a northern European I was always confused when in action movies people fight each other and throw one another through walls. I later realised this is a thing because American homes are built like garbage.

If you have to stay away from buildings in Central Europe I'd recommend not visiting at all, you'll miss all our beautiful European cities built for humans. You'll have a better time on your 8 lane highways back home.
There's still plenty of crimes to be done.
Futura Typeface
See also some free related alternatives:

- Jost* (https://indestructibletype.com/Jost.html)

- Space Mono
(https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Space+Mono)
It's interesting that both compression and encryption turn otherwise clearly "engineered" signals into something that's literally indistinguishable from noise, removing any redundancy or regularity.
I was cooking tacos for my family knowing I had COVID (we all had it at the time). I remember not smelling the seasoning, and threw a small handful of chopped raw onions in my mouth to confirm the bad news...

Luckily it came back in about a week. Beer and wine tasted awful for a few weeks, and I am a fan of both. Luckily a year on, and all seems well for now.
Microsoft explicitly links to Apples documentation on how to install Windows on MacBook's [1].

Microsoft is of cause selling Windows for any system, they don't care what it is running on (ignoring the deal with Qualcomm for ARM). Apple also explicitly tells you how to install Windows on MacBooks [2] (the intel ones, not the newer ones, as Microsoft hasn't released a ARM Windows edition so far).

Until recently everything you say wouldn't be feasible was working exactly as I described and I don't see why we can't go back to that state when the exclusive deal for Qualcomm ends.

[1]https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/topic/installieren-von-w...
[2]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468
Using Brave would be a better suggestion.
Space can reveal economic inequities
I'm pretty sure those people are still going to spout rumours even if the only source of news is "official" channels. Does anyone think that dictating what news is acceptable will actually work? Every authoritarian regime in the past 100+ years has tried this and failed for the most part.
You can play games on Intel HD graphics. Even my 8th gen NUC does Vulkan and runs plenty of games just fine. At least the crap old games and emulators I want to play.
You often have to declare more than $10K of cash when traveling so cash makes it hard to flee your crimes.
In NYC, the commission for sales is about 6% and 1-2 months rent for rentals. So I would welcome this.
I guess someone finally found a real world use for blockchain.

Too bad it was malware.
It's not the same thing. OT works by having a discrete set of operations that are known to the system so that they can be reordered properly server-side.

Reflect is based on Server Reconciliation: https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-side-prediction-serve....

The critical difference is that Reflect doesn't need to know the operations up front. That is what allows developers to provide their own operations, or as we call them "mutators".
Yeah, most of my circle works at epic or VFX studios now.
Verifying Selection Sort: An Introduction to Program Verification in Dafny
Any idea how these formats compare to POSITs for AI computations?

Also: It's not cool IMHO that they have two distinct formats for FP8.
For this use case, you may want to look at Lendica's (https://golendica.com/partners) "Checkout" product. Leader in "embedded lending" space for B2B.

really exciting to see what @Pier is building! Some thoughts for below:

Seems you guys are focused on end-to-end software tools and will rely on the business taking credit risk (and getting the balance sheet) instead of providing the loan yourself. Is that correct?

If that's the case, one thing to look out for is it's quite challenging to get your customers (paying $10-20k / mo) to trust your underwriting standards/origination tools. First question will be: why can you do it better?

One model that worked well is Opyn.eu in Italy that offers the software but has an agreement to buy any "loan" back from the creditor over the course of the payment.

Hope that helps and wish you the best of luck!
Web browsers. The idea of "programming with markup language" meant a focus on writing text in order to get anything to work. There were some initial attempts at trying to make a WYSIWYG to wrestle with html and javascript, and later css, but the underlying markup, and bizarre web page rendering rules, made WYSIWYGs horrible for making anything other than the ugliest Geocities pages. As more and more programs moved from native to the web, programmers were forced to write more code by hand. Eventually by 2010 there began a "coder culture" where technology was seen as inferior if it wasn't 10,000 lines written by hand with 20 frameworks that no single person could completely comprehend. Add to that the fact that programmers were rapidly becoming bootcamp-driven MBA dropouts looking to get a startup off the ground, and the culture gets ever more ingrained by people who don't know the history of what came before or how easy things used to be or why.
this is one of the plot lines in the 1994 Taiwanese film "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Drink_Man_Woman , though the father/chef character lost his sense of smell due to another reason.
If I pay taxes I can't pay wages.
Not sure I agree with this. Psytrance _is_ Psychedelic Trance. Not sure why there is a separate genre for it. Goa Trance is part of this for example, as well as Forest Psy.

I feel like it tries to define and narrow big overarching genres like that.
>>> foo = {"foo": None}
>>> print(foo.get('foo', {}).get('bar'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'
>>> print((foo.get('foo') or {}).get('bar'))
None
Automatic Note Taking with AI
Marketing using words people understand. It is an ACH payment solution that works like a debit card to the user (Statement: Target-1234: -12.75) but involves zero of the actual debit card issuers or processing systems.
I’m one of the leaked. I’m highly technical, security literate. I use unique secure passwords for everything.

Fuck these guys. Fuck their bullshit misdirection.

This is the equivalent of corporate doxxing. Until individual execs in these mega-corps that piss in the face of their users bear individual consequence for this type of thing it’ll keep happening.

Because until then there’s no requirement to actually really give a shit. We’re grist in the money mill.

The lack of consequence has me seething more than the breach.

> Edit: the victim shaming in comments here is staggering.
In the US, workers wouldn't be able to actually do this because the US public is miserable.
After completely losing my sense of smell and taste during COVID it took around two months for it to return to a level that was bearable, but more than a year (maybe even two in total) until I really felt like my sense of smell had mostly recovered. So don't give up hope yet, even without new medication.
People might remember this showing up once or twice before as Replicache. Reflect adds a fully managed, incredibly fast sync server.

The local-first/realtime space is getting busy these days. Replicache/Reflect is well worth checking out for the beautifully simple data model / coding model. I'm very happy with it.

One plus point compared to CRDTs is that you get to decide how you want to deal with conflicts yourself, with simple, sequential code. I'm not up to date with the latest in CRDT-land but I believe it can be complicated to add application specific conflict resolution if the built-in rules don't fit your needs.
> the students’ statements don’t represent the firm’s values.

The firm’s values:

"John W. Davis's legal career is most remembered for his final appearance before the Supreme Court, in which he unsuccessfully defended the "separate but equal" doctrine in Briggs v. Elliott, a companion case to Brown v. Board of Education. Davis, as a defender of racial segregation and state control of education, argued that South Carolina had shown good faith in attempting to eliminate any inequality between black and white schools and should be allowed to continue to do so without judicial intervention." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Polk#Race_relations
Aside from the meme-y "Java is slow" argument, what's wrong with Java? What language would you use instead?

Java has an incredibly mature ecosystem, and Java 11/17/21 fix a _lot_ of the problems Java had.
Free will or lack of it is a distinction without meaning. Outside of religious implications, it makes no difference if agents make specific actions as a result of the configuration of one's matter, or the configuration of a spirit.

Lack of free will does not remove accountability for one's actions. An individual is a good or bad actor by the nature of their actions and behavior.

Similarly, a lack of free will does not mean predetermination or predictability.

To build a 100% accurate predictive model, you would have to duplicate the world and play it forward in time. This mean the events would have to actually happen before you can predict them.
It didn’t work that way for me. I was doing pretty well with my diet but when I lost taste/smell I ended up seeking out fried crunchy things for the interesting texture, as well as rich heavy foods that give that post-thanksgiving feeling just in order to feel something/anything from eating.