skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the Golden Age of Remote Work Over? [video]
For anyone who wants to make a twitter>nitter redirect automatic via browser extension:

https://libredirect.github.io/
Thank you for writing it. This whole post has made me really curious and I've taken the dive into Talon, already having written an app layer for Warp terminal and exposing my (normally not detected) terminal emacs to Talon.

I'm not too interested in Cursorless I don't use VSCode and vim/evil mode text objects are equally powerful (and less visually noisy). Very excited by this whole concept.
>other than pulling support from Google as they continually show how much Amazon truly sees them as a competitor.

It seems the opposite to me. The article talks about this. Google has contractual limitations on manufacturers that ship devices with Android that says they are not allowed to also manufacture devices with forked versions of Android. This was making it hard for Amazon to find any manufacturers that contractually even could make Fire devices (since FireOS is a fork). It seems like Google was the one pulling support from Amazon.
Music consumption has basically never been in a better place. What Spotify pays artists, and how many employees at Bandcamp get laid off are minor, in the big picture.

My music consumption goes something like this:

1) Queue up a known band on Spotify. See what else similar to them Spotify puts into a playlist

2) Listen to the new music, decide what I like or don't like

3) Head over to Bandcamp or Discogs with the stuff I really like. Buy it in vinyl and DRM-free digital. Put it in my Subsonic server.

4) If it's not available, head to P2P app of choice - they always have it.

Yes, Bandcamp and Spotify might be ephemeral, but Spotify did wonders for discoverability - there are a lot of albums from tiny tiny bands I'd never have bought if it weren't for Spotify, and Bandcamp helped re-establish the market for physical, DRM-free media.

Music has never been in a better place. I finally get to have my cake and eat it too. What people are complaining about (Spotify not paying enough to smaller artists) is conveniently ignoring that I'd have never even heard of those artists 25 years ago, because they couldn't have paid for distribution. Spotify didn't reduce what artists make, they redisributed what I spend across way more, but smaller, bands.
> But the notion that I was taking the job of a native-born American was ridiculous because I had been doing the job in London before.

This isn’t even wrong.

Obviously you displaced a US citizen unless you’re trying to advance the risible position that no US citizen could do what you do.
The pricing tiers you are describing are not created by the artists. This is the venue or the ticket distributor doing this.
Windows is constantly reminding me why I moved to Linux and never looked back.

Just yesterday I was fascinated by the Bing bar adware in the DirectX installer[1] which is not even working in Win10 [2].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/iefa47/this_...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/91sf3p/forgot_to...
Will take a look at the bug report, thank you.

The international seed swapping is a valid concern for sure, but the majority of folks swapping seed are experienced gardeners, and know what they're looking for. We've built a trusted community of passionate growers.
It's a a lot safer than ordering random seeds off Etsy or Amazon, which happens en masse every spring.
> in the US, don't know where you're from

I’m not from the US, and I don’t live there. I was talking about the world at large, not about the US.
Yeah, that's just the usual posturing after programs are already started and everyone tries to hitch to everyone's wagon. The reason why that last sentence is there is even this person knows what they're saying isn't credible vs the actual mission profile of the B-21 and they're doing a PR move to get ahead of that.
I suppose it depends on the reason for their celebrity.

If you email someone who is famous for trivial media I’d doubt you’d get a response, but I know some people who have had conversations with more intellectual celebrities over email.

When you reach out with a genuine interest or point in a specific topic I’d like to think they often enjoy speaking about it.

I never would have expected my brother to get an email back from Noam Chomsky but he did after he wrote a decently cogent and complex question.

At the end of the day it possibly wasn’t actually him, but who knows.
Why did it take so long? That was really annoying.
Thanks for the study! I was hoping for something about teens (not adults >=19), and ideally a meta-analysis.

This article looks promising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Psycholo...

I know the media often cites Instagram's internal research saying "we make body image issues worse for 1 in 3 teen girls", but the actual stat is not too damning IMO: 'Among teen girls with body image issues, 32% said Instagram made it worse, 22% said Instagram made it better, and 46% said it had no impact' [1]

[1] page 14 of https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Instagram-Te...
But you still don't, or can't, solve the fundamental issue of giving chatbots actual power to do things. And, if you can give the chatbots power to do the thing the customer wants them the chat bot is likely the most inefficient way to do it. It should just be part of the website / app.

Giving them power you don't provide users means they need to be able to discriminate. Even humans are vulnerable to social engineering, but the nature of each human being different makes it not scalable. If you figure out an empowered chatbots prompt injection soft spot you could potentially scale the fraud which is a dangerous problem.
AMA with Sal Khan on AI and Education [video]
> or a decade if you were born in the wrong place...

That's being generous. I'm pretty sure that for people born in India the backlog is well over 100 years. The reason being that only 7500 green cards per year can be issued to people of any particular nationality. If there are 750k Indians with approved GC applications under employment category, that's a 100 year backlog. I'm sure there's a statistic somewhere, and I remember reading an article a couple of years back that claimed that this particular backlog has surpassed 90 years, so it's not unthinkable that today it's over 100.

EB2 final action date for Indian nationals is currently at 01JAN12. Which means that USCIS is currently processing applications from almost 12 years ago. Which means they have to wait a decade before their application even gets approved.

There are people that will quite literally never see an EB2 or EB3 green card in their lives despite having an approved application. The only viable path to a green card for those is marrying a US citizen, period. (as that category has no cap or quota whatsoever)
"I thought that Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, or Betrand Serlet were not really hired for their pliability but because they were genuinely qualified"

You lost me at this point. Many more qualified less pliable candidates exist but neither are the reason for their hiring.

In general the most qualified person rarely gets the position. The easiest to bend is usually what power seeks.
SpaceX workers took Adderall and IV fluids, slept in bathroom to hit deadlines
I hate the podcast part of Spotify and vehemently disagree with their choice of high-paid hosts on there and would prefer that money to have gone to artists instead. That being said, I also enjoy some of their innovations and they've expanded my music tastes somewhat (and with questionable B or C artists...but that's also the point). Finally, I'd like to conclude by saying that I hate some of their defaults, wish they would make the UX 10x better and unify across platforms. P
S. They do allow me to download my data from them, which I do regularly. Super cool, no hassles.
Why is that yikes? Navigating a UI is oftentimes easier than calling in and being placed on hold. Not in all cases, as I've said, but many.
@dang, can you change the display for (threads.net) to be like twitter, where it shows the username to the right of the post title?

For example, threads.net/@quiverquantitative
3.17 years.
You don't even need chatbots for that though. You can just open a return and if the default action is replacement without return it's the same thing.
I concur that regulatory escape was key to both companies' success. (I think the term "regulatory entrepreneurship" was coined as well.)

However Uber did improve upon traditional taxi pricing by adopting the airport shuttle model of paying for the destination – rather than the perverse incentives and unpredictability of pay-per-mile or pay-per-minute. They also had better app-based dispatch and ride tracking.
the big risk with elixir imo is that it's runtime/vm is still owned by ericsson and there's no alternative. i know things like firefly exist but they aren't mature replacements (to my knowledge)
I think the point is that immigration law should be changed so companies don't have to jump through hoops like this.
$100 in 1960 is close to $1000, not $5,000 today
Centamillionaire today is what millionaire used to mean. Ie, can live opulently without ever having to work, along with their children and grandchildren, too.

Inflation compounds and you are living through the hockey stick part of that exponential chart now.
One year is nothing, let's see how it does over 20 years and 50 years.
Ah, Stross has the TESCREAL brainworms. I'd been wondering how long that would take.

(I'm starting to really feel the point of demanding justice through violence. Some people are only willing to let others live at the moment their face hits the pavement.)
Would it be viable to attach a GPS tracker to each container, to make recovery after something like this easier?
Indeed, advertising suffers from a severe signal-to-noise problem.

Like the OP, I make a hobby related product as a side hustle. There are some sources of word-of-mouth advertising through web forums for enthusiasts. Usually you have to give something before you can get something back, and respect the forum rules. I never mention my product unless someone specifically asks.

Also, I was an established member of a forum before I ever even dreamt up my product. I made a couple to give away, and another forum member wrote up a review. The rest is history. ;-)
I agree. You don't dispense vitriol, but people are way more willing to follow instructions from a perceived leader than we tend to believe. It's not worth splitting hairs to finaggle every word to sound delicate and kind. If you assume authority, and you aren't outright malevolent, you can usually tell someone:

I need you to take out the trash.
Is there a legitimate argument for keeping this legal and not pursuing an expansion of existing insider trading laws? The incentives here are horrifically backwards.
> In any case, it seems very silly to discount prediction markets because the probability didn't work the way you expected it to in a single event.

prediction markets participants are idiots with no underlying knowledge betting according to their bias

they are no different to the "markets" created at the dog track
Considering how many people I’ve heard say the same thing?

If you think that, you aren’t listening.
Exactly what a high end place I went to in London did. Seemed fair enough. Places are in demand but I’m not being screwed in to paying for the privilege of being able to pay, but at the cost of locked in to committing or lose £50 to cancel on short notice. I’d be fine with this being more normal.
Are you sure that number doesn't include Vietnam?
Preventative safety work? I can imagine there’s going to be less demand from offices and industry if a significant portion of the nearby population are making emergency plans and preparations, and even without a dip in demand from that there’s usually some oversupply with electricity generators to avoid ramp up time problems during peak demand, so possibly they decided to shut down unused capacity to reduce the risk of it being damaged? Hard to say without knowing more details…
Taking the poster by their word they do a good job highlighting the delta between a politician's transaction and their disclosure of the transaction which seems to have about a month delay.

I personally really really struggle to trust the data represented in these tweets (err threads?) after the barrage of day-trade influencers we've seen in the last few years.

Would be interested to see a peer-reviewed version of this experiment...
The Town Created by Airbnb
I can't read russian, but I just clicked the first two samples hopping to see the photos of the letters. There are photos and a hand draw version to show the letters, so I'm not disapointed.

Each post has a Russian translation and two English translations, but the English translations are empty. Do you know why? (Why it is empty or why they added a button to show no info.) What is the Russian translation? (Is it a trasnlation fro old Russian to modern Russian?)

Is there a page with more info? Like: How they wrote it? Why they used bark instead of paper? How this samples survived?
Match-fixing likely has just become part of the game and the odds.
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Despite the pearl clutching on HN about assassinations (killing a CEO after shorting stock is a very similar profit outcome, yet no one does this because that’s totally insane), prediction markets have been fairly popular for a few years as blockchain tech has risen. And the sky has not fallen!

One example is Polymarket:

https://polymarket.com/
So what is the scam how does the bogus driver who showed up to pick up the KifKats get paid?
Because the people in charge of changing it are getting rich.

Why would they change it?
If that were true then the results of prediction markets wouldn't closely track the actual results that happen, as the link I provided shows that they do. Also, you could be making tons of money right now! How's that going?
It's worth noting that the article defines millionaires as "investors with $1 million or more of investable assets" (as opposed to those who simply have a net worth > $1M, which would include illiquid assets)
Maybe there is years of data available on that?

If so, someone should do an analysis of how much politicians pocketed since then.
I’ve looked into this- basically when the congress member purchases or sell stock they have a month or so before they have to report it. It makes live trading impossible. But it is interesting to go back and see who knew what , when.
Can you clarify what you mean by "this"? Being able to copy the trades of politicians or politicians making trades that are almost instantly profitable?
The main issue with traditional chatbots is they rarely provide extra value over simply reading the policy of a particular web property or doing things that you could look up yourself on your account. I don't need a UPS bot to ask for my tracking # to just regurgitate what I can see in 5 seconds. That is beyond frustrating to gate keep an agent that will actually access a driver or center who last had my seemingly lost package, or troubleshoot why the system hasn't shown movement in over a week.

The only time the human connection is helpful is when a business makes a mistake that can't really be addressed. A chatbot, esp. with the power of GPT-4, has the potential to be considerably more helpful than the average call center employee who likely is not a native speaker or your language.
But is this a fundamentally bad idea, or is it, like kerning in general (which can require thousands of pairs to be defined), something that just needs more work?

It's not like this is limited to just a few pairs of letters like 'mi', or just pairs - if you've seen Fontemon https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html you know the sky is the limit for what the rewrites can do!
Holy clickbait hit piece. Pro Publica took 2 decades of leaked records and found 1 trade trade where he sold before Berkshire sold and 1 trade where he bought while Berkshire bought. This all totaled in less than $100 million, 0.1% of Buffet's current net worth.

This is just p-hacking. They have such a glut of data and so little context that they're going to find suspicious-looking things.

* The article also mentions he sold some Wells Fargo shares from his personal account after its price rose 20%. According to a Fortune article from April, 2009, Buffett's TV comments on Wells Fargo made the price raise. The article apparently wants you to draw the conclusion that Buffett pumped the stock on TV so he could sell at a profit.
Ask HN: A notebook-like LLM interface with customizable instruct/chat widgets?
I'm looking for what I thought would be a very simple concept, but have never seen implemented. I've tried NovelAI, oobabooga, KoboldUI, KoboldUI United, koboldcpp, LMStudio(?), and chatbot-ui. And ChatGPT.

Imagine a generic 2-column web layout, main and sidebar. Main houses a textbox or rich text editor. The sidebar contains a stack of widgets with editable prompts for discrete chat/instruct sessions that can (optionally) use the (optionally-vectorized) contents of Main as context.

It'd be like having multiple terminal sessions open, only they share the context of the main panel.

As I'm writing a document, maybe I need to ask a quick question about it ("does this sound too ___?"). Maybe I want it to continue writing it for me, to a specified conclusion. Or I need it to compile a table of all named entities, phone numbers and email addresses. Random small tasks like that.

It'd be nice if I could do this stuff in the sidebar without having to make a whole new page/session/tab and copy everything over to ooba or ChatGPT. Every interface I've used is strictly single-session, single-topic, single-conversation.

Are there any interfaces like this? My webdev skills are rusty or I'd do it myself.
horse racing is one of those things that 'tech people' generally does not keep tabs on
I like Pandora's music stations (playing music like an artist), and reports are apparently that it is better than others for that

But they pay little to the artists.

What do you use?
Microsoft ran a pilot data center inside an unsealed tent[0]

Minor blurb:

> Inside the tent, we had five HP DL585s running Sandra from November 2007 to June 2008 and we had ZERO failures or 100% uptime.

> In the meantime, there have been a few anecdotal incidents:

> Water dripped from the tent onto the rack. The server continued to run without incident.

> A windstorm blew a section of the fence onto the rack. Again, the servers continued to run.

> An itinerant leaf was sucked onto the server fascia. The server still ran without incident (see picture).

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090219172931/http://blogs.msdn...
> Funny enough, the only easy way I found to buy music nowadays is vinyls.

Is there really a lot of music neither available on CD, nor for MP3 download, but on vinyl?
Anybody who says 'I need you to...' goes on the list, even if they are not actually talking to me myself.

But more seriously:

Ensure people know what and why something is important, ideally by arriving at that conclusion jointly and as part of an overarching plan that everyone can feel involved in - thus requests shouldn't be a surprise, they aren't coming from you so much as from the plan (nebulous though it may be).

Don't try to maintain 'superiority' by withholding information.

Show consideration for other pressures that somebody might be under.

Listen when they say no.

Close the loop so that good results get back to the person who did the thing.

Handle bad results in the same way that the NTSB deals with plane crashes - find the flaws in the system instead of somebody to blame.

Be ready to help out others as they have helped out you.
> maybe now they'll lower that 30% fee

They already do in year 2, and have for a long time.

Once you are looking at the recurring cut to compare, I suggest taking a look at the % fee of app stores in general, whether open or closed, with competitors, or no, and the services those stores provide for those fees.

Also look at the cost of cobbling together an equivalent quality stack, fully, including the overhead of having to manage that stack and labor to turn the crank.

Finally look at what creators get in wide open markets relative to portions that go to warehousing, logistics, distribution, product stocking/placement, sales, payments, and support. Creators are not seeing 70%.
I have music on Spotify that I will be removing as well because of their decision not to pay out small artist streams under a certain amount.

I pay a distributor (distrokid) to send out music, and do not have a direct agreement with Spotify. As far as I'm concerned, monetizing my music without my consent is theft.

Their argument is that the stream amount is so low it ends up not being worth the transaction. On a moral level, I'd argue that it's their responsibility to pay out the money generated even if it costs them money to do so for a small number of streams.

This is estimated to generate $40m annually for them (which they've said they will be distributing to other artists instead), which isn't deeply significant, but this is money that is only generated because of small content creators that have uploaded their content to their distributor (which they pay for) which then distributes to spotify.

If I were to upload directly to Spotify for free, I'd consider the terms different, because I'd expect distribution as the exchange in the relationship. But in this case I pay a distributor, who then sends to spotify, who then decides to offer my content for free and pocket the money. Not acceptable for me.

(note: I consider this relevant to the original article because it is mentioned, as well as because it is one of the variables involved in music purchasing/accessing)

edit: corrected the $40m statement to show where money was going.