skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin has no governance mechanism for managing the money supply. If it was adopted as money, governments would have to implement some mechanism to manage the bitcoin supply, just like they did under the gold standard. Therefore it doesn't solve any principal-agent problem.
Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions
It's not that twitch forces ads every 2 hours or at random intervals. The streamer has a control on their dashboard to trigger to trigger X seconds of ads. If you don't run the minimum amount of ads in a 2 hour window, Twitch WILL take over control of the ads. But if you stay on top of things you can entirely control when ads occur so they don't happen in the middle of an eSports match.

It's either that or pre-roll ads like you said.
this seems like a great library, but it is missing a date picker. it’s hard to find UI libraries willing to take on the date picker, i guess because native pickers, esp on mobile, get the job done?
I'm fairly certain this one has been in the works and isn't a spur-of-the-moment decision. The fact that we didn't get our comp letters in December (like in 2022 before the big 2023 one) was a dead giveaway.
I have a legal name in Chinese. It is very weird to call people by full name so everyone picks their own English name. Nobody calls me anything other than the English name since I’m 10 year old or so except maybe from parents.

Moved to UK last year. Couldn’t put my English name in anywhere and had to use my full name. Feels super weird getting called so.
If it takes 2-4% of the world's current electricity production to propel the things alone, we're maybe not ready to do it quite yet.

But we're ready to start thinking about it. Just like we dreamt about rockets going to the moon decades before we attempted going to the moon.
Because in reality all salaries went up exactly the right amount to compensate for inflation? Hm, the system doesn't seem to work like that.
I pretty strongly disagree. First, from an accuracy perspective, Google Assistant has gotten much better. It almost never misunderstands me, even when I'm mumbling and I'm surprised it can understand me.

I do agree that the set of actions I use Google assistant for is pretty static and are the same ones everyone else uses it for: What's the weather? Set my alarm? What's the first item on my calendar? Play XYZ on Spotify... But I don't see this at all as a "failed experiment". On the contrary, I see it as a successful experiment, at least from a human utility perspective: I ask it to do a concrete task, and it does it.

The reason it's failed from a larger business perspective is because the format is less amenable to big tech sucking any more of our money or mind out of it. But I say Amen to that! Wherever I go I feel like tech interfaces get relentlessly shittier as they just try to hook us into more mindless scrolling (this HN post on the topic is one of my favorites of all time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509507) That's just fundamentally harder to do with a voice assistant because nobody has yet figured out how to plug in voice "algorithms" in a way that would make the device control you like they do with YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, etc.

If anything, I think the rest of tech that gets you to do things you really don't want to do should be the thing that's considered a "failed experiment".
Confirms that rest and vest was a zero interest rate phenomenon.
Is this the kind of solution where you aren't actually using the blockchain, and are just ending up trusting a 3rd party that acts like a bank but is not regulated?
In my experience HN does have biases, but many of them can be very dependent on time of day, topic or article. Sometimes you'll see one bias in a new thread but by the end of the day it will have reversed.

"Backchannel" means something different from the way you are using it here.
I agree with you and I am sure I am not saying anything new, but the fact that on the web content, presentation and marketing sites heavily outnumber webapps, and that one needed to stand out - even if superficially - from countless other options, caused a much larger emphasis being put on customizability, looks and originality which didn't stop at layouts colors and typography, but seeped into interactions. So a lot of jobs got created, lots of users suffered from slow, confusing and buggy UI/UX but at least lots of originality and prettiness was had :)
But bodybuilders gain a lot of fat offseason even despite having lots of muscle mass.
I wonder if this will work - buy a couple (even 1 share should do, now that I think of it) shares of apple, write a letter to investor relations saying you're a shareholder, you've found bugs, you've filed them, nothing's been done, this is very disappointing, etc etc

edit: added the stuff within brackets
Exaactly what the title says. They will charge you $69.99 to broker this deal. It's a preposterous offer. It means their "broker" service isn't serious.
Is it any different from building a cathedral?
So the whole bitcoin network now uses less energy than when it started? As that is what efficiency means.
I don't want to take sides here.

That is not an obvious statement. To one side, that is obvious.

To the other, that sounds the same as "murder should be considered a personal decision."
Was this before or after they stopped the sales of Fitbit gear in most countries?
Americans really have the strangest views of Israeli politics. Bibi is about as moderate as you will find electable and maintain a gov’t there. All the alternates are worse.

I predict Congress will invite Bibi to a joint session of Congress to bolster support and let him trash a sitting Democratic President just like they did to Obama.

Then Bibi can visit Elon again and address any Trump talking points to the enjoyment of alt-nazis on X.
Local Development with Mirrord
Beam divergence has to do with your output aperture.

The smaller the hole the laser light comes out of, the more it spreads.

This is a big, several kilometer phased array, which has an effective hole size of a few kilometers. As a result, divergence is less.
All INSes require periodic GPS updates to limit the growth of positional error. Usually it's once per second or once every 10th of a second.
Did it ever really have vision? Honestly, Google kinda seems like it suffers from ADHD: it bounces from one shiny new project to another, quickly losing interest in anything that doesn't immediately take off. In the old days, that was enough: their little experiments really _did_ take off. Now, in a more crowded field, it takes more discipline and focus to get things off the ground...and discipline and focus are two things that Google leadership seems to seriously lack.
Wirecutter seems to "lean", where the original site, before NYT purchase, was (much) more balanced. Knowing this, I thought the blog post write-up dove tailed nicely.
I don't think it's actually fair to say Elixir has a type system. There are expressions that are specially handled at the compiler level, but are mostly ignored unless you invoke another separate system. It's effectively comments that have syntax.
That seems 4chan levels of vile.
Jamming is akin to a Denial of Service attack. It disrupts the channel. Cryptography cannot solve it.
I guarantee you they got much more than $1M worth of media placement for this stunt.
As an early user of resend, found it to be easy to use than all the other providers but now I have lost confidence in resend(our clients' emails being hacked is a deal breaker) and will be deactivating multiple paid resend accounts and move to other big players.
The root cause of this incident is so noobish. It's hard to believe that bad actors were even able to access the production dB directly even if the credentials were leaked. Production dB should never be accessible to anyone other than the app accessing it.
What about the lightning network? Or Liquid sidechain? There are lots of people working on scaling bitcoin so that it can be used like cash (low fees and anonymous).

When a user receives a payment in Cash App or Strike over the lightning network there is no way to track where that bitcoin came from. I haven't really tested that out yet, but I find the idea that bitcoin can be the rails of transferring value pretty compelling. Most people can still transact in fiat but with trustless interoperability between banks and service providers. And of course if people are happy transacting in units of bitcoin it can all be done in a trust-minimized way (with tradeoffs available for convenience, etc...).

But to your point, the government could crack down on the app stores and service providers to not support this kinda stuff.
I think what the people at thanks.dev and Front End Masters are doing is great, and I appreciate what they are doing. I made it on this list and got $5 for something. Great.

I've spoken with armini about Thanks.dev numerous times—a great person to talk with and knowledgeable about open-source economics.

The brass tax here is that the peak of open-source software written by humans has already passed us. The following steps we'll be seeing are things like LLMs, which are trained on the entire NPM registry and can solve any known domain problem through curated APIs.

The next few years of open-source will be unglorified janitorial positions with minimal pay. Most of the intelligent maintainers have already offloaded their projects to others.

Anecdotally, I have found that open-source projects with overly abundant funding have perverse incentives for their user base and ultimately harm society.
The majority of people don't want to touch the blockchain.
Diesel enginemaker agrees to nearly $2B in fines with feds and California
They can go on believing that and it would be true.

Yet what have they done with their long necks?

Of course humans define the metric. Who else could?! Lmao.

Let's ask the giraffes what intelligence means... oh wait.

Maybe we can't name it, make it's not a competition or leaderboard, but you can't deny Humans are at the top of something.
> Then that country would become an extremely unattractive place to hire employees

Works fine for France, it's very hard to do layoffs there, to the point that a common myth is that they're illegal there. 7th largest GDP. Unemployment rate is at 7% (about 2x the USA), but it's also not the existential risk it is in the US - you are given 75% of whatever your pay was for up to 2-3 years.

> Massive incentive to do whatever you can to only use contractors or whatever. Somehow classify your employees as self employed, something like that.

Going back to France, they'll fine the hell out of a company that did that. Misclassifying your employees to abuse the system is enforced there.

As an American, I am extremely jealous of France's employee protections. Even the most leftist states like CA pale in comparison to the protections the French have.
Not a valid answer. Pick a species with the most power and control.
> Fitbit was a great product and for Google to axe the founders says “we care about monetizing users not serving them.”

They weren't axed. They are choosing to leave. They probably reached the point where all the incentives to stay were earned and have no other reason to stay. The Fitbit acquisition was completed 3 years ago so it is quite likely they have reached full vestment.
Yes, but there's no money in just being usable.
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8801707-what-is-the-mess...

That article doesn't say 100.

100 is what I read in the openai forums earlier today.
If it's not government-mandated, but a choice of the company, then I don't see how "unattractive place to hire" would apply.

If it were mandated, but somehow nothing else changed, then it would be unattractive to hire. If other things also changed, not necessarily.
They are referring to LLM models. It‘s not about how much software dev experience you have
I almost entirely stopped using candles after getting an air purifier with a particle and VOC monitoring sensor (Electrolux/AEG Pure A9).

It's very enlightening. Even a single push of spray deodorant releases a crazy amount of particles and makes the purifier go crazy for a short while.
We still here too, in the light, on the surface, surviving the same six global mass extinctions.
interesting - but no audio on a pretty generic version of Ubuntu 23.10

Looks like it needs Jack rather than Pipewire
Nah. You’re over speculating. The real reason for the negative sentiment is that HN is mostly smart people.
Here's the companion video for the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA
My first thought was WebMD is a shitty pseudo-health company that promulgates marginally useless, borderline misinformation with an air of overconfidence and unearned certainty so I don't think anyone would be too proud to work for them except CEO guy.

My second thought was their CEO looks like someone named Chester who isn't legally allowed near children.

My third thought was they made the finals of weird videos to be mocked on Last Week Tonight when it comes back in February.

Conclusion: They jumped their own shark in a way Elon would find difficult to attain so I don't think anyone good would want to RTO to work for them anyhow.
Interesting - but no audio on a pretty generic version of Ubuntu 23.10

Looks like it needs Jack rather than Pipewire
I apologize if I'm wrong, but "3 jobs to survive" sounds like you're living in the US. I don't think equating the US political and economic system with "capitalism" is particularly useful - it is a capitalistic society, for sure, but it is far from the only one.

The US is, for whatever reason, accepts extremes of both wealth and poverty. Many other capitalistic societies choose a different mix, sacrificing the upper extremes to protect against the lower extremes.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947224
Ask HN: Zillow for North Korea?
Hey everyone! Lately I’ve been turned off by the housing market in California, so I’ve been thinking about North Korea as a more emerging market.

I really love Zillow’s UI and functionality, and have grown familiar with it during my weeks of house hunting.

Can someone suggest an equivalent for the North Korean market?
Yes, I should have specified a Static type system
The article and GP’s proposal both address spoofing, not jamming.
I hadn’t realised that Danny Bobrow and Alice Hartley invented the spaghetti stack — I’d thought it was RMS a couple of years later.

There was a bug in the spaghetti stack code in Interlisp D which I triggered at PARC in mid 1984 (basically it spaghettied the stack every time you made a closure. I spawned hundreds…which brought things to a crawl. JonL eventually fixed it.

On DWIM: Interlisp used it to do macro expansion so you could not disable it.
Reminds me a PDF which is also bootable x86 image from PoC||GTFO [1], specifically the second issue (0x02) on section 8 “This OS is also a PDF”

[1] https://pocorgtfo.hacke.rs/
Which of their own projects took off?
E.g. Android and Maps were acquisitions IIRC.
Maybe Google+?
We're using Front right now at work, and I don't really like it either. I can never merge convos that I want to combine, and I keep feeling like I'm probably missing (or losing) important things =/ I would not use this service again.

This is more "ticketing" than "shared email", but about 10 years ago I used Freshdesk and really liked it: https://www.freshworks.com/freshdesk/, once I spent the time to properly set up its rules etc. It was much nicer to work with than Zendesk or Jira ServiceDesk.

Other than that, I've also actually just shared a regular Gmail inbox with several others, and we used a system of labels and inbox filters/sections and such to manage it. That actually worked surprisingly well for our small team (3-5 users).

Hope someone else has better recommendations...
Renewables 2023
In a similar vein I once made this: https://lumber-jack.netlify.app/
My nephew can't focus on one video game at a time. While he's starting one he starts talking about another, but the next thing you know he's in the play store installing some ad-filled garbage that he'll use for 20s before uninstalling. He asked me the other day if I knew any good rugby games. He has 3 already (one being pretty good). "yeah, I played those". I said "you played them maybe twice, but you didn't play long enough to get good enough to enjoy it". He doesn't really get it. To much on offer to pick one thing. Adding an online store to any video game system is cancer for the attention span.

It's insane. He's only 5 but seriously, it's not a good start. I've told his dad but "whaddaya gonna do?" is the response. At that age I got days out of a rubber band.
Dupe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947224
First it giveth, then it taketh away.....Well it's all relative to where and when. From the perspective of someone in PRC, participating in markets and having some form of capitalism helped. Deng literally lifted China out from Up the Mountains down to the Countryside into the cities and into everyones homes. We've just lived long enough to see things deteriorate.
Nothing goes straight up forever, life is stochastic.
I always had a special place for Google in my heart, since 2008. And never thought they would lay people off. It's sad really, despite I never having worked with them. I feel pretty gloomy about tech career overall. Is it even worth continuing to learn fundamentals and stuff?
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947224
Kinda ... it was built with types from the start, though I guess you could argue Typescript = Javascript + Types
I am hearing on LinkedIn another 10K laid off. Can't verify.
That gave me an idea, here is what I got from Copilot:

You have set up your system to run different AI models and compare their performance using a text editor. You are using Mixtral-8x7, a high-quality open-source model developed by Mistral AI, Dolphin, an emulator for Nintendo video games, 3.5-Turbo, a customized version of GPT-3.5, a powerful natural language model, and 4-Series Preview, a new version of the BMW sports coupe. You have noticed that the 4.5-Preview, an upcoming update of GPT-3.5, is slightly better than Mixtral-8x7, which used to be a close match. You are still waiting to access Mistral-Medium, a prototype model that is even better than Mixtral-8x7, but only available to a limited number of users.

You have discovered that Perplexity, an AI company that provides information discovery and sharing services, offers free access to Mistral-Medium through their partnership with Mistral AI. You think that Perplexity is making a mistake by giving away such a valuable model, and that they are underestimating the superiority of Mistral-Medium over the 4.5-Preview. You also think that Mistral AI is the new leader in the AI industry, and that their techniques, such as DPO (Data Processing Optimization), Alibi (a library for algorithmic accountability), sliding window (a method for analyzing time series data), and modern mixtures (a way of combining different models), are well-known and effective. You believe that the advantage of Mistral AI lies in the gap between their innovation and the ability of other developers to replicate it on cheaper and more accessible hardware. You also think that the enterprise market is not fond of the complex structure of GPT-3.5 and its variants, and that they prefer to use Mistral AI's models, which are more affordable and operable on their own premises.

You end your text with a quote from the movie Armageddon, which implies that you are leaving a situation that you dislike, but also admire.
> It's unclear to me how the plane is navigating though if the GPS is jammed. Very weird...

RNAV (or aRea Navigation) based on VOR-DME has been a thing since (at least) the 1970's. You put in a waypoint based on a radial and distance from a navaid, and then the box in the cockpit would Do Math so you could follow a track to/from that virtual navaid.

Bendix even made a cute little box for small airplanes in the 1980's that allowed you to pre-store up to 4 (or 10) such waypoint-frequency tuples and cycle through them to approximate a straight path from your origin to destination, using navaids near (but not on) your route. Given the service volume of a typical VORs, the 10 waypoints could enable a flight segment of over 2,000 km before you needed to enter more waypoints.

Around the same time, the flight management systems in airliners began to have navaid databases, allowing you derive lat/lng from the angle and distance. They could even auto-select the best local navaid to use. That enabled DME-DME area navigation, which has ~10x better precision than VOR-DME.

The flight management systems in modern airlines of course still have these databases and support navigation by ground-based navaid.

Russia still operates their version of LORAN (Chayka), too, so that's another option. By the 1980's, LORAN receivers were pretty well automated and directly produced lat/lng outputs. LORAN has worse accuracy than GPS, about ~400 meters, but is still good enough to get you to the airport.

And, as several other people have mentioned, virtually all airliners continue to carry an INS.
Companies become very successful and grow large enough to hire MBAs as leadership and then die a slow death over a few decades.
Join a monastery.
Convenience is a property.
Browser native date pickers are usually good enough and meet accessibility requirements these days.

Unless you have fussy designers or PMs who insist on artisanal NIH components for everything just because.
Yeah, I'm sure they do. I've got so many low-moderate level allergies that it's kinda hard to establish what normal even really feels like. I got a round of shots as a teen that helps, but it's still some level of congestion at the best of times. Actually the biggest difference I found when I first started on it (almost 10 years ago now), besides the obvious sleep stuff, is that the humidifier keeps me from getting nosebleeds about 3 times a week in the winter.
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947654
If you are anxious about future job market, just remind yourself that you would be dead one day anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_availability_anti-sp...
Maybe the GPS hardware (firmware) or software reached the conclusion it shouldn't finish calculating the result for some regulatory reason?
Keep in mind that modern quantitative approaches to LLM evaluation have been effectively co-designed with the rise of OpenAI, and folks like Ravenwolf routinely disagree with the leaderboards.

There's also very little if any credible literature on what constitutes statistically significant on MMLU or whatever. There's such a massive vested interest from so many parties (the YC ecosystem is invested in Sam, MSFT is invested in OpenAI, the US is invested in not-France, a bunch of academics are invested in GPT-is-borderline-AGI, Yud is either a Time Magazine cover author or a Harry Potter fanfic guy, etc.) in seeing GPT-4.5 at the top of those rankings and taking the bold one at < 10% lift as state of the art that I think everyone should just use a bunch of them and optimize per use case.

I have my own biases as well and freely admit that I love to see OpenAI stumble (no I didn't apply to work there, yes I know knuckleheads who go on about the fact they do).

And once you factor in "mixtral is aligned to the demands of the user and GPT balks at using profanity while happily taking sides on things Ilya has double-spoken on", even e.g. MMLU is nowhere near the whole picture.

It's easy and cheap to just try both these days, don't take my word for which one is better.
> there was a defund the police movement in 2020

There was a decent amount of _talk_ for some time by mostly fringe figures. What major police departments were in _any_ way defunded by any stretch? None. Not one.

> along with decriminalization of “urban camping” around the same time

Again, where and exactly how?

What actually happened is largely that conservative news spent the year talking up crime and blaming the non-existent increase on their favored political foes.