skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An alternative view values human freedom and autonomy.

That is some choice rhetoric with a particular bias, but not a distinct point of view from people arguing for freedom and autonomy for Apple’s business practices.

The corporation is a legal fiction, but it’s still human owned, operated, and staffed, and reflects the millions (billions?) of choices that get made by individuals working together to accomplish whatever it is the corporation does. In Apple’s case, that gestalt includes running the App Store at a price to developers that they see fit who choose to do business with them.
Indeed. As for the available solar power insolence is about 1000 W / square meter at solar noon with panels aimed at the sun, depending on tracking you either have zero, one or two axis that are going to be 'off' and then there is panel efficiency to account for, so in practice a 100 square meter area of panels will provide out of the 50 KW available only about 17 KW peak, and usually less than that.
Or you can be cordial and great them at the door. Food delivery has been a thing for decades. I don't like that people treat other delivery drivers so differently just because they are part of an app ecosystem rather than employed by a particular restaurant.
> first was execution risk (can the team actually build what they say they can?), the second was market risk (will the market see enough value in the product to pay enough for it to give the company at least 33% net margins for R&D/growth?)

The MVP condenses these risks. Building and delivering a product to a customer shows execution capacity and product-market fit. This is where angels and seed investors should live. If you have a proven tech team, trivial technology risk and a free product, however, delivering an MVP becomes a function of capital. Which means rounds go straight to scaling.

That final collapse, and the ensuing problem of future scaling rounds collapsing to the first, a direct consequence of low discount rates, which bring the future closer to the present, is where Silicon Valley's problems came from.
My favorite detail in the article was about the intersection with beg buttons, where the robot people were trying to get the city to convert them to a properly functioning crosswalk that always showed a "walk" when the parallel road had a green light. If this is what it takes to get rid of beg buttons, I say let the robots spread to every corner of the earth.
> I've been surprised at how many of my peers were not interested in any type of marriage prep program when they were planning their own wedding

There are a lot of lifestyles that don't want or even need that level of planning for marriage.

Some people are just going through the motions blindly either out of guilt, obligation, desperation, or simply because they think their partner is smokin' hot and want to "lock that down". These would generally be less affluent people.

Some others have such strict criteria that they know the planning is pointless if they aren't going to find anyone else. It just has to work and the pressure to make it so is beyond the two of them. Sometimes they also have more than enough resources available that their marriage doesn't need to be built on their own ability to work together or agree on much of anything. These would be very highly affluent people.

Your situation sounds somewhere in between. Not everyone has a life whose success is built on discipline, deliberation, or personal choice.

People also change and making firm decisions upfront is difficult. It's debatable whether they're "not ready for marriage" or if their lives are just so different from the "norm" that it's hard to understand.
> it'll be a long time until I get close to that 2TB
I thought the same thing until I realised that, with Family Sharing and a house with teenage kids sending each other embedded videos in iMessage, the time wouldn't be that long...

Suddenly I find myself 1TB in, and desperate to find a fix!
Downvoted your comment because of spelling. Consider learning some English grammar.
Obviously unnecessary.

Ubuntu/Debian boot times are the solid proof of dash performance.

Sufficient proof is before you, and I receive your concession magnanimously.
I don't see how you can get 95% of the benefits of Python by programming in Zig. When I looked into Zig, it was like coding in C. Not as many built-in data structures and you have to manually manage memory and all that. Zig seems like an attempt for a better C.
Compared to self-driving cars, delivery robots are easier to accommodate to the point of actually becoming economical.
Ill have you know they arent just "doing nothing". They're browsing tiktok, okay? Very productive.
I can't speak for the couples you know, although you're trying a generalization that seems wrong, so it's worth saying that having a spouse to call family, to share your life with, in its fullness, transcends any short term hormonal reactions and pleasure.

I'm 40, and it's interesting to me that culture evolved such that younger generations prefer pleasure as a life purpose; and yet younger generations seem to be pretty sad, many still childless and living alone or with their parents well into their 30s. I think this is a serious cultural issue. Pleasure does not give you purpose or long term happiness for that matter. Growing a family does give you purpose.

I am not saying that people shouldn't get divorced, which can be wonderful. People shouldn't feel miserable in their home. But if you divorce 2 or 3 times, maybe it's time to consider that you're to blame and change behavior before it's too late.
> We further found that the more sexual partners a woman had had before marriage, the less happy she reported her marriage to be. This association was not statistically significant for men.

This is interesting. It's the only factor in the article that only affects one gender. Are there any studies on why this only affects women?
Ah, thank you for clarifying this. I was confused why it said "by Arthur Whitney" when the contributors do not seem to be Arthur Whitney.
It feels like WordPress. Core product is solid but minimal in features, expectation is for plugin developers to provide the rest. WordPress was FOSS though.
The students are not the customer. The bureaucracy is the supplier and the customer.

Yale Now Has More Administrators Than Undergrads Thanks To A Mammoth Bureaucracy

https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/11/yale-now-has-more-admin...

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/10/reluctance-on-the-...
Current algorithms/UI feel like punishment for over-learning, as if it was a suspicious thing that carried great responsibility to open a book and read a page without fully committing to forever maintaining reviews on everything you happened to come across. There should be no punishment and only reward.
> The more experiences, the more one might become addicted to the feelings of first love

Precisely!

This is exactly why the modern dating "culture" has ruined marriage - as in, both existing marriages as well as the tendency to get married in the first place!
This makes no sense. The best people with computers are by definition, smart?
No write up, but the main reason was reusing the existing database we were comfortable deploying at the time. We were already using FDB for an online aggregation / mutation store for ad-hoc time-series analytics...albeit, a custom layer that we wrote (not RecordLayer).

When RecordLayer launched, I tested it out by building a catalog system that we could evolve and add new services with a single repository of protobuf schemas.
Wow - I never thought of using ChatGPT for analysing code.
It reads well - but does the author agree ?
We haven't even properly absorbed the impact of the last two tech revolutions, and the interval between them is shortening. I wasn't/still am not much of a believer in the acceleration scheme but the last two decades and a somewhat serious review of the last 200 years has me wondering if there isn't more to it than it seems.
I should have said "specific chargers around the area" probably since there were other locations with issues. But still, I had no issues charging in the Chicago area though.
That's because I meant Athena! https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/what-is.html

Doh!
The test and controversy have been heavily covered in national media for years.
Nix derivations are not actually content addressable, at least not yet. Derivations are input addressed.

That means that the only way to validate the contents would be to take all the inputs and build the derivation yourself, defeating the purpose of using the cache. That means that nix caches must be trusted to not be malicious, with no computationally efficient way to protect against cache poisoning.

There is a project underway to transition the nix store to be content addressable, which will decouple trust from distribution.
I get it, I am neurodivergent myself. But I don’t think you need to have a certain disability or neurodivergence to be protected from predatory employers or potential employers. Of course, being in the US I also understand your realism.

One of the reasons I decided to return to entrepreneurship is to be able to have a flexible schedule, maybe not work at all on days when I just don’t feel like it, and generally avoid work-worshiping (great terminology!)

To your larger point, I learned recently that the Family Medical Leave Act does not apply to grandchildren under your care, even if the parents are dead or for whaterver reason cannot be caregivers. Like, how awful is that?
IIRC: Schwarz "never got that far," being apprehended quite quickly [while he was still mid-DL on-campus]... because a trap had been set for him after the massive datatransfer was first observed.

BUT I personally support lib-gen, so I absolutely do not respect the concept of "Intellectual Property." I have contracted for several opensource projects which still find ways to become profitable (usually by distributing code with hardware).

"Privatize profits, subsidize losses" == take taxpayer funds, charge taxpayers for access IMHO
I learned that I used it incorrectly in that instance. Why are you so insistent on a simple grammatical mistake? I don't understand why you care whether someone learned or didn't learn.
Add support for parsing of large XML data in Postgres 17
Submissions can't be edited, just like on Reddit, and for the same reasons. Best you can do is comment on it.
All I know about scala is it takes aeons to compile scala Minecraft mods, and few people know how to fix them.
I don't think it is really necessary to do a formal "program", if you can work through all the big topics effectively together. On the other hand, a lot of people probably need help with that so I can see their value.

I suspect that unless you as a couple are already aligned with a religious provider of this counselling (e.g. the same church), a secular service would likely be more effective. Not inherently, just more a fit with the particular couple.

Which does sort of beg the question about why its not a more
common discussed option? I mean, for a couple to seek out pre-marriage counselling outside of a religious context? Or even discuss it as an option.

I've known several couples who did such a program but they were all doing it at the request or insistence of their particular church. And I've known several couples who have gone to (secular) marriage counselling, but only after the fact.
How does this compare to Typst?[1]

What I like about Typst is that I can use it completely offline and with my editor of choice. Is this planned for htmldocs too?

[1] https://typst.app/
It's not on Threads itself, it's the promotion in Instagram for threads. I suspect they're just displaying the top posts of the day. Always political, today they were all about the "Iowa Caucus".
> An RCT(randomized controlled trial) is the minimum standard of evidence necessary in this domain

OK sure, I've randomly assigned you to have exactly 15 sexual partners before meeting your spouse at age 30, cohabiting for 3 years without having sex, then getting married with 100-150 guests at the wedding, having a child after 1 year of marriage and a second child 2 years after that. Also I'm going to need you to become Asian and devoutly Jewish, if you're not already.

Please report back in 1-2 decades to let us know how your marriage quality is.
There have been a bunch of HN threads about this over the years, if anyone wants to try finding them. (I'd do it but am not free right now)

Edit: here's a list so far - others?

Traffic cop sues city for get-out-of-jail-free cards for NYPD friends and family - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36188406 - June 2023 (47 comments)

The Little Cards That Tell Police 'Let's Forget This Ever Happened' (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33638962 - Nov 2022 (43 comments)

NYC Police Union Reducing Number of “Get Out of Jail Free” Courtesy Cards (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30742209 - March 2022 (32 comments)

Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353003 - Sept 2020 (435 comments)

Patrolmen's Benevolent Association “Get Out of Jail Free” Cards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21913173 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16207890 - Jan 2018 (207 comments)

Police union slashes number of ‘get out of jail free’ cards issued - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16206177 - Jan 2018 (1 comment)

“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16203902 - Jan 2018 (1 comment)

NYC Police union slashes number of ‘get out of jail free’ cards issued - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201487 - Jan 2018 (2 comments)
> 1. States things like "Finding goals that are extinction-level bad and relatively useful appears to be easy: for example, advanced AI with the sole objective ‘increase company.com revenue’ might be highly valuable to company.com for a time, but risks longer term harms to society, if powerfully accruing resources and power toward this end with no regard for ethics beyond laws that are still too expensive to break." But even current-gen LLMs sidestep this pretty easily, and if you ask them to increase e.g. revenue, they do not propose extinction-level events or propose eschewing basic ethics. This argument falls apart upon contact with reality.

Are you claiming that (A) nice behavior in current LLMs is good evidence that all future AI systems will behave nicely, or (B) nice behavior in current LLMs is good evidence that future LLMs will behave nicely?

> 3. Requires accepting that we will by default build a misaligned superhuman AI that will cause humanity to go extinct as the basic premises of the argument (P1-P3), which makes the conclusions not particularly convincing if you don't already believe that.

P3 from the argument says, "Superhuman AGI will be misaligned by default". I interpret that as meaning: if there isn't a highly resourced and focused effort to align superhuman AGI systems in advance of their creation, then the first systems we build will be misaligned.

Is that the some way you are interpreting it? If so, why do you believe it is probably false?
From the institute that funded it:

> ideals in which Mr. Simon believed – access to an excellent education, promoting strong families, and the importance of faith and patriotism.

IDK, I will always be suspicious or this type of study being done with any ties to religion, since religion usually tends to want people to live separate and in abstinence before marriage. What if they found out that living together and having sex with multiple partners correlated with more happy marriages?
This has to be the most cliche collection of films that entry level buffs think are great, but never watch anything else because they don't have the required levels of sex, action, or isolation.

Coming to a dorm room near you!
> torrents didn't kill the movie industry because people still want to see movies on a big screen experience

Given you believe the reason torrents didn't kill the movie industry is because people weren't satisfied with smaller screens: would you be satisfied with content that is stuck in "2020-2030 forever" and can never produce anything "entirely new"?

Personally I think novelty in art thrives when the entry barrier is low and experimentation is possible without a huge budget - which AI can help achieve.
Wasn't this a thing at Cal like a decade ago? I vaguely remember trying to tip them over on visits to Berkeley.

Also, big fan of the Computational Journalism Lab Dan!
Correlation doesn't imply causation but all causal relationships will yield correlated variables. So ... correlation is a good place to dig in more to try to identify and then demonstrate a causal relationship.
It’s simple cause and effect. Not sure why it’s so hard for you to grasp.
About 10% as of 2015[1]:

> Unlike child support, which is common when divorcing couple has kids, alimony awards have always been very rare, going from about 25 percent of cases in the 1960s to about 10 percent today, said Judith McMullen, a professor of law at Marquette University. In one study of Wisconsin cases, she found it was only 8.6 percent.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0T61O8/
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The real TIL (to me) is that the previous state-of-the-art could solve 10 of these! I'd heard there was a decision algorithm for plane geometry problems but I didn't know it was a practical one. Some searching turned up http://www.mmrc.iss.ac.cn/~xgao/paper/book-area.pdf as a reference.
I sometimes order delivery when I’m not in the mood to interact with other people. If I wanted to interact with someone, I’d drive the short distance to the restaurant.
And not true - for example, format shifting in the UK is illegal. You can't legally rip a CD, DVD or Bluray here, let alone a console game.
Probably not! I naively assumed the cashier is paying more attention during checkout.
Personally, by visiting a search engine / LLM.

I'm just-now beginning a nascent journey into running my own local LLM.
Was it anytype.io?
By US standards, right-wing.

By international standards, far right-wing.
Dependent on the refractive index, which depends on air density and temperature and humidity too; and we have to integrate over the region between the horizon and the upper atmosphere (diagonally, of course)…
Related:

Bcompiler – Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8576237 - Nov 2014 (4 comments)
I think nowadays the blur feature just makes it look blurry, but it's not the actual original text being blurred.
> directly needs storage expansion

Huh? The 419€ Deck model comes with 4x more internal storage than the highest end (~330€) Switch model.
> I don't think it is really necessary to do a formal "program", if you can work through all the big topics effectively together.

In theory, yes. But it's surprising how little het. cis couples talk about important stuff before getting married. Like, if/how many many, if they wanna live close to parents or move to another country, etc
I don't think developers are the problem here. Most developers I know would love time to work on optimizations. "When can we get this shipped???? We need it yesterday", I suspect business attitude plays the greatest role.
Ah I guess that is true. Keep some of the fun parts without the bad parts. If you are just throwing out 10-100k angel rounds, depending on how much you sold for it's pretty small.

Wonder if you could do the same thing just offering to be an advisor or on the board for startups without the check?
> cost of a human working all day is negligible

This is bad analogy. A person who works provides services or labor worth a certain amount of value in exchange. Often that value exceeds the wage. For example, a software engineer $3000 "worth" of work in a day, but only gets paid around $1000 for that day. I understand the worth/value is a difficult thing to measure.

In Apple's, they provide almost nothing of value in exchange, other than the threat to kick your app out of the App Store: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21366438/apple-fortnite-i...

So Apple is more like the Mafia. The threaten negative/adverse action, if you don't pay them.

Also, historically, software could be installed on computers without the permission of an overlord. I'm aware iOS & game consoles are glaring exceptions.
It's not literal slavery, rather what's often called 'a modern form of slavery' that is the unfortunate risk. People working for very low payment, they can barely live if it. Because of the tele operation, people will compete with a lot of peers across the world, hence the pressure on the salary. There is also a flip side, the even-poorer people get a chance to compete with the 'normal' poor and generate some income.

I believe there really is no way out of this direction of affairs. It's capatalism, free market at work.

Hopefully soon the machines become smart and cheap enough such that the poor can benefit as well. In the end anything can be automated, building and operating houses and infrastructure, and making food.
As the maintainer of wkhtmltopdf @ Odoo I can tell you it's not WebKit. Instead it's outdated WebKit from 2014 running on top of QT4 '^^
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This all sounds right to me - scala needs first class support for what it is doing in the JVM itself - which it doesn’t have. Trying to ASM scala is a pain.
Sure, but the cut is a fixed amount based upon the value of the services the middleman is providing. And most importantly, it is not a percentage of the revenue the customer is able to generate by using these services - these two models are polar opposites.

A great example that highlights this absurdity is vehicle ownership - imagine if Tesla announced tomorrow that they are actually a "transportation platform" and started charging Uber drivers a percentage of their revenue, or Mazda found out about the weekend race you did in a Miata and is demanding a cut of the winnings.

Businesses would love perfect price discrimination in every context (because profits!), but is not clear to me how that is a desirable state for humanity.
Messaging support in this way would make sense to me for reporting a weird, rare bug. But what I described is widely seen in the community[0-3].

In fact, looking for these links, I now found an official Notion reply from 4 years ago in one of these threads[4]: "should keep you logged in for 90 days per device".

This had me find [5]: "Notion has a default session duration of 90 days. This means all users automatically get logged out if they have stayed logged in for 90 consecutive days.".

If logging out any session after 90 days is the expected behavior, this would completely explain the behavior in my case. Can you confirm that this is happening for all accounts?

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/brcy5m/random_logou...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/vi8c9f/constantly_g...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/194xw0m/anyone_else...

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/dsi5jo/login_proces...

[4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/dsi5jo/login_proces...

[5]: https://www.notion.so/help/hipaa