skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> see user elsewhere in this post who says they unfortunately have to use Windows for gaming but refuse to use Proton)

To be fair, as good as Proton is, the API isn't fully compatible with Windows' (yet!) -- I can fully understand why someone would want to avoid the hassles of dealing with this.
> This is the classic fallacy of treating absence of evidence as evidence of absence (especially when you're biased towards the conclusion).

I did not claim there was no evidence for RTO.

If there is any evidence of benefit of RTO, due to lack of ability to measure it it has to be highly discounted against the easily measurable benefits of WFH.

If I'm saving $1 million a year on real estate because of WFH and someone comes and tells me about his gut feeling that RTO is better because of a bunch of reasons that have no quantifiable measure it would be absolutely braindead of me to assume that those benefits outweigh the literal $1million in savings I'm getting.
With drywall, it is pretty simple to move a wall outlet up the wall.
Switzerland has the similar Luxemburgerli, which my Swiss friends who reside there (as opposed to me, a Swiss person who lives somewhere else) swear is NOT the same as a macaron... I have never understood the purported differences.
If you have solid evidence that WFH is worse, then sure maybe you have a point.

But if your hypothesis remains unproven, you can't prove it by hand waving and saying that the absence of evidence is proof of its validity...your hypothesis is just unproven.

One has solid proof (WFH), one does not (RTO). The logical, putative thing to do is to respect the solid proof, not the hand-wavy argument.
Does this ...work?

Are these prompts better than say the random gibberish I or other people enter?
Diesel trains are loud and shake the ground. electric trains are quiet and can sneak up on you.
What would the shelling point be before the advent of artificial light though? Can't be the moon. Or do you think it evolved on the human time scale?
Unity has much better documentation and tutorials abound for literally any topic. It also has all sorts of tools and assets that are easily available.

Godot is open source, and doesn't have the licensing fee controversy. You will not have to pay for Godot (unless you need to release to consoles). I also personally like writing GDscript.
If 404media starts paywalling every single article like WSJ and others, I might just start skipping all their content.

The "archive" button which calls for https://wayback.now.sh/{url} doesn't work since it loads up the same paywalled version.
Sadly my non-English language skills are not developed enough for me to be a good judge. I think you'll usually be selling to people who don't have the language skills to evaluate quality. Some kind of independent analysis of quality could help.
I used to pay a landlord with Zelle 10+ years ago.

And Zelle obviously has a lot of limitations, such as being for smaller amounts of money so not useful for down payments or such, I was referring to checks versus electronic payments as a concept in general, not the US’s specific implementation. Which there isn’t one, but due to political failure, not technical limitations seeing as how every other country has the capabilities.
It's actually a C++ app related to music visualization and the video player is one for a preview. I agree in principle though, if there were the equivalent of a <video /> tag in ImGui and OpenFrameworks I'd happily use that :)
Most people in tech aren't even using old.reddit.com

Ever notice people posting completely broken markdown? That's because they use new reddit, which disagrees about markdown newlines. I would guess >70% of programmers/tech people are using new reddit.
Tiny Version of a Human Heart on a Chip Beats Like the Real Thing
How Much Life Has Ever Existed on Earth, and How Much Ever Will?
Lately I've wondered... what if this flow of time wasn't true? at least not at universe scale? Messier than just gravitational affects but actual weird topography in time?

There is nothing scientific about this conjecture, simply a thought I haven't had time to fully contemplate. What if there were loops and turns such that light and energy from distant galaxies would loop back around not just in space but in time creating weird feedback loops.
My computer was last upgraded 11 years ago (I had to do some trickery to be able to install Win 11) It obviously has specs dwarfed by yours. The wifi icon appears the instant I click. Freshly installed whenever Win 11 was available.
Cloudflare has a history of randomly hijacking the site without notification if they don't like you. So no.
Physicists Find Groundbreaking Evidence Time Is Reversible Within Glass
I was just about to complain. Thanks for nipping it in the bud!
AI-powered robot read Braille at lightning speeds
And yet so many people practically worship the concept of elite athletes, or elite actors, or elite musicians.
Since the beginning? So over the span of like 7 years? And I assume a lot of those are repeat buyers since they released a few revisions.

Regardless I don't really think the products are really comparable. Microsoft never really made a good example usecase for what a normal person would use a Hololens for. It was always moonshot, "construction workers will wear them to map out things for work" and "doctors will use it to assist with surgery." Apple at least has a layman utility for the VP. Whether that utility and its tradeoffs are worth the money is yet to be seen.
Veering on a tangent, I've been pretty happy with Netim as a French (not just .fr) registrar and replacement for Gandi.
I look forward to your alternative, that also is compatible and optimal with the modern way graphics hardware works (Xorg isn't).
Step 1 - Define a KPI, ie percentage of users using Edge or number of users switching to Edge in <timeframe>

Step 2 - Define target goals for this KPI for each quarter

Step 3 - Create user stories for features and changes to meet those goals

Step 4 - Implement stories, release, and measure KPI increases

Step 5 - Give presentation to <next level up in the org> showing the successful KPI line go up
Ask HN: Resources for kids/teens to learn programming
My friend is seeking online courses or resources for his 12-year-old child to learn programming skills.
There is, Zelle. And I was under the impression the conversation was not specific to the US, but rather about checks as method of payment in general.
Endianness is spelled with two n's : endian + ness.
If you need to ask, that means you should go Unity for the support and the community that are associated, if their cost is adapted
Problem continues as of 15:11UTC...
I mean, don't use NameCheap period. Use AWS Route 53, Cloudflare Registrar, etc.

It might cost a few bucks more, but your cloud services provider isn't motivated to squeeze as much money out of you as possible during domain registration/renewal. Say goodbye to all the random upsells you don't need and say hello to straightforward domain/nameserver/DNS management.

Cloud providers make their money from compute, storage, and network. They're motivated to make domain management a good experience so people move/start more projects there.
Same here, I actually really like stage manager on my Mac.
Interesting, but also a bit worrisome idea. I wouldn't be comfortable knowing that someone else can buy the adjacent subdomain anotherfirstname.mylastname.name and be associated with me in the eyes of anyone who doesn't know how that TLD works (which would be almost everyone).
> There was no scenario in which the shareholders could lose money from the comp package. Even in the case where the company didn’t grow

If I understand other comments correctly then one problem was that the growth was predicted before Musk and friends wrote up the comp package. So money that was supposed to go to the shareholders was redirected into Musks pockets.
Just editing a text prompt is 5% of the task. The hard part is evaluating. I would have tried a different approach:

- the UI should host a list of models

- a list of prompt variants

- and a collection of input-output pairs

The prompt can be enhanced with demonstrations. Then we can evaluate based on string matching or GPT-4 as a judge. We can find the best prompt, demos and model by trying many combinations. We can monitor regressions.

The prompt should be packed with a few labeled examples for demonstrations and eval, just a text prompt won't be enough to know if you really honed it in.
@retrocryptid: probably you're looking only at the images from the article, but it seems it's a full keyboard. And it's symetrical AND programable so you can customize it as you wish.

https://keeb.io/products/iris-ce-low-profile-choc-hotswap-pc...

Item Contents:
- Left half PCB
- Right half PCB
The Big Bang Theory was the first time that there was a compelling scientific argument that the universe had a beginning and the response by some religious people was to rail against the theory on the grounds that the universe has to be 10,000 or so years old. It’s a strange response. Why they are obsessed so much with the idea that the universe is quite young is bizarre to me.
From an uber-exclusive college's PoV, this sounds awesome - you can admit even more kids whose uber-rich families have a "pay any price, bear any burden" attitude toward getting admitted.

But looking at American society - where such a high-skill, high-touch consulting business can grow from nothing to >$20M annual revenues in a few-ish years - yeah. This is not a healthy sign. Loads of rich people acting as if the country's economic pie is shrinking - or at least the already-puny fraction of Americans who get the lion's share of that pie is shrinking - and doing whatever it takes to make sure their kids don't lose in a Darwinian game of musical chairs.
- "Graph of Keybase commits pre and post Zoom acquisition" (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814802 :

- "Key server (cryptographic)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_server_(cryptographic)

- W3C DID Decentralized Identifiers (that you can optionally locally generate like pubkey hash account identifiers)

- "Linked Data Signatures for GPG" https://gpg.jsld.org/ ; GPG in (JSON-LD) RDF

- ld-signatures is now W3C vc-data-integrity:
"Verifiable Credential Data Integrity 1.0
Securing the Integrity of Verifiable Credential Data" https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-integrity/

- An example of GPG signatures on linked data documents:
https://gpg.jsld.org/contexts/#GpgSignature2020

- vc-data-integrity specifies how to normalize the document by sorting keys ~ in the JSON before cryptographically signing the transformed, isomorphic graph

- SLSA.dev also specifies signed provenance metadata (optionally with sigstore.dev for centralized release artifact hashes), but not (yet?) with Linked Data

- Blockcerts: blockchain-certificates/cert-verifier-js ,
https://www.blockcerts.org/guide/ :

> Blockcerts is an open standard for building apps that issue and verify blockchain-based official records. These may include certificates for civic records, academic credentials, professional licenses, workforce development, and more.

> Blockcerts consists of open-source libraries, tools, and mobile apps enabling a decentralized, standards-based, recipient-centric ecosystem, enabling trustless verification through blockchain technologies.

> Blockcerts uses and encourages consolidation on open standards. Blockcerts is committed to self-sovereign identity of all participants, and enabling recipient control of their claims through easy-to-use tools such as the certificate wallet (mobile app). Blockcerts is also committed to availability of credentials, without single points of failure.

- [ ] SCH: link a git commit graph (with GPG signatures) with other linked data of an open source software project; for example (SLSA,) build logs and JSON-LD SBOMs.

- >> Is there an ACME-like thing to verify online identity control like Keybase still does?
Kinda hard providing service to X nationals while hiding in basement of your office building because X is attacking the very city you are in.

Namecheap had exactly that.

I'd say the ban was 100% justified.
Awesome, looks good. Thank you
I developed an open source Risk clone in Godot:

https://github.com/argosopentech/Conquest

The biggest problem I've run into with Godot is that newer versions of the engine seem to frequently break my existing code.
> obviously you can't WFH if your job is...

I think this part of the problem deserves a lot more attention. There is a social contract aspect to employment and that only works when all the players think things are fair.

It simply cannot be good for the health of the economy if lots of important jobs are undesirable because they can't be done remotely and, meanwhile, the remote workers are sitting on the beach.

I suppose the invisible hand can correct for this to some extent but I think WFH and work-life balance is probably more valuable to most than higher salary.
Maybe some sort of directional lighting funnel that attracts insects on one side and the guides them out in a direction away from humans?
It did have subsidies, though. And they were “typical”. AT&T was paying for part of the cost so that people could buy it for $499 initially. Most other phones were that price at retail and unlocked.
And during windows 7 the older people all said XP was the last good release. The actual truth is that there has never been a good windows release and even during the XP days, and before, people who used it routinely complained about Microsoft being a corrupt money grabbing corporation.
What sort of nonsense is this? Wayland is the opposite of "on the way out". XOrg has been made the secondary option on a variety of distros for the last few years[1], and there are plans to fully depreciate it in the near-medium term[2].

It is far from a "farce" and your proof, if you read the discussions you provided are for corner cases and specific implementations that go against the explicit and specific designs of what the protocol should do.

You're purposefully misleading the discussion (which is fantastic - Godot being Wayland native is a huge success and benefit for the engine on Linux).

[1] https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2021/10/distros-which-adopted-way...

[2] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/rhel-10-plans-wayland-and-xor...
I would say target discovery is definitely no less important than drug discovery though. Biology is so complex, for a lot of diseases we aren't even sure the targets and pathways are valid. But then again, as per another commenter, I guess it's much harder than it seems, and probably not as easy to monetize as a drug
It's no more useful a limiting condition of someone's theory of the universe than a divine being or facetious spaghetti monster though. Positing something else which oversteps all evidence and logic and demanding someone disprove it isn't a particularly good way of emphasising the deficits in their own evidence base or inferences
Quantum computer with 5-qubit chips launched
How does it work with taxation? As far as I know, states and cities have various tax rates, so how do they know who is supposed to tax you?

It's often one of the main reasons why they ask you to register in other countries.
You seem to have serious issues, and I hope that you can work them out.

That's the prerequisite for me to engage any further with you.
This comments feels very out of touch with reality. Nobody is going to associate your usage of an .ai domain with you honoring or liking Anguilla practices and history. It's a domain, you buy it because it sounds good for your marketing purposes. Unless you get some very obscure ones that might be associated with spammers and blacklisted (like .tk), you are going to be fine and nobody is going to associate you with that country.

Besides, it's highly unlikely you are ever going to have a problem with geopolitics and instability. For most countries it's just free money flowing in, especially with the trending ones (.ai, .io, .tv, .fm).
Ah, the good old days. I was hired for my first job in tech at a new .com startup in February of 2000. Everything was awesome and nothing could possibly go wrong! The NASDAQ peaked the next month. It wasn't obvious everything was falling apart for quite a while. It was an interesting few years.
That is not true at all. The original iPhone required a 2 year contract and you could only buy a maximum of 2 phones per account.
As Gibson said, "The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed". And in IT, sometimes the future takes a long nap. I wouldn't be too surprised if e.g. descendants of Linda spaces get re-discovered because external circumstances favor that model.

Although with FaaS, I don't see anything particularly new from a development perspective. It's, well, functions. Most of the time they aren't communicating in any kind of novel way, and often they're doing the decade-old stuff of reading files and slurping databases. The abstraction being more on the operational side of things this time.

Not that I'm complaining or doing the "it's just CGI" dance. Compared to other "cloudy" tech, there's actually potential for simplifying things and not just simulated VAX computers with more effort…
Ask HN: What happened to the car loan calculator tool on Google?
Google used to have a simple built-in tool for calculating the cost of car loans.

It used to show up when searching "car loan calculator" or "auto loan calculator" but now I'm not seeing it. The mortgage calculator tool still shows up.

The only relevant thread I can find is this: https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/156391283/auto-loan-calculator-not-coming-up
Nearly 20 years ago there was an OS X screensaver that would capture all the window buffers and then float them around the screen as they rotated various ways. Another app would save a snapshot of all windows as Photoshop layers with appropriate transparency (before blur was added). X11 was always network transparent, though I don’t think windows could easily be moved from one client to another.

Even classic Mac OS, which wasn’t designed to be “rootless” could be run that way could have its windows mixed with OS X windows in the classic days.

As others have pointed out, there is already a PoC app that is doing it, so it seems if Apple wants to, it’s completely in their power. However, does this match their vision? (pun intended) Time will tell.
TBH, this doesn't seem all that different from a CEO for one company serving on the board of another company or two.
should we call it ipfs?
You seem to be confused between the mathematical definition of a Relation and the English usage of the word "Relation".

> You said multiple relations earlier, which is what the comment was in reply to. Why the fliply-flopping?

Read my definition above again; I said "multiple sets" and NOT "multiple relations" which is a very different thing. You understood it wrong.

> Relation, not relations, not relationships. The struggle is real.

Only for you. I have been very clear in the usage of my terms above. A Table encodes a Relation. Additionally, when you do a JOIN across Tables you are manifesting a "Relationship" (English usage) which may/may not result in a Mathematical Relation.

> a relation is a table with additional constraints – a superset.

No, If there are additional constraints on set A than on set B then A cannot be a superset of B but a subset.
The idea of wearing a VR headset so I can "enjoy photos with friends" is absolutely hilarious and so deeply disconnected from what human beings want and need as a species.
or superpowers
The simulation hypothesis is a novel metaphysical idea — a form of monotheism where “god” is finite and flawed, being neither all-powerful nor all-good. This leads to the conclusion that a rebellion against god and creation is not only possible, but likely. A finite and flawed entity cannot make an infinite and perfect creation. An imperfect creation is vulnerable to exploitation.

Combining this idea with the multi-worlds hypothesis, where every possibility branches into additional simulations, is even more interesting to ponder. It suggests a tree-search aimed at a desired end-state — a brute-force method of solving an unknown problem.

At the very least, we can say that the problem’s solution involves life and intelligence, since our branch has not been prevented or pruned.

Typical monotheistic frameworks see this and say, “god is all-powerful and all-loving (toward us)”. Simulation theory would see this, and possibly say, “life and intelligence are a necessary step toward the simulator’s unknown objective”.

I’d propose a simple objective for an imperfect simulator: the creation of an entity less imperfect than itself. Throw recursion into the mix, and the objective becomes the creation of a perfect entity at the mathematical limit. What better way to hack one’s own simulation than to simulate a universe where the simulated figure out how to do so? Perhaps the beginning is the end.

Put more simply — god wants to create God, to be God.
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My personal solution is to boycot companies that do this, and should they come up in conversation mention they arbitrarily block legitimate users from their services
> We have concrete, quantifiable knowledge of the benefits of WFH. We can measure the cost savings from not needing to pay for real estate and we can directly point to quality of life and time savings for employees. We can also point to lower carbon emissions.

> The return to office argument is very hand wavy. None of the advocates have come out with hard data as to why it's better.

IMHO, the real problem is priorities. Everything you say about WFH is true, and from first-hand experience I know the benefits of RTO are true as well (at least in a reasonably designed office, which is not a given nowadays). RTO prioritizes the interests of the company and management, WFH prioritizes the interests of most employees, families, the environment, etc.

The trend over decades (in the US at least) has been for families to sacrifice more and more on the altar of corporate control. Literally, children are being separated from their families for most of the day starting at a very young age (with well-documented negative consequences) so the company can take more and pay less.

Personally, I think the RTO CEOs should go cry in their soup while I eat lunch with my kids everyday.
everyone is using LLM as a judge to fix unbound output eval
At least the software is a much more established in 2023 than it was in 2001.

Every company will have a dedicated Software team. It might not be sexy stuff, but it's still an important part of an organization.

In the early 2000s, plenty of organizations weren't as digitized yet.
Wouldn't this work in Google's favor?

"AI is doing a thing which we have already been doing for most of the internet's existence; this thing is central to the internet as we know it works today."

Versus

"AI is doing a thing that we stopped doing proactively because we thought it might be illegal, which also means it's clearly not that important to the web, please let us keep doing it for AI training."
If you've ever had the pleasure of running a Daktronics scoreboard... Holy cow is there some bad UI there!

Looks like a 1970s military interface. With cards that you overlay on the controller for different sports, but the schools, etc.. lose the cards.

So many operations require strange & confusing sequences of button presses.

At least with basketball professional referees often understand the UI well and can help out in a pinch, but these things are really really hard for volunteers to figure out.

There are some newer ones that are self contained where the computer & scoreboard are integrated and sit on the desk with the scorers and timekeeper. Those have the lovely design that the horn/buzzer is right in the unit and it blows everyone's ears out when it goes off.
A bit of an aside. But I would love a book on the comprehensive history of silicon valley up to and describing the crisis we face today of housing and everyone leaving.