skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
did anyone saw the two-leg horses in the video?
Merging and forming cartels is still technically a choice. A company could decide not to do that and compete. It may require a near-infinite amount of money, but it's still technically possible.
> It's definitely beyond my technical abilities to help

I think this goes for most people that would like to help. This is very mature code and ripping out any portion and replacing it without a massive amount of groundwork isn't going to fly, Erlang is used for semi-realtime mission critical stuff all over the globe. That's 'tread very carefully' ground.
Buyers do not pay Agent commissions. The home Seller pays both Seller and Buyer Agent commissions. Pls get your facts straight.
Can you cite your sources?

This literally sounds like regurgitated shit from far-right politicians rather than thought-out analysis based on real statistics. In fact I would go so far as to suspect astroturfing.
If I didn't sit at a desk way too much I'd give it a shot. There seems to be some solid advantages.
One one side, we have people who are upset because the creators of the videos in the dataset used for teaching this language model were not compensated.

On the other hand, people find the tech very impressive and there are a lot of mind blowing use-cases.

Personally, this opens up the world for me to create video ads for software projects I create, since I have no financial resources or time to actually make videos, I only know how to code. So I find it pretty exciting. It's great for solo entrepreneurs.
Turning personalization off just turns off custom redirects and any website ranking adjustments you've made. That's really the only personalization we have for results.

disclaimer: I work for Kagi
> We don't get to label a group of citizens and then get to violate their rights because we labeled them.

"We" aren't labeling the citizens, they're doing so themselves. The default mode is that people are subject to unlimited personal liability for the harms they do to others. Society has chosen to make available a privilege of doing business in a limited-liability form (corporations, LLCs, LPs), but that privilege has strings attached. Don't like the strings? Then simply do business individually or as general partners — and accept the risk of unlimited personal liability.

(Also, the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial applies to suits at common law; NLRB cases arise by statute, not common law, although SCOTUS has extended the jury right to so-called equivalents of common-law cases, which seems suspect.)
personally as a senior engineer & tech-lead in many past jobs I am very bothered by fragmentation of my time. I NEED a block of time to get serious work done especially if its not fully defined yet (i.e.. not like go code this function but more like add a service component). I have not yet read PG's blog on that but its something similar to what I track as in devtime-fragmentation-index. I wish there was a calendar plugin that tracks something like this as there is one to report total meeting time already.

Problem is its hard to convince managers that there was minimal work done this week because I did 3 hours of meetings each day but it was all spread out. its worse with non-technically sound managers because they need constant Q&A.

There was a time when I was working super late because of all the meetings and slack discussions in day time then to do actual coding work I had to find time later in night and my sleep schedule was getting messed up. this persisted until I introduced some hard boundaries. all in all I recommend blocking off time in schedule but thats not a scalable solution unless whole team agrees to it. plus dont get me started on different timezones working together.
Not true at all. The local corner store, laundromat, and plumbing company are usually not something that can be sold easily. If they do, it takes years to find a buyer and they are getting a low sale price.

Tech startups had high multipliers in the past 10 years thanks to dumb money, low interest rates, and lot of hope. Most of those things are drying up and many tech startups that had decent valuations are now worthless.
No mention of the planned end of 32-bit? Packrat looks interesting. Removing ports that build and work fine but are "unmaintained" is pretty irritating.
Man I don't do rentals but I'd be pissed if I did and background play didn't work considering how much I've paid for premium over the years.
Think the old site looked fine. Some people use github for their front end of their site which I think is crazy.

Prob easier to do steps, first logo, then reframe of layout. An entire layout also causes issues for people, thus why increment changes seems to be the norm.
I gave up on using anything that isn’t the default/auto DNS for when I’m on the go more, as it breaks every single public wifi hotspot that has a login/I-agree-to-not-do-illegal-shit-etc page that obv cannot be resolved
WebGPU came from Apple, hence why it looks a lot more like Metal and refused to use pre-existing standards like SPIR-V.
Ferrero, Mars, Ikea, Ikea and Valve prove that you can get very big and stay private.

Not everyone wants to IPO, or sell to big player.

You may want it to stay in the family, or protect the original culture. Maybe you found someone in your team that will be a great CEO.

Maybe you like that life.

You don't even need to big huge, look at 37 signal.
Further to this, even if you don't intend to sell the company, it's only really worth something besides the salary or dividends you draw for yourself if it is generally in a condition where it could potentially sell.

If it's legally dodgy; if accounting is a total mess; if it relies entirely on personal connections or favors; if tax returns or licensing are a mess; if there is no documentation; if there is no consideration for bus encounters; etc; etc - then it would take major work before it could be sold and it is worth little until that work is done. (Besides the current payouts to the owner which only exist as long as the owner works on it.) That's because if the owner quits or is incapacitated, the company just about doesn't exist anymore.
I'll always take a moment like this to point once again to Nadia Eghbal's fantastic report, it might be from 2016, but it's a good read.

Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure

https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-report...
>If a random AC employee gave you a free flight, on the other hand, you'd be entitled to it.

The company would be entirely within their rights to say 'this employee was wrong, that is not our policy, goodbye!'. This happens all the time with more minor incidents.
Ant Geopolitics
Yes, the situation is bad.

Anyway, comparing earning 175k USD to 162.37k EUR:

Germany, married with 2 children, Stay At Home Mom Scenario, Tax Category 3, Berlin Region:

Solidarity + Salary Tax is EUR 40.428,00
Pension Insurance: 8.314,20 €
Unemployment Insurance: 1.162,20 €
Care Insurance: 900,45 €

Total: 50.805 € = $54,706 before health insurance

Virginia, USA, same scenario as above, incl. 2 child tax credit of $4000, four state exemptions: FICA + Federal + State Tax - Child Care Credit: $44,162-$4,000 = $40,162 before health insurance

Germany costs $14,544 a year more for a family with two kids before health insurance. To be fair though, the differences are lesser for most Germans, as almost no common jobs pay over 120k EUR gross.
With so few controls, it’s still not a well designed comparison. Most scientists deal with low sample sizes, especially in first trials. However, what is often overlooked is the need for sufficient numbers of negative controls. If they only had 4 control patients, that’s completely inadequate to draw any real conclusions. With access to a biobank at U of Florida, they should have been able to test more samples — especially with a $5 test.

There are two other issues with this paper [1] that I quickly see. Their main figure lacks errors bars. It’s pretty clear to me that the groups would overlap quite a bit. More numbers would make this problem clearer (either to narrow error bars or clearly show an overlap). The lack of error bars across the paper make me think they didn’t do any technical replicates, which is also a problem.

I’m also not sure a one way test is correct here, but I’m also not entirely sure how they are measuring the data. In this one way analysis, all you can tell is if one group is higher than the other. When the data are so unbalanced, what you don’t see is what the predictive value of the test is — false positive/negative. That’s the real issue here. It looks like you’d have a really high false negative rate, as the cancer samples have a much wider range than the controls. This is the worst thing you can have in a test like this.

Finally — this paper was published in the “journal of vacuum sciences and technology B.” There is no way this paper got a valid peer review to make these claims. I don’t know anything about this journal, but I doubt it has much experience with cancer testing.

[1] https://pubs.aip.org/avs/jvb/article/42/2/023202/3262988/Hig...
Thanks your your input. You made me realize I can use my Hetzner storage box for precisely the same. Neat!
> In Germany all of that is being covered by the government insurance scheme.

Ok, but you agree, don't you, that $3000 is quite different from "parents have to pay five digits worth of money just for the birth of a child"? That is off by an order of magnitude.

> No such nonsense as giving birth and having to work the next day like it's common in the US.

I think you should stop consuming so much media from Russia Today :) Or maybe re-consider the trustworthiness of wherever you read that.

The fact is that, at the federal level, Americans may take 12 weeks (unpaid) time off work after giving birth under the FMLA, and it is prohibited to retaliate against an employee for taking that time.

Additionally, the majority of Americans live in states which mandate paid time off after giving birth, (usually 8 to 12 weeks) plus additional unpaid time. California, to use the most populous state as an example, mandates 8 weeks of paid time, plus 28 weeks unpaid. New York, on the opposite side of the country, goes even farther by mandating 12 weeks paid time.

Part of the reason you may be confused is that this is not always explicitly named as "maternity time". It is often called as "disability leave", and nearly all disability statutes include recovery from pregnancy as a disability.

Unless you are maybe trying to argue that Europeans are legally prohibited to work the day after giving birth, you are way off base here.
That’s a hilariously primitive and archaic auto-ironic comment.
I Built a Flying Umbrella [video]
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People working for companies are sometimes separate legal entities responsible for their own actions, and sometimes they act on behalf of the company they work for and the company is responsible for their actions. It depends.
As a part of SDK 50, Expo introduced the ability to build applications for Apple TV and Android TV that include Expo modules. The blog has a tutorial using the Ignite CLI.
Whitney Houston drove her car into a transit bus.
That would be unusual. Did you turn on verbatim search option in kagi and forgot to turn it off?
Related:

Show HN: A pure bash web server. No netcat, socat, etc. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794979 - Jan 2022 (97 comments)
Dolt Automatically Maintains Database Statistics
can you tell me more?
You opened your wallet to the same megacorp. The only difference is you're sitting on your high horse for some reason.
You probs wanna post in the Expo discord: https://discord.com/invite/expo
Can you report examples to kagifeedback.org so that we can take a look?
One interesting thing with this service is you could say do small runs of a game or software you made.
That poor tow truck driver, must have felt like Skynet was really out to get him.
A random AC employee drinks too much and says "You are entitled to free flights for the rest of your life." Is Air Canada liable?
With execs pounding their fist on the table saying “Go get me some of that GenAI stuff!” expect to see a lot more really poorly implemented “AI assistants” and other half-baked AI projects causing blunders for businesses. Eventually the dust will settle and folks will find more attenuated ways to get value out of this tech without creating a big mess. In the meantime get some popcorn ready for the AI-fueled comedy of errors that’s about to play out across many companies.
your hill is valid, sorry
this is on roadmap. which LLM are you focused on using? so far GPT 4 has performed best, head and shoulders above other LLMs, so as a result we are using this one now.
So... Amazon Greengrass is the last one standing?
That's not like sd cards though. Everyone in this subthread is optimistic assuming the hardware is there but disabled.

I was thinking the hardware is not there but the bios is modified to falsely report it is.
(2022)

Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32179563
With today’s AI, we’re taking a big hammer to the problem using unoptimized but vastly flexible machines like GPUs. Once the code settles down, expect ASICs to run much of the show and lower energy consumption.
Computers without escape hatches seem destined to become infernal machines. Someday you'll find yourself misaligned with what's happening and you'll be very sad.

This is the same thread we see with iot. It's either a system in your power, that you can work with, or it's a huge risk.

Example article: Home Assistant: Three years later
273 points, 3 days ago, 190 comments.
https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/home-automation-th...
I've been using Emacs for roughly three decades; it's my favourite editor. And for sure, LSP has been an absolute game changer.

Worth noting is that LSP came from Microsoft as part of their efforts to build a better editor experience; and its integration with VSCode is largely unparalleled.

For example: in VSCode the user doesn't have to understand how to install a language server, it just automagically suggests allowing it to install one for you. In Emacs, if you're using the official distribution you will have eglot, whose developers specifically refuse to add that functionality. If you're savvy enough you can install lsp-mode and it will add that functionality, but at that point you may as well just install the language server yourself.

And about magit: it's a beautiful piece of software, it truly is. It's also hot garbage with large repositories hosted on Windows. I simply cannot use it for work because every operation takes around a minute to resolve, which locks up Emacs entirely. Again, here VSCode shines because the default git integration is pretty good, and there are extensions that make it excellent.

For these reasons, and more, I always recommend VSCode to new developers and don't recommend Emacs. Emacs is for people who want to make editor customization a _hobby_.
Oh I had some really good times with ohm editor, when I was evaluating ohm, although I could not use ohm for the project but I do miss such editor/visualization for any parser toolkit.
Ukraine was busy closing Russian language schools all across country, including Donbass.

The inconvenient truth is that such a policy didn't get any serious reversal during the reign of "pro-Russian, Donbass choice" Yanukovich. Nevertheless, Donbass only really went ballistic when the first action of post-Yanukovich Rada was to repeal the "language law" which half-assedly permitted the things I have mentioned in my previous comment.
In Texas, I ran into a recent Russian emigrant/asylum seeker who said he had to leave Russia because the corruption and personal security issues were too much and presently unfixable. Since arriving here, he has already hustled semi-seasonal work to reach over $100k/year in independent commercial transportation services. We spoke mostly by using the Google Translate conversation app as he's still struggling to learn English, which is a very difficult language.
While one might expect this to be true, in my experience of wearing ballcaps and moving at above-walking speeds it's actually the forward orientation that holds best. A backwards bill often presents a larger surface to the wind, especially if it's pulled low against your neck. Moreover, the forward orientation is kind of "hooked" around your forehead, whereas the backwards orientation basically is just sitting on the cap of your skull, so less wind force is needed to unseat it. Forward caps the wind needs to kind of peel it off, backwards orientation the wind just pushes upwards lightly.
Your hyperbolic anecdotes are already dated.
Fundamental design flaw in DNSSEC discovered
Because their source of income depends on sprinkling fancy high-tech pixie dust!
They offer the clear coat for several thousand dollars extra, so it seems to have been to save costs.
I don't think the US stance on limiting LNG export for its own security is a valid defense. Europe/France/Germany made many mistakes before that by shutting off generation plants before having secured long term resources.
How can they choose to accept something they are told they already accepted by receiving the email?
> In Germany, insurance covers everything over 0€. [...] If expenses for illnesses exceed a certain amount in a year (about 3000€), it can be deducted from taxes

But how can you have anything to deduct if insurance covers everything over $0?
What did they do then?
I realized that when I said it. It's a comment on a discussion forum, not a phd thesis. Sometimes it's not worth spending ten minutes trying to figure out the scientifically accurate phrasing to make a point knowing no matter how I phrase it, someone on HN will rip it to pieces and nitpick it to death and most people will care enormously about finding minor errors in my comment while largely ignoring the thrust of my main point.

Posting on the internet is an exercise in frustration. HN used to be something of an oasis better than that. Not so much these days.
Ever since reading "Children of Time". My view of ants and spiders is forever changed.

This article puts some realistic depth to it.
And if a random AC employee said[0] they'd give you a billion dollars, you wouldn't be entitled to it because any judge or jury hearing the case would say a reasonable person wouldn't believe that. Unlike computers, which do exactly what they're told[1], the legal system applies sanity checks and social context.

[0] perhaps because they're disgruntled and trying to hurt their employer

[1] generative models are not an exception; they're a way of telling computers to generate text that sometimes contains falsehoods
Bruh, it's not the place for a dissertation. But it suffices to say that capitalism in this context is a tendency toward free market, and socialism is a tendency for the government to provide everything (after taking it from workers and businesses, of course). I think we need a little of both but putting the government in charge of anything warrants a thorough examination of any viable alternatives.
What the heck is a bereavement fare and how do you get them? Do most airlines offer that?

Edit: Whoa, apparently several do. In my 30 years of flying, I never knew this! https://travel.usnews.com/features/bereavement-flights#alask...

If an immediate family member passes away, some airlines will give you a discount.
>On Windows, if you use your the volume keys or the play/pause button on your keyboard during one of these videos, you will receive a media status pop-up in the corner of your screen containing the old channel name along with the video title and thumbnail.

Always wondered why sometimes the pop-up description name was different, didn't think about the channel name having changed.
There is a risk that if AI works well enough, there will always be profit in using even more AI (in particular if you can task AI itself to use AI recursively, meaning that AI usage won’t be limited by available human time), in order to have an edge over the competition. In that case, AI usage could gobble up all available energy regardless of AI efficiency.
Cool site, thanks! So many "Grade E" though. You'd think they'd add another Grade F though, to help differentiate even greater levels of evil...
I saw the talk at FOSDEM and greatly enjoyed it. Someone sitting next to me was busy coding on 9front haha
same, one I was part of a team that did 1.5 hr stand-up with devs & QA and some external folks everyday in morning. there was no discipline there, people will talk about status, issues they are having then branch out into possible solutions while everybody else is yawning on side. Problem is if you have this its likely a byproduct of some other dysfunction in team like the manager or leads not being technical and unable to communicate across teams.
I can see that, although to me there's a difference between weights and something like bytecode. The weights don't encode any sort of logical operations, they're just numbers that get multiplied and added according to relatively simple algorithms.

Totally agreed that the process of generating and evaluating weights is opaque and not very accessible.
Making Hard PCBs at Home Will Science Help Me?
I wish it were possible - it would be so much less work - but the community can't self-regulate that way. It has too many failure modes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The Return Grift Is Over
a slack message can solve that
For any such agreement, look for a clause that says they can change it at any time. If the other party can change the contract at will, you have no contract. Unforunately, most agreements I see with commercial vendors, especially privacy agreements, say that.

Then look for clauses that say, 'we can do A or B or C specific things, or anything we deem necessary in order to ...'. Again, there's no effective contract.

IANAL, so maybe there are some benefits. I wonder how much you can argue that what they do with the data you provided on Jan 14, 2022, depends on the agreement in force then.
Show HN: Let Me GPT That for You Using You.com
I am a SWE with no prior frontend experience, so all the code are written by chatGPT in a 2 hour window. Please let me know how I can improve this. Thank you!