skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I've understood Glassdoor to be useless for years due to supposedly allowing companies to control the existence of negative reviews, and I've never had an account. However, this is pretty disturbing and deserves to be more widely known if Glassdoor is actually now hostile to employees who might review former employers.
WebAssembly JSPI is going to origin trial
If you're in UK look at Harden's http://www.hardens.com/
Around 20 years ago, I discovered the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and realized there were like-minded people to me. Got fixed in my early 20s.

I'm happy to see the antinatalist message hitting so many media outlets in recent years! My parents only had me due to boredom and social pressure, so it's thrilling to see people open their eyes to other options.
When I went there first it was also still under communist rule, and the thing I still remember the most is that bread loaves commonly sold in the grocery stores had the price embossed into the crust (IIRC "5 Kčs"). Centrally controlled economies eh? So stable that it was practical to make price stamps distributed to bakeries. I wish I could get my hands on one of these brands...
I feel like this is technically some kind of FTC violation, even if it’s not broadly enforced.
Actually I take it back, there might be learning on the car side as well, where you press a button on an existing remote, but all that does is tell the car “Oh, this is a Chamberlain SecurityPlus 1.0 remote, I’ll start acting like one of those.” The actual rolling code and security algorithm is never decoded/cloned on the car side.
> Can't have it both ways.

> deflecting responsibility

I think you may have misjudged the bias behind this article.

This was not researched or written by someone previously advocating for the destigmatization of sex work. It was clearly written by someone who's personally very troubled by the industry, who wanted to collect and share some evidence for their concerns and point a finger at an institution large enough to hold focus and possibly even legislative intervention.

You are right that the title is dramatized and the article ignored a lot of context, but it's activist journalism coming from people closer to the Gloria Steinem tradition of feminism (or conservative traditions) -- a very different bunch than the one that have been working towards destigmatization.

This is cannon fire from someone upset with the status quo, not an attempt to have it both ways.
What surprised me the most is that the public directory of all students and staff really is completely public. Anyone on the internet can use it to get names and emails of students.
> No specific action or policy of Onlyfans is demonstrated as problematic.

It mentions multiple times OnlyFans says to have a human review each video and contrasts that with a description of a rape where the victim is repeatably saying "no" on camera.

It mentions OnlyFans being unresponsive to complaints about videos of rape.

It's also about the larger inadequacies about the laws (or lack thereof) concerning non-consensual porn.
Mass timber construction will reduce the amount of lumber needed for housing. A large timber 100 unit multi-family dwelling will use WAY less material than a hundred single family homes.
It depends on what you mean by traditional. If you're talking about a "tube" site, then you're probably right. But no namebrand porn studio would do something like that.
That makes it no different from a run-of-the-mill legal system.

Which, for their flaws, do sometimes produce results.
That 13.68% is given with no context. Which issues, specifically did Devin solve? Any 3rd party verification?
No, most rocket engines have quite limited amount of throttle capability and run near maximum thrust until cutoff.

The rocket yaws and pitches in the first seconds of flight while the vehicle is still subsonic, then flies a gravity turn trajectory at zero angle of attack (facing the direction of travel) at near maximum thrust. Any errors accumulated during early part of the flight will be corrected by adjusting the timing of the second stage cutoff based on radar tracking.

The initial pitch over is just a few degrees off vertical, but must be precise to a fraction of a degree (KSP tolerances are higher due to small planet).

You can get a pretty good circular orbit in Kerbal Space Program with one burn if you do a few attempts and trial and error binary search for the optimal initial pitchover angle, but it's very difficult to do without throttling the 2nd stage burn. If I recall correctly, the MechJeb mod can do a precise single burn to orbit.
It was a cheaper part of the country, and local funding differs — Rotherham was the lowest.

However, no-one disputed the figures, and the government very quickly set 50p as a recommended minimum.

This is a longer article from a year after the show aired: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/jun/25/schools.uk
Harmonic Saved $80k Switching from Fivetran to PeerDB
TripAdvisor? They charge for advertising/sponsored positioning, but it's free to claim your business and it allows you to respond to people but pretty sure not do 'moderation' like that.
Open Source Personal Publishing Platform (Livejournal Fork)
PLUG
Yeah but weren't they making specific patches to accommodate an early leak of Tears of the Kingdom? At that point, they were kind of directly facilitating piracy; no one could argue that they were working with a legitimately obtained ROM.

Of course, I don't know the details, I've never actually gotten Yuzu working in any capacity (since I run macOS) and thus I wasn't part of their Patreon or Discord, so maybe I'm mistaken?
>That's a good example: our ancestors went throught PLENTY of really violent time. By your own logic, violence is not that bad.

That's the opposite of what I claimed.

You are keen to put words in my mouth. I point out that we can argue about defining violence properly and you imply that the existence of WWII challenges my beliefs. Not in good faith.
Buy one (or several) of these books and read through them (pick what you find interesting): https://www.amazon.com/s?k=excel

I find I learn best from (good) books because they actually explain things coherently, and you can leaf through them to discover features and things that look interesting.
If you read the bill it states that a shop must "Possesses a valid and unexpired certification that demonstrates that the person has
the technical capabilities and competence necessary to safely, securely and reliably repair
consumer electronic equipment in accordance with widely accepted standards, such as a
Wireless Industry Service Excellence Certification, an A+ certification from the Computing
Technology Industry Association, a National Appliance Service Technician Certification or
another certification that an original equipment manufacturer accepts as evidence that the
person can perform safe, secure and reliable repairs to consumer electronic equipment that
the original equipment manufacturer makes or sells".

The bill also requires that a manufacturer does not "impose a substantial condition, obligation or restriction that is not reasonably
necessary to enable an independent repair provider or an owner to diagnose, maintain, repair
or update consumer electronic equipment that the original equipment manufacturer makes
or sells"
I know 2 women whose lives were ruined because they were raped during their teenage years by men 7+ years older who got them drunk. They were forced to not get an abortion, and instead had to raise the child as a single parent. These women were greatly impacted mentally and emotionally, deeply resented their children, and had to give up their dreams.

These women weren't "sluts who deserved it", they were both 15 year old children and were isolated and groomed by a 22 year old and 28 year old man respectively. Neither man paid childcare expenses.

Both women were rejected by society, one abandoned by their parents and family, the other kept at a distance because of religious shame.

Both children were very troubled and unhappy throughout their childhood. One did OK in adulthood, but suffers from CPTSD. The other spiraled down into resentment and self-hatred, finally ending their life through heroin.

One woman was fantastic at math, she found things like calculus fun, and wanted to write software, but was very poor and unable to pursue any education. The other wanted to be a dancer and model, but was plagued by illnesses and died before age 50.

What about those womens' lives?

Should I be able to force you to have organs implanted against your will, and then harvest those organs from you later, at great physical danger and harm to you?
Or change the laws and standards and have Boeing retain all its camera footage for all its planes permanently.
The Kernel Development book. It gives a tour. Read the UNIX one first though.
The difference is that she is alleging in court that she was not acting.
Dude this is the foundation of capitalism. Its not supply and bend over. Its supply and demand.

It is totally reasonable to demand a better steak salad from some restaurant that doesn't allow modifications and moreover totally reasonable to point out how asinine they are for not making easy-to-do modifications when you point it out since that is what you as a paying customer want.

Imagine we lived in a world where 95% of restaurants never ever and vehemently so denied any modification to menu items. It is unreasonable then to demand they change? I need to move towns to get lunch?

This is the insanity we live in with the walled gardens of Apple.
Honestly... As an end user, I prefer convenience over security in my everyday life. I have insurance for the rare instance someone steals it.

The same goes for my house. I could live in a concrete bunker with no windows and steel doors, but I would much rather live in a home with large windows and a door with a crummy deadbolt.

The risk of someone stealing my car or breaking into my house is low. If that risk increases (and thus the area's overall quality decreases), I'll move to a different location.
Launch HN: Meticulate (YC W24) – LLM pipelines for business research
Hi HN, Meticulate gives finance professionals easy access to world class business research—think competitive landscapes, market sizings, customer segmentation etc. Here's a video of a competitive landscape generation in action (https://youtu.be/aJ-slHcp32c)and we’ve taken down the signup wall today so you can try it directly at https://meticulate.ai/.

Some background on “business research”: investment and consulting teams sink many hours a week into researching companies, markets, and products. This work is time-sensitive and exhausting, but crucial to big decisions like company acquisitions or pricing model changes.

At large financial services firms, much of this work is offshored to external providers, who charge thousands of dollars per project and are often slow and low-quality. Small teams lack the budget and consistent flow of work to employ these resources. We’re building an automation solution that brings a fast, easily accessible, and defendable research resource.

Meticulate uses LLMs to emulate analyst research processes. For example, to manually build a competitive landscape like this one: https://meticulate.ai/workflow/65dbfeec44da6238abaaa059, an analyst needs to spend ~2 hours digging through company websites, forums, and market reports. Meticulate replicates this same process of discovering, researching, and mapping companies using ~1500 LLM calls and ~500 webpages and database pulls, delivering results 50x faster at 50x less cost.

At each step, we use an LLM as an agent to run searches, select and summarize articles, devise frameworks of analysis, and make small decisions like ranking and sorting companies. Compared to approaches where an LLM is being used directly to answer questions, this lets us deliver results that (a) come from real time searches and (b) are traceable back to the original sources.

We’ve released two workflows: building competitive landscapes and market maps. We designed it with an investor running diligence on a company as the target use case but we’re seeing lots of other use cases that we didn’t originally have in mind—things like founders looking for alternative vendors for a product they’re purchasing; sales reps searching for more prospects like one they’ve already sold to; consultants trying to understand a new market they are unfamiliar with, and more.

The main challenges we’ve been overcoming are preventing quality degradation along multi-step LLM pipelines where an error on one step can propagate widely, and dealing with a wide range of data quality. We’re working hard on our next set of workflows and would love for you to give it a try at https://meticulate.ai and would appreciate feedback at any level!
Thanks, pretty sure that's the one I meant.
You said "blaming the tech aspect is deflecting responsibility", but nobody blamed the tech, they blamed the poor moderation. I was clarifying, not attacking you :)
"It feels like a burden" – Bumble's new CEO on women-first messaging
But later it betrayed him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjuQs5mEHmw
Google Maps?
Done. Thank you for the headsup
> type unsafety via e.g. covariant arrays

It's ironic when you think about it.

The compiler enforced type safety is often argued as not type safe because they are erased at runtime; but the actual type unsafety has a runtime check.
Other considerations, water grows microorganisms and is a solvent. The upside of sand is (presumably) less maintenance.
Decentralized organizations (institutions?) are not at all immune to corruption and malevolent inside actors.

One look at the world of decentralized crypto-currency more than proves that corruption is not limited to institutions.

Corruption seems inherent to humans, the difference is that institutions are well aware of this, and frequently set up controls and systems to balance power and fight the most obvious forms of corruption.
All reviews are scammed. Phone a friend.
Ask HN: How are you preparing for the effects of climate change?
From all available data and observations, the mean earth temperature is rapidly warming and causing significant changes to the amplitude of storms and weather events. Or, in the words of a park ranger I spoke with last summer, “It’s gonna be either droughts or floods from here on out.”

So, considering this future of rapidly increasing heat and unpredictability, how are you preparing? How are you arranging your ten year plan for work, finances, shelter, and family considering the realities before us?

Personally, I expect food prices to rise so I am growing a considerable garden and keeping chickens. I also have planted trees facing South to protect my home from the direct sunlight. I also plan on putting in solar panels and a heat pump in the next five years. I am curious how others who also realize what a pickle we are in are preparing.
It sounds like they aren't doing that, from what the glassdoor rep wrote. It sounds like the author is concerned that, in the event of a data leak, that their name can now be associated with their reviews, instead of just their email address.
Fully agree. My wife is a Montessori teacher, and her observation has been that people are afraid of failure, even in an environment where failure is an expected part of learning. There are some cultural differences, but she says that it’s a fairly accurate baseline.

There’s an excellent talk [0] that discusses why and how blameless has missed the mark. Somewhat compressed version of the same talk by the same person here [1].

[0]: https://youtu.be/gfINfi2K1lE

[1]: https://youtu.be/l2CdjZUAmb0
Seeing all formulas in Excel is a menu-button click away:

Formulas tab > Formula Auditing group > Show Formulas button
First, you get to the point that management thinks enough people won't leave no matter what they do.

Second, you find some sketchy thing to do that will boost revenue and burn people's desire to use your product willingly into the ground.

Third, you leave on your golden parachute and the company acts surprised that this proved toxic and changes nothing.
Related, popular Czech pub in Stockholm :D https://maps.app.goo.gl/GbNAjLTPCpNwkSwf9
> If academic institutions of rich reputation champion, for example, denial of the Cambodian genocide, is the harm undone if another institution admits it happened?

That's a really good example: if another institution admits it happened, it demonstrates that institutions are not controlled by a cambodian-genocide-denial-dogma.

Same here: as some left-wing events were cancelled by another university, even they are not the majority of the cancellation, it demonstrates that universities are not controlled by a left-wing-dogma.

> I'm a lot less concerned about Milo's exclusion than I am of Xi Van Fleet's.

And your Milo is another person Xi Van Fleet: you are basically admitting that you base your impression based on people you think were unfairly cancelled because they have an opinion that you think is sensible.

I was not able to find cases where Van Fleet was cancelled in an university event (the large majority of the research results are about how she is cancelled, again, the "bad leftist" has probably done more for spreading her view than what her views would have been otherwise, as they appear to be not really original). But I'm pretty sure you can easily find a person who say that the right-wing is like the chinese communists based on their own experience, and I'm pretty sure the right-wing people will criticize this person as much as Van Fleet is, and will protest as much to their event if they have the opportunity and if this person gets as much media coverage as Van Fleet.

(also about "democratic western academia problem": I don't get how this argument is a "win". It's basically "right-wing people are so stupid they cannot even find a way to publish something true themselves". If what a right-wing person is saying is true, then you will have universities that will support them, just because supporting someone who tells something that is true is just very very beneficial for the university. On top of that, as said elsewhere, it's not like the whole power spectrum is left-wing, so they will have plenty of support. Imagine the level of effort it will need for the bad university-leftist-owners to chase down every academic that is not a left-wing dishonest conspiracists (being left-wing does not mean a scientist will accept to reject the truth) in the WHOLE WESTERN WORLD so they cannot get any level of power in any one western uni? And at the same time, there are plenty of academic people who are right-wing, have done very well career-wise)
Surely this would discourage anyone posting legitimate reviews of their workplace but quite honestly, Glassdoor seems to only be for companies themselves to have a "badge" and not the potential employees.

I don't think it would be missed if it were to disappear tomorrow.
Not sure, shouldn't be used but I've still had a Samsung SSD show up without the m.2 SSD in the box and the same for some ram (when I went from 16GB to 32GB a couple years later).

I feel like this behaviour is in part a reaction to infinite growth and the accumulation of wealth these days. The divide is becoming so large that nobody can aspire to have the things that they want to have, which is all the more depressing for gen z knowing that previous generations have allowed trillionaires to exist, and the general political attitude from wannabe millionaires and billionaires is that everything is OK.
I'm not saying to ads them up! Please read my comment, as I very clearly stated that there was overlap.

"Ultimately affordability is the primary factor, it's indisputable."

What comprises affordability? It's cost and income. It does not matter what the cost is if you have no income because you have employability issues. Until you fix the employment aspect, the cost aspect is moot.

You can point to a poor quality blog post that doesn't examine all the factors all you want. Perhaps that makes it "indisputable" in your own mind, but thats not going to convince people who want to have real conversation about the root of the issue.
> And yet, somehow not dead.

I can't remember the last time I looked at yelp, pre-covid maybe?
I mean, not compared to having to stand up an entire server cluster of Docker containers and friends
Right: and that's not a single, continuous function that works for all inputs—specifically, it fails on the input B itself. BxB = 0.

Any solution will have a discontinuity in its output vector angles. I don't know how this problem is applied in computer graphics, but you probably want to avoid rendering objects in the vicinity of a discontinuity: you'd get some kind of flickering artifact when you cross it, with small ɛ-displacements being amplified into something much larger.
Spreadsheet is the grandfather dataframe
Plus the water isn’t an input/consumable.
Well you see, because other people can break the law apparently means you're allowed to break it too.
τ = 2π, so you're off by a factor of 2.
Lumixion-e1-70k-fncall-qlora
Lumixion is the first ever vast array of multi-modal function calling models easily available for usage. This is the first iteration finetuned on 70+ samples with qlora and many other optimizations. https://huggingface.co/AgoraX/Lumixion-e1-70k-fncall-qlora
Victim mentality won’t get you far
Wow I haven't seen a link to Conservapedia in a looong time. Out of curiosity, I clicked. They claim physical reality of the biblical flood: https://www.conservapedia.com/Great_Flood

And wow somebody has put a lot of work in this page https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia_proven_right Great resource if you want to know what US bible people care about. They have institutionalised their confirmation bias.
Also not a book, but I read this article a couple years ago and it's stuck in the back of my mind since:

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
> You need a second burn just to enter orbit

Not necessarily - it is completely dependent on the ascent profile. For example, during the Apollo program, the Saturn V would fly directly into a parking orbit and only relight the S-IVB for the Trans-Lunar Injection burn.
> What causes more demand? - more people.

Also, a speculative boom, cheap credit, and a burgeoning short term rental market among other things.
If the air can hold more water at its temperature it will pick up more water.
It's SpaceX's problem that they're not where the public expect them to be.
> To me it is axiomatic that the value of a human life is not something that can be measured in dollars.

That's a laudable view.

If you were put in charge, how would you formulate policy for managing a resource-constrained health system?

> I see it as absolute proof that we made the right decisions, or at least something close to the right decisions

Have you seen the excess deaths data for Europe 2020-2022?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqb9qDsWAAELo-m?format=jpg&name=...

[EDIT: changed to the English version...]
Every generation has been saying some form of this about the next generation. If there is "moral decay", you'd expect shoplifting to go up, for instance. The crime statistics don't seem to support that narrative.
Look at the historical graph of value.
I find it hilarious that all the money pumped into Glassdoor has created less useful information about companies than the Better Business Bureau.
I think Yelp only survives through its integration with Apple Maps. If Apple ever decides to build its own review feature I can’t imagine Yelp surviving.
This does not work on all non-zero vectors, hence your "non co-linear" comment. If the vectors point in the same direction, the cross product is zero, and you have an extra degree of freedom when choosing your "up" vector.
It's kind of like creatively debugging the universe, constructing weird scenarios to explore the edges of things to fill in missing terms in a model.
Is that it, or can some sort of appeals clownery continue?