skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Models are already general, and you can set them to recursively self improve narrowly and still need humans in the loop for general improvement... but those humans are only going to get less... so change your years into months instead and multiply by rand(2)... and change the hire-backs into more startups doing more things...?
I used to use the Upwork tracker a lot which sends the screenshots to a third party (Upwork) where both parties could view (or remove) the screenshots. Having some kind of trusted third party or paper trail (if sending by e.g. email) seems necessary to prove any potentially-produced-later screenshots were in fact created at the time of work.

It might be different for others, but for most sensitive data I'm privy to on a job (api keys, their users' personal data), my employer could or should already have access to all of that. I've removed the occasional screenshot that had a personal dev tool key or similar though. Typically all this should be covered by a contract with a client though; they shouldn't just be stealing API keys and whatnot from your screenshots...
I generally like IEA stuff, but you also have to be careful about using them as a standalone source.

The IEA WEO is infamous for its inaccurate solar capacity forecasts over the last 10-15 years. They repeatedly assumed annual solar additions would flatten out (i.e., future years will not see more additions than recent years), despite the roughly exponential growth that was obviously happening. After doing it 5 years in a row, you have to wonder what was going wrong…
there's gambling and sports betting and copyright violations (aka Netflix of everything for free) websites, not just CSAM thats a problem. And "visiting" makes it sound benign. Using a website you can do all sorts of stuff. Anywhere there's user created content, you can do all kinds of illegal things and break all sorts of laws. Send death threats, drug deals, money laundering.
Previous discussions:

2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26002656

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289832
And yet, levels have been measurably going down, and Europeans are already fairly deficient since they don't have as many iodine supplementation programs:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9459956/

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/iodine.htm
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Lots of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999
I'd never heard about this, but I found Bentley super likable and easy to root for. I hope he manages to get things going in his direction soon.
The abstract doesn't say, but my guess would be that a mature queen has a more functional immune system than larvae/eggs do.
You might enjoy watching the emergent behavior in the execution of this 256 byte program - a mind is born [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8
I think you overestimate the degree to which your choice of words overlaps with those of others, especially when you try to be more specific than a generic noun by applying modifiers or less-used nouns. What you call a daybed I might call a couch or a sofa or a lounge chair or a chaise or a hassock or a flat couch or a downstairs bed or a family bed … and all this presumes I speak the same flavor of English you do, or that whoever made the data set is familiar with the type of furniture I live around, or how it’s used. The examples are literally limitless, before you even get into the truly subjective things - not just names but opinions about things - that people might want to use to connect digital things to real things. Stuff like ‘larger than average’, ‘wasteful’, ‘beautiful,’ ‘sacred’, ‘durable’, etc etc etc

Believing there is one map from the real world to the world of symbols is solipsism.
Stagnation is a good thing. It means you got it right. Your search has found a local optimum. For example, the screw cutting lathe has been stagnant for about two and a quarter centuries[1]. Sure, there have been incremental advancements--geared heads, power feeds, numeric control--but the basic UX is fundamentally the same. You have gears (virtual or physical) to control the feed rate of the cutting tool, and hand wheels to move the saddle and compound.

EDIT: I'd bet the unix shell experience is similar. It's hit a pretty stable point where it's unlikely to be revolutionized. There are certain improvements--tools like atuin[2] are nice--but fundamentally the UX will remain the same: you type text commands into a prompt, the basic readline controls work, you may have tab-complete. Text editing has hit this same stable point. You're not going to do better than vim or emacs.

EDIT2: Actually, I think GitHub is a good example of this kind of good stagnation. The code review experience of GitHub's competitors is largely the same as GitHub's.

[1]https://ocw.tudelft.nl/wp-content/uploads/ED2011_2_Fabrikage...
[2]https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin
Eliding intermediate strings of a term rewriting system when you can prove the answer without them isn't cheating in any sense of the term.
Did I read this wrong, or is the article essentially "Microsoft screws up security over and over again. Let's throw humans in Russia that are exposing these vulnerabilities under the bus of a dictatorship and possibly get them killed in a war. Instead of forcing the gigantic cooperation to not screw up security over and over again and finally clean their house"?

Wow.
These nicer masters tend to also be used on other audiophile digital formats, such as "High resolution" downloads, Super Audio CDs, DVD-Audio, and other niche formats.
Do any of the media server solutions retrieve metadata (that someone has made, if they have) for you? I would happily rip discs while I do other things so I can have the convenience of playing from a server and the ability to pick up where I left off. But I draw the line at entering all the metadata and sample images and stuff for seasons of a TV series.
>> Why do you want to prevent people who actively want to do these things with their phones from doing them?

I don't want to. I want Apple to make the decision. I want Apple to make 1000s of decisions for me around my phone. They seem to be good at it, at least with respect to end users.

And, no, a non-app store phone wouldn't be convenient. Uber is very convenient. So is my banking app. There are dozens of very convenient apps on my phone.
Having submitted a number of “product breaking bug reports” through official channels while using a paid support incident, can confirm Kafkaesque and a multi year support process.

Oh, I can get a person to “respond” to a problem with a paid support incident. But the person responding is clearly hired only based on their ability to respond to an English email, once a week, with either, “thank you, I will forward that to our engineering team” or “thank you for your patience, our engineers are still looking into that issue.”

Severity, impact, paid support, none of that matters. Heck, it’s impossible to tell if it’s an actual person or just a sophisticated shell script.
Thanks so much for sharing this resource! It looks like much of Eric's work remains untranslated into English -- have you read the original works in French?
Stars are hired because they make the studios money (as a marketing vehicle), not on some money-wasting whim.
As far as I'm aware, it's perfectly legal (in America) to make copies of media for your own use, even if that means removing the DRM.
Glider guns have a period of 30, so you could work them out on one tablet of graph paper if you wanted. Or just let a computer do it frame by frame and pay attention.

This isn't a rebuke at all btw, it's a suggestion, this is a fun and edifying way to spend some time. Don't know if your kids are old enough for it yet, or have the interest to play along, but you might enjoy it.
I fell down the pontifier rabbit hole from a HN comment in early 2021 as well and I’m glad other people have found the story as fascinating as I did.

I do think the article makes him a bit overly sympathetic and glosses over some of his eccentricities. Like the fact that he seems to really think he can build a nuclear fusion reactor from an old MRI machine and I guess all of the Nem saga: https://whoispontifier.wordpress.com/2018/05/14/the-journey-...

I still haven’t decided if all this is or isn’t some sort of elaborate performance art, but I appreciate the effort in any case. And even though I think he’s probably a few cards short of a deck, you do kind of root for him in the end.
armchair physicist moment: isn't this a straightforward outcome of c as a global "speed limit"? effects can't propagate faster than c, so I would expect that interaction "latency" decreases linearly with scale.
Popularity and talent are not the same thing. Some of the most popular stuff is not really a product of being extraordinarily talented (to me Taylor Swift is an example of that). Having some talent is the bar to become popular but even way before social media era it doesn't mean the most talented are actually the most popular, and that's fine, I just don't like to see those conflated as the same thing.
We still don't take math and science seriously enough in this country (USA)
You're confusing unlikely with impossible.

A family relative is 6'4" female. Unlikely, but not imposible.

Although a D1 scholarship athlete, she recently asked an elderly (60+) male relative to open a jar for her.
My most productive time was when I was alone in my mid twenties. I did so much cool stuff that I look back fondly on between 10p and 2a. Once I found a wife and had a kid I have almost no productivity outside of work but I honestly don’t care. Life is good.
The irony of most articles is it's about impressing and not impact.

So employees who speak to impress can sometimes stay on the employee / management track.

Leaders who look for leadership track people are people who know how to have a conversation that is direct, sincere, and done with proper considerations.

Employees who try to impress the csuite are trying to show off. Impact is the 2 sentences that you lead with that unpacks the explanation if needed. If you summarize quickly then you have time to unpack and discuss more on equal footing as them as a problem solver. Executives aren't just handling the thing one employee is talking about to them. Understanding value, effectiveness, etc and how it aligns with the leaders you work with is critical.

If they share the vibe of handling problems and not making small things sound bigger than they are, they can stand out.

I'm trying to look for an article about this if I find it I'll share it.

In the meantime, this one is not bad.

https://www.linkedin.com/business/learning/blog/career-succe...
I mean this in the best way possible, this is the best mind-trip I've seen in weeks.
'Apple is going to war': US lawsuit adds to iPhone maker's antitrust woes
“it’s just as possible for a woman to become the best as any guy. But there are so many difficulties and social boundaries for women generally in society. That is what blocks it.”

The complaint kinda gets at the heart of the competition divide. A driven guy would say "that's what motivated me"
https://archive.ph/huVoX
> It's cheaper for them to literally pay a guy to stand at a boom and get that information than to install the technology required to track that automatically.

It depends of the local cost of labor, also the technology is easier to scale, imagine New York City having employees at the bridges writing all the entering license plates! And searching through those records how many times a certain plate entered the city on a given time frame. To me the problem with technology is that they’re used for lazy policing to just inflate the numbers of solved cases. There were cases of cops feeding hand-drawn suspects to face recognition software. Every case becomes a “throw something to the wall and see what sticks”.
redbox isn't nearly as convenient as having it delivered to your house.

however, it does make me wonder if owning/operating/maintaining all of the boxes is more or less expensive than paying the USPS to deliver and collect on behalf of your service.
> They're saving 12%, on the best days. The average is 3.8%.

According to the article it is 12 tons/day on the best days and 3.3 ton/day average. 14% average with 37% max for reduction of greenhouse gases emissions.
There is a video by veritasium that concludes with this animation. It gives you goosebumps.
This is a bit of a non sequitur, but ok, VW in China is built by the Chinese SAIC. The 16K price was a temporary sale price.

In Europe this model of VW is imho over priced indeed, and price sensitive people should buy Korean/Japanese cars anyways.

Aside, what most people seem to miss is that the model mentioned in the article is not for sale in Europe and likely will not be (rumours because it does not meet safety criteria). Its bigger brother is, but that one is also a lot more expensive.
it's a non-recourse loan though, so if Reddit didn't IPO and you can't pay, you don't owe money you don't have.
I'm not denying that there's money in the industry - every portion of the software industry can rake cash due to the extremely high margins that software has compared to just about any other industry.

The magic is finding which subsegments might have even higher margins than others.

Crypto used to have fairly high margins, but all the easy gains have been claimed by larger firms as it's a much more mature industry now, but portions of the ML space still have much more opportunity for growth, so it makes sense to deploy capital there (this is a very high level view so take with a grain of salt - B2C and SMB B2B and Enterprise B2B have entirely different GTM motions and path to profitability).

But at least for me, I can't justify participating in a Series A round for a crypto startup compared to an MLOps startup today.
It’s actually working pretty well. I’m usually am satisfied by the AI response atleast 50% of the time.
what was the 409a?
Reminds me of Ardent, from Alice Grove: https://www.questionablecontent.net/alice1.html
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You're probably right, because the part of DMCA 1201 that criminalizes individual acts of breaking DRM has about 40 different exceptions, plus a general "this is not intended to overturn fair use" clause, plus a rule-making process that lets the Copyright Office add more exceptions if they feel they are necessary. Given that there is already caselaw in favor of format shifting (e.g. RIAA v. Diamond) it's highly unlikely a court is going to say format shifting is wrong if DRM is involved.

None of that matters because nobody is going to try and litigate against individual disc rippers, they are going to litigate against the people who actually wrote the ripping software, and DMCA 1201 is far more harsh to them. There is basically no exception to the prohibition on DRM-breaking tools - I'm not even 100% sure that, say, verifying each individual's usecase before letting them break DRM is enough to escape DMCA 1201's ire.
I answered this question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801083
If that is not enough, let me know.
Ask HN: Why do people pay for Auth0?
I've done user accounts a fair number of times in the past. There are some footguns but it doesn't seem so bad with existing libraries and frameworks.

Why do people pay for Auth0, then? Is it because dealing with SAML is annoying? Or maybe it's an easy thing to point compliance folks to, since it's an established company/product?
The tailscale k8s operator actually does auth as well as vpn.
Right:

Netflix is an all you can eat buffet... It's cheap and the food is half assed at best. Every now and again the come out with something good but your gonna eat a lot of mediocre to get your moneys worth.

I can pay Amazon or a theater to watch ONLY what I want to see. I pick it I pay for it. If it sucks I'm out 3-6 bucks for a rental or 15+ for a theater. Unlike a restaurant, you're never getting a refund or a freebee if the content is bad.

Or I can watch something like tubi. Where I don't have a true profile... I get to watch ads' to watch content. IM trading a bit of my attention for not pre paying for the hope of good content and being able to abandon something if it is bad with a minimum of loss.

Give me a streaming service with a reasonable amount of ad's and give me a micro transaction to skip them when I really want to...
Ecosystem, Developers, and entrenched education/skills win the day.
There is a paper at the end of this link trail and that paper discusses everything that is wrong with SQL including concision.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39798528

et voila: https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2024/papers/p48-neumann.pdf

see their comments on WITHIN GROUP and redundant declaration of identifiers. As for boiler plate, SQL's turf war over plain English words as reserved names creates this interesting situation of boiler plate identifiers in SQL to disambiguate from reserved keywords.
No worries, I only noticed because there was another thread pointing out that that post was also a duplicate of the original a few days ago.
Cancers are not all deadly. even big ones.
E-Sports, chess, soccer - all competitive sports is 100% male dominated.

Statistically speaking, women are incapable of having the same performance as men. That's why trans-women dominate in female sports.
The fake bags definitely have packaging. Fake documents, fake dust covers, fake Hermes boxes. They go all out in some cases. Usually not for the $30 hand bags sold on the street (though you’d be surprised as to the fake documents some of the Louis Vuitton's have inside), but the higher-end reps can be astonishing. A $30 bag masquerading as a $1000+ bag on a street corner isn’t going to have the same accoutrements that a $30 pair of fake AirPods masquerading as a $150 pair will. But a fake $800 bag masquerading as a $18,000 bag will usually come with the goods. Same is true for watches. It’s just the cheapest stuff sold on the street in those categories don’t bother.

The fake AirPods box thing I’ve seen for a long time, again, the tell is usually small differences in font/printing and how they do the pull tabs. The box fit is often different too, but since most of these are presented sealed, people don’t know.

Maybe this really was a ring of fenced goods, who knows. But my guess having seen these things for years is that they were almost certainly a big group of the very common fake AirPods that proliferate eBay and Facebook Marketplace and OfferUp and the like and that are probably incredibly popular in foreign markets where the official products are both more expensive and a greater percentage of GDP.
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I'm not sure what your point is. You were saying some people don't need to go to the dentist because you didn't have cavities, but that's not a generalization that holds true and it doesn't really go anywhere because someone only knows if they didn't need to go to the dentist in the past.

Again, it's like someone smoking their whole life and living to 100 then saying "some people can live to 100 while smoking all the time". You don't know until it has already happened, it doesn't help anyone.
Unfortunately the evolution has been happing both on the seat shrinking side and the people widening side.
Dignity is closely related to sleep deprivation
"Doctor, what's wrong with me. My children smell...delicious."
"Nothing. We'll test them for chickenpox."
Argument is that making these things is inherently very expensive, but the actor salaries tell me there’s plenty of left over once production ends. There’s static costs and there’s more fluid ones
Seems likely that they would move into the voice generation platform arena like elevenlabs before competing with Siri/Alexa, but they’d likely add this functionality to ChatGPT at the same time as a demonstration.
This would be the final straw for me and I would have to move states. It's unbelievable what these state employees spend their time on, as if they are some kind of lordship ruling over the peasants.

> But amid the debate over rate design, we’ve lost sight of the much bigger challenge of how to bring down utility costs overall

You increase supply!! Build more nuclear!! Then it will be cheap for everyone. But nooo, somehow the cost of nuclear is more than the cost of climate change.
yeah. Older generation Thinkpads had better suspend than mac's did, back in like 2015 with the butterfly keyboard issues
Optimizing Energy at the System Level
I see there's still an audience for this apologist bullshit. In the
cake of life, the women are literally the eggs and butter, and the men
are the chocolate sprinkles. Yeah we're mostly useless (as the
one-father-many-mothers ratio attests), which is why men evolved for
greater variance. We are in other words the "spice of life."
Probably not! I draw your attention to a paragraph from Gardner's column which introduced the Game of Life:

> Conway conjectures that no pattern can grow without limit. Put another way, any configuration with a finite number of counters cannot grow beyond a finite upper limit to the number of counters on the field. This is probably the deepest and most difficult question posed by the game. Conway has offered a prize of $50 to the first person who can prove or disprove the conjecture before the end of the year. One way to disprove it would be to discover patterns that keep adding counters to the field: a "gun" (a configuration that repeatedly shoots out moving objects such as the "glider," to be explained below) or a "puffer train" (a configuration that moves but leaves behind a trail of "smoke"). I shall forward all proofs to Conway, who will act as the final arbiter of the contest.

https://www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns/october1970.html

A related question is whether, after Bill Gosper won that conjecture a month later with the Gosper Glider Gun, did Conway then suspect that Life could be simulated in Life. I haven't been able to dig up a definitive answer but I suspect it's "yes".
Yes but PIV/CAC identity is not related to break-glass passwords. They both serve different purposes and it's safe to assume that the typical government worker will only ever need to use their smart card to authenticate into systems.
Annual physical is along the same lines as the 6 month test cleaning, that’s health insurance
Indeed. Benchmarking Pack as a file system was fun. It is near 10X faster to let you iterate all the files compared to what I get from NTFS (warm with all caching on for both solutions).

Someday, it can be used as a virtual drive. I leave it to future people.
The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla
Anywhere. Young people have to move to thriving cities to get better paying jobs and education for better paying jobs, because they cannot afford homes where they were born with the salaries and opportunities there.
pretty much nothing the rotten state of California does should constitute a surprise to anyone anymore
https://archive.ph/HrtNC
Perhaps maybe not a super recent example but I remember Bruno Mar's 24k magic sounding very "loud"/compressed.
A Trail Gone Cold
They’d still do it for less money if there’s less total money in the market. It’s not like a bridge where a pound of steel costs X and not much you can do about it
> We found that access to GPT-4 only slightly and inconsistently improved the quality of participants’ legal analysis but induced large and consistent increases in speed.