skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like a description of a team or department that has no product owners and no requirements elicitation process.

Quality aspects can be measured, and resulting requirements will mitigate technical debt, unless you put that analysis so far down the backlog that it falls off. But all of that is management or 'team overhead' work.
The way they use it is so stupid. It's this constant game of trying to one-up each other and create a "personal brand"

I really don't get it, people can't just sit and do shit in the moment, everything has to be for status. This trend of injecting marketing into literally everything needs to stop, that's no way to live
Free shipping isn’t really free (2020)
You don't even have to be a big 5...

I have been consulting over a decade now.

I used to wonder if I was going to get pushed out based on age... I suspect that I could work in tech till the day I die.
Their growth is becoming explosive, growing 1m+ users per year, 10%+ YoY is pretty good at that scale

Maybe you are not aware but LaTeX is a proxy on research. Are you bearish research? I am not.

long LaTeX. Long Overleaf.

ps: they also give exposure to crypto as many needs LaTeX editor!

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2012: Overleaf is founded

2021: 9m users

2022: 10m users

2023: 11m+ users

source: https://www.overleaf.com/blog/wow-ten-million-users
I bought a house full of zigbee sensors. Any recommendations for a good USB dongle?
Love (really love) the name, but how does it work precisely? Wasn't exactly clear after about 60 seconds of skimming, and well, that's as much time as I dare spend before getting back to

...crap what was I supposed to be doing again?
Those are good points. I would have thought that the trend would started around 2015/2016 if global crises were the main cause. There is a small jump in 2016 for 18-25, but, I don't want to read too much into it.
700 carats
Developer: Uh, OK then

This is also why our software is so bad. Developers have no backbone and won't push back against this stuff.
Anecdotally, it feels like it goes through phases. IIRC after the wake word (OK Google) triggers the device to start recording the actual command is processed remotely. I suspect that Google Home voice commands are going to be low down the pecking order when they assign resources so it can work well when there is excess capacity but if resources are tighter they'll degrade the quality.
When soldering irons are outlawed, only outlaws will have soldering irons.
> over 50 crowd

IBM probably wouldn't hire them anyway, even if they publicly say they will for PR reasons.
Why would they cut the features that they’ve already spent money to hand build?

Sure maybe the vast majority of potential users aren’t going to pay extra for every wizmo, but there definitely are smaller cohorts of premium users who are willing.
Are medical studies being written with ChatGPT? [X]
$1bn valuation = 20x multiple?

hence you need $50m ARR so you need 250k paid users at $200 / year

thats 12.5m users at 2% conversion
Earning a PhD is about showing employers that you are capable of producing novel research results. You should earn a PhD because you are interested in deeply investigating a research problem, and also because you are interested in pursuing a career in research despite the uncertainties that entails, particularly the competition for academic positions and the trend in industry away from unfettered research and toward business-driven research.

If you cannot live with the uncertainty that a research career entails, and if you feel that earning a PhD is a relationship/sexual repellant, then you should consider another career path.

Besides, a PhD didn’t stop Oppenheimer and Feynman.
I recall the 7 day JR Pass used to break even if you were going to do Tokyo -> Kyoto/Osaka and later back to Tokyo over a trip, maybe with an extra trip basically anywhere that could be a day trip. (e.g. Osaka to Hiroshima and back, or Tokyo to Sendai, or...) Now with the increased price you need even more trips to be worth it, which can be challenging in just 7 days. I don't think the restriction on not being able to use the fastest bullet trains is that big of a deal for most tourists.
Actually the Podcasting 2.0 app Fountain does have a web app!
https://www.fountain.fm/radio

By all accounts though (podcasting stats) people almost always listen to them on mobile devices, an app being the logical choice there.

The hosted lightning wallet Alby does have similar functionality you're thinking of, it's built as a browser plugin though.
https://getalby.com
I see that post, on its own (I don't do twitter), and think it's just a clever satirical post. Something above the stage of "John Wilkes Booth drank water, and so did Joe Biden. Coincidence?"
Anecdotally I had general anesthesia a couple times in my 30s and both times I felt like I came out of it permanently stupider. No complications or other observable side effects either. I’ve done fine in spite of it but this makes me interested again!!
The title is a little self congratulatory and might confuse cause and effect.

IMO many of the things listed are just side effects of this type of culture and the culture is 99% decided by the existing culture at founding time and hiring processes.

You can’t have a demo day without hiring intellectually curious people who like to share. You can’t pay a flat mid-tier salary with options that punish all late arrivers without just refusing to hire people that value their labor higher.

I’ve seen this mistake made at many companies. The critical piece is your hiring, retention, and performance management.

The rest of the stuff around meeting styles, knowledge exchanges, etc is all an emergent property of the team.

Engineering culture cannot be engineered. You can cultivate it by pruning out the personalities you don’t like and figuring out how to select for the ones you do like, but that’s about it. Changing the culture otherwise is pushing a boulder uphill.
When I was a kid, it was video games that were ruining a generation, in my parents generation it was "the devils music" that was turning them into a bunch of degenerates.

I wonder what the issues where when Galileo was a kid?

They title says "epidemic of teenage mental illness", but do we not discriminate between mental illness and mental health? Where is that line?

I'm not suggesting social media doesn't have it's challenges, but it is the tool. We need to take responsibility for what we view/engage with, just like diet, we now must understand we have a mental diet and we need to treat our digital tools as the kitchen.
(re: lasers...)

Also, don't ignore the used market. The price of a used printer can be low enough (if you are somewhat patient) that new printers are either an impulse buy or a very carefully researched one. (ie., not in the middle).

I have two of the aforementioned Brother laser printers (older generation), $20 each. If I see another using the same cartridges for a similar price I'll grab it and toss everything except the toner unit and the tray (no space for three printers).

Edit: if you go this route you should be somewhat familiar with the age of the tech (so, you aren't absolved of some research). For me, it's a bit simpler for now, I already have consumables for the TN420, so I just look for that. At some point it'll be old and I'll have to do the roadwork for something newer.
RDNA 3 has a platform security processor?

Sounds like a stupid idea.
It is a simulator of the Amiga Workbench, a UI you can run to operate the OS. Over the years many versions came out with slight differences. This allows you to play around without actually running the Amiga emulation.
Microkubes.
Millimeters
So how do you define a minority? Muslims are the second largest majority in India and also the world. Also, if as you say muslims are oppressed in India, how and why is it that most muslims from Pakistan and Bangladesh want to enter India and none of the existing muslims within India want to leave.

One only has to follow the population trends of muslims inside India, and that of non-muslims (especially Hindus) in Pakistan / Bangladesh / Afghanistan to understand the truth. Please do not go about spreading falsehoods when the things I have mentioned above can be checked independently. Please.
Python dev considering Electron vs. Kivy for desktop app UI
Hey folks, I'm working on building a simple desktop app for Windows and Mac that needs a basic chat interface and ability to set up API keys. I know Python but not JavaScript/React.

Should I go with Kivy since I know Python, even though I haven't seen great-looking Kivy apps? Is it possible to make decent looking apps with Kivy? I hear people say it is but I'm yet to see an example that looks nearly as good as what you get with JS frameworks.
Or do I bite the bullet and learn Electron/React for a sleeker UI, despite not knowing JS?

I'd like to get this done quickly without too much ramp up time. Kivy has the bonus of potentially compiling to mobile too. But a nice UI is important.

What would you recommend for a Python dev looking to build a decent looking desktop app UI without too much overhead? Thanks!
Only street view is used in Geoguesser (thus a slightly more limited dataset). AFAIK Individual photos (even ones that can make up a janky sort of street view) aren't included
Meanwhile, at Google: "Let's add our podcast app to the long list of Google Graveyard apps and further erode user trust!"
For visibility, youth suicides are up compared to a low period in the 2000s preceded by higher rates than today in the 90s
I can't seem to respond to arcticbull, the person who responded to me about this not being a good way to live.

When I say I don't desire a retort, it's because a retort is a failure to think. I have many good discussions with people who aren't trying to retort or dunk on people. There is little of that here and to suggest any of the people I've replied to wanted a real conversation is what's disingenuous.
Anyone working on getting us out of the Nvidia monopoly on commerical AI should be praised. We need lots of competition in this space.

I'm hoping Google spins off its TPU division and sells chips to everyone that wants them.

I'm hoping AMD gets their act together and that they open up their drivers and stack.

I'm hoping a lot of other hardware companies and compute stacks start making inroads on this.

Nvidia is not just bilking the whole world on margin, but they're also a limiting reagent in the grand scheme of progress.
In the 1960s the teenagers of the day (who are the people who have been in charge for the last 10-20 years) were inheriting the very real threat of global nuclear war, something that those born after about 1980 didn't need to worry about as teenagers, and it's only really the last few years that it's cropped back up again as a possibility, but it's still nowhere near the level of the 60s.
TIL. I'm still in shock.

edit: This explains why my oven clock, which I correct frequently, is always WILDLY inaccurate — either too fast or too slow.
I think both you and sibling abirch are right in different contexts and I love the contrast in what issues you identify.
I mean, a single sophon could have eliminated humanity by itself using a fraction of the power presented as being possible in the books, in hundreds of different ways.

But I do think it's worth suspending disbelief a bit to try and enjoy the other ideas presented. It's fiction for entertainment, not a serious warning to stop broadcasting signals out into the universe.
XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams
Actually no. My intent was not to keep my site up past my grandkids lives, merely to show that a small amount of money could manage that (if that money was itself managed for that purpose). But it sure seems like that's a fun project.

I wonder what it'd take:

- An llc/ trust with enough ownership over the contents to host them

- A statement in my will that certain domains and accounts should be signed over to them

- Some executor who is tech savvy enough (probably at the LLC / Trust / Entity) to actually transfer domains, content, and set up hosting.

Given all this, it might be $5000 to host a site for 100 years, assuming $1/m ($1200) actual costs, and $20/y ($2k) domain costs, and a little extra for the execution bit.

We've basically built the wayback machine / internet archive, except with opt-in hosting at the original domain (only the ip changes, I presume).
Amazing! Thanks for the detailed notes, and the insight.

Dictionary does still need work — especially around some words like soiree which got culled by our dictionary builder. We'll iterate on building it out (without adding "garbage" words

Interesting re: weakest link rule. Agreed that can be unintuitive when learning the game, but it's one of those rules that balances the game well overall. Possibly we just need to be better at explaining it.

Re: the end game — the current computer is just not-very-good, so a future NPC might play better there.

And good things to mull over re: undo buttons / highlighting tiles / letter distribution.

Thanks again for the detailed feedback, really really appreciated
If by UBO you mean uBlock Origin, you can do one better. Use it's eye dropper tool to select elements of a web page to block. I use is it to block Youtube premium nags, comments, side bar of other content, etc.
Okay so to summarize, casual dismissal of an entire field of medicine, insinuation that patients are faking mental illness to "look cool," justify their selfish behaviors, or get access to drugs, and that interventions for severe symptoms of mental illness either don't work or make things worse.

It really does feel like I was bred in a lab to exist as the counterexample for all this. I was diagnosed with ADHD in middle school and my parents thought exactly as you did and refused treatment. For a long time I held this as a point of pride and thought of my parents as saving me from those cruel teachers that just wanted to keep me down, any why would I question them? I have no other frame of reference and was marked "different" by my teachers and other kids so all of my struggles were just framed in terms of that. And so it went with my anxiety and depression, I didn't have an illness, I was a worrier that just needed to calm down. I didn't have depression I was lazy, angsty, and logical -- that's why I didn't get out of bed all day, thought everything sucked and existence was pain, and so numb I could give Spock a run for his money.

Fast forward to college where I was getting my annual checkup and flu shot and I got my first ever mental health questionnaire. I answered honestly because at the time I genuinely thought that my experience wasn't unusual -- "Doesn't everyone think about killing themselves all the time?" I got referred to a therapist and eventually a psychiatrist for confirmation (because teaching hospital) who both didn't even take an hour to be clock me with all three. I got put on an antidepressant, an anti-anxiety, and a stimulant over the course of about a year and a half and I felt something and then cried for the first time since sixth grade, realized what not having anxiety feels like, and what life is like when you're not constantly in pain from under-stimulation.

I just can't bring myself to think it's all quack science when I was so thoroughly dressed down by these two guys so fast and who took a little less than two years to get them all sorted. It was surreal when the psychiatrist just described my whole life experience without even missing a beat. Life changing undersells it so much and it came out of literally nowhere for me.
Current submission title [0] is ambiguous, it doesn't say if it's committing homicide or being the victim of homicide. It's the former. The full quote:

> undocumented migrants in Texas were about 26% less likely to be convicted of homicide than native-born Americans over the decade of 2013-22

0: "Undocumented migrants in Texas 26% less likely of homicide than native-born US"

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Actual quote
We have a colour inkjet, it actually does seem to mostly work even though it's only used sporadically. Generally agree with your assessment though: cheap used laser. Make sure you know about the consumables, but I'm happy with knowing that it's cheaper than inkjet and not being picky about the exact cost.
Let’s do a concrete example. B is a Turing machine which has 2 symbols, and uses base 2 to encode numbers. N is a Turing machine with n symbols and uses base n to encode numbers.

Suppose that machine N can print out string s with a program k symbols long.

Machine B cannot literally print out s, in general, because s can contain symbols which B can’t print.

If I understand you correctly, you are saying “so what?” We can just encode the n symbols of N in the obvious way, using only the two symbols of B, and then we just program B to emulate N. Right? Do I get your point?

If so, well how much longer is a program for the emulated N than the program encoded in N’s native language? I calculate it would be O(log(n)/log(2)).

So, as n grows, the length of the translated program also grows. We can make the complexity measured by B to be as much larger than the complexity measured by N as we wish, just by increasing n, the number of symbols used by machine N.

Now, if this were just a constant factor—if the discrepancy was just O(1) more, I would agree with you. Yeah, sure we need a map, but that’s just a constant bit more of information…oh wait, the size of the map is going to grow with at O(log(n)) as well…

O(1) we can sweep under the rug. O(log(n)) we can’t, because this means there is a trade-off between the complexity of the Turing machine and the complexity it assigns to strings.

A more complex Turing machine will systematically assign less complexity than a simple one does.

I mean in retrospect, this is obvious: I can reduce the complexity of any number to 1, just by using that number as one of the symbols in my machine.
Pi has infinite digits and can’t be printed out? No problem, just include “pi” as one of you symbols and you can print it in in one character.

This is easy to miss, because very quickly most presentations of Kolmogorov complexity settle in on a binary language. Then they prove, say, an invariance theorem, saying, e.g., that any two Turing machines will assign the same complexity up to O(1)…

But that is if you hold n constant. If you can vary n, then a tacit presupposition of those theorems is violated. Those theorems no longer hold.

If you have a black and white monitor, you can’t display a green pixel. Sure, you can use dithering—assign different bit patterns to each color. But then you need a bigger monitor, because the dithered pixel patterns are more than 1 bit long.

Similarly, a binary machine can only print two symbols. It can’t print 3 symbols, any more than a black and white pixel can display a green pixel.

And even if we relax the requirement, and say it doesn’t have to be literally a green pixel, or literally a third symbol (“literally” is a most appropriate word here) we find we need more pixels, or longer programs. And the more colors we want to dither, the more pixels we need.

I hope this clarifies; I’d be happy to answer any questions.
Article title: "Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter" (og:title, title, h1)
In the US, I'm fairly sure your bank account number (routing and account) can be used to withdraw money.
I know only what they have publicly announced. And none of what I have seen, not their past record, indicates they have a future that will be any brighter than that of their competitors.
America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws
I doubt eBay was originally built with PHP - when it was founded in 1995, the very first PHP version had been available for barely 3 months. I expect the original EBay was mostly Perl, which was the standard at the time.

The others I don't know, but MySpace was not a particularly big operation. Before WordPress, most sites started as PHP at some point were expected to migrate to something else, because maintainability of PHP3/4 projects was a big challenge (hence the "shame"). Facebook was the first company that simply refused to do that, and focused on improving PHP instead.
And that you can accurately determine difficulty and/or confidence.
Automated gem cutting exists, but is only used for lower value stones. If it were such an obvious slam dunk the industry would be using it for stones like this too.

I like to use Toyota as an example, because they famously reject total automation as a desirable goal. The believe having humans in the loop creates a learning loop that gets the best overall result, so they optimize for a sweet spot between automation and human.

To use an analogy from art, automation doesn't replace the artist, it replaces more limited paint brushes. As amazing as recent large model advances are, there's also a clear difference in how effective humans are at using them to get the desired result.

If you're just playing around then a simple prompt to finished image pipeline is convenient and shockingly good. If you're being more specific about the end goal then you need the model to expose more fine grained ways for the user to express what they want and modify the intermediate results. This why you see Adobe et all focusing on that kind of "smarter tool used in detail" approach.
For me it’s mostly how slow some people talk. This is especially true for some content when I can understand it at a higher speed, for example Dota replays. I feel like I’ll get more out of the time watching two in the same when I can understand 95% of the nuance. I also have ADHD so wanting it to be faster could easily be part of that.
Devil's bargain. The friction losses you save in dragging water up are more than compensated for by the loss in propulsive efficiency.
"Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"

No.
Lightning allows single sats worth of micro-payments in real-time, perfect for tossing a few bucks someone's way vs. paying much higher fees and waiting for blocks.

The Podcasting 2.0 spec also includes the "Boostgrams" feature allowing you to send messages to the creator with your payment.

Speaking of offline support the recently announced Hedgehog protocol builds off of lightning and is much more asynchronous.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/super-testnet-introduces-hed...
Runs nicely on safari on iOS
An easy-to-understand, single-price ticket that doesn’t require detailed planning is a very good argument for tourism.
Here are some screenshots and links for the 1992 edition of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines.

https://safereddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/me2r7j/macintosh_hum...
I see room for distinguishing between a particular model + simulation protocol, vs. a model designed for flexibly running qualitatively different simulations designed by different researchers.

For the latter, emphasis on the model as a platform vs just a simulation, makes sense. I.e. a “digital twin’ meaning a rich flexible model capable of being the basis of many different simulation scenarios, not limited to a designed in class of simulations.
To make a blanket anecdotal statement, personally they seem to be fairly with it on new technologies. Not the most in depth understanding but definitely above the average person.
Please don't post race war comments to HN. That's the last thing we want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html