skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a hard time calling this "useless" or saying I saw "no sense in doing [it] at all". It originally actually did seem like a great idea. But ultimately all our work was for nothing, so I think it maybe does qualify as useless.

It's 2009. After spending 5 years at my first job, I got the opportunity to work for a small (15-person), new (around 6 months old) startup. I jumped at the chance. While I was grateful for my first job (the mentorship and experience turned out to be incredibly valuable), I wasn't really excited about it anymore.

The new gig was going to change higher education. No longer would students carry around several tens of pounds of textbooks. Instead they'd carry around our tablet (we planned to sell a one-screen and two-screen, foldable version). It was fairly large, and supported touch and pen input, so students could highlight and take notes directly in the textbooks. The iPad didn't exist yet, and the idea of pervasive touch screens was still new but exciting.

We all worked so hard on it: 12+ hour days, 5, 6, and sometimes 7 days a week. I would roll into the office around 10am, and on the worst days drive home at 2am, sleep for 5 or 6 hours, and start it all again. I was tech lead for the team that built the middle layers: the UI framework, graphics, and parts of the input stack.

A year passes, and the company has grown to over 200 people. The product is shaping up: there are bugs, of course, and a lot of missing features, but things are going well. We'd been getting a lot of press and had done talks and demos at tech conferences.

And then we (the rank and file) learn that the company can't get digital rights for any useful amount of textbooks ("come back in three years when we renegotiate contracts", the publishers had been telling us), something it's clear to us that the founders knew for a while, but hadn't told us. The first iPad had been released out nine months ago, and after initial skepticism, people were starting to realize how versatile and useful it could be. To top things off, despite the iPad's smaller size and lack of pen input, it cost less than what our tablet (even our one-screen version) would need to cost to just break even.

So that was it. The company laid off half the staff (mostly on the hardware side), pivoted to making iPad apps, and sold off the hardware IP for pennies on the dollar. I lasted a couple more months before I quit, disappointed and disillusioned.

In total it was about 15 months of 70+ hour work weeks, completely useless. I'm sure a lot of people have failed startup stories, but this was the only one that I (in hindsight, perhaps foolishly and naively) poured my heart and soul and time into.
And then they will use that for all work-related communication. And in secret, they will thank you profoundly for allowing them to just disconnect in the evening, because nobody wants to call THAT phone.
The article explains later on:

> For some time now Somalia has been partially dollarized economy. U.S. dollar banknotes are the most popular paper currency, with old shillings being used in small payments and in the countryside. Mobile payments are extremely popular, but they are usually denominated in U.S. dollars, not shillings, and tend to be prevalent in cities where network coverage is best.
I realized while waiting in line why Apple Pay makes sense to some people but not me: They're all on their phones in line, I'm not. So for them, it's a cc in pocket vs a phone already in hand.
I imagine there would still be a relationship with `c` in a fourth spatial dimension, but it might be useful for taking shortcuts around 3d space without having to violate causality.
Claude API can now access the internet via "tools" that you can create
But to answer the original question: I worked on a huge, year+ refactor with zero user impact. Hated it and felt very insecure in my job during it
Anthropic have released "tools" for Claude API- seems to be a way to essentially create plugins.

https://youtu.be/6wkFb2_cUik?si=6gdpubgOiSUTlCAq

(Not sure why there isn't a blog post or news on this yet, just a yt video).

I use a GUI for the API called typingmind, which has already implemented these and now you can search the web using google with Claude3.

Here's a screenshot with the sites it searched:
(and it was much faster than Chatgpt):

https://i.imgur.com/2HxcT6k.png

Here is Chatgpt4's response:

https://i.imgur.com/IMqPfGK.png

So, not good - reading a page from Nov 2023 (though I wasn't specific, Claude figured it out).

Here is Google 1.0 Ultra's reply:

https://i.imgur.com/bUxRf9S.png

(FYI in the main screenshot I used a query that came to mind that was recent; not trying to be political)
I did not. Thanks for sending!
I wonder if Greek (not considered in the paper cited) might beat even Japanese for syllables per second. I'm learning it and it sounds incredibly fast sometimes.
I don't think I learned anything about tables from the pictures of rectangular grids found on cave walls. Most of us don't "work in tables", but we have all still seen some, made some, and know what they are.

You might read the famous Edward Tufte book, https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
Maybe on aggregate but the devil here is in the details.

Plenty of people buy houses in "on the rise" areas and reap the benefits as desirability increases, it's true. Even market crashes like in the mid/late 00s don't impact their long term prospects. But there are also dilapidated cities and small towns in this country that have fallen from their heights never to recover.

It's easy to look back after owning your home for a decade and conclude it was all inevitable, but the "home ownership" bet is one that the house you're buying in will be in a desirable area in the future. This isn't always going to be true, and it's a real risk.

And yes there are protections from being on the hook for the full levaraged amount. You can walk away from an underwater mortgage, but if you put in a large down payment you're kissing that goodbye, and it's still a pretty big disruption in your life even if it's one you can recover from.
The difference is the tap to pay location is usually not obvious, and FaceID will fail sometimes.
where can i read about this cisco thing?
Hardware keys should be provided to all employees, because employees will use it for both personal and corporate authentication. It's a true win/win scenario.
Subject: Woof!
Body: I SEE SOMETHING!

I love it.
Here's their CSV file with a scrape of the GPT catalog homepage from yesterday - 117 rows: https://github.com/beetrove/openai-gpts-data/blob/main/OpenA...

Here's a link to open that in Datasette Lite and apply a couple of facet filters to it (for author and list):

https://lite.datasette.io/?csv=https://github.com/beetrove/o...

This uses a custom SQL query to include their logos in the table as well: https://lite.datasette.io/?install=datasette-json-html&csv=h...
On top of this, most times when I am renting, is via an airport. Airports are everywhere, but not everywhere. They're 1-6 hours from whereever you're going. And if your destination is say 4 hours from the airport, necessarily one is going to be worrying about charging as such. That alone slaughters the business model.
>Second, start working to deconstruct capitalism and the state

Or just kill yourself, it will achieve the same result, but faster.
Maybe we can process more than 39 bps, since people will often increase the speed on podcasts. Perhaps the challenge is in transmitting.
I do the programming for free. Taking the annual leadership impact and cybersecurity training survey is what they pay me for.
Appreciation is a good deal for speculators and flippers, but for normal homeowners it isn't worth much. If all house prices double including my own, the money I make selling my house just goes into buying a new one.
I'm not being hyperbolic. Its influence cannot be overstated, and therefore neither can be the consequences of its journalistic malpractice. Numerous sordid examples spring to mind, but I won't list any here. A moment's reflection on just the last 23 years alone ought to do the trick.
That's true but this is a clinical trial where the patients are being treated- the patients were selected according to strict criteria, and received other treatments in cancer centers. It's not really just "coinflips", it's heavily biased coinflips.

Maybe I should have put this in a more productive way: I prefer studies that have a large enough n that you can actually measure the failure rate. There's a classic statistics paper where an operation was done on 3 patients and none died- the paper's title is "If nobody dies, is everything OK?" and goes into whether you can reliably conclude causal effects with very small n.

Further- let's say the drug caused remission in 50% of the patients, and the other 50% had spontaneous remission (or remissionc aused by other aspects of the treatment). Now it's not 1/2 * 12, it's 1/2 * 6 (or whatever base probability you want to choose). If you compare that probability to the number of people in clinical trials in the US, you would expect that after 30-40 years, you'd see at least one trial with 12 patients with complete remission.

(I don't actually doubt the drug is effective. We already know that. And we already know that studies this small really stretch the concepts of significance and causality).
Unfortunately nowadays people seem to have the same understanding of the terms "statistically significant" and "proven causality". There's no way a single study can prove causality and the closest we can get to reaching for the truth is meta-analysis.

Not saying studies results are invaluable. They can certainly point to the right direction if done right. But just a single RCT won't be enough to prove causality.
If this supports TLS, I would use it all the time.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930072
> I personally I’m gonna open up a bakery in France and just hope you all manage ok.

Sorry pal, smaller French (and EU) bakeries were decimated last year by soaring energy costs. Along with many real jobs.

Actually it seems rising energy prices are much more effective to shrink workforce than AI...
Using mismatch repair has been a concept for almost a decade now, the initial pd-l1 papers were very much focused on it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5576142/
I'm no expert, but it says it's Dostarlimab, which is billed as a monoclonal antibody. Some googling suggests that monoclonal antibodies and checkpoint inhibitors are both immunotherapy approaches, but that they aren't the same.
Original HN post on this same subject from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630679
The best is how they flash different phrasings and formattings of "do not remove card" just to make sure you're paying attention. I used to slide the card until recently when it became disallowed, that was a way better UX.
I rented from an airport car rental once and the lot was _full_ of unused cars, and this was RDU which is a fairly high-volume airport. I can imagine you’d maybe have issues if you wanted a very specific kind of car, but even then I doubt you couldn’t find something comparable for around the same price
They already paid millions to develop and sell another 2 versions of this. No way they want OPs,
If someone wanted to argue that The Washington Post is worse, I wouldn't put up a fight.
Not since his vacation-style treatment.
There are actually companies to work for where you can get involved and develop ownership over things, and where how well you do relates to the success of the business. If you have a good relationship with your coworkers, you may even want to do a good job to try to maximize the likelihood that not just you keep putting bread on the table but they do, too! Crazier things have happened.
Even better, 4D Golf was released a couple weeks ago [1]

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2147950/4D_Golf/
At least make them send you the C&D! And you can get some attention for your hard work in the weeks/months before they do. Who knows what it will lead to?
> It's evolution. If something is better. It will take over.

That's not how the evolution works actually. How it really works is: “If it's better at spreading itself then it will take over”, but it says nothing about the intrinsic quality of the trait. And for memes (literally speaking, as described in the last Chapter of Dawkins' Selfish Gene) it means being cool enough for people to copy, no matter if it's actually more efficient at conveying information or anything.
I mean, isn't the solution exactly the one you did?

I keep reading all these problems regarding gaming, but what people forget to include is that all these problems are about *multiplayers gaming*.

There is a whole giant universe of single player games out there that's beautiful and free from dark patterns.
And a small universe of couch coop games.
I remember when I was working on https://medium.com/@tomasreimers/compiling-tensorflow-for-th... I thanked my lucky stars that TF used Eigen and not one of the popular math libraries (BLAS, Lapack) written in fortran b/c that would have been A LOT more work...
Microsoft eats its own dog food and refers to internal “alpha testers” as customers.
Lucky for you to have the privilege to protest quit from moral outrage. Not everyone is so lucky (in fact, most people aren’t).
How expensive are they to make these days?
There's also one in progress made from human stem cells that blocks a teeth-regrowth-inhibitor, causing mice and ferrets to grow more and new teeth.

It should allow human adults to grow new teeth over a period of 2~5 years, if removal of the old teeth is surgically assisted (the roots are too deep to have it work automatically, thus evolution of the blocker). Oh, and it's systemic as I understand, so usage would involve pulling all the teeth present when starting.
I present to you.... www.donaldsniffs.com
Are we going to see colo-rectal surgeons on the endangered species list, not to speak of other cancer specialties?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2gABYTmXos
It's not unlocked until you unlock it. The only reason the phone is more convenient for some people is because they're playing on it while waiting in line.
As a developer or someone shipping products, if you want robust sandboxing, WASM is probably the best option available to you right now. And there are ways to deploy it or cross-compile it for most targets.
Working for big tech, our Director wanted to add "ML" to one of our workflows no matter what. He identified a "problematic step" and a team of scientist spent 1 year coming up with a ML model to replace this step. I was asked to deploy this solution in production.

When we tested the model (which somehow hadn't happened before) we found that the workflow was 5% quicker, but the results were more than 10% worse, and was more expensive to run. Everyone hated the idea, but the director kept pushing to do it, "or I'll find someone else to do it". I ran away and never looked back.
In .NET specifically it's not an issue because taking on a dependency means you always get the source code in the form of IL assemblies with (usually) symbols (either way these trivially decompile back to readable-ish C#).

The actual final product you get is when publishing (building) the application itself, similar to Rust the way crates participate in the build process.

Nuget packages still can and do ship pre-compiled native dependencies but ideally you want to either provide your own (think sourcing libsodium separately and just getting the bindings from nuget) or instrument the corresponding .NET project to build a native dependency alongside it (very easy with <Exec Command="..." /> properties in csproj).
Yeah, the sender-side is probably the main bottleneck, just consider how often people speak filler phonemes like "uhm", it's so common that you might not notice unless you're looking for them. They are basically placeholders into the data-stream, to indicate that it isn't over yet but there's a delay producing the next item.

In contrast, consider a listener who is equally focused and invested as the producer: They don't often indicate that their own buffer is full or request a repeat. While you may say "hold up" or "run that by me again", it's usually for reasons other than word-rate. (For example, to prompt the producer to try another encoding, to express disbelief or contempt, etc.)
Next up: What language has the most information bits per [blank] when in written form?
Then perhaps only the latter part is true.

Having spent time in academia myself though, my reading is that while everyone professes an epistemology that accepts its own limits, in practice everybody behaves as though they'd grasped absolute truth through divine revelation.
Go out with a bang. Release it, enjoy your 15 minutes in the spotlight, and when the lawyers come a-knocking, shut it down. Or make it open source and let the community take the wheel and the responsibility.

You never know what opportunities this adventure might bring, but certainly more than just keeping it on your hard drive. Go for it mate.
Thank you! Yeah, a 7.4 is humongous. I did wonder about this because my wife's family reported quite intensive shaking and I've been in a 6-something before and that was quite disruptive. I can't imagine a 5.1 being that much.
It's not ridiculous but it is quite dated - there's better approaches for packet processing at scale nowadays.
> To avoid dropping user events on the client side a small, inline library listens for user events at the root and replays them.

Im curious about this sentence.

Does that mean they deliver the replay system to the client first, and replay early events back to the server before full interactivity is set up client side?
bad ideas are bad. even if one can do them
I'm learning to play chess, does that count?
The 2024 Prius Prime has an MSRP starting around $33k. So about $8k more expensive than the hypothetical $25k Tesla, though it does have the advantage of actually existing today. It has about a 40 mile range on electric. When the battery runs out, it switches to gas, where it gets about 50mpg. Car and Driver rates it a 10/10.

I'm very pleased with my 2018 Prius Prime. It only has about a 25 mile electric range, but I have short commute to work so it works out well in my case. Most of my driving is in electric mode and the car is very responsive with quick acceleration. When the car switches to gas I'm reminded that it's a Prius, not a sports car, but it's worth it for me. I refill the tank maybe once every three or four months. It's one of the cleanest cars on the road.
Maybe it is avoidable, I don't know but this isn't a random website. Consider your letsencrypt example, they don't rotate the root CA cert every few months (I think it's several years? A decade+?). Ir any root CA cert or the DNSSEC root signing key (it's a big deal, there is this whole ceremony about it).

The rotation isn't what stands out to me, it's the fact that the secret material wasn't on some HSM. Rotation can be tricky but why allow applications read access to the private key material at all.
Does anyone know if there's a real-time feed of Earthquakes somewhere? The USGS website doesn't post the Earthquakes until 10-15 minutes after it's over - which nullifies any type of automated warning for our data centers.
The Somali Schilling has fascinated me for years - because it's living proof about how mediums of exchange work - all people have to do is believe that something is worth something.

The something is unimportant, could be slips of paper, rocks, bits of shiny metal, trees, really anything - there object need have no intrinsic worth - it doesnt even need to be portable either, just that people agree X object changed hands and Y person owns it now.
Dagster saved $40k on ELT spend with embedded-elt
Yak Yak Yak, another framework which solves nothing in this world of despair. When has a framework ever solved a war?

"Use us, because we are google"; I'm tired of this walled garden sheep and pony show. It's a loop on repeat.

Show me something. Show me something of worth that's come from these frameworks. Something that cures my cynicism, because all I see from the internet and the future being more restricted with entry points and exile because your not following suit.

Next week: some other framework we should all use.

Maybe I should equip Cloudflare to save me from the downvoting.
Everyday users are complaining that the internet is more chaotic than
Just one? What about Turkey? Saudi Arabia? UAE? Qatar? Russia? You could probably include Vietnam and Jordan.
The article is also from 2017.
I think most people would prefer a study with more participants, but you can’t jump to a large human trial right away
This article is terrible. Here's a link to the actual paper. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6984970/pdf/aaw...

Figure 1 on page 3 is incredible. I'm so annoyed the article didn't include it. It cleanly visualizes how different language families have wide ranging syllable rates but remarkably similar information rates. Honestly the entire article could be replaced with just this image.

If you're really lazy here is said figure on imgur: https://i.imgur.com/QUbhBKq.png
The style of ChatGPT? I've not read many high school essays, but I can easily believe that. Maximum length of generated output is about the length of a 15-21 y.o. student essay.
This needs a [2017] in the title.
I'm not sure how this thread got off on this tangent but I don't think there was ever any attempt to comment on whether there are or are not tornadoes on the west coast. The discussion was the lack of extreme events typical of the northeast.
Just read this:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...
I'd say less transmitting, and more preparation of the message.

"Please move" or "Get the fuck out of the goddamn way" both communicate the same information, one a bit more colorfully.

establishing and maintaining context, desired action and desired outcome take (well, me anyway) a substantial amount of time. Partly (for me) figuring out what the desired outcome actually is, and partly encoding that in a way that will be well received.
Can't share details but we basically listed mitre tactics and what out of box detection/prevention/logging each CSP provides.
(Good) podcasts are not recorded at anything approaching the normal limits of understanding. They're paced for good conversation or storytelling and know that the vast majority of their listeners are multitasking, not giving them their full attention.
> Says who? You didn't back this claim up with anything.

Why would I need to back that up ?

> No one has ever said it 'only' iterates, you hallucinated this claim. The whole point that I've made is that just because a language like haskell uses recursion for iteration, it doesn't mean iteration and recursion are the same thing or that things that iterate have anything to do with recursion.

Why the mention of haskell all the time ? I'm not even talking about statically typed languages here.

The original conversation was about the intellectual benefits of recursion, not iteration == recursion. Recursion is a way to think about problems that I find more general, precise, creative and economical I tried to convey why, I'm not the most precise but this is getting nowhere. Feel free to enjoy your life.
wow an API service for something like archive.is? They have API keys but I can't seem to find any documentation... is it a "check network tab to figure out how it works" kind of docs?
The article points out how Imation was eventually bought out just for the trademark, so it sounds like they gave up on the manufacturing / material science and just became like any other floppy disk.