skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a case like this where the product is built and available, how is a cofounder supposed to work? Part of being a co-founder is taking on the enormous risk and not-being-paid (yet at least) for the early work. If most or all of that work is already done (especially if you already have paid customers), what does a cofounder bring to the table in exchange for taking a massive chunk of the equity you've built up? Do you just find a co-founder who is an investor and can at least bring some money to the table? But, then why would you care about YC?
> Of all the things in which a scarce planet resource could be spent on.

... creating thinking machines that are capable of things no human mind could accomplish in a million lifetimes might be the best.
As a software engineer, our confidence that and means "both of these things" is high. I feel like you're taking quite a gamble doing that in law.

Anyone posting to a blog might also be regarded as shipping.

You're also focusing on one gotcha while ignoring the other terrifying clauses here. Are you still using the spec for internal purposes if you are talking about it?

IANAL but I strongly recommend any hobbyists or open source people steer the hell clear. These are terms for no engagement other than those willing to pay the anual fee.
When running some water to warm up before turning on the shower head, I can tell when the hot water has arrived by the distinct change in the sound as it splashes on the shower basin. The splash sounds soften when the water starts to run hot.
Thread adds mesh networking on top of 6LowPAN. Thread, and Zigbee and ZWave, don’t have range to cover whole house so need relays and added mesh.
> was obviously not meant by the creator as a serious performance claim.

Clock speed is not performance much like voltage is not power.
If you want another known bad case: https://sephirotic.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/neon-genesis-eva...
I think this is exactly correct:

“Perhaps the blowback is a sign of a wider weariness that people have accumulated towards big tech companies over the past few years, mixed with a nebulous malaise about 'AI' and what it means for the status quo and people's livelihoods.”

To the former point, I think it was Doctorow that coined the term “enshittification”.

To be fair to Big Tech, they’re not any worse than healthcare companies, or airlines, or any of the countless (sometimes it seems basically all) corporations that have been steadily turning the crank on making the modern experience a little worse every year for typical people (I’m not interested in silly summary statistics like per-capita GDP or the CPI, those are gamed to hell: give me an arithmetic mean and I’ll give you a corrupt system).

It’s that so recently they were so much better. When I joined a FAANG in 2011 I had no issue wearing company gear around. People would be like: “that’s awesome I use that every day it’s great”. By 2018 I was lying in coffee shops and bars about what I did for a living (one of the main reasons I left).

Regarding AI broadly construed, it could be used as a wildly powerful tool for leveling the playing field, the way Google was when it appeared. It’s in the hopes of realizing that outcome that I work on it and am so vocally critical of those who just trivially don’t want that.

But it could also become the greatest tool for oppression since the firearm, and I think the public is starting to get wise to the fact this is unfortunately the path we’re on.

It’s trite, but I always come back to this: when the robots are finally capable of doing all the work, do we get Star Trek TNG or Blade Runner.

The technology is a step in either direction depending on how it’s used and regulated.
You might like Erlang.
all the crows can tell i'm crazy, but i've never met an insane crow.
RE: A - not sure what definition of shrinkage you're using, it depends on whether the Packers take inventory on their own balance sheet or not. This is orthogonal to whether packagers are independent contractors or more "employee"-like freelancers.

Of course an MLM agent need to take inventory on his/her balance sheet, otherwise that wouldn’t be an MLM ;)

For example, a restaurant employee may be asked to compensate for losses due to an unpaid bill (i.e., shrinkage). It may be illegal, but that's what usually happens.
What a strong negative opinion, really proven my point. Ads by definition are very broad, maybe you only see ads only in the form of tv / youtube / mobile game ads that halts your activity and forcing you to consume the ads content.

Ads also comes in a form of storefront banner. By your definition, then there shouldn't be McDonald's logo on top of their shop's front door. So how can you know that building is a McDonald's?

Yes, it is generally intrusive and non consensual. But if you say nobody ask for ads, you're very wrong. If you're going to a forum to get game recommendations, you're looking to be advertised. Steam recommend section or hot deals or storefront page are all advertisement. Game trailers are advertisement. They just don't really feel as intrusive as yt ads, and an example of good ads in my book.
> sentenced to three years’ probation and 70 hours of community service; she had to undergo a mental heath assessment and wear an ankle monitor for three months

While I respect our justice system, as imperfect as it is, extreme outlier failures are heartbreaking. Reminds me of reading Bryan Stevenson's book
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
It's because staying on top is really really hard. The default expectation should be that a company doesn't stay on top.
> Ukraine, EU and US are engaged in a full out war against Russia and China.

That is wild hyperbole.
Truly a brave new world.
Discussed the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40283954
hahaha! I guess it's for those who don't
The solar inverter here on the farm dropped off-grid 18 times between 11:30 and 16:15 here on western Sweden, on closer observation this seems to be caused by the voltage running too high (up to 250V AC where 230V is normal). This happened while the Swedish electricity networks have shifted down their production to make sure they have spare capacity in case of damage due to the current geomagnetic storm.
It’s all the same. Whether it’s rational or not isn’t really relevant and is subjective.
One can do things under duress without recognizing their legitimacy.
Can anyone explain why hot water tastes different to cold water? Is taste not separable from temperature or is there another mechanism at work?
They have a pretty solid exchange / buy back program and are working toward 100% recycled materials.

Wild that some thrift store items are causing such a stir.
I’ve been using a blunt metro umbrella in SF for years now and it’s been great with all the winds here. A bit pricey but the quality is there!
> AFAIK, whatsapp is still dependent on your mobile being the primary source. It has "link a device" feature, which has some of the features but cannot be used as an independent client.

Not anymore
https://blog.whatsapp.com/one-whatsapp-account-now-across-mu...
They don't need Linux style containers, they control the OS. The Linux container situation is just a hack around the general API instability of the Linux userspace, a problem macOS doesn't have.

For inferencing workloads they also don't need to control max RAM or CPU usage as they can just dedicate the entire machine to handling requests.

And for sandboxing, Apple's sandboxing infrastructure is actually the best of any OS (but mostly private unfortunately).
Make TypeScript Fast Again
> People complaining on Twitter don't have the power to fire/remove anybody.

So, start off with a blatant misdirection. They shouldn’t, but the evidence is this works.

> that is your (or your associates') fault, not the whistleblowers

Frame cancel culture as a noble effort, ok, go on…

> Don't do stuff your employers will find distasteful - Vote for candidates to end at-will employment and give stronger employee rights

Just don’t disagree with liberals and vote the way they want you to! SIMPLE SOLUTION! Why didn’t I think of that!?
The FS-UAE emulator (https://fs-uae.net/) emits the familiar grinding floppy disk sounds of Amigas, if you need a hit without getting the old hardware out :-)

I was surprised by the sounds while trying "Little Computer People" for a nostalgia trip after reading "Hacking Little Computer People on the Amiga" (http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/hacking-little-computer-people-o...) last summer.
How old were you when you first saw it?

I know when I go back to movies that "blew my mind" when I was a teenager or in my early 20s, now 30 years later, they're rarely as incredible as I remember them being..

I'm older, wiser and with more life experience, and it's therefore much harder to "blow my mind" as they say..
> the disadvantage might be more about how grossed out people might become if they realize how old some of the food on the shelves might be.

Only if you've never knew that before? I mean, I guess that's true: I know that e.g. cereals and past can go for years if store properly but if you never knew that, it may shock you. But if for you whole life you've seen labels "Shelf time: 18 months" on various foodstuffs, that's just the piece of general ambient knowledge.

> if they needed to also include the origination dates of each ingredient, recursively

Well, this is ridiculous, so they are not required to do that although, of course, there are (self-)regulations on how old can the ingredients be for the manufactirers to be able to claim the shelf-life they want to claim.
> there is no column level security – e.g. I want to show payment_total to admin, but not to user (granted a feature for postgres likely)

So don't put it in the same table.

> me and my colleague been making changes to the same view and we would override changes from each other

You don't use version control and a test suite?
Until the European Union becomes aware of this.
I would imagine it has with the biomechanics of our tongue as it relates to available dissolved minerals.
I tested it some days ago and I’m really impressed by the quality and usability.

I mean, some things aren’t working (like touchID or external displays) but everything else is working incredibly well. Everything that still doesn’t work is well identified by the team and they are working on it.

I didn’t stumble upon something that barely works or is unstable.

Even their work with the audio "driver" is amazing since it is capable of overdriving speakers safely which allows the same sound quality as in macOS. It looks like it’s the first time it happens on Linux on any hardware.

I pretty much recommend testing it, you only need some disk space and the installation from macOS is really as easy as running a command line and being asked how much GB you want it to use.

Since it uses the native UEFI bootloader, it’s also pretty easy to uninstall, just delete the partition and you are done.
Corn fields occupy how much of each state?
If you've ever driven through the Midwest, you already know you can drive hours through the landscape and see one thing: Corn fields

I took it up on myself to see exactly how much space Corn Fields occupy in each state, and the results are quite interesting.

Here are the top 3 Corn states by surface area occupied by Corn

1. Iowa 36.4%
2. Illinois 29.7%
3. Indiana 23.6%

The US also is one of the top producers of Soybeans, Wheat, and Cotton, which also occupy much of the Midwest and Plains, but not as much as corn does. To see those maps, please see this blog post! :)

https://www.blog.grainstats.com/p/occupy-agriculture
Feel free to go outside in headphones and put this[0] on.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=086uhG3Rf3U
it makes sense to me that the chemistry of taste would be very sensitive to temperature. but often, heated water has more substances in solution
In whatsapp, there is a primary source (your phone) and you can "link" other devices with the primary source. This is different from how telegram handles it. In telegram you can use sms login to use the client from multiple clients, within the same smartphone, or different devices. With whatsapp, you can only have one sms login device, which would be primary device. If you use sms login with another device, you wont be able to use the previous device. To overcome this, it has a feature which can allow you to link your primary client with other clients but it is janky and does not have all the features. For matrix on the other hand, the encryption keys are tied to the account.
> But in the real world, any editor you use not only show it but also show a type error if you made a mistake

Praytell, how does your editor show you a type error when both `needle` and `haystack` are strings?
But circular references don't leak in Java. You have to have a GC root (e.g. a static, or something in your runtime) somewhere pointing at the thing to actually leak it.

There is one case where a "circular" reference can appear to cause a leak that I know of: WeakHashMap. But that's because the keys, which are indeed cleaned up at some point once the associated value is GC'd, are themselves strongly retained references.
They say it also has a ballistic parachute.
Ahhh cool. Didn't actually remember that, though I had a faint feeling they were related. :)
If the nuclear reactor was the only thing that needs water, yeah. But if we're at the point of installing a nuclear reactor on Mars, I guess we would also be actively mining and processing water in large quantities.
We have a variety of ways to make insanely precise measurements of light to the point of counting photons. I’m guessing that factors into being able to detect microlensing.
For those who perhaps do not know Welles, but can afford 5 minutes, I offer his live transformation into Falstaff from the Dean Martin show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ6v7GHYDbM
I live in NYC (Upper East Side in Manhattan) and I don't think I could live without a car. It's just so nice to be able to leave whenever you want. On your schedule, in your own private space. I don't drive around in the city - driving here is stressful and a huge drag. But if you ever want to go hiking or biking outside the city, or leave for any reason, having your own car is a blessing.

I'm not saying you'll save money by owning a car here, that's definitely not true. It's a luxury item in this city. But it is very nice to have one at your disposal.
I highly recommend "Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer" for more context about how the ENIAC came together. It includes the point of view of the programmers of the ENIAC who are often left out of or diminished in other accounts.

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kathy-kleiman/provi...
I guess unisuper will get a truck load of free credit from this fuck up. anyway, I won't suggest GCP to any question related to cloud service provider.
Just so you're not surprised later - the acquihire-to-big-company stories I've heard all involved the team having to interview for the jobs via the standard process. So it's not so much a shortcut into a FAANG, necessarily. There's also a chance that while you'll make some money as an owner, they might not find a spot for you depending on how your own interview goes. Also wouldn't hold my breath for the team staying cohesive even if they all pass. Wishing you good luck, hope it ends up a positive experience!
As always with laws this is very location specific. In germany there is a very clear clause about patents not applying to "Actions carried out in the private sphere for non-commercial purposes" (§11 PatG, own translation)
Apple Closes in on Deal with OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone
Most places deliver for free (or a minimal charge), so this isn't a big deal.
The F series is not a car.
i wonder why marvel 'forgot' to add that tva has a side gig as a power company. it makes sense in a way.... it does seem to require a lot of power
Go's defer works like RAII and does not introduce indentations.

f := createFile("/tmp/defer.txt")
defer closeFile(f)
writeFile(f)
> Now, it's fairly obvious that rotating by say 22.75˚ is the same as rotating by 45˚ and then -22.5˚ - i.e. we can break up a rotation into smaller parts, with both positive and negative components.

Wouldn't that be rotating by 22.5°? Is this an error in the article or my understanding?
My favorite Simons interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
Then don’t use it. This isn’t a requirement to use Python. It’s just one of the alternatives including notebooks, a text editor, or an IDE. But notebooks are very popular in some fields, and it’s nice to see new things.
Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/S on FreeBSD [pdf]
The essence of the “innovators dilemma”
Also in a major US metropolitan area. My GPS has been acting up for months. I wonder if there is an attack on that occurring. As to the geomagnetic storm, overhead fluorescent light fixtures were flickering off in sequence, just like in the movies.
Well, I wouldn't go that far. The Acella sucks if you have to depend on it. As does Amtrak. It's expensive and crappy. Public transportation is designed for getting people from the boroughs into the city center, not the other way around. If you use public trans for leaving the city it's very difficult to get from the train station to your final destination, there's just so few options.
That oil is sold unprocessed and won't be powering anything unless it goes through a fairly expensive processing and logistics chain. Iran is also extremely inefficient and unproductive - it's a state after all.

Similarly, African raw materials form the core of many computers and yet Africa is still poor - because the raw material itself isn't that useful.
This reasoning doesn't quite work.

If you're multiplying a polynomial P by a linear factor L = (x-a) with a being a nonreal complex number then at least one of these statements is true

1. P does not have real coefficients

2. PL does not have real coefficients

I think you try to avoid this in what you say by multiplying P by a linear term with a complex root whose conjugate is already in P, but if the conjugate is in P then P wasn't real to start with.

The term with the complex root has to "balance" with its conjugate for things to work out. E.g. (x-a)^n (x-a*)^k has real coefficients only when n=k or a is real.
I have been looking for something like this for ever. Even tried to make my own version, but manipulating a canvas is not easy to make user friendly.

Maybe you'll enjoy this one as well.

If you know anything like this, that also have a few more options like making buttons etc.. do tell :)
At least for the theatrical Star Wars cut there's an excellent fan restoration 4k77 based on a 35mm IB technicolor film scan. The amount of work fans do to restore work they care about more than the corporate owners is always both amazing and heartwarming.
Do you feel like the tutorials on https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/tutorials.html#fundamen... are a good way for someone to get an impression of what the experience of working with FoundationDB feels like in practice? Are there any go-to walkthroughs that you'd recommend?
Iant Harvard 10% best on scholarships and 90% children of rich and connected parents? Not total idiots, but still.
Seconding! It isn’t the easiest read, but there are some good lessons/concepts
Some people freeze up when they have to do their jobs...
I'd heard that the Medallion fund was closed off, so I wasn't really sure of the reasoning behind that continuing fee structure, but that line of speculation does make some sense.
> Good runners are generally healthy as a starting point.

This seems reasonable. I suspect they have other humany advantages: Like being in a place psychologically and financially where a running regimen can thrive.
As D&D booms, 'Critical Role' makes its own kind of nerd celebrity
"Cutting costs by cutting heads"

No drivers license required.

Land of the free sometimes still lives up to it's name.
Show HN: Using ads to mitigate my social media addiction (Barrier)
Hi HN,
I’ve developed an iOS app called Barrier - Social Lock, which is all about managing and reducing screen time on social media and other addictive apps. I built this as a personal crusade against my own social media overuse, using Apple's Screen Time API to keep apps in check. The deal is simple: apps get locked and then re-locked after 10 blissful minutes of use.

Now, when it’s time to unlock an app, there’s a twist: you’re subjected to a 30-second ad. No escape, no alternatives. Why? Because I figured the only thing more annoying than a digital detox is having to watch an ad. It's my sneaky way of adding a bit of a deterrent, and honestly, because everyone loathes ads, it adds a layer of comedic misery to the ordeal.

I'm really keen to get your feedback on Barrier: Are there features you think could make it even better? Any annoying bugs I should squash? I'm all ears for any feedback that can help make Barrier the best buzzkill for app addiction.

Also, I’m curious to hear from other indie devs on your app promotion adventures. How do you get the word out about your iOS apps? What’s worked, what hasn’t?

For anyone game to try Barrier or interested in offering feedback, you can check it out at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/barrier-social-lock/id64482444.... Looking forward to any insightful suggestions!
I forgot to say, none were technically amazing, just good, one not even that but not awfull either.

None had impressive intelligence either.
I disagree.
You can teach a 4-year-old the moves each chess piece can make, but expecting them to absorb strategy, or to visualise 2+ moves into the future is an unfair burden.

The following are much better perfect information games for kids. I play each with my kids and have listed the age when they were able to strategise 2+ moves ahead:

- Gobblet Gobblers (4)

- Onitama (6)

- Hive (8)
Instead of adding more energy they should focus on photonics which is 10000x more efficient computing

TsingHua university just published another step forward to feasibility
I'd like to see a simulation of what that would look like. I mean, if by magic the sun was replaced with an equivalent mass black hole in an instant would anything be visible from earth before the inevitable freeze?
Plus Wagner's ring cycle.
Piano soundboards are almost always wood. There are a handful of companies that offer carbon fiber soundboards but they are very rare and expensive. As the soundboard gains moisture, it swells and buckles as it has nowhere to go, which makes it louder and also raises the pitch a bit as the strings are pushed a bit. When it gets drier, it goes flat (structurally and musically). If it has been too moist, the wood cells will be compacted and crushed. If it is then dried, it will form cracks as the wooden structure rips itself apart when shrinking again.

A piano soundboard that has been built and kept in a desert for instance will not crack. But if you take a piano from a ~55% humid country and put it in a desert (or overly air-conditioned room! or right in front of a heat radiator!) it will die.
With the milky way it's the same thing as the auroras. I went camping in the middle of nowhere USA, and on a clear night you can absolutely not see the milkyway the way it's portrayed in photos. It looks waaaaaaaaay less clear. You need a very long exposure camera to see it the same way as on the internet. The only difference with Europe is that I saw more stars, but none of those nebulas.
It’s important, and can change the tuning in spring and fall cycles

most of the US is too dry in the home, and humidification is helpful for all wood in your home - to a point of course. Approx 55% is optimal

Of course in the south it’s the exact opposite - but A/C usually solves the problem.

Every homeowner should monitor their indoor humidity, it’s important for, wood floors, door trims, wood furniture, and our own health. Too much causes mold, too dry is hard on your respiratory system