skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of Longmont, Colorado's city-managed ISP (NextLight).

They fought the Comcast / Verizon duopoly for a while before founding it. Turns out when good people who live next door are the ones responsible for your basic utilities, you get better, faster, more reliable service with better customer support.

Who knew.
Ok, I resign too. I'm not an OpenAI employee but I always follow the trends.
> less effective than a leaf rake and very bad for health and back of the users.

Citation needed. I can clear my whole yard with an electric blower much faster than with a rake. I also have no idea how holding a leaf blower would be bad for my back or health.
Ghost characters: a spectre is haunting Unicode
I am still hopeful that meta will remain true to their prior threats and leave the EU market in case of additional probes and regulations.

Their platforms have done enough damage to our societies already.
Also…

“Smart” and “brilliant” are all highly subjective.

Pride and ego lead to an amazing amount of bias when you start to think you know “smart” when you see it.

There are no “tests” for legacy admissions and for students whose parents have donated millions.
In transactional financial markets "friends" is not the right word, but there is something to be said about more or less effective alignment of interests and that is purely a matter of design.

There is more than enough money sloshing around, it all boils down to designing contracts and suitable information exchanges between parties. So anybody thinking that the current system is sub-obtimal can try their hand at disrupting the VC system and making history :-)

An arrangement that better utilizes the majority of the entrepreneurial crowd's energy and time is likely to at least carve a niche, if not dominate. It may not even be that hard. The chasing of planet-scale returns (with the corresponding discounting of the rest 99.99%) is a recent phenomenon and may be just an aberration.
Is yours open source? I'd be interested in contributing.

I'm just very wary of giving closed source extensions "the keys to the kingdom" and complete access to all of my eamil.
Ask HN: AWS SES Denial
I created a landing page for my Kickstarter, and built everything on AWS- domain through route 53, connecting my email submission/management through an API (built in AWS) that then hits an AWS lambda function. It was supposed to then call the simple email service to store emails, but when I requested access to production they denied me and asked for more details.
I provided the details as best I could, but they clearly didn't like my answer because, "We reviewed your request and determined that your use of Amazon SES could have a negative impact on our service. We are denying this request to prevent other Amazon SES customers from experiencing interruptions in service. For security purposes, we are unable to provide specific details."
Is there a way to change things so that I might be approved? Or can someone recommend a good alternative?
In that case, how can the rate be fixed or does that mean that the hedge fund limits its trade turn-over. In other words, if your trading fees are 0.2% and your trading volume is 10 times the capital raised, you already burned through your management fee.
Milwaukee just came out with a blower claiming 40% quieter then their last revision hard to tell if the students version is quieter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2NSBAe6bdI
I can't really agree with the idea that a vaccine made return to office "possible". I was only sent home (mandatory WFH in my case) because the local government told my employer there was the possibility of liability if they had me keep coming in the office. At this point, plenty of people were already getting sick and some were dying. That didn't motivate my employer to close their offices. The government and legal counsel did.
A Legal Scholar Critiqued Elon Musk's Pay. Now He's Out of a Job. (WSJ)
Assuming “a section of folks who enjoy loud engines” was meant to apply to your section of lawn business people who don’t is also uncharitable.
Many people have an even quieter one, no yard, what's your point? What's so important about this statement that you had to be the 3rd one to make it?
> to prove something underwhelming, like memory safety or other similarly low-level properties. After all that hard work you'd only end up at the same point where most of the software world -- which is already using memory safe languages -- is today.

I'm not sure why this is underwhelming. You reduce your hardware cost budget by using a low-level language while ensuring you don't suffer from the single greatest source of security vulnerabilities in real programs. These have significant real-world impact.
We've seen that also. You interview someone online, help file the paperwork to get into the country and work visum, and then someone else, a technically much weaker guy, shows up on the first day. We had that twice in the last two years
You are talking about people working in a business.

I'm talking about neighbors living in rural/suburban areas.

EDIT: We have a lawn care guy. He does our half acre in under 30 minutes. Our neighbors who do it themselves - same half acre size - typically take 90-120 minutes. They'll just sit on a riding mower and let it idle for minutes, while looking up stuff on their phones. Or let it idle and go inside for a drink, while leaving it running. They enjoy riding around with a loud engine underneath, like a really slow motorcycle. This is not speculation, it's from talking to them.

The business people have an incentive to get in and out quickly - they can do more lawns that way.

The people who like loud engine noise have no such incentive. They have an incentive to have a lazy afternoon of lawn mowing.
I'm genuinely sorry you have assholes for neighbors.

If it's any consolation, not every rural area is like that, at least around here people just want to be left alone.

Personally I'd buy one of these in an instant, I like being able to enjoy the peace and quiet!
What sweetners are there? They'd have to be pretty impressive to make up a significant shortfall in value.
I will be honest -- I have done little work or used chatgpt, co-pilot, or other [ai code] generation tool.

I can understand why they have done this, though.

I mean, any question you ask is going to be logged as well as the output/reply. I do wonder if there are some legalities to this decision not just the quality of code being (simply) copied and pasted into projects.

For example, lets say I create a game and its 90% code from chatgpt, and I sell the game on steam for some pennies. Could the company behind chatgpt claim some kind of ownership... even if I modified the generated code most of the time? Afterall, they can see the questions I have asked, and the results generated. I am sure they could figure out the projects its for and investigate, right?

Obviously free/opensource projects is a little different... but there could be other legal factors unless they specify "we do not accept ai generated code" or similar.

It is certainly something I would put in place for my own public projects.
What does that even mean? Not regulating a company whose practices offer legitimate cause for concern = Innovation?
I lived in cities for four decades and rural areas for two. Hearing late night gunshots was routine in cities. I think it's happened once in hearing from my rural home. My neighbor is a state biologist who put down a sick coyote.

Or course it can happen a lot if you get the wrong neighbors. But that's more of a risk in the city where you have so many more neighbors.
I don't get how exactly this is measured though. For many app projects, keeping the user in the app is obviously one of the most important metrics, especially for free apps (hence more ads to show and more money to make).

Many UX patterns are fine tuned to keep people in more, which is perfectly understandable as the primary goal is to keep the user in.

Now, who defines "addictive" using which aspect? And even if it is defined, how are they going to outlaw "addictive design"? Blocking UX patterns? Imposing a limit on how quick a user can swipe to next content (which would do more harm than good in general)? Limiting displayed relevant recommended content at the end of content (again, more harm than good in general)?

Don't want to play devil's advocate here but it's not the apps'/platforms' fault here, but parents' fault.

Sugar is addictive. Do we ban sugar, or regulate its consumption? No! Instead we educate parents to limit their childrens' sugar intake.

Parents need to be educated the same way about addictiveness of social platforms and limit their children's usage, but they are probably perfectly okay with status quo as giving a tablet to a kid "snoozes" them for hours so the parent can do whatever they want without interacting with their children, which is wrong in the first place.

I do not work for any big social media platform nor benefit from them, but stop blaming successful social media platforms that have mastered UX optimization, for stupid parents' actions that cause their children to get addicted.

Educate the parents instead to spend more right time with their children.
Of course there are tons of open questions, yet you made a huge false dichotomy.

I would bet
that most people agree with banning sales of alcohol, cigarettes and opioid to kids.
A good YouTube channel “Welch labs” recently did a good history of the logarithm and how it revolutionized the speed at which people could do math
Sorry, not trying to be mean but the company should build(or rent/buy) an office for you to use part time?
You can no longer use Microsoft Word to publish WordPress articles (2024)
How about just leaving leaves for what they are.
Just leave them and move on with your own life.
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but I'd say this thing with attention grabbing/addictive feedback loops seems to be qualitatively different. Are you truly a "free" citizen if corporations have hacked your brain?

This wouldn't be a ban on consumption either. It's not penalizing the person who drinks alcohol or uses cannabis or pays for sex. It's going after the providers, who are not small-time like hookers, but huge businesses like Facebook and YouTube. And it'd not be banning the content itself (so it's not Thought Police) but regulating the ways to provide such content; it's going after the hack-your-brain marketing tactic.

I don't know if it's feasible but it seems fundamentally different to your other examples, and doesn't seem an example of Nanny State either. An addict doesn't really have "free choice".
This was the right thing to do, but I doubt “the right thing to do” was the primary motivator for it. This is smart marketing that helps position them as the more caring, inclusive, and capable tech brand. It also expands their reach more than a fraction of a percent. 13% of Americans have some form of disability.
I don't understand this, isn't most of the noise coming from the air and not the engine in the leaf blowers?
I have been running the best of the best in tools and battery tech: Milwaukee.

The blower and weed trimmer (especially) burn through very expensive batteries (XC8.0) very quickly. It is not a feasible replacement for even a moderate job. My yard is super small and I move quick and have learned to pull the batteries at 50% to keep from ruining them. But I have burnt up at least one $200 battery that will only charge to 75% now. That happened in the first season. Otherwise, performance is good.
I have run a few queries on Elicit to understand the product a bit more. I asked about media bias detection and used the topic analysis feature. A minute or so later, I had a list of concepts with citations and links to papers I can look at further. This feels like an _amazing_ tool to do literature overviews and to dive into new academic domains with which one is not familiar.
I'm just here for the dump fest on Google.

The optimism in Apple threads is interesting. The pessimism in Google threads is interesting. Everyone thinks google sucks and wants Google to do more. Fans/ads/astroturfing make Apple out to be an angel.

I don't like either, its just interesting to watch how each company has different customer personalities and perceptions.

People here are so quick to be skeptical. Good.

The double standard is not good.
I Love Facebook. That's Why I'm Suing Meta.
How about leaving leaves for what they are.
Just leave them and move on with your own life.
ARM Windows seems to be able to run x86 apps, though. I use an ARM Windows on an M1 mac to run BMW E-Sys and it works well enough.
Even gasoline powered echoes claim 87db. The battery powered Egos are quieter.
I'd expected something similar to the John Snow pump handle story -- that once we learned that the virus spreads via air, we would invest in clean indoor air, and innovate ways to make it safer to share spaces with large numbers of people over extended time.

The acute phase death rate may have dropped off (and the data collection has most definitely dropped off, stopped entirely, or became obfuscated, so it's hard to know for sure), but we know for a fact that about 15% of those who get sick, get a long-term sickness that ranges from seriously inconvenient to severely debilitating. We know this from collected data [1], not some statistical models.

My inner cynic concludes that in for-profit healthcare systems, having a growing proportion of the population be chronically ill is actually the optimal scenario: you can dole out treatments and medicines at high prices, and as long as your patients don't die or get better, it's a very profitable proposition. I'm not saying we're doing this consciously like some comic-book villain, but the incentives are aligned exactly so.

1: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2023001/article...
So MS recommended to “stop using the word begin at the beginning of a new line”… insanity

I would love to see a link for this, blows my mind!
ObjectBox CTO here...

Note that this is not just running a lib like HNSWlib or FAISS on top of database persistence. It's deeply integrated with database internals, which is also why in runs nicely with low-memory devices. The entire binary is like 3 MB, so leaves lots of resources to actual vector data and LLMs.

AMA...
https://archive.is/pX6l6

Also, update on the author's blog here: https://ethanzuckerman.com/2024/05/09/a-brief-update-on-zuck...

The update has links to more coverage.
How big is your peer group? Which region? How is it applicable as a general case?
Agree with this completely. I have found it consistently challenging to create the structure necessary for low performers to turn their work around. We have also had issues with people actively working for other companies while turning in poor work, spending most of their time freelancing, etc. It is hard to correct that level of effort when they think it is "good enough". Sadly the whole overemployed phenomenon is ruining it, not because they work multiple jobs but because they are disingenuous about it.
How is this tagged 1986?
Illusion Diffusion Online
So... where's the magic pixie in this story? If VC is not a job -- and remember most of the junior people in funds, it's like their first job in finance -- then what is it?

I mean you've gotta define terms here...
As someone who took more than a year off to build his SaaS - the days of stitching together a prototype at night are pretty much over. You need to be an incredible hustler and have a really good insight into a desperate business need.

Customers today expect polish and few bugs right out of the gate. I spent months on polish alone. If you don't, your product is going to be savaged like this:

"Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s New Photo-Sharing App Has a Design From the Stone Age"

https://gizmodo.com/marissa-mayer-new-app-shine-photo-sharin...
Reminds me of those monitoring dashboards printing lot of unexpected output from checks, which in turn doesn't expect not being able to interact with state files on a read-only filesystem, reporting the wrong state (i.e. critical instead of unknown), etc.

More fan of agents and an HA core for monitoring, than from direct push notifications, but still, used this smartd notifications like 15 years ago in Debian, and never realized of this issue (maybe because once the OS disc fails, we cared more about other issues than about the smartd notification).

Those were the years were you could try to put the mechanical disc in the fridge for some minutes and try again, or with some Seagate disks, change the electronic circuit for other disk of the same model and recover the data (they used to fail in the electronic part more than the magnetic plates).
I was on 17.4 and I took screenshots of my recent pictures, then deleted a recent picture, then upgraded to 17.5. I did not see the deleted picture or any of my older deleted pictures come back.

It seems like there’s clearly a bug (based on the number of reports) just not one that affects everyone.
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Isn't it the opposite? Doing it the manual way with gas is super hard compared to just buying an electric robot mower, especially in large yards.
AI can improve your B2B SaaS. Or at least become a marketing tool
> the OpenVC pitch deck tutorial explicitly says to never include the date on your cover.

Careful, there's often metadata in a deck, if you know how to look.
ViPMesh: A virtual prototyping framework for IEEE 802.11s wireless mesh networks
I just bought a battery powered lead blower from Costco. It's my first one and it's awesome! I use it all the time for things I didn't think I would.

However, it is still very loud and doesn't last long enough for commercial use.

One instance recently, had a few very aggressive wasps in the garage (Son is allergic). In the past I'd use some chemicals, the leaf blower got them out in seconds, it's so powerful it blew them outside far enough they couldn't get back and just flew off.
> to prove something underwhelming, like memory safety or other similarly low-level properties.

Memory safety is table stakes. If you can't even prove memory safety, your program doesn't really have any well-defined semantics after all.

> you'd only end up at the same point where most of the software world -- which is already using memory safe languages -- is today.

Which is another way of saying that the modern software world is already using lightweight formal methods in an end-to-end fashion. Type checking is one such use of lightweight formal methods.

Unsound methods can be useful to surface possible bugs quickly and efficiently, much like fuzzing does. But they're not a kind of verification - they provide no guarantee of correctness.
>I'm happy the government is finally stepping in.

As a small player, I'm always afraid of this. Two of my companies died because of legal stuff that was outside the economics I could front.
And everyone else decides to come in on the days they do. But hey, they said the “best” (fantasy) case so let them dream! That would be my best case too!
From what I've heard, the key differentiator is the plan/concept, whatever you wanna call it, that went into the hybrid setup. If it's just an office where everyone can come in whenver, you will face all the - almost cliché - problems: people being stuck in virtual meetings while being in the office, only 20% of your team being in the office on every given day, etc. etc

So if you have a manager that really manages your in-office experience, hybrid is seen as preferred by my peers.
Many affluent areas have already banned gas leaf blowers and it’s incredible how quiet the battery powered replacements are. I was in Palm Springs recently and had nearly walked past a landscaper using one before if occurred to me just how quiet it was - didn’t even interrupt our conversation. I believe it was a Stihl backpack version (maybe https://www.stihlusa.com/products/blowers-and-shredder-vacs/...) but yeah, highly recommend!
I’m not sure cargo is really the fault rather than developers who import a library just to use a trivial utility function in one place. Modern package managers solve 1000x problems and make one pitfall slightly easier. But it’s still a very easily avoided problem.
Show HN: Scenario Planning for Revenue Teams
> Sugar is addictive. Do we ban sugar, or regulate its consumption? No! Instead we educate parents to limit their childrens' sugar intake.

I don't find it totally unlikely to think of a future where sugar is more strongly regulated, since it's linked to real dangers that used to be disregarded, and children are particularly targeted by sugary food.

More importantly, how can parents protect children if the same brain-hacking, attention grabbing mechanisms target them? "Honey, don't be on your mobile constantly, while daddy is busy using his mobile all day long".

> Don't want to play devil's advocate here but it's not the apps'/platforms' fault here, but parents' fault.

I think it's both, with most of the blame with apps/platforms. And parents are as much prey as their children. It's like a "socially acceptable" addiction; maybe we shouldn't make it so acceptable, like smoking isn't anymore?

(Hello, my name is the_af and I'm an addict...)
No. Some commercial folks also use leaf blowers, and those people just use them, because they get paid to clear some leaves.
Even then, EU consumer protection mostly doesn't apply. They are shipping to EU countries, but selling from China.

If the sale transaction is with the Chinese entity, and the goods are then shipped to the EU, EU protections won't apply (will fall under Chinese consumer protection laws instead).
> Do we ban sugar, or regulate its consumption?

Actually, yes: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/how-taxing...

One attempt to reduce sugar consumption was by taxing it. I don't know how effective it is though, but it was at least attempted.
That's great. Would also like to see child safety probes of addictive food additives.
The hard part about remote is collaboration outside of meetings is hard. Chat is soul-less and leads to a lot of misunderstandings with tone. Video is too formal. Phone is interrupt. For the past 6 months we've been using a walkie-talkie app that transcribes and it's pretty magical. It feels like it's solved some of the issues with unstructured collaboration. Plus the bonus is you can add anyone to a discussion and they can catch up by listening to previous messages at 1.5X