skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very well traveled and I spent considerable amounts of time in Europe in various different countries, I am however American, with particularly Midwestern sensibilities. One of the most common threads throughout the culture and society in nearly every European country I went to were three things in particular, that I think impact entrepreneurship:

1. An expectation that someone else will solve their problem, rather than an expectation of self-reliance.

2. A suspicion of anyone who thinks they have a good idea, as if that person is saying they're better than their peers and needs a comeuppance

3. A rejection of any kind of dream that entails class mobility, where the legitimate desires of people are to do something that fits the class they grew up in and "work to live" instead of "live to work" so they can spend as much time futzing about with friends and family rather than growing their family's class.

Many commentators in this thread have mentioned other aspects, but I think these three things are huge cultural drivers against entrepreneurship. In the US, when you found a startup, you are taking a financial risk, possibly a career risk, but you aren't taking a personal relationship risk or societal risk in the same way you are in Europe. In most countries in Europe, the people around you will think you are becoming too big for your britches the moment you entertain starting your own company, especially to do anything new, and will either cease their relationships with you or actively seek to tear you down socially. Not only is the financial risk larger, both in relative terms and in the legal structure, but the social and relationship risk that's non-existent in the US looms large in Europe. People will legitimately think you're a bad person who thinks you're too good to be around your peers for trying to do something more than the same job your father and uncle do.

#1 above is especially insidious as well, because most of the ways successful startups get founded is by finding a problem to solve and figuring out what you'd want to do to solve it for yourself. If you don't go and do this, it's really difficult to find any sort of product-market fit that resonates on anything but a tiny fractional basis. If you want to found a global company, you need to be able to devise /the/ solution to a problem, at scale, and if you are operating under the expectation that any meaningful problem has either already been solved or is the responsibility of some other entity, you won't do this, you won't have the right mentality.
Companies make decisions that ultimately affect their users in a negative manner including when the company's decision is a mistake. Not having a real method of correcting the mistake is a huge sign to me that says company is not someone that I want to do business with at all. I understand mistakes happen, but claiming absolute immunity and acting like no mistake was made is the absolute worst customer service position to take.
As someone who similarly suffers from AI fatigue, I already do. I can’t wait for the AI hype cycle to follow the blockchain path, I just hope whatever comes afterwards isn’t even worse.
My employers logo similarly codifies an aspect of context: we've embedded the :: from IPv6 address presentation format into it, and our office is a ::6 street address by coincidence. (well.. the :: is on the nameplate. I am sure the post office doesn't expect it to be on the label of a letter)
Someone should do this for Llama 3.
I've admired 750 Words as an internet business from afar for a while now. Combo of Morning Pages being a time tested tool (with Tim Ferriss as a practitioner no less) and it being a perfect match for the internet and a small subscription (daily journaling with streaks)

The webmaster has some interesting write-ups on Indie Hackers for people wanting to know more...
It’s the other way around. The contortionists are on the other side of the issue. We’re talking about OpenAI hiring someone to use their natural speaking voice. As movies say, any similarity to existing people is completely coincidental from a legal perspective.

From a moral perspective, I can’t believe that people are trying to argue that someone’s voice should be protected under law. But that’s a personal opinion.
If something takes two inputs (e.g. an adder), then I'd expect it to have two separate connectors, not "also" plugging in the second thing.
I was sad about the Tufte example because it looks really interesting and didn't get the much treatment about the trade offs to density (I'm sure Tufte went in to all of it extensively even if he came down on one side). I suppose the author didn't consider it relevant.

Those little + make the left graph much more expert user friendly. A chemist isn't looking at the graph to see that there are peaks (they know that, they're chemists), they want to find actual points on the line and the + are enabling a level of eyeballing on the low-density graph that isn't possible on the right.

If I'm a heavy graph user, I want the low density one. The high density one isn't for daily use - it is for appreciating as a one-off or learning about periodicity of elements.
I don't understand this weird line of thinking. Don't do positive X because some people might respond to it in a weird way and do neutral Y.

Cattling statistics like this is silly.

If you showed fat people images of obesity and said that they'd be healthier if they lost their weight, you would also cattle the statistics and look at how many fat people decided to suicide versus how many took the advice (or didn't)? What a dumb way to construct advice.
I completely agree on GPs statement being absurd post-hoc rationale, but interestingly, this rule is actually coming from the FCC, not the FAA [1], with the FAA only indicating support for it [2].

The motivation is supposedly cellphones at high altitudes interfering with far-away cell towers that are reusing the same frequency at a distance that would normally make interference very unlikely, given the radio horizon and everything.

I highly doubt that that would still be an issue modern networks couldn't handle (also given that most other countries don't have a corresponding law on their books, as far as I know), yet here we are.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/22.925

[2] https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...
So, no privacy?
At $WORK we use Mozilla Rhino for some JavaScript processing.

We tested the normal loop vs. the clever loop. Performance-wise, the normal loop blew the doors off the clever loop.
Looks like you are living your dream :) Best of luck with it!
This is commercial bribery in most places.

>California Code, Penal Code - PEN § 641.3

>(a) Any employee who solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept money or any thing of value from a person other than his or her employer, other than in trust for the employer, corruptly and without the knowledge or consent of the employer, in return for using or agreeing to use his or her position for the benefit of that other person, and any person who offers or gives an employee money or any thing of value under those circumstances, is guilty of commercial bribery.

>(b) This section does not apply where the amount of money or monetary worth of the thing of value is two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or less.
Sure, "might be", but "it isn't".
Does anyone else think this whole affair is wildly overblown? I'm absolutely perplexed by the blow back from the tech industry on this issue.

Sam Altman tried something. ScarJo filed a lawsuit. ChatGPT took down the voice. That's it guys. The system worked like it should. But to suggest that he's a terrible person because of it is just beyond me. This is hardly a #MeToo type situation. She's a rich and famous Hollywood actor. She's OK.
More accurately, vector databases are Softmax'd eigendecompositions of the matrix representation of the graph of their connected members..

"Network Embedding as Matrix Factorization: Unifying DeepWalk, LINE, PTE, and node2vec"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02971
> Your notion of a perfect state of pure wildness supporting humans who have never had any support from any other human is nothing but a fantasy.

You really struggle with hypotheticals don't you?

Either that or you're dancing around in order to avoid admitting that someone could produce something purely out of their own labor.

It's clearly a false statement and you could use a number of other example - creating something basic out of wood, growing a wild edible food, using naturally occuring pigments to create art.
They don't have to report until months after the trade in practice (nothing happens when they do it late) and something like a month after in law.
I hate them too, but I'll put up with them out of necessity if the product or company mission's interesting to me.

Ironically, the most interesting positions I've held have almost universally been at companies that don't have leetcode-style questions as part of the hiring process.
DBPedia has been providing machine-readable info drawn from Wikipedia infoboxes for a long time, and that's absolutely an open project. But there are drawbacks to that approach, nowadays Wikipedia users are broadly expected to input that info into Wikidata (a language-independent project, providing its data under the CC0 license) and the Wikipedias are gradually moving towards fetching the information from there as well. The English Wikipedia is somewhat behind on that, so DBPedia might still be useful for parsing info from it.
A viable path forward that gives displaced Palestinians self-determination is to return Israel to its 1967 borders, dismantling the West Bank settlements, and facilitating an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza, with air and sea ports and trade, if not with Israel (though: it would) then with any other state that would trade with them.

A non-viable path forward is demand the repatriation of millions of non-Jewish people to right one half of a wrong (not that it would matter if you could somehow right the other half) done in the 1940s and 1950s. Israel will not allow it to happen. No imaginable Israeli leadership of any ideology or party would allow it. Israel's allies won't allow it to happen, but that doesn't matter.

The Arab world was (is, really) in the verge of normalizing relations with Israel, premised on the viable solution I outlined above. It is not in fact a requirement of the Arab world that Israel accept a Palestinian/Arab majority in its 1967 borders.

What's frustrating about this is not the concern that Palestinians might somehow succeed in the non-viable cause (I don't like ethnostates either?) but rather a certainty that it can't happen, any more than Mexicans will gain as-of-right dual citizenship and free travel into their original Texan lands, and the knowledge that the pursuit of that doomed cause comes at the cost of generations of Palestinian lives deprived of self-determination on any terms because western philosophizers oppose what they see as half-measures.
Rider's "Perpetual Trouble Shooters Handbook"
The knockdown test for too clever is that the original author can't maintain or extend the code later on. You can use this phenomenon to prove to people that they were being too clever. "See? not so easy, and this is all your doing"

Beyond that there is a a tradeoff to be had between utilizing powerful and expressive language features, and alienating less proficient programmers. In industry, redundancy and parallelism (of humans) matters a lot, and so the code has to be dumbed down quite a bit. If you're working solo or with a few highly competent peers, you can afford more cleverness.
Based on prior experience? No, I dont think so - interest rates go up, and they go down. I look at all the folks who bought houses in the early 80's between appreciation and inflation they won in the end.

This also works out for unsecured debt too largely.
The old internet was interesting people sharing their interests that happened to all have computer knowledge/PCs/internet access at a specific point in time. The new internet is shallow boring people on their smart phones looking to be entertained or be provided with answers without having to RTFM or put in the work to master something, and definitely not looking to give back by posting something of value online themselves.

Just look at the attitude on HN when it comes to z-library. Everyone here is entitled to take what whey want 'because of their circumstances'. An environment where everyone takes but don't give back, look out only for themselves, and strip the financial rewards for creation isn't going to lead to an environment like the old internet, or even like the old creative environment.
> I mean, I feel confident that “receiving a medal for bravery” is better than “poisoning the town’s water supply” or “torturing a person,” but yeah, the idea of using this to hire people is absurd.

I sympathize with the author's confusion, but then, we have no idea how that question was actually processed nor the intent behind it, so we're only left with a one sided outrage.

IMHO absurd questions can totally be part of an interview, as long as you get something valuable out of it and it doesn't hurt/offend/make a fool of the candidate.

As a thought exercise, they're postulating for a copyright position, if the next step was to have them rewrite the question in a decent way I'd see this a valid first step.
CAmelCAse (not to be confused with DromedaryCase, which has one hump).
After Sept. 1, Freddie will no longer invest in subprime mortgages that have a "high likelihood" of payment shock and foreclosure, the company announced on Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN27376399/
The description_text that is supposed to only be visible to verified tech workers is exposed publicly in the response to one of the 'msearch' requests if you inspect the network requests using your browser's developer tools.

I'm not familiar with the details of the bubble.io platform that this seems to be based on, but from a very casual look, it looks terrifying from a security viewpoint. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more data leaks.
Energy waste, water waste, the list of sacrifices is ugly.
The CEO of the scraping company. Are we good?
You just said it yourself. Your phone provides that preference. But a good default is essential, and given to us based on Apple and Googles research, which was probably actually done by Nielsen Norman Group
Single responsibility principle in its finest.
> Seed of Chucky, the off-the-wall fifth installment of Don Mancini's Child's Play franchise, was forced to include a special disclaimer about pop superstar Britney Spears

> This scene was included in promotional spots for the film, most specifically Seed of Chucky's trailer, but the distributing company associated with the film, Focus Features, made the decision to significantly cut the scene down and add a disclaimer. The disclaimer that ran with the promotional spot, which was altered to only show a brief glimpse of Ariqat as Spears, stated: "Britney Spears does not appear in this film."

https://screenrant.com/seed-of-chucky-movie-promos-britney-s...
> You need to have a way of rising above the noise.

if you believe in the social media discuourse, "making a good game" is enough, and Steam algorithms + word of mouth will boost it up for you. I think that's highly unrealistic, but I do think making "a really good game" will guarantee a certain minimum sales on Steam.

I also don't think that minimum sales is close to sustainable compared to a minimum wage job, but that's always the part of the conversation left out. $10k in a year is a great side hustle and well above the median. It's a complete failure even for the most humble game dev that lives in a carboard box and survives off of potatoes.
yeah. i mean just put an mp3 up on the web somewhere. ffs
x = np.arange(0,10,1)
print(x[x%2==0])
Putin? What does being so obtuse add to the discussion?
By all accounts, he was an incredible bully not just to his employees but also to his family as well.

He refused to recognize his daughter even after a paternity test, and despite being a multi millionaire 1000 times over only paid child support when forced to by the courts.

Does that sound like the behavior of a good and ethical person?
To be precise, she has claimed she was sexually assaulted. She has not publicly alleged rape to my knowledge.
> Shadow Robot

From The good-looking textured light-sourced bouncy fun smart and stretchy page[1]!

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20160521081256/http://freespace....
Sounds like the law already provides a convenient solution (in the form of a "<=250" constraint on the bid field).
*> why does OpenAI get to be exempt from existing opt-out mechanisms and implement their own?

1) because they are not in law

2) because you too can ignore robots.txt
The code for these systems is around 1000 lines. It just takes $100,000,000 in electricity costs to execute the program. Open source might not matter.
Ender 3 Pro – Modeling and Benchmarking
Nestlé introduced a new frozen food brand aimed at weight-loss drug users
Midler is actually quite similar. Midler didn't want to do a commercial, and refused an offer, so they hired a lookalike that fooled her friends. The appellate court held that Ford and its advertising agency had "misappropriated" Midler's voice.

Waits v. Frito Lay, Inc was '92, and cited it. They used a Tom Waits-sounding voice on an original song, and Waits successfully sued:

> Discussing the right of publicity, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the jury’s verdict that the defendants had committed the “Midler tort” by misappropriating Tom Waits’ voice for commercial purposes. The Midler tort is a species of violation of the right of publicity that protects against the unauthorized imitation of a celibrity’s voice which is distinctive and widely known, for commercial purposes.

https://tiplj.org/wp-content/uploads/Volumes/v1/v1p109.pdf

Of course, who knows what a court will find at the end of this. There is precedent, however.
As long as it's less than $250 per instance that sounds fine...?
After Wegovy and Zepbound, Next Drugs Goal Is Keeping Muscle While Losing Fat
This is true, but when I encounter a bug in Solidworks there is someone who's job it is to fix it,and they do.
I agree that it’s a bit of a sketchy thing to do, and potentially even illegal based on similar case law, but the commenter I responded to created an entire fake sequence of events that seems incredibly unlikely, when there’s a far simpler explanation.
https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/18/understanding-cc-lice...
Are you comparing California power generated to German nameplate capacity? How do they compare apples to apples, or oranges to oranges?

Wikipedia says California has 46 GW nameplate capacity and Germany has 81 GW nameplate.

Germany produced 53 TWh of solar in 2023 (12% of electricity used)

Wikipedia data for California 2023 is incomplete, but it looked to be on track for ~39 TWh in 2023 (same as 2022), and 17% of electricity used.
Sky voice is quite different [0]! Yet another PR stunt as the world has forgotten about her!

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cwy6wz/vocal_comp...
> This also ignores the fact that SMTP specs is split across multiple RFCs with no single normative version which further complicates the probability that you implement the spec correctly in the first place.

This is a point I agree with and the fact I see it mentioned so rarely, that standards are split across multiple RFC's makes me suspect that people don't mention it because they don't know because they never read them in the first place, and rather try to follow the implementation of some existing program.
He should have just deleted the tweet. Crisis averted.
I have plans to support this!
This is true, but for customers of nx, solidworks, etc it's someone's job to fix the bugs for you
iPad Pro vs. MacBook: The Great Apple Laptop Trade-Off
The same day he dies, Microsoft announces version control in Windows Explorer, which he originally bought to the file system in VMS. I know he worked on NT, I wonder why they didn’t introduce version control before now.
1. depends if you're in the physics main loop or not; in Godot for example the physics main loop is based on the project configuration, not correlated with the display (I could have expanded on that in the article)

2. You can know the targeted frame rate, you can also infer it by averaging the delta times at runtime (not reliable but maybe more accurate on a slow machine?)

3. In my graph, I did pick random delta between 15 and 120 fps IIRC; the point was to simulate what could roughly happen with random lag spikes
I wish there was some kind of small, soundless video supporting transparency for emojis, stickers, small animations, diagrams in slide shows, etc, that is guaranteed to autoplay and loop without issues.

The problem with <video> of course is that there's no way to tell if it's going to play an annoying sound, take a long time to load, change the screen brightness due to HDR features, require a weird proprietary codec, need the browser to render video controls, and so on. So they end up getting blocked from autoplay by default.

I suppose APNG or WebP are ideal for this but it is poorly supported, in that very few tools let you export to APNG or WebP --- browsers actually have decent support for this [1] and Discord uses APNG for stickers.

[1] https://caniuse.com/apng
I fully understand why this is considered unethical. I fully understand that employees will get fired for taking the bounties.

But what actual law is being broken here? I suspect it is legally a bribe, because it is facilitating a non-routine action. But only because of that non-routine bit. Would it be possible to prosecute this, going into court and admitting that your suspension appeals process is non-routine?

And what part of a standard employment contract is being broken here? Taking money to perform a service your employer does not offer? And interestingly, if the employer does offer the service, then it is no longer a bribe but a legal facilitation payment (so you would want a clause in the employment contract to prevent this)

(Not rhetorical - looking for answers to the above questions)

In many ways, this process already happens, and even expected by all concerned. More than once I've seen twitter personality manages to get some decision reversed seemingly only because they could make enough noise, often ending up on the front page here. The difference is in the currency used to pay to bypass the system.
I write and maintain code in a bunch of languages. Rust has risen to the first place, C is the close second followed by C++ and Python.

All of the languages except C have similar iterator-based stuff that let you write one liners and often with lambdas. I dislike them all. They give way too much leeway and encourage many developers to try to prove how clever they are.

Once you have to debug the code containing them, all of the complexity of the syntactic sugar comes crashing down on you. The debugger starts jumping to weird places, sometimes even optimized out parts of the standard libraries while for loops usually stay debugable.
Corporations are amoral. Anyone who doesn't want corporations to rule the world must also be prepared to be amoral when standing up to them.
Two Years as an Independent Technologist
Parasolid is owned by Siemens, it's not open source really