skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you make an intentional decision to rely on luck, you're intentionally deciding to burn some money by scrapping a certain percentage of your product. Which is why nobody makes that decision.

Now this is complete nonsense. Lots of production processes do that. It depends on the cost of better tooling and components, and the cost of testing.

And... the actual probabilities! You're right that you can't assume a normal distribution. But that wouldn't matter if this was such a strict rule because normal distributions would be forbidden too.

Determinism is a good goal but it's not an absolute goal and it's not mandatory. You are exaggerating its importance when you declare any other analysis as "complete nonsense".

> since non-determinism is so expensive.

But your post gives off some pretty string implications that you need a 0% defect rate, and that's not realistic either. There's a point where decreasing defects costs more than filtering them. This is true for anything, including resistors. It's just that high quality resistors happen to be very cheap.
Yes and yes. It's fabric - you just stick it in the washing machine.
Response to Tyler Cowen on AI Risk
The crash will be epic
Yes, sorry, you would need some kind of TCP gateway or a SIM card.
Don't see the problem with ssn as I'd. People have two, get two rows in your database. Not the end of the world often.
database it's a tool thus limitation is not an error.
E.g. maybe trans peeps want to forget their old ID, maybe not.
your own key has no chance of reflecting any reality in the world.
In what way does this not match your experience? You’ve mentioned one variable (retention) but not the other (salary increase over time), so your comment as it stands doesn’t refute the claim of the person you’re replying to. Are you implying that you know that these people have received raises year after year that are comparable to the pay increase they could have if they took a new job?
That’s probably just a handful of starship trips of cargo
>You seem to assume a good CEO equals a successful company

the only assumption i see is the counter to that - a bad CEO equals an unsuccessful company. and i don't think that's a very controversial assumption.
Yes, I already could imagine that. I meant the question more in a philosophical sense.
No, we hold them to account like everyone else and they still give us what we want, they just get a little bit less outrageously wealthy doing it.
Exactly me feelings. I am inspired by the work Asahi Linux team publishes. As a full stack developer, I feel very very distant from this part of the stack. Everything looks like greek and latin. Reading this post gives me hope. May be I can someday understand how the drivers are written, I leave my fear and start writing and reading code.
Seems like you are right, when configuring an export the "file type" choice of your location history data is grayed out.
Ideally this would be factored in and included in the cost of disposable. E.G. the cost of employing litter collection and disposal. The cost needs to be placed on the producers so they have incentive to solve these problems. Many plastic containers and recycling processes could be standardized but currently there's no reason to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_14#Lunar_surface_operat...

The 3rd para talks about the (golf) balls.
Why I'm Staying Away from Crew AI [video]
Ocado does exactly that in the UK, refunds them too.
What is the best Free Tier email tracking out there?
Greetings HN Community!

I am currently in the process of putting together a very smallish monthly niche Newsletter -- for which clients will pay very smallish amounts of money to subscribe to.

I am doing this in an attempt to bootstrap a very smallish business from scratch, basically.

Since it would be a "bad thing" (you know, compare to Martha Stewart, "it's a good thing" -- well this would be the reverse of that! :-) <g>) if said Newsletter were to be sent but, for whatever reason, subsequently not received and/or not read, I'm looking for a way to quickly and effectively know if the Newsletter was received and read.

I know there's a bunch of websites out there which do email tracking, but I'm ideally searching for the following characteristics:

a) Free Tier -- ideally more than 30 days long.

b) No need to use the vendor's site to send emails; i.e., just insert URL or tracking pixel image or HTML or whatever into each individual email message (maybe this is a bad idea however, after all, how would a vendor/SAAS know to start tracking something sent from Gmail? Hmm, maybe a bcc? Feel free to suggest ideas and alternatives here...).

And finally:

c) I'm looking for people to discuss their experiences with the Free Tiers of email tracking providers out there -- any that people will give rave reviews? Any that should be avoided? Any caveats or other things to be aware of that you learned while working with an email tracking provider?

etc., etc.

OK HN Community -- The floor is all yours!

(And many thanks in advance -- for any and all feedback!)
> I couldn't even write an engine that used Vulkan in six months, nor a software rasteriser; meanwhile, Alyssa wrote an entire compliant driver on a non-native operating system running on locked-down hardware in one month flat.

Apple Silicon Macs are explicitly not locked down, it's just that the hardware is totally undocumented. This means that there's no jailbreaking necessary, just a lot of reverse engineering (which is still very difficult of course).

From https://asahilinux.org/about:

> Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon Macs without a jailbreak! This isn’t a hack or an omission, but an actual feature that Apple built into these devices. That means that, unlike iOS devices, Apple does not intend to lock down what OS you can use on Macs (though they probably won’t help with the development).
Those people clearly vote differently, otherwise this (and other problems like this climate thing...) would have been solved a long time ago.

Maybe they forgot to also ask 'what if it will cost you some money in the process or diminish your convenience'.
No, once people have to pay the real cost for AI, none will be able afford it. Everything is 99.999% subsidized right now
Why are so many adults still obsessed with Busytown?
As we mentioned Flet here - it's been able to build web apps running completely in the web browser (Flutter + Pyodide). Here are a few examples: https://flet.dev/gallery - most of those apps there are client-side except "Controls gallery" and "Chat" which are server-side.
Golf ball
In addition to the good suggestions here:

- vigorous exercise the day of, prior to the talk

- deep, yoga style breathing in the minutes before

Your body can only sustain the adrenaline response for so long, so if you have an afternoon talk allow yourself to think about stepping up in front of the crowd to keep it going, so to speak, such that by the afternoon, you're pretty calm.

There's also a mindset. I try to think of some of the most inspiring performances I've seen (surfing in my case) where they didn't just survive but dominated it. The goal is not to just survive the talk but to kick ass (meaning of course, getting your message across).

Confidence comes from doing. Also, record yourself so you can get feedback and improve.

Good luck!
The problem with all of this is that it assumes the attitude that pay is the most logical, if not only, measure of success in your career.

I decided to work in higher education after a WILDLY successful short career in sales. I lost over 80% of my compensation annually to make that switch in the first year.

And I did it because the time off benefits, pace, and stability are much better for my mental health and well-being.

If you feel like you are compensated appropriately for what you're doing, don't worry about gaming the system. Just be happy with your life. Have you ever read The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham?
It is pathetic though.
Really?

Closest I've seen would be campaigns like this, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-0... .

Then there's the stuff by IDF soldiers on TikTok, and the stuff settlers put out.

I have the impression that the iranians don't need to do stuff like that.
How fragile is the local data? Will it be preserved if I switch phones? What about past events that aren't on the current phone? What if I use two phones?

This takes a unified view and fragments it for spurious user privacy benefits (when we know Google is still collecting and holding all the information needed anyways).
My observations suggest that this applies far more to lower performing employees than higher performing ones since the barrier to change jobs is lower for top tier talent.

In effect this means that while companies that give paltry pay bumps that don't keep up with the market may successfully hold on to lower performing employees, they'll be continually churning through top performers.
gVisor definitely solves a problem for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39900329
So much fun! I am so inspired to build!
"Ensuring the survival of the human race" is such a remote goal that it cannot be a justification for current space activities. Anything that could be done now would only create a tenuous foothold that could not survive the loss of human life on Earth.
Amazing. That’s the perfect scenario for us.

Did you choose go for its coroutine or because it’s your stack language ?
72% of suburban new yorkers opposed the congestion tax. There are 11 million such people so 72% is 8 million people opposed to this plan. Unfortunately thats as many people as live in the city itself, this was never going to be easy politically. Statewide polls show the tax is underwater
prop·a·gan·da
/ˌpräpəˈɡandə/
noun
1.
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

This definition is good enough, I don't see why it would need a redefinition.
Sure, there is stuff we can do to tease around the edges (similar problems crop up all the time in psychology and sociology) but we will always have to weaken the claim in order to do experiments relating to it.
Submitted (and discussed) various times in the past:

2020 (2 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24879482

2018 (3 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17912929

2015 (2 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10059823
Are there any studies on predicting neural architecture scaling? E.g. a small training dataset which indicates performance on a large training dataset?
It's more of a failing of modern world to not cultivate this kind of motivation than a misconception.
When the headline is question…
Happy birthday, Phoronix!
Works fine for me on Firefox for Android, but I assume it's because uBlock Origin is doing its thing.
>This is why the trend towards remote seems inevitable.

I wish, but not in my country. Remote here means 2-3 days/week WFH tops and that's it. Nobody offers more. Meaning you're still tied to the location of your employer as you have to come regularly in the office.

It boggles my mind that employers don't see the advantage of employing people remotely nation-wide as that gives them access to a wider talent pool outside their area making it a win-win. But no, old-school boomer MBA managers want to see buts in seats in the office, otherwise to them it means people are slacking off as they can't possibly imagine motivating people to work if they're not within physical reach.

We also need to post pictures of the employees pretending to have fun at barbecues, teambuilding events and sitting in cramped open space offices on yoga balls wearing headphones with coffee mugs with nerdy memes on them. But it's ok, there's a weekly fruit basked, employee organized sports events and you can bring your dog to work. Totally worth spending 2h per day on commuting.

I just don't get it, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Is it me the one being unreasonable, or "is it the children who are wrong"?
More like, Israel can spend some of that money to keep the money flow coming, kind of like a parasite. The rest it can use for its own interests.
There is absolutely a middle ground: have multiple choices of user-selectable filters on open platforms.

Subreddits are the closest thing to an implementation of what I want today. Let me go to moderated subsets of the content on a platform without taking away my right to expand my view at any time I wish.

Twitter et al allow you to do some moderation with blocking and follows. But opaque recommendation engines and new accounts present challenges for both.
Not sure. Migratory birds seem to manage this just fine. Not only do they make multiple stops to eat and rest, they also navigate around bad weather and still make it to their intended destination (at least most of the time).
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Looking primarily for an IC role after four years as a front-line manager. Open to a management role, as well, but I really valued knowing our code from before I was managing the team.

I've been in Clojure B2B startups for 9 years now, and I've learned a lot about startup growing pains, the importance of simple solutions, and solving the right problems. Fully remote since 2017, but I do miss some things about working in an office. Willing to do something other than Clojure, with Python being my second best language right now.
I would say that the one redeeming quality of Elon Musk (in a sea of otherwise awful personality traits) is that for at least Tesla and SpaceX, that he was interested in running those companies primarily to produce a product. Like that was the primary focus and raison d'être of both of those companies, especially SpaceX I think. This is in opposition to the usual "the only point of a business is to make money" ethos that so permeates neoliberal capitalism that we hardly even notice it anymore. The latter is dysfunctional, inhuman, and ultimately bad for business.

I don't know if he still takes that approach. In fact, I kind of doubt he ever really did, but he certainly projected that image publicly, and most importantly to workers of those companies - whether he "really believed" it I guess is a moot point.

When you take the "businesses exist to return a profit to shareholders" approach you're always going to focus on leadership that has a track record of doing that, even if that excludes building a good product or for that matter even the long-term viability of the business. Thus, you see these CEO hires that don't seem to make sense - most of us unconsciously still think of businesses as things created to make a thing or do a specific thing, because that's a natural thing to believe.

Anyway I think you can attribute some of the success of both to this, as well as Musk's public image at least ca 2008-2018 or so.
Do you recall the US occupying the Philippines? Did they get a vote?

How about Puerto Rico today?

The US is still a democratic republic.
And it takes less effort to do the usual.
I'm sure inner monologue just cashes out into the ability to reflect on your own thoughts. And for one to say that they're not having that experience also involves a claim about what they think other people are having which would make me doubly skeptical.

In practice, when you see people arguing about whether they have an "inner monologue" or can "mentally picture objects" on social media, it's more of a contest of who is the most unique in the world rather than anything that sheds clarity on our subjective experience.
I had to deal with many pieces of shit when I was a child. Maybe you aren't looking hard enough?
Sounds like Suno AI will soon have this feature as well https://x.com/suno_ai_/status/1794408506407428215
https://ourworldindata.org
I got a 20% increase the other year. But only because I threatened to quit aggressively and got promoted in the same year and was valuable to my small team of ~4 engineers.
Hey ChatGPT, finish this building (2023)
The pullback was in autumn of 2022.
Need a planet spinner if that's going to happen.
70% of revenue is more than artists get from any other source, equal to digital sales.
Sorry, but on what planet did you acquire 2 year old $15K MSRP car for $2K? 2014?
It seems you've been triggered by the mention of the g-word. But when we calmly consider what the commenter is saying:

Israel is using information age technology to commit and propagandize their genocide

It's plainly not an unreasonable proposition, nor does it seem to be intended to engage in battle or provoke. They're simply describing a perfectly horrible situation that happening on the ground (that some recognized experts in the field do consider to be a form of genocide per the UN definition of such) and the fact that modern information technologies seem to be a part of the mechanism that is bringing it about.

The post expresses an opinion, but it definitely wasn't flamebait.
RBC: Canadian inflation is unlikely to pick up again like in the U.S.
Yeah, was going to say similar.

A decade ago I had the opportunity to visit Nairobi, thanks to my partner at the time.

The place is highly varied, the best looking like any western city, while the worst is basically people living on top of a not-yet-sealed landfill site:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-1.2785067,36.7500781,3a,71.6y,...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kibera_Nairobi_Kenya_slum...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MathareValleySlum.jpg

Her brother is involved with a startup whose mission is to help with this, might be interesting to some folks here: https://www.sargasso-reclamation.com
Everytime Iam reading manupilations in social media I remind the documentation The Dissident
I still think of NFTs like the art market. If you bought the thing and you are happy with just owning what you got then there isn't a problem.

On the other hand if you bought with the expectation to sell in the future for a profit, you are trading on the perceived value. Scams rely on making you believe that the future accepted value will be much higher than what it will actually be.

That would be analogous to creating the expectation of absent functionality in the Rabbit.

In both cases the fraud is not in the item being sold but in the misrepresentations about it.

I think why this matters is because these days it feels like everything is misrepresented. I can buy a graphics card and be happy with its performance even though it is almost guaranteed to be well below the manufacturers promised level.

What is the returns policy for the Rabbit? Can people get a refund if they don't like it?
One hypothesis I don't see mentioned is that time limited roles pay more. For example, a person brought into to oversee an acquisition or transition is going to be paid phenomenally well (and, I think, rightly so). But part of that job is making your own position redundant. If you're still there after a few years, you aren't doing your job. I expect there are many other examples, roles that are project based and become redundant when the project is completed. And, I expect, many of these pay more than operational jobs, taking care of some day to day tasks of the business. Probably rightly so; if the projects successful, I would think building something new would create more value as it should produce something that continues producing value into the future - higher risk, higher reward.
Personally, I want to live long enough to hit life extension escape velocity. :)
big picture is that cloud-based apps/saas is getting disrupted.

there is no value in a cloud-based solution that locks users and customers in if collaboration can be solved in the data (file) level. turns out that version control solves collaboration on the data level and is awesome to build apps.
I was also very surprised to learn that this is still a thing in a place as dense as Manhattan. Bizarre.
You could go without an LES if you can convince NASA that you have sufficient contingencies to not need it (and, of course, you can do almost anything you want on a private flight). SpaceX has been entertaining the idea of not using an escape system on Starship and instead proving its safety through sheer number of flights. Although there also is just a general consensus that the flip maneuver would probably make that necessary even if they had an LES.
You can disable Recall.
> HN simply refuses to implement 21st-century forum enhancements.

I'd argue that the reason most of us are on HN is that it doesn't use 21st century forum enhancements.
I thought for a long time that I was trash at leetcode. I would regularly fail the coding portions of interviews. Then a recruiter reached out with a tempting JD and I became good at leetcode, it just took a lot of hard work of tricking my brain into thinking it was a good use of my time.
Somewhat related, I'm old enough that I remember in grade school when the Ed Roth "Rat Fink" character was introduced, and for some reason kids on the playground would show off their small collections, including a plastic finger ring to which you could snap on a small plastic Rat Fink (so they were interchangeable if you collected more than one). I don't know why grade school kids were fascinated by the monster hot rods, maybe it was just the name and the image that was attractive.

"The Rat Fink Art depicts a green, depraved-looking mouse with bulging, bloodshot eyes, an oversized mouth with yellowed, narrow teeth, and a red T-shirt with yellow “R.F.” on it."

https://www.ratfink.com/ed-roth-museum/rat-fink-art
Wow.

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https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan/blob/master/examples...

https://github.com/rasky/cz80/blob/master/z80.cpp
Do you really believe this? Do you think this is an efficient way to perform military counterinsurgency?

And are you really sure it's a good idea to wallow in war crimes like this in relation to the rest of the world? Something like, the UAE kind of gets away with it in Sudan currently, so Israel can use IDF like its own janjaweed?
it was 3 year puts, you had to buy 100.
macOS Sonoma Mail Bug: Spam Bypasses Block All Remote Content
Depending on the perspective, you could also argue that it's a 20% increase of the conversion rate, not 0.5%.
So a literal electric door lock would have the right to lock your door if they think you might break the copy right on the door lock you purchased from them.
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My skill set is rooted at the intersection of design thinking, business research, and human psychology.
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