skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this SaaS growth/pricing/ads consulting? What do you get for $69/month?

It's a bit unclear, but such services can definitely be useful.
The concept of second mover advantage doesn't mean you have to go exactly second - your reply is somewhat pedantic - you just get the advantage by not being the very first. Apple absolutely enjoyed some second mover advantages in bringing iPhone to market.

The second mover advantages Apple enjoyed went beyond just the cellphone design too - they completely rearchitected the relationship between a carrier and a cellphone OEM. People forget that pre-iPhone, virtually all cellphones had to carry crappy software insisted on by the cell carrier - the iPhone was one of the first ever handsets that shipped with the OS completely under the control/design of the handset vendor with no network involvement. Just getting AT&T to agree to this alone was massive, and hadn't been figured out by any of the pre-existing smartphone manufacturers on the "first move" either. We take this for granted now across the industry that cellphones can easily arrive this way in carrier stores with little/no carrier interference.

Heck, pre-iPhone, it was close to impossible to buy a phone in an AT&T/"Cingular" store that didn't have AT&T/Cingular's logo custom printed on it, such was the extent of the carrier choke-hold on the OEM handset supply side. This was true of virtually all the carriers in North America at that time. Again today, it's rare a phone is branded with the carrier logos, and smartphones rarely ever now have bundled carrier software/OS changes at the user application level.
Go to somewhere like Japan where you have choices of 20 different payment vendors.

Or even here in the states and sometimes you can pay via PayPal or Venmo or QR code.

But at the end of the day, I can just tap my Visa card (or lately just Apple Pay) in way more places than anywhere else, from storefronts to vending machines, in Italy or Japan or Wisconsin, and it Just Works.

Building a network that is accepted anywhere in the world (if they want it, and short of sanctions) is a combination of engineering, marketing and management.
Got Ghosted names and shames companies that stop communicating
So you simply want MPs who have a minimum standard of education? The fact that they are kept isolated for the duration of their term? That wouldn't prevent them from being bribed and lobbied in their election campaigns.
It’s interesting that the fake paper generators of today are lower quality than the ones from over an decade ago. SciGen makes more believable papers and it came out in 2005 [0]

This generator reeks of ChatGPT, and says “whimsical” and “fictional” every other word if you ask it to generate a paper that is obviously untrue. All this “safety” is so boring.

[0] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

Looks like maybe it doesn’t work anymore which is a little sad.
I'm surprised that this is using plain llama3.1 rather than a fine-tune. Have you checked the accuracy of the results on the common benchmarks? Also, given it provides just the answers just based on the up/down lists, (or did I miss something?) isn't that something that could be extracted into a more efficient lookup with only a 2d grid of weights? (Or 3d if we there are group-of-genes effects)
It is! I have studied this past ten thousand years of civilization, and have come to the conclusion that specialization is easy, and coharent generalizations with integrity are hard.

As soon as some perfection is found, it crumbles and reconstitutes in the minds of those who express and those who perceive.

Seeing "potential" as the underlying and the "things" (which we value) as meta symbolic liberates my definition of a dozen contingencies.

There is a great mystery, yet this is a very useful definition.

Emergent properties are those potential created by a system of which such potential does not exist in any part otherwise.

A product emerges from an assembly line.

All that other stuff you said must be scrapped off one meaning, and further distilled toward whichever mystery you actually want to solve.

... which may be consciousness or meaning or edge cognitive technology.
> especially if it’s effective at curbing recidivism.

There's nothing in the article examining its effect on recidivism. It's probably no more effective at that than jail in general, which is to say, there are much more effective interventions.
Google is doing this because political content is harder to fact check and they do have initiatives to fight misinformation online.
Autocomplete/suggest results are an aggregation of related searches so people could search something false and it shows on autocomplete making a user think a statement is true. Essentially autocomplete can be hijacked generally.
Also auto suggest was originally an effort to reduce the number of unique searches which are generally quite high, something like 30%! By funneling people to certain results pages they could increase bids on ads for those results and have an easier time with QC by not having to account for as many completely unique searches. By leaving autocomplete off they actually generate more search intent data around those types of queries which they can do whatever they want with. I’m sure Google can predict a close election better with auto suggest off on political search intent.
While I don’t love anything G does, I do think in this case it is a good practice to turn off autocomplete for certain types of news results. If Bing and DDG are showing autocomplete I hope it’s being monitored or those suggestions.
The way I see it, one of the reasons is to "keep your cache empty", so to speak.

You find something potentially interesting and you don't leave a tab open for later, you don't try to remember it in case you'll need to recall it a week later, you have a reliable procedure dumping this information into cold storage, removing the mental burden from yourself. Retrieval of information from that storage and the efficiency of doing that is a separate question.
Because if this were a Reddit post I’d be 100% sure it’s parody. It describes some Rube Goldberg stuff to achieve extremely basic stuff that folks using a smartphone get with no extra effort. Text interface with an onscreen keyboard to manually trigger updates to your podcast? Those screenshots scream parody. The notes near the end of “Bluetooth works… except not really because Bluetooth. But the headphone jack is haunted so I use Bluetooth anyway. Conclusion: works pretty good doesn’t even crash!” I mean… that’s parody, right?
> they need you yet when you’ve passed the interviews

But they are usually open to hiring you. That's not a ghost job.

(Or better, it only becomes a ghost job from a handful of weeks prior to a couple of weeks after a layoff.)
Can't job listing sites just make the cost of each active listing a lot more expensive. If you want to list a job per month it's $10 bucks, but the next one is like $100, then $200, etc. Eventually holding open random speculative listings becomes expensive. If companies prove they hired people, then they're allowed to have more openings at the lower rate. Basically make a track record for hiring open up more cheap listings.
See the sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41094612

Apparently this is a safety feature.
I think that’s just how ChatGPT works. It’s really tiring and apparently the only way to tell you aren’t talking to a bot in 2030 will be to say you think eating soap is a fantastic idea or something else AI refuses to say because of “safety”.
You might want to check out lora devices like Meshtastic.

https://meshtastic.org/
Which is fine, no economic system lasted forever, and capitalism is not expected to last forever either.
Dual-action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance nearly impossible
i mean its certainly designed to be funny not realistic or believable. and yes it uses openai apis for content generation.
Many drugs promote socialization. To the point that you have to question the distinction between drugs and food/drink. Take sugar. It's often the focus of social gatherings. But the bad effects of sugar arguably outweigh those of alcohol, given the epidemics of diabetes and obesity.

Alcohol happens to have 10,000 years of cultural tradition behind it. Plus, it pairs well with food.
> and those who are, aren't paying anything worthwhile.

That is the entire goal of interest rate tightening. To impoverish the masses until much lower wages are finally considered "worthwhile."

Look at the incredibly strong and quick knee-jerk reaction in 2021 to enhanced unemployment schemes as soon as the vaccines went out. Employers wanted to hire at the same low rates of pay, but couldn't find enough workers of sufficient quality, so all levels of government treated this as a policy emergency: they cut unemployment, they cut food stamps and many social programs, they lowered the legal age at which you can work at all, work dangerous jobs, and work overnights, and the Federal Reserve illegally defied its mandate to maintain full-employment first, and then a *3%* inflation target when it jacked rates up very quickly.
Linus Torvalds : Here is the Linux Kernel, powering almost all the servers around the world. It's complicated C, I've spent years of my life building it. You can get the code for free. Check it out.

Every indie hacker here : Here is my JS/TS class calling the Stripe API. You cannot see how it looks like, it's probably poorly structured code because all I do is hacking around following YouTube videos. It will be $12.99. Because I've seen this video of this guy with a mustache charging $99.99 for a few Next.js pre-built pages and services.

Sorry, but here is honest feedback. At least, to make things a little bit less obvious, take the time to write a proper README in the Git repo, instead of the default Tuborepo README.

In any case, good luck with your project.
It is certainly a case of Poe's law.
Okay…and nothing worse than techies thinking they necessarily have requisite knowledge outside of tech.
Do you also write for Ars Technica by any chance? :)
Whatever happened to that, anyway? I kept hearing about it every few years but it seems like it's been like half a decade now?
From the article:

> Or just get yourself tossed into Cook County Jail, where an inmate who causes serious food-related problems buys himself a one-way ticket to Nutraloafopolis. Get caught making homemade hooch in your cell toilet? You get Nutraloaf. Hurl food at a guard or stab someone with a spork? Nutraloaf.

The article calls out that people who are fed Nutraloaf in prison have committed additional offenses. Are you advocating that it’s ok to stab a prison guard if you feel that your incarceration was unfair?
You ever read the first edition of Bill Gates “The Road Ahead” where he didn’t even mention the Internet?

Google thinking the future of phones were BlackBerry clones?

Palm CEO “The PC guys aren’t just going to walk in a figure this thing out” referring to the then rumored iPhone.
Sometimes you see people with the complaints from the other side here.

It looks like recruiters filter the mass of fake applications, and only send real people to the companies. From those real people almost everybody is comically unprepared, and most attempts at filling a job fail.
I've always sort of thought when giving my dog "dog food" (presumably a mix of all the nutrition a dog would need since it's all I had to feed him), what about "human food"? Googling will quickly show you that others had the question and the answer seems that zoos do have something similar called primate chow. It would seem that Soylent was the Silicon Valley answer to the question as well, but liquid nutrition products for medical needs long predate it. I suppose I'll add Nutraloaf to my mental inventory.
you can probably get it to answer if you try, but I can't

https://x.com/thisritchie/status/1817615006583738528
Now that we have DMMs that have QR code displays you don't need to manually transcribe. All joking aside, I have generated telemetry data and displayed via a QR code for exactly this application. Documenting here as prior art so it can't be patented.

A system and method for displaying time series data from any data-generating device as a Quick Response (QR) code, enabling efficient data extraction from video recordings. This invention facilitates the capture and analysis of time series data without manual transcription across a wide range of applications.
One way of thinking is that the rules are designed by humans. The game is not a game until we establish the rules. At any point in time in this realm of life, if we try to establish some control, or try to create a frame of "simple" rules around it, it becomes complex.

So it doesn't matter if the ChatGPT is designed by simple rules, the minute we try to control the randomness, it becomes complex.
Just because they are not mainstream, you definitely can have lorentz violation in string theory [0]. Spontaneous symmetry breaking can lead to induced finsler geometries, which can basically have multiple light cones (when there was the "faster than light neutrinos" result on the table. Some people used finsler spacetime to explain them).

So you made your prediction only by choosing an axiom.

There is a reason that even some proponents of string theory call it the theory of anything.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2250
It's nice that you're replying to commenters, but I feel you're rather living up to your username.
The ECS Liva X is 10+ years old, it’s a product I bought in 2014. You’re seeing elevated prices from scalpers who are selling stock of a product that was discontinued 8 years ago, buying a new-in-box GTX 760 is going to run you a premium as well.

At the time, I bought one Liva for $100 and then two Liva Xs for $125 each a year or so later. All of them were 2gb memory/32gb emmc models.
Ghost jobs, at least in Europe, are a way for recruiters to get your data and send you real jobs, normally much less glamorous. Ghost apartments to let* too, for scummy estate agents instead of recruiters.

*Which are real places that have been already let months ago but whose status was never updated to keep them in search results.
I like to use a single remote for both my TV and Kodi, and the raspberry pi has the CEC HDMI thing which makes it possibke. It's not that common in SBCs AFAIK.
Just proving it really is a non-profit organization.
Since WW2, US tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has never left the range of of 13-20%, and spent a lot of time in a much tighter cluster of 16-17%. [1]

This time span covers top marginal tax rates from as high as 90% to as low as 35%. The truth here is that we cannot significantly increase tax revenues by raising tax rates, as when taxes get too high, people are simply incentivized to earn less, or to spend more on finding, developing, or exploiting loopholes in the tax code to reduce their taxes. Accordingly, actual economists have understood for the last 50 years that simply raising taxes blindly can counterintuitively decrease overall tax revenue. This effect is part of what's referred to as the Laffer Curve. [2]

But to your first point, that there is no problem, I'd like to point out that interest spending has exceeded defense spending. [3]

But hey, don't take my word for that constituting a problem, take it from Jerome Powell, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve:

"The U.S. federal government’s on an unsustainable fiscal path. And that just means that the debt is growing faster than the economy. So, it is unsustainable. I don’t think that’s at all controversial." [4]

In summary:

• No, everything is not perfectly fine. The United States is on a fiscally unsustainable path.

• No, the TCJA is not the big proximal contributor to the problem, routine deficit spending resulting in unsustainable debt is.

• No, we can't easily fix the problem by raising taxes on everyone, let alone by only raising them on the rich.

Citations:

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/laffercurve.asp

[3a] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA

[3b] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FDEFX

[4] https://thehill.com/homenews/4447860-powell-the-us-is-on-an-...
Binarly's research report here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240726085758if_/https://222224...
> the complexity of incrementing and decrementing integers.

This is tantamount to saying that all of software is just flipping a bunch of tiny switches on and off. Reconciliation of thousands of transactions per second across billions of customers spread around the globe doesn't have as trivial of a solution as dunking on straw men in HN comments.

Whether or not the level of complexity involved with this is justified is a value judgment that I'll refrain from making but it's pretty obvious to anybody that's worked in the industry that things aren't as simple as a layperson might think.
Vonnegut said a couple of things struck a chord with me:

"Novelists are famous as being lousy mates, whether males or females, and one reason is that they have to concentrate all the time or they’ll lose the thread of the novel. It’s all in the head, and they have information pouring in from the outside they’re going to lose and so they will pretend to hear you, but they’re really some- where else."

Later on he says...

"It’s nowhere else and so they don’t want to lose it and if you interrupt a novelist it’s a disaster for him."

Maybe software developers and novelists have some inner workings in common!
> But here’s the thing: While those criticisms may well be accurate for a certain number of anecdotal examples, anybody who searches for more such examples will never, ever run out. They can’t all have jumbled résumés. They can’t all need interview coaching.

Yes they can! It's stunning to see this level of media illiteracy from a reporter. In a country of 300 million people, there's all kinds of misleading or outright fictitious trends that you'll never run out of examples for. And then the article goes on to cite a "time-to-hire" statistic from a private report written by some guy and his self-named consulting company.

I'm a lot less confident this trend is even real than I was when I started reading.
Pity that the article doesn't discuss the effect of the reform on the informal economy. To me, this (or any) reform should bring more employment into the taxpaying, insured part of the economy, and whether it does what it IMO should is an important thing to discuss.
Yes, they are. That what is appropriate is not the same as what is fair and just is not relevant to the question of whether prisoners are people who have not learned to behave appropriately.
That doesn't mean that the MITM traffic interception would be enabled for regular users that have downloaded the app from the store. As stated both in the article and in the comments here, both "free" VPN and "paid market research" VPN used the same codebase. Is there any evidence (other than "facebook bad") that the MITM part was enabled for anyone other than consenting/getting paid participants?
> Both men, and virtually every other Nutraloafer, straightened up enough to get back to the usual diet of oatmeal and processed bologna.
I think we are in a phase of overturning even more ingrained social systems, so not drinking a certain thing isn't a huge deal, especially with a growing Muslim population in the west, the growing interest in health and fitness culture, and in my country, the absolute state of the city on a weekend.
That is a new explanation of white label I've never heard before.
My experience is white label vinyl records could be bought in very niche record shops, they were music not released on an official label yet and the samples often weren't cleared for release. I owned a few back in the day. This is how DJs had tracks months before official release.
Some people have different priorities than you. As for myself, and growing increasingly frustrated with Android letting me have less and less functionality in my mobile operating system and device that I paid to purchase, I didn't read this as parody at all.
Thanks for the summary. This two-pass approach is the same one I used in Go’s golang.org/x/tools/go/ssa package, because I was at that time unaware that there are more efficient algorithms for constructing full SSA (with phis) in one pass, using the optimistic assumption that control flow graphs are reducible, which is nearly always true. The Go compiler’s SSA construction uses the one pass approach.
A plot of all objects in the universe (2023)
The music nails it. The first time you play, it is magical. Like, I was swept away. I think the music was really important for the emotional state.
The unlikely alliance bringing the tech giants to heel
I don't volunteer at jails or prisons but I volunteer at a food pantry serving the poor, and on the topic of criminal justice I've given a fair amount of money to the innocence project. Don't assume that these are empty words from me.

> it’s also a hard sell to ask people to give up their limited time with family, friends, hobbies and interests, and go do that actual work

This just shows your own selfishness.
And most people are not. Which makes jobs dissimilar to relationships.