skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does if nobody rides the bus you can move faster but somehow you need to ensure the faster but doesn't attract so many riders that you are stopping too often. that generally means watching this and if you get close doingisomething different.
Fun to ride on with motorcycle
Damn dude the market is bad but its not that bad.
> Better, I don't feel guilty about the stuff I don't finish.

I think this is key, and demonstrates the real personal growth, which is more valuable than being able to finish things per-se.

It's the old saw: "what's the hardest thing? To know oneself."

There's a lot of eagerness to jump on bandwagons and do whatever the motivational speakers recommend, but you're not going to find the answers specific to you until you look inside yourself.

Anyway, in short: I agree (:

I'd also add: the reasons and mindset can change not just from project to project, but from day to day as well. Very context-dependent (at least in my experience).
I think this is a logical consequence of miniaturization (and cost reduction) of electronic components and sensors. Signal processing algorithms (perhaps used for target tracking) can be done in software instead of custom analog electronics. I’ve been contacted by recruiters from multiple venture funded cruise missile (and related weapons systems) companies.
Are you one of those millions of users? No? Why don’t you play Roblox?
I think they meant the original post
Publishers also told me that Napster was destroying their business. And before that, VCRs. Public libraries too, for that matter. Do you always believe what publishers tell you?
"Foolish Consistency is foolish." -me, wasting your reading attention

The cost / benefit needs to be calculated, whichever approach is chosen, at an Appropriate periodicity, which also needs to be considered.
> Pickup trucks are a major way of life for a lot of people.

That is the problem which needs to be solved.
They have, but if you mean before the introduction of the automobile, it was in an era where nobody had to commute to get groceries because a majority of the population were subsistence farmers.
Of course. I meant that once you have your product working, if you see 2GB is more than enough you can save a bunch of money in production without spending much or any extra time.

Moving your product to an MCU, even when it would support it well (which is not the case for a lot of RPi uses) will usually be a lengthy endeavor. But it's just HN being HN, I guess.
I think it's incredible how the tech industry has turned from "don't be evil" to supporting all manner of vices. On Twitter, SV VC's openly support Trump, and not just Peter Thiel. They're just corrupted and went from counter-culture to accelerating all of the old power structures.
California's state law is completely irrelevant in federal court.
No idea about the product, but I would like to congratulate you guys on what is maybe the greatest name ever. Something about it seems to combine "fierce" with "cute", so I think you should consider changing your logo to something that looks like reptar
I recently moved near the 4th loop and - it’s hard for me to imagine anyone crying for the land beyond it. There’s just nothing there. It’s like playing SimCity on an infinite flat map. I’d much rather they put another 2-5 million people here over the next few decades than try to sprawl out from Seattle or Boston or some of the other places I’ve lived.
It is a popular design convention, there are even generators to convert regular screenshots into this angled and depth-of-field style. There are 2 important properties this convention has:

First, it makes it obvious that the UI being presented is not part of the website, but a screenshot, so people don't trying to mess with it like it's an interactive widget.

Second, it showcases a general feature without inviting scrutinising the details of the UI, which a general product page isn't the best place to do so anyways.

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(Personally I do love a good software Screenshots page, but that can be a separate thing IMO)
Bolt's investor letter: $450M Series F at $14B, bewildering deal terms
The legislature (US Congress) has specifically given the FTC the legal authority to regulate and prevent unfair and anti-competitive practices by corporations, employees, etc., including by banning those practices, fining the entities involved, and so on. The FTC is acting on Congress' direct instructions to act.
Precisely why companies want to see the ban stricken.
I haven't read the details (paywall), but my assumption here is that the objection is to the FTC making this rule without an act from Congress, not the general idea of banning non-competes. While the FTC theoretically has the authority to do this, of late there's been a conservative judicial push against the "regulatory state".

Regardless, a federal judge need not consider the laws of any state when making a ruling on something like this.

Edit: read via archive link. So yeah:

> ... US District Judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas wrote in the decision on Tuesday, concluding that the regulator “lacks statutory authority” to issue the rule.

And:

> Brown [...] was appointed by then-president Donald Trump

So she's a conservative-leaning judge who's skeptical of the executive branch's regulatory powers. Not news.
The unelected bureaucrats of the US Department of Defense control a lot of money, I'm expecting more lawsuits from the parties who don't get as much of that money as they want.
What line of work was she in? How awful
Patience, they’re just warming up. State minimum wages, fair labor act…
California specifically having to ban them is exactly why a decision like this makes sense.

If there was anything in federal legislation that did so, California wouldn't need to.
> composable algorithmic transformations

This phrasing always feels pointlessly fancy. I may be understeeped in the right lore.

What is a non-composable, non-algorithmic transformation? A composable, non-algorithmic transformation? A non-composable, algorithmic transformation?

Maybe there's some constraint on the domain vs the range buried in "transformation"?
It exposes the union pretty directly to one of the deadliest problems in political science and economics: the free-rider problem.
> if you can reduce some of the cognitive overload, aren't you effectively defending in depth?

Absolutely. But in practice, cognitive overload rears its head in many ways.

When most people think of an intuitive system, they think of a simple system as measured in the density of information on screen ("just show me what I need to know, nothing else") and the paucity of options you have to select from (Hick's law and so forth). But if you have to perform complex activities with such a system, the seeming simplicity results in actual complexity, since you have to do things like (for example) diving into a dozen nested layers of menus and screens to reach an option that was hidden there in order to (try to) reduce cognitive burden.

A different, equally valid measurement of simplicity (and cognitive burden) is how few transitions or state changes you have to suffer through to get to the state you want to be in. That is to say: how many steps you have to take to do what you want. And since there's a chance to make an error at each step, it's not even just a question of saving clicks, it can actually be more error prone.

I say these measurements are equally valid, but not that either of them are sufficiently robust ways of thinking about good design. I'm also not trying to downplay the impact of clear, intuitive design. The point I'm trying to make is that there is no formula for making designs clear and intuitive; it's actually quite complicated. In fact, in most cases, you can't even do it, you can only find a tradeoff between imperfect solutions.

Anecdotally, I have designed dense, complex systems for quantum computing experimentalists—people much smarter than me—and had them tell me "make it simpler!". I've also tried to make simple systems for biomedical researchers, and had them tell me, in so many words, to make the UI denser and more complex. There's no correct level of simplicity you can arrive at a priori, it's different for every case, and you have to reach the right balance through testing. If you don't do enough testing, your users become your testers. The consequences are not usually this grave.
someone helps me, does that mean I need to abide by whatever-company-required-non-compete-agreements in the future, or the opposite?
He's a troll
0 to 1? Pfft.

Try 1 to 2.
The article mentions FTC says still able to enforce case by case.
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That's the neat part, it doesn't
That doesn’t seem anywhere remotely near obvious to me, but that might say more about my policy ignorance than reality.
> “Find all flights from Detroit to Beijing” ... which must be joined twice with flight info to express our query

Actually this can be done by nested query, without joining. I prefer nested query than joins. Because join is "global" and nested query is "local" (global means interfering with the whole SQL statement). The local one is easier to understand.
This has nothing to do with the general legality of banning non-competes. It's about whether the FTC has the authority to do so.
> Heavy vehicles such as pickup trucks should require a CDL

Just note that looks can deceive on weight.

A Ford Maverick pickup truck is under 3800lb. A Tesla Plaid Model X is over 5300lb!
An enforcement agency should not be in the business of deciding what should be enforced. Those responsibilities should be separated.
How do you create the correct indexes? If we create index for all the conditions in a where clause wouldn’t the number of indexes become too many? I don’t fully grasp how to best create indexes. Does anyone have good reference and examples?
Yes, this is why San Francisco, Boston and NYC have the cheapest rents in the US.
I think they meant legal to drive, not just required for new cars
Possibly a niche, highly compensated job that requires specific abilities and very detailed domain knowledge imparted by the employer at considerable expense.

At the other end of the spectrum were the stories of fast-food workers being held to non-competes, which is just bullshit. If you can learn the job in a few weeks and basically anyone can do it, a non-compete agreement is absurd.
>While the FTC theoretically has the authority to do this

From which statute?
Only for infrequent service. Many riders have service so frequent they don't check or plan as they know the bus will be there not long after they arrive, no matter when they arrive. This might even be a majority as such service is so convenient that people who live there don't bother with alternatives like a owting a car.
The argument was specifically a lack of evidence for a sweeping ban vs a targeted one. While the law can not be used as precedent, the evidence from nearly a century of business in the state with the highest GDP is a good starting point.
"Agreements"

Right. Like you actually have a fucking choice when every employer does it and you've come out of college with some $300k in student debt. This judge needs to step down on Earth. Or is he on a Boeing spacecraft?
Yes, hype happens because something new that can potentially be applied to many problems triggers lots of experimentation and discussion. Once people figure out the problems to which it's well-suited and ill-suited, experimentation and discussion die down and there's just application. Nothing to see here, this is standard and expected.
So glad you like it - we were worried it was too silly.

The logo is supposed to be a reptile claw but we might modify it to make that more obvious.
"The Congress shall have Power To ... regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"

How is the power to regulate commerce not an enumerated power of Congress?
Wasting company time attracting competitors is surely a violation of your fiduciary duty. I don't pay you to sleep or eat, so why should I pay you to interview? At our competitors no less?

For anyone reading this thread seriously, the job market is fine, feel free to market your skills. As a rule of thumb, if your employer didn't agree to the raise till you presented a counteroffer then you should almost always leave. No matter what your employer said when you started or thereafter, if you're doing a fantastic job the "once per year" bonus/promotion cycle is bubkiss, and they will absolutely compensate you accordingly (on the flip-side, if you haven't been hired yet, don't start underleveled with a promise of a promotion except in dire circumstances; this has been hashed out before, but reply if you want more details).
High school shuts down its library because of book-banning state law
The Chevron overturn will be an issue here. The question isn't whether non-competes can be banned, its whether the FTC has jurisdiction and authority.
The DCT copes better than the FFT with the piecewise blocking done by image codecs.

Consider a shallow 1D gradient, which is just a ramp. The DFT's interpretation of this as a periodic signal turns it into a sawtooth, which takes lots of high frequency components to reduce ringing and keep the edge sharp enough. The DCT is equivalent to the DFT on the mirrored signal, which instead turns this into a triangle wave, which takes less high frequency components to represent reasonably.

This varies for different types of data; my understanding is that audio codecs tend to prefer the modified DCT (MDCT) instead due to the different characteristics of audio signals.
Oh, they changed their website. It's stunning!
For his next decision, will he forbid the SEC from regulating all insider trading, since they didn't find a way to target "specific, harmful" patterns?

Insider trading is prohibited by federal statute. Non-competes are not.
Does anyone know if Astral has plans to build an LSP like pyright? There are many projects that try to replicate pyright's functionality, pylyzer comes to mind, but don't have sufficient coverage (e.g. missing Generic support). Having a team like Astral's behind creating a fast and good LSP for Python would be great.
This.

It’s great at helping me automate things I normally do not have time to attempt.
Probably a naieve question, but was there a time where this kind of behaviour was illegal, or does it just feel like there should have been a glorious past where it was just not ok to do this kind of insane mental arithmetic with other people's money?
social media, press releases, and what ever is left surviving of traditional journalism after the internet then social media and now ai kill anything local or niche, so the big news papers of note (new york time/wa post/wall st journal or the local equivalent) and transcripts of network news, and the international wire service news feeds (ap news, Reuters) and any popular blog of verified real people still are out there always checking them to make sure their content isn't itself ai generated.
I literally got a pointless noncompete removed from a contract just because of the FTC announcement.

The proposed noncompete had a 10-year lockup for a freelance contract…obviously nonsense. But it was so helpful to say “these aren’t sticking around so let’s just cut it out.”

These changes make a big difference in encouraging entrepreneurs and helping our economy, as well as just reducing stress for a lot of people.
What specific evidence possibly exists in California that is relevant to the granularity of rule-making that the FTC can legally perform under federal law? The scope of a regulatory agency's authority isn't linked to the quality of their rulemaking.
A good example might be the practice of “garden leave” in finance where employees are paid to not work between jobs to reduce the risk of bringing active strategy information to a competitor.

Seems pretty low harm to the employee (it’s paid vacation) and it prevents some pretty ugly kinds of poaching.
The real tragedy is that many industries have become so monopolized (due in a large part to government-created systemic issues; regulatory capture, reserve banking, etc...) that we need bans on such clauses because otherwise, corporate monopolies could dictate essentially any terms and they would become standard throughout the entire economy within a decade. It would speed up systemic enslavement of the population.

I think legally, such bans can easily be justified by the fact that a corporation is not actually a person. Corporations do not have the constitutional right to free speech as people do.

Personally, I tend to lean much further on this issue as I believe that corporate personhood and limited liability are unethical, socially harmful and economically inefficient (in the long run).
Repost from the other thread: this rule is too weak, not too strong. Needs to cover the customer noncompete clauses of the closed AI companies. They shouldn’t be allowed to send paying customers messages with prohibitions on use to train AIs, because that creates a safety issue where their unsafe outputs cannot be used as counter examples.
Very good writeup around the issue.

The Navy could look to aircraft for some design guidance. There are significant market competitive forces pushing for user centric design when it comes to the interfaces of modern aircraft. They also have to deal with making new things look and work kind of like older systems, and provide interfaces that simplify information.
From the most cited supreme court precedent ever.
This will help California keep its competitive advantage.
"One way of doing this for planning tasks is to reduce the effectiveness of approximate retrieval by obfuscating the names of the actions and objects in the planning problem. When we did this for our test domains, GPT4’s empirical performance plummeted precipitously, despite the fact that none of the standard off-the-shelf AI planners have any trouble with such obfuscation. "

That's a great test. It shows they're matching prior patterns they saw, even down to what words were used, instead of thinking. We can match prior patterns, come up with the equivalences, and then plan that way. People often slow down when they do stuff like that, though. So, the A.I. would have to be able to do it but slowdowns would be acceptable.
Citizens United has entered the chat.
It's not going to pass muster. At least it wouldn't in a "strong first amendment like system"
Wear retro reflectors and high visibility at night:

No amount of driver training can change the fact we have the oldest average driving age in history, and with that comes poor eyesight.
Do you mean you hope Nothing compensates the employees being let go for houses they bought?

If so, that’s not how any job has ever worked; they don’t pay for your house if you get let go
Obsidian's business model might be genius. Open file formats; closed source.

By making a great product, they attract users. Usually the main argument against software like this is vendor lock-in. But by using open formats, there's always an escape hatch. If they decided to squeeze their users, I suspect a decent open source alternative would pop up very quickly. In the meantime, casual open source alternatives are very unlikely to catch up in terms of quality and features, because they don't have a funded team working on them full time.

On the flipside, Obsidian is incentivized to keep their customers happy, because their moat isn't so large as to allow complete complacency.

Overall some of the best aligned incentives I've seen. Though it does make me sad because I feel like we almost never see this good of balance in open source software.
If that's the case, it is only a matter of time before we all can afford our own cruise missiles.

I see your point.

The way I see it there's a great advantage to having big very expensive weapons, such as only a few countries can afford them and they are so expensive and destructive that leaders aren't so quick to use them.
Reminds me of how much insight Philip K. Dick could pack in his short stories. In this example, Roog.
https://philipdick.com/mirror/websites/pkdweb/short_stories/...
I was specifically referring to this statement:

> If a small child is sitting directly in front of your rear bumper, can you see that in any car?

No one mentioned comparing it directly to a fisheye lens (of course that's better!). Please don't move the goalposts.
Disrupted implies by a new competitor which I'm not sure is always possible. We need strong anti-monopoly laws and strong enforcement of them.
Nothing about it is obvious to me. Care to justify your statement?
By that logic, the Feds don't need to ban marijuana, on the basis that it's illegal on the state level in Kansas.

"If there was anything in federal legislation that [banned marijuana], [Kansas] wouldn't need to."

It's entirely possible for a state to think the Feds have the ability but not the will to do something, and go further while they wait.
>Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the biggest contributors to the development of the field of AI alignment, and whose writings on rationality helped me improve my thinking a lot

That was amusing, Yudkowsky being noted as an inspiration for writings on rationality. His foaming, rabid takes on AI must be wonderful for the field of AI alignment too.
> The @ symbol on the screen of this display looks like a dog, which may be the reason why it is called a “dog” in Russian.

Are any pictures available? I would like to know how @ could look like a dog
It was giving power back to employees over clauses that are absurd and should not be enforceable.
Agree! This is one of the core pains we set out to fix. Using a CDE to package everything nicely for the candidate goes a surprisingly long way for their experience.

I think there's a valid point that any IDE != a candidate's local setup. But I think there's a compromise there - we try to offer a variety of common IDE's + a few mins of prep to download extensions, etc before you're thrown in the thick of it.
Yep. If there is anything that takes from an employer to give to an employee, it is on someone’s list to be undone.

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
> Under this Act, the Commission is empowered, among other things, to (a) prevent unfair methods of competition, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce; (b) seek monetary redress and other relief for conduct injurious to consumers; (c) prescribe trade regulation rules defining with specificity acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive, and establishing requirements designed to prevent such acts or practices; (d) conduct investigations relating to the organization, business, practices, and management of entities engaged in commerce; and (e) make reports and legislative recommendations to Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission_Act_o...

Non-competes are unfair methods of competition, unfair practices affecting commerce, etc.
lol I agree with every part of what they said except "Nah".

Interesting to be told what I do and do not agree with.
> what confuses me is why Americans (and increasingly, Kiwis) need a vehicle the size of a Dodge Ram rather than one the size of a 1990 HiLux ute

Well depends what you need to do with, of course.

A quick search suggests that this Toyota can tow 3300lb (if the trailer has its own brakes, or only 1650lb if not).

So if you need to tow more than that, it won't work. 3300lb is very little, even our tiny (19ft) and light travel trailer is over 4000lb.

Of course, what is silly is the people with trucks that are never used to tow or carry anything heavier than a bicycle!