skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airplanes do have static wicks [0] which could be seen as a form of local ground. I love these as an example of the adjacent engineering challenges that arise.

Busses also (used to?) have ground straps that you may see dragging. Apparently this was somewhat common on cars as well. "bus ground strap" is unsurprisingly difficult to search for, but I did find a discussion on Quora [1] that claims rubber formulations were responsible for vehicles picking up a static charge.

All of this is interesting once seen as an attempt to remove the potential difference between local "ground" and ambient environment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_wick

[1] https://www.quora.com/Cars-used-to-have-grounding-straps-han...
How do I know this is accurate? Does it actual use tools/APIs provided by the social media sites to generate the preview or does it just re-implement the same HTML based on observation (and therefore require constant updates to keep it in sync)?
> The problem is that “mentally sound” is partially defined as not wanting to die.

Unless, of course, you have an illness that happens to be something other than mental illness.

Because pain and suffering can only come from physical ailments /s
Health insurance companies aren't incentivised to fight this kind of thing.

Clearly falls into mandatory coverage (if claims are accurate), so all companies are going to have to pay it. Raises costs. Insurance gets to have overhead (profit) based on claims paid.

There's more incentive to deny marginal claims, because some insurance companies won't and then you may attract more customers with a lower price and maybe you get more money that way.

Patients are unlikely to complain to insurance to tell them the treatment/confinement was unjustified... because the patient will then need to pay the bill.
Airdropping "tons of food" wouldn't move the needle.

Airdropping thousands of tons of food per day, every day, for years on end would temporarily reduce famine. It wouldn't prevent famine (armed groupings who would gain control over of the airdrops wouldn't necessarily share), and would destroy local farming, and would be horrendously expensive but it's possible (see e.g. Berlin airlift) if someone major really wanted to dedicate all their airforce (again, see e.g. Berlin airlift for what it takes) to that.
> The transcription shows in real time, and shows in one of 3 colors

I use Deepgram for voice recognition, and these three colors are the confidence score.

> Similarly the recording widget itself at the bottom is overly complex

It also supports text input if you click the hand emoji on the right side

> Sometimes (often) I didn’t know what to say but a hint might have helped

Yon can click on "Suggest" in such case

> Are the conversations themselves being generated by AI

They are, they were like that at first, but I decided to spice things up every n-th conversation to make things less boring

Also, the main part of the app is the Friends section where you can chat with friends, bots, or just join the "Show HN" chat where everyone can chat in the language of their choice and the communication will be enhanced and translated in every language that participants use
The Crooked Business of Esports [video]
I’ve been using the Banner Bear one for years. Works for me!

https://www.bannerbear.com/tools/twitter-card-preview-tool/
I donate to UNICEF on a monthly basis. These sorts of things are terrible, but I’d like to think donating helps a little.

https://www.unicef.org/
As a poor person who doesn't fully own his own house but pays in taxes 60% of their income, and much of the rest in house loan interest and principal, I can see how that would play in my own case. If I were to come up onto a lump sum of money by, say, some creative endeavor of mine, and that money is going to be taxed at a 65% tax (such is the law in Sweden for income taxes), I might consider to do a number of things with that money that prevents that tax from being realized, including donating it to charities or investing it in hopeless enterprises. After all, if I can't enjoy the money myself, but I have a bit of agency over it, well the least I can do is enjoy that agency.
It's that creature from Twilight zone that was on the airplane wing, but he's in space now.
Telling people "here's a recipe to do locks" should come with a giant flashing sign that say: "this is not an actual lock (as in in-process locks) -- locks in distributed systems are impossible, this cannot be used as a recipe for mutual exclusion"
Waymo driverless vehicle re-routes into oncoming traffic
Brazil's Twitter ban threatens stan-driven global pop culture, media ecosystems
Personally I’m curious how they taste. A Mammoth burger could be succulent for all we know.
lol, best answer :))
Orange means that the voice recognition model is confident in 50-70% in such word
Carl Zimmer on writing: "Don't make a ship in a bottle"
Ok, now I get it, I got it wrong. Still questionable, but for other reason: niche content (like, retrocomputing or pet spider care or just about anything that's less agreeable than funny kittens) would never come thru.

Echo chambers aren't intrinsically bad, only when it's about politics and social issues - i. e. stuff that will affect everyone in the end.
They previously banned Telegram, and might come for these other services next. But selective enforcement is also part of how injustices are performed in authoritarian regimes. Note that most websites and businesses on the Internet don’t need to have a local representative in Brazil, for example, though the Supreme Court justice here demanded Twitter have one (just so he could jail the person like an act of theater). The aggressiveness against Twitter/X could just be a strategy to compel other companies to quietly censor in behalf of the current administration, even if it would be illegal for them to comply.
How does this compare to D2 and Mermaid?
It's not too much work, although things like unquoted tokens do introduce some ambiguity (a technical term for when two productions have overlapping start symbols) in the grammar. This is usually an academic concern though, as ambiguity can be resolved through backtracking, and as long as you don't require too much of it, it's fine.

I've implemented a hand-written recursive descent parser for something that is very similar to JSON5, and it wasn't difficult overall.
I have been wondering why the current U.S. government is strongly against BRICS but supports Lula/Moraes.

On the surface it does not seem to make sense, apart from an emotional Bolsonaro==Trump==Bad argument.

I have watched Greenwald a couple of times on the Moraes topic, but never saw this addressed.
c’mon, makers gotta pimp. it’s tough out there :)
Sorry, but I'm saddened by about how far people are willing to go to dislike Musk.

As far as I am concerned, his contributions to the US, society, and the future via Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, etc., dwarf his various foibles.

P.S. if the pay packages were contractually obligated, then the courts would have forced him to pay them. Courts are generally pretty biased in favor of employees when they sue their employer.

P.P.S if his case has no merit, the advertisers are hardly unable to defend themselves, they are huge corporations. You don't need to feel sorry for them.
I agree and I’m following you right up to your last statement. I’m doubtful that Jobs and Hastings had similar functions or operated similarly. I worked with Reed but not with Steve. I know a few people who interacted with Steve, and their stories don’t sound anything at all like how Reed operates.
I wonder how long until something like Copilot+, but also with the ability to leak these images into the training data, is released by somebody (probably not by MS, they appear to be trying to maintain some appearance of not being entirely malware authors).

I wonder if “affirming the consequent” is still ok (not that you’ve done so, your post just brought it to mind).
The problem is typically day 1000 problems: The database broke, nobody really understands all the stuff and dependencies by the kubernetes helm chart and still you have to fix it.

Downtime is now calculated in days and not hours.
Dutch (as a Dutch guy I think I'm allowed to say it). Not exactly known for our hospitality or generosity
It’s not straight forward at scale
yep, my first though as well here - and one of my favorite reads.

lots of posts, even one this month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41214180

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21767151
Section 1 and Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantee that it's useless in practice.

This was confirmed by how the Charter did nothing to stop the abuses that Canadians endured from 2020 through 2022.
That's not true. There's been several papers probing this with different methodologies and the conclusion is pretty clear.

LLMs know a whole lot more about the uncertainty of their predictions than they say.

GPT-4 logits calibration pre RLHF - https://imgur.com/a/3gYel9r

Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know - https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221

The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets - https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06824

The Internal State of an LLM Knows When It's Lying - https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13734

LLMs Know More Than What They Say - https://arjunbansal.substack.com/p/llms-know-more-than-what-...

Just Ask for Calibration: Strategies for Eliciting Calibrated Confidence Scores from Language Models Fine-Tuned with Human Feedback - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14975

Teaching Models to Express Their Uncertainty in Words - https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14334
Ech, Magic is nice and it's a fun article. It could probably do with an edit to the link text to make it clear what it's about though.
why are we so fixated on scaling companies? there are certainly more companies that simply failed because they thought they needed to put in the organizational structure to be huge rather than doing what startups are supposed to do - be plucky and creative and work work hard and create something of unique value. that's enough to get you your 9 figure exit. maybe companies have lifecycles, and maybe blowing out an org chart 4 levels deep is a problem for the next team?
In Moire patterns the lines are not parallel (they don't even have to be lines), and there is no lens. But now I'm tempted to combine the effects.
"Distributed locks" are at best a contention-reduction mechanism. They cannot be used to implement mutual exclusion that is _guaranteed_ to work.

I've seen way too many systems where people assume TCP == perfectly reliable and distributed locks == mutual exclusion. Which of course it's not the case.
> You do realize a lot of these people have class A license already

Admittedly, I didn’t know that.

> They also have wildly different politics.

Yes, I’m just assuming self driving will be a topic broken down by politics. Do you disagree?

My core thesis is that rural people won’t want self driving because it’s less compatible with their existing life, and the “saves lives argument is stronger in urban areas. I think, like guns and many other political topics, it’ll be polarizing, and the rural voters will get an outsized influence to fight it. Highways are an important part of the road system. I can’t imagine rural people being locked out nor forced to have two vehicles.

Some people hunt for sustainance, and we protect that right despite being irrelevant for 99.9% of people. Many more people use trucks or heavy equipment on their farm/homestead for work (or pleasure eg off-roading). I assume we’ll end up protecting that the same way.
> just air dropping tons of food onto Sudans population centers?

Super inefficient, but makes for great photos. Good piece on NPR US airdrops of food into Gaza here:

"the first thing to understand about airdrops is they are probably the most inefficient possible way to deliver aid. So they're used very, very sparingly and only when there is truly no other way to get aid in.

"...ballpark eight to 10 times as expensive logistically to deliver by air as by overland transport"

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1236019060/gaza-israel-airdro...

Basically because of the logistical nightmare it is to airdrop food, there is no way that you can feed millions in famine with it. You need trucks on the ground bringing in food.
Maybe management style is just not that important compared to other factors, like product vision and strategy? Perhaps founders who are so good at those other things can lead companies to success in spite of mediocre management? That would explain the lack of consensus.
I’m not asking for an explanation of your theory. Sorry, but I wouldn’t read it. We have fully mechanistic explanations of thinking (including consciousness) that have no need for added complications beyond what is represented by the synaptic connectome. So why even bother adding something else?

I suspect that, to use Daniel Dennett’s terminology, you’re looking for a skyhook. You want some aspect of consciousness to not be explainable by neural nets. Why?
I'm interested in your remix of The Economist.
Yes, engaging in flashcard-based spaced repetition would qualify as valid retrieval practice. But if you're in a skill hierarchy like math, then you would need to make sure you're not only recalling isolated bits of information (facts, formulas, theorems, etc) but actually practicing pulling together this information to solve problems. Like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954571
yet while people here debate the semantic meaning of this or that, real people are starving and dying over there.
In the article's picture, zoom in to look at the white horse. It's so famished it looks like it came from an apocalyptic painting.
hacker news glorifying paul graham for glorifying his startups with survivorship bias is getting really old

there's different ways to success and it depends on a lot of factors you can't anticipate or control. ex-post rationalizing it and generalizing it into self-help / business book snippets of wisdom is laughable.

this reminds me of the time where every middle manager suddenly thought being a steve jobs brand of asshole is the path to business success
For health plan executives the financial incentives run both ways. Most medical "insurance" companies no longer provide much insurance and primarily act as third-party administrators for self-insured employers. In the short term, health plans can make more profit by approving more claims. But in the long term they have to compete for the business of those group buyers and so they try to block waste/fraud/abuse that drives up customer costs.
Our healthcare is horribly wasteful and inefficient. But since the US government isn't in charge of it for most people, you can't blame them here. Our ultra-capitalist healthcare "system" achieved this spectacular waste all by itself.
But would you just say “no thanks, I don’t want the money if it’s going to be taxed”? That’s what was going on here.
I've never heard of this guy but that was fantastic. Subscribed!
> Many, many psych patients have basically been disowned by their families, they have no friends, and don't have the ability to live on their own in society. Maybe the lawyers would care enough about them, if they could win a suit, but I'd not bet on that.

What after winning the suit? I mean, if they dont have the ability to live on their own, what happens with them?
Lego to replace oil in its bricks with pricier renewable plastic
>They had an enviable job of bringing so many people out of extreme poverty and have done well.

Literally zero work is required for this. You just need to stop keeping people in extreme poverty - and that's it.
> Patients are unlikely to complain to insurance to tell them the treatment/confinement was unjustified... because the patient will then need to pay the bill.

Honestly, you buried the lede here. This is the horrifying and broken part. Under no circumstances should someone have to be afraid of paying for their involuntary commitment.
A lot of places, talking to police is a very bad idea both because of the police and the other people in the neighborhood. You could very easily get shot for doing so.
More like this please!!!
I also donate regularly. It is a great organization. Also other great charities in this space is Médecins Sans Frontières and World Food Program and of course the Red Cross.
I think there's a lot of us that got spoiled by the TP IDE. It was night and day more productive than the contemporary environments (particularly on CP/M). Other Pascal (and other) compilers might have been 'better' in some ways, but noone really had the edit->compile->fix workflow in one mostly seemless, easy to use package.
I’m referring to this specifically: https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/tools/file-searc...
Surely, if my question is a trap then so is the initial premise I’m replying to?

It doesn’t specify a job and that’s exactly what I’m calling out.

Even your response assumes that a “typical” developer is one who deploys to the cloud , but what is that based off of? And how many of those need to interact with the cloud infrastructure itself?

Your second point about taking up terabytes of RAM doesn’t really matter if it’s on the cloud or not, and certainly doesn’t matter if it’s Linux . It’s also assuming that you can’t have a UI frontend that just calls the necessary efficient code or CLI commands behind the hood.

So my question remains: what percentage of jobs actually require you to know Linux specifically?
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You would think that, but we can't even agree to eradicate the hippopotamus from the Americas. Why? Animals rights groups think it is apparently an issue to just exterminate them. These are literal invasive species brought in by a drug lord.

If it turned out that mammoths were actually a problem, we'd never agree to actually control the population.
One of the first things that was emphasized in a recent "Management 101" seminar (taught by a HR grunt) was that effective "management" consists of 3 roles:

- Management

- Leadership

- Coaching

It seems that Graham wasn't aware of this and believes him and his buddies are the first to identify the latter roles, albeit as "Founder".

It wouldn't surprise me that the sophistication of management theory in SV startup scene is so low. It seems that most startup-scale innovation in SV comes from talented ICs rather than well-managed projects. Isn't that the theory behind "startups" in the first place?

The big tech players definitely have some genuinely excellent managers. It just hasn't trickled down to the YC level apparently.
To be fair, the journalism was not historically free service. There was brief period where they tried to live by ads and use free articles to make people buy paper, but it did not worked.
In 1935?
Notice I did not mention FLP.

Atomic Broadcast (via Paxos or RAFT) does not depend on partial synchrony assumptions to maintain its safety properties.

Your internet or intranet networks are definitely asynchronous and assuming delays are bound is a recipe for building crappy systems that will inevitably fail on you in hard to debug ways.
Is it possible this essay about founder mode is itself written in founder mode?

Whatever the "it" is that constitutes a startup's purpose often can't be fully articulated in mission statements, OKRs, core values, etc. Either it's simply ineffable, or it's a metamorphosizing snapshot of the leading edge of a rapid process of discovery. Expecting such an already-abstruse concept to faithfully percolate down a rigid reporting chain is ridiculous, like sending old-English scrolls via carrier pigeon to narrate a live sporting event.

But communication of the "it" still has to happen, if imperfectly. So someone in founder mode would naturally focus on delivering the most faithful and timely version of "it" to the points in the organization where it'll have the most impact and be least susceptible to corruption in transit. Today that might be to a UX engineer. Tomorrow it might be to the board. It's a kind of plate-spinning that aims to reduce skew from the latest version.
Of course, any article mentioning tea, must include a reference to ISO 3103 — A Standardized Method for Brewing Tea[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103
Much like .PHP, .CFML is also more pragmatic than most ”modern" trendy takes.

Companies only building web things to advance some other purpose don't need the magic, much less the pizzazz, they need something that keeps working for 20+ years, and that keeps looking the same to those who have to touch it.

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
Home ownership makes for a pretty lousy dream. If I were in charge of society, "get stuck living in a single place for a long time, burdened by debt, dealing with endless, tedious maintenance work" would not be my choice of an ideal way to build wealth.
Why not go with Debian directly? As soon as you enable universe you are basically partly running Debian anyway.
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Anarchy is when two factions fail to govern. Thus, lack of government.
> Sorry pal, you're going to have to make it on merits, not your gender or skin color.

I'm not advocating for positive discrimination. Just no discrimination at all.

It's very important to have the proper procedures in place for when that does happen. That was part of the diversity programs. Programs against bullying, education for managers on gender identity and how to deal with the difficulties around them, how to pick up on bullying etc. It's this kind of thing that I do myself (not as a job but as a voluntary side assignment in my job). It's amazing what kind of sexism and racism you hear when you go on a company trip and have a few drinks with high-level managers. So clearly this work is still highly needed.

Don't forget these programs were started because things were going the wrong way, people who were different than the standard cishetero white male had less chance to a job and were making less money when they did get one. This is of course not acceptable.

I don't think quotas are the answer. But rather fines when a company goes too far askew. "We only hire white cristians here" just cannot be acceptable.

> Racial quotas in the workplace is not progress.

That was only one small part of the diversity programs, and not one I necessarily agree with.

> Oh, so your boycotts are fine? Classic leftist hypocrisy.

I never said boycotts are wrong anyway. If right wingers want to boycott companies like Apple, go ahead.
I'd suggest it was more like they limped across the finish line rather than finishing strong.
It's time for the team on the ISS to split up to cover more ground.
Yes, I wasn't specific enough: it comes from developers. I can see how frontend devs don't want to 'learn Linux' but not wanting to learn how to configure an HTTP server because 'this is Linux' is at the very least poor taste.

Now, talking about people who actually deploy code to backends... these are the folks I had in mind. I imagine most of them don't deploy to Windows Server and they sure aren't deploying to any macos backends.
Which is the same thing. You've also heard them called rockstars or x10 before. They are referring to the same folks, but calling them "easy to manage" is a hilarious statement.
I don't think so, you can now run your own PDS with a limited number of users. There was a comment on another recent Bluesky HN story where someone reported that they offer instructions for doing his at sign up, iirc
I can't think of any country I'd consider having a strong rule of law that would start arresting employees for the actions of their companies that they themselves have no say in.

Effectively, the judge makes it impossible for X to defend itself in court because he'll just have anyone arrested who tries. That's not something you'll find in the developed world these days.
One thing is they're open source.

> the Rust WebAssembly binary included in this library is closed-source.