skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make it a legal requirement that if they brick the devices they owe the purchaser a refund for the value of any parts of the hardware that are compromised, minus some depreciation schedule. Then they have an incentive to keep running that service even if it's not currently making them any money. If they go out of business, that obligation is the same as any other on the books - assets will be sold off to cover the debts as best as possible, or some other agreement reached. Patching some code so that the system isn't bricked when the server shuts down is almost certainly cheaper than giving everyone their money back.
Apparently 1.9 meters tall which is a bit ironic considering how small the screens generally were back in those days. :)
"at least a collective incentive to lower wages."

???

In accordance with HN guidelines I am going to resist giving a snarky answer and will instead clearly articulate: Companies clearly have a strong collective incentive to lower wages.

"While companies could use the data to ensure their offers are always below average (pushing wages down), they could also use the data to ensure their offers are above average, pushing wages up."

They may do both. Collude to keep average wages low, so that when they offer outliers "above-average" it is still cheaper to cross that many standard deviations.

"Think about it: prices are transparent in most markets and that doesn't seem to generally lead to anti-competitive prices. In fact, it seems to encourage companies to compete."

The problem imo is less about transparency and more about information asymmetry. It's asymmetrical that companies have access to literally what every other company is offering, while the employee is sitting there trying to guess based on glassdoor (which is utter shit information) and levels.fyi (marginally less shit?).
Competitors making similar price adjustments or salary adjustments based on seeing each other's public announcements or sharing data is legal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion

That's why it's "legal tacit collusion" when one leading law firm announces salary increases and other law firms immediately match it: https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/large-law-firms-...

That type of salary matching has been happening for decades.

What's illegal is competitors making agreements with each other to set wages -- via secret emails, etc.
Elected officials appointed to a position, buddy. Not "directly" elected, like the GP claimed.

You may be thinking of the EU Parliament, which is directly elected, but who did not pass these antitrust regulations.
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What makes you think Trump will do anything RFK wants after RFK endorsement of Trump led to a majority Harris polling bump? Did you know Trump hasn’t invested in any down ballot races and is on track to lose the House as a result, meanwhile Harris is investing tens of millions into down ballot races for a chance at securing a congressional majority? Dysfunctional governance is all we can hope for under Trump’s administration.
If it’s public there is no information asymmetry. There is no fixing.
And a second for when your main domain gets banned for spam for innocuous reasons.
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Show HN: Landing page copywriting and AB testing tool
Hello HN community

Small firms operating in multiple languages struggle to write great marketing copy in all of them. Wafrow is an AI landing page copy optimizer which is fluent in english, Deutsch, and français. WIP for العربية, español and Nederlands. Give it a spin and let me know what you think.
Show HN: Image Splitter – Split and Merge Images Easily
Hey HN!

I'm excited to share Image Splitter, a comprehensive image manipulation tool I've been working on. It's designed to solve common image editing needs: splitting, cropping, and merging images quickly and easily, without compromising privacy or dealing with ads.

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Key Features:
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Core Functionalities:
1. Image Splitting: Divide images horizontally, vertically, or into grids
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Use cases:
• Social media marketers creating multi-post image carousels
• Developers needing to quickly slice up UI designs
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I built this because I was frustrated with existing options that were either slow, packed with ads, required uploading images to a server, or limited to just one function. Image Splitter aims to be your go-to tool for quick image edits without the bloat of full-featured editors.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and any feature requests you might have. What other image processing tools would you find useful in a similar format? Are there any specific splitting, cropping, or merging features you'd like to see?

Try it out and let me know what you think!
> stunning victory for casts, crews, writers, directors, studios

But mostly studios, modestly left to the end.
That quote seems to confirm that the headline is accurate.
Only in some jurisdictions.
Show HN: CKBX: The Web3 version of the one-million-checkboxes challenge
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I do.

Saves having to wait on a line at the drive thru. Or on a line inside the store. Nope, can't do that: they don't take orders at the cashier, so you have to use the kiosks which take even longer.

So I use the app to order while at home, drive to the restaurant and grab my food and leave.
There are sufficient technologies to create level 4 urban and level 2 interstate driving that cover most miles driven by most people on a daily basis.

AGI isn’t required for this. Really good SLAM is.
David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way
Mine do this as well, but in PHP. They adopted docblocks over a decade ago and never defined any best practices or used any tools to check them, so comments don't even match the code half of the time. We're on PHP 8 now which can enforce types in the code itself but still have to include docblock types because that's how it has always been done, so the problem persists. It's maddening
Ah, you are back with your "the kitty protocol doesn't support my pet feature that nothing else supports, aka left and right distinct modifier states" so it must be bad. I was wondering when you would show up again.
You can also check out ObjectBox (Vivien, CEO of Objectbox here)
I cannot fathom how any organization would willingly allow such a trojan-horse operation to see internal data like this. What possible value is there to add such an enormous vulnerability surface for such laughably tiny, if any, benefits. That this company raised $100M+ at a $1.6bn valuation is...bizarre.

This feels like one of those things where VCs (including YC and A16z) force this nonsense on their other startups in a circle-jerk sort of pyramid scheme fashion. There is no universe where this makes sense as a product.
I wish I had the time they have…
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Plenty doesn’t support IPv6.
Interesting idea, maybe created a medieval-monk Terry Davis. Had he been born 600 years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
> To support increased security, as of August 30, 2024, Microsoft will remove the ability to send user account details and passwords in email from within the Microsoft 365 admin center.

So this only affects admin email, not general user email.
You don't need to abandon plain text to hide comments. Comments are detectable with a regex; an extension to hide comments would be trivial to make in most editors. I think it's not a common feature because people generally just don't want it.

Rich text code would create so many problems, too. You get locked into a special editor. You need special version control. Grepping becomes difficult. Diffs become difficult. You'd need a whole separate ecosystem, and for what? We have treesitter; we can already treat code like data.
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The app works better for the drive thru, and also for families with kids that like to push buttons on the giant ipad.

Speaking of which, we stopped going to fast food burger places because 75% of them can’t make things like “a hamburger with no cheese or any other toppings except ketchup”, or “a cheeseburger with no other toppings”.

I suspect an LLM that supports audio input would outperform most drive through window attendants.

Oddly, I’ve noticed there is no correlation between speaking english as a first language and being able to understand those orders.
Interesting, but I had expected to see a comparison of generating DC voltages using tubes, which were used in my university Electronics course, with solid state. In those days to generate a DC voltage from another DC voltage required generating an AC voltage from the DC and then rectifying it.
GAAP and IFRS compatible forward-only double-entry accounting method schema [video]
Hello, Files developer here, just posting my personal thoughts, opinions and anecdotes. Not speaking on behalf of any other GNOME contributor:

Seems hacker news don't allow long comments, so I will put it in an external link: https://pastebin.com/bqjqbVqs

TL;DR I agree with some opinions, I disagree with others. Few of the complaints were either very recently rectified, or seems to be just bugs because I can't reproduce or understand them.
Without more context, it kind of just feels like signaling that the founders can tout to peers and investors. So the the benefit is accreted in a prestige and respect way, now actual development.

Not saying I agree with the practice or the value of the signaling, just kind of speculating here.
I’m in gov making 55K. My friends in private make 130K+.
Underrated video. Underrated song.
I'm pretty sure this is illegal under California law:

https://starpointinjurylaw.com/articles/information/work-7-d...

Startups don't fit into one of the excepted categories.

When I started my company I personally worked 7 days a week, but expecting it of employees seems completely bonkers.
It's even funnier when they do start their own company and immediately crank up the back-pedaling.
And the "checking you're human" popup with the three dancing dots
I definitely agree, but still, a lot of people are told "you will never use your math or writing after college." It may also be that they perceive themselves to be judged by how much code they can sling, and not the quality of their writing. And in a large enough department, the work that depends on math ends up being given to the one or two "math people." I'm one of those.

But I suspect that there's a relationship: If their writing is hard to read, their code will be hard to read.
>Company A can use the compensation data from Company B to try and compete better for talent.

My company has done this in the past sorta indirectly, we were losing a lot of people to competitors and data like this is how they justified paying a bunch of us better so we wouldn't leave. I agree that it could be used to fix wages, but companies will always have to pay their best talent more if they want to retain them, whether that means paying them above what the data says or if it means inventing new job titles for them to progress into.
Show HN: Graphme – Text to Graph of Thoughts
hey everyone!

just made this tool, graphme.
it takes any corpus of text and turns it into a graph of thoughts.

the goal is to understand how thoughts & ideas get generated. it's interesting to see how humans come up with new ideas and topics in conversations.

this is just v1 so i'd love to get your feedback + what you think it would be useful for.

thanks!
America is the The Chad Alpha Dog amongst a sea of Beta puppies.
too much, do you think?
Some of the problem stated in the post is a little forced, namely the issues with bisect and blame. That's only an issue if the review doesn't end with a squash.

Also as a user of gerrit via the Chromium project, I'm not aware of a way to structure the patch sets uploaded as individual changes without infinite foresight. It's always appended into the last. Whereas with github, at least you can rebase. I fully admit I could be missing a gerrit feature.

That said... I would really love an interdiff feature for the GitHub rebase-to-fold-in-feedback-to-meaningful-commits workflow.
Your salary negotiation point speaks more to a call for open salary data, which many people have been arguing for.

You're missing a lot with your second point though. If a company has excellent salary data and can put in you a band, then it also means that you have better grounds to argue for raises when you gain experience, or argue if you are underpaid, or even find jobs at companies who intentionally pay a higher percentile to market as a way to attract better talent.

In contrast, if we all operate 100% blind with no data, as many here seem to want, it would lead to all sorts of unfair wage situations with people doing equivalent jobs earning vastly different amounts. This sort of environment is biased towards more aggressive people who have strong social skills when it comes to negotiation. In fact, you see exactly this when companies choose not to buy data like this to set their bands.
Is it clearly advertised at time of sale that X comes with the insane restrictions? Is there a viable alternative to X without? What are the consequences if you don't make a purchase at all?

There are some necessary conditions to fully consent to an agreement. If someone has a gun to your head and tells you to do something you don't want to do, it is not entitlement to comply but complain instead of "sticking to your principles".
Gemini to me feels to be dying, every time I open lagrange there's another 10% or so of the default bookmarks that are perma-offline; and the sites like geminispace.info have fewer and fewer results
Please don't take the parent too too seriously, they listed some fairly useful technologies that are widespread but some that are definitely more situationally needed/niche. I think they were speaking somewhat jokingly/ironically if you couldn't tell (listing 3 relational databases for example as if you need to have experience with all 3 rather than just _any_ relational database).
To paraphrase: you can write PHP in any language. PHP is a negative bias for bigCo mostly because of the folkloric history of bad security practices by some PHP software developers.
And the Max Headroom style was notably copied for the Back To The Future 2 "80s Cafe" scene, with Max Headroom style version of Reagan, Michael Jackson and Ayatollah Khomeini.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAEU-Lf60LA
There are countless studies (mostly in the game industry, as crunch time and 7 day weeks are common) that show this doesn't work. Productivity for knowledge workers breaks down. And while I can sit 80h/week in meetings, I can't code 80h/week (not that I want to do both).

Yeah I know, worked at a startup, founders where pressuring everyone to work harder, asked why people left before 8pm, they got at million exit, no-one else got anything.

And they were spending company money on cars, travelling and expensive lunches each day (most expensive steaks in town), living the life.
That is probably not even legal, let alone smart.

An extra 10 hours never made or broke a business in the history of civilization.
I'm not sure that's true. I would love it if so!

https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con...

Just one article discussing it. Do you have a source to back this up? M-DISCs are getting hard to purchase these days, and I have a lot of stuff I want to put on them which I likely will want to look at in 30 years.
It seems odd at first until you realise that it's a host setting & a convention, rather than an inherent limitation.

The familiar model of "centralised" Git hosts like Github come bundled with their own protocol-specific permissions models. E.g. if you were to imagine a team working from a simple .git directory hosted on a local SMB/whatever LAN share, the permissions model would be file permissions on the networked filesystem.

Blocking users committing to an "owned" branch on SSB would require implementing an ACL-tracking & ownership model attached to namespaces (likely branch prefixes here by convention) - very doable, nothing about the protocol prohibits it architecturally. So if it ever becomes one of those "good problems", it's not an inherently concrete design decision.
I worked for YC company around 2014-2019 an it was all chill. I guess that's because the office had 10 hours difference with SF and I wasn't getting any shares, just the usual above the market compensation.

I would laugh in the face of whoever suggests to work literal 7 days a week as total nutjob, but I'm hopefully done with the whole VC and big tech thing.
Workers also have a common interest to take a bigger share of the pie that they deserve. Everybody has this interest. It doesn't make any side of the labor market moral or immoral, its just how any market works, and that's absolutely alright.
Due to Tennessee's Right to Spork laws.
Could include some locally sourced "raw water" and offer options for unpasteurized, unrefrigerated milk.
this only applies to the very senior and experienced people, like staff+ engineers who are not easily replaceable + have so much knowledge that company will suffer if they leave.

the rest of your average tech worker who pushes jsons from front-end to backend does not have much leverage and is easily replaceable with new college grad with chatGPT
I am surprised I have not heard about more kinds of surge pricing or other price increases to exploit consumers. For example, raise the prices across the board $1 for an hour before the adjacent stadium opens.

Do the Franchises put limits on the pricing power of individual stores?
My McDonald's app has a daily 25% off coupon. I feel like it's a glitch but it has been persistent for over a year. Two of us can eat for $13
Then you end up with a design document that corresponds to the code as it existed conceptually before v1 of that code was even written. By the time v1 is written, the design doc will be slightly out of date; by the time the code reaches v3, the document is more than 2 versions out of date.

The nice thing about comments is that they're in the code. You can't update the code without at least looking at them; that's more visibilty than you'll get from anything else.
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the article.

In the article, I first show how to "break" the Bell inequality without making a reference to any complicated math or Physics, this is the section "Breaking the Bell inequality with non-local information", which uses the dice roll example. This is on purpose, for pedagogical reasons, and this is why the Python approach imo is so useful to demonstrate this whole thing: the key idea is, to break the inequality, you need to "peek" at the other side.

Then, the next mental step is simply the statement that, in "real life", you can prepare a composite system (eg. 2 photons modeled as 2 qubits) that you can seperate (modeled as the split() function in Python), you can send the 2 parts to two different observers, they use a certain measurement setup, and the whole game is played, statistic computed, etc. and then you get this value 2.82 (which breaks the Bell inequality)! So somehow, the 2 qubits are doing that we can only model [in Python] as peeking!

The actual derivation of how to get that 2.82 is, in some sense, almost like a a detail. I think with this approach, even a non-physicist can understand what this whole argument is (=Bell's genius).

"a talented college physics student can do it" - I'm a Physicist, but I'm not working as a Physicist, and I was able to derive all the numbers in that table by hand with pen & paper directly. I figured if I can do it 15 years out of school, so can a talented college physics student!

The next article will be that derivation [of the raw probabilities], I just need to transcribe it from my notebook to Latex and clean it up. If you want to see the original notes:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/sqxLnEhyeZTDD7oA6
Phyphox is amazing: there is a wide variety of different experiments available using all sorts of sensors found in phones. The iPhone accelerometer seems to saturate at roughly 13g, easily achievable by pulling your phone very fast in an increasingly narrow arc towards yourself. What were you thinking how I found out?

(Fun fact: this is another project that Sebastian Staacks of http://there.oughta.be worked(s?) on. You might remember his wooden Gameboy shell, the Gameboy interceptor to screenshare the Gameboy screen to a PC or his bullettime video booth.)
I’ve seen so many teams that fail to realize that once you use a domain in any significant way, you’re basically bound to renewing it until the heat death of the universe – or at least the heat death of your team.

Whether it’s this sort of thing, a stale-but-important URL hanging out somewhere, someone on your team signing up for a service with an old domain-email, or whatever, it’s just so hard to know when it’s truly okay let an old domain go.
Eh, startups are filled with people that are all-in the hustle culture. I am not at all surprised at that.

It's the main reason why I avoid working for startups too. Had a brief stint working for one a decade ago, although they didn't ask me to work weekends, there was this pervasive idea that people had to work more than what was stipulated in their contracts. This was already a big red flag to me.
Yes! I'd like to find some time to explore and fine tune a model to act as an effective rubber duck.

I benefit greatly from talking to colleagues which helped me understand things by not saying much of the answer but by asking the right questions and "thinking together".

The current chat interface where each sentence gets an immediate response and the model always has to say something feels unnatural. But OTOH it's not easy to find the right balance, so I didn't make much progress. Probably I need to talk with somebody :-)

Anyway. Being senior naming engineer myself I already have the name for the product:

Robert Duck
Looks like they are still active!
There are currently only 2 panoramax instances. One from IGN (french "National Geographic Institute) and one from the french OSM charter.

This is obvious by looking at the coverage the world. France it where the majority of the coverage is. The coverage of most cities is actually pretty impressive for a young project.

While the UI and coverage is not necessarily on par with street view, it's still pretty usable in France.

Secondly Panoramax is first built for OSM contributors/mappers, not for end users. The blog reflects this in the tldr: "If you are interested in contributing"
My very television-averse friend wishes to know what if anything this is spoofing.

And who "Sourvereign Segnior" might be.

My very television-averse friend might also not be averse to televisioning this particular concept, were it to be realised in full.
We verify the correctness of a spreadsheet engine
Add AI infused Kubernetes to the recipe and a16z will be all over to invest in startup like this.