skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Books/articles like this is presenting a world view. I don’t think they think this is the only way we should view the world. But I guess they are preaching a way to view the world, and as any preacher does they try to convince you why this is a better way.

(Somewhere they did mention not all people have the luxury to practice this, but she did documented examples where people in less-than-ideal situation have it turned around and do what they love.)

Regarding self-help, she said

“There are other ways in which 168 Hours does not aim to be like many self-help or time-management books. I approach this not as a productivity guru, but as a journalist who is interested in how successful, happy people build their lives. I am particularly interested in how people who are not household names achieve the lives they want, and what we can learn from their best practices. There are plenty of books out there on Fortune 500 CEOs’ or celebrities’ tips for success. I’m more interested in the woman down the street who—without benefit of fame, outsized fortune, or a slew of personal assistants—is running a successful small business, marathons, and a large and happy household.”

Excerpt From
168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
Laura Vanderkam
For example if your customers are spending more than a certain amount you need to show that you understood what they could afford to be spending and weren't allowing this to become a problem.

You can choose then, the simple option is our customers can't spend enough to go over that line, the potentially more lucrative but difficult option is check on your "whales" and only allow those who match affordability criteria.
The peg is probably the secret sauce. Other coin may have pegged, but tether managed secure critical mass by user.
Casinos are incredibly exploitative not only to staff (even relatively 'above board' companies like Evolution have awful labor records in poor Eastern European countries), but they thrive out of milking their customers in incredibly manipulative, tactical ways to bleed them as slowly and effectively as possible.

Tactics such as returning offers are specifically made to encourage people to pick up gambling addictions. Regulations are skirted by companies like Stake, allowing customers to skirt restrictions easily with a VPN and lax KYC. Their massive presence in sports as sponsors help them advertise to not just adults but children who engage with sports as well, a fact that I'm sure these operators love.

While Mr Beast might use tactics that could be construed as similar, or tries to hit KPI which are similar to those used by casinos, I'm quite sure that Mr Beast video addictions do not lead to thousands of suicides a year, and that fact alone leads me to think that it is in fact obvious that Mr Beast is not as far out ethically as casinos.

Get real.
What changed your worldview? It was a fine read but it mostly boiled down to project management basics, some format optimizations, and some storytelling basics.

I thought it was an interesting behind the scenes look at how seriously they take their “art” but nothing world changing. Which part of the article did that for you?
Cancer (outside behavior related cancer like lung cancer) is on the rise.

In spite of better treatments, a twenty year old today is more likely from cancer while in their twenties than at any time before. Each younger age cohort has an increase risk of cancer, and at younger ages.

Cancer deaths overall are still going down though, as the smoking generation still alive goes out.
I can calculate the bounding box, or indeed the exact position and orientation of some surface I want to add to, but that’s tedious and so I don’t want to.

It’s like programming without higher level language constructs. Yes, lower level languages are still Turing-complete so can technically do everything. But the necessary housekeeping distracts from the real problem I’m trying to solve.
Well this isn't a normal key. It's a key with extremely reduced entropy for the sake of the puzzle. Most of the private key is already known and is in fact all zero.

So this would not be possible with a normal Bitcoin transaction with regular entropy.
Yes, a few types are basically a numbers game. We're continuously successfully not getting them every day. But the longer we live and not die of other things, the higher chance there is of losing that game. And we're actually getting quite good and not dying of other things.

Then again, cancer treatments and vaccines are progressing recently, so that's good news.
Still better than depositing $400K of cash in a US bank.
Also, would govt stepping in even help? We all know where that led to with the "war on drugs" in the US. I think there is no simple/easy fix.

My view is, you need to educate parents (backed by solid peer reviewed etc studies), and give them the tools (and free time) to help their kids.
Most parents I know are too busy working to put food on the table to spend time encouraging their kids not to watch trash tv/youtube.
Iis the ratio of grant-applying scientists to funds available anywhere as a derivative? By economy or region obviously, you'd need to understand the variances China to US to Europe.

I think the frequency of funds renewal would be an interesting one too.
> All I can remember was cartoons - but were kids spending hours glued to the screen watching cartoons?

In the US in the past few decades? Yes. Absolutely.

Going back to at least the 1990s a kid could watch cartoons before school and then for several hours afterwards on broadcast channels.

For households with basic cable there were also very popular networks running all day full of children’s content (Disney Channel, Nickelodeon etc.)

These networks were very successful because they excelled at grabbing attention and keeping eyeballs on screens. For one example of these corners of hyper-popular children’s entertainment that kept kids glued to screens before YouTube just look at the works of Dan Schneider.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Schneider
IP rating is IMHO critical. If people start relying on it to live their life, getting it killed by unpredicted rain or an accidental water splash will be quite a shock.

Battery life could be worked around if they're really that much of an improvement in day to day use. Even buying two or three pairs to go through a full day could be a worthy tradeoff if they don't need to pair to anything. Cost could be an issue, but 2 or 3 of them would still be cheaper that many hearing aids for instance.
There are plenty of stay right except to pass signs but I expect that getting ticketed for driving the speed limit in the left lane is pretty rare.
Sorry, I should provide more context. The language in the IETF draft is a bit generic because it is a HTTP spec intended to be used more broadly than just web content in browsers and each should evaluate the risks for their use case.

For browsers specifically, the fetch spec changes will be explicit about the cache clearing and partitioning (partitioned by both top-level document site and frame origin). You can see Chrome's implementation here: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:net...

The fetch spec changes are in progress (just documenting, the discussions have already happened). You can follow along here if you'd like: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/1739
If you have all of your ducks in a row this is actually much easier than it sounds.
Fgc-9 + 'what about ammo' guides by deterrence dispensed are engineered to build reliable 9mm firearm out of non-regulated components in EU. No one shady involved.

Videos of unlicensed Germans doing this are online.
Created a Podcast Using AI
I am creating a podcast using AI. The episodes focus on how engineering teams in big tech companies are using LLMs to solve novel use cases, as well as latest research from the academia.

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The episodes are semi-automated and fully powered using:

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The content for these episodes is sourced from various engineering blogs, case studies, and arXiv papers. Check it out and let me know how you like it.

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/show/0Toon5UiQc5P7DNDjsrr9K?si=536d0ce471c44439

Apple

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-arxiv/id1768464164
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He blames Crowdstrike for his org treating humans like shit for money. Nice.
I didn't want to get into that but not all the rebels were ISIS. In fact there were tens of groups with different allegiances.
I mean should we be learning about how to run a private equity firm that buys up all the heart clinics in a metropolitan area then jacks up prices? It's not really that interesting unless you're writing anti-trust legislation.

I'm not saying Mr.Beast is even that bad but spare us the patronizing attitude at least.
> 2. Hiring only A-players. Bloated teams kill startups.

"Just hire good employees, why did no one think of this before!"

...seriously?
That's not what's happening here.
Wild ginseng is declining, but small-scale 'diggers' aren't the main threat
In college, I used to run bleeding edge. But now...I will only run a bleeding edge system as an immutable distro or on a filesystem with quick rollbacks.
Vitalik didn't rollback the chain. The entire community agreed that it was the correct thing to do and did it. Thats how consensus mechanisims work. This was easier then because the community was tiny. It would be impossible now.

The proof of this is that some people didn't agree with undoing that transaction. They stayed on the old chain, which is now worthless.

This is such a boring and widely known story now, but it has to come up literally any time someone wants to play crypto tribalisim.
> However, I will say that if that is a demonstrable thing

It's demonstratable: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/05/agile_failure_rates/

> and there was no upside

I'd go on a sarcastic rant here, but it's hard to stop myself. Don't read further if exaggerations upset you.

Sure, there are upsides, but they are hardly benefitting software engineering speed, quality, stability and developer happiness. The biggest upsides are for management:

- keeping the engineers under tight control by one of their business types (PO)

- making sure long-term thinking (like "what am I doing in this company") is suppressed by having a horizon of only 2 weeks in which you are supposed to give all you have to hit an arbitrary deadline. And then you start again! /s

- scrum has the beautiful effect of making engineers feeling either like kindergartners:

1. what did you do yesterday, Timmy? (standup)

2. Let's play with some cards, kids (planning poker)

3. Let's review what we learned last two weeks, children, and let's see what progress you made on your bean drawings (retros and demos)

How can you want a salary increase or question big man POs decisions, when you've just been acting like a kid for the last two weeks? Don't get me wrong, I do see the benefit of retros, demos, and some kind of planning and sync, but the way scrum just dumps it on you and prescribes you how to do it is just humiliating. Adults can sync, plan, retrospect and demonstrate what they did on their own volition and don't need some framework to tell them when and how, and two parental figures (the PO and Scrum master) to tell them what to do and when.

> The evidence is in the company choosing scrum then sticking with it. They believe it helped.

Many people also believe the Earth is flat and are sticking with that belief.
Can AI Talk People Out of Conspiracy Theories?
Yale looking for 5 new fund managers to build fund with $50M each
That all sounds quite reasonable. But I suspect other pressure was brought to bear as well.
LightningCSS[0] is better and faster, unless something has changed.

https://lightningcss.dev/
You need a separate data plan (which they do offer). It's just a fancy XMPP-based VoIP service.
Okay so now what effect are you having by making this ethical criticism? Are you changing the ethical outlook of the industry? Are you making a positive ethical impact?

> It feels like the tech industry is having a moment where a lot of us are looking critically at the work we're doing and the effects it has on the society we live in.

I think you grossly overestimate HN's prominence in the tech industry. It was where all the founders hung out 15 years ago. It's now just a place where IT workers talk.

> Sometimes that's not fun but it is important. Sorry if that checks the vibes too much for you.

No I just do what everyone else does which is talk about tech elsewhere. I spent a lot of time over the last 15 years here so I'm sad that the place has changed, but at the end of the day I have several alternatives.

Moreover there's plenty of problems in the world out there. A few wars in progress, a genocide or two. My relatives spent the last few weeks in hiding because a government failed. MrBeast's engagement practices are probably the very lowest of my worries. If only HN comments could change the world...
This, sadly, resonates with me. I've been pulled into GTD and a few other similar kool-aid stations, and it's not sustainable and mostly not valuable. It looks cool and feels cool but fails in the value department for me.
To be a little more precise, roughly 1 in 6 deaths are due to cancer. It’s the second leading cause after heart diseases, which are 1 in 3.
And Mr Beast dangles a fortune in front of one of his employees that grew up in poverty to pressure them into staying in a room for 100 days with all the lights on. Guess it's all the same though.
It's the weekend on HN, different crowd, often very negative and comments that imho are more akin to reddit quality.

I try and remember to not HN at the weekend, obviously forget sometimes. I tend to find sticking to Ask HN is better at the weekend.
On some podcast a longevity doctor asked the host to estimate how much longer the average person would live if we eliminated/cured cancer.

The answer was about three years. Eliminate heart disease? Another three years. Eliminate both? About five years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
Ok. I guess i misunderstood you then. I didn't mean to quote you out of context.

I just meant the human brain is the result of brute force. Evolution is a dumb biological optimizer whose objective function is to procreate. It's not search exactly but well then neither is brute force of Modern NNs.
Exactly my experience but with GnuCash. I used to do it weekly, if you miss one or even two or three weeks it's not too bad, but beyond that the effort required to catch up just snowballs. It's also been about a year since I've imported. I've been meaning to get around to reviving it, and the only way I can imagine doing it is to break it up into smaller chunks, like uploading one month at a time over a few days.
As someone who is also 23 years in the trenches, I agree 100%
At least it's a formalized way to plan and communicate using common terminology. Even this lowest common denominator is worth something. It doesn't have to be great to have some value. I have a hunch Agile can amplify both good a bad company culture.
The new shorts. It's some kind of Lovecraftian mockery.
Of course now you have a function which isn't non-optimally performed, it's now not being performed at all. Because you're probably "running lean" so actually you have no redundancy for that function.

And then there's the sociological effect of course: are you even any good at identifying poor performers, does the team view it that way? You can be one employee departure away from an exodus since someone being laid off is usually a good sign for everyone else to reconsider how they feel about their position. Bad management is pretty good at generating a never-ending stream of "underperforming employees".

Like let's state the obvious here: you're looking back the 7 prior companies you worked for. Are the people you thought should be fired still there? Are they still turning up every day and doing something? Because in that context, whatever their fault, they are a more reliable resource to the company then you were (this isn't judgment: my resume is long too).
> I submitted my state drivers license […]

Wait what? Why did you willingly give Facebook a copy of your driver license?! That makes no sense at all. There is absolutely no social account in existence that is so important to follow Facebook’s requirements (or any other social network for what is worth). No the president’s account, not the vice-president, not the bishop of Rome, no one’s account is that important to hand over your private information.
Some of the text that the LLM is trained on is fictional, some of the text that its trained on is factual. Telling it to not make things up can tell it to generate text that’s more like the factual text. Not saying it does work, but this is a reason how it might work.
When the house is on fire, you lead people OUT OF THE HOUSE.

Then you get help.

Then, if you can do it without putting yourself back in danger, you look for opportunities to help out.

If you don't know this, you failed childhood.

Now, on to the metaphor: emergencies don't last forever. If your emergency is lasting indefinitely, it's not an emergency and the house is not on fire. It is quite possible that you are being manipulated. If emergencies keep happening, senior management has a big problem, and it's up to them to fix it.
The model can be trained to interpret "don't hallucinate" as "refer only to the provided context and known facts, do not guess or extrapolate new information", which wouldn't get rid of the issue completely, but likely would improve the quality if that's what you're after and if there's enough training data for "I don't know" responses.

(But it all depends on the fine-tuning they did, so who knows, maybe it's just an Easter egg)
It seems weird to me that a media organizations like the New York times doesn’t set up a mastodon server for their journalists. Governments would also be a good option.

You obviously wouldn’t let people outside the organization register an account, but anyone can read, and if you want to comment or follow, sign up to any of the free federated servers.
Of course, the catch being zoom would not become the most popular tool if it didn't support ipv4...
copyright is subject to broad international recognition under a couple of very widespread treaties, and the pct provides a weaker way to obtain the same patent in a smaller set of countries, but trademark is an explicitly local thing. even in the usa, a trademark in one town may not be valid in the next (think 'jones's 24-hour laundry') and even registered trademarks are often only registered in the trademark office of one state. (every state has its own trademark office, in addition to the federal pto.) there is no trademark equivalent of the berne convention or the pct

so the idea of a paraguayan company, in paraguay, infringing a us trademark, is legal hogwash. mickey is a disney trademark in paraguay only to the extent that the paraguayan government decides to grant it to them, a decision that should be made on the basis of, among other things, existing uses by other companies. this is a fundamental and intentional feature of trademark law in every jurisdiction i am familiar with, not a bug

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to a significant extent trademark law is arbitrary in the same way traffic laws are. there's no objective reason, nothing justifiable according to some kind of natural law, that says you should drive on the left side of the road, or stop when the traffic light turns red rather than green. if everyone else is driving on the right side of the road, or stopping when their light turns green and your light turns red, that would be a better thing to do. the law in these cases is merely establishing a schelling point that allows a large society to coordinate their actions through more or less random but well-known decisions

the justification for trademark law is to protect consumers from inferior goods bearing the name of a reputable maker, but made by someone else. for this purpose it reserves particular names and logos for the exclusive use of particular makers. which particular names and logos are reserved for which particular makers is essentially arbitrary; what matters is that it be relatively consistent over time, so that consumers aren't buying good mickey-branded bread from the paraguayan mickey company one day and adulterated mickey-branded bread licensed by disney the next

(you can argue that to some extent modern trademark law is failing at this job, due to notorious cases of perfectly legal line extension fraud—such as exploding tempered-soda-lime-glass pyrex, saran-free saran wrap, pseudoephedrine-free sudafed, kaopectate without kaolin or pectin, and generic t-shirts bearing a designer's licensed brand—or the widespread phenomenon of private equity firms buying a quality brand and replacing its products with inferior replacements. but that's the justification for its existence)
Not the person you’re responding to, but I’m careful with what I share with people.

I once had someone share something rather personal, followed up with a comment that they suspected I’ve had similar experiences.

The reason? The language and phrases I use when referencing parents. Nothing negative per se, but the way in which I refer to them (example: my mother) and others. I was giving away more than I realized.

Which wasn’t so much of a concern in this context, but I’m more away of it now around people I don’t know especially.

(This comment actually puts me a little outside of my normal personal opsec, but I’m going to let it stand here)
Thankfully, most of us aren't as stupid as you :)

Respectfully, short of actually providing a shred of convincing evidence that isn't backed by your feelings, the plights of the mediocre are deserving of intense derision.

Your idiotic demoralization of those starting their careers will not fester into the industry. The mods will ban my account here before than happens.
Yeah and some of the other prompts were misspelled and of doubtful use:

> In order to make the draft response nicer and complete, a set of question [sic] and its answer are provided," reads one prompt. "Please write a concise and natural reply by modify [sic] the draft response," it continues.

This really sounds like a placeholder made up by one engineer until a more qualified team sits down and defines it.
"The Internet reverses cultural conditions of literacy and retrieves features of orality."

https://x.com/pmarca/status/1834899956874023247