skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My product https://reasonote.com allows you to generate podcasts as well, and it's had this feature for a few weeks.

Improvements over NotebookLM:

(1) You can start with just a subject, and you don't need a full document to begin (though you can do that too![1])

(2) The podcast generates much faster

(3) The podcasts are interactive -- you can ask the hosts to change direction mid podcast, and they will do so.

(4) (Coming soon) You'll be able to make a Spotify-style Queue of Podcast topics, which you can add to as you encounter new ideas.

The primary tradeoff is that the voices / personalities are somewhat less engaging than NotebookLM at this time, though this will be dramatically improved over the coming months.

This is all in addition to the core value proposition, which is roughly "AI Generated Duolingo for Any Subject".

It's early days, but I'd love for you all to check it out and give me feedback :)

[1] Documents are currently heavily length-limited but this will be improved shortly
I think it's not the same but similar.
is there issues with doing NDA's before pitch decking? is it uncouth? standard procedure?
"I would never touch another project that has ejected from its build tool"

Maybe if it was something that first relied on a large framework, but CRA is not that. It is just a tool that kickstarts the development process, especially for the inexperienced.

Considering all it really provides is ESLint rules and a webpack config, if you're working on a serious project, a day or two of work shouldn't be a blocker. Besides, there are other options you can use besides webpack (e.g. vite, as in this post).

I know webpack scares many people, and TBH it is not a nice DX, but many enterprise/big projects require customizations that required ejections and a blanket statement like "I would never touch another project that has ejected" would severely limit your opportunities in working in the enterprise world.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me. The article is about people not upgrading from older versions. One could imagine that PostgreSQL 13.0 is the “pillar” of some company, that their whole system relies upon. The article then goes into detail on what they are missing out on by not upgrading PostgreSQL to a more recent major version, and why it might be that so many stay on ancient versions, and also how you can actually perform major version upgrades of PostgreSQL.
I worked for a company that migrated from mysql to postgres, but then got big enough they wanted to hire fulltime database experts and ended up migrating back to mysql because it was easier to find talent
>Entire generations of Indian, Korean, Chinese, Canadian, and European origin founders and executives helped build the US tech industry.

Yes, but they would not have built such companies if they were stuck in their own countries. There's a reason they left those countries. Europe, for instance, is notorious for being extremely unfriendly to startups.

>Look at Flipkart and Ola in India and ByteDance in China for example

I've never even heard of the Indian companies here. As for ByteDance, TikTok is likely to be banned in the US and maybe elsewhere because it seems to be a tool for the CCP. It would be difficult to impossible for any Chinese tech company to achieve the status of Google or Microsoft for this reason. Companies in these countries may be able to do well inside their own countries, but they can never achieve real global dominance.
What is your timeline to stay in the US? If 5 years or less, I would say avoid it, unless have a specific "pro" that you want. Also, if you have a spouse and children, they might be important factors in your decision.
Let me just repeat: So what ARE your limits? Or are there any?

So I guess you're saying there are no limits? Every project should be funded to the max?

and since you're against taxation, does that mean ordinary people are to be compelled to "voluntarily" fund them? Or where is the money supposed to come from?
Does this mean more cell towers in closer proximity to me, or an upgrade of the existing 5G infra?
I'd be curious to know how they are stored, since the author either doesn't know either, or thought it wasn't important to tell us.
Any email sequencing tools that are free? I looked at clay, instantly and others but damn they are super expensive for early stage startups.
This is something I've heard called "permission marketing". The idea is that you show genuinely useful ads to only the few people who will benefit from them, rather than indiscriminately blasting millions of innocent bystanders. Then these few people will actually welcome your marketing efforts.

The classic example is advertising a new improved fishing reel in a fishing magazine. People buy the magazine (well, 20 years ago they did) because they want to know about things like new improved fishing reels.

It's a world away from the overwhelming avalanche of bullshit that is modern advertising/spam. There's nothing at all weird about hating advertising in general but being ok with permission marketing.

If you follow this idea further you'll find that very few people, even the most vocal, genuinely hate advertising. We all want to know about useful products and services. We just don't want to see a million ads a day for Apple, Coke, Pepsi, Nike, erectile dysfunction, fake single women in your area, Nigerian princes...

Because when it reaches a certain scale, and when too many psychological tricks are being played, and everything is always, BRIGHT, BIG, hyper-sexualized, when you can't walk down any street, watch anything, read anything, without seeing people richer, smarter, younger, sexier, happier than you, it goes far beyond just advertising. It's brainwashing. It has to stop because it's extremely unhealthy for our societies, our mental health, our children.
The command line experience is old school style i.e. to show tables.

\c database
\dt

Versus:

use database
show tables
Probably because neither of them have much in the way or library or community support.
Induction is a valid form of inference.
A salary-based requirement is a lot less easy to game. After all salaries are reported to the IRS on W-2s. Any fraud in the amount of salary can be easily detected without sophisticated investigation.

The only difficulty I see is that salary isn't necessarily proportional to a person's usefulness to the economy or the country. A person can start a company and pay himself a million dollars a year while the person and the company does nothing at all. Sure the IRS gets to collect a bunch, but at that point we might as well create a class of visas that are sold in an auction.
I can't see the whole article. Did she include all those multi-links when checking? Most people with OnlyFans seem to have them on Card or Linktree or similar.
Well, they’re certainly very good at favoritism, which is basically what the keiretsu-led model ended up being. And favoritism and picking winners only really works as long as you’re able to pick the right winners.

This model works well to supercharge initial growth if done correctly, but eventually you can’t really become richer through exports alone and have to pivot towards more consumption, which can be difficult to pull off.
Are you aware of the US Green Card lottery? There are very few people who apply from Germany, so you can also try that route. You have a surprisingly good chance to win it. Also, you are not forced to accept it if you win the lottery -- you can decide.
Huh, so Unidentified Flying Objects have been renamed to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena...
I would use Disney’s figures.
As the supply shortages are relieved, I think we’ll see a shift towards more pills. It’s poorly absorbed, so the dosage is way higher.

I was on Rybelsus for about a year and a half. It changed my life, and frankly, being able to skip a dose of I wasn’t feeling great eliminated bad belly side effects.
Wordpress.org locks out developer of Pods, plugin similar to ACF
If you mean “action=/foo” for a “form” tag, there is an “Action” attribute: https://github.com/maragudk/gomponents/blob/main/html/attrib...
Yeah, I'm still surprised they haven't added a list of unsupported extensions (that you can add but they're not responsible for the performance of).
and since you're against taxation, does that mean ordinary people are to be compelled to "voluntarily" fund them? Or where is the money supposed to come from?

Honestly, not interested in going any deeper on this topic here on HN. It won't lead to anything productive and will just start a flamewar. In the off chance that you are actually especially interested in hearing my opinion(s) here, drop me an email at prhodes@fogbeam.com and we can continue there. If not, then I'm satisfied to drop this here.
> US companies are required to pay the "Prevailing Wage" [0] to H-1Bs, so they cannot use foreigners to undercut US citizens.

This is laughable. I do not know how the government calculates those wages, but as someone who got to US on H-1B visa this year I'm making more than 2x the "prevailing wage" listed on my LCA application.

Just to clarify: my job is a Software Architect, in one of East Coast states, and the prevailing wage listed in my application was $84k. So it is not that my salary is especially good, it's this government-mandated one that is a joke.

I'm lucky, because I came here to work for the same company I used to work in my home country so I got offered good terms (somehow H-1B was easier to get than L-1). If some company offered me a job for the "prevailing wage" I would laugh in their face, but I'm sure for some people that would seem like a lucrative offer.
If you have nothing to contribute to the meeting, and nothing you need to hear from the meeting, just don't go. Unless you're working for one of those companies who care about meeting attendance from uninvolved people (which companies are these so I can avoid them?), then nobody is going to notice or care that you're not there.

I'm double- and triple-booked most time slots of most days, so I'm constantly skipping meetings, and it's just not a big deal. Even when I'm not double-booked, I am ruthless about what meetings I agree to attend. If there is nothing for me to say or hear, I just decline the meeting and get actual work done. In 25 years of working, Lumbergh has never even once stopped by my desk to say, "Yeaaaaaah, so, Peter, I notice you haven't been coming to meetings..."
I dont know how they are distributed at Meta.

Some companies will have a app or web page where you can click to submit a request certifying that you are working late and request a meal voucher code. Sometimes there is an "I self certify I qualify and am following the rules.." checkbox

Using the code in the app sends the food bill and receipt to your company account, presumably with an identifier of who made the purchase.

>It seems accepting the digital voucher comes with a huge risk--what if they decide to object to the establishment or your food choice?

Seems like no risk to me, provided you are following the clear rules and aren't willfully scamming the system. I have never heard of a company objecting to a good faith food choice or establishment, and that doesnt seem to be the case here either.
I'd love to see the receipts where Automattic is paying 8% of their revenue to Rasmus Lerdorf or a company he's in control of?

Seems totally fair, right? WordPress is 100% reliant on PHP and getting updates, new features, and security fixes for free, none of which the PHP project is obligated to provide?

Surely Automattic, a company valued at over 7 billion with annual revenues of over 700mil is happily paying Rasmus 50 odd million a year?

No? Why not? Are the rules different for WPEngine and Silver Lake compared to Automattic and Blackrock/Alta Park?

And, you know what? You can't run Wordpress without Linux, Windows, macOS, and maybe a few *BSD operating systems to run it on. I guess Matt's owes Linus and Bill and Tim, and a bunch of BSD project leads another $50mil.
You’re 100% right on the doctor. You also never know the why - some will write scripts to address insurance constraints as well.
> I've always wondered why Postgres is so insanely popular.

In no particular order, my preference for postgres is driven by:

* Date / time functions that don't suck
* UTF-8 is really UTF-8
* 99% of a backup can be done live with nothing more than rsyncing the data directory and the WAL files
* Really comprehensive documentation
* LTREE and fuzzy string match extensions
* Familiarity from using it for years

MySQL/Maria I'm sure is fine, but it's one of hose things where it's just different enough and I haven't encountered a compelling use case for changing my preference.
Probably with a bullet. An active jammer is probably the easiest thing to target with guided weapons.
I've seen a lot of cool shit from adobe but its mostly rehashed stuff thats been cleaned up from public workflows from stuff we've seen done in comfyui and other flux/stable diffusion based expansion workflows... like the IC-Light style relighting they demod...

But this... this is really fuckin cool
This is wonderful! I wish I could upvote this 10 times. This clearly took a huge amount of work to write and also to verify (which they clearly did!), and I hope OP knows how much I recognize and appreciate that!

This is exactly what I wish we got more from blog posts. It covers all the things for a real world complex yet simplified (as much as possible without negating the value of the tutorial by skipping important steps) and does some really cool things like run GUI apps in containers by passing in Wayland display socket (and a serious GUI app - an RDP client connecting to a remote machine over the wg tunnel, and a browser (Firefox) with audio!), access the host SSH agent, set up a real-world wireguard tunnel that does IP forwarding, etc.

OP, I hadn't heard of Custodibus before, but it sounds useful and I love that there's a GPL community version. I'll be testing it out and you may have also won yourself a customer, gatewayed from this blog post :-)
Play with it, and you may just figure it out. I'm glad someone gets something interesting out of my posts.
This is content marketing meant to showcase/get folks using the procustodibus docker images, FYI.
If only the Japanese had been willing to make some of our companies' devices for cheap, then they would have found out that we'd be perfectly willing to ship them all of our IP for the promise of a good quarterly earnings call, regardless of what it'd do to our nation's economic and political future.
Because modern computing has settled on the Boolean (binary) logic (0/1 or true/false) in the chip design, which has given us 8 bit bytes (a power of two). It is the easiest and most reliable to design and implement in the hardware.

On the other hand, if computing settled on a three-valued logic (e.g. 0/1/«something» where «something» has been proposed as -1, «undefined»/«unknown»/«undecided» or a «shade of grey»), we would have had 9 bit bytes (a power of three).

10 was tried numerous times at the dawn of computing and… it was found too unwieldy in the circuit design.
Policy says only if I am actually traveling
Databases tend to be "stickier" than other parts of any large software system. Largely because database migrations are costly. You can't just tear down an old database and rebuild a new one, you have to figure out how to move all that data across too.

The consequence is that things in database-land tends to move slower than other types of software. This I think is the major reason why we still use SQL.
IMO, most users will ignore it if it's not on Play store, they have never heard of side-loading or F-Droid or alternative app stores and dealing with trying to get them to install an APK or otherwise, no thank you.

Boy am I glad I published my app before the 20 tester rule came in, and am slowly moving everything to a corporation to deal with having to make an address and phone number public -- this is primarily due to Apple and EU "trader" rules.

If you plan on making any real money, I would bite the bullet and go with org/corp.
> For a while I was thinking I should recompute the SG coefficients every time

We had, in our geophysics application, a "pre computed" coefficient cache - the primary filters (central symmetric smoothing at various lengths) were common choices and almost always there to grab - missing values were either cheaply "faked" for Quick'NDirty displays or infilled by prediction filters that were S-G's computed to use existing points within the range to replace the missing value, that was either a look up from indexed filter cache or a fresh filter generation to use and stash in cache.

It's a complication (in the mechanical watch sense) to add, but with code to generate coefficients already existing it's really just looking at the generation times versus the hassle of indexing and storing them as created and the frequency of reuse of "uncommon" patterns.
Back in August 2019, Kimmel's show engaged in the same transgression. Since then, Disney requires every employee that works in TV or a related industry (including ESPN) to regularly watch and complete an online course about EAS tones. Not enough I guess.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/08/16/FCC-fines-Jimmy-K...
It's not all bad. I've read some interesting explorations in morality there.
This is pure speculation, the WP saga makes me wonder if Mullenweg may be under the influence of Adderall or some other similar drug.

Whether he's "right" or "wrong", this is a list of Adderall side effects that seem to match Mullenweg's behavior:

* Increased Sociability: More outgoing and talkative.

* Risk-Taking Behavior: Engaging in impulsive or risky actions.

* Reduced Inhibition: Less self-consciousness, more expressive.

* Improved Confidence: Greater willingness to take on challenges.

* Euphoria: Feelings of happiness and pleasure.

* Potential for Overindulgence: Risky behaviors may increase.
That's psql.
Lol I automatically read C&H as Cyanide and Happiness
Sure as long as adobe doesn't decide to go back and do the whole "we own the rights to everything ever opened in one of our apps" again lol
A hundred dollar bill crawling with Ebola virus is still worth a hundred dollars, yes. But I would really prefer if nobody tried to hand it to me.
I have to apologize as I did not express myself correctly. Lemme do it here: I have spent way more time on meetings when I was an employee working in the company offices. When I went on my own amount of my time dedicated to meetings was reduced very significantly disregarding of the media available. In the beginning it was phone calls mostly.
It doesn’t make you lose weight per se.

It is best described by me turning the volume down on your desire for a dopamine hit. You’ll eat what you need, vs going for the helping of comfort food. Many people see a more active libido, less alcohol desire and other factors.

We’ll see lots of other indications I’m sure. This drug is like the Keytruda of self control.
Yes fair to point out, there is some of that, but it is genuinely very good content. I typically hate marketing-masquerading-as-tech stuff, but if it were all like this, I'd have no problem whatsoever. There is little to nothing here that is fluff or distraction for marketing purpose, and there's no purchase necessary to follow the whole post. This seems written by a nerd who knows and loves what they do, and that happens to be work-related
I get out of my chair frequently. When the pieces immediately in front of you are all owned by your team, you want to shoot from the outer edges to avoid hitting your own pieces.
UTF-8 is what made me switch. It’s insane MySQL has something called UTF-8 that isn't really UTF-8, but do have a type UTF8MB4 that actually is correct. This means if you use UFT-8 in MySQL, you can’t use emoji for example.
"Class methods and useEffect are both things you could do another way or might not be advisable for particular circumstances" isn't a title that rolls off the tongue quite as nicely. ;-)

When I see useEffect, a little alarm goes off in my head telling me that it's worth exploring alternatives. I was hoping to give folks that same instinct for class methods. Didn't intend to imply that they performed similar functions, sorry if that's how you received it!
> If the candidate can't tell you something you don't know, why are you hiring them?

There's only so much time in a day.

Also, if they know better, perhaps they should hire me? Speaking as devil's advocate, of course.
Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave
You made some nonsensical statements on HN, and now you're dropping out rather than trying to defend them. Got it.
> consistently refer to encryption in transit

For cloudflare to refer to encryption in transit is quite something, given that cloudflare is the largest MITM service in the planet. SO much traffic goes through them and they have it all in cleartext due to terminating TLS.

Remember "Encryption removed and added here".
> What business do you or I have in forcing upon them what they can do?

It's called regulation and we do it all the time.
> There's a reason they left those countries

Pay and upskilling. But domestic tech salaries have risen across Asia now, and the US has gotten much harder to immigrate to.

Most people who joined the tech industry in the US from China and India in the 2000s felt they were getting a bum deal at the time in those countries because of a lack of domestic options, but that's changed since 2008 - especially after the 2008-10 layoffs (I remember those - they were scary, lots of my middle school friends had to move back to China and India because their parents lost their H1B or EB1/2 sponsor).

The next generation of Chinese and Indian startups are now being founded by former diaspora members after the hiring freezes during COVID.

> I've never even heard of the Indian companies here. for ByteDance

That's on you tbh. Not everyone is expected to follow every industry trend per country, but these are all unicorns or exited unicorns that were founded by cohorts in the late 2000s who had the option to move abroad but chose to remain in their own countries.

ByteDance for example had PMF in China well before it entered America as "TikTok", and Flipkart generated $7B a revenue a year - which isn't shabby by Indian or even American standards.

> Companies in these countries may be able to do well inside their own countries, but they can never achieve real global dominance

First, Big Tech (FAANG) is not representative of the tech industry as a whole, and does not have strong PMF in plenty of markets and sectors abroad.

Secondly, this also underestimates the fact that most tech companies have strategy and R&D making parts of their organizations abroad now.

Plenty of NLP work that became LLMs came out of research done in Microsoft China and India, Google Pay's development org is largely in India, Apple's R&D labs in China and India played a major role in developing the manufacturing process and chip design respectively for the iPhone, etc.
I mean what it usually means: to list distinguishing features, or at least give (necessary and sufficient?) criteria for membership of some class.

Whilst I'm vaguely familiar with Bourbaki and how it strongly influenced the way mathematics is written today, I hadn't come across that dichotomy before. Your answer was what I was looking for!
GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct has a peak Elo of around 1800 (but of course can be prompted to play with less skill) and is as human like as you'll get at that level.
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