skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same problem as asking some crypto bro or stock holder if they want to mint new tokens/shares, why would they? It's a difficult problem to solve. Land in many places has almost all its value as a license token to build a constrained set of things. In the extreme, if density could reach infinity at a point it would render everyone else's land close to worthless for residential purposes. Once you start to look at real estates as tokens instead of land you start to realize what an intractable problem zoning is, as all the stakeholders have every reason to sabotage it.
Yeah, for many categories of products there's basically two reasonable approaches to buying something: put lots of effort into research, or just buy the cheapest one. Many people are willing to pay more for a better product, but that requires being able to identify the better product.
Done, I emailed them this:

Hi,

I, and millions of others in the tech industry, saw how you handled a student's side project and are extremely disappointed in the hostile approach followed by an attempt to force him to work for free or be expelled.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42638626

This is the top tech site in the world and this is the #1 article on it currently with hundreds of concerned comments.

I founded a web design agency with 250 full time employees and due to this issue as well as the way the Sigma Chi chapter near campus and other fraternities have been treated, will be declining to provide any support in the future and will be lobbying Washington state and federal politicians to cut UW's funding.

Extremely disappointing.
Polls are actually a Hacker News feature (albeit a rather hidden one). Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29755614
The idea endures because produce fuel from nothing but water and sun light and left with no emissions is incredibly promising.

I would ask why nearly everyone has contentedly continued using rare earth mineral, cobalt and fossil fuel to power out vehicles when a clean renewalabl source is right here.
not GP but I assume they meant they would still do work very similar to their job, or the job itself. This is very common for lots of young techies who don't have huge social circles outside of work, but arguably not a great use of time off.
Orion on iOS is such a relief. I can have much needed extensions like uBlock Origin and DarkReader without which the web is a painful experience.
Actions vs Commands:

Thanks, that's a satisfying justification.

Phoenix dependency:

I feel like your answer here is justifying the choice to use Phoenix, but my question was about the opposite. I would expect a project like this to use Phoenix in the first place, so I was wondering why you mentioned it as if it was something regrettable that you needed to be apologetic for.

Elixir syntax coverage:

Cool, sounds like the minimum possible infection. It does seem a little daunting knowing that any random library code that I transitively call from an Action will need to be transpile-able. If I call a utility function that uses a library that uses a library that implements some small-but-relevent part of itself as a NIF without me knowing, I assume that will fail to transpile and I'll be locked out from using that utility function until I swap out the dependency of a dependency with something transpiler-friendly. But thinking more about it, that probably doesn't come up much if Actions are just focused on simple operations. Out of curiosity, have you done any compatibility testing with Hologram's ability to correctly transpile and run code from major libraries? It might be good to publish a metric about this some day, like "Able to transpile 99.92% of the top 10,000 packages on Hex" with a little graph of how the number has improved over time or something. Many more important things first though, I'm sure.

> When using unsupported syntax, you'll get specific error messages in the JS console

In the JS console? Like at runtime? I don't just get them as build errors?

Bundle size and performance:

Yeah that's totally reasonable.
Drive a Toyota Mirai while you can–this might be the only time in history to experience the hilarious quirks of a hydrogen car. Including the "dump h2o" button, which causes the car to, um, eject its h2o waste on command. Oh and if you're in San Francisco, take a ride on the free hydrogen powered ferry "Sea Change" (its waste comes out of the drinking fountain).
It's incredible. People are completely out of touch.
Is there a reason to believe there will be no fire insurance available, vs it being very expensive? In principle you can have insurance against things that are likely to happen, as long as it's priced accordingly.
Same boat with having a chronic illness, not fatal, but no cure either. It gets tiring wading thru all the snake oil salesmen selling false hope. And it isn’t them directly, because my older family members will hear about it with “have you tried…”
Why, sure we can: https://www.xsecuritas.com/

https://zecurion.com/blog/screen-watermarks-and-screen-photo...
It's been quite a while, but I vaguely remember my original PSP-1001 had an IR blaster program (app?) on it as well
I, for one, look forward to interest rates staying stuck at zero for a long, long time should this be true should the implication of "no more jobs" be true.

Should the implication of "59% of employers are holding or increasing staffing" hold true, then it's time to work another day.
Dropping access to disconnected inputs is extremely annoying. When connecting something new, you often want to change the TV to the input before powering on the device.
We switch ours to OTA once a year for the thanksgiving parade, and use AppleTV the rest of the time.
This comprehensive film series from PACE is how I learned (and lots of practice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIT4ra6Mo0s
Most political dissidents don't kill anyone. There's no indication that this guy tried to do anything within the system to effect positive change. How would you feel if a tech company CEO was murdered because someone's life was wrecked by automation? Nearly any business or government official could be targetted on the basis of such ridiculous self-righteous vigilantism. It's the kind of rationale that leads to political purges, lynchings, and even mass murder. We have legal systems in place to protect everyone from the tyranny of mob rule and other forms of uncivilized behavior.
In Object Oriented Context "null" is useful to indicate that some object doesn't have value for that property.

What's interesting is, do we mean that in our data that attribute has no value? Or do we mean the real-world object represented by the data does not have that attribute?

Does null mean

a) We don't know the value of this attribute
for this object, or

b) We do know that there is no value for this
attribute in the real-world object
represented by our data.

In JavaScript because there is both null and undefined it is easy to assume that undefined means we don't know the value and null means we do know it has no value.

EXAMPLE:
The attribute 'spouse'. Some people have a spouse some don't. So what does it mean if the value of the field 'spouse' is null? That we know there is no spouse, or that we don't know who the spouse is if any.

In practical terms we can say null means "We don't know" which includes the case that there is no spouse.
A foundation model of transcription across human cell type
> a company that has years of search experience (i.e. Google)

From experience on the figurative side of this reality, I can attest that it is hard to build a track while the train is running on it.
It is indeed somewhat surprizing why it took so long to figure out grapefruit juice (and it was by accident during the study of the effects of coffee on a drug). Some of the early drugs that interacted with grapefruit juice where short-term agents like antibiotics, and others like channel blockers didnt have obvious detrimental toxicity though they might have had effects that were above the range of typical human variability. Powerful statins became household items a bit later, and all the cancer drugs were invented after this association was already known.
How well does Kagi work for places outside the US and non-English languages?

I've only ever seen it mentioned by US users, so I have no clue how support is elsewhere. I briefly tried duckduckgo and its non-US/non-english search results seemed to be lacking (though this was about 2 years ago).
Because "rare earth minerals" aren't that rare, are pretty easy to recycle (making them renewable), and batteries have end to end efficiency of ~80% compared to ~20% for hydrogen.
Even if you believe that about trans people, how does that justify using slurs and personal attacks against them?

(You also massively, massively underestimate how many people think this about the LGBs.)
How South Africa got its first internet connection
> If Chrome gets 0day'd then a lot of us are going down

If anything, Google would have the correct incentive to protect itself from a zero-day exploit. I guess they could release a patched version internally only, but I doubt it. I do think they want the image of Chrome to be relatively positive and giant security hole (patched slowed) would do them no favours.
In our world, where the advertisers are already making so much noise that the only way to be heard is to pay an advertiser to shout louder than the others... yes, that's probably what you have to do.

But in the absence of all of that noise in the first place, I think we could design something that does a much better job than ads do. As it is you have to pit your bank account against McDonald's and compete for attention, but think about how much money you could save (or spend on tastier things) if it was instead the quality of your burger that determined how widely known you ended up being.

I don't have the game theoretic secret sauce that would make that happen, but I believe that it's out there and that it would be cheaper and more effective than what we're doing if we just collectively stopped tolerating ads of any kind and focused on solving the where-can-I-get-a-good-burger type problems directly.
Dows it auto start at boot?
> they do it because human connection creates the best deals.

please.

We will start to see entire AI driven companies. The change doesn't happen with incumbents it happens with what replaces the incumbents.
Depends on the freight type. Trains are already electric, planes probably need hydrogen, boats are really tough either way (but hydrogen is probably better) and trucks probably prefer batteries.
> You think 40% of businesses are going to disappear in the next 3 years? That seems unlikely. I assume you're being sarcastic.

The average life span of a business is short. Even for S&P500 companies it's only 15 years[0], if we take in all the startup and small/individual businesses, parent's 3 year bet is aggressive, but not completely unreasonable.

[0] https://www.ey.com/en_gl/insights/consulting/how-businesses-...
>Nobody is inflating the price via some nefarious scheme.

Lol I built a house from scratch including all labor and legal aspects. Almost the whole system is designed as a nefarious scheme to grandfather in the prior generation while kicking anyone in the teeth who wants to build a place the way the voters had their own houses built 50 years ago.
Show HN: iffy.app – How (much) to care about politics
I built https://iffy.app over the holidays to help navigate (US-centric) political discussions with family.

The key feature is telling you how many hours to spend on a given political topic in a calendar year, based on statistical relevance, potential policy solutions, equity considerations* (see below), and optionally personal relevance.

For each of those categories, a score 0-10 is generated based on how relevant the topic is to the category. Each category will show a description for how the weight was calculated, and 5 relevant facts are linked with references from Google search APIs to get started diving into the topic. You can also ask AI follow up questions about the analysis if something’s not clear.

The weights and textual analysis are generated with OpenAI’s GPT 4o model, but the hours calculation uses a deterministic function based on input weights. There are some other strategies used to make output consistent for a given input, but I don’t want to get into that too much here; see https://iffy.app/#methodology for details, intrinsic biases, and possibilities for improvement!

I’ve already found this useful as a structured approach to political topics ranging from conspiracy theories—weighed low for a left-leaning person like me without much personal relevance—to universal healthcare, which I should allocate a lot of research time for.

Hope this is useful or at least interesting! And that it doesn’t go down (I have hard caps on scale/OpenAI costs/Google API costs for now).

*Equity calculations are there to balance out topics that would otherwise be weighed lower due to limited statistical or policy relevance. However, the equity score is weighed lower for right-leaning users, neutrally for centrists, and high for leftists.
It made the news this evening: https://www.king5.com/article/tech/university-of-washington-...
If I understand this right, Google isn’t actually selling user data to auction losers because auction losers are collecting the data without spending any money.
By 2030? They'll be out of business by 2028 if they aren't mostly AI.
Comptime as Configuration
At this point in time in most US employment sectors, I believe employers have the upper hand over employees and are squeezing them. Under a different set of laws and courts, the balance could shift the other way. But we have seen a massive wealth transfer from the poor to the wealthy and from the young to the old over the last 40 years and the labor market in part reflects the inequality that wealth transfer creatwd.
Bit of an aside, I found this bit from https://hackclub.com/clubs/ interesting:

> in the Hack Club Slack (Discord-style online groupchat), you'll find a group of 27,253+ fabulous ...

See, in my head Slack comes first before Discord. It was released, after all, 2 years prior. My mental shortcut for Discord is that it's like Slack but for games so it has better audio support. But here it's the other way around.

It's ok ~ perhaps the on-ramp path is Discord -> Slack -> IRC :).

Seriously though, this is really impressive. Not just flashy UIs, they actually have an intro to Assembly: https://github.com/hackclub/some-assembly-required

Kudos to these teenagers.
You'd still ask stupid questions?
Google search is almost useless for anything but the most basic queries now. Anything technical and it ignores half of the search terms like you said.
you mean e^(i pi)=-1, which is known as Euler's identity and is a specific case of Euler's formula

e^(i theta) = cos theta + i sin theta

That formula gives infinitely many trivial relationships like this due to the symmetry of the unit circle

e^(i 2 pi) = 1

e^(3i/2pi)/i=1

e^(5i/2pi)/i=-1

e^(i 2n pi) = 1 for all n in Z ...

etc
The future is here, just unevenly distributed. There are already people that don't have that issue, thanks to technology. That technology might be Waymo and not driving in the first place, or the technology might be smartphones and the Internet, which enables Uber/Lyft to operate. Some of them might use older technologies like concrete which enables people to live more densely and not have to drive to get to the nearest liquor establishment.
Spy v spy, It has a phone detector, but will it detect my smart glasses or my nest cam…or the camera secreted in my bookcase capturing my screen?
>> But of course what is the main problem then is they have 10 sick days in the year and

>This leaves them fewer days later in the year to use in case of an actual illness or other personal emergency, like staying home to care for a sick child... <<

What was the usual allotment of sick days in the before times when regular wfh wasn't common? What's the current usual allotment for jobs that can't be done remotely?
You can make exactly the opposite argument as well: You think that we can still define cars as human-driven even when they have self-driving features (e.g. lane keeping). If the car is self-driving in even the smallest way, then they simply are not human-operated by any sensible definition.
Is GOMS even the appropriate model for a consumer product? From the Wikipedia page:

GOMS only applies to skilled users. It does not work for beginners or intermediates for errors may occur which can alter the data. Also the model doesn't apply to learning the system or a user using the system after a longer time of not using it. Another big disadvantage is the lack of account for errors, even skilled users make errors but GOMS does not account for errors. Mental workload is not addressed in the model, making this an unpredictable variable. The same applies to fatigue. GOMS only addresses the usability of a task on a system, it does not address its functionality.
Lol it's literally just a giant watermark across the screen with the person's name and blocking the screen when the webcam identifies a smartphone...

Needless to say, both of these are trivially bypassable.

I think most of us are more concerned about the potential presence of invisible watermarks, obviously submitting a picture with "JOHN SMITH ACME CORP 2025-01-09" blatantly strewn across the screen will be trivially traced back to you
What’s a SAP button?
It's far too rambly and vague to make any sense of the achieved results, I think.
This is a really good book about all kinds of similar situations:

Thomas Schelling: Micromotives and Macrobehavior

https://www.amazon.com/Micromotives-Macrobehavior-Thomas-C-S...

"In one famous example, Thomas C. Schelling shows that a slight-but-not-malicious preference to have neighbors of the same race eventually leads to completely segregated populations."
Agreed on Kagi ultimate.

The agents (optional with a toggle) hooked up to the LLMs are fairly decent. They'll search, grab YouTube transcripts, read online dev documentation, etc.
The managerial class has class consciousness, the working class doesn't. That's why they will be safe, they will all protect each other.
> benzene, some pesticides, and formaldehyde are the common workplace exposures that can trigger leukemia.

That rings a bell. I remember that someone mentioned a recent repainting of the building. The incident happened at least a decade ago, so I can't remember all details.
Is that Relativity?
Show HN: Dotfile Locker
I've been tracking my dotfiles with Git for many years now. They've helped me simplify Git, keep track of cloud provider logins, customize my PS1 and PROMPT_COMMAND before OhMyZsh was cool, and more.

However, there are some dotfiles and configs that I've created at employers, clients and customers that I also want to track but feel uncomfortable doing so without them being encrypted.

I realized today while writing a script to encrypt/decrypt an archive of dotfiles and symlink them to $HOME that I've written this before and was repeating myself. So I figured that if I'm going to repeat myself one more time, I might as well open-source it!

dotfile-locker is a simple tool that simplifies encrypting and decrypting bundles of dotfiles and other sensitive configs with GPG. This makes it possible to track them with version control and avoid losing environment configurations when your work machine goes up in smoke or if you work out of many difference machines but want a consistent working environment amongst them.

I hope you find this useful! Open an issue, email me or respond to this thread if you have any questions, comments or thoughts!
The ads customers do not see data. A handful of exchanges do.

Participating in header bidding gives you data similar to what you would see from operating a popular mobile website.

I don't know. It doesn't surprise me that In-Q-Tel makes investments in good arbitrage businesses like exchanges. I'm sure many good investors make good investments. It isn't some kind of cynical surveillance play.
i'm a rabbit-holer. follow the chain of interesting links from one article to the next over and over to see where i get to with hardly any backtracking. after about 5-6 links it's pretty random. after about 20 who knows where you'll end up.
> And yet, TikTok’s LA-based employees are being told to either continue their work from home or use their personal/sick days if that’s not possible, while the company’s LA office remains closed due to power outages caused by high winds.

In other words, in this case, employer is unable to provide a safe work environment (i.e., is not even "on their feet" at the moment) and their answer to that is to force employees to compensate for it using their own time off.

I would call this behavior vindictive but in my book, to be vindictive first you need to have a soul.
Unless you're a really heavy user, you can possibly save a lot on those LLM bills by using the API and some third party app. (Like Msty for example)
in order for inflation to be a tax, the tax brackets have to remain static so that your inflation wages grow without giving you any new purchasing power. Your taxes, however, gets bumped up to the new marginal rate, and thus the gov't raises more taxes silently.

Inflation by itself cannot help raise more taxes, because the spending by gov'ts will equivalently increase due to inflation.
I can tell you as someone that crosses paths almost everyday with a Waymo car, they absolutely due work. I would describe their driving behavior as very safe and overly cautious. I’m far more concerned of humans behind the wheel.
OP has a reasonable concern, I just don't think it's the only consideration at play.
I remember from my databases course at university that NULL means that the database doesn't contain that data, and empty string means that it is known to be empty.
How does this work, isn't gvfs a userspace virtual fs? FUSE?
There are sub-$60K H1B jobs. That's below my $55K starting salary as a fresh grad which, after adjustment, is $100K today. That was in an era when CS grads were pulling $100K with no experience so by no means extravagant for the time.

We've had decades of STEM hype but somehow can't produce college grads to do entry level tech work?
Your questions might be relevant if null were limited to boolean contexts.

It’s not.
Interview with the founder.

https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/12/24/ep-416
This fucking pisses me off.

The current treatments ARE essential oils, and EVERY FUCKING ONE is recommending my friend he goes through chemo, radiation therapy and risky surgery, all of which are proved to be extremely debilitating, in the sake of following the standard protocol, with a potential reward of living some weeks more.

Meanwhile, it is proven that the Zika virus does kill GBM cells in humans. This is what causes microcephaly in newborns. Inoculating the Zika virus in a controlled environment yields zero risk, and has no side effects. Yet, no one will inject a Zika virus sample to a patient, because it is not protocol.

I have no idea why the random pub med articles aren’t reproduced. But what I know, is that maybe one of them is onto something. I was mostly wondering if anyone in the community had found it.

Remember than when the AIDS epidemic broke out. The doctors and labs didn’t help much. People took things in their own hands and tried stuff, and in the end, they found things that worked.

Sure it’s a moonshot. Why not try a moonshot? It’s stupid not to.

The ETH Zurich article I posted said something like “don’t try this at home, self medicating would be incalculable risk”, but is that a joke? Not trying anything leads to certain death.
Elementary Cryptanalysis by Helen Gaines (1939)