skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, here’s the specific text that is the basis for $14M ARR, which includes a “[founder] says” in the text:

>> There are three levels of pricing for the paid service, The Basic at $299 per month for customers that want lists of sites mainly for the purpose of lead generation; Pro at $495 per month, suited more for users that work in an industry using a lot of A/B testing and comparison-type data; and Enterprise at $995 per month, which covers all bases and allows sales teams with multiple people to all use the platform at once. Brewer says that in terms of paying users on the platform there is a ‘few thousand’ and the split is about 40 percent Basic, 40 percent Pro and 20 percent Enterprise.

_______

And here’s link to the current pricing:

https://builtwith.com/plans

________

And link to the founder’s comments on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=garazy
Wow. Mind blown faux-sho.
I remain unconvinced by their arguments on this, and so will keep using good old reliable `gpg -se`.
Nice. That is your own tech stack not just using Jitsi? Pretty impressive if so.
I've run into a related problem:

I have (iOS-using) friends I have convinced to register their numbers with Signal...but they never check Signal. They do check SMS.

This actually drove me away from using Signal for SMS on Android, because I couldn't send those friends SMS messages through Signal. They could only go out as Signal messages, and my friends never checked them.

Fortunately, I only have a handful of friends in this category, and virtually everyone else I talk to does use and check Signal, but it's a usability problem both ways.
I don't it. It's been this way for a long time and if anything more people are moving discord or whatever.
You assume that somebody who bases an opinion on somebody else on his wealth is obsessed with it. You would be right if and only if you were taking about conscious decision-making only. But people don't work like that. We're affected by a lot of biases that we might deny or not even aware of. It doesn't make sense to label somebody who is affected by this bias as a person necessarily obsessed with wealth; most likely, they are a very nice person who honestly thinks that they don't care for how much somebody else makes.
A pet insurance company using a semi-obscure functional programming language.

Definitely sounds like someone overspent their innovation tokens:

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
Nanotechnology’s Spring
15th iPhone?

I'm 50 and I'm still on my 1st Android phone (which is a piece of crap, but I have an environmental responsibility to use it as long as possible and it still does perfectly good phone things like SMS and voice and DCSS). I've owned maybe four mobile phones in my whole life.

I guess you're creating employment. See: https://www.who.int/teams/environment-climate-change-and-hea...
Suppose you make a whisky that is indistinguishable from "The Macallan" in blind taste tests. Who cares? Who's going to buy it?
I have nothing new to add other than to simply parrot what has been said a few hundred times above.

This is a terrible decision.

It took significant effort to convert close friends and family to signal and was only palatable due to it becoming the default messaging app on Android.

Not only will I be likely to field a ton of tech support once this occurs, I'll also likely need to recommend a completely different app.

Looks like I might just bite the bullet and buy iPhones for my immediate family (without icloud imessage backup)
Show HN: Gesedels, an specific data storage API
A place I worked at previously had some warehouse locations that were unionized. Regional leadership was very concerned that if the Union locations interacted freely with the non-union locations that it might spread. Besides trying to have management employees be the only bridge between sites wherever possible, that also included treating the non-union employees to more perks like company provided drinks, snacks, more breaks, better pay, and better staffing levels. In some cases our non-union warehouse employees were paid more than the union employees for the same position. They also made sure to play up incidents like when there were accidents due to say a forklift operator being intoxicated at work having their job saved by the union. In many ways the non-union employees benefited from the union existence, however many of the perks given to the non-union employees continued even after the union warehouses closed - and when evaluating locations to shut down union places were always at the top of the evaluation list.
Some Visa cards do [1] now, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQyVcUHXEAMSKbt?format=jpg&name=... and can refuse authorisation if it's not sent.

Apple's statement was "to prevent the sharing of fraud prevention assessments with your payment card network, you may select another card". I removed my Visa cards from Apple Pay.
I was kind of expecting this to be about the fact that beginning with the Apple ][ and running up to (and maybe even a little past) the introduction of OS X, text files on Apple computers used ^M as the line delimiter as opposed to ^J on Unixes and ^M^J on DOS.
Sounds like its just managed Citus/PG and has little or nothing to do with Cosmos DB. MS is so bad a branding and naming products.
> I'll just have to hope that Google figures out a way integrate a seamless, opportunistic end-to-end encryption protocol into the default Android messaging client, since Signal is deliberately dropping the ball here.

This is what Google's RCS implementation is, to my understanding.

Although the end-to-end bit might be a bit on the squishy "kinda-maybe-sorta" side, rather than Signal's enforcing of it.
Sounds like something someone does before blacklisting you.
> Apple built something better.

I want to against this. Even if the app is well made, messaging platform only for specific company's devices is completely broken idea. Tragedy is that US people adopted completely broken platform.
The cotton industry in England is an horrendous example given that English industrial development on cotton pivoted entirely on the captured and forced to deindustrialize subcontinent of India where it was made so all imports of cotton had to be made from England, therefore allowing a captured market to subsidize English industry in detriment of their own population and competition either in quality or quantity
Those processes, once developed, would probably use less energy than existing industrial agriculture. So far, the only progress I've heard of in this front is Solar Foods' protein powder
Hear hear - elegance over verbosity!
Right.. but 54 million..

Lets half that 27 million..

Wage for a UX expert ~ 200k/year

Wage for a rails (or elixir or python) dev ~ 200k/year

Wage for a Data person (AI stuff) ~ 200k/year

Let's half the 27 again.. 13 million. OR => 65 full time staff to build an app.

I agree, it is harder to design something. But at 1/4 the cost one could hire 30 UX experts and 30 devs.. I mean come on.. Really?

Regarding security.. they could have daily PEN testing by a dozen companies and the cost wouldn't be close.
I'd feel proud about that. Whichever way you slice it, reducing work is good. Humans shouldn't waste their time doing stuff that robots or computers can do just as well.
> Not all abstractions are created equal.

I'd go so far as to extend the statistics aphorism about models to software abstractions: all abstractions are wrong (/leaky?), but some are useful for now.

The problem with software abstractions is that they, unlike the fundamental laws of physics, model code organization and business logic that frequently changes. These changes often make no sense beyond "VP lifer thought it was a good idea" so our house of cards is built on ever shifting sands. No abstraction short of a pointer can survive that.
"Some of his previously floated ideas involve making algorithms open source (if this doesn’t make sense to you, don’t worry, it doesn’t make much sense to anyone else either) and deleting fewer posts (hope you like harassment and hate speech!)."

Crikey went full Marx some time ago.

Their definition of 'Hate Speech' is a very low bar.
They are using that money to build a chip plant not to subsidize 3000 workers.
The GPs request is a very fair one. Typeguards are 10% of starting the solution.

What everyone wants: Autogenerated type guards by class.

What everyone gets: “Remains out of scope.” and need to use other libraries. The compiler can do this significantly better (more ergonomic, less time, etc) than 3rd party libs. TS devs really should reconsider this feature.

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/15265
One example I can think of was the Play framework.

If you wanted to work with Scala 3 and Play 2.7, you couldn't.
You needed to stick with Scala 2.13 to be able to use Play 2.7.

This was more than a year ago.
Now we have Play 2.8. Is it compatible with Scala 3 now?

Edit:

I am not entirely sure whether it was possible to make Scala 3 and Play 2.7 work.
So my statement above might be partially wrong.

However, I had other dependencies too, which required me to use Scala 2.13.

Consider to downvote this, if you think I made a false statement.
I should have looked up the documentation beforehand and not rely on my (past) personal experience/impression at all.

Bad mistake!
What we really are is an agglomeration of cells
Check out Homotopy Type Theory / Univalent Type Theory and HoTTest summer school :)
Rails really does not scale. In performance or development. It’s still a great option for small sites though.
Presumably this was for Expansion Pack that some people install for USB compatibility.
Dust plumes observed being 'pushed' into interstellar space by intense starlight
Firefox with the built-in "Enhanced Tracking Protection" gets you about 70-80% of the blocking that a dedicated adblock system can, depending on the site, and at least saves you from some of the worst behaviors. Between that and network-level ad blocking (Eero+), I really only see first-party ads like FB/IG. When I'm not at home, the chances are pretty low that I'm just casually browsing the web rather than using a dedicated app (where I probably bought or subscribed to avoid ads).

Edit: and if you're willing to use Safari on iOS, there are dozens of Safari plugins on the app store that provide good-enough adblocking.
And then they lock you out of your account and you can't even prove to them that you are actually the person paying for One so there's no way to get support anyway?
> they aren't accepting legal liability and are just a convenience over doing it yourself

This is not a thing when it comes to regulated professional services. A provider doesn't get to choose whether they "accept" liability, or be "just a convenience".
As a meatspace photographer, I take some comfort that the photograph in column 3, row 25 has an issue. The mountain peak has abundant snow. Its reflection in the lake doesn't. There are similar snow reflection disparities in several of the mountains-reflected-in-water pix.
Sure. But not using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software more.
I can't read the article either but the abstract says "using a sample of men."
Wow, good find! They definitely sound similar but it’s not a facsimile. I wonder if this holds for the other samples.

I guess in retrospect we asked it to continue the music in a likely way, not be novel. And it definitely convinced me enough to be impressive. An NN that composes completely fresh music, whatever that means (I’m sure most modern human music has a hefty dose of cross song sampling), would certainly be a good next goal post.
Now?!

Sorry, but someone called dibs on the idea of “priority” long, long ago. The oldest dispute on this list is in the 1500s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_priority_di...
The US needs a chip fabrication factory. The money is being used to build it. This has no relevance to the the 3000 workers who were laid off
> "I have three times as many students as usual failing—instead of one or two, I have three to six. I have some students who have done no work the whole first grading period," Mark Wenning, a biology teacher at Lowell told The New Yorker. "I don't think some of these students would be doing well at any high school, which makes me wonder why they wanted to come to Lowell."

Two things about this quote stand out to me:

1. That doesn't really seem like all that big of a jump in fail rates. Sure, technically that's a 200% increase, but how many students are there total? Even going back to the overall figure across the whole student body, a jump from 8% to 25% varies considerably in significance depending on the total population size.

2. Wondering why the students want to go to Lowell begs the question: it presumes that it's indeed them who want to go to Lowell, and not - say - their families making that decision on their behalf.
That seems fine to me. What's so sinister about that?
Webb Reveals Shells of Dust Surrounding Brilliant Binary Star System
RT HackerNewsOnion: Engineer: “Let's Use Postgres for the Database”
What in the OPs post history makes you believe they couldn't have made an app?
Laughable because LA City's system, Zimas, has property lines so poorly drawn over their satellite / aerial imagery. It is some simple alignment issue that puts your property line in your neighbors driveway, or your neighbors easement fully on their property. The sad thing is, this translates into surveys. Now my neighbors and I have completely nonsensical stamps in the ground that we have to figure out how to correct.

Sad thing is, it lines up in their 2001 imagery, but 2017 is off by a few feet.
This notion that frameworks save you time is just ridicluous. Unless the framework is doing something really complicated and difficult (like, say, a 3D game engine such as the Unreal Engine), chances are it's costing you time and effort.

What often ends up happening is you have to do a lot of useless work to get around the limitation of the framework you decided to use at the start.

Since most people on HN are in the web space, framework often refers to things like "Django" or "Redux". These beats always cost way more than they provide.

For a web server, a library like the standard "net/http" in Go is way more useful than a "framework".
It sounds to me like what the law intends to say is that only professionals can actually draw the property lines--a quite reasonable restriction because a mistake can be hidden and expensive. However, it seems to me that what he's doing is simply taking the existing legal documentation and converting it to a 2D printout.
Full tweet:

Engineer: "Let's use Postgres for the database"

Senior engineer: "Let's use Postgres for the message queue"

Principal engineer: "Let's use Kafka for the database"
What do you suggest as a replacement for SMS? The replacement has to be supported by every device everywhere (including feature phones), should not require any deals with a FAANG company, and should still work when your data plan runs out. Being unencrypted is completely unimportant for 99+% of the uses I still have for SMS, but those uses are still important.
The specific restrictions on his movement would seem oddly coincidental if he’s in fact in a 3D world that we just happen to be seeing projected in 2D.
Looking at the chart, would it not be a good time - especially with USD losing 8% of its value on a yearly basis? After all, you can only invest so much into capital projects and who knows what will be left of the US after Biden's tenure, so you want to be cautious.

Also Intel never had a hyper-inflated share price like most other semis. It's actually quite comical just how much the share price has dropped because its previously meagre dividend yield is now 10% due to denominator effects.

The buy back would similarly help ex-employees with stock or options, and I'm sure the package on the way out from Intel will be quite good.

See: https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=INTC 50% down YTD.
Yes because thinking a BILLION dollar fine is absurd for saying dumb shit online, clearly means there should be no torts at all.

What it really means is for this fine to make sense, we need to start fining other people and companies TRILLIONS. I feel like I'm in an Austin Powers movie, or worse, on Reddit.
Client/Consumer CPUs(Ryzen) is just one business for AMD.
The others are graphics (Radeon), datacenter (EPYC), and embedded (Xilinx, PS & Xbox consoles).
The one year forecast will probably have to be adjusted based on current unexpected economic conditions but they will keep growing.

What folks don't appreciate is that AMD is on a roll. A clear roadmap and processes in place
to execute like clockwork in tandem with TSMC. Intel can easily bounce back in about 3-4
years if they fix their foundry issues.
I presume this is the same type of person who tries to outlaw people calling themselves "software engineers"
The complete lack of awareness of this decision is astounding, the userbase is about to disappear. Those of us that convinced non-technical friends and family to use Signal are now expected to explain to them how to juggle 2 messaging apps? yeah it's not happening, the uninstall rate is going to be huge and there will be no recovery of those users
> Brains weren't built for math either, just for surviving.

Brains were, however, built for language processing, in addition to many other tasks.

> There is no reason to think language models are unfit for math, they are fit for generating possible solutions that need to be verified somehow.

This is just a dumb idea though. Guess and check based on semantically well positioned answers in the ambiguity that is the embedding space until you find something that's not wrong is not the same thing as defining an algorithm and then executing it, which is how people do math.

Sure, you could probably get it to a pretty good working state, but it seems pretty dumb to me.

> There are some solutions called "Language Model Cascades" that compose language models calls to simulate arbitrary complex reasoning chains including recursion.

If you're creating the reasoning chains yourself, you're arguably doing the hard part for the model and giving credit to the language part. If you're able to do get the model to define the chains, then you've already solved the hard part of the problem and could likely use something very different from language models altogether to greater effect.
The authors were already working on other small-matrix optimizations. They have a 2020 preprint about choosing good pivots for up to 8x8 matrices.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01623
You can't do anything, you just have to live with it. Everyone who makes any software knows that they get pelted with requests to open-source it all the time. Heck, people are calling for Facebook, Twitter, and the Apple iPhone to be open-sourced.
I wonder if that’s why he needs someone else to control his movements.
I always enjoy when this resurfaces. I wrote one of the files on there when I was a teenager.

And it'll outlive me.
Based on the price card posted on the website, assuming there’s 4000 active paying customers each paying $300/month, that gets you to $14M/year
Author should find out why they need the 'open source' part and provide options to write plugins at that point.
When people realize their own independence.
"Professional" is a tricky word here.

Colloquially, it means "I get paid money to do this thing."

Legally, it means "I am an accredited member of a guild that restricts access to my trade" - think doctors, lawyers, etc. If there's a board/bar type association that gives you permission to make your money, then you're a professional (legally speaking).

The problem in this case is that there are relevant professionals (surveyors/engineers) who are trying to protect their monopoly on…drawing lines on maps.

He shouldn't have let himself be quoted as a "professional tracing company." That's a load-bearing word in this context.
Student loans were also a lot smaller 30+ years ago.

Joining a union doesn't require you to go $40,000 in debt to start making more money.
I dont think different standards should apply to someone just because they have a popular show.

Sue the individuals who actually committed the acts of harassment, not Alex Jones. The people actually responsible for the harassment are getting away with it unscathed here, while a performer is punished. This isnt justice.
perhaps it's because the adults they look up to aren't iPhone users?
I disagree that they are modeling language.* I think that not only bigger models but same-sized or much smaller models will be able to handle arbitrarily complicated word problems if they're eventually supplemented with some explicit model-building process.

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* ...and that would be a completely semantic argument to have. I don't care whether it's called modeling, other than the fact that when I'm talking about modeling, I'm not talking about language probability, I'm talking about categories. But discussing what current AI is (a language model, copying?) is a waste of time, because I absolutely agree with your description of how it works, so we're talking about exactly the same thing.
Can Startups Significantly Lower the Cost of Gene Sequencing?
I use Signal because it's a better SMS client and being able send/receive messages without a SIM card to my family is nice when traveling. Encryption is like a distant nice to have for me and I'm sure this is true for many others
> why is it only people that get desperate? why doesnt the companies, in these scenarios?

The state is supposed to be servants of the people, not of the companies. Human rights are important; companies are at best a means to an end, and if winding up a company leads to better outcomes for humans, few would or should shed a tear for the company.

> this kind of thing strikes me as very elitist, how can someone listening to the argument interpret it as anything other than "those regular working joes are so stupid they will just offer themselves up as slaves the second a company talks sternly or the price of food increases!!!!" ?

It's a race to the bottom, and the only way to prevent that is collective organisation. There's nothing elitist about the notion that people acting together are stronger than people acting alone.

> is it really that much to expect, that people individually take some responsibility, say no to conditions that are, by THEIR judgement, poor, and save up a decent enough buffer that they wont have to say "well it was a good run, im a slave now" the instant a company might not immediately cave to a demand or meet at a reasonable spot?

Yes, by definition. How can they save up if they're being paid starvation wages?
My website was built with such brand-name technologies as "HSTS" and "Viewport Meta"[1]. Hmm. I guess it's meant more for web applications that leak their implementation details or reference vendor resources, somehow?

[1]: https://builtwith.com/yossarian.net
Why bother writing an essay?
Three days! The Deep Mind paper came out on the 5th of October; the first version of this on the 8th.
All energy is entropy the best way to reduce entropy is to work efficiently.
> saua

says?

(if you delete your response in the next hour I can do the same)
I'll add my fuel to the fire, just in case somebody from Signal goes through these comments.

This is a horrid decision. Everyone above already covered the reasons why better than I could.
Automotive systems are distributed all over the car and constantly check on each other. I have a suspicion it's not that simple anymore. Even my piece of shit 2012 Chrysler marries the power distribution module to the ECU.
Seems tactical nukes that can be fired by a single individual may constitutionally be held. Firing them appears extremely illegal, owning them is likely subject to physical monitoring, and motorized missile launchers and such are regulated by state regulations under the Tenth.

cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258#31869185
ugh, I hate being right