skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that we can ever 'understand' intelligence in humans, let alone something as fluffy as consciousness simply because the systems are so vast, interconnected, and inseparable. It seems more and more apparent that the networks and structures that cause 'us' to emerge are so deeply non-hierarchical and interconnected that labeling parts in a way where we can say this-does-that and that-does-this is not a meaningful idea. It's not like a car engine where a component does one thing, has an input from this system, and produces an output to this system. It's more like a weather system where small deviation in one part of the system can have small and large changes everywhere else, which in turn cause changes of their own, and on and on.

I suspect that AGI will first come about as a mishmash of 'expert systems' with some currently incomprehensible glue allowing them all to communicate effectively. I further guess that it's development will be incremental in nature - taking tiny pieces of things that work and putting them together with novel techniques that also worked somewhere else until eventually you get something that thinks back at you.
Interesting to see this play out in the crypto world in real time. CZ is coming across as the only legit player left in the space. And it seems hard to imagine he'd be putting a spotlight like this on himself if things weren't airtight over there. Looks like Binance will be the winner take all.
Clarify "a lot of this" ?
Can you provide a reference?
They are being tongue in cheek. They realize everything you’re saying. That is why they wrote how they did.

You don’t know how much they make or how hard they’ve worked. They aren’t tricking any one into subscribing. I’m confused what the problem is. Should people not get paid for their work output?
Until a language model can develop a generalized solution to a real-world phenomena, it's not even close to AGI. The current iteration of ML algorithms are useful, yes, but not intelligent.
I usually go for the newest (often disappointed to find I was too early). So right now that for me would be .NET MAUI[0] and Flutter.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33523532
Is this a “why do yoy care about privacy, do you have something to hide” argument?
> There is no other interpretation. "not enough" implies there should be MORE, which is a requirement. The requirement is never elucidated.

Yes it is. At the top of the article he says:

> People will often claim that since X is Free and Open Source Software, every user of X is enabled to hack on it and bend it to their will.

Which is basically the same goal as Alan Kay had for smalltalk systems. Why is it so controversial to say we haven’t reached this goal?
I really don’t have any belief that the faults in our economy was due to easy money. Under scarce money or easy money the same class of decision makers are still making poor allocation choices. There are no fundamental changes associated with a recession that would correct that imho.
At least they have been experimenting with Tauri: https://github.com/martpie/museeks/discussions/639 .

With File System Access API this probably can be a simple web app, no need for wrapper. File support might get shorter, though.
Thanks so much for sharing your experiences.
Also the % before register names is completely unnecessary, it just another extra character to type.
This is simply because you are inured to a certain type of parasitism. Whatever system you personally believe in, that's probably not what we have right now, and not what you'll ever get with a small number of people in charge. Imagine there were a set of rules that would guarantee the perfect result. Now write those rules down, enforce with cryptographic consensus, and there you go, a cryptocurrency that is superior to the existing system.
Come on, this cannot be true.
Books on propaganda from the 1920's explicitly discuss "closing triangles" to artificially influence perception of near-neighbour opinions.
Strawberry is a still active and maintained fork of Clementine.
depends on the genealogy of that specific money

if that specific money wasn't embezzled then nah
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Games dev cared, at least up to the playstation 4. The Sony linker was much faster than the Microsoft one (plus built to an unreasonable QA bar) and that cut turnaround times for builds enough that it was worth developing against the playstation and testing against the xbox, which Sony considered a competitive advantage.

Also people, at least those same users, had really strong views on bugs in linkers. If the game is broken because the linker trashed it, you've only worked that out after debugging through your own code and through the compiler output, by which point you're well past patient and understanding.

Sadly for this project I consider linkers to be a fundamental design mistake. Or at least obsolete. Lowering to machine code before combining files wins you runtime overhead and implementation obfuscation in exchange for reduced memory consumption. Linking an intermediate form then writing machine code (in elf if you like) from that single blob is better. I'm pretty sure it can be done in lower memory overhead than linking machine code if you're so inclined.
Creating 3x a personal company for the founders is not a required step. Germany expects those personal companies to be conducting business so it's all those steps like a "real" company. The 3 founders could've just created the real GmbH company and be 3 shareholders.

The founders also could've created a UG (mini-GmbH), plenty of startups do. It's no clear from the blog post why they do the real GmbH. Possibly because a mini-GmbH can't be owned by 3 personal companies. Well, sure, in that case you need those 25000 Euro on the bank account.

Transparenzregister (transparency registry) was new in 2021. The notary should've done that step. Germany kind of added the registry so people can't hide behind personal companies when doing business.

Chamber of Commerce for an IT company is weird indeed. Makes sense for businesses that need special permissions, certifications or have regional limits (let's say pharmacies) but not IT.

Think of Gewerbeamt as local taxes vs federal taxes. Gewerbeamt is your city taxes. While federal tax rate is the same everywhere, city tax rate differs and allows them to compete a bit.

"so we had to agree with our investors that we would transfer the
remaining 12,500€ over the next couple of years." Strange to have investors and then not have them pay the full amount. They're saving money here, true, but then shouldn't complain that this part of the process is not straight-forward.

Using a tax accountant for a GmbH company is not required. The author doesn't seem to grasp even the function of some of the contracts he signed so he should of course use a professional to file the annual accounts forms.

If you have money from investors and skip many of the steps: buy a holding company, costs 5000 Euro. You pay 30000 Euro and receive a ready-for-you company with bank account of 25000 Euro. Then go to a notary and have, in a single document, change the company name, change the shareholders, move it to the desired city.
Its more of a generational divide with the hyperpartisan gibberish. I always laughed when they said "voting for the lessor of two brain-dead illiterates stuck in the 18th century".

It looks like the indoctrinated offspring from that rabid environment just make a 3rd and 4th party easier to implement... To square up the 3 sides to every story and the fourth to make it interesting (FORE is a cool number in golf too).

A ho-nest days pay for a ho-nest days work is loaded with innuendos :)

And regarding renewables, diversification is a beautiful thing in the 1st world :)
Whether a project is free or not is not the only consideration as to whether I adopt it for my workflow, just a core one.
> The developers working on Jellyfin are doing perfectly fine in their endeavors.

As long as they have something to keep them above poverty line: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html (among other articles, the question of how free open source isn't sustainable is discussed often)
Is there anything like this that I can run myself? My phone does not load some pages well and I would like to browser stream from my own server.
Ask HN: Do relevant results work for you?
These days every time you use a search box on a website (including HN) it sorts first by relevance. Has that ever worked for you?

I always sort by date (recent to older) first, which is why I'm asking. Why sort by a default that isn't what people want by default? But maybe it actually is what people want.
If they were particularly consistent about this, they would have to watch a lot of electrical engineers.
Show HN: PyPI package for using Testing Library queries in Selenium code
Hello!

I have built a small Python package that allows you to call Testing Library DOM queries such as `getByRole` or `findAllByText` from Selenium code.

My goal was to allow automation engineers to write Selenium tests that closely resemble how your web pages are used. In other words less XPath selectors and more queries that are accessible to everyone! Since this is one of the guiding principles of the Testing Library[0] it felt valuable to make it available in Python land as well.

Let me know what you think!

[0] https://testing-library.com/docs/guiding-principles
Thanks for positing this, I was using nvALT, I love this app.
This is a strange legal take. There is nothing about music that makes it special in the eyes of the law, it is speech like any other, subject to the same protections and restrictions as publishing a book. If you release an album containing nuclear secrets on Spotify, an injunction, removal and arrest will follow.
As an older fairly conservative friend of mine said when I was trying to talk him into some new tech thing - I just don't want anything to change. Seems a lot of people are like that, and just knee jerk to any change.
Ask HN: How do you get in touch with your early customers?
I have built https://get.mymfa.io and managed to get ~75 active paid customers but so far I have not been able to get in touch with any of them to efficiently gather feedback.

I have tried getting in touch either through generic and/or personalised emails asking them to book a 15 minute slot in their agendas but I haven't gotten many interesting responses so far (~2-3 users wished to share some feedback).

How do you manage to engage with your customers and make sure you can setup a quick call to chat with them? Is there a more efficient approach like a questionnaire and offering discounts if they reply ?

Thanks! :)
Devils advocate: why should Apple be obliged to ‘play fair’? The success of the App Store doesn’t change the fact that it’s their product on their platform and they can do whatever they want with it.
I get the point, but credibility is dented a bit by making it about FOSS and then using an example that isn't FOSS licensed together with Arthur Whitney's b which doesn't even have a license.
Thank you for building Linear the way you have! So snappy in so many ways.

I think it could be interesting to see Linear add personal/private TODO support of some kind… like everyone gets a TODO list that is mostly a view of your linear tickets with each as a bullet point in a document (similar to when you mention them in a Notion checklist doc) but where you can also add other items which are just text (and/or entries in a personal/private linear space)
The US has literally blown up Russian pipelines in the past to prevent influence in Europe.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/r...

Very doubtful this is some sort of 8d chess game by the Russians.
Am I missing something here? They’re pivoting from building deep tech to Instagram for stable diffusion images?
> YouGov survey in 2020 of adults in the United States found that, of those who are in a relationship, more than a quarter are non-monogamous.

This seems remarkably high. Is this including "cheating", the very name of which implies it's not considered ok?
Are you speaking from personal experience wherein you made a good-faith effort to try different breathing techniques and experienced no benefits? Or have you reviewed research showing an absence of benefits? Or are you reflexively dismissing the whole field?

Or some combination of the above?
> What we now know as the Free Love movement began in the US in the 1850s, and was shaped by the ideas of the French socialist Charles Fourier and the anarchist Josiah Warren.

Some interesting intentional communities and wild social experiments came out of this. See:

Oneida stirpiculture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_stirpiculture

Oneida Community
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_Community

> Oneida was formerly known as Oneida Depot. In the nineteenth century its residents were among the closest neighbors to a utopian socialist commune, set up by John Humphrey Noyes, lasting from 1848 until 1881. This commune, called the Oneida Community, produced silk and canned goods until the manufacturing of flatware picked up in the later years of the Community's existence. This would lead to the foundation of Oneida Limited, a company which survived the Community and became one of America's most important flatware producers in the twentieth century.

Another intentional community, Temple of the People, was established late in 1898, also in New York like Oneida. They were not based on free love, but on Theosophy. They did have similar notions about unconditional love in a Christian brotherhood sort of way. They moved to Halcyon, California, in 1903. John Varian raised his family here, including the famous set of engineers, Russell and Sigurd Varian, whose inventions are often credited with establishing Silicon Valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_and_Sigurd_Varian
Good luck convincing anyone that value = variable makes sense.
No? I think that's exactly Apple's usual market - sell some hardware with (maybe) some small difference, attach some marketing mystique to it, and sell it for a premium.
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You're being downvoted for having a bad attitude, victim-blaming in a system not designed for healthy weight, and for generally not understanding this is a nice forum. This isn't Reddit.
Thank you for a very helpful writeup!

Do you have any materials on word embedding strategies past Word2Vec? BERT and beyond?

I am currently working on a recommendation engine for a large library - original idea being to find "similar" documents - the funding comes from a plagiarism checking project.

I was slightly surprised how deceptively simple the widely cited winnowing paper is https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872757.872770 . The key idea being simple mod reduction of hashed fingerprints.

My project's goal is to find phrase level similarities to assist researchers.

It seems k-grams, n-grams, tf-idf and even Word2Vec is not going to cut it. A "smarter" context aware embedding is in order. My foray in training BERT from scratch was not very successful. - My corpora are not in English...

PS. As usual I spend most of the time on improving OCR quality and preprocessing corpora...
I have gotten into Wim Hof and other breathing techniques. There is definitely something more to it than woo and sentiment. The way you can interact with and stimulate your nervous system through breathing remains unique to me in the scope of ways to interact with the body. I have also been into cold water immersion for many of the same reasons. Can dig up some posts I did on wim hof cheat sheet and cold water immersion on my blog (see profile). In fact, that is about all I wrote on my blog thus far, mostly as notes to myself and for close friends when they ask what I am up to in the health and fitness realm. CWI and Breathing are my future and I find huge benefits to it in my martial arts pursuits (brazilian jiu jitsu, staying calm, managing my energy in tough sparring matches, etc.).

I find the breath work to be more useful than meditation. Now any time I find stress I immediately recognize my breath and start controlling it, almost sub-consciously. Driving, tough spots in matches, just getting deep into a problem and not getting it. The breath is always there. Okay, maybe it is a little woo, but the more focused breathing activities are not and actually trigger physiological response, and these reminders of the breath are reminders of those states.
Dynamic structures like this are why datasheets may specify waiting a certain time (with clock applied) in reset before beginning operation --- the need to "charge up" the various capacitors to a suitable voltage first. Similarly, it's also one of the reasons for requiring a minimum clock frequency.
Here in the UK (and I believe most of Europe), they’re planning to ban sales of new ICE cars in I believe 2030. As such, 100% uptake (or close enough, perhaps there will some exceptions for specialised use cases) is almost guaranteed.
"and will help the US economy grow in more sustainable ways going forward"

how? capitalisms defining hallmark is a ten year cycle of boom/bust. the last solution in 2020 was a bailout and forgiveness for virtually all commercial covid debts. prior to that it was a massive bailout and payout checks to taxpayers along with a scorched earth foreclosure wave. at some point the argument comes across as an alcoholic that repeatedly crashes cars and promises to learn and grow from it.

real wages are stagnant, homes are still unaffordable, rent is skyrocketing, healthcare now routinely sells insulin for $200 and everything from energy to food is still rising. ive a tough time believing corporate fraud is a silver lining.
> this tech isn't a good idea

Bitcoin is politically neutral. Wall Street isnt.
That is a very _interesting_ take. I think it's ~wrong but, like most interesting takes, there's some truth to it. I think the "truth" here is that, well yeah you're not thinking about some things, that's literally what I consider flow, it's not thinking about **how** you're going to do X but it's higher level than that and focusing on "do x".

I think it's the difference between thinking/taking the action "walk to the door and open" (X in the flow state) and "ok get up, left leg forward, right leg forward, left leg forward, right leg forward, move arm to door, grab, twist, pull". Flow is just not thinking about the things that are not important (a lot of code is just gluing and can be done in a flow state - still allowing you to stop and think about the real important places). What your friend is calling out is that yeah I guess that sometimes you can "automate"/flow things that actually are important but to be honest I don't think that happens very often in this context (software, real use(r)-cases) because their use-case are usually so narrow and specific (we should design software to allow them to "flow" the unimportant stuff - click next for the additional questions - did you notice the button responds on mouse click up? I hope not, I hope we made that piece "flowable")
Your loss. It's one of the best intermediate C resources on the internet.
You could try TreeAge for mapping out probabilities: https://www.treeage.com/

And just as a plug, I made https://www.knotend.com which is a keyboard-centric flowchart editor you can use to map dependencies. Im working in adding computation and probability like you say.
That was my first thought as well.

I'm genuinely curious if there are any advantages in Chrome->SVG as opposed to Chrome->PDF->SVG.

Are there any graphical effects (e.g. produced by CSS, like blurry text shadows or something) that PDF can't render without falling back to bitmap but SVG can?

Or is there other data that SVG usefully preserves that PDF discards, such as actual source text strings used for text? (As opposed to PDF where getting text out, e.g. when copying to clipboard, usually involves a lot of ugly "reverse engineering".)
I spent a few years in the Hungarian higher-education system (post 2006, when we switched to the Bologna system). We had a lot of freedom to choose classes, and it's possible to switch your major. (At least it was not unheard of, not many people wanted to anyway; and it is not hard to simply submit your application the next time there's admissions.) There's (very little) sports and (a lot of) campus life. (Maybe US "campus life" is paid in a large part by the institution? But even if it is a few kegs and random DJs are not expensive.)

3 years is just bachelors. But it's possible to do extra classes so the masters then only takes +1 year.

I know that Germany has vocational schools besides the gymnasiums, but I haven't known about the different types of gymnasiums. (In Hungary in almost all high-scools students can choose to prepare for the GCSE and pick specialization courses for the last 2 years, and with that it's possible to apply for any higher ed institution all around Europe. Of course if someone wants to get a scholarship then an in-country institution has the best chance for that. I have a friend who did a music high-school, probably picked math instead of music as specialization, and then right after that went to do a CS degree at a university.)

Anyway, I think the basic supply-demand argument (student loans) explains the fundamental difference between the costs, and then feedback loops explain the rest. (Sports and other non-teaching activities. Though, as far as I know, academic sports is profitable in the US.)

> They will keep telling everyone college is the best option for them,

This reminds me of the many posts/tweets where folks say "look at how much more graduates make, so go get a degree", which is of course partially the correct strategy, but also obviously it's not magic, the degree is more of a symptom.

That said it seems to me that the US labor market is more credentialist, more places blindly ask for a degree.

> and restrictions on personal choice

I don't really know what do you have in mind, but there's a big healthy private sector in Europe for healthcare too :)

> Bottom line, having the government "pay for education" so no one needs to pay out of pocket requires a massive restructuring of how education is delivered.

Definitely. I think one very important aspect is the big income/wealth inequality in the US, which somehow makes a lot more people feel like "sharing" with others will make them worse off.
Certainly has the skill to layoff by the dozen, so given the current investment climate, that might come in handy too ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10869419

In seriousness, going by what Suhail's been documenting through their tweets, they seem to fit the relentlessly resourceful bracket to a tee, which (according to pg, at least) means they have an above average chance at succeeding doing venture-scale startups: http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html
I think the product in question is this: https://www.mightyapp.com/

It's basically Google Stadia for web browsers; do the computation and renderning in a far-away data center and stream the result as a video feed to a local thin client program. I suppose this is an idea that could work better for web browsers than video games, but modern web browsers and sites/"applications" require fewer resources than modern AAA video games by at least a tiny margin and the pricing just wasn't competitive.
I give you a different view. Morals are driven by what is perceived as good for society as opposed to some fundamental truth.

A perfect example is murder. We all know that it's never ok to kill someone unless it's for absolute self defence. But it's ok when it relates to war. You are even called a hero. The difference is related to the perceived good for society, not a fundamental truth.
Solar does not replace fossil fuels.
My premise? It's hardly news that sex (and death) drive pretty much all of what we call civilization, eh?

I mean, you've heard of DNA?
What is a generalized solution to a real-world phenomena?

Github Copilot solved my business problem by itself just as I would've done. Is that real-world enough and the solution generalized enough?