skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting point, I like the idea, but I don't see that it would apply to even well prepared English majors. I just don't expect them to understand how to troubleshoot a toaster. They probably think of plugging it in and seeing if the outlet is working. Did I check if the cord is frayed, if the button that starts it is out, and then is there something wrong inside? I just don't see an English major doing those next steps. And again, I have great respect for their skills. But everyone has a limit. But if I had a chance to hire a software engineer who had experience, let's say working in construction then I think they'd understand some things that would be more applicable.
This is a very cool technique. Someone ought to benchmark this vs the method described in the original article.
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If the ROI was measured in terms of "someone got to hang out with Matthew McConaughey a certain number of times annually", I'm sure you're correct.
Most of the value for me with ChatGPT+ is getting access when the system is at capacity.
Yeah, the intention is the station count is adaptive. You choose the number of players and the ship you'll play with, and it automatically generates an appropriate station configuration.

So if you have fewer players, you can play on a smaller ship that doesn't have any non-player crew members. Or, conversely, a large group will have additional stations to spread the work out a little bit.

Hopefully everything feels meaningful and impactful at every crew and ship size and nothing feels like busywork.
Python notwithstanding its certain limitations, will remain a mainstay language beyond 2030. It is a lucrative option in writing glue code, scripts, and almost all of data engineering and related fields depend on Python.
From the headline, I assumed that this was men kidnapping women. But it is actually men being baited by profiles of women an kidnapped or robbed. This is also quite common in Colombia. I heard a story of a Dutch guy who met a very eager woman from Tinder. She drugged his drink, and he ended up naked with no belongings at the bottom of a well. Somehow managed to escape alive.
> We've revoked a bunch of vulnerable Linux bootloaders, but the level of pain involved in revoking a Windows one is almost certainly way higher.

Revoking other OSes install media en-masse is fine, but not Windows ?
It is discussed though, people write articles about it and very recently more evidence seems to support it. The sweet potato could also be supporting evidence for some contact.

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While I think this is perfectly possible, it's just as likely -- perhaps more so -- that this is a misunderstanding about charging and USB C emarkers in cables.
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I thought Midjourney was better as well, until I saw some recent videos from Corridor Crew on Youtube. For those who don't know, this is a VFX studio in LA that tries to keep at the cutting-edge of video production techniques and posts content to their Youtube channel, and they have a massive number of followers and several viral videos.

They recently created a full 7-minute anime using Stable Diffusion with their own models and their existing video production gear, I'll post the links and let the results speak for themselves

The actual 7-minute anime piece produced using SD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVT3WUa-48Y

Behind the scenes:
"Did we change anime forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9LX9HSQkWo
"VFX reveal before and after" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBSmQdL_Ow
I checked the website of Cradle Bio and I'm really excited by the vision! Would you be open to a spontaneous non-ML Engineer application? I have a broad range of experience & I'm a fast learner.
Tesla now uses BYD batteries (at least partly) at its Berlin factory (the yanks have a gigafactory in Berlin, Germany and they use batteries from China...)

Meanwhile in Norway:

"It is followed by the MG ZS (+15.5%) up 35 ranks on June just a the BYD Tang climbs 6 spots to a new record 6th place overall," [July 2022] [1]

That's an unknown brand from China that's only just moving into the European market! And MG is now Chinese.

In any case, Norway is a small market. Here 'ready' means being able to produce as many EVs as they do ICE now throughout Europe.

Yeah, German carmakers are on top of things... not.

[1] https://bestsellingcarsblog.com/2022/08/norway-july-2022-mg-...
I have been toying with the idea lately of using a transactional database (like SQL) to manage some of the very important queues.

Using a transaction to retrieve an item from the queue, and locking the row using "SELECT FOR UPDATE" and "SKIP LOCKED". Such that the row gets locked on read, and several workers can read from the table at the same time. Within the same transaction, other work is done, and everything gets committed to the database as a single atomic operation.

CockroachDB (a consensus/raft distributed database) recently added supported for SKIP LOCKED, but I still have yet to work on this idea.
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> I guess they don't care about losing loyal customers and are shifting towards entreprise.

I called it in the name-rebranding thread here.

I've been noodling around on how I'm going to move, but it looks like I should really work harder on getting that done.
Any idea how to encode the previous messages when sending a followup question? E.g.:

1. I ask Q1

2. API responds with A1

3. I ask Q2, but want it to preserve Q1 and A1 as context

Does Q2 just prefix the conversation like this?

„I previously asked {Q1}, to which you answered {A1}. {Q2}“
Right, it's just not enough apparently.

And yes, totally agree - nothing wrong with it being a glorified layup line. My point is just that unless the game itself is made truly competitive, I don't think there's much that can done to increase viewership. There's a lot of other things they can do though to gain viewership across All-Star weekend in general.
> This also fixes fake reviews, dependencies security, politics and whole lot of other things.

All you have to do is lookup some batshit-crazy things people in your social circle already share on Facebook (or LinkedIn) to know this won't solve most of those problems.

I may trust my friend to thoroughly vet information on Disc Golf, but they may be out of their element when it comes to "Revolutionary cold fusion breakthrough", which I may get through them if there's a single generic weight for trust.
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There are a lot of events and conferences for team leaders, developers, and entrepreneurs.
You should talk with people, but don't look desperate.. say you have an idea and you just want a feedback.
The more connections you have, the more chance you will find someone. It takes time
Look into Dexedrine. Basically Adderall is a mix of 75% D-Amphetamine and 25% L-Amphetamine. D works more on dopamine, and L has a norepinephrine (adrenaline) component to it. Vyvanse and Dexedrine are 100% D-Amphetamine, the difference being that Vyvanse has a different way of delivering it. Dexedrine might be the same cost as Adderall for you. Btw I am not a doctor just an internet rando.
Have you actually read the article? The title is just a summary and the author fully acknowledges that their argument is essentially based around edge cases, not that this in any way diminishes it for me.

It’s just an interesting piece of theorising.

I think your comment (particularly your 4th paragraph about ivory towers etc) comes across as overly harsh and a little aggressive.
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Ask HN: How to sell a developer tool with 1M users
Hi,

We are three developers and we have built a developer tool in our free time, This tool is a subset of Project management tools and mainly used by development teams. Long story short, during Covid it became very popular and still is Number 1 in organic search on Google. We have more than one million users from every company in the world you can think of.

The tool is based on a freemium model with most of the features available as free, and we have a paid tier as well. The tool is used heavily with 180000-220000 users sessions and around 15000 new signups every month. We have spent zero amount on marketing and have not spent any efforts on sales etc.

All the growth is organic and word of mouth marketing. We believe for the people with sales and marketing skills there is huge potential to either make it a real business with a very good MRR or it can be a good strategic investment for any big player like MIRO, Monday or click up etc. Where they can acquire Million users from large enterprises and then use their sales teams to generate revenue out of it.

Now we are looking for some advice on how to approach those large players and negotiate with them etc. What is the standard process in Silicon Valley around this, we are based in Europe and would like to get some advice, input or potential contacts etc.

Thanks in advance!
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No, I don't think you can help yourself. You have to get the last word in and you have to ensure it's an insult. At this point you are emotionally compromised, you can't stop yourself. I'm sorry for breaking you.

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Arguments over definitions don't add to the conversation.
this sounds much more plausible than the sibling comment's "based on your own beliefs", but plausibility is not necessarily correctness
it is the everything app
No one uses raw stable diffusion though, there are model mixes for whatever usecase you have.
Thank you for those examples. Converting sql manipulation into a function is an excellent example. You can do a lot in a few case statements especially with nesting but translating that into something else is valuable.

I asked it to write some queries in relational algebra and it was close but it was invalid in ways that a non-database person wouldn't understand. Kind of looked right.
Without having properly tried it either, my general impression is that the pitch goes a bit like this:

If you love Haskell and wants to make everything that has to so with packages on your system more like Haskell, Nix's got your back.
huh? it was Peter Thiel the acting CEO when the sale was done - right after removing Musk for said migration to MS stack.
If you want to reason about a world that has random software and hardware failures, than you cannot really have any kind of pure results. A backhoe could cut your network cable at exactly the wrong point, or a malfunctioning network switch could decide to insert the right extra few bytes in exactly the wrong place, changing the meaning of your message without altering any of the checksums. As the scale of your application increases, the chance of this sort of chaos increases as well. The question then becomes how to reason in the face of chaos, what sorts of error rates are acceptable, and how to build systems that can recover from supposedly impossible states. If your bank's software makes an error, they have established processes to determine that and correct the balance of accounts.
Ok, so I've had devices with USB-C connectors for five years including phones, tablets and laptops. I've only once had a problem with cables for charging and data connection even using the cheapest cable possible that I literally purchased at the Dollar Tree.

Where I have had problems is USB-C -> HDMI adapters as there are multiple standards for both ends of the cable that may not work together. It makes getting the right device for the screen hard to do.

Oh, and incidentally, cheap, unlicensed lightning cables are just as much of a thing as cheap unlicensed USB-C cables.
> scalp massage to reduce baldness if applicable

Is this a thing?
It is a powerful abstraction that ends up being a replacement for several kinds of tools depending on your use case.

It can be a way to declaratively configure a system similar to ansible.

It can be a way to isolate runtimes (e.g. ruby v2.8 and ruby v3.0) in different projects similar to rbenv / virtualenv.

It can be a way to define an application in a self-contained way so that the target platform needn't have needed software installed beforehand similar to docker.

It can be a way to install packages/software to your system in a well-defined way similar to many package managers.
I always wondered if ChatGPT was somehow stateful. I assumed that it was not and the statefulness was simulated. Assumption validated.
What do you scan? I haven’t needed a scanner for 10 years and if I need receipt scanning I just use my phone camera.
good to know. I think my bookshelf stopped growing circa Aho and Uhlman.
I tend to agree, although when I was looking at used hybrids a year and a half ago when I bought my 2013 Nissan Leaf, the hybrids were about twice as expensive as EVs. I don't see how that can ever change as long as we cling to the ridiculous complexity of reciprocating internal combustion engines.

So I'd like to see a new class of EVs with an onboard auxiliary generator. They should use something like a Wankel rotary engine, Tesla turbine, 1 or 2 piston linear generator, Stirling (optionally acoustic) heat engine, fuel cell, etc. They should have more flex fuel options from compressed natural gas (CNG) to alcohol, biodiesel, even wood pellets and ones made from hemp and algae.

All EVs should be able to charge while driving, to create a competitive market for generators, otherwise they'd receive a failing grade from reviewers.

All EVs should come with built-in solar panels capable of adding 7-44+ miles per day (see Aptera and Lightyear 1). Maybe grade A: 40+, B: 30+, C: 20+ and D: 10+.

All EVs should come with 1 or more base platforms where only the body style changes.

All EVs should go through independent review where they're graded on their modularity, to prevent vendor lock-in and unnecessary complexity, to encourage decommodification. Otherwise we'll find ourselves in the same situation we are in now next decade, where EVs break down before 100,000 km and require specialized equipment and training to repair.

I'd also like to see ultracapacitors for ~10 second boosts to at least 100 km/hr, to be used like the hyperdrive in Extreme E, taking most of the load off the batteries to extend their life. Buyers should also be able to choose from a limited mix of energy storage options including sodium-ion.

And please stop it with the tiny motors. Each wheel deserves at least 100 kW, and we should supplement windings with aluminum or carbon fiber, staying above 90% efficiency at max load, to reduce the amount of copper and/or rare earth metals in each motor.

With 1000 W of solar panels costing around $500 wholesale, none of the above add appreciable cost to the vehicle. Most resistance will be political or caused by manufacturers dragging their feet to prevent cannibalizing their current model sales.
I don't know about niche, but MachineLearning and StableDiffusion are the only SFW ones.

FWIW, the NSFW ones are unstable_diffusion, sdforall, sdnsfw, aipornhub
OpenAI API and Ruby Now with ChatGPT
Ask HN: Is anyone else having network issues with Azure?
We've been having weird network timeout issues on Azure for the last hour. Is anyone else seeing this?
We both know the trajectory has been towards longer lives and the only major aberration is the one we have just experienced due to the pandemic. Yes, you can probably find some sets of years where in increase was minimal or there was a minor decline, but the larger trend is so painfully obvious we shouldn't even be discussing it.
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