skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've sped up Github pages hosted sites significantly by adding Cloudflare's CDN. Github has something but it isn't as good out of the box.
According to the "Copenhagen interpretation of ethics", if you do not donate, it's okay -- most people do not donate, so no one is going to blame you specifically. The normal behavior is never blameworthy.

The problem starts when you actually donate. Now you are in the spotlight, and people are going to judge you publicly for not donating enough, or donating to this instead of that, or maybe just for the fact that you are trying to solve problems by donating instead of promoting a worldwide proletarian revolution. Either way, you are the bad guy now.

(The "Copenhagen interpretation of ethics" is supposed to highlight a failure in our ethical reasoning, but one that most people make completely naturally.)
As a reply further down points out, half of their loss is in the form of stock based comp and that doesn't affect free cash flow, so Lyft isn't quite going out business in the next year.

The situation is still pretty dire, however. It's crazy to me that Lyft still hasn't entered the food and grocery delivery market when it has been abundantly clear for years that that's where the money is. And in 10+ years of operation they still haven't been able to launch in a single location outside the US.
> to ruminate .. on how others have treated us

Right, but my initial point is that any reasonable rumination on a statement of fact followed by a directive concludes with the assessment that nothing inappropriate happened. If you are at fault, and are subordinate, then the communication was appropriate. If you're not, then a simple refutation of the factual claim is all that's needed.

Shouldn't we expect people to be fundamentally reasonable in this way, even if some people have a hard time with it? I would say that is what striving for excellence looks like.

> the military doesn't care as much about optimal functionality

The military certainly does care about optimal functionality, since the price of failure (losing battles/wars) is cataclysmic. I'd say that (winning) militaries are among the most efficient human organizations out there.

Vietnam was staffed by conscripts who, importantly (and rightly), didn't believe in the objective they were forced to fight for. It's not a situation with any good outcomes, and is wildly different from a volunteer army (or corporation).

> You can't eliminate them from the civilian workforce.

I'm not suggesting we do, only that we as an industry endeavour to elevate our standards of professionalism by emulating some of the most professional organizations out there (militaries, intelligence organizations, industry leaders, etc.). All of these organizations are characterized as "toxic" in wider circles specifically for the traits that allow them to succeed.
SV isn't typical.

No trust fund here. Parents are immigrants from a farming community in Scotland. I won't deny being more privileged than many, but my socio-economic background was typical professional middle-class (dad=engineer, mom=teacher, own their home, valued education, etc).

I live in the heart or Reston VA, work for a reasonably well-known (but not FAANG) company, and bought a typical 4 bed SFH when I was 26 for well under $400 (back in 2004). When my son moved out (2017), we sold that and bought a smaller TH closer to work for under $500 (which is now worth low-$600s). Sure, it's not the latest McMansion and I don't have a garage, but it's more than adequate.

Is that option available to an hourly retail employee? No, probably not. But, it's certainly available to just about any white-collar couple in the area.
He also bought testimonials.to

The plural version of his product name.
I think that many discussions about evolution -- even by evolutionary biologists -- rely much to heavily on the idea that evolution involves some kind do optimization process (as in Genetic Algorithms). Evolution is a random process that only cares about survival. Optimization is an occasional side effect.

Analogies that incorporate the optimization perspective can easily mislead.
As long as there's 0 connection to restricted countries, that's probably the case.

But if your work involves logging into Alibaba for procurement or if you're a journalist that reads Weibo or something, you might be a felon, should the Secretary of Commerce recommend you to be.
I don't think anyone was saying "{Noun phrase} is literally {other noun phrase}" is ever ungrammatical, just disagreeing about how often it's incorrect.
Yea I'm not discounting your personal experience, just statistically...
I wonder why culs-de-sac don't ever follow a "superblock" model where everyone parks their cars in one place, then walks a short distance to their home? I understand that it's "less efficient" if all you care about is how fast you can get into and out of your car. But it seems far safer for children, far quieter for living, and cheaper because you don't have to build and maintain pavement roads that go everywhere.
Does modding need to mean actually modifying game files? When we say modding, we generally mean adding new blocks, items, and behaviours no? Surely this could be done with a public API? It might not give you quite as much freedom as existing mods but you could get most of the way there.
Console makers usually make peripherals only work for that single console. The reasoning is that the games are only tested with those specific devices so it's hard for them to know if new games will run on old hardware or not. This totally sucks and they know it, so they generally don't come out and say it. But I believe this is why the PS4 controllers don't work on PS5, but do work on PS4 games being run on PS5 hardware (a kind of made up restriction if ever I heard one!)

Sadly, not the most fun info to share, but there is little chance the PS2VR will ever target anything other than PS5.
> Heck, how does OpenAI itself prevent such a feedback loop from its own output (or that or other LLMs)?

Seems trivial. Only use old data for the bulk? Feed some new data carefully curated?
Custom theming & design systems are coming! That's what we're focused on building now. We can definitely support a bootstrap-based design system with custom theming in the future.
There's a lot of drama there.

Basically, there was Bukkit. In 2011, Mojang hired a bunch of Bukkit's developers, but didn't tell anyone that they also legally took control of the Bukkit project. This was because Mojang didn't really want Bukkit to be their official API as much as being a temporary API for the time being (and also didn't want to have anyone assume they would be responsible for it), but from that point, Bukkit was legally their project and the community didn't know.

Then, Mojang changed their EULA to ban Pay-to-win servers. This caused a lot of controversy, and one of the Bukkit developers left. Mojang then revealed that, yeah, they owned Bukkit for years, so they didn't need him. Another developer, feeling betrayed, who had contributed to Bukkit, submitted a DMCA takedown against his own code bringing Bukkit down with it, angry at having done "free labor." (You might say, "but the GPL!," but being tricked into a contract under false pretenses can legally invalidate contracts, making the GPL-license for his contributions potentially invalid.) Mojang panicked at the takedown and a ton of developers abandoned ship, working on Bukkit's community fork Spigot. Mojang then 2.5 months later brought Bukkit back and that time really just threw it into the community's hands.

The result of the aftermath was everyone had restructured around Spigot, based on Bukkit; and Mojang wasn't going to deal with APIs and open-source stuff for a long while afterwards. (They did later try purchasing parts of OptiFine, but the developer wanted compatibility to be all-or-nothing which Mojang wouldn't accept.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/6g1tqn/psa_no_bu...

https://blog.jwf.io/2020/04/open-source-minecraft-bukkit-gpl...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/2fk5nn/my_respon...
The real comparison is with an alternative scenario. Climate change would have been worse had there been no widespread recognition of its harm.

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GPT-5 will be finished next year, with the next model in the pipeline.

GPT-4 is just a kindergartner which can code at the level of an average human. (If you disagree, try teaching an average person to code or solve most novel problems better than it can.)

Even if AI does not have independent agency, malicious actors can use it to do large-scale harm much sooner than suggested above.

However, I’m sure someone will imbue AI with some kind of agency soon enough as well. What could go wrong?
I believe the calculation is that if you want a typical 2 child family, and want to avoid a geriatric pregnancy (post age 35), then 30 is basically when you have to start having kids to give your body a couple years of recovery between births (what doctors recommend).
Former Whistler employee launches suit over Covid vaccine-related stroke claim
I would love more advanced/expert content for Windows APIs, such as a deep dive into Win32, process/thread model, networking, etc.

I know about “Windows internal 7th ed” part 1 and 2, but I feel there is a lot of stuff really interesting in Windows that isn’t discussed too much online outside of very niche communities. Lot of opportunities to investigate more in details a system massively used worldwide.

I may write some things on this topic at some point if I have the time, but I’m terrible at writing prose :)
> East Germany had a gigantic internal spy apparatus with plenty of power for violence and control etc. but in the end that didn't stop the place from crumbling.

All the data ever collected by the East German intelligence apparatus fits on a single USB stick. For every person they wanted to track, more or less, they needed a human agent to do it, several even.

Is it unrealistic to tap every phone in a country with an AI that understands what's being said? We already have every monetary transaction monitored, all car plates scanned at every turn, cameras on every corner...

East Germany collapsed under its own weight, of course, not as a result of organized rebellion, but the regime could have had even tighter control than it did.
Nice!

I'm excited for my son to try it out once he's gotten comfortable with scratch.

At the moment, he's more interested in the visual design part of scratch than the programming, so I probably need to find some cool existing animations to inspire him.
I’m 100% behind the learning got part. But that’s just it: just learn git. Don’t make it easier by abstractions. Know and use the commands. It’s much better in the long term.
Why isn't there a mod to iron out the performance if its so trivial?
Could be the low grade chalk. I remember a short video that talked about a Japanese chalk manufacturer shutting its doors, and professors from all over the globe were flocking to Japan to buy it or figure out ways to trade it because the remaining stock couldn’t be exported (a little fuzzy on the details here). Allegedly, the chalk was just that good.
I didn’t know YC accepted solo founders.

Congrats! I’ll definitely check your product out.
LOL. Love it. It's really metaphors all the way down.
That URL also explains why it only works on chrome.
As Gildor says in The Fellowship of the Ring:

” ‘… The choice is yours: to go or wait.’ [Gildor said.]
‘And it is also said,’ answered Frodo, ‘Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.’
‘Is it indeed?’ laughed Gildor. ‘Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; how should I choose better than you? But if you demand advice, I will for friendship’s sake give it.’“
Sure, but it used to be the go-to place for a bunch of more mainstream verticals. It's not a place to find jobs anymore, personals are gone, and for apartments it's become synonymous with scams.
Yeah, I'm back to wanting a curated shopping experience. I don't want the cheapest thing. I don't want multiple options- thats worse than nothing. I don't want to worry about counterfeits or knockoffs. I don't want to do research, consult the relevant /r and then look through comment history to see who is paid to say what. I want a store to have an opinion and stock high quality stuff. I would happily pay a premium to offload decision making.
Check out WAC lighting. You'll pay for the quality, but it's there. Work with a local lighting store to guarantee results. There are other high-end brands too, but WAC are very popular and what many high-end hotels and restaurants use.
Looks like they've recently applied for the trademark but they haven't got it yet. I have no idea if they will get it or not, it is just an acronym but they did come up with it.
Many Scratchers hop between accounts like they're… well, accounts in a computer system. Last I checked, the average (among active Scratchers) seemed to be about 4 accounts per person.
When did you email Garry? He's only been back at YC for a couple months.
I saw a linked article on that site that gives their LED bulb recommendations. Brightness, CRI, color temp, and value are all considered for various applications.

https://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-led-light-bulbs.ht...
Fair point, though I wouldn't draw such a direct equivalent since VR is positional. What is the resolution x360degrees?

I didn't experience any clarity issues personally but yeah the resolutions aren't always as high (which is why abandoning it at this stage is a shame) and refresh rate certainly isn't high enough.
The original paper:
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00262-3
Yeah this kind of stuff is always best solved with general eng guidelines.

I’ve been that guy many times. Having to do my PR 3 separate times over the course of a week because of feedback. IMO each solution worked fine, and the feedback was also fine.

The trouble with explicit guidelines is it’ll make clear that your high-clout engineers are always breaking them.

The reality is some peoples time matters more. And ideas aren’t always better, it’s about reducing the mental workload of one person at the expense of another person.

There was a comment on previous thread about how they beautifully offered the autistic guy his own somewhat independent projects and he excelled. This is unthinkable in many places. It’s common to have the one high clout senior guy who wants to maintain clout but doesn’t have the mental resources to offer autonomy of the underlings. One can dream, though.
> Whenever I see interviews with YC advisors, they blame mistakes of founders of not taking their advice as the biggest as mistake.

This is normal human behavior. You did X and failed. If only you had done Y as I had suggested... Monday morning quarterbacking at it's finest.
He claims he can’t edit after they’re posted.
Lenovo gives up on its dream of Android gaming phones
under your table widget, it fails to render date formats correctly, like 1/1/2003 will just display 1
And so is Mastodon, now.
IMO the only problem we should be focusing AI on right now is having it figure out how to make more advanced and powerful AI. Alas, this is beyond AI’s potential right now. Humans are still very much needed.
> for new basic operations, below the level of neural networks?

Why would we? It's proven that neural networks can learn arbitrary functions, and deep networks can apparently learn all the things we don't have functions for. Backpropagation is probably biologically implausible but it's a very good and fast method to train such networks. What could another implementation of intelligence offer that we don't already have? Backpropagation is very old and maybe it's not optimal but it s good enough that it doesnt matter
Switching to Fedora from Ubuntu
Hi! Tailscaler here, one of the folks who worked on the recent throughput improvements. One of the machines I was testing with during our work on segment offloading was a Haswell. I absolutely understand your concern if we're using 40% of CPU at 4MiB/s, we should be doing substantially better than that on efficiency. In our various testbeds which include CPUs like yours, we see higher performance. If you'd like us to look into the issue, do email support@tailscale.com - we'd be really happy to dig in and find the cause.

We have continued our work on performance improvements, and along that path, as an example, we recently diagnosed an issue with a change in the kernel frequency scaling governor that has a regression that Tailscale can tickle and we have an ongoing discussion with the kernel maintainers about that problem. I'm not at all assuming this particular thing is the key source of the performance you're observing, it is more to provide an anecdote that we're still digging deep into areas where we aren't performing well and finding the root cause, and working both inside and outside to address those and where appropriate to add workarounds as well.
Show HN: Simple test, can ChatGPT group chat?
I just wanted to see if ChatGPT could interpret a group chat, and each individual message, and determine whether true or false to respond and, subsequently respond if true.

It's running live right now (It's just a 10m script nothing too serious).
> you can rapidly shrink your workforce through attrition.

That would be a terrible move. The people who change jobs are generally the ones with better options. If you just do attrition you'll end up losing only the good people and you have no control over which projects / departments you starve of resources.
The Case for C# over Other Stacks When Developing Data Science Projects
And herein is the main problem of AI. Its creators consume knowledge from the commons, and give nothing free and unencumbered back.

It's like the guy who never brings anything to the potluck, but after everyone finishes eating, he boxes up the leftovers, and starts selling them out of a food cart.
Do you think it would be possible to reduce the version requirements to OpenGL 4.3 / OpenGL ES 3.0? Then it might possible to port this engine to WebGL2 and WASM and support all platforms via the browser. Maybe that's a silly idea but I think it would be really cool and perhaps easier than porting to Vulkan :)
ChattyGPT: A simple chat-GPT API front end (bring your own key)
ChattyGPT is a simple tool, similar to ChatGPT, made for testing API access, including changing parameters.
There are instructions on how to run the GUI from localhost, and the title and even the phrase that has the link to their own hosting tell you you can run it locally first.

It seems they are genuine, and they phrase it exactly as it is. The only thing I would have maybe wanted to see in the title is "open-source" or free software.
I saw a post recently—a musician was asking for advice about how to set up some super-complicated one-person performance rig. They wanted guitar, bass, keyboard, synths, amps & pedals, mic for singing, etc. This would be for their first live performance, or something like that.

It’s so tempting to do a ton of prep and try to blow people away. I think it’s a flavor of procrastination or perfectionism that gets in the way of your real goals.
YC has never taught "build it and they will come" – they give plenty of advice and encouragement to find customers and will add, er, kinetic energy if you're not actively on that. That's a huge focus.

This, however, not so much:

> "You basically need 1-2 full time staff doing nothing but content creation and social media outreach marketing"

If that's the way you're thinking, YC's going to try to change your mind, and if you don't want to change your mind about that, YC's probably not a good fit.

(I'm not speaking for YC here! just from my own experience as a founder, observer, HN mod)
I see these sort of things, and always chuckle to myself. It's reassuring to see even the Giants screwing up too.
It's way too easy to assume devs at some fancy wiz-bang company are all 10X'ers and produce perfect elegant code every time.

Then you realize developers at all companies are nearly universally bad.

It's a kind of miracle any of this stuff works at all, despite all the intelligence that's gone into them.
Without all the integrated tracking the ads would be basically worthless.
I think PWM can be used with success if the frequency is high enough. https://www.dxomark.com/flicker-the-display-affliction/ claims that most people should be ok with PWM above 250Hz.
Geez my eyes, what happened to rule #1 never use pure black?
Around seven years ago I worked in a coffee shop and we would get a daily newspaper for the customers to read which I would browse on breaks or when it was quiet. I remember there was a sharp turning point where a distinct amount of anti Russian material started appearing and I got this odd but strong feeling that a war was on its way. I expressed it to a few customers whilst making small talk and everyone laughed it off. Fast forward to present day and look where we are.

I haven't had as strong a feeling that a war is on its way with China, but the same uptick of anti Chinese sentiment appeared a few years ago starting with the Huawei ban and has been growing since. And you've got top US generals and financiers saying a war is looking more likely than not within the next five years. So yeah, I'd say it's a combination of both a genuine security concern and a priming of the populace to get them ready for any potential conflict coming down the road.

I'm not saying that there wasn't any anti Russian and Chinese sentiment expressed occasionally before, but I just have this instinctual feeling that these were the dates where it upticked and solidified into something else, a pattern or a 'narrative' if you will. If there's any web scraper geniuses out there it'd be interesting to know if the data supports the hypothesis. It would be Winter 2016/2017 for Russia and probably 2018/2019 for China. But considering this is when it became consciously noticeable, it may have began a good while earlier.
We are all missing the point of that letter and the broader terminator style rhetoric around AI.

Heroin dealers want some subset of their clientele to die. It's good PR. The junkies come around more thinking you've got the good stuff.

If the AI is scary, that means it's effective, that means it works. It's the fabled AI we have all grown up seeing movies about. It's not just a black box that vomits smart sounding gibberish, it's the real deal. If I'm an AI startup theres no better way to increase my valuation for an acquisition than PR circulating warning the world that what I'm making is way too powerful. The image that it will just produce idiocracy-esque Carl's Jr kiosks does not inspire suits to write 10 figure checks.
I have music books I bought in the 1970s, and those all have dots behind the frets.
This looks cool, will give it a try!
Love the idea. Git is a useful tool with the worst UX imaginable.

From a UX perspective, I really like using dialog[1] for console UIs. The use of color, formatting, shapes, arrow navigation, buttons, etc makes it visually very easy to understand, and functionally very quick and easy to use.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/creating-dialog-boxes-with-the...
At the very bottom, in a post-script:

> The constant comparison and growth benchmarking triggered us to look differently at our business and we decided to wind up its operation right after the Demo Day.

What happens in this scenario? YC gave them $500K in exchange for 7% of the business, and then they immediately shuttered the business?

Did they get to keep the $500K?
Well, it recently gave me that warning after I asked it to write a regular expression for me. Those OpenAI annotators seem to be a curious bunch.
What I'm saying is that you can issue the exact same $375k YC MFN SAFE to other investors (with a different $$ value). This will not trigger the MFN because the terms are absolutely the same