skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This stood out to me:

> In their picture of the world, you, the founders, should only build a product and talk to customers, everything else is superfluous and waste of time. Hiring is waste of time, paid advertising is waste of time, content is waste of time, talking to investors is waste of time, getting media coverage is waste of time.

IMHO YC doesn’t want you to “build” a product they want you to “grow” a product. I think the YC framework (again IMHO) is to get an idea out and then do everything you can to make it grow 30% each week, and if after a few months you’re obviously failing at that — maybe that product isn’t working.

This seems, on the whole, like kind of reasonable high level operating parameters for startups, since traction is what defines revenue and fundraising chances.

I do think there is a flip side to this approach which is it can kind of lead to short-term-erism where if things aren’t working you flail about, and/or it can encourage founders to specifically tackle things they can ship quickly rather than things that are maybe more compelling.

I would argue that when things are slowly working that’s exactly when you need skilled advisors and founders to give you critical advice. Most dying startup don’t flat line… they slowly grow.
We are already awash in more articles and information than ever, and how long it takes to produce them isn't very important outside of a "quantity over quality" business model.
This is really cool. Out of curiosity - how did you actually set this up for him to use? Was it on tablet or a computer or phone? Any suggestions for a dad of a 3.5 year old?

Also, is he reading / at what level? Trying to get a feel for when I can introduce it to him.
Yeah I spent a long time with different people telling me I had adhd, or maybe autism. Or autism, but maybe adhd, they are similar in some ways after all.

It turns out it's both, which is its own exciting thing and in some ways a very surprising or unintuitive combination of what you would expect.

And also surprisingly, specialists for both struggled to identify it correctly. I'm not sure if I just got unlucky there or what. But yeah you might want to consider and look into what experiences are like for people who do have both, because it's not what I would have expected before I knew this about myself.
35k for io domain seems very expensive.

Very surprising that it got that much type in traffic.

I could see it being worth it for .com (famously bodybuilding.com cost 35k a long long time ago)

Why would people be going to .io instead of say .info, .biz, .dev, .business , .photo, .org, etc?

When was the last time you typed in non .com, org, .net domain by hand?
So what would you say you do here?
I thought git was the CLI for git?
To be honest, I wouldn't mind in-office work if I could walk it.

As long as the walk isn't along super polluted roads, or litter-filled streets.
> Despite all the firings, Twitter's financials are worst than pre-acquisition. How comes? Advertisers pulling out. Why? Firing abuse and content moderation teams meant there was a lot more unsavory spam on the platform and advertisers didn't want any of it near their brand.

Advertising revenue for Meta and Google has also tanked to the tune of 30-50% of their stock value, so it's disingenuous to link Twitter's ad revenue woes directly to any increase in spam (which is in and of itself an unsourced claim).
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United States copyright law in quite clear on the matter:

>A "derivative work" is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted.

The emphasis part clearly applies: not only the AI model needs to be trained on massive amounts of copyrighted works *); but without these input works, it displays no intrinsic creative ability, it has no capacity to produce a single intelligible word or sketch. All creative features of its productions are a transformation of (and only of) the creative features of the inputs, the AI algorithm has no "intelligence" in the common meaning of the word and no ability to create original works.

*) by that, I mean a specific instance of the model with certain desirable features, for example the ability to imitate the style of J.K Rowling
Yeah, I think a primary challenge with LLMs is to somehow identify them. If we can't, the net will become swamped by fake humans bent on distorting human reality in whatever ways serve their masters' whims.

Frankly, I think identification of LLM personas vs humans will be impossible. It's increasingly likely then that the rise of LLMs may introduce the decline of the internet as a way to connect with other humans. Soon nobody will want to take an internet entity seriously unless it can prove it's human. And I don't see any way to do that.

So maybe LLM fake entities will be the straw that breaks the Net's back as a social medium and propels us back into the physical world? I hope so.
You present a false dichotomy.
OTOH, my original Cree retrofit can lights from about 2014 are still going strong. They seem to have the electronics separate from the LED itself which keeps the heat under control. I've definitely noticed that some less expensive designs don't bother with that, and it really lowers the longevity of the fixture.
Because you are fundamentally misunderstanding how interest rates impact companies. No, these companies are not borrowing money to fund salaries.

When interest rates drop, safe investments (such as bonds), become less attractive. The yield on those investments is not high. This means that excess capital gets reallocated towards riskier bets (such as stocks, or venture investing) to try to yield a return that way. More speculative bets happen as a result of free flowing cash to high growth organizations. Companies are willing to lose money in exchange for market share because investors are willing to bet on companies that are losing money on the off-chance that one of them yields a 100x return. This game becomes more attractive when other means of growing investments are harder to come by.

Now, interest rates are higher. I can throw money into a savings account at 4.5% APY. A potential 7% return by throwing it all into high growth stocks (which also carry significant downside risk) is comparatively less attractive. I'm now much more incentivized to invest in companies that are stable and carry less downside risk. Those companies are the ones that are spending more responsibly and generating positive cash flow.
Also, when you are fighting for your life, an expensive spear isn't the most expensive thing on the line.
Remember that robblox investigation, were they interviewed that 12 year old that already talked like a burned out developer, feeling cheated out of the revenue. The children yearn for the mines..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ
It’s not like an Ivy League, it’s more like joining a frat, but for startups. Except, it used to be more fun, when all companies worked at the same location and you could bump into people in halls and then go do keg stands after work or sleep on couches, etc.

Now it’s just remote webinar garbage, talk to some people on Zoom, etc.
Same, I think I made my account when I was 9. I have Scratch to thank for a lot of my interests today.
Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
Greetings!

YakGPT is a simple, frontend-only, ChatGPT UI you can use to either chat normally, or, more excitingly, use your mic + OpenAI's Whisper API to chat hands-free.

Some features:

* A few fun characters pre-installed

* No tracking or analytics, OpenAI is the only thing it calls out to

* Optimized for mobile use via hands-free mode and cross-platform compressed audio recording

* Your API key and chat history are stored in browser local storage only

* Open-source, you can either use the deployed version at Vercel, or run it locally

Planned features:

* Integrate Eleven Labs & other TTS services to enable full hands-free conversation

* Implement LangChain and/or plugins

* Integrate more ASR services that allow for streaming

Source code: https://github.com/yakGPT/yakGPT

I’d love for you to try it out and hear your feedback!
Others have commented, but to reiterate

- Older LEDs house bulbs were much worse than newer ones; far more prone to failure from "things". I had many of them fail after only a few months because our power was "flickery" and their power supplies could not handle it. That's _far_ less common now.

- The power supply / controller circuitry is not a fan of heat. Don't mount them upside down (so the heat floats up to the circuit) and never mount them in a recessed mount. The heat buildup will destroy them a lot quicker. That being said, this advice can be ignored is you're paying attention... mounts that have a way to heat to escape; bulbs that are designed to go in upside-down mounts (maybe?), etc.

- While you certainly don't want to always buy the most expensive bulb, you also don't want to buy the cheap ones. They are far more likely to be made from poor, failure prone components.
> Or, if he wants to eventually become the President of the US, then that's an alternative explanation (of why he cared)?

That would require a constitutional amendment in order for him to be eligible. He’s revealed himself to be pretty dumb, but even I give him enough credit to not be so stupid as to think he will one day he President.
It is not a conspiracy, it was a well known cartel that made light bulbs horrible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

The 1200h are slightly above the 1000h target put in place by the cartel.
The article literally only gives high star rating to demo day, predicated on the prestige factor of YC
>it's so cheap to store such information and have it last a long period of time

It may be cheap, but when YouTube (as one example) takes down a channel that may have thousands of hours of content, that's gone forever unless someone archived it and is willing to make it available.
I am just impressed that the author was able to consistently think of relevant emojis for 100+ commit messages.
Yes, this is a good realistic danger too. Is anyone seriously working on ways to authenticate human-generated content online that don't destroy all possibility of anonymity? CAPTCHAs will soon be impossible. Watermarking or otherwise detecting LLM content is not going to be possible long term. Centralized ID services are unpalatable. Maybe some kind of web of trust would be the way to go.
That is true only for white LEDs. The RGB strip does not have them (there are some that include white LEDs but not this one). If you set it to yellow, only pure red and green elements are on, blue elements are completely off.
I believe this is more folklore than science. A significant color shift happens only for a couple of minutes during sunrise and sunset. The change in brightness is probably significant, but it is hard to believe that the color has a significant physiological effect (but the placebo could be very strong!). In my experience, f.lux and co. make it pretty difficult to read text due to the low contrast, and simply changing the screen brightness is much more effective.
I paid for it as a college student a decade ago. I literally did all my coursework in it, it felt like a no-brainer to throw some money at a company that made a great product that I relied on.
Bluntly, we don't care what you "see". You have to make us see it, or we think you're just trying to make us do what makes life easier for you.

So, yes, you have to justify your reasoning to the team. You didn't hire robots; you hired humans who can think for themselves (and sometimes do), and who can make their own decisions. And one of their decisions may be that the CTO is an insensitive jerk on a power trip, and therefore that they should look for work elsewhere. If you don't want them to reach that conclusion, don't give them evidence that points toward it.
This is my biggest barrier to finding decent bulbs. The search engines on sites like homedepot.com offer very little help, especially since they always show promoted items higher in the results, even if they don't match any keywords I put in my search. Then, if I do find what looks like the right thing, they're invariably out of stock everywhere.
Lol. Perfect example of people getting overly concerned about this.

At the most it will disrupt our economy and industry in ways we can't begin to understand but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's going to destroy life. We will adapt an move on.
It's the opposite! Only the good hype-makers and storytellers get early access to investors before demo day. If you're a good huckster, no one finds out about your stats. Even though... YC tells people to be dry and boring and focus on stats.

That's his complaint.
Bit of a Pyrrhic victory isn't it?
My first instinct after reading the complaint is... Fuck off!! How nice it must be for members of this so called "Center for AI and Digital Policy" to dictate - isn't that the result of a complaint enforced by the FTC - from their nice and comfortable chairs at what OpenAI and by inference, every other AI research company in the US, what to do and how. Is this the new form of virtue signaling? The FTC should stop OpenAI because of all the possible negative outcomes their AI work MAY create? Right off the top of my head, I can come up with at least 10 places in the US and around the world where members of CAID can go to right now and make a real difference to people who have real problems NOW. Instead, they want to tell and force others on what to do with their expression - yes, AI research and its output is a form of expression protected in the US (home of OpenAI) under free speech laws. How about taking a page from their org name and create an AI that can do all those things they're asking for automatically? No, that's not an option for them because it would actually require them to do more work than the complaint they could've probably used ChatGPT to write. In their infinite wisdom, couldn't they have foreseen in the last 10 years that an AI-based tool like ChatGPT would emerge? Where's their AI tool that could save us all now from the awful and destructive AI companies that are creating so much value for the world? Have they even read OpenAI's System Card on GPT-4? Did CAID even see the tradeoffs and concerns explored? On the way to reading the card they should dust off a copy of Lessig's Code, checkout a copy of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and remember that this the US, we don't force people to do anything, engage in dialogue instead.

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell
The DEA Bought Customer Data from Rogue Employees Instead of Getting a Warrant
> Also move the "switch" commands to "branch".

In git you can switch to a tag or commit in addition to a branch. There are different flags you may want to use depending on which type of ref you have so in the case that gut should only support switching branches moving the command may make sense, but if it supports arbitrary refs then moving it would not make sense. Looking at the switch code for gut `CheckIfBranchExists` does expect only branches so tags and commits are not supported in the current version. Relatedly, it looks like gut does not make an attempt to reconcile a dirty working tree with switch: if it's dirty you either abort the switch or throw away your changes, but it could be helpful to tell the user they could also stash the changes and make the switch when aborting or offer to stash instead of just throwing away the changes.
Yep. We are working on adding more integrations (and want to have a full self hosted stack)... we're open to contributors and help from the community if there's something you'd like to see added!

We just got a PR for adding Coqui TTS which is open source – should get it merged soon :)
Iraq War, 20 Years Later: ‘I Don’t Know How to Explain the War to Myself’
APL was the first language I learned after IBM 360 Assembly in the 1970s while I was in college. I really liked it because I was a math major and it was extremely well-suited to math operations on arrays. I used it for finding objects on the 2D complex number plane for my Senior Thesis.

I really enjoyed creating clever combinations of the APL operators to get a ton of computation done in one line of code. However, this was the epitome of "read-only code". It was very difficult to read that kind of code after writing it.

After college I never used APL again, although I worked as a software developer (and still do). I miss the fun I had with it, but I wouldn't want to use it for code that I or anyone else would have to maintain, and I doubt that it would be a very expressive language for most commercial applications. For mathematical, array-oriented tasks, Python has appropriate libraries that would probably lead to more maintainable code. And of course there's Julia.

But I can imagine some people still having the expertise to use APL for exploratory calculations, enjoyably and more productively than any other language.
And so it begins. The big brain drain that will devastate Google.

Not even the people at Google believe they can beat OpenAI.

It’s getting uglier by the day for them.
"It's like Scratch but annoying" - One my of children's friends when describing working with Python in hour of code.
There clearly is an API that returns the full text of a tweet or the official app and website wouldn't be able to display it. They must be maintaining and building an API. The only thing that's not being maintained or updated are the public facing endpoints. That doesn't mean much.
I think the complaint here is that the current "mass market" version that treats all founders the same isn't really able to deliver on the promise of helping most of them achieve their vision. If YC makes all its money from tentpoles, the fund doesn't care. But founders probably care.
Finishing things is surprisingly hard. You have to practice to get good at it.

I'd suggest learning how to paint. Why? Because a painting is literally never done. Just like software, there's always more you can do to a painting. But at some point you need to finish and hang it up.

Even pollock-style splatter painting will work for this exercise.

I've been shipping software and finishing projects for a long time, and it does get easier. There's this weird feeling of anxiety when you're near completion...it's a lot like stage fright. And getting that last 1% done is really, really hard. It takes a ton of effort...more effort that it takes to start.

At some point you have to decide "it's as good as it's going to get" and be done with it.

That's not to say I don't have plenty of projects that I haven't finished; I do. But I also have a lot of stuff that I finished off and am relatively happy about.

Again, read books about art, not about programming. Finishing stuff is hard. It's one of those things they don't really talk about in CS class...or in engineering. It's the reason Jobs used to say "artists ship." They do, or at least commercially successful ones do.
Bitcoin does not have any intrinsic value or utility. The only reason one would buy it so that it can be sold to someone else for a higher price and that person would buy it hoping to sell it at an ever higher price. It's a game of finding a bigger fool, classic ponzi. But the world has finite supply of fools so the chain eventually breaks and the last ones to enter end up holding the bag while the early adopters make the bank. Bitcoin has entered that stage where not much new money is coming in. It had its peak in the 2020 and 2021. General public is now donw with it. All the pumps are now just wash trades by whales to suck as much remaining value our of existing faithfuls as possible because it goes bust.
Because the biggest differences now are: remote collaboration tools are mature, companies learn to hire-and-replace one-by-one. So existing US-based staff was used to onboard new non-US members, then once those members ramped up, they were used for further onboarding newer non-US members. Then when the layoffs happened, most of the brunt fell on US based members.

This didn't happen pre-covid where you had to replace the whole team, which was much harder to pull off. Also, tools (like Zoom) were not yet widely adopted and the populace wasn't trained on them. Covid forced us to learn all those tools.
Yeah I was thinking of the reapers, who [spoilers] did take over the entire galaxy, and decided to farm organic life from the shadows instead of extinguishing it (which works around the Fermi Paradox :) )
thank you! All credit to Rime for the Gen Z voice :)
It's pretty bad to ask people to enter e private secret key in a web site (any, I mean)
I guess you can't tell the difference? For me it's huge. I recently changed my bathroom downlights from dimmable LEDs to dimmable halogens, and it's so much nicer. The colour temperature was the same, so I guess it's not that. It's something else about the way they work. I don't profess to know why, but I can absolutely tell the difference, and I have a very clear preference now. And this is after a decade of me being very bullish on LEDs for environmental reasons and proudly fitting LEDs everywhere possible (expensive, carefully chosen ones too, with appropriate colour temperature). At the end of the day, LED light is just horrible for some reason.
Compared to losing US$24B with Musk.
Pretty sure Excel is the largest coding group in the world, they just don't share their code in Github.
I found the press release pretty confused/confusing. It starts by saying there's little evidence for competition affecting evolution, which sounds like nonsense.

I peeked at the paper's abstract which seems to be talking about "macroevolution". Looks like this refers to larger scale trends on the level of clades rather than competition within species or between more closely related species.
Yes! Give it a try on the phone call and let us know what you think – would love feedback!
Diagonator: X11 compositor that draws diagonal lines to make you take a break
The real problem is that in the US, we measure everything with a single yardstick that goes from "Left" to "Right".

But the actual, real reality is that 80%+ of people can't be measured in such a one-dimensional way. People have more nuance than that, and to get even a remotely accurate sense of where someone is politically requires a multipolar yardstick.
It’s usually going to be diluted in something if my spouse’s experience with this subject still holds true.

From there you’re measuring concentration, which opens a host of options from community labs to minimal test kits.
People complained that new AI is "stealing" from artists.

But stealing from other AI turns out to often be easier.

And this is where things get fun, because companies like OpenAI want to be able to train on all the data without any explicit permissions from the creators, but the moment people do the same to them they likely (we will see) be very much against it.

So it will be interesting if they will be able to both have and eat the cake (e.g. by using Microsoft lobby to push absurd law) or will they fall apart due to cannibalization making it non profitable to create better AI.

EDIT: This comment isn't specific to Google/Bert, so it doesn't matter weather Google actually did so or weather not.
That's what I would do, yes. Although I didn't mean to imply that with my previous statement. The closed border approach would be to somehow erect a barrier that lessens the ability for them to consume CBP resources between ports of entry.
A major toy company kept 4chan online