skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless P=NP, or we live in Heuristica, any AI superintelligence will hardly be better at solving hard mathematical problems than us. The AI also doesn't know more science than humanity does, and is limited in its computing power. There are hard limits to what any AGI can do - it cannot break AES-256, invent warp drives, or cure Alzheimer's. it's not an intellectual Santa Claus machine.

so Yudkowski's fear of a superintelligence bootstrapping itself into the real world by emailing a DNA sequence to a synthesis company seems absurd. an ASI isn't going to magically be able to design nanotechnology that works on the first try. not to mention that DNA doesn't do anything by itself. His comparison of the 11th century fighting the 21st century is also wrong. 11th century people weren't dumber, they just knew less. This ASI would be smarter, but no know more than we do. Acquiring knowledge and building stuff is the bottleneck.
> "a readable array oriented programming language. I heard that J fits that bill. What I mean by "readable" is, that it uses ASCII strings and actual names, not merely 1 character"

It definitely doesn't; J is ASCII symbols. See the vocabulary at https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc - those things in the coloured boxes like ": and ;. and {: are the J building blocks and the quotes and brackets don't pair up. If you want words and "actual names", you need something else.
Yourdrink.is is really cool! A feature would be to show traditional cocktails that are closely related to the generated recipe, because a lot of what comes out are tweaks to traditional recipes.
Gonna depend on your jurisdiction ... my dad years ago told his manager when he was retiring to help out the rest of his team (he was retiring in 6 mos, but with rumors of layoffs coming, he was "volunteering" to be let go "early") - the layoffs ended up not happening, but he was fine being one if they did

Some companies'll ask [informally] if anyone wants to be considered
My understanding is outside, your pupils will dilate as the light increases, protecting your retina from increased UV. If you had a strong emitter of UV in a relatively dim room, your pupils wouldn't shrink and would allow more damaging UV to hit your retinas.
> Companies are social relations with legal protection

In other words, they are real things, you can go speak to people who work for apple. You can visit its buildings. Your can install their apps.

> Hypothetically I could even steal all of TikTok's servers and I still wouldn't be TikTok. TikTok simply isn't the sum of its physical parts.

You're getting into the weeds here. To bring things into focus, how does any of this qualify the TikTok company/platform as an idea that would be "censored" if you shut them down?
To quote dang and the HN FAQ:

"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that.""

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Meanwhile I replaced around 40 halogen bulbs with Philips branded bulbs around 5 years ago, and have not had a single failure.

It's possible the quality has changed, but i'm also wondering whether the mains voltage might be a factor - there is quite a wide range of possible voltages allowed whilst still being in-spec, so maybe i'm lucky at my properties and mains voltage is on the low end of the standard and maybe you're running hot. It's all most frustrating!

BTW, I went with Philips on the basis that there was a good chance that if I did need to replace a few after a year or two due to failures i'd be likely to be able to source the same bulb, as it's really annoying if you find one bulb a different colour than the others...
You endorse the idea of bombing rogue datacenters, as proposed in the article?

Isn't that likely to lead to nuclear war, which is still the greatest threat to humanity and has been for all of our lives? What if the US bombs a datacenter in China or Israel bombs one in Iran?
Both of my teenage kids are learning Scratch at school. They both find it confusing and annoying, and I don't disagree. I believe teaching them something like LOGO would have been much more efficient and gratifying.
I really like this explanation from Ira Glass on the gap between taste and talent and how you just need to do a ton of work to fight through it.

https://vimeo.com/85040589
I mean ultimately it’s all semantics, but the idea that a private API is not an API proper is not exactly unusual.

It’s more a business competence than a technical competence issue, likely (unless he’s actually attempting to have a direct technical role, in which case it is Dunning-Kruger made manifest).
Weight them and buy the heaviest one, for E27 likely you don't wish to go over 8-10W of total power (this can be measured easily as well).

A scale that can measure grams is like $10.
You don’t have to “unfriend” anyone. And I’ve never seen any of the “for you’ stuff:

https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
I think it's best to just leave them with scratch until they get bored of it. Eventually, if they end up having a passion for programming, the fundamentals built there will help them immensly at picking it up. Be careful not to force your own interests on your kids!
Don't worry, AI is gonna kill that biforcation in about 2 years. It'll be the other way around.
Thank you for the suggestion.

I'm adding `gut stash` to the next command to implement.
Because a lot of first-time founders have no idea what they're doing and other experts are at least experts whether they're 100% right or not. Anyone on Sand Hill is probably a better resource than some guy down the alley.
What a bizarre analogy. Steam engines disappeared because of an optimization choice by railroad managers. Organisms emerge, persist, and go extinct because of random events with local effects. Successful organisms may have been the "fittest" at some point in their evolutionary history, or they may just have been lucky and not seen much selection. But there was no decision maker that chose the end result, unlike steam engines.
Ask HN: What are you using for requirement traceability?
Hi HN, I'm curious what tools your team is using to maintain a database of requirements that are linked to test cases and test case results.

I'm personally looking for something lightweight and self hosted, (maybe like git-bug) oriented for small teams or individuals. However, I'm also interested in what large teams are doing as well.
Congrats Andrew and Ani! Big fan of the App Builder functionality, and excited for GPT-4 integration.

Do you have any ideas/plans for providing pre-loaded off-the-shelf app configurations, perhaps specialized to a particular task or industry that can then be further tweaked? Or are you committed to a "BYOB" approach?

Anyway, congrats again. Really impressed with what's coming out of this YC class so far.
6 years remote now and similar experience as yours - I get to spend time with my kids - play with them, take them to classes, help with homework, at the same time able to eat healthy, work out and have a more focussed and disciplined life.
Never going back to the office full time - would like a hybrid role since I feel that is the best of both worlds.
Do the things that make you seem like a great startup/founder regardless of YC: show you can execute. This means coding or launching experiments, and show that whatever you're doing is getting some sort of a market response.

A lot of people think YC has some secret formula they will teach you (I think maybe OP made this mistake?), in reality they are very open: build product and talk to users.

If you can do that well, you'll get in.

It's amazing how few people actually "get" this, though. I recently met with a friend who is running a consulting firm and is convinced he has a product... But there's no demo, customers can't just sign up -- they need to speak with him and it takes a few weeks to onboard them, etc... Yet his deep (and well-meaning, I'm sure!) belief is that he has a product. Nothing I say will convince him otherwise.

10 years post YC, I find most of the issues people have with startups (getting in to YC included) is they overcomplicate their interpretation of what YC says you should do.
After deepfakes go viral, AI image generator Midjourney stops free trials
Customer retention rate must necessarily be an implicit property of any business, even drug dealing.
Trust is great; but even trust can be broken either on purpose or accidentally over time. There's a great example of a well-known NPM package which was taken over accidentally by a hacker, and the thousands / millions of dependent packages and apps were totally vulnerable.

Check out https://socket.dev for a better NPM solution (not affiliated w/ them at all), though AI's definitely going to accentuate this problem 1000x.
Any investor would hate this idea, it's a terrible deal for them, and YC are smart enough to get it out of you. The whole business of VC is to sell later at the higher price. If they give you money at val of 5M+ and you sell for 2M - they are in loss.
You don't have to maintain your twitter account just to have someone to not take your username.

I (kind of, my profile timeline is now inconsisntent/corrupt) deleted all my tweets, locked my account, and changed password to something I don't know.
Twitter was a platform company in 2011, but after they started limiting the api in 2012[1], I'm not sure that they wanted to be a platform anymore.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/a/2012/changes-comi...
I don't think we're exactly stuck with the old form factor. We can start phasing them out. Replacement of screw sockets with modern fixtures is well within the capabilities of the average DIYer (though perhaps some places it's illegal for anyone but a professional electrician to touch anything hardwired).
Maybe a small video demo would be an ok alternative?
> The cost of the license is peanuts compared to the time I spend using it.

And hopefully the money you make with it
The regular consumer, like us, don't give a rats ass about the technology behind the light, we just want them to work well. The light is much, much worse than incandescents for the typical consumer. That's what the article is about. Your comment if anything is the weird one.
> Can you name some examples? As a hobbyist woodworker I've used my 3D printer to print router templates where PLA was fine enough for the task.

I'm currently using PC to build friction-fit dust collection gear. PLA and PETG are great in a lot of cases but if you want to use bayonets to ensure a solid connective fit (whether they're themselves plastic or something like socket-cap screws), PLA and PETG both wear much too quickly.
Maybe you should actually listen to the kids. After months of group therapy I can attest to they're telling us. We're just not listening. Continuing to blame social media is all the confirmation they need to know we're not listening.

Oh, and the active shooter drills they've been doing at school now for the past 10 years isn't helping anything. Now they worry about going to school and getting shot. Thanks to Uvalde they now know that the police who are supposed to keep them safe in an active shooter situation will just leave their asses flapping in the breeze getting shot it.

But hey, let's blame social media. Better yet, let's blame TikTok. We don't like them being Chinese-owned anyway.
> "I just copied this from StackOverflow and it worked...". This guy is not dumb BTW.

These seem quite contradictory statements. Copying something from StackOverflow and using it in production code without making sure you fully understand what it does? And something like "verify: false" should be an instant red flag that you need to triple-check to make sure that’s really the correct thing to do for your use case.
How does it compare with Lazarus?
For fine-tuning, yes, absolutely.
Only if they’re drifting.
Am-E-G would have been ii-V-I, the everpresent faux-jazz progression (also common in actual jazz of a certain vintage).
The Philips Hue bulbs somehow never burn out. I have about 30 of them in my house, and the oldest ones (5+ years old now) are working as well as the new ones that I have bought recently. They are the only "smart" thing that I have in my house, because they're the only thing I've ever hooked up that worked with 100% reliability. They don't require an internet connection, etc. I never have connection problems, never have to reboot the hub, the switches work for me 100% of the time.
Modern indie music: three 7th chords and a chorus pedal played for 250 people
The A. I. Dilemma
when you interact with a file or directory, the mapping of that logical thing to disk inodes (which are the physical 4kb whatevers you speak of) is managed for you by the fs cache

that cache coalesces and serializes access to disk, it does all of this "locking" you're referring to, and it's very smart

it seems like you're writing code assuming this intermediating layer does not exist?
Funny how every hype tech (crypto, NFT, web 3, AI) gets its own color scheme and they all just run with it.
Since tailscaled uses the tun/tap driver and thus copies all traffic to userspace (and back), it is extremely inefficient. On my Haswell i5 (plus multiple servers with comparable hardware) the process consumes 40% of CPU time at just 4 MiB/s, and close to 100% at 10-11 MiB/s (with recent sendmmsg/recvmmsg patches¹).

This is about ~2-3x worse than similar applications written in highly optimized C, so don't expect any miracles from further optimizations unless they switch to kernel Wireguard (which doesn't seem likely in the nearby future).

They claim it's very difficult if not impossible, but this sounds like an issue with their architecture — a similar application from their competitors² has had kernel WireGuard support from the start (no relation, I don't even use it and cannot recommend for or against it).

1: https://tailscale.com/blog/throughput-improvements

2: https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird
I think there's a misunderstanding over what the word "relinquish" means.

The terms make clear that uploading code to GitHub gives GitHub the right to "store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time" while the code is hosted on GitHub.

However, that's not the same thing as relinquishing (giving up) licensing rights to GitHub. The uploader still retains those rights, and there is nothing in the terms that says otherwise.
As far as I understand Amazon makes a deliberate choice to reinvest their profit into research, marketing, etc, with the promise that it will grow more in the future.

Musk has been very upfront that Twitter is bleeding money (hence why he is firing so many people), it's not simply that a healthy profit margin is being reinvested.
I'm amused that's still going, one of my classmates qualified for and attended the Word championship hosted in Vegas many years ago.

As for programming prizes, "last week" if we're counting bug-bounties, "a few years ago" if we're counting CTFs, and 5 years ago if we're not.

Clearly there is an Excel community in the general sense but as far as I know it isn't centered around any particular venue - at least, not one at the scale of GitHub or Scratch
Just a note, the Kindle version isn't available for sale, despite being listed on Google search.
Hello Stable Diffusion!
I have no faith in Canonical and am moving off Ubuntu desktop. Never tried Touch (though the whole Unity/mobile flavour was already off-putting) and don't intend to.

It's also a weird headline, wouldn't users choose iPhones then?
> SRECon

That’s disappointing for that community. They should just list their website, which should have an RSS (atom) feed.
I've definitely worked in small open offices or team rooms that were a lot more productive than being at home with a kid.

But the one most-of-a-floor-of-a-highrise open office I worked in, for a "more mature" company than the little startups I usually work for... that was a whole lot worse then even at-home-with-kids (and, not coincidentally, was the least "mature"/professional place I've ever worked, despite on-paper looking far more serious than other places I've worked).

I don't know how anyone got any work done there. I suspect their handful of fully-remote senior devs were doing most of the actual work. WFH with small kids would have been a big improvement.
The -40% margin is not a (per) unit margin; it's a business measure that includes generally all expenses related to running the business (including R&D, marketing, capital expenditures, etc.)

So a -40% operating profit margin on a newly formed capital-intensive business line isn't a bad thing.
That's hilarious. Who could have guessed laying off the entire Toe-Stubbing Prevention Team could have consequences? At this point, I'm increasingly of the opinion that the only rational explanation is that he wants to destroy Twitter.
The oil lamp is epitome of HN
A significant chunk of the people I followed on twitter left. So I left and followed them on Mastodon.
Wait was it or wasn’t it? Presumably it was- I guess it’s down to what would the judge think?
do you know what a tmpfs is? or what these programs are actually exercising?

i mean ignore me if you want, no skin off my back

but you're not benchmarking what you think you're benchmarking
Yes. This immediately stood out:

> We were renovating our apartment, and one day our contractor summoned me to the bathroom in dismay. He adjusted the dimmer switch he’d just installed, and a new LED fixture began strobing like we were in a seven-by-eight-foot basement dance club.

I’m not sure what skill-level of contractor he was using, but it’s pretty obvious that nobody checked that the light fixture was dimmable with that particular switch.
Indeed, which is why the biggest impact this revelation is likely to have (if proven true) is on Google's stock.
How Effective Altruism Power Brokers Helped Make Sam Bankman-Fried
> $100: For hobbyists or students learning code (50,000 Tweets per month - posting limit at the app level)

Students being famously known for spending three figures a month on hobby API access. /s
A response

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35368813
Is there still weather services not using ML?

Is it all huge modeling still?
I think they did a right move - making the batch smaller and moving it back in-person. The money amount that was not very attractive at 2021 makes a lot more sense in 2023 as well.

As for the community I believe it can only be build relatively strong for <100 people. Hence, smaller niche-specific batches?
Hunt-and-Peck Typing
Do any of you do this? If so, why?
A method like that should kinda never end up causing a denial of service. I also didn't drop any local port 80 traffic, which also makes that theory a bit less likely.
Hiring manager here. The market is really tough right now for finding new jobs. If I had a job that was "fine" and "meh", I'd take that boring safety over the risk of being a candidate in this market. The market isn't the same as it was six months or a year ago, when engineers were in crazy high demand. Right now there are a bajillion people looking for jobs, and few companies are hiring like crazy.

You may be financially secure-ish now, but consider what your financial situation might be if you are unemployed for 12-18 months. That might be too long, even with a few months worth of severance.

If you're just bored, I would ride it out until the market stabilizes a bit.

That said, if you trust your manager, then as others suggested, you can casually express that if there's a future round of layoffs, you are open to being considered.

I wish you the best of luck.
It's not val of 5M though? It's ~1.7M IIUC. 7% for 125K, an additional 375K can be invested though, with additional equity attached. Is that not right?

edit: Investors are also expecting to take a loss on many of the investments. 2M is one exit option, which still gives them +17% return on investment

I know that's not the standard type of exit YC are looking for, and I'm open to growing a bit more, but not as interested in taking additional investments. Final exit could end up being 10M for all I know.

I just think this growth at all costs attitude needs to change a bit with the current economy. I'd be happy to take $80K for a 7% investment also, but they have a standard deal which I think perverts the incentives and, frankly, leads to outcomes where they're pushing you to take more investment even if you could just have a sustainable business pulling in 10-30K MRR or something
>I have a Chromecast from 2016 that still runs just as well as it did when I bought it.

Which, in my experience, is better than the new Chromecast with Android TV. I switched to it from an old school Chromecast and was just astounded at how badly the menus performed. Like the entire role of this device is to operate my TV, it's 2023, they can't make it do that without the UI animations dragging and occasionally crashing altogether? Not to mention the ads, ads everywhere, "recommendations" all over the home screen, crammed in every available space, and no doubt dragging performance themselves.

I switched to an Apple TV and it's a bit better, but there's still a full-screen "recommendation" video at the top of the home screen and it still doesn't run perfectly, which sorry not sorry, would be my expectation for such an incredibly simple UI in this great year of 2023.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but is there a single company making a set top box today that #1 consistently performs well in software and #2 isn't riddled with advertising disguised as "recommendations" for content I would never watch? Is that Roku? I haven't used one in years.
Crypto blue, NFT/Web3 purple, AI being dark theme linear.app copies?
We've got DNA which is basically a storage system. RNA can be catalytically active on its own. Typically RNA and proteins, or complexes of such, act on DNA in various manners.

Maybe you're right in some way, but also consider whether using the nomenclature and ideas used to described processes of DNA repair, transcription, and translation in biology to describe electronic computation works well. If it does work well, then maybe the reverse would also work well. If it leaves much to be desired, then consider the possibility that computer science ideas may be too specific to electronic or mechanical computation.
It's not just uptime. They are making weird changes like making it so that replies show up in the Following feed as if it were a regular tweet without context.

I've also unfollowed many people, and they still show up in my feed.

Musk also said only paid accounts will show up in the For You feed, but then later said it will also include people you follow.
That the biology of processing DNA is subject to similar constraints and solutions computer have dealing with disk storage is remarkable.

Justification is needed.
I also want to make sure birds still flying. but you are right, our life is a better reason.
And the possibility that the author of this article has found himself surrounded by people like maerF0x0 ...
It is worth noting that for much of history, for most people, people did "work from home". Children spent a great deal of time around their parents. The education of children is primarily the responsibility of the parent, and in years past, that is precisely what happened. Furthermore, one's family, extended family, or neighbors/community (depending on your situation) would flexibly step in to care for children in the absence of their parents or when parents were busy with something else. Today, a good deal more falls in the lap of parents without the communal and multi-generational support that used to exist.

So WFH gestures in the direction of a return to the historical norm of family-centered life. There is nothing normal about a career-centered life where your family becomes secondary. And because WFH also reduces the need to move, it has the potential to reduce the fragmentation of communities and families. It will be interesting to watch the broader effects of WFH on the broader economy, the culture, and the formation of community life.