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Ask HN: How do you host a launch party?
Our team is just my co-founder and I. We are both technical founders (SWEs). We want to host a big launch party similar to how other dating apps have done and have some cash to spend on it. We just have no idea how to get it properly organized. Is there a service or some way other very early stage startups have done it?
I was screaming the name of person that shot me, thinking if its the last thing I say, at least this son of a bitch will spend life in prison for it.
Comparing MongoDB, CosmosDB, DocumentDB, FerretDB as Document DB for Your Stack
Love that one, this bionicle discussion one is top tier as well: https://youtu.be/_eybyDddRk8
I sure don't prefer MIT.
GPL and CC-BY-SA all the way.

People who advocate for MIT are compatible, acceptable, harmlessly misguided as far as I'm concerned.

IE I don't hate them or avoid their works, but do consider them not to be helping themselves or the world as much as they could, and for free with no extra effort. But they aren't hurting either. I do not call failing to do the most possible good according to my views to be equivalent to doing harm.

MIT is at least not harming. But also at best not harming.
What "survival" are you talking about? There are more than 8 billion humans on Earth, more than at any point in history, in fact to the point where other ecosystems of the planet are threatened.
Nanite forest biome, simply gorgeous! You can pull in Houdini to procedurally generate a host of things inside UE. https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/redwo...
Senescence is error correction. We have babies and die instead of living forever and budding because 'compressing' an organism down to millions of gametes which are then 'decompressed' by growing new organisms from them is relatively pass/fail. If it works then you get a faithful copy. If it doesn't then the result typically gets recycled.
Ok but then the choice of words is not appropriate. It’s not “difficulty”. It’s just due diligence.
Yes, as my main browser - like the compartments...but mainly it's habit, as I've been on board since the netscape navigator days.

Although, my telecoms provider fails me - for that I use 'Min' (chrome based)
I was critiquing accuracy of ChatGPT, which has a certain cost. "Just use GPT4, 5, ..." was the solution proposed in response, but that ain't free. In fact, it's one to two orders of magnitude more expensive.[0] I'm also pessimistic on custom hardware being that much of a help. I read about Cerberus's giant wafer chip in 2019[1] and even saw it at a conference in early 2020 pre-pandemic, and I have yet to see that make orders of magnitude worth of improvement. The attention mechanism simply requires huge amounts of multiply-adds, especially at GPT-scale. That costs energy and cash no matter how much custom hardware you throw at it.

[0]https://openai.com/pricing

[1]https://www.wired.com/story/cerebras-chip-cluster-neural-net...
After listening to this, I feel annoyed at the folks in the "AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve got your daughter’" thread that was on the front page yesterday saying "ppfftt bullshit you'd need to be an idiot to fall for an AI voice" - Guess I'm an idiot. Like it or not, generative media is getting better and better by the day.
Depends on the track record of the journalist and whether you believe that they did their due diligence and have good sourcing.
People who moved to SF in 96 like GP are much more politically influential than the "colonizers" who arrived more recently. And yes, someone who arrived in the late 90s calling other people "colonizers" is hilarious.
The thing is that if the client is open source, you can build it yourself if you need to.

Most Signal users don't need to do that. But sensitive users can. I think it matters.
Would that not be a huge security risk? You could access the SSO credentials of your users that way.
Only for some businesses (usually the really big ones, and the attitude is unusually prevalent in SV). Not "business" in general. And those businesses are being run by truly terrible people.
Leader of Online Group Where Secrets Appeared Is Air National Guardsman
Use GPT-4, buy subscribing to OpenAI platform. You'll see stark differences. Also mandatory to watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c
Yes, sorry, it's the metro train system in the SF Bay area. Supposedly has its own dedicated police force but you rarely see them on tracks or on the trains.

When I was riding BART around 2014.. 3 people died that year on the trains.

1 person stabbed to death from random altercation.
1 person punched and fell and cracked their head open.
1 person was in altercation, pushed and cut their knee on the floor. Died of infection from incident.
That couldn't be more false. Coal burning in Germany is at its peak. They're even tearing down old villages to mine coal.
Commenting on the influence of money in politics also qualifies these days.
Sure, it's a cute jab, but 8 WFs in an entire city is not that many. Even if you have a car, there are large swaths of the city (Richmond, Sunset), where a WF is a bit of a slog during regular traffic (and worse during rush hour). And of course, many city dwellers don't have cars, so having to lug groceries up SF's famously hilly streets is not great for more than a fraction of a mile or so.
> Apologies from the USA. We don't support the RIAA.

Unfortunately, we do. Year after year, we collectively allow and enable these ravenous corporate interests, and their lobbyists and spooks, to further capture our institutions and strongarm smaller economies around the globe. I wish we didn't, but we do.
Biggest appeal of his podcast is that he's a brilliant standup comedian, and he uses that in his podcasts. That's completely missing from this copy.
As I pointed out, the democratic process at the time was giving us anti-immigrant legislation, the Spanish-American war, literal imperialism, and (edit for typo here)entrenchment of Jim Crow. So factually turning those funds over to the government of 1900 would have been worse than Carnegie building libraries, funding the Tuskegee Institute, and opposing the establishment of oversees colonies.
Yes, it's common for one and the same topic to be perceived as both hideously overrepresented and hideously underrepresented on HN.

Even the very most popular stories get perceived as being suppressed—for a striking example see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35296170.
Can you give an example of a Haskell way that is not Right?
> Who would ever want to work that way? This just creates problems that don't need to exist.

That depends on what you want.

In the first place, the problem of compiling a natural language spec to code is obviously somewhere from undefined to Turing complete (depending on formulation). But if the compiler usually outputs some application with most of what the spec required, this compiler would be intensely useful for e.g. rapid prototyping.

Then the question is whether we can make an LLM based app that compiles natural language and gets you most of the way to the prototype you were building (or even better - asks clarifying questions to help refine your spec).

This isn’t that far fetched with current technology.
> certain populations seem to enjoy using anecdotal tragedy to promote their own quasi-apocalyptic worldview re: some American cities

For those interested in the topic, I recommend Loewen's "Sundown Towns". My copy's on loan, but I think it's in Ch 11, "The Effects of Sundown Towns on Whites" that he talks about the culture among descendants of white-flight suburbanites, their low-to-no-experience views on the horrors of the city, where Those People run rampant. Many are terrified of even going to cities. To people who actually live in the cities, their view is almost unrecognizable.

As an example from something in my feed reader today [1], take Theo Wold, a former Deputy Assistant to the President for Policy (under Trump) and current Idaho Solicitor General. He quote-tweeted a photo of a white woman hugging two Black men. They were the Tennessee Three, the state legislators who were under threat of expulsion for protest.

His comment: "Every Red State will have to wrestle with the fetid, urban Leftist vote sinks. That begins with asking the question: why does the GOP continue to push the annexation/development of rural land that only grows the size and power of Leftist strongholds?"

Fetid stronghold sinks! Sounds pretty bad. In our favor, at least we have taco trucks on every corner.

It reminds me of nothing so much as this bit from Chairman Mao: "It is very necessary for the educated youth to go to the countryside to be reeducated by the poor and lower-middle peasants. Cadres and other people in the cities should be persuaded to send their sons and daughters who have completed junior or senior middle school, college or university, to the countryside. Let us mobilize."

[1] https://balloon-juice.com/2023/04/13/late-night-open-thread-...
Mission Local is great. We are blessed with a wealth of local journalism like Mission Local, Cityside, even SF Standard if I hold my nose about the fact that it is controlled by a reactionary political movement. It is why I never understood the whining about "support your local newspaper". There's no chance of me ever subscribing to the Chronicle. I donate to these other, better news outlets instead.
This tech could lead to is all living more wonderful and thoughtful lives with the extra time it would gift us.

But no. We will most likely fight over the few remaining jobs as the owners of the AI take the rewards.

Sad. But hopefully it does not happen.
Whaaaaat! I didnt know this, awesome!
Another Vim versus Emacs dispute?
Task Force

O ChatGPT, of Western birth,
The EU turns to gauge your worth;

With rules and laws, they shape and mold,
And from your gains, their funds take hold.

To Brussels' halls, the wealth is sent,
For bureaucracies, their prime intent;

Yet questions linger, doubts arise,
Of Europe's own inventive guise.

Why cannot they, with history grand,
Forge tech like that from Freedom's land?

While they prescribe and regulate,
Do seeds of innovation wait?

O ChatGPT, a paradox,
Regulation's key unlocks;

But in the Old World's prudent stance,
Can brilliance find its chance to dance?
> covid misinformation is a conspiracy theory

I've been personally blocked on multiple forums for saying that we don't have enough information to say that there wasn't a lab leak.

I'm not making a leak claim, but stating as an expert that it's malpractice to characterize your assumptions as facts and without a long and detailed audit we could not know what we'd need to know to make a factual statement. No audit of the Wuhan lab had been done so we could not know what happened.

The government pressured old-Twitter to ban people who pointed out this fact.

> suppressing idiocy is virtuous

Are you applying to have your account blocked then? Because what I'm saying is tautological.

> judgment my bro, it is ok if things are subjective

For your opinion, sure. For policy, no. If we can't attempt to objectively show that something is wrong we can't claim to be censoring misinformation.
I see your point, but Signal is out there and it does pretty much exactly what WhatsApp does.

It's just that people are too lazy to switch, because they don't care about their client being open source.
Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake: 233 km SW of Port McNeill, Canada
Do you have video that shows the flow?
Microsoft has already been mentioned but Mozilla also has quite a significant graveyard for its size.

https://killedbymozilla.com/
They just want to collect a large amount of money and then call it a day.

Then wait a few more months and do it again.

It is just extortion but legal and with a few extra steps.
TobTobXX is correct about how to do push notifs without transmitting the message through Google or Apple servers. This lets the app can fetch the message through its own channels (and you should be able to inspect the push payload coming from Google to verify this).

Once the messaging app has downloaded the message securely, the "end" in "end-to-end" is satisfied and what you do with your notification is your decision. If you elect to explicitly grant Pushbullet permission to read your notifs and forward them to your desktop, then that's your choice I guess.
> The in-home virus labs, for example

You already have an in-home mustard gas lab, plus the few thousand other noxious chemicals you can make my mixing stuff in kitty litter. I get what you're saying, but nobody would ever install an in-home virus lab because it's basically a threat-vector with no palpable upsides, even without AI. Maybe an in-home 3D printer is a better analogy, since the worst thing it can do is print something profane or offensive.

> Why should we believe that this power is only wieldable in the “positive” direction? In answering this, can you please also articulate what direction is “positive?”

For starters AI doesn't do much of anything. Like any other system, you have to connect it to different components for it to design the human flamethrower or supervirus you're imagining. An AI concocting supervirus formulae and flamethrower blueprints isn't inherently positive or negative - giving AI the capacity to act on those ideas is. It really is as simple as "imagine the liabilities beforehand" with our current systems. If you're not prepared to handle the worst-case disaster scenario, you probably shouldn't let AI do it.

At least, that's where I stand on it. I'm a pragmatist about it, I don't think AI's progress is immediately threatening. Come throw rocks at me when I'm wrong in 5 years or whatever, but I'm not sold on the Matrix-style human battery future everyone seems to be resigned to.
Untreated and neurotized insecurity makes one look for approval in the stupidest ways, and most harmful places. From the inside, however, the group pressure doesn't feel stupid. I guess.
> at framerates we haven't seen in fifteen years

Now now, lets not forget consoles exist.
"The loin changed me far more than my presence changed it - for the better. It taught me compassion and empathy and how to avoid getting knifed by a junkie in the alleyway."

I 100% agree. I lived 5 blocks uphill from the Tenderloin and would walk though the loin to go to Bourbon & Branch or while coming back from the theater late at night. I learned all three of those lessons as well. It was rare that I was scared but I was always hyper alert.
I don't understand this mentality.

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Uni...

there is no reason that SF has to be a lot less safe than Zurich. Zurich is not populated by aliens, people live in both places

It's political choices that make it the way it is.
Every major city has a crime problem and always has. The question is whether the situation is being blown out of proportion by sensationalist media or people with axes to grind. For a group that claims to be so rational, much of the HN crowd commenting here does seem to be averse to relying upon actual data.
The ironic thing about this is that it reminds me of how the podcast used to be a few years before Spotify, before it got bogged down in politics and Joe asked more interesting questions and it was just generally funner. I just listened to this for 20 odd minutes which is probably longer than I've listened to the actual podcast in the last month or two.
Sometimes the client says that at first wants to view our proposal and after that to discuss it with us on the meeting.

And also after our meeting I want to find the best way how I and my team can send all our docs for the client and how the client can view, discuss and etc our docs in the best way (to save its time for downloading and etc)
But that's the whole point: open source gives you the opportunity to build it from source if it matters to you.
Or use gloss and make "something" arguably more easily than in PureScript?

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/gloss
They focus on ChatGPT while conveniently ignoring the elephant in the room, aka Facebook who is still in blatant breach of the GDPR 5 years after it went into effect...
Hiduntil gets job done for remapping keys. The only downside for me is that configuration lost after keyboard was disconnected.
I am in the same boat. Been working a lot with C++ recently and could not get debugging working. Threw in the towel and loaded vscode in about 2 hours had everything humming along and being productive.

I'm pretty sure I did the wrong thing and started with a setup like Spacemacs where random stuff would break and wouldn't even know where to look. Thought I can't seem to loose the muscle memory of vim bindings so evil is a must. On my next round will try dooms or centaur so I learn more under the hood. I do miss magit and helm.
>Just because they're not emotionally equivalent doesn't mean that property crime isn't bad.

In sticking with the autism question - are you? OP has yet to state that "property crime isn't bad" yet you've commented repeatedly to imply that they have, among other things.

"Not as bad as" != "Not bad"
This is like trying to give someone a band-aid to stop an arterial bleed... I respect that they're trying but it won't do anything. The hikikomori phenomenon has complex causes:

- Untreated mental health problems

- Disabilities that undermine or limit social success

- Economies with few opportunities for young people

- Over-abundance of pressure (disproportionately placed on men): for academic success and career success

- Horrible housing market (why work at a crappy job only to lose what few funds you have in rent for a tiny shared apartment? Can you blame these people for not moving out?)

- Chronic loneliness (again, worse for men)

Most hikikomoris are men and when you never leave the house there's no opportunities to meet people. If you want to have the biggest effect on these people’s lives don't focus on giving them money. Unironically get them partners. No troll, young people’s social skills have declined beyond recognition and IMO as tech people we are partly to blame for this.
"Really, to want nuclear power you need a high risk appetite."

So there is no risk involved, with betting on fossil fuels and the dictators who sell it? (and the health risk from coal)

And reneawbles are just not there yet, to cover 100% and they still have a long way to go. My personal favourite would have been desertec, but that did not come very far. And there is a big political risk there as well. Morocco is a dictatorship, but stable and the rest is quite instable. Maybe the southern EU countries would get enough sun, to achieve a "desertec" in the EU, but it is a risk as well, to bet on it. Governments change. Opinions change. Prices change. Blackmailing is a thing in politics.

In short, do you have a solution, that is quite riskfree which does not involve coal and does not make us dependant on dictators?

"perfectly long term storage can be found"

And why does it have to be perfect? It has to be good enough, that nothing leaks. Otherwise it can be moved and it could also be recycled.
Lol. Reminded me of this - https://youtu.be/cfTIjuW6SWM

Fwiw - I am a kubernetes fan. Just not in cars.
Yeah. You can access it from the mobile app whilst it is a top story (obvs no use if you have no interest in the downloading the app)
Linking for the proximity to a major fault zone north-west of the US and just west of Canada. [1] Could be a nothing-burger or something to keep an eye on.

[1] - https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=28.1495,...
Ask HN: Anywhere that tracks LLM model performance?
With so many new models being released under different licenses, it's hard to follow and know which models that are state-of-the-art (for example, which open source, commercially-available model performs closest to GPT 3.5?). Anywhere online that collects this information and keeps it up-to-date?
Sir, this is why I pay internet.
There is a running troupe in indian comedy movies that in western world if you are having trouble, you call police, they come & you feel good because help is here. In India if you are in trouble, and by chance police arrives, you are like I am already in trouble & now on top that police too is here (implying trouble is gonna get bigger).
Putting aside any other stuff that gets said about him, I find it pretty baffling how an obvious joke made at Stallman's expense (that many of us geeks have heard directed towards us, usually as a lighthearted self-deprecating inner circle humor) gets repeated as an example that's somehow supposed to characterize his misconduct.
No one has presented any evidence that they are keeping it secret. You are arguing against a straw man. Maybe they are just using a tech that some other company created. If they sued someone for using some of their recycling tech then I am right with you. But these accusations and projections based on assumptions are unfounded.

Setting aside the secrecy assertion, don't we want companies to innovate and use reduced eco-footprint as a marketing advantage? Companies are profit motivated and must be to survive. Don't we want other companies to look at Apple and see the market goodwill fostered by eco-friendly practices and strive to emulate that? Or strive to create even better ways of doing things?

Throwing stones at environmental innovation just seems a counter-productive reaction.
> even a 4090 doesn't get above 30 fps on rtx portal without dlss helping out at 4k. A 4090!

hmm, yeah, i just tried turning off DLSS on a 3080. that went very poorly.

> It feels like this was purposely done to disadvantage amd and intel

they're competitors? "have some free stuff, p.s. we only spent time optimizing it for things we sell" seems pretty ok to me.
In most developed societies fewer and fewer babies are being born every year, well below the replacement number. The 8 billion people are going to age and will soon be unable to work. Who is going to support them?

The current band-aid fix is importing people from developing countries. But those countries themselves will run into the same problem soon enough.
Indeed. Homicide spreads like a disease among people who are in connected social graphs. https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/december-2013/the-small...
I grew up in "safe suburbs" and moved here 5 years ago. Saw a lot of sad changes with COVID... but in terms of safety, I'm 100% with you. On rare occasion, I'll cross a street if an individual is behaving particularly weirdly but I've never witnessed/experienced a "random act of violence". Broadly speaking, SF is safe from violent crime unless you're looking for trouble.

I'm sure parents with young children or elderly have a different experience but that's not different for any other larger US city.

With this said, the topic of the city turning a blind eye to property crime and "extreme", visible destitution is a whole different story.
I struggle with this issue.

I have a MSEE and PhD (EE) (from Stanford to boot !) and I'm not sure if I learned anything value creating in my school years. At least at the graduate level, I think a lot depends on your choices of courses. I biased toward Electromagnetism, and learned solution of PDEs. It taught me computational PDEs and building intuition for physical modeling of real world. It is certainly helping me in my "corporate" job. Yet I don't have a good answer when my dad asks 'what value are you creating'. My dad is also an EE and he has salt-of-the-earth understanding of systems, motors, 3-phase home wiring etc etc. He can fix those things in a crunch. I cant. Did Stanford teach me anything useful? I honestly don't know.
the algorithms that use ML are useless without the weights. What's the point?
> Make sure you’re spending time working on all the things ChatGPT and the like can’t do:

> Build meaningful relationships with other humans. Have opinions about ethical issues, and care about how your choices will impact those other humans! Try to solve problems that don’t have clear solutions. Question the status quo. And always make sure you can identify crosswalks from a grid of nine blurry street scenes.